The Democratic Advocate

The New Year.

We greet our readers, a little in advance, with the customary salutation of "A Happy New Year."

According to our Gregorian measurement of time, another year will soon have passed away. An axiom, as true as it is familiar, says—"Time and Tide wait for none," and yet, as the Bard of Avon so happily expresses it, "We take no note of time, save by its loss." Another leaf is turned, another year is added to the past,

The circling years which ever onward roll
Like ocean's restless billows to the strand,
Have marked another cycle, and the scroll
Of past events is writ by History's hand.

Old Time, whose ebbing sands were well nigh spent,
His glass, which marked the waning year hath turned;
Its fleeting moments with the past are blent,
And all its incidents with it inurn'd.

We do not propose, here, to moralize upon the subject. We leave such homilies to the pulpit. Nor do we intend to indulge in the unmeaning "generalities and the common place platitudes which usually abound on such occasions. Such sentiments are too familiar for reproduction; such expressions are stereotyped, and become "stale, flat, and unprofitable." They have "waxed old like a garment," and as we have nothing new with which to regale our readers—nothing which they have not read over and over, again and again, we close as we commenced, with the customary greeting of "A Happy New Year" to all.