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Miscellaneous, (profession silently spurn him from; rain-water, and cheese, are full of snnkn. and lizards, and snan- Why are springs enthroned on high, Where the mountains kiss the sky? 'Tis that thence their streams may flow, Fertilizing all below. Why have clouds such lofty flight, "Basking in the golden light? 'Tis to send down genial showers On this lower world of ours. W'hy does God exalt the great? 'Tis that they may prop the state; So that toil its swe cts may yield, And the sower reap the field. Riches why doth he confer? That the rich may minister, In the hour of their distress, To the poor and fatherless. Docs he light a Newton's mind? 'Tis to shine on all mankind. Does he give to virtue birth? 'Tis the salt of this poor earth. "Reader, whosoe'er thou art, What thy God has given impart; Hide it not within the ground, Send the cup of blessing round. Hast thou power? the weak defend; Light? give light: thy knowledge lend; Rich? remember him who gave; Free? be brother to the slave. IIO.VOR AXD PROBITY. Fure probity, unsullied honor, high The want of these no qualities supply; "No grace of character that man rept ct Can ever compensate for such defects. Fortune's frowns the heart may wring, But the soul can fate despise: Sorrow hath its piercing sting; Yet superior to its darts. Noble minds and virtuous hearts Above the ills of life can rise. Selected for the Free Press. Profession a I Rep u ia t to n. T ii e following remarks are extracted from an Oration, delivered before the Philadelphia .Medical Society, by John D. Godnan, M. I). The sentiments advanced are e qually applicable to all profes sions and pursuits, and are well worthy the attention of the com munity in general: "Our profession has long been subjected to the charge of 'envy, hatred, malice, and all uneharita blencss' among its members; and unfortunately too much of the charge is well founded. We can not, at present, enter into an in vestigation of the causes by which this state of things has been pro duced, although it does not affect the profession to the degree which persons commonly suppose. To lessen this evil and avoid meriting such an accusation, make it a ride never to speak of a professional rival, unless you can speak to his advantage; if he have merit, allow him the whole of it, and give your sentiments of his talents, with the unaffected earnestness of truth. Do not imagine that your acknow ledgment of his merits, will hide bis defects, or obscure your own good qualities. Grant that he adopts a contrary course, speaks ill of you, or throws out insinua tions intended to be prejudicial to your interests; then is your tri umph complete. Think you that men will not contrast his mean and soulless conduct, with your manly and honest candor? Think you that he will not more deeply damn himself, by attempting to misrepresent you;- that society will not visit his ungenerous con duct on his own head, while the "Should vou be eminently sue- cessful after others have failed, avoid pushing your triumph so far as to wound the feelings and out rage the pride of your less fortu nate competitors. Your success is sufficient for you, and by judi cious deportment, you may com pel a man to respect, if he does not esteem, who might otherwise cherish against you a spirit as stern as hate as inexorable as the crave. If after such success as wo have alluded to, you hear of j disparaging suggestions made a gainst you, by one you have set aside or overshadowed, you are neither obliged to know, nor re sent it; you would owe it to the dignity of your own character, to recollect that some allowances are to be made for mortified feelinir, as well as that no malicious insin uations can stand against the dai ly repetition of actions, which i prove you exempt from a grovel-(to them a world, as large and a; snakes, and lizards, and snap ping-turtles. "If ever 1 commit a felony, I humbly desire to be sent to a tread-mill, or a penitentiary, an inquisition, a galley, or the-gallows any thing in preference -to being put into a Solar Micro scope. Let no reformer intro duce such a punishment into our penal code. Never was such an in fernal machine invented! 'Luke's iron crown, and L) ami en's bed of steel' were nothing to it. The agonies which I have seen inflict ed to-day upon thousands of liv- animals, each apparently as large as a raccoon, dancing at one time on the point of a fine cambric nee dle. They had been taken from a fig, where they had no doubt lived a contented and plentiful life, in company with millions of their own species. The hr was ling and miserably irritable dis position pleasant as our globe is to us. When taken Irom it, they survi- Drowncd. Mr. James Horns, by, aged about 70 years, was drowned, while bathing in com pany with several other person in Capt. Moses Winston's mill pond, in Franklin county, on the 24th inst. lie was a schoolmas ter, and had labored in that voca tion for many years. Ital.Star. A Genius in Mechanics. -The Washington N. C. Echo says: Arrived at this nort during th0 past week, a new schooner called the "Two Brothers," from Bath N. C. She is about GO or 70 tons tmrthen was projected and built ing creatures, attest the truth of y Mr. John Mixom, ayouinr me. this remark'. I saw dozens of chanic or that place, who is known never to have worked one hour in a ship yard! The connoisseurs say that the model is not iinnl.. jeotionable; but regard the work, upon the whole, as very credita ble to the ingenuity and enter-1 prise of the builder. That vou will not attain the ved but a few minutes, and ton I - - 7 " " professional elevation vou desire.! perished in the most exuuisite without struglinir against hosts ! torments. of difficulties, ami encountering! "The down of a butterhVs wincr every degree of opposition, is, being placed in the glass, we were must curiam, it may uc,tnat tne surprised lo unci that it was corn iron grasp of poverty, for a consi- posed of perfectly formed feathers i i i -ii i .1 i , . ueraoic lime, win imneue vour not less man a toot lonir. progress and enfeeble your ef forts. Against rivalry and oppo sition, your armor of principles and determined perseverance will afford every security, and poverty "A small parcel of the down from the feather of a bird, was found to be itself a feather, such as we never saw upon the head of the mos. ambitious military olh itself, maybe made to minister to cor it was full thirty feet loii'r. your success, by urging you to "Vinegar was found to contain the display of your noblest pow- snakes about four feet in length, ers. Look at the men of talents,! "I consider the doctrine of a who now lead the van of our nm- plurality of worlds to hu cnmnlntn- , . . - j. - w , t - - - I - ession and are considered as its' ly established. Every cheese, ornaments. Who arc they! Men! every vinegar barrel, is a world born to fortune, and reared in the land why should not the planets lap of luxury! No. Men whn also have inhabitants! We hone. - i ' have been elevated by protection 'however, that thev will never learn and patronage! Who have been how to make Solar Microscopes; favored by circumstances, or rai-jfor if gigantic races exist in other scd by accident! No. Thev are. spheres, it miuht become a fash- j 7 c? inncf i ritfti w. I L 1 . I i I K I , . l unjoi 11 uijuuiiuj , musu u iio lllive luuauiu miu5i;iin'iii among ilium, emerged from poverty, if not ob-jto exhibit our delicate forms, and scuritv. Many of them havo bnnn rrace(ul iresturos. in thnsn tnrri- - m j - ; o o - - nursed in sorrow, and baptised I ble engines. A whole city might with tears; they have protected he scraped up on the point of a .. . i . urn pairomsuu uwmscivcs, until trcrncmious camonc needle, and Molasses. This article, thou Mi paying a duty of ten cents per 'l Ion, is cheaper than it has been lor some years. The N.Y. Jour nal of Commerce states that it costs only three cents per gallon in the West Indies. The casks cost in the island at the rate of seven cents per gallon, or more than twice as much as the ariide put into them. The re?t of the price is mode up of dutv, freight, leak Katre, c&c. the great and powerful have be come proud to rank as their friends: they have made the very circumstances, which superficial observers suppose to have been the causes of their elevation. It is the triumph of talent, of genius, to rise in proportion to the magni tude of difficulties; to trample the opposition of malignant medioc rity into the dust; ami gaining its merited elevation, to raise the profession it has chosen to a cor responding degree of eminence." Solar Microscope. A corres pondent of the Illinois Intelligen cer gives the following humorous description of this wonderful in strument: "The Federal Court is sitting, and the Solar Microscope is here; of course if there is a flaw in any man's plea, or an insect in any la dy's vinegar, it will be found out. Our littlo town is all alive we have not had such a squeeze since the Legislature adjourned; the tavern is full of lawyers, the show room full of ladies., and the fi?sj million of living beings!'' broiled in a microscope, for the amusement of a company of gi antesses. "I never saw a Solar Micro scope before; but I go against them from this time forward." Heretofore I have led a comforta ble life, blessed with a good appe tite, and with a competent supply of wholesome food. But since my unlucky visit to that diabolical contrivance, I have not had a mouthful of wholesome food, nor enjoyed a sound appetite, nor a healthy digestion. If I lift the most delicate morsel to my lips, I fancy it alive with delicate mon sters, teeming with invisible alli gators, minute elephants, and im palpable tortoises. If I walk the streets, I tremble lest some un lucky drayman shall drive down my throat. I dare not drink for fear of swallowing steamboats, and being blown up by the burst ing of a boiler. As for ait is horrible to think of it! Going a whole hog, is nothing the man who cats a fig, must swallow a Rhetoric Mr. Webster, in his argument on the case pending ia the Court of Equity, Boston," al luding to an allegation in the in dictment, rather derogatory to a person now no more, made the following terrible remark: "If any two of that man's bones were held together by any ligament, and could be conscious of this unhal lowed indignity, they would kick against the coifm!"'' Mr. Wirt, in his reply, seemed to think that if such were the case with the re mains of all men impeached, "there would be a terrible rattling among the dry bones!" Anecdote. A singular sort of a man irt Massachusetts, recently sent for a magistrate to write his will. After mentioning a number of bequests he went on- 'Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved brother, Zack, one thousand dol lars.' 'Why you are not worth half that sum hi the world,' inter rupted the magistrate. 'Well no matter if 1 aim,' replied the other, 'it's my will that brother Zack should have that sum, and he may work and get it if he iias a mind to.' Oicls. A western paper men tions the following as an easy me thod of taking owls: When you discover one on a tree, and find that it is looking at you, all yoU have to do is to move quickly round the tree several times, when the owl's attention will be so firm ly fixed, that, forgetting the ne cessity of turning its body with it head, it will follow your motion until it wrings its head off! (Vnnr nrn mnrn inrlincd tO come the enemies of vice, man thn!n whn h.ivp h.PIl its slaves and are so hanny as to have bro- ken from their bondage.
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