{"newspaper_name": "The Litchfield County post.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
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BSIS ueninQ put Lne multitude IS gOhe1 and the places that once knew them, know them no more. Their labours after riches are over. The fluctuations oftrado affect them not. Their hearts no longer throb with emotion at the news of the day. Prices may rise or fall-the tide of com merce may ebb or flow, without disturbing them.-They are laid in the grave, and have left their wealth to others.

 Where are the favorites of fortune, the envied and fattered objects of popular ad- miration, who occupied the ,hig gh places of the earth, and who proudly deemed them- selves immeasurably eleyated above com- mon mortals ? They haR9 passed through mighty changes. The naughty spirit has been subdued. Aff1ic6on has long since taught them the humkling lesson of weak ness and dependence, We may go now to their graves aud Earn how vain and transient is worldly greatness, how short tiOnS of mortals.'

 And where are the restless aspiring spirits, who five and twenty years ago, were urging their passage up the steep as cent of ambition--pressing forward with panting eagerness in the race of profess sional rivalship-> who devoted all the en- orgies of their minds, and the incessant toll of their best years; to the acquisition of popular tavor-who fixed their undivid- ed hearts upon reputation, influence, and office : as if there was nothing else in the universe so valuable. Trace their toil- some course, and learn their brief impress sive history. The conflict of superiority is long since over. Their ardent aspira- lions after fame are no more. Their la bofious career has terminated. Some of them were splendidly successful. They reached the proudest elevation, and seem ed to all but themselves singularly happy. But whether fortunate, ,or otherwise, is now with most of them of small moment; for their successes or disasters have sunk with them to the grave. And the survivors, like solitary oaks, which have withstood the sweeping tempest, prostrating all be- side, are only regarded as the scattered remnant of generation which has passed away.

 Alas, how far is the present generation from realizing that the coming five and twenty years will effect the same changes, and will conduct to the grave an equally vast majority of those who are now in ac- tive life, with the same period that is past. Yet such will doubtless be the mel aucholy fact; and newspaper of the present day will, in the year 1852, present to survivor efthis generation, an equally affecting memorial ofthe almost universal triumph of mortality. sENEx.