Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-02-17

LITTLE THoRNs--The thorns on q rose or
black berry bush are very little things, but they
will tear your hands, and irritate your flesh,
the pain will be dreadful until they are reno
we'd. Nettles are SO small that you can hardly
see them with the naked eye but if you touch
them, they will torment you. No matter how
joyous and full of glee you may be, one of the
least of these thorns is enough to turn your JOY
into grief and your laughter to crying. A nettle
in your finger is enough to spoil your pleasure
and bring down your highest glee.
So the sweetest, the most clinging affection
is often shaken by the slightest breath of un.
kindness. An unkind word from beloved
one is thorn to sensitive mind, that sends
pang to the heart. A cross look is a thistle
in the eye. A cold expression from friend
is nettle in the finger. These little things
ALLEVIATE affection and spoil friendship These
are the "little foxes that spoil the vine" The
delicate rings and tendrils of the vines are agi-
tated by the faintest breeze of summer. The
little foxes running over the vines, break off
those tender cords that bind them to the trelis.
and leave them at the mercy of the winds.
If children and youth would be happy, they
must pluck out the thorns of i'll temper. the
thistles of envy and the nettles of jealousy, and
drive away all the little foxes that walk rudely
over and break the tendrils of affection that
cling around the heart-Ne1c York Observer
EMIGRATION TO TEXAS AND ARKANSAS
The North Lousianian, published at Bastrop,
parish OF Morehouse, says an immense tide of
emigration is now pouring into the country
west of the Mississippi Long trains of wag-
ons are passing through Bastrop every day, on
their way to Texas. The Caddo Gazette says
that emigrants are now passing through Shreve-
port, by housands-pouring tide of popula-
ton into Texas in unprecedented numbers.
The same might have been said six months
ago of the vast tide of emigration constantly
crossing into Arkansas from this point-the
largest portion of it passed through to Texas.
But the case is different now nearly the whole
of the emigration through this city into Arkan-
sas now stops IN that State. Emigrants have
found out, and the whole South, east of the
Mississippi river, is beginning to find out, that
there are thousands on observation-disclosures
of acres of as good land as any in the world,
to be had in Arkansas at far cheaper rates
than the same quality of lands can be purchas-
ed in Texas.--Mcmphis Eagle and Enquirer.
PAY OF LABOR IN IRELAND-Horace Greeley,
in his letter from Galway, gives an exact idea
OF labor at its starving point: Walking with
a friend through one of the back streets of Gal
way, beside the outlet of the lakes, | came
where girl ten years old was breaking up
hard brook pebbles into suitable fragments to
mend roads with. We halted, and M. asked
her how much she received for that labor.
She answered, "sx pence cart load" How
long will it take you to break cart load :"
" About a fortnight"
The efhgy Of Louis Napoleon is to figure on the
postage stamps, instead of the female head of the
republic. e.,