The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-07
TIE DAILY DISPATCH,
The AiECHANIC

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spa,l ,lx. lhE MECHANIC.
pa'NseJe are, arfiznue ~ s.-.h
s.;,s ansn that six thousand vs.r. .o' 'ne
Sra,ss AZ E ,ha. ,an. sIrokcs .,s Of Tubai Cain.
ali ,:,aa as III "ha transmit their lirht ,h,ornh |
shores Of eiern;iy. ea" heavenward from ihe |
The ants and little bees build ,be;.
themsclves-toil and labor is their no..;s nones
what little creature is there Of the ins.ss aI1
that bears better name among the ea.c ia -
ing sons of earth than they. ''s-
Mankind is prone TO praise in ot6ers vh;ch
they do not themselves, they prnise not others
but their own humble selves, and 90 il is in re-
gard 10 labor, they like to see others work and
tod tor their daily bread, but they do not like
TO do it themselves, nor even have, the praise
of working for living. These are drones--the
dust that floats upon the air of labor and shift
ed by their own worihlessness from one place
to another, until their gaudy glitter, borrowed
from the reflection Ofiheir own wealth becomes
the means whereby they are hurled from exis-
| lence, from memory itself.
And the artizan, does he live for the present
or future?
Or does Death, when he grasps him, pull
him for ever from the recollection of the living,
and leave but a blank place in the fireside cir
Gle for sorrow to occupy until filled by another9
leaves
his imprint upon the age in which he lives, and
Time marks history as guide for the future.
palace is drawn upon paper, a mere pencil
sketch. IL is passed to the mechanic. Weeks,
months, perhaps years roll by, and the pencil
structure of the brain becomes reality, lift
ing its marble walls and lofty towers to the sky,
and from its domes the arlizan looks down and
then passes filmy thought, vague, indisiinct,
yet massve IN It's conception, and what is it?
hat when those 10 whom it is built, those
who live. love, and pass from life to death with
IN It's halls, shall have been forgotten, he will
be remembered, for his Eame is carved upon
its tablet.
Yes, he will be remembered. and the time
will come, when labor alone, will be the guar.
antee OF honesty. virtue and greatness-abor.
whether with the pen, plough, or at the smoking
Jorge, is all the same.
A QUEER MARRIAGE.-A Minnesota cor
respondent of The AZ. y. Spirit of the Times.
gives some anecdotes OF a Justice OF the
Peace out there, who, being destitute of a sta.
tute book, or any forms OF proceeding to serve
as guide, tried to evade the performance of
his duties whenever he could. He was coca
sionally caught, however, and then he was sure
TO make sad blunder.
On one occasion, (says the correspondent
he was required to tie the mystic knot for u
couple VINO were too ANXIOUS TO wait tor the
Preacher, who came along erery seueral
months. This job he thought he could get
safely along with, as there would be no oppo-
site party to take all appeal from his action,
TO r both parties were willing. After fortifying
himself with sundry cogs Of cogniac, he told
the victims 10 stand up, when it suddenly oc.
Cured TO him that a neighbor who had some
experience in such matters, might possibly
have form that would help him out. Keep
ing all hands waiting on their feet, he started
of an express, which soon returned with a
copy Of elk Marvel's Reveries of Bache-
lor saying that This was all the work on
the subject of matrinony Mr.. L. had"
Alter looking carefully through the book, read.
ing occasional passages, very much, as you
can imagine, to the edIfication and encourage
| ment OF at least Two OF his hearers, he "could
find nothing that exactly suited this case," and
went ahead:
"You, = P, take this Young
woman. whom yoa hold by the right hand, to
be your lawful wife, and you now promise to
cleave unto her, aud all ether U0men, so help
me Godw
You will not be surprised to hear that this
"youDg woman" applied within three months
to the Legislature tor divorce. You can as
certain that such is the fact by reference to its
printed journals; that body, however, refused
TO grant her PRAYER influenced, no doubt, by
the belief that P had mol violated hts
contract!