The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-10


Even cotton carpeting will wear longer over
straw This IS much better than mats to take
the dust from the shoes. Get large pattern,
so as to have some left to repair with. Much
can be done by turning and mending carpets,
to keep them looking almost as well as new"
CHAs. DICKENS ON PRoHIBIToRY LEdIsLA-
TIoN-In Dickens Household Words there re-
Gently appeared an article, Enthusiastically from
the pen of the distinguished editor, in which
the position is taken that the Maine Law and
its congeners refer and defer exclusively to the
1Orst members of society, passing over, rs OF
no consequence, the comfort and convenience
of the best. The question, according to Dick
ems, is not "what do the decent mechanic and
his family want and deserveW but ''what will
the vagabond, idler, drunkard, or jail bird turn
to bad account2 as if there were any thing
in the whole world which the dregs Of hui
mainly will turn to good account. The art of
writing is converted by the hand of the forger
into positive evil, and there is scarcely any
gift of God, or product of mans industry and
ingenuity, which may not be prostituted to
criminal purposes" The following illustration
from the article referred to is forcibe and
amusing:
"Job Smith suffers heavily, at every turn of his
He and at every inch OF its strag course too from
the determined ruffanism in which he has no more
mart than he has in the blood royal. Six DAYS of
Jobs week are DAYS of hard, monotonous, exhaust.
ing work. Upon the seventh, job thinks that he,
his old women, and the children, could find it in
their hearts to walk in garden, if they might, or
to look at a picture, plant, q beast of the for
est, or even u colossal toy made in imitation of
some of the wonders of the world Most of the
people would he apt to think Job reasonable in this
But up starts Britannia, tearing her hair and crying
"Never, never! Here is Slogans, with the Bro
ken nose, the black eye and the bull dog What
Job Smith uses Slogans will abuse; therefore, Job
Smith must not use." So job sits down again in a
killing atmosphere, a little weary and out of
humor orleans against post all Sunday long
st is not generally known that accused Slogans
Is the evil genius OF Jobs life. Job never had in
bis possession at any time, little cask of beer
or bottle of spirits. What he and his family drank
in that way is fetched in very small portions indeed
from the public house. However difficult the
Westminster Club gentlemen may find it to realize
such an existence, Job has realized it through many
a long year; and he knows infinitely better than the
whole club can tell him, at what hour he wants his
drop of beer and when it best suits his means and
convenience to get it. Against which practical
conviction of Jobs, Britannia, tearing her hair
shreks tenderly, 'Sloggius' Sloggins with the
broken nose, the black eye, and the bull dog, will
go to ruin,-as if he were going anywhere else?-if
Job Smith has his beer when he wants it. So Job
gets it when Britannia thinks it good for Sloggns
to let him have it and marvels greatly.
''But perhaps he maEyels most when, being in
vited in immense type, to go and hear the Evange
list oil Eloquence or the Apostle of Purity, Il have
noticed in such invitations rather lofty not to say
audacious titIes) he strays in at open door, and
finds person on the stage, crying aloud to him
Behold me! too am Soggins likewise had a
broken nose, a black eye, and bull dog. Survey
me we'll Straight is my nose, white is my eye de-
ceased is my bull dog. /, formerly Sloggins, now
Evangelist Tor Apostle, as the case may be,) cry
aloud in the wilderness unto you, Job Smith, (who
were never Slogans, in the least like hm) shall
by force of law, accept what accept, and deny
what deny, take upon yourself my shape and follow
me- Now it is not generally known that poor job,
though blest with poor understanding, and think
ing any putting out of the way of that ubiquitous
Slogans meritorious action highly to be commend
ed, never can understand the application of all this
to himself who never used anything in common
with Slogans, but always abominated and aljured
him"