Smyrna times., 1882-01-04

THE INCOMING AND OUTGoING.-The
beginning of new year is always an
event. 1t is moro to some of us than we
think. The marked events are generally
in common life what are called disasters.
The New Year upon which we have en-
tered-who can tell what events it may
have in store for US. Only year ago the
country began the year 1881 with high
hopes politically, industrially and COM
mercially, and in few brief months we
were mourning the loss of an assassinated
President. The farmers began the year
with the same bright hopes and in many
sections found blight as severe as that
which fell upon the nation. Whether
1882 has in store blessings or disasters, it
Is Il mercy that we cannot anticipate the
future. The duty is laid upon as of doing,
and waiting patiently the result. We
have a glorious heritage whose blessings
many do not appreciate, but the years in
the aggregate both nationally and com
mercially have never failed to bring us
rewards equal to our deserts. If we are
disappointed in our rulers or laws. we
have the satisfaction of knowing that
they can be changed at villas the virtue
and the intelligence of the people may
direct. The ont going year is thus noted
by the New York Tribune:
1881 ought to have been year of peace
and good will, for it witnessed the compile
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sion Of the King James Version of the
New Testament. Yet the annals are stain
ed with blood. in two capitals there has
been dastardly assassination in two weak
States there have been active military
campaigns-one of them a Wauton act of
foreign aggression and the other the hu-
initiating expiatiOp of q national crime .
and In the uRhappieet Quarter ,f .f-
globe, distracted Ireland, the olive branch
Of remedial legislation has been thrust
aside and the conspiracy against rent pay
ing has been aggravated by midnight
murders and the worst forms of agrarian
crime. Washington has been the point of
commanding interest to which the ewes of
mankind have been directed during the
year. The assassination of the President
of q free people, more atrocious in itself
than the murder of despotic Car, was
rendered more memorable by an agonizing
struggle for life and the prayers and sym
pathies of all nations. Unhappily the
crime and the penalty are not brought
within the compass of a single year. The
Guiteau trial, a vulgar combination OF
Feep-show and beer-garden, is dragging
on still, exciting the contemptuous criti,
cism OF foreigners and the passionate in
dignation of Americans, What, then,
does the retrospect of 1881 yield, bssidea
the portents Of assassination and the
doubtful promise of the Revised Version Z
In nearly all the European States general
elections have been held and the common
movement is In the direction of liberal
ldeas and institutions, In Hungary and
spain, the most progressive political or.
ganlzations have been sustained on an an.
peal to the people. In Austria the con.
sututional factions, alarmed by the de
centralizing tendencies of fantastic Goa.
ition, have suddenly presented a united
'front.'. In the Fatherland, Bismarck utterly
Jailed IN his attempt 10 crush the Liberia
movement. In France Republicanism has
met with no internal feverses. albeit II has
haunted its resources with unbecomino
zeal Ia the Mediterranean. In EnolanS
what moral triumphs have been scored by
a statesman who has had the courage tS
sabandon Candahar and to make peac,
with victorious rebels in the Transyaal
anu also the unwearied patience and reso
Aete Will 10 force reatFemedial measure
uarough rafliament in the face of obsta
el1s seemingly insurmountablei And is 4
sMaii matter that the American peopl,
'nSVc passed through the fiery trials 0