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Circulars, Sill Heads, .Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Trinted willi neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jeffersoiaian Republican. Tiie Mother's Smile. BY A. E. CARPENTER- Tlierc arc clouds that must o'er shade us- There are griefs that all must know There arc sorrows that have made us Feel the tide of human woe ; But the deepest darkest sorrow, Though it sere the heart awhile, Hope's cheering ray may borrow From a mother's welcome smile ! There are days in youth that greet us With a ray too bright to last v Theie are the cares of age to greet us4 When those sunny days are past ; But the past scenes hover o'er us, And give back the heart awhile, All that memory can restore us In a mother's welcome smile ! There are scenes and sunny places, On which mem'ry loves to dwell . There are many happy faces Who have known and loved us well; . But 'mid joy or mid dejection, There is nothing can beguile, That can show the fond affection Of a mother's welcome smile ! "Justice to Marry of the West." ORIGINAL SONG RY A LADY OF PHILADELPHIA. air " Avid Lang Sync." Leave vain regrets for errors past, Nor cast the ship away; But nail your colors to the raasi, And strike for Harry Clay ! From him no treason need be fear'd, Your cause he'll ne'er betray; - What name to freemen so endeafd ' As that of Harry Clay ! No vain distractions fill his head, To lead his heart astray; ' "r " For ever' noble promise made,' Is kept by Harry Clay ! Then let not treason's hated form, Thus fill you with dismay; But, gaih'ring strength to breast the storm, Stand fast by Harry Clay J ' llise bravely for one effort more, Your motto thus display; Protection for our native shore! Sustained by Harry GlayI . And o'er our gallant Chieftain's grave Pledge we our faith this day; : . In weal or -wo, no change to know, 'Till triumphs Harry Clay ! CHORUS. 'Till triumphs Harry Clay, my boys, 'Till triumphs Harry Clay; In weal or wo, no change to know, 'Till triumphs Harry Clay '. ARKAX-sato Lyrics. Some Arkansas man, in whom the Promethean spark burns as bright ly as a prairie on fire, addresses a song to one L. D. Evan, Esq. a candidate for Congress, li is to the sune. "Yankee Doodle." The follow - is the chorus and is sufficient to show the talent of ihe writer: 'Go ii, Evans, with a squeeze, And go it with a looseness, Or l'o the figure as you please, But don't -betray your oooseness!'". . A Vegetable Waistcoat. " Tom,what sort of a waistcoat is tliat you have jmi ?" , - -, " Why a cluih" waistcoat, o be sure." " Didn't it come from old Thrcadneedle, the tailor'?" " Well, then,' nVagcJabjc " A yh'dV tyxj ri7 a ' ' " A y&pi Li' made of cWf Mr. Editor : -By inserting the following graphic, and most touching sketch, from the Six Nights with the Washingtonians, by T. S. Arthur, j'ou will oblige many of your readers, I have no doubt. It is well calculated to illus trate two things; the working of conscience, under the influence of light and truth ; and the adaptcdness of the Bible to furnish that light and truth. Those who, unfortunately aro on gaged in the sale of that, which Robert Hall declared to be liquid death and distilled damna tion, would do well to give the following arti ticle, at least one attentive perusal. A friexd to Temperance. The Drunkard's JBiMc. "Mi. President," said a short, stout man, with a good-humored countenance, and a florid complexion, rising as the last speaker took his seat, "1 have been a tavern-keeper." At this announcement there was a movement through the whole room, and an expression of increased interest. "Yes, Mr. President," ho went on, "I have been a tavern-keeper, and many a glass have 1 sold to you and to the Secretary there, and to dozens of others that I see here," glancing around upon the company. "That's a fact, broke in the President ma ny a gin-toddy and brandy-punch have I taken at your bar. But times are changed now, and we have begun to carry tho war rigtit into tlie enemy's camp. And our war has not been un successful, for we have taken prisoner one of the rum-seller's bravest generals! But go on,j friend W , let us have your experience." "As to my experience, Mr. President," the j ex-tavern-keepcr resumed, "in rum-selling and rum-drinking for I have done a good deal of both in mv day that would be rather too long a story to tell to-night, and one that I had much rather forget than relate. It makes me tremble and sick at heart, whenever I look back on the evil I have done. I therefore usually look a-head with the hope of doing some good to my fellow men. "But there is one incident that I will relate. For the last five years a hard-working mechan ic, who had a wife and several small children, came regularly, almost every night, to my tav ern and spent the evening in the bar-room. He came to drink, of course, and many a dollar of I his hard earnings went into my till. At last he became a perfect sot working scarcely one fourth of ihe time, and spending all he earned in liquor. His poor wife had to take in wash ing to support herself and children, while he spent his time, and the little he could earn, at my bar. But his appetite for liquor was so strong, that his week's earnings were usually all gone by Tuesday or Wednesday, and then I had to chalk up a score against him, to be paid off when Saturday night came. The score gradually increased, until it amounted to three or four dollars, over his regular Saturday night's pay, when I refused to sell him any trore li quor until it was settled. On the day after I had refused to sell him, he came in with a neat mourning breast-pin, enclosing some hair no doubt, I thought of a deceased relative. This he offered in payment of what he owed. I ac cepted it, for the pin I saw at once was worth double the amount of my1 bill. I did not think, or indeed care about the question, whether he was the owner or not; I wanted rny own, and in my selfish eagerness to get my own, 1 hesita ted not to take a little more than my own. "I laid the breast-pin away, and all things went on smoothly for a while. But he gradu ally got behind again, and again I cut off the supply or liquor. This time he brought me a pair of brass andirons, and a pair of brass can dlesticks. I took them and wiped off the score against him. At last he brought a large fami ly bible, and I took that too thinking, no doubt, 1 could sell it for something. "On the Sunday afterwards, having nothing to do for I used to shut up my bar on Sunday, thinking it was not respectable to sell liquor on that day I opened this poor drunkard's family Bible, scarcely thinking of what I was doing. 'The first place that I turned to was the family record. There it was stated that on a certain day he had been married to Emily . 1 had known Emily when I was a young man very well, and had once thought seriously of - - m t offering myseli to ner m marriage, i remem bered her happy young face, and suddenly seemed to hear the'tone of her merry laughter. 'Poor creature!" I sighed involuntarily as a thought of her present condition crossed my mind" and then with no pleasant feelings 1 turned pver the next leaf. There was the re cord of the birth of four children; the last had U'een made recently, and was in- the mother's 1i'and' T ' . 1 ' "1 never had such a strange feeling as now came over me. I fell that 1 had no business witlijihisjifiok. But 1 tried to stifle my feel ings, and T' turned over several leaves quickly. 1 suffered my eyes to rest upon an open page; these words arrested my attention: "'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is. raging; whoso is deceived thereby is not wise.' "This ..was just the subjecj. lhaj, iindenJhe, feelings 1 then had, I wished to avoid, and so I referred to another place. There I read " 'Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath wounds? Who hath babbling? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine. At last it biteth like a serpent, it sting elh like an adder.' "I fell like throwing the book from me. But once more I turned the leaves, and my eyes rested upon these words: '"Woe unto him who giveth his neighbor drink; that pultesl the bottle to him and makest him drunken.' "I closed the book suddenly, and then threw it down. Then for half an hour 1 paced the room backwards and forwards in a stale of mind such as 1 never before experienced. I "had be come painfully conscious of the direful evils resulting from intemperance, and still more painfully conscious, that 1 had been a willing instrument in the spread of these evils. I can not tell how much I suffered during that day and night, nor describe tho fearful conflict that took place in my mind, between the selfish love of the gains of my calling, and the plain dictates of truth and humanity. It was about 9 o'clock, I think, on that evening, that I opened the drunkard's Bible again, with a kind of despair ing hope that 1 might find something to direct me. I opened at the Psalms and read two or ihree chapters. As I read on, without finding anything that seemed to apply directly to my case, I felt an increasing desire to abandon my calling, because it was injurious to my fellow men. After I had read the Bible, I retired to my bed but could not sleep. 1 am sure" that during that night I thought of every drunken man to whom i had sold liquor, and to alhtheir bescared families. In the brief sleep that I ob tained, I dreamed that I saw a long procession of loitering drunkards, with their wives and children in rags. And a loud voice said "who hath done this?" "The answer, in a still louder voice, direct ed, 1 felt , to me, smote upon my car like a peal of thunder "Tii'bu art the man!" "From this troubled slumber I awoke to sleep no more that night. In the morning the last and most powerful conflict came. The ques tion to be decided, was "Shall I open my tavern, or at once abandon the dreadful traffic in liquid poison?" "Happily I decided never to put to any man's lips the cup of confusion. My next step was lo turn the spigot of every keg, of every barrel of spirits, wine, beer or cider, and let the con rents escape on the floor. My bottles and de canters were likewise emptied. Then I came and signed your total abstinence pledge, and what is belter, never rested until 1 had persua ded ihe man whose Bible had been of so much use to me to sign the pledge likewise. Aid now, Mr. President, I am keeping, at my o!d stand, a Temperance Grocery, and am making restitution as fast as possible. There are at least half a dozen families that my lavern help ed to make poor and wretched, to whom I fur nish a small quantity of groceries every week, in many cases equal to the amount that used to be spent at my bar, for liquor. Four of my old est and best customers have already signed the pledge by my persuation, and I am not going to rest until every man that I have helped to ruin, is restored to himself, his family and society." A round of hearty applause followed his ad dress, and then another of the reformed drink ers took the floor. "5 S." Wants a Wsfe. There is an advertisement for a wife in the Oxford Mcrcuiy. The advertiser says he is of "tolerable size, fair appearance, small pro perty in a respectable business, perfectly tem perate, industrious, and of a lively disposition," &c, and wants a wife of the same qualities. He says that communications will be re ceived till the last of November, and must be addressed to "S. S., Oxford Post Office, N. C." and that such communications will be obserred with honorable and inviolable sccrcsy; Our brother of The Fayettcville North Car olinian assures us that the above is no joke, and he pledges himself to aid the ladies in for warding any billets they may choose to corn ea municate We were, a day or two since, very much amused in a hotel with a joke that Wyman, the ventriloquist, played on a . countryman who had called for a julap. He had no sooner raised the glass to his Hps than he thought ho heard a dog at his heels he turned around to look, but discovered nothing the second attempt with the glass had the same effect, except that the supposed dog growled more savagely the countryman stared more wildly than before, ex claiming "What's thai?" A voice was heard from the glass, saying, "I'm rum, and rum is the devil." Down dropped the glass of rum, the countryman crying out, "By holey, I'll not taste rum again." Wo think that Wyman de deserves a premium for his aid in the temper ance cause. Clipper. A book is a whetstone, upon whioh-some shar pen razors, but wise men sharpen their wits. . TZie Hindoo Wife. 'In a small enclosure, behind a miserable hovel,' says an Eastern writer, 'we saw a wo man tied to a stake, and a man standing over her with an air of cruel deliberation, beating her severely. As each blow of the thick bam boo fell on her naked shoulders she uttered a painful shriek of suffering. She bore the in fliction some time without the least attempt to retaliate; but at length, goaded to madness by the untiring brutality of her tyrant, she made a sudden spring at his leg as ho advanced to re peat the blow, and seizing him by the calf, bit him so energetically that he howled like a scourged whelp. Springing aside, however, he got beyond her reach, and then beat her with redoubled ferociiy. She now bore the blows without wincing, fixing her large dark eyes on him with an expression which seemed to say 'You may kill me now, I have had my revenge.' The rattling blows of the hollow bamboo might have been heard a hundred yards; still she did not move a muscle, but sat on the ground sul len and enduring while the anger of her husband appeared to kindle and gather strength from her non-resistance. He would have fled from a firm and resolute self-defence, for every crea ture in human form that loves to abuse another is a coward, who revenges his own fears on whatsoever he can make afraid Several persons who were looking with per fect unconcern on this disgusting picture of ig norance and oppression, informed me that, it was for some triflng error that the domestic tyrant was thus beating his wife. Unable to endure the sight of this protracted and merci less chastisement, I sent one of my native ser vants 10 the enraged Hindoo to request him to have mercy. The moment tho woman saw this interference in their family matters she broke from the cords that bound her, and rush ing upon my unhappy messenger with the fury of an excited tigress, she poured upon him a vollov of such eloauent abuse for meddling be tween man and wife, that I was perfectly as tounded, and the man scampered away as if he had been bit by a scorpion, though the rest of the bystanders only smiled, bne nau no soon er nut to flight ihe mediator, than she quietly, and as a thing of course, went back 10 the stake, where tho man anain bound her, and coolly proceeded to thump her to her heart's content. T.onir noes o s averv have broucni tne iiin- a o j , doo woman to think the passive endurance ol 1 -treatment a virtue and an obligation, one respects her husband in proportion as he makes her feel she is a slave. If he did not rigorous ly exact the most entire submission if he did not oblige her to treat him as a master, wnosc eve must be watched with fear and trembling, and whose smile must be received as a conde scension impossible to be repaid, she would de spise him. Nothing will cause a Hindoo wo- man, except among the highest classes, to reoei against her husband's authority as soon as mild imntment. Once in her lite, as a part 01 me bridal ceremonv. she eats with her lord; but if he were afterwards to permit ner to eat in ms presence, she would despise him, as wanting in j . . . a proper sense of his own dignity vvero ne to suffer her 10 armroach him while he is taking his own refreshment, she would cease to respect him. She never presumes to use a word of en dearment or familiarity, and always calls him 'Master,' using the words and manner 01 me sbivns nf iho. familv. when addressing him. She is not held to belong to him as a companion or partner, but as a piece ol property, ana wisnes no further rights. A dminhtr from its birth is deemed an in cumbrance, and its existence hardly tolerated, while the son is the idol and tyrant of his mo ihnr. Yet in old aoo that mother is too fre quently left to perish from neglect and want. The whole life is a story of wrong and oppies sion. Such is the social position of tho women of India. These are the mothers and instruc tors, of the nation, and the result may be read in her bistnrv? A hundred 'millions in bondage to a handful of strangers, with tho richest soil and the most genial climate starving, wuu an ihn plntnnnts nf wnnlth and DOWCr pOOr, ab- ip,m nnrl rlpsniRml. Bv an immutable law, the r..r t -j moral character of a nation uepenua uu maw ui its instructors. In India tney aru uuuu, iguu rant, superstitious slaves; and children can nev er be altogether unlike their mothers. Gemma Silver. Few persons are aware of the poisonous qualities of this compound. It is very good foi gun mountings and various other uses, but should nover bo used in the form of spoons, or other vessels for cooking. It is composed of coppor, arsenic and nickle. It oxyutze3 very rapidly, in contack with any acid, even slight vegetable ones, and the, small particles which aro taken into tho stomach, imperceptibly act as slow but surq poison. Pure copper spoons would bo proforablo. Every one is acquainted with tho nature of arsenio; nickle is equally poisonous. Lit. Messenger. A marriage recently took place in Now Or leans, between an old couplo. The man was seventy-nihe the maiden fair" in. her cighty Tdurtli year.' ' ., . , Notes osa ISie Census. The laws of life raid mortality between tho sexes are very remarkable. They may be sta ted thus: 1. In the present condition of the white pop ulation of the United States, the number of V males born per annum are about twelve thous and less than the males. This detcrminirs of itself that Polygamy is not a natural cumlhiou of man, and that thc.lawa of nature and religt'.i are the same that one man shall be htrsban 1 of one woman. 2. At twenty years of age, the female ex ceed the males." This proves that betv.ei-i birth and twenty, the mortality amtmg th buys has beTi much greater than among the girl- 3 From twenty to forty, the men again mm it exceed the women, which shows that this it the period of greatest mortality anion women. 4. From forty to seventy, the difference rap idly diminishes, the females, as in the early part of life, gaining on the males. This show this is the period of greatest danger and expo sure to men, the least to women. 5. From 5eveniy onwards, the women out number the men. This shows, coicluivel , that relatively speaking, in comparison with men, the healthiest period of female Ii(e is the close of it. Absolutely; however, no period, ti either sex, is so healthy as that of youth, th; blooming period of boyhood and girlhood. The above deductions of statistical tables correspond with every day observations on hu man life. Women arc exposed to peculiar hazards i:i middle of life, but, in the long run, fcirjthe lar gest part of exposure, danger, and risk, in civ ilized nations, fall upon the men in the active periods of life. Cin. Microscope. Marrying Because t-je Weather is Co3d. The Philadelphia Ledger advises bachclora to get married because the winter is upon us. How does he know that they will be bettered by the change? There is no certainly of getting a warm viifa. We sleep comfortable enough it we sleep alone. There is no such botheration with us. as married men have- such as youf wife bawling out in the middle of the night when you are enjoying a sweet dream, 'John! take your elbow off!' James! lie further on the other side!--You'll have me out of bed.5 'Joseph! you've kicked the kiver off!" 'Henry! gel up you lazy dog its day!' 'Richard! turn out and put on the lea kettle'.' &c. &c. Nothing of this kind ever troublca us. There we lie in our little cot, which is just large, enough for one, with its clean white sheets spread over our person, tucked comfortably in about the sides, and our head raised to a digni fied height by having our corduroys stuffed un der the pillow. How comfortable! We wish we were there now, instead of here. When we go to bed, we never have occasion lo ex claim, with ihe virtuous, yet self upbraiding Roman 'We have lost a day!' On the contrary, we stretch, our weary body out to its full length, (we don't curl ourselves up in bed, as vulgarians do,) and say, in a tone of self-satisfaction "Well, here lios a single gentleman, an hon est editor, type sticker, and devil, after a hard day's work." Wo then say our prayers, turn over on our left side and go to sleep. We always sleep soundly, because there's no stain nor grease, spots on our conscience to prevent it.. N. O. Sun. Happiness oi IPigs. The following is the conclusion o( he Joarned and philosophical report on swhje, by William Lincoln, at the Agricultural Fait held'at Albany a short time since : "Pigs are happy people.. We may talk dis paragingly about lining like a pig. To livo like a pig is to Hto 'tike a gentleman. Although it is not pormiUed by the order of Nature that a pig should laugh, or even smile, he enjoys tho next best bcssing of humanity, the disposition to grow Tat. How easily he goes through tho world! He has no fancy stocks to buy, no bank notes to pay, no indignation meetings to a.Mcnd, no log cabin assemblies to hold. Ho has no occasion to take the benent ol the bank rupt act, or to havo his estate confiscated to defray the expenses of tho settlement. Free from all tho troubles that disturb tho busy woild, ho is as unconcerned among the change's of earthly affairs, as was the citizen who was waked in tho earliest light of morning by being told day was breaking: 4 Well,' said he, as he turned again to his repose, 'let day break, he owes me nothing.' "When wo look at the comparative coiidi lion of tho human race and of the swinish mul titude, wo may como to tho conclusion that if ,1 man will not be a man he had bettor be a pig." It was once said of a boautiful woman, that from her childhood she had ever spoken smiling ly; as if tho heart poured joy from the Hps, and they -turned' it into beauty. J '
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