Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-04-01
ADVANTAGES OF LABOR.

ADVANTAGES OF LABOR.
The life of every man is filled I'D with
a mixture of good and evil. No one is
perfectly happy-Eo one is entirely
wretched. For wise purposes it is or
dained that all shall taste in some manner
both the bitter and the sweet, The ne
cessity of labor which has been imposed
upon nearly all mankind, is too often con-
sidered an evil. 1t is not so. We are
never more mistaken than when we de-
sire 10 be relieved from it, or when we
look upon it as source of misery. If
we would select one man who is more
wretched than another, let US take him
who has nothing TO do but to seek his own
pleasure. We shall soon find that time
hangs heavy on his hands; that every
thing (which the world calls pleasure is
InsIpld to him, and that his life is burden
some. He has never accomplished any,
thing that he can look back upon with
satisfaction, and he becomes dispeased
with himself and all the world beside
1t is not SO with the laboring man. While
he submits to toll he sees its results with
keen qualification; he looks with a kind
OF emulation upon the productions Of his
skill and the workmanship of his own
hands; he alone can enjoy whatever OF
real pleasure there may be in the posses.
sion OF wealth, because he knows how it
has been acquired, and has seen it eradu-
ally accumulating by his own efforts. In
truth every thing noble and digni6ed in
men springs from this sterh necessity of
labor:ng to sustain life. But for this our
animal natures would wholly overcome
the Intellectual, and sink us on a level
with the brutes. 1t is the conflict with
difficulty, the struggles to which we are
daily driven, which quicken our genius,
extend our knowledge, enlarge our minds,
and call forth all our energies.
No where upon earth can we look for
happiness and excellence, if not in some
useful occupation. This great truth has
been too much neglected, and almost for
gotten during the period when men have
been striving to get rich by every other
means except productive labor. The con-
sequences are now apparent in the mise
ry and crimes with which many portions
of our fair land are afflicted. But men
will finally learn where their error has
been, and we shall redeem ourselves bya
voluntary and cheerful submission to all
the wise and immutable laws of nature.
We shall learn to love labor, if not for its
own sake, for the rewards which it brings
and the happiness which it bestows. And
above all other miseries we shall desire
| to be delivered from that of idleness.
Fatal SH1PwREcK.-The Gloucester
Telegraph says of the wreck of the
schooner Prospect. Murdoch, of New
buryport, which was lost on Squam bar
IN the lth inst. that no one was saved
but the Captain. The names of the per-
sons who persisted are David Norris,
David Smith, Andrew Pickering and. John
Willard.
If a life-boot had been stationed there.
they could all have been taken from the
wreck.-Mer Jour.
TURKISH HOSPITALS. An Italian ply
stefan, DR.. Ansaldi, has been authorised
to reform all the hospitals in CONSTANT
nople; and letter from another Italian
physician, now 10 the Turkish capital, Dr.
Castellana. gives a very gratifying ac-
count of his success there, particularly de-
scribing the present state of the military
Hospital at Scutari. We subjon few
extracts -" Six hundred beds are provid-
ed for six hundred patients Dr. Ansal- |
di has wisely caused windows to open
near the floor, that all mephitic eff1uvia
may quickly escape. All the wards are
provided with English stoves, and car
pets for winter. The service of the hos
pital Is performed by Turks and Armeni-
aus; they are in great numbers. well
taught, and discharge their duties diligent-
ly and intelligently The stores of phar-
macy are extraordinarily rich. Men in
easy circumstances, Franks and Europe
ans. have desired Abundance TO this hos !
pltal. and been well treated there. Those
who have died have been allowed the at !
tendance of Christian priests. We were
shown statement of annual admissions
and discharges, and could hardly trust
our eyes when We saw, that, out of 3,7Ool
admissions during the last year, there
were only l27 deaths To guard agains,
the ever-recurr;ng malignant fevers and
plague, two guarantees are annexed TO
the hospital, in each of which new pa
tlents pass twentv-four hours, and then
day in the hall of observation, before they
are admitted into the common ward-and
this in Professionalism Turkey"
From the New-York Eyangelst