VOL. L. "FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE" JUST RECEIVED at J. GISH 4- BROTHER'S GENERAL AGENCY for the sale of Genuine Popular Medicines, at their Cheap Book Store (old stand of 3. Gish & Co.) 3 doors from the National House, corner of North Queen and Orange Streets, Lancaster, Pa., a full supply of the following gen uine and celerated Family Medicines. Ler Mer chants and'all dealers in genuine medicines supplied at the lowest terms. The Genuine Dr. Jacob Townsend'n Sarsaparilla. —From this day forth the people shall have the Pure Genuine Townsend Sarsaparilla, which shall never sour in the bottle, or in the stomach, sole • Agents for Lancaster county. Dr. Williams' - Universal Pain Extractor, highly recommended by several of the best Physicians in New York. ' Dr. Freeman's well known Indian Specific, war ranted to be genuine. Green's Oxygenated Bitters, for dyspepsia and general debility. Hunt's Liniment. Dr. Gallagher's Sarsaparilla Pills. Dr. Steeling's Pulmonary Syrup, the great-Pana cea for Consumption—price only 50 cts. per bottle. Schaeffer's Vermifuge. Carlton's Founder, Bone and Spavin Ointment. Wistar's celebrated Balsam of Wild Cherry. Bull's Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla?. Sviaim's well known Panacea. Townsend's Sarsaparilla—the genuine. Atwood's Dyspeptic Bitters. Comfort's composition Powder—spiced Bit. N 0.6. Sherman's All-Healing Balsam. Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills. Brandreth's Universal «• Beckwith's Anti-Dyspeptic " Dr. Dyott's Anti-Bilious " Grafenberg Vegetable Dr. Rush's Infallible Health " Dr. Steeling's Vegetable 12} cent Pills. Dr. Wistar's Sarsaparilla and Tar " Clickner's Sugar Coated tt Woredell's Restorative Dr. Leidy's Sarsaparilla Blood Dr. Wistar's Vegetable Dr. Soule's Sovereign Balm Hibbard's Family Stainburn's Vegetable Extract M'Allister's All-Healing Ointment and Hair Oil. Mre. M. C. Maxwell's Indian Extract forltheumn tism and Paine, a certain cure. Dr. Jayne's American Hair Dye. • Detterer's Magic Hair Oil. • Indian Cholagogue for Fever and Ague. Wheeler's Teaberry Tooth Wash. Allebasi's Celebrated Medicines. Stainburns Medicated Toilet Soap. Dr. Davis , Wild Cherry and Tar Syrup. Dr. Cullen's Indian Vegetable Panacea. Steven's pure Wine of 'far for coughs, colds and consumptions. Hyena Tooth Ache Drops. Dr. Jayne's Expectorant and other preparations. Dr. Swayne's Syrup of Wild Cherry. Louden's Indian Expectorant and Hair Tonic. Dr. Sherman's Poor Man's Strengthening Plasters Euen's - Dr. J. H. Longenecker's Black Salve. Graelenberg Health Bitters. • " Green Mountain Ointment. Tousey's Master of Pain. Shenck's Pulmonic Syrup. Rokerts , Vegetable Embrocation. Thomson's Tar and Wood Naptha., Beekman's Pulmonic Syrup. Hibbard's Wild Cherry Bitters. Ritter's Tar and Wild Cherry Syrup. Rowand's Tonic Mixture for Ague. Hobensack's Worm Syrup. Fahnestock's Vermifuge. Gay's Extract of Chanchalaqua, a r.llifornian plant of rare virtues. Dr. Sherman's Orris Tooth Paste. Dr. WI - stars Cherry Candy for coughs, &c. Hauck's Vegetable Panacea. Barnes' Pile Lotion, a certain cure. Davis , Horse Linarnent. Dillow's Heave Cure. OPODELDOC, CASTOR OIL, SWEET OIL, &c. With a number of other popular Medicines, (all of which are warranted fresh and genuine,) and sold at the Lowest Prices. 97i- Pamphlets, Hand-Bills, and copies of the Ora cle of Health, to be had gratis by applying at J. GISH & BROTHER'S GENERAL AGENCY, near the National House, North Queen Street, Lancaster. February 27, '59 5 Why will you Suffer? THOUSANDS OF BOTTLES of the AMERICAN COMPOUND have been sold during the past year, and was never known to fail of curing, in a few days, the worst cases of a certain delicate dis ease, Seminal weakness and all diseases of the Urinary organs. Persons afflicted using this plea sant and popular remedy, need fear no exposure, as it leaves no odor on the breath, requires no restric tions in, diet or business—contains no Mercury or noxious drugs injurious to the system, and is adapt ed to every age, sex, or condition. It is also the best remedy known - for Flodr Albus or Whites, (female complaints) with which thousands suffer, without the knowledge of a remedy. This celebra ted remedy has long been used in the private prac tice of a physican with unerring success, radically curing ninety-nine of the hundred cases in a few days. Around each bottle are plain and full direc tions. igr CAUTION—Ask for the AMERICAN COM POUND, and purchase only oethe Agent. Price $1 per bottle, R. WILLIAMS, agent for Columbia. Sprecher & Rohrees Cheap Hard- Ware Store. T_TARDWARE, Glass, Paints, Oils, and Varnishes at that long established stand, East King st , 'Lancaster, formerly occupied by Howett & Krieder, a few doors east of the Court Hod se, next door to the Drug Store of James Smith, agd opposite Geo. Messenkop , s Hotel, which they have recently taken 4nd 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, Hinges, 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 WARE, such as tubs, buckets, butter churns, together 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. The attention of young beginners is particularly called to their full and complete assortment of household utensils. Determined to spare no pains to accommodate purchasers, and by steady adherence to business, they expect to merit a continuance of the liberal patronage thus far bestowed upon them. GEORGE D. SPRECHER, REUBEN S. ROHRER. Old Metal and Flaxseed taken in exchange for goods. j an 1 DENTISTRY. DE. JOHN M'CALLA, Graduate of. the Balti more. College of Dental Surgery, begs leave to inform the citizens of Lancaster and the public generally, that he will continue to practise his pro hellion, at the old stand, directly over Messrs. Sprecher & Rohrer's Hardware Store, sth door horn the Court House, East King Street. He deems it sufficient to say that he'practieee the whole of the Dehtal Art, and is constantly prepared to supply artificial teeth under every variety of cir c4mstances, and upon any known approved princi ple, from a single tooth to an entire set. February 6, 419 I -2 New supply of Boots & Shoes !sit Gum Shoes, &c. MHE subscriber has just received a new 41. supply.of Boots, Shoes, Gdm Shoes, &c.,at hie stand, in North Queen Street, two doors above the Post Office, to which he invites the attention of his patrons and the public in general. He has a supply of Gum Shoes of every descrip tion, consisting of Buskins, Sandals, and plain, with double soles, and also a common article. Nov 9 '47-41] ADAV S. KELLER. PASTILES DE PARIS.—For the cure of Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, and other Affections of the Throat, Breast, &c. Imported and for sale by CHARLES A. HEINITSH, Druggist Jan 9- tt-50j East King Street. MORTARS.—GIass, Brass, Iron and Wedge- In wood Mortars assorted sizes, for sale by CHARLES A. HEINITSH, Druggist, East ICing Street. Januaty 30, ,49 SPRING STYLES. GINGETAMS—American, English and French Fabrics, the greatest goods in this city. Just received and only 1.2; cents per yard. AT THE BEE HIVE, North Queen et. Feb 27 tf-5 DR. WILLIAM STE EI.LING'S PULMONARY OR COUGH SYRUP, Superior to any Medicine in the World, for Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Measels, Sca r let .Fever, ma, Whooping Cough, Bronch itis, Throat Dis ease, and all Complaints of the Breast and • Lungs. Only FIFTY CENTS a Bottle! While far inferior articles are selling for One Dollar a Bottle ! MR. ROHRER, a very highly. esteemed Mer chant of Lancaster city; writes as follows : LANCASTER, Pa., June 9, 1848. Doctor William Steelling :-Llt affords me great pleasure to state to you that I have used your Pul monary Syrup with great benefit for Coughs, Pain in the breast, and Bronchitis. It is about one year since I begun the use of it. I consider it the best article I know of for those complaints, having de rived great benefit myself from it in those affections, L have no hesitation in recommending it to all who labor under similar diseases. I have also given it to my little son with great advantage. • REUBEN S. ROHRER. Mr. Harman, a respectable Teacher or Lancas ter, speaks thus:— LANCASTER CITY, Pa., Oct. 2, 1848. Dr. Wm. Steelling :—I take pleasure in inform ing you that I have been greatly benefitted by the use of your Pulmonary Syrup. I had contracted a very severe cold, and with it a violent cough, so that I would sometimes spit blood; in this condition you found me when you gave me a bottle .of your Syrup, I had not taken half a bottle before I found myself much relieved, and in fact felt like a new man. I would recommend your Pulmonary Syrup to all who may be afflicted with colds or any other diseases of the lungs. R. T. HARMAN. Testimony of a vvell known Merchant of Williams town, Lancaster county, Pa.:— Dr. Wm. Steelling -Dear Sir :—lt affords me much pleasure to inform you of the great benefit I have received and also in my family, from the use of your Pulmonary Syrup. I have used it for Ca taarrh on the Breast, and from a very few doses have been . relieved. I have also found it a certain remedy for the Croup and all common colds. I have sold it at my store for four years -and could give a great many instances of its success in all diseases of the Lunge - and Throat. Respectfully yours, R. M. JONES. Sept. 30, 1848. Read the following Extract from a full Certificate dated August 13, 1846, from a Partner of the very respectable and extensively known firm of Caleb Cope & Co., No. 165 Market street, Philadelphia. Having used your Pulmonary Syrup individu ally, and in my family for the last four years, it affords me great pleasure to inform, you, that I have in every instance found it highly efficacious in cur ing Coughs, Colds; &c. Indeed lam so well satis fied of the good resulting frorn the use of it in such cases, that I keep at all times three or fourbottles on hand. W. B. JOHNSTON." Rev. William Heilig, of Abbottsville, Pa., writes thus, June 10, 1842: Dr. William Steelling—l take great pleasure in informing you that I have been much benefitted by the use of your Pulmonary Syrup; my throat which has been sore for better than two years, has been greatly improved ; I think by using a few more bot tles a radical cure may be affected. WILLIAM HEILIG. Rev. 0. Douglass, Pastor of the Mariners Church, Philadelphia, writes thus: I feel much gratified in being able to say to you that the Pulmonary Syrup you sent, has been used by several persons with great success. I can truly say that almost every one who has taken it has been more, or less benefitted. I cordially recom mend it to allwho are afflicted with a cough. July 10, 1843. 0. DOUGLASS. Rev. H. Miller, Pastor of the Lutheran Church, Trappe, Montgomery county, Pa., writes thus un der date April 29, 1843. Dr. William Steelling—My throat having been sore for some time, by using three bottles of your Syrup, I found it an excellent expectorant,. and have been much benefiitted. H. S. MILLER. - - - . Mark this from the Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in Deerfield, N. J. DEERFIELD, January 25th, 1845., Dr. Steelling—Dear Sir :—There are some things that impress us very favorably at first, but further acquaintance convinces us that our impressions were too exalted. There are other things of which we think more highly as - our acquaintance becomes more intimate. In this class I rank your Pulmonary Syrup, and Vegetable Anti-Bilious Pills i which have been kind friends to me and which I take great pleasure in introducirig to the acquaintance of others. Yours very respectfully, J. W. E. KERR. The following testimonial is from the Rev. Mr. Raybold, of the Methodist Church, N. J. CEDARVILLE, N. J., January 20, 1846. ,Dr. Steelling—Deaa Sir:—The two bottles of Pulmonary medicine of yours, which you did me the honor to send, I have used according to direc tion and have the pleasure to inform you• that the medicine removed my severe cold, pain in the breast, and violent cough most effectually. I feel no hesitancy in recommending the article to those who may be afflicted with Pulmonary affection. Very respectfully yours, G.A. RAYBOLD, Minister of the Gospel. This very excellent Syrup is for sale in Lancaster city by JAMES SMITH, Druggist, JOHN GISH & BRO., JACOB LONG. Jan 9 49 Iy-50 JOHN C. BAKER'S COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. 111 HIS article is employed with great success and J_ by the most eminent. physicians of this city, .for the cure of the following diseases: • Scrofula or King's Evil, Rheumatism, Cutaneous Diseases,eSypheletic Affections, Tetter and Ulcers, White Swellings, Scurvy, Neuralgia or Tic Dolor eaux, Cancer, Goitre or Bronchocele, (swelled neck,) Spine Disease, Chronic Disease of the Lungs, to counteract the destructive effects of Mercury, Jaundice, Hypertrophy or the Enlargement 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, North Third Street, Philadelphia. They always keep a good and general supply of FRESH DRUGS, also a new article, IMITATION PLATE GLASS, 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, Solo Agent for Dauphin county. Dec. 4, , 48. - ly-45 Notice to Distillers, AND ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN WHEREAS, I, Jacob Weitzel, of the city of Lancaster, coppersmith, have received by let tere Patent, recorded in the Patent office in the city of Washington, certain useful improvements in the construction of Stills, which improvements consist of an additional tub, called adr I;og tub, which is placed partly above the still, tr 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 p a plug 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 me, come forward and make full reparation for having infringed my patent right, on or before the first day of March next, suit will be instituted against all and every such person or persons. JACOB WEITZEL. Feh. 22, 1848. tl4 JUST Reed.-4 Cases Splendid Dark Calicoes, fast colors, only 61 cents per yard. - AT THE BEE HIVE) North Queen st. Feb 27 tf-5 WILLIAM F. BRYAN, Attorney at Law, of fice opposite Sprecher's Hotel, East King. Lancaster. wee 8-45-ti JOB PRINTING neatly/ and expeditiously axe sated at this office. THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS, WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD."—BucHerreti CITY OF LANCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1849. SPRING SUPPLY::: rPHE j_ ply of Dry Goods, Grocerles and Queensware, to which they respectfully invite the attention of their town and country friends. To those first com mencing House Keeping, they cau offer great in ducements in the way of a NEW and BEAUTIFUL style of Queensware recently imported, and which they will dispose of al a small advance. ALSO a large lot of PRIME FEATHERS. HOSTETTER & BEATES, East King street. N. B. All kinds of country produce taken in es change.for goods, for which the highetat market price will be allowed. H. & B. march 6 1849 6-tf • Look Look ! THERE'S a man most splendidly dressed I that shining black cloth is surely the best—look at the turn of his Coat and the beautiful skirt, Pray what do think such a suit may be worth'? now look at his Pants and that high buttoned Vest—how nicely arranged to show the full chest; the Pants they hang straight with a curve at the foot and fall most gracefully over the boot. He comes, and I think I know him now he is near. Hold up, John. How are you my dear,—you'll excuse me, but one word if you please; your Clothing fits with such graceful ease (I'm sincere and don't wjsh to tease) all of us were struck at the fit and the. style,—to know where you got them is truly worth while.— W ell then, gentlemen, your curiosity soon shall be gratified—these garments fit me well can't be denied ; now look at the quality of the Cloth and tell me what such a suit is worth. Forty Dollars at least, was quickly said. No, replied John, but Twenty paid. Surprising, astonishing, is that really all ! Oh yes, replied John, they come from Lan caster Hall. How is it he sells his Clothing so very cheap made so well, of good -materials and fit so neat? His extensive operations in trade gives him the advantage in ready-made—he ,buys his goods for Cash, careful in his selections—never makes up trash. Besides his Clothing fits as well as a man's own skin, and, giving satisfaction, in duces him to come back again. W ell, what credit does he give say certainly some. John placed his finger on his nose—none gentlemen, none,— when you go there the CASH must come. LANCASTER HALL OF FASHIONS by JOS. GORMLEY, North Queen Street, between the National House and Orange Street, Lancaster, April 3, '49 Dentistry Improved. 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 we pronounce it one of the greatest improve ments in our profession. By means of which we are enabled to insert partial or entire upper sets of teeth without the use or 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 are invited to give us a call at No. 361 East King Street, Lancaster• ELY PARRY, M. D., CHARLES H. BRESSLER, M. D. Nov. 14, 1848. tf-42 Bookbindery. THE undersigned hereby returns his sincere thanks to his respected pa- ;;;;(.:- irons, and the public in general, for the . liberal encourag ement in his business, 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 its various branches. His work, in regard to beauty, durabil ity and cheapness, cannot be exceeded by any other in the State. At the same time, he deems it not superfluous here to remark, that he likewise continues the bus iness of writing POWERS OF ATTORNEY, LET TERS, DEATH CERTIFICATES, RENUNCIA TION DEEDS, &c., for his German countrymen, as desired ; and will also send moneys for them to any place in Germany, with perfect safety July 4, 1848 PHILIP C. RANNINGER. ly-23 To Dealers in Coal. WANTED 1800 tons of Baltimore Company Coal, or other coal of equal quality, at the Conestoga Steam 11 ills, Lancaster Pa., 100 tons to be delivered on or before the first day of May, 100 tons on or before the 15th day of slay, 100 tons on or before the Ist day of June. 200 tons on or be fore the 15th day of June, the remainder during the months of July, August and September 1849, to be delivered in the yard of the mill, free of dirt, and to be weighed in the scales of the Company. Also for 500 tons of pea coal, to be delivered between the first days of June and August, of same quality as the 1800 tons, free of slate and dirt. Sealed propo sals will be received until the 10th day of April, at the office of the Conestoga Steam Mills. , march 13 LANCATER CITY IRON WORKS. TAMES 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;a11 of which I guarantee to build' on the most improved plans and finish in the best style of workmanship. N. B. Drawings, plans, specifications and estima tes of mills and machinery made nt the shortest notice. Oct 10, 1848 For Sale. AN excellent two-story brick DWELLING HOUSE, with a large garden, frame barn, and about 3 Acres of first quality limestone land attached, situated in Manheim township, near the Rail Road, about li miles from Ate city of Lanastar. The property is in good condition—in a pleasant location, and suitab.e for public business or private residence, and will be sold on accommodating terms if early application be made to the under signed JAMES C. CARPENTER, Lancaster city Dr. A. G. Hulls' Trusses. Double and Single Inguinal_and Rotary Wedge TRUSSES Also Hulls' liters Abdominal Supporter. THE attention of. Physicians and the afflicted is called to these celebrated instruments, of which a large assortment has just .been received by the undersigned agent, which will be sold at consider ably reduced prices. J. F. LONG, Druggist, No. 8 North Queen st. tf-5 L ANDIS & BLACK, ATTORNIES AT LAW: Office—Three doors below the Lancaster Bank, South Queen Street, Lancaster, Penn'a. ittr All kinds of :Scrivening, such as writing Wills, Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts; &c., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. January 16, 1849 51. Hence, home, you idle creature, get you home; Is this a holiday? What! know ye not, Being mechanical, you ought not to walk Upon a laboring day, without the sign Of your profession? Speak! what trade art thou? Much is said of late about the Won't:mu MEN. Who arc they? They are the bone, the muscle, and the strength of this broad republic. They are the men whose active labor brings from the earth, under the blessings of heaven, its richest fruits— they are the men who fashion the products of nature into articles for the use of their kind—they are those who make productive industry their calling in life. These are the men, for each of whose lives, a shilling would pay a thousand years ago, if a slavish vassal or a military chief choose to take it —they were the creates under the Saxon reign in England, who cultivated the farms of the nobility, and were proud of the privilege of holding their stirrups when they mounted—they were the men, who in the days of Henry 11. stocd up for their lives and property, and defended them with their own arms against the licensed, or at least, permitted depredations of the barons; they were the serfs, under the feudal system, who, preferring, or rather exercising the arts of peace, were, in times when military service was alone honorable, held in a state of absolute slavery and villainage, and who, if they ever rose by trade or manufactures to a de gree of opulence, were only the more exposed to depredations, arising from the envy and avidity of the military nobles: they are the same men, tvho, having by their industry and enterprise risen to consequence, were called into the government, and allowed a sort of negative authority, in the House of Commons, under the tutelage of the memorable Simon de Montford, and in the reign of Henry III.; and the men who after maintained their standing, and though they often sunk in the tempests which Overwhelmed the kingdom, silently reared their heads in' more peaceable times; and while the storm was brewing, were courted by all sides, and thus received still some accession to their privileges, or at worst some confirmation of them. They are the men, who, having learned to reason and judge for themselves, gave culture to the seeds of the great religious reformation of 1520, and in the face of the fire and of the faggot, maintained the doctrines which they imbibed and believed.— They are still the same men, who in that House of Commons, which a few reigns before, having met sufferance, and displeased its sovereign, was compelled to beg his gracious pardon,'in 1510, sat with august ceremony, as a tribunal of justice, and adjudged Charles T. to an ignominious death, for Treason to the Constitution of his people. They are such as were the pilgrim fathers of America; they are, in short the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, who having, in two hemispheres, for 700 years, been struggling for their natural free dom, and obtained it, have the same spirit to main tain, as they had to acquire. They are the men before whose presence the wide forests of America have been, for two hundred years, rapidly and steadily receding; they are the men whose busy hammers, and cheering enterprise, resound in our cities and our villages and along the borders of our inland seas, and whose canvass flaps in the breeze on the broad waters of the world; whose labors make our vallies bloom, and crown our hills with the ripened sheaf; whose pioducts float on the bosom of our broad rivers. Their voice is heard from the shores of the Kennebec to the rifts of St. Marie,—and their steps may be traced on the snow crowned mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire, on the road to Santa Fe, and on the sands of California. They have built our canals, made our roads, erected and endowed our colleges, and, more than all, established our government, and in war and peace sustained its supremacy. Think you they will quietly permit an aristocracy to grow up among them, which shall control their circulating medium, manacle 'their government, create invidious distractions in society, and reserve to itself the advantages of an extended education They were schooled to the' tender mercies of a blood proud aristocracy a thousand years ago, and having annihilated that, in our country, at least, they have no disposition to receive in its stead the cent. per cent. tyranny of a purse-proud one. They have sent forth their voice that they are and will be FREE, and it is the duty of all to listen to its cheering tones, for it will soon be found that they are exchanging between themselves sentiments, which tend to nerve their hearts, and brace their minds. The say with Cassius, each to the other: "Men at some time, are masters of' their fates; The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are UNDERLINER." D. LONGENECKER. td-7 Human nature appears a very deformed, or a very beautiful object, according to the different lights in which it is viewed. When we see men of inflamed passions, or of wicked designs, tearing one another to pieces by open violence, or undermining each other by secret treachery; when we observe base and narrow ends pursued by ignominious and dis honest means; when we behold men mixed in so ciety as if it were for the destruction of it; we are even ashamed of our species, and out of humor with our own being; but in another light, when we behold them mild, good, and benevolent, full of a generous regard for the public prosperity, corn passionating each other's distresses, and relieving each other's wants, we can hardly believe they are creatures of the same kind. In this view they ap pear gods to each other, in the exercise of the nob lest power, that of doing good ; and the greatest compliment we have ever been able to make to eur own being, has been by calling this disposition of mind, humanity. Jntelligenter & Journal. PIIBLISH:F.D EVERT TIINSDAT MORNING, BY E. W. HUTTER TERMS SIIIISCRIPTION.—Two dollars per annum, payable in advance; two twenty-five, if not paid within six months; and two fifty, if not paid within the year. No subscription discontinued until all ar rearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. AnvEnTrsEntEnTs.—Accompanied by the CASH, and, not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion. Those of a greater length in proportion. • JOB Patirriwc.—Such as Hand Bills, Posting Bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., &c., executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. pottrv. MISS SPRING IS CONING. Miss Spring is a coming Again ! Again ! With her cheering smiles of mirth With her warming sun, And her genial rain, With her flowers to strew In the garden and plain ; And her warbling birds Whose joyous strain Shall-gladden the grateful earth. Mr. Winter is going, Hurra! hurra I What a hateful old fellow is he ! There'll be many dry eyes When he sees his last day: Why, he hasn't a friend • That would like him to stay ! Ha! ha! we'll be glad When he totters away— Good riddance, old Winter, say we Miss Spring is a coming •And well we know She's a bright and a laughing thing I And her balmy breath Will Inert the snow; And the ice-bound stream In her glance will flow ; And the birds' will sing, And the bright flowers grow— Then a welcome to beautiful Spring ! illisrellaneous. The Working Men. Human Nature. King Solomon's Blacksmith. And it came to pass when Solomon, the son of David, had finished the Temple of Jerusalem that he called unto him the chief architects, the head artificers, and cunning workers in silver and gold, and in wood and in ivory, and in stone—yea, all who had aided in rearing the Temple of the Lord, and he said unto them,—" Sit ye down at my table; I have prepared a feast for all my chief workers and cunning artificers. Stretch forth your hands, therefore, and eat and drink and be merry. Is not the laborer worthy of his hire ? Is not the skilful artificer deserving of honor? Muzzle not the ox that zreadeth out the corn.'! • And when Solomon and the chief workmen were seated, and the fatness of the land and the oil thereof were set upon the table, there came one who knock ed loudly at the door, and forced himself even into the festal chamber. Then Solomon the King was wroth, and said, "What manner of man art thou?" And the man answered and said,—"When men wish to honor me, they call me Son of the Forge ; but when they desire to mock me, they call me blacksmith; and seeing that the toil of working in fire covers me with sweat and smut, the latter name, 0 King, is not inapt, and, in truth, thy servant de sires no better." " But," said Solomon, "why came you thus rudely and unbidden to the feast, where none save the chief workmen of the Temple are invited?" •" Please ye, my Lord, I came rudely," replied the man, "because thy servant obliged me to force my way; but I came not unbidden. Was it not proclaimed that the chief workmen of the Temple were invited to dine with the King of 'lsrael?" Then he who carved the cherubim said,—"This fellow is no sculptor," and he who inlaid the roof with pure gold said, "Neither is he a workmen in fine metals." And he who raised the walls said, "He is not a cutter of stone." And he who made the roof, cried out, "He is not cunning in cedar-wood; neither knoweth he the mystery of uniting pieces of strange timber together." Then said Solomon, " What hast thou to say Son of the Forge, why I should not order thee to be plucked by the beard, scourged with a scourge, and stoned to death with stones?" And when the 'Son of the Forge heard this, he was in no sort dismayed, but, advancing to the table, snatched up and swallowed a cup of wine, and said, "0 King, live forever! The chief men of the workers in wood and gold and stone have said that I am not of them, and they have said truly. lam their superior; before they lived was I created. lam their master, and they are all my servants. - And he turned him round, and said to the chief of the carvers in stone, Who made the tools with which you carve?" ' And he said, " The blacksmiths" And he said to the chief of the masons, " Who made the chisels with which the stones of the Temple were squared'?" And he said "The blacksmith." And he said to the chief of the workers in wood, " Who made the tools with which you hewed the trees on Lebanon,. and formed them into the pillars and roof of the Temple?" And he said*" The blacksmith." Then said he to the artificer in gold and in ivory, "Who makes your instruments, by which you work beautiful things for my lord the King ' 2 " And he said, n The blacksmith." "Enough, enough, good fellow," said Solomon, "though hast proved that 1 invited thee 'and thou art all men's father in art. Go wash the smut of the forge from thy lace, and come and sit at my right hand. The chiefs of my workmen are but men—thou art more." So it happened at the feast of Solomon, and blacksmiths have been honored ever since.—London Magazine. What O'Clock is it? When I was a young lad, my father one day called me to him that he might teach me how to tell what o'clock it was. He told me the use of the minute finger and the hour hand, and described to me the figures on the dial plate until I was per fect in my part. No sooner was I quite master of this additional knowledge, than I set off scampering to join my companions at a game of marbles ; but my father called me back again; " Stop, Humphrey," saidjae, "I have something more to tell you." Back again I went, wondering what else I had got to learn, for I thought I knew all about the clock, quite as well as my lather did. " Humphrey," said he, " I have taught you to know the time of day, I must now teach you how to find out the time of your life." All this was strange to me, so I waited rather impatiently to hear how my father would explain it, fur I wanted sadly to go to my marbles. The Bible;' said he, describes the year of man to be three score and ten, or four score years. Now life is very uncertain, and you may not live a single day longer ; but if we divide the four score years of an old man's life into twelve parts, like the dial of a clock, it will allow almost seven years for every figure. When a boy is seven years old then it is one o'clock of his life, and this is the case with you ; when you arrive at fourteen years it will be two o'clock with you ; and when at twenty-one years, it will be three o'clock, should it please God thus to spare your life. In this manner you may always know the time of your life, and looking at the clock may, perhaps, remind you of it. My great-grandfather, according to his calculation, died at twelve o'clock; my grandfather at eleven, and my father at ten. At what hour you and I shall die, Humphrey, is only known to Him to whom all things are known." Never since then have I heard the inquiry, "what o'clock is itr nor do I think that I have even looked at the face of the clock, without being reminded of the words of my father. I know not my friends, what o'clock it is with you, but I know very well what time it is 'with myself, and that if I intend to do anything in this world, which hitherto I have neglected, it is high time to set about it. The words of my father have given a solemnity to thedial plate of a clock, which it never would perhaps have possessed in my esti• motion, if these had not been spoken. Look about you, my friends, I earnestly entreat you, and now and then ask yourselves what o'clock it is with you. Rtvenge. " Father, forgive them." Go, proud infidel, search the ponderous tomes of heathen learning, explore the works of Confucious, examine the precepts of Seneca and the writings of Socrates—collect all the excellencies of ancient and modern moralists, and point to a sentence equal to this simple prayer of our Saviour. Reviled and insulted—suffering the grossest in. dignities—crowned with thorns, and led away to die! no annihilating curse breaks from his tortur ing heart. Sweet and placid as the aspirations of a mother for her nursling, ascends the prayer for mercy on his enemies, "Father, forgive them." Oh, it was worthy of its origin, and stamps with the brightest seal of truth that his mission was from heaven. Acquaintances, have you quarrelled ? Friends have you differed ? If he who was pure and per fect forgave his bitterest enemies, do you well to cherish your anger? Brothers, to you the precept is imperative! You shall forgive, not seven times, but seventy times seven. Revenge is as incompa tible with happiness as it is hostile to reason and religion. Let him whose heart is black with malice and studious of revenge, walk through the fields while clad in verdure and adorned with flowers; to his eye there is no beauty, the flowers to him ex hale no fragrance. Dark as his soul, nature is robed in deepest sable. The smiles of beauty light not up his bosom with joy --but the furies of hell rage in his breast, and render him as miser able as he could wish the object of his hate. But let him lay his hand on heart his and say, "revenge, I cast thee from me; Father, forgive me, as I for give my enemies," and nature will assume a new and delightful character. Then, indeed are the meadows verdant and the flowers fragraAthen is the music of the grove delightful to the ear. and the smile of virtuous beauty lovely to the soul. ll~To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors, with the utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from hinaseli. Origin of the Names of the States. Maine was so called as early as 1638, from Maine in France, of which Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, was at that time proprietor. New Hampshire was the name given to the ter ritory conveyed by the Plymouth company to Cap tain John Mason, by patent, Nov. 7, 1639, with reference to the patentee who was Governor of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England. Vermont was so called by the inhabitants in their declaration of Independence, Jan. 16, 1777, from the French verd, green, and mont, mountain. Massachusetts was named from a tribe of Indians in the neighborhood or Boston. The tribe is thought to have derived its name from the Blue Hills of Milton. " I have learned," says Roger Williams, " that Massachusetts was so called from the Blue Hills. Rhode Island was so called in 1644, in reference to the Island of Rhodes, in the Mediterranean. Connecticut was so called from the Indian name of its principal river. New York *as so called in reference to the Duke of York and Albany, to whom this territory was granted. Pennsylvania was so called in 1681, alter Wm Penn. Delaware was so called in 1703, from Delaware Bay, on which it lies, and which received its name from Lord De La War, who died in this bay. Maryland was so called in honor of Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles 1., in his patent to Lord Baltimore, June 30, 1632. Virginia was so called, in 1584, after Elizabeth, the virgin Queen of England. Carolina was so called by the French, in 1584, in honor of King Charles IX, of France. Georgia was so called, in 1792, in honor of King George II Alabania was so called, in 1817, from its princi pal river. Mississippi was so called, in 1800, from its wes tern boundary. Mississippi is said 'to denote the whole river, that is the river formed by the union ,of many. Louisiana was so called, in honor of Louis XIV of France. Tennessee was so called, in 1796, from its prin cipal river. The word Tennessee is said to signify a curved spoon, Kentucky was so called, in 1782, from its prin cipal river. Illinois was so called, in 1809, from its principal river. The word is said to signify the river of men Indiana was so called, in 1802, from the Ameri can Indians. Ohio was so called, in 1802, from its- southern boundary. Missouri was so called, in 1821, from its princi pal river. Michigan was so called, in 1805, from the lake on its borders. Arkansas was so called, in 1819, from its princi pal river. Florida was so called by. Juan Ponce De Leon, in 1571, because it was discovered on Easter Sunday, in Spanish, " Pascus Florida." A Visit to an Old Commodore. During the last summer chance threw me in the vicinity of Bordentown, New Jersey, and, re membering that one of the mostAistinguished Com gl modores in the Navy had invi 'e to call on him at his farm if 1 ever came th y, I readily em braced the opportunity to do so. „Nis residence, or "farm-house," as he calls it, is within a mile of Bordentown, on one of the loftiest banks of the Del aware, and the viewirorri it is extensive and beau tiful. Observing, as I approached the house, a very commonly dressed man, back towards me, leaning over pots of grease and tar with hands in, I natu rally supposed him to be a farm laborer, and invol untarily exclaimed, "Hallo, my good man, is the Commodore at home ?" The answer was "Yes," and from the Commodore himself, who was enga ged, as he told me, in preparing a mixture to make his cart wheels run easy. As he turned from his greasy occupation to greet me with his bland smile, I wished that an artist had been there to sketch him in such a garb. His hat was of common straw, with many holes and rents ; coat of some coarse gray stuff, and pretty well worn ; (no cra vat or- vest;) pantaloons of mixed cotton, worn threadbare ; and shoes were of the common stick down kind, (as our Virginia negroes call them,) and, as they were of the color of a side of leather, I suppose blacking had never touched them. This was the garb of the Commodore on the farm. He is about the ordinary height, and slightly inclined to corpulency; hair, originally sandy, is now grow ing gray with the frosts of more than sixty winters; complexion florid, and his whole face usually wears -a smiling benevolent expression, mixed with reso lution. His reputation as a gallant and skilful naval officer is known to the whole country, and the mis tress of the seas has some slight cause to know it too; for history tells us that, pending the last wur with Great Britain, he, with one frigate, captured at one blow two sloops of war. He is not a man of collegiate education, yet he wields, when aEca sion requires it, a powerful pen, and is said to be master of international law, which is so important to commanders of squadrons. His mind appears strong, sound, and vigorous, and, from his good health, elastic step, exuberant spirits, social but tem perate habits, he will in all probability live to a ripe old age. Such is Commodore Charles Stewart, of the United States Navy, commonly called "Old - Ironsides." The Future. The existence of the mind, or the soul, is as certain as any other known thing. That the body and soul are not one, or the same, is as demonstra ble a truth, as that fire and water are not the same thing. The body moves from place to place, grows by eating matter, is subject to certain lorms, color, heat, and pain. The mind or soul thinks of the future; remembers the past; collects facts, forms theories, has neither color, heat, nor form. In a wort,mind and body, of all known things have fewest properties in common. If, then, there be in all nature two distinct entities, they are soul and matter. But gross, unthinking matter, is composed of elements which are imperishable—in other words, matter is everlasting. How much more, then, is the ethereal thinking soul immortal. Since the mind, then, is immortal, we are indu-ed to be lieve that its character is unchanged in a future state ; the good is good still, and the bad, bad. Fu• tore rewards and punishments, then, seem necessa ry consequences of the immortality of the soul; the truth of which has been demonstrated. Little Kindnesses. Small acts of kindness—how pleasant and desir able do they make lice! Every &ark object is made light by them, and every- tear of sorrow is brushed away. When the heart ,is sad, and des pondency sits at the entrance of the soul, a little kindness drives despair away, and makes the path cheerinl and pleasant. Who will reluse a kind act? It costs the giver nothing, but is invaluable to the sad and sorrowing. It raises from misery ana degradation, and throws around the soul those hallowed joys that were lost in Paradise. A Firm Religious Belief. Sir Humphrey Davy, who was no recluse, no fanatic, but a man eminent as a scholar and philos opher, said :—"I envy no qualities of the mind or intellect in others, nor genius, power, wit, or fancy; but if I could choose what would be most delight ful, and., I believe, most useful to me, %should pre fer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life in death, and calls out from corruption and decay, beauty and everlasting glory." The Grandeur of Man. u The birth of an infant," it has been truthfully said, is a greater event than the production of the sun. The sun is only a lump of senseless matter; it sees not its own light; it feels not its own heat ; and with all its grandeur, it will cease to lie—but that infant, beginning only to breathe yesterday, is possessed of reason, claims a principle infinitely superior'to all matter, and will live through the ages of eternity." Let the immortal mind shed its lustre upon the world. MEATH EVENING HYMN. BY MRS. SIGIOURNEY We thank thee, Father, for the day •That, robed in twilight sweet, Doth linger ere it pass away, And lead us to thy feet. We thank thee for its healing rest To weary toil and care ; Its praise within thy temple blest— Its holy balm of prayer. We thank thee for its living bread, That did our hunger stay; The-manna, by thine angels shed Around our desert way. Forgive us, if our thoughts were slow To claim a heavenly birth; If feelings, that should upward-glow Did gravitate to earth. Forgive us, if these precepts pure, That should our sins control, And aid us meekly to endure, Grew.languid in the soul. Forgive 119, if with spirit gold, We breathed the murmurers moan; Or failed to grasp the chain of gold, That links us to thy throne. 0 grant, that when this span of life In evening shade shall close, And all its vanity and strife Tend to their long repose; We for the sake of Him who died, Our Advocate and Friend, May share that sabbath at thy side Which never more shall end. The Connecticut Sailor Boy. The Cornelia was a good ship, (said one of the West India chaplains of the American Sea Men's Friend Society,) but at one time we feared she was on her last voyage. We were but a few days ont from New York, when a severe storm of five days continuance overtook us. Like a noble charge between two contending armies, did the ship quiver in all her joints, and struggle to escape from the fury of the winds and the waves. At the height of the storm I must tell you of a feat of a Connec ticut sailor hoy. Ha was literally a boy, and far better fitted for thumbing Webster's Spelling Book, than furling a sail in a storm. But hie mother was a widow, and where could the boy earn a liv ing for himself and mother better than at sea? The ship was rolling fearfully; twice I saw. the captain lose his centre of gravity—though he kept his temper pretty well—and measure his length on the deck. Some of the rigging got foill at the mainmast head, and it was necessary that some one should go up and rectify it. It was a, perilous job. I was Standing near the mate and heard him order that boy aloft to do itl He lifted his cap and glanced at the swinging mast and the boiling, wrathful sea, and at the steady determitied coun tenance of the 'mate. He hesitated in silence a moment, then, rushing across the deck he pitched down into the forecastle. Perhaps he was gone two minutes, when he returned, laid his hands on the ratlins, and went up with a goodwill. My eye followed him till my head was dizzy, when I turned and remonstrated with the mate for sending that boy aloft. He could not come down alive! "Why did you send him?" "I did it," replied the mate, "to save life. We've sometimes lost men over board, but never a boy. See how he holds like a squirrel. He is more careful. He'll come down safe, I hope." Again I looked, till a tear dimmed my eye, and I was compelled to turn away, expecting every moment to catch a glimpse of his fall. In about fifteen or twenty minutes, having finish ed the job, he came down, and straightening him self up, with the conscious pride of having performed a manly act, he walked aft with a smile on his countenance. In the course of the day, .I took occasion to speak with him, and ask him why he hesitated when ordered aloft? Why he went down into the forecastle? "I went, sir,' said the boy '• to pray." "Do you pray?" "Yes sir; I thought I might not come down alive, and I went to commit my soul to God." "Where did you learn to pray?" "At home; my mother wanted me to go to the Sabbath school, and my teacher urged me to pray to God to keep me and I do." " What was that you had in your jacket pocket ?" My Testament, which rit); teacher gave me. I thought if I did perish, I would ,have the word of God close to my heart."—Seamares Magazine. An Interesting Fact. In the year 1817, the first Sunday School, we believe, organized in the State of Virginia, was opened in this town in connection with the Metho dist Episcopal Church, by Geo. Walker, Esq., Jas. McGehee and John Thurman—the last of whom still survives, a useful, venerable, and respected citizen of Lynchburg. In a very short time two hundred scholars, of both se - :es, were collected, many of whom had no other opportunity of ac quiring the slightest education. It is not possible to say what amount of good may have been done by even a single year's operation of the School. We confine ourselves to an allusion to two cases,. which have been brought to our notice. - Among the first scholars who attended, was a slim, spare youth, who manifested a capacity, and, desire of improvement That youth grew up— removed to the West—studied law—and has long been known td the nation, as the Hon. Wit.t.tAitt ALLEN, late Senator of the United States fom the State of Ohio.' In the second year of the school, there Was en tered as a scholar a younger boy of prepossessing appearance and deportment. He was the son of one of the three persons named as the founders of the School, and is now the lion. Luse P. WALKER, a Senator in Congress from the State of Wisconsin. Two members of the Senate of the United States, therefore, during the last session, were among the first pupils of the first Sunday School established in our town, and as we believe in the State.—Lynch burg Republican. • Sorrow. There is no sorrow in the world except that we bring upon ourselves. Everything is smiling and beautiful around us. The forest is not decayed— the rivers and brooks are not turbid, and the sky is not clothed in sackcloth. Nature throughout the year is delightful, and why should man be sad? His heart has not been schooled right, his passions have not been subdued ,• he is altogether too selfish, and is therefore miserable. We know many indi viduals who are cross and crabbed as they can be, when they are not making money fast. If they loose a sixpence by way of trade, they feel like gnawing files ; if a debtor has turned bankrupt, it takes full six 'months to erase the scowl from their brows. We are acquainted with one man,, worth at least a hundred thousand dollars, who suffers un accountably in his mind for fear he shall die poor. He knows not what it is to enjoy a moment's peace of mind. Another we have seen, who never pays his taxes without a curse, and is enternally railing against the Assessors for doing' their duty. : Now all such make the pangs they daily feel, and are miserable in the midst of pleasure. Let them live like human beings with gratitude in their hearts and kindness on their lips, and all their fears and sorrows would vanish. All should be happy. It was Heaven's design that we. would be so, when He created us in his image;and made with infinite wisdom this glorious world, and stretched above us the illimitable skies. Dignity. I dread the approach of one of your men of dig: nity of manners—one who with no real dignity of character endeavors to supply its want by an affec tation of superiority in his deportment. He is stiff, awkward, vastly wise and forbidding—he takes you by the hand—if he can stoop•to such a condescen sion—and shakes it with the formality and precis ion of a piece of mechanism. He endeavors to jmpart dignity to his conversation, and speaks of " trifles light as air" as if they were subjects of immense importance. Every word is weighed.be fore it comes out of his mouth—everf expression delivered as if he were delivering an oration. The presence of such a man is cold, chilling, and repul sive as that of an iceberg. I would as soon avoid one as the other. NO. 12.
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