Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-05-02


bills while their employers are present,
and even then the hand is often still, and
the eyes shut over the day book, while
the mind is running riot over the wild in'
toxicating scenes they have Witnessed in
The opera or play house, the night pre-
vious in their sleep they talk and dream
of nothing else. and at their desks they
are still haunted by the same delusion.
Twenty years ago there was no thea.
ire in Rochester; they were then quiz
Ell, steady, sobersided fraternity of wheat
-four grinders. There started from New
York a company of players, they stop
ped at Albany to scratch up what they
could catch; lit was precious littie) they
pushed through the canal with their ket-
tle-drums and fiddle.siicks, their bass
drums and claronetts. their supernumer-
numeraries and door-keepers females
and boale-holders, broom .sweepers, and
candle-snuffers-a molly group they
entered the town like Death on pale
horse, and all hell followed after-and
what is Rochester now? But to draw
to close, Gas brother Miller said, after
a two hours lecture on the propriety of
burning the world last St. Patrick's day.)
would only remark, that Cor the three
years just gone by, theatricals are GET
ting every day in less repute. There is
one reason for this, as / think, viz : the
cheapness Of books. Young men are
struck when they see book that former.
ly used to sell for $500, now advertised
for 25 cents-the title attracts them. they
they can purchase as many for what they
formerly paid for pIay.ticket, as will
keep them reading at night for month:
thus the charm of the thea.er is broken ;
the infatuation dispeled ne has time to
think he has CHANGED on Astronomy.
the sublimest of all earthly Sciences
the more he reads the more he admires
the wisdom and power Of GoD he now
looks back with regret on the time and
money he has spent for nothing,and worse
than nothing, and vanity he sees he has
q part of his own to perform among his
fellows, and having buckled on his armor,
is resolved to play his part like a man.
BETTER TIMEs.--"The Wings prom
ised better times" say the Locofocos,
if they obtained the ascendency." Well,
we did and we have better times, aliho'
we succeeded in carrying the single meas
ure of the Taft alone. If so much relief
results to the country from one Wing
happy condition would we
now have been in, had it not been for the
treachery Of John Tylerl Bless Us, there
would not have been whig or Locofoco
in the whole land, who, if he could whis-
tie at all, would not have wnistled "Hail
Columbia before breakfast, and yankee
Doodle" before be went tobed. War Club
LoCoFoco1sM.- One peculiar trait 10 the
character of genuing Locofoco, is the
readiness TO follor in the track his leader
designates. They have a Magnus A.
polio, and they ali follow him, with as
much pertinacity, as a flock Of sheep
does its s.bell wether." No matter how
the measure proposed, if
the magic lance points in its favor, it's
enough; the whole army of Locofocos
throw up their caps and shout hosannahs
to it. No! word could you hear from
a Locofoco in favor of annexation until
afer Andrew Jackson's leieer came along
this way. Ii had marvellous effect
The small fry leaders took it for granted
there was ia kink in the pigs TAIL" which
,hev did not understand; but it was suf-'
ficent tor them that Gen, jackson was in
favor of the measure. Those men boast
of Democracyt--and one man to lead
them wherever he pleascs. If this does
not look like the one man power, we do
not know what does.--Wdr Club.
A bill has been peading in the New
York Assembly, 10 alter the charter of
the Utica and Scheaectada Railroad. SO
as to permit the transportation of freight.
II has finally been lost bv close vote,
yeas 81 noes 81. not two thirds which
was requisite. Our readers will recol-