Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-02-06

the panacea of many ills, money, is com
ing IN, while temper is gong out, and il
4 they miss OF an average share Of happi-
ness, II is because the Boss aspires TO,
and secures a seat, 10 the Assembly,
where he diligently assists IN planning
down opinions that have essentially con-
iribuied TO his elevation.
And this is life
There is the rich sleeping partner
| His sleepiness 60 abroad TO air his other
faculties, and get awake--iravels every
where but into counting houses--he
knows Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool,
and Lyons as matters of history, and
LouGon, Paris and Naples as matters of
TACT perhaps he carres winning card,
10 the shape of wife, who by sweet
presence and voluble discourse, secures
for them Ambsssadorial leltrs, presen-
tstions at Court. and whatever else their
ingenuity may devise. Having contract
ID a heavy load OF European reminis-
cenees, they come home and tip up; bot
tive monotonous humdrum OF American
life soon become insipld, and off lhey go
to be again mere spectators Of stars and
gar.ers in the elder world. Whilst re.
pcatlng this delicious experiment, letter
marked private" comes from the Anne
rican firm premonllory OF coming III, and
arrest the enjoym, nj of their carnival
Ere long, they find themselves upon the
pillows both real and imaginary, not know.
ing what may befal them.
And this is life
Theie is the very close, shrewd man,
who is viewed by his iownsmen as a sort
of waking razor--edge never duli-rare-
ly offers his arm, unless 10 a stranger,
and can scent an applicant for loan, the
leHglh of Wall street. In his domicile
you may remark design--all concuiing
and subservient to one end, self-sn3 it
Is fortunate if his children do not prove to
be little race OF penknives. The daily
| torment Of this man is the fear OF being
overfeached and dying of broken heart.
| And this is life
There is the fortunate unfortunate, the
man who, when his last creditor signed
off, rose 10 Imagination like a rocket; a
million are IN prospect, and prospects
enough for 9 milton. Conquer or die"
Was the motto, and he did die, and made
no sign"
And this is life!
There is the man of great pretensons,
whom 10 buy al his own price, would beg
gar an Astor- behind his chair and car
rage servants wait; very respectable
man, that nobody respects; inwsrds, how
| full OF pieiy 10 actions, how inexorable;
has an aI.abounding appetite for great
agencies, and through them becomes a
sort of dictator 10 importers and jobbrrs !;
his notion OF equity IL defined by SeIden's
remsik taco riding to the SIZE of the
Councillors foot" liz setting family es
tate, he would be more erecutioner than
executor; if he should ever die, slate
and pencil would be an appropriate EN-
blem on his grave stone.
And this is life.
There is the Port, fearfully and won
drrlully made, sometimes. Life, hanging
in iestoons of richest flowers all about
him, and his aspirations part,kIng of their
hue ; to him the true and beautiful seem
always approaching but never arrived !;
he wnfks day and night in Constructing u
monum' nj 10 the muses., and though sum
mVned, they come not to lis constructions;
he signs over the apathy and insensibllty
OF his ttilownen, unit Uant turns his
choice tIelcon into bitlers, or forces hun
at last to sake his thirst from fountain
OF common "Croton." Ga this fare he
thrives. and soon mares into the cxten-
sive family Of the Magazines, aud hns a
very respectable progeny OF essays; he
succeeds in walking the earth like other
people, only nov and then mourning over
the decline of poetry, particularly his
own.
And this 10 life!
| will say nothing OF the man Of much
money large wisdom. and entire good