The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-09-07
VOLUME VIII.---NO. 10.
DISCONTENT,

| ' - ''' we never knew
the man who would say 4 am contented. >
TO where you will, among the rich or tho
poor, the man Of competence, or the man
who earns his bread by tho daily sweat oi
his brow, you hear, the sound of murmur.
ing and The voice of complaint. The other
day we stood by cooper, who was play
ing merry tune with an adze round cask.
Ah! sighed he, mine is hard lot
forever trotting round like dog, driving
away at hoop
ue'iiho! ! sighed blacksmith, in ono
OF tho hot d"ysas he wiped away the drops
OF perspiration from his brow, while his red
hot iron g'owed on his anvil, this is life
with ngeance-mclting and frying one'a
self away over fire.
'Oh that were carpenter calculated
shoe maker, rs he bent over his lap.stope.
here am, day after day, working my soul
away in making souls for others, cooped up
in little sevennine room.'
i am sick Of outdoor work. exclaims
the carpenter, broiling and swcltering under
the sun exposed to the inclemcncy of the
weather, If was only:a tailor
This is too tad,' ePstpstually cries the
tailor, to be compelIedsfo sit perched up
here plying the needle all the while would
that mine were more active life.'
Last day of grace-the banks won't dis.
count-customers won't pay-what shall t
dog grunbles the merchant. 4 had.rath.
er be horse, a dog, anything 81
Happy fellows groans the lawyer as he
scratches his head over some perplexina
case, or pores over some dry record, 'hpyap
fellows | had rather hammer stone than
cudge' my brain on this tedious vexatious
question.
And through all the tanifcations of so.
c'ety all are complaining of their condition
finding fault with their particular loca.
ton. If were only this, or the other. t
should bo content. is the universal cry, ,any.
thing but what am SO wags the world,
SO It has wagged, and SO it will wag.
AN ELootENf PASSAGE. Rev Dr.
Spring of New York preached his fifteenth
anniversary sermon on Sunday. lie closed
his discourse as follows a.
The half century Is gone oone ike
some small star that has been twinkling in
the curtain of the night, gone, like the
dying cadence of distant minstrelsy, as it
van'shes into air !; gone like the word lust
spoken, for good OF for evil, never to be re-.
called gone like the clouds which disap.
pear after they have exhausted their trea-
'ures upon the earth, gone like the leaves
OF autumn, that are scattered to the winds
as they witber; gone like the phantom.
which, in pursuit, had sembIance of real
ty' but which in the retrospect i. melted
away; gone as yesterday has gone. Why
do say here, Comet Nothing is gone whose
influence remains.
The mar, the woman, the Sabbaths, the
prayers, the weeks, the months, the wears.
that 'so'nessef us have beheld vanish, one by
one' in the:tnysterious past, live still in
Gods universe. Past! What is past2
What is the momentous preseut-tbi.
now, this accepted tinea What is the never.
ending futurel-They are but parts that
make up tile ground unit Of eternitv-
'tern'ty that'was, and is, and ever will be.
All Tune Is "a unit, where the angel at heav.
ans high court records as well the respopsi.
''i'''es OF hearers as the responsibility of
'reachefs, and where the great Witness and
'ndge will render TO every man according
10 HE works
The Newport correspondent. ofthe Courte
les Efas Unis, writes that there is rumor
q that famous watering place, that fla
proprietor eEthe Ocean House has humblv
Mr. Jno. G. Hcenan, of pugiIistio
enown' 10 honor some other establishment
WITH his presence, adding that be (the pro.
'r'efo) wouldn't show the least sign Of
ea!ousy some Of lis colleagues should be
o hapPy as to count the champion among
us household gods.
The grain n'atisticsof Chicago, Just made
p OF the receipts Of, flour and grain since
anuary 1st, compared with tie LI'I receipts
uriDg the same period Of last year, 1859
bows ap Increase Of $4,000 bbIs flour $40.
100 bushels wheat, 1850 900 bushels corn.
ncreass IN shipments, the same time. ea.
90 bbls four, 100000 bushels wheat, g..
10000 bushels corn. In store there ara
the present time, 27oo bbls. -four. 8 400
usbelsc wheat, 1900, 900 bushels corn.
!. . a cool ,csInM1sAL---A short time ago 4