• t • 0 G. H4USTEAD I Proprietor. TEACH THE " DEMOCRAT." • . •01011 DOLLAR ANDQIIPTT CICTI • year, In advance, or two dollars It not paid Roil the cod of the year, or Subecription. No paper discontinued until artearages are paid, except at the option of the pidilisher. ‘, Mites si Advertises... One Square, (rvre,i*e linea, or lea,) 3 Insertions, 51 00 Each aubsetwent Insertion, 25 One Square, 3 menthe, 230 6 trainee,4 00 • Ihtatnen Cards. elfour lines or 1 200 Yearly Advertise,* (who occopy e tt over 4 Reveal 700 One column. onnPear, ) 00 , 0:2" POST*PRED Onmunlcadons only wilt receive attedtion 7421:43T0 F the Boston 'reveller. THE *IN BEHIND; THE AGE. O imam, Elk! I ought to be Aye 11141 loog ago, It Ls so plait too late I dame ' into thiscimrld of wo. So hard arsfplans to understand In whicWiten's thought" engage, My perplertid bruits will not take pains To keep with the age. Men fasten;{ ghtning on a rod To exprdis all the news, And Sandetiand tells all the world What, to*' - ' body does. I wish theol‘,'pesky nieuneriste Were kaiiied of Life's stage; They e,re tirkitHigh wary thing bat truth, And keesPitp with the age. • My sole t rehat pains from pinching boom t What sc4ity coats men wear ! What modinitbacbelor does not blush At arms f 1 . !,1:1d bosoms bare ! No end tLe Il be to bloody ware While pefiticilina rage I I 'dill thatlbad not been born. Eo far behind the age. Who stealsik loaf at, famines bid Boards aqhe Eititte's expense, Who forge4o a large amount Is deew a man of sense. 0 fora atrdifg hangman's knot, A. whipping-post and cage. A ducking kijoo 1 for gossiper. ! B et i'mtokhind the age. At church Oundred lusty lungs In one gr t in , blast, join in With argent thundering treble hue. To awell*e horrid din ; 0 forthat gi;laixt "Old Hundred" lay My ear-pins to assuage, • With Coar*y on. his ! But I'm laihual the age. No soul hai4e.who bag Dot heard Sublime Niagara's roar In transpi+ikl, whsle Ole Bull Bat one fling flddka o'er. 1 7 104 'rental voice And Bart 6 Bate but pent me I would no; 4, 4ltir:an inish to hear Bull or IlKleaccianti. Thee was ithes Umiak& deigned to spin Each daye,a rue or so; . • Bat Dore wiring they understand Bat wimenthey , re after beam. . Thad throw . 1 m a bachelor, ill iwet like a sage. Take celoroqrra, blow oil my brains And bet nkarith the age. ' IC2SOMV.4I4IN7g Kr The fol li ming pretty little tale from Godey's Lady'clook for October has been se lected for our tlumns by a worthy bachelor friend, who magi be, like its author, taking the "after -thought Most sincerely, diriiie hope so. The couvOsion from cold celibaeS , of one so almost hope * sly incorrigible as our friend in question, waflila bo a great triumph indeed for the author. f 5 We have strong hopes—think the arrow took Affect : LEAVES ROM MY JOERNAL. taalr SQ.7IKE uCITLI. E INVITATION. 1 . Thermomete tat 90 0 , and no soda fountain I near. I had, wit' no little satisfaction, finished my book and tWrown it unceremoniously upon the table. T*bird of animation already had I folded its wingsand qoinposadtself to doze in 1 the warm nest tfl'iny brain, sail] wearied by its eager and exciting flight over the p . • , of Mis- 1 errimas-6-impabsloned work of a m. t cruel author—and lid left me musing over -.at II had just reakiteaching of the emptiness . f worldly please s. Row that the great King Abderame hadtzeigned fifty years, and•that it had been his t*enjkly and exhaust riches, hon ors, pleasnrea4all that the world considers worthy—yet, i4lhis own estimation, he had from , all this-long EON of apparent felicity, been really 'happy 14. fourteen little days. How I then wished tlMt to this moral legacy of the , Moorish king 144 one brief clause bad been add- 1 ed, simply tell g how those happy days had 1 Leen whiled avily, and bow men might be no i longer tudiapp,l. Vain life . :- cold -world '... 71 little jeatnesq—false and fading honor ‘..— wearisome socie L ty, whose denir - opens - inwardly, catching and Destroying whomsoever entereth to nibble at th* cheese of luxury '! Heartless, ealcalatimg bi4dship, such as exists between the eater and that which may become food, in= adulating itselri into the heart's recesses u the serpent enters he hole of its 'prey l 1 know notlhow long from the bine bowled pipe of dejectn I may have whiffed the liittmi-: eating and beim:Lathing smoke exhaled from itis anthropy4s sod-destroyin g weed, had 'not my old crony L-46—,: , , whom I had basely forgotte n .. in the earnest Mess of my rhapsody, entered the room and int+pted me with— -- . " Rollos, 34, —, I shall eipeet you to be . 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" 1 . . . • s , . . •'-- i _ ' _, still ringing sweetly in my ears, his op the last stair told' e that I was Yet greatly were my spirits refresh, that to• me was yet left a friend, I answered my friend's invitatio big his house at the appointed ho. the folding doors of the apartment • open 63 a happy assembly of rel friends. The scene disclosed was t hitensest interest, -which I would bri iMperiectly describe while the pea tiling between an eager. approach o fUI retreat. In the centre of-the brilliantly lig 'stood 'the bride—she in whose gos the bird of my friend's soul had b • tiicablY .entaingled—dressed with pfieity, for nature needed not the assistance of art, she appeared the tion of, goodness and innocence. T oT a spring, morning crowned her mind and feeling flooded her soul, • aii thry looked up into L—'s fa happy an expression froth between t fringed and shadowy curtains. Ho 'al:ming of a purer world, half like a a dream, she stodd in spiritual con vdtb lips more firmly closed than th the simple white japonica buds her encireled. Ey her stood L—, justly h _heart% pride, a picture of easiness nature, which even uncle Toby wont vied. Each the chosen companion o entail aught else add'anytbing of be chantncent to the happy couple ? indeed, unless Sought for in the t. bridesmaids—the one trying to cone kreed looks of comic gravity her b nature, for than sbe =cricket or w net more cheerful, nor April day in, nor suMmer breeze more graceful t erg motion. The other, I would al the self same fair one Epes Sargon t 4 other day in one of his frequent whom he — thus sings-- , The ocean's blue is in her ey - i Its coral in her lips, ! And in her cheeks the mingled • 1 - . , No sea•shell could eclipse." But llmust stay my quill, for th. I longer doubting, slowly approach ( shrine, preceded by the holy, man o and shortly the wedding: ceremon l commenced. Amber clear were the }tees that invoked the blessing o; god tip, site union about to be con but these, no sound disturbed the s. Iness andlOneness of breathing, say, gle jingle sound of the rainbow ligl of the chandelier, touched softly by - lgarment4 of the gentle summer wi n . fully leaped in at the window, imps turn to kiss the - grateful bride—an, snob a kind nurse and friend of na better right to the first kiss of one ,own offspring? A grateful kiss, too, it was to the 1 which cooled a little central spot in • !cheek, that looked for all the world] (footprint on the crimsoned Alpine I thoughtless thing though it was, fo not to gather up its garments in it - ! unseasonable flight, for the jingling f effect on her of prim mouth, unabl moulded into solemnity, and alums, little bridesmaid laugh aloud. A I too, it was, to flutter-the ruffles and !those aged grandamc4., #d deco.. Iquaint looks that seemingly said, " ;fashion has altered even this holy c wrought sadly for the worse upon t. forms of fifty years ago." And a !wind it was that, in its capers, dre Ito these things and made it heed i good man's words, tell Ms distinct hatb joined let no man put asunder " the cerem o ny finished. • -' r Then 'awhile' was - silence, as it w. holy act had been registered above what a foist of jkisses and what hen tations were exchanged ! There w. butterfly kiss o ceremony, cruelly . atl offered a dainty morsel ; the , wing, sn like kiss of parents ; m., . net° sof sister and brother !Ong, on ' wn," honey-bee kit friende, .e lips. bung together t . . 1 i ra the eockl—sh to its rocky Mute. fiiit of love ; ; 'ned altatixnti w' otsympathy, este .*. -ass the flames . ingpile, and how instantaneously it the lips of all. " , The feast- of lovb hardly over, con 14.iely and merry silver-ringing-tat birds fessi!Qcon light brideseake an . er wines, Or cantle - Im' sly nibbling des id wedding, especially fancied by lit that little urehind who, so though , marrow, glances tie watchful, big, ot a glheedless company, and th . I hrough theloorway. W offerer hide his sweeftreasures .., haystack ! Simghty. .boy—rightl when sireet-toothedi servants saw end slily shared tbe sp,oili. , ::, Somewhat excited by the champ li g ht Mai plameake of sadifaction, hid partaken until a late bout; Lb *the bride and bridegroom, and btu to mmsale , pillow. That nighl .oier• thet scenes or the . 4 other seen' ' besides, quorum' magi rar Meth° ' I stood ar.ivid b e t em of errors, frit Which the god gyro did, and "tliel jury seits - were-lillel laighing Maiden& • In refutatiOni , Mont riV4lfially m y latevin in t T le • Sheriff's bi knotta arms, of my hand ; . liisilly . bad 'it ip toti l ls 101 4 Wit *fir .I.ll,andlis -.1 proteins; et or s from • "No one he so neentsed by Ws, No one so wbolly desolate, Not some begot the unknown, Responds nom his own." r . THE WEDDIiid chambers that pretty jury rung in my ears as their rendered verdict, " The handkerchief of tied in knots, and the gold and jewels left4out !" How I then wished myself posses sorienf thmteTh - ntging of Gyges, that I could hate bec - inviable' as the flowers of the fig- mole tread gain alone. for I felt nd that in in every Chia penpy mind to turn for 11 in,my heart. led rn not murm r, she who snared ie happiest of m for it Would like to attend another wedding soon, an - 4; that one no other than mine own. by enter -just as •re thrown tives and me one of fly though are hesi a respect- THE DEBTOR. • HY D. C. COLESIVORTRY. ted parlor : mer web ome inex inute sim blunderful ersonifiea e openness row, while ming orbs c, with so eir deeply • then like vesture in ernplation, karts of oved hand • You are in debt? Poor fellow, we pity you. Wel know how you are looked upon by your, creditor. He feels that you are his property—, I bod y . and soul—to do with you and by you as Ills fancy or folly may dictate. It is his privi legii to speak of you as be may please:While r yeti shut your mouth self-condemned. You arelin debt to him and cannot pay—what right liar) you to speak? He meets you in the pub lic 'etreet and you cannot escape his eye. At first you feel like crossing the street but then youk will make your case more prominenk.and histlanee=who cannot read it ? You are ac costed, you are condemned, you aro insulted— buCit will cot do to retaliate. You have our syrOpathy, and that is all we can bestow at pre - tent. Who that knows the miseries of a poor debtor, will not struggle hard and try to keep oue;of debt ? Fr devoted and good havo en the other, ntv or en; Nothing, D fair, lily al beneath tter jovial rbling lin e variable, .n her ev- gIIE WORKS FOR A LlVlNG.—Commend us to the girl of whom it is sneeringly said, She works for a living." In her we are 11- wais sure to find the elements of a true woman —a real lady. True, we are not prepared to seea mincing step—a haughty lip—a fashion abli dress—to hear a string of splendid non settee about the ballsand the young men—the neknorels and the next, parties ;—uo—no— hit' we are prepared to bear sound words of gooll, sense—language becoming woman—and to e,ee a neat dress, a mild brow, and to witness movements that would not disgrace an angel. Ye who are looking for-wires and compan iwtS, turn from the fashiOnable, lazy, haughty girt and select one from any of those who work fora liring,--and never—our word for it—will yott repent your choice. Yon want a substan tial: friend and not a doll ; a help-meet and not a hOp-eat ; a counsellor , and not a, simpleton. Yo* may not be able to carry a friend into your bottae, but you can purchase a spinning wheel or ti set of knitting needles. If you , cannot purl:hase any new novel, you may be able to take some valuable paper. If you cannot bay a ticket to the ball, , you can,visit some afflicted neihbor. Be careful then when you i look for co4aniohs and whom you chobse. We know -many a foolish man, wbd, instead of choosing thcindustrious and prudent woman for' a wife, tpolt one from the fashionable walks, and is now lanienting his folly in dust and ashes. He ran into the fire with his eyes wide open, and who buttimself is to blame ? The time was when ladies who went a visit took their work with them. This is the reation why 'we bare such exc e llent mothers..— Holt , singular would a gay woman look in a fashionable circle, darning her father's stock ingiN or carding wool to spin. Would not her companions laugh at herd And yet.such a gay: woman would be, a prize for somebody.— Bleised is the man who chooses his wife from among the despised girls who work for a liv ing;"—Boston Ohre Branch. ost swear met tritb ambles, of guests no the inner authority, has been preacher's Almighty 'mutated; lemn still but a sin ted prisms he trailine that play- Tent of its who, than nre, bad a .f nature's 'degroom, is Darning ken white sat*. A the wind hasty and risais• had ito remain made the nde Wind, cap-ties of pose their ameleon atom,: and o good old ry wicked ' AIdIFICIAL BAIIRIERS TO SOCIAL IMERCOLTIISE. . , We are of opinion that much agreeable and pr4table social intercourse is prevented 12 t y a want of moral courage in adopting a simple style of entertaining one's friends and acquain- i tanees. Let us look around, and what do Is% fin 4 to be the general state ,of intercourse be tween friends and acquaintances in the middle an upper classes of a commercial community? Oni r ?the one liank'We see an entire abstinence froth all social intercourse (except, perhaps, with ithafaate connexions), arising from *no nolliCal motives, founded on the impossibility of complying with the supposed requirements of 1 society in this matter. On the Other we find individuals giving, once or twice a year per hallit, an expensive and formal dinner party, or 0 stiff evening entertainment, . at neither of which does any one feel himself at ease ; where oneis in the midst of a most heterogenons company, gathered together without any earth- 1 ly itference to fitness or amalgability, and from i whleh one at least escapes, thankful to find-' him lf again at his own quiet fireside—inward ly towing that nothing idled ever again tempt . 1 hint; to exchange its genial- precincts for any euoi vain and profitless visiting. During the winter, Mr. and Mrs. A have been , in vited to dinner by Mr. and Mrs. B , or thebroung people have bad "the pleasure of their company requested," ike., by-the C—s. Thie A—T- 7 s consequently feel it incumbent on Them to clear off the-debt supposed to be i °wt l'i to the saidß—s and e a, by in‘ng them in return; and in order 'to have ags mill Clearing ot of scores, they bethink thejnselves of all and sundry from whom they have received civilities during the past six or twelve months,' and without any consideration wl i tever to the liiimoriy of the ingred ient m - bers of the company, s great crow d. of per in, for the most part Ste:l,ollllmm' osaah Othlsr, are uncomfortably packed together, the hors is tuned iopTy-tart' for slew defro, , Vtit.deal of money ts foolishly squatiderod; 11 0 liikorter saiiirsation hag revolted to soy body. awl *heaths SIMr is over; thesiren _,nitita esteetainmenty oongraulat4 OW- I ' ' #' - • that a it last risWelokiste bahr• . 4 hers hsns to . 160310, 11 bli 10 404, 4 my mind ess of the ghat God nonneed till the and then felt saki : the light t m twain deep, .tear the fervid j ; and th , of 'trim maiions as What a h the dew ":the burn ' pursed up enced the o of Jody stilllight- rich tiles I , Eben— gl of the 'mod eye slily dis the a frigiint PF i k i ffi ed 7 e of se-. eta helm I obtained j and Pin l fuL ors eteitt by - Eire the iota 4r: ibe ad, tile •:-/e#,l MONTROSE PA., THUMP * * thought it all over ded that it stands truly happy with- ;_ 2 • i „SEPTEMBE4:I, 1848. any of the B--:4 ii . : c ------e, of D , s, te droyin upon them in. a ttiet! way ' . d energising.. With such pe ons there Inran!M between a fennel f me party t'