... CHRISTMAS. Close the shutters, and draw the curtains toeilior, and pile fresh wood upon the hearth ! Let iiuv.; lor cilice innocent auto da fa. Let the hoarded corks he brought fonh, and branches of crackling laurel. Place the wine and the fruit and ...

... the church ; and these boxes were opened at Christmas, in each year, and thence got their names of Christmas boxes, which readily came to be understood as the title of the presents themselves. A merry Christmas still occasionally used as a salutation ...

... CHRISTMAS. Of the customs most peculiar to Christmas, aud now nearly obsolete, may be specified the adorning the inside and- outside of the houses with evergreens, the bringing-in and burning the first great log of wood, with vocal and instru- mental ...

... ON CHRISTMAS. Chrisimse is an intimately associated to our minds with inclement weather—not to say ice end snow—that mildness is almost necessarily regarded as numousesable. At present, however, and fur some weeks past, the air has been soft sod mild ...

... CHRISTMAS. most interesting commemorative sera, and from the earliest time, when first the sacred light of upon the world, this period of the year has ever been devoted to joy and plea.ure. Attuis beart-rejnicing season, the annual assembling- of families ...

... CHRISTMAS. All hail Merry Christmas—allhail! Thou source ofluit, Iro'ic, and festivity; light, life, and lient, during torpor and gloominess winter ; thou charmed goddess, who thaws into a generous and kindly flow. Notwithstanding that the broad pinions ...

... CHRISTMAS. Hail to Christmas Who there that will not reecho this exclamation, for who there that 1 experienced some of the •'pleasures which the se ison of Christmas affords. None, think we may venture to assert. Then hail to Christmas! Let the senti ...

... parent's fondness poured forth. Christmas, too, is a period of deep interest, because it is the time domestic and rela ive temporary re-union. How m. nv members of families never see each other collectively assembled, except Christmas day Local situation—the ...

... CHRISTMAS. Hail to Christmas! Who is there that will not re-echo this exclamation, for who there that has not experienced some of the pleasures which the season of Christmas affords. None, think may venture to assert. Then hail to Christmas! Let the sentiment ...

... CHRISTMAS VACATION, THE Rev. JOHN EVANS will give Private Lessons in tbe Classics, Geography, Astronomy, and the new Art of Memory, during One Month tbe acation, oommeucing Tuesday, December 26tli. desire, the Maps, Drawings, Diagrams, and .Specimens ...

... CHRISTMAS DAY, • Kow Hospitality, to cheer the gloom Of Winter, invitation tends abroad; The rural housewife lays the annual block Of Christmas on the hearth, and bids a blaze •Of tenfold brightness glad its sable spot ; Then sprucely decks the windows ...

... CHRISTMAS DAY The Coi'uier.—There is little foreign or domestic infcliigencc of importance this morning—and not regret it. fib day. from which date our eternal hope, may well consent filift our minds from worldly events, higher thoughts, and 'Are important ...