Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-04-26
From the U. s. Gazette.
The Want of Money.
"The climax of all earthly ills:

The inflammation of our unpaid bills"
Ofall the wants .ha, torment humanity in this
wanting world, the want of money is the hardest
borne, Notwithstanding the adage, ,ha. practice.
makes perfect" Ii seems TO be pretty conclu-
sively proven, ha. this cropping after happiness,
which makes this universal struggle in the
world, is like looking for needle in hay
stack, or the search for the philosophers stone,
or The quadraiure Of the circle. We that have
no money, find that we can have no happiness
without it. Those that have it find that they
can have none with it. We are always ready
10 exclaim
:" "Will fortune never come with both hands full
And write her fair words still in foulest letters
She either gives stomach, and no food, =
Such are the poor in health; or else feast,
And takes away the stomach- such are the rich
That have abundance and enjoy it not"
But this is very feeble consolation to the power
ty stricken, who always fater themselves that,
had they funds, they would asionish the world
BY the good use they would put them to. One
would think, from the general grumbIing about
empty pockets, that there was now a-days pre-
cious llllle money left in This part of the world,
aad that destituiion was about to be the fate Of
every body. Yet things go on as usual. There
seems 10 be Just as much luxury and extrava-
gance as ever; just as many good dinners
eaten; just as many fine dresses worn-balls
and parties are no more uncommon than they
used 10 be, and some favored few lide about
| in their handsome carriages with just as much
non-chalancc as if they could afford il as well
as formerly. And these very people who riol
in all The comforts and superHuities of life, are
oftenest those who entertain their friends with
wolul accounts of the fall of inieres, and the
difficulty of finding investments for cash, with
terrible details of hardness of the times, of
arrears and diminished incomes.
Il is a singular characteristic of man, that
he takes pleasure in the contemplation of his
miseres. He likes 10 sci them forth TO show
to some attentive listener, and il cannot fail 10
be observed that those who are the Ieadiesl 10
hearken to these ptiiul tales, are always popu-
lar with their suffering friends. Sometimes
every amiabie rivalry displays itself between
two friends, enumerating TO each other their re-
speciire mlshaps, and one relates his haz-
ardous experiences, it quickens in the other The
recollection OF many terrible event ID his
pasi life, which if il had not been for this con-
versasioa he might have totally forgotten. We
have lately encountered summary OF the mis-
cries attendant upon the want of money, made
lup with SO much feeling and skill as could
only be taught by experience. Il will be read
with interest, by great many. for The very
reason we have mentioned above, that people
like 10 be told of their miseries Hazlilt is the
writer of it.
sit is among the miseries Of the want OF
money mol to be able TO pay your reckoning al
an inn -or, if you have just enough TO do that.
TO have nothing left for The waiter Ito he