Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-11-28
. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
He who has refused 10 live a villain

a--,f IL WHERE is GOD. 10 o-
In the sun, the moon, the sky;
q On, the mountain, wild and high;
In the thunder, in the rain, .-~
In the grove, the wood, the plain,
81 In the little birds that sings; "
God is seem in every thing.
Ambition often puts men upon doing
the meanest offices. S" climbing is per-
formed in the same posture with creeping
Swift. ~, ....-- ..--. .....
1, THE sABBATH.-O! it is holy time!
Breathe in its influence, waiting heart
e.. and feel ~ v.rr. '. ..r,
Within thy lowest depths its mute appeal;
Solemn, resis,!ess, claiming passive tho't
In sacred silence. In The mind are wrought
Clear visions, grand, sublime,
brave man thinks no one his superior
who does him an injury; for he has it in
his power to make himself superior to the
other by forgiving it.-Pope.
cHlLDHooD's coNcE1T.
81 remember, | remember,
The pine trees, dark and high,
used to think their yellow tops
Were close against the sky,
1t was childish ignorance,
But now It's little Joy,
To know Pm farther off from heaven
Than when was a boy.''
common clvility to an impairment
fellow, often draws upon on one great
many unforeseen troubles and if one doth
not lake particular care, will be intepre-
ted by him as an overture Of friendship
and intimacy.
The reason why there are so few hap
Ply marriages, is because young ladies
spend most Of their time IN making nets,
not in making cages.-Swi(t.
The world is full Of SANDER; and every
wretch that knows himself unjust, charg,
es bis neighbor with like passions; and by
the general fraity hides his own.
lnconstant lovers are like looking glass
es, which receive all images and preserve
! none.
Atheists put on false courage and alac
r!ty in the midst Of their darkness anc
apprehensions, like children who, wher
they fear to 60 in the dark, will sing o
whistle to keep up their courage.
When i'll news comes too late 10 be ser
vlceablc to your neighbor, keep it to your
self.
The trouble occasioned by the want o
a servant, is SO much less than the plague
Of a bad one, as it is painful to clean {
pair Of shoes than undergo an excess OF
anger.
lie who has not a good memory, should
never take upon himself the trouble Of
lying.
Many have been ruined by their for
tunes; many have escaped ruin by the
want Of fortune To obtain it, the great
have become little, and the little have be.
come great.
1t is sweet to feel by what finely spun
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MARTIN misunderstanding thi:
once distinguished citizen Of Louisiana
whose death was lalel y announced, 'Nots
Behe,' in his late letter to The Concord;
lntelligencer, furnishes the following in
, leres,ing but painful particulars:
"AmonS the recent deaths here, no
, lice one that scarcely attracted passin;
J remark, yet he was man who twcnt,
years ago stood at the head Of society,"
MARTIN Durable. Born Of an innuen
tial aud affluent family in Attakapas, ex
tensivel y connected, augmenting his he
rcdetary fortune by successful inyes,
ments, married to daughter Of the Hon
HENRY CLAY, who was then at the zcnil
Of his popularity and power, Mr.. DuraId
was, on all sides, courled, consulted, an
carressed. But reverses overlook him
city property rapidly ran down; his wifi
died; his friends diminished with his for
tune, and at the commencement Of th
Mexican war, this man, once so rich, s.
popular, and so honored, found himsel G
bIiged, for subsistence, to follow out ma rel
with a few packages Of merchandise y
He recently embarked on a trading schoo
ner at Tampico, to return home Ths
deadly fever Of the coast swept off every
one Of the crew but a boy, and when thu
vessel, after beating about in the Gulf
finally made the bar of the river with ;
signal Of distress, the Captain was found
dead on pallet, and the unfortunate Du
ralde by his side in the last agonies, ane
no medicine, no water, and scarcely ra
ton Of food on board. What an illustra
ton of the vanity and vicissitudes o
| !ile!" sset ~ -a ~
OF The Messenger attached to thu
War Department at Washington, is ;
| wac of the first water A part of hi
business is to introduce strangers having
business at the war Office, to Secretar,
Marcy. On one occasion, wishing to SCI
I Gov. Marcy, and MOI finding him in hi
room, The messenger rushed up to clerk
and placing himself in a theatrical atti
tade, in the words Of Watts celebrated
4 hymn. exclaimed: s5i
/. "That Marcy, to others show,
"That Marcy show to me-"
This successful effort at parody wa
greeted with shouts Of laughter, in which
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