WcvUb to fJolttua, itctahtre, agriculture, Science, ittoraiitu, anb (Stencral Intelligence.
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VOL 15.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH 8, 1855.
NO. 16.
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The Printer's Love.
i We lore to see the blooming rose,
In all its beauty drept,
Wc Ioto to hear our friende disclose
t The emotions of the bre act.
We love to see the ship arrive
Well laden to our shore:
. Wc love to Bee our neighbors thrive,
And love to bless the poor.
1 We lore to see domestic life,
. With uninterrupted joyr;
TWs love to see a happy wife,
I" With lots of girls and boys.
We lore all these yet far above
All that we ever said,
We love what every printer lored,
To Have Subscriptions Paid.
Any delinquent subscriber who can resist
tin appeal like the aboc, eurelv must have ;
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rrind-etone. Lest there be any such, how-
rer, totally indifferent to the printer's love,
yr add the following verses of malediction:
And may the wicked who refuse
To pay the printer's bill,
fie forced to travel without sheet--,
Right op a flinty hill!
And never may they turn about,
Or sit down on a rail,
Until the money they thell out
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TIME.
. Jtfern talletk fondly to a fair boy straying
Mid golden meadow, rich with clover dew;
""She calle-but he still thinkB of naught save
playing,
Acd so ahe smiles and waves him an adieu!
'Whilst he, stil rnerry with flowery store,
'TDeems not that morn, bwcpI morn, returns
4 ' no more.
JVoon comcth but the boy to manhood grow
ing,
Hedr not the time hc
sees but one sweet '
form,
One young, fair face from bower of jasmine
glowing,
And all his loving heart with Mis is warm.
sSoNoon, unnoticed, seeks the wcetern
chore,
And man forgets that noon returns no more.
r Right lappeth gently at a caeement
.. gleaming
"JXjitb tbe thin firelight flickering faint and
-.-r: low;
-cBy which a grry-hatred man is sadly
dreaming
Of pleasure? gone as all life's pleasures go.
i Night calls him to her, and lie leaves his
. door.
Silent and dark and he returnee no more.
A Home Item.
NVe have probably all of us met with
instances iu which a word heedlessly spo-
ken against .the reputation of a female has
utuu ui.gumcu uj uiunujuus miuua umu i
toe cloud uas become darli enougti to o-yer-shadow
her whole existence. To
those, who are accustomed not necessa-
rAJy.trom bad motives, tmtlrom tbought- i
icusncM to tpeas iigony ot iemaies, we
reoommeno. iue loiiowiog -niuts ' as wor
tby of consideration :
propeV place, at an improper time, or in
mixed company. Never make assertions
about her that you think arc untrue, or
allusions that you feel sho herself would
Wuh to hear. When you meet with
men who do not scruple to make use of a
Voman'i name in a reckless and unprinci
pled mauer, shun them for they are the
very woret members of the community
rmen lost to every sense of honor eve
ry fueling of humanity. Many a good
.arid worthy woman's character has been
forever ruined and her heart broken by
aMie' manufactured by some villain and
Imported where it should not havo been,
kiidrin tha presence of those whose little
ju8jgnient could not deter them from cir
sutalijlg the foul and bragging report. A
slsader is &oon propagated, and tbe smal
lest thing derogatory to woman's charac
ter, will fly on the wings of the wind, and
magnify as it circulates, until its mon
strous weight crushes the poor unconscious
victim. . Respect the name of woman, and
jfc A$ you would have their fair name
fcy theoderer'fl biting tongue, heed the
ill titfyour own words may bring upon j
etber, tho fiister, of the wife- of
ffgje feUoW'Creature."
Reverses of Fortune.
Let not the rich boast of their wealth,
or the poor complain of their poverty, is
a rule which will answer both inprosper
ity and adversity. The fickleness of for
tune has been a theme for rjoeta and
romancers ever since the story of Job's
, affliction has been known. Tho uncer
tainty of mercantile life, particularly, is
: not only a constant subject of remark,
but also one of general experience. No
; profession in life, except the farmer'?,
. scented to be so fixed, or even so perina
( neut, that some adverse storms may not
, sweep all away, and leave the fancied
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Bn Ot Wealth but the semblance of his
ance or nis
stocks, and
astc paper,
i poverty. What are bonds, s
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! niortrrnorps hiif. in miih trnsfn
' o . ; f- rFwf
wrimi fh Wid ,mnn M1, tU.
- t u..u
nZZZ "ttotfbS rf
, wuuui puma me uni uusuci 01
; potatoes, or the smallest loaf of bre-d to
' Fut.-",lBi ur lULbinaucbc joui 01 urc.u, 10
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, yiuuuzv lUi3 uiuoii iu uruer io re- certain deatht Ho soon after heard
I re.,th suddJn fal1 of , a hionable I a d and pursuing him bj moonlight,
family from affluence to almost complete 1 overtook him, leaped upon his back, and
j poverty. Last winter the frequenter of j cut h5a throat Hc tben dressed him and
! the gay reunions at Washington could I aki ou the hcarfc laccd it in hb
I not have failed to notice a hale and hearty I pocket for a tropby. IIe continued walk
. widow, fair and about forty, who attend- ; nA ,f
! nn nil Mia hnlld nirtina nnH rrn t ncenm
rr. 7" """ t";j MCui-
uuea ui uui uupuui. ouu uau a xoveiy
daughter, scarcely seventeen years of age,
innocent and retiring in her manners, but
of an engaging and affectionate disposi
tion. The widow was the owner of a plan
tation in Virginia, encumbered with ne
groes, and run down to such a state of
poverty sho was actually poorer than the
colored servants whom she owned. She
resolved, however, to make a desperate
push, and to marry her daughter off in
such a manner to recuperate her decliri
i ing fortunes. Her reputed wealth, the
j charming appearance of her daughter,
i and tho fmese which she knew so well
how to use, was very soon successful. A
JO"nS man of tllis city recently taken in
. 1 1 Tir 11
as a Vot in a panning nouse in v an
street, was at Washington, transacting
some business for the firm, and while
thero received an invitation to attend a
soiree at the residence of the Hon. Mrl
, a member of the Senate. He re
ceived an invitation to the strategic wid-
ow, who immediately saw. the game pre-
l sented to her. The daughter was intro
duced, and the young man, feeling rich
1 and important at his recent good fortune
j in his business, thought it about time to
i take a wife. When both parties are
'more than usually -anxious it does not
j generally take long to conclude a matri
i monial arrangement. At all events, so
I spirited was the preliminary courtship,,
j assisted by the experience of the mother,
j that in less than two weeks the amiable
j daughter of the Old Dominion and the
j promising son of the Empire State were
! before the altar, and priestly lips had
pronounced tbem husband and wife. The
I plantation, of course, was not regarded,
j but was left in decay and ruin under the
care of an overseer. The young couple
in company with the mother came ira-
raeciateiy on to tms city, ana a spienuiu
home in was soon procured, and
sumptuously furnished, and all things
went "as merry as a marriage bell."
Servants attended the nod of each mem-
; of the family. The ladies luxuriated up
; on the magnificent sofas during the morn
ing, and in the afternoon the carriage
j was at thc door, and the obedient dri-
ver gratified their most whimsical capri-
ces. The bright and charming period of
. life, however, did not last long. Last
j summer a gigantic failure came, and the
i aouse ot wnica the vouni? man was a
t m .
member went by tho board; and in less
I time than it takes us to pen it, he was a3
rpoor as the son of toil who day by day
labors with his hands for his support.
The golden vision ha"d fled the extrav
agant mansion had to be vacated, and
the neglected Virginia plantation again
I bega'n to look as if it were worth some-
Miincr At. nil AVPTifq lr. w:iq tint, in rr
!despfsedj and tbo mother who found al-
ber watchful financiering for a rich hus-
band for her daughter thus turned to '
i a
nought, sought its quiet shado for repojo
until uui auuu uuu cauiuli uuruui iu iue
uucertain life of a fashionable metropolis.
York Suularj Times.
A Tough Storm Story;
The Peru (III.) Chronicle, of the 7th ult.,
learnafrom c fanner who resides on the South
side of the Illinois River, on the Bluff, some
particulars of thc storm of thc 20th ult. Ilia
cattle, thought they were inclosed in a cirele
of straw blacks and hay stacks, were so much
affected by the driving blast that they refused
to eat. The snow was driven between their '
hairs, and coming in contact with the skin, j
was for a mornsnt melted, then frozen, until j
the whole covering of thc animal seemed one j
unbroken armor of ice, which did not disap- j
pear on many lor lour uays auer. ine snow
melting on their foreheads and running down,
formed huge icicles that passed down over j
the face, and readied far below the nose,giv- ,
ing them the appearance of the beast with day evening, February 19th ult., in which
the ten horns in many instances the broad be stated that New Jersey, with a popu
sheet of ice falling over the eyes, blindfolded ; iation 0f 500,000, has not over 200 young
them effectually. Their nostrils were filled J mcD in course of collcgc training, Penn
with frozen snow that had been driver i into , . ?00 A, j' fc
them by the violence of the wind. I he quai!s J . . , .j .
hThad gathered about his barnyard, as a , withstanding the. prcvalent belief that so
last resortTwere frozen to death. Prairie chick- j many younpien are ruined at college,
sns were either frozen to death or so benum- the figures show that not more than one
bed that he could take them with his hands in fifteen of college students are thus ru
as they sat on the fence, sleeping with stupor. ined, while pno in four of those who en
His barn-yard chickens were many of them j gage in mercantile pursuits in our cities
frozen, and, what is singular, in nearly every jg joat tbu3 proving, that though some
case they were found with their bills wide CfjArifa R ntiarra fio,l hnA ,irl
i tlnnrt aa ttino pmilrl li .unJnroil nn! -iha
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hit, teams and cattle over his fences, the snow j
being on a level with them, and eo compact !
ea to eusuin a heavy load,
At
Extraordinary Endurance.
On January 31, Nathaniel Gopp, son
of Hayes D. Copp, of Pinkham's Grant,
near the Glen House, White Mountains,
commenced hunting deer, and was out
four successive days. On the fifth (lay
he left cgam, for a deer killed the day
previously, about eight miles from home.
He dragged the deer (weighing 230 lbs.)
home through the snow, and at 1 o!clock
P. M. started for another one discovered
near the place where the former was kil
bsd, which ho followed until be lost the
track, about dark. Ho then found that
he had lost his own way, and should, in
all probability, be obliged to spend the
' nigbt jn tbe WOods, tbo thermometer at
tbe time rajJRa from 32 to.35 below zer0i
riifi rima rnnmnrr
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despair being no part ot his composi-
t0U Wif'h P-CfC! 4p
ence 0f nnnd, he commenced walking.
wuiuh.um.u waifiluoi
having no provisions, matches, or even a
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' hatchet, knowing that to remain quiet
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about A o'clock . jiM be came out at or
near Wild River, in Gilead, Me., having
walked, on snow-shoes, the unparalleled
distance of forty miles without rest, a part
of the time through an intricate growth of
undcrbush.
His friends at home becoming alarmed
at his prolonged absence, and the intensi
ty of the cold, three of them started in
pursuit of him, viz : Mr. Hayes D. Copp,
his father, John Goulding, and Thomas
Culhance. They followed his track un
til it was lost in tho darkness, and by the
aid of their dog, found the deer which
young Copp had killed and dressed. They
men UUUK . HI a uuu nuiicu U1C Ul CI A
u.,:n a
hotlrs for the 'moon to rise, to enable them
to continue their search. They again
started, but with the faintest hopes of ev
er finding the lost one alive, pursued his
track, and after being out twenty-six
hours in the intense cold, found the young
man of whom they were in search.
Goulding froze both his feet so badly
that it is feared he will have to suffer
amputation. Mr. Copp and Mr. Culhane
froze their ears badly. No words can
reward the heroic selt-denial and forti-
tude with which these men continued an
almost hopeless search when every mo-
ment expecting to find the stiffened corpse
of their friend.
loung Copp seems not to have realiz-
ed the groat danger he bad passed thro',
and although his medical advisers say he
cannot entirely recover tho use of his
limbs for from three to six months; talks
witn perrecc coolness 01 taking pare m
uunca wmcn ue naa piannea lor me next
week.
A Negro Love-Letter.
A correspondent has forwarded to us
the following Negro Love-Letter. It is a
veritable epistle, in the "color'd pusson'a"
own handwriting, and bears date "Hunts
ville, Walker County, Texas, June 26,
1853."
" Bear Miss, it avails me great pleasure
to write you a fuw lines to let you know
that I am well hoping these few line may
find you enjoying the same blessing when
first I fell in love with you, your feachers
I did gain : I wood like to cort you Miss
Hulda if you have know objection the
first time I saw you I thought you
was the pink of the world. I do
know that I love you bitter than any
person in this world. Tf I could
"just call you mine, I would be willing to
j dye you are so pretty in tho face and so
slim in the wast. If you love mo like I
love you thare is no knife can cut our
love in 2. I have seen all the girls in Hunts
ville, but thare is non can como up with
you Lord bliss my soul 1 1 lovo you more
thant Gold. Of all the girls 1 evor see
Hulda is de Gal fore mcl
Jabob Skelton.
"Kind Miss, my heart is very much
broken about you. My dear miss I would
like to have a kiss from you as I made
my remarks afbout my heart being broken.
Miss Hulda I would give my heart head
and hand to peep at you once more. 0
miss Huliv do lit me in, for tbe way I
love you is a sin. 0 could I but call
Miss Huldy the darling of my heart I
would bid farewell to this vain world and
whipe my weeping eyes; do sun am set,
dis Nigger am free: de colired gals I am
bound to see. Carles Biudweel sends
bi3 love "to you: sais de way ho loves ycu
:a - :n
is a sin.
" When this you see remember me
affectionate Jacob Skelton. Roses is
red vielets blue sugar is sweet and so am
you. Jabob Skelton.
Rev. D. V. McLean, of Easton, Penn..
delivered a lecture in Trenton, on Mon-
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disappoint the hopes of their parents, yet
lt 13 far 8afer '? Eend yung men to8
well conducted literary institution, than
to tbe temptations of a city life.
I
Yankee Doodle.
In 1755, simultaneous attacks were
made upon the French posts in America.
That against Fort Du Quesne (the pres
ent site of Pittsburg) was conducted by
General Braddock: and those against Ni
agara and Fronteuac by Gov. Shirley, of j
Massachusetts, and General Johnson,
New York. Tho army of Shirley and.lonaDle text- The hardest points in John
Johnson, during the summer of 1755, lay
on the eastern bank of the Hudson, a lit
tle south of the city of Albany. In the
early part of June the troops of the Eas
tern Provinces began to pour in, company natcly most acknowledge no very deep or phasis as they do now. Nevertheless
after company; and such a motley assein- personal concern. Anxiety respecting this has always seemed to us a matter
bly of men never before thronged togeth- such things s to the great mass, usually that needed reform, and we plead for wo
er,on such an occasion unless an exam 'not Tel7 distressing. But the doctrino man's rights decidedly, till this abuse is
pie may be found in the ragged regiment Uuggestod in our motto, is a matter of corrected. It would seem that tbojirae
of Sir John Falstaff. It would have re
laxed the gravity of an anchorite to
have seen the descendants of tho
Puritans marching through the streets
of that ancient city, (Albany) and taking
their situationsito the left of the British
some with long coat3 some with
army
snore coats, ana Bome otners witu no
coats, and some others with
coats at all with colors as varied as the
rainbow; some with their hair cropped
like the army of Cromwell, and others
with wigs, the locks of which floated with
grace around the shoulders. Their
march, their accoutrements and the whole
arrangements of the troops, furnished
matter of amusement to tho rest of the
British army. Tha music played the airs
of two centuries ago; and the tout ensemble, J
upon the whole, exhibited a sight to the
wondering strangers, to which they had
never been accustomed. Among the club
of wits that belonged to the British army,
there was a Dr. Shackburg attached to
the staff, who combined with the science
of a surgeon the skill and talent of a mu
sician. To please the new-comers, he
' comnosed a ' a. flnj w:th mneh
i r 7 0 j
rnnnmrnnn.loH if f tha nHmnvo Via
recommended it to the officers as one of
the most celebrated ains of martial music
The joke took, to the no small amuse
ment of the British.
Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was
1 nation fine; and in a few days nothing
wa3 beard in tbo Provincial camp but the
air 0f Yankee Doodle. Little did the
' autborj jn bis composition, then suppose
that an air made for the purpose of levity
and ridicule, 8nould bo marked for such
bigIl destinies. In twenty years from
that time, tbe national march inspired the
, boroes 0f Bunker Hill, and in less than
thirty Lord fjornwallis and his array
njarc int0 thc American lines to the
J tune of Yankee Doodle.
Tbi3 tune however, was not original
witb Dr, Shackburg. Ho made it from
an 0id song which can be traced back to
' tbe regn 0f Charles tho First; a song
j wb;cb ha3 jn -lt3 day been uged for a fffea
variety of words. One of these sonsil
wtten in ridicule of the Protector, be
gan witn tnis line : "iue Itound heads
and Cavaliers." Another set of words, to
the same tune, was entitled "Nankee
Doodle," ane ran thus :
Nankee Doodle came to town
Upon a little poney,
With a feather in his hat,
Upon a macaroni.
The first American parody upon the
original which we have seen, was entitled
! ''Lydia Fisher. An aged and respecta
- bio fady, born in New England, says she
J remembers it well, and that it was a com-
j mon song long beforo the .Revolution.
It was also a favorite New England jig.
i Before the war, it was customary to sing
J thc tune with various impromptu verses
such as
Lydia Locket lost her pocket
Lydia Fisher found it ;
Not a bit of money in it,
Only binding round it.
Perhaps there may bo something in
this, for within our recollection tho "gals!
i and boys"
ot iuassacnusctts nad some-
thing like it in tneir sports. jjut our
version is a little different from the old
lady's, and ran thus :
Lucy Locket lost her pocket
In a rainy shower;
Phillip Carteret rah arter it
And found it in an hour.
And a later period the Tories had a
song commencing
Yankee Doodle came to town
For to buy a firelock :
We will tar and feather hinn
So we will Joiix Hancock.
This version has a very strong resem
blance to the original the first line bc-
ing the same, with the exception of the'vated. In our cities, school-keeping
N, for whice tho Y is substituted. Tbo
occurrence ot tbo words "leather" in tbe
utiAL iiuu ia uu luaa luiuuinuuiu.
A long'
strong of similar verses are known to ex-J for us to disclose the amount of salaries,1 and supply half a do2en pulpits every
1st, which were supposed to allude to the 'which many receive iu and about the1gabbata w;tb tbejr weekly pay! So in
coming .of Oliver Cromwell (on a small ' capital of Massachusetts, or all the coun- 'ancjent times this abandoned world had
horse) into Oxford, with a single plumo, Jtry schoolmasters would, in the words of tbe same peculiarity, though perhaps in' a
which ho wore fastened in a sort of knot, , Cowper, more esceptionablc way; buffoons dwelt
which the adherents of the royal party I Crowd lhe roadS) impftlienl for he town ... in COUrt., saints dwelt in cavea. Thero
called "macaroni," out of donsion. What t was a strange propensity to construe ben-
renders tbe history of this tune the moro Id our villages, the case is different. efactor and malefactor in the same case,
remarkable is, that to this very day tho Many aro respectably paid, it is true; but as we read Bear tbe cose 0f the go.pels.
words of "Lydia Locket," alias "Lucy thero aro some, nay, many fful And if by a special dispensation of char
Locket," are sung to it by school chil- servants, standing at the posts of the doors ity, earth's best heroes have escaped cru
dren. of knowledge, who receive far less than cjgsjonj it has been too often only to be
. they earn. Thoy sow the seeds of wis- bandcd ovrer to sta?Vation ;
figy-Mrs. Swires says the reason chil- dom for so small a stipend and under; -
dren are bo bad this generation, is dwing'auch disadvantageous circumstances, that' "Seven cities fought for Homer dead,
to the wearing of gaiter slides instead of tho sight of the "cracker man" or a ped- Through which Homer living begged.hu
tbe old-fashioned slippers. Mothers find dlor'a wagon holds out very strong in-' breaU m
it too much trouble to untie gaiters to ducementa to desert. Wo are sincerely and begged it without receiving it; as'wa
wliin ili1drn tfn iW an nnnnrushpd! Rnrrv for all such: we wish we could cive have too much reason to believe. So'if
but when she was a child, the way tbe
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old'slippecusod to do its duty was'a cau-
tj0Qj
durational.
Are you Satisfied with your Pay t
"Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little lonff."
It would be difficult to preach a fash-
of10,,a"e discourse from such an unfash
vjuiviu a wieojogy woum oc Jess unwel- ana prosperous m tue single state as ro
come to most; if for no other reasou, from formers would have them, it may be,
the fact, that theological matters look for- they would never decline the verb To
- Iwar to a future state, in which unfortu-
personal and every-day concern. Jt
looks so directly towards self-denial, that
the most skilful demonstration of it will
probably meet with only a frigid dissent.
Tho idea of "getting more" is com -
pletely ingrained into the feelings of man-
I 'n' l '13 videntlj a plant indigenous to
no'"'esoui. jlc grows witn our growtn; as
one says, ,
"As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed upon;"
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W hat is satisfactory this year, is fre-,
quently found to come short the next; the
Irishman is contented with a scanty faro
of oa -meal and potatoes in his native isle;
but he no sooner crosses a half dozen
meridians towards the setting sun and;
hiininil r.ho nronprm n mrr fhnn ho Id-irns
to scorn the offer of "a dollar a day, and
" ' " r-o " " "
board himself with as much apparent!
indignation as a good patriot scorns the '
thought of treason. As m the story of-
l tbe fioman gib j tbe demand riae; as tbe
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i j -i i
uargam araws lowaras a Close.
T. " 1 T, f . y
ftU evBiywuere. xi is even nmiea
!"dt. n"ab ' lu,"BB"f a,eac.a,eai 01 ine;
.1. . m m m
oiocy, regaru a can 01 rroviaence witn
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much more favor, if it is accompanied
with a ''handsome offer" ; and it is said
that they esteem their chance of doing
good as much greater, if their situation
is modified by the adjective lucrative, as
well as laborious. But this may not bo
so after all; we only give the common re
port. Wc do know, however, that in
most other professions that minister to
the disorders of humanity, such ideas are
very prevalent; so that in the vernacular
tongue of every place we have as yet visited-,
an unqualified "doing ucll1 appears
to mean simply growing fat on good payl
To repeat tbe caption of our present
article, we ask you, teacher, Are you sat
isfied with your pay? Probably not.
There is no class of persons so small as
those who are perfectly satisfied with
their lot. The moralist speaks of the race
to which we beloug, as never being, but
always to be blest. We have heard of a
man who Dubliolv offered a larrre estate
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iu icu aiuipio tu auj uuu hu whs pc icuii-
ly contented with his condition. It was
not long before a claimant appeared. The
generous patron of all contented people,
asked him if he was perfectly contented
with his lot; the reply was of course not
otherwise than in the affirmative. Well
then, says ho, what do you want of my
farm! He was therefore perfectly safe
in making the offer; his uncommon gen
erosity could never cost him more than
the price of thc advertisement.
Bespected Teacher, we ask again, Are
you satisfied with your pay! We will
dispose of the "first person," by saying
for ourselves, that we really want more
pay! Our necessities have grown with
our means. In construing the phrases of
life, no words havo given us so much
trouble as 'opus and usus signifying need'.'
We began to follow the chalk in the red
school-house at fifteen dollari a month
and boarded ourselves; and as that was
tho first time wo had converted our wits
into the common currency, we thought
the pay was large; and really wo have
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no vur uucusu wuu suiiauuu nuu uui com
pensation since. The more wo have had,
the more we have wanted; our "sins and
debts" have been a trouble to us all the
way through life. Still wo must have the
frankness to own that we have been paid
much better than we deserve. Whether
a kind Providence, that hag always taken
care of us, will seo fit to vote us another
gratuity in addition to what wo now have,
remains, to be seen.
For others we canndt so well speak.
Many teachers are well paid; some, we
think, may possibly receive more than
they earn. The world commits such mis
takes sometimes; but sins of that sort are
probably neither very numerous or agcra
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"sustains fair prices;" teachers, there have;
every reason to ne satianeu witn tneir lot.
Indeed wo nuspect it would bo improper,
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tbem a nigner appoiuuuenc. jus in our
inability to do so, wo can only refer them
to Ibo oommittuo on unpaid cbjms, and
sincerely hope their case will be favora-
. bly noticed.
" j But we apprehend that the cry of .dis
tress issues mostly from those schoojs
j where females are employed. The world
aceiu.-j uiugiiruiy m me eiireme, in u
pecuniary appropriations to woman; and
- ' perhaps it is wisely ordered that it should
be so: for if that sex were as well paid
Love, with such easy and graceful era-
work performed by tho weaker sex equal-
'y well as by men, ought to be as well
paid. And we believe that it may be set
'down as one of the indications of reform,
' that the compensation of female teachers
has been raised throughout most of the
Commonwealth. Still, it is a authenti-
. cated tact in Massachusetts, jana oiuer
states are not more tree irotn me re-
proach.) that women have kept hunger at
a distance at less than "a dollar a week
and boarded around." And it bas been
h M a b tradU!on tbat 0m0 en
. . distrfctg w ted their
. f to plit a ,1 -of victuals,
;f not biaeet rfgVa lodging to make
fc brf come 0butevenfIf there are
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j'e a3 object3 of pity they certainly
nest oJ Sir FraDkHn.
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i proacl:
i is in a measure, passing away;
: , , lon,llirs ns a ciass are nok
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nD c!imtu i,. tiie:r comnen3!1.
tion is far more respectable than former-
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already come, when
rood
teaching
will
command good pay.
Perhaps we have treated this subject,
which is really a matter of sober concern
to many, with less sobriety than we ought.
But we cannot close this train of thought
without adding a few considerations of a
practical, and perhaps to some a painful,
nature.
First; In the cry of too small pay, it
must not always be taken for granted
that the blame is wholly on one side.
They are common maxims, that it re
quires two to make a bargain, and that
every story is good, until another is told.
Perhaps teachers have sometimes in their
vanity over-estimated their merit, and it
is very possible that the much defamed
community has paid them all that their
service was really worth !
We remarked again, tbat perhaps the
same amount of talent and enterprise in
other kinds of business would not have
made progress towards wealth any faster
than here. We have as much vanity as
a teacher ought to possess, and as much
pride of profession; but we will not at
tempt to conceal the fact that in pome
instances, surprisingly little tact and in
telligence have been exhibited in connec
tion with the ruler. It has long since ac
quired the force of ft proverb, that talent
and skill will command success'; but we
find no promises of competence and wealth
to thc opposite qualities anywhere. We
have seen teachers, and if we remem
ber correctly, have "cried at the sight,",
who in our opinion recsived all they
were worth. They had never expended
a shilling in qualifying themselves for the
work; they seemed to be walking illustra
tions of the idea of the poet,
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!"
Their chief merit evidently lay in their
perfect orthodoxy; for they believed with
Solomon, that to "spare the rod" was to
"spoil the child"; and as one says, they
"thinned tbe forests all the way down
from Vermont" in demonstrating their
belief ! Tbe increasing light of this cen
tury, however, put a very emphatic per
iod to their vocation long ago. We would
always speak well of the dead; but wo
have no idea that they left any unsettled
claims upon the world for insufficient pay!
Agaiu: It may be at least a comforting,
though perhaps not a palliatingj thought,
that the world has never been in the. hab
it of rewarding labor according to its real
merit. The standard of its prices, as well
as of its moralsi needs reformation. We
know some persons who never spent a
dollar upon their education, and whoso
sole business is to disscminate'whips and
grrinll wnnn wbn rpf,p;Vft more comDen-
clears over tue man ot toe world in a
sation thaan tbc moil fdrtUnato teacher
we wot Qf ylCy could outbid the wealth-
f.iorfrvninn ;,, Western Massachusetts
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teacuers, hub uiui. umyiu
services,
should be neglected andjuuderpaidVlbey
at least aro- iu-goyi-eompao