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m) Aft ritri J? U MM 4 rrr UNION. THE C ON8T1TUT1QN AND THE LAWS-THE GUARDIANS OF OUR L1BEBTY. TIIIUSDA Y, JXXVXUY 20, 1813. - - - 1 1 -5aS-B5BS AX CASTE UN TALE. fn m ikm $u-or Florida: Tvv it mn TlTun story, which givee ea tea:jt of eenaia gem, cr prrcos IMS, s ea irtly perfect as la be inde ii(ibU by ai human agency, It cacireily. greatly teeaed, and btld al nrt 9f iatiatie value. At leagm it bc.m the property of t wealthy merchants who, OS dyhg. be queathed it to his only eon, Lit princi pal patrimony. ' For tint lha young merchant consi dered himself the wealthiest ana io Bas dJ. lie emU at any moment hate di ! J of hi eabl jewel, at iha near ft II ir, for a eww sufficient la have bmghl up a whole sreei ol common merchants, wil'i all ibrir merchandise, to grihr wtih innumerable caravan fiooi t'.c IiJ.i. with lite rare! itks, spices, ! other food. An J tit (in at Caliph himself, it vat aippos.d. valtl bael ei-rrd bia throns with say oua (or the t.Mei()n m it. D t at length iba y nun; merchant be came diteswtenteJ with hi tresture. At ter all. eaul ti liimli, if ihia atone h sold nit ba what the vpmia of tha wtlj bat so 1 oig he'il it i.i be! What, if iustead f being indestructible ae it it add lube, ii i sn-crptilU ol bringfcru J by a single blow uf the hammer! In stead of being proof egaiasl the flornee ol ill ta mi intra he. t. what if the fiie nih Marten and delace it! The tormented a ith uspiciHts whirh had nvei nt -red the brsaet of any pre i al proprietor f the rare gem. tta pot session, instead of a tUitiaciion, a pride, a i4 aa hnor, became li the yun j met chant only a Mira of liquie, l rar, a i1 anxiety. 11 araa eonmiual'y haunt eil with an rfr-wacnifi deaire ta trytx ptrhnvitt upon it. Supjt ite, yt he. 1 were t p!ace it mxlrr fie lummer, and prove whether or mt it be cipa'l f re eiati if the e(Tnt of ro-chan:eal furer! Or-wcie I to plica it in IHa furnace for a law die a, an I are whether or ni it ran withtan inH icn'e of i'lieme heal! Ii ihi eiate of omul he enntulilJ wit!i an o. Urrviae, wh- hid been the friend and eoumellrr nf hit fnher. D it fitt, aay a:in,' a'4 he, with your nea aura. D not a'l men bciiee it lo ba perlcct? Ia mil itt a!ue in the market k paw aa'f reat at it poaihly can be. after it ehall bate rraia rd all your etperi rnenUt Da a l the fiiat to thrnw aaapi cion on your oon fkirtune -the ffi of Ibo prophet." Dal the ynune mtn I tteaed not lo the adtice of tha old Dertiae. Ha tubjeci ed hit (am H the teat of ilia fire and the harnmrr. For a while it reiilrd all hit a.Toria to I'alaee or I injur i; and it aaened t-i daterv fa If the reputatmn it bolte lon b'irna. Bui the m re the preciou(em rrtited hitcfortt t idtiroy i, aa l tSam re it aeanl ! ap.ir taoi itt rep nad perfection, the a ir wthe am bit O'l of the (illy merr.han eseued t Ire new experiment! on iu lie want u work and built tety etirnie m -e'linery. with new eimbina'i nt of mectnic-il power, for the pnrpota of tuhjectin; it l more liyin teati. All bein ready, the preeioua fm waa placed in oiti.n to b moat atity afTetfied by the accumu lated farce of the machinery, and the ex periment waa made. Thereauli watt ion a:rrtainrd. Tha entity aMue waa round to pnwdeil Did I not d i writ,' taid the young merchant io ihe Dri., whn I mi peeied that thia bauble wat not the thing ' it bal been cracked up t be?" Truly, my ia," anawered the Der- ie, ynur expsrimenti hare proaperrd, and Ton he become a bef cr iir your . ' ..... a t paint erpenmen-e e i.; w prore ta yon thai to. hate brea d-reived in the rer fcciiiHa sf theve oieati. Aad n the makioe of espericeau they PP-ied theaaaclfea wuhai! worthy of a boner Caute. Eery body fcaeet iL, ralu iheie are aome men, and farmer loo. thai are re wew but oeter do iu la ihe circle of ay acquaiaiaace, I know cat farmer that ba nn a aingle edged tool on bia premi. ea. except axe and acythe. and yet be a Sti"S ,el ,el u'erpeatera to.d for mure than tea year. Another, and a large farmer too. that doe not own a ndler, but (m (wt er five year pan hat borrowed one tf hi neighbor four or fi daye ia earn year probably to etiafv himKlf at rrguda it aulny a a farming imp'emenl. Another ba not, but ia go. ig la get a em top and a et of pulley block. Ao'Hhrr i gofag it get hinv a eel of dry meaturet. though he e!l more thai a bund eJbuahelt of grain aanually. Another, an I tbit man ha alwayi been gting t9 barn dry wood afirr ihi yar, but h ner did iL And aingular a it mar appear, one roan bat breo guinglo build him a better hg pn iTian iha or.e ia which he now keep hi swine, and he hat hern going f for fifteen year.' And there are mine farmrt that h been ;?oirt la bate betier fenret. better gne. better erupt, an I batter aiock. until I think they are now eitVr really going to d i it, or Ihtl they are aadly deficient of thit enrrey and deciaion of character that h old e'tirae cnz every American fir mer. And finally, I know of one man. whu it al .iiiui dedcicui of ecry article of ftriufuf unpleroriit ab e named, and I wm going lo tell yoo ihe re ison, I ahould y, tin uian hat bean g ting to tlp driokinc ardent tpiiii fr a long time D it judio fr.nn the look of hi farm, and lrnn hinii inat wrrtchrd per-onl ppearaure. I ehould y th'U thia mn, with rapid atriJei, wtt g tin g to . uold ao many pift at you bee! What ainh did yoa toy them Uf lb-aghi them foe my own family otbe, madam; and I'm tbeitaia yur peN wJJ be tbvfSibieaUy large fr then.. My pea will only bold twenty-fite common aizi-d onta. Welt, it it will hold twenty fite bog h. it will ihiiirly hold two tbowih and p'fhr . r.Two ,,Mn P!. y. It on't bold ihe twentieth part of them M Understand rot. madam! I don't lhay two ihouthaad pigtb.but two tbuwth aid pith! I hear you twa thooaand ni't. fur a 3Vo. 1 1 07 ' "i iiaiSiii iiraii n tr realied iota the other room, and. ia ihtir coufutioc, exuere iried the aul.ia ry lighC .Tbe and Jen darknet redoub led ibrir panie. At latt tha eertaaia made iltcirappearaoce wih flambranx; and the Prrace, who began to be alarmed at the auccei of bia eipeiim-it accret-d-rd with aare difiiruliy in ealmin the aprrel.eniion of hie fair awdienre. diea," aaid be. ii'a all yoor own fault; you rrqueiud me to teinfy yoa a tiule, and I I ke to make raytelf agieetbte." ' . J Pro&uditt am. Mr. Hi t in bi Monthly Yirfior, a eapl Agricultural periodical by the wly, fiTtl!it following -. jaJ l.a M ft..,; I?-. . o ft aoi iw ihouth.nd ptgih, bat teethowih .ihi ba proved lo be at the pricea profit aad two pigtli.' - ,ble ineetlmcnt. TRe uperiieadent of "Oh oh Mr. Fiher, it that w hit lie farm informed that he bad paid ynnmean! my pea it at your eertice, over to the owner, a net profit from thia ,r .land forona tor. f,l nnn. ml ih.i ! I... MI ll.ar.k yna thiniherely, madam'. f saved from tbe profile a hi perron! Iiped ihe relieved Fither, and be at rted .'compentaiion bendra, about JIOOO in the tame lime. Hi ordmiry crop of pota toes wa 3500 bu-hela, and for that fie had often obtained forty rentt the buthel. The farm yirljad annua'ly fio.n 120 200 ion ol Englitli hay, worth from ten a - - - -w w wooi (or the pig pen, in which be om ilepo- aiirn ni " two tnoein ami p g hi" rithburg Vhron. WON r TAKE 20 DOLLARS Sjme waggih atudenis at Yale Col lege, a few years aiace, were regaling theinelie ini evening at ibe Ton line, when an old farmer from the coun try entned their room (taking it f.-r the bir-room.) and iuqune.l if he could ob tain bulging llirte. Tha young chapa inimediaitl anawered him in the affirm a r. it . t . . io nucen ujuiiart ine t in. i nrr wa a large apple orchard upon the farm from which a profit it generally derived. The occupant allowed o aome large com. which had been raited ihe latt action at the rate of 60 buthel the acre. Thit farm might bt made far more pro ductive (ban, it now it, at it is t o large lit, inviting lumtot.keaglatiofpunrh.'for a profiubl New England farm, to be we out iciiow, no wat athiewd I an-;cul iteJ uudrr ihe eve of aaine!e ncco kee, taw at once that ha at lo be made ! pant in tha mott advaniagrout manner. It the butt ol their iett. but ouifilr lavine louldmkefourorfiveeood(araia.anJita olThia hkl and tellina: a worthlcaa hul 'produce might be made lo reach four or nve timea the r reaent an.ouui." .1..- I,. I. ..I i. i:. .. i i iiv . iiiii. it ,ie vnicr ifiu Tin; puin rEirs aitrentire. A yonoj Hi a i wat once apprentired in thit city a printer, lit b urded at the h iue ol hi father. w!m wat in eay eir cu nttnre. but h t required hie em to pay for bit board from the avail of tpe cial erquiin a hich.furnitHrd hi f I low apprenticet wi h a liberal tupply ol fund for pleasure. TMt the young man thought wat li.nl; but when he wat of age, and matter of hi trade, hi father called him and aaid: Here, my un, it the entire amuiit of Hie money paid to me for your board during your apprinticeahip; I nevrr in ended lo retain ii, but hat re served it for yur ue; with it I give you at much more, a a sma'l capital la com mence buttnett. The witdom il the old man waa nw appa'dit lo the ton. flit fellow had Cuntraclrd bad habitt in Vjie expendi ure of annilar petqniaitea which the father had withheld from him,) a id were n iw pennj Iett in vice, lie wat J en ibled with a go id character t- com- ; nieiice a tin ill buioea. an I now atanda at tha head l publither in ihi c iuniry. M l of lua coinpatiion in pprenlicethip are initerably poor, vicioua and degraded. Tim aatne nun hat told me that he ne ver wat but once in a theitre. On that occaaion he hd been pnrtoaded to go by hit fellow laborer, who were accuatomed lf it, and who furnUhed him wiili a txk ei. Oil taking hit teat in the box he re membartd thai it wa precisely lh hour hi m.nher wat accimtomed t retire for pyer, and he well knew that the burden of her pravrre e nbraced Ihe aalvation of hr children 11 lushed from the room, and never return 1 1 it. Thote sons are privileged whi have praying mothers. Allah ia treat: he hu p.i.iithed! Jii4fsthersiod.seipl.ne and raatrain them. yoo with surreas in your endeavors ioif '"',u' penia m. ineir cooureo . uidermine your own l olunet. and deface bf b,"'"4 M WOf'd- n? crown,1 of the brightneta and perfection uf hi own '' iwein... I aa.ks thaw n aa 1 1 f ai aa IS al girts." The voting merchant paed sway amid Ihe jeers and taunts of the bvstin-dert. Now it eeemt lo u that a very ueful Who dors not ho nor the prentt oho are honored in their children! . rutriareh. - TWO THOUSAND PIGS. In a tHlige, not many mdet distant moral ntv be drawn from ihe Extern from thit great Western metropolis dwell ,,0fT " J a barher who was in rooderaio circtnn- Ha't not the conduct of tho e w:cked ataoces, and po aetied moreover of a p.liii.-i.nt. who hate experimented upon! " pec io'ah lithp." as he called i; in thij the aaEOiT of the comity unt l they have town ta in large citiet. it was. the peco-. dett oyed it, bjen very much Lk the, liar s province of the police to arreai all' r.iurte of the eilly voting inercnani oi awioe ruiiniiigirgc"i '""S,""rwB, lladad. who ground hi peerless jewel: and either aell ifieamu for the benefit to powder only lor the ske of showing of the poor, or deliver them to tbeownrr . . - -..I... .. I (..... til .,,nniiiBlinn. Il haniieiinl that it was not quite to inumieiiYii - . '' I it had b-en renreaented to he! that our barher, whom we shall designate , Th ps.pl of this eiorrv p.feed.ai Fither, had msde tome purcha.es at' a carre-icr ba.ed ii,ion rre lil. which was one of thete sle. without procuring the , in them a mine f weahh. Ii could he nceiry buildings I the reep loh f j aw (Brtss J f.. all ill to naearif . f Aiiiiaueww v " w w-v-'v w j comfort, and liitnnet of life. It ll iweJ , aid circulnei1, andcitie roe up at if by magic; Vie f iret gve idac to fcriils plaiilaiion. the av age retreated before the iarch of civil'X iti'oi, and plenty aid oheerfiilneti aprcad themelet over all the land. IIjI ther were a et of politician who r te up a id aid to ih Pmijile, Thit rur reocy of winch joi bjt, and which you fanev it wo ki ig n'i W"ider f.r ail a mor.Krrv! V is worune: m . ... .a 11 uakt I the! hi obstmatii charge; not knnwiiig ,,hat course to pursue, he proceed, d to the re sidence of a wido la-lyi Mrt. V., t ob lain the temporary ua of a pen, in which to place them, addressing her thu: .Mithflh Y I con lo ahk" you'll yoo km 1 t-d me your pig pen for a few daUli? von, i " M pig pen! why, Mr. Fiaher, what ran ymi want with my pit pen?" I have juih bin purchalnin tnonio thwi ie two thwtrh andpigth.atsconth tahltth thtle, an I wanl to pul the.n in it ibd oi creW wht. U is roiteoj . y mr p-n. And, if yU WH permit us, 4M Why, -Mr. Fislief, my prn ' 1 chair, he t oik a gltts of the proffWt d br terge. 1 he students anxtu-ly tnqt.ir ed nf'er the heahh of the old man's wife and children, and the farmer, with aflict ed aiiiiplicitt, give them the whle pedi gree, ait'i nuiiierout anccdoiei regarding ! hit firm, stork, 6ie &C. Do you belong to the church!' ask ed one of the wg. Yea. the Iord be prataed, and so did my fa'her before me. Weil. 1 suppose yoo would not tell a lie." replied the stud mt. "Nj not fur the world,' added tha farmer, Now. what will you take for that dog?' pointii'gto the frmrs cur who waa not wtth his weight in Jrraey mud. I would not take twenty dollars, for that dog." Twenty d.dlart! why lis it not worth twenty ceni." " Well. I assure you 1 would not lakt twenty dollart fur him." " Come, my friend.' taid the student, who, with' his companions, were bent on having tome capital fun with tha old man. Now you tty yoo won't tell a lie for the woild; let me tee if yoo will do it for twenty dollar. I'll give you twenty dollais for your dog." I'll not take it," replied the firmer. You will ant? Here. Il ne tee ii this won't tempt you to tell s lie," added lh student, producing a small bsg of half dol lar. from whence he commenced count ing nuinrroua small piles npon the table, the farmer sitting by the table with hit hat in hit hand, apparently unconcern d. There," added the ttuden', thrre are twenty dollars, all in silver, I will give yon ih at for your dog." A 4 The old farmer quietly raited hit hat io ihe edge of the Wb, and then, at quick as thought, tcrtprd all the nionej into it, except one half dollar, at lite tarns time exclaiming I won't lake your twenty dollar! Nineteen and s hall i a murh aa the dog is worth- lie it your property I A Irrmendotia laugh from hia,lellw stiidrnta showed the would-be wag, that be was completely dne up," and that he need not look lor help from that quar ter; to he good na'urediy acknowledged himself beat, insisted on lha old farmer's taking another glass, and they parted in great glee, the student retaining bit dog, which he keeps to this day, aa a Ictton to him never to play trickt on men older than himself, and especially to "be careful how he trie to wUeedlea : .Yankee fr mer. " -v " 77if n ay to Terrify Pr nceDello eelfky p-seeed in mi eminent degree the uletft of telling a gho'st-tlory. At a large party on eveningt he lidiea drew their ch-irs anund Irm, and exclaimed, I)i, Prince, terrify lis a lUle." Upon this tha Prince prd't red the lights to be exii'iguifhed with the exception of one, which was frft burning in the adjoining apartment, the door oT which remained ajar. .The narrator commenced his tale, winch turnod.at might be expected, upon the apparition of a horrid "phantom, ad vani-nig slowly in the mi1!tt of duknrtt vi-ible, towards a person in bed. For the Uat ten intnlies ihe, Prince Tiad kept his h t.id extended on a marble taMe; Ins voice assumed a moie sepulchral lone. All at once he applied liis icy hand upon the bare arm nf hi ho-ti'ss, who uttered a piercing tcioaia. Tiie terrified audi- SUPERFIUIAL INFIDKI.S. Sir Issae Nentoi tet out i i i!e s cla morous infidel, but, on a nice examin t on ol lh evidences of Christianity, he found reason to change hi opinion. When the celebrated Dr. Edmund II alley wat la'king infidelity befoie him. Sir Isaac addressed him in thee or the like word; Dr.' Haley, 1 am etys glad to hear you speak shoot ai'rono ny.or other part of mathematics, because thai is a suHeei you liavs a ndied. and well undeiat.nJ! but you should not t!k of Chri-tijnity. for yoo hat nat studied it. I ha'e, aid am rertiao thai you know nothing of ibe mat ter. This was a just reproof, and one that would be very suitable to be given to half ths infidel of the present day, for they often speak of what they have never studied, snd what, in fart, they are entire !y ignorant of. Dr. Juhnsnn, therefore, well observed, that no honest man eould be a Deist, for no man eould ba so after a fair examination ol the proofs of Chris- tiniiy." On the name of Ilu ne bring m-iui.ined ta him. No sir," said he, Hume owned to a clerey man in the biah optic of Diitham, that he had never read iha New Testament with attention. ' From lb Ne Ynrf Al'aa IT'S MY LUCK." We are a discontented, grumbling set of people, growlingcontinually like a bear with a sore head. It is true a gnspel. In nothing do we evince it more than in the common expression. " it's my luck." If a man gies a party and il rsinson ihe night, so that the friends he mo! wished to see do pot come, be exclaims, "it's my luck,V 1f 4 actor taket a benefit and it snows npon Ihe occasion, he says, " it's my luck." ' If a man ia disappoint ed in the receipt of money to take up a note, he sighs, it's my luck." Every person who fails in a tpeculaiion, cries, it my luck;" and -w suppose there are those who have expistrd their crime on the gallow, who have groaned at the judge ha patted centence upon them, recommending them to look altera belter peace aa they are too bad fur this, may alao have exclaimed, it's my luck." The iimjority of persons teem to ima gine that there it a vast deal, of ill luck bottled up for their especial service, and that Providence is more expert than Hir- naby Budge's rsvrn in drawing the cork. Every meat, decision. h.ney, r whatever yoa choose to ejll i'.hsbeea iaetrn men tal ia producing the effect which yoo dr plure. Proiidear ba loo much io attend to. 10 be engaged exclusively ia sticking pins ia the euahioa of your chair to thai yoa shall be tormented every lime you tit dona. - Remember the Spaatth proverb t ' There is a skeleton in every house. We ihiak that we have the title ion to ourselves thai the isw head and bloody banes bsunt us exclusively. We4ow our own sorrow. We do not know ihe Sorrow id others. Ech person thinks ibsi bis lurk is ill-luck, and that ia por Honing it ro be has got by some mistake ibrm I res. both by the prrto ha firrs fd iha peistB who teccivra lit) brmfii. ' " (!od neighbors, especJaJ'y among the indutirpus poor, frequently bate ii in ihnr power lo jmten ech ether's ebU dien and piopetty darinf the ltn of their parents. Tbey may lso ait each other. io enjoying the pubhe service of religion by ahernattly t-king xhaige of each other infant and Imutebold a flair during the hour of worthip In lime of tirknett, kind i(Tiret of a fod neighbor are f rroliaily valoalle. " Belter it a rihb.ir thai ta at band, than a brother ihst is fr (T - Tha good neighbor will aeid a tned- a much larger portion than bis neighbor, idleaouie. obtrusive iblrrlrrenee. yl will i ia aoeuch tiling. Don'l say it's my noi hesitate ! point soil, in a kind and luek," tben. in any rase, especially in an- gentle manner, any mistake into which a tiripaiion, for the very events al which you are frowning an I grumbling, are of ten the most favorable for ) on that eoidd possibly happen. We have endeavored to make thia at plaia at a pike tiafT -or as jour features, if they are nlain. If e have not suc ceeded, il'a our lurk.' w From lb tailed Statrs 0 iett el Empty Treatury. We find in ihe Boston Pott tbe following remark: The Treaaury of the United States is bankrupt! And this, loo, in eight short month after the succession of the Whig party to power! If nur respected contemporary bad said M in two moiuha after the W lug pny earn into power," lie would hate been quite as correct. Tins outcry gitost the pre sent Administration for the emntinets ol the Treasury it rather ridiculuus than i"u in sny other. otherwise. Mistress, I want a new broom, if you lfte, mem neighbor may have fallen, or any advan tage bo way bae erlo.ked by wl.irfc the interest of himself snd family may be pioiuotrd. ' , " DutUing in Louxtiuna In ihe Me- ' tage of iha Governor of Louitiatia, be re cominend the Miai'ifieati hi of the laws in tht state ajtinsi Durlling. bich hate become a dead teller on accotint of their ' everny, as they subject the urior to lha puni.hrreui of death, obieh, beidr be ing impolitic, is somewhat of aboil. The alteration be propose, is to substitute ' impiisoriment for death, and to miko 1 both the survivor and the seconds liable ' for the debm of the person who falls, be- ' sides for large damages in a ciil suit. ' These modifications, he think, will bae ' a tendency to f h-e k th barbarous proper- lily which pretds iu that quarter mora Haiti gh II g. Ttmptrantt. A very larje Telipe- ranee inreting ha jnl been held at Wash- A new broom, Betej, why. wbeie ington City. at which several members of is that nhicli you bae hi en using?" Liingrcss were present and deliveied ed It is. all worn out to the handle, ;.d'Ces. Among the ret was the Hon. mrm." M'- Mar.liall. id Kentucky, who after en Worn oo', imleed! what lmcking!rn'ciive speech, went forward and sign- csrlcttneas! Why Kitty, your prcdece. d the pledge of total ahtiinencs. Mr. sr, ued ii for nearly two year; nndjM "ny not gVoerdly bo known, baa now you, who have not hid 'the broom .been a very iotemperatw man, and bsa in use a month, coinplalqj that it is woro ,olien apperl in the Halls of Cnr.rett out! Shocking extravagance!" in a state of intoxication. ibid. AXTI REPUDIATION. Fmta the Lynchburg virgmsan. The fillowin resdotiont lists been' " S.-ore of our fellow citizens are dsl- ' unanimously adopud in the Peiinjla- t If putting their name to the Temperance aia Senate: LPMge We congratulate them, i In aub - . Whereat, opinion re abroad preju-:ciA)ing to thai pledge they are tiguing dicial to the, faith and credit of certain gl 'ri'ti Declaration or independence Slate of tin Union, arimg from their indeb ednes. and the embirratsmenl of the timet, and ihe deranged condition of the cuirency. And whereat, the tame opinion it tometimrt expressed by in considerate and doigning persons wilh regard to the hitherto unsullied faidi and credit of this great commonweal. h." Therefore, BtsohtiU ly the 'Senate ami I hunt of Rtpresentativcs. That the fith and ciedil of Pennsylvania, pledged fur the security of her loan. slill be kepi aa rred and inviolate. Individuals may be found who shrink from their accuatomed integrity of character when embarrass ment ovettaket tlieiti; but the free mm of Pennsylvania authorize us, their repre tentative, to declare 40 hercrcditort and to the world, tht her faith and credit tfiall be preterved inviolate in every emergency ; and that ihe doctrine of re pwliatim of a debt contmcted under law, w hether judiciously or itijudiciouly ex pended, hail never, until iha last moral and political tie it sundered, be visited upon tier honest snd confiding creditors. of this and other countries. CONSISTENCY. The Locofocos throughout the country hae not yet ceated their clamor about the donation of a year's salary to Pieai dent Harrison's widow an net which esery liberal mind in the country could not bui approve of, if it were not fori ar ty spirit. We have a rate in point. The Legislature of South Carolina, (composed almost exclusively of Loco F'Cos.) voted a gratuity of a yen's par, 93.590, to a Judge who resigned hit office. In this case, .facts, says the Ainpliitheatra was al the pudiating a thraldom mete feaiful than the worst governmental tyranny that e'er cursed mankind." T - v . The foregoing is extracted frciihe ' Ijvicitle Journal, and il is equally true here. Thanks to a few active intelligent ' citizens among us who hao- put their thouldere to the wheel with a determiat--tion to pti.h on tha good csuse. To these we offer the advice that Joseph ge In brethren, when ihey were re--turning Irom Egypt to their father, with their srks lull ol corn: Take care that you all not out by the way." I Wl ty. The spiead of the Tempe- -ranee rao.e in the West, hss doubtless had its effect in reducing the pries of this aiiole in that quarter. At Cincinnati, latt week, it was sellina from wagons as low fourteen and half tent a gallon! Jlppnlling Occurrence. -On Siturday evening. Mr. D. Watkint, ol 643 Fourth atreei. accompanied by bis wife and little daughter. a;ed four yeais, went to the Menagerie 37 Bowery and in pissing a leopid, that owing lo his supposed lameness, wa not confined in a cage, but only chained by a collar, the ariirnd sprang si the child in its mother's arms, seized it with its mouth by the head, (die mother falling senseless from alTiight) and before the helpless little creature could be teecurd, it face and head were so fearfully jcrratd, one of the eyas being nearly torn frm the socket, as to endanger its life and in any event lo de stroy forever its comeliness! I he Courier, whence we obtain these the judge had held his uflicp, with this Ii beral salary, for upwards of twenty years one fancies himself tha most! He still lived to lake rare of his family. unfortunate, ill used person in exitience. There't no one tufTers so much as I but it's my lurk." Ech petson, by such an expression, terms ti think that his Creator ha tingled him out ol all hit lellow beings, for the purpose of torment ing or keeping him down in the world. It'e my luck" it a good, romforiabl dose of home-made vanity, l iid on with a As to (5en. Harrison, he was called from hit home to serve ihe public. Thai eer tice entailed great expense upon him. and was doubtless the immediate cause of his death. The year's salary granted lo hia widow cost each individual in the country one tt tenth of one cent! only. The year' salary granted to Judge Ganit cost each individual in S-iuth Carolina trowel, with which we too otten console j more than four times as much. In tho Ut- ourselves for ihe consequences uf our own lolly. If a man fails in consequence n inat tention to business, he exclaims, it's my luck." A man enters into a mad speculation that promises him mines ol wealth he comes out at the little end of the horn, and cries. " it's my luck." All other ga older, who are fleeced ss a matter nf course, except regular blackleg, cry, it's my lurk. ter case. Locofocmsm can only find cause for admiration; for whyt It it the act of a Locofoco Legislature. In the other, it can find only cause for denunciation, lor ihe equally good reason that it was ihe set of ih Whigs. FuyetlevVle Obt. BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR. Some poor people rejoice in the kindness shtiwn lo a mighbnr, and gladly embrace an opportunity f spanking favorably of Now, ehow your good tense by never j hit character, or representing hit need t using the ridiculous phrase, Ask your-, Hi ue who can assist him; while others self, in your nun successes and misfor jare spi eful enough to regard the good tunes, how much your own will, judg done tj a neighbor as an injury done to time crowded with females, whose shrieks, on witnessing the dreadful oc currence, were appalling. The right of the managers of the amphitheatre thus to expoae the safety of visiters will, we pre sume, aitiact the attention of the city authoiiiit's. New York dmtrkan. A Sensible Remaik.iXlt. Arnold,of Tenn.. made a very good iemark, in vin dication of the One Hour Rule, a few days go- man of sense, he taid, did not require more than an hour to discuss . any subject, and even one hour was loo long lo listen to a fool. J7r, The bill to form a new county of por. lions of ihe counties of Harmon, Lew ie and Wood, lo be called the county of ( CLAY, in honor o( Henry Chy, cams . up in the Virginia IIoue ol Del-ga'e, a ; fw d y since. In consequence of the . name, ihe hill was veheutendy oppos ed by ths Loco Focot; they moved to. postpone it indefinitely: Lost-ayes 4 1, , noes 73. They then moved to recontt der . the engroetnnt : . Lost ayes 33, r noes 61. Ta bill then paaed. ,
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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Jan. 20, 1842, edition 1
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