The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-03

| he has yet untricd weapon among his re-
sources-as the general in battle is delighted to-
feel that he holds in the background his "corps
I de Ycserre- 30 did revel in the anticipation
of our ''satistaction, which is to pour out our
grievances to the wide impalpabe ear OF the
world--a world which we humbly hope will judge
us mercifully when driven to extremity for any
thing of an interesting character.
/ A WHAcK AT MIsERs.--In chapter on life
assurance, which appears in Black,coods Magazine
for July, the writer is somewhat severe on the
wealthy men of our day, who are but too scrupu-
lous in their observance of the maxims Of 'Poor
Richard" He says; Ia
ssYhose who desire to be absolutely rich may,
if their lives spared long enough, attain that
rous abstinence from the enjoyments, hospitali-
ties, and charities of existence. 1t is not difficult
to accumulate gold if man has courage to be
Elves; indeed cases almost daily cited of APP
parent paupers, amongst whose rags and gall
maufry in the corner of some fetd cellar extraor-
binary boards are discovered. No one, however,
but a mere caitif would addict himself to this
kind of metallic accumulation; and it is noticea-
BILE that the practice is chiefly confined to driedup
bachelors, who have either no relatives to succeed
) them, or who hate their relatives cordially. Poor
!, lwretches If, ere they have given up the ghost
on their Intended couch, and been deposited in
the patry shells which they have bespoken from
motive of posthumous economy, they could OBJ
tain vision of the serene or lively countenances
of those who shall walk at their funeral and di-
vide their gans--if they could be prospectively
present at the banquet which is to follow the
mony, and witness the enormous consumption of
liquor auaffed, not in honor of their memories,
| but by way of congratulation to the inebriated
lheirs-if they could hear, by anticipation, the
marks of the ocular guests the retaied anecdotes
| of their meannesses, and the commentaries on
their cruel selhshness-they might possibly, before
the spirit has left the clay, ask themselves seriously
| for what end, either in this world or the next,
| they have consented to lead the life Of muck
| worms, and insure the contempt of their race.
For, of all creatures upon earth, none is despi
cable the miser. 1t is not impossible that the
prohigate may have friend, for there is usually
4 left about him some touch of humanity-soms
one unbroken chord of the finer feelings of our
nature; but the miser meets with no sympathy.
| Even the nurse who is hired to attend him in his
latest hours loathes the CHASTITY occupation, and
longs for the moment of her release; for, although
the death-damp is already gathering o. his brow,
the thoughts of the departing sinner cstll upon
his gold, and at the mere jingle of key he starts
| from his torpor, in paroxysm OF terror, lest a
surreptitious attempt is being made upon the
sanctty of his strong-box Deeds there are many
in that box; hut where are the deeds that should
have comforted the dying MANI What blessings
has he purchased for himself through his long
! and useless life There prayers of the or
! phan or widow for hinl--not solitary voice has
ever breathed his name to Heaven as a benefac-
| tor. One poor penny, given away in the spirit of
true charity, would be worth more to him
than all the gold that the world contains; but,
notwithstanding that he was a church-gong man,
and familiar from his infancy with those awful
texts in which the worship of mammon is de-
nounced, and the punishment of Dives told, he
has never yet been able to divorce himself from
his solitary love lust, or to part with one atom
of his pef And so, from miserable life, detest-
ed and despised, he passes into drear eternity;
and those whom he has neglected misused,
make merry with the boards of the mser."
And, again:
s'We have no hesitation in saying thatwe con-
slider the man who does not expend more than
half his income caitif and a losel. How he
cxpends it, is altogether different question; but,
except in the way of gross immortality, we are de-
cidedly of opinion that liberal scale of expendi-
ture is public blessing We have an intense
antipathy to the mean apothegms which we occa-
sionally quoted, we presume, from the margin
of the Miser's AlInanack. Waste not, want not.
"A pin day is groat year. "A penny saved
is penny got. There are forty sixpences in
pound, and a pound is the Seeding of hundred
No doubt there is germ of truth in all these pro-
positions, for it is as absurd to be recklessy eS-
travagant it would be to eat Bank OF Eng
land notes with your bread and butter; but the
reiteration of them is offensive, and they sound
like the maxims of scavenger. One coat in the
year may be sufficient to cover your nakedness;
but if you afford them, by all means get three
or four. In the first place your appearance will
be materially improved, which, let us tell you, IS
often no mean consideration, in so far your own
interest is concerned. Many clever fellow has
been doomed, through sheer seediness, to hard
struggles and disappointment, and has most I'M
Justly blamed his stars, whereas IN tact, the iaut
lay with his apparel. We are acquainted with
meritorious Wing who has three times been cru
ely used by his party account of the inveterato
preasiness of his garments. In the next place you
have the comfortable conviction that you are cor
tributnq your Just share to the support OF score
of excellent individuals including the farmer,
manufacturer, and Snip, who looks to you for his
daily cabbage. And, lastly, you become the pos
SCISSOR of stock of old clothes, which, if you have
the feelings of a gentleman, you will besow upon
some INDECENT Christian, instead of basey barter
ing them to a Levte."
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