Year: 1864

MR. EDITOR As we yet stand upon the portals of the new and opening year, allow me to tender to you and yours my best wishes that this may be in the highest sense prosperous and happy new Year. No man of ordinary intelligence will regard this portion of time with indifference. It has always seemed to me season which affords no common excite ment to moral and religious improvement and ought therefore to be season of sober ret3ec- ton. Among the subjects which have passed under my review, in my solitary musings-is that of personal responsibility. There isa ten dency ia many persons to suppose that they are unimportant to their fellow creatures and that their conduct is also unimportant, because they form respectively but one out of mighty number. have entertained this view of the matter. But there could not we'll be greater mistake than this,-- for there is no such thing as thoroughly detached and isolated individ- ual We are all inextricably tied up and inter- laced with each other :; so that no man can live or act without affecting others in some degree and to some purpose concerning their veal or woe. The degrees of personal influence are no doubt varous-yet it is equally indubtable that scarcely any individual is 50 humble or ob scure as not to be surrounded by some who will be affected to good or evil by his example.

 

 acquit myself of the charge of criminal indif- ference to the best interests of those around me-and as the best and sarest method of re. treving mistakes is not by sorrowing over what is irreparable in the past-but by making the best of the present. determined at once to have recourse to every means in my power, by which the best interests of those around me could be promoted. While was thus musing, the |" Enquirer was brought in and laid upon my table ; and, strange to relate, though had been accustomed to welcome this weekly visit ant for period of seven years at least, had never seen, until that moment that this vener- able journal was consecrated to the "interests of Ltchfeld County"-as well as to local and general intelligence" do not mean to inti- mate that such devotion to county interests was not plainly inferable from every page of the paper even to the most casual reader-as well as to the most delinqusnt-by no means. mean simply to affirm that it's formal an. nouncement had escaped my observation up to that time. Few persons ever read the title page of book-and fewer still the preface and are by no means the gathers by the over sight. Well-I cannot tej you. how great was my relief on reading the heading of the En- qairer-I was disposed to regard it as special interposition of Providence, indicating the methods by which l might carry out my pur- pose of doing something which may in reality give position, adUance to,oGrd tue good" to the moral beings by whom I am surrounded. Several topics of very general interest have al- ready been jotted down upon my white tablets, which will, with your appreciation, be lesurelY but carefully considered, and furnished as cir cumstances may indicate their propristy and seasonableness.

 Permit me in conclusion to thank you most cordially for your articles, already before the public, in reference te the projected Railroad through this village. That we are greatly in need. of such an accommodation-anl that if once obtained it would promote the substantial interests of this county in a hundred ways, does not admit of a doubt. Two routes per ceive have been surveyed and are now under the consideration of our enterprising citizens. One or both of those routes could be rendered immediately avaable-prooided the present road could be at once abandoned. l refer to the Black ca1yey RaH Road now carrying thousands of passengers to destruction. This Rail Road is thus advertised in Boston Jour- nal.

 "B,ack Valley R'a1 Road or Graad Central route through Dismal Scamp. Trains start from Sipplngton at 8 A. M, and go up through Iippleton, Toperville, Fightington, Murder Hollow. Demons land, Dark Tunnel, Black Valley, Death River-and arriving at Destruc- ton in time for the Express train tor Tophet. Through tickets sold at ali the liquor shops throughout the country"

 A statement of the business transacted on this read for the year ending January lst,ls64, will be furnished next week,

 Truly Yours, ALIquls-