Show THE NEW YEAR tear the year eighteen hundred gifty fifty nine has passed away and eighteen hundred sixty has succeeded it without any perceivable change having Z as yet taken place in the general a appearance P pe arance of things that could indicate that any new thing has been or was about to be introduced trod for the consideration of mankind day and follow each other in the same regular succession as during t the last and in former years and there is no probability that the promise made plade to noah after the flood in relation to the regular recurrence thereafter of seed time ana harvest cold and heat p summer and winter and day and night will soon be revoked nation may rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom towns cities and countries may be laid waste or destroyed by earthquakes or the operations of warthe earth may be crimsoned crim with blood before the close of the current year and the divisions contentions wickedness and commotions that exist upon the earth may cause mens hearts to fail them for fear but time will continue to move alon aion along 0 with its usual steady course without stopping to take particular cognizance of what maybe may be taking place among the children of men what may transpire during 1 I the year eighteen hundred and sixty we do not pretend to know lenow but if the expectations of the many who have for years been anxiously looking forward to this period of time with much assurance that events would transpire before the first day of january eighteen hundred sixty one of more than passing interest to the inhabitants of the earth or of some portion of it are realized to any considerable extent those whose duty it is to record whatever occurs worthy of note among the children of adam will have haye something to do as time rolls along if they faithfully perform the duties of their office to review the past for the p purpose of arriving analogically at conclusions relative to the future is not our intention at this time all who have been and are still watching 7 the signs of the times can draw their own inferences form their own opinions and arrive arrive at such conclusions as they may severally deem correct from the history of the past and from what is now transpiring C mon MOD among 0 the principal nations of the earth as to ta what may be expected in the future not only during tho year now passing but iti in subsequent years and until the consummation of what has been predicted from days of old the wars and troubles that have more or less of late distracted the nations of europe and which have not been settled or arranged to the satisfaction of all concerned may be renewed and every nation in that quarter of the world be involved iii in difficulties that cannot not be settled except by a resort to in a twelvemonth twelve month and more blood may be shed hed oil oll battle fields within that time on the other side of the atlantic than since the commencement men cement of the nineteenth century up to the present time in our own country the united states of america where discord and division has long 0 been and yet is the order of the day where the north is divided against the south and the south a against 0 ainest the north and seemingly egly every mans hand is against his brother and neighbor in every state and territory in the union P things 0 may 1 get worse than they now are or have been and a civil war may be conn corn commenced fenced before b afore the next winter solstice bloody and horrible in the extreme more so than the butah utah war or any thing that has been seen in the land since the discovery disco of the american con by the europeans but we do not intend to risk our reputation as a prophet by saying that this or that will or will not conie conse come to pass in eighteen hundred and sixty till we are better advised in the premises than we are no now W though if we should exercise the right of a yankee we might guess that a few things 0 not so very desirable nor agreeable will occur oc cur to some portion of the human race before the inauguration of mr Bacha Bachan nans aws successor on the fourth of march eighteen hundred and sixty one if europe is not involved in war if the cel make peace with england and france without ling firing another gun or baidin gaining another victory if russia Hussla pursues her bourse course without coming in contact with england 0 or any other pow poh power er if the san juan difficulty is amicably settled by england 0 and the united states without the emmus effus effusion ioli of blood if all the spanish american republics escape the curse of civil war if peace universal shall elsewhere prevail and nothing further transpires in the united states than what may be naturally expected during the next presidential canvass in our opinion there will not be wanting incidents enough of an exciting character to make the present year as interesting to those who are constantly watching the progress of events event as the past has been or any other year that has preceded it since the adoption of the federal constitution under the broad folds fla of which the oppressed have been invited to take shelter and find protection and safety from the iron hand of tyranny that has for ames ages ages 0 ruled the earth with almost universal sway how far the doctrines inculcated by that sacred instrument have been practiced by some of those who have lauded it to the skies during 0 the last thirty years those best acquainted with the history of the times and those most interested in the perpetuity of free institutions can tell with more truthfulness than those can who have cared but little how matter matters and things progressed who have not had interest elou enough 0 ii in the transmission of the principles oi true liberty to their descendants to watch the movements of things closely and have not had stamina enough to protest against every innovation that had a direct tendency to sa sap P the foundation upon which their civil and religious liberties rested the latter class has been by far too numerous and the consequence is is some of the foundation stones of the temple of liberty have been removed and there are many in all parts of the country who verily believe that the entire structure will shortly tumble down that the union will be dissolved and that there will be troublesome times such as have not been heretofore b seen in the land when it if ever the anticipations of those who are thus looking for a dissolution of the ties that have hitherto bound the north and the south together will be fully realized we are not prepared to say but the signs of t the he times the divisions hatred and animosity that everywhere exist and the desire so often expressed by men inen of revolutionary principles that the nations funeral knell ou ought ht to be rung ruing seem to indicate that sooner or later a dissolution of or the government of the united states will take place and perhaps a civil or some other war will precede or follow spreading death and destruction wherever it goes we believe that all that prophets and inspired men have in iu any age age 0 of the world predicted should take place in the latter days will be literally fulfilled at the appointed time whether it be during the present year the first firs t day of which has been so universally and joyfully hailed or at some subsequent period which may have been designated for the occurrence of such things as have been foretold would befall the inhabitants of the earth in the dispensation of the fullness of times if the time for the fulfillment of anhof any of those predictions shall arrive before the earth in akes makes another revolution round the sun they will come to pass whether expected by the inhabitants of the earth or not and no unbelief on their part will delay for a moment the fulfillment of op what has thus been predicted if any of those who have ll mathematically arrived at certain conclusions in relation to the occurrence in the course of this year of some of the wonderful thin things thins s that have been predicted and are yet unfulfilled shall have ascertained certa ined before the first day of january next that they have erred in their calculations they must not be too much disappointed others have made similar mistakes in former and ia iii latter iatter years jears they can if they choose overhaul their reckoning or which will be equally as wise wait patiently for the ap pointed time for it will surely come and not nat tarry readers we wish you one and all a happy new year and remember that this is not the last one that many of you may expect to see |