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VOL. L.
CLOVE. ANODYNE
TOOTHACHE DROPS.
An Immediate and perfect Cure.
THOSE who have felt the painful throbbing and ex
crupiating pangs of this disease shooting through
their
. laws with most tormenting perseverance, and, as
is often the case, have received but little sympathy from
friends on such occasions, will no doubt be much pleased
to know of a remedy that will never fail to quiet forever
the unmerciful offender. This remedy id the CLOVE
ANODYNE, an unfailing cure.
The following testimony is from one of our most dis
tinguished practical Dentists
Nsw YORK, Dec. 19, 1844.
Aresm. A. 8.4. D. Sands—Gentlemen : In the course ca
my practice I have extensively used your Clove Anodyne
with much success for the relief of the Toothache; and
as 1 constantly recommend it to my patients, I deem II
dot just to inform you of the high• opinion I hare of it
over other remedies. 1 am, ours, very respectfully,
M. LEVETT, Dentist,
260 Broadway, corner of %Varren!et
PRICE 25 cts. PER VIAL
Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by A. B. &
D. SANDS, Druggists and Chemists, 100 Fulton-street,
eor. of William, New York.' Sold also by Druggists
ite.erally throughwit the United States and Canada
For Sale by GEORGE A. MILLER, Druggist.
West King Street, who is the sole agent for Lani
caster county.
January 16,'49
50 DR. HUNTER will forfeit suo, it failnig
to cure any case of Secret Disease that may
come under his care, no matter how long standing
or afflicting. Either Sex are invited to his private
rooms, No. 35 North Seventh Street, without fear
of t :lnterruption by other patients, as thousands are
cured yearly . by his practical experience and great
remedies. Strangers and others who have been
unfortunate in the selection of a Physician, are so
licited to call on the Doctor. His Rrai Dune and
his Skr-ciric act like magic in diseases of this class.
READ AND REFLECT.—The afflicted would
do well to reflect before trusting their health, hap
piness, and in many cases their lives in the hands
of Physicians ignorant of this class of maladies. yt
is certainly impossible for one man to understanc.
all the ills the human family are subject to. Every
respectable Physician has his particular branch , in
which he is more successful than his brother pro
fessors, and, therefore, to that he devotes more of
his time. and study. Dr. HUNTER is known to be
the most successful practitioner in the United States
in diseases of the sexual organs.
YEARS OF' PRACTICE exclusively devoted to
the study and treatment of glom, stricture, effects
of solitary habits, ulcers upon the body, throat,
nose or legs, pains in the head or bones, mercurial
rheumatism,- gravel, irregularities, climate, or
purities of the blood, whereby the constitution has
become enfeebled, enables the Doctor to offer spee
dy relief to all who may place themselves under
his care.
Office open during the week from 7 A. M. limn
9P. M. On Sundays the.office will close at 2 P. M.
Dec 12'48 ly-46
.
Heyrs F.llabrocation for Horses.
T HIS I
most valuable Embrocation ,
ion,„
will cure Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, -',...
Galls,-Swellings and all other coin- ) T i
plaints, which require an external ,'- -.
remedy. It gives immediate relief in • Uri ,
the Scratches and the disease incident - '—'-''•
to horses of white feet and noses, produced by St.
John's Wort. It is also highly useful in relaxing
stiffness of the tendons and joints, and produces
beneficial effects in cracked heels' brought on by
high feeding, splints and sprains. This Embroca
tion is highly recommended to Farmers, Farriers,
Keepers of Livery Stables, and private gentlemen
owning horses, and should be constantly kept in the
stable. The genuine article is prepared only by
W. MARSHALL, No. 302 Race Street, below 9th,
south side, Philadelphia, and for sale by
GISH & BROTHER, Lancaster
Jan 2,'49
The Great Discovery
D.R. WILLIAM STEELING'S PULMONARY
SYRUP is the GRAND REMEDY for Coughs,
Colds, Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Throat
ease, Whooping Cough, Scarlet Fever, Measles,
rtnebs of Breath, and in short for all Diseases
he Throat, Breast and Lungs. 'Fry it and you
not be disappointed. It is far superior to the
of useless trash that is offered to the public,
on trial you will find it 80! The only thing in
ch it is deficient is that the pH , — ;-+ Only Filly
t tirts, while others are extortin.z Dollar a
Blitle for articles very far inferior:
r'or gale by
MR. SMITH, Druggisi,
JOHN GISH,
JACOB LONG,
Lancaster City,
and wholesale by the Proprietor, at Camden City
New .19r1L11.
Dec a, '4B
JOHN C. BAKER'S
COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA.
THIS article is employed with great success and
by the most eminent physicians of this city.
for the cure of the following diseases:
Scrofula or King's Evil, Rheumatism, Cutaneous
Diseases, Sypheletic Affections, Tetter and Ulcers,
White Swellings, Scurvy, Neuralgia or Tic Dolor
eau:, Cancer, Goitre or Bronchocele. (swelled
neck,) Spine - Disease, Chronic Disease of the Lungs,
to counteract the destructive effects of Mercury,
Jaundice, Hypertrophy or the Enlarged - tent of the
Heart, Palpitation and Trembling in the Region of
the Heart and Stomach, Enlargement of the Bones,
Joints or Ligaments. Also, all the various diseases
Skin, 'such as Tetter, Ringworm,
Biles, Pimples,
Carbuncles etc.; Dyspepsia and Liver Complaints,
Nervous Affections, Dropsical Swellings, Constitu
tional Disorders, and diseases originating from an
impure state of the blood and other fluids of the
body, in short all diseases where a change of the
system is required.
Price 50 cents per bottle.
Prepared only by the Proprietor,
JOHN C. BAKER & Co..
Wholesale Druggists and Chemists, No. 100,1/4
North Third Street, Philadelphia.
They always keep a good and general supply of
FRESH DRUGS,
also a new article, IMITATION PLATE GLAMI, very
superior, equal to English or French plates, for
about one fifth the price,—any size, according to
order % together with Oils, Paints ¢ Glass generally.
The Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla for sale by
HENRY & CASLOW,;Druggists, corner of Market
and Third Streets, Harrisburg, Sole Agent for
.Dauphin connty
Dec. 4,'48
Dentistry IntprOved.
HAVING secured the Patent Right to use Gil
bert's " Central Cavity Plate," last summer,
we take•this opportunity of informing the public
that after thoroughly testing this important inven
tion wee pronounce it one of the greatest improve
ments in our profession. By means of which we
are enablid to insert partial or entire upper seta of
teeth without the use of clasps or springs, better
than by any other mode herrtofore in use.
Obturators or artificial plates inserted in the most
comfortable manner.
Persons having difficult cases which may have
baffled the skill of Dentists arc invited to give us a
call at No. 34 East King Street, Lancaster
ELY PARRY, M. D:,
CHARLES H. BRESSLER, M. D.
Nov. 14, IE4B. tt:42.
WILLIAM W. BROWN, Attorney at Law,
tenders his professional services to the public.
Office in West King street, a few doors west of the
Lamb Tavern and next door to Col. D. W. Patter
son. [nov 2 48
TUST RECEIVED and now opening another lot
0 of those superior Fait Color PRINTS at GI cts.
together with an elegant assortment of Cochecoi
,liampton, American and Merrimac, in new and
beautiful patterns at the New York Store.
GRIEL & GILBERT
JUST RECEIVED at J. GISH'S GENERAL AGENCY for the sale of Genuine Popular Medicine •
Store immediately opposite Mrs - . Kauffman's Hotel, and next door to the Examiner 4- Herald Office
North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pa., a full supply of the following genuine and celebrated Family
Medicines. trlr Merchants and all country dealers (in genuine medicines) supplied at the lowest terms.
Wistar's celebrated Balsam of Wild Cherry. I Dt. Cullen's Indian Vegetable Panacea.
Bull's Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla. Steven's pure Wine of Tar for coughs, colds and
Swaim's well known Panacea. consumptions.
Townsend's Sarsaparilla. • .!
~ Atwood's Dyspeptic Bitters.
Comfort's composition Powder—spired Bit. N 0.6
l.l' Sheirnan's All-Healing Balsam.
~
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills.
Brandreth's Universal • .
Beckwith's Anti-Dyspeptic " ~
Dr. DyotCs Anti-Bilious
, Grafenberg Vegetable
Dr. Rusivs . lnfallible Health "
Dr. Steeling's Vegetable 121 cent Pills;
Dr. Wistarls Sarsaparilla and Tar
Clickner's Sugar Coated . -
Worsdellls Restorative
Dr. Leidy's Sarsaparilla Blhod
Dr. Wistarls Vegetable
Dr. Sonle's Sovereign Balm •
llibbard's Family ci
Stainburn's Vegetable Extract "
APAllister's All-Healing Ointment and Hair Oil.
Mrs. M. C. Maxwell's Indian Extract for ltheimia-
in and Paika, a certain cure.
Dr. Jayne Ameriean Hair Dye.
Detterer's Magic Hair Oil.
Indian Cholagogue for Fever and Ague
Wheeler's Teaberry Tooth Wash.
Allebasi's Celebrated Medicines.
Staintoirns Medicated Toilet Soap.
Dr. Davis' Wild Cherry and Tar Syrup
With a number of other popular Medicines, (all which are warranted fresh and genuine,) and sold
at the Lowest Prices.
B Pamphlets, Hand-Bills, and copies of the Oracle of Health, to be had gratis by applying at J. GISH'S
GENERAL AGENCY, opposite Kauffman's Hotel, North Queen Street, Lancaster. tf-42
November 14, 1848.
Sprecher & Rohrees Cheap Hard-
Ware Store.
HARDWARE, Glass, Paints,Oils, and Varnishes
at that long established stand, East Xing et
Lancaster, formerly occupied by Huwett tst Krieder,
a few doors east of the Court House, next door to
the Drug Store of James Smith, and opposite Geo.
Messenkop's 'Hotel, which they have recently taken
and where they will carry on the business.'
They most respectfully beg leave to invite the
attention of their friends and acquaintances to their
stock of Hardware, which they have just opened
and will sell at the most reasonable prices, includ
ing every variety of Iron and Steel, Latches, Locks,
Bolts, Hidgee, Screws, and all kinds of,building
materials, every description of Files, Blacksmith's
Bellows, Saddlery, best warranted Edge Tools,
Planes, and Veneers. Also a complete assortment
of CEDAR wmut, such as tubs, buckets, butter
churns, ogether with every article in their line.
They will keep constantly on hand every variety of
Coal and Wood Stoves; also a highly approved
COOKING STOVE.
9me mN-31
The attention of young beginners is particularly
called to their full and complete assortment of
household utensils.
Deterinined to spare no pains to accommodate
purchasers, and by steady adherence to business,
they expect to merit a continuance of the liberal
patronage thus flit bestowed upon them.
GEORGE D. SPRECHER,
REUBEN S. ROHRER.
Old Metal and Flaxseed taken in exchange for
goods. jartla-50
To the Ladies.
CBALL ALL :Lod see Mrs. Raningees stock of 'Bonnets
; Muffs, Feathers, Flowers, 4-e., ,S-e.
As Winter is now upon us, it behooves even•
Lady to seek that place where the prettiest, cheap
est; and most fashionable Bonnets can be pOrchased.
Direct your steps to
MRS. RANEsiGER'S MILLINERY ROOMS,
•
and your desire can be gratified.
Ladies, if you have not supplied yourselves with
MUFFS, call on Mrs. Raninger, and you can get a
first-rate article at a very moderate price. In flirt,
at a much lower rate than any Dry Goods Store in
this City can furnish coo a similar article.'
Muees are so cheap at this establishment, that
they go oil like chaff before a Winter's wind. The
Ladies ore invited to call early, or they will lose
bargains thataxo not to be met with often.
Nlrs. R. takes pleasure in informing her friends
and her hundreds of kind customers, That she still
continues the MILLINERY business in all its
branches, on the second floor of Kramph's
opposite'the Post Office, where can be had the
most elegant assortment of goods, consisting of
BONNETS, FEATHERS, FLOWERS,
HEAD DRESSES, RIBBONS, CAPS,
BONNET CAPS, SATINS, SILKS,
and VELVETS
of every variety, and in the latest and most fashion
able styles. She feels confident that in the exten
sive stock which she has been so careful to select,
and at her very reduced prices, she will be able to
please all who may favor her with their presence.
January 16,1549 51
Reinhardt's Patent Glass Pad Lever Truss.
rpHESE TRUSSES have a superiority over any
heretofore in use on account of their durability
and cleanliness. The Rupture Pad, which is con
structed of Glass, has a double motion: let, by
revolving on its own axis, and 2d, by the Lever, by
which it is attached to the tnain spring. In this
way it is so adjusted as to suit the motion of the
body, and is always clean and durable, which in
the ordinary stuffed pads is not the case. The
manifest superiority these Trusses have over others,
is, that they are more effectual in retaining the
parts in their proper place and making: an equal
pressure. They can be adjusted to suit either side.
The Umbilical Truss is unsurpassed, hieing so
adapted as to remain perfectly secure when applied.
These Instruments are for sale of different sizes,
at JOHN F. LONG'S
Drug and Chemical Store, No. S North:Queen St.
"January 16 ' St-51
ITIFIE undersigned hereby returns his
`sincere thanks to, his respected pa
trons-4 and the public in general, forthe
liberal encouragement in his business, .yVr
BOOK-BINDING; and makes known, at the same
time, that he still continues at his old AND WELL
KNOWN STAND, in North Prince Street Lancas
ter, Pa., to carry on his business, in all pits various
branches. Ills work, in regard to beauty, durabil
,ity and cheapness, cannot be exceeded by any other
in the State.
At the same time, ho deems it not superfluous
here to remark, that he likewise continues the bus
iness or writing POWERS OF ATTORNEY, LET
TERS, DEATH CERTIFICATES, RENUNCIA
TION DEEDS, &c., for his German countrymen,
as desired; and will so send moneys for them to
auy place in Germany, vith perfect safety.
P LIP C. RANNINGEIt.
July 4, IS4S. I y-23.
Longenecker & Co.,
-LT AVE just received a large assortment of
GINGHAMS, plain and plaid which they wilt
sell very low. AIso,LINEN LUSTRES, Lawnsl
&c. Black BEREGE SHAWLS, rich colored ligh,
Fabrics, do. Superior black and Blue Black Sum
mer BOMBAZINES. [May 9, ,18.-tf-16.
MIANCY Cachmere,'new and beautiful styles.—
"' Plain and Fancy Velvets, Plain and Fancy
Satins, togetherwith a great variety at low prices
in plain and fancy styles, now opening at the New
York Store.
GRIEL & GILBERT.
Oct 10 37
TORN L. KEFFER has commenced' the above
0 business, in A. N. Brenneman's Building, Cen
tre Square, Lancaster, and will do the best he cau,
by strict attention to business and moderate charges,
to satisfy all who may be pleased to favor him with
their, custom. (May 1848.—1 ri
FRENCH, GERMAN, AMERICAN and ENG
LISH CLOTHS, embracing every color that
can be desired; from $l5O per yard upwards, now
opening at the New York store.
RRIEL & GILORT,
chit - to 37
CITY OF LANCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1849.
"FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE :"
UPODELDOC, CASTOR UIL, SWEET OIL, &c 1
Bookbindery
Vestings.
Sign Painting.
Cloths C loths !!
THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS, WHERE LABOR COMMANDS" THE GREATEST REWARD."7-MucHANAN
Hyena Tooth Ache Drops.
Dr. Jayne's Expectorant and other preparations.
Dr. Swayne"s Syrup of Wild Cherry.
Dr. Steeling's Pulmonary Syrup.
Louden's Indian Expectorant and Hair Tonic.
Dr. Sherman's Poor Man's Strengthening Plasters
Dr. J. H. Longenecker's Black Salve.
Graetenberg Health Bitters.
Green Mountain Ointment.
Tausey's Master of Pain.
Shenck's Pulmonic Syrup.
Roberts' Vegetable Embrocation.
Thomson's Tar and Wood Namha.
Beektnan's Pulmonic Syrup.
Hibbard's Wild Cherry Bitters.
Ritter's Tar and Wild Cherry Syrup.
Roivand's Tonic Mixture for Ague.
llobensack's Worm Syrup.
Fahnestock"k Vermifuge.
Gay's Extract of Chanchalaqua, a californian
ant of rare virtues.
Dr.' Sherman's Orris Tooth Paste.
Dr- Wistar's Cherry Candy for coughs, &.c
Hauck's Vegetable Panacea.
Barnes' Pile Lotion, a certain cure
Davis' Horse Livament.
Dillow's Heave Cure.
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rpHF. subscriber has just received a large and
spleneid
ASSORTMENT OF TOYS,
and Fancy Goods for the approaching holidays.
W. E. HEINITSH,
East King St., 4 doors vest of the Farmers' Bank.
Nov 2S - tf-44
Tuition In the German and He
brew Langdages.
ACU 11, EHRLICIi respectfully informs the cifi
zens of Lancaster, that he is prepared to give,
instruction as Teacher of the German and Hebrew
Languages, and will be happy to receive a class.
By lung and practical experience in this profession,
both in Europe and America, he feels competent,
in a short time and by the simplest methods, to
impart an accurate knowledge and comprehension
or these two useful and important languages.
Applicants will please call at the Book Store of
J. GISI1.8: Co., (Diller's,) city of Lancaster,
Dec 5, '4S
Notice to Distillers,
AND ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
WLancaster, H"h "-S Co ' pae r Jacob sni i e h
i a t l z • e e received i t N i s ' e e d h city y. let
ters
ters Patent, recorded in the Patent office in the city
of Washington certain useful improvements in the
construction oiStills, which improvements consist
of an additional tub, called a the tub, which
is placed partly above the still, , r which tub the
doubler is inclosed, the beer which is pumped into
the upper tub passes down by a plug pipe into the
doubling tub, where it is brought to a boiling state
before it is let into the still, which pipe is opened
or stopped when requisite by means of a phig made
of wood, copper, or any other material.
What I claim as my improvements are the above
described doubling tub and the plug by which the
beer passes from one tub to the other, or from the
tub into the still.
having received information,amounting to proof,
that my patent for the above described improve
ments has been violated by several distillers in this
county and in various other places, I hereby give
notice, that unless those persons who have made
use of my invention, or have it now in use, without
being authorized by toe, come forward and make
fill reparation for having ihfringed my patent right,
on or before the first day of •M arch next, suit will
be instituted against all and every such person or
persons. JACOB WEITZEL.
Feb. 22, 1848
CALIFORNIA GOLD
TAOES not create an excitement equal to that
j produced by Cheap Dry Goods that are now
opening at the BEE HIVE, North Queen Street.
Splendid Plaid Lustres only IS cts worth 371
Striped Changeable Lustres only 37iets worth M2l.
Rich Maroon, Brown, Modes, Pur
ple, Striped 621 "
Lupin's French Merinoes—all shades.
The largest variety of Ladies Dress Goods in
this city.
Excellent Dark Calicoes only G/ cts. worth 10 cts
38 inch heavy i nbleach'd Mnslins only 61 cts.
38 " fine
•
These articles together with a variety of other
choice DRY GOODS have just been received for
the HOLIDAYS, and are destined to be sold as the
greatest bargains, auctions, &c., to the contrary
notwithstanding.
CHAS. E. IVENTZ & BRO.,
Bee Hive, North Queen Sheet.
Dec 19
Removal
(111 W. SPURRIER would respectfully inform his
1,,:j friends, customers, and the public in general,
that he has removed his Clothing Store from his old
stand next door to the Post Office, to one door
south of John Bear's Printing Office, and nearly
opposite J. Michael's lintel, at the sign of the BIG
PANTS, where all would do well to call that wan
to buy CHEAP AND WELL-MADE CLOTHING.
[rr Custoiner's work attended to at the shortest
notice, and made in a workmanlike manner. Don't
forget the place, sign of the Big Pants.
dec 7 '47-45-tf] GEO. SPURRIER.
Ornamental Marble Works
EAST King street, next door to John N. Lane's
store. Charles M. Howell, Marble Mason,
respectthlly informs the citizens of Lancaster and
the public in general, that he carries on the MAR
BLE BUSINESS, in all its various branches, and
invites all to call un him, as he is satisfied that he
call sell cheaper than any other establishment in the
city or state.
He invites the public to call and examine his
stock of finished Mantels, Monuments Tombs,
Grave Stones, and also his collection of designs ibr
Monuments, Tombs, betbre purchasing else
where. jan 16
Estate of John Berg.
a the Court of Common Pleas for the Co. of Lauer.
TiTtIERF.AS, Jacob Heisey, Committee ofJacob
VV Berg, a lunatic, (now deceased,) did on the
28th day of December, 1848, tile in 4.he Office of
the Prothonotary of the said Court, his Account of
the said Estate:
Notice is hereby given to all persons inter ested
.
in the said Estate, that the said Court have appoint
ed the 27th day or January, 1849, for confirmation
thereof, unless exceptions be filed.
ATTEST: HENRY STOEK, Proth'y.
Prothonolary's ojsice,
Lancaster, Jan. 9, 1898.
.5 4t-50
LANCASTER CITY IRON WORKS
JAMES WHITEHILL, Iron Founder and Manu
facturer of Steam Engines,Boilers, Rolling and
all other kinds of MILL GEAING, Shafting, Cot
ton Machinery, Planning Machines, double and
single geared Slide and Hand Lathes, upright and
horizontal Boring Mills, all of which I guarantee
to build on the most improved plans and finish in
the best style of workmanship.
N. 8.. Drawings, plans, specifications and estima
tes of mills and machinery made at the shortest
notice.
Oct 10, 1848
Longenecker Sr. Co.,
TTAVE received a large lot of very cheap.LlN
I — l EN GOODS.
Shirting Linens at 25 and 371 cents.
12-4 Linen Sheetings, very low.
9-4 " CC 4C
Damask Table Linens, 50, 621'and 75 cts.
Table Napkins, very cheap.
Diaper Toweling, best quality.
Fine Huckaback Toweling.
' Bird Eye Diaper, for children's aprons.
Cambric Handkerchiefs froia 124 to $l.
May 9, 1848. • if-16.
poetry.
THE FISHERMAN.
BY Joixre G. SA:xe
There lived an honest fisherman,
I knew him passing well,
Who lived hard by a little pond,
Within a little dell.
A grave and quiet man was he,
Who loved his hook and rod;
So even ran his line ciflife,
His neighbors thought it odd.
For science and for books, he said
He never had a wish,
No school to him was Worth a fig.
Except a " school of fish,"
The single minded fisherman
A double-calling had— •
To tend his flock in winter time.
In summer fish for shad.
In short, this honest fisherman
All other toils forsook,
And though no vagrant man was he,
. He lived by "hook and crook."
All day that fisherman would sit
liponan ancient log,
•And gaze into the water, like
Some sedentary frog.
A cunning fisherman was he,
His angles were all tight,
And when he scratched his aged poll,
You'd know he'd got a bite.
To charm the fish, he never spoke,
Although his voice was fine,
He found the tnost convenient way
Was just to "drop a line."
And many a "gudgeon" or the pond,
It'made to speak to-day,
Would own, with grief, this angler had
A mighty "taking way,"
One day, while fishing on a log,
He mourned his want of luck,
When suddenly lie felt a bite,
And jerking—caught a dvek.
Alasl that day the fisherman
Had taken too much grog,
And being out a landsman, too,
He couldn't ''keep the log. —
Inyain he strove with all his might
And tried to gain the shore:
Down, clown lie went to feed the fish
He'd waited oft before!
The moral or this mourofol tale
To all is plain and clear;
A single " drop too much" or rum
May make a watery bier,
And he who will not " sign the pledge,' ,
And keep the promise rast,
May be, in spite of late a stiff
Cold water man at last!
liii6cellaneutt6.
A Desirable Match
I=l
Among the musical disciples Who assembled one
evening in each week, to receive his (Ichabod
Crane's) instruction in psalmody, was Katrina Van
Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substan
tial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh
eighteen, plump as a partridge; ripe and, melting
and rosy-checked as • one of her father's peaches;
and universally famed, not merely for her beauty.
but her vast expectations. She was withal a little
of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her
dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern
fashions, as most suited to set off her charms.
She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which
her grandmother had brought over from Saardam ;
the tempting stomacher of the olden time; and
withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the
pr'ettiest toot and ankle in all the country round.
Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart to•
wards the sex ; and it is not to be wondered at, that
so tempting a morsel soon found favor in his eyes.
more especially after he had visited her in her pa
ternal mansion. Old Baltus Van Tassel was a per
fect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted
farmer. He seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes
or his heart beyond the boundaries of his farm;
but within those every thing was snug, happy and
well conditioned. He was satisfied with his wealth
but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the
hearty abundance, rather than the style in which
he lived. His strorighold was situated on the banks
of the Hudson, in one of those green fertile nooks,
in Which the Dutch farmers are'so fond of nestling.
A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it,
at the Mot of which bubbled a spring of the softest
and sweetest water, in a well formed of a barrel,
and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to
a neighboring brook, that babbled away through
the alders and dwarf willows Hard by the farm
house was a vast barn that might have_ served for
a church; every window and crevice. of which
seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the
farm, the flail was busily resounding within from
morning till night, swallows and martins skimmed
twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons,
some with one eye turned up as it watching the
weather, some with their heads under their wings
' or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling and
cooing and bowing, about their dames were enjoy
ing the sunshine on the roof. Sleek unwieldy pork
ers were grunting in the repose and abundance Of
their pens; from whence sallied forth, now and
then, troops of suckling pigs, as if to snuff the air.
A stately squadron of showy geese were riding M
an adjacent pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks;
regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the
farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like
illtempered house-wives, with their peevish discos
tented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gal
lant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and
a tine gentleman; clapped his burnished wings, and
crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart—
sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and
then generously calling his ever hungry family of
wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which
he had discovered.
The pedagogue's mouth watered as lie looked
upon this sumptuous promise of luxurious wititer
fare. In his devouring mind's ey e, he pictured to
himself every roasting pig running about, wi a
pudding in his belly and an apple in his mouth;
the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comforta
ble pie, and tucked in with a covering of crust;
the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and
the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug mar
ried couples, with a decent competency of onion
sauce. In thelporkers he saw carved out the future
sleek side of liicyjykarldjuic.y relishing ham ; not a
turkey, but he bellifiirryritily trussed up, with its
lizard under its , :vint;.aral peradventure a necklace
of savoury sausages; and even bright chanticleer
himself lay sprawling on his back; in a side dish,
with uplifted claws, as if .craving that quarter,
which his chivalric spirit , disdained to usk while
living.
As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and
as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat mea
dow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buck
weat and Indian corn and the orchards burthened
with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm ten
ements ,of Van Tassel; his heart yearned after a
damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his
imagination expanded with the idea, how they
might be Beadily turned into cash, and the money
invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle
palaces the wilderness. Nay his busy fancy al
-1 ready realiZed his hopes, and presenting to him the
hlocimirig Katrina, with a whole family of children,,
mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with house
hold trumpery, with pots and kettles - dangling be
neath;. and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing
mare, with a Colt.M. her hcalsyietting oat for Ken.
lucky, Tennespe, or,the.-I,ord knows where.. .
The Supreme Power.
From an eloquent article in the N. A. Ilevieu
"it has been as beautifully as truly said, that the.
'undevout astronomer is mad: The same remark
might with equal force and justicebe applied to the
undevout geologist. Of all the absurdities ever
started, none more extravagant can:be named, than
that the grand and tar-reaching researches and dis
coveries of geology are hostile to the spirit of re
ligion. They seem to us, on the very contrary, to
lead the inquirer step by step, into the inure imme
diate presence of that tremendous Power, which
could alone produce and can alone account for the
primitive convulsions of the globe, of which the
proofs are graven in eternal characters, on the side
of its bare and cloud-piercing mountains, or are
wrought into the very substance of the strata that
compose its surface, and whirls are also day by day
and hour by hour, at work. to feed the fires of the
volcano, to pour forth its molten tides, or to com
pound the salubrious elements of the mineral -foun
tains, which spring in a thousand valleys. In gaz
ing at the starry heaven,, all glorious as they are,
we sink under the awe of their magnitude, the mys
tery of their secret and reciprocal influences, the
bewildering conceptions of their distances. Sense
and science are at war.
The sparkling gem that glitters on the brow of
night, is converted by science into a mighty Orb—
the source of light and heat, the centre of attrac
tion, the sun of a system like our own. The beau
tiful planet - which lingers in the western sky, when
the sun has gone down, or heralds the approach of
morning,—whose mild and lovely beams seem to
shed a spirit of tranquility, not unmixed with sad
ness, nor far removed from devotion, into the very
heart of him who wanders forth in solitude to be
hold it—is in the contemplation of science,a cloud
wraps sphere ; a world of rugged mountains and
stormy deeps. NVe study, we reason, we calculate.
We climb the giddy scaffold of induction up to the
very stars. We borrow the wings of the boldest
analysis and flee to the uppermost parts of creation
and then, shutting our eyes on the radiant points
that twinkle in the vault of night, the well instruct
ed mind.sees opening before it in mental vision, the
stupendous mechanism of the heavens. Its planets
swell into worlds. Its crowded starsrecede,expand,
become central suns, and we hear the rush of the
mighty orbs that circle round them.
The banks of Orion are loosed, and the sparkling
rays which, cross each other on his belt, are resolv
ed into floods of light, streaming from system to
system, across the illimitable pathway of the outer
heavens. The conclusions which we reach, are op
pressively grand and sublime the imagination
sinks under them ; the truth is too vast, too remote
from the premises. from which it is deducted ; and
man, poor frail roan, sinks back to the earth, and
sighs to worship again, with the innocence of a
child or Chaldean shepherd, the quiet and beautiltd
stars, as he sees them in the simplicity of sense.
But in the province of geology, there are some
subjects, in which the senses seem, as it were, led
tip into the laboratory of divine power. Let a man
fix his eyes upon one of the marble columns in the
Capitol at Washington. He sees there a condition
of the earth's surface, when the pebbles of every
size and form and material, which cnmpose this
singular species of stone, were held suspended in
the medium in which they are now imbedded, then
a liquid sea of marble, which was hardened into
the solid, lustrous, and variegated mass before his
eye, in the very substance of which he beholds the
record of a convulsion of the globe.
Let him go anti stand upon the sides of the crater
of Vesuvius, in the ordinary state of its eruptions,
and contemplate the glary stream of molten rocks,
that oozes quietly at his lest, encasing the surface
of the mountain as it cools with a most black and
stygian crust, or lighting up its sides at night with
streaks of lurid lire. Let him consider the volcanic
island, which arose a few years since in the neigh
borhood of Malta, spouting flames, front the depth
of the sea; or accompany one of our own naviga-
I tors trout Nantucket to the Autartic ocean, who
finding the centre of !a. small island, to which he
was in the habit of resorting, sunk in the interval
of two of his voyages, sailed through an opening in
its sides where the ocean had found its way, and,
moored his ship iu the smouldering crater of a re
cently extinguished 'volcano. Or finally. let him
survey the striking phenomenon which our author
has described, and which has led us to this train
of remark, a mineral thuntain of salubrious quali
ties, of a temperature greatly above that of the
surface of the earth in the region where it is found,
compounded with numerous ingredients in a con
stant proportion, and known to have been flowing
from its secret springs. as at the present day, at
least for eight hundred years. unchanged, unexhaust•
ed. The religious of the elder world in an early
stage of civilization placed a genius or a divinity
by the side of every spring gushed front the rocks,
or flowed fro di the bosom of the earth. Surely it
would be no weakness for a thoughtful man, who
should resort for the renovation of a wasted frame,
to one of those salubrious mineral fountains, if he
drank in their healing waters as a gift from the
outstretched though invisible hand, of an every
where present and benignant Power.
Riches.
Every man is rich or poor according to the pro
portion between his desires and enjoyments; any
enlargement of wishes, is therefore equally destruc
tive to happiness, with the diminution of posses
sion; arid he that teaches another to long for what
he shall never obtain, is no less an enemy to his
quiet, than if he had robbed him of his patrimony.
The rich lose all gratifications, because their wants
are prevented; and, added to the lassitude;which
follows satiety, they have a pride proceeding from
wealth, which make them impatient at the loss of
pleasure, though they have no enjoyment from the
possession of it. The odour of ten thousand roses,
pleases but for a moment; the pain occasioned by
one of the thorns is long felt. One hardship in
the midst of luxuries is. to the opulent, a thorn
among flower. TO the poor, on the contrary, one
indulgence in the midst of hardships, is a flower
among thorns. They have a lively sense of it—
the effect of every- thing is increased by contrast.
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is
only discovered in What they procure. They are
not coveted unless by narrow minds, which con
found the means with the end, but for the sake of
power, influence, and esteem; or,. by some of less
elevated and refitted sentiments, as necessary to sen
, anal enjoyments. It almost always happens that
the man who grows rich. changes his notions of
poverty, states his wants by•some new measure.
and from flying the enemy'that pursued him, bends
his endeavors to overtake those whom he sees be
fore him. Wealth cannot confer greatness, for
nothing can make that great, which the degree of
nature has ordained to be little—the bramble may
be planted in a hot-bed, but never can become an oak.
Complimentary.
An old Clergyman, and a rather eccentric one
withal, whose field of labor was a town in the in
terior of New England, one Sunday, at the close of
his service, gave notice to his congregation, that in
the course of the week, he expected to go on a
mission—on a mission to the ..uv.rrurx! The
members of his church were struck with alarm
and sorrow,
at this sudden and unexpected announce
ment of the loss of their beloved pastor, and one of
the deacons in great agitation, exclaimed, " Why.
my dear sir, you have never told us one word of
this before ! What shall we dot" - Oh, brother
," said the Parson, with the greatest sang
froid, " I don't expect to go out of town! - -Ban ;
gor Adv.
Laughter.
Man is the only animal with the poners of
laughing—a privilege which was not bestowed
upon him for nothing. Let us then laugh while
we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be,
short of a lockjaw, and desPite of what the poet
says about "the loud laugh that speaks the vacant
mind.", , The mind should occasionally.be vacant as
the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for pre
cisely the same reason.
LLP'I. know well enough'," said a fellow "where
fresh fish . come from, but where they catch these
very salt fish, I'll be hanged if I can tell!"
A Truth.
No man, however degraded, is iitteilv beyond
reformation. WHITTIER has thus elelsntly ex•
pressed this truth: ' •
r , As °mule white sea's charmed shore,
The Parsee sees his holy hill
with thinnest smoke-clouds curtained o'er,
Yet knows beneath them evermore,
The low, palo fire is quivering still ;
So underneath its clouds of sin,
The heart of man retaineth yet,
Gleams of its glorious origin;
And.half-quenched stars that never set,
Dim colors of its laded brow,
And early beauty living there;
And o'er its wasted desert blow
Faint breathings of its morning air.
Oh ! never yet upon the scroll
Of the sin -stained, but priceless soul,
Hath Heaven inscribed 'Despair !'
Cast not the clouded gem away,
Quench not the dim but living ray—
My brother man beware!
With that deep voice which from the skies.
Forbade the Patrfarch's sacrifice,
God's angel cries, FORBEAR;"
Among the Tartars the Caspian is known as
Akdingis, that is, the White Sea. Baku, on its
Persian side, is remarkable for its perpetual fire,
scarcely discoverable under the pitchy clouds of
smoke from the bitumen that feeds it. It is th e
natural fire-altar of the old Persian worship.
From the Pennsylvanian
Facts for Whig Protectionists
There is daily-growing, up a deeper distrust of
the whole system of Protection. However ne
cessary it may be to the success of individual en
terprise, this system is now pretty generally re
garded as a tax upon the masses. Those who
have heretofore allowed others to think for them,
now begin to examine, to think, and to act for
themselves. Those who compose the great ma
jority of the producers—the tillers of the soil—
though long indifferent to schemes which they were
assured did not injure them, now see that these
schemes are doubly oppressive—first, by making
them pay more for what they buy, and second, by
making them get less for what they sell. The
high taxes of the Tariff of 1842, for instance, had
they existed at the time of the famine in Europe,
would have done much. to diminish the great com
merce which then sprang into being—certainly
would have done much to discourage any extended
trade in American produce thereafter.
In HUNT ' S Merchants' Magazine, fur January,
Millis year, we find some statistics, which co ning,
from such a publication—undeniably Whig in its
tendencies—cannot fail to be received, more as re
luctant admissions, than as willing testimony.—
The great prosperity, here commended and com
mented upon, has grown up, let it not be forgotten,
since the enactment of that liberal and enlightened
commercial policy which the Whig leaders would
now destroy. These brilliant results, so important
to the country, and so vital to the agricultural in
terest, have, it seems, exciteirthe envy of those par
tisans, who labor more to promote the welfare of
classes than of the great body of the people. But
will the people allow these politicians to disappoint .
all their bright hopes for the future?
The following table shows the quantity of some
of the principle articles of produce left at tidewa
ter from the commencement of navigation to the
close, during the last seven years:
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The quantities of every article are far in J•xcess
of any year prior to 1847, and the articles of but
ter lard, cheese, and bacon, show the most extra
ordinary results. The weight of these four artic
les for the last year has been 84,482,543 lbs.,
which was the total in 1842. The largest propor
tion of this immense increase has been exported,
swelling the sum of the export value of breadstuffs
and provisions, as given in the above table, some
$28,000,000. The corn trade has also become
important, a, d will now, probably, even in years
of good harvest, continue to increase in magnitude
the more it becomes known as an article of food
in Europe. The present fiscal year will present
far greater results in the way of export of bread
stuffs.
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Last year, the largest proportion was shippsd in
July, under the accounts here of the high prices
current in England in June. Those prices fell
rapidly, and with them the exports fell off to
low figure. This year the reverse has been the
case, and the disposition to ship has improved as
the season advances.
. .
The returns of the imports and 'exports of the
United States, as indicated in the official returns
of the Treasury department, •indicate -similar re
sults, as follows:—.
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•-• . • • •
The exports of breadstuffs in the laii :year,
which has been one of good English harvests, has
been much less than in 1847, the year of " famitM,"
but it greatly exceeds that of any prior year, and
the whole shows a greatly increased and benefi
cial trade, particularly in corn and provisions.—
The export value of other domestic produce was
not probably realized abroad, more particularly in
relation, to that which fell in price rapidly as the
year advanced. Of the large amount under the
head of foreign produce exported; a considerable
portion *as of the precious metals exported in the
shape of foreign coin, through a pressure of extraor
dinary demand, growing out of political revolutions
in Europe. This amount probably rivalled that
imported in the previous year. The amount so
exported was, however, nearly all supplied by im
migration, and did not appear in the custom-Imure
books.
The late European accounts are of a more en
couraging aspect. Money continued abundant in
th 3 London market at l a 2 per cent., and bread- ,
stuffs were heavy under the large arrivals from the
United States and Europe. The manufacturing
districts were more activeoand the prospects more
encouraging—so much so that an ad-;ance of id.
per lb., had been effected in cotton, in the face of the
large crop and disturbed condition of Europe. The
greatest excitement prevails on the Continent in
relation to the election of President in France,
which was to have come off on the 10th Decem
ber. The Prince Louis Bonaparte would without
doubt, be elected; and his manifesto had given
much satisfaction from its pacific tone and sound
economic views, clearly recognizing the fact that
the future welfare of Franc& depended upon the
free exercise of individual industry and removal
of taxes, through the economy effected by the di
minution of the army and government pensioners.
Should order be restored, and industry resume its
course, the prospect of the coming year is of great
prosperity for the United States.
L7' The following correspondence passed be.
tween Gov. Johnston, and the widow of the late
Governor Shunk, on the occasion of transmitting
to the latter, the resolutions of condolence and re
gret, which were adopted by the Legislature.
ExEcuTivE CRAMBEII,
Harrisburg, Jan. 23, 1849. s
Mrs. Shunk--•-Dear Madam:—The accompa
nying resolutions, passed by tho Senate of this'
State, have been presented tome, with a request
that I should transmit them to you, and at the
same time, express " the regard of the two Houses
for your elevated character and their profound re
gret at the late providential dispensation," which
deprived the State of an illustrious citizen, and
you of a devoted friend and husband.
In presentirig these resolutions, which I would
beg you to accept from the Legislature as a tri- -
bide to your worth, and a proper testimonial to
the memory of the illustrious deceased, allow me
to mingle in their regrets the expression of my per
, sunal regard for the social and public virtues of
the late Governor shunk, and my unfeigned con
dolence for your afflicting bereavement. I am,
Madam,with the highest regard, your obedient
servant, WM. F. JOHNSTON.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 29, 1.940.
His Excellency Wm. F. Johnston:
Sir—l have had the honor to receive from the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, your communi
cation of the 23d inst., enclosing the resolutions
adopted by the o,cneral Assembly, relative to the
decease of my beloved husband, the late Francis
R. Shunk.
The kind and generous manlier in which you
were pleased to refer in your annual message to
the private virtues aryl public services of the de
ceased, and the promptness, liberality and unan
imity, which marked the action of the Legislature,
in the adoption of the proceeding and resolutions
transmitted to me, hive juspired feelings of the
must profound gratitude.
Of the public character and services of .the de
ceased, it is not for me to speak; but of his private
and domestic virtues, none can so fully appreciate
them as myself. He was an honest man and a
sincere Christian, a devoted husband and an affec
tionate father, whose greatest delight was in the'
family and social circle, and in making all around
hilts cheerful and happy.
Be pleased to convey to both houses of the.
General Assembly my most grateful sense of the
honor they have done to,his memory, and for the
sympathy and generosity manifested towards my
self, under the afflictive bereavement which I have
sustained, and for myself accept the-tender of my
most heartfelt thanks.
I am, dear sir, very'rppectfully,
Your oh't servant,
JANE F. SHUNK
His Excellency Wm. F. Johnston.
Missouri.
The following resolutions were adopted by the
Senate of ,Missouri on the 2d inst:—
" Be it resolved by the Geneial Assembly of the
State of Missouri as follows : - That, the Constitu
tion of the United States confers on Congress no
power to legislate on the subjecr of,slavery within
the Territories of the United States, 'onto pass any
laws affecting the rights of persons or their proper
ty, within said territories.
" That the Wilmot proviso, (so called,) by which
Congress attempts to prohibit the existence of sla
very in certain Territories, is, an act unautherized
by the Constitution, and therefore yoid. If it were
not so, it would be an act of the grossest despotism
the people of the Territories have the same OOPa
of government over themselves within the 'Terriz .
tories, that the people of the States have over
themselves within the States.
fEr At the Close of -a temperance meeting in
Canada West, the lecturer circulated the
total abstinence- pledge, and solicited a beautiful
young tidy to append her signature to it. Who
he inquired, " Will- you give me your name?" she
replied, "No, air ; Portz promised my siainspAaptAer
gentleman P' • r
NO. 3.