RAMBLES IN AMERICA.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 106, 5 June 1847, Page 4

RAMBLES IN AMERICA.

rTho following Extracts arc from a work published under the above title] New York Pilots. — There are seventy pilots, all middle aged men, and none are eligible except total abstinence men ; therefore vessels ate never lost owing to drunken pilots; this is impossible. The English might here borrow a leaf out of the American book. It frequently happens, on arriving in the English channel, that the pilot who boards you is a man of seventy years of age, and 1 have known him hoisted up with a tackle, because he was too infirm for climbing up the side ladder ; but an important service like that of pilots should be limited to the ages between thirty and sixty. And, moreover, the first thing an English pilot asks for is a ylais of grog, whilst the New York pilot boarded us, a hundred miles fiom ihe port, in common with sixtynine of the fraternity, are pledged to drink nothing stronger than tea or coffee, or they would be refused a license. Liftihg a House.— One need not walk through the many streets in New York without witnessing in one of them a removal or lifting up of a house ; this is almost peculiar to American mechanics, and I was never tired of looking at it. The practice has contributed very much to the straightness and uniformity of the streets, and so perfectly at home are they at it, that if an advertisement were to appear in the Sun, the Herald, or the Tribune, to remove the London Mansion House to Hampstead Heath, there would be several ofleis for the job. As for the north side of Middle-row, they would think no thing of removing it bodily at once to the Model Prison at Clerkenwell without any of the young misses of the family being in theslightest degree interrupted in their usual avocations. As for the everlasting and dangerous nuiiauce of Holborn Hill, which 1 have been looking at more in sorrow than in anger for these forty yeais, in New York it would be levelled in a week. A worthy tradesman in the city of Brooklyn, opposite New York, wanted to convert his two parlour w indows,into a shop front. "No, no," said the builder, ''don't throw away your parlour, I will lift the house up, and build you a much better, loftier, and more spacious shop, where the parlour now stands." The screws and timbers were accordingly brought, and 1 saw the two-story brick house go up slowly and imperceptibly, whilst the daughters were looking out of the window, as if nothing was going on more than usual. 1 watched the alteration every time I crossed the ferry to Brooklyn, and in the course of two or three weeks the tradesman was occupying his new and handsome store, us the shops are called.

Have the 'outage to show your preference f<r honesty, in whatever guise it appeals; anil your contempt for vice surrounded by attractions. Have the courage to wear your old garments till you can pay for new ones. Have the courage to thrust your legs down between the sheets in cold weather j and to shave every day before breakfast. Have the courage to review your own conduct, to commend it where you detecc faults, to amend it to the best of your ability to make good resolves for jour future guidance, and to keep them. Have the courage to get out of bed when you are called, and to go to bed when you are sleepy. Have the courage to deny a favour that causes you the pang of compunction. Amiable pliability olten leads to misfortune, misery, and crime. Have the courage to deny yourself every gratification that is likely to be followed by evil consequences however small. Gratification is never labting ; reproach and annoyance cuuiiut endure for a lifetime.