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PITTSTON GAZETTE AND SUSQUEHANA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. 51 tBetklq lltmspiitr- -(Stuart o JJftus. 1'ittrntnr, tjjt Jfitrtnttlilt, ftltrjtanirnl, nnb %irulttrnl Stiftrafs nf flit Conntrij, 3mtfrnrtiim, flmtmmtttf, fa.)--Ctttn JQnllnrs |Ctr Slmtnrn. VOLUME 3.--NUMBEIL 48. P1TTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1853. WHOLE NUMBER 152. POETRY. THE MIND OF MAN. for us, but as they exist, and will exist, in the perception, feeling, thought of the glorious mind. Advice. "At the corner of a business thorough, fare we were accosted by a rather good looking, sturdy emigrant. In a piteous whining tone, he asked us if we knew where lie could get employment—that he had been doing nothing until his scanlvf, means had failed—that he had had notlfT ing to eat lor ihirty-six hours—that he couldn't beg, and that if he could not get work he must either stenl or starve. We handed him our last quarter, and gave him this advice gratis. Hold up your head, speak out like a man, go into that first store, and tell them you want work of anj kind ; if you dont get it, go to the next, and so on : but dont be a baby—people would rather employ men. THE PITTSTON GAZETTE, om, hrjore and after the Dead Sea. O, Sir, if slavery tends, in any way, to give the honor of chivalry, to Southern young gentlemen towards ladies, and the exqui-ite delicacy and heavenly integrity and love to Southern moid and matron, it has then a glorious blessing with its curse. Sir, your inquisitorial committee, and the North so far us represented by them, (a small fraction I know,) have, I take it, ! caught a Turtur this time. Boys say with us, and everywhere I reckon—"You worry ' my dog, and I'll worry your cat." Sir, it is just simply a fixed fad—the South will not submit to these questions. No, not for an instant. We will not permit you to approach us at all. If we are morbidly sensitive, you have made us so. 13ui you are direct! v, and grossly, violating the Constitution of the Presbyterian church. The book forbids you to put such questions. The book forbids you to bfgin discipline. The book forbids your sending' this committee to help common fame to bear testimony against us. The book guards the honor of our humblest member, minister, church, Presbytery, against all this iinpeitinently inquisitorial action. Have you a prosecutor with his definite charges and witnesses? Have you Common Fame with her specified charges and witnesses? Have you a request from the South that you send a committee to inquire into s!an. ders ? No. Then hands off. As gentlemen you may ask us these questions,— wo will answer you. Hut ecclesiastically you cannot speak in this matter. You have no power to mo*o us as you propose. How little is the mind known, or considered ! That all, of which man permanently is—the inward being, the divine energy, the immortal thought, the boundless capacity, the infinite aspiration—how lew value this, this wonderful mind, for what it is worth ! How lew see it—that brother mind—in'others; see it, though fenced around with splendor and wretchedness alike; see it; through the rags with which poverty has clothed it, and beneath the crushing burdens of life, amidst the close pressure ol worldly cares, wants and sorrows j see it, and ucknowledge ir, and cheer it in that humble lot, and feel that the nobility of the earth, that the commencing glory of heaven is there f— Nor is this the worst, or the strongest view of llio case. Men do not feci the worth of their own mines, They are very proud, pejhaps ; they are proud of their possessions : they are proud of their minds, it I may be, as distinguishing them ; but the intrinsic, the inward, the infinite worth of their own minds, they do not perceive.— How many a man is there who would feel if he were introduced into some magnificent palace, and were led through a suecession of splendid apartments, tilled with rich and gorgeous furniture—would feel, I say, as if he, lolty and immortal being as he is, were but an ordinary thing amid the tinselled show around him ; or would feel as if he were a mere ordinary being, for the perishing glare of things amidst which he walked ! How many a tnan who, passing bv the wayside, saw the chariot of wealth rolling by him, would forget the in. irinsic and eternal dignity ol his own mind, in a poor, degrading envy of that vain pageant—would feel himself to be but an humble creature, because, not in mind, but in mensuration, ho was not quite so huge! The following estract is taken from a sermon delivered by the Rev. Dr. Adams, of New York— The Press—Eloquent Extract AND to it* fine liun it Anthracite Journal From tlu Now Dawn. " LABOR OMNIA VINOIT." PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1IY G. M. RICH A LIT 8 H. S. PHILLIPS. From the New York Dutchman. Squeeze My Hand, Will You ? '•Why is anything made public, but the belief that it will be of interest to somebody 1 Why is it announced that Isaac and Rebecca were married on a certain day last week, but on the supposition that it will give you pleasure to kaow it ? And then lower down the sheet, under the star* tling head of deaths, your eye runs along always with apprehension, lest they fall on some wejl known name, and read that the aged father, the voung child, the beloved wife, the rich, the poor, the admired, the honored the beautiful are gone ; and i» it not taken I or granted that even strangers will heave a sigh for the alllicted, and the world respond in syrnputhy to the incurs sions of a common toe. Fetter him down. Kebukc his growing pride. Why should he claim what nature huii denied 1 What right has he, a youth of humble fame, To seek for knowledge, or to toil for fame / What right has he, poor, ragged and unknown, To vie with those whom Fortune culls her own 1 Fetter him down. His form was made for toil ; Hit clumsy hunds, to till the yielding soil ; His sinewy arm to fell with sounding stroke The towering Maple and the giant Ouk ; His face to burn in summer's fiercest glow, And bear the fury of the driving snow. As of employments there are different kinds, So different men there are of different minds ; When Nature gave a farmer's llesh and bone, She gave a mind for that and that alone : Where the mechanic's sinewy arm she made, We fl ml a talent suited to the trade : Some work with nice design the needful steel; Some carve the stone ; some lay the graceful keel j Others have skill to rear thd lordling's home, The graceful column and the princely dome: Anil thus eech man may act some useful part In his own sphere of labor or of art. There let him stay, content with Fate's decree : Where God has placed him, there he ought to be. 'Tis foil* for a vulgar mind to strain For glittering honors that he ne'er should gain ; Power, fame and glory are by Heaven designed For Fortune's sons—the wealthy and refined Shall the plebian, sprung from lowly Sire, Obstreperous gr»wn, to higher w.ilks aspire ! Shall he insult the glorious list of fame, And din their lustre by a vulgar name ! Fetter him down and curb his high career : Confine his talents to their proper sphere : Crop short his pinions : (Ik#; his course begun, He'll mount from earth and soar to meet the sun. BY J. WILLIS VVKSTLAXK. •Jlc» ll'rtl tiit of Main Strerl, trenj Itnr)/ of lAt "/-onjr Slort" of WtMUti r 4' WiKrtli BY SCISSORS What an immense diflercnce it makes, who squeezes one's hand! A lady may twine her'arm around your waist, press a kiss on your brow, or holding your hand in hers, toy with your fingers to your heart's content, and you are perfectly calm and collectcd, and experience no unusual sensations, either disagreeable or otherwise. Perchance a gentleman whom you dislike, or feel slightiy acquainted with, ventures to press your hand ; you snatch it away quickly, the indgnant blood mounts to your forehead, and with flashing eyes you wonder "how the impudent fellow dares to do such a thing." Rather an antiquated specimen of humanity squeezes your hund; you feel mortified for yourself, and morti fied that a man of his years should make should make such a fool of himself, that he should think that you c n really like such nonsense, and above all, that you can like him ; you are vexed at what he has done, and are determined that an opportunity shall never be offered him of doing it again. Thk "Ci»»»TTK t Joi Rvib" is miblWiodovefv Friday, ut Two Dollars («ir minimi. Two Dollars iiuii Fifty Cents will lie C*|iiir«eU if not paid within iliu year. No paper will be discontinued until all arn-aratri-s are paid. AiivkKnitsn'ti* iiti* ln»i-rteCl conspicuously ut Osk Doliar per »i|iiur» of fuurtwn lini'S for three insertions; uii.t TwsNTv-rivK Ckkts aiUHtional for every subse*iiiciit lnC.-rlliin. A iilx-rul iIihIiicIIou to those who advertise for six inoiilln* or the whole year. J»n Work.—We have conueeteil with our establishment a well selected assort meat of Jos Tvrs, which will ens bie us Ui execute, lu the ueatesl style, every variety of luting. €\)t (0n;?tfe K 3otirmil. We waited awhile at the corner, and after three failures, one experiment sueceedcd, and we had the pleasure of seeing him with his coal off tumbling boxes like a good fellow.—National Democrat. In that little incident there is a moral, reader, which it would be well for all to understand. To the poor emigrant, half famished and almost driven to the commission of crime, a few words of* good sound and seasonable advice proved to be more valu. able than the gift of a hundred dollars could have been. All persons are not so furtunate, ns "we" of the Democrat, in having a "last quarter" in their pockets, but every one can speak a kind word, and give good advice.riT'iSTOS, Fa. "Read in this light, the common adver. tisemrnla that crowd our newspapers hava j a kindly order about them. Say not, with 1 a cynic, as though you were doubtful | whether there was anything honest in the world, when a storekeeper advertises his wares, that it is all sheer selfishness, for it is pleasant to announce a fresh supply of wool and tallow, hardware or muslins, and is it not just so for those who wish to know it? When a brace of young partners in trade insert their virgin advertisement, informing the world how happy they shall be to wait on customers, can you read it without entering into their careor ? "Business advertisements waste paper f You know not what you say. Those ships which are to sail for every harbor in the world, those fubrics which have arrived from every commercial mart on the enrth, this iron from Russia, tea from China, cotton from Georgia, Sugar from Louisiana—do they not preach to us at the corners of the streets, at the entering of the gates, in our docks, and in our custom houses and exchanges, sermons o:i the annual dependence of mankind ?" (!. M. IttOIIART t U.S. ritlLUrS,Editors Friday, July 22, 1S83. Extract from the Speech ot Rev. Dr. Ross Wc would invite our readers to the following Extract of the Rev. Dr. Ross, which was uelivrrcd nt the lute session of the I'resbyterial General Assembly. It speuks for Itself, and is a complete exposition of the hypocritical cunt of a rcrtuin class of pretending christian philanthropists : You place your hand confidingly in that of your lover, you are not excited nor contused, you have ceased blushing continually in his presence, you experience a quiet sort of happiness, " a little heaven upon earth sort of feeling," you are perfectly contented wilh everything in this terrestrial world, especially your lover and yourself; and yet withal it is a foolish feeling, as you sit with his arms twined around you—that manly arm which is to support you through life; a soft, rosy, happy tint suflusrs your lace as your hand is clasped in his ; ah ! it is a blissful, foolish feeling. '■Sir, why do your Northern church members and philanthropists, buy Southern produots at all t You know you ore purchasing cotlon, rice and sugar, sprinkled with blood, literally, you say, from the lush of the driver ! Why do you buy? What's the difference between my filching this blood stained cotton from the outraged negro, and your standing by, taking it from me ? What's the difference ? You, yourselves, soy, in your abstractions, there is no difference ; and yet you daily stain your hands in this horrid traffic. You tiato the iruitor, but you love the treason. Your ladies, loo, O how they shun the glove-owner at it distun e, in the abstract. H it, ulas ! when they see him in the concrete—when llley sec the slave owner him self, standing before them—not the brutal diiver, but the splendid gentleman, with tris iiiin.islukeuble grace of carriage and e.ue of manners—why, lo! behold, the 1 uly says, "O, fie on your shivery—what u wretch you aref But, indeed, sir, 1 love your sugar—and truly, truly, sir, wretch us you are, 1 love you too." Your gentlemen talk just the same way when they behold our matchless women. And well for us all it is, that your good taste, and hearts, can thus appreciate our genius and at complishiiieiits, and fascinations, and loveliness, and su™ar, and cotton. Why, sir, I heard this morning from one pastor only, cf two or three of his members thus intermarried ill the South. May 1 thus give the mildest rebuke to your inconsistency ol conduct? [Much good-natured excitement.] Let a man hold up his head and act like a man, claim from all persons the respect due to anyone wearing the "human form divine" and speak out plainly his wants, and our word for it he will get along. In this age every thing muM move rapidly, and employers cannot afford to look the world over for a man. • If you expect to accomplish anything, make up your mind !o try, hold up your head and do it. If any one Is in want of a man's services he will not be likely to choose a quiet, motionless body that never geis steam up enough to breathe sixty times a minute—or that has not moral courage enough to look him in the face— those are not the kind. Only hold up your head, look a man in the eye, and dare to let your fine manly face speak in its noble expression of the mind and the energy of soui you possess, ana you neeu ffoi starve nor beg. Every one is in want of such a man, and you are just the one to suit, if you have courage to think so. Never fear to speak plainly and to the point, but you can do this and be respectful. There is a way of doing such things as far removed from insolence as it is from fawning, sneaking cowardice. I wouldn't employ a man to split wood, much less a book-keeper that feared to meet my gaze. 1 should expect that he was conscious of 1 beg leave lo say, just here, that Tennessee will bo more calm under this movement than any other slave region. Ten. nessee has been, ever, high above the storm, north and south—especially we of the mountains. Tennessee, "there she is —look at her "—binding this Union trgelher, like a great long, broad, deep stone —more splendid than all in the temple of Hualbec or Solomon. Tennessee, there she is in her calm valor. I will not lower her by calling her unconquerable, for she has never been assailed—but I call her ever victorious. King's Mountain—her pioneer battles—Talledega-Emuefuu— Horse Shoe—New Orleans—Snn Jacinto—Montere—the Valley of Mexico. Jackson represented her well, in his chivalry from South Carolina—his fiery courage from Virginia cod Kentucky—all tempered Sotch Irish Presbyterian prudence from Tennessee. We, in spirit, have looked on this storm, for years untroubled. Yes, Jackson's old bones rattled in their grave, when that infamous disunion convention met in Nashville, and its members turned pale and fled aghast. Yes, Tennessee, fn iier mighty million, feels secure—and in her perfect preparation to discuss this question, politically, ecclesiastically, morally, metaphysically, or physically, with the extreme North or South, she is willing and uble to persuade others to be calm. In this connection, I wish to suy lor the South tolheNoith, and to the world, that we have no fears from our slave population. There might be a momentary insurrection and bloodshed—but destruction to the black man would be inevitable. The Greeks and Romans controlled immense masses ol white slaves—many of them as intelligent as their lords'. School masters, fabulists and poets, were slaves. Athens, with her 30,001) freemen, governed half a million of bondmen. Single Roman Patiiciuns owned thirty thousand. If, then, the phalanx and the legion mastered such slaves, for ages, when battle wpa physical force of man to men—how certain it is, that infantry, cavalry, and artillery, could hold in bondage millions of Africans a thousand years. So spoke the world when once, by "genius fired, A low-born youth to learning'* walks aspired. Hard was his lot,—by toil and misery bound, Dark was the present and the future frowned ; His scanty clothing had so long been worn, That every garment was to tatters torn ; No wealth he had, nor wealthy friends could claim To lift him up to honor and to fume : Vet shrunk he not—no barriers could control Th' unwavering purpose of hiB giant soul : Not all the fetters of the earth could bind The high aspirings of his active mind. And so long as this is the case, do yon believe that men will understand their own minds, that they know what they possess within ;hcm ? How many, in fact, feel as if'that inward being, that mind, were respeclable, chiefly because their bodies lean on silken couches and aro fed with costly luxuries? How many respect themselves, and look for respect from others, in proportion as they grow more rich, and live more splendidly, not more wisely, and fare more sumptuously every day?— Surel\ k is not siitiiige, while all iiiia is true, that men Dlnuld be more attracted by objects of sense and appetite, than by mir. acles of wisdom and love. And it is not strange that the spiritual riches which man is exhorted to sock are represented in scripture as'hid treasures for they are indeed hidden in the depths of the soul— covered up with worldly gains, and pomps and vanities. It is not strange that the kingdom of heaven, that kingdom which is within, is represented as a treasure buried in a field ; the flowers bloom, and the long grass waves there, and men pass by and say it is beautiful ; but this verv beauiv, this Very luxuriance, conceals the treasD ure. And so it is in this life, that luxury and show, fashion aud outward beauty, worldly pursuits and possessions, attrEct the eyes of men, and thry know not the treasure that is hidden in every human soul. But let some one whom you like very much, not an accepted lover, but one who may perhaps be one one of these days, gen. tly enclose your hand in his own ; what a strange, wild, joyful, "pleasing feeling thrills through you ; the hot blood lenps, dancing, tumbling through you, rushing to your finger ends! your heart goes bumu, bump ! surely, you think, ho must hear it throbbing! for the life of" you, you cannot speak. Alter letting your hand remain in his just long enough to show you are not offended, you gently withdraw it; but perhaps it is taken back again, niter u faint "don't do so," which is answered with a closer pressure, with downcast eyes and blushing cheek, you let the little hand, this first bright earnest of things to come, thrilling and burning with this new ecstatic emotion, remain all trembling in its resting-place. our kate. FANNY FERN. A Boston correspondent of the Newark Eagle is responsible for the statement tliar Ibis lady has been twice married. Ho writes "Her first husband was C. H. Eld. redge, Cashier of the Merchants' Bunk.— He died some five years ago, leaving the willow with an empty purse and two or three children. Iler second husband was a. d. , _r „ _ widower with two children. They lived together only about a year, when Mr. F. betook himself to the west, where he at present resides, and where he has just obtained a divorce. We have no disposition to druw the veil which screens the domestic hearthstone from the public eye.-—1 ••There is no disparity in matrimony like uncongeniality of mind and disposition," says Dickens. Farrington we knew well. Modest, unassuming, pious, puritanical, without brilliant talents or attainments, bred in the common walks of life, among common men, he packed the genius to appreciate and sympathize with the in'.*)!ectual, the mental, the witty, the* ludicrous which flashes from Fanny, and after leading a few months of disquiet together, he fled, having a lucrative business and copartnership agreement incomplete ; while she lashes lie-mulesjvith no saving hand under the cognomCtir q||" Fanny Fern," earning bread thereby, for herself and children." It is said that fanny has become a resident of Mew York. She is the daughter of Nathaniel Willis, Esq., for. mefly editor of the Boston Recorder, and sistei of N. I*. Willis, of the Home Jour-- nah " -4m I," he said, "ordained by Heaven's dccrec " An ignorant hireling all riiy life to be 1 " Must I be crushed beneath a tyrant's sway, " Drove, scourged, insulted, scorned from day to day I " Was one created to usurp the soil " And force another, unrepaid lo toil ? " Did God moke kirn a lord, and me his tool.— " Form Mm for wisdom and make nu a fool 1 " Shall wealth construct a ladder to the skies, " And I forbidden e'en the wish to rise ? " No ! Boundless wisdom, seen in Nature's plon, " Made all men sovereigns, and made me u man. guilt. Show me a young man or boy that ever walks with his head up as if con-, scious of a pure, noble soul—whose eve meets mine unflinchingly—who will fearlessly and respectfully advocate his own opinions upon all proper occasions, and who will act in accordance with his own sense of right until shown to be wrong, and 1 will show you the germ of a noble and influential man. Such a boy will evej be true to himself, futhful to his employ, er, and 1 am never afraid to trust tiim. He has prineiple; and temptation will pass him by and leave him as untouched, is pure as ever. You can rely upon him 'very where and at all times. Such a oung man will make a devoted son, a ;ind husband and a good citizen, "llol' ip your head and speak out then like i "*"• H. H,* " For me the earth her rich ubundancc yields ; " For me rich verdure clothea the fertile fields ; " For me the rain descends, the river flows, " The songsters warble and the zephyr blows , " For mc all nature spreads before my eyes " A thousand beauties of a thousand dyes ; " For mc the planets in their courses rool, " And tempt from earth tu heaven th' inquiring Young Men. There is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man. I waich him as I do a star of heaven ; clouds may be before him, hut we "know that his light is behind, and will beam foith again, the blaze of others popularity may outshine him, but we know that tho' unseen, lie illuminates his own tphere.— Ho resist* temptation, not without a struggle, for that is not virtre, but he resists and conquers ; he bears the sarcasm of the profligate, and it stings bjm, lor a trait of virtue heals with its own pure touch. He heeds not the watchword of fashion, it if ends lo »ih ; the atheist, who says net on y in his heart, but wilh his lips, 'there I to Ood,' controls him not ; lie sees 1 hi land of a creating (jod, and rejoices in ii Woman is sheltered by fond arms um Sir, may we 1;no\v who are the dpscetid. ants of the New England kidnappers.— What is their wealth 7 Why here you are, all around me. You, gentlemen, inude the best of that tMrjtain. And you have kept every dollar of your money from tr.o charity ol emancipating the slave. You have left us, unaided, to give millions. Will you n-iw cornr tn our help'/ will you give dollar for dollar to equalize out loss. [Hero many voices cricd out, "yes, yes, we will."J soul; Y(-s, the treasure—and the treasure that is in every soul. The difference that exists among men is not so much in their nature, not so much in their intrinsic power, as in the power of communication* To some it ia given to embosom antf embody their thoughts ; but all men, more or leas, (eel those thoughts. The very glory of genius, the very rapture of piety, when rightly revealed, are ditlused and spread abroad, and shared among unnumbered minds. When eloquence and poetry speak ; when the glorious nvts, statuary, and painting, and music ; when patriotism, charity, virtue speak to us, with ull their thrilling power, do not the hearts of thousands glow with a kindred joy and ecstacy ? Who is so humble, who so poor in thought,or in affection, as not to feul this? Who is so low, so degraded, I had almost said, as not sometimes to be touched with the beauty of goodness? Who with a heart made of such base materials as not sometimes to respond, through every chord of it, to the call of honor, patriotism, generosity, virtue ? What a glorious capaoity is this!—a power to commune with Gul and angels ! a reflection of the brightness of heaven ; a mirror that collects and concentrates within itself all the moral splendors of the universe ; a light kindled from heaven, that is to shine brighter and brighter, until the end of time. " Scicnce to mc unveils lu'r beauteous fnce, " And Wisifom beckons to her kind embrace ; J' While earth, and Jseavcn, and all things ure " Tn invite the study of the wondering mind •' I will not yield to be a cowering slave , " I'H claim the freedom God bo freely gave ; " Break all ray chains, o'er every barrier rise, " Scalc Fame's high tower and graxp the glitter' combined Yes, yes! Then pour out your millions. Good. I may thank you personally. My o» n emancipated slaves would to day be worth greatly more than $v!U,- (100. Will you give me back $10,000 ? (i iod. 1 need it now. oving council; old age is protected.by .v ,,,.^D"10r,0' ®a"road System. Jiediency of employing females as type, i.xperience, and manhood by its strength . ' ',ol^us ray was born 'n Leeds, Eng- *|tters, is beginning to attract attention.— *ut the young man stands amid :he temp- a,'d,.a. . 1 7,alf a ceotur.v or more ago— Every body admits that the sphere of fe. ations ol the world like a self-balanced a"d ,'s 18 a" we know °' llis carIy his,°- male occupation should be enlarged. Now owor. Hnppy he who seeks and gains ry' 11,0 Mlddlejown colliery had a rail- a great deal of the business of setting [he prop of morality. vv°y ,0 carry c(oa,s Do Leeds, a distance of type can be done by women about as well Onward then conscious youth—raise lhree !"ile8' T,le cnrs moved alonK atllle as men- lt is a healthy and improving hy standard, and nerve thyself for good- .rat0 of 1 ,ree ,nnd a half n,iles Per bonr.— occupation for them. less. If God has given tlire intellectual \l Wfl.s luui«'lcd at—not by prav,_buf hy We have for a long iime been in the power, awake in that cause : never let it ™e wise public. Gray saw in his Jijile practice of employing girls in our office, be said of thee, "he helped to swell the *ork son,etlllng lhat might be augmented and we plan. It humanizes, as ii river of sin by pouring his influence into '"to greatness .; and lie thought upon the "pre, and refines the aspect of the place, its channels. If thou art feeble in menial '".rjhyjth became a visionary! Under such circumstances, '".he Ijoys"1 strength, throw not that drop into a pollu- "e ,a d ,und wrote upon his project of are apt to be less noisy, and to behave ted current. Awake, arise, young man! 'A Genera! Iron Rai waythe people better generally ; it really does us gcod assume that beautiful garb of virtue ! It declared him insane. He petitioned Par- to notice the quiet, lady.like way in whieli is difficult to be pure and holy. Put on llan,en| i sought interviews with the Loids our fair composnors perform their work..- thv strength then. Let truth be the lady a'ld o!l,«r. great men ; and thus became No jabbeiing, no rushing about the office: of love, defend her.—Mrf. G/7//ian. " the laughing stock of all England. Me no boisterous singing or talking ; but eve received nothing but rebuffs wherever lie ry thing goes on (when they are' there) in went. All this took place in 1820 or a smooth, quiet way,' that is essentially re. hereabouts. ■ " ' freshing. Vj'e advise sucji of our cotem- But he succeeded at last. Tlve railways poraries as iiove"not tried the plan to sei vere laid. The world was benefitted by about it, and if they are as fortunate as he madness of Thomas Gray. Well, we have been in this matter, they won't vliat became of him ? the reader will ask. regret the experiment.—MiddtetownD Con. We do not know; but we believe he still i News. ives in Exeter, to which place lie remov- ' •d. Up to ljB40 he had been neglected tVhile thousands have been enriched by lie consummation of his brilliant scheme ie remained forgotten—-forced by poverty o sell glass on commission foi a living.— lVe have seen nothing in print j/i relatioi o him lately. Elliot wrote a great Ij-jujtl n these words : "How many men who lived to bless mankind, Have died ujithaafceiL" How many of the railway projectors tgitators, stockholders, 8c., have evei leard of the subject of this brief sketch i "John, how does the thermome^ land 1" "Right agin the wall, dad." "I mean how ia the mercury !" "I guess it's pretty well; it hasn't com plained lately." "You little rascal, ia it colder than yes terday 1" "I don't know, d»d, but I'll go out anC FEM TERS. ~Ve are glad to find the policy and esD c 1 /* I y ing prize." But, dear brethrrn, our Southern philanthropists do not seek to have this unending bondage. O no, no. A;:d 1 entreat you to "stand still, and see the sal. vation ol the Lord." Assume a masterly inactivity, and you will behold all you desire. and pray for. You will see America libt rated from the curse of slavery." .1nCl rise he did, despite the hate and pride Of high-born f_ps and other fools beside Poverty's fetters now no more could bind The vigorous pinions of his active mind. With unknown labor, step by step he rose, Grappled with want and conquered all his foes, Till, fair reveaied, in learning's ranks he shone, His claims acknowledged and his talents known. In vain did envy, from its native place, With frightful hissings lift its hideous face ; in vain did bigotry upoi; him frown, And stilted pedants try to frown him down :— Like a proud bird, he soared until his form Securely rested, far above the fftorm , And then with pity smiled upon his foes Who vainly tried his progress to oppose. 1 recommend to you, Sirs, to find out your advocatos of murder—your owners ot s'.ock in underground railroads—your Sabbath breakers for money. 1 particularly urge you to find Legree, who whip, ped Uncle Tom to death. lie is a Northem gentleman, ulthough having a somewhat Southern name. Now, Sir, you know the Assembly was embarrassed all yesterday by the inquiry how the Northern churches may find their absent members, und what to do with them. Here, then, Sir, is a chance for you. Send a committee up Red River. You may find Legree to be a Garrison, Phillips, Smith, or run-away husband from some Abby Kelly. [Here Rev. Mr. Smith protested against Legree being proved to be a Smith great laughter.] 1 move that you bring hiin back to lecture on the culeness there is in leaving a Northern church, going South, changing his name, buying slaves, and calculating, without guessing, »hat the profit isot killing a negro with inhuman labor, above the gain ol treating him with kindness. Mush. "Oh, how it makes me blush To hear the Pennsylvania!!* call thee Mush.'1 The following is Irom a Michigan paper. Will our readers iry it? If they prefer the word, they can call it " Hasty Pudding j" or if any oI the dependents of the Knickerbockers insist upon calling it '•Suppawn," nobody will quarrel with them.. M ush, Hasty Pudding and Suppawn are all the same thins"A friend writes us as follows: In a late number you have something about mush. Let mc suggest for the comfort of those who stir it an hour or t«»o, and then labor a great while to wash out the pot in which they boil it, that all this trouble may be saved by cooking it in a tin pail, set in a pot of boiling water, and after it has cooked, letting it cool in the same, after which it will slip out in a mass, leav. ing all clean behind it. Whosoever tries this plan will never try the old one again, for it prevents the possibiliiy of burning the mush, and dispenses with all care and trouble exeppt occasionally to replenish the water in which the pail is set to boil. As to tlie length of time required the rule is ",the longer the better." Thus the proud eagle to the mountain hies When darts assail and dangers 'round hiui rise j Perches securely on some lofty peak, Smooths his gay plumage, whets his mighty beak, There sits majestic, and with piercing ken Looks down contemptuous on the abodes of men. A rid so may all, with lolly thoughts inspired, By nature gifted and by genius fired, Gihls.—Holmes, in one of his poejus, says, in a parenthetical way— Wliut circumstanced of out word splendor can lend such imposing dignity to any being, as the throne of inward light and power, where lfie spirit reigns (orever ?■— What work of man shall be brought into comparison tvith this work of God ? I will speak of it in its simplest character ; 1 fidy, b. thought, a bare thought; and yet, 1 say, what is il, and what is its power and mystery 1 Breathed from the inspiration oj the Almighty ; partaking of infinite attributes ; comprehending, analyzing and with its own beauty clothing all things, and bringing all things and themes—earth, heaven, eternity—within the possession of Us momentary being; what i6 there that man pan form,—what sceptre or throne,—? what structure of ages,—what empire ol wide spread dominion can compare with the woni-'jers rnd the grandeurs of a single thougJvt 1 It is thai alone of all things that (ire made ; it is that alone that unlocks all the treasures of the universe.— Ci hat alone jS Uie power that reigns over .eternity. That, under Uod, n ini dispenser to man oC all ffi* and glo/ies that lie within *1 jLaSpasBof poeaessjon, or di« range of " piety, heaven, jmtmmft (***8*'and never wi" exist " My grandpapa Loved fcirls when ho wan young." From want and darkness force their upward way To tlie full blaze of intellectual day. Troubles may conic, and threatening clouds arise, Their path to darken, and t'obscure the skies ; Envy muy sneer, and .try Xo pull them down. Slander may bite, and dark expression frowg, ISu. every foe before the mind roortt fall - Untiring labor will subdue them all, Even as the axe with many a sounding stroke, With crash tremendous fells the proudest oak. No doubt of it; for Holmes is a sensible man ana m.ust have had a sensible grandfather. All sensible men love girls when they are young, and when they are old, too. (We apply the "old" to the men, not to the girls—mind you.) Girl, hood is Sn institution—a "peculiar institution"—which, as lovers of the "union," we feel bound to cherish ; and as to girls, large and small, we hold that no gentle, man's family "is complete without them." Of little girls, pn American poet says— i have little to say of Spirit Rappers, wimen's right's con vent ion ists, Bloomers, cruel husbands,* or hen pecked. Uut if we may believe your own serious as well arfcaricature writers, you have things up here, of which we, down South, know very little indeed. Sir, we have no young Bloomers, with hat to one side, cignr in mouth, and cane lapping the boot, striding up to mincing young gentlemen, with long curls, attenuated waist, and soft velvet face—the boylady to say "may I see you home, sir ?"—and the ladyboy to reply, " I thank ye—no—Pa will send the carriage " Sir, we of the South dont understand your women'? ' right's conventions. Women have their wrongs. "The song of the shirt"—Charlotte lilizabeth— many, many Ihws tell her wrongs—but your convention ladies despise the Bible. Yes, Sir,—and we of the South are afraid tf them, und for you. When women despise the Bible, what next 1 rarix—then fke cfty of the Great Sail Lake—then Sod. Boys are sometimes endowed, savs the New Orleans Picayune, with remark, able memories. The Keen family, of the State of Texas, consisted of three girls and a boy the latter only three years ojd. They were all silling round the fire one evening, engaged in telling how far back they could recollect. One of the gii'Js recollected when she had "a doll that winked wi:h both eyes." Another recollected when she was "a little baby at the breast and Nancy tickled her feet." Johft/ly Keen, who was the last and the least o( them all, suid he rccollccted "aoust thait lltat." Hast ever marked that mighty agrot, steam 3 When unopposed, how harmless it doth seem ! But bind it down, and with a noise of thunder, The stoutest bolts like w6bs are snapped assunder. So doth true genius in the healthy *ouJ "With rosy chccks and merry dicing curls, ilnd eyes ol tender light, Oh, verv beautiful are little girls, Two German ladies, one day last week, on the railroad train from Columbus to Cincinnati, gave birth respectively to a boy and girl. The Cincinnati Commercial under the head of *railrood accidents' savs that the railroad account must .be 'credited with two lives.' Exult in freedom, and defy control. Want may oppopc it, tyrants press it {tp.wt, Sorrows o'erwh«lm, a.nd dark destruction frown, Vet will it proudly bunt its .bound* and ri*e," '■ With ladoliss luurejs to it* native skiei'. 1 Uwvdrti,' May 9ti8, 'i$5* '1 *' •And goodly to the sight." And us lo large girls—"big, bouncing girls"—what a pity it is that they must soon be " women "—stately, matronly, queenly women, who are only not angels because thoy are !—who, bythe-by, are not angels either, but vastly more charming than any members ol the nngelio host that we remember to have seen in pictures or elsewhere—indeed they are.—Bostm Post.. "•How wuss ?" said all the girls iu a breath. "Oh ! J resolleot three weeks afore 1'te born, and how I cried all the time for fear I'd be a gal f' J ' V "My •German frjend, how long have you been married V "Veil, dis is a ting vqt I seldom don't like to dalk apout, but ven I does, it seems to be so long that it never was." Ap ejcchatiga remarks' "tf.u rJt dust afleots the eye jbomuch adgcid i-'u. V? We might also add tbftt w'im'rls Wli [ the eves so unfavorably as glasses!**! | "How do you accomplish so much in so short a time V' said a (rtend to Sir Walter Raleigh. "When I have anything to dc. 1 go aad do it," was the reply.
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Title | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal, Volume 3 Number 48, July 22, 1853 |
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Title | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal, Volume 3 Number 48, July 22, 1853 |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 48 |
Subject | Pittston Gazette newspaper |
Description | The collection contains the archive of the Pittston Gazette, a northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper published from 1850 through 1965. This archive spans 1850-1907 and is significant to genealogists and historians focused on northeastern Pennsylvania. |
Publisher | Pittston Gazette |
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Date | 1853-07-22 |
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Full Text | PITTSTON GAZETTE AND SUSQUEHANA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. 51 tBetklq lltmspiitr- -(Stuart o JJftus. 1'ittrntnr, tjjt Jfitrtnttlilt, ftltrjtanirnl, nnb %irulttrnl Stiftrafs nf flit Conntrij, 3mtfrnrtiim, flmtmmtttf, fa.)--Ctttn JQnllnrs |Ctr Slmtnrn. VOLUME 3.--NUMBEIL 48. P1TTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1853. WHOLE NUMBER 152. POETRY. THE MIND OF MAN. for us, but as they exist, and will exist, in the perception, feeling, thought of the glorious mind. Advice. "At the corner of a business thorough, fare we were accosted by a rather good looking, sturdy emigrant. In a piteous whining tone, he asked us if we knew where lie could get employment—that he had been doing nothing until his scanlvf, means had failed—that he had had notlfT ing to eat lor ihirty-six hours—that he couldn't beg, and that if he could not get work he must either stenl or starve. We handed him our last quarter, and gave him this advice gratis. Hold up your head, speak out like a man, go into that first store, and tell them you want work of anj kind ; if you dont get it, go to the next, and so on : but dont be a baby—people would rather employ men. THE PITTSTON GAZETTE, om, hrjore and after the Dead Sea. O, Sir, if slavery tends, in any way, to give the honor of chivalry, to Southern young gentlemen towards ladies, and the exqui-ite delicacy and heavenly integrity and love to Southern moid and matron, it has then a glorious blessing with its curse. Sir, your inquisitorial committee, and the North so far us represented by them, (a small fraction I know,) have, I take it, ! caught a Turtur this time. Boys say with us, and everywhere I reckon—"You worry ' my dog, and I'll worry your cat." Sir, it is just simply a fixed fad—the South will not submit to these questions. No, not for an instant. We will not permit you to approach us at all. If we are morbidly sensitive, you have made us so. 13ui you are direct! v, and grossly, violating the Constitution of the Presbyterian church. The book forbids you to put such questions. The book forbids you to bfgin discipline. The book forbids your sending' this committee to help common fame to bear testimony against us. The book guards the honor of our humblest member, minister, church, Presbytery, against all this iinpeitinently inquisitorial action. Have you a prosecutor with his definite charges and witnesses? Have you Common Fame with her specified charges and witnesses? Have you a request from the South that you send a committee to inquire into s!an. ders ? No. Then hands off. As gentlemen you may ask us these questions,— wo will answer you. Hut ecclesiastically you cannot speak in this matter. You have no power to mo*o us as you propose. How little is the mind known, or considered ! That all, of which man permanently is—the inward being, the divine energy, the immortal thought, the boundless capacity, the infinite aspiration—how lew value this, this wonderful mind, for what it is worth ! How lew see it—that brother mind—in'others; see it, though fenced around with splendor and wretchedness alike; see it; through the rags with which poverty has clothed it, and beneath the crushing burdens of life, amidst the close pressure ol worldly cares, wants and sorrows j see it, and ucknowledge ir, and cheer it in that humble lot, and feel that the nobility of the earth, that the commencing glory of heaven is there f— Nor is this the worst, or the strongest view of llio case. Men do not feci the worth of their own mines, They are very proud, pejhaps ; they are proud of their possessions : they are proud of their minds, it I may be, as distinguishing them ; but the intrinsic, the inward, the infinite worth of their own minds, they do not perceive.— How many a man is there who would feel if he were introduced into some magnificent palace, and were led through a suecession of splendid apartments, tilled with rich and gorgeous furniture—would feel, I say, as if he, lolty and immortal being as he is, were but an ordinary thing amid the tinselled show around him ; or would feel as if he were a mere ordinary being, for the perishing glare of things amidst which he walked ! How many a tnan who, passing bv the wayside, saw the chariot of wealth rolling by him, would forget the in. irinsic and eternal dignity ol his own mind, in a poor, degrading envy of that vain pageant—would feel himself to be but an humble creature, because, not in mind, but in mensuration, ho was not quite so huge! The following estract is taken from a sermon delivered by the Rev. Dr. Adams, of New York— The Press—Eloquent Extract AND to it* fine liun it Anthracite Journal From tlu Now Dawn. " LABOR OMNIA VINOIT." PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1IY G. M. RICH A LIT 8 H. S. PHILLIPS. From the New York Dutchman. Squeeze My Hand, Will You ? '•Why is anything made public, but the belief that it will be of interest to somebody 1 Why is it announced that Isaac and Rebecca were married on a certain day last week, but on the supposition that it will give you pleasure to kaow it ? And then lower down the sheet, under the star* tling head of deaths, your eye runs along always with apprehension, lest they fall on some wejl known name, and read that the aged father, the voung child, the beloved wife, the rich, the poor, the admired, the honored the beautiful are gone ; and i» it not taken I or granted that even strangers will heave a sigh for the alllicted, and the world respond in syrnputhy to the incurs sions of a common toe. Fetter him down. Kebukc his growing pride. Why should he claim what nature huii denied 1 What right has he, a youth of humble fame, To seek for knowledge, or to toil for fame / What right has he, poor, ragged and unknown, To vie with those whom Fortune culls her own 1 Fetter him down. His form was made for toil ; Hit clumsy hunds, to till the yielding soil ; His sinewy arm to fell with sounding stroke The towering Maple and the giant Ouk ; His face to burn in summer's fiercest glow, And bear the fury of the driving snow. As of employments there are different kinds, So different men there are of different minds ; When Nature gave a farmer's llesh and bone, She gave a mind for that and that alone : Where the mechanic's sinewy arm she made, We fl ml a talent suited to the trade : Some work with nice design the needful steel; Some carve the stone ; some lay the graceful keel j Others have skill to rear thd lordling's home, The graceful column and the princely dome: Anil thus eech man may act some useful part In his own sphere of labor or of art. There let him stay, content with Fate's decree : Where God has placed him, there he ought to be. 'Tis foil* for a vulgar mind to strain For glittering honors that he ne'er should gain ; Power, fame and glory are by Heaven designed For Fortune's sons—the wealthy and refined Shall the plebian, sprung from lowly Sire, Obstreperous gr»wn, to higher w.ilks aspire ! Shall he insult the glorious list of fame, And din their lustre by a vulgar name ! Fetter him down and curb his high career : Confine his talents to their proper sphere : Crop short his pinions : (Ik#; his course begun, He'll mount from earth and soar to meet the sun. BY J. WILLIS VVKSTLAXK. •Jlc» ll'rtl tiit of Main Strerl, trenj Itnr)/ of lAt "/-onjr Slort" of WtMUti r 4' WiKrtli BY SCISSORS What an immense diflercnce it makes, who squeezes one's hand! A lady may twine her'arm around your waist, press a kiss on your brow, or holding your hand in hers, toy with your fingers to your heart's content, and you are perfectly calm and collectcd, and experience no unusual sensations, either disagreeable or otherwise. Perchance a gentleman whom you dislike, or feel slightiy acquainted with, ventures to press your hand ; you snatch it away quickly, the indgnant blood mounts to your forehead, and with flashing eyes you wonder "how the impudent fellow dares to do such a thing." Rather an antiquated specimen of humanity squeezes your hund; you feel mortified for yourself, and morti fied that a man of his years should make should make such a fool of himself, that he should think that you c n really like such nonsense, and above all, that you can like him ; you are vexed at what he has done, and are determined that an opportunity shall never be offered him of doing it again. Thk "Ci»»»TTK t Joi Rvib" is miblWiodovefv Friday, ut Two Dollars («ir minimi. Two Dollars iiuii Fifty Cents will lie C*|iiir«eU if not paid within iliu year. No paper will be discontinued until all arn-aratri-s are paid. AiivkKnitsn'ti* iiti* ln»i-rteCl conspicuously ut Osk Doliar per »i|iiur» of fuurtwn lini'S for three insertions; uii.t TwsNTv-rivK Ckkts aiUHtional for every subse*iiiciit lnC.-rlliin. A iilx-rul iIihIiicIIou to those who advertise for six inoiilln* or the whole year. J»n Work.—We have conueeteil with our establishment a well selected assort meat of Jos Tvrs, which will ens bie us Ui execute, lu the ueatesl style, every variety of luting. €\)t (0n;?tfe K 3otirmil. We waited awhile at the corner, and after three failures, one experiment sueceedcd, and we had the pleasure of seeing him with his coal off tumbling boxes like a good fellow.—National Democrat. In that little incident there is a moral, reader, which it would be well for all to understand. To the poor emigrant, half famished and almost driven to the commission of crime, a few words of* good sound and seasonable advice proved to be more valu. able than the gift of a hundred dollars could have been. All persons are not so furtunate, ns "we" of the Democrat, in having a "last quarter" in their pockets, but every one can speak a kind word, and give good advice.riT'iSTOS, Fa. "Read in this light, the common adver. tisemrnla that crowd our newspapers hava j a kindly order about them. Say not, with 1 a cynic, as though you were doubtful | whether there was anything honest in the world, when a storekeeper advertises his wares, that it is all sheer selfishness, for it is pleasant to announce a fresh supply of wool and tallow, hardware or muslins, and is it not just so for those who wish to know it? When a brace of young partners in trade insert their virgin advertisement, informing the world how happy they shall be to wait on customers, can you read it without entering into their careor ? "Business advertisements waste paper f You know not what you say. Those ships which are to sail for every harbor in the world, those fubrics which have arrived from every commercial mart on the enrth, this iron from Russia, tea from China, cotton from Georgia, Sugar from Louisiana—do they not preach to us at the corners of the streets, at the entering of the gates, in our docks, and in our custom houses and exchanges, sermons o:i the annual dependence of mankind ?" (!. M. IttOIIART t U.S. ritlLUrS,Editors Friday, July 22, 1S83. Extract from the Speech ot Rev. Dr. Ross Wc would invite our readers to the following Extract of the Rev. Dr. Ross, which was uelivrrcd nt the lute session of the I'resbyterial General Assembly. It speuks for Itself, and is a complete exposition of the hypocritical cunt of a rcrtuin class of pretending christian philanthropists : You place your hand confidingly in that of your lover, you are not excited nor contused, you have ceased blushing continually in his presence, you experience a quiet sort of happiness, " a little heaven upon earth sort of feeling," you are perfectly contented wilh everything in this terrestrial world, especially your lover and yourself; and yet withal it is a foolish feeling, as you sit with his arms twined around you—that manly arm which is to support you through life; a soft, rosy, happy tint suflusrs your lace as your hand is clasped in his ; ah ! it is a blissful, foolish feeling. '■Sir, why do your Northern church members and philanthropists, buy Southern produots at all t You know you ore purchasing cotlon, rice and sugar, sprinkled with blood, literally, you say, from the lush of the driver ! Why do you buy? What's the difference between my filching this blood stained cotton from the outraged negro, and your standing by, taking it from me ? What's the difference ? You, yourselves, soy, in your abstractions, there is no difference ; and yet you daily stain your hands in this horrid traffic. You tiato the iruitor, but you love the treason. Your ladies, loo, O how they shun the glove-owner at it distun e, in the abstract. H it, ulas ! when they see him in the concrete—when llley sec the slave owner him self, standing before them—not the brutal diiver, but the splendid gentleman, with tris iiiin.islukeuble grace of carriage and e.ue of manners—why, lo! behold, the 1 uly says, "O, fie on your shivery—what u wretch you aref But, indeed, sir, 1 love your sugar—and truly, truly, sir, wretch us you are, 1 love you too." Your gentlemen talk just the same way when they behold our matchless women. And well for us all it is, that your good taste, and hearts, can thus appreciate our genius and at complishiiieiits, and fascinations, and loveliness, and su™ar, and cotton. Why, sir, I heard this morning from one pastor only, cf two or three of his members thus intermarried ill the South. May 1 thus give the mildest rebuke to your inconsistency ol conduct? [Much good-natured excitement.] Let a man hold up his head and act like a man, claim from all persons the respect due to anyone wearing the "human form divine" and speak out plainly his wants, and our word for it he will get along. In this age every thing muM move rapidly, and employers cannot afford to look the world over for a man. • If you expect to accomplish anything, make up your mind !o try, hold up your head and do it. If any one Is in want of a man's services he will not be likely to choose a quiet, motionless body that never geis steam up enough to breathe sixty times a minute—or that has not moral courage enough to look him in the face— those are not the kind. Only hold up your head, look a man in the eye, and dare to let your fine manly face speak in its noble expression of the mind and the energy of soui you possess, ana you neeu ffoi starve nor beg. Every one is in want of such a man, and you are just the one to suit, if you have courage to think so. Never fear to speak plainly and to the point, but you can do this and be respectful. There is a way of doing such things as far removed from insolence as it is from fawning, sneaking cowardice. I wouldn't employ a man to split wood, much less a book-keeper that feared to meet my gaze. 1 should expect that he was conscious of 1 beg leave lo say, just here, that Tennessee will bo more calm under this movement than any other slave region. Ten. nessee has been, ever, high above the storm, north and south—especially we of the mountains. Tennessee, "there she is —look at her "—binding this Union trgelher, like a great long, broad, deep stone —more splendid than all in the temple of Hualbec or Solomon. Tennessee, there she is in her calm valor. I will not lower her by calling her unconquerable, for she has never been assailed—but I call her ever victorious. King's Mountain—her pioneer battles—Talledega-Emuefuu— Horse Shoe—New Orleans—Snn Jacinto—Montere—the Valley of Mexico. Jackson represented her well, in his chivalry from South Carolina—his fiery courage from Virginia cod Kentucky—all tempered Sotch Irish Presbyterian prudence from Tennessee. We, in spirit, have looked on this storm, for years untroubled. Yes, Jackson's old bones rattled in their grave, when that infamous disunion convention met in Nashville, and its members turned pale and fled aghast. Yes, Tennessee, fn iier mighty million, feels secure—and in her perfect preparation to discuss this question, politically, ecclesiastically, morally, metaphysically, or physically, with the extreme North or South, she is willing and uble to persuade others to be calm. In this connection, I wish to suy lor the South tolheNoith, and to the world, that we have no fears from our slave population. There might be a momentary insurrection and bloodshed—but destruction to the black man would be inevitable. The Greeks and Romans controlled immense masses ol white slaves—many of them as intelligent as their lords'. School masters, fabulists and poets, were slaves. Athens, with her 30,001) freemen, governed half a million of bondmen. Single Roman Patiiciuns owned thirty thousand. If, then, the phalanx and the legion mastered such slaves, for ages, when battle wpa physical force of man to men—how certain it is, that infantry, cavalry, and artillery, could hold in bondage millions of Africans a thousand years. So spoke the world when once, by "genius fired, A low-born youth to learning'* walks aspired. Hard was his lot,—by toil and misery bound, Dark was the present and the future frowned ; His scanty clothing had so long been worn, That every garment was to tatters torn ; No wealth he had, nor wealthy friends could claim To lift him up to honor and to fume : Vet shrunk he not—no barriers could control Th' unwavering purpose of hiB giant soul : Not all the fetters of the earth could bind The high aspirings of his active mind. And so long as this is the case, do yon believe that men will understand their own minds, that they know what they possess within ;hcm ? How many, in fact, feel as if'that inward being, that mind, were respeclable, chiefly because their bodies lean on silken couches and aro fed with costly luxuries? How many respect themselves, and look for respect from others, in proportion as they grow more rich, and live more splendidly, not more wisely, and fare more sumptuously every day?— Surel\ k is not siitiiige, while all iiiia is true, that men Dlnuld be more attracted by objects of sense and appetite, than by mir. acles of wisdom and love. And it is not strange that the spiritual riches which man is exhorted to sock are represented in scripture as'hid treasures for they are indeed hidden in the depths of the soul— covered up with worldly gains, and pomps and vanities. It is not strange that the kingdom of heaven, that kingdom which is within, is represented as a treasure buried in a field ; the flowers bloom, and the long grass waves there, and men pass by and say it is beautiful ; but this verv beauiv, this Very luxuriance, conceals the treasD ure. And so it is in this life, that luxury and show, fashion aud outward beauty, worldly pursuits and possessions, attrEct the eyes of men, and thry know not the treasure that is hidden in every human soul. But let some one whom you like very much, not an accepted lover, but one who may perhaps be one one of these days, gen. tly enclose your hand in his own ; what a strange, wild, joyful, "pleasing feeling thrills through you ; the hot blood lenps, dancing, tumbling through you, rushing to your finger ends! your heart goes bumu, bump ! surely, you think, ho must hear it throbbing! for the life of" you, you cannot speak. Alter letting your hand remain in his just long enough to show you are not offended, you gently withdraw it; but perhaps it is taken back again, niter u faint "don't do so," which is answered with a closer pressure, with downcast eyes and blushing cheek, you let the little hand, this first bright earnest of things to come, thrilling and burning with this new ecstatic emotion, remain all trembling in its resting-place. our kate. FANNY FERN. A Boston correspondent of the Newark Eagle is responsible for the statement tliar Ibis lady has been twice married. Ho writes "Her first husband was C. H. Eld. redge, Cashier of the Merchants' Bunk.— He died some five years ago, leaving the willow with an empty purse and two or three children. Iler second husband was a. d. , _r „ _ widower with two children. They lived together only about a year, when Mr. F. betook himself to the west, where he at present resides, and where he has just obtained a divorce. We have no disposition to druw the veil which screens the domestic hearthstone from the public eye.-—1 ••There is no disparity in matrimony like uncongeniality of mind and disposition," says Dickens. Farrington we knew well. Modest, unassuming, pious, puritanical, without brilliant talents or attainments, bred in the common walks of life, among common men, he packed the genius to appreciate and sympathize with the in'.*)!ectual, the mental, the witty, the* ludicrous which flashes from Fanny, and after leading a few months of disquiet together, he fled, having a lucrative business and copartnership agreement incomplete ; while she lashes lie-mulesjvith no saving hand under the cognomCtir q||" Fanny Fern," earning bread thereby, for herself and children." It is said that fanny has become a resident of Mew York. She is the daughter of Nathaniel Willis, Esq., for. mefly editor of the Boston Recorder, and sistei of N. I*. Willis, of the Home Jour-- nah " -4m I," he said, "ordained by Heaven's dccrec " An ignorant hireling all riiy life to be 1 " Must I be crushed beneath a tyrant's sway, " Drove, scourged, insulted, scorned from day to day I " Was one created to usurp the soil " And force another, unrepaid lo toil ? " Did God moke kirn a lord, and me his tool.— " Form Mm for wisdom and make nu a fool 1 " Shall wealth construct a ladder to the skies, " And I forbidden e'en the wish to rise ? " No ! Boundless wisdom, seen in Nature's plon, " Made all men sovereigns, and made me u man. guilt. Show me a young man or boy that ever walks with his head up as if con-, scious of a pure, noble soul—whose eve meets mine unflinchingly—who will fearlessly and respectfully advocate his own opinions upon all proper occasions, and who will act in accordance with his own sense of right until shown to be wrong, and 1 will show you the germ of a noble and influential man. Such a boy will evej be true to himself, futhful to his employ, er, and 1 am never afraid to trust tiim. He has prineiple; and temptation will pass him by and leave him as untouched, is pure as ever. You can rely upon him 'very where and at all times. Such a oung man will make a devoted son, a ;ind husband and a good citizen, "llol' ip your head and speak out then like i "*"• H. H,* " For me the earth her rich ubundancc yields ; " For me rich verdure clothea the fertile fields ; " For me the rain descends, the river flows, " The songsters warble and the zephyr blows , " For mc all nature spreads before my eyes " A thousand beauties of a thousand dyes ; " For mc the planets in their courses rool, " And tempt from earth tu heaven th' inquiring Young Men. There is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man. I waich him as I do a star of heaven ; clouds may be before him, hut we "know that his light is behind, and will beam foith again, the blaze of others popularity may outshine him, but we know that tho' unseen, lie illuminates his own tphere.— Ho resist* temptation, not without a struggle, for that is not virtre, but he resists and conquers ; he bears the sarcasm of the profligate, and it stings bjm, lor a trait of virtue heals with its own pure touch. He heeds not the watchword of fashion, it if ends lo »ih ; the atheist, who says net on y in his heart, but wilh his lips, 'there I to Ood,' controls him not ; lie sees 1 hi land of a creating (jod, and rejoices in ii Woman is sheltered by fond arms um Sir, may we 1;no\v who are the dpscetid. ants of the New England kidnappers.— What is their wealth 7 Why here you are, all around me. You, gentlemen, inude the best of that tMrjtain. And you have kept every dollar of your money from tr.o charity ol emancipating the slave. You have left us, unaided, to give millions. Will you n-iw cornr tn our help'/ will you give dollar for dollar to equalize out loss. [Hero many voices cricd out, "yes, yes, we will."J soul; Y(-s, the treasure—and the treasure that is in every soul. The difference that exists among men is not so much in their nature, not so much in their intrinsic power, as in the power of communication* To some it ia given to embosom antf embody their thoughts ; but all men, more or leas, (eel those thoughts. The very glory of genius, the very rapture of piety, when rightly revealed, are ditlused and spread abroad, and shared among unnumbered minds. When eloquence and poetry speak ; when the glorious nvts, statuary, and painting, and music ; when patriotism, charity, virtue speak to us, with ull their thrilling power, do not the hearts of thousands glow with a kindred joy and ecstacy ? Who is so humble, who so poor in thought,or in affection, as not to feul this? Who is so low, so degraded, I had almost said, as not sometimes to be touched with the beauty of goodness? Who with a heart made of such base materials as not sometimes to respond, through every chord of it, to the call of honor, patriotism, generosity, virtue ? What a glorious capaoity is this!—a power to commune with Gul and angels ! a reflection of the brightness of heaven ; a mirror that collects and concentrates within itself all the moral splendors of the universe ; a light kindled from heaven, that is to shine brighter and brighter, until the end of time. " Scicnce to mc unveils lu'r beauteous fnce, " And Wisifom beckons to her kind embrace ; J' While earth, and Jseavcn, and all things ure " Tn invite the study of the wondering mind •' I will not yield to be a cowering slave , " I'H claim the freedom God bo freely gave ; " Break all ray chains, o'er every barrier rise, " Scalc Fame's high tower and graxp the glitter' combined Yes, yes! Then pour out your millions. Good. I may thank you personally. My o» n emancipated slaves would to day be worth greatly more than $v!U,- (100. Will you give me back $10,000 ? (i iod. 1 need it now. oving council; old age is protected.by .v ,,,.^D"10r,0' ®a"road System. Jiediency of employing females as type, i.xperience, and manhood by its strength . ' ',ol^us ray was born 'n Leeds, Eng- *|tters, is beginning to attract attention.— *ut the young man stands amid :he temp- a,'d,.a. . 1 7,alf a ceotur.v or more ago— Every body admits that the sphere of fe. ations ol the world like a self-balanced a"d ,'s 18 a" we know °' llis carIy his,°- male occupation should be enlarged. Now owor. Hnppy he who seeks and gains ry' 11,0 Mlddlejown colliery had a rail- a great deal of the business of setting [he prop of morality. vv°y ,0 carry c(oa,s Do Leeds, a distance of type can be done by women about as well Onward then conscious youth—raise lhree !"ile8' T,le cnrs moved alonK atllle as men- lt is a healthy and improving hy standard, and nerve thyself for good- .rat0 of 1 ,ree ,nnd a half n,iles Per bonr.— occupation for them. less. If God has given tlire intellectual \l Wfl.s luui«'lcd at—not by prav,_buf hy We have for a long iime been in the power, awake in that cause : never let it ™e wise public. Gray saw in his Jijile practice of employing girls in our office, be said of thee, "he helped to swell the *ork son,etlllng lhat might be augmented and we plan. It humanizes, as ii river of sin by pouring his influence into '"to greatness .; and lie thought upon the "pre, and refines the aspect of the place, its channels. If thou art feeble in menial '".rjhyjth became a visionary! Under such circumstances, '".he Ijoys"1 strength, throw not that drop into a pollu- "e ,a d ,und wrote upon his project of are apt to be less noisy, and to behave ted current. Awake, arise, young man! 'A Genera! Iron Rai waythe people better generally ; it really does us gcod assume that beautiful garb of virtue ! It declared him insane. He petitioned Par- to notice the quiet, lady.like way in whieli is difficult to be pure and holy. Put on llan,en| i sought interviews with the Loids our fair composnors perform their work..- thv strength then. Let truth be the lady a'ld o!l,«r. great men ; and thus became No jabbeiing, no rushing about the office: of love, defend her.—Mrf. G/7//ian. " the laughing stock of all England. Me no boisterous singing or talking ; but eve received nothing but rebuffs wherever lie ry thing goes on (when they are' there) in went. All this took place in 1820 or a smooth, quiet way,' that is essentially re. hereabouts. ■ " ' freshing. Vj'e advise sucji of our cotem- But he succeeded at last. Tlve railways poraries as iiove"not tried the plan to sei vere laid. The world was benefitted by about it, and if they are as fortunate as he madness of Thomas Gray. Well, we have been in this matter, they won't vliat became of him ? the reader will ask. regret the experiment.—MiddtetownD Con. We do not know; but we believe he still i News. ives in Exeter, to which place lie remov- ' •d. Up to ljB40 he had been neglected tVhile thousands have been enriched by lie consummation of his brilliant scheme ie remained forgotten—-forced by poverty o sell glass on commission foi a living.— lVe have seen nothing in print j/i relatioi o him lately. Elliot wrote a great Ij-jujtl n these words : "How many men who lived to bless mankind, Have died ujithaafceiL" How many of the railway projectors tgitators, stockholders, 8c., have evei leard of the subject of this brief sketch i "John, how does the thermome^ land 1" "Right agin the wall, dad." "I mean how ia the mercury !" "I guess it's pretty well; it hasn't com plained lately." "You little rascal, ia it colder than yes terday 1" "I don't know, d»d, but I'll go out anC FEM TERS. ~Ve are glad to find the policy and esD c 1 /* I y ing prize." But, dear brethrrn, our Southern philanthropists do not seek to have this unending bondage. O no, no. A;:d 1 entreat you to "stand still, and see the sal. vation ol the Lord." Assume a masterly inactivity, and you will behold all you desire. and pray for. You will see America libt rated from the curse of slavery." .1nCl rise he did, despite the hate and pride Of high-born f_ps and other fools beside Poverty's fetters now no more could bind The vigorous pinions of his active mind. With unknown labor, step by step he rose, Grappled with want and conquered all his foes, Till, fair reveaied, in learning's ranks he shone, His claims acknowledged and his talents known. In vain did envy, from its native place, With frightful hissings lift its hideous face ; in vain did bigotry upoi; him frown, And stilted pedants try to frown him down :— Like a proud bird, he soared until his form Securely rested, far above the fftorm , And then with pity smiled upon his foes Who vainly tried his progress to oppose. 1 recommend to you, Sirs, to find out your advocatos of murder—your owners ot s'.ock in underground railroads—your Sabbath breakers for money. 1 particularly urge you to find Legree, who whip, ped Uncle Tom to death. lie is a Northem gentleman, ulthough having a somewhat Southern name. Now, Sir, you know the Assembly was embarrassed all yesterday by the inquiry how the Northern churches may find their absent members, und what to do with them. Here, then, Sir, is a chance for you. Send a committee up Red River. You may find Legree to be a Garrison, Phillips, Smith, or run-away husband from some Abby Kelly. [Here Rev. Mr. Smith protested against Legree being proved to be a Smith great laughter.] 1 move that you bring hiin back to lecture on the culeness there is in leaving a Northern church, going South, changing his name, buying slaves, and calculating, without guessing, »hat the profit isot killing a negro with inhuman labor, above the gain ol treating him with kindness. Mush. "Oh, how it makes me blush To hear the Pennsylvania!!* call thee Mush.'1 The following is Irom a Michigan paper. Will our readers iry it? If they prefer the word, they can call it " Hasty Pudding j" or if any oI the dependents of the Knickerbockers insist upon calling it '•Suppawn," nobody will quarrel with them.. M ush, Hasty Pudding and Suppawn are all the same thins"A friend writes us as follows: In a late number you have something about mush. Let mc suggest for the comfort of those who stir it an hour or t«»o, and then labor a great while to wash out the pot in which they boil it, that all this trouble may be saved by cooking it in a tin pail, set in a pot of boiling water, and after it has cooked, letting it cool in the same, after which it will slip out in a mass, leav. ing all clean behind it. Whosoever tries this plan will never try the old one again, for it prevents the possibiliiy of burning the mush, and dispenses with all care and trouble exeppt occasionally to replenish the water in which the pail is set to boil. As to tlie length of time required the rule is ",the longer the better." Thus the proud eagle to the mountain hies When darts assail and dangers 'round hiui rise j Perches securely on some lofty peak, Smooths his gay plumage, whets his mighty beak, There sits majestic, and with piercing ken Looks down contemptuous on the abodes of men. A rid so may all, with lolly thoughts inspired, By nature gifted and by genius fired, Gihls.—Holmes, in one of his poejus, says, in a parenthetical way— Wliut circumstanced of out word splendor can lend such imposing dignity to any being, as the throne of inward light and power, where lfie spirit reigns (orever ?■— What work of man shall be brought into comparison tvith this work of God ? I will speak of it in its simplest character ; 1 fidy, b. thought, a bare thought; and yet, 1 say, what is il, and what is its power and mystery 1 Breathed from the inspiration oj the Almighty ; partaking of infinite attributes ; comprehending, analyzing and with its own beauty clothing all things, and bringing all things and themes—earth, heaven, eternity—within the possession of Us momentary being; what i6 there that man pan form,—what sceptre or throne,—? what structure of ages,—what empire ol wide spread dominion can compare with the woni-'jers rnd the grandeurs of a single thougJvt 1 It is thai alone of all things that (ire made ; it is that alone that unlocks all the treasures of the universe.— Ci hat alone jS Uie power that reigns over .eternity. That, under Uod, n ini dispenser to man oC all ffi* and glo/ies that lie within *1 jLaSpasBof poeaessjon, or di« range of " piety, heaven, jmtmmft (***8*'and never wi" exist " My grandpapa Loved fcirls when ho wan young." From want and darkness force their upward way To tlie full blaze of intellectual day. Troubles may conic, and threatening clouds arise, Their path to darken, and t'obscure the skies ; Envy muy sneer, and .try Xo pull them down. Slander may bite, and dark expression frowg, ISu. every foe before the mind roortt fall - Untiring labor will subdue them all, Even as the axe with many a sounding stroke, With crash tremendous fells the proudest oak. No doubt of it; for Holmes is a sensible man ana m.ust have had a sensible grandfather. All sensible men love girls when they are young, and when they are old, too. (We apply the "old" to the men, not to the girls—mind you.) Girl, hood is Sn institution—a "peculiar institution"—which, as lovers of the "union," we feel bound to cherish ; and as to girls, large and small, we hold that no gentle, man's family "is complete without them." Of little girls, pn American poet says— i have little to say of Spirit Rappers, wimen's right's con vent ion ists, Bloomers, cruel husbands,* or hen pecked. Uut if we may believe your own serious as well arfcaricature writers, you have things up here, of which we, down South, know very little indeed. Sir, we have no young Bloomers, with hat to one side, cignr in mouth, and cane lapping the boot, striding up to mincing young gentlemen, with long curls, attenuated waist, and soft velvet face—the boylady to say "may I see you home, sir ?"—and the ladyboy to reply, " I thank ye—no—Pa will send the carriage " Sir, we of the South dont understand your women'? ' right's conventions. Women have their wrongs. "The song of the shirt"—Charlotte lilizabeth— many, many Ihws tell her wrongs—but your convention ladies despise the Bible. Yes, Sir,—and we of the South are afraid tf them, und for you. When women despise the Bible, what next 1 rarix—then fke cfty of the Great Sail Lake—then Sod. Boys are sometimes endowed, savs the New Orleans Picayune, with remark, able memories. The Keen family, of the State of Texas, consisted of three girls and a boy the latter only three years ojd. They were all silling round the fire one evening, engaged in telling how far back they could recollect. One of the gii'Js recollected when she had "a doll that winked wi:h both eyes." Another recollected when she was "a little baby at the breast and Nancy tickled her feet." Johft/ly Keen, who was the last and the least o( them all, suid he rccollccted "aoust thait lltat." Hast ever marked that mighty agrot, steam 3 When unopposed, how harmless it doth seem ! But bind it down, and with a noise of thunder, The stoutest bolts like w6bs are snapped assunder. So doth true genius in the healthy *ouJ "With rosy chccks and merry dicing curls, ilnd eyes ol tender light, Oh, verv beautiful are little girls, Two German ladies, one day last week, on the railroad train from Columbus to Cincinnati, gave birth respectively to a boy and girl. The Cincinnati Commercial under the head of *railrood accidents' savs that the railroad account must .be 'credited with two lives.' Exult in freedom, and defy control. Want may oppopc it, tyrants press it {tp.wt, Sorrows o'erwh«lm, a.nd dark destruction frown, Vet will it proudly bunt its .bound* and ri*e," '■ With ladoliss luurejs to it* native skiei'. 1 Uwvdrti,' May 9ti8, 'i$5* '1 *' •And goodly to the sight." And us lo large girls—"big, bouncing girls"—what a pity it is that they must soon be " women "—stately, matronly, queenly women, who are only not angels because thoy are !—who, bythe-by, are not angels either, but vastly more charming than any members ol the nngelio host that we remember to have seen in pictures or elsewhere—indeed they are.—Bostm Post.. "•How wuss ?" said all the girls iu a breath. "Oh ! J resolleot three weeks afore 1'te born, and how I cried all the time for fear I'd be a gal f' J ' V "My •German frjend, how long have you been married V "Veil, dis is a ting vqt I seldom don't like to dalk apout, but ven I does, it seems to be so long that it never was." Ap ejcchatiga remarks' "tf.u rJt dust afleots the eye jbomuch adgcid i-'u. V? We might also add tbftt w'im'rls Wli [ the eves so unfavorably as glasses!**! | "How do you accomplish so much in so short a time V' said a (rtend to Sir Walter Raleigh. "When I have anything to dc. 1 go aad do it," was the reply. |
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