"em, 7 re. iim. male It is rjrv. 'th. anil ho fehly Pre. LV The whole: art op Government consists in the art op being honest. Jefferson. VOL 9- STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY; PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1849. No. 35 eet, tho 'din rcu. this iir. Up n,r fin. pIEj)lijIicd by Theodore Schocli. Tn-n .l.illorc nprnnniim in nilcnnr.e Tn O dollars Ida'ouartcr, half yearlyand if not paid before the endqf ;ear, Two dollars and a Half. Those who receive their !5ners by a carrier or stage drivers employed by the propne-P-7 W,U be charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra, v i Dipers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except 7drertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) ncrio,i thmr. uopks for one dollar, and twenty-live Win c for every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and insertions the same. A liberal discount made to yearly a B7Ainc'tters addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. - aJTOJB PRINTING-. mrinff a general assortment oflarge, elegant, plain andorna- meiu.il ivti;, b .,tw;-lf"-""' J description of Card? Circulars, BUI Heads, Notes, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch.on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jcffersonian Republican. From the American Metropolitan. The Poor Man. BY T. S. ARTHUR. "You don't look well, Mr. Preston ; I'm a franl von stick too close to your shop," said a friend to Mr. Archibald Preston, a thriving man tifaciurer, whose well-conducted and growing business yielded him from four to five thousand dollars yearly. "I'm not very well," replied Mr. Preston. "The fact is, as you say, I am confined too closely to business. I need more recreation tharrl get." "Why don't you go off, then, and lake a good holiday ? A week at the sea shore, or a trip orer the mountains would add a year to vour life." "Very likely. But such luxuries, are not for me. 1 am too poor for these indulgences." "Too poor ? You, Mr. Presion ?" "Yes, indeed. I'm too poor. There is no hetler established fact than this. It would de light me to do as you suggest. Last year 1 heiiled, as a thing certain, a trip to Niagara this summer. But I expected a muck easier money market than there has been since mid- winter. JNo ; I can t leave nome on any pleas ure trip. I am too poor for that." "Poor man !" said the friend to himself, as' lie walked away, "I wonder if he will ever ieel able to take any enjoyment in life V Shortly after, a gentleman called upon Mr. Preston, and asked if he would not take two or three dollars worth of tickets for a concert, got op for the benefit of a sick musician, and destitute family. "Nothing would give me greater pleasure," lie replied, ''but really I am too poor. We must be just, you know, before we are gener ous. It would't be right for me to spend three or four dollars for concert tickets, and then let my notes be protested." "No ; certainly not. But there is no dan ger of that." "1 don't know. I ought to be the best judge. Eery one knows when the shoe pinches. hs just as I tell you. I'm to poor for such lux uries." "Don't call it a luxury, but a charity, Mr. Presion." "But is not charity a luxury ? Can anything produce more real pleasure than the act of re lieving the distress of our fellow-creatures ? If I were only able, no man would take more delight in doing good. The time will come, 1 trust, when my hand will be as open as my heart. At present, as I have said, I must con tent myself with being just. 1 am to poor to ue generous. Now, all this was not sheer hypocrisy. Mr. Preston did think, that if he were only in good Circumstances, he would be exceedingly gen rous ; that he would scatter benefits around itim with a liberal hand. But until he became tatter .off in the world, ho deemed it but right ii exercise prudence in all things. And he was correct in the principle, though scarcely o in the rigid way he applied it to his own case. A beggar came into Mr. Preston's little office r countiag-rootn, soon after the friend to the !ck musician had retired, and asked for a pen t'y. "We've nothing to give away' said he, wa ging his hand for tho mendicant to withdraw. ''We're all too poor here." 'Only a penny, sir' importuned the beggar; "only a single penny." "Didn't ! tell you that we had nothing to !ive away' repeated Mr. Preston, sternly. Then he muttered to himself, as jie turnYd to la desk. "I'm too poor to scatter money in the street ; "r 'o fill the hand of every one -who asks for hariiy." And Mr. Preston really did feel poor ; far Poorer than his clerk, to whom he paid seven hundred dollars a year ; and who, on that sum, f"3)ntained a wife and two children, and par '""k, at the same time, of such amusements and repreation8. within his means, as he, deemed hernial to mental ahdBodIIyk health. & ttufo also, ocpatfdn'alljrnd f I r h(Jn (H'nlotlnn ilu'nM CA.lt uJl Ul I bo almost entirely beyond his ability. . . , . . J J ' V. u,'1' ... ...v,..v,w, o. iiiiug icii uv 1I1S BIHUlUVer lO At home, this poor feeling of Mr. Preston mnnifMit ;.ir ; . r" i. ..... ; ::n rvr.v" s wp ppnn u u f , r u .-.o .a,m,y were entitled, by v rtue of his real abilitv to , j i.u vi Uia icdi ttuiiny, iu n ' n . . . j it ... Mr. Preston started in hfe with the purpose ofacqurmg property. Never, since his earliest pniiiir J ' i c liiii iciiil iirii iiriii MR i nil m nnriviua ihfi . ..nrti;.v U..i u r i. .i " i V " , ; uu , emu uuiifKuueuuv. unaoie to emnv ir wnnri j - j-j - i-, fore, ho felt always too Door to indul an in ihn blessings' appropriate to his true external con dition. When his income was a thousand dol lars a year, he restricted himself and family to an expenditure of five hundred ; and when it was three thousand, the limit of expense was one thousand. N'w, he was reaping an annual profit of at least five thousand dollars, and was actually worth thirty thousand dollars ; and yet he lelt poorer than" he did five years before : and was troubled in his" mind at the thought of being under the ruinous expense of fifteen hun drcd dollars a year for the support of his family. "If 1 were a rich man, was, next to "I'm too poor for that," his commonest form of ex pression. And he was never called upon to expend a dollar, except in the way of business, without a feeling of reluctance at parting with the money, amounting almost to pain. , Wealth was, in his eyes, the greatest good,' and its possession the means Of bringing the highest earthly happiness. Yet, as far as his expefi- ci.uc weui, H CUliirauiCiea IUIS mea entirely : . j: j .l- tht, gs of life with which so many around htm said MrB. pre,(on whal of thal ? 1( js on. were blessed I he means possessed m the ,y oncfl in a year;and it's a pity if we can', present, were never auequafe to bring within enjoy ,0 80n small extent x eans in 0(Jr his grasp such ihtngs as he desired: and, there- h ,,! tm ,n,i,0r u . .!. ,n 0..frr ,i,Q for .he better off in the world ho became the from the good rule wisejy adopled in the be more was he inwardly dissatisfied, and the crinntno " more eagarly did he grasp for still larger pos- sessions. His error was like that of far too' many others. He imagined thai wealth in it- self would bring a state of mental tranquility a peace of mind that nothing could disturb And he believed also, that after he had become rich, he would use his riches for the procure mem of all the good things for himself and fam ily that the earth had to offor. While he was poor, self-denial was felt to be a virtue ; when he became rich, he meant to be-liberal id him self and others. And so the world went on with, Mr. Archi bald Preston. Yearly he added house to house, and dollar to dollar. But he was still, in feel int, a poor man. It really hurt him to part i "'umuS uusuims u a vwy ca with a shilling ; and almost every luxury his tensive scale. But all his means were locked up family enjoyed was wrung from him by his pride, or yielded to an importunity that he had no. the moral power to withstand. His health was suffering through prolonged application to business, and he felt the necessity for relaxa- uon. If he could have gone away alone, at the time a friend suggested, as has been seen, to visit the seashore, he would have gone and gone taken cheap boarding in some private family for a week or two. But that economical way of doing" the thing was out of the question :' for his wife had deen urging him, year after year,' to take her to Cape May, Saratoga, or some other summer resort ; and if he went for his health, she must, of course, go along. And this wtfuld make the trfp far more expensive than he could spare money from his business or invest he' felt able to afford: So he denied himself ments, in which he could have used profitably on this ground. When he was able, even in ri i hi nan aci rn'iiinn i r m iif n n a raua a n r m - i - ... ., , , , , j - nariKin in hn IrinfT-l hnitnni.nl anrl riostrrt c m. mer rpcrealions. anoihor drawback tn the en- ' . . - . . . , I ioyment was at hand. Three daughters had come so near to the estate of womanhood, that the leaving them at home, as indifferent parties to such an arrangement, was out of the dues- uoti. A nil to take tnem along wouia maKe tne - , S . ft. fl J expense entirely too great. Their school bills, music bills, and bills for various private lessons in the languages, etc., were regally appalling to the father, and kepr him, all the time with a poor feeling about his heart. To add to the r . P.e... iii ' i . annual cost of living, already alarmingly great, by a fashionable trip to the springs of the sea shore, was not to be thought of for a moment. "But," urged Mrs. Prest'on, who was more importunate than usual, "it is absolutely neces- sary for you to take some relaxation from bus!- ness. And I am sure we can afiprd the ex- pense far better than the Melvilles, who go to Saratoga, Newport; or somewhere else every season. "As for that," replied the husband, "I' am of opinion thai the Melvilles had much better stay at home. To my certain knowledge, Mel ville is always short f6r money ; and rarely succeeds in gelling a note out of bank without borrowing from 6o.me one. I believe' I am worth two dollars to his one, if the truth were known, but I can't afford the extravagances in which he indulges." "A couple of hundred dollars, once in your life-time," said Mrs. Preston, in reply to this argument, "I am sure, can t hurt you. For more than twenty years you have been tugging at the. oar of business, without so much as a week's relaxation ; and I think it is a pity if you can't take a little enjoyment now. What's the use of money, if not to enlarge our com forts ?" "Two'Xupdretl dpjlars ! indeed j If jt were not going to'oosi any more than ihis I would int J . .1 L I l u... a ",0 "unureu is noi iv e hundred is not going to cover the cost. wh you and the gui wouid iwo hundred in new c bthes before thinking i i t , , , . vourselves in anv lnnd nf rWont mm In annonr J I t I "i t n fn ohl'nunkln ittnin.!tivt nl'.iiA T lriintn 'i at a fashionable wat aclly how u wlll be. nw ani, nvoP qoq;i rve thought it over and oiiu vfici again, iwcuiy iiujcs, auu nan i ... v m COme within a dollar of the cost." tantalization of our present circumstances," 'Poor ! Rich ! Can't I make vou compre hend, Ellen, that we are not rich ? If I were rolling in wealth, it would be another thing But 1 am not. Every cent 1 can scrape to gether 1 need in my business ; and, under these circumstances, to throw away five hundred or a thousand dollars in two' or three weeks for mere pleasure would be a folly that 1 am not insane enough to commit. It would be a pleas ant thing, indeed, to come home from Newport, after a month's extravagance and dissipation, and havo my paper lie over immediately after." "Oh, there s no danger of that !" said Mrs Prestan, impatiently. "Beg your pardon, madam ! There is dan ger. No one who wastes his money can ex nect to nr0fmnr. SnnnnA w h onnp n.. n ex,ravagantly as tho Fultons-lwhat then ? Why, we would have been so poor as they are. PrnHpnnn nnd inrlnstrv hav marl mfi nrmmflr. flUS to a .nRrla;n nxtent and T runnnt think nf marr na nil hv flpnnriinfr nt th npcnf iim t was 0f 0 uso for Mrt preston lo argue tKe case with her husband. He held the nursfi-sirintf L and thai tnn mh nn lioht lf he did nol feel able to afford the exnense. no mailer who craved the indulgence, it had to be given up. o the trip to JNewport or Saratoga was abondoried for that season ; though under a promise, which was made in order to get the subject postponed, of a compliance with the wife s wishes when the next summer came round. At the tfme this plea of being too poor to bear the expenses was so successfully urged, Mr. Pres ton was worth, at least, a hundred thousand dol- 0 10 nnrl iron nnnrlntf tm Ui.n.nMnn nH M M in his business or otherwise invested, and he kept himself poor by pushing his enterprise to the ful- lest extent. Every hundred dollar check, drawn for family expenses, was filled up with a sish : for tnai much was lost, irrecoverably. Money ex- pended in business; like seed sown in the ground, pt0(Sll6ed mot rnone but money j t fo?eatirig, .... , !. . . . uiiuuiug, auu umci uiiiiga, uGocssaijr iu nic sup port of life, was felt to be like so much1 thrown into the" sea. As Mr. Preston grew older and more prosperous, this false estimate became more- and more confirmed, and the feeling arising there from, stronger and stronger. He never felt oth- erwise than poor ; for he never saw clearly how five tjmes as mlicn as he really possessed. vvhen the daughters of Mr. Preston arrived at wnmbn'a n'rria. ho fnilnrl nn JtiflnpnnA hrnnrrht tir. bear upon, mm that he couia not resist'; and mon ey, much as the extravagance pained him, was spent with a freedom certainly at variance with his previous habits. Spite of all resistance on his . . . a . .a. part, the trip to Saratoga was made in the summer succeeding that in which he admitted that he was able t0 take- nis- vvife bt not dauguters; aeeably l0 His eslimate df expense, the levy upon h6 pune lor Uiat exttfpiece of folly," ' j.a r -i . . .i as he did not fail to pronounce it, was exactly one v . . . thousand dollars; mhl ,n Pto of all his d,s- Putes with ?oUers, cabmen, bootblacks, waiters, and hbtel-keepers, the whole posse of whom he declared werel in combination' to' swindle trav- elers'. The wife and daughter of Mr. Preston having gaihed a" decided advantage to themselVes, were not at all inclihed to relinquish it The trip to the Springs made them three or- four new city ac- quaintances, wiih whom visits were exchanged sOon after their return. These' new acquaintan ces happened to be living in a style that rather shamed the ladies of Mr. Prenton's family, and opened their eyes a little in regard to what, was due to their social position. A larger" house, and newer and more elegant furniture Were proposed, and, of course, opposed. Bill Mr. Preston's de position was not of long continuance. The odds were entirely .against him. He tried to get the matter put off a year or two ; to a .time when he hoped to feel niore able to afford the expense ; but no such proposition would be listened to. As for the plea of being "too poor to afford an extrav agant style of living," it was not in the least regar ded, for it was not believed. ,So very rapid was Mr. Prenton's accumulation, of money, that could heahaye kept his annual ex- 1 fit V u8" 1 a T it would be npht In thrnw nvfin that sum awav. "SnnnnQA It itt o r ti 1 1 onol i r?il 1 1 ra " i uuiuw jl. u iuuiui uw t nan j guiibi u penditure within the limit it had attained previous to this new innovation, he would have beguu to feel a little comfortable in fact, to regard him self as being in quite easy circumstances. But the purchase of a house at a cost of twenty thou sand dollars, with the additional item added there to of four thousand dollars for fashionable furni ture, caused him to feel so poor as to become ac tually unhappy ; the more especially, as, shortly after the possession of his elegant residence, the new year came round, and with it the accustomed annual' investigation:' .Into', business affairs". Un expectedly, the result of this investigation was a discovery that, instead of a clear yearly profit of ten or twelve thousand dollars, not a single cent had really been made. Two or three pretty seri ous losses, through failures, added to a sudden depression of prices, while a large stock of man ufactured goods were on hand, had produced this result. These failures and this depression in pri ces were events of very recent occurrence, and their real effects upon the year's busmess was just becoming apparent. Poor Mr. Preston ! He had less enjoyment now than ever in the good things of life with which GTdo had blessed him. His property had a real value of nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and his business was a large and profitable one. Yet so poor did he feel af ter the result of that one unfortunate year become known to him, that for trouble of mind he scarce ly slept at night, or eat through the day. Not a block away from where he lived was'arrian whose income was fixed at twelvei hundred dollars. He also had grown-up daughters, and younger chil dren were still to be laised and educated. Yet he was a rich man compared with Mr. Preston"; for he rarely had a poor feeling, and enjoyed to the full extent the natural blessings his income enabled him to procure. Sometimes, as he passed the handsome residence of the man rich in this world's goods, he thought how pl'eaaiiV must be to have money to spend for all that the heart de sired, and to be removed from the necessity of nice calculations in expenditure and self-denial in even moderate desires. But uch thoughts were soon dismissed, and caused but a small weight o.f discontent to rest upon his feelings. He had a hopeful' and confident spirit ; and was, therefore, rich in comparison with his neighbor. The next year's business did not turn out much better for Mr. Preston. There had arisen a great competition in the principal article he manufac tured, prices had gradually been falling, and a large stock accumulating. In the early part of the year he stopped his works altogether, and tt.. " '-.'x-i-r i. utterly aiscnuragea at tne prospect uniom um in the beginning of the next year, and fearful lest a continuance in business would resutl in some disaster, he sold out his establishment at a sacri fice of about twenty thousand dollars on the price at which he valued it, and retired from the busi ness world', feeling really poorer than when he started in life with only a few hundred dollars that he could call his own. The fact of his retiring from business; gave very naturally the impression that he had accumulated a handsome fortune and was now determined to enjoy it. A man with the reputation is not al waysleft undisturbed in the possession of what he has accumulated! Not long after he had with drawn himself from the active world to brood over his disappointments, and to ponder on the small ness of his fortune, and the danger of its being swept from his grasp by some unforeseen event against the occurrence of which no foresight of his could gUard, he was called upon by a leading member of the church he regularly attended eyej-y Sabbath, for a contribution to its funds for some special purpose. The subscription paper was un foldecl, and to'his dismay, Mr. Preston saw that men really not half so well off in the world as he, had written down' their hundreds? A" ten dollar subscription was in his mind, as the utmost he felt justified in giving; but his pride' would not let him put down "Archibald Preston, S10,' among names opposite to which stood three, four, and five hiindred'dollars'. He considered awhile, to see if there were no way of escape with credit to himself ; but none presenting itself, he resolved to gain time by saying " Call to morrow, about this hour, and I will be prepared to say what f will' give." To -morrow, at that hour; not having made up his mind definitely, he managed to be out of the df the way. By thte means, he escaped for a week; but tne' evil dav couldvnot' be put off en tirely. The man'v?fth the subscription paper found him out again", when with a sigh he wrote " Arch ibald Preston, $300." The poor man' felt at least twenty thousand dol lars poorer after this act. He did not hear ten words of the sermon, on the next Sabbath, for thinking of the ruinous subscription he had been forced to make ; and half made up his mind, be fore the, services were concluded, to give up his pew and attend some free church where the gos pel was dispensed as it ought to be, without mon- ey and without price. Such an arrangement, how ever, he knew, better than to propose; for tliere was a power behind the throne of his will greater, m most matters, than the throne itself. His "family knew precisely his ability, and did not letftfieir demands upon his purse fall very far below lf The annual incomeof Mr. Preston, on retiring from business, and investing all his money fn"rnai estate, or government scrip, was a little ovef jfk thousand dollars. The expense at which he was living was about five thousand, For two or threo yeara this went on, and finding he' was better off by about a thousand dollar?, at the end of each year, he began to feel as if he were in tolerable easy circumstances, when a large fire broke out in a part of the city where he owned five ware houses. These, with a large amount of other property were, consumed. A mistake of just one day in the date of the policy, of insurance, threv' him into a loss of twenty-five thousand dollars1. His property, had paid him seven per cent, above taxes, and all, other expenses, and the loss in his annual income, was in consequence over seven teen hundred dollars. Mr. Preston, was now poor indeed. The rest of his property paid hTrri but little over four thousand dollars ; and he was living at a cost of five thou sand. An immediate change was insisted upon and carried ; for the poor man had arguments to urge that were made unanswerable. Reform once began was extended far beyond the points to which those who yielded at fTrt imagined' it would go. " It's no use to talk, I can't afford it !" was an all-powerful urgument, uttered as it was with unaccustomed determination of manner. The elegant house was rented for two thousand dollars, and the familv come down so far in their style of living as to take up their abode In one for which Mr. Preston had" been receiving eight hun dred dollars. By these changes, Mr. Preston actually reduced' his expenses to two thousand dollars below his income. "But he has never got over his loss of twenty-five thousand dollars, and feels so poor that he refuses all applications of a charitable na ture, denies himself and family at a hundred ditT- j erent pdrits to the abridgement of his own and ; their real comfort, and makes both himself and them wretched. Poor man ! Had he the -wealth of Croesus it would be all the same: To one like him, money never comes as a blessing, for his mind estimates; it falsely, and" is incapable of finding in its posses-, sion any of tfie real enjoyments that competency j is designed to bring. Proce of Coming iald.r The process of coining gold is very accji.v rately yetsucciritly described -in a letter m the'! Boston Post. We condense the description, as follows : The miners have to grind the gold rock fine, keeping it wet constantly, and as it becomes fine it washes off. They have a hard kindbf stone for grinding ; and they then mix quick silver with it, and that collects together the gold dust. It is washed out dried and goes, through some kind of a heating process. The gold dust is then usually sold to the superin tendent of the mint. Sometimes the miners melt iKs dust and cast it into a bar before offer ing it to'tie mint. To find the Value, each par cel has to bo assayed. Th'6 assaying is the most curious and scientific of all business in the mint. The melters take the gold dus, melt it, and cast it into a bar, when it is weighed accurately, and a piece cut off for the asayr'r. He takes it, melts ii with twico its weigV. of silver, and several times it weight of lead. It is melted in some cups made of bone ashes which absorb all the lead, when a largo part of silver is extracted by another process, and the sample is then rolled out into a thin shaving, s coiled up and put into a sort of vial called mai- v trasses, are put on a furnace and the acid is boiled again. This is done several times till the acid has extracted all the silver and other mineral substances, leaving the samples pure gold. The sample is then weighed and by the difference between the weight before as- saying' and after, ihe true value is, formed The gold, after it has been essayed, is melted, refined, and being mixed with its due propor- lion of alloy, (being equal parts of silver and, copper,) is drawn into long strips, in shape not unlike an iron hoop for a cask ; the round pip- , ces cut out with a sort of punrh, rarh pieca. weighed and brought to' the right siz by a file,fc, if o heavy, when it U milled, or the edge raised and put into a stamping press, whence it,co.in3 forth a perfect coin, bearing the en,docsement of the "U. S." A friend, like a glass, will best discover to, you your own defects. Discourse like ihe season of. the year, is best in its proper time. . v-J Secrecy is the key ofpruden.ee, and the auc tuary of wisdom,. - ..t Ho is richest who is contented ; content i the riches of nature. t . ... m Tho noblest designs- are" likTaroineTudts covered they are lost, ' j; i 4 if I-1 i 3T. r0 ., - - ' is i
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