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Jun 16, 1840,
' J. H. ZIMMERMAN,
JISTICK OF TK 1m:,CE,
Sunbuiy, Ta.
Oflica in Deer Street, immediately opposite the
Public School Honor.
tr Miii rillwltd and ail biwinrw oiuplly ami carc
fally allenilrit tn.
' A aril 50, lSril).
m:w YOEtK & I!III.A.;M'IIIA
JOURNEYMEN
IIa(Hri tM'.M l;Ui
Cor. of 6th and Chestnut Srcrt, l'luldlttphia.
( !ONTIM'l" to make and sell a tinr und more
V durable Hat for the money than amy other
aUblihment in the I'nitcd Mates standard
priea of Hata 3 00. Cents and Uoy'a Cloth and
Ulaird Caps. Umbrella, ("iirH-t Uss, Calul'y
Panama and Mruw Hat at eijually low prices.
May 25, I80II ly
JOHft TAltEC Si Vo.
I m pout Kits or .
'Watches, Jewelry, Plated "Ware,
Att PAXVV .0(lS,
111 ChtiMil S., bttttrtn 'id If 4th Strtetl.
PHILADELPHIA.
A LMTAVS keep on hand an exeellrnt asuort.
aaent of the abovt article, wliirn iney
all an terms si low aa any in the rity.
Julia IS, 1650. (im
ill
ao.G OF THE SOUTH. t
lr A MIS.11SIFPAIt.
For our Counliy, for the Union,
Whicli our nobis lulhi.'iit inmlp,
Free und sovereiL'ii Slules United,
Wo hid ready, himrl und blailu,
To buttle tail our bodic
Ate pulseless, still und cold,
For wo lov the (jooil old Union.
As llul Union was of old.
Wh h;ive rend and we remember
How together once they stood,
And Northern hi I It. und bonlhern plains
Weio uiiinsont'd wilh their blood,
Willi the slurs and stripes ubove them,
And a Southern at I lie I r head,
How Ihey loiifjht uml Iiow they sliugijleJ
Till the huuhly Biilou lied.
There is mueh to warm nur bosom,
There 15 much to laise onr pride,
A we gaze upon that banner
Under which lltey 1Iim1 and died ;
And in sale!y, fuith und honor,
For our jasl uiul future fame,
We would live and diu united,
Now uinl crer, alill the same.
But by God, who rules the nation,
By the blood onr falhers poured,
As a band of fij"(ii brothers,
Of Ihe proud invader's sword;
By our one ami common plory,
Of the present and the past,
When that Union brinys oppression,
We'll resist it to the last.
Aye: whenever and wherever
Brule, lyrfiiie. loree be used;
When the" bond of love that bound U
Shall'be cancelled and abused,
To insult, and irrind, and crush us.
In defiance oi our rii;l)t,
We will stand upon nur threshold?,
We will parry, tee will smite.
If a coward be among us
If a blave, with isixoii lace,
Let him Hy, a Southron branded
Wilh submission and disgrace.
W will scorn all timid counsels,
We will lauh nt bastard fears;
And tjie Union, which our fathers mr.de,
May last a thousand years!
HCccfUnturouff 2-Hattrr.
UlllDAL. ilt'ARHICLS.
A trifling disagreement ahout a trifliti
matter mav destroy a life of enjoyment.
And it usually a)ens that when the mar
ried pair do quarrel, the occasion is so des
picable they are ashamed to think of it.
Yet thai silly circumstance, like a drop of
ink discoloring a whole vessel of water,
often spreads its influence over the whole
of it. Just as,
(aA pebttle in the stream let aennt,
Ha tarne.l the c ilie M liiuny u river ;
A dew-drop on the hahy pluut
Has warped tiie (runt nek forever."
I find an exceedingly painful illustra
tion of these ideas in an English publication,
for the truth of which the author pledges
his word.
A young couple had passed the first
week of their marriage at the house of a
friend. Having at length occupied their
new home, they were taking their first
breakfast when the following scene oc
curred :
The young husband was innocently open
ing a boiled efrg in an egg cup. The bride
observed that he Was breaking the shell at
what she thought was the wrong end.
"How strange it looks," she said, "to see
you break your ejg at the small end, my
dear! No one else does so; and it looks
so odd."
"Oh, I think it's quite as good, in fact,
better than breaking it at the large end, my
love; for when you break the large end,
the eau runs over the ton," replied the hus
band.
'But it looks so verv odd, when no one
else does so," rejoined the wife.
"Well, now, I really do think it is not
I a nice way that vou have got of eating an
egg.- 1 hat dipping strips of bread and but
ter into an zz cerlaw.lv is not tidy. JSut
f Ar nnt nhlMi't tn vnnr dn?nir ns vnn rrlpHKi.-
WTT1ICI .tttni-. on Imml a lnfe-e stock of i ...J J. -i I .
VV variety of elotlthm mad up of Kood f you will let n.e break my egg at the lit
tle end," retorted the husband.
"I am quite sure my way is not so bad
as eating fruit-hie with a knife, as you do,
I instead of using the fork ; and you always
j eat up (he syrup as if vou were not a'cens-
tomed to have such thini". You reolly do
not see how very bad it looks, or I am sure
you would not do so," added the wife.
"The syrup is made to be eaten With pie,
and why should 1 send :t away Ml the
plate 1" asked the husband.
"No well-bred persons clear the plates
as if they were starved,' said the bride,
with a! contemptuous (oss of he? little
head.
"Well, then, I am not a well bred per
son," replied the bridegroom angrily.
"Hut Tou must be, it we are to be com
fortable together," was the sharp answer of
the fastidious lady
"Well, I must break my egg at the
lrsPECTFULLYMoiiiistliollfrien.ln,lS-nall end, so it does not signily ; and 1
It -.....r-. s writ- as the public ire'irralN, must also eat the syrup."
rlheni will not have either ftuit-pies
of ezss at the table."
"Hut I wrll have them, petulantly ex
claimed the husband.
"Then I wish I had not beea marfVed to
you, cried the young wife, burst'fug into
tears.
"And so do I, added the now incensed
husband', as he arose and Walked out of the
room.
This domestic quarrel was followed by
others equally trilling in their origin and
disgraceful in their character; until the
silly couple made themselves so disagreea
ble to each other that their home became
unendurable, and they separated.
Now, I doubt not, the reader is ready
to pronounce this quarrel about opening an
egg , foolisri aflair. Jl was so ; ana y j
seriously nueitiotv U tb first a'tarrtl be-
t ween a newly married pair ever has a mwiilab ktrexuth.
much more elevated beginning. Liltle "' The muscular ptiwer of the human body is
things do great mischief, and areto.be Indeed wonderful A Turkish note will
watched with
Greetingst
suspicious care.-
-Brldul
FATAL SOOT1IINO SYRITS.
Indisputable fact prove the extent to
which this system is adopted. Walking
about Manchester and Birmingham, adver
tisements of "Mothers' quietness," "Sooth
ing Syrup," arrest the attention of every
turn. It is easy to perceive that the drug
gists are driving a good trade that the qui
et homes of the poor are recking with nar
cotics. The Reports of the Board of Health
furnishes more appalling facts on this hend.
In Preston, twenty-one druggists sold, with
in the space ol one week, no less a quanti
ty than sixty-eight pounds of narcotics,
nearly all of which were lor the use ol
children ;' and the calculation of the quan
tity of Godlfey's Cordial sold in Preston
gave a weekly allowance of half an ounce
to each family ! (generally, Godfrey's
Cordial is mixed in the proportion of one
ounce and a half of pure laudanum to the
quart, and the stronger it is the faster it is
sold. It may be had nt public houses and
general-dealers', as well as at druggists' ;
and on market-days the people from the
surrounding neighborhoods regularly pro
vide themselves wilh this "mother's com
fort," as they purchase other household
provisions. About two thousand gallons
of Godfrey's Cordial are sold in Manches
ter alone every year. Household Word.
John- C. Cai.holw. The N. (). Bulletin
states that (Jen. Foote, in the course of a
speech made by him before the great Union
meeting cn the 27th ult., slated upon his
personal knowledge, that Mr. Calhoun did
entertain the project ol amending the Con
stitution, so as to have two Presidents of
this Union one for the North and another
for the South wilh distinct and equal
powers ; each to have the vclo power. And
further, that the Convention of Mississippi
which was a preliminary of the Nash
ville ( onvent:on was nn idea that origina
ted with the great Carolina statesman.
Sam Jonus, the S-'minole chief, vhose
wives and children have run away, and
gone to the other side of the Mississippi,
still refuses to go West. He says, to Use
his own language "Don;t care about squaw
and papoose going wav plenty more
squaw in bush." Billy Bowles, Sam's com
patriot, seem more willing to emigrate.
Mi'nin:R of a Mateh hy a S;.avi:. Mr
William Smith, of Johnson county, N. C,
who is described as a man of "miserly
habits" recently took a runaway negro
girl, belonging to him, from Wilmington
jail. He carried her Ifloine, and as soon as
he released her, she seized an axe, struck
him on the head, and killed him.
AVM. MTJAllTY,
IIOOK KLI.EIt,
Droml ir ny,
6UNBURY, PA.
HAS recently received, among other article., a
great variety of New, Cheap and Entertain
ing publications such a
Coopers novel, complete or separate
Herberts
Duaiss
Sue
Kryndola
Cacktou
Maswell
JcrroU
Po
do
do
do
do
do
do
itodwrll,
Trollope,
Halliburton,
Marryatt,
Grey,
Ma rail,
Ainaworth,
Morris do
At the low ptir of from S3 to50ct per volume.
Sunburr, eiepi, aa, 1850, tf.
JACOBRSSD'S
ll.OTIIIM UOO.US,
SeufAiMJf Cor.ifr of fifth and Market Streets,
i'HILA&F.I.VHIA,
ITHO aHvny krfp oil band a lofRe tork of
' everv variety of clolhinir made up of good
materials, and in 'the lutfst and best atyle. He
would also inform the public, that lie pay consi
derable attention in getting "P Military Clot'.iins,
In pood atyle and on reasonable teTirt.
June 15, IS.).- ly
'"MUSICAL I N STH tf M EXTS.
CHAS. DUIV1XV1IG,
, No. 207 Cliesnut Street, front Arcai
1'lllLAIIKLrH! i.
IMPORTER and Manufacturer of all kind of
Musical Instruments, Fuucy Articles anil Toy.
Hi price are .ower than those of arty other tore
in Philadelphia, All kind of Murical Inatru
ments repaired n the best wOTkmamnVrp, and also
taken- in trade.
, PhiladrlphiavMay 2S, IS50 ly.
EDWIN HLL,
(LaTS thb Fihm or Watkisko it Hail,
Xo, Zi South Second Sfriee,
Philadelphia,
....miaer-. aa well a ine puiiuc
' fhat he ha opeued sn entire new etock of elegant
style of
Sprinf & Summer Dresa Goods,
H is assortment eonaisU of the latent and most desi-
Hble style ef nglil. German, French Sc Ame
rican Good. 8rraa Delaine', Tiaaues1, Bera
ge,8ilka, Lawns M ualin. Shawfcr, H All's, Glove,
nd every variety of l)re and Fancy Good.
Pliilai Mawh 16, 1850. ly
ROOT. U BETH . THOS: f. B. BETH .
8BTII St BROTHER.
, WHOLESALE GROCERS
.,..! I AND ... . . .
eomm(0(ou iHerthTut0,
, NO. 89 PCATT STREET,
f-r.-- (Nia Bowi-y'i Wharf,)
i BALTIMORE,
Witt y particular nuention to ths sale of GRAIN
ne all ether proaut u ol tn irm
ItUuai-, January ie&fl. ly
A sToitY is told in the New Yotk papers
of a wit at the opera, who the other even
ing thus interrupted an auctioneer of that
city, who was joining the rest o! the audi
ence in calling out "Forli ! Forti ! Forli !"
"Two and a half,'' exclaimed the wag, at
which the parquette went off in convul
sions.
A Wonder. About two weeks ago I
came home about 10 oclock and went to
bed. Pretty soon alter I cot in bed mv
wile said
"Why, husband, what is the matter with
you ? You act very strangely."
"There's nothing the matter with me,"
said I, "nothing at all."
"I'm sure there is," said she, "you. don't
act natural at all. Sha'nt I get up and get
something for you." -
And up she got, lighted a . candle and
came to the bedside tOflook at me, shading
the light with her hand.
"I knew there was something strange
about you !" she said, "wnj you ore sober !"
Now this a fact, and my wile will swear
to it ; so don't you slander me any more by
saying that I haven't been lo bed sober in
tlx months, 'cause I have
iMoiiAT. J Hti.osofiiv. laking "a wee
ciray" ot nrnnciy tor the "acidity of the sto
mach," and preaching temperance for '.he
applause ol the church 1
trot nt a rapid pace, and carry a wi iiht of
six hundred pounds. Mile, a celebrated
athletic. Crutona, ifi Italy, nceusomvl him
self to carry ihe greatest burthens, and by
dejrrees became a monster in strength. It is
said that he carried on his shoulder' an o.v, 4
years old, weighing upwards of one thousand
founds, for above 40 yards, and afterwards
killed it with one blow of his fist. He was
s-'VCn limes crowned at the Pythean games,
and six nt the Olympian.
li'i presented himself the seventh time,
but no one had the Courajiu lo enter the list
aoainsl him. He was one of ihe disciples of
Pythagoras, and to his uncommon strength
the learned preceptor Hud his pupils owed
their lives. Tim pillar which siipj-arled the
roof of ibu school suddenly aava way, but
Milo riippoited ihe whole weight of ihe build
in?, and cave thn philosopher lime to escape.
In his old aoe, Milo attempted td pull up a
tree by its roots and break it. He partly ef
fected il : but his slrengih beint gradually
exhausted, ihe tree when cleft reunited, and
h'ft his hand pinched in the body of it. He
was then alone; mid bein? unable to disen-ir.-itre
himself died in that position.
Huller mentioned that ho saw a man whose
finder beiiiir cauiht in n chain nt the bottom
of a mine, by keeping il forcibly bent, sup
ported by that means the weight of his whole
body, one hundred ami fifty pound', tiniil .he
was drawn up to ihe. gurhtce, u distance of 6
hundred feet. ' " :
Augustus XI, Kin? of Poland, could roll up
a silver plate like a sheet of paper, and twist
the strongest horse shoe asunder.
A Frenchman attached to Tlockwell &
Stone's Ciicus last spring, was able lo resist
the united efforts of four horses, as was w il
nessed by hundreds in New Yoik and other
places. A lion is said lu have left the im
pression of his teelh upon a piece of solid
iron. I he most piudipions power of muscle
is exhibited by fiIi. The w hale moves with
a velocity thionuh the dense medium of wa
ter, that would carry him, if continued lit the
same rate, round the world in liltle less than
a fortnight ; und a rword-fish has been known
to strike his weapon quite thruuah the oak
plunk of u ship H'is'crn Literary Messenger.
lY.'in ttii! N. (i. I).-lm.
To My 1; rioiid Tom.
Do you remember. Tom, the time
When wo were hos together,
How much we cost our mains and dads,
For sole and upper leather !
How, in the winter time, the snow
Would almost Iroeu a filler,
And vf;'d'i up, ami tumble, down,
J lieu rise again and '-Lieller
How we would ride down icy hills
Un boards into the plain
How, when our bouids would strike, a I
stump,
'Twould "go against the grain."
How we would sometimes sleiyhing go;
And gel a little "blue"!
But we were not the lirst who went
A slaying and yot "slew."
And when we did a sleighing go,
(I know as well us you.)
Wo'd sometimes "slay" th" ofier chap.-i,
Anil sometimes ice'ef get '-slew."
There's Charley B., and Major D ,
Who olien have been "slayeu,"
Yet never were so badly hurt
But rose to ficht again,
Now Tom, I 'spose you'ro growing bid.
And the moon is rising too,
Upon that old black head of your's
I've een it when 'twas blue."
Ah, Tom, this is a chanceful world,
'Tis filled with care and sorrow,
We know not, and some do not care.
What change will come to-moriow.
A c irrespouile'iit oflhe New York E-igland-er
relates the following: "A fact which I
came in possesi0ti of a couple of years ago, I
may illustrate the character of Ihe New Eng
enders, and revenl ihe oiiin of some bran
ches of their profitable business. S. W. was
the son of our coulitty clergyman, and was
accustomed to labcriuft on a farm in summer
ttnd keeping school in the winter. He wa
moral, industrious rtnd frugal, midfoot) a wife
possessing the same qualities, togelher wilh
a Shrewd propensity to calculate all articles
of living. One day her husband brought
homo the cloth nnd tiimminus for a new coat
The wife inquiied lh price of lbs buttons,
which she noticed were made of cloth "last
itm." or, more fully, 'everlasting,' covered tin
to wooden button m'ltilds. She thought nhn
could utTord as good a button, made by hand,
for less money. The next day, like the I me
daughter of a Yankee, she 'tried the lliing
out.' She bought the cloth by the yard, and
the moulds by the dor.en ; nnd in a week she
had better buttons, at a less pi ice in Ihe mar
ket. The thiitg would pay. S. W. soon lelt
farming und school-keeping, bought ihe cloth
wmcli Ins wile cut Into button-covers and
bultuii-moulds, hired the women and the girls
of Ihe iieighboriu towns to make them up.
and sold them at great profits.
"Soon another entered into partnership
with him, and invented the machinery to do
the woik. Then the plain lasting was chan
ged lo velvi.t, and satin uudlwit. Impiovc-
ment un improvement in Ihe machinery was
made, till ihey equalled llm English, or
French, or German buttons. S. W. now owes
one of the sweetest villages in the Connecti
cut valley, und almost supplies the Ut:ited
States with coats and overcoats. He has en
dowed an academy munificently ; has con
tributed like a prince to the funds of a highl)'
distinguished and useful female seminary
and has rescued a noble college from embar-
rasmenl. So much for Ihe carefulness of a
prudent wife, and so much for a disposition
to earn an honest living in some way, rather
than thrive in idleness on the hard and too of.
ten unrequited toil of others."
Dkscription or a Ficht Out West.
Tliry tit nnil fit.
And gouged and hit,
Aiit AtniKplei in the mud,
t'ntil the eroimd.
For miles nroiind. ,
Wns kivcicd widi their Wood :
And a pile of n-wet. ears nnd eyes,
Iirge and iniinjuve rer.rlied ihe fkfea.
A Modehx Tri.l. The Meredith Bridge
(N. II.) Gaette is responsible for the follow
ing story : Mr. Nathaniel Wlulter, ot l.akn
Village, the celebrated "sharpshooter," made
two ' capital shots." a few days since, with
his "Kentucky ltifle," near the Piovince
Bond Meeting House in Gilmantown. The
first mark was the bowl of u clay pipe held
by thn stem of the fame in a gentleman's
month, which wag hit by the ball and quickly
despatched at a distance of 8d yards. The
second shot, the same distance was an apple
laid upon the head of a gentleman, w hich wris
as reai'ily dispatched. This i. no' fiction.
Wur.N FornnniNiEii's Invention of ma
chinery for making endless paper was pa
tentee;, owing to a mrstaUe, the word "ma
chines" was written "machine." The
property Wa pirated, which led to litigalinn
and the patentee's funds were exhusted be
fore they could establish their rights. They
became bankrupt, and lost all the fruits of
an invention on which they had spent
4-0,000.
Whkn Mr. Thomas Sheridan, - son of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was a candidate
for the representation of a Cornish borough,
he told his father that if he succeeded he
should place a label on his forhead with the
words "lo Let," and side with the rrartv
that made the best offer.
"Right Tom," said Ihe father, "but don't
forget to add the word "unfinished." . . .
A Huge Volume "Dr. Parr," saM a
yomig student once to the old linguist, "let's
you' and I write a book." . ...
"Very well," replied the doctor, put in
all I know and all that you don't know,
and We'll make a big one." ' - n
"My daughter, why do you look at the
moon so much 1" inquired a mother of her
daughter, a young lady just enjering her
sixteenth year. "Why, ma, they 'say
there,t a man in it," was the innocent re
ply. ' - ' -
A wag went into a shop the other day
and asked for a yard of pork. The (hop
man cut off three (fig's) feet;
AN APOLOGY.
-Old Mr. II , wl'O resides in a certain
village in Maine, and who is a member of
the church militant, got in a passion, one
day, with Mr. M , one of his brethren,
and, among other naughty things, declared
he was not fit lo carry swill to the lais ;
whereupon M - had him arraigned before
the chinch, on which occasion ho was re
quested to make an ap-ilogy. The proper
lime having arrived, H arose, and ad
dressed his brethren, as follows:
"My Christian friends, do feel tlr.it 1 have
deeply injured brother ? , for which I
mn heartily sorry. I did say he was not fit
to fairy swill to Ihe hog, nod I now take it
back, being firmly of the opinion that he is
ump'i qualified tojitt that office."
H having made a clean brea, his
apology was deemed sati?facluf by all but
brother M who deflates, to this day,
that he heard H say, in a low ton", that
he was fit lo carry swill, and for uolhiig elsct
Here's till ye,- Jemma.' An Irishman had
been sick for n long time, and w hile in this
state would occasionally cease breathing, and
life bu apparently extinct for some time,
when ho would again come to. On one of
these occasions, when he had just awakened
from his sleep, Patrick asked him
'An' how'll we know, Jemmy, when you'r
dead you'r afther waking up ivery timeV
'Bring me' a glass o' grog, nn' say to me ;
Here's till ye, Jemmy, an' if I don't rise up j
an dhtink, then bury me!'
To native (renins would y-m provn a friend
P.iint out his faults, onil U-nell him how 10 lliend !
Ql'AIXT DlAI.OlU E IN THE B.CCS WOODS OF
Amebic. A passing traveller meets with 0
settler near a house and enquires Whose
house 1 Mogg's Of what burll I Logs--Any
neighbois! Frogs What s the soil?
Bogs the climate T Fogs Your diet 1
Hogs How- d!ryou catch them 1 Dogs.
A colemporrtry out West is about to enlarge
his printing ollice in order lo afl'ord uccom
modat?on to the loafers lhat daily thiong Lis
promises. Not a bad idea.
' tilling- and Dislikino;.
BY CHAKI.ES SWAIN.
Ye who know tho reason; tell nto
How it is that instinct Fiill
Prompts the heart lo like or not like
At its ow n capracions will !
Tell nt by w hat hidden magic
Our impressions fust are led
Into likiiiLT or disliking
Oft before a wofd bo said 1
U'hy should Mm'ffj sometimes repel lis;
Bright eyes turn our feelings cold 1
What is that which comes to tell us
All that glitrl:rs is riot gold !
Oh. no feature, plain or strikng,
But a power we' cannot shun.
Pixiupts otir liking or disliking,
Kiu ncquuiutuncu hath begun !
Is it instinct or some spirit
Which protects us. and controls
Every impulse we inherit
By some sympathy of souls!
Is it instinct ! is it imtntc '!
Or some fienk or fault of chance.
Which our liking, or disliking,
Limits to a single glauco !
Liko presentiment of danger,
Thuiij.li tiie sky no shadow flings :
Or that inner sense, still stranger,
Of unseen nutitterd thin-js!
Is it oh, can no one tell ine
No one show s'.illicii'iit cause,
Why onr likings ami dislikjngs
Have their own instinctive laws'!
VOI It NUKiHliOIt'S I1LNS.
Mr. A kept his hen shut up. lie was not
going lo have his garden destioyed by his
own or his neighbor's hens. One morning he
saw a couple diggiu: in his early p".-i bed;
nnd out he went with murder in his heart,
but the hens flew over into neighbor B.'s gar
den : whereupon A. called over to liiin very
angrily that lie would shout the next hen he
saw on his t'ide of the fence, if he did not
shut them up, which B. declared he would
not do, 'and if A. was fool enough to shoot
them, hi; might do it, for all thai he caied.'
A. whs us good as his word, and, day after
day 15. was saluted with the smell of gunpow
der, and a message thrown over the fence
wilh every fat pullet. 'Thero's another chick
en for your dinner until ut length, not finding
the usual supply, K. called over one morning
to neighbor A. lo know the reason. This
awakened inquiry, when it was discovered
that A had been shooting his own hi -us as
they occasionally escaped through a hole i;i
the coop, and in his anger at liis neighbor for
the supposed trespass, had furnished him wilh
Sundry gocd dinner:1. No doubt he was a lit
tle, mail ut first, mid thought any cunning
trick alter t!nu belter than shooting his neigh
bors hens.
t.itoU l.i:::s.
There is a class of men in every commu
nity w ho go about wilh vinegir faces- grow l
ing because somebody feels ubove them, or
beeausi they aw not appreciated as they
should be, and w ho have a constant quarrel
with their destiny. These men, usually, .have
made a very grave mistake in the estimate of
their abilities, or are unmitigated asses, lu
either casre, Ihey aie Unfortunate. Wherever
this fault finding with one's condition or posi
tion occurs there is always a want of s-lf-re-sped.
If people dorpiso you, do not tell of
it all over town. If yon are smart, show it.
Do something, and kep doing. If you are a
right down clever fellow, wash the wormwood
o.'l your face, and show your good-will by
your deeds. Then, if people feel ubove you,
go slraight oil' and feel above them.- If ihey
turn up their noses because yon are a me
chanic or a farmer, or a shop boy. turn yours,
up a notch higher. Jf they swell when they
pass you in the streot, swell yourself, and if
this does not ' fetch them," conclude very
good-natnredly that they are unworthy your
acquaintance, and pity them for missing such
a capital chance to get inlo gocd society.
Society never estimates a man at what he
imagine!' himself lobe. lie imui show him
self to be possessed of self respect, independ
ence, energy to will and lo do, nnd a good
sound Iie.trl. These qualities and possessions
will "put him through." Who blames a man
for feeling above those who'aro moan enough
lo go u-ound like babies, telling how people
abuse them, and w Inning because society will
not take them ly the collar und drag then
into decency.
A BKAI TiriL ULTIRE. . , r
The man who stands upon his own toil
who feels that by the laws of the land in
which he lives by the laws of civilized
nations he is the rightful and exclusive
owner of the land wWch he tills, is by the
constitution of our nature under a whole-"
some influence not easily imbfbed from any
othef source. He feels other things be
ing equal more strongly than another, the
character of a man is the lord of an inani
mate world. Of this great and wonderful
sphere, which fashioned by the band of
God, and unhrlped by his power, is rolling'
through the heavens, a part is his his frorri
the centre of the sky. It is the space ort
which the generation before htm moved in
its round of duties, and he feels himself
connected by a visible link with those who
follow him, and" to whom he is to transmit
a home. Perhaps his farm iias come down
to him from his fin hers. They have gone to
their last home ; hut he can trace their fool
Meps over the scenes of his daily labors.
The roof which shelters was reared by those
to whom he owes his being; Some interesting-domestic
tradition is connecter! with
every inclostire.- I lie favorite lrult tree
was planted by his fathers hand. He spor
ted in boyhood beside the brook which still
winds through Hip meadow. Through the
field lies the path to the village school ef
earlier days. lie still hears from his win
dow the voice of the sabbath bell, which
called his fathers to the house of God;
and near nt hand is the spot where his pa
rents laid down to rest, and where, When
his time has come, he shall be laid by his
children. These are the feelings of the
owners of the soil. Words cannot paint
them gold cahttot buy them :' they flow
out of the deepest fountains Of the heart
they are life springs of a fresh healthy and
generous national character. EJuuEveretU
Iff'ONVESirNT Haste. A clam merchant,
meeting one of his own fraternity the other
day, whose pony might be considered us a
beautiful specimen of an rrjiiim skeleton, re
monstrated, wilh the owner, and asked him
if he ever fed bim. 'Ever fed hi in ( that's
a good un," was the reply ; "he's got a
but.he.ls and a 'alf o' outs at home now, only
fie ain't got no fime to tat 'tn .'"
Sydney Smith, in London, was shown a
jump ot American ice, upon wnicn he re
marked "that he was glad to see anything
solvent coma from America. ,
The improvement of the cultivation of
the egg plant, so as to grow chickens, is
mentioned as the latest specimen of artistic
skills
StiufiiEY saM that a sweeter verse never
wtrs composed than this :
'Veree sweeten, toil, however nut ttre sound :
' Alt nt her work the. village, mitideu slegs,
Nur while she linns the gulJ)- wheut around,
ltet -live Ihu aid viciasitudes of limits."
EpisTOLAKY.-'-ThH following Sweet epistle
end sour answer, endorsed on ihe back of il,
was picked up in Williamsburg, a day or two
since ;
Mary McCradln : John Fowl wants lo
know if you will marry him to-night und he
will serenade you Rose 1 lied tho Yiulct
Blue the sugar sweet and sow are you.
answer .
John Fowl i would not Mary you for one
handled dollars.
As it is not probable lhat John Foud is the
chicken lhat can raise "a hundred dollars,"
hi may be considered a gone case, and ho
will have to scratch somewhere else.
The Second F.muuitiom of the World's I;i-
'How can you, my dear, prefer punch to
winel"
''Because, my dear, 'tis so much like ma.
trimony soch a charming compound of op
posite qualities."
"Ay, my lord, I am the weak part I sup
pose V
"No, my love, you are the sweet with a
dash ol the scid, and no smll portion of the
spirits.
dustiy, to take place in ISM is aheady engag.
ing Ine. aiieuuoii oi ine .low ioik press.
The New Yorker says, in its most amiable
niood :
"Boston and Philadelphia are moving lo se
cure this Fair, but it must centie in New Voik.
Parlies, already alluded lo by us, propose lo
assume the responsibility to the amount of
011,000 of picpaiiug tin) great exhibition
building and making every arrangement fo1
ihe Fair. They have secured Governor's Is
land, Ihu finest spot in America for a location,
and if they are not thwarted by tho miserable
selfish policy : encouraging polliing lhat is
likely lo benefit anybody in particular. New
York u ill necuro the Fair, and secure to it
self the influx of from 5,000,000 to S10.000,
000, It w ill be worth to our hotels, board
ing, and eating houses, a million of dollars,
and will bo a harvest of profit to all classes
of trade, and of credit and fame fur our city,
A telegraphic desptftc h asserts that fhe
atlempt to light LofM with red-haired
girls has been abandoned.
It is stated that steam communication!
will be opened next spring between Ice
land and Leith: the vessel calling at the'
Shetland and l'sroe Isles.
Dr. Ti RNiiri.i. has discovered a remedy"
lor shortsightedness, by the application of
die extract of ginger to the forehead; so at
to effect the filth pair of nerves.-
Tm: number ol Public Houses in Liver
pool is 1-lSO, and of beer-shops,700,- or, in
all, 2IS0.- Taking the population at 350,--000,
this i:l one intblic house or beer-short
to every Hit) individuals men,- women!
and Children.
Tin: late Mrs. Glennv, of CincinfiatU, a
great wit as wi ll as a very lovely Woman,'
being asked by one of her numerous admi
rers, wny she was called the Great Western,
r. .plied, "Because I have so many fiatt in
tow."
Taxinu the NortTft. The Governor 6f
Virginia, in his message, recommends a1 tax
upon all products of non-slaveholding
States ofhVred for sale n Virgfnia.
Pi;i:rAit.A'rioNs have been made for bring
ing the mineral Land? in the Lake Superior
region into nmtket early neSt summer, at
the reduced minimum provided by la;
Fi:om Tii: Pm.nr to the Bar.' Ort
Tuesday, in the Court of Common Pleas, at
Boston, the Rev. Mathew Hale Sm'ffh watr
admitted as an attorney and counsellor at
Law.
The "Miller Bitiiioi:." over the Mow
hawk River, at Utica, broke down On Wed
nesday with a drove of bi cattle and two"
men. One man and 17 d the cattle were
j drowned.
IIi'xftY Bum, a fugitive slave is going to
start a newspaper at Sandwich,- Canada
West, to be called the "Vorce of the Fugi
I tives.
Ix a virtuous course, not to proceed is
certainly to go backward there is no es
l tate between advancing and retreating.
j Pi: iv atk letters from Charleston will give
I an unqualified assurance that the Legislature
i will recommend immediate Secession.
! Avium; the Jenny I.iiul charilies to be dis
i pensi-.l by a ciimiiiittee for that purpose, aie
j appreciations lo the Jersey City and Newark
. O.phan Asylums.
I Timic is a hotel in Cincinnati so leaky,-
When the sturdy Quaker, William Penn,
was introduced lo Chailes If, ho kept on his
hat. "Friend Penn," said Ihe good-natured
Monarch, "it is tho custom of this court for
only one person lo bo covered at a time;"
and then bis Majesty took off his hat.
A beautiful mansion, within a few miles
of Cincinnati, hasteen built entirely wilh un
burnt b.'itk-
that in r.:iuy wither ihe boarders are com
pelled to take umbrella lu bed wilh them.
These art) four thousand acres in vineyards
within a radious of nine miles from Cinoin'
mi.i.
Mrs. PiirrixcTox wonders why tho tvler,;
men don't impound the Pope's bulls, if they
commit such trespasses as the English pa
pcis atti ibutu lo them.
J ccrsox, the "Ametcan Deer," it is thought
will not recover from his run at Nashville.
At tho coriclusioh bf the rafe, he fell, com
pletely exhausted.
The Fuost saw the prelty flower, and
sought to marry it. "Wilt thoul" said the'
Frost, and the Flower wifed.
The cost of a single copy of Kendall'r
forthcoming work on the Mexican War
will be $3.1.
At Savannah, on Friday, the' thermome--ter
stood at SO degrees.
Genteel society is not always good so
ciety. The forests surrounding Ciucinnatti ire
filled with squirrels.
The latest improvement is a patent
filing machine. 1
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