Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-08-06

Of yours about the popular gentleman's de-
mise, Mr.. .Mercwy-rather more than "tltree
removes from, TRUTH" l fear, and altogether,
Mercury four times sublimatt d, / should
call it; but corrosive sublmate didn't seem
to kill him; indeed, rather think it made
him immortal and ubiquitous, though all his
fine TALKS, never Modified Lady Lack, when
she was about. She no more minded Civ
ing his plausible face, "chalked hat" or
black coat, wipe of the pen, than ftp
Grab did, hurling his 'tomahawk through
and through, Mr.. PHAREI-sEE PHrLAN-
rHRoPY's special brevet, to redress all griev-
ances he couldn't reach, and let alone, or
never see, all he could-had in short no
more respect for that hypocracy not perfect
enough to conceal itself, than he had, for that
mission TO put up highly rarified, bat very
cheap sort of Human Sympathy, for Bun
kun. In fact, all his Standardization, nev-
er did teach him, how anybody could COM
promise Religion, or Humanity, by merely
crying, stop thisfwhen cunning Rascality,is
making off securely ,underthelr stolen cloaks;
and if either those &C. -Lictors had any true
faith, in the Religions ,or Benevolence of such
professed exponents, as never presume to
practice any, except "by order Of the board"
it's more than I'm prepared 10 say.
One Of them l know, launches her "Par-
THAN Arrows" very freely at all such
pompous, canting shams, would-be saints
and Macanases, "with the grand talents for
enacting patron, on the easy terms Of dis
pensing those cheap commodities, PROMISES
and Aduice;" but altogether,
s'Too chary, and sanity, and dignifed quite,
ToIead any book, that woman could write,"
and entirely too superciious not to enact
Mentor,to one guilty Of such like atrocities,
and inform her, clearly enough, how utterly
commonsenseless, mediocre, and incompetent
to see, know, or feel, anything else, that ev-
erybody else does, she must per force be;--
launches them--as did her ancient prototypes
with fatal skill-on turning to leave the
fed;--and with such cool reckessness Of
consequences, that Calculating" Down
Easter excaims, in unaffected amaze, "bul
Madam, ho,o dare you?"
: It's my opinion, 'and fire and water
couldn't melt it out of me, )" that she ''dare,
do anything that's honest, say anything that.
true, in the naughty assurance that her wore
requires no confirmation, her dignity. nj
, new stamina, 10 bide the brunt, if need be
Of any hand to hand contact with utility
that her position, is no pitiful, mushroom
growth, requiring constant watching, anG
wet nursing, like some spurious Hothouse
plant, that might turn to common weed
: if exposed TO the common air. And if she's
any higher regard than pity and contempt
for the poor, craven, parvenu spirit, in ana
; rank, with no such calm consciousness t.
sustain it, it's more than believe. A paint
ed moth, might as well expect her to lool
up, in admiration, or stand back, in awe; sht
could just as well love, or venerate, in hel
heart Of hearts, that tardy, equivocal Sympa
thy, which can never feel, until it ices, alb
jec, want para ding itself, as beggar doe
; his scars.
And Pm afraid she's too little faith in
and small love for, any charity, even the
best Of the "nrdsxiel,' kind, unless it cal
D "help Others to helpfhsmsslpes" without frs
indelicately, if not affasanily, taking th'
NO VALUE offered, or received, for granted
then putting on all sorts Of patronizin
airs, as if it meant 10 claim an oration, o
: indemnify itself forthwith, by thus palpabl,
! assuming 10 give, what after all it perhap
only pays. son why" she exclaims il
one of her hoxtatory, ,socratic moods, "canno
Benefcence stop, when it has done nobl
. and well, ministering kindly and freely on
moment 10 the suffering body, without in
:" flicting, in the next, deeper, and more in
durable pang, on the far more sulferin
spirit? And how can patrons an
: beneiactors help knowing, how gallin
5 must be this continued, and useless, an
needless, recall of the TOO we'll known, an
most humiliating fact, that they actually d
give in supposed largesse be the equivalen
eventually what it may; and why can the
not rest, till they have effaced all the pleas
ant sense of present relief, by conjuring u
oil that U;ns olenca of office Dall the ipdion;t,
and grief and wrong, and bitter memorie,
of bitter history! Why will they rot see
if they cannot feel, how strong, is all bu
= the bare spirits impulse, to spurn the ala
so ostentatiously labelled alms-how hare
how very hard, they often make the cor
ventional, Ithank you, to pronounce? A
for any real gratitude, God, who made III
heart, knows, that it cannot survive, unde