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From the New York Tribune.
fflTcmory of the Departed.
0, cherish them, the sainted ones,
Who have walked beside us here,
With iheir high brow of faith and hope,
And their heart of holy fear,
The hopeful, though the suffering,
That through shadow and through death,
Have kept undimm'd their human trust
And the love that beat beneath.
0, cherish them, the beautiful,
Who have meekly laid them down,
Life's blossoms in their folded hands,
From its shadow and its frown
From its blood sweat and agony,
From its fever, and unrest,
And its strong thirst for purer love, v.
For the free life of the blest J-
And c herish, 0 ! O, cherish them,
The true and faithful-hearted.
Til? loveliest, the holiest, JW'
Of till the dear departed
The loving that through years of wrong'
Have still sought us but 10 bless,
With iheir pure smile of sympathy, ; i
And of touching tenderness.
The departed ! the departed !
0, far more than ever strong, . n
The ties that link us unto those r
Who so live iniprayer and song.?' t -r
A subtler, nearer sympathy, ,-f . a' ,
To our longing hearis unite -That
world of glorious mystery
Wiih its children of the light, ---vj
0, shadows, solemn shadows, each , ,
With your browa of angel calm, ?
And your eyes of tearless beamy,
And your voice like sweetest psalm
On our hearts all pale with sorrow,
Kindly doth your memory lie,
Gleams of comfort, bprn of anguish
Hopes of promise born to die. ,
Deerfield, Sept. 23 1845, E..A.S.
Fishing. After two hours patient'waitiiig,
Tom says to Jim, "I've got a bite !" 'Ah! is
ii a trout, Tom I"' "No." "What is it ?"1 "It
' a mu&queto !"
It is said that a French surgeon recenthrre
placed ihe corner of ihe eyes of aiyoung.girl.
Minded by the small pox, with those of a yjwng
'E, and that the patient can distinguish day
fomi night.
Urge Sheet of Paper. Mr. AL Hudson,
Hartford, has manufactured a single sheet of
Hper for ihe Hariford and Danbury Rail Road
tympany, fur which' he received $25; It is to
'e Used iu drawing a profile of the road. It .
a feet in length and 3 yards,, wide.
A ladv looking at the review, was asked if
he was partial io military 'training': to which,
'ta rejjj.ed, she like J 'exceedingly the officers
ttluie. :?
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER G, 1845.
The Oliinesc Empire.
We find in ihe Newburyport Herald of Mon
day last a sketch of Mr. Cushing's Lecture, on
Friday evening, before the Lyceum of that
place.
Mr. C. has a much better opinion of ihe in
telligence and capacity of the Chinese than
those who have had no opportuniiy of inter
course with that people have been wont lo en
tertain. A large class of the people are learned;
as a nation they are ingenious beyond others,
the whole counlrv is like a hn.hivp I.n-.m.
ing has the first place in public estimation, and
books are as numctous as in Europe. A cata-.
loguc which Mr. C. had in his possession of a
single library, occupies ten volumes. Public
measures are debated by ihe populace as much
as in ihe United States, and public opinion has
as much influence in China on the government
as with us. The fatal error of the Chinese has
been in giving loo epicurean a character io their
habils of government. One illustration of this
cited was the fact that at the clo:e of all loiters
to one another, the written salutation is "1 wish
you tranquility and promotion." They lack
only military skill and disci. no to make thorn
a powerful nation, capable of repelling invasion
or overrunning contiguous countries; for no men
aie braver, or die more fearlessly in the ranks.
China does not need any foreign trade.
Within her own territory she produces every
thing requisite for the wants of her population.
Newspapers as well as books abound ai.d cir
culate freely among the Chinese, and the Pekin
Gazette, particularly, penetrates to every part
of the Empire. The'' annually publish a Red
Book, similar to our Blue Book, giving the
names and emoluments of all public officers.
In regard to the population of China, Mr.
Cushing seems to be of opinion that the Chi
nese census does not overrate ihe number, and
that the three hundred and fifty millions which
they claim, is not far from the number. In the
Southern part of the country two crops a year
are produced, and the poorer classes subsist on
a little rice, and the Mesh of dogs, cats, rats,
&c. To the cities and towns ihere are no carriage-ways,
the streets are only narrow foot
paths, and no horse or other beasta of burthen
are kept to require large ranges of pasturage.
The population is crowded into the narrowest
ir i I ..f . C ..- I
umus, oy a long si.tucsaxuii in ayes ui jicato .
and industry. The compensation asked by the
servants which Mr. C, in his character of
American Ambassador, employed, was unly Jive ,
dollars a month, and out of ihis they found their
own food and clothing.
The Chinese have long been acquainted wiih
all the improvements in the arts, upon which
Europeans pride themselves as the inventors,
with the exception only of ihe steam engine.
Machinery has not been introduced among them
The wrong impressions which have obtained
in regard to the Chinese character, have been
caused by the always difficult and often erro
neous translations from a primitive language,
which frequently make what in the original
was rational .and serious, appear iu the transla
tion absurd and ludicrous.
The WeaSth of a Couatry depends
upon its Farmers and USeciianicM.
What is wealth ? These things which are
convenient and necessary to use, and which ad
minister to our wants and comfort. Money a
lone cannot, therefore, be considered as wealth,
because if the articles or things above men
tioned are not to be had, or not in existence, a
man would be poor indeed, though he was load
ed with gold and' silver. H he w ere hungry,
and ihere was no bread to be bought, his gold
would be of little service.
It is true, mankind by common concent, have
agreed that gold and silver should be the signs
and evidence of property, or, iu other words,
the measure of property; and he who has a cer
tain amount of ii, has evidence of so much
wealth; he can change, it for ihe very things
which do, in fact constitute wealth.
Thus a man who has a hundred dollars in his
pocket has a ticket, as it were, to eniitle him
o enter into the possession of 100 bushels of
eorn.-or 100 yards of doth, or 100 acres of wild
land ' or a yoke of oxen, or a horse and wagon,
!sihe caSe may be.''" Bui if ihwc thing do no.
exist, and he needs ihem, his ticket is of no
more use than if he had a ticket: to g' 'lt "h"
theaire, and it should be burned down before
he used it.
The elements, therefore, of wealth consist in
material productions brought together, changed
and modified by ihe hand of man, of the farmer
and mechanic. Commerce, though necessary
and honorable, is nothing more than the mov
ing or changing of these productions from place
to place. If we are right in the position we
have taken, that wealth consists in natural pro
ductious, changed and wrought upon by ihe la
bor of man. it follows that ihe nnimirv wbirli
possesses the most of the elements or materials
10 work upon a good soil; abundance of water
power; forests of limber; quarries of different
kind of stone ; mines-, and beds of different
kinds of material, &c. must have the most na
tural wealth.
It ihen requires the hand of industry and
skill to put these materials into shape, and to put
them together io form real, substantial wealth.
This is the duly of the farmer and mechanic.
The more industrious and skilful this class
is, the more wealth will be accumulated in the
country. Do farmers and mechanics consider
these ihings rightly ? Are ihey not too apt io
think themselves mere plodders and servants in
the increase of wealth 1 And, indeed, is there
not a false standard of respectability; too much
in use in society, and are not the productive
classes too apt to measure themselves by it ?
This standard appears to be, idleness and a fine
coal; and consequently, the more idle a man
can be, and finer the dress, the more of a gen
tleman. Not so. Respectability should con
sist in an improved mind and skilful and indus
trious hands. Moral qualifications being equal,
he should have the most honor, who, by the
combination of the efforts of his mind and phys
ical powers, has contributed more largely to the
increase of those things which constitute weahh.
Intelligencer.
JLire Let LiveHelp Live.
There are ihree classes of people in this
world who may be characterized by the mono
syllables above. First, there are those who
take for iheir motto live live, regardless of
others, live if others die live for one's self,
and to one's self. Such persons care for no-
body but themselves they think of nobody
else. They have got on in the world it may
i , i r -.1 1 .t
rje, wtinoui mucn atu irom omcrs, ann omers
must get on as thy can, or stick by the way,
it is ail one to them, it is none of .their busi-
ness ; they are not their brother's keeper.
These are supremely selfish men.
There is another class of men among us
whose motto is Live and let live. They are
glad to have iheir neighbors live and prosper,
but it must be without their help. Their first
step and great inquiry is, Who will show us
any good 1 How will this affect my interest 1
Shall I gain anything by it 1 If such men can
be quite sure ihat any thing that they can do
for another, will return ultimately for their own
benefi!, they will cheerfully lend a helping hand.
And iu some cases they will even help a friend
in need, if persuaded that it will in no way op
erate to their disadvantage. Otherwise they
are as deaf as dead, men io all who approach
them. These are simply selfish men.
There Is yet a third class of men (ranc avas)
whoso motto is Live and help others to live.
They are not inattentive io iheir own affairs or
iheir own interests;. but they seek not their own
exclusively. They are not merely willing to
let others live around ihem, but they are willing
lo help others to live, and even to subject them
selves to inconvenience and trouble in order to
do this. And all this ihey will do without first
stopping to ask shall 1 gel my reward 1 if 1
lend a dollar, shall I get two in return They
are men who act either from the impulse of
kind and generous dispositions, or men whose
principles of action have been derived from ihe
teachings and example of Htm who " went
about doing good," who sought not his own but
the things which were another's, who was nev
er unmindful to do good and communicate as
he had oj.j.ortuiiiiy. These are truly benevo
lent men.
We have now finished our discourse, and
leave it to each reader to say, which is the bel
ief man,, and to which class he himself belongs.
Traveller.
Application iiryoiiih makes old agecoiiifortablo
Sweet Coasin Polly.
BY GILBERT QUILL, ESQ.
The day I never can forget,
I never can, by golly !
When first 1 kissed the ruby lip,
Of sweet, sweet cousin Polly.
Her mouth looked like a turtle shell,
Filled Up chuck full of honey :
Her eye?, their beauty who can tell 1
Did shine like silver money. .
I hugged her io my bosom tightj -:
Her heart went dibby dabby
But oh ! a pen can'i tell my fright,
When I heard her cry out " Daddy .'"
" Oh ! don't," says I, "good Polly, dear,
You're sweet as 'lasses candy,
I'll cry and tear my handkerchief
Oh, yankee doodle dandy."
She turned right round and kissed my cheek,
Which ruffled up my collar
And told me that she loved me so, '
And that's what made her holler.
So ever since we have been one,'
In spite of human folly
For what's the world to one like ni6f
Without sweet cousin Polly.
Be Kind to the Fallen.
BY ROBERT MORRIS.
Wc feel at all times and seasons, the utter
weakness of our moral and mental condition.
We feel that without certain restraints of so
ciety, of training, of example and responsibility,
we too should falter and fall. Why not then
be generous with regard to the friendless and
the poor? Why not embrace readily every op-
! portunity to express sympathy for the sad con
dition of the outcast and the erring, especially
if they have become so more from the force of
circumstances, than from any innate disposition
to do wrong. Why not, when we notice an in
clination to amend, encourage applaud and sus
tain it by every means iu our power ? Why
do not some of those, who feci that it is a priv
ilege to be able lo go about doing good, occa
sionally penetrate into the abodes of poverty---ave.
even into the hovels of the dissolute and
the base, among the outcasts of society, the
tenants of our jails and our almshouses, in the
hope of even there finding some who have gone
astray against the belter impulses of their na
ture, and who would rejoice at the means of
escape and of reform. Alas ! for the friendless,
the ignorant, and the poor. In many cases,
how severe are their privations, how bitter their
disappointments, how painful their present and
how gloomy their future ! Let any one enter
our Halls of Justice, on some day of general
sentence, and notice the miserable culprits who
are arraigned for petty theft and offences of a
similar grade. With no voice to whisper a
word of hope, no benevolent spirit to encourage
a disposition to amend, no friend or relative to
shed a tear of sympathy and anguish the aban
doned and the fallen enter their dreary abode,
not only embittered against the world, but with
out a ray of promise in the future without a sin
gle inducement to become belter and purer.
And yet some of these may. in their infancy
and childhood, have been pressed tenderly to
the breast of some devoted mother, while their
appearance upon ihe theatre of life may have
been hailed wiih affection and pride, by some
honest and virtuous father. Misfortune may
have followed them early, and Crime won ihem
to her dark paths, even beforo they had recog
nized the force and beauty of virtue and sound
morals. But who will stand by them now ?
Who will stretch out Ihe hand of sympathy to
the convict? Who will be seen conversing
even for a moment with the arraigned, the tried,
and the doomed ? Still, " none are all evil."
There mny be worth and virtue, ability and en
terprise, hidden within the bosom that beats
and heaves under those lattered garments !
Philanthropists, why not have a guardian eye,
and a Christian heart, for outcasts like these ?
Why not look through iheir history, and if pos
sible kindle into new light the smouldering em
bers of virtue and of feeling ? Know ye noi
that joy shall he in heaven over one sinner
that repenteih, more than over ninety-nine just
persons which need no repentance?"
v There is nothing of which a man can live so
long unconscious, as the extent and strength of
nis prr
No. 23.
ittilitia Eloquence Who's Afeerd?
We are not informed which of our gallant
militia officers made the following spirit ed ad
dress to his warriors at the last General Re
view :
"Friends, Countrymen, and Sodgers!
"'Tenshun Squad! 'This is a arnat country,
and has got a larciug start among the white na
tions and Injuns of the airth. What makes it
great ? Whar does ihe conglomerated clenieti
tums of its greatness cum from ? I answer
jist cring your right foot into lino, Sargent
Smike I answer tn a voice of hash thunder
The Militia!
"Stop your darn'd cheering, men; don't
applause at my eloquence, for you'll put me
out, if you do. Yes ! the Militia. Take that
away, and there aim nUihin left. The Militia
is the bone and grizzle of the country. It
locks, bolts and bars the gates of creation, and
slanda sentinel on the tallest ramparts of Na
ture's dominions. This Republic would be a
miserable consarn, but for the Militia. It keeps
the ardent sperrits of military effulgence in a
glow of Icelandic ferverosity. I'm attached to
it, myself. I think it's rich. The system caiCt
be bettered. Folk's call it a farce.' I don't
see nothin' lo laff at in it. Its a plaguey solem
piece of bizinoss, when you come to hug deowa
to the naked reality on't. 'Taint everybody that
can put on the regimentalities and look like old
Mars, the God of War, with a decided touch of
Julius Junius Brutus Ceaze-her thrown in fur
effect. No sir-cc There aint a bigger or
more important critter afloat than a live militia
ossifer, all rigged in the full caiouterments of
glory, wiih strips to his breecherloons, epeletts
piled up on both shoulders, brass buttons from
head tew foot, silver stars shinin' in the tails
of his coat, a cap and plume on his head, and
a drawd sword in his hand. Sich a site's
enuffto make fallen man and woman think bet
ter of his specie ! 'Tis indeed !
" I believe ihe 'eluscent delirium of this
destined Republic is centered in its militia. It
can't stand without it. With it, its proud mot
to is, DIVIDED WE STAND, UNITED
WE FALL!'"
" Stop cheorin' you put mo all out
" General Washington belonged lo the mili
tia ; so did Sippio Afri-cane-us ; so did Boney
pari I so did that old Wizzigoth that ravished
all Europe and burnt its fences and its stone
walls ; and so also, sodgers, do I.
" I believe if all out of doors should bust
threw the parafurnailye of the animal economy,
and slide down the greased plank of ancestral
delinquency ker-slump into tho broad Savan
nars of this smilin' land of asses milk and uri
tamed honey, that nothin astir could poot 'eniv
out but the Militia ! That ar a fact ! Three
cheers for the Militia in gineral, and the 9999th
Regiment in pertickler. Sodgers! ground
arms !
" Who's afraid ? Whar's Mexiko, Kaliforni
ko, and Oreegon ? Who's afeered of them ?
Sodgers ! Tho mortal 0999th can thrash ihe
life out of that are yallar, half Spanish varmint,
that Mexico, any mornin' afore breakfast. Our
motto is, Liberty and Death, now and forever,
one and inseperable. Whooray for Mexas !
Down wiih Texico ! Let's lick her !"
The rival Clam Fedlars. " I say, Jim,:
what's the matter with your hoss ? He looksa.
as if he was lame in four of his legs, he' lifts
them all at once."
" You had better look to your own cripple of
a frame, Joe, or ihe crows will steal it, harness
and all, and leave you to haul your clams your
self." " You don't say so, do ye ? Now look here,
Jim, I advise you to sell out, and take ihe mo
ney you get and put some more to it, and buy
another. You can get a.prelty good boss now
for a dollar."
Unnecessary Use of Words. A young
gentleman lately said to a little urchin, that
was loitering about his premises without invita
tion " Young man, clear out, begone, elopes,
inarch, disfranchise yourself, evacuate, disperse,
disgorge, cut, be off," at which ihe boy, sus
pecting his meaning, said "if you don't want
me here, why don t von tell. me to lo hump
and be done wnn it