The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-07-29

number are briefess young men, who get
nothing. Again, there are hard working
attorneys who may make two thousand
year, and have the hardest work to collect
It. The same remarks will apply to the lit
erary and medical professions. No one
seems to relish paying an editors, booksel-
ler's, doctors or lawyers bill but money
comes down on the head Of parson in
Daneian shower.
Next to the popular clergyman the popu
lar player is the greatest pet of the public.
Perhaps in the golden hour Of his early tri-
umphs he may receive for the time being
more money than the preacher. But let
premature old age come upon the actor, and
those who petted and dined and wined him
yesterday will kick him into the gutter to-
morrow. With the young ladies he stands
next to the parson. But the divinities Of
the greenroom are not in that high state Of
drill and discipline that distinguish the di.
whites of the vestry. Satan is always at
work in the ooulsses, making some kind Of
riot, more or less public, according to the
prominence or obscurity Of the sinners.
Beecher and most Of the tip-top clergymen
generally manage to keep the old fellow out
by making their churches close borough,
and watching, like prudent gamekeepers,
over their flocks, male and female. Some
times, however, the sentinel on lions watch
tower slumbers, as in the recent case of the
Brooklyn widow and the demoiselle who
had two intrigues during the revival. So
the Devil slips in; and he is only expelled
by hard praying and harder swearing, &C
cOrding to all accounts. We must do the
clergy the justice to say that they watch
their lambs well. Some uncharitable peO-
pie say that they do so from interested mo-
tives but in this wicked world no one can
escape calumny.
The parson has the further advantage over
the player, the lawyer or the doctor in the
permanence Of his employment. The broken
advocate, the ruined actor, or the physician
or editor who does not keep up with the
times, are quickly thrown overheard /; but
let your divine be ever so much OF an old
fogy--let him shuttle out his prayers and
cough out his sermon--he Is still continued
in Office with an assistant. The ladies pct
him more than ever-ther dear sympathetic
souls cleaving TO the holy man more and
more, a. his infirmities grow apace. Monks,
ministers and pastors have been the especial
favorites of the fair in all times, and we
cannot expect to be wiser than our grand.
mothers.
1t is this fine position OF the pet clergy
man that calls many young man OF good
parts to a sense of awakening grace. He
is born to evil rs the sparks fly upward ,
but Satan does not pay 40 well, and there
fore he enlists on the othel side. Players
too see before them field Of clover when
crisis has rduced them to short commons
and religion hits them on the head with a
sixty-four pound shot But these converted
actors" are not public pets. They are gen
orally strollers or walking gentlemen. No
body ever heard Of q first rate opera singer
being brought to sense Of his awful condi.
ton until after he had lost his voice. We
are forced to the conclusion that Mammon--
the god that regulates this mctropolis-has
crept into the ranks Of the unco pious them
selves, and that, in spite Of the revival. Sa-
tan still holds the MalakOG