party were gay and happy in the extreme. Music upon the piano, accompanied with singing, in which all were invited to join, was continued through the evening. Upon the aft upper deck there was dancing and waltzing by a party of Terpsichoreans who delighted to trip the light fantastic toe" to the music of the violin's enlivening strains; and "all went merry as a marriage bell." Merchants and business men in the valley of the Connecticut river, can have their merchandise transported by these steamers cheaper than by any other route.--Holyoke Mirror. HAPPY DAYS. A few days since we overheard two elderly gentlemen conversing in regard to the period when they had best enjoyed themselves. I will tell you," said one, when I most enjoyed life, -it was soon after I was twenty-one, while at work for Mr. laying stone wall, at twenty five cents a day." Well," replied the other, that doesn't differ much from my experience. When I was twenty I hired myself out at seven dollars a month. I never enjoyed myself better than I did when at work for that small pay." These two gentlemen are now surrounded by every luxury that wealth can command, yet they declare that their happiest days were when earning their bread by hard labor and receiving small pay. Their experience teaches us that one's happiness does not depend on what he gains, or the position he occupies, and that very small beginnings, with industry and prudence, may secure wealth.-Holyoke Mirror. BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI. A friend of ours who has just returned from Northern Iowa, where he has spent much of the present season, informs us that eastern people, who have not been there, can have no conception of the vast tide of emigration now pouring into that State. A section of land, more or less, is entered at the land agency and immediately laid out into a town or city, or is settled upon for agricultural purposes; and, where the wild buffalo roamed at will but a year ago, thriving and populous villages, or beautiful cultivated farms, all alive with the hum of industry, take their places as if by enchantment. The soil is exceedingly fertile and productive, there is an abundance of timber, excellent and pure running water, while the climate is unusually salubrious and healthy. His glowing descriptions of that "land of promise" have almost given us the "Western fever."-Holyoke Mirror. From the Holyoke Weekly Mirror. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS. No class of men labor harder or get poorer pay, as a general thing, than printers and newspaper publishers. For the capital invested, the labor performed, and the talent and thought employed. it must be conceded on all hands that the requital they receive is meagre indeed. It has somehow come to be a preconceived notion with the public that they are to stand more "sponging" and "dead-heading;" to puff and defend more people, and sorts of people, without fee or hope of reward, than any other class of business men. They credit wider and longer; get oftener cheated; suffer more pecuniary loss; and are oftener the victims of misplaced confidence; than those of any other calling. People pay a printer's bill more reluctantly than any other. It goes harder with them to expend a dollar on a valuable newspaper than ten dollars on a useless gewgaw; yet every one avails himself of the services of the editor's and printer's ink. How many professional and political reputations and fortunes have been creat ed and sustained by the friendly though unrequited pen of the editor! How many embryo towns and cities have been brought into notice and puffed into prosperity by the press! How many railroads, now in successful operation, would have foundered but for the assistance of the "lever that moves the world!" In short, what branch of American industry or activity has not been promoted, stimulated and defended by the press? And who has tendered it more than a miserable pittance for its mighty services? INTOLERANCE. It is all very well for a few opinionated and restless politicians to meet and concoct plans for carrying out their favorite objects, and at the same time denounce their opponents with all the bitterness of which the English language is capable; this in their conceited eyes is all very well; but should a person of different views detect and expose their schemes, and give expression to his own opinions, these worthies will pounce upon him like the vulture upon the innocent dove, and calumniate him in the basest terms. A noticeable fact is it that men who clamor loudest about freedom (for negroes) are the greatest tyrants as to freedom of opinion.-Holyoke Mirror. From the Holyoke Weekly Mirror. WHIG MEETING. A meeting of the Whigs of Holyoke, pursuant to a call of the Whig Town Committee, convened in Exchange Hall. Sept. 29. 1855, and organized by choosing A. O. Colby, Chairman; and I. Boothby, Secretary. The Chairman read the call for the meeting, stating its object to be to choose delegates to the Whig State Convention to be held in Worcester on the 2d of October; to choose a new Town Committee, &c. The meeting voted to elect three delegates to attend the State Convention. when A. B. F. Hildreth, Otis Holmes, and Richard Pattee were chosen as delegates. Voted that a committee of three be appointed to draft and report resolutions; and A. B. F. Hildreth, R. Pattee and T. H. Kelt were elected said committee. This Committee, through their Chairman, Mr. Hildreth, reported as follows: Resolved. That, having ever regarded the Whig party as the conservative of the Nation, we, the Whigs of Holyoke, amid the present conflicts of opinion, look with renewed confidence to the copservative principles of our party. and regard its continuance as a distinct organization as of vital importance to the welfare of the State and Nation. Resolved. That our country has other interests than those of slavery; and that in a country possessing interests so numerous and diversified, and having aspirations so lofty, an incessant wrangling about negro slaves, (over whom we have no control.) to the exclusion of all other topics and interests, is not the height of statesmanship; and. as Whigs, we cannot give our political support to any man, nor join hands with any party. that makes this single principle the issue. Resolved, That, as Whigs, we ever have and ever will resist efforts to extend African slavery, when we have the power, while at the same time we recognize the obligations imposed by the Constitution and Laws of Congress and respect the compromises of both. Resolved, That the present dominant party of this Commonwealth [know-nothings] came into power making loud protestations of economy, retrenchment and reform, but their acts have given the lie to their professions; and we submit that. by their swelling up an alarming and even untold State debt; prolonging the session of the Legislature beyond all precedent; increasing the pay of its members from two to three dollars per day. and taxing the people to support their vices: pas sing unequal, illiberal and unconstitutional laws; invading private rights; insulting the judiciary of the State; proscribing talent and elevating imbecility; they have truly earned the euphonious cognomen by which they are known. Resolved, That in view of the former high standing of statesmanship in Massachusetts and its present degraded position, we are truly mortified, and henceforth will exert ourselves to redeem the State's character and standing among her sisters of the confederacy. Resolved, In the language of Webster, that, "in the dark and troubled night that is upon us, we see no star above the horizon promising light to guide us but the intelligent, patriotic and united. Whig party;" and that, faithfully discharging our duty as Whigs, we still repose confidence in the intelligence and patriotism of the people, believing that their second sober thought will lead them to reform at least some of the abuses under which we suffer. The report was accepted, and the resolutions unanimously adopted. Voted, That the delegates to the Whig State Convention be and are hereby requested to go for the nomination of a distinct and pure Whig ticket for State Officers. Voted to adjourn. I. BOOTHBY, Secretary. O. A. COLBY, Chairman. There is no enemy so malevolent and mean as the person who has done you an injury without provocation. His conscience, if it be not too dead, is continually upbraiding him, and he therefore seeks every opportunity to silence it by adding insult to injury.—Mirror. |