The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-20


from low birth to a high station, we honor the |
man who, from poverty has acquired wealth, from
ignorance learning, from habits of the lower or |
der, polish of manner either of them denote |
capacity of much higher order than he displays |
who remains IN the same station, through life, as
the one in which he was born. We have bad
memory, but we remember to have seen among |
our school boy readings, that one talented Eng
lish nobeman tainted another with having been
in early life a shoemaker. He who was thus
tainted, replied, Chad you, sir, been born shoe
maker, you would have been a shoemaker still"
The reply was worthy of man who had risen
from a low station, and its wisdom shows that
he knew how to support properly the honors he
had acquired. However, when we do see man
rise from nothing, we like to see him remember
what he has been. For instance, if he has been
accustomed to performing the arduous duties of
a clerk on a steamboat or clerk any where else,
he has been in the habit of waiting upon himself
and should he rise to wealth or to any distinction
it appears very absurd to affect that he does not
know any thing about the Iabors he once perform
ed for his bread and exhibit much affcctaton as
to require waiting on than dozen who
were born with silver spoons in their mouths and
slaves at their backs. We were lead to these
sage reflections by observing MIR. Flood, the new
Texan minister on his way home from Washing
ton. IT'S true a Texan charge daifairs is no
| great scratch. We would leave be public
grave digger in Otaheite as charge daffairs to
Texas, but it is station won under our govern
ment; won too by the mere of party slang,
and the holder of it has taken more airs upon
himself in consequence oft, than monkey
cocoa tree. He swells that his skin can scarce
" hold him, thums his vest, twirls his seals and
keeps big negro at his back to cut his tobacco
into chews and hold his head when he spits.
Gen. Harrison was well born, that is, he never
was compelled to dig rocks for a living until he
entered the army but when he became governor
of the Northwest, he never assumed half the airs
that poor little Geo. Fl. Flood has since his APP
pointment to the Texian mission We really
hope the young gentleman will learn little more
how to bear himself before we see him again, not
that we have any particular objection to his pre-
sent commanding airs, except that C it looks bad
in patent democrat" p Wheeling paper.
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HUBBUB-Hebou, in Arabic, signifies cloud
of dust, and hebttb the wind blowing about !;
hence the English word h1bbttb, the derivation
of which has puzzled Jonson, and all the lexico-
graphers so much.
GONG THE BIG FIGURE.--We overheard a
day or two since, the following classic CONVEX
sation concerning the statue of Dame Justice :
C. say Sam what's the meaning of that wo-
man upon the top of the court house and blind
folded at that 7"-FEWhy, you loafer," respond
ed the other, eeyou're ignorant as hoss-that's
Venus, the god of warn-Ohl that's it, is it.
well, that's what l call going the big figure, any
how p
| Novel ENLARGH:MENT.-An editor in Penn
sylyania lately announced to his subscribers
that he was going to enlarge his sheet. He got
married the week after.
Z PLURIBUs UNuM.-The New Orleans Pr
ayune states that young American, lat the table
of French family where they could not speak
a word of English, in despair of getting any
thing to eat, put out his plate and asked for
some &c E Pluribus Unum' 'Oui Monsieur
exclaimed the polite French lady, and she
served him with "gumbo."
LoAN.-We understand from the United States
Gazette that the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company have effected
large loan in Europe, sufficient to enable them
to pay all demands upon them and that their fl
nances are now in prosperous condition.
The BURNING MoUNTAIN.-Th Pottsville
Journal states, the burning Mountain, at the
head of the West Branch railroad, which at
tracted much attention last year, is still raging
even more furiously than ever. 1t has burned
out about 800 yards from its place of starting,
more freely afforded, it increases in intensity,
The water running from the mine is very hot,
and so strongly impregnated with alkaline sub,
stances as to have eaten off all the iron from the
railroad track
The Queen of England recently spent $50, 900
in attending Lady Lansdown's fete. At the
same time probably a million other subjects
in state bordering starvation. Oh, the
beauties of royalty.
The Carolina Beacon, published at Raleigh,
says that from one to none is the average number
of passengers in the STAGES from that place since