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TOY THE STAR AND arrynticAs CIITNEIZ
larrEcors OS TIME.
I cost my eyes o'er nature's vast domain,
And 'spied a tempt*: in the distant plain;
It reared its stately pinnacle on high,
Until it blended with the lofty sky.
Wertlowing streams, with furious dread replete,
Against this lovely, precious temple beat,
And Natures God, with banner wide unfurfil,
Against its walls his thunderbolts had hurl'd;
But yet it stood firm as a solid rock,
Like adamant,—resisted every shock.
I saw a lofty, stately, tow'ring oak,
'Whose spnealing branches were as yet unbrokc;
The playful lambs were frisking 'neath its shade,
And thus their joy and innocence displayed;—
Whilst choral songsters on its branches sang,
Till woods and groves with strains harmonious
T salsa youth that never yet had sighed,
mother r idol and his father's pride;
Now in tLe morn of life, his smiling face
Adorned with charming "lineaments of grace;"
His harmless mind no earthly sorrow knew,
Nor ever dreamt what stern Old age might do.
It was my lot to roam in distant !undo,
And wander far and wide o'er foreign strands.
I longed for a return, but yet,—alas!
Full many a year from home was doomed to pass
I returned.—but lo! that temple was no more,
That lovely spot another aspect wore.
In shattered ruins lay its sacred halls,
And moss and grass grew rankly on its walls,
And now the owl's fowl cry at midnight hour
Reverberated through its ruined tower.
That lefty, totering oak, that was so green,
Presented now a widely dVerent scenc;—
The winds were playing at their pleasure there,
Where now but barren branches pierced the air.
That blooming youth, who never yet had sighed
Ills mother's idol and his father's pride,—
lie too was changed: for stern Old age had now
Wrinkled his face and furrowed his fair brow.
Who this destroyer, to myself I said,
That on these oljcets has such changes made!
From underneath a hollow murmur came,
•Time is the Gil destroyer of the same."
'Twas when the glad stars hymned the new-born
And young creation reveled in his birth
His course commenced; and he'll continue on
Until his destined course he shall have run.
And when the earth and stars shall disappear,
The sun be plucked from his exalted sphere,
The moon be veiled in blood,—and, like a scroll,
The flaming firmament together roll!
Then shall an angel from the throne of God,
*Come down on earth.at Heaven'a assenting nod;
And, with one foot on sea and ono on land,
Raise his voice and wave Lis threaening hand
And cry aloud: ul swear the mystery's o'er,
Time is, Time was, but Time Anil be no more!"
Penns?lrazzia College, t W.
May. 1810.
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THE USEFUL FAMILY
Oa removing some time ago to a now
quarter of the town, where I was an entire
stranger, one of my first business was to look
out for a respectable grocer with whom we
might deal for family necessaries. With
this object in view, 1. one day, shortly tiller
our settlement in our new domicile, sallied
out on an exploratory expedition, through
our own, nod some of the adjoining streets,
in order, in the first place, to see what like
the general run of shops in our neighborhood
were. The result of this tour was to nar-.
row the matter of selection to three shops of
respectab!e appearance: which of these,.
however, I should eventually patronize, I
did tun at the moment determine,as I always
like to do things deliberately. This .delib
eration, then, reseliered another tour of ob
servation necess a ry.
On this second exeursion,, seeing nothing,
c'ives after a very eurefill survey, in the ex
tersids of either of the three slwps to decide
my final choice, 1 resolved, in the conceit
of a pretty ready appreciation oh character,
On being guided by the result of a glance nt
the general per - spud appfarances.ot the. re
spectire shopkrep•. rs.. On pretence then of
rxartining a box of Turkey. figs that lay in
Illr window of one of (he shops in question,
I took a fritive peep at the gentleman behind
the counter. I didin't like hislooks at all;
he was a thin, starved, hungry looking fel
low, with a long, sharp, red nose, and, I
thought, altogether, a sort of person likely
to do a little business in the short weight
way with those who dealt with them. 1
thought too, from the glance I took of his
head, that there was a deficiency in his
hump of conScientiousness. Him, therefore,
I struck off the list, and 'proceeded to the
next.
This man was, in all personal respects,
the very opposite of the other; he was a fat,
gruffsavag,e lookinff n monster, from whom 1
did not think much civility was to be expec
ted; nor did I like the act in which I found
him when I peeped through the window—
this was, throwing a b,;sket at the head of
his apprentice. Probably it was deserved,
but 1 did not like the choler it exhibited—
so I passed on to the third. Here was n
jolly, pleasant, matronly looking woman fur
shopkeeper. I was taken with her appear.
once, so in I popped, and we soon carne to
at, understaildintr. I opened nerrotiations
by the purchase rifri couple of pnundb of ten.
a proportionate quantity ofsuger,and several
other little odds and ends, for which I had
a commission from my wife. We fouid
the articles excellent, our worthy, jolly gro
reress civil and obliging ; and all, therefo.e,
so fir as this went, was right.
The grocer, however, although a most
convenient soi t of personage, cannot supply
all the wants of, afuniily, there is another,
still more essential, inasmuch its he is ne.
cessary not only to our comfort, but almost
to our existence—the baker. We still
wanted a baker; having hitherto bought our
hi cad in a straggling sort of a way. What
we wanted, then, was a regular baker; and
not 'mowing well where to look for one, we
applied to our obliging greceress. The
worthy woman see med delighted with the
inquiry—we wondered why; she thus solv
ed the mystery. "Why sir," she said, "my
eon's a baker; his shop is just a little further
on. He will be very happy !o supply you,
and I undertake to warrant his giving you
every satisfaction."
'Well pleased to find that our little expen
diture would, at least so far as the addition
of bread went, be still kept in the family, we
proceeded forthwith to the shop of the bak•
er. It was a very respectable looking one,
and the baker himself a civil,obliging fellow
so we settled matters with him on the in
stant.
It was, I think, somewhere about three
weeks after this,that our servant girl brought
along with a quantity of butter for which
she had been sent to Mrs. Aikenbide's—the
name, by way, of our worthy groceress—a
very handsome card, which ran thus: 'Mrs.
Jane Aikenside begs to intimate to her
friends and the public, that she has begun
business in the millinery end dress making
line, and that every care end attention will
be' bestowed in the execution of all orders
with which she may be favored.' At the
bottom of the card—'Availing herself of this
opportunity, Miss Mary Aikenside takes the
liberty of annoancing, that she continues to
instruct young Indies in music, on the terms,
formerly advertised,' namely, two guineas
per quarter. of three lessons per week.'
'Aikenside!' said I, on perusing the card;
'who aro they these Misses Aikenside?'
'Relations of the grocers, I dare say,
'said my wife. We inquired,and found they
were her daughters.'
'Very fortunate,' said my wife, 'I was just
at n loss where I should go with the girls'
new frocks and my own gown. We can't
do better than give them to Mrs. Aikenside's
daughters.'
I thought so too, and moreover, said so,
but being a matter not within my province,
I interfered no further in it. My wife, how.
ever, lost no time in calling on Miss Aiken
side who carried on her business in her
mother's liouse,which was immediately over
the shop.. The interview was satisfactory
to both artier. My wife was much pleased
with bat tile appearance and manners of
Miss Aikenside, and with the specimens of
work which she submitted. The children's
frocks and the gown wore, therefore, irnme- '
diately put into her heads. The work was
well done; my- wife said she had not seen
more accurate fits for a long time; so, from
this date, Miss Aittenside got all our milline
ry to do.
The intercoqrse which this brought on
between the female members of the two
families afforded my wife and daughters an
opportunity of hearing Miss Mary Aiken.
side's performances on the piapo—for she,
too, resided with her mother, with which
they were all delighted; she was, they said,
an :excellent performer ; tpy wife adding,
that as it was now full time that our two. '
eldest girls had. began nwsic (of which,, in
'deed, we had been thinking for some time
previously,) we might just send at once to
Miss Aikenside. I offered no objection,
but, on .the contrary wag very glad that we
could yet further patronise the very respec
table family whose serviceswe had already
found so useful; so to. Miss Mary Aikenside
our two daughters were sent to learn music;
and very rapid progress they subsequently
made under her tuition.;
It was only now—that's after my two girls
had began music with Miss A ilteosidetlint
'I began to perceive the oddity of the circum
stance of having so many of our, wt.intli.. 6 uP7
plied by one family ;' fori may add, the tlg7;
kor, who was unmarried, also lived.with-his
mother. But this was an oddity, to lie ren
dered yet more remarkable.
'Mrs. Aitteneido, my good lady.' said I.
on:dropping one day into the shop, 'you were
good enough, besides fernitthiog us with
what you dealt in yourself, to tell us where
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we could be supplied with what you did not
deal in. Could you tell us where to find r
shoenniker—a respectable shoemaker.'
Mrs. A ikenside laughed. 'My hustrand,
sir,' she said, 'is a shoeinaker, and win be
much obliged to you (or any employment
you maybe pleased to put in hiS way. '
I now laughed too; for the idea was be.
coming, 1 thought, exceedingly amusing.—
'A shoemaker, is he?' said I, that"S odd,'but
fortunate too. Where is hilt shop? whore
does he work ?'
'Oh, be hos no shop; shop rents aro so
high. He works up stairs in the house; he
hes a small room set apart for the purpose.
Will you walls up and see him, sir, if you
pleast*?' she added, pointing to an inside
stair, which conducted from the shop to the
story above.
I did so; and found Mr. A ikenside, a very
respectableloOking man hard at work in the
midst of two or three journeymen and up
prentices. Ile had seen me several times
in the shop before, so he knew me.
Aikenside," said 1, 'I want a little
work done in your way.'
Mast happy to serve you sir, said Mr. Ai•
kenside.
'lt is but a small matter though- 7 hardly
worth your attention, I doubt, but better
things will probably follow.'
'Hon"t matter what it is, sir—don't matter
how trifling. Glad and ready to do any
thing in my way however small; always
thankful for empleyment.'
'Then, sir we shall deal,' said I. There's
a parcel of my youngster's shoes all ,home,
that stand in need of repairing.
'Send them .over sir, and they 'shalt. be'
done to your satisfaction : or I'll 'send one of
these lads for them directly.'
Here was an active, prompt, thorough
going tradesman then—one who seemed to
know what he was about, and who, I lind 110
doubt, would do hii work well; just, in short,
such a man as I wanted
I was altogether much pleased with the
man, and could not help laughing remark
ing to him the oddity of, my finding so many
of the wants of life supplied by one family.
"There," said I, "is the grocer, the baker,
the milliner, thefeacher of music, and the
shoemaker, all in ono family—all living to.
gether.
'Ay, but you have forgot one—there's
another still to add,' said Mr. Ailcenside,
appreciating the humor of the thing. We
can furnish you with a tailor, ton; and as
good hand, I will say it, though he be my
own son, as any in town, be the other ivho
he may.'
'Bless my soul a tailor too!' said I; 'where
is this to end? Pray, where does he hang
out ?" •
'Why, sir, in the next room,' and he went
to the door, and called out, 'Jinn,.Jim, I say,
come here a moment.'
Jim came —a smart, and although in the
loose dishabille of his calling, a genteel look
ing lad.
'Hero continued Mr. Aikenside, address
ing his son—'here is a gentleman, who
doesn't say he wants anything in your way
just now, but who may, probably do so by
and by.'
Jim bowed politely and not ungracefully,
and saying he would he proud of any little
share of my employment which 1 should
think fit to afford him, put a handsome em
bossed card in my hand s with his name and
other particulars relative to his business.
The children's shoes were sent to tho
father; they were promptly and well done,
and the consequence was,that we henceforth
employed him both to make and mend for
Us.
Tho experiment of a suit for ono of my
boys was soon niter rude of the 6013'S ekill
as a workman ; it was satisfactory—more
than satisfactory. He, therefore, was in
stantly dubbed our tailor, and from this time
giveit all our work s both old and new.
So, good reader, there we are. This
single family of the Aikenside one way and
another, get at least three-fourths of our en
tire•incomy. and right welcome are they to
it, for they give a full and fair value in re
turn."
TRe DRITNEARD. — A drunkard is ono
that will bo a man of to•murrow morning,
but is now, whet you will make him, for he
is in the poyer of the next man, and if tt
friend, the better, One that hash let,go
himself frern' the.hold pad stay of reason,and
lies open to the mercy of all temptations.—
No rust but finds .him disarmed and fence
less, and with the least assault enters. I
any mischief ,eseape him, it, was not his
fault, for he was laid as fair for it as he
could. Every man sees him, as Shorn Itaw
his father, the first of this sin, an uncovered
,man, and though his garment be on, uncov
ered, the socret parts of his soul lying the
nakedest manner visible? all his passions
come out now, ally his vanities, and those
she mefuller humors which discretion plotheS.
His body becomes at last like ir miry way,
where the spirits are beclogged and cannot
.pass; all his members are out of his office,
and his heels do but trip up one another:—
He is a blind Man with eyes, and a cripple
with legs on. All the use he has of this
vessel himself is to hold thus much, for his
drinking is but a' scooping in of so many
(warts, which are filled out into his body,
and that filled out again into room, which
'is commonly as.drunk as he. Tobacco
serves to air him after a washing, and• it, his
only breath, and breathing while. Ho is
the greatest enemy to himself, and the next
do hie friend, and then most in , the act of his
kindness, for his kindness is but trying a
mastery who shall sink down first, and men
'come from him as frame battle, wounded
and bound up. Nothing mite* a man- off
more frem his credit end business, end
makes him more wretchedly careless what
becoottA of all. Indeed, he dares not enter"
on a serious thought, or ir ho do, it is such
melancholy that it sends him to be drunk
again.
Tits CoNritgsroNAL!..---In a town some fif
ty miles from BostOn, the members of a re
ligious society were' in the practice of hold
' ing conference meetings in the church, at
which they made a kind of audible confes
sion, technically called recounting one's'
"experience." A very pious Member.of
the church,,Mr. was in the liabit . .4
inviting neighbor Mr. L—, who Was'
not a member, to attend these meetings; at
ono of which Mr. got up and stated
to the congregation that he was a great sin.
her 7 -that he sinned daily, With his eyes
open—that he willingly and knowingly sir.-
ned —that goodness dwell net, in him—that
lie was absolutely and totally iiepritiMdthat
nothing hut the boundless Mercy and, infinite
goodness of God > nuld save him from eter
nal damnation. A fteirthis "confession of
Mr. D—, Mr. L—, who bad by n'cci
dent been placed 'upon the "anxious seat . ,"
was called upon to recount his "exnerieride."
He arose with the niost inipertuu bable grav
ity, stated that lie had very little to say of
himself, but the brethren would remember
mat he•hnd lived for fivo.and.twenty years
the nearest neighbor of Mr. D.; that he kaew
him well—more intimately so than any
other man—and it gave him great pleasure,
because he could do it with entire sincerity,
to confirm the truth of all brother D. had
confessed of himsdf. %I' hen Mr. L. sat
down under the visible and audible smile of
the whole congregation, the parson riot ex
cepted, Mr. D. went up to him and said
"You are n - rascal and a liar, and I'll lid
you when you get out orchurcli.".
no ' NTPLEF.P WITH YOUR GRAND)TOTIIER.
—Transferring of Vital Power.—A not
uncommon cause of loss of vital powers is
the young sleeping with the aged. The
fact, however explained, has been long re•
marked, and it is well known to every un
prejudiced observer. But it has been most
unaccountably overlooked in medicine. 1
have on several occasions, met with the
counterpart of the following -case. I was,
a few years since, consulted about a pale,
sickly and thin boy, of about five or six
years of nye. lie appeared to have no spe
cific ailment, but there was a slow, and re
markable decline of flesh nod strength, and
of dartenergy of all the functions—that his
mother aptly termed n gradual blight. Af
ter inquiring into the history of the case, it
came out that he had been a
year,
and ple
(boric child up to his third year, when his
grandmother, a very aged person took him
to sleep with her; that he soon afterwards
lost his good looks; and ho continued to de
aline ever since, notwithstandincr medical
treatment. I directed him to sleep apart
from the aged parent, and prescribed tonics,
change of air, etc. • The recovery was ra
pid. It is not with children only that debt!.
ity is induced by this mode of abstracting
vital power. Those in good health should
never sleep with sickly persons.
TIIE CANAJOTIARIE RADII, a paper prin•
ted and edited by a deaf mute, gives the fol-
lowing account of a recent suinish revel in
that place:
"On Saturday an Incident took place at
the distillery which would do for an example
to bipeds of more notoriety. During the
process of converting the grain into liquor,
some part of the machinery gave way,
which turned the liquor into the place where
the swine are kept. The hogs (about sixty
in number) soon began to drink with the re•
lish of old topers; and like them, the longer
they drank, the more thirsty they became,
until the whsle stye was turned into a bac
chanalian revel—running and tumbliog over
each other—then rubbong their snouts one
against another, which were probably ex
pressions of eternal friendship, as we have
ene,n drunken loafers seize each other by the
band to demonstrate their fraternal regard.
Afler a while the scene changed, and some
became remarkably 'testy.r—others found
their legs treacherous; while• a few grave
porkers we , saw sitting,op their haunches,
and looking as foolish As a man does wlien
he knows tie. is diSqualified for locomotion,
and is afraid others will find it out.
In about an hour Momus took possession
of the revellers, and they all united in sleep
ing of the fumes of their debauch. We
looked in the next day, and it there could
be penitent hogs, thei•o, were some among
them. They all appeared though they
had acted very foolish."
Dr. Hitchcock pulls teeth so easily that a
man the other day begged him to "finish the
row," after he had removed a decayed one
—he said he enjoyed it.
We bad. scarcely finished reading the
above when we noticed : the following in the
Boston Tratiscript. Those Boston wags
are ahead yet. We pass:
Good Fishing.—lt is said that trout are
so plenty in Granville, ih this State, that
whorl one man is fishing for °them, ,angther
is obliged to stand by the hook ‘vitb,a'club, to
. protent more tban'one from biting at a time!
THE Wiser Poirrr INctutax•—ilie N. Y.
Herald statee,(yve know not with what truth)
that the Court of Inquiry at Westfoint has
already developed some extreme cases of
moral abandonment. Drunkenness, pro
fanity, lasciviousness and peculation are de
scribed as having been things of daily and
nightly occurrence among the cadets. We
think• this is to be doubted. Time will show.
A fellow whose countenance was homely
enough to scare the old one, was giving
some extra flmrishes in a public house,
when he was observed by a Yankee, who
asked him 'if he did'nt fall into a brook
when young?" What do you mean, you
impertinent scoundrel?' was the reply.—
• W hy, I did'iat mean nothing, only you_have
got such an all-fired crooked mouth, I
thought ns how you might have fallen in
the brook when you was a boy, and your
mother hting you up by the mouth to dry.'
'PAYING roe .NNEws--On returning to his
family, after on absence of some weeks,
Capt. Johnson had been driven from King
ston to Dublin by a carman, who, looking
discontentedly at the fare paid him, said,
"Shure, your honor will give a trifla more
than this?" "Not a rap," said the Captain.
"Bad luck to me-but you would," persisted
Paudge, "if yeu knew all, then." "What
do you mean?" asked Johnson; anxiously.
"Fail days tellings,any way; and is it only
for my fare I'm to tell my news?" "Well,
well," said the 'captain, "here's another shit
ling; now what liaq happened?" "Sorra the
harm at all, only I thought you'd not be
grudge a little extra salient to know that I
drive ye the last three miles without a Ipich
pin."—Playing About; by I;ercon Ildl.
"You CANT STOP THEN. "— Tio Ruffale
nian says it would as soon try to go to sea
on a :fihinge, make a ladder of fog, chase a
streak of lightning through a crabapple or
chard, swim - up the rapids of the Niagara
river, raise the dead, slop the tongue of a
woman, or set Lake Erie on fire with a
loco loco match, as to stop two young loy
ors from getting married, when they take it
into their heads to do so.
A lady, visi!ing the British Museum. in
gutred Willey had a skull of Newton? When
answered in the negative, she said, won-
der at that, the:V:have got one at Oxford '
The administration says, through its or
gans, that "none but free negroes are the
occupants of log cabin's." Bays, do you
hear that? The administration, moreover,
announces, that, hereafter no young man
who is married shall receive an appointment
as an officer of the army. Girls, do you
hear tha t?—Prentice.
The editor of the Globe says that he "will
speak the truth though the heavens fall."—
We apprehend, that these two extraordinary
events, his utterance of the truth and the
falling of the heavens, will occur about the
same time.—Prenlice.
A Limericic paper says—Mr. Matthew,
the Catholic priest, administered the tee
total pledge in Nenagh, the most Protestant
district of Tipperary, in one day to 16,000
persons. The Society now consists of 700,:
000 members.
Tuc Brirrzsu QUEEN.—This fine vessel
took her departure on Monday, punctually
at the appoimed hour. There are some
facts remarkable enough to be recorded.—
She has on board 172 passengers, including
children and sereants,and of persons belong
ing to the ship 110—making in all 282 hu
man beings; a number not often exceeded,
we imagine, to be enclosed within a ship not
belonging to the naval service.
The postage received for letters carried
out by the British Queen amounted to 83,-
000.
l'he whole amount of passage money is $20,175
Amount of freight 3,727
Amount of postago 3;100
THE EXPLOSION AT ALTON—Further
Particiders.--LThe St. Louis Republican,
received by last night's mail, contains the
following :
By the captain of the steamboat Eagle,
we learn that the powder magazine in Alton.
situated above the steam mill, esp:oded a
bout half past eleven o'clock at night. There
were in it 490 kegs of powder. The report
is represented as tremendous beyond the
imagination of any ono who did not hear it.
The building was of stone, cot a vestage ofd
which realms on the ground. Some stones
were thrown across the Mississippi and tol
an immense height, tome of which in falling
cut their - way throe:7h the roof and several
floors of buildings. A rock three feet long
fell on the roof of a warehouse, and stopped
at the, ground floor. Another stone of sev
eral pounds weight cut through a roof and
two floors, and fell on a bed between a man
and his wife—no one was injured. Nearly
every pane of glass in Lower and Upper Al
ton was broken, and in the penitentiary and
several other buildings the sashes were
carried into the room. Nothing but the
hour at wbieh it occurred prevented the
loss of life.
Isimy MApairi.—This town, tha great
head quarters of earthquakes is in a fair
way of falling into the river- On the night
of the 21st ult. there was a land slide of a.
'bout 300 feet, bringing the water near the
houses. The current of the river has chan
ged so as to throw its fury on the bank im
mediately in front of the town, lithe cur
rent. continues in its present direction, the
property of the citizens must inevitably be
ingulphod, as the bank is continual:y crum
bling, and sometimes in very large slides.
About a month since a boat landed and dis
charged considerable freight, we are told,
and before the drays arrived to receive it,a
slide occurred which took with it all the
froight.—St. Louis Bulletin.
79 4 ,Z4(02.)/1/ a - P(OQ 84020
MR. Encrom-1 was sitting nt my win•
dow some evenings ago, when. Iwo mechnn
ics met each other, and began to talk just
i below me. Being pleased with the good
I!sense of their conversation, I tof.k tip my
pep, nod, as well ns I can recollect, wrote it
down, nor, it is: ,
"Good morning, John; havo you found
any work yet? 1 have not."
"No," said John, "not ono stroke; no
body's doing anything."
" What are things coming to, if they keep
on at this rate," said his companion.
"I don't know, indeed," said John; . r can't
live on one day work in a week, and sup.
port my family. Bill, I hat() to go home
and sec my poor children ; tor God only
knows how long it will be before they are
crying to me for bread; it's all owing to the
currency, and our rulers should better it;
they have the power."
"They are going to, John."
"Yes; " replied he, "and their attempts
are like the man ivho undertook to Make his
horse live on ono straw n;day; his experi
ment, went on bravely r with this exception,
that before he had reduced him to the ono
straw diet, ho was dead."
"Why, John, you talk like
"So 1 am."
~
"You a IVhig.' l \
"Yes, you need'nt stare—the story is
short; I bad nothing to do, so I got the pa
pert+, and read both sides, and now I mean
to go it strong for Tippecanoe.
"Well!"
•
"Yes, it's, very well indeed."
"But, Julia, the boys will laugh at you,
and call you "turn-coat."
"Let them, and 'those of them I can't
thrash l'il try to, I know my business best,
and 1 know who is my friend; Old Tip is,
and Martin Van Buren is not. Tip's as
bravo old soldier, and an honest man; and
what is still better, a working man,like my
self. As regards the coat, I'll tell you how
it is; I got up in the morning half asleep,
and put it on wrong side out, and that was
the Van Buren side, all threads, seams and
linings; when 1 awoke well, I, like a sensi
ble fellow, took it °IT, brushed it, and then
put it, on right. Now the Tip side is out;
and ['consider that man it fool who takes an
exception at the change; ,but him . a greater
fool who is ashamed to turn his coat right;
but would, because he put it on wrong in the
morning, wear it so all day."
"But John, what's your reasons?"
..For these Van. Buren's experiments
have played the d-1 . with the currency,
and I stn consequently out of work; he has,'
therefore, virtually taken my wages from
me, and I mean to charge him in my book
for every day IC am out of work, and consid
er the sum total so many good reasons for
not voting for him: When his party came'
into office, they found the best of currencies,.
and I found work plenty; both are gone to
Davy Jones' Locker. He promised: us a
gold and silver currency. Where is
Why, hero is one of the ghosts of the hum. ,
bug," and he took out a shinplaster levy.
"But. John,. it was the Whigs and the
Banks."
"Pshaw, nonsense! nobody in his senses'
believes that. What have the IVings to do .
with our financial afl'airs'f . They are not at
the head of the government. They wore
in the minority, but don't intend to be any
long; but, admitting this fulsehood,•a party .
that would permit a minority to do as they
&are with our moneys are not fit to rule,'
and should bo turned out. And again, I
should be a fool indeed to vote for a party
who goeti the whole hog for reducing my
wages; and that, by-the•by, I think is very
useless, for just let them tinker and Cobble
away as usual, and the mechanic Won't have
any wages to be reduced at all. And Mr.
Van Buren is not the choice of the people;
ho was smuggled into the Presidential chair
under the old General's popularity. We
want no such bastard' politicians foisted up
on us. Let a man's own worth, talentev
merit and popularity father him—not anoth
ere. And &gain, this party has propesed
and acted upon this curious proposition, "a
'small rogue's n big rogue, and a big. rogue
'is no rogue at all—he is only n defaulter -_—
an absquatulator—bat no rogue. Steal a
five dollar note and you will be sent to jail;:
steal (don't steal, oh no, only take) a million•
and a half, and you are a fine fellow—very .
much surprised you didn't take more; and'
in one case, they actually applied the old'
fable of the fox and the flies to some rogue- .
ing, thieving rascal Out west.''
..Well, John, have no werkto do; I will
fro and read both sides. May ..tie my old
jacket is on wrong too, so good-bye."
, •Good bye, 13111; tell all your friends to'
read both sides too;" and they departed,
$27,002
AN INCIDEN'T IN COURT.—As may be'
.een by referring to our record of the Wei.
ness of yesterday in the courts,' the "Gene.
r.,1 Sessions" wore engaged upon a case of,
rather a partizan bearing. In the• midst of
- Mr. James Hall Bready's address to the ju
ry, ho took occasion to say, in referring to
a. remark which had been made by ,Mr.
. Hubbell or Mr. Campbell f on the other side
of the question, that "though General Her
risen had lived in ato house, he might yet
occupy the first house in the nation at Wash
ington." A voice among the crowd of epee-'
Caters roared out "never." Judge D ar i en
promptly ordered other proceedings suspen
ded and the arrest of the disturber for con:
tempt of court. He was brought forward;i
and several witnesses having certified to his:
identity, he was fined fifty dalara by .
the:
Bench as a penalty for his misconduct.
Phil. U. S. Our. June 6.
From the Pilot.
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