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A STORY FOR THE NEW YEAR. 



" A Happy New Year, I wish you, dear father," 

 said NellIe, as sbe hastened into the magnificent 

 parlor of Sir. Smiths splendid mansion. 



It was indeed a beautiful morning, such as con- 

 tributes to the joyous feelings of onburthened 

 human nature, and although "sunrise," that beau- 

 ful "scene" in the first act of each day's " per- 

 formance," was over— a "scene" which heavy 

 eyelids forbid many to gaze upon— yet there was 

 beauty enough in the tinted skies, and melody 

 enough in the gentle breezes, to light up the soul 

 of the most obdurate. 



Her father was busily engaged with the morning's 

 pBper, and only answered his daughter's "good 

 wishes," by placing in her hand a "pair of eagles," 

 such as "bankers" till their "cages" with; know- 

 ing that he might as well make his gift a voluntary 

 action, as to wait for her well-directed bints; or, 

 in case those should fail, a host ol plain-3poken 



Nellie Smith was the only daughter of wealthy 

 parents, and her mother being a devotee to fash- 

 ion, and her father a man who reads the "list of 

 Stock Sales" more than his Bible, it was not a 

 wonder that their only child was prood, gay, and 

 thoughtless. To say that she was not beautiful, 

 as the mass term it, would be an untruth; still, 

 while one of nature's barbers was curling her hair, 

 another, called vanity, had slightly curled her lip. 

 Yet she was pretty, 



H« eyes were each of a beautiful Jet, 

 Little globes of love, exquUltly eel. 

 Nature had done much for Nellie Smith, In that 

 she possessed a symmetrical form, while circum- 

 stances had stripped her soul to adorn her body. 

 She had arrived at an age when her only and 

 highest ambition was to be designated as the 

 "belle" of the Metropolis; and although she 

 nattered herself that this was the case, yet it re- 

 mained a question with the close observer, wheth- 

 er she deserved it from any good qualities she 

 possessed, or from the very important fact that 

 she was, in all probability, to be thebeiress of a 

 large fortune. She had visited Saratoga with this 

 one, Clifton with that one, Avon with a third, 

 Niagara willi a fourth, yet no one dared to call her 

 B "flirt," and she verily believed that she was 

 "Queen"of an "Empire" where the proprietors 

 of "infant mustaches" and ' 'gar-rote collars" 

 figured largely as her "subjects." 



Nellie had looked forward n it It joyous auticipa- 

 o this day, when her host of admirers were 



might 



find her lacking in any degree ol her usual (arte- 

 rial) loveliness. 



It was generally known that Miss Smith would 

 receive her friends on New Year's day; and the 

 servant who " answered the bell " was as anxious 

 to count bis " bits " as she was her " beaux." 



Not in the least disappointed at her father's 

 mode of reception, she hastened to greet ber 

 mother likewise with a " formal kiss," betraying 

 about as much affection as you would find devotion 

 in worship, whore" custom" is the sole "master of 

 ceremonies." With a mother's fondness and intu- 

 itive perception, Mrs Smith informed her daughter 

 that "just one more jewel in ber hair, would make 

 her look perfectly charming." 



"Yes, mother— I know ; and I would be highly 

 pleased to gratify you In lh j a re q ue st, but I have 

 no time to purchase one this morning, and those 

 which I have are not fashionable." 



- Perhaps this would suitmy Nillib," Bttid Mrs. 

 Smith, as she presented her with a cosily pearL 

 e I selected for you yesterday ; B simple 

 gift, however, for so dutiful a child." The " tbou- 

 i thanks." and two and a half kissea, satisfied 

 Bumi thkl her gift was acceptable, while 

 red her mother that she was " indeed 



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fortunate in having a parent so earnest 

 ingber good." Suffice it to say, New Y 

 passed, and Nm.lib Smith went to restt 

 perpleiedtolbiok that the "calls" she had re- 

 ceived far outnumbered the compliments. She 

 could reOeet upon no good deed to sweeten her 

 meditations, or righteous act to be rehearsed in 

 her midnight dreams; and I presume you are 

 ready to declaie that if the three hundred and 

 sixty-four remaining dajs of Nellie's "New Year" 

 were characterized by the first, my subject is but 

 poorly illustrated. 



New Year's day was not alike in every house- 

 hold. Lucy Uptoh, l"kc Nellie Smith, was the 



Nature had bequeathed her an equal fortune of 

 physical beauty, and when one looked in her deep 

 blue eyes, they seemed none other than the 

 •' windows of her soul," through which yon might 

 behold the joy that lighted up her heart within.— 

 Her mother had early taught her the precepts of 

 the Holy Book, and by a christian example had 

 gently led her in the way of blessedness and truth. 

 Her father, a successful merchant, bad, in former 

 years, often indulged bis charitable spirit by aid- 

 ing in benevolent enterprises, and finally learned 

 that he had only " cast his bread upon the waters, 

 to be found after maoy days." It was not surpris- 

 ing, then, that when Lrcv greeted her parents on 

 the morning of the New Year, that she received a 

 hearty welcome in return, besides a present, not 

 unlike Nellie's, although bestowed with a differ- 

 ent motive. Mr. Upton was sure that bis daughter 

 would make good use of the gift, while Mr. Smith 

 disliked the detraction from his sordid gain, no 

 matter what the purpose for which it might be 

 appropriated. 



" Ob, mother ! what a beautiful day we have for 

 making our calls! " exclaimed LuCT Urros, asshe 

 threw open the shutters of the east windows, 

 which let in a flood of glorious, dazzling sunlight. 

 ••What! what!" said Mr. Upton*, "ladies doing 

 the calling on New Tears? I should think you 

 were about instituting a new custom, areyou not?" 



" For this once," replied Locv, "and if you will 

 go with us, we promise you a happy day." 



Not loth to engage in any enterprise where a 

 like guarantee was given by his wife and daughter, 

 Mr. Upton* assented, and scarcely an hour hod 

 elapsed before his finely matched span of dapple 

 grays, and well-robed sleigb, freighted with the 

 trio, were gliding down the street, to the utter 

 astonishment of their intimate acquaintances, 

 who, gazing from the windows of their elegant 

 dwellings, wondered why people so wealthy as the 

 Uptons, should desert their household on New 

 Year's day, in violation of a fashionable ordinance. 



"Well, there! if that is not perfectly horrid!" 

 cried Mrs. Wilson, "there goes the Uptons on 

 New Year's morning ! " 



" It seems they do not receive calls to-day," said 

 Mis3 Flora McFlimsey. 



" I really cannot imagine where they are going," 

 exclaims Miss Extbnsio Cibcumfebbntia. 



Such were some of the many expressions made 

 as our worthy company went dashing down the 

 streets, and Mr. Upton soon found, by the direc- 

 tions which LicT gave the driver, that they were 

 out on a charitable mission. 



In a few moments the merry sleigh-bells had 

 ceased their tinkling in front of one of those 

 rickety tenements where poverty reigns, and 

 starvation does its desperate work. 



Mr. Upton instinctively followed his wife and 

 daughter as they crossed the threshold and enter- 

 ed a room where a woman, just recovering from a 

 severe attack of fever, welcomed their approach. 

 It was evident thai she and her group of children, 

 had suffered much; but that some ministering 

 angel had before visited their rude home. Who 

 this Angel was, we leave you to imagine; while 

 we cross to another street, where hunger, wretch- 

 edness and sin, have left their foot-prints uumis- 



Id a dreary building of stone, at the left, after 

 passing up the first flight of stairs, lived the poor 

 Mrs. Mokbjs, who once bad known better times, 

 but by a sudden reverse of fortune had been 

 bereft of home and a kind husband. She was 

 therefore left to struggle on in endeavoring lu 

 support herselt and children, and although her 

 eldest daughter was able to sew for the shops, yet 

 the small wogea she recoived were reduced so 

 much smaller on account of " hard times," that 

 they were barely kept from starvation ; and now 

 that her mother was taken suddenly ill, it was not 

 strange that Ellen Moitura' star of hope had 

 well nigh set. Not having been able to leave her 

 mother's bed-side for the last twenty-four hours, 

 and with no physician, no food, and the last coal 

 in the grate, we wonder not, that, amid the beait- 

 rending cries of ber younger brothers and sister, 

 she groaned in despair. That groan was heard 

 by Lucr Upton, as she entered this abode of 

 misery followed by her parents. She had never 

 found it before. There bad been enough on the 

 streets where we lust lull Hum for her busy bauds, 

 but not enough for her ever bountiful heart. Few 

 questions were asked of Ellen. Poverty speaks 

 for itself. Medical attention was summoned by 

 the direction of ber father, remedies prescribed, 

 food and fuel furnished. A few weeks had passed, 

 when Mrs. Momns was quite well, and Ellen 

 received a situation in Mr. Upton's counting- 

 room, where with her pen she earned a good 

 salary, for in their days of better fortune she hud 

 improved her time at school. 



"What have you there?" said Mr. Upton to 

 Lncv, aa they descended from the old atone house 



a their 



a thes 



Not lucking in confidence towards her father, 

 Lucy* handed him a Look, where he discovered a 

 list of the immediate wants of the many poverty- 

 stricken whom they had visited, comprising such 

 necessities as her own and her mother's charitable 

 observation told them wero essential to the pal- 

 liation of the intense sufferings which they had 

 beheld for a better purpose than to gratify a 

 reckless curiosity. Mr. Upton made no reply, but 

 smiled; not a Barcastic smile, however, but such 

 as comes from the higher and holier impulses of 



We cannot follow them through all the haunts 

 of misery which they visited, but had you secretly 

 entered the irnoloule BfltabliinmeDt of W. J. 



Upton on New Year's afternoon, you might h»V« 



seen busy hands at work, filling ont those 

 memorandums, and, contrary to Mr. Upton's 

 system of "cash trade," these parcels were sent 

 out "on time" to be ?>aid fur when the Master 

 saitb, " Come ye blessed of my Father." 



Yesl many a heart was made glad by the visit- 

 ations of Lncr and her parents, and when that 

 amiable group bent around the " family altar" at 

 night, and implored "Divine protection over the 

 poor and the destitute, and especially those whom 

 they bad seen and aided," think you not that the 

 First day of January was a "happy one" to them? 

 And when Lucy Upton, closed her eyes to dream 

 of the Eternal City with its "shining streets of 

 gold," and saw those same needy, Buffering 

 creatures tuning their " haTps" for the " everlast- 

 ing hallelujah," had she not entered upon a 

 " Happy New Year f" 



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spirit 



DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING. 



This community is shocked today at the intelli- 

 gence of the death of Washington Irving, the most 

 eminent of American writers, and as the tele- 

 ernjih shall flash the Bad news to the farthest ex- 

 treme of our land; as steam shall bear it across 

 the sea and it shall penetrate the whole civilized 

 globe, there will be everywhere a common expres- 

 sion of sorrow, that a true man, a genial writer, 

 an accomplished scholar, has passed away from 

 oarth. Mr. Irving died suddenly last evening, at 

 his quiet home at Sunnyside, on the banks of the 

 Hudson, the home where the calm evening of his 

 life has been passed ; the point which is at once a 



i of i 



and 



which the devotees of literature and of truth rev- 

 erently paid their vows. Henceforth it will be th( 

 Stratford-on-Avon of the Western World. Mr, 

 Irving retired at 10?j o'clock, and was in the acl 

 of undressing, when be fell and expired almost 

 immediately. Though the shockof Mr. Irving') 

 death is sudden, the event had not been alto- 

 gether unexpected. Failing health and advanc- 

 ing age have sadly indicated to his friends that 

 ihe silver cord was loosening. 



Washington Irving was born April Si, 17 

 the city of New York, in William street, between 

 John and Fulton [streets, not fur from thi 

 Dutch Church, now occupied by the site c 

 "Washington stores." The father of Mr. Irving 

 was a native of Scotland ; his mother a nat 

 England. At the time of his birth his father had 

 been settled as a merchant in this city some tf 

 years./,; After obtaining an ordinary school educa- 

 tion, Washington Irving, at the age of sixtei 

 commenced the study of the law. Three yei 

 la'er, under the signature of " Jonathan Oldstyli 

 be contributed a aeries of letters to the Morni 

 Chronicle, a newspaper of which his brother, Peler 

 Irving, was editor. These attracted much notii 

 were extensively copied, and in 1S23 or 1824, wt 

 coll e'eted mid published without the author's sai 

 tion. In 1804 he sailed for Bordeaux, on a visit 

 Europe for his health. In his travels he went 

 France, Genoa, Sicily, crossing from Palermo 

 Naples, passing through Italy, meeting Allston 

 Rome, who advised that he should devote hiras 

 to art. After several months stay on the Con 

 nent, he went lo Eugland and returned to N( 

 York io March, ISO*;, fully restored to health. He 

 then resumed the study of the law, was admitted, 

 but never practised. He took the chief part in 

 "Salmagundi," the first number of which appear- 

 ed in January, 1807, and the last in January, 1S0S. 



In December, 1809, he published his Knicker- 

 bocker's History of New York. In 1810, two of 

 hia brothers gave him on interest in a large mer- 

 cantile concern, in which they were engaged, in 

 Liverpool and New York, with the understanding 

 that be devote himself to his literary pursuits. In 

 1813 and 1814, during the war with Great Britain, 

 be edited the " Analectic Magazine; and in the 

 Fall of 1SH, joined the military staff of Daniel D. 

 Tompkins, (.ioveroor of the State of New York, as 

 aid-de-camp and military secretary, with the rank 

 of Colonel. On the close of the war, May, 1815, he 

 embarked for Liverpool with the intention of mak- 

 ing a second tour to Europe, but the business 

 reverses which followed the peace, involved the 

 house of his brothers, and after hvo or three years 

 attention to business, endeavoring to avert the 

 catastrophe, the bouse failed, involving him in 

 its ruin. In ISIS be commenced papers of the 

 "Sketch Book," which were transmitted piece- 

 meal from London, where be resided, to New York 

 for publication. Three or four numbers were thus 

 published, when finding that they attracted notice 

 in England, they were published iu a volume, in 

 February, 1**20, by John Miller; Miller failed soon 

 after, and the second volume was published in 

 July, of that year, by Mr. Murray, who purchased 

 the copyright for £200, but finding tho work 

 profitable he presented Mr. Irving with £200 ad- 

 ditional. 



After residing five years in England, Mr. Irving 

 removed to Paris, August IM'0, remaining till 

 July,1821, when he returned to England and pub- 

 lished "Brncebridge Hall" in London and New 

 York, in May, 1822. He wintered that year in 

 Dresden, returning to Paris in 1823, and to Lon- 

 don in May. 1S24, when lie published his " Tales 

 of a Traveler." In August of that year these were 

 published in New York, In August he returned 

 to Paris, and in the autumn of 1S25 visited the 

 South of France, spending part of the winter at 

 Bordeaux. In February, 1S26, hewent to Madrid, 

 where he remained two years, writing the life of 

 Columbus, winch was published in 1829. Iu the 

 spring of that year ho visited Granada and other 

 points mentioned in the "Chronicles of tho Con- 

 quest of Grenada, by Fray Agapida," making a 

 sketch of this work. He prepared it for the presB 

 at Seville, and it appeared in London and New 

 York in 182!). In the spring ho again visited 

 Granada, and spent some months in Alhumbra, 

 where he collected materials for a work of that 

 name, published in 1632. In July be went to 

 England, having been appointed Seoretary of 

 Legation to the American embassy at London, 

 under Mr. McLane. In 1832, upon Mr. McLane'a 

 return, he remained a few months aa Charge, and 

 resigned on the arrival of Mr. Van Buren. In 



Mr. Irving and Mr. Hallam, ihe historiaa, 

 eceived ooeofthe fifty guinea medals award- 

 ed by George IV. for eminence in historical corn- 

 In 1831 Oxford University conferred the degree 

 ofLL. D. upon him, and in 1832 he returned to 

 New York, after an absence of seventeen years. 

 On his return to Ibis oity he was greeted with an 

 tion, at which Chancellor Kent presided ; simi- 

 i <■ -timonnila were tendered him from other 

 'B, but he declined them. In the summer of 

 1 he Tisitcd the West with Mr. Ellsworth, one 

 ■he Commissioners for removing the Indian 

 es west of the Mississippi. It was during this 

 journey that he collected the material for bis 

 " Tour on the Prairies," published in 1835. " Ab- 

 bottsford and Newstead Abbey," and "Legends 

 of the Conquestof Spain" were also published the 

 same year. In 1830 he published "Astoria," and 

 in 1837 "The Adventures of Captain Bonneville." 

 In 1939 be engaged with the "Knickerbocker 

 Magazine" to furnish monthly articles for two 

 years. In February, 1842, he was appointed Min- 

 ister to Spain, leaving for Madrid on the 10th of 

 April, 1S42. His official duties terminating in 

 1846, be returned home, and in 1848 commenced 

 the publication of a revision of his works which 



In 1849, he published "Oliver Goldsmith, a 

 Biography," and in 1S4!) and 18,10 "Mahomet and 

 his Successors," In 1855 " Wolfert'a Roost." Ii 

 the same year he published the firBt volume ol 

 "The life of George Washington," the last volume, 

 the closing work of his life, was published a few 

 weeks since. In reference to this last work Prof- 

 most invaluable work to this country, for it givea 

 to the universal mind, for the first lime, a living 

 pretence of Washington ! To the plurality or cc 

 mon readers, hitherto, Washington has beei 

 historical abstraction, hidden in the heavy reading 

 of statistics and State-papers. By Irving tbey are 

 now mode acquainted with him in flesh and blood 

 as it were, a Washington so pictured that they car 

 admire and revere him with a human sympathy.' 



Sine': lS-iD Mr. Irving's works have been pub 

 lished by Mr. G. P. Putnam, who bos in that time 

 disposed of nearly six hundred thousand volumes, 



Mr. Irving had four brothers. William Irviug, 

 the eldest, was a merchant. He was a member ol 

 Congress from 1813 to 1319. He married a sistei 

 of Hon. James K. Paulding, and assisted in tbt 

 composition of "Salmagundi." He died in 1821. 

 Peter, another brother, was editor of the Morning 



Chr, 



and , 





the 



"Knickerbocker's History of New York." He 

 was a physician, and died in 1838. Ebenezer 

 Irving is still living. He baa made his home 

 Sunnyside. He is the father of Rev. Theodore 

 Irving, formerly Professor in Geneva College 

 in the New York Free Academy. John Treat 

 Irving was Presiding Judge of the New York 

 Common Pleas from 1617 until his death, in 1838 

 He was also a contributor to the Morning Chroni 

 cle. His son, a member of the New York bar, i- 

 the author of several popular works. 



A few years since Mr. Irving purchased a resi- 

 dence on the banks of the Hudson, about twenty- 

 five miles from this city, and between Irvingtoe 

 and Tarrytown. Thia quaint old house, so sug- 

 gestive of the humor of its proprietor, is immor- 

 talized in "Wolfert's Roost," and in the story of 

 Ichabod Crane, and is the charming spot 

 uppn-'pn.iU-ly named "Sunnyside." Hero 3 

 Irvine; has resided, his brother and hia nie 

 composing the family, and here it was that he i 

 the death for which, with Christian calmness, he 1 

 so long waited, and which bad so few terrors 

 one who had governed his life by the precepts 

 the Christian faith.— JV. Y. Com. Adv., Nov. •,", 



SALMAGUNDI. 



Try to form a conception of a sixth sense, if y 



He has the hardest kind of work who has nothing 

 odo. 

 A man can be ruined only by his own voluntary 



, like fast i 



■ generally very 



Fast 

 shallow. 



Laoies, before marrying, hud better destroy all 

 old love-letters. 



A pin has as much head as a good many authors, 

 and a great deal more point. 



Tue great chastisement of a knave is not to be 

 knowu, but to know himself. 



If virtue is its own reward, there will be persons 

 who will have little enough. 



A Mr. Abcbbb has been sent to the Ohio Pi 

 tentiary for marrying three wives. "Insatiate 

 Archer ! could not 



Tine is the most subtle yet the most insatiable 

 of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing 

 is permitted to take all; nor can it he satisfied 

 until it has stolen the world from us, and ua from 

 the world. 



" With," said a man looking for a bootjack, " I 

 have places where I keep my things, and yi 

 ought to know it." " Yes," said she, " I ought 

 know where you keep your late hours— but I 



The duties of the present moment we shall meet 

 as they rise, and these will open a gate into the 

 next, and we shall thus pass on, trustfully and 

 securely, almost never in doubt as to what God 

 calls us lo do.— BwAnWJ, 



Love is a flomo which burns iu heaven, and 

 whose soft reflections radiate to us, Two worlds 

 are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love that 

 we double our being; it is by love thftt we ap- 

 proach God. — Ai"" "" 



Two men, Joseph Sparks and Osoar Flint, 

 were assailed in tho suburbs or Baltimore, a f L -w 

 nights ago, by a gang of shoulder-hitters. Flint 

 was knocked down, but his companion escaped 

 by flight. When the scoundrels hit Flint, Sparie 

 ficw. 



"M*ns-k''->," su y s Sidney Smith, "are the shad- 

 ows of virtues; the momentary display of those 

 qualities which our fellow creatures love and 

 pect. If we strive to become, then, what we 

 strive to appear, manners may ofteu be rondored 

 useflil guides to the performance of our duties." 



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