Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-07-14
" None but the brave,
None but the brave,
None but the brave,
Deserve such fair"

The son Of B0nnerhasset, the colleague Of
Barr in his treason, is said IN the New York pa
pers TO be an idiot, who may be seen any day
walking in Broadway with cake /. gingerbread
in his haud from which circumstance, The name
| of the "aingcrbread man. has becen conferred up.
| on HIM.
"lou look good deal like brother Of mine
the hogs eat up" said passer by, to drunken
son Of the Emerald Isle, as he waIlowed in the
gutter. "Then, BY Jasus, it's pity they didn't
ate the whole family up," was the quick reply.
| A western editor says he has tried il both ways
and has come 10 the deliberate conclusion, that
the single life is tho most easy, but married one
the most happy. So Adam thought "a long time
ago"
A GRAND ANNoUNcnENT.-Som time since
| a person in the neighboIhood Of Keswick, having
several hives Of bees to dispose Of, and being des,
irous TO attract purchasers, caused placard TO be
| printed, announcing the sale with the following
extraordinary head lines. "EXtensve sale Of
| live stock, comprising not less than one hundred
| thousand, with an unlimited right Of pasturage!'
| The trick succeeded to admiration.
The editors Of newspapers in Mobile have a.
dopied rules and regulations for their governments;
and formed a scale Of prices, to which they have
mutually agreed The remarks Of the editor Of
| the Mobile Chronicle are applicable to all the
| fraternity, that we cannot fail adopting them.
"Time has demonstrated to US the necessity
Of devisng some means by which to remedy the
evils entaed upon editors, by the loose system of
credit which has been extended by them to their
subscribers and other patrons. We have unan-
mously come to the conclusion that we do not to
work for nothing. Editors have been too long
considered as public servants, TO be paid or not,
as suits the caprice those who impose their bur-
thens upon them. II a paper is worth having 1t is
worth paying for, and those who do not pay can
not have our papers. Many of our subscribers
are punctual and attentive; others long in arrears,
quietly receive the result Of years of labor, and
then leave the country where they reside, whilst
| the Postmaster is left to notice US of the iact.D
Man h,mself is the author Of most Of his mfr.
mites, and Of them the greater number originate
purely in mealal OF moral causes. Ii would be
absurd TO suppose that many diseases, and deaths
too, should not arise from causes beyound the
control Of man; but his own pursuits and habits
in life lay the foundation Of by far the greaest
portion.
puncual man is rarely very poor man, and
never man oi doubtful credit. Ills small ac-
counts are frequently settled, and be never meets
with difficulty IN raising money topay large de-
mands. Small debts neglected, rum credit and
when man has lost that he will find himself al
the bottom Of hill that he canno! ascend.
Borrowing Newspapers. are persons
(says the Wheeling Times,) and always have
been since newspapers were first published, who
never took papers though they are abundanlly
able. BY so dong they delraud the printer, rem
der his life harder than II would be if they gave
him proper support and by so dong prevent him
from giving to his paper THAI attention and impair
ting TO it that interest it might possess.--Ihey
are also complete gadfes, and all sorts Of bad
things to those who do subscribe for them. Ii
Is rather an ungenteel thing 70 borrow your neigh
boris shirt. is equally SO 10 borrow his news
paper.
British Rail Roads.-In the course Of three
years, l,5O0 miles Of railway will have been
constructed in England alone; and calculating
the average cost at R2U,00O per mile, thirty mil
lion sterling will have been expended upon them.
In connexon with this subject, we learn from
an English paper that in one week orders had
been given out Tor $4,000 tons iron rails,--I0,-
o0Otor export 10 America, and 1900 tons for
consumption At homo, and hal several oihsl
very extensive orders are about 10 be gwen for
iron rails and chains for railways now forming
N that country.