Plymouth Pilot, Volume 1, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 November 1851 — Page 1

THE PLYMOUTH 1 I s i "THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD DE SHOWERED ALIKE UPON THE RICH AND THE POOR." Jacksov. i '-i i A A Family Newspaper: devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, Agriculture, Foreign and Domestic News. Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana, Wednesday, Nov, 12, 1851, Volume 1. Number 43. K

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THE DREAM OF LIFE. All men are dreamers; from the hour When reason first exerts its power, Unmindful of its bitter sting. To some deceiving hope we cling That hope's a dream! The brazen trumpet's clangor gives 7 lie joy on which the warrior lives; And at his injured country's call, lie leaves his home, his friends, his all, For glory's dream'. The lover hangs on some bright eye, Aud dreams of bliss in every sigh; But brightest eyes are deep in guile Aud he who trusts their fickle smile, Trusts in a dream! The poet nature's darling child By fame's all-dazzling star beguiled, Sings love's alternate hope and fear Paints visions which his heart holdsdear, Aud thus he dreams! And there are those who build their joys Un proud ambition s gilded toys, Who feign would climb the craggv height Whose power displays its splendid light, But dreaming, fall! Whilst others, 'midst the giddy throng Of pleasure's victims, sweep along; Till feelings dainp'd and satiate hearts, Too worn to feel when bliss departs Prove all a dream! And when that chilly call of fear, Death's mandate hurtles in the ear, We find, would we retrace the past, E'en life at best now fading fast Is all a dream! RELIGION. BY C. A. HAYDEN. T is pure! and it can scothe The anxious, sorrowing heart: Can make life's rugged pathway smooth And bid its cares depart. Come taste the precious stream with me, T is always full and always free. T is holy! and its povter Was never yet denied To those who, in life's dreariest hour, Its healing streams have tri.d. Come then ami taste along with me, 'T is always full and always free. From Senrs' N. V.) Family Visitor. A FEW WORDS TO YOUNG MEN IN THE COUNTRY. It is quite likely that among our readers there are many young men; and as this journal circulates in country sections, it is also highly probable that we have as subscribers many fanners or their sons. To these young fanners the following remarks are especially addressed. We are going to say a few words about a fallacy that is very common among this class, and which is continually leading them into a false course. It is a belief that fortune, success and happiness awnit their advent into a city life; tint it has been their misfortune to have been placed amid the hard, unprofitable labors of a farm; and that could they but once snap the chain of circumstances that binds them to the place of their birth, and at once embark into all the excitements and hurly-burly of a metropolitan life, they would become ineffably happy. This error creates an intense desire and a dogged, settled determination to eventually embark in such a career. Every thine that seems to glorify the city, or to gau dily paint its pleasures or to hold out golden inducements to the adventurer, is seized upon and gloted over with keen relish. Stories of ready made fortune, of wonderful successes in business, and of remakably rapid advances in social grade. serve to feed and increase this diseased appetite; and in the end, sure prospects of moderate success are sacrificed for these golden illusions, these wild Allad-din-like dreams, that savor of every ex travagance and every absurdity, and that end in terrible disappointment, and some times fearful ruin. But you ar; inclined to be skeptical of this, young sir. You have no idea of giving up your darling dreams and pet visions; you are confident in your good luck; yon will take heed of nobody's croaking; in short, you do not believe us! Very well! but we will try to make our case good. We shall present before you two pictures, one the almost sure consequence of au ill-advised city life, the other the quite as sure result of energy, industry, studiousness and perseverence in a country life. New-York is an over-crowded mart; it has a greater supply of labor than there is a demand for. For every vacancy or every chance for business, there are. a thousand applicants. Those engaged in

I pursuits here are struggling desperately j for sustenance; starvation often threat-

ens l lie III , utruis bijuuuiui aim cuuii them. The expenses of living here are enormous, and employment very uncertain. Of those engaged in mercantile business, a very large proportion are actually insolvent, and of those who year by year embark in these pursuits, nine tenths miserably fail. We are continually called upon to use our influence to obtain situations for young men; but our efforts have always proved of little avail, because of so many applicants. We have known young men to be months out of employment. The consequences of this close aud hard fought competition is to bring down the remuneration of clerks to a mere pitauce. often so low as to be almost inadequate to sustain life. The expenses of a city life are always very hih, and sums that seem quite large, in the country would here be o allowed up in board bills, ccc. But you have heard of splendid fortunes so easily made in the city. You walk through its streets and see its magnificent stores and grand residences, and you read upon the signs many names1 which you are told belong to wealthy men. Your imagination is excited by t e oft-repealed tale of some who rose from poverty to wealth; of those whose career commenced in rags, and are now rolling in luxury, whose ships spread their sails on every sea, and whose wealth ladens every breeze. But ah! sir, have you ever ht-ard or read of the history of those who have failed? You see the names of the successful at every corner, but where shall you find a list of the unfortunate? Do you not know that it is only the histories of those who have succeeded that are written? Oblivion palls the others! Yet do we know that where one succeeds in mercantile pursuits in this city, ninety-nine fail. But perhaps you seek a professional career. Is it the law? It has been estimated that if the yearly amount of law fees were equally divided among our lawyers, tha average would be two hundred aud filty dollars to each man. Now of course a few suc cessful ones receive very large revenues. Figure that up, and judge of the prospect for yourself. Now, did it ever occur to you what really might be accomplished in the country? Are you thoroughly informed of all the advantages such a life affords you? Do you say they do not equal those of a city? How is it then that every President of this Union was reared and bred in the country? How is it that almost every great man, our statesmen, poets, authors, men of science, &c. come from the country life? Can you answer this fact? No,- sir; for it pleads volumes against your absurd belief that the cityalone opens a field for your ambition. Supposing that you have a chance of pursuing agriculture as a profession; does it occur to you how profitable and success ful thorough scientific knowledge would make such a pursuit? Scientific men, men with a knowledge of botany, chemis try, geology, and other sciences appertaining to the cultivation of the soil, will, by the application of their knowledge and intelligence, make au acre of ground yield threefold what it would under ordinary culture. Now such sciences are within your reach. Y'ou can easily obtain an hour for study every day, i and such time assiduously employed for a year would accomplish wonders. Books are cheap; you need but the will to apply yourself, in order to be possesedofthe means to make fanning a highly intelligent aud lucrative employment. Sound judgement, liberal views, and an intelligent application, are necessary for every trade; and if you cannot employ them on a farm, you cannot elsewhere; and these qualities are positively necessary to insure a very ordinary success in ci'.ies. The cultivation of the soil can be made a learned profession. Devote yourself to study; understand thoroughly all the branches of this ennobling pursuit, and you are sure of competence and success. It is the only occupation in the world in which yon can be certain of profitable returns aud for that reason alone ought to take high rank. "Why, feir, men of the same c-st of mind with those that make merchandizing successful, are making fortunes in our country by the simple use of the plough. Then conceive how ennobling is such a healthy, invigorating, stirring and active occupation. Think how delightful it must be to watch and study the phenomena of nature; think how glorious the freedom of your pursuit. What! exchange such a pursuit, as many do, to comu to the city and be a counter-block; to deal out tape, and ribbons, and gloves, aud say soft things to soft ladies! Give up fields, the various occupations of the farm, sweet nature strong, manly exercise, to live in a shop, and be a dangler of haberdashery! If you have a manly pride, you will not do it. But perhaps you are ambitious; you seek political preferment. Jefferson has said that cities were ulcers on the political surface, aud so they are. Here politics i j a pollution aud advancement only

obtained by the most shameful wire-drawing, the most degraded trickery, the most disgusting companionship. In the country, cultivate your mind, prove yourself competent, win the favor of your associates by urbanity and good breeding, show a deep intelligence, and the road to political preferment is open to you. You may advance with honor. Study, read, think and observe, and there is no reasonable point of position or nffluence you may not sttain. But perhaps you are a pleasure-seeker. But than can scarcely be. Y'ou certainly do not seek a city life because of the

giddy whirl of excitement and pleasure! We conjure you, banish such thoughts from your mind, and turn your ctleiition to those things that shall result in your own good. Ihere is a career opened to you that leads even from the lowliest of cabins, and emerges from the greatest poverty. Read biography, aud. see if there is not. Y'our fortune is in your own hand; your own energy shall carve out and fashion it. But be assured the chisel can be applied with more success amid your native fields than amid the allurements, struggles, and heart-burnings of a city life. ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES. The editress of the Literary Gazette, Mrs. Lydia Jane Perason, in an article addressed to young ladies, upon the subject of marriage discourses as follows: 'Do not, as you value life and its comforts, marry a man who is naturally cruel. If he will wantonly torture a poor dumb dog, a cat, or even a snak, fly from him as you would from the cholera, We would sooner see our daughter dying of the cholera, than married to a cruel hearted man. If his nature delights in torture, he will not spare his wife, or his helpless children. When we see a man practising cruelty on any poor, helpless creature; or beating a fractious horse unmercifully, we write over against his name devil, aud shun him accordingly. 'We once knew a man. ay, a gentleman, who during a ride for pleasure, became so demouiacally enraged at his horse, which refused to go, that he sprang from his carriage, drew his knife, and cut out an eye of the poor brute. The lady who accompanied him fainted, suffered a long nervous illness, and will never recover from the horror the outrage gave her. And we knew the young lady w ho, knowing this of him, was fool hardy enough to become his wife. And we know how he tortured her. How he outraged all her feelings; how lie delighted to destroy whatever she prized, or took pleasure in. How in his fits of passion he broke up her furniture, seized her by the shoulder ana shook her liil she could not crawl to bed; how he beat her; how he kept her poor babe black and blue with blows and pinches, until her parents took iier home, and sheltered her from his cruelty. 'If you have a suitor whom you feel inclined to favor, look narrowly into the temper and disposition of the man.Love may soften it for a while, or it may induce him to restrain, or disguise it, but. be assured the natural temper will remain, and the time will come when your presence will be no restraint upon him. We have heard wives complain, I was so deceived in my husband; men are so deceitfi.1,' &c. But we believe in nine cases out often these women deceived themselves. They suffer the romance of their own foolish heart to adorn their lover with all the excellencies which their fancy attributed to a perfect manly character, and to draw a veil over all his vices and defects, which if it did not conceal them, greatly softened or disguised their features. Men are not perfect women are not perfect. In all cases, there must exist a necessity to bear and forbear, but it does not therefore follow that you should marry a bad man. If you do so, you deserve chastisment: but a life-Ions misery is a terible punishment. A bad man's wife must either live in a continual torment of fear, apprehension, and the bitter disappointment of her fruitless efforts to please; or she must become callous, cold, insensible to pain, ard consequently to pleasure. Will you take upon yourselves either of these bitter alternatives? We hope not.' Novelty of Bloom erism. Novelty! Why, the Bloomer dress is as old as the hills; a worn out, rejected vulgarity in the very country where first it was "invented." We speak by the book, when we assert that wherever civilization has penetrated, the European dress has attained an immediate Jascendancv. The educated, the respectable, and even those who merely pretended to be respectable, adopt it in every community, where barbarism is not actually rampant; a sense of its fitness and propriety has penetrated to the remotest corners of the world, and will outlast this foolish effort at barbaric resuscitaion. Yankee Blade. There is but one linen factory in the United States; it U in Webster, Mass.

AN 1MPR0MTU SONG. AS SUNG BY DR. ELLIOTT. I come from New Y'ork To lecture as you see, I come here to Plymouth The Temperance folks to see. It did not rain the day I left, The weather it was dry, I'll never die a drunkard's death, So brothers don't you cry. Chorus. Oh! Rumseller, don't you cry for me, I'm a going to join the Temperance

Sons, and gain my liberty, I jumped aboard the rapid cars And travelled on out West, And now I'm here among you I find there is no ret. I'll do my work as well I may Then say to you good bye, And though I'm going far away, Rurasellers dont you cry. Chorus. Oh! Rumseller, ccc. I've thought of all the pleasant times Y'ou have had together here. I'll think of you when I am gone, And shed a lonely tear. You've heard me kind I thank vou now And hope you'll all do well, And if I e'er come back again, We'll have a Temperance swell! Chorus. Oh! Rumseller, &c. And now I'll go to South Bend, And then I'll look all round And if I see the bottles there I'll dash them on the ground. But if I do not see them A happy man I'll be, And then I'll go away back East And shout the Hoosier'x free! Chorus. Oh! Rumseller, &c. THE DISTILLER AND HIS GOOD PREACHER. Some years ago, the Rev. Dr. Axley, of eccentric but pious memory, had preached to one of the congregation of his circuit, and after the sermon, as was the custom of the Methodist preachers in those days, and as it still is, when they do their duty, the preacher had a classmeeting. He questioned each brother and sister on the subject of their experience, practice and enjoyment in the divine life, giving each a word of encouragement, comfort and advice, as the case seemed to require, fillins un the intervals by singing a suitable verse with life and spirit, until all the members had been questioned but a certain very prominent ! member of the church, who, it seems, owned a distillery, and by some means his preacher had found out the fact. When, after the most serious conversa tion with the others, the following took place: Preacher. AVell, brother Jerry, howdo you come on making whisky? Brother. (Somewhat startled.) Oh, don't know exactly, tolerably well enough. P. Well, brother, tell us how much money you give for a bushel of corn? B. Twenty-five cents a bushel. P, Twenty-five cents; very cheap that, I should say; but another question, t i i now mucti wnisky no you suppose one bushel of corn will make? B. Can't say. I suppose about three gallons. (Very much confused.) P. So, three gallons! Why that's a considerable turn out, I should judge. ! But, brother, what do you get for a gallon of whisky? B. (Looking rather wild) Seventyfive cents. P. Seventy-five cents. Two hundred per cent! and that too, I reckon, by the barrel; you get more by the jug full. But, brother, tell your brethren, isn't the slops very good to fatten hogs? B. Yes, very good. P. And won't the hogs you fatten for nothing on the slops, come pretty near paying for corn? B. Well, very nigh it. P. But to come to the question, brother, do you make a good article? Will it bear a bead. By this time, the brother was so perfectly confused by the preacher's interrogatories, he began to wish he had never seen the preacher or distillery either. The class could scarcely maintain their gravity during the dialogue; and we need not add that the poor fellow was so tormented every time he met a neighbor, by the salutation, 'Well, brother how do you come on making whisky?' and 'do you make a good article? Will it bear a bead?' that he actually broke up his distillery and become a consistent Methodist, Slander is a secret propensity of the mind to think ill of all men, and afterwards to utter such sentiments in scandalous 'expressions.

GARMENTS WITHOUT SEAMS. We have sewing machines not a fevr in number, now-a-days, and there can be no doubt but they are a benefit io mankind, but would it not be a far greater improvement, and thereby a greater benefit, to make garments without seams, and thus obviate the necessity of cutting up the. cloth into small pieces, just to be united together again by needle and thread. At a glance it appears to be an erroneous principle of manufacturing garments, to cut up fine whole cloth into small pieces, and then sewing them tonether bv a nrnress hnth trniihlp enm

IO J I - - - wvtuw and expensive. Samuel M. Perkins, of Springfield, Bradford Co., Pa., has invented improvements in the manufacture of garments, whereby we shall be enabled to wear coats, and all such habiliments, independent of the weaver or tailor. The nature of the improvement consists in causing the bat, or fleece of wool, cotton, or other fibrous material, as it issues from the curding machine, to be wraped on a "Former', of the required shape of the desired garment. The "former"' is made to revolve, and at the same time, it has a reciprocating motion in a direction at right angles to the feed, so that the fleece will be wraped spirally in contrary courses upon tbe 'Former" for any number of layers in succession, according to the thickness of the garment required to be made. Measures have been taken to secure a patent. From the days of darkness obscurity and barbarism, in almost all nations, cloth has been and is made first of threads, then woven, then cut up, then sewed piece by piece again. Surely modern inventive genius has something yet to do to improve on the most approved process, which finally results in the garments we wear, Mr. Perkins has made a move, and his machine is an ingenious one in the right direction. Felt, we know, has been used for coals, &c, but seamless felt cloth garments, we presume, will soon be new articles entirely in our market. The felting qualities of certain kinds of wool are well known, but whether cotton or linen can ever be felted in the same way, time alone will determine. Scientific American. "TO THIS FAVOR SHE MUST COME." An aged woman, was passing along Lake Street yesterday afternoon. She was plainly clad; the cut was not the latest, nor the pattern the newest, nor the fabric the richest. True she did not wear a Bloomer hat, nor "pure white" shoes; and it must be confessed, she was not handsome, for rare are the human flowers in this wintry world that bloom over half a century. Just behind her came two young women ladies? glittering in changeable' silks, like new born butterflies, with Heavens imprint yet damp upon them. They were young, and therefore lovely to look at. We are sorry, to say the aged woman, was the theme of their illtimed jest, and their conduct was so indelicate and unbecoming, as to attract the attention of persons passing. True, the old lady did not walk gracefully. May be she had worn herself out in caring for just such creatures as they we sincerely hope not. Perhaps, and not perhaps, she had greater grace of mind and heart, than they were gifted with knew more of the world, though less of DeLaines and Broche. In fact, we could see. those young women presiding in parlors with wonderous grace, flattered and admired, while in the street they revealed hearts, if not heads, as empty as last year's birds nests. They play upon pianos doubtless she upon spinning wheels they are young she is old, and yet we cau tell them, they will be fortunate if they reach their sixtieth anniversary, with as much that adorns her whom Heaven made the angel of the Hearth, as that oid woman. Had they been young men, they should have been whipped, but as young ladies, they are to be pitied. Chicago Journal, The New Y'oikand Boston papers describe monetary affairs in both cities, as rapidly improving. The Boston Courier says "The financial sky grows clearer and brighter, day by clay. The banks are discounting liberally, and supplies of money outside are derived from new sources, and at reduced rates of interest. The arrival of $2,000,000 in gold, on Saturdy, is an earnest of the future semimonthly instalments to be relied upon, and which will probably increase, in quantity, rather than diminish. According to the last official statements, the government depositories held 815,000 000, and the New York banks 810,000, 000. Large amounts of gold and silver are held in other Atlantic cities, and in the interior. The basis of the currency, therefore, is undoubtedly as sound and substantial as at any former period." The potato disease is spreading in the north of Ireland, causing considerable alarm; but owing to the abundance of the wheat crops, no apprehension is felt of a deficiency of food.

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