Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-02-06

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And if any should snivel or stammer,
w ould settle the brains of the obstinate Ounce
With rap of the Speakers hammer!
Philadelphia, jan ii, looo
What we all Do.
An amusing and even instructive hour may be
snent if one will but search out from the conlus
ed 6pures of the census. the number of persons
following various occupations in the United States
Thus we rejoice, as nation, in having two thou
sand persons VINO pronounce themselves artists,
thourh there are probably not score who will
live in mems memories, ,and certainly not one whu
appears likely to de,hrone Raphael. OF authors
we have. according to the census, only eighty
two that is, but eighty two are willing to confess
to genius and garrett though, if publishers
advertisements are to be credicted, every new
month gives birth 10 new literary star, and one
more brilliant than any that ever went before
To pass to bank officers and brokers is natural
transition, and of the former we are favored with
fourleen hundred of the latter with six thousand,
eyernplifynr the old adages, that sit never rains
but it pours,' and that blessings never coIne sing
lv, Luckily, ,here are hundred thousand
honest. stout hearted blacksmiths, as make
weis hit against this Egyptian plague of flies in the
shape-of brokers and bankers. Moreover, there
are six thousand BARRIERS to shave the six thou
sand brokers, and thus revenge the community,
which is SO essentially shaved by the latter.
We have two millions and a half of farmers.
seventy thousand marines one hundred thousand
merchants; sixty four thousand masOns, and nearly
two hundred thousand carpenters. We have
fourteen thousand bakers to make our bread !;
twenty four thousand lawyers to set us by the
ears forty thousand doctors to kill or cure and
fifteen hundred editors to keep this molly IN s.,
in order, by the potent power Of public oP'nion
controlled and manufactured through the press.
We have eleven thousaa. haters; ten Thousand
tobacconists, and thirty-one thousand weavefs.-
AGAINST thirty thousand teachers we can set OH
6ity thousand talors so that we care nearly twice
as much for adorning the body as we do for deck
ing out the mind Only twenty-five thousand
people have been willing to set themselves down
as servants, though most OF US serve others IN
some capacity or other, from the boot black, who
poshes our shoes, To the book sellers, who bright
en- the public intellect. Nobody, according to
the census follows the trade of politician, though
there are enough, heaven knows,in this city alone
to have condemned a dozen SOdoms and Gomor-
rahs. The census fails to record, likewise, the
existence of any patriots among us, though we
have long thought that patriotism was especially
profession, profession and nothing else.
The forty thousand physicians support five hun
dret undertakers, which gives the important
statistical fact, that it takes eighty doctors TO keep
one undertaken in brief business. We have
fifteen hundred wagon makers; three thousand
watchmakers; seventy eight vinegar makers, In
cludlng, we suppose, all the cross wives, crusty
bachelors, and vorjuice old maids; thirty thousand
wheelwrighs; and thirty three showmen. We
have four thousand cutters /: twenty three thousand
sadders and five thGusand railroad men. We
have one hundred and fifty. four opticians and ten
oculists, but nearly four thousand confectioners,
proving that we care infinitely more for eating
than ior.eye sight. This reminds US that there
are five thousand brewers and seven hundred wine
dealers, but the census, strange to say. is silent
as the number who drink the beer and quail The
rosy.' In all. we have about five millions and
half above the age of fifteen years, who are bust
ly employed al some trade, profession, or other
occupations, by which to earn livelihood. 1t is
plain that we ere not nation of sluggards. We
nearly all do something. Nay,to be an idle drone.
is happily no recommendation. in America, as it
is in the arisocralic and nonarchical countries Of
Europe. e.-Phiia. Pab. Ledger.
FLIRTA1IoNs OF MARRIED WoMEN.-The re
cent occurrences Il. puslon firm the text for
sible sermon by Ill arlfnrd Courant. The i'm
proper ''flirtations" of the two married women
with young men has blasted their characters for
ever, cansed ;lle death Of an amiable but weak
young man, and imprisoned the husbands on
charge of murder Says The Cuuran:
The "lunocenl fliralun" Of married women is
one of the examinations of modem society. Even
desire for promscuuus admiration is wrong in
the wife. The love ofone and his approval should
he all that she should desire. Let her be ever so
beautiful, it is disgusting. an appalling sight. TO
see her decorating that beauty for The public gaze
10 see her seeking The attention ofalI the sense
less fops around her, and rejoicing IN the admlra-
tion of other eyes than these of her husband Her
Beauty should be for hinI alone, not TO: The gaze
of the fools that fulter around her. There IS al
ways among the sedate and the wise a sensation
of disgust when married lady attempt TO en-
snare and enlrap young men oy a prufnse display
of her charms. 6r an unlicensed outlay of her
smiles Such charms ana such smiles are nathe
some TO the indillere Mt beholder-"he trail Of the
serpent is over them all"
Such wives should know, if they do not know
already, that their influence over the virtue and
nrudence Of vouno men is as deeierous as if they
were the most abandoned Of women. They lead
them 10 believe there is no purity in The sex-ihat
married. virtue is but an outside show, and lelca-
cy and proprieiy are but masks or outside dresses
The effect of their character is that Of silentcor
rnntion sapuing the foundation of honor and probi.
ty and truth. Let them beware. Let them re-
serve their charms and The isscinaluns of their
1a,iering attentions for the husbands to whom
they belong, and il they must be admitted, let it
be as faithful wives, as self denying mothers, as
the educators of a generation of young immarals.
It was said in the praise of a woman in ancient
times Donum raansa-ianqm tect. Let such
be the motto of married women now.
When ROGER Sherman was pitted against one
Dagoe,, in a lawsuit, Roger found his match
paggett was huating oyer book for authorities
IL d the midst Of his argument. The jury got i'm
patient.
ge,t 2" said Roger. ,r
10 be discovered through them"
A writer truthfully remarks that "it is not
crimes such as robbery and murder. which des-
troy the peace of society so much as the village
gossin M family quarres, jealausies and chickering's
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