Eaton Democrat, 1847-07-22

of to "pWt tell me4aid Miss-Giffin, "kindness is thebe killer. I often il il-lusttife - lusttife il-lusttife Uwagieeablrfact, for in Cap Cap-sicuii - sicuii Cap-sicuii Ilouse'no natural object is lost uPr' "or '"stance, last Tuesday, whiadrihe milk punch class was n. an enormous wasp came like n Lilliputian dragon, into the room, and flew from girl to girl. Immediately they began to scream. 1 own it; this is the sad weakness I have to fight against; but somehow, girls consider screams as a property they're born to. Somo of the girls' flew at tho wasp with handker handkerchief, - chief, handkerchief, and that little rebel. Miss Fluke. ceizeS.a fire screen. Feeling that the time Was coming for me to show my en energy! - ergy! energy! I exejaimed with all my natural vigorl Silence, ladies! silence, for a morahfhd an example!' my usual mode of sieech when about to submit any natuml obbject to a social, or, I should say to a conjugal illustration. " 'A nioral and an example!' cried the girlsjj and, excepting that Fluke they were'as still as mice. " BfinJ mo the salad cruet,' was mv comniand; and, with a thought, the sal salad - ad salad crpet stood on the table.- " 'Now, young ladies," I observed, ta taking - king taking V rn 'now for the nioral and ex- atnplk. , You are hero to bo finished for sensible, affectionate, and above all, con trolling wives, lou are here to learn how best to subdue your natural ene-mies-i-'.hat is, to govern the men who may fcecome your husbands. Yes, la-dies4-for somehow (I can always tell) I felt tie flow of my words was comidg, ana it was not tor mc. as a woman, to stop it yes, ladies, the Griflinian sys sys-.tern - .tern sys-.tern will teach you how to control and CAcrthrow your tyrants. Man marry marrying - ing marrying u, puts a gold ring upon the third fingej, andj in the arrogance of his heart) makes us, he thinks, a blushing captife. And shall not man, also, wear sr T Sara- nrri . " r-,-- - ti cheers, but with a look and a brow of thunder, I stopped her. 'If, said I, 'we mst wear his ring upon our finger, let hira and not know it, poor wretch I for that's the tr-ue triumph let him wear eur ring in his nose.' Here Mis3 Fluke jumped upon a chair and huzza huzzaed, - ed, huzzaed, and this time I did not attempt to suppress the natural burst of delight so honorLble to their feelings all the oth other - er other girs joined in the shout. "'A ring in his nose,' I repeated, 'not the; bit of shilling gold that declares our slavcrv, but an invisible, a fary ring, that -like a fish with a hook he knows knothb-; about, only that he must fol low wherever it pulls him. Bless you, my dears!' "And, dearest madam,' asked Miss Pebbles, a girl I have the greatest hopes of, 'deauest madam, how is the nose of our nat iral cnemv to be rung?' "'Listen,' said I, 'listen and attend, and you shall have a moral and an ex ample.' "When the wasp now in the win dow entered the room, you flew at with all kinds or violence. I wonder did'nt sting every one of you. Now, in future, let a wasp, when it conies, have its little bout, and make its little noise; do'atstir a. muscle do'nt move a lip but be iuiet as a statute of Venus, or Dina, or any body of that sort, until the wasp seems inclined as at this moment to settle. Then do as I do now.' Whereupon, dipping the feathered end of the en in the cruet of salad oil, I ap proached the wasp, and in the softest and tcriderest manner possible, just oitpA it nnnnVthu bodv- the black and lyailow likeJuNjis' waistcoatsrsJtielidown fclU7 turnetTupon itTback, and was dead in a minute. ' There girls,' said 1, 'see what kiudness what a little oil docs. Now, here's my moral and example. WhenJbusband conies homo in an humorW'nt cry out and fly at him; but try a little oil in fact, treat your nus band liko a wasp.'"

it it ill The New Orleans Delta of the 2d inst stys: We yesterday received files of Mexican papers from the Capital, to and ol the 1 2th ult. dates three days later than any previously .received. We mattr' Irom tUeKTn series .of ex ex-tiacls - tiacls ex-tiacls which are given below. We find in them no ev idences of that for. inidable, (earful opposition to the ad vanceofGen. Scott, the apprehen' sion of which, for the last dav or two so alarmed the nerves of gome of the more sensitive of our contemporaries. Tne same unsettled, indecisive, neu neutralizing - tralizing neutralizing policy, seems to prevail at the Capital, which has so King been characteristic of Mexican policy. We hear nothing of those thirty thou sand of an army, which, with a valor equalled only by that evinced by the troops of a celebrated King of Fi ance, who marched up and down an emi eminence - nence eminence were marching out to attack and annihilate Gen. Scott in his quarters at Pucbla. Santa Anna, it seems, however ambitious he may be to play the Dictator, is rather shy in proclaim ing his preferences, he oppears to think that as he can get along, through .minus half his "understand- ing,"' he can keep the government moving, though resting on a fraction of a ministry. The War Thfi files before us contain lull reviews of the opinions of the diffeienfiewspapers through through-oat - oat through-oat the country, which number a bout twenty, and with but one single exception (in Durango) they are all fully in favor of the war. The Dictatorship. El Monitor Reptiblicano of the I2ih ult., con contains - tains contains a lengthy article on the subject of the.Dictatorship, -Up to that date jSama- Auria was not proclaimed. Dor had he proclmmcd himselt, dictator. ndeed, the Monitor ridiculed the idea that he designed3 to become one. The rumor to that effect which pre vailed in the capital, is alltged to have originated with and been prop ogated by his enemies and the ene' miSi of the country. No Change of Poi.ict.---The Mon itor asserts that the new cuDinet is not to be entirely formed of Puros, (Democrats,) as stated in some of the journals, and that the new Minuter?, will carrv out the policy ol tneir predecessors. San'a Anna thinks that without a lull Ministrv with the Ministers of war' nnd Finance, together with the clerks in the Bu- r i l - rotiu oi r areign ueiauons ne win be able, for the time being, to carry on the government. Jn an article published in me same paper of the 10th, we find the follow following - ing following paragraph: 'Thers is no doubt but mat the majority of the nation is in favor ol carrying on the war, and we are, con consequently, - sequently, consequently, convinced that it is im possible to enter into any arrange arrangement - ment arrangement for. peace; were il to be con concluded, - cluded, concluded, it would prove fatal lo the nationality of Mexico. The defen defenders - ders defenders of the nation aroj therefore, en couraged with brilliant hopes of final success, as it is undoubted that the pjsilionin which" the Unitea states hiKls usellmust, in tne eno, secure us triumphant succes", noiwr.nsiano.ing our former disasters. All of us w ho singrely wish the confinu.ilKin of the war, look upon an equivocal policy as dangerous, and all overtures peace a perilous means' to secure for this reason we are opposed to a ny change in the politics which may give it a pucihe appearance. .

, Mr. Editor : In my former com munication I gave some description of Fulton, representing it as a- "world of wonders'! all true. I will proceed to give you something on the character Uutfl t tptycineoajTrgf -tlm 1 t'outBT"aw""! wish you timet v to understand that I am not always going to harp on Fulton something else soon. In the Democrat of the 1st inst., you ask me for my definition of the word "soon," and I an answer - swer answer promptly, that it is as good as to say, within a few weeks. rultonisan incorporated town, and has been for several years, and our long and crowded lino up and down the riv river, - er, river, is crowded with Solomons; and in fact, the people here, "viewing them up ono side, and down the other," and ta taking - king taking them in the aggregate, are a toler ably "brainy folk." The text for the case in hand is, ' The big fish will eat up the little ones." I. There are several monopolizers in business here,, especially the owners of ship-yards. They errjploy a vast a- mount of laborers ship carpenters, black-smiths, mill hands, ox-drivers, slab-choppers, runners, and so on. The calculation of the admirable 'worthies to nourish community by the employ employment - ment employment afforded them; and, in fact, (hey stand as the guardians of the temporal interests of the people. The conse quence of this kind of operation is, that tho employers are making lame for tunes out of the labor and hard toil their hired hands, and these workmen are wearing down their constitutions and making only a good living, and on the most economical plan: .a number them are " keepirrg soul and body to. gelher" and no more. Some of them are getting tired of this kind of aris tocracy, and intend to bo very industri ous and saving for a while, and try get a piece of land and move into the country, and-iry ttrtire llker white peo ple. . 11. several years past, there was charter given to a turn-pike company, and in order to be gainers thereby, placed their gate near the city corpora corporation - tion corporation line, taxing the citizens of Fulton for travoling their own street. ' The sovereign power of Ihe people broke out against this, and the turn-pike com company - pany company had to move their gate to the up upper - per upper end of town, where they should have placed it at first. III. A charter was.givqrt to "the Little Miami RailRoad Company," which is the largest fish that swims our waters. This company was very polite at first, like the porcupine when he entered the pelican's rffist. When the pelican complained that the porcu porcupine's - pine's porcupine's quills annoyed him, the porcu pine replied that if his quills were fensive he might go and make himself another nest. The Kail Koad compa ny made many promises, and got half mile of the pike and street in Fulton, and Front street in Cincinnati, so aa place their Depot at Doer Creek, and the citizens think, in an under-handed way, soon began to act' the porcupine It would all be well enough if the rail' road company would lake their track aWng the . side-hill all the way,

make it at their own expense, but they were glad to get into the street, and have every thing their own way at the expense of the turn-pike company, and the citizens; and as their business is in increasing - creasing increasing rapidly, they are aboutflo run over every body, and every thing that comes in reach of them, and now the porcupine must be routed, or ilha peli peli-;cal - ;cal peli-;cal must make herself another nest. . The citizens of Fulton held orderly public meetings, and discussed the sub subject - ject subject of rail-road encroachments, which they readily agreed was too grevious to bo bourne any longer spoKe of mo monopolies, - nopolies, monopolies, and high and exclusive privi privileges - leges privileges in real Jcflersonian style; and published their "manifest," by a com committee - mittee committee both Whigs and Democrats going in for a full share of the whole wholesome - some wholesome docti'iDc.of the rights and powers of the sovereign people. The follow following - ing following language they hold in their "mani "manifesto," - festo," "manifesto," drafted, by a Whig, who for tho time being, had lost sight of the creed of his party. After intimating that cor corporations, - porations, corporations, where the whole people with within - in within its limits coiild have equal power and privileges such as the corporation of r uiton, cue, he holds that "money and power are in continual danei&aLesca danei&aLesca-ping - ping danei&aLesca-ping from the many to '7 "7 and that as well as those powerful aim' mon ey-absorbing corporations might do in good and proper hands, yet such is the state of things, that they cannot be trusted, and concludes by saying, We have como to tho deliberate conclusion that corporations are any thing but fa favorable - vorable favorable to the true spirit of popular rights and human freedom." What the end 'of this contest will be. 1 cannot tell, being neither a prophet or a sooth-sayer.

A few nights since a young man at (he Italian Opera in Boston attemp attempted - ted attempted to throw a huge boquet with which tie had provided himself, on to the stage. Unfortunately it lodg. ed on one of the chandeliers just without the reach of his cone. Ex Excited - cited Excited and wrought up by the occa occasion, - sion, occasion, the failure, nnd the vain at attempts - tempts attempts lo restore the bouquet,' he cried aloud to gone of his compan companions - ions companions to help him get it from its posi position - tion position adding force to entreaties by saying that il cost him twenty dob iars: An Iris'i footman being one dark night sent fcr some beer, took with him the key of the street door, to let himself in; and having lipped off three or four glasses of gin and bitters at the bar, he could not on his return open the door. After having tried in vain, one oi the servants heard him, and at letting him in, nsked him what he had been about so long. ' You may well say that,' said Pat, 'you may indeed for 1 have been a quarter of an hour trying lo unlock ifie iIoit out whila.l ihe'aleh'ouse, some of your rascally London theives have. stolen the key keyhole, - hole, keyhole, but il will be no use to Iliom for 1 have got the key in my pocket.' 05" A shoemaker being at work his awl broke, whereupon the shoe shoemaker - maker shoemaker cursed his useless instrument. His wife then reminded him that he was breaking an express co'nmmd of Scripture, which says, 'Swear not at awV A spruce looking Lieutenant, un dcr the ten regiment bill, asking u friend what he would be taken for without his epaulettes, was answered thai he would be taken for debt.

Thero .ire two periods in the life ol a man to which the evening hour is peculiarly interesting; Youth and Old Ag-. In vouth we love its mellow ii u -.ii: : i.i Amid these scenes, we can commune with those we love, and twine in wreath of friendship, while there are n-me to witness, hut the generous IIeavtn,and the spirits that hold their ndless babballi there. We look n- broad on creation, spread in the slum ber ol a moolighl seen around; nnd wrapt in contemplation, lancy we see and hear the waving wiqgs and mel melting - ting melting s ms of other and purer worlds It accirds with the lighter now ol youthful spirits, the fervency of. fan- ry, and the soft feelings of the hearl. LveningiH also delightful to virtuous ige. It affords hours ol undisturbed thought. It seems an emblem of the culm and tranquil close of a busy life, .erene nnd mild, with the impress o' its great Creator' enstamped upon it. It spreads its quiet wings above the gravp, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

Throw off that down-cast look, sweet Kate, Put on a smiling face: And think not yours a Friendless fntc, Norgivcdtapair a place. Your mind doth dwell too much upon The changes of your lot j You fancy that your joys are gone Tint you a re quite forgot . The friends that havo forsnuk you, Kate, Were never worth your enre : Pietcnded love wasnniyht but hate Kind words were empty air. Cheer up, then, Kato, thr.ro yet arc friend?, Who cherish still for you, Friendship which love and kindness blende Thai's lasting, 0 iTii and true. The psst-is gone its hopes and fiarf, Its gilded dreams and toys: You tmyyct Iiovr, in coming years, Siiil niorc substantial joys.