Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-16
DAILY EVENING STAR.
Practical Advice.

Preachers should never be seen at gro
cery stores, conyersing about money,
horses, and the rise and fall of prices, for
all these things will recur to many of the
congregation while sitting before the
pulpit.
Young men should always take advice
from the old, but they must learn expert
ence of themselves, and think freely and
Independently, to become men.
Children will grow up fools if they are
taught fooliShness.
The man who labors to suppress one
evil and secretly practices another, his
sincerity in the first makes him inconsis-
tent and ridiculous.
IL you wish to be called small and in
significant by your enemies, overthrow
them and trample them under your feet
they can see no merit then.
If man is of no consequence, the
world will neither praise or condemn
him, but if he is powerful, his name will
be mentioned by all, and the most sense
less gossips will be his bitterest foes.
The young should be educated nation
ally. When the people learn in child
hood that they have country, in peace
they will bc good and true citizens, and
IN war few traitors or towards will ever
be found.
1t IS folly to attempt to reform man.
kind by force, for oppression teaches hate,
and hate is both annoying and powerful.
The Universe is ruled, in all its vastness,
by Love alone.
HE REWARD OF THE STATESMAN.-The
true recompense of the statesman is not
Office, even when he chances to obtain it.
His real reward is in having originated
the ideas which become moulded into the
policy OF his country, and in thus enjoy
ing power, If WE may so speak, for gen.
eratlonS after he has died and been buried.
Madison. Hamilton, and the other leading
spirits in the Convention which framed
the Federal Constitution. have had more
10 do with governing this great Republic
than many of our own Presidents.
Washington yet lives and rules. by
bold metaphor it may be said, in the
traditions whichhis Executive left behind
Jefferson still controls, as if actually
present, the progressive democracy. De
Witt Clinton, through the magnificent
policy he left to New York, is building
new railroads in that State to the West,
and pushing forward in a thousand WAYS,
the claims of his adopted city to be con-
Sidered the metropolis of America. The
men OF expediency, the mere politicians,
die, become dust, and are heard of no
more. The great statesman lives forever,
perpetuated in his grand ideas. One, at
best, enjoys power but for brief season.
The other holds it for ages.
If these things were considered more,
there would be fewer politicians, and
greater number of statesmen, we think,
IN the Republic. And with the larger
views which this would inevitably lead
to, the destiny of the Republic would be
rendered cOmmenSllrately more brilliant
THE FIGHTING CANDIDATE.-Every one
has heard of the Congressman who were
elected by stealing. One fellow stole
pig, which started such opposition and
abuse that his friends redoubled their eX-
ertlOns and elected him, distributing the
SANDER to the malice of his rival. At the
following campaign, his adversary, de-
termining not to be outdone in felony,
sJtOlt IioiSC, HlilCil DIS IL observed
to do, a much bigger hue and cry, both
for and against him, in consequence of
which, he was triumphantly elected. We
saw IN Western Virginia sometime
since,a candidate, (call him Mr. Jones,)
who headed off hi antagonist Mr.. Brown,
by brilliant piece of military tactics
They had been both addressing the people
at school house in the District, when
ZONES began to get little the worse of it.
Making up his mind that bold stroke
was necessary to rally his friends, he
sprang to his feet. and stood like Napo-
leon at Lodi. Look here, Mr.. Brown.
/ can't talk much, but | can fight like
rocks, aud if you come back here into the
school-yard, we'll try a set-to, and if you
can lick me, | pledge myself to vote for
you and stump the district for you; but
II L lick you, you must vote and stump
for me. Come ahead Z" Brown was
sold. lie has never been able to see vet
how that could settle the questions in
dispute; but in Virginia, over the noun
talns, 1T would settle Jones election,
sure.
How \ Man FEELS WITH HIS HEAD Orr.
it is considered on all sides that the BODY
does not feel one instant after decapita-
ton; for the brain being the seat of SEN
SatlOn to the whole frame, through the
medium of the SninaI n,arrou- o,-o,,- ,,a.