Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-16

We luathe the life leading,
The spot where placed
We live upon tomorrow,
Or we dream the past again;
But what ,yails at knowledge p
1t comes in vain. Miss LandOn.
SMILE.
Graceful, when it pleased him. smooth and still
As the mute that floats a1owu the stream,
And on the waters of tn unrufled lake
Anchors her quiet beauty. Wordsworth.
PANIC.
Never was knogn a noise Of such distraction
Noise confused and drca ihl; jostliug crowds
That run and know not whittier torches gliding,
Like meteors, by each other in the street.
dryden.
In the personal history of the founder of
Christianity, it is stated that Joseph was a
carpenter, and the supposition is, that the
Saviour also worked at the trade, although
this is not distinctly stated The trade, how
ever, of a house-carpenter is one that has
ever been esteemed for its manly character
istcs; accuracy of eye thoughtfulness of de-
sign, strength of arm, vigor Of frame, are all
involved in it. In the great march Of pioneer
ship, the house-carpenter takes precedence OF
all other workmen, even the farmer, for the
first throb Of cvil!zel settlement exhibits it
self in the erection Of a house-huinble, yet
glorious simple, yet awakening poetry not
second 10 that reused by the Parthonon. For
what is the grandest architecture OF Greece
but the extension of the radical idea of the
house carpenter: The pillar is but the MINI
icry of the body of tree thanking the doors,
and the classic Towering Of the capital but
the acanthus. In the rule, the saw, the
place, the chisel, too, lie all the essential per-
fections Of modern machinery as it is com
bined and set in motion by steam. He who
has not learned to hew and shape wood, must
often have wondered at the proud dexterIty
with which the tree of the forest Is inverted
into floors that bear the domestic industry of
nation, the doors that guard its life and
wealth, the windows that exclude the sea.
sons rigors, the roofs that cast off the storms
torrent, and lay it harmless on the earth.
Each house so constructed, is in itself an epic
of beauty, reciting the life of humanity, the
light and love Of all that makes being DEAR
OF home. But i'll what honor is the architect
held who so cuts and squares and rounds tho
tree of the forest, and leaves the pioneer
wanderer in security to cherish the genial
earth and build up empires Under the per-
nieious system of Slavery, he is held in any
thing but honor-indeed, there his lot is gno-
minious brutality. Like cattle, he is bought
and sold, and the more perfect his skill, the
greater his intelligence, the higher is his mar
net price, and the more ready the sale. The
following advertisement on this head is taken
from laIe number OF the Charleston Courier
EXCUSE CARPENTER for SALE,--For sale, finished
hAH0USE CARPENTER, perfect workman, tail and
likely about 26 years of age, siuul and healthy Adj
dress DR.. W. A. BERRY, Wilmington, N. @.
We commend this illustration of slave
driving commerce in carpenters, to the rehec-
ton of northern mechanics of all parties. If
they are ready to lend themselves to the ex-
tension of a system of which this is one of
the ordinary fruits, they are not the men they
are generally taken for.-N. Y. Tribune.
How TO CouNrERAcr RoMAN1sM.-. Con-
verts from Popery may warn us, in shrieks
of invectve, against " Papal aggressions
in America But, if you would keep out
Of the church of Rome, build up church
of Christ No college Of cardinals can exter-
inmate mems loyalty to genuine Christianity.
The best tactics to confront an Italian nuncio
will be the beauty of holiness. Fill any do
cese with renewed families, and it cannot be
long outwitted by bad bishop. The soil is
ours. Nothing but our own unfaithfulness
can ALLEVIATE it to any man of sin, to
Babylon or to Mammon. If you dread an
importation of foreign priestcraGt, let every
layman's unpretending zeal empty the priests
title of its dangerous prerogative. When the
body becomes alive with equal heat, no sacer-
dotal rank can tyrannize over the members.
than from hierarchies. Unprincipled traffic,
incrdinate ambition, social bigotry, and pride,
of luxury, the slavery of fash
ion, fraudulent politics,-the cd, familiar de-
mons that haunt and tempt our individual
virtue, - these seem to me more alarming
enemies than the decorated phantom of an
Anticipated ecclesiastical superstition. or the
tinsel trappings of ritual without pulse.
Boston Will never be Romanized, either by
sophistry or by the Liverpool packets, if our
Ministry at Large will first christianize it.
The Pope Will never rear his throne on the
Mississippi, if we enthrone Christ in the ma
tons heart But, il we will not guard the
city and the land by living faith, then let
US bid Jesuitism welcome to Try !-Rer. f.
ID. Harrington.
The SABBATH.-There is no land where
all religious Obligations aside-the Sabbath is
so necessary as in this country. We should
be barbarians without it. Already the lust
OF money and distinction acting upon natures
dashed BY our peculiar institutions into the
most vehement emulations, wrinkles almost
every brow, and makes anxiety constant
presence and power on which strangers gaze
aad wonder. Our very pleasures have this
dash of Impotence about them, and our days
and hours hurried on the whirl of constant
excitement, lose their distinctness, and mingle
in misty mass in which the better reasoning
faculty can distinguish little that accords with
the naturul purposes of life. Were this eager
hunt of gold or rank uninterrupted, it would
soon sweep away before it all that elevates
and purihes human nature or gives the grace
and goodness OF life.
The Sabbath stays the severer pulses of So
ciety, it opens the low and dark clouds that
gather round the heart, and lets in the light
OF better thoughts and loftier feelings. 10
lose this recurring dispensation from the curse
Of the impetuous hfe-struggle, would be to
render our destiny that of the dungeon slave.
While, therefore, we regard the Dissertation of
the Sabbath as primarily offensive as a viola
tion of a divine law, we condemn it as a war
against the better charities of life = as a
wrong done to the heavy laden-as a step
taken outwards to barbarism.
POTATOES IN IRELAND.-The Belfast Mer-
curry says, "the magnitude of the crop for
1854 is certainly very much beyond that ever
before known in this country. Taking low
average, we should say that the gross value
of Ireland potato lands this season cannot be
under 10000, 000." Ireland contains now
not more than six millions and half of in
habitants, and the potato crop for the present
year is estimated to be worth seventy millions