Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1857 — Page 4

t'yOne of our native poets, tickled at a little circumstance that happened in bis family, in a sentimental tit rushed into print with it, and attempted to father it upon the carlessness of St. Peter; but that old custodian, it will be seen denies the toft impeachwetit. The two "jems” are passing among the current literature of the day: .MY < IIILD’S OKIGIN. by p.rvin baßkeb. One night »« old Saint Peter slept He left the door of Heaven ajar, When through a little angel crept, And came down with a falling star. One Hummer as the blessed beams Os morn approached, my bios ing bride, Awakened from some pleasing dreams, And found that angel by her side. Ood grant but this—l ask no more; That when he leaves this world of sin. He’ll wing his wav to that blessed shore. And find that d'oor of Heaven again. ST. PETEK’S REPLY. Full eighteen hundred years or more I've kept my doors securely tied. There is no “little angel" strayed, Nor has been missing all the while. I did not sleep as you supposed. Nor leave the door of heaven ajar; Nor has a "little angel” left, And gone down with a falling star. Go ask that ‘blushing bride” and see If she won’tfrankly own and say, That when she found that aagel babe, She found it by the good old way God grant but this—l ask no more; That should your number be enlarged. That you will not do as before Anil lay it to old Peter’s cha'ge

Il aid Shell Sermon. My Beluved Erethering.—l am an , nnlarnt hard shell Baptist preacher of whom you've no doubt heern before and j 1 now appear here to expound the Scripture and pint out the narrer way which leads from a vain world to the streets of the New Jurouesalitm, and my text which ■ I shall chuse for the occasion is in the leda of the bible, somewhere between the second Chronicalls and the last chapter of Timothy Titus, and when you find it, you will find it in these words: 'And they shall gnaw a file and flee into the mountains of Hepzidam, where the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first born.’ Now, my blethering, as I have before told you, 1 am an uneddieated man, and know nothing about grammar talk and collidge hifalootin; but I'm a plain unlarnt preacher of the Gospil what s been foreordained and called to expound the • scriptei s to a dyiu* world, and prepare a preverse generation for the day of wrathfor ‘they shall gnaw a file anJ flee unto. the mountains of Hepzidam, where the : lion roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth for its first-born.’ i Mv beluved breelhering, the text says , •they shall gnaw a tile.’ It don’t say , mny but they skull. And now there’s , more nor one kind, of file. J here’s the , hand saw file, the rat tail file, single tile, | double file, and profile; but the kind of, silo spoken oi here isn't one of them kind neither, because it's figger of speech my breetbering, and means going it alone and getin’ ukered; for ’they shall gnaw a tile and flee unto the mountains of Ilepzi- ] dam, where the lion roareth and the | doodle mourneth for its first-born, i e» # | And now there be some here with fine j close on their backs, biass rings on their I fingers and lard on their har, what goes' it while they’re young; and tharbe brothers here what, as long its hard constitutions and forty cent whiskey fast goes it blind; and there be sisters here what when they git about sixteen years old; rut thar tiller ropes and goes it with a rush; but I say, my dear breelhering, take care you don’t find when Gabriel plays his last trump, that you’ve went it alone and got ukered; for 'they shall gnaw a file and flee unto the mountains of Hepzidam, where the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first-born.’ And breelhering, thar’s more dame beside Hepzidam. Thar’s Rotterdam, Haddam, Amsterdam, mill dam and don’t care-a-dam —the last of which, my dear breethering. is the worst of all, and reminds me of a circumstance 1 oncet knew in the State of lilenoy. There was a man what built bitn a mill on the east fork of Ager creek, and it was a good mill and ground a sight of gram, but the man what built it was a miserable sinner, and never give anything to the church; and, my breethering, one night thar come a dreadful storm of wind and rain, and the foundations of the great deep was broken up, and the water rushed clown and swept that man’s mill dam into kingdom come, and lo'. behold, in the morning when he got up he found that he was not worth a dam. Now, my young breethering, when storms of tempratioi: overtake vou. take care you don't fall from grace—and become like that man’s mill—not worth a dam, for 'they shall gnaw a tile and flee unto the mountains of Hepzidam. where the lion roareth and the wring doodle mouneth for its tirat-boin.’

‘Where the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first-born.’ This part of the text, my breethern, is another figger of speech, and isn’t to be taken as it says, it doesn’t mean the howlin’ wilderness, where John the hard shell Baptist ! was fed on locus and wild asses but.it : means, my breethering, the city of New Yorleans, the mother of harlots and bard lots—where corn is worth six bits one | day and nary red the next —where niggers are as thick as black bugs in a spiled i bacon ham, and gamblers, thieves and pickpockets go skiting around the steels like weasels in a barn yard—whar they have cream colored horses, gilded carriages, marble saloons with brandy and i sugar in them—whar honest men are I scarcer than hen’s teeth, and a strange woman oncet tuk in your beluved preacher and bamboozled him out of two hundred and twenty seven dollars in the | twinkle of a sheep’s tail; but she can’t do , it again, Hellolujah; for ‘they shall gnaw j a file and flee unto the mountains of Ilepzidam, where the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first born.’ My breethering. I’m captain of that flat boat you see tied up thar, and I’ve got aboard of her, flour, bacon and oats and potatoes and apples, and as good Monongahely whiskey as you ever drank;j and I’m mighty apt to git a big price for I it al). But what, oh my breethering, I would it all be worth to me; if I hadn’t| religion? There’s nothing like religion, my breethering. It’s better nor silver and gold and jimcracks, and you can no more git to Heaven without it than a jay bird can fly without a tail. Thank the Lord, I’m an uneddieated man, my breethering but I searched the scriptu r s from Dan to Bersbebee, and found old Zion right side up, and the hard shell religion the best of all religions. And it's not like the methodists what expect to get to Heaven by hollering hellfire, nor the unver-1 salist what gets upon the broad gage and goes the whole hog, nor the united breethering what take each other by the seats of their trowsers and tries to lift them- j selves into Heaven, nor the cathorlicks j whats buy through tickets from their preests —but it may be liked, my breethering, unto a man what had to cross a river, and when he got thar the ferry boat I war gone, and he just rolled up his breeches and waded over—hallelujah! for ‘they shall gnaw a file and flee unto the mountains of Hepzidam, where the lion roar- . i-ih and the wang doodle mourneth for its first-born.’ Pass the bat, brothel’Flint, and let ev- ; ery hard shell out. Amen.

Vanity. Among the numerous foibles incident to mankind, there is none they have a 1 stronger propensity to, or in which thev more willingly indulge, than vanity.— ' And they are most vain who say they have no vanity, for no one ever doubts J that the want of vanity he boasts of pro- i ceeds from want of merit. He rather thinks that he excels ail mankind in bav- ’ ing a mind superior to the foible. Now ■ what is this opinion but the summit of; vanity. We may depend upon it that we are always setting too high a value on ourselves when we find any temptation to 1 vanity, or any inclination to despise others. In nine cases out of ten we are proud of some external advantage; and some advantage, moreover, that is incapable of gaining us the esteem of persons that is worth having. Is it beauty, birth, rank or riches? It is true that all of these attract the and eyes admiration of every one. But it is a sort of admiration which is ever attended, if not with contempt, at leas’ with envy; for if men see that we are too vain and puffed up with conceit for any of these gifts of nature or of fortune, they will refuse us the superiority we would usurp, and look with disdain on what we expect they should admire. If it is beauty of which we are vain, beauty by itself bestows no merit. If rank, a man may have nearly every honlor in the peerage, and yet be a fool. If birth, the very circumstance of being obscure is a disgrace to the illustrious progenitors and the long race of heroes from whom we are sprung. If riches a man may have vast wealth, and yet hardly be. able to utter two sentence of common sense. If a man is vain because he is possessed of landed property, be should remember that a great estate is rarely possessed along with wisdom; and if of learning, a man may be a profound I scholar, and wi ll read, but h ; s erudition I may be rendered ridiculous by pedantry. If it is political knowledge of which he is ' vain, a great statesman may be destitute of honesty; if manners, a polite courtier mav be a stranger to virtue; and if on acj count of moving in the circles of fashion, : tin accomplished gentleman may not have I ■ o much understanding as the servant who attends to his wardropc and ties the yf his waistcoat.

I - J fib v '' 'HU t*’- - t fc !* fT’’j U fe-ja ' -36jl " Mali * " tWa —"-"Twifefc- ► •ninJ 4 T.r 3 *•••* fl ~ - P S . UNI)ER HIL L , ! (Successor to A. J. Mersbon, and late managing partner of LaDow, Underhill dr ! V Go., Piqua, Ohio.) North side of Main street, three corners from the public Square, and real of Works nearly opposite Taylo:’s A arehouse, Fort XN aj ne, . . conducted by him, and has added a large and elegant assortment of Am erlc all & Italian Marble, And is now prepared to furnish custom, rs with any discriptiou Cemeterial Work, from thesmal- . lest and plainest Sdab, to I n p o ®‘ t ‘,^Cabinet and Counter Slabs, will be k<pt. constantly on I handormde to o?.k-ron short notice Also, a large and choice collection of new and beautiful Urns, Vases, and every description of Ornamental in a. man--1 \mhrotvDCs insertf'J in h d'iriible mariner, if desired. " From exp riencl’ of over 12 years, both in conducting the business and as a practical workman™ d keeping none but the best of Sculptors the propnetor feels warranted in pledgtmrenHresatisfac'i- to.all who mav fa. or him with then custom. Ihe pitbltc tire respect fn Iv invited ocald ex-nine specimetis.especially t hose who Lev, lo„ r ends. Our work w.l speak for tself O-Ordersfrom a distance are respectfully solicited and will receive prompt *«<■'”»’»• lETWM. G- SPENCER. Local Agon 1 , Decatur, Ind. Oct. 2, Ibsi.

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; Valuable Land for Sale. The undersigned Administrator of the estate of John Laterette, deceased, will offer at public I f I sale, at the Court House door, in the town of I : Decatur, Adams county. Indiana, on the 16th . day of December, 18>7, the follow ing real estate situated in Adams county. Indiana, to wit: 1 1 The east half cf the north west quarter of sec- | 1 i tion ten, (111) to vuship twenty six, (26) north 1 of range thirteen (13) east, containing eighty 1 a< ' r ’«d Oi. the following terms: one third of the pur- i chase money in hand, one-third in six months, i ’ | and the remaining third in twelve months from j ■ the date of sale; the purchaser giving notesse 1 • cured by mortgage on the land, for the deferred i payments, said notes waiving the appraisement, : and valuation laws, and with interest from j ’ 1 date. ! | If said land is not sold at snch time and place j at public sale, the same will be off-red at private sale thereafter until sold, on the teims above named. ISAAC JENKINSON, Nov. 6,1 es.' . Adm’r

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New democratic paper 7WASHINGTON, D. C. Daily, T ly, and Weekly -The undersigned h Mfo ‘.' menced tne publication of an Independent \ tional Democratic paper, in the Citv o f ington, on the st ot April, called ’ ' “THE bTATES,’’ It will represent the sound and constitutton.l principles which have ever b< en upheld bv tl. National Democracy, but it will not besorntir? ly political that its columns will interesttl' politician exclusively, nor so subservient * 5 .* betray principles at the command of vower o° disguise it convictions at the suggestion of pediency. In addition to tee discussion of important n litical questions, it columns will be devoted t i the proceedings of Congress, the cum nt t ran, 0 ! actionsofthe Government,toGeneral N I W , „ . I matters of interest appertaining to litcratur agriculture and commerce. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 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