Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 6, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 October 1853 — Page 1

TIIE TERRE-HAUTE JOI/RNAL, wumn A*D muiRio nur VBIDAV, ir WILLIAM MOORE AND WM. E. McLEAN-

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WhoU be the Next to Die?

Sir W o. »CW.

Slwp that the world'sgreat eye Pale sorrow fonnda balm] The night-hawk c«aMd his thrill? cry.

Anil Life'* broad H* waa calm. An undertaker hong, O'er a coffin all alose, And wearily He song.

As dreary the work want on. He varnished every tide, Then drove the acrewleU bright. As he hammed aw»y thoee gloomy hears While fancy panelled elfin power*

Pavilioned In the night. All weary wa* hi* eye The work wa» nearly dene, And the crasy wind went wailinf by,

And every cranny monnedj When, sadly to hi* ear, There trains a spirit "l|fh, •'•One coffin, only, h»*t tlion her#—

Who'll be th« W*t to dje'." Hi* heart waa clutched with fright He glared around th* room The pwle and glaring light gear re bellied with the gloom. Ho apectre wet l»l* eye No fiend was pencilled there.

Hut th«cr»*y tvlinl atdl sorrowed by, And a mom w«« lu the air. I'm Kiire it wa* not me,

Deuoled In that «lgh Thank Owl, it did not breathe my name, A* went moaning Hot *ll!t again the spirit cainej

Again HIP qun'nt reply— "One only, h»*t thon here-— Who'll be the n**t to die?'' Ife conntwl hi* *lck frl«*nJ* o'er

He argned every ail Then thought of **lf once more, And Hp and cheek wrre pale. "Ah! *ur« It wae not me,"

Came trembling In *lgb, A* he conned »w»y right wond'ringly, Who'll be the uext to die! •"There** the old man np the street,

Who beg* the live-long day, Death lugger* at hi* fert. And beckon* him awey. The mnllt-n, down the lane,

Will aoon b« gone, I ween I.lfe'* little lamp doth wune, Iler eye hath lo*t It* *heen And there'* my neighbor'* child,

Slow InnguUhing away, •Twill bo an angel *oon, 1 know, High «t the fiiunt of day. I'm *nre It w«* nut me

Ueunte«l in that »lgh, For thaw, alae, 1 we*n, Will be the nest to die."

Frull fool the Spirit cried, "The* thon art *tout Htid hale, Till* night. Indeed, ahull thon abide l.ow In the realm* of wull!' That night came grim d*s*-«*e

Through every vein anil tissue dark Black midnight brought no eaiw Pal* morning »*w him »turk! Irft ev'ry earthly elf

Attend tbut aplril'a cry, Nor whisper to hlmeelf, I'll be the laat to die!

Ytvm the BrtxAlyo W*«

Dollar or Two.

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Willi cautions *tep a* we tread our way through This Intricate world, a* Mher folk* do.

May

We still on o«r journey be able to V»W The benevolent face of a dollar or two For an excellent thing la a dollar er twe,

No friend I* »o true an a dollar or two. Thro^ouatry and town a* we paw np awl down, No paasport's so geod an a dollar or two.

Would you read yourwlf eut of lite bachelor cr*w And the hand of a femele divinity iinet You mtiil alway* be ready the handaome to «lO| Althottgh It »honld coet a dollar or two

Love arrow* are tipped with a dollar or two, And affection la gained br a dollsr or two, Th« beat aid you can meet In advancing yoor auit, I* the *loqn*nt clilnk of a dollar or two.

Would yon wlah your e*l*t*nce with ImMe, And enrol In the rank* of the •anctllled few7 T« *niny «®»d name and a well cu*hlon*d pew, Yea muat freely come down with a dollar or two,

The *oap«l I* preached for a dollar or two, And aalvation ia reached by a dollar or two You may aln eouie at Umeaj bat t»* wow or all crime* i* to find yo«r*elf «bort of a dollar or two.

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"Almost any writer cart deteribc •motion# «oy, ani(*r. te«r. doobt or hop« tom

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•r« »«ry who o*a gi*« »ny«hi»g like «n adequate »le«criptton of th« Mqutaite, ue^ lichifui. heavenly «nd thrilling joy of w»rm, •tecuonate kiwiof. W« copy below lhre« of the best attempt* that we h»r« ew »**0 The fir«t ia by young l«dy auring her firet year of oourUhip j.v «Let tky arm twta* e.V Aroaod m* ttk* *f

A»d thy fo»d Hp, T* aaln* be pa«loaately pre«**d, AaUh« beea *A."

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^th* n«*t by lady ahorily after her •afagftmeol. it will r^dily be aeen thet bw powers of deeoriptioii ere fer in advaooe ®f the ooe*t quoted *bo*«: "Switlwt tow, ptoe thy dear am beneath my dre*f4*f hc^t

And iet ne lewly ne^l* w» thy heart Tbaa tarn tho*e aoal-IU orb* on »e, a*d pre** My partlkf I«ipart*d by M«h l««f aw4 Unferiaf hl».M 3 a i* following, by Alexander Smith. We think, bowewr, that wh«n a men to indul in oaoulatory

imagine he

^walking o® ihrooWi" he Aonld b# o»Kk«d off. lUmebimi ml leaped heaeetb thy tlMtd kVea

What th*a t* m* w*re grow*, Or )Md*« or death Earth w»»a reaadW« I **MMd to wall thienea.**'

Uttle paper, called "Tto Half boon alerted in New York. Tk* N«w# bora cry."Here's The Half Cent,

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Spoke too Soon.

A TALC WITH A XOBA1. BAXai5C TO tT

At th« midsummer a««ize» held a 1821 ai Chekenhsm. England. onV Thomaa Street waa transported for rheep stealing. Great therefore, was ihe surprise of ihe criminal officials of the place lo find the identical Thomas arrested for stealing clothes from a hedge lh« very next spring He had escaped from lh* hulk*, wherein prisoners eent^ncd to transportation were confined But what was the infatuation that led him back to the very place where recognition •iid the punishment of death must ensue Here was a mystery Here waa a mystery which ihe quidnuncs could not fathom.

However. Thomas Stre*t. already convicted of sheep stealing was no less guilty of the second charge he was tried found guil ty. and condemed lo the gallows, the judge remarking, with a benignant smile, to «ooh an offender no hope of pardon could poasibiy be extended.

Now there was something remarkable in ihe earnestness with which Street protested his entire innocence of the second crime.— It was remembered that he confessed the sheep steeling, and indeed were it not for his own confession, it was thought at the time he might have escaped. But though he appeared perfectly careless of life, he protested solemnly, and with many serious oaths, that he had never touched the clothet that he had returned lo Chheltenham to fulfill very different mission, and that, ttough perhaps he deserved hanging for his puit misdeeds and intentions, hi* execution the present indictment would be a judicia murder.

The chaplain urged him to confess—ihe sheriff", the turnkeys, the doctor (Dr Homer by name.) all followed suit, and implored him as all hope was over, to save his soul the useless guilt of peijury. Still the prisoner was impenitent: he laughed at the chaplain, smiled at the sheriff and turnkeys, but grew strangely enraged whenever Dr. Homer ventured to address him on Ihe subject.

He «l*o nossesed an immovable belief lhat he would not be hung. On the very night preceding his execution, even while he heard ihe hammers of the men engaged in erecting the scaffold, he assured ihe turnkeys in a confident cheery tone, that a reprieve was already on its way from London.

The morning came, Slrcet was still self possessed, as smiling as jooose a* ever. He attended chapel, but the good pastor's eloquence foiled to excite any terror or remorse in his breast. He even sketched a very tolerable caricature, on the inside cover of his prayer book of a man hanging. The prison offioers with one voice, declared they nad never seen such coolness, not stolid insensibility but downright confidence of escape in all their past experience. It was odd. Could it be insanity?

Insanity or n»»l the death bell has began to loll it is a quarter to twelve, and at noon. (*o said the Judge.) 'Thomas Street an escaped convict, was to be hung by the neck until he was dead.'

We shall now permit Dr. Homer, from Whom we received the story, tell it in his own quaint wuy. merely remarking that the doctor is a large headed ^saturnine man. and slow of speech. •Well when chapel wa* over, the pri^oner was requested to prepare himiell' forth with for execution He appeared to grow a little anxious—shall I aay apprehensive/ As the final ten minute* lagged sway, he Gven begged the sheriff, my brother,' said the doctor pompously, "to delay final proceeding* for an hour. Of course the request was inadmissible. at»d the turnkeys were ordered to expedite his movements Still the unhappy man seemed not to abate with his erradicable confidence in a teprieve. If the door opened he startled ahrubtly, from his seat and cried—^'Well has it come?' *ln all my melancholy experience,' said the doctor, folding hack his hand* religously as he spoke, 'in all the painful scenes in my professional attendance, no extremity of ter» ror on the part of a condemned man, struck me so mournfully as the infatuated hope with which Thomas Street put away from himself the sober certainty of his fate •The death bell tolled aadly overhead, and in spite of a stout resistance at two minute* before twelve, the prisoner was brought forward on the scaffold. Bven then his eyes were strained up London road, and be declared firmly lhat *he saw a horseman galloping over the crest of Leighton Hill, en eminence ol about a mile and a half from where we stood, he wen* further, that he heard the trampling of hoofs, and that it must be reprieve, because the horse had lost a shoe, and no men would gallop a horse in that oondition, except on an errand of life and death.' •So great was his confidence that even my brother hesitated He delayed, the execution some ten minutes, but no reprieve appeared, The executioner was ordered to proceed, and Thomas Street abandoned hope. He shook hands with the othe officials first, and then held out his hand to me. t£• •Doctor,* said he, *l*shake hands with vou now because all hope is over but you are the cause of my standing where I most toon fall.' •How eo, deerairt* I asked. «What under heaven have I to say to your coming back to Cheltenham—to your ateiding the clirthtrtT* !. *1 did not steal toe clothes/ reiterated Street, 'and that witl be knows when too late hut it is wett for yoa that I shall be hung: it was a gsime for your We «r ®i»*. end yoa have *oa. 1 came beck to kill

*°?To kill me!* exclaimed. 'My God, tirf whet reason have yo« to wish to injere «n«! I new even sew you t» voa were artested tor sheep staelittc &»•

freuieety.* said Ssniet: *yoa remember, then that I pretended insanity as ber to positkofRt. You were called to give an opinion, and visited we la.my ©e8- V«s eskedme ^oeetiooe, and fioeOy atrsokaae ««h a o**e on the afcovlder. ead declared that I wae no mere mad than yon were yourself. Yw were rtgfct. I waa

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but I new forgave the Srfow! end, woes* then the Mow: ihe lengtong anew aHwoh ouried yewr Hp as yws apokel I vowed reeenge* awl At hope of it hMania

of my life. I conducted myself well in the hulks, and at last took advantage of the op portunity of escape afforded me by jailor's carelessness^ 1 came beck to Cheltenham to takejp|OTufe—to return the blow with interesf—to see how yoar features looked when they could neitfcer smite nor sneer!* •Really sir. yoa possess a vivid recollection,' I answered. *It is impossible that I could have struck jroa, it is contrary to my rank, to my experience, to mv breeding.' •Contrary to whatever it may be. you did strike me—not hard a mer« touch, in fact but I never forgave it I die with one regret: it ia that the blow must remain an unsettled account between us. 1 was never struck before. I never wes a criminal till the "starvation of my mother led me to take the sheep 1 never atole the clothes for which I am about to die. and if I were reprieved this moment, you should repent that blow with you latest sigh.* •Well, sir,* continued Dr. Homer, after such a declaration coo Id not be expected to feel any violent regret at the execution of so determined an enemy I even explained to my brother the sheriff, that he incurred serious penalties by any longer neglecting to fulfill the sentence.

Street was blindfolded, pinioned, placed on the drop, and at a signal from the sheriff (it was now thirteen minutes after 12) the bolt was withdrawn, and Thomas Street dsngled in the air.

Just then a cry was heard from the far end of the market place. It was indistinct st first, but gradually gathered clearness. •A reprieve! a reprieve! a reprieve! shoutthe populace. Cut hiin down: cut him why don't you cut him downt'

Hie sheriff was about to u?e his knife on the rope. •My dear brother,' I said 'take care what you do. This is a common trick on such occasions. and one that may cause you the loss of your liberty if you are duped by it. You cannot hang a man twice, and if any of Street's accomplices, by this cry, induce vou to cut him down, he will escape for certain, but the law condemns the sheriff to take his place. •My brother paused. •Cut him down,' shouted ihe rash mob beneath us. •Meanwhile the messenger gained the prison gates and was admitted. He had indeed a reprieve, regularly aigned 'Georgious Rex his horse had lost a shoe on the far side of Leighton Hill, and had stumbled head foremost coming down it. The rider therefore lost time in trying to revive him, and then had run the remainder of the distance on foot, which, as he was an elderly man, had caused a delay very dangerous at least to Thomas Street's health. 'However, we had the reprieve, and therefore Street, having been suspended about five minutes, he was cut down.'

The doctor paused and took a pinch of snuff very slowly. •Well doctor did he recover!' we inquired. 'To lell the truth, sir, I did not feel well at lhat moment I was so ill. in fact, that I could not personally attend to his restoration. I just ordered some of the most common remedies, which not being in the prison laboratory, had to be sent for across the town. This delay was bad. The result was—

Dr Homer Spoke very slowly indeed. •Well, what was the result. Do tell us.' •Why. my dear young friend.' added the doctor, sentgntiously *how impatient you are—Thomas Street revived a Utile, a very little, just enough to breath? once or twice —but though I ordered cold applications to his head and stomach, he never recovered.' •Cold application*, doctor! Would not hot brandy, hot blankets, hot sir and warm restoratives have suited his oondition best?' •No air.' said the doctor emphatically, 'neither his own condition nor my peace! I am aware that it is the manner in whioh such oases are usuallly treated, and indeed I was much blamed by my professional brethren for the failure of the experiment.— Some there were who went so far as to petition the country msgistrates to dismiss me from the post of prison attendant. Nevertheless. I had used my judgement, and the oourse pursued was the best possible one. under the circumstancea tor Street.' •Say rather doctor, the best oourse to be be pursued, under the circumstances, for Dr. Homer!'

The doctor tried to frown, but a smile overspread his harsh features, and gradual." ly dilated to grin. •At all events,* said lihe doctor. *po«^r Thomas Street spoke too noon.- True Fteg

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—••Deer me!" aaid Mrs. Partington, and en she is dear—not that she means ao. be ceuse under that black bonnet is humility, and self-praise forms no pert of her reflection. It was a simple ejaculation, that wes ell oar word for It. "Dear me. here they are going to have a war again over the sea. and only for a Turkey, and it don't aey how much it weighed elther.nor whether it wes tender and Prince Knocketnstiffs has gooe off in a miff, and the Rushio dears and Aus* triches are all to be let loose to devour the people, and heaven knows where the eod of it will leave off. War is a dreadful thing—so destroying to temper and good clothes, and men shoot at each other just as if they were gutter purchase, and cheap at that.** How sorrowfully the cover of the snuff-box shut, as she ceased speaking, and t)»e spectacles looked dewey. like a tumbler in summer heat filed with ice-water, as aha looked at the profile of the eorporml with the sprig of sweet fern above h, and the old sword behind the door. Whet did lke mean as be stole in. and deposited some red article eoder the erciket upon which ber feet rested. and then stole oat agate. A biasing soand Hkissd

creek! snap! hang! what! went

baooh of crackers-—-end Mrs. Partington, in ssamiaatiao and eloth aiippe**, denned ehoet the room, forgetfe! of distent war in her present eterm. Ah. Iks.

A CnwMWnar— A windy orator once get np and aaid

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«3in—After asech «*0e&$#« t»ftsid*ra«tan, I have oarafoBy, eabnljr, and deSberetnty ooasetotbe cuanelnsion that in cities in wMafc poprintfan iae#*y large there ttta grnkt number of tanan woasan and •feUdren. then In catiee eHbete li»a popniationisfow.'

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California Items.

The steamer Star in the West, from San Juan, with California dates lo 17th Sept.. has arrived, bringing 8800.000 on freight, and 9600.000 in hands of passengers.

Bigiers majority for Governor was only one thousand the remainder of the ticket four to ten thousand. At San Francisco the whole democratic ticket, city and county, chosen. Both branches of the legislature largely democratic.

The Sierra Nevada arrived at San Fran cisco on the 15U. Small Pox was raging at Honolulu on the |Ail, iimrs Vu 4

I FE SAN FRANCISCO. SEPT T6-

A fair amount of business has been done during the past week, although (he elections and Anniversary Admission somewhat deranged trade. A good demand in goods for the interior trade, and an improved amount of goods taken for local consumption.

Dr. W. Duvall. formerly of Maryland, was shot desd in a street fight with S. Downs, of Sacramento city.

Dr H. C. GiUis was severely wounded in a fracas with Charles R. Drew, of San Francisco.

John Potter, alias Baltimore Jack, was killed at Downieville by a man named Muntz An attempt was made by the citizens to lynch the latter,

Thaddeus Purdy, district attorney, was shot dead in a duel with Lt Mason. SAN FRANCISCO. 7th —GOV. Bigler carried the city and county of San Francisco by nine votes.

Advices from Honolulu state that a strong political movement has been commenced, compelling the discharge of ministers Judd and Armstrong. A memorial, signed

13,000 parsons, had been presented to the magistrates to that effeoL Indications decidedly revolutionary.

A bailie with the Indians, in which Gen Lane and Col Allen were wounded, took place in Rogue River Valley on the 27th August 250 Indians were engaged in the skirmish, which lasted 4 hours, when the Indian chief. Sam. proposed an armistice, which was granted Ten Indians were kille'l and thirty wounded. Three whites killed and eight wounded. Among the killed is Captain Armstrong. The Indians continued their ontrages at other points.

An attempt was made at San Francisco on the 12th to sell the State's interest in the water lots, in contempt of an injunction from a superior court. One lot waa knocked down, when Mr. Telover, the auctioneer, and ihe whole Board of Commissioners were arrested.

The express box of Adams & Co containing 825.000. in specie, was stolen from a stage between Sonora and Stockton.

CLEAVLAND. Oct. 9.

The closing scenes of the "Woman's Rights" Convention, are very interesting. Antoinette Brown replied to Mrs Baker's infidel speech, denouncing Hagginson as a heretic. Garrison replied to Antoinette in defence of Mrs. Baker.

Mr Nevins also replied lo Mrs. Baker, making personal allusions, whioh was interterupted several times by Garrison and Baker who were finally hissed down. Garrison called Nivens a blackguard and rowdy, whereupon great excitement ensued. It was voted lo hold the next onnvention at Philadelphia, on the 18th October. 1854 Adjourned.

Nevins met Garrison in the street, and demanded an apology, which fras refused. Nevins laid violent hands on Garrison, pulling his noje and otherwise abusing him,— Garrison mede no resistance, and Nevins was finally tsken off by his friends.

CLKAVELAND. Oct. 8.

The Ladies Rights" convention assembled jg&rday, very quietly, with scarcely any tr lis of the storms of the dsy previous but harmony was »oon threatened by the introduction of a letter from the Rev J. W Hagginson. asking the convention to take up a collection for the purpose of raising funds to print cheap tracts on Women's

Rights. Mrs Baker, and the Hon. Abby Kelly objected. Denouncing the reverend gentleman as a heretic.

Lucy Stone replied in indignant terms, after which a collection was taken up. Wnile the sauc«r was going round, tome young man in the gtulery said, -if Miss Luey would come herself he would shell out." She immediately went to him. and he launched out #40. tO

Mr. Garrison introduced a resolution abusing the World's Temperance Convention, end after some remarks by Messrs Giddings and Borieigh it was carried

Mrs. Baker made ah addresa blasphemous io tone—ratling at the church and the Bible and abusing the Clergy.

There was much confusion and exilement while she was speaking Antoinette Brown, in indignant terms, signified her readiness to reply to Mrs. Barker„ but iht conyeRUQQ adjourned.

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The Whig State Convention oomsoated L. J, FarweU. for Governor, J. A. Ueedley for Secretary of State, acid J. S. Baker for Comptroller. Govern* Farwell nceepted as a Maine candidate exclusively.

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day or tsro since, a

gentlemen who has a family rending in louih Boston, returned home, after an ab«enee in California of abont three years At New York ba purchased a basket of peecfees to bring heme, nod, arriving in Banton* immediately hastened to Ma bowse.— Ringing *e door bed, be was eoewered by his wife, who did not reoogmae him. lie tnntrad if she wished to buy any paaefens, to which alas asked his peine, and finafiy decided to b»f. Ha Hkm left, and reteahenae of a friend near If, an4e known, and rewmod end was introduced to tna wife, wto waa delighted in greet iter husband, b«t reeHy did not know Win at first.

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Friday, october 14,1853.

Nenrapaper-doaa.

It is beyond my comprehension how Methusaleh lived nine hundred and sixty-nine yeam without a newapeper or. what the mischief Noah did, during that "forty days" shower, when be had exhausted the study of Natural History. It makes me yawif to think of it. Or what later generations did the famished half-hour before meals or when travelling, when the old stage-coach crept up a steep hill, some dnsty hot summer noon. Shade of Franklin how they must have been ennmyed

How did they ever know when flour had "riz"—or what was the market price of pork small tooth combs, cotton, wool and melasses. How did they whether Queen Victoria had made her brother an unole or an aunt How could thev f.nd out whether Fannv Fiddlestick was Napihali Wil kins' sister What christianized gouty old men and snappish old ladies What kept the old maids from making mince-meat of pretty young girls What did love sick damsels do for "sweet bits of poetry" and "touching continued stories Where did their papas find a solace when the coffee was muddy, the toast smoked snd the beef-steak raw. or done to leather I What did cab drivers do, while waiting for a tardy patron? What did draymen do. when there was *.a great calm" at the drygoods store of Go Ahead «Se Co.? What screen did husbands dodge behind, when their wives asked them for money

Some people define happiness to be one thing, and some, another. I define it to be a room "carpeted and furnished" with ••exchanges,*' with a place cleared in the middle for two arm-chairs one for a clever editor, and one for yourself. I tay it i« to lake up those papers, one by one. snd laugh ove* the funny things and skip the stupid ones—to admire ihe ingenuity of would-be literary lights, who pilfer one-half their original (f) ideas and steal th* remainder 1 say it is to shudder a thankgiving that you are not in ihe marriage list—to try. for the hundredth time, to solve the riddle How can each psper lhat passes through tie "the best and ohespest periodical in the kno&n world T"

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That's whal call happines*!—FANST

The insufficiency of mere wealth B1QUS »V confer happiness is strikingly illuatrated io the life of Nathan Myers Rothschild, the Jew. who died in London some years ago— one of the most devoted worshippers lhat ever laid a withered soul on Ihe altar of mammon." For yeara he wielded the purse of the world, opening and closing it to kings and emperors as be listed: and, upon certain occasions, was supposed to have more influence in Great Brtttain lhanthe proudest and wealthiest nobles—perhaps more influence than the two Houses of Parliament taken together. He once purchased bills of the government, in a single day. to the amount of #'20.000,000 and also the gold which he knew the government must have to pay them and with the profits on a single loan, purehashed an estate which cost him 8750.000! Yet, with the clearest snd widest comprehension in money msttcrs— with the most piercing insight into all possible aflVcting causes in the money market— and with ingenuity to effect the profoundest. most subtle, and most unsuspected combinations—an ingenuity before which all the other prodigies of calculation that have from tim« to time appeared, sink into nothing—he was. withal a Uttle soul. He exercised his talents and calculating powers, cot only for the accumulion of millions mod the management of national creditor*, but also for the determination of the smallest possible pittance on which a clerk's son! could be retained in connection with his body. To part with a shilling in the way of charity, cat him to the heart

One of bis grand roles, "never to have anvthing to do with an untuoky men or plaice"—which waa also one of John Jacob

Astor's principles—however ebrewd in a ia a worldly point of view, was the very quintessence of selfishness and mammonism. H« was. in short, a thorough going mammon• worshipper—hi* whole soul converted into a machine or engine for coining guineas, and every noble emotion, every immortal longing, dead within him. Guineas. he did osis. ts a mm tbet seems almost tabs lone: hot sriih all Ma colossal wealth, be waa protoondly unhappy and with sorrowful earnestnees, once exclaimed to oea oongratnlatittg him on the gorgeoas magnificence of hts palatial mansion, and tiMnoa inferring that he waa fcnppjf, "Happgr/ as Anpff/"

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sanctum, inwardly chuckling at the forlorn appearance it makes without famine fingers to keep it tidy to see the looking-glass veiled whh cobwebs the dust on the desk thick enough to write your name in the soap liquified lo a jelly (editors like soft soap ihe table covered with a heterogeneous mass of manuscripts, and paper folders, and wafers and stamps, and envelops and tailor* hills, and letters complimentary, belligerent and pacific.

I say it is to hear the editor complain with a frown, of the heat and the headache to conceal a smile while you suggest lh» probability of relief if a window should be opened to see him start at your superior profundity lo hear him say, with a groan. how much "proof" he has to read, oefore he can leave for home to take off your gloves and help him correot it to hear him say, (here is a book for review, which he has not time lo look over to take a folder and cut the leaves, and affix guide-boards for notice at all the fins passages to see him kick over an innocent chair, because he cannot get hold of the right word for an editorial to feel (while you help him to it) very much like the mouse who gnawed the lion out of a net, and then to take up his paper some days after, and find a paragraph, endorsed by him, "deploring the intellectual inferiority of woman."

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Enter into business of whioh you have a perfect knowledge. In your own right, or by the aid of friends on long time, have a cash capital sufficient to do. at least a cash business. Never venture on a credit business on commencement, Buy ell your goods or materials for cash: you can take •very "advantage of the market, and pick and choose where you will. Be careful not to overstock yourself. Rise and fall with the market, on short stock. Always stick to those whom you prove to be strictly just in their transactions, and ahun all others, even at a temporary disadvantage. Never take advantage of a customer's ignorance or equivocate, nor misrepresent. Have but one price and a small profit, and you will find all the mcst profitable customers—the cash ones—for they will find you.

It ever deceived in business transactions never attempt tn save yourself by puUing the deception upon others but submit to the loss, and be more cautious in future.— According to the extent of j'our business." set aside a liberal per centage for printing and advertising, and do not hesitate. Never let an article, parcel, or package, go out from you without a handsomely printed label. wrapper, card or circular, and dispena» them continually. Choose the newspaper for your purpose, and keep vourseli unceasingly before the public: and it matters not what business of utility you make choioe of for if intelligently and industriously pursued, a fortune will be the result

Envy.

A mean and sordid passion. W« would as soon fondle a live scorpion, as to harbor a feeling so guilty What an occupation for the human heart! A monster horrible as Cerebus—a vile chemist forever seeking a bane—bending over the alembic of mnlice—stirring up hatred and human strife, till he makes one huge dish of poison, in which he steeps ihe belter qualities, till thev are hitter and cruel as the grave.

With what a gre«n eye does he look out over the world! How his hair stands on end. and his fingers clutch at the dnirger ol detraction, when he meets one better than himself, llow he grinds his teeth when beauty stands beside his deformity! and hisses like a serpent in his nest, when fame plucks her laurel* for the brow of another. Hi* tongue, sharpened with the venom of black hate, and hot with malice and burning coals,'set on the fire of hell.' He would unhinge the door of an infant's heart, and teach its thoughts to quarrel with perfection and pick the eyes out of virtue. So foul in his spirit lhat he has been known lo dig graves lor an entire family, and smile with the exultation of a demon, over the ruiu he hat made.

The agliest man lhat ever trod Fr«noh ground was Mirabeau, the organizer ot the revolution—and vet he won more female hearts than any of his colemporaries. He had the features of a wild beSMt, and the massive shocks of hair which surrounded nis huge forehead gave him the appnaranae of an enraged lion. The best di*cription giv en of him is that of Desmoulins, who called him a tiger, pitted by small pox.

Such was the man who was worshipped by the delicate beauties of his lime—and such Ihe head, which, when wearied by the fierce logic of debate, could rest on the lap of a royal Venus, and be petted by hands as white and delicate as the lilly.

There was a magic in this strong man's hideousness. It made men crouch and women worship, lt blasted from the politicians tribune, but you would slmost suppose it blest in the lady's chamber—so caressed and, kissed into a sort of grim good humor every night and morning.

"Learn

to Spdnt."

This 1s the first advice thst a- female whale gives its young, and it is just the advice lhat every American mother should give her boys. In no country in the world is there such field for off-hsnd speakers to opeaate in as in the United Slates A man capable of stirring up a multitude at a mass meeting can reach any nffioe In the gift of the people, beginning with "comptroller of poultry," and leaving off with the Presidency. In the present Con* gress there are fifty-six Senators forty-three are or have been lawyers, leave only thirteen for all the other professions Now, why this? Why should twenty five thousand lawyers have eight times as many representatives in the Senate, as the whole twenty-five millions of peopis 1 For no other resson in the world than that lawyers ore generally good speakers. But why should good speakers be limited to one pro* fession We know not of a single good reason.

Every school should have declamation dubs connected with it. Boys of all classes should be initiated into the art and mystery of persuasion. With early training the mechanic and farmer would become ea suocessful "on the stump" es gentlemen who consume their oil in pouring over the old fogy ism of Coko and Littleton To be a good spesker all that is required la a first class memory eod a little manly oonfidence^fiTbe former can be acquired by practice ai any time the latter, however can only be obtained by "breaking the ice** during our school boy days. Again

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Jttst as the Whig* srere giving oat the administration waa in great iron We, they nra chawed with the intelligence lhat Whig itwUia are near in Gnocgie. They am nand np awl done for. TKh have no tremble: they have nothing to caie for, and nobody to anrn for Jkas.

TVe face of natere is ihe foo*f»ri6t of God.

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of the New York Tribune, so

long the Jupiter Tonans of the Whig press end party, regarding Wkiggery as "a no go," has recently renounced it, and declared hi* determination henceforth "U act with entire independence of party usages, mandate* and platforms The Brooklyn Advertiser*, (Whig.) draws the following charming picture of this hitherto revered oracle and leader of the Whig party •-Having ho longer the confidence of ihe Whigs of any eectton of the ooentry—hevtng hams falsa to bis proteased faith, and ected treaeherooely towards those who have eustainei and nphkd him until the viper hes acquired strength enough to sling— finding that his mountebank antics among hraaan woman and ehamelass tndfidela have brought down upon him the derision and the acorn of the intelligent and virtuoas portion of the oommamty—lost to all aenae of nmmnfm decency and abandoned to helplasensni and deapair exnept b) the in* bigots end superstitious fools wfen

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pamper the absurdities in which he delig —•he is glad lo sneak into any comer, adopt any alternative, rather than sink public estimation inio positive insignificance. The Whig# of New York will he heartily glad to learn that he no longer claim* affinity with them, that he pretend^ not now he of their kith and kin. and ilint henoeforth he will n»t recognise in any form or shape, or under any name or title, party usages, mandates, or platforms, save such as mav emanate from socialists, abolitionists. Maine law demagogues and land reformers."

A Wicked Wile.

[Here ia a terrible story, from Burke*i« Family Roo»ance, showing "how the Sootts ot Thirlestane came to beggary." It is an Aintworth's novel, in half a column:] "Sir Robert's second wife was an unprincipled woman, of vindictive temper, and fierce passtons and by her he had several children. This woman had all the qualities calculated to tnako an oppressive and cruel step-dame and accordingly her jealousy wss excited by the fond aff*otion whioh Sir Robert displayed towards his eldest son. She knew th*t his rich inheritance would descend to him, while her own sons would receive a very tlender provision beside*, her husband's excessive attachment to his eldest son gave her no hope of his being persuaded to alienate from him anv portion of the family property. Iler jealousy accordingly jjrew into a disease, and her mind was distraoted with rage and mortification. These feelings were still further aggravated, when Sir Robert built the Tower of Gameseleugh, and adorned that property with all manner of embellishments, ss the futuro residence of his eldest son, who was now about to come of age, and for whom he had arranged a suitable and advantageous alliance with a beautiful young lady of high birth. The step-mother now lost all patience, and was firmly resolvad to compass the destruction of her hated step-yon. The masonwork nf the new Castle of Gamescleugh was completed on the young Ltird's twentieth birth-day, which was held as a high festival day at Thirlestane. The la!y resolved that hie hours should now bo numbered and she accordingly prepared, on the intended festival, to execute her horrid purpose. She had already secured in her interest the family piper, whose name was John Lnlly. Tliis man procured three adder*, from which he selected the parta replete with the most deadly poison, and having ground th*m to fine powder, Ltdy Thirlestane mixed them in a bottle of wine. Previous to the commenoement of the feast at ThitU'stane, the young Laird went over the Kitrick River to (Jamescleugh, to inspect the finished work, and to regale the mssons and other w.vk people, who had exerted themselves to have trio castle walls completed by his birth-day. Ho was attended by John Lally. In the mi 1st of tho entertainment of the workmen, the young L'litd called for wine to drink their healths and John filled his silver cup from the poisoned bottle, which the ill-fated youth hastily drank off. The piper immediately left the oa«tle. aa if to return home. Hut ho was iievi?r more seen. The most diligent search failed in discovering him and it is stippo«od that he escaped across the Knglish border. Young Thirl«siaiie was instantaneously taken violently ill, and auch was ihe forcn of th« poison that he swelled and burst within an hour. The news waa immediately carried to Thirlestane. where large party of the kith and kin of Scott had assembled to do honor to the festival. Hut it may easily be conceived what a woeful gathering it turned out to be. With one accord, the guests felt and said that the young Laird was poisoned, but w»»re unable to conceive who could have done so foul a deed to one s* universally beloved. The old baron immediately caused a bugle to be blown, as a signal to all the family to assemble in the casils court. lis then inquired, 'Are we all hersl' A voico from lh« crowd answered. 'All but the piper, John Latly!' This sounded like a knell In the ears of Sir Robert. He knew the eonfidence which his lady plsoed in Ibis servant, ilia eyes were at once open to the foul deed, and the conviction that his most dear and betoved son had been slain by the machinations of his wife, shocked his feelings so terribly lhat he was almost deprived of reason. He stood very long in a slate of utier stupefaction, and then began to repeat the answer which he had recived. And ibis he continued lo do for several days 'We aro all here but John Lslly. the piper!' Sir Robert lived in a lawj-ss time, justice was not rightly administered, and it was difficult 10 punish the crimes of the powerful and noble. Moreover, Sir Robert could not be iuduced to seek lomtke a public example of his own wife. However, he adopted a singular snd complete, though most unjust method of vengeance. He said that ihe estate belonged of right to his son, and that since he could not bestow it upon him while living, hn would at lesst spend it upon him when dead.

And he moreover «xpre*«ed grest satisfaction at the idea of depriving his lady and her offspring of that which she had played so foul a part to secure to Uiffn. Th« boly of the toting Laird was accordinglycmbalmed with the most costly drugs and spices,« and lay in state at Thirlestane for a year end a dsy during the whole of wHtolPtltfw Sir Robert kept open house, welcoming an I royally feasting »!1 who chose to eome. And in this wsy of reckless and wanton profusion, he actually spent or mortgaged Ins entire estate. While the whole country# high and low, were thus feasting at Tnirlrstane, the lady wss kept sunt up in a van't of i*.te castle, and fed upon bread and water. During the last three days of this extraordinary feast, the crowds were immenso. It" was as if the whole ot the south of Scotland, was assembled at Tnirlestene. Butts of the richest and rarest wines ware carried lnt* the fields their ends were knocked out wiih* hstchets, end the liquor was carried about in stoups. The bam of Thirlestane literally ran red whh wine. The vault where th«f| young Laird waa inferred, in a leaden coffin, is under the roof of the chorclt of trick, which is distant from Thirlestsne upwards of a mile and so rumerous was the fnnaral prooesnkMi, that when tne leaders ha-lreeob* ed the church, ihore in tha rear had hardly left the nastln gates. Sir Robert die anon after this, and left his family in uttef destitution. It is aiid 'Hat his wicked U-)v died in atanfeite heggsry."