South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-05-09

is happier than bis sovereign l be.
lieve that the farmer is happier than
his lord; and / believe that truly
virtuous servant is the happiest of all.
The principal reason for this seems to
be, that what costs US dearest we are
sure to estimate highest. We receive
the choicest gifts of providence with
Indifference, unless they are obtained
with difficulty. The sweetest dishes,
the richest wines, the softesl beds, cloy
the appetite, unless they are attained
with some difficulty only cloy
the appetite and fatigue the senses Of
him who can always procure them
There is infinitely more enjoyment in
that state in which relaxation is festive
~, in which the coarsest food has the
seasoning in this rests happiness.
Now, 10 that particular the poor man
has greatly the advantage over the
rich, who has no occasion aud is under
no obligation to labor.
He has certain stated periods after
short intervals, at which his enjoys
ments return /; and they are the sweet
er, that he has labored to procure
them. This is happiness that never
clogs, which brings along with il its
full measure of contentment, and
which does not distract its possessor,
either by multitude Of objects or by
unsubssantial hopes. A man born to
large fortune has his relish for en-
joymsnt corrupt from his infancy. He
has no restraints on his pursuits after
happiness, except those which convince
him, at the same time, that it is not to
be found. His extensive possessions
only diminish hope, without supplying
contentment. We ought, then, to deS
liberaie calmly and seriously, whether
it would add to our comforts to have
every wish of our hearts gratifed az
soon as it was formed.
Let Us consult our reason and expe-
rience. and say whether disappoint-
ment in some things, and expectations
in others, are not necessary ingredients
in human happiness. The more that
fortune places US above danger and
want, the less qualified are We TO en-
JOY her favors. Abundance may iu~
crease, but never can remove chagrin
or disappointment; it even makes them
intolerable in proportion as we might
have avoided them while the ease
with which we may command enjoys
ment, opens to US endless prospects Of
pleasure which We can never realize.
We were shown a few DAYS since
some patent horse shoes made at Troy
in machine. the invention of Mr..
Burden, the constructor of the steam
boat, which was unfortunately lost last
year on the North River. These shoes
are manufactured of wrought iron, and
the iron is put into one end of the ma
chine, and come out at the other end a
complete horse shoe, curved, regulated
and uniform. We understand the ma
chine throws off thirty in minute -
This invention cannot fail TO secure a
liberal recompense to Mr.. Burden, who
was SO great sufferer, in a pecIniary
point of view, by the loss of his boat.
In conversation with MIR. Burden,
the other day, he Informed US that a
boat on his plan was now building at
Troy, intended to run on the Farm-
ington, Hampden aud Hampshire Ca
nal, that she would be in operation in
the course OF a month or two. He has
received letters from gentlemen of sci-
ence in Paris, on the subject of hia
boat,-and one has beea constructed
on his model, to ply between Paris and
Rouen.-N. York GaS.s
Carrots for Butter.--Mr. Fessen-
den: We have been trying the effect Of
carrots for butter for several weeks
past, agreeabiy to suggestion in your
paper of January last. Our mode has
been to take four carrots of the Airing
ham kind, of about one and half in
ches in diameter, to cream enough 10
make ten pounds of butter, and after
washing them clean, to CRATE them and
cover them with new milk, and after
they have stood ten minutes to squeeze
them through cloth into the cream, g.
the effect has been to make the butter
come quicker, and give it the colour 81
sweetness Of May butter so sweet and
waxy has been the butter made in this
way, that those persons who have eats
en- it, could not believe they were eat
ing winter butter. We consider it tie
greatest Improvement we have ever
known in making butter at this season.