Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1855 — Cheerfulness. [ARTICLE]

Cheerfulness.

Thert is no one quality, says tbs Hartfdrft "Courant,” that so moots t endears man to his fellow men aa* cheerfulness. Talents may eichw more respect, anti virtues more esteem. But tire respect is apt to be distant, and the esteem cold. But it, is otherwise with endears a rnah to the heart, not the intellect or the imagination. There is a kind of reciprocal diffusiveness quality that recommends its possessor by the very effect, itproduces. There is a mellow radiance in the light it sheds on all social intercourse, which pervades the sdol to a depth that the blaze of intellect can never reach. The cheerful man is a double bleating—a blessing tv himself and to the world around. In his own character, his good nature is the clear ■ blue «ky of his own heart, on -wbiekt every ►tar of talent shines out morn ■ clearly. To others he carries an Mmosphere of joy and encouragement wherever he His own cheerfulness becomes infectious, and his associates lose thdir gloom in the amber colored light of i the benevolence he casts around him. ... . _ _ -li ■ ’

It is true that cheerfulness is not always happiness. The face may glow in smiles while the heart "runs in coldness and darkness below/’but cheerfulness is the best external inthat we have, and it enjoys this advantage over almost every good quality, that the counterfeit is as valuable to society as the reality. It answers as a media m of public circulation full aa wall as the true coin. A man is worthy of all praise, whatever may be his private griefs, who does not intrude them on the happiness of his friends, constantly contributes his quota of cheerfulness to the general publie enjoyment.— "Every heart knows his own bitterness;” but let the possessor of that heart take heed that he dbcFhot til it into his neighbor's cup, and thus poison his felicity’. There is no sight more commendable and more agreeable than to see a man, whom we know fortune has dealt with badly, smothering his peculiar griefs in his own bosom, and doing his duty in the society in which Providence has placed him, with an unruffled brow and a cheerful miep. It is a duty which society has a right to demand —a portion of that great chain which binds humanity together, the links of which every one should preserve bright and unsullied.

It may be asked: What shall that man do whose burden of griefs is heavy, and made still heavier by tho tears he ha>< shed over them in private? Shall he leave society? Certainly, until he has learned to bear b» own burden. Shall he not seek for the sympathy of his friehda? He had better not: sympathy would only weaken the masculine strength of mind which enables us to endure.— Besides, sympathy unsought for ia much more readily given, and sinks deeper in its healing effects into tha heart. No! No! cheerfulness is a duty which, every man owes to the world. Let him] faithfully discharg the debt. : . > OCt’The Mormoks AseCALnmwns.— Mr. Jones, the energetic Daguerrean Artist, who some months since made the journey across Nebraska, through the Mormon country to California daguerrcotyping all the beauties, sublimities, and Stern realities of the route; promises to visit our city on Monday evening next, with tfo mpst valuable Panoramic paintingever produced. The vast regfous represented, together with their inhabitants, .command 'univiraial. interest, while accuracy is fully guaranteed by. the fact that every scene if from daguerreotypes. A witness named Wajdpnpnw called to the stand to give hfa testimony. Having taken his place, be turned to the bar, before ing, and earnestly inquired.‘'Which side am lon I” . ■ An old basJ&elor adyaj that the young ladies who rejoice in the multiplicity of rings, chains, lockets, dpc.. to the unparallelledextent now fashipnable should be labeled like watches in windows—‘Warranted foil jewelled.’ /' r - XT’The Spanish Government has agreed t« indemnify our Govern ninntfnr the outrages on the Black Warrior.