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THE SET! INC GIRT..
THERE was a cheerless fire in an empty room
On a cold December day,
And the biting wind, through ahroken pane, |
Had cruelly forced its way;
The chill of coming death was without, I
•The sky looked gloomy and drear, /
And the feathery snow -flake fell thick to the ,
eaith,
Meet shroud for tire dying year.
And laflies wrapped in warm furs went past,
And men muffled up to the chin,
And the heart of the city beat quick and fast, i
And noisier grew the din ;
Andchildren went up and down the street,
And tiny BIIOW halls tossed,
And delicate women and grey haired men
Rejoiced -in-the coming frost.
Still by the cheerless fire in tliat'hfnpty room,
Oil lhal cold December day,
There sat and sewed from mom to night,
, One prematurely grey j
She rises some hdifrs before the dawn,
From a short arid troubled dor.e,
And through Winters cold and Summer's
heat,
She sits in that room and sews.
She hears the soand of no friendly Vdicb, j
She meets no loving smile,
More (one in that peopled solitfulft
Than Crusoe in Ins isle.
"She sees the gay and the happy pass,
And she hears the ceaseless srir,
And she knows not one in these lirtghing
groups * !
Bestows a thought cm lrer.
Aad there, from morn to evp, she piles
That bit of shining steel,
And grudges the few short moments she
gives
To snatch a scanty meal,
lo make up lost time, more rapidly move
Those fingers, shrivelled and tlliu,
For she measures iier life by the yaid she
sews,
Hero rats arc work turned in.
And Winter passed, with its frost and snow, ,
And Spring with its budding leaves ; ,
And Time in iiis fervid glory came on,
Wim Ins wealth of Summer leaves;
And out to the open country parts
The human tide o'erflovvs;
liut still through ihe long, bright Summer
days, " I
Stiu sits in that room and scivs.
Some are up on the breeay mountain top.
Some down on llie grassy lea
Some s.iunleriug along die pebbly beach,
Some are out on the open sea-
Anil rivers roll on, through meadows green,
And the gentle South wind blows,
And wild flowers blossom in shady nooks.
While she sits in that room and sews. |
!
An.l her thoughts; oh, who can 101 l her,
thoughts,
As the needle goes out arid in ;
Though calm and motionless, there she BIIS,
Her mind is busy within ;
For many a bitter question then^
Her overcharged heart will ask,
As with aching head, and dazzled eyes,
She pi ode at her weary task.
'•lf Joy and Pain, in ibis nether word,
Must fairly balanced be,
Oh why not some of the pain to them,
And some of the joy to me ?"
But she chid that bitter feeling down,
And knelt, and I heard her say;
"The night cometh on when no man can
work,
I-el me work while it is day.
Hit Light of Afi/iire—The celebrated Mr' 1
Hume wrote an essay on the sufficiency of
the light or Nature; und the no less celebra-:
ted Robertson wrote on the necessity of rev- J
elation, and the insufficiency ef the light of
Nature. Hume eame one evening to visit
Robertson : and the evening was spent In i
conversing on the subject. The friends of
both were present; and it is said that Rob
ertson reasoned with unaccustomed clear- i
ness and power. Whether Hume was con- I
vinced by bis reasonings or not, we canno'
tell; but, at any rate, he did not ackuowl*
„, J ~ his convictions. Hume was very
• . v
much of a gentleman, and as ue tl'ii about i
,t—bowed rtolhelv lo those in the )
room, while, as he retired through the door, \
Robertson took the light to show him the ,
way- Hume was still facing the door "Oh
sir," said he to Robertson, ''l find the light
of Nature always sufficient; and he contin
ued,' Pray don't trouble yourself, sir," and
so ho bowed on. The street door was open,
and presently, as lie bowed along in the en
try, he stumbled over something concealed,
gr.d pitched down stairs into the street. Rob
ertson ran after him, with a light, i a "
he held it over him, whispered softly and
cunningly, "You had beu r have a t a
light trom above, friend Hume.' 1 "
sing him up, he bade him good nigi."'' 8n
returned to bis friends.
A western editor was paid by a subscrl
-I>er last week, and 1 vsae-ee' overcome, that
he hue sir,oe been uuable to attend to bis
usual duties. 'Twos too *nuoh for him.
Col. Benton has declared lhatjio t*tll not
be a candidate for the Presidency.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1851.
SHORT PATENT SERMON.
BY DOW, JR.
TEXT.— Perreivest thou not the process OR the
year?
Bow the four seasons in four forms
appear,
Resembling human life in every form
they wear ?
MT HEARERS.—I shall pleach to you, upon
this occasion, in a laconic style—well filled
with meaning, or replete with nothingness—
whichever you may choose. You are about
to perform anotheranuual round iu your mor
tal existence—or, rather, take another hitch
towards the Dark Valley of Death, where
beggar and king, friend and foe, lie down
as cosily together as a oouple of dead rab
bits. Don't be too aura of not slipping up,'
and receiving a fatal fall before you reach
the mile stone upon which is written Janu
ary 1, 1852. Be careful what load you take
I Consider also, well which is the bolter mode
' of travelling.—Putting a boiler in yout slom
; aclis, and raising the steam with alcohol, is
! very unp'easant and dangerous way geiting
i along. You arc liable to run off the track
and do irreparable damage to your reputa
tions, if not to your carcases. Because why
—Reason is not your engineer. If you
rtraddle the high-mettled mare of fancy, she
may kick up her heeliftelore you know it,
■and pitch you head-long into the dust of so
ber reality. There is much beautiful scen
ery on the road that leads from this year to
the next. To see, appreciate and admire it
all, I advise you to perform the journey on ;
foot. Take lire staff of hope in your har.d j
—have your knapsack well filled with faith :
and fortitude. Thq latter article ip a first j
rate under shirt when Wow the cold winds 1
of adversity. Put plenty of bread and j
cheese of charity in your pockets—be eeo- |
ttomical in yonr expense—and keep scratch
ing the gravel, as industriously as an old !
hen with a family of fourteen chickens.
You wiH go slow at the fastest; bul then
you will hare a chance to behold the beau :
tics of the eveochanging landscape, and ,
thus lar experience the pleasures of life's j
pilgrimage. 1 know, however, that you will
trot all take the same road, nor trot along
with the same jog—Some will go one way. j
and some another. Some will wander far !
away from the paths of propriety—ramble j
through the woods in search of the wild i
flowers Of pleasure, Which are fascinating i
Vo the eye, bul as wanting in fragTAnCe as ]
the blossoms that bloom upon the bonnetts
of our city belles. Some will take short cuts j
—some cut across lots, and find themselves j
at last where it is impossible for them to he (
found.
My friends, how many do you suppose of
those arntntl us—say take the whole human
live stock ot New York—will lack the wind
to hold out till die first of January next?
More, perhaps, than you imagine. Kra a
single month shall hare rolled over you,
hundreds of jour fellow creatures will have
fallen by the way-side. Many and many
who now fancy that they have got a good
foothold, nnd have both physical and men
tal strength to hold out for a twelvemonth,
will be compelled to lay down to die, just
as the buds begin opening and the birds
commence singing. Its rather hard, hut it
can't be helped—as an "old maid (an ac
quaintance of mine) remarked when t told
her that young men preferred external attrac
tion 10 intrinsic Worth.
My worthy friends! to come a little closer |
to my text, the four seasons of the year are
as emblematical of human life, in its differ
ent stages, as any picture that could possibly
be painted by the pencil of Nature. Spring,
With her young buds and opening blossoms,
is emblematical of youth—when the jessa
mine, violets, and other flowers of joy and |
happiness spring up as suddenly from the
warm, rich soil of the heart as toadstools af
ter an April showeb Summer, with her
green leaves and thick foliage, is a fair rep
resentative of manhood<swhtm man is in
the full prime, vigor and vitality of being.
He finds the loveliest of flowers surrounding
him wherever he strays; but no new ones
starting to bloom in the garden of Hope It
is mid summer with him, and he must make
up his mind to soon fade, as fades the most
beautifulest (as my friend Shakespere would
say) of American calico, whan dipped in a
tub of hot soap-suds. Autumn is a capital
counterpart, <JT age. His gray hairs and
frosted whiskers plainly tell to his cotempo
taries, tho men of years, that the rosss in
life's wreaths f.. Sn i that
nothing save the sun of immortality can re
new their brightness and beauty. Winter
whispers death and the "> mb - Tbe snow
flakes that so lightly fall, HZ" feathers, upon
the graves of our kindred, remind ii* of the
snows that gendy descend upon the already
hoary head of extreme old age. But the old
man soon dies, and goes to his long home,
about which we living mortals know no mora
than a caterpillar does of future butterfly ex
istence.
My dear friends! a new year is now before
I you, make the most and the best ot it you i
can. So mote it be!
tar Several persons concerned in the
spiritual knockings in Milwaukee city, have
been indicted for deception and obtaining
( noney under false pretence.
GRACE thinks that Gen. Hous
ton would fill i-he Presidential Jchair pretty
well—only let him ik put under bonds not to
whittle the arms off.
E7 The Spring trade in Philadelphia baa
been unusually brisk.
Trati ai* Cn¥try
From the Scientific American.
Progress of Discovery During the last
Half Contary.
It is related that one of a party of travellers
while standing on one of the mountains of
Switzerland, Was so transported with the
beauties of the scenery spread before him,
that in a burst of enthusiasm he declared "he
never had seen the equal of such goenery,
and he was sure there was nothing like it in
Europe, for lie had travelled through every
Country in it." A German at his side said,
"he had never seen its like with but a single
exoeption," and he named a certain moun.
tain in the Highlands of Scotland, which he
had visited a few weeks before. The for
mer gentleman hung down his head, merely
remarking "that, although he had been on
that mountain often, he never thought much
about it." That mountain was on his own {
estate.
j There is no common sayings which con
j tains more truth than familiarity begets in
) difference," "'tisdiatance lends enchantment
to the view." We live in an age of wonders
and the last half century has witnessed a
! succession of the most mighty events and
the most astounding discoveries which have
ever made, at least during any such
period of the world's history, and yet, living
as we do, in the midst of such develope"
ments, with new leaves of the book of in
vention still turning over, we do not wonder
—for it is just like human nature, that the
majority of mankind are calous to the mer
its and importance oj the discoveries made
tu their own day, even although they are
reaping untold benefits from them.
Let us look bark to the beginning of this
century, and see what mighty Works have
been done by inventors since that time. In
1600 there was not a single steamboat in the
world. Our inland seas and noble rivers 1
were lying grand and silent in primeval lone- j
liness, except when enlivened by the clum
sy batteau, or the rude Hatboat. In 1807
Fulton launched the Clermont, which made
a passage to Albany in 32 hours. At that
time the mode of travel was by schooners
and sloops, which were frequently six days
on the passage —The improvement was cer
tainly great, but what would Fulton now
say, to see steamboats running the same
distance in 8 hours—and some of them large J
euough to stow the Clermont on their for
ward decks. No steamboat had broken the
wafers of the Mississippi previous to 1815 ;
the voyage from Cincinnati to New Orisons
was a tremendous undoitaking, and occu
pied more time than a steamboat would now
take to circumnavigate tho globe. At pres
ent, it is calculated that there are no less
thau 3,000 ■itoamboals of all sixes in Ameri
ca, and the time saved to travellers, by the
invention of the steamboat, is at least seven
ty per cent. 1 that is, a perron can travel a
greater distance in 30 days now, by steam
boat than he could in 100 days in 1800. Just
fancy Benjamin Franklin being almost
wrecked in going frum New York to Amboy,
and the vessel In which he was in, occupy
ing 32 hours on the passage—a distance
which is accomplished every day by our
steamboats in one and a half hours—a great
change, truly.
Tn Europe, steamboats were unknown un
til 1811, and no sea was regluarly navigated
by steamboats until 1818. The progress Of
Marine Navigation is remarkable. In 1838
no steamship had ventured across the stormy
Atlantic to establish ocean navigation. Now
we have communication every week with
Europe, by regular steam mails; ar.d to
show the advantage of steam over mere
sailing vessels, within a few days from the
present date) sotne of our finest sailing pack
ets have come in after a passage of fifty
days, while our steamships have not been
out more than sixteen days. If the last half
century had given lis no other inventioothan
the steamboat, that alone, Considering its im
portance, is enough to immortalize it. If in
1800 there was no steamship in the wide
world, where is the country now where they
are not seen) and where they are not exerci
sing a most important influence ? No coun*
try in the world.—On the Hudson, Mississip
pi, on all our lakes, rivers, and seas, ard on
all the oceans of the world; On that sea
where the waters rolled up in walls to allow
Moses and the Hebrews to pass over shod ;
on the ancient tfile, where Cleopatra's galley
spread its silken sails to the breaze ; qugJhe
Ganges of Indus in the East, and the Sacra
mento in tho West, there may bo seen rs
merpn; •ognuments to inventor of the
steamboat—the steamship "rules the waves."
The steamboat is not the only important
invention of the last half century—the pro
grass of invention is just as marked in other
departments of discovery. Look at the Iron
Horse moving out of his stable, screaming
anJ panting to start upon his journey. That
is the steara engine in its most perfeot state
—it is a near apprcaoh to the spiritual and
physical combination. Behold how easily
he drags the ponderous train at the rale of thir
! ty miles per hour thus conveying hundteds or
! passengers in oonoert and safely, to a dis
tance in an hour which, but a few years ago,
would take them nearly a whole day to ac
complish by stages. Within three months
the Queen of England was transported from
the interior of Scotland to London, a distance
of 400 milas, in ten hours. In 1800 the
same journey could not be be accomplished
in less than eight days. If the steamboat
has revolutionized intercommunication by
river and sea, the locomotive has done more
to revolutionize travel b y lan(1 - ,n . 1800
there was not a sirijde locomotive- in the
j world, nor for 29 years after, viz , the 6th
J day pf Qsmbsr, 1829, op which the
Rocket ran on the Liverpool and Manches
ter Railway, at the average rate of IS miles
per hour. From tlim moment we date the
commencement ol a new and most astonish
ing era in the hsstery of discovery. In Eng
land there are now 6,600 miles of railway
constructed, ahd as many more proposed, at
a cost of more thsn $500,000,000. In the
United States there are at least 5,700 miles
of railway constructed, and there cannot be
less thap 20.250 milesef railroad now in op
eration in Europe and America, for neither
Asia nor A fries can yet boast of a single line
completed. What were the oh! Roman
roads in comparison to the footpaths of our
iron horses. In 1835 there were only 15
milee of railway in New York, now thera
are a beat 1.500, and a twskr(Ml now jour- j
ney as far in one day as he could in eight
days in. that year, The wealth invested i*
railroads is enormous, sad their inflnence
upon mankind, in every respect, is beyord
calculation. But this grand invention is not
the limit of the great discoveries made in
our day,
Who, if he wete told, twenty years ago,
that the sunlight would be used tor a lim
ner's pencil, would have believed it I Not
one , and yet this has been done. When M.
Daguerre, a distinguished chemist of Paris,
first published in 1839, that he had discov
ered a method of taking pictures on metal
plates by the sun , the public regarded his
metal tablets with feelings of wonder. And
if this discovery has not yet produced such
important results, nor affected the custom of
society so mucn as the steamships and tail
ways, still it is a beautiful ar.d wonderful
discovery; and the time may not be far dis
tant when it will be applied to paint the
planets as they roll in '.heir courses, and thus
impress the warm kiss of the star on the
pale cheek of the artist's metallic canvas.
j From the Lycoming Gat tile.
SMILES AND I'EARS.
What a pleasant thing it is to watch a
gradual smile steal over the territory of tears-,
and usurp the sovereignity of n beautiful
face. It is like the morning radiance that
gushes through the eastern clouds, or a hap
j py summer sunset after a mid-day storm,
; glorifying and beautifying every object on
which it rests. But nothing short of child
hood or womanhood may attempt the sud
den transition from overwhelming grief to
ewtuy. W ilk man it it Mwly
We noted a little youngster the other Jay in
an "agony ol tears," the picture of abject
sorrow, all of which was so suddenly dis
i pelted by an application of bread and butter
that we almost doubted his identity. It was
him, though; and his face was sown so
thick with smiles, and he attacked the' bread
with such indomitable will, that we could
not help join issue with him in a display of
ivory. Smiles and tears are both contagious.
Some jovial souls lease themselves to laugh
ing jollity for merry life ; while others have
the blues from the time they cut their leoih
until they cut their jugulars. We like the
laughers. In fact, we could never see any
thing peculiarly interesting in a tear-drama,
unless we except the closing act. We had
rather submit ourselves to the most sublime
activity of a thunder shawar, than the soft
patter of a tear-shower, from a pair of pret
ty eyes, On our hand or handkerchief. We
are opposed to tearing hair and bursting
blood-vessels. But the "clearing up,"--that
happy Conjunction of storm and suilshirie,
when joy sparkles through the tear-drop, and
returning gladness attempts a dimple on the
cheek ! Ah, there. Mr. Bachelor, is where
they have you! If you Withstand that, you
shall be set down as a savage whose hard
heart has defied the assault of woman's
most potent ami of attack. You can regis.
tCr yourself aa Candidate for Barn urn first,
and purgatory afterwards. But Allah keep
us from the shady side 1 Give us the cloud
dispelling sun, the care-dispelling smile. Let
bandannas and umbrellas stay forever where
sunshine is a plague, and a smile a nuisance
—a benison to their profund inventors, the
sage Chinese.
A Philosophical Hitmbog.
The Veteran Matthew Carey tells the an
nexed oapital anecdote df a distinguished
Judge of Pennsylvania; in the Knickerbocker
Magazine: ''He stole his grandmother's fan,
and covered it for a considerable time in a
mud-puddle. Having disguised it as com
pletely as in his power, he sent it to the So
ciety, with an elaborate description to prove
that it was the wing of a bat, and a vote of
thanks was passed to the donor. A debate '
arose as to the species td which it belonged
and a committee of seven was appointed
to ascertain whether it was the wing of a
Madagascar or a Candia bat. The commit
tee sat three weeks—and after consulting
Buffon's Natural History and Goldsmith'd
Animated Nature, they reported that it, must
have belonged to a Madagascar bat. If was
pronounced the greatest curiosity in the Mu
seum, except a large shoel of brown paper
which be hang up in the chimney, and dis
guised with snot and end dirt, and palmed
upon the Society aa a {fart df Brahmin's
shirt!"
BT The fantily that never todk a news
paper haa moved into Illinois. The old gen
tleman was surprised the other day to learn
that gold had been discovered in California;
and the eldest daughter wasrejoiced to learn
from a neighbor that Webster had been
hung, and now she'd never again be troub
led with "them pesky spelling books!"
lie The following poem "by MARTIN F.
TUPPER, the author or "Proverbial Philoso
phy," has been kindly sent us for publica
tion, Many of our readers will be pleased
to learn that Ma. TUPPER has just arrived in
this country, and is now in New York.
TO THE UNION.
Giant aggregate of nations,
Glorious whole of glorious parts,
Unto endless generations
Live united, hands and hearts 1
Be it storm or summer weather,
Peace Ail, Calm, or battle jar,
Stand in beauteous strength togethci,
Sister Stales, as now ye are /
Kvery petty class dissension-
Heal it up as quick as thought :
Every psUry ptwe-pretension-
Crush it, as a thing of naught:
Let no narrow, private treason
You r great onward progress bar,
But remain in right and reason,
Sister States, as now ye are I
Fling away absurd ambition !
People, leave that toy to kings :
Envy, jealousy, suspicion-
Be above such grovelling things I
In each other's joys delighted,
All your hate be joys of war,
And by all means keep united.
Sister States, as now ye are !
Were t but some scornful strongur :
Still my counsel would be just—
Break the band, and all is danger,
Mutual fear, and dark distrust;
But you know me for a brother,
And a friend who speaks Irom far :
Be as one then, with each other,
Sister Slates, as now ye are!
# • * # •
So a peerlessconstellation,
May those stars loterer blaze !
Three ami-ten limes threefold nntion,
Go ahead in power and praise !
Like the many-breasted goddess,
Throned on her Ephesian car,
Bo one heart in many bodies,
Sister States, as now ye are.
MARUN F> TCPPE*.
AlbOry, January 15th, 1851.
banal and Rail Road Bridges.
We publish, in another column of our pa
per of to day, a Report made from the Com
mittee on Inland Navigation and Internal
Improvement of the House of Representa
tives at liarrisbiirg, on the subject above
mentioned. It embraces a matterjWjjich is
daily becoming more interesting®' those
people who live in the neighborhood ot Ca •
Oats and Railroads. The bridges thrown
across our public works, that have been
some years standing, are beginning to dilap
idate, and, in many instances, are 110 longer
safe for crossing / and when either the State,
er a company, neglects to repair those
bridges, and the townships through which
they pass, feel that they are not bound to re
pair or rebuild them, the danger, to the trav
eling community, becomes most apparent—
hence, it is time the public should be advised
in relation to the matter.- The view taken
of the subject, by the Committee, we think,
is ft liberal ons, and one that should govern
all cases of the kind : they think the State is
bound to keep these bridges it) traveling or
der unless a different contract was made
when they were built j or, unless, when
damages were allowed by the State, to in-!
dividuals, in .which agiount Of damages,
also, was included the stipulation that they
were not to keep them in repair, no Such
stipulation could have taken place with re- I
gard ts public roads : and, we presume, (f!
there Were any such, they applied only to
bridges built for farm use. The sum and j
substance, therefore, of the report is, that in
all cases where the Statn has built btidges
over their public works, either, on public
roads, or private property, and where there
was no understanding who should keep these
bridges in repair, the State is bound to do
it; and, of course, whatever rule the Legis
lature enforces on the State, will be equally
applicable to companies who have made ,
Canals and Railroads.
There is, then, but one matter left unek- j
plained, and that is: what is to be done, |
if, when any of theße bridges become dan
gerous, the State or the Company neglects to j
repair them t The Supervisors, in every- j
township, having charge of the public roads j
passing through their respective townships,
and we should think they were equally
bound to see to the condition "Of bridges on
the roads, at the road itslf. Now, if the ]
Supervisor finds any Of the bridges in a ,
dangerous condition, he should 1
give notice thereof to the State Ager.'is, or
the Company to whom the sam.'e belongs,
and and if they do not, after reasonable no
tice, proceed to repair jt -( Supervisor
should do it, and brine; his action against
the owners for Ihe lull amount of Cost and
trouble—the rune rule of proceeding would
apply als/o to individuals, Tot whom bridges
have, built. We cottimfend a perusal of the
'.dport.— Xorrutown Watchman.
AIUSTOCRATIC PENMANSHIP.— The Princess
Augusta or.ee asked Lord Walsinghatn tor a
frank. He wrote One for her in such unin
telligible characters, that after having travel
led half over England, It was opened and
returned "Illegible." The princess com
plained to Lord Walsingham, and he wrote
another so legibly that it was returned to her
royal highness marged "forgery."
EST" John Neal says, in an article In the
laat number of Sartaln's Magazine, that to
bacco costs the world more, yearly, than all
its ware and of education.
VESSELS FOB THE MEXICAN NAVT. — A ship
builder in New York has five vessels upon
the stocks for the Mexican Na^
Original Letter Of I)r. Franklin.
[Tlie following leller, says the Christian
Register was written by Dr. Franklin to
Alex. Giles Frobiehar, with whom he cor
responded for many years. It is believed
that it has never before been published, and
it is certainly very interesting as giving a
view of the spirit of benevolence and ac
tive usefulness by which br. Franklin was
governed, and also of the general tendency
of his religious opinions. We are greatly
indebted to the friend who has allowed us to
publish it.]
rHii.AnEt.PinA, June 6lh, 1^53.
Dear Sir -I received your kind letter of
the 2d instant, and am glad to hear you in
crease in Strength 1 hep* you will continue
| mending till you recover your former health
[ and firmness. —-Let "me know whether yon
still use the cold bath, and what effect it has.
1 As to the kindness you mention I wish it
could have been of more servico to you)
but if it had, the only thanks that I should
desire is, that you would be equally ready to
serve any other person tbat may need your
assistance. 4M so let good offices go round,
for mankind are all of a family.
For my own part when I am employed in
serving others, 1 do not look upon myself as
con'emng favors, but a paying debts, (it
my travels, and since my settlement, I have
received much kindness from men to whom
1 shall never have an opportunity to make
the least direct return; and numberless mer
cies from God wbo is infinitely above be
ing benefitted by our services.—Those kind
nesses from men, I can only return on their
fellow men ; and I can only show my grat
itude for these mercies from God by a readi
ness to help his other children and my
brethren; for Ido not think that thanks and
compliments, though repeated meekly, can
discharge our real obligations to each other,
and much less those to our creator.
Vou will in this see my notions of good
works and that I am far from expecting
Ileavcu by them. By Heaven we under
stand a state of happiness, infinite in degree
and eternal in duration. 1 can do nothing
to deservo Buch rewards. He that for giving
• draught Of water to a thirsty person should
expect to bo paid with a good plantation,
would be modest in his demands compared
i with those who think they deservo Heaven
Iby the good they do on earth. Even the
mixt, imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this
world, are rather from God'b goodness than
our merit, how much more so then the fe
j licity of Heaven? For my own part I have
| not the vanity to think I deserve it, the fol
ly to expect, nor the ambition to desire it;
but content myself in submitting lo the Will
and disposal of Him that made me, who
has hitherto preserved and blessed me, and
in whose paternal grtodrtess I may well con
.fide, that he will never make me miserable,
and that even the afflictions I may at any
lime suffer shall tend to my benefit.
| The Inith ytra mention has doubtless its
' use in the worid. Ido not desire to see it
diminished, nor would I lessen it in any
| man, hut 1 wish it was more productive of
I good works, Wotks of kindness, charity
I mercy and public spirit; not holiday-keep"
ing, sermon reading, or having performed
church ceremonies, or making long prayers
filled with flatteries and complintonts, despi
sed even by wise men, and much loss ca
pable ol pleasing the Deity. The worship
of God 1* a duty, the hearing or reading Of
seter.ons maybe useful ; but if a man
in hearing or praying as tOo many do, it is
as if a tree should Value itself upon being
watered and putting forth leaves, though it
never produced any fruit.
Your great master thought much iess of
these outward appearances and professions
than many of his modern disciples; he pre
ferred tho doors to the rrtcte hearers; tho
sOn who sOemingly refused to obey his fath
er, and yet performed his commands, to him
that professed his readiness, and yet neg
lected the work ; the heretical though char
itable Samaritan, to the uncharitable though
sanctified priest, and those who gave food
to the hungry, drink to the thirdly, raimen,
to the naked, entertainment lo v.'.ie stranger,
and relief to the sick, (hough they never
heard of His name. Ha declares shall be
in the last day accented, when those wlTo
gjy Lord, t Ord, Vho value themselves on
their fattli, Vnough great enough to perform
miracles, but have neglected to perform tho
works of benevolence, shall be rejected.
He professed he came not to call the righ
teous but tinners to repentance, which im
plied hit modest opinion, that there were
tome in his time so good that they needed
not hear even him, but now-a-days we have
scarce a persort who does not think it the
duly of every man within his reach to Sit un*
der his wretched ministrations, and that
whoever omits them, offends God. I wish
to such more humility, and to you, sir, more
health and happiness, being, <kc.
U. FRANKLIN.
ty We learn frbm the Lebanon Courier
that the appraisors in the estate of Miss
Molly Sholly, deceased, an old maid of that
county, in looking over her property and ef
fects, found stdwed away in some secret
drawer or recess, the sum of twenty-one
hundred dollars, sixteen of which was in
specie.
IT LOOKS NICK —To see a hearty, athlethic
man, going from door (o door with a hand or.
gan. Such fellows deserve to be blown out
of evety town With a tin boat hotn.
ty Fifty coaches are now making at
Paris, to carry passengers across the Isthmus
of Suez;
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NUMBER 9.
THE LAW (IP tstJRY.
To constitute usury, it is tint necessary that
more than the log al rate of intetbst should
be stipulated for, and agreed in terms to lie
given. It is sufficient if more than that be
taken at the time of the loan with the know
ledge of the parties lo the contract. The
pnying and receiving of more than legal in
terest, would show the implied agreement)
and the true intention of the londer. It,
howevor, the excess was paid by reason of
miscalculation, or mistake, it would, of
course, afford no evidence of a corrupt
ugreeineut. There can TO no usury withbnt
an intention to take more than legal interest,
and it cannot exist if either of the parties
remain ignorant of the usurious reservation.
Even where more than lawful interest is re
served with the knowledge of the londer,
but without that of the borrower, the trans
action is not usurious. Ignorance of the
law. however, afiords no excuse, if the par
ties are aware of all the facts: and where
more than legal interest is reserved) or taken
by a party to a contract, upon a mistaken
supposition of a legal right lo do so, it is
nexerthelesß a corrupt agreement within the
statute.—Therefore if a mode of calculation
be adopted which gives to tne creditor more
j than legal interest, and the lender knows it
will have that effect, he is guilty of usury,
although he may not suspect that he is vio
lating law.
Where a pre-existing valid debt is incor
porated in a security, given in part for a usu
rious loan, the instrument is void. The law
ful and usurious considerations cannot tie
separated so as to uphold the security in
part, in proportion to the amount of the valid
indebtedness. The wliolo is a nulli y. But
the legal debt is not affected, Hnd may be
recovered, without regard to the usurious
contract.
Whero, on (ho loan Of money lliore in an
usurious agreement, It is not material wheth
ier the illegal premium he actually paid, or
j only promised. The contract is entire, and
■ upon its terms, taken togethor, depend* tile
■ question of usury, lie amount of money,
j therefore, in lad paid, is of no consequence
j whatever, provided there is an nudeistand
j ing between the parties that the illegal pre
| rnium shall in futtlre ho advariceil. Nor is
I it a matter of any legal importance, whether
I the contracts is contained in a single instru
ment, or embraced in several writings. The
! law cannot be eVided by any attempt at ill.
; visibility. All the acts of tho patties at the
, time, are regarded as a single transaction,
| forming but one agreement. Consequently,
| if Or.e note be taken for the the sum actually
i loaned, and atlother for the usurious premi
■ urns, both securities are equally void.
, The contraci may be par.ly in wrt ing, and
j partly by parol, in which case oral evidence
I is admissable, to show tho real agreement—
|So that if a notice is given merely for the
: sum lent, with a lawful interest, if there bo
! n verbal agreement to pay usury, the instcu
i ment is illegal ami void.
| XV A tavern keeper, once upon a time,
; having acquired considerable property grew
1 very Careless, ami so offended the lawyers
[ by Whom his house had for many years
! been Visited, that during a crowded session
of the Court thoy with on i accord forsook
him, leaving behind thnin the following
Parody on the Dcclnrntlou of ladcpcn*
dcncc.
When In the course of human events it
becomes necessary for a half hungry, half- 1
fed, imposed on sot of men, to dissolve the
bands of landlord and boarder, a decent re
spect lor the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which
have impelled them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be sell evident i
all mcu are created with mouths and stom
achs; and tiuey are endowed by their Cre
ator whit certain*innlienable rights, among
wliion nre, thai no man should be compel
led to starve, otit of mere compliance to a
landlord, and that every rtian has a right to
fill his stotaach and Wet his whistle With the
best that's going.
The history of the presbht landlord of the
White Lion is a history of repeated infctilts,
exactions and injuries, all liavtng in direct
object the establishment of absolute tyran
ny over our stomachs and throats. To prove
this, let facts be submitted to acandid world.
He has refused to keep anything to drink
but bald face whiskey.
He has refused to set upon his table for
dinner anything but turnip sOup, with a lit
tle rough beef and sour-crout, which are not
very wholesome aqd necessary for the pub
lic good.
He lias refused to let Ids only servant, (old
blink-eyed Joe) put more thar. six grains of
cnflee to one gallon of Water.
He has turned loose a multitude of mus
quiloes to assail us in the peaceful hours of
the night and cat Op our substanoe.
He has kept up, in Our Deds and bed
steads, standing armies of merciless sava
ges, whose rule 01 warfare is uudistinguish
ed destruction.
He has excited domestic insurrection a
moag us, by taking bitters belore breakfast,
and making his wife and servants do the
same before dinner, whereby there is often
the very deuce to pay.
COMFI.IMENT TO THE CIERGY—The Spring
field Republican states that the Hon. Geo.
Thompson, M. P., recently remarked in an
address at the village of Union, N. Y., as
follows: "Your country is not visited by the
calamities of Pestilence or Famine, or what i s
worse, God has rained down upon you mor e
than thirty thousand recreant. Priests."