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THE Princeton Magazine, a new recruit to -
the standing army of "the powers that be"
opened its first fire upon the insurgent spirit
of reform in tho following dash at Political j
and Industrial Socialism.
The Reconstruction of Society.
A PATRIOTIC BONO.
AlK.— The University of Gottingen. .
I.
When others, once as poor as I,
Are growing rich because they try,
While my capacity and will
Give ine a taste lor sitting still ; •
When till around me are at work,
While I prefer to act the Turk,
Or spend in drinking or at play
The greater part of every day:
And. as the upshot of it, feel
That I must either starve or steal :
The only remedy I see
For such abuses is the re
construction of society,
Construction of society.
11.
When others know whig 1 know not,
Or hear in mind what I forgot
An age ago, and dare to speak
In praise.of Latin and of Greek,
As if a tongue unknown to ine,
Of any earthly use conld he;
When book worms are allowed to rule |
in University and School.
While I, because I am a fool,
Or happen by the merest chance,
To have learned nothing save to dance, j
Am set aside, or thrust away,
Or not allowed to havo my say,
The only remedy 1 see
For much abuses, is the re
construction of society,
Construction of society. • -
111. . 1
When judges frown and parson*aguJl,
Because a gentleman makes hold"
To laugh at superstitious saws,
And violate oppressive laws:
When pinching want will not atone
For taking what is not your own ;
When public sentiment proscribes
The taking of judicial bribes,
And with indignant scorn regards
The gentleman who cheats at cards ;
When men of wit no longer dare
To tell a lie, or even swear;
'I lie only remedy I see
For such abuse, is the re
construction of society,
Construction of society.
IV.
When, after turning round and round,
And occupying every ground,
As preacher, poet, rhetorician,
Philanthropist and politician,
Ascetic, saint and devotee,
Geologist and pharisee,
] seen in vain to gain respect
My founding a new-fangled sect,
And find the world so cAulious grown,
That I must be the sect alone;
The only remedy I seo
For such abuses, is the re-
Construction of society,
Construction of society.
V.
When over and above the scorn
Of lrten, wh'n h leaves me thus forlorn,
1 find an enemy Within
Who (lari/h to talk to ine of sin,
And whispers, even itt my dreams,
That iny -disorganizing schemes |
Can never conjure blue k to white,
Or clearly provo that wrong is right,
A nuisance that can never cease
Till conscience learns to hold its peace,
And men no longer can be awed
By apprehension. 1 ! of a God—
An! those are griefs for whieh I see
No solace even in the re
construction of society.
Construction of soc.ely.
Democratic State Central
Committee.
At a meeting of tho Democratic Stato
Central Committee, held at MCKIBBEN'S Ho
tel, Philadelphia, on Wednesday evening,
the 21st of August, JOHN HICKMAN, Esq.,
PF Chester county, Chairman, and EDWARD
MAYNARD, Esq of Tioga, Secretary pro tern.,
the object of the meeii.'ig ha-ring been sta
ted, aud the subjoined Addres." read by the
Chairman, it was unanimously adopted. AN
DREW MILLER and WILLIAM DEAL, Esqrs., of
Philadelphia county, were appointed addi
tional members of the subcommittee an
nounced at the last meeting. There were
present representatives from Chester, Mont
gomery, Bucks, Tioga, Philadelphia, and
Lancaster. The folloivfrtg is the Address
adopted by the Committee :
A DDR ENS OF THE DEMOCRATIC
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
FELLOW CITIZENS: —The approaching e
lection for Slate officers, and for members of
the Legislature, and representatives in Con
gress, according to an honored custom, calls
upon the Democratic Cantral Committee of
Pennsylvania to add a few words on the iss
ues involved in tho coutSChnd on the gen
eral aspect of tilings throughout the country.
It has been well said that the Democratic
party of the country never occupied a high
.er or more enviable position than at
the present time Out of power at Wash-
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1850.
ivgton and at Harrisburg, its measures have,
nevertheless, vindicated themselves by the
most triumphant results, while the general
policy of Democratic administration is the
pole-star by which even the whigs guide
their shattered barque, and by which alone
they are enabled to keep themselves from
political shipwreck.
A little more than a year of, experience of
a Whig national administration, has furnish
ed to history another Interesting and valuable
example. Coming into power with a
huzza, and elated at the prospect of contin
ued rule, the Whig leaders themselves were
among the loudest to rejoice—however
all may have regretted that tho immediate
causo should be the sudden death of Uener
'al TAYLOR —aII the termination oT *a Ifegen
j cy, the members of which, going into place
| amid boasts of ability/experience aiuXSlates
manship, remained in office only long e
nough to make themselves universally odi
ous. Every department of the general gov
ernment. under their influence, gave, (lu
ring that period, melancholly evidence of
the incapacity or unworthinoss of its Secre
tary. On the other hand, our foreign rela
tions were conducted in a manner to cover
the whole country with ridicule, and with
such blundering awkwardness as to extract
even from the representative of that foreign
nation, which sympathises most with Feder
alism, the remark that it was weak and un
popular. The Treasury Department, not
withstanding the intellectual giant, .as ho
was called, at its head, did nothing, during
the same spaco of time, but establish the
fact that the Secretary, in his-war upon the
system of his preJecessor, had forgotten the
plainest rules of political economy. In an
other remarkable instance, we saw one mem
ber of the same Regency urging a claim a
gainst tiie government, for an exorbitant
sum of money, most of which he received
himself, having just driven a Hard bargain
with his client, and then obtaining the aid of
his colleagues in carrying it through its va
rious processes, without law, in defiance of
law, and in utter disregard of the whole
course of the government in similar cases.
To complete the striking picture, Congress,
by a decided vote, including several inde- I
pendent Whigs, rebuked the Regency that !
had supported the claim, and had agreed to i
its payment in terms of the several repre- [
henion. The Regency left office amid i
general execration of their conduct, and at |
a moment when other developements were !
"bout to be imtde, proving still further their
uulfliies'' to conduct the affairs of a Repub
lican Government.
It i- a fact that speaks loudly of the incon
sisteucy of our opponents, and of the tri
umph of Democratic measures, al the same
lime, llial while the last Whig Slate Con
vention refused to nominate Mr. STROHM,
for Canal ■ Commissioner, because of his
vote against a just war—tho war with Mexi
co—Mr. FILLMORE, the new Whig Presi
dent, at ffrst entirely overlooks Pennsylvania
in his choice of Cobinet officers, ar.d con
fers the Treasury upon CORWIK, wiiose oppo
sition to the same war was so bitter and so
uncompromising, that Mexico elevated him
into one of her thousand gods, and the A
mcrioan sohlier* burnt him in effigy onj die
very field where he wished they might re
ceive a welcome with bloody hands & hos -
pitable graves.
We refer to this significient history of ver
y recent events, with no desire to revive un
pleasant recollections, but to show the peo
ple of Pennsylvania—First, how utterly un
fit the Federal party are '.o administer the
laws: Secondly, how inevitably their false
and fictitous course before every election
covers them with disgrace, when they get
into office : And. thirdly, to place in con
trast with their doctrines of expediency aud
extravagance, the plain, practical, popular,
and comprehensive creed and conduct of
Democratio administrations. It is in view
of these facts, now a part of tho history of
the country, that we think that every Dem
ocrat lias occasion to be proud uf the posi
tion tho National Democracy occupies at a
time when placed in a temporary minority.
Under these auspices, the Democrats of
Pennsylvania have gone into the present
canvass, with renewed courage and coiifi
dence. They feel ilia t their cause is right
and just ; and they instnetively recall the
Whig pledges and promises which preceded
the electiou of 1848, and compare them
with the proscriptions and persecution that
(Save since broken and trampled them under
foot. Convinced at the moment these pro
fessions were maoe, that they never inten
ded to be fulfilled, they have no regret now,
save that those who aided to defeat the Dem
ocracy less than two years ago, should have
only been convinced of the faithlessness of
those they confided in, by the melancholy
failure at Washington/to which we have re
ferred. Have not the members of the great
Democratic party, therefore, profound cause
for congratulation, amid the general feeling
which holds up to the imitation of ourrulers,
the enlightened example of Democratic ad
minislratioqs?
It was under the impulse of such feelings
as these, that the Democratic State Conven
tion which assembled at Williamsport the
29th of May laßt, placed in nomination the
several candidates for State offices, whose
names you find inscribed on all your ban
ners. These candidates deserve the suppoit
of the people of Pennsylvania. Two of the
officers to be voted for, have just been made
elective by the Legislature, thus imposing
an enlarged responsibility upon the citizens
in the discharge of hi* elective duties.
From similar causes, and the rapid growth
and widely extending interests df our State
and nation, have our elections, year after
year, brought with them an increased im
portance and additional risks, lest'our people
should fail properly to appreciate and Vigi
lantly to defend their liberties. We point
with prtde, fellow citizens, to the workings
of our republican system, and the official
conduct, severally of those Democrats who
have been chosen to fill our places of trust,
especially since the election of ilia lament
ed Francis R. Shunk. The policy of Gov
ernor SHUVK'S administration was tho salva
tion of Pennsylvania; and has been an ex
ample to all others, which it would be mad
ness in them not to follow. The high-soul
ed independence and stern integrity of that
Executive, and the strict responsibility to
which every officer of bis administration
was held, soon led to those great results,
and to the establishment of the admirable
system from which so much that was bene
ficial to the State has flown. The course of
the same statesman-like Governor on the
subject of Ranking, may alwaysbo profita
bly referred to and imitated.. Where is there,
in this broad Union, a .system of public
works more economically and more indefa
tibly conducted ? The revenues of the State
improvements, and the expenditures neces
sary to keep them in repair, constitute an ex
hibit into which tho Democratic party might
fearlessly challenge investigation. Under
Democratic administrations no greedy Gal
phin are found among the honest men who
control your public works, audit your pudl io
accounts, or pay out your public monies,
forgetting all law and all propriety, in the
anxiety to fill their prickets wiih dishonest
gains. Democratic policy, and Democratic
integrity, lifted off the load of debt which
had been piled upon Pennsylvania by the
GALPHINS that ruled and ruined in the ad
ministration of JOSEPH RITNER. NO longer
is our fair fame outraged by the apprehen
sion of repudiation. No longer are the State
improvements used for personal and party
purposes. No longer are the Canal Com
missioners engaged in gambling for votes j
with the people's money, in establishing
"missionary funds," to reward political e- j
missaries, or in openly corrupting the ballot
boxes.—'The Jeffersonian doctrine of eco
nomical expenditure, honest agents, and low
salaries,has never been more successively
tried than by the Democratic party of Penn
sylvania.
We appeal also to our fellow citizens, and
especially to our Democratic party, to keep
constantly in view the great importance of
electing honest and well tried men to repre
sent us in the State Legislature; men who
will advocate the usages which have made
glorious principles triumphant; who will
participate in the regular party Caucuses j
and who will sternly abide by the nomina
tions made by the majority A United ?ta es
Senator is to be elected in January for six
years next ensuing the 4th of March, 1851,
and it is due to our State that such a Demo
crat shall be chosen as will prove to be equal
to the lofty responsibilities of the position,
and a faithful representative of the well
known opinions of the Democratic party.
It must not be forgottfen, fellow citizens,
that however ample are the causes pleading
in favor of the success of the Democratic
party and however odious the political prin
ciples to which we are all opposed, victory
cannot be obtained without a vigorous and
harmonious effort on our part. Do not let
us suppose that the Whig party is disorgan
ized by recent events and recent exposures.
We have seen a majority of Whigs on the
floor of Congress voting to sustain the GAL
PHIN infamy; and we must not be astonish
ed to see the Whig leaders in our Stale, try
ing, in the face of recent occurrences, to ob
tain the mastery in the coming contest. It
is now, as it always has been, a contest be
tween the antagonist parties, between the
friends of Aristocratic doctrines and expen
sive government, and the advocates of
Democratic doctrines, and a frugal govern
ment; and, however, disastrously the for
tunes of the day may eventuate to the first,
it will retain enough of its ancient vigor to
contend against the last at every fitting op
portunity
Therefore, fellow Democrats, we invoke
you to harmony and concert. In several of
the counties differences exist which pru
dence and patriotism may soon compose
Will not our political friends in those coun
ties pause and ponder upon the importance
of sinking all personal differences for the
good of the common cause. Remember if
these feuds are left opening and festering,
you may have Whigs in your State offices;
a Whig United States Senator; and a Whig
Congressional delegation, which in the event
of the next' Presidential contest going into
the house, would throw the vote of Demo
cratic Pennsylvania agaiust the Democratio
candidate. How utterly humiliated those
will be, who, failing to exercise a disinter
ested spirit, may aid to give victory to our
adversaries, in the hour of Demo
cratio defeat may be held justly accountable
fdPthe fatal consequences! We again in
voke our political brethren to exercise all
piudence and care—we invoke all candi
dates to remember that the cause is higher
than mere men—and, if our counsels shall
be heeded, me may look forward for a tri
uraph worthy of the best days of the glori
ous.Democratic State nf Pennsylvania.
JOHN HICKMAN, Chairman,
EDWARD MATNARP, Sec'y pro. tem.
17* If you lie upon roses when young
you will lie upon thorns when old.
Early day* of Silas Wrlght-Aq iLcident
A friend, who was an acquaintance of the
late Hon. Silas Wright, related to us an anec
dote of that distinguished man which he re
ceived from his own lips, and as we have
never seen it in print, (although it may have
been,) we give it to our readers.
Mr. Wright left his home at an early ago
to "seek his fortune," having byway of
earthly possessions, a fine horse, saddle and
bridle, a pair of saddle bags, a small store
of clothing, and five hundred dollars in mon
ey, which was in bills, and deposited in his
saddle bags. He took B westward course,
and in travelling one day, he overtook a man
with a wagon nqd furniture, and an old span
of horses, apparently emigrating. There
was nothing particularly attractive at first
view, in bis person or equipage, but upon
closer inspection, Mr. W., discovered the
daughter of the emigrant.a most beautiful
young lady, evidently refined and intelligent.
They journeyed onward toward Geneva,
chattering cosily together, when suddenly
the old gentleman recollected that he wish
ed to get his money changed at the Geneva
Bank, and to enable him to reach that place
before the close of the bank hours, he pro
posed that young Wright should take his
seat beside the beautiful daughter, allow
him to mount Wright's horse and hast in
forward. Ardent, and half smitten by the
charms of the young lady, Silas gladly ac
cepted the proposition, and leaping from his
horse, allowed the old man to mount and
make off with all his earthly possessions,
money inclusive, without a second thought.
"Rapidly the hours of Thalaba went by,"
while these two young and gifted beings
pursued their course, (quite leisurely it may
be surmised) towards their journey's desti
nation. On arriving at Geneva, Mr. Wright
drove to the principal tavern, and left the
lady, but then for the first time, a shade of
anxiety crossed hi* mind for the safety of
his fine horse and his money. Ho went to
all the other public houses, but could hear
of no such man as he described ; he beat
up to the quarters of the cashier of the bank,
and learned to his additional concern, that
such a man had called at the bank, ami en
deavored to get some money changed, which
he had declined doing, as the notes which
were offered were counterfeit! Our future
slateman then came to the conclusion that
he had mada a cfooked startjn life. About
fifty dollars worth of old furniture, a ililipi
daled wagon, and a span of worn out hor
ses, for a wardtobe, a fine horse, and five
hundred dollars 1 Aye; but then there was
the pretty daughter,—but her hi could
not keep as personal property, without her
own consent, and without money he hardly
wanted a wife.
He was at his wits end, and had just Con
cluded to make the best of a bad baigain,
when the old man made his appearance,
wi'h horse and money all safe. It turned
out that the money which the cashier had
thought to be counterfeit was not so, and the
mistake bad given the oIJ man the trouble
to go to some distance, to find an acquain
tance ; who might vouch for his respectability
in case of trouble, and this occasioned his
mysterious absence. Tit the sequal, the
beautiful daughter became afterwards the
wife of the future statesman Detroit Ad
vertiser.
SHAVING IN SPAIN.— An Irish gentleman
travelling through Spain, went into a bar
ber's shop to get shaved. The man of foam
with great obsequiousness, placing his cus
tomer on the chair, commenced operations
by spitting on the soap and rubbing it over
the gentleman's face. "Blood an' 'ounds!''
was the exclamation of the Irishman—"is
that the way you shave a gentleman I" at
the same time preparing his wrath to ever
turn the wig minister.
"It's the way we shave a gentleman, Se
nor."
"Then how do you shave a poor manV'
"We spit on his face and rub the soap o
ver that," was the Spaniard's reply.
"Och, then, if I remember nothing of
Spain but the one thing, it will be the Span
ish barber's distinction."
And so saying, the Hibernian rose, paid
the demand, and departed.
PUTTING THE FLIES TO ROOST. —In one of
the Toledo hotels, a stuttering little waiter
and the block cook were at sword's points,
and the only end for which Jack, the waiter,
lived was to paster the cook. A few days
since, when the air was scorching, and flies
in the dining room were more pldr.ty than
candidates at a free democratic convention,
word was sent to the cook thai Jack wanted
him. He hurried up with—"Well, salt,
what do you wantl"
"Why, cook," replied Jack, "yob see the
f-f flies b-bother me s-so I c-ant set the Lia
ble, and as you're s-so d-d-duced b black I
Want you to cast a sh-shade over the r-room
and they'd t-think it wits night and g;g-g-go
to roost!"
EPIGRAM on the fashionable mode of la
dies wearing watches in their bosom:
Among our fashionable belles.
No wonder now that time should Huge;;
Allowed to place his rude two hands
Where uo one else dare place a finger.
17* A Country youth who had returned
home Irom a visit to the oity, was asked by
his anxious dad if he had been guarded in
his conduct while there.
"Oh, yes," replied the ingenious lad, "I
was guarded by two constables taost of the
time."
The Modern PUlpit.
It seems to us that theology is last falling
behind the other professions, in regard to the
character and intelligence demanded in its
professors. Depth, comprehension, a large
knowledge of life, skill in dissecting evi
dence and motives, a general force of be
ing which never yields to moral or intellect
ual timidity, are not now insisted upon as
necessary to the clergyman. The toleration
awarded to feeble sermons Is the sharpest of
all silent etaires on 'the decline of divinity.
Forcible men, possessing sufficient vigor
and vitality to ' 'get along in the world " rush
almost universally into the other professions.
Law iiiid.poliliqyrin ffltl*cd<lntry, draw into
their vertex hundreds of scholars who ought
to be preachers of God's word botli to law
and politics. If youth of education does
not evince enough understanding to sift ev- ,
idence or tear away the defences of a so
phism—if he lacks sufficient nerve to badg
er a witness or ampule a leg, his "parents
think him eminently calculated for that oth
er profession, whose members are to scatter
the reasonings of Hume and Diderot, to
smite wickedness in high places, to lay bare
the baseness of accredited sins, to brave
with an unflinching front the oppression of
the selfish and the strong, and to dare, if
need be, all the powers of earth and hell in
the cause of justice and truth. This, we
need not say. is all wrong. If the powers
of darkness and delusion are strong in all
the strength of bad passions and sophistical
vices, let them be opposed by men whose
spirits are of the "greatest size aud divinest
mettleby men who have the arm to
smite and brain to know; by men whose
souls can thread al! those mazes of deceit
through which sin eludes the chase of the
weak in heart and the small in mind. With
out force of character, there can be no force
of impression. Words never gush out with
peisuasive or awful power from a feeble
heart.— E. P. Whipple.
Music OF THE PACIFIC.—NO one can be in
Monterey a single night, without being star
tled and awed by the deep, solemn crashes
of the stirf, as it breaks along the shore.
There is no continuous roar of the plunging
waves, as we hear on the Atlantic seaboard;
the 6low, regular swellss—quick pulsation of
the great Pacific's heart—fall inwnrd in un
broken lines, antF fall with "Single grand
crashes with intervals of dead silence be
tween.—They may be heard through the
day, if one listens, like a solemn under tone
to all the shallow hoi&es of the town ; but at
midnight, when all else are still, these sue- 1
cessive shocks fall upon the ear with a sen
sation of inexpressible solemnity. All the
air, from the pine forest to tho sea, is filled
with a light tremor, and the intermitting
beats of sounds are strong enough to jar a
delicate ear. Their constant repetition at
last produces a feeling something like terror.
A spirit worn and weakened by some scath
ing sorrow, could scarcely bear the reverber
ation.—Taylor's Califprnia.
THE HOME OF TASTF.. —How easy it is to J
be neat?—to be clean ! How easy to ar
range the rooms with tho most graceful pro
priety ! How easy it is to invest our houses
with the truest elegance ! Elegance resides
not with the upholsterer or tho draper; it is
not in the mosaics, the carpe tings, the rose
wood, the mahogany, the-candolabra,.or the
marble ornaments, it exists in the spirit pie
siding over the chambers of the dwelling.
' Contentment must always be most graceful;
it sheds serenity ovet the scene of its abode;
it transforms a waste into a garden. The
homo lighted by these intimations of a no
bler and brighter life may be wanting i n
much whicn the discontented desire ; but to
its inhabitants it will be a palace, fai outviw
mg the oriential in brilliancy and glory i
— ■■ ■
SALLY you seem to be ignorant in 1 geogra
phy I will examir.e you in grajpniar. Take
the sentence, "marriage is a c ivil contract."
Parse marriage.
"Marrigge is a noun because it's a name.
And though Shakespeare asks what's a
name, and says that a rose by any other
name would smell as swoet, yet marriage
being a noun, and therefore a name; shows
that the rule established by the Bard of A
von has at least one exception. For mar
riage certainly is of very great importance,
and being a noun and therefore a name, er
go, there is something in a name."
"Good!— Well, what is the case of mar
riage?"
"Don't know, sir."
"Decline it, and see."
"Don't feel at liberty to decline marriage
after having made Billy the promise I jliave
Bad rather .conjugate."
What female recluse is that whose name,
read backwards and forwards the same?
Nun. Whai lady like designation is that
which is spelt backwards the same ? Mad
am. What lady's natne is that which is
spelt backwards Bnd forwards the same?
Eve. What lime is that which if spelt back
wards and forwards is the same? Noon.
What portion of a young lady's dress is that
which spelt bockwards and forwards is the
same? Bib/-
17* Western editor declares that some of
the young women who pass his village in
the arks, on the river, are perfect divinities.
He means, says a northern paper, arkangets.
Want of Conrage.
Sydnejt Smith, in his work on moral phil
osophy, speaks in this wise of what men
lose for the want of a little brass, as it is
termed:
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world
for the want of a little courage. Every day
sends to their graves a number of obscure
men who have only remained in obscurity
because their timidity has prevented them
from making a first effort; and who, if they
could only have been induced to begin,
would in all probability have gone great
lengths in the career of fame. The fact is,
that in order to do any tning in this world
worth doipg, we must not stand shivering
ard thinking of the cold and
the danger, but jump in, and scramble
through as well as we can. It will not do to
Jjfe perpetually calculating risks, and adjust
ing nice chances; it did all very well be
fore the Flood, when a man could consult
his friends upon an intended publication for
a hundred and fifty years and then live to
see its success lor six or seven centuries af
terwards, but at present a man waits, aud
doubts, and hesitates, and consults his broth
er, and his uncle, and his first cousins, and
his particular friends, till one fine day he
finds that he is sixty-five in years—that he
has lost so much time in consulting first cou
sins and particular friends, that he has no
more time left to follow their advice. There
is such little lime for over-squeamishness at
present, the opportunity so easily slips away,
the very period of life at which a man choo
ses to venture, if ever, is c oonfincd, that it
is no bad rule to preach up the necessity, in
such instances, of violence done to
the feelings, and of efforts made in defiance !
of 6trict and sober calculation."
TIIE FATE OF GENIUS.
There is in Boston a man of sixty years of
age, who gradualed at the University al Dub
lin, Ireland—was admitted, at 22, as a Sur
geon in the British army, and in that capa
city visited this country with the English ;
was present at the destruction of the public
houses, stores, &c., at Washington city; has
been in India with the British army ; has
been present during his service as a surgeon,
at over four thousand amputations, and fif
teen severe battles; was shot twice, perform
ed surgical. -OjiataUens on -three hundred
wounded generals, sevgn colonels, twenty
captains, and over eleven thousand officers
of smaller grade, &c. Has dined with two
kings, one empress, one emporof, the sultan,
a pope, innumerable generals &c. Has held
the largest diamond in his hand known in
the world, except one. Has had the British
crown on his head. Has been married threo
times, father to eleven children, all of whom
he survived. Broken down by disease, lie
could no longer practice his profession j too
poor to live without employment, and too
proud to become a pauper, he sailed in an
emigrant ship to this country three years a
go; and this man of remarkable adventures;
classic education, master of four languages,
sixty years of age, poor, old, and decaying,
is now peddling oranges and apples iii the
streets of Boston I—"W c know what we are
—verily we know not what we may be !"
17* Sheridan was never free from pecu
niary embarrassments. As h was one day
hacking his face with a dull razor, he turned
to his eldest son (who was a chip of the
old b.ock,) and said, "Tbm, if you open any
more oysters with my razor, I'll cut you off
with a shilling." "Very well father," re
torted Tom, "but where will the shilling
come from ?"
FISHING. —The act of a fool of one species,
trying to deceive a fool of another, not al
ways successful however.
STUPID FELLOW. —One who allows his
tongue sdme rest in the course of twenty
lour hours.
FRIENDS. —Your daily associates, who will
do anything but assist you in distress.
Low CREATURE.—A beautiful modest girl,-
who is 100 poor to dress in tho extremity of
the fashion.
OLDJMAID, —A lady who has attained the
age of twenty-lour or five, without having
married a fool, a knave, a gambler or a
drunkard.
Gen. Lrimere tells a good story about T.J. j
Fox Alden.
Mr. Alden stopped at the bridge toll house
one day, and inquired:
' How much do you charge, sir?"
"You may pass on ; we don't charge
Preachers, replied thejcolleetor.
"The h—ll you don't! exclaimed Aldan
looking wildly;".
An extraordinary surgical operation was
lately performed, which was the complete
removal of the patient into another world.
The physician it doing well.
a
"I'm glad this coffee don't owe ine any
thing," said a financier at breakfast.—
"Why?" grumbled his wile. "Cause I
don't believo it would ever settle."
■
There were over 30,000 births last year
hi Paris, of which 12,000 were illegitimate.
Very nauty place, that Paris.
Why is a dentist likely to be a melancho
ly map? Because he always looks down
in the mouth.
NUMBER
From the Tioga Eagle.
LEGISLATION—LABOR.
What is called the circulating medium of
tho country, is at all times a subject of vi
tal interest to the community at large, but
peculiarly so now, in consequence of the
act of Assembly prohibiting the circulatiou
of bank notes of a less denomination than
five dollars, and whieh act takes effect on
the 21st inst. We deem it peculiarly un
fortunate for this section ol the State, the
passage of said act, but as it is the law of
the Commonwealth, we all must shape our
business to enable us to live up to ils full re
quirements. There seems to be a class of
persons who look geherally to legislation to
remove all fi ancial an! business evils. Yes,
* es, say they, procure an act of Assembly
for this thing, and an act for that, and so on.
1 he thing is done if the Legislatnre pass an
act. Do not sensible men know that legis
lation can never pay debts, as governments
are not money making but money consu
ming machines. It is said that there 'are
more enacted in the United States in one
j ear, than in all the rest of the world
Ninety-nine in a hundred of these laws are
private acts- granting to certain individual*
advantages nnd privileges not enjoyed by
the rest of society. The worst feature of
litis kind of legislation is, that the honest
and industrious are much more rarely tho re
cipients of these legislative bounties ihan
the cunning and the idle.
The great and frequent evil arising Irom
legislative attempts to pay debts, is that they
transfer the burden of debt Irom one 6et of
men to place it with accumulated weight
on the shoulders of another set. It may be
seated as a proposition universally true,
that legislation never relieves the pecuniary
embarrassments of one individual, except
at the expense of the community. Nay
more the community always pays more in
,av ll'-P 'be benefitted individual gets by
way df i-elief. The very indirection in
which such/ partial legislation is alway*
shrouded, greases the weight of the lax,
whilst it ofceures the iniquitous operation of
the laws. The manufacturer gets hardly
half the tax paid by the" consumer under a
protective tariff. The Sloclfc-heldeps get
muchiless than half of tho tax levied by a
Bank under its charter. Internal Improve
ments Universally cost the country twice as
much as they benefit the peculiar erection in
which they are located. This legislative
mode of paying debts or relieving embar
rassments by transferring them, is then more
iniquitous in reality, though less odious iu
form, than open confiscation of property or
cancelling of debts.—The process of relief
will swallow up the estate of the bankrupt
and leave nothing for his creditors.
Obvious as thhse truths are, or at least
ought to be, we continually hear a large and
intelligent paity in this country railing a
gainet Government for not relieving the
country from its embarrassments, and cry
ing aloud for that very partial legis'atiou
which relieves one set of men at the ex
pense of another. If this system of legis
lation is ever countenanced t>y the people,
we hesitate not to say, that wc shall not onlv
be badly governed, but worse governed
than any nation on earth. The recipients of
legislative bounty would be infinite in num
ber aud insatiate in appetite, for no sooner
would one swarm be gratified than a new
one would diise to ask fdr favors, bounties
and taxation for their exclusive benefit. Tho
quiet pursuits of industry would be aban
doned, when men found whilst were at work
their more fortunate neighbors, by besieging
legislative halls, were appropriating by law
the produce of (heir sweat and toil. A gov
ernment so conducted rrtust soon come to an
end, for none would labor when the fruits of
their labor were to be given by law to the
cunning aud idle.
A people majr continue to bear the burden
of an hereditary nolilily trenched round
with exclusive privileges, because such no
bility is always comparatively few In num
ber and moderate in its demands; but to
bear a constantly shifting, constantly recruit
ing privileged class, with cormorant appe
tites and Hyena-like propensities, is more
than human nature is qualified for.
Labor and Economy, and labor and econ
omy alone, can relieve the country from its
embarrassments. It is a laW of our nature
onateil by our Maker, that man shall earn
his bread by the "sweat of his brow"— h
law which no legislative legerdemain cart
suspended of repeat.—Nb mattct how bad
the currency is, if a man labors hard and
makes more than he spends, ho will* grow
rich, if lie is not over-taxed to pay other
people's debts. No matter how good (tie
currency is, tho idle and extravagant will be
come pob'r.
17" The fallowing daguerreotype of ins
Satanic Majesty is said to have actually
been gitren by a negro preacher in Virgin
ia to his colored brudderin. 'Stan 'side trig
gers, luf ine tell you, I hab a dream and
see de debil. He hab an eye like de moon ;
he hab a nose like a canoe ; he hab an' ear
same as a bacca leaf, he hab a shoulder (ike
de Bine Ridge, and he hab tail hke do rain
bow.
Pharisees and Saducets.—We little thought
that anything pleasant could be made out or
these two sects, but an aunt of ones haa told
us that one day meeting Leigh Hani, she, ia
order to excuse her gravity said—"l am very
lad you see (Sadueee.) The cour'ly wit re
plied, in order to compliment her beauty—
"You are very fair I see! (.Pharisee.)