Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-01-21

! The orarm-hea,ted LrisLman is an expression
that has passed into proverb. The facts we are
about to relate, and which have just been commu-
nicaed to us illustrate very touchingly the truth of
the proverb
! We are informed upon reliable authority that
since the first day Of .Norcmber-when the distress
OF Ireland for lack of food too surely verified
more than eight hundred thousand dollars have been
RENTED in sums varying from S. $25 by Irish Ia
borers, men and women servants, and others tolng
tor their daily bread--to their suffering relatives in
Ireland.
| What fact is this and what volumes does it
speak in favor Of the strong affections and generous
hearts Of the Irish IN. Y. Courier.
The Newburyport Herald tells the following
Post Office anecdote
A rap at the delivery.
PosTMAsrER.-''Weil, my lad, what will you
have ?''
! BoY.--'Here's letter, and she wants to have
1t go along fast it can, cause there's Teller
wants to have her here, and she's courted by ano-
Her Teller what amt here, and she wants to know
whether he's goin' to have her or not.'
| Having delivered his message with great empha-
sis, the boy departed, leaving the Postmaster so
convulsed with laughter that he could make no re
/ ply.
! SHEEP.-Mr. CLAY, it appears, is paving more
attention to agriculture than to politics He has
I ID.
nal cost of which was twenty guineas per head
and which are represented to be so hardy that du-
ring forty-two days at they did not loose sin
! gle meal, and although the voyage was very rough
they landed in splendid order
AN ARTIFICIAL MAN.-The Memorial Borde-
! lais says, that near ST. Sewer there lives an old
soldier, with false leg, false arm. glass eve. a
complete set of false teeth, nose of silver covered
with substance resembling flesh and silver
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under Napoleon. and these are his trophies.
The rose is sweetest when it first opens, and the
spikenard roofs when the head dies. Beauty be-
longs to youth, and dies with it but the odor Of
plety survives death, and perfumes the tomb
A HARD GETTING TO BED.-The Scientific
American says that man in Orange county was
found one night climbing overshot wheel in 8
tuillng mill lie was asked what he was doing
He said he was Crying to go ND to bed but some
how or other the stairs wouldn't stand still"
GooD.-An eastern paper gives an account of tho
robbing Of dandy. His lodgings were robocd o.
pair Of stays, a smeling-bottle. two pair Of art
fetal eyebrows, and white surtout, in the peck
ct of which there were three ove-letters written Il
himself In his own hand writing.
The DANGERS OF PoI.rrIcs- Charles New.
man, clever shoemaker of New York. a few years
ago evinced talents beyond those ordinarily possess
cd IN MS stauon-became second-rate Iion-was
good public speaker-went into the under current
of politics-got a tri6ing offco-was ousted-be
came intemPerate-and last week died in thu
Tombs, New York, and was buried in Potters
Field.
} We look at the faults of others through mag
nifylng- glass our own generally remain impercep
! tibe to us, though they be easily seen with thu
naked eye.
Ep'gr0m '0ritten after going 10 Lar.
This law, they say great Natures chain Connects
nat causes ever must produce effects,
In me behold reversed great Natures laws
All my effects lost by a single cause
Coleman: the dramatist, was asked if he knew
Theodore Hook ?
yes" replied inc wit, "'Iiook and E,,c arc oil,