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Some Folks.
BY THE PALE STUDENT.
Some folks are continually sighing,
And thinking of this and of that ;
Some sending the poker a flying,
Or kicking or pinching the cat !
But such, we ate happy to say,
Is not the case with the wight
Who loves a newspaper by day,
. And chats with" the ladies at night.
When the mourning comes on he is gay,
And he carries a smile onliis lips 1
Nor does iie send beggar a'way
With curses more plenty than fips
He is one of the happy and few,
Who turn not away from the light,
For he reads the newspaper by day, t
And chats with the ladies at night !
Away with your dark-Jooking rtien,
Who hunt in their folly for wo
Who turn with contempt and with hate
rom all that is pleasing below !
Tiieytagger like fools in the mine,
A&& curse in their pitiful plight ;
For they read, not the papers by dayf
Nor chat with the ladies at night '.
. 0 give me the man with" a head J -
0 give me th'e man with a heart
The fellow tha't moves with his speech,"
And pleases you well with his art.
0 give me the fellow, I say.
Whose tongue is a source of delight,
'Pot he reads the newspapers by day,
And chats with the lanies at night !
Fleecing Strangers.
The way they do it in New Yor.
Front Hie Police Report of a JSTeu) York Pdper.
The boat from Albany landed on the pier,
last Tues'day morning, an innocent, unsophisti
cated clergyman from the wesierfl part of. the
State, who Ha rieVer been in this ciiy before,
and, of course', new nothing o'f tftfe vicious hab
its of the " eleptisni." The clergyman" stood
.m the pier, with his carpet bag in his' hand,
.and a wondrous expression on his mild counte
nance, when he was esrji'ed by a Jehu,' who
vas on the look out for a fare. .. ( -
' Co&ch, .sir ?" say 8 J eu, touching" his hat
respectfully, and looking derouWly , ,
" Yes, my iriend" the clergyman, replied,
Wi&jng suddenly from his reverie," " I do watit
.qoach." j ,
.v A-iil rfght, sir, coio this way," and Jehir
jfieized xh& carpet bag, iff which its owner clung
ifipjl was iragg ed ihrough ihe crowd to a .ricfr
lety old waciiifle, which l.be driver called' a"
OftcVi. .
Syere lo, sir V said Jehu.
" T.o.oy respectable public house I am a
siranger ixer.41
" I'll carry you to the best one in town the
one where rooms Suva been taken forth e King
of France."
" Bless me," said the clergyman " is the e-x-King
of France coming over ! I didn't hear if
that."
" Expected next steamer, sir he would have
been here before, only he wanted to see if the
Queen of England wouldn't want to come long
too."
" Ah," said the clergyman, " we live in ex
citing times."
" We don't do anything else, sir," responded
Jehu, as he jumped on the .box and applied the
Whip to his miserable nags.
To what den of thieves the rascally coach
man carried our country friend, $e cannot say,
xince the victim was unable td' describe the
place of its locality to ihe police $Vil"i? vvas
opposite s dirty looking butldjng, that' he" was
put down by the driver, wjio thenHdeniindefi
three dollars fare.
" Three dollars ! exejaimed ;he godjtl cleri
man, 4 w,by,.a neighbor of mine jsaid tliat .the
.rates were1 fixed by law, afl4 that f would liaye
to pay-only' three 'shillings' tp ride.a'nMie in
Jhaciiy"? '
' 0, that was before the new's'of ifae Fteliipn
revolution .camej; wages have rfe since then,
and ihe law-is now for every man to get as
much he can, and keep' all he gets, and we go
m lor mat -law-'-we ao." - ,
But my friends if I had ' known that yoo
woulu have demanded so much 1 should have
walked." - . . ,j
'Taint safe .for strangers to walk in the city
ten tp.one they'll' meet the elephant." r-
'Meet the elephant 1 don't understand
If
you. . . . .
By thistime according to the clergyman's
account, the knave must have tired of fooling
with his victim, for he. answered saucily-
1 can't stop to,talk with yo'u pay me my
three dollars and let me go." .
,. The country gentleman, unsuspicious an hour
before of such tricks yet felt that he was being
cheated, and mildly declined paying ihe mon
ey. . .
" Then you must go, before a magistrate,"
cried Jehu in a rage.
" Willingly and if the magistrate says that
your charge is right, I will pay it.
Belter pay it now, and save the costs of
court.
u Costs of court ? will a justice of the
peace charge anything for answering a single
question !" , .
" A single question ! If you go to law with
me, we'll have a regular trial according to ihe
new constitution I'll have a jury of twelve
men, if they can be got ; or six anyhow," an
swered the hackman.
The clergyman endeavored to. compromise
with the Jehu, but a new idea had entered in
to "ihe rascal's head, and he now not only de
manded three dollars fare, but extra pay for de
lay. The victim concluded to see the magis?
irate, and he re-entered the hack and was driven
off where he could not tell ; but his descrip-
lion of the scene Was ludicrous enough.
" I was introduced to ihe magistrate, wba
.shook hands with me, and asked the hackman
what was the nature of the charge, and shook
hi head when told that I would not pay three
dollars for riding from ihe steamboat to the ho
tel. 1 asked him if the charge was just ? He
said that the new law was not clear to his ap
prehension, and that, a jury; must decide the
matter ; and he thanked God that under the
new constitution the jury were judges of the
law and the fact, and didn't care a d n, for
all the benches in the Supreme Court then he
walked away with the driver, and told me that
I must consider myself a prisoner until the
case was adjudicated. I asked him for my car
pet bag. He said that the new law did.not al
low a prisoner to a carpet hag or trunk, until the
chief of police had examined into its contents
and he aske4 me for the key lo send with
the bag to send to ihe chief's office, which I
gave to him. T waited for morq than an hour
before a jiiry was empannelled ; .when the tri
al begun the magistrate asked me if I had coun
sel. I replied 14 no j" upon whiqh heaidthat
the court would assign me counsel, and a red
faced man who stood in the doorway was told
to take charge of ray case.. The hackman was
examined and told his story very briefly. Then
I was put upon the stand and questioned and
cioss-questioned for two hours. I was obliged
to state where I came from, how old I was,
what Was the stale of my wife's health 'how
many children I had if my congregation was
large what salary I had, and whether I was paid
monthly or quarterly and whether .there, had
been any revival in the neighborhood during,
the year what my opinion of the ship' ever
was, whether there had been any C2,ses of
small pox in my town, and if all ihe children.
-' . i i
nau been vaccinated what worKs on natural
hisiary I had read, and whether I had seen the
el.ep'haqi 1 . To each uf these questions jny
counsel loudly protected, and offered, to show
from the new constitution that 1 could not be
compelled to, answer them. But I told him
that I would .much rather answer them at once,
than to lose time in discussion. Finally ihe case
was given, to the jury, after a very long charge
from the judge, in which he said that whatever
might be their verdict, they must remember that
I was a clergyman.who bad heretofore borne
an excellent character, and that I was entitled
to the benefit of a doubt, if there was such a
(bing in the case which he felt obliged lo say,
he doubled. . However, he referred. them, to the
new constitution, and " the whole duty of man,"
an excellent work as J knew, and then sent
them out for consultation. It was afternoon
when the jury came in with a verdict for the
plaintiff. The judge ciphered on a slate for a
few minutes and then told me to pay three dol
lars to ihe coachman, eleven dollars costs of
court, and three dollars counsel fee. My coun
sel said I could appeal, if I would lodge one
hundred dollars with court as a security that I
Would carry ihe case up. But I -preferred to
pay fBo seventeen dollars, especially as 1 hadn't
ihe hundred' dollars to lodge as security. I
was1 'then allowed to departs ihe court giving
me an order on lte chief of police for my car
pel bag." . ......
ThiH was the story of the-country clergyman,
related' with chil'd like simplicity at the chiefV
bSice where he presented the order for his
fa&iWYrUMifflVb&te bad been gross-
ly imposed upo. The knaves into whose
hands he fell, had amused themselves, for near
ly an entire day, with their victim, before they
plucked him. '
.. Mr. Cocke;s Speech.
A short time ago, ilr. Qdcke, df Tennessee,
made a-speech in ihe Housexj? R.epresenialives,
in-the course ofVthe debate upon "ihe" Post Of
fice Appropriation Bill,1 which attracted a good
deal of attention, from the fact that it embraced
a list of the delegates to rJaliimore in" 1844, who
had been rewarded by Mr. Polk; for voting for
him " then and there," ,a3 a candidate for the
Presidency. We quote from the Washington
correspondence of ihe P.hildelphia.Nonh Amer
ican a more detailed statement of this point, as
follows :
" The first statement which I shall introduce
is1 designed. to show the considerations which
operated upon the-innuetuial managers of the
last Baltimore Convention, and to warrant 'the
inference lhat the abandonment of Mr. Van
Buren and General Cass, was not wiihout its
price. It ought lo be remembered, lhat ihe
following list contains only thirty-seven, out of
two hundred and seventy-five Delegates.
Doubtless many others were provided for, and
that the aggregate could be swelled to millions
if ihe same-channels were open lo us that are
enjoyed by Mr. Polk. But enough has been
collected from a hasty examination of the re
cord, to impress the public mind, and -to prove
the nature of the bargains by which Locofoco
Conventions are managed, and literally sold
out to the highest bidder."
R. J. Walker, Sec'y. of the Treasury, $24,000 00
G. Bancroft, Sec'y. of Navy, $12,000 . .nn nn
G. Bancroft, Minister to-Eng.,-31,500 S
Cave Johnson, Post Master General, 24,000 00
!N. Clifford, Attorney General, 4,5Q0 nnn nn
- 'Com'r to Mexico, 31,500 I OUjUUU u.u
J. R. Ingersol, Min'r. to Russia,31,500 . nn nn
Son ofMin'-r Sec'y of Legation, 4,000j dD' uu
R. M. Saunders, Minister to Spain, - -40,000 00
G. W. Hopkins, Ch'ge d'Aff. to Portugal, 14,625 00
J. W. Davis Commissioner to China, 6,000 00
B. G. Shields, Chd'Affao: Venezuela,. 13,000 00
H. Hubbard, Sub. Treasurer at Boston, 6,50ft 00
Marcus Morton, Collector at Boston, $6,600 00
P. Allen, P.ost Master at Pittsfield, Mass., 4,039 48
J. G Greene, Public Printer, at Boston,
It. Rantoul, Jr., Dist. Att'y for Mass., 16,000 00
J. H. Wright, appointed Navy Agent,
ana rejected by the benate, ' f
C. G. Eastman, P. M., Montpelier, Vt 1.398 86
H. K. Smith, Postmaster, Buffalo, 6,847 84
B. F. Butler, U. S. District Att'y. , N. 24,000 00
D. S. lielzor, Inspectorof Customs, Bait. 4,038 00
Gabriel Holmes, District Attorney, N. C.
Wi T. Colquit son a paymaster, 3,000 00
D. B. Turner, P. Master, Huntsville, Ala., 4,896 16
C. A. Bradford, S. Gen., Jackson, Miss., 4,000 09
G. A. Fall, Public Printer, Miss
J. H. Laughlin, Recorder Land Office, 8,000 00
G. J. Pillow, Brig, and Major General, 7,470 00
C. A. Cadwell, Major m Army, 3,384.00
J. WTibbats, Colonel in Army, 4,392 00
S. Medary, Postmaster, Columbus, Ohio,,6,128 40
T. H. Hartley, U. S. Dist. Att'y.,. for Ohio,
W. D Morgan, brother Secretary of Lega-
tion to Brazil, v . 8,000 00
John S. Simonson, Capt. Dragoons, 2,000 00
J C Sloe, Receiver at Shawneetown,;Ill, 4,000 00
W Walters, Puphc Printer, Springfield 111,
A H Sevier, Commissioner to Mexico, 22,500 00
W F Richie, Printing and Advertising, 5,000 00
" Father, editor Union and
l Public Printer, (only.!) 89.478 82
If H Brewster, Cherokee Commissioner, .22,920 00
"This furnishes,an aggregate of six hundred
and" ninety-six thousand, five hundred and sixty-eight
dollars, and fifiy-six cenis, for .thirty
seven Delegates, or nearly nineteen thousand
dollars a head A pretty respectable price for
Locofoco .skulls, but, .cheap .enough when it is.
considered lhat Mr. Polk very prudently pays
his friends out of the public; Treasury.
" The next point is equally worthy of our no?
tice. The whole amount of .actual appropria
tions by law, for the war, up to this time, inclu
ding the sum stipulated to be paijd under, the
treaty, is one hundred and Jive millions, seven
hundred andffty-one thousai(dt three hundred and
one dollars, and fifty-six cents. This of course
is exclusive of the expenditures that are, con
stantly accruing and increasjng, and which are
estimated at one hundred millions .more. ,
" But there is yet another and even a graver
topic. I refer lo the immense loss of human
life jn this Executive war. The President
started with ihe principle of 'Mndemnity for the
past an$ security jfprth'e .future:', .After iwjo
years of bloody contest what do .we behold?
Where is the indemnity where ib'e security 1
The resources of money and .men being ex
hausted, and the indignation of the country be
ing roused against the "administration that made
the war, ihe President has found it convenient
lo buv a peace, and to pay? twenty-two and a Jialf
millions tor territory, jnai.oy an just acKuoyt
11. n -N ' .1 il 115 - I: 'I
raenf, mtst become a Durj.aen upon ounanaa,
and will inevitably saddle a' vast increase upon
ihe public ex'peudilures. ,. t j y,
" It appears that seven thousand seven hun
dred and seven men are numbered among ihe
dead, and that six thottfandfive hundred and
forty-eight are registered as being discharged
lor total disabijny., krijd ol these at least Due
half if noi mor? already.diedf
The Beggat bradl Banker. ;
"Sjand oui pf my way said a rough surely
voice under my window one day, afe I set mus
ing over the bustling isceho below me, at my
lodgings in Cheshut strcut. '".
"Your hpnor will pii.'.seuo recollect," replied
a sharp and sojnewhai! indignantt voice uYour
honor yvill please locllect that I am a beg
ger, andhaves much right lo ftie road as your
self." ' ' '
"And I am abanker, was retorted still more
gru'flly and angrily. ': '
Amused at this stiange dialogue I leaned
over the case and beheld a couple of citizens
in the position which a pugilist would probably
denominate squared, heir countenances some
what menacing, and their persons presenting a
contrast at once ludfcrus and instructive. The'
one was a purse, proud, lordly mannered man
apparelled in silk, and protecting, a carcass of
nearly the circumference of a hogshead; the
other ragged and diriy, but equally impudent
and self-important personage ; and .from a com
pfTison of their countenances, it would have
puzzled ihe most profound M. D. to determine
which of their rotundities" was best stored hab
itually with good victuals and good drink, x
Upon a close observation, however, of the
countenance of the banker, I discovered almost
as soon as m eye fell upon itra line bespeaking
something of humor and awakened curiosity, as
he stood fixed and eyeing his antagonist ; and
this become more clear and conspicuous when
he lowered his tone and asked, "How will you
make that appear ?"
"How V said the beggar "Why listen a
moment, and Pll learn yom In the first place,
do you not notice that God has given me a soul
and body just as good for all the purposes of
thinking, eating, drinking and taking my pleas
ure, as he has you, 'and then you may remem
ber Dives and Lazarus as we pass. Then
again, it isa free country, and here, too, wo
are on an 'equality; for you must know that
even a beggar s boy may'look a gentleman in
the face wilh as niuch indifferenceas he' would.
a brother. I and you have the same common
master, are equally free, live equally easy, and
are both travelling' the same journey ; bound to
the-same place, and boih nave to die and be
buried in the end." ''.' '
'But," interrupted the hanker, "do you pre
tend there is no difference between a beggar and
a banker." ' ;
?,Not in the least," rejoined the beggar with
the utmost readiness, "not in the least as to
essentials. You swagger and' drink wine in
company of your own choosing ; I swaggfenand
drink. beer, which 1 like better than your com
pany. You make thousands a day perhaps-; 1
make a shilling perhaps ; .if you are contented
I am ; we are equally happy at night.. You
dress in new clothes, I am just as comfortable
in old ones end have no, trouble in keeping
them from soiling ; if I have less property lhan
you have, I have less to care about ; if fewer
friends,- less friendship to lose ; and if I don't
make as large a figure in the world, I makp as
great a shadow on the pavement ; I am as great
as you. Besides, my word for it, I have fewer
enemies, meet with fewer losaes ; carry as
light a heart,, and sing as many songs us the
best pf you."
"And then," said the banker, w-ho had all
along tried to slip in a word edgeways, 4,is the
contempt of the world nothing 1"
"The envy of thewqrJd is as bad as its contempt-;
you have perhaps the one and I sj&are
in the other. And besides, the world deals in
matter, equally unjust with Us hoih. You and
I live by our wits,, instead, of living by our in
dustry ; and the only difference is lhat it costs
society more to maintain you than it-does me.
I am contented with, liule you want a great
deal.. Neither of us raise grain or potatoes, .or
weave cloth, or manufacture anyihing useful ;
we therefore add nothing to the common stock ;
we. are only consumers,, and if the world judged
with strict impartiality, therefore it seems lo
me I would' be pronounceed the cleverest fel
low." ...
Some passers-by, here interrupted the con
versation. The disputants separated, appar
ently good, friends, aud i drew in my head,
ejaculating somewhat in the mannor of Alex
ander in theplayVls lhe:r then no more dif
ference between a beggar and a banker 1
.Bui several year's have sinee passed away,
and now b.oih of these individuals, have paid the
laal debt of nature., .They died as ihey lived,
ihe oujq a banker, and ihe other a beggar. 1
exarnined bo,th their graves when I visited the
city. They, were of similiar lengihand breadth;
the grass grew equally green above each ; and
ihe sun Jooked uown as pleasantly on one as
as thei other. No honors, pleasures or delights
clustered round, ihe grave of ihe rich man.. No
finger of'bcorn was. pointed. to that of ijie poor
man. They were Jboth equally forgotten. I
thought too, of the destinies to. which-they had
passed of that state in which temporal distinc
tions exist not where, pride and ail the honors
which regard this life ,never find admittance.
Then ihe. distinctions of time appeared indeed
as an. item in !,he sunbeam, compared wilh, those
which are made in lhat changeless slaie-tQ which
jht?y had boih. passed.
. Tliritlii Incident.
I past up the natural avenue and came upon
the green.;" My feelings were very poetical as .
I walked towards the village- church. 1 . '
teredl A popular- preacher was holding fnrth,
and the little meiing-hone Was much crowded
Several persons Jvere standing up, and I soon
discoYBf.ecLlhal IrrTtwl retain my petpeiMjicalas.
position, as every; seat was crowded. 1, how
ever, passed up the afslo until I gained a po- '
sifon where I could have a view of nearly all
present. t Many of the congregation looked
curiously at me, for I was a stranger to them
all. In a few moments, however, tho attention v
of every 6ne appeared lo be absorbed' in lha
embassador of grace, and I also began to take
a lively interest in the discourse. The speaker a
was fluent, and many of his flights were even
sublime. ' The music of the woods and the fra
grance of the heath seemed to respond to his
eloquence.
Then it was no great. stretch of the imagin
ation to fancy that the. white-handed creatures
around me, with their. pouting lips and artless . ,
innocence were beings of a higher sphere.
As my feelings were ilius divided between thei
beauties-and blessings of the two worlds, and
wrapi in a sort of poetical devotion, I detected
some glances atme of an animated character. -
I need not describe the sensations experi-
encediby a youth when the eyes of a beautiful
woman rest for a length of lime upon hi coun
tenance, and when he imagines himself o bo.
an object of. interest to her. I returned her,
glances wilh interest, and threw all, the tender-,
ness into my eyes which the scenn, my rnedt-
tarions.and the.preacher's discourse had inspired,
my heart doubting not the fair damsel posnes
sed kindred feelings with myself ; that wo wer?
drinking together at the fountain of inspiration.
How. could it be otherwise? , ...
She had been born and nuiured amidst these
wild and romantic scenes, and was made up of
romance, of poetry of tenderness : and then
thought of the purity of woman's, love her'de
votion to truth. I only prayed lhat I might
'meet with her where we might enjoy, a sweet,
interchange of sentiment. Her crlanccs contin-
Uied. ' Several times our eves met. Mv heart
beat with rapture. . ..
At length ihe benediction- was pronouocqd.. t
I lingered about the premises until I saw the.
dark-eyed damsel sot out for home, alone and!;
on foot. Oh! thai the customs of society would
permit for we were surely one, in soul. Cxu-
eliformaliiy ! that throws up a barrier between;
eacholherl Yet I followed her. Shelooked
behind, and I thought she evinced somq emu
tjon at recognizing me as-a stranger of rhe day. .
I then quickened my pace, and she actually
sfackene"d her's as if to allow rue to come up
with her. f
. 'Noble young creature!' thought 1; 'herart-?
less and warm heart is superior to the bonds uf
cusiom. :
1 I reached within a stone's throw of her.-rr.
She suddenly halted, and turned her face to
wards me. My heart swelled to bursting.- t
reached the spot where she stood. 'She begpn
10 speak, and 1 took off my hat as if doing rev-'
erence to an angel.
Ate you a pedler ?' . ...
'No, my dear, lhat is not my occupatipn.'
m .Well, 1 don't know,' continued she-, not very
bashfully, and eyeing me sternly : 'I thought,
when I saw you in the meeting-house, thai you
looked like the peddler who passed off a pewter 4
fialf-a-dollar on me three weeks ago, and so L
was determined to keep an eye on you. Broth
er John, has got home now, and. says if he
catches the feller he'll wring hts-neck for him ;
and I aint sure but you're the good-for-nothing;'
rascal afier -all !'
Reader, did you ever tak&a shower bath I
"A New Bedford Joker.
A correspondent of the New-York Spirit of
the Times writes as follows :
One of our most respectable citizens, the- '
cashier of the M Bank, was lately 'done
by an eminent member of the Bristol Bar, whose,
note 'laid oven' Calling, at the Bank next day
after 'grace,' he-presented a check recived fromj '
fine of his clients for which he wished to draw
ihe cash. The gentlemanly cashier immediately'
paid the"' same, and remarked to Jiis learned
fiend about 'thai note.' Mr. C made no
reply, apparently not understanding ihe cashier
as addressing him ; pocketed his4cash and waV t
walking out.u Thinking Mr. Cr-. mth.t
noi have heard him, the cashier calls in a luu
der tone ' ... '
Mr. C -, I said your note laid over
yesterday.' v
Turning.ound with ai; air of surprise, he re-
plied WelF, let it lay, nobody will steal ii !' 4
' " ,
A Kentucky roarer decla'res thai since Ije has 4
signed" the teetotal pledge he has .drank the Mis
sissippi water by ihe gallon. "Talk lo' me of
a man eating a peck of dirVin a. life time, said
he, "why I have only been swallowingihe sed
iment' for a month, and am already. chuck full?
of sandbars, snags, rafts, islands, and MinkeH"
.flat-boats, and was never healthier jiumy life."
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