lit 1 'WE OO WHERE DEMOCRATIC ' PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY; WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW." BY JOHN G. GIVEN. EBENSI3URG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1819. VOL. G.-AO. 10. III zvx x s c c.z. l a :i n o u s THE HDiilY ACTOR;' OR, Emptj Stomachs xerstis Empty Pockets- BY PAUL CREYTON. One day, last summer, during the pre valence of the cholera, a slim young gen tleman, of a remarkably hungry appear auce, and with a sharp eye, which gave him a wonderfully intelligent look, might have been seen walking leisurely to and fro before the entrance of a popular eat ing house in the Granite City. One might have thought, from appearances, that the sole object of the young gentle man in lingering in that vicinity was to snuff the fumes of roasted meats and smo king pies that were placed in tempting array before the guests of the house; but if we take the liberty to examine his se cret thoughts, we shall see that he aimed at something more substantial than the mere odors of good cooking. A pretty fix!' he muttered. 'Hungry, with nothing wherewith to satisfy my hunger. To eat or not to eat, that is the question, which I am atraid will be deci ded in the negative. Oh disconsolate thought. 'I'd rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon,' than be a man, and live on nothing at all. Where are all my friends? A friend should bear a friends infirmities;' and furnish him with a diuner occasionally, when he's hungry. But my friends have all left me since I gave way to my passion for the drama, and took to the stage for a subsistence which I failed to obtain. I've not a friend leit to write my epitaph; not one to say of me when I am gone 'He was a man of an unbounded stomach,' with nothing wherewith to satisfy it. A dinner, a din ner, my kingdom for a dinner'.' At that moment a second young gentle man made his appearance, approaching the hungry actor with a stare. ou would have seen at a glance that he was from the country. His unshorn locks, and wide open mouth and eyes, and hea vy, awkard gait, togethei with his dress, betrayed his ignorance of the town. His habilments contrasted strangely with those of the hungry actor. The dress of the latter was fitted with exquisite taste to his person, while that of the former was clumsy in the extreme. But the actor s coat was threadbare, while the country man's was probably fresh from Oak Hall. Is it here that a feller can go to get a bite when he's hungry?' asked the Ver monter. Yes, sir replied the actor, politely; excellent dinners, fine puddings, delicious coffee everything that's good.' I'm in for that,' exclaimed Josiah. I'm so tamal hungry that I feels 'ough I'd's lief git lid of a quarter in a good restoral's not.' i Famine is in thy cheeks,' young man, muttered the actor, when Josiah had dis appeared in the eating-house; ' 'famine is in thy cheeks,' and dimes in thy pockets, probably. Can't I manage to enjoy a dinner, dear youth, at your expense?' And the stage struck young man fol lowed Josiah incontinently into the sa loon. The Vermonter, seated at one of the short tables; was leaning on his elbows and gazing about the insides' of the room when his new acquaintance boldly took a seat at the same table, directly opposite. Just then a waiter approached bearing a generous plate of roast turkey, smoking and swimming in gravy. Josiah seized it with avidity, and was on the point of striking his knife and fork into the tempt ing dish, when the actor drew his atten tion by knocking on the table. . Wal, what is it?' said the Vermonter.. The actor replied by glancing at the fowl, and at the retreatin g. waiter, and shaking his head so omniously, that Josi ah dropped his knife in amazement. Eh? what?' whispered the Vermonter, feeling that his new . acquaintance had something to communicate in confidence. The cholera?' muttered the . actor in a lugubrious and warning tone. In the turkey?' 'Yes! 'Then that waiter' growled Josiah, starting up. 'Oh,' said the other, 'it's all right with the waiter. He didn't mean any harm. He thought you belonged to town.' And what all-fired difference does that make?' demanded Josiah, with indigna tion. 'Oh,' repeated the actor, all the differ ence in the world. We people that live in town are so used to to to all this sort of thing' pointing at the turkey, 'that it don't hurt us. But sure's a man from the country indulges, he's a dead man; dead as a door post. That's why the cholera takes off foreigners and coun try men as fast as they eat their dinners.' 'Pshaw!' said Josiah, feeling faint. Truth!' exclaimed the other. ! know a little boy or rather, I did know who came to town yesterday to visit his aunt Judith. Well, his aunt Judith wa3 very imprudent with the boy.' 'How!' Why, she gave him a piece cf turkey not larger than a toothpick of ordinary size, and before the bov was done eatimr it' ' - What?' He was deadl' Cholera?' Nothing else. Bad, wasn't it? All owing to the turkey,' said the actor sadly 'that fatal turkey?' Then you'd advise me not to eat this? ' whispered Josiah, very pale and nervous. 'Not by any means. If you've lived long enough, I'd say to you cat the tur key. But if you could bear with life a little longer, without suffering too great an inconvenience, if you've a family, and have not made your will you know what I mean?' Let the turkey alone?' Exactly!' Josiah shoved the disli from him with abhorrence. He did not feel so hungry as before he was greatly agitated, and re solved to as!; his new friend's advice. I'll tell you what won't hurt you,' said the actor in a tone of strict confidence. It's about the only thing 'that's harmless.' 'What's that?' 'Mutton chops!' 'Good!' said the Vermonter. Mutton J chops isn't bad. I'm glad I can eat sut thin! But what shall I do with the turkey?' I was just going to call for turkey ' 'lour Yes.' 'You eon't though! exclaimed Josiah, in the utmost consternation. 'What! have ioit lived long enough?' Why not exactly,' said the actor. 'But as I told you, that kind of stuff,' pointing to the turkey, 'don't hurt folks that are used to it.' Ah! I see!' 'And so, since the turkey will have to be paid for since it has been called for, I may as well take it, and settle with the waiter for it myself.' 'Oh, sartin,' said Josiah, happy to ar range the mitter so easily. 'I'll have some mutton chops.' The waiter was on hand, and soon the turkey and the mutton chops, with coffee lor two, were fast disappearing before the hungry two. Is there anything elso that won't hurt me?' asked Josiah of his new friend. An oyster pie is as harmless as cold water,' replied the actor with enthusiasm. Then I'll have it by George!' exclaim ed Josiahi 'Call for me, too, while you're about it,' suggested his companion. 'Oyster pies for two!' sung out the Ver monter. :.The required article was produced, and devoured in double quick time. Anything else that wouldn't hurt me?' enquired Josiah. Im in for a dinner, anyhow!' Josiah was 'in for the puddings;' and once more he did his friend the favor to call for him, when he was about it.' The pudding went the way of all the rest, and the friends raised their eyes to each other's face with a look of enquiry. Now, then,' said the actor, as full of good nature as he was of good dinner 'I think we had better both take a little chol era preventative.' A good idee!' exclaimed Josiah, 'But when 11 you get it what's the cost on it?' I'll get it at the apothecary's, next door,' replied the actor; 'he keeps the best in the city. Only fiffy cents a bottle. By the way, have 3 011 got a h alf about ryou? I'll make it up to you when we settle our bills here. Josiah produced two quarters, and his new friend, telling him 'he'd be back in a minute and a quarter,' with some of the genuine,' walked out of the saloon as if in a great hurry. c 1 he waiter looked at Josiah, who look ed at the door. His friend was gone lon ger than he expected. He began to grow impatient, inasmuch as he suffered consid erable uneasiness from the manner of the waiter, who asked him several times if he wished for anything more. Pr'aps he thinks I don't mean to pay for what I've had,' thought the youth. But I du, sartin as he'll see when that fellow comes back wtth the cholera pre ventative.' But still the actor did not return. Josi ah waited half an hour longer, to no pur pose. Then a suspicion crossed his mind. He's a sharper, sure's I live!' thought he. 'And I've lost fifty cents by him; Uue's a gun! Guess I've been green enough for one day! But never mind that half it'll learn me !bout these things? 'Sides that, guess the waitcr'll open his eyes when lie sees that feller don't come to pay for his dinner. Judas! I ain't the only gieen 'un in these parts, I know, Here, you!' crying out to the waiter what's the damage for what I've had?' 'Seventy-five cents,' said the waiter very promptly 'Seventy-five blockheads!' exclaimed Josiahi 'Now none of j'our Jokes, you chap but tell me, what's the damage?' Seventy-five cents,' repeated the wai ter. 'You remember there waa a tur key But t'other chap had that,' cried Jo siah. 'Don't know anything about t'other chap,' said the waiter. 'You called for it all coffee, oysters, pies, plum-puddings ' 'Saxony! But you don't mean that I'm to pay for 'em all!' You called for all.' 'But you don't 'spose I eat 'em all? Holy Jerusalem! I didn't but half!' Josiah remonstrated in vain. The waiier assured him that every man paid for what he called for, whether he ate it or not, and that there were no exceptions. Consequently Josiah was constrained to fork over, which he did with reluctance. But it was the last time he was 'taken in and done for' by the sharpers of the town; for from that day he was well satisfied of the fact, that (lo use the expression his chance acquaintance, the actor, would have made use of) "All the world's a stage. And all the ir.cn and women merely players." American Courier California Advenlore- The following is extracted from a letter published in the Bunker Hill Aurora. It may serve to match the unfavorable state ments which preceed from the land of promise: It is now forty days since we arrived here, and thirty days since we have been lairly at work at the digglns and all that I ever anticipated lias been more than realized. There are eight of us in com pany five besides George, Edward, and myself. All our diggings go into common stock, and every Saturday night, after de ducting expenses, we divide. My share, up to last Saturday night, amounted to sixty. seven ounces. Edward, who don't send his gold home this time, has lent me thirteen ounces to make my remittance amount to eighty ounces, which goes by the same conveyance as this, to John, whom 1 have desired lo pay off the mort gage on the farm, of 81,200; and what there is left, to put in some safe place nntil he hears Irom me again. How happy I am, my dear parents, to be able to relieve you of this great burden so soon. Little did mother think, when she took leave of me, in such great dis tress, and I told her that ifshe would slop her tears I would soon be able to clear the farm, that I should so soon redeem my promise. 1 have bitterly regretted ever since I left Boston, that I did not fall in with aunt Sarah's proposition to go with me. We had on board three ladies, and every one of us was anxious to show them every attention; and although we had one hundred and thirty-four passen gers, there was never any serious quarrel ing on the whole passage. Very near our camp there is a man and his wife, a son 1G years old, and a girl 11 years old they have all been working in the same spot for nearly three months. We invited them last Sunday to spend the day with us, and the father' and little girl came. He told us he came here last sea son, but did not get upon the right track until this season; said his firm determina tion when he came here was to get 5,000 as soon as he could, and then return to New Hampshire and settle down on his farm; but says he has kept on until he has now got S8,000 and over, and says he means to return at the end of this season at any rate, when he will have, he thinks, $12,000. He says his wife and daughter can wash out double the gold that he or his son can. He and his son dig the earth and carry it on the wheelbarrow to the females, and they wash out the gold. They have a little awning where they sit washing, while their food is cooking be side them. Everybody that I have seen since 1 have been here, seems anxious to make friends: you may leave your tools and gold anywhere, and nobody will touch them. There is a lady at Benicia from Charles town, who washes clothes. She employs two or three Indian women to help her, and she makes one hundred dollars every day. Seamtresses and tailoresses get just as much, and it is strange more females don't come here. A boy ten years old can wash out as much gold, after a little practice, as a man. v.. Why is a cat's tail like the world. Be cause it's fur to the end of it. From the Pennsylvania. I The Pacific Railroad. We have now befoie us the address pre pared by the committee appointed at the Convention held at St. Louis, in October last, in order to further the construction of the great railroad from the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. There were several questions of great interest involved in this work, not the least of which are, the constitutional objections entertained by many enlightened men, as to the right of Congress to engage in inter nal improvements. Others contend that the whole idea of a railroad to the Pacific is visionary; and it has always seemed doubtful to us, whether-any road could be made over the line marked out by Col. Fremont especially in the face of obsta cles such as compelled him and his little band to fall back, in perfect destitution, and with great loss, more than a year ago. TI13 following extracts from the address are interesting and eloquent. The move ment is to be additionally urged and ad vocated at a great meeting to be held in this city on the first Monday of April next. 'The establishment of aline of Military posts from the western confines of the western States to the Pacific Ocean, was deemed by the Convention an importont preliminary step in the preparation of the rail way. These posts, although they need not be permanent garrisons, vet would serve to maintain peace among aborigines would lay out and open military roads; assist i:i the erection and protection of the electric telegraph; offer present guide and refuge to the emigrant, and give aid and security to the various parties of engineers which may be sent out bv the government to locate the best route for the railroad; while settlers, by a liberal policy exercised towards them; might be induced to cluster rapidly in the neighborhood of the posts, soon, by their own numbers and strength, superceding the necessity of the military. There seemed to be no argument in favor of establishing this line of posts along the Mexican frontier on the south, that would not be good in behalf of a similar line along the British frontier on the north. The Convention therefore, contemplated only such line as would lead directlr through the heart of the western territories on or near the route which nature seemed to indicate, and commercial and political I convenience seemed to require, as the j most suitable location of a national rail- j road. "And the convention not fearing physi cal difficulties so much as those which might be interposed by political and seb tional feelings looking to ihe fact that a northern route from the lakes to Oregon, and a southern route throngh Texas to San Diego, were each strongly urged upon ! the public consideration, and well know- J ing the fatal dangers of the delay which the threatened dispute would be sure to invoke indicate a central route between these two extremes, for the main stem, with branches to the northern, to the mid dle, and to the southern States. This ol fer to propitiate the claims of nationality will, it is hoped, be as satisfactory 10 the extreme sections, as it seemed to be to their respective representatives in the con vention. It is that fraternal spirit of con cession, arid compromise in which our Government itself was founded, and has been safely conducted through many por tentous storms, which the convention con sulted, and to which the country must look for a speedy solution of all the difiicultios which sectional selfishnes will interpose against the constructin of 'he" road. Sec tional jealousy without patriotism; like avarice without benevolence, sinks to a vice that "to be hated, needs to be seen," and in relation to this great measure, whose influence and whose benefits will be co extensive with the Union, cannot be tol erated, and we trust will not be seen. "Elevating ourselves above the prejudi ces of party, the passions of persons, the jealousies of sections, let us proceed to the execution of this work, with the singleness of purpose which distinguishes true patri otism. Let us exhibit to the world a peo ple united and busy in securing the foun dations of unprecedented grandeur, and concious of a destiny which it is vain to oppose, and which is everyr day more and more unfolding itself to the amazement of cotemporary nations. It needs but the flat of the people, and the application of the means and authority of their govern ment, to consummate the masterpiece of a powerful and patriotic nation. For such, saving the constitution, would it truly be. No nation has ever executed a work of superior importance to the interests of the human race. The Appiati Way, the Iie gina Viarum, of the Romans, though last ing eight centuries and exhausting at one time the Roman treasury, and on which five days were consumed in travelling from Rome to Capua, bears no boniparison to it. That pointed to Asia Minor, which Rome absorbed. This lo Asia itself, and to ihe Indias. looking to the commerce of three-fourths of the population of the world and passing through the heart of a conti nent. The temples of the ancient cities, the pyramids of Egypt, the wall of China the great road of the Incas, are insignifi cant monuments of p ride and power as compared with the inportauce of the great Continental Railroad, of North America. The mind of man cannot conceive all its vast and unlimited consequences. Let the work be finished; and then the trident of the sea would gradually fall from the hands of England; the question of a north-west passage would cease to vex the world but as a matter of mere curiosity; loner and dangerous voyages around the capes would be lessoned; we should no longer be sub ject to pass through foreign territory in go ing irom one pait ot our domain to anoth- j er; time would be saved distance annhila- ted, new resources discovered, new mar- j kets opened, a belt of civilization and cul- tivation extended across the continent, im- j proving the public lands and rendering ! government intercorrces and authority i with the Indian tribes and our own distant j provinces, more easy and efficient. The I wealth, of Asiatic commerce would cominiu- i gle with ours in the heart of our country, and the lights of civil and religious liberty would inevitably fall unpo the slumberers on the shores and islands cf the Pacific, ' while our own republic would advance in ' power, wealth and grandeur, and receive a ! new guaranty of its unfailing strength and ' durability. j What, then, remains for us, but to urge the co-operation of the friends of the mea- ! sure, everywhere, in concentrating upon ! the Congress of the United States, in all ! its indisputable majasty and strength, the ' will of the people, as they value the im- j portance of preserviug the unit' of the re public, as they love their friends who are ! settling upon the shores of the Pacific, as ! desire to maintain the dignity and authori- j ty of their government, and they are faith ful to the mission of their country in ad vancing the cause of civilization and hu manity, demand of their Representatives in Congress, without confusion, hesitation or disguise, immediate action action de cisive, liberal and effectual action, that will admit of no doubt, ambiguity or draw- ! back, in reference to the construction of;' this railroad at as "early a period" as is ' "consistent with the energy and power" ; cf the nation. An intelligent people need i not instruction in the forms of brinrinf i their will to the knowledge of their Repre- I sentatives. The resolutions and memorials ' of State and municipal Legislatures, ihe expressions of district and county conven tions and town meetings, of corporate bod ies, the columns of the press, the letters and petitions of individuals, will doubtless all combine in rolling down upon Congress an avalanche of popular opinion, which can neither be misapprehended nor with stood. But another and inportant form is that which ma be anticipated from the proposed reassembling of the St. Louis convention, with the addition of delegates from all the Stales of the Union in the city of Philadelphia on the first Monday of April next. "To that reunion, we respectfully invite the attention of the whole American peo ple; Let it be as comprehensive, and na tional as ils object. Let states, counties, cities and towns send their representatives until Philadelphia, broadrimsned and ca pacious as she is shall be overflowing with "delegates" as she will be, and always is, with hospitality and "brotherly love.-" In a word, let it be a Convention worthy of the ilall of Independence. And as the issue of that Hall in '76 established the Union of these States, so may the issue of the conventions of '-10 and 'i0', by adding a bond of iron to the tics of kindred, of in terest, and of sympathy, forever confirm and perpetuate it." n7Lieut. Oalo has proposed to" go' in search of Sir John Franklin, by meaiu of balloons; net to follow him through the air, but to ascend in his neighborhood, and thus, if possible ascertain his position. Lieut. Gale supposes that at an elevation of two or three miles, he will have a pan oramic view of ISfOO miles, and that thus he might fall within observation of the unfortunate explorer. IISThe Legislature of Illinois have passed a bill authorizing the construction of a llailroad from Oquawka, on the Mis sissippi, to the beautiful and rapidly im proving city of Peqria, on the Illinois. We have heard of a fellow who was determined to commit suicide, even if ho perished in the attempt- Always travel with baggage if you wish to ensure respect. He who carries a dickey in his hat is not considered much pumpkin:." by the hotel keeper or porter. Tat Sea. The following touch of genial humor is extracled from the Lectures of Rev. IIexry Giles, now going through the press of Messrs. Ticknor, Reed and Fields: "There is something cordial in a fat man. Everybody likes him, sn 1 he likes everybody. Your Ishmaelite3 are, in truth , a bareboned race; a lank tribe thev are all skeleton and bile. Food docs & fat man good; i: clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. He is a living, walking minister of gratitude to the bounty of the earth, and the fulness thereof; an incarnate testimony against the vanities of care, a radiant manifestation of the wisdom of good humor. A fat man, therefore, almost in virtue of being a fat man, is, per sc, a popular maii; and commonly he deserves his popularity. In a crowded vehicle the fattest man will ever be the most rendy to make room. Indeed, ho seems half sorry for his size, lest it be hi the way of others; but others would not have him less than he is: for his humanity is usually commensurate with his bulk. A fat man has abundance of rich juices. The hinges of his system are well oiled; the springs of his being are noiseless; and so he goes his way rejoicing, in full con tentment and placidity. A fat man feels his position solid in tae world; he knows that hi. being is cognizable; he knows that he has a'murked place in the universe, and that he need take no extra ordinary pains to advertise mankind that he is among them; he knows that he is in no danger of being overlooked. Your thin man is uncertain, and therefore he is un easy. He may vanish any hour into noth ing; already he is almost a shadow, and hence it is that he uses such laborious efforts to convince you of his existence; to persuade you that he is acrually some thing; that he is more than a non-enity; that he is a positive substance as well as his corpulent fellow-creature. It really does take a deal of wrong to make one actually hate a fat man; and if we are not always so cordial to a thin man as wc ought to be, Christian charity should take into account the force of prejudice which we have to overcome against his thinness. A fat man is the nearest to that most per fect of figures, a mathematical .sphere; u thin man to that most limited of conceiva ble dimensions, a simple line. A fat man is a being of harmonious volume, and holds relations to the material universe in everv direction; a thin man has nothing but length; a thin man, in fact, is but the con tinuation of a point." Yankees iu Paris. To visit the Continent is nothing iu these days of steamers, but the manner in which our Yankee sovereigns lord it in Paris is amusing if not instructive. Ken dall, the accomplished correspondent of the N. O. Picayune, gives the following hit at the Y"ankee in Paris. Xew Haven Register. "His pockets are full of money, whioh he throws right and left, or, to use a French expression, he throws it out of tha window. His hat and his shirt-collar betray him, if nothing else does, and the Parisian shop girl charges him thirty-three and a third per cent, more than any other person, with such amiable skill that cveryr pur chase he makes is a bargain; Before tin? revolution of '48, I have, been told that it was a common expression in Paris that the Americans and Russians, although in many senses the antipodes of each other, had everything their own way there; the former now have the entire monopoly. The Russian Autocrat, in the plentitude of his porter, and for his own wise pur poses, sees fit to keep all his subjects and their money at home; while Yankeedom roves at will through the Boulevards, and occupies all the best seats at the theatres and the cafes. If such is the case now, what will the stale of things be ten years hence? One soon gets lost in the specu lation, in endeavoring to look even that far ahead." Laconic Epistle from California. A gentleman who left Bostcn for California last spring, writing to a friend thus ex presses himself. "Dear JI Just arrived California. bed d Particulars in my next. Yours, Scc. L . A Strange Want. X Bremen (Ger man) jjumal c-jinaius the following ad vertisement: "A young genlloin.in on tne point of melting married is desirojs of meeting a man of experience, who will dissuade flint from such a &up. Address, &c." OCrCapsare worn small, and much dec orated with flowers. Home costumes will be made high in tho neck. Furs arc very popular. Felt bonmts are much wm by y ung ladies. I1 ir
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