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VOL. XVII.
Poor, Poor Lose Z
The most ttioching• song of poor, poor love,"
that we have lately met, is the following :
And must we part 1 7 -wr 11, let it be,
'Ms better thus, oh yes, believe me;
For though I still was true to thee.
Thou, faithleSs maiden, would'st deceive me
Take back this'written pledge of love,
o more I'll• to my bosom fold it :
The ring you gave year faith to prove,
- I can't re•urd—because fee sold it!
I will iii,t.ssk thee to restore
Each gage &wont, or lover's token,
Wit:eh I had , oven thee before
The folks b etween us had been broken.
They were not touch. but oh I that brooch,
If for my sake thou'st deign'd to save it,
,Tor that, at least, I most encroach
-1 It Wasn't mine, although I gave it.
• ire gem that in my breast I wore.
That once belonged unto your mother,
Nhich; when you gave to me I swore,
For life I'd love y'u and no other.
Can 1012 forget that cheerful morn,
When in my breast thou first didst stick it
can't restore it—it's in pawn. •
But, base deceiver, there's the ticket.
Oh, take back all, cannot bear .
These prools of love—they seem to mock it
There, false one, take your lock of hair—
) Nay. do not ask me for the locket.
Insidious girl ! that wily tear
Is useless now, that all is ended ;
There,js thy earl—nay,do tint sneer,
The - locket's —somewhere—being mended.
'The dressing-case you lately gave
Was fit, I know, t'r Bagdad's caliph ; •
I used it only once to share, -
When it was-taken by Iho hailitT.
Than thou didst give I bring back less,
But hear the. truth without more dodging—
The landlord's been with a distress,
eff7.d positively cleared my lodging.
Poverty in , Cities--Learning--the PrOrCll24ollB
--Over production of Intellectual Labor.-
Blasts t arenas, &c.
Gentle R er. pass not by this article. wit'n the idle
exclamation" pshaw ! what stupid. stutito put tit a nes% s
paTer !" It is an essay full of instruction— full of matter
for grave consideration. It should prove more inter
esting to thee. than 'all the foolish romances and Ijing
love tales; that everfurnieln_.d food to the sickening sen
timentalq of boarding school misses or that interesting
class of young gentlemen, whose absence front home is
nut supposed, to be known to their anxious mothers. It
is an extract fro 'm the "World of London," a continuous
essay running through the last number of Blackwood's
Maortue.—(Eu Alitie.tts . JOURNAL
'rut it is w.ieo we descend to the pr'ofessmns that
coal elition becomes must desperate, and produces
most fatal results ; we say descend to the professions,
for what is a profession (per Se) in the_compeution
of London life, bt,t a passport to pov.rty, mid pro
bif,ly starvation I Contemplate the myriads at the
bar, or coming to the bar ; in the church, or coming
to the church:, studying_ the profession of physic, or
already dubbed M. D.; regard the rebundant swarm
of educated young men!and women, we beg pardon,
young genllemen and ladies, tenderly brought up
to the fashionable employment of doing nothing,
doubly, helpless and imbecile from the very refine
ment of mind superior education is calculated to pro
d uce.
This class abounds in London, and a more unfor
tunate set of wretches do not exist—the newspapers
show us emphatically what they come to at last.
'fake the following hap-hazard from the Tirne, s .-
-ONE SHILLING AN Ilona.— Morning Governess—A
lady, daily engaged in tuition, has her morning hours at
pri sent unoccupied, and wishes to devote them to a
private tatntly. tier course of instruction comprises
history, geography, with the use of the globes, writing
arithneet:c. French, music, dancing flawer-pqint
mg. The highest references can be ((bided. Jingle
Inasur s given in any of the above studies.—Atldress,
postpaid, to B. B at Mr T. Goodhuah'S, fancy station
er:72, Lamb's Conduit-sin et, Foundling. -
God help thee, pour thing ! thine is indeed a me
lancholy lot ! Yet such :is it is, thine is the lot of
thousands' Let us pause a moment—let imagina
tion have the reign—yet tvhy, when we know the
truth !—Here you have nn orphan daughter of a
gentleman, bred op in elegant retirement, whose ac
complishments forme&her employment and her pa
rent's pride ; they are dead, and in the wilderness
of London she pines alone nt some mercenary boar
ding•houac—her music and her se..c•ct voice are the
equivalent fur her bitter must, and her beauty'', faded
though rt-be, the attraction of the inmates ; but she
is penniless, and her occupation is never hinted at
without a sneer ; the bright days of what ought to
he to her n Joyous youth pass FM ay in a packhorse
drudgery of tuition, at a shilling an hour: she will
give, ay, even a single le.son—poor miserable girl—
shilling is an object to her, and for this shilling she
is prepared (ihe Lord look down upon hrr !,) to af
ford the .•• highest references !" This, ye shabby
genteel families -Lye aceomplishment-por feint trizeis
ye useful-knowledge-mongers, this is the fate that
awaits yr lir daughters at lost. Instead of making a
decent provision for your Miserable Offspring, you
give them an education, esVou call it, unnatural
wretches that you are, end a shilling an hour re
pays your unhappy daughter for this proficiency in
your odious flower-painting—your inveterate piano
forte strumming--your profane geography, and your
impious use of the gl 'lies !
Oh ! for an hour of Jack Cade, to hang the lot
of ye, taith your pens and ink-horns - about your
necks !
Take up the Times again :
"To GENTLEMEN or EIWCATION.—Wanted, in an
Academy in the healthiest part of Lincolnshire, a gen
tleman to undertake the whole care and superintendenoe
of the senior classes under the Principal The course
of instruction comarises Greek, Latin, French, Italian.
with the usual University preparatory course, and it will
be desirable that canindates should be graduates of
Cambridge or Oxford.
' As the situation will be permanent, salary will, alto
gether depend upon the exertions made.
"'None need apply who cannot recommend one or
two pupils. The strictest moral character absolutely
necessary. Apply by letter, postpaid." &c.
The hard-hearted impudence of these advertise
ments passes without notice, because in a country
where thousands of educated persons cannot get
work at wages, tens of thousands will beady and
willing to work without; and, indeed, the adverti
sfilg columns of the public liurnals afford examples
every day of persons who are ready to pay to be al
lowed to work I . ol' nothing. It is true, that artisans
and laboring men ere not yet come to this pretty
pass: nobiatly thinks of employing : s bricklayer or
carpenter s and giving him no other remuneration for
his services than the credit of the job ; yet this is
the course adopted, wherever practicable, with per.
sons of education in the world of London.
The young physician, going about in a suit of
waliquidated sables, and paying twice as much as he
is wrath for a foot square of a ball door in a genteel
neighborhood, whereon his name is engraved in let
ters of brass, is glad to go round dolling his hat and
bending his back-to a hundred or inure -guinea sub
scribers to some fifth-rate dispensary, soliciting, as
if life and death depended upon It, the $, sweet voi
ces?' of a set whose brains are most probably in their
breeches pockets, and whose vulgar insolence is the
only. attribute that does not smell of the shop : by
AND POTTSVILLE GENElifia, ADVERTISER.
Weekly by Benjamin Bagman, PoltsVille, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
these, or less or more of them, this man of medicine
is huffed and scuffed about, because be solicits the
distinguished honor of attending their pauper:prote
ges for nothing.
The young lawyer, in like manner, is bilked of
his fees by a rascally attorney, who thinks he does
wonders by giving the young man a chance of dis
tinguishing himself: the fellow would he ashamed
not to pay his chimney-sweeper, but will feel no
scruple in «ithholding the hire of the other gentle
man who may be obliged to put his head into much
dirtier concerns.
The poor clergyman about town is rejoiced at the
opportunity of preaching out of the season, a half
guinea sermon for some wealthy incumbent, who
goes off with his faintly every auturnir to one or
other of the watering places : the condition of wret
ches engaged in tuition we are already familiar
with; while literary history, ancient and modern, is
hit a litany of the miseries of men whose subsis
tence depends upon the precarious and exhausting
produce of the brain. '
The cause of this depreciation of intellectual la
bor is obvious--over-production : while first-rata
own of business are far from common, while respec
'ta'ble artisans are fiaruly to be had, the doctors, law
yers, parsons, tut. rs, and literary persons of all Se:
nominations, &your one another, and their wages
CAI to nothing accordingly.
The plague of schooLuaalers is upon the :
h aids aro out of fashion, and nobody will conofc•
"crud to work but with their heads : the example of
the Clerk of Chatham has been lost ou this p.
generation, and every man's chill now runny Into
the world with on inkhorn round his neck, a quire
of foolscap under his arm, and a pen behind Incl ear :
he must be a lawyer, forsooth, as it the solid wan ,
014 u larger Court of Chancery, arid all mankind
were at loggerheads therein : or u doctor, or sonic
pernicious animal of that sort. The daughters are
to be slat they call aceonipliahed, which means, iu
English ; to he able to do nothing useful ; and the
upshot of the infatuation will be, that in a little time
we shall have neither butchers, nor bikers, nor tin
kers, nor tailors, nor seamstresses, nor cooks : the
living will devour the living, and the dead bury
the dead. As it is, every third mare you meet is
sure to be one of those worse than useless c eatures
coifed professional gentlemen ; and who now-a-days,
should like to.know, is acquainted with any young
lady who could tell you how lung a leg of mutton
will take in boiling, or who Understands any earthly
Ming save flower-painting, arithmetic, geography, or
the (curse them!) use of the globes?
• • • •
If any imagine that we are at the trouble to indite
these papers for the purpose of mere amusement, or
to raise an.evancseent laugh, they mistake us alto
gether, and we desire no more of their acquaintance.
We have a higher object in view; and if we occa
sionally indulge in innocent jocularity, it is that we
may carry our young and inexperienced readers
more pleasantly to the moral of our history. We
are old in the ways of London life, and would be a
Mentor to many a young Telemachus, if they wili
only liste' to us. We ask the young man, who
'thinks education--mere education--will carry h im
thro'rgh the world 01 L.mdon, to consider, bel..re he
tr insplants himself thither, wuether he is shorn to
fix himself in a congenial soil: we tell him, anil thal
trot ignorantly, that in this world of brick and mor
tar, his education will only render him more suscep
tible of the univer:al contempt, dislike, and
that will be sure to meet him at terry turn. lint
poverty does not only make men ridiculous iu Lon
don, but hateful ; it is looked upon in the light of
nn unnatural cntne, and the brutal myrmidons cf the
law, and the dull Dogberries of the Felice dikes, de
light in subjecting destitution to ignominy. We
tell the unfriended young man of talent who medi
tates the miseries of a London life, that be: be as well
principled as lie may, there is oi.e crime he will be
sure to commit—the crime of poverty—titan which,
in the calendar, none is more relentlessly pursued in
London ; it was capital at one time to lie destitute ;
and if the police magistrate had the making as well
as`the administering of the iris, destitution would
be capital again, A Yount, poor wretch ! you hare
no business here ; nobody _ran make any thing of
jour flesh, nor will the tanticis give a farthing a
vesmad for your skin: your teeth, probahly,inot ha.
ring teen much in use, may be worth a guinea to
the dentists; or, if you happen to be a governess
with a g-od bead of Nair, a Jew will give you at the
rate of there shillings a pound for it. Avsunt, I
say ! what are you worth to a rascally tradesman, a
skirflint lodging-house keeper, or a huxtering Jew
who can cheat, or cozen, or swindle you out of that
which you have not, good-for-nothing-varlet that you
are! lf, famishing with hunger, you refrceli your.
self by gazing at a cook-shop, you are ordered to
0 move on !" if by prayers and entreaties, you ob
tain permission to skeep under a hayrick, or by the
side of a brick-kiln, the patrol seizes you via armia,
and drags you to the lock-up. a charge being entered
against you of "found destitute." In the morning
you are brought to the bar with a horde of other
vagabonds, 'and probably sent to the treadmill for
fourteen days; or, if you choose to inform the magis
trate that you are a pour scholar, His ‘Vorship, alter
looking round the court with on air of salaried stu
pidity, and inquiring of the officers, whether you are
known to the office,' or whether the present is
your first ~ nffence," will probably,,in his great rim-
ey, let yo u off with a severe admonition, not again
to he guilty of the horrid crime of sleeping in the
open air.
But you will not listen to reason; you are a man
of talent, your grand-mother says so,atid the albums,
of a dozen young ladies in your neighborhood attest
the fact; put foolish old father says, that learning
is better than houses or land," and you ore jackass
enough to believe him ; you have got on your
tongue's end a cuckoo cry of knowledge is power,"
and off you go to London to give yourself the lie.
Surely you bring your pigs to a fine market ; as
soon should we expect to see the trembling aspen
rise to maturity on the naked peaks of the Himalay
as, or to stumble upon the modest violet in the de
sert plains of central Africa, as to see the unprofew
atonal mon of education and talent rise to any thing
above the miserable chance of the precarious subsis
tence of the passing day. Suppose you came to
London with a poem, like Thomson. or like John
son with a tragedy in your pocket: why then, you
will want a pair of shoes like the one, or a dinner
like the other; and probably, as all your conceit
will not lead you to measure your intellect with
such men, you will ere long find it adVisable either
to turn your attention to'some useful occupation, or
else go to New Zealand, Australia, or the devil.'
That scholarship may serve a man in some
cognized evocation, we do not scrolls to admit, (al-
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4.
though we believe that if he have pushing and tact,
or perseverance and common sense, with a dash of
impudent self-conceit, he will get nn much better
without it ;) but then it will only serve him as sub-
IC
sidiary to something the world stands in need of, and.
because it so stands in need, is ready and wilting to
pay foi and to honor; but in sure as a picture, how
ever well finished, is a bare and naked looking affair
if not provided witL a frame, sa sure-is scholarship,
especially in London, a miserable chattel, if not set
in the golden round of some lucrative profession.
Need I refer you to the Calamities of Authors for
the certain . fate that awaits you if you turn your
energies to the trade of literature 1 fur a Tiede you
must make it, if yomwould live! If, in fine, you
are a scholar, that is to say, a poor scholar, go from
door to door among the cabine of Ireland, where you
will be received with universal sympathy and re
spect, and have the best seat and mealiest potato; or
travel, as Guldsmiih did, from university to univer
sity on the Contineht, while the measure of a man
is not altogether taken from Lis breeches pocket; but
of all curses, avoid the cursed indignity you will meet
with in "London, where the ruffianism of insolent
ai.d vulgar wealth knows no restraint, no decency,
no shame; and where every cad with a pocketful i;.l
silver, is more respectable than you while his pocket
is full- London is a trailing -place, and whatever
you are, if you come to London to live, you must j
he a trader ; ilmefore, if you have the true nobility
of geni . t, stay away, end let the muck-worms of
town insult one have spun the fees.
ti.isTILITIES tv PIIIVATE LIFE.-- TOIi . CSI in a
T(Wpot rT,LI:IIdCt this stmthrig captirn, (we beg
broth. r Store's pardon) an amusing story 16 told in
a late London paper. The facts of the
~c ase are as
follows. Mis. Brown gave a party, and borrowed a
rnitin silver tea-pot, to grace the table, from a
Nlrs. Smith, wife ) Mrs. Smith was tot
intik d to the party. As a woman of spirit, this
c 'old not he overlooked. The teapot was returiod
due course of time. with complintente and
(hunks,' w loch gave rise to the fAlowing interesting
correspondence:
Mrs Smith's compl merits to Mrs Brown begs to re
turn the leapott to the latter--in consequence of the ill
usage it has received in her hands.
Mrs. Brown, being a woman who piques herself
upon her talent at epistolatory wining, immediately
replied in the following terms :
Mrs Brown's compliments to Mrs Smith begs to say
that her paltry teapot received no ill-usage from Mrs
Brtwn. Mrs B. will thank Mrs S. not to put two is at
the end of teapot in future.
The note and the teapot were forthwith sent up
stairs to Mrs. Smith—who resided in the story above
Mrs. Brown—whose indignation being very natural
ly roused, she again returned the battered affair, with
this spirited missive :
Mrs Smith begs to inform Mrs Brown that she despi
ses her insinuations ano to say that s he will put as many
is as she pleases in her teapot.
P. S.—Mrs S. expects to be paid ten shillings for the
injured article.
Again the teapot was sent up stairs, with the fol
lowing reply from Mrs. Brown :
Mrs Brown thinks Mrs Smith a low creature.
Y. S.—Mrs B. won't pay a farthing.
l'he correspondence terminated here. linfortu
rmtc!) for Mrs. B , h, , wever, she intimated that Mrs.
S, iAns acting midi r the itdinence of gin, which co
ming t , ) lint lady's eurs, caused a battle royal be
tween the pans, in clinch Mrs. B. came ofr second
best. Would that our limits permitted us to give
an account t i thi , i.krimmage.
[FOR TFIR MINERS' JOURNAL]
Geographical Enigma.
1 ani composed of 19 letters.
My 17, 5,7, 4,5, is a city in France.
My 19, 4, 11, 10, is a town in Abyssinia.
My 10, 3,4, 10, is a county in Pennsylvania.
My 5, 12, 13, is an island in the Archipelago.
My 8, 40. 5. 6, is a town in Austria.
My I, 7,4, 11, 4, 17, is a lake in Ireland.
My 12, 13, 4, 11, 10. is 'a town in Switzerland.
My 18. 14, 16, is a city in Germany,
My 13, 9, 4,.13, is one of the United Stairs.
My 6,4; 16, 7, 11, is on island in the Pacific.
My 14, 4, 19, 14, 10, is a city in Europe.
My 11, 13, 16, 10, is a town in New York.
My 16, 10, 14. 14, 10, is a river in Europe
My 17, 13, 13, I I, 7, is an island, in the Pacific.
My 17, 3, 10. 19, 6. is a city in France.
My 4,5, I, 7, is a lake in Austria.
My 12, 13, 16, 7, is a lake in Austria.
My 11, 2,4, 16, 10, 19, is a city in France.
My 10, 16, 19, is a liver in Europe.'
My whole was the name of a celebrated Naviga
Wt. A L PH A.
Answer next week.
BACON Saytn.-..The legislature of Maine have
granted a divorce to Col. Ebenezer Cobb and hie
ife,Sarah Moon. The wrong side of fill caught
the husband, white the bride had just past the
blooming age of seventeen.
-For this divorce the only course
That wAsely could be taken,
Fair Sarah sued—the case was proved,
And thus she saved her Bacon!
Can any blame the youthful dame,
Who gae ti e courts a job?
When all the corn is shell'd add gone,
Say, a ho would keep the Cobb 7
A WOMAN ' S ADVANTAGES.—A woman may say
what she pleases to you. without the risk of getting
knocked down for it. She can take a snooze after
dinner, while her husband has to go to work. She
can dress herself in neat tidy shoes for a dollar,
which her husband has to earn and fork over to
her. She can take a walk on a pleasant day, with
, out the fear of being asked to treat at every coffee.
'house she passes. She can paint her face if too pale,
or flour it if too red. She can - stay at home in time
of war, and wed again if her husband is " kilt."
She can wear corsets if too thick, and other fixins
' if too thin.
Roams° a GRAVE YARD.—Robert W. Saunders
and Robert Thibbins have been reeogn;sed to ap
pear before the Grand Jury at Richmond, Va. to
answer for robbing the glove yard of that place of
dead bodies. One witness testified that Saunders
told him come time since he had supplied one in-
stitution with eighty-fice bodies !
SENTIMENT.- - " Behold, my Flora, how glorious
nature looks in her bloom. The trees are filled
with blospome, the wood is dressed in its green lie.
ery, and the plain is carpeted with grass and flow.
ern."
" Yes, C buries, I was thinking of the same-thing.
Those flowers are dandelions, and when they are
gathered and put into a pot, with a piece of good
fat pork, they make the best greens in the world."
Naw Yon; Darr.—The debt of the Empire State
is $ 20,000,000—the interest per year is $1,000,000.
Amount realized yearly by her public works $ 2,.
000,000.
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''Sit.
English Railroads.
[Prepare4 for the New York Trit tine I
The Rallis:ay Magazine of Oct. 30. gives :he fol
lowing returns of s ome o f the most important Eng
lish Railroads for one week in October :
Name - Passenger s Receipts
Eastern Counties,.,.,,. .... 15.192 83.955 20
Great Western ..............9783........62.36i 50
Grand Juncti0n,,,,,,,,,, , .. ~,.,,,.43.48520
London and Birmingham ........ 77.510 40
Liverpool and Manchester.... ,r. 483 00
London and Brighton... .... 4342......,:10646 40
London an i .... ..25.617.... ....3.39 .. 3.739 20
London and Blackwall..... 35.340. ...... 3.209 40
Manchester and Birmingham .10 820.... .... 1.497 00
Midland C0untie5............ 9382 ........12 758 40
Manchester and Leed5....... .... —.20.1.170 40
North Midland .............. ........ 20 788 80
York and North Midland. ... 7.771 ........ 7.944 00
Total
The average receipts per mile per week on the
above Railroads, from these returns, is shout $470 40,
which on a road of the size of the Nt vo York any)
Erie Railroad, 450 miles, would he $211,680 per
week, or $11,007,360 per smut 1 , . The total expen
s,s, exclusive of interest, are estimated at 40 per,
cent of the receif ts.
A 1 - lE4n-ruse Witt:rem—Strangers in ,ur city
(says the N. 0. Picayune) often ewes. them
selves 'mounded at tte (Anoit manner and apparent
levity affected sometimes by convalescent* front the
fever.
.Why, my dear bas, how reduced you ere: said
one Old friend meeting another.
'Reduced! by Jupiter, I ought to be ! I've been
three weeks on my back !' -
'Three weeks !'
Thee weeks!'
=•Yellow fever !'
•
'Yellow fever!'
nd die r
, Die!—\o; it's too expensive to get bu
ried here! Bless y , ur heart, sir, I c. , uldn't stroll
to die !'
PLANTING DAGGERS --There is a fine epizrani
under this title, which we have not seen in any of
the newspapers. It runs thus :
Said the florist, John 'Knox, looking drolly as
kant,
"I laugh at you poets, your ignorance showing,
In the lice; t - of a htro a dapeer you plant;
Oh ! why will von plant wlrere there's no ehMice
of growing?"
"No chance of growing," said the ape of Lord
Byron
'Tis a planting whose growth follows quick, may
it please ye
In your breast if f planted some inches of iron,
You'd soon find it grow—most contounded uiTh?. sy.
CALEU CUSIIING.—This gentleman has addressed
the following letter to the Editor of the Bt. Louis
Bulletin. It explains itself."
DEAR SIR: I perceive, by your paper of the
12th instant, that some base and mendacious print
at the West accuses me of' having sought to injure
Mr. Webster, through the New-York Herald; and
1 thank you most heartily (or your prompt contrn.
diction of this calumnious charge; and 1. b. A. per—
mission to confirm what you have Raid on she su'i_
vet of the falsity of' that accusation in all its parts
and telations, and to add thyt, whoever shall im
pute to me any purpose or sot of injur y to Mr.
Webster, I pronotnee every such person a liar and
a scoundrel. I am yours, respectfully,
WARNING To DIUINHARDi.—The following point'
ed lines a re to be seen or: a tomb.stone in New Or.
leans. 1t the editors of the , Pic doubt it, let them
go and make a "search among the tombs."
Here I lay,
Bound in clay;
When I died,
To live, I tried
But I couldn't,
Sn I wouldn't;
Rum I drank
From a tai,k ;
Always blue,
And merry, too;
My nn 4e turned red,
Then I went dead !
TiH EMPIRE Sever..—The New York Co.ntner
cial states that the vote polled at the recent election
was 76,663 less than that polled in 1840 ; arid that
the democrats were 52,000 votes short of their polls
of last year. -
' l ' tts IVlossrEn I .—There is a dwarf now exhibit
nig in Vie interior of Mariwactiusetts, who weighs but
23 pounds, and is only 36 inches high. lie is in
hie 17th year.
ANSWER. to the Biographicll Enigma of last
week: Samuel Huntington.—SoLuTlON : Smith,
Allen, Milton, Ulloa, Eaton, Lee, Hume,
Noll, Tilh, Innbe, Nash, Gaol, Tell, Otho,
GOT A BIRTII.-0!d Cooper, the celebrated tra
gedian, has been appointed store-keeper at the•Frunk
ford Arsenal. One of President Tyler's sons mar
ried a daughter of Mr. Cooper. •
Loog re.—The rdit,:lr of the Milton= raised
enough of the , needful' I•tst week to go on a deer
hunt. lie has given Ttite a graphic description of
his adventures.
4. I never gave a kiss ! .ays Prue,
4 . To haughty man, tor I abhor tt
She never gave a kiss, 't is true-•--
She'll take one., tho', and thank you for it."
EGOS! Eocs ! hastbeeo a scertained t h at over
half a million of eggs are consumed every month in
the city of New York.
BrEwsn snye in ono of his novels, that ege,
which tames all other passions, never tames the pas
sion of dress in a woman's mind.
WISH RE !HAT GET IT.—The Emperor of China
offers a reward of $ tOO,OOO for the head of Captain
Elliot, for preservation in the royal museum et Pekin.
Loos orT!—The Allegheny County Sauk of
New York—one of the red backs—is in bed odor.
, FLocitiso is.—Mernbete of Congrefa into We
shington.
SpzEtt.—Over one million of dollars has been ex
ported from New York since the lot of November.
COSITIRIDICTED.The [ reported resignation of
[ Senator Tappan of Ohio.
Tue. Jaws.—There ate fifty thousand Jews in
the United States.
Tug PLAN - THEO HOTEL. of Itit. Louis, has been
soh! for $llO,OOO. Cost 4200,000;
NO 49
138.247
6291.201 60
" BosToN, Oct. 27,1841
C. CUSIIING
The Barber of Parts.
A Berher named Linion, woe brought before the
Police court char& d with having customers in his
house after midnight.
Ill43aiber st It is the fault of this person, Mar
-1 lon, wisCris in the 'court. .As he has no tune to be
shaved duffing the day, he will come to be shaved
Lute at night." k
,
' The President :44 You ought not, at all events. to
disturb the public peace. There were cries issuing
.i
fro -* your house as if you had been committing
mu t."
. rkm : “He was shaving; that's alrotriiiht
same thing."
Thr President: •• Was it you, then,Merloti, who
were crying out as if you were being flayed'!"
Merle:, : Yes: in fact, he was flaying mo—(a
general laugh)---he has cut me horribly."
The Barber: a It is true, but I made a mistake."
Merlon: bid you not mean, that, to cut me
The Barber : I do not say that. (Prolonged
laughter.) I certaitly did not mean to cut au deep."
(Loud and continued laughter.)
The President: “ Did you, then, cut him on put•
pm t "
The Barber: Indeed, I did, in the spirit of my
ordtr : you undenttand ono does not like to be be•
low his business."
ThePrezidera and Merlon together : "And why?"
The Barber: « The whole affair is this: M. Mer
lon is not to be trusted, as he does not pay ready
money; he used to cheat me in the number of shaves
for which he owed me; when he.had twelve, biA„
used to s-.y and he had only six, so that I lost hot
my lmns, my soap, and my time; at last I devised'
a mode of keeph,g'n reckoning not to be disputed."
The PreAidenl: o How was that ? "
The !forties : Every time that I shave htm,
make a notch in his cheek, (general laughter;) when
we eyelid up, I look at his cheek, so- many notches,
so many shaves ; (renewed laughter;) but the other
day the r,.zo•r turned in .my bands, I made the figure
too large, and it was this which made him cry out
arid disturb the neighborhood."
Amidst the gametal laughter the barber was con.
dunned in pay the full penalty, and the President
advised him to renounce, in future, his new :yam
of 4ceplng accounts.
Clippings.
Be always as mild as you can; a spoon full of
honey attracts mere Ales than a barrel of vinegar.
If you must fall in any extreme, let it be on the
side of gentleness. The human mind is so con
structed that it resists rigor and yields to softness.
A mild word quenches anger, as water quenches
the rage of lire; and by benignity any sod may be
rendered fruitful. Truth, uttered with courtesy, is
heaping coals of fire on the head or rather, throw.
mg ruses in the face. flow can wit resist a fue
whose weapons are pearls and diamonds I
Keep out of bad company, fin the chance is thit
N lien the devil fires into a flock he will hit some
body,
Lfyou be a rich man, you may enter the room
with three loud hems, march deliberately up to
the chimucy, and turn your back to the fire. If
%ou be a pilaf' man, I would advise you to shrink
into the room as fast as you can, and place your.
self, us usual, upon the corner of a chair, in u re.
mole corner.
Beautiful is the love of a sister; the kiss that
lia+ll no gut:e, and 110 ; the touch is purity
and briugelli peace, satisfaction to the heart, and
no fever to the pulse. Beautiful is the love of a Sla
ter ; it is moonlight un our path—it has light, but
no heat ; it is of heaven, and sheds its peace upon
the earth.
11 we did not flatter ouraelves,the flattery of oth.
era would not be prejudicial to us.
Courage ddfends the honor of man—modesty
guards that of woman.
" How do you manage to live hare 7" said a tray.
eller to a group of animated spectres in the Pon
tine Marshes. We die!' was the pathetic reply.
It is a lees crime to gnaw a man's fingers with
your teeth, than to mangle his reputation with your
tongue.
" Why do you not pay me that six and eight
pence, Sir. Mu!lrony V said an attorney to an
Irishman. who replied,—" Why, faith. becautie I di,
nut owe you that same." Not owe it to me, yes
you do ; it's for that opinion you had of me."—
"That's a god one indeed," replied Pa;, " when 1
never hrs.d any opinion of you in all my life."
Every fool. knows how often he has been a rogue,
but every roger does not know how often he has
beta a taut.
Qr - t (ATE in Ft:EL.—According to the experi
ments of Marcus Bull, of Philadelphia, the following
are the quantities of different kinds of wood required
to throw off an equal quantity of heat—all to he well
seasoned :
Hickory,
White Oak,
Hard Maple,
Soft Maple, -
Pitch Pills., -
White Pine, -
Anthracite goal, 4 tons
C qT IR 0 r Port fixixitorins.—The Knoxville
(Term.) Register says that the Engineer of the Hill
wassee Rotlroad has proposed to the Directors to irtib
'stitute east iron rails instead of rolled iron. It is
supposeJ that on the whole line at least $150.1100
will be saved by this change. The Boston Adverti
ser say.. however, that the experiment on the Stock
ton and D,olitigton Radioed has clearly proved that
cast iron is very unsuitable for rails, on account of
its liability to break, and that in the end it will prove
more expensive than wrought iron.
A Nt;w Fum.---The New York Courier says that
the Briti3h government has decided on introducing
it'o u:,e by its steamers a peculiar kind of fuel cal.
led Grant's ;went fuel. They arc now advertising
fir the sorely of 25.000 tons of this fuel, to be de'
livered at their different naval stations. It may
they ante be presumed to have been fullv tested. and
to five been round to possess superior advantages.
The futl ts- derctibcd as' composed of coal dust and e
a prep.tratton of coal tar, or other bituminous mat.
ter, to be converted by the influeoce of heat into a
substance reieniblipg
PEr n o s soli FEASTING.—The Providence
Jr.urnal say. that 55,000 pounds of turkeysTassed
oter the tSionington Railroad on last Friday end
Monday fox the'Boston market. What a thanksgi
ving the 1).m:1-Easters will have
A PER-1.4N PHILOS*CIIER being asked by what meth.
od he had acquired so much knowledge, answered,
"By not being prevented by shame from using
questions when I was ignorant."
Tnt OLI) SToics.—A girl named Julia Power at
ten-weed to commit suicide on Thursday of last week.
Cause—seduction.
'f If royal family of France at the te•
ception which the Yankees have given the Prince
tie Joinville.
A NEW LEAL Miss.—The Wisconsin Whig
says that a new lead mine of great value has been
discovered on the School Section near that town.
PARTIES IN Cosentse.—There will be 137 dem
ocrats, locofocoa, end 5 vacancies, at the ap
proaching seision.
hicLson.--'Phis stamp is again in tronble, having
been arrested on a capias at Niagara for his defaica
tions In Canada.
"OLD ORME? CosTs."—The new fashioned
ever coats, " all buttoned down before," are now
dibtinguished by the above title.
A Goon 'tra.—When is a fiddle like wink in a
ship ! When it sets the pumps ageing.
ApvlnTtemn.—The New Orleane Bulletin
the 15th kat. contains 320 new advertisements.
4 con!'
4 3-4 do
5 2-3 do
7 1.5 do
9 1-7 do
9 1.5 do