The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-09

GEr our % Dssr.-Readsr, If you owe any one,
pay him Immediately, II you can. II you cant go 70
work dig, delvs, work night and day until you got
out OF debt DO any thing that is honest and honor
able SO that you say, ' person, no. no' sven
the Printer DO this and your conscience WIZ DC
easy and your sleep sweet
EMPLOYMENT or TIaE-Life may be eked OUT
with pleasure but IL must be mainly filled up by ousi-
ness and he who should persevoTo IN The sain at
tempt to oil up his time with amusemen's would l,en
find il late to take up any serious pursuit. ana DC
compelled TO drag on miserable existence, haunted
by the ghosts OF his defunct pleasures, IN the shaPe
of ennuI, rcstlessncss, and melancholy
THE PRoGREss OF LIrERArURE-An analysis OF
the subjects of works published in England during the
past year, exhibits the following proportions me
oogy, and religious works generally, GOA history
Biography, and Geology, 1876 Geography, voyages
ard travels, 2l2; Natural Sciences, l57 Medicine,
l42; Jurisprudence, 80; Poetry and the Fine Arts,
Architecture, 800; Classics, Logic, Dictionaries,
Education, &c, 220 Miscellaneous, 273i Fiction,
500; Political, I5o.
FRoFAsiTY!-lt was stated by Rev DR.. Baird, IN
one of his recent lectures says the Salem Gazette,
the result of his observation, that pfoiane language
is generally used by Englshmen and Ameri-
cans, than by any other nation. This Is Tact that
ought TO make deep impression upon the pubic
mind. II, as nation, take the lead IN profanity,
a corrective public sentiment should be formed as
possible, to the young from its perncious
influence We think there is much less proiane
language used now, than there was at the close oil
the last warbut very much, IN this respect remains
to be reformed Profanity IS as vulgar as II is sinful
The Hon. Daniel w ebster arrived here from the
East yesterday and has rooms at Congress Hall. lie
is engaged an important suit now pending In The
Court of Chancery. albany Evening Journal.
Somebody who writes more tt hfulIy Than poeti-
- IN hA
thought half much of nowadays as devil with
bag full OF suineas.
Twelve hundred and ten new buildings have been
erected in the city of New York during the last year.
Of which the 10th ward has the largest number
"Star Of Freedom" Liberty paper, in Niles, Michi-
gan. A contemporary quietly asks - who does her
knitting and sewing"
A new locomotive, called the Mercury, weighing
seventeen tons, has been placed on the Worcester
railway.
PIrHY LINE.-The "Woonsocket Patriot"
heads its advertising department with this pithy line
II is full of good practical sense -" Here plant your
dimes and pluck your dollars"
NATIvIsm IN PIrrsBURG.-An election for an over
Of the poor was held at Plttsburg on Thursday
last, Tor which office one of their strongest
brought out. Their total vote was S5-nearly 200
less than they poIled tor Mayor last January.
A gentleman having horse that started and broke
his wifes neck, a neighboring squire told him he
wished to buy II for has toite to ride upon No."
said the other will not sell i'll intend 10 marry
Ogan myself"
imprisonment for debt unaccompanied by fraud, or
for militia fine in time of peace, is prohibited in the
Constitution recently framed for Iowa.
ERIE CAsAL.-At a meeting of boatmen recently
held a, Syracuse, for the purpose of establishing the
prices OF freight and passage Tor The coming season,
it was resolved that the price of passage including
board, be IL cents per mile, or l cent per mile
without board, and that the price of freight be 10
cents per 100 lbs. for 100 miles-.Neto York Journal
Of Commerce.
COLLECTOR or PROVIDENCE, K. I've learn this
morning that General Carpenter has declined accept
ing the office of Collector of this port rendered him
by President Polk and the Senate and that the Hon.
Hezekah Willard has received the appointment in
his stead. Mr.. Willard is good Democrat a good
man, and will make good Collector Providence
Gazette.
A Western paper states that Wolf river, which
has its the Upper Wisconsin, and is dis.
charging into Wnnebago Lake, is proved to be navl.
gable. The little steamboat Manchester which
plies on WiDDebago Lake, recently assembled Wolf
river some 200 miles from its mouth. The Embar.
ras, branch of the Wolf is also said to be naviga-
BILE.
BUSINESS IN PBLADELPHIA.--Business, SAYS the
Times, was never So brisk before in Philadelp hia-
The wharves the Streets and the are full of
business. Every man seems engaged in making mo.
ney, and glorious prospect Of prosperity is before us.
DEATH OF Ma. CoLEmAN.--The New York Ex-
press announces the death of Mr.. Coleman, the IN
vrner Of he celebrated nonn attachment to the pa.
no forte lie died suddenly at his residence in Sara
toga on Saturday evening.
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man who procured his freedom in Virginia and now
resides In Connecticut, being very DESTROYS to procure
the liberty of daughter whom he left behind col
lected the sum demanded for her, but when the Girl
was informed OF the transaction and that she might
join her father and be free, she refused the offer.
Iron ore, cinders OF iron placed around the
roots of pear trees has lately been found to prevent
the blight, which IS caused by worm, the eggs of
which deposited in the branches by small insect
Trees placed in wet places subject to blight they
should be placed on rolling land, where the water can
run of freely
Tbs New JERSEY LEGISLATURE adjourned sine III,
on Friday The bill to re-annex Camden county was
postponed in the Senate till session by vote of
10 TO 7. The Senate confirmed the following nom.
nations of the Governor: Justice of the Supreme
Court, James s. Nevius; Secretary of State Charles
G. M'Chesney; Clerk in Cbancery Samuel R. Gum.
mere The above appointments to take efFec, in No
vember next, when their present term. expire
Prosecutor of Middlesex, John Van Dyke do of
Somerset, George Fl. Brown Che having first resign
ed as Senate do. of Salem, VIM CIawson; do of
Atlantic, Wm. Clawson; do. of the borough of Elz.
abeth, 1, II. Williamson.
OCEAN STEAMsHIr.--It is stated that several emf
nent capitalists of Boston are now building large
ocean steamship in that city, to be one of line to run
between New York and Liverpool. This steamer il ia
said, will be eighteen hundred tons in size and ia to
be finished on the 4th July next, and ready to take
the first mail contract under the new Pos-ofice law
Iron observation-disclosures TO OREGoN "A Com.
pany with the required capital has been formed at last
to work the great lion Mountains in Missouri The
quantity of ore in the mountains would supply the
civilized world with iron and steel for millions of wears
The quality the ore equal to the very best With
the necessary capital to grade the road bed get on, the
superstructuIe and roll the II mil nl the mammalian