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SHORT PATENT SERMONS.

The word of my text, for this occa-
sion, are as lolowes:
OF the gamblers habits, dear friends beware
OF the gamblers fate be warned.
My dear heare rs--The devil-that SCI
entific fisherman after the souls Of silly
men and beautiful women-perhaps new
err baiied his hook with more attractive
vice than gambling-a bait at which
there is little or no milling, but always fair
bites and a sure catch 1t is a bait OF
which many Of our men gudgeons, ! &C.
knowledge, are apt to be shy at first; but
when they once get smell at it, down
it goes, and neither strength nor struggle
can extricate the hook from their glls.
They repent of their folly when they
find themselves dished; but when they
are once served up, repentance can avail
them nothing. Beware, my friends, ! OF
the habit Of gambling. 1t instils a poi
son into your souls, that will eventually
contaminate your characters and your
carcasseS, and render you loathsomo OBJ
jects Of corruption in the sight Of NOR
al and religious community-br .ngs a
gloom upon the past, pack Of trouble
upon the present, and darkens all the
bright prospects Of the future.
Young man--you juvenile wanderer a.
long the stained streets Of temptation
turn not into those dens of iniquity
where money and morals are sacrificed
at the throw Of a die, and the flames Of
dire dissipation are kindIed upon the
wreck Of virtue. Pursue the plain path
Of uprightness that lies open before you,
and win the respect Of all the world,
which is. worth as much more than the
tickle friendship Of a few blacklegs as
single share Of heaven is Of greater val
ue than mortgage on the whole OF the
internal regions. What can it profit you,
mortal, ifyou gain few dollars of your
brother gambler, and lose your own char.
acter, soul and shoes at last?-Remem-
Der thar while you stake your cash, you
also stake your reputation: and although
YOU win trihe upon the one hand, you
lose that upon the other which should be
dearer TO you than all the gold ever was
ted upon the temple Of Solomon. Be-
sides, gambling is almost sure to lead
YOU into habits oil intoxcalion, which you
are no more likely to shake of than a
dog is to ride himseIfof aeas by running
thro' bunch Of brambles. Although
YOU might swear--as | know many do
with the Bible in one hand and bottle
Of brandy in the other, that you would
turn from the error Of your ways. SIN
the unstruug nerves Of resolution would
so require recurrence to your Iormer
folIies as 10 induce you TO continue IN
your walks Of wickedness till you bring
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TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.

The locofocos Of the Tennessee Legis.
lature are playing most disgraceful
game, and one which will if the people
have any honesty left consign the actors
TO eternal nfamy. 1t is known to our
readers that the Senate is democratic by
majority Of one vote, there being thir-
teen democrats and twelve wings in that
body. The House is wing by majority
OF 5 or 4 votes. 1t has been the cus%
tom fromtle organization Of the State to
elect U. s. Senators by a Joint vote Of
both Houses assembled in convention for
that purpose. Acting in joint meeting j.
will be seen that the wings have ma
jority which would ensure the election Of
two Senators. To defeat this has been
the object Of the locofo party throughout
a now somewhat protracted session.
The Senate for long time yielded obs
dience to party drill, and refused to act
with the houses, but recently Mr.. Tur.
ney the President OF that body announ-
ced his determination to bring forward q
resolution naming day for joint ele-
ton, let the election result as it might,
for wings or locofocos. Accordingly he
introduced resolution, naming the End
inst, as the day for electing one Senator,
and the Sd for the remaining one. This
resolution passed the Senate with the aid
Of the movers vote, every wing voting
for, and the locofocos with the exception
of Mr. T. against it. 1t was sent TO the
House and concurred in Immediately.
The day upon which the joint resolution
was to take place arrived, and when the
President Of The Senate announced the
hour at which they were to meet the
House, the twelve wings with Mr. Turney
al their head repaired to the HALL Of the
House, but the twelve locofoco Senators
refused 10 Join them and remained in tho
Senate Chamber
II was commended that bare majority
OF the Senate was not quorum, and there
fore the convention was not properly or
ganzed. The sergeant at Arms was then
despatched for the absent members, but
soon returned with written answer sta
ting that they were in the Senate ready
10 transact any business. a motion was
made that Tile Senators retire tho Pres.
ident called the mover to order-tho
mover said he did not recognize that body
as convention, and moved to take up
The Tiduor bill Fhe President decided
that they could not 60 into an election
without quorum Of the Senate, but that
he convention might adjourn from day
10 day and send for the absent members.
Upon this decision a motion was made,
10 adjurn TO that evening, and while tho
motion was being put about twenty loco
foco members left the Hall avowing lhelV
not 10 vote
Thus stood matt era at tho last advicesl
ho inlamy Of the transaction cun neither
10 justified or palia,ed and il the people
81 Tennessee submit to this fragrant out.
age upon their rights, they are a set OF
asses who deserve 20 be rode 10 Perdilicn,
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A tight Sgueeze.-There lived in one
Of the mountain counties in the Western
Virginia, many Dutchmen and among
them ono named Henry Snyder and
there were likewise two brothers, called
George and Jake Fulwider, they were all
rich and owned a mill. Henry Synder
was subject 10 fits of arrangement, but
they were not Of such nature as to rem
der him disagreeabe to any one. He
merely conceived himself to be tho SUI
preme Ruler Of the Universe and while
under the nfatuation, had himself a
a throne built, on which he sat to try
the causes OF all who offended him, and
sent them off TO heaven or hell, as his
humor prompted -he personatlng both
Judge and culprit
Ii happened one day that some difficult
ty arose between Henry Snyder and the
FuIwiders, on account Of their mills -
when, TO be revenged Henry Synder TOOK
along with him book in which ne re-
corded his judgments and mounted his
throne 10 try their causes
Having prepared himself, acting as
Judge and yet responding for the accused,
he called on George Fulwlder. 49,,
Shorge Fulwider, stand up. What
has you been dom in dis lower world :"
"Oh Lord, does not know.
"Well, Shorge Fulwider, hasn't you
got a mill :
Yes Lord, has"
"Well, shorge Fulwldeb didn't you
never take too much toll Z"
"Yes, Lord, has--when der water
was low, and my stones wash dull take
a leetlc too much toll"
"WelI, den, Shorgo FuIwider, you
must 60 to der left, mid der goats"
"Shako Fulwider, now you stand up
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What you been doin in dis lower world2"
(The trial proceeded precisely like the
form.r, and with the same rbsult
Nov tries mineself, Henry Snyder!
Henry Snyder stand up. What hast
you been doing in dis lower world 7"
"Ah Lord does not know "
a" Well Henry Snyder, hasn't you got
mill ?"
" Yes Lord hash"
" We'll, Henry Snyder, didn't you re-
YER take take too much toll2"
" Yes, Lord, hash-when der water
was low, and mine stones was dull, take
leclle too much TOLL"
4" But Henry Snyder what did you do
wild the tol!"
"Oh Lord, gives il to the poor"
lPausng] "WelI, Henry Snyder, you
may go the RICH, mid der sheep but IL
is a tight Squeeze.n
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THE DROWNED CHILD

She sprang into the boat, grasped the
oar, and pushed off, The boat did not
move; she was compelled to use all her
strength, and to repeat the effort. The
boat rocked, and floated little from the
shore. On her left arm was the child; in
her left hand the book, in herright the oar;
she tottered with the motion and FELL
The oar dragged her towards one side
the boat, and, as she tried to recover her
self, the child and the book caused her to
fall towards the other, with the child in
the water,
She grasped the chid's clothes, but her
own position rendered it impossible for
her TO rise. Her right hand, now olsen
gagged, was not sufficient to enable her to
turn or stand up; at length she accom-
pli.hed it; she drew The child out of the
water, but his eyes were closed--he had
ceased to breathe,
At this moment her recollection return
ed, but the greater was her anguish. The
boat had drited almost into the middle Of
the lake, the oar had hoated far away,
she saw no one on the hore,--and what
would it have avaied her if she had cut
off from every thing, she foated on the
fathIess, painless element.
She sought help from herself. She had
often heard the means described Of res
toring those apparently drowned, and had
even witnessed their efficacy. She stripped
the child and dried il with her muslin
robe. She tore open her bosom, and for
the first time aidit bare to the heavens;
for the first time she pressed, as she hoped,
living creature to her pure, naked breast
Alas! it was not living!
The cold limbs of the unhappy babe
struck chill through her Utmost heart
Streams of tears gnshed from her eyes
and gave to the surface of the lileless
body an appearance of warmth and life
She would not give over. She wrapped
chafed, pressed and breathed on 1t, and
thus, and by tears and kisses, she felt as
| if she in some measure compensated for
the want of those succours which, in her
desoatc situation, were denied her.
All in vain! Motionless lay the child
upon her arm-motionless lay the
boat on the surface of the water. But
even now her sweet spirit left her not
utterly hopeless. She turned to the Hell
per above. She sank on her knees in the
boat, and raised her lifelcs babe with both
arms across her innocent breast, as white,
and, alas as cold as marble. With
fearful eyes she looked upward and called
for help from thence, where tender heart
hopes to find it in the greatest abundance,
when its need is the greatest.
And not in vain did she turn to the hea-
vens, whence already the stars began to
look forth. A soft breeze arose, and waf-
ted the boat close to the landing place at
the plane trees. Goethe.
ar, or, !. Isl-,ln LA LII Az,
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TOBACCO CHEWING.

The ST. Louis Gazette goes into call
culation 10 show the amount OF tobacco a
man chews in a lifetime. The Editor
says: Suppose tobacco chewer is adj
dicted to The habit 'of chewing tobacco
fifty years Of his life, each day Of that
time he consumes two inches Of solid
plugg, which amounts TO 6,375 feet, ma
king nearly one mile and a quarter in
length Of solid tobacco, half an inch thick
and two inches broad" He wants TO
know what young beginner would think
il he had the whole amount stretched
out before him, and he were told to chew
il up, would be one Of the exercises OF his
life, and also that it would tax his income
10 the amount Of So e95. We guess he
would think it pretty considerable job,
N. Y. En- Post
And in addition 10 this suppose he
could behold lake Of dark, Shiny juice
as wide and Jas deepas Lake Fri, and
were told in chewing up the mile and a
quarter Of tobacco, he would earnestly
spit or squirt out Of his mouth the same
quantity Of the like find; zoe guess he
would notundertake the job at all.
MAI. Int.
Sand in addition to this suppose he
were assured OF the decayed teeth, the
polluted breath the stained lips, thei be-
spotted ctavat, vest and bosom, that
would characterize him; and suppose ne
could see the church flour he would dehle,
the carpet he would soil; and be conscious
Of tho ire he would kindle among good
housekeepers, the disgust he would cause
among the younger Of the fair sex, and
the Inconvenience to which ne would sob
jec, himseIr: lce CUES if be did undertake
the Job he would be Fl candidate for
seat OH certain block used by old field
schoolmasters for the accommodation OF
their thick skulled pupils.
High. MesrH
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p o Il L II Y.
"Henee POETRY eralts

p o Il l. II Y.
"Hence Poetry Gratis
Her roies TO ages; and informs the page
VITA music, image, sentiment and thought,
Never to die! the treasures Of mankind!
Their highest honor, and their rusgt joy!
MACHINE POETRY.
! pillow, Isow,
reap, NOV,
Igiye my hogs their swill
| take horn,
shell my corn,
loaFY my sri'' to mill
My wife | love-
The gentle dove
My boys are fat and sassy;
My girls are fair,
Although their hair
Is carrotty and grassy.
owna COW,
A breeding SOW,
A dog, a cat, kitten
There's not q day
But slips away
As slick and smooth as a mitton;
/ eat, drink,
And never think
or care or pain or sorrow;
And what is more,
Than all before,
never trouble borrow
My hens and geese
Are fat as greese,
My turkey cocks smasher;
But declare;
There's my old mare,
You ought TO see me thrash her;
She'll leap and rear,
And kick in air,
Distracted, crazy, mad, Oh!
But when she strides,
Good Lord she slides,
And leaves behind shadow!
And there's my wife,
My Joy of life,
And bright as pewter platter
II just takes her
TO stamp and stir
And make the children scatter
Upon my soul,
Upon the whole
A happy man am;
Twill not swear,
But declare,
do not care d-m.
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''Henee Poetry Gratis
Her pOies TO ages and informs the page
With music, image, sentiment and thought,
Never to die! the treasures Of mankind,
Their highest honor, and their truest jOy,'
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-19
l.. ID. BARKER, Esq"
From The .NetC York Herald.

From, The .Netc York Herald.
THE BALL KEEPS ROLLING-ANOTHER
TREMENDOUS MEETING OF THE PEOPLE
TO SUSTAIN THE EXECUTIVE OF THE
UNION-THE OLD DEMOCRATIC EIGHTH
WARD WIDE AWAKE!
The friends of the President residing in the Sth
Ward turned out last evening in great strength to
approve of his democratic course, in rejecting the
mad schemes of the Clay wings. They met at the
old head quarters, 'Davs's Long Rooms" and that
immense Hall was filled to its utmost limits.
The resolutions decid dly democratic in their
tone, and each one was received with tremendous
applause and when the question put upon them,
they were adopted without dissenting voice. They
approve most heartily of the action of the President
and condemn in terms not to be misunderstood, the
whole course Of the ultra wings in their continued
attempts to thwart the wishes of the people, by for
cling upon the Executive schemes which they well
know he cannot approve This the most deci-
dedly democratic meeting that has yet been held F;
and il may in fact be dered the commencement
of a series of democratic meetings throughout the
country in favor of the President
There was ridiculous attempt made by a hand
full of unruy and dsorganizing indvi uas, TO impose
upon the meeting resolutions which had no connec
ton whatever with the case; but they greatly mis-
took the feeling that existed They put down
almost unanimously
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From the Hartford (Ct } Eagle.
IMPEACHMENT.

We would like to friend John NJ Bolts
carry his threat into execution and bring into Con
gress articles of impeachment against the President.
The spectacle would be novel and he circumstances
The trial of Warren Hastings before the Brl-
tish Parliament would furnish a faint precedent for
this most sublime scene. Mangum would of course
preside fit counterpart Of the Lord Chancellor of
England Bolts and Sanly would manage The cause
for the people, Burke and Sheridan managed the
Hastings pro ecu,on for the Crown. The thunder
ngs of Bolts would silence the echo of Burkes eln-
qucnce, and the women in the galleries would faint
and 90 into Mysteries at the sublime maledictons OF
StanIy
Or, take a more recent case-the trial OF Queen
Charlotte. What Brougham could be found to with
stand the powerful assaults of an Arnold on the
Chief Magistrate What legal decentralization
could Cushing build up around Mr.. Tyler TO with
stand the baterng ram of Truman Smith Alas /!
alas the thLea, OF Mr. Bolts is terrible Could no
he be bought of Cou not he be persuaded threat
cned or laitered away from his cruel purposes
The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-19
From the Bath (.Me.) Inquirer

This bill extended the laws in operation for the
collection of the revenue, and also had inserted In
its provisions clause repeating that part of the dis
trbution act, which prohibits any distribution when
the duties shall exceed twenty per cent This clause
was the Objectionable The Federalsts inserted
it, thinking that the President rather than defeat the
bill for extending the laws for collecting the rev.
enue, would swallow the whole dose, and thus sane
ton the distribution scheme, even at this period
when the Government was in want OF all the funds
it could command. They were willing to stop the
wheels of government, and leave it without any re-
laws, if they could not carry out their nquit-
distribution scheme. For this reason they post
poned the passage of this bill until the time
when the tariff laws EXPIRED and sent it to the Presi-
dent at this late hour, thus attempting to compel him
to sign it; whereby he would have been obliged to
the pledges he made when he signed the
distribution BILL to the conditions expressed on Its
face But they have been defeated, and let the
course of John Tyler be what it may as to other
questions, for tins act Of his, in nterposlng his Veto
save the country from the whitening effects of a
distribution of the proceeds of the public lands, let
him be praised He has done noble act and let
him have the merit Of it.
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Frem the Boston 1fme'
THE GREAT MR.. Bolts.

On Monday. in Congress, Mr. Bolts avowed mo
in ention, solitary and alone, by himself ana
assistance from anybody, of preferrng aricios ~ -
parchment against the President, for which he
ed to have the sole honor and the sole odlum' ~
sole honor he undoubtedly entitled to, ior no g.
in his senses would commit mad an act - "A
mourning any more odum, il is needless he WIZ INV
trouble enough In wiping of that already ao0u''
ed-Phu Ledger
Tremble freemen of America-the Constitution %
the United States is in danger-the late oil re-
dent who dares support that Constitution u III W
hands of one mana Bolts Is ia The hr'u po'S
really about prefer articles of impeachment
John Tyer, President Of these Uniied STATES
ha read the awful annunciaiion, nnd-we sui'Ise'
Mr. jtts states that he shall do this not WIN 'hs
counsel of the Wing party, bat unaided ana aIono'
solitary and fearless on his own single hook re-
olution is threatened-a Bots must prevent II, nc
do prevent the reign OF terror 10 Io oa'A
the tide of evil waT--to save the saneuty OF rem
syvania avenue from bcing desecraed by ten thoa-
sand bayonels"
When member of the House, in times ne 10y,
proposed the impeachment OF the painot Jeneison,
Mr. Clay started to his feet and exclaimed: Sir, me
gentleman soils the spot he stands upon J! when
Mr.. Bots proposed prescribing President iyer' iof
daring to sustain the Constitution there was no VOICE
heard TO hurl defiance and contempt IN his teeth
would have been fcutess waste of words, Tor Botts
has disgraced himself SO darkly aud deeply mat no
stain can deepen the dye that brands him. Let hih'
not think however TO escape the intamy that awaits
dasiardly and indef.nsible act. The hpger oil scoTn
will be pointed at hnl, not by one, but by millions oil
his ellow-c citizens. Andls IT me To this pass Gan
not have Grief Magistrate with sufficient energy
and honesty 10 carry ou' his patriotic views openly
and boldly, without his being assalled by hefee or
garchy, and mpeached by a thing like Butts lie
will soon discover, ii he knows II already, that me
lreemen of America regard the charter OF Their rights
with feeling of the roudest veneration, and that ne
who daes asso the Constitution through the per
; IN OF its Chief Magistrate, will encounter storm
of Indignation that will 90 up Ike war-cry from
every part OF the Republic, and overwhem the author
OF the reasonable plot
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From The Baltimore Republican.
TIE TRUE TEST.

If Mr. - had been appointed to the Post Office
MIR - to the Collect rship and Mr.. - TO tie
Nary Agency should we have witnessed any such
boiling over of their patriotism, and outpouring If
their abuse Of Pesdeut Tyler they treated the pub
lie with in their address "ro the Voters of old Mary
land" published in the Patriot and American of last
week Mo- And if those who trere appointed had
not been wouldn Mt their have been signed TO m
Yes
And these arc the men who would have the people
put themselves under their command To be mustered
and parad,d and drilled and used for their purposes
to get Themselves Fat offices make them Collectors
Nary Agents PostmdSters, &c, &c, with salaries of
thousandsaI under the pretenee that their sole OBJ
ject is the PEoPLEs good and get for the aboring
man roast beef and two dollars a day !" If those
who were humbugged before by these very gen.
worse than they have received In 1910, these lead
elections and so ite for them after they get into
Q6Ice) assured the people that nnihlng would bring
matters right Tut Bank Qfhe United States. Now,
since the People won't listen to any thing in favor Of
a Bank these disinieresfed eaders-who must always
have some grand panacea for the relief of 'the dear
dear people declare nothing will bling about gene
raj prosperity aud give the aborng (eyery thing
is done by them only for the "idboring MANI "tico
dol ars day and roast beef" unless Congress pass
high TARIFF. Last time, Bank was TO regulate
the currency" Now, nothing will do II but Ia
rif High Tariffs, in England, have brought mil
ons to starvation, and as many more To living a
patato or two day. They have made the poor poor
cr and the rich richer They will do the same in this
country.
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From the Southern Patriot.
IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT.

Regarding MIR. Bolts threat of impeaching the Pre-
sident ehuson of personal spleen, it would, if
imbodied in resolutions and submitted to vote, begin
and end with the proposer. There is no respectable
body Of party men who would sustain proposition
that would cast ridcuIe on them, and if pushed out
in practice react in favor of the party impeached to
their mi Try. 1t would be the means of rallying
numbers from force of sympathy and hatred of per-
secuon, to the support of the President, who now
stand aloof watching the progress # events. The
engine of impeachment is formidable one in the
hands of reckless and triumphant majority in Con-
gress. But must be welded with great caution or
will, if it fail from insufficient grounds, overwhem
in ruin the authors instead Of the object OF lmpeach
ment. The notice of Impeachment Is, therefore,
either an idle menace indicative OF party reckless
ness. We have hesitation in assigning 1t the for
mer character.
We will give proof anon.