Locomotive, Volume 7, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1849 — Page 2

' So ladies, dear ladies, pray do not forget, : An excellent bachelor's heart's to be let. ; The tenant will have a few taxes to pay, , . Love, honor, and, heaviest item, obey ; ; : As for the good-will, the land's inclined To have that, if agreeable, settled in kind ; Indeed, if he could such a matter arrange, He'd be highly delighted to take in exchange, Provided true title by prudence be shown, ' Any heart unencumbered and free as his own. , So ladies, dear ladies, pray do not forget, An excellent bachelor's heart's to be let.

Jane, how do you like marriage V 'Very much; my husband is such a deer man that he is always fawning upon me.' Querel Is the woman in her cZoe-tage or did Jane marry a buck? . A Doctor's Bill. A young physician asking permission of a lady to kiss her, she replied " No sir, I never like to have a doctor's bill thrust in my face." " . .

The fair editresses of the Lowell Offering request the postmasters in future not to address them as

4 Dear Sir it seems so odd to them. Apples, cakes, and 'simmon beer, New Year comes but once a year ! So some ancient poets sung, Then go it, gals, while you're young !

I shall re-wive shortly,' as the man said on the

morning of his second wedding.

Never tread on the tail of a cat, or tell a woman

she is not handsome, unless you are fond of music

Reader, did you ever enjoy the extatic bliss of

courting i If not you had better get a little gall'

tin-try. .

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For-the Locomotive.

uents. J. here is one class oi community we seem to think but little about, ,but to whom we are indebted for almost every comfort we enjoy, and pleasure we experience, through our whole life. In the helplessness of infancy, our unsteady footsteps are assisted and our tottering forms sustained ;

the pleasures and delights of our youthful days are

augmented and sweetened ; the wants of. our ma

turer years administered to with cheerfulness ; the

burthen of our declining years lightened of their heaviness. Whichever way we movey on whatever

side we turn our eyes, we behold evidences of their

skill and ingenuity in their works . their presence

is forever visibly before us. Need I say that I al

lude to the humble, unpretending machanic ? Yes

upon them the Promethean spark has fallen from

God's altar, and lights up the chambers of their im

mortal mind. And there it burns, glowing and

bright, throwing its radiations over the world. To these men knowledge has been given, and with this

mighty talisman they unfold the map of the moul

dering past, disentombed it risesj breathing and glow

ing with the life it once had. Every stone and pillar

crumbling and moss overgrown, of the cities of th

East, tell us of their might, and the little mounds of

our own lands, silent and still as the dead that sleep

in their bosoms, still speak to us of their power.-

They stretch forth their hands and new lands, oth

er nations, spring up in the bosom of the, Sea.

They point to the blue magnificence above, shining

with those "isles of light," and they become inhabi

ted worlds. With their aid man rides secure upon

the angry and fretted billows of the ocean, or sails exultingly over the clouds. Fearlessly they -have

tamed the mad lightning, and it becomes the mes

senger of their will. At their command old Time

rings out his flight, and the hours mark their passage as they go upon the dial plate. Now. they stoop by the bed-side of the dying, and," at a touch,

the warm blood flows gently back, and the current

of life is resumed. They breathe the notes of sweetness in " music's gentle flow" casting . over the

soul that inexpressible sympathy that unites two kindred hearts, or utters forth the tones of inspira

tion that died not on Judea's hills. They explore

the bowels of the earth, and scatter abroad its min

eral wealth. They walk secure, in the caverns of

the sea, and bring to light the. hidden wonders of

the deep.' They have brought together the oppos'

ing elements, fire and water, and from them pro'

duced one more terrible than either, but they have bound it with their " iron bands ;" powerful and

terrible as it is, it becomes the passive slave of their

will. They send abroad over the world the printed

page, sparkling with the rich gems of thought they

have rendered imperishable, ; and its rays shine

alike in the cottage and the hall. - Pioneers of civil

zation, they go before all others ; mountains fall level

to the plain before them, and in their footsteps cities

spring up in desert places as if by enchantment. All

the delights and pleasures that cluster around our

homes, and the enjoyments of hospitalities abroad, are

attributable ' to them.' ' Benefactors of the human

racefor mankind have they devoted their minds' dc their . lives. They have built up a monument for

themselves more enduring than marble or brass; per

petual as time, and coexistent with eternity around

its summit' the fires of their genius will ever play,

a land-mark for " millions yet to be." Max.

The Prisoned Bird's Lament.

There was a time when I was free as air;

On these bright wings I've soared the sky sublime

I've gazed on Nature's charms, divinely fair,

And saw the bright majestic Sun decline. .

With joy I met the gay ruturn of Spring,

And saw old Winter's blasts pass swift away ;

Summer did then a thousand pleasures bring,

-For I was then the blithest of the gay. At early dawn I made the forests ring, And sung from morn till 'night without delay ; Now Mem'ry doth but painful feelings bring, " And all my joys forever flown away. . . , . What though these walls were built of solid gold, : And all around was lovely, sweet and fair; , It would be nought to liberty untold Give me the breath of the pure mountain air. I now look back to the days of love and joy, For prison walls now me securely bind ; And this dark cell my freedom, does destroy- ' I die ; my fate is cruel and unkind. Georgitjs. Newark, Ohio.;

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TO CONTRIBUTORS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1849.

Last week we noticed that Zenas Lake had re

ceived the appointment of Receiver, and entered

upon the duties of his office by the time the edition of the paper was worked off, and before it was distributed, Mr. L. was no more.' On the Wednesday preceding his death we saw him on the street; in' the night he commenced throwing up blood, and by Friday noon he was a corpse. - Mr. L.'s father was one of the first settlers in this place, and the deceased was highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. . , .

Answer to Enigma last week. Cerro de santa maria de Jesus. ... .. Solutions. Mecca, Cesar, Actium, Marion, Siam, Nun, Cat, Mier, Jamaica, Ararat, Jeddo, Antarctic, Forres, Indian, Erie. ' - ': . - v ..

We would call attention to the communication by i' Max,'.' in another column ; it is a tribute to worth and genius that serves to recall tho deep debt we owe the honest, humble, unassuming mechanic, for the many comforts we enjoy. And we would call the particular attention of those purse-proud, pompous, mushroom, self-constituted aristocrats, who " look down" on the mechanic as a being of inferior worth.. The " 3" still keep " popping" it to the unlicensed retailers of the ardent, to the tune of $50 a go. There has been 8 or 10 suits against the retailer, in which they are fined $50 each. This money goes into the-pockets of the corporation, and we would like to ask our honorable Fathers, if, with all this money, they cannot afford to let a little light shine on their. humble constituents, and get those lamps? "Let there be light."

. Justice. There is a-certain building in . this city that deserves notice, and we will do it in such a way that there will be no difficulty in locating it In the second story is the office of a justice of the Peace.. In the ground room is one of the dirtiest, filthiest, nastiest doggeries that we have seen for many a year, constantly filled with a lot of topers, whose noses show surely that they swill the prohibited liquors. Rioting and iowdying is the result of topering, and the cases of this kind that occur in one part of the building, are dealt with according to law in the other. ' This is evenhanded justice. "; We would not accuse the owner of the

doggery of retailing liquor! Oh, no! It is wholesale certainly, and nothing shorter. This place is really a curosity at this day, and we would advise those who have not seen it, to take a look at it.... Improvements. The Council have erected a foot bridge over the Canal, on Maryland street, 'and repaired the large bridge, both of which was much needed. The timbers in the bridge on the Diagonal . leading' to the grave yard are becoming very much decayed would it not be well to have

them examined and see that there is no danger their giving way ? .

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