The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-11-25
From the Paactucket Chronicle.

supnueu by no competition. Wherever
interest calls them, upon land or water
under a zone torrid or frozen, there DE-
they go, with a determination to be sue.
cesstul, if success be possible. Nor is the
spirit which influences them, crushed at 6
tailure-it may be bent but it is not broker
III unsuccessful, they look for cause tc
which 10 attribute it, and if it can be done
they remove this cause, and ty again
) adding perseverance to the attempt.
! What people are the most often to be
met with on the fishing ground? The
! yankees. What people in the Pacific. in
pursuit of oil or furs? The yankees. Who
is he, who barters lumber and turnips with
( the West Indian, beads and red cloth with
the Oteheitan, rank oil with the Hollander,
corn with the Greek, rum, tobacco, snuff
and cast iron muskets with the African,
cotton with the English and French, picked
! fish with the Russians and Danes, -four
with the South American, opium with the
| Chinese, and dry knocks with the Algerine ?
Why, the yankee. If freight is to be
carried from one foreign port to another,
who takes if for farthing less in a pound
than any other man? Why, Jonathan is
there, his c0atis off, and he is ready for Job,
and his ship for freight so he whsk sit up
and is off, before the Frenchman can make
bow to the shipper, or John Bull finish his
roast beef. He is every where, if pros
pect for gain opens that way, and a few
days of hard labor is no task for him, if
money is to be found at their close.
"Whit long-legged brig is that ?" said
the captain of an English merchantmen,
who was entering the port of Leghorn, as
he peeped over the traffail and beheld a
vessel which hove in sight some twelve
hours before, now close on board of him.
" | don't know" replied the mate, d" but the
fellow must be crazy-who'd ever think of
putting cloth on tooth-pick spars, with
this bfeeze-studding-sais fore and aft p
"What brig is that?" shouted the captain
through his trumpet. "Ten Sisters, of Den
mis-, Shube Nickerson, master" "Where
What cargo ~ Lumber and stone
ware" "Now who but an Internal yankee
would think of bringing lumber and stone
ware 10 Leghorn," muttered the captain
as he threw down his trumpet. And sure
enough who but a yankee would think of
1t. YET these eastern vessels poke their
bowsprfs into almost every port in the
known world, with an outward cargo that
costs them nothing but the demoliation of
their own forests, and freight home that
builds towns mi citina -,1haro Al - c~-s-t-
grew. With truth they may be called the
most enterprising portion of very enter
prising people. The single state of Maine,
has, for the last fifteen years, carried on a
trade with the Spanish West India Islands,
to greater extent than any nation in the
world; and during the first five years, ex
changed cargo of lumber for cargo of
molasses, without the aid of a single dollar
in cash. They have crossed every ocean
traversed every sea-visited every people,
in search of market And during the
war, their sailors were the best that could
be found in the American navy. Educated
in the school which is taught upon the
Banks of Newfoundland, where the first
lesson taught is to learn to fish three
months without knowing the luxury of a
dry jacket, they were appalled, by no
danger, subdued by no hardships, intimi
dated by no foe: and after seeing many
brush upon the Atlantic, they "took their
land tacks on board," crossed the country
to the lakes, gave Perry and McDonough a
lift, and then returned to their homes again,
10 peddle lumber and fish, and become
wealthy.
HUMAN MORTALITY. 1t is generally sup
posed that this earth is inhabited by one
thousand millions of men, or Whereabouts,
and that thrty-three years make genera
ton; and, therefore, that in thirty-three
years, there die one thousand millions
| Thus the number of those who die on earth,
amounts to
Each year, thirty millions;
! Each day, eighty-two thousand
Each hour, three thousand four hundred
Each minute, sixty;
Each second, one.
This calculation must necessarily strike
u.s. if the mortality be so great every year,
and every hour, is it not probable that he
who reflects on it, may himself be one OF
those soon to swell the list of the dead II
is at least certain, that it ought to lead us
{ to think seriously and often on this subject
( Now, at this moment, one of our fellow
creatures is going out of the world. and be-
fore another hour is past, more than three
thousand souls will have entered into an
eternal state.
MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENT. The fol-
lowing professional notice was stuck up ii
a public house, a few days ago, in one Of
our neighboring townships, and is COPIED
verbatim ct literatim ct punctHatim, from
the original.-.N Y. Courier.
Fellow Citizens | Shall Devote All my
time in Future in the practice of medicine
s. these that Gail on me Shall be ATTEND
with my hest Exertions Those living AT 4
Distance Calling on me for medicin With
out nv Attendance May fetch A viol o
The patients water like wise A writer
Description Giving the patients age g. nam
Describing the Disorder Asnear As pussi
bic then will try to Deal To the Differen
Afflicted Cases Subject to the Human fam
lily AS is Dealt in North America will TAX
in Elk change for; my Service g. Medicin
Epicok At so Cents pr pound; Indianturni
( AT so Cents Pr pound; Sweet Anls At D
Cents per; pound Seneca snake Root A