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Cdtrfo n st !best, Water, 4th door from Wood st. Peter sittn`a fisalthaza—Major John Wtitock. Collector. 'Curt 'PitasatritT, Wood between First and Second Itre:its—James A. Bartram, Treasurer. I::rierrt Tacastatt. Third street. nest door to the Prastirtertn o n Church—S. R. Johnston, Treasurer. 14 1,vrol'a Orrlcc, Fourth, hetween Market and Wood Itreeli.:=Alevander Bay, Mayor. Reacitores Eicirtmot. Fount?, near Market et; Pirrastrann.aetween Market and Wood streets, on r.nleti awl Fourth strnet3. 11114. - IWITe •ne Mlano►ACTQßrns' .ID F•RITI:11S . Di ?WIT BANK, (formerly Saving Fund.) Fourth, between 1 0$ 11 4 Market micas. Ekon/mon, Fifth strem, near Wood. II (IT eLf:. itiortoiramitta Eldon, Water alrect, near the Bridge. Htcroorac floral.. corner of Penn and St. Clair. Meecs► && ' linter., corner of Third and Wood. . A VILMA!, Hem...corner of Third and Smlllifteld. rorner of Penn Ytrect and Canal. 'Beasts Emat.c. Liberty etreei, near Seventh. litidatais Marratott [loom Liheriy St opposite Wayne Bey'Ammar MA.Knox Houma.. Penn St. opposite Canal, ill °BERT . WOODS, ATTORNEY AND ILL COUNSELLOR AT LAW.—Oni..e re red to Baker.ve offieeci on Grant st.. n”aily onpogile tam Rew Court (louse, next rooms to John D. ittulion, floor. spit 10 LJUGH-T sm O i I a A n t d io F , r o lz ,nh i s l ic a e ‘ e v i . , ,N . r t sep r o n r iteyr ItorC.A.NDLESS & E, Mtorneys and /VA: Commll,lr.t at Low: Oifire rn the Diamond, back •C the old Court House. Pittsimr2n. iwp 10 O.IPILIVIC 4 FINDLAY, Attorneys at Law. rouribst., libotve Wood, srp 111-1 Pfirms. HAMILTON. Aitorney at Law, FOl h, between Wood and Smithfield Ms, Pitishorh. .ep 10-1 y O'HARA ROBINSON, Attorney at Law; °ince on hip north side of ihe Diamonci.bei duke and Union streets. up In ai re spp 10 hL. i. Allorney at Law: lenders • s oroces-iionial services to lilt. public. Office on Fitin Street, nbove Won.l, 010$1.ur21t, s , •p 10 IrViirrEß 4- nucii 'I AN, Ateorneye at Late, oflu•e eontotre.l from the Diamond, to ••Allnrn.y' THII LI'T'ERARY POST: People Who Pay Double& BY LYMAN BLANCHARD, Nelson, when he had but one tarn to do battle with, had still two legs to stand orwso may honesty, with reduced mean*, with hundreds cut down to fifties—honetaty • put, as it were, upon half•pay-..be` atifi seen upright, strong on its feet. and hold. ing to its principle. But how if bravery, when bereft of s limb, have to do double dutyl Row if honesty, when impoverished, be doomed to pay doublet I Nothing more widely spread than pov+ erty; and nothing more narrowly judged of and understood. When we look at the poor, (the paying poor, who breathe the Free air of merry England just outside the workhouse gates,) we recognise the chief necessity of their condition, in the duty to persevere, summer and winter, in a rigid and self-denying economy. But we rare ly stop to note the working necessity in their lot; we do not mark that'they are the victims to an incessant and inevitable ex travagance. We overlook the fact that the poor cans not economise. To possess too little, to pay too much, .are the chief features of their destiny. To stint, to spare, to make hard shift, to Feel that. the halffarthing will be practically in countless. bargains - a as-, ving coin to them, yet to be constantly hopelessly:extravagant,this is the lot of the poor. Our talk all the year round is of the cheapest markets. These are exactly the markets to which the poor can never re pair. "Act upon toy plan," cried Fitecrcesos, thrusting his hands into his breeehes pock * ts; "everybody should do as I do. Come, I'll let you into my secret. Always buy the best of everything. It's the cheapest in the end." Pitscri:esus is tight; but then the poor ate not 'everybody,' The poor, while they want to save, must buy the worst of everything—the dearest in the end.— - Their slenderness of means ever prevents , them from securing a bargain. The pri. I ces of the beat, the cheapest in the end, n. bilge them to take the bad.. With the most urgent necessity to economise, they. are driven helplessaly upon the improvi.. dent course. Fm the happy 'end' they cannot wait; they must begin at once with what the deeply skilled in the aft of true cheapness wisely reject. The only tidies that fall in the way cal the poor are rich maxims, drooping 1i- d.amonds from thelip of the affleent. . - 'I buy three pair of boots at a time-sv they last four times as long as a single pair,' : 'I always pay six-and-twenty for, . my feel, it lasts out half-a-dozen cheap ones. And the poor mechanic, who , bats Ived up sixpences, and these amebae" gems of economy jingling together in his ears, passes on unprofitingly, to hey hie. f t country-made shoes, and hiesieve.like gee- • earner. He had not half enough money to purchase die cheapest. He -bids as little 'as he may for the dearest in the end; Which end very soon arrives—next Suet:ley if it should happen to rain ! .The fond which nourishes him net, the raiment which wears, and washea siesaY with ruinous rapidity, the poor man roust be contented to, pay double, its lirtue of the : . excess of his poverty. He knows hits fate, in this respect. but may . not control*, . Cheapness he esteems to be the peculate', the enviable privilege of . the rich. But such as his purchases are, are they made at the lowest prices, nominally,—.on what is called 'advantageous termer Sel, dom. The little shopkeeper with whom he deals is obliged to get credit, and obli• ged to give It. The poor customer proba bly never possessed, in all his days, so much as a aingle week's wages in advance of the world's claims upon him. That scanty pittance, the receipt whereof glad. dens his inmost soul on a Soturday, is not his capital, but income. It is not often to be spent at his wilt, here or there; but to be paid in quarters where it is already due. He Must repair to the same familiar ;atop, rub of the regular score, and be, as usu.. re-supplied. He may gee in another window cheese more eligible, or a prefer. table style of pork; but his dealings are circumscribed—his little ready cash is be spoke. As the grand world boasts but one boot-maker, so his little world eon. tains but one baker. He cannot always choose his mart even for dear bargains. Are there no other drains,' peculiar to the nature of Poverty, upon his slender resources? Several. But we shall exhibit enough, when we show the tendency to waste, the unavoidable extravagance, of purchasing in every instance the very smallest quantities. The poor find nut this hardness of their condition; but still unavailingly. They are obliged to watch for the turn of the scale, yet they lose some grains continually. Their provisions, if they could keep a little store, would im prove in quality, and go further. Their half-ounce of something will serve but for one occasion --one meal; but could they have afforded to lay in a whole ounce, it might have served three times. Never,by any turn in the course of fortune, can the cheapest way be open to the poor. Every road has a turnpike for tie - rn, and, as oth ers seem to do on Sundays only, they pay double every day. The poor receive ‘‘ith one hand, but they pay with both. We observe them liv. ing "from hand to mouth;" but when the hand barely reachs the mouth, and the et forts and the strain grow greater day by day we merely tiiCrates on the evils of fiespree viteiste, and not on the impossibility of se- MEE