Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-02
I'm ADVANCE.
VOL. VINO. ID.
An "Hnfcliigeni, Young E.ndy.

young gentleman of this town.
says the Vermont Banner, came very
near getting his brains blowed out wild,
broomstick the other day. He was
boarding III privete family, in which
mere IS rather attractive young lady
As he was leaving the house after din.
hef' one day last week, in passing the
win low he spied the young lady sitting
N a rocking chair. In order TO be So
iaoie-7-and, perhaps, to quiz the young
ady-he remarked 10 her, Miss, you
look sleepy-as though you had lately
iaiien' or soon would fall, Into tho
arms vt Morpheus" The young lady,
NOT perfectly understanding the mean.
ing OF the last term, took il that it was
the name OF some young man. Where.
upon she also told her mother how the
gentienhan had insul,ed her by saving
'na' she had been Nugget by Mr.. Nor
P"enS' on the return OF the gentleman
10 his Boarding house, the Iandlady at~
lacked him with the usual weapon of
matroh-told him tina, she would give
him to understand that her daughter
was never in the arms OF Morpheus, or
Or any other yonng man, and noiiGed
MIN to leave the premises sans ceren.o.
me. And the offended individual ac-
cordingly sought out another boarding
house. Good for him. Served him
right. He had no business thus to in.
suit an intelligent young lady.
LITTLE SoULs.-We abhor men of litts
souls. Everything they do is performed in
a sneaking manner. Ii you trade with
tnem, the trouble tney cause you is worth
double your profit. They will stand an hour
out Of a half cent and ii thev cannot ac-
it, they will go off as mad as
meat-axe, muttering 10 themselves about
our hard world, depravity, &c. If suoh
men hare bills to collect of you, they will
give no peace as long as they arc unpaid.-
They track your steps wherever voupo, and
haunt you day and night, till the debt is
cancelled. Ii they lose farthing by YOU
in trade, they never forget it, but will treas
lre the supposed wrong you have done
them to the close Of life; and when vour
name is mentioned in their presence. thew
will throw out suspicious and ins;nuations.
TO destroy your reputation. With all this
neanness, what is very singular, such char
icters are not aware of their conduct. and
1eem themselves beloved and respected.
when every body who knows, despises them.
They walk the streets, talk by the wayside,
md drive into anything they please, with
IS little regard for another, as if they we're
'reated to bargain and make money, while
you were in duty bound to look on, and en-
courage and exert yourself in their behalf.
Bound in self, men of such principles can
lot see the rights of others, when thew
come in competition with their interests. So
ong as they hoard up treasures, the winds
Ind waves are favorable to them, they are
matter how deletero1s to-
,thers. 1t would not move them hair to
lee TIE whole property of a neighbor sunk
n the sea, provided it would cause de-
nand for an article of which they had
quantity on hand. Such men live, move
md act in our midst-for what purpose ex-
ept to hoard up riches, and to dstresss the
,oor, we cannot tell. Certainly thew are
10 benefit to mankind. They have a kind
vord and smile for none, and they never
make a heart to rejoice, except when thew
lie, and the devoted preacher gives out to
'e sung at their funeral, the appropriate
lynn OF Watts, commencing:
believing we rcio ,ce
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