Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-02-03

reach the desired heaven. Haman,
the Agagite, was one of those almost
happy people--the peculiar and dis
tinguished honors conferred upon him
by King Ahasnerus, and his Queen,
Esther, had intoxicated Haman. AMI
flung him into 4 delirium of 'pleasure,
but when he called together his wife
and friends, and "told them ofthe glo
ry of riches, and the multitude of his
children and all the things wherein
the king had promoted him." &c
Yet (said he) all this availeth me
nothing, so long as | see Mordecai
The .Jeto, sitting at the kings gate"
and it seems that this BlacE Sheep OF
Haman could only be removed by a
gallows 50 cubits high.
81 have secured my produce" says
the Farmer, "my grain and my hay
are safely slowed in my barn. | have
committed the seed of another win
ter to the earth; and have sold my
spare flock to advantage. 1 have an
excellent farm, and it is well brought
to; but my neighbor Late get-mp,
whose farm joins upon mine, keep
such miserable fences that his cattle
are ever breaking into my enclosures
and doing damage. Iwish he would
sell me hls farm and move off, and
then | should have nothing to plague
me-"
The Merchant has made his for
tune, and retired from business. He
brings his sons ue TO College, and
gives his daughters ample portions
He lives in fashion; is held 10 high es,
timation, and would be entirely hap
py, if his Imagination were not 0
tinualIy haunted with the grating, tor
menting sound of cent per cent.
The Clergyman, who has long en-
joyed the benefit of a fat salary, and
pushed his children into agreeable 81
%tuations, would pass the evening of his
life in domestic serenity, were it not
for that rogue Swift-but the sound
Of
"Know how to preach old eTmJn next,
"Vamp'd in the preface and the Text"
echoes 10 his ears like the toll ola death
bell, and disturbs many Of his dreams
of future felicity.
The Laluger, after wrangllng a
few years at the Bar, climbs in the
higher walks of life. He dips deep
into ell ~ctioneering, and is ever the
public's most 'humblest servant He
is advanced into the v%arions grades of
public employment, until be gains a
seat. in the state Legislature. Like
M'Fingal's Hero, he
"Gains Offices by constant seeking,
Squire. Captain, Deputy and OeScon"
He then uun the Umni Ostenta.
tons, and commands kind of enuied
respect; smokes his pipe with big
folks, and intrigues for a seat in Con.
gress; "couid | once attain that Gays
he) | should be content, without aspir-
ing to the chair of the chief Magis'
~tratc."
So we see that all those denomina
tons have their Black Sheep to re
moUc before they can obtain com
plete felicity.
Physicians are even removing not
only the Black, but the White Sheep
also, and that out of the world; and
what may seem strange, they are still
tumbling upon them wherever they
go.
The Louer signs to the evening
gale, and condoles with his sleepless
pillow. He traverses the silent grove
by the glimpse of the Moon, or halls
Aurora'S da,vn with the fear of woe.
He wanders abou, like the Pelican of
the Wilderness, and laments like the
Dove of the valley: the image of his
cruel fair torments his broken slum
bers by the preference given to his ri
walls. Startling, he awakes in wild
agony, and his thoughts are haunted
with daggers, pistols, and prison.
This indeed is a very difficult Black
Sheep IN remoUe,
The beautiful CluriSSa, surrounded
by a crowd of youthful beaux who, like
Butterflies of a summers day, flutter
in the sunshine Other smiles, or, hike
the insects of a frosty morning, shrink
into non existence whether she frOwns;
we might fancy would have no Back
Sheep to remove She is escorted to
the BILL room, the Play house, and to
parties of pleasure, by the first in ton;
and in every circle, she bears the
Belle; but she signs for pleasures more