The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-08-10

To moulder away in the dust:
Oh had it lived longer,
1t might have been strongeg
And died somewhat older, we trust
Had it grown up 10 cat-hood
Then many rat would
Have mourned in the deepest Of woi
Let the curtain be drawp to,
We hope it has gone 10
That land to which other cats 60.
Talking of riding in a hearse puts us id
mind of poor M'Donald Clarke, whose priva.
tions during life, and monument after death
at Greenwood, realize the saying:
He asked for bread and received sione.'
Mrs. Child has a new work in press, OF
nearly ready, on the history and theory of re.
ligion in all ages
What are a nations possessions! The
great words that have been said in it: the
great deeds that have been done in it.
A man never utters anything without ef.
ror. He may think of 1t rightly; but he cam
not bring it out rightly. Itturns q little false,
as it were, when it quits the brain and comes
into life.
There are living Eve hundred and twenty
British officers who were at the Battle Of
Waterloo.
Amos Tuck, the Free Soil Congressman
from New Hampshire, is about to sail for Eu.
rope, to attend the great Peace Congress id
Paris in August next.
Charlotte Cushman, after residence id
England of five years, is about to return I'd
the United States, only for short time. shd
is to be accompanied by her friend, Miss
Hays, the novelist.
1t IS stated that the British Government
have laid down a rule that no person aged
above fifty can be appointed to any vacant
Government Office.
The reason why so few marriages are hap.
py, is because young ladies spend their tilad
in making nets, not in making cages.
The hostility of France, Austria, Napless
and Span to Rome, calls to mind the follows
ing lines;--
"Father and mother and |,
With strong and Eusty band,
Beat poor little boy
Till he could hardly stand
Seven millions of gallons of spirits were
consumed in Ireland the last yesf.
What is the differance between Noah'S
Ark and Joan of Arc! One Vas made Of Go.
pher wood, the other Maid of Orleans.
Father Mathew has administered the pledge
to 8 600 person since his arrival in the Uni
ted States.
Certes, the eyes are not to see with
No more than wives were made 10 be with;
Or milk was sent us to drink tea with,
Some sages hint they're form'd to weep with
Others to cast look like sheep with;
| s my beiefthey're meant--to sleep With
Why is a kiss like heartless worship? Bss
cause it is Zip seryics:'
Calhoun's reply to Benton's speech on the
Wilmot Proviso occupies seven compact cots
umus of the Charleston Courier.
Col. Fremont has been appointed Commis.:
sioner to run the Mexican boundary line, iri
place of Col Weller.
We learn from the Paris National that
"New Orleans, in the United States, has beer
aud abandeaed.'
There is frequently more pleasure in giS-
ing thing than IN receiving it. This ap.
plies more especially to Medicine, Advice
md Kicks.
When you want butter, do not use the buf.
er knife, but always your own. after making
nice and clean by drawing it several times
overyour tongue, and through sottr iipss
1t is said that since tie fight of the Poi
rom Rome, 10000 copies of the Bible ha,
cen sold in that city.
You often hear Of IN an being in advans
his age, bnt you never hesrdpofa a wont
eing in the same predicament.
Why are eyes like stage horses! Beeeu
H. Al l.