Piney Woods planter., 1839-05-18

"I hate 10 hear people talk behind ones
back" as the robber said ven the consta
bic was chasing him and crying Out "stoF
thief"
Never owe your tailor, your shoemaker
your blacksmith, your merchant or your
laborer, and keep as square with the prin-
ter and your Maker as circumstances will
permit.
The man who pretends to know what he
is profoundly ignorant Of, never gets Gre
dit for knowing any thing.
Lord Bacon somewhere remarked, that
reading makes full man, speaking rea'
dy one, but writing correct one.
A FINE SENTIMENTAL beautiful wo-
man, said an ancient philosopher, is per-
petaa' hymn to Che Deity.
Useful knowledge can have no enemies
except the ignorant; it cherishes youth,
delights the aged, is an ornament in pros
perity, and yields comfort in adversely.
The You've QUEEN.-An English paper
states that young lady named Miss Da-
w, was lately slapped across the face, by
Queen Victoria-thc cause was, she was
twirling her eye-glass, and touched her
Maiesty's shoulder.
Lawyers find fees in the faults Of our
nature; Just as woodpeckers get their
worms out of rotten parts of trees.
AS the snow-drop comes amid snow and
sleet appearing us the herald of the rose
so religion comes amid the blight of af1ec-
ton, to remind us of perpetual summer
where the bright sun never retires behind
wihtry cloud.
NECESSITY OF REPETITIoN.-"T re-
MEMBER said the celebrated Wesly,
"hearing my father say to my mother,
'How could you have the patience to tell
that blockhead the same thing twenty
times over9' 'Why,' said she, 'if | had
told him but nineteen times, should have
lost all my labor"
TRUTm AND ERROR is one,"
saws a beautiful writer. est never con-
tradicts itself. One truth cannot con-
tradict another truth. Hence truth is a
bond of union. Men agree in sustaining
it. The common mind asertS and rever-
ses it. But error not only contradicts
truth, but may contradict itselE-Thus
there may by many errors; and each al
varlence with the rest. Truth is there
fore of necessity an element of hafmohy; /;
is necessarily an element of discord." !"
Hence the difference between Democra-
cy and Federalism; the oae is founded in
truth, the other in error.-Troy Budget.
LoGIC.A-''How is it, said one to an in
cipient wag few days since, "I1dw Is it
that homely women have the clearest
headsf" "Why (said he) it is according
to the rule laid down by st. Paul, to the
pure all things are pure, even so TO the
plain all things are plain"
s'Thunder," observes Sir John Herschel,
''can scarcely ever be heard more than
20 or 80 miles from the flash which pro-
duces it.--Lighthing, on the other hand,
may be seen (or at least its reflection in
the clouds, forming what is called sheet
lightning) at the distance of lb0 or 200
miles,"
Horne Tooke, was at dinner party,
and among the company were Sheridan
and Curran, and Tooke was asked what
he thought of their wit: "That of the
former" said he, sis like polished steel,
ever ready to use, while that Of the latter
may be compared to mine of gold crumb-
ling away by its richness and superiority
Loco Focos--Say what you will about
the Loco Fooos, there is no people exist
ing, that are able to sdrpass them in pa
triotism, good character, &c. They al
ways have the windward of the Wings in
every thing where doctrine is concerned,
and are sure to beat them at the elections.
Boston Post.
DIR. Samuel Thompson, the founder OF
the Thompsonian Theory of Medicine,
was found guilty a few days since, OF a
libel on one of his disciples in Boston.
QUESTION AND ANswER.-'Why have
we SO small an amount of specie in circu-
lation?" Burke has answered the ques-
ton forty-two years ago. Tell Mr.. Pitt,
said he, 'if he consents to the issuing OF
one pound notes, he must never expect to
see guinea again.
"IHe Paul Pry,"-This is the name OF
paper published in New York, devoted
to the theatre, exhibitions, &c.
COMMERCIAL PRosPECTs.-The New
York Herald of the 10Th inst. in alluding
to the news received by the steam ship
Great Western. speaks with great con-
fidence in relation to the commercial
prospects of the country. We hope that
his prophecies may turn out to be true: if
they do, our whole country will soon be
relieved from her commercial and fnan-
cial embarrassments. Bennett says.
"On the whole, the news from England
is highly satisfactory, and such is the
opinion of every intelligent person in
WILL airnnI vThn oEfncf 10 nlrond.- -.