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His ear would be greeted with the sounds of every variety of martial musiq, from the simple tones of ' " The soul-stirring drum and ear-piercing fife. , to 'the measured and magnificent swell of the full military band, the peal of musketry the roar of artillery and the ardent acclamations of an enlhusiastic people; and his eye would 'sur vey the burnished arms and nodding plumes of the serried soldiery mingling with the darker Masses of peaceful citizens in the processions of the day, follow the wild rocket in its stream ing progress towards the sky, reflect the steady glare of bon-fires and illuminations, and at last repose upon the graceful folds of the beautiful emblem of our national strength advanced . in triumph over the varied scenes beneath. The impulsive inquiries must start to his lips:— What means all thfs ? Are this excited people celebrating the recent accession of some popu lar ruler to the control of their government ? Or are they rejoicing over their deliverance from some impending danger, or the achieve ment of some unexpected and brilliant victory ? 'We may be permitted to answer the'supposed inquiries thus: This people celebrate the ac cession of no favorite prince, for their rulers are the creatures of their own hands, and they select whom they will to administer the 'uovern ment, which is held only in trust for the benefit of its citizens. They rejoice in their deliverance from no impending danger, for a survey of their gigantic and teeming territory will convince you that they have no danger to apprehend ; and if they had, the stout hearts of the western republicans are strangers to fear. They exult over no unexpected and brilliant victory, for their Country is crowned with the blessings of uninterrupted peace, and the clash of hostile arms has long ceased to resound from their smiling plains or attend the footsteps of their distant armies. But in the grateful spirit of a mighty Christian people, we celebrate the birth-day of our Country's freedom. Grown great with a steadiness and rapidity beyond all example in the history of nations, and occupying a daily increasing eminence among the foremost powers' of the Earth, upon - at least one day of every year, we calmly divest ourselyes of the con sciousness of our present proud position, and rehearse the useful lessons of our humble ori gin, our fathers' trials and the sacred sources of our own unexampled prosperity. And in the pursuit of this instructive study our people encounter none of the obstacles which Time has thrown before the efforts of other nations to penetrate the shadowy secrets of their distant infancy, In the recent story of our Country's origin there is no blending of truth and fiction, no intermingling of history and fable, but the scenes and actors of that eventfUl period start from the pages of the historian, and even from the memories of a few living monuments of the ' past who still linger among us, with the vigor . of life and the freshness of yesterday. We are happily as familiar with the noble spirits of the times that tried men's souls," as we are with the faces our own companions. And thus regarding our illustrious ancestors, in full view of the purity of their exalted purposes, their will to resolve and daring to execute, the Made quacy.of their means to the magnitude of the design and the triumphant achievement of their bold and heroic enterprise, we become duly impressed with the patriotic sublimity of the_ characters of those who asserted and maintain ed the independence of the thirteen infant colonies of North America against the persever ing and Trotracted efforts of the most powerful nation then on the face of the globe. It would-ibeidle to detail to the intelligent audience before me, the causes of the memor able struggle that attended the birth of the ~,,glorious Republic, on whose unfettered breast we now repose in , peace and prosperity. An an cient nation, from whose loins our fathers de scended, forgetting the ties of consanguinity and common interest, and converted into an unnat ural step-mother by the passions of pride and jealousy, attempted to rob the free born citizens of North America of the rights and privileges they inherited with their blood. History needed but to record the cause, for the effect of deter mined resistance was inevitable. The notes of preparation resounded through the Colonies, and when the armed heel of the oppressor touched the sacred soil of Freedom, he found its children prepared, according to their resour ces, for the approaching and unequal contest. Concord and Lexington, villages then unknown to story, but since renowned as the bloody bap tismal fonts of Western Liberty, witnessed the first conflicts of the undisciplined yeomanry of America with the veteran legions of Britain, and transmitted the tidings of the wrongs and successes of the Colonists together to the remot est corners of the new Confederacy. But before the Mother Country and the Col onies had come to blows, the latter, guided by the sagacity of theirstatesmen and the unerring instinct of self-preservation, devised and par. tially executed a project of union for their com mon preservation. The delegates of the Colonies successively assembled at New York and Phila delphia,and adopted the Articles of a Confede racy which contained the germs of our glorious National - Constitution. In June, 1776, they again assembled in Philadelphia, and after con sidering the condition and exigencies of their infant country, appointed a committee, embrac ing the illustrious names of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, to prepare a suitable recital of their wrongs and assertions of their rights. This committee reported, and amid the enthusiasm produced by those memo rable debates which have received additional luster from the immortal genius of Webster, on Ihe4th day of July, 1776, the Congress adopted, subscribed and published to the World the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America which you have just heard, and History added a new name to the list.of Nations! Upon the soil of our own native Commonwealth occurred the imperishable scene, whose memory you are now assembled to celebrate. It was not transacted in a gorgeous palace nor attended by any of the pomp, and circumstance of exter nal parade. Its sublimity consisted in part of its stern simplicity. The representatives of a confederaoy of infant States, then in armed re sistance against• the government they before acknowledged and consequently expo'sed to the stigma of treason and rebellion if they failed, in a plain brick building on the banks of the Del aware, deliberately severed; the last ties that bound them to the Mother Country and tendered the final injury to the powerful nation whose numerous fleets and armies were gathering upon their coasts and debarking on their shores.— Every one of that band of sturdy patriots knew and felt that the same signature which recorded his title to immortality in the event of success, assured him the fatal distinction of martyrdom upon the scaffold to the cause of liberty in the probable event of failure. Yet not a cheek blanched, not a lip quivered and not a hand trembled, as deputy after deputy attached his name to the deed ; for although weak and fore oaken by the nations of the earth, they devout edly confided in the support of Him who has declared that " the - raae is not always. to the swift nor the battle to the strong." All honor to the memory of our brave and patriotic sires ! —to the stout hesrts that dared assert, from the immortal author of the Declaration to the hum blest citizen whose eye first kindled at the mention of the now proud name of Americans, and the strong arms of those that dosed main tain, from the illustrious Washingtmn to the private soldier, who bared his breast to the foreign foe, the birthright of their freedom ! For seven long years, the War of the Revo lution fluctuated through alternate successes and reverses until the victorious guns of York town, at last established the independence of our country. Did time and opportunity permit there could be no more pleasing or profitable employment than to trace the distinguished ac tors in the scenes of that memorable war thro' the rapid vicissitudes of their fortunes, their trials, their sufferings and their sacrifices, until the breath of a beneficent Providence dispelled the shades of danger and dismay that enveloped the rising fortunes of the Colonies, and perrt ted the sun of prosperity to pour down his un clouded and enlivening rays upon a young and independent Nation. But these topics are al ready as familiar to you as household'words, and their recital would involve the repetition of a more than twice told tale. No sooner was the withering hand of oppres sion withdrawn from the energies of the hardy children of the young Republic, than America sprang forward in the race of greatness and prosperity, with the activity of a boy and the strength of a giant. The growth of the Colo nies before the Revolution bad been singular and surprising, but now the rapidity of their progress resembled the stories of enchantment and romance. The rugged chain of the Alle ghenies scarcely presented an obstacle to the march of improVement, and the resistless tide of emigration, bursting over their summits, poured its waves into the valley of the 'Mis sissippi. •' His echoing axe the settler swung Amid the sea-like solitude, And rushing, thundering, down were flung The Titans of the wood." Cottages, dwellings, villages and cities rose upon the ruins of the prostrate forests, and the virgin soil of the wilderness yielded its abun dant treasures to the pressure of the plough share. The - desert began to bud and blossom as the rose, and the course of advancing civil ization more than realized the beautiful fable of the ancient goddess in whose footprints flowers sprang up spontaneously. Nor in the universal din of industry were the pickaxe of the miner or the hammer of the mechanic silent. The recesses of the newly discovered mountains were explored, and their secret riches brought to the light of the sun and converted to the profit of the settler. Furnaces and forges rear ed their dusky forms in the wallies and belched their pregnant vapors towards the skies. The factory rose by the side of the water-fall, and the monotonous hum of its machinery mingled with the ceaseless 'sound of the dashing stream. The genius of Fulton—and with the mention of his name, I am proud to claim him, not only as an American and -Pennsylvanian, but as a na tive of our own goodly county—contributed a 'now element to the improvement of the growing West. Animated by the fiery creature of his invention, hundreds of vessels plunged into the waves and traversed the course of the "Father of Waters" and his tributaries, and transported the products not only of the East but of the whole world to the farthest limits of the basis of the Mississippi, and returned freighted with the wealth of those how and productive regions. Agriculture, manufactures and commerce, suc cessively opened their treasurse to the West, and together conducted her to greatness, prosperity and power. 'the political expansion of our COuntry from the period of the Revolution to the present has been no less remarkable than the developemeut of her internal resources. . The original Thir teen States of our confederacy have multiplied to the number of Thirty-one that now cluster in our national constellation. The States, con fined at the beginning, to a narrow border along the western shores of the Atlantic, now stretch in a magnificent belt across the whole extent of the Continent, and rest with equal confidence upon the shores of the Pacific, the Lakes and the Gulf el Mexico. The first weak barrier of civilization, the Alleghenies, has not only been passed, but the tide of population has overleaped the distant and gigantic Cor dilleras, and calmly spread itself about their feet. The Nation has broke the limits assign ed to its infancy and occupied and incorporat ed the country for thousands of miles beyond its earliest western and southern frontiers into its own territory. Louisiana first yielded its fertile fields and flowing waters to the progress of the.western pioneers. Florida then sank be neath the pressure and permitted -the young Republic to swell, without interruption, down to the Gulf and out to the Ocean. And within our own recollection, a band of intrepid adven turers established themselves in the province of Texas, successfully resisted the impotent ef forts of Mexico to reduce them, asserted their independence on the bloody field of San Jacin to, and at last were received as equals into the arms of the parent Confederacy: Mexico ven tured to resent the offence, and therefrom re sulted the most successful war in which our country has been engaged since the close of the Revolution, as well in the magnitude and importance of its consequences, as in the rapid ity of its conquests and the splendor of its vic tories. The golden state of California has al ready sprung from the lap of the conquered provinces, and the territories which have risen in their midst look eagerly forward to the ap proaching day of their admission into the hap py fraternity of our glorious Union. With this experience of the Past, must we not await the development of the future destiny of our magnificent Republic with silent amaze ment? If such has been our progress in less than three quarters of a century that have scarcely elapsed since the final consolidation of our Government, what may we expect, or rath er what may we not expect, from our career in the countless ages that still repose in the womb of the untold Future? lam not of those who subscribe to the doctrine of manifest destiny, yet it is impossible to close my eyes to the pros pect that extends before us, nor do I tremble at the sight. The vigor of our Federal system has thus far shown itself equal to the utmost limits of our territorial expansion, and with the hearts of the people in the right place there is little reason to apprehend that it will prove inade quate to the protection of any states or provin ces that may hereafter seek and receive the shelter of the star-spangled banner. The mag nificent arch of independent sovereignties that spans the American Continent has suffered no diminution .of strength from the increase of its weight, but on the contrary, by the incorpora tion of the accessions into the body of the struc ture, has acquired additional solidity from eve ry contribution to its size. For my own part, I am content with the present limits of our mighty heritage, and think them sufficient for the wants of years to come; but if it should, please the will of the majority, by any means consistent with national faith and honor, to a dorn the girdle of our fair Republic with the gem of the Ocean, the rich and blooming queen of the Hesperides, to reclaim the northern coast of the Pacific from the dominion of England, or to annex another smiling province of the sun ny South, I shall not for that reason despair of the permanence of our.free institutions; but shall seek their preservation where it can only be surely found, whether our borders be con tracted to the dimensions of a single State, or ' extended to embrace a continent, in the intelli gence and patriotism of the American people. The patriotism of the people is the palladi um of our Liberty. This is the only cement that can bind the conflicting interests of our extended territory together, and unite the whole in harmony and strength. So long as the great heart of the Nation leaps'at the sight of its star-gemmed standard, and the musses of its citizens yield a willing support to the spirit of the happy Constitution on which the foundations of the Republic rest, we may bid equal defiance to the dangers that assail us from without and within. We may lament the petty jealousies that sometimes array a faction of one section of the Country against a portion of another, we may regret the occasional mur murs of an ungrateful and refractory State; but we need not • fear the party efforts of the discontented factions,. for there is not a portion of this loyal Union that does not in itself con tain -americans enough to crush the first weak shoot of treason to the earth. But if this noble trait in her National char- "THAT COUNTRY IE THE MOST PROSPEROUS, WIRE LABOR COMBS PIL GREATEST JIWARD."---Bnchanan. ' 0 A 6 , I lA* 0 6 "iG, 1 * 19, 185 acter should sink under the growth of selfish and unworthy passions, and wild ambition or the sordid love of mammon occupy the hearts of the American people to the exclusioqof their better sentiments, we may veil our faZes in sackcloth and cover our brows with ashes, for the body must speedily decay when the life inspiring soul is gone. And little better will be our destiny, when under the specious pre tence of state or human rights, any considers. ble portion of our misguided people raise their seditious clamors against the sacred compact of the Stntes, and use the hands that should press the different sections of this happy con federacy together, to rend the ties that, bind the fabric in a glorious whole. Be the pre text foul or fair the effect will be alike disas trous, and if from any cause this favored Uni• on be torn assunder and scatterer into feeble fragments, the same unhappy eyes that will witness the erasure of the bright American constellation from the firmament, will see the sun of Liberty extinguished in the heavens and thebeacon light of human hope go down with the dishonored standard that now waves in triumph •• o'er the land of the tree and the home of the brave." If the sentiment of patriotism displays itself more' conspicuously iu the conduct of any one class of our citizens than another, it presents its clearest manifestation in the spontaneous devction of the citizen soldier. Without com pulsion or even solicitation he voluntarily en rols hie name and subjects his person tp—the discipline necessary to prepare him fo march. as he proclaims his readiness to do, wherever duty calls and his Country demands his ser vice And in the ranks of our citizen soldiers, the post of the private is no less honorable than that of the officer. The latter may be actuated in part by the motive of ambition or the love of power, but the devotion of the for mer can be ascribed only to an humble but 'honorable determination to expose his person and hazard his life in the service of his Coun try. Iu time of peace the volunteer is, indeed, but a holiday soldier; yet the term can be no more truthtully applied to him than the beet trained regular of the army; and there is on ly this difference between them, that the sol dier of the army is rewarded for his parade and display, and wastes the remainer of his time in ease and indolence, while the volun• Leer exercises without compulsion, and de• rives his support from some other employment, thus serving his country as faithfully by his industry in peace as he is prepared to serve her by his valor in war. It is conceding them no more than their due to say that our citizen soldiers are the ' Na tional Guard" at once of their Country and her liberty. The regular troops of the army' are but a handful in comparison to the legions of our citizen soldiers; and if there be any difference between them in either respect the latter are as far superior to the formerinspir it as the former surpass the latter in disci pline. It is the individual sentiment of honor and patriotism that nerves the arms and steels the breasts of our volunteers—the pride.of personal character that requires the private soldier to bring Sack au untarnished name to tile peaceful circle of his family and friends— and the pride of personal position and privil ege which have taught him to value the rights he is marshalled to defend. It is, moreover, impossible for the citizen-soldier to become dangerous to the country he has volunteered to protect. Her greatness is his greatnese, her pOssessions are his possessions and her lib erty is the liberty o f himself and his children. Issuing from and returning to the body of the people, his feelings, sympathies and even pre judices are altogether wail them. An artful commander may alienate the affections of a mercenary army from the government it was created to protect; but an army of the people themselves can never he persuaded to subvert the people's rights. The history of our Country furnishes abun dant and distinguished examples of the valor and patriotism of our volunteerh. The blood of the first general officer who fell in the Rev olution, gushed, on Bunker Hill, from the veins of a volunteer, the young, the generous, and the gifted Warren. The column that first leap ed the barriers of Yorktown, and tore down the ensign of England, was led by another vol. uuteer—not one indeed who was 'struggling in the defence of his own country, but load come from a fOreign and distant land to lend his arm to the cause of Liberty—the immortal Lafay ette. A regiment who, with the steadiness of veterans, met and repelled the onset of the flower of the British army at Lundy's Lane, was composed of Pennsylvania volunteers. At New Orleans, the hunters of Kentucky and Tennessee, who had snatched the rifles from their firesides to follow the standard of their Country, beat back the veterans of Wellington in carnage and dismay. The hill of Monterey and the bloody plain of Buena Vista witnessed the bravery and established . the fame of the citizen-soldiers of our own time, even before they achieved their portion of renown in the brilliant campaign of the valley of Mexico The names of Clay, Yell, McKee, Watson and a hundred others, who sealed the chivalric history of their lives by the glorious martyr• dom of their deaths, will long be cherished by our citizen-soldiers as distinguished instances of the courage and devotion of those who for take their peaceful employments for the shock of battle and the clash of arms. The present Chief Magistrate of the Nation and two of his constitutional . advisers volunteered to serve their Country on the plains of Mexico ; and the illustrious soldier, who gathered the green est laurels of Chippewa and Bridgwater, and led his conquering countrymen from the walls of Vera Cruz to the palaces of the Montezumae, first sought the military service of his Country from the peaceful pursuits of civil life. The citizen-soldier may well claim the post of honor in the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of his country's freedom.— There is not a letter in the eternallleclaration that was not purchased with the lives of many a volunteer in the long struggle of the Revolu tion. There is not a State in the broad Union, nay, nor province in the' broader Continent, whose soil has not been stained by tIW warm blood of the volunteer, poured_ copiously' out in the service of his Country. Every page of our military history glows with the brilliant ex ploits of the citizen soldier. And on this Fourth day of July, our citizen soldiers ftssemble to re vive the memory of the Past, and renew their pledges for the Future. In every variety of dress which the human fancy can suggest, and with every description of arms the exigencies of war can demand, from the Lakes to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, they muster in different and distant battalions, but under the common standard of the stars and stripes, and with a common determination to devote their lives and honor to the service of their Country. With martial music and their joyful exclamations they salute at once the birthday of their freedom and the ample folds of the national banner under which their coun trymen repose in peace. And if action and gesture can_ be interpreted, they come prepared to devote themselves to the cause," not of Lib erty first and Uaionafterwards, BUT OF LIB kR.TY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE." And safely may we en trust the protection of our common rights and the preservation of our beloved Union to the good right arms of those, who like you, gentle. men, are soldiers in war and citizens in peace. ID A correspondent•of The National Era writes rom Milbury, Mass., as follows "1 am now in my 80th year, and lhave obtaintd what information I could, both from observation and critical study. It has lately been discovered that a strong decoction made of the bark of the roots of the white ash, when drank as a medicine, will cure the bite of a mad dog. This, undoubtedly is owing to the fact that rattlesnakes can be made more easily to crawl over live fire coals than white ash leaves—and they are never found in the forests where the white 'ash growe. Would it not be ad visable for druggists in our large towns and cities to keep constantly on hand a medicine prepared from the roots of the,white ash'? It might be the means of saving some valuable lives from a sodden and painful death." Tr*" " Mike " and is it yourself that ran be alter telling me how they make ice cream'? "In truth I can—do they not bake them in cowld ovens, to be me." Childhood. BY LUCY LASCOM Ah ! girlhood, joyous girlhood, How tro„psient is thy stay, The dew drop, from the opening bud, Staab! not so soon away. Thy tears are but as April ahowers, That melt in rainbow light; Thy smiles are like the morning flowers Fast &ding, but how bright Ah! girlhood, merry girlhood, What is there like to thee; A bird that pants for sunny fields Beyond its sheltering tree. Half poised for light, one wishful trill Upon the air it flings, Then nestles, with a frightened thrill, Beneath its mother's wings. 'Tie well for thee, bright girlhood, Thine is no prophet's ken, To read, on li e's unopened leaves, The ways of evil men. Then would the night of coming time Thy present sunshine dim; And thy light laughter's tuneful chiMe, Become a wailing hymn. Yet, girlhood, artless girlhood, Thou, too, umst needs beware, For in thy leafy covert oft The fowler lays his snare. And if by virtue guided not From youth's sequestered dell, There is in all the world no spot Where joy with thee may dwell. A blessing on thee, girlhood I Be happy and be pure ! For purity's white plumes are charmed Against the tempter's lure; Nor droop with shivering dread, to feel Life's ruffling blasts of wrong; In willing strife for other's weal The woman's heart grows strong Faith, Hope and Energy. Inscrifed to a friend in despondency under the hand of affliction 13=1 " Sit not down discouraged by the way, because directly before you a heavy cross lies in your path. Strive not to go round it,,tOr this will take you out of your narrow way ; but.lift the cross and go with it, for the crown lies just beyond. Reinember the cross and the crown were ?kilted in Christ, and can never be sundered in us, his followers."—Ex. tract. Rouse I rouse, sad heart I Oh, why thus idly dro op ing, Sadly and silently,. with folded wings ? Where is thy faith in God that thowrt thus stooping To question why Ile doth mysterious things? Oh ! why have doubts and fears o'er thee such sway ? Ailing far from thee this dark , ning veil away ! Faint heart ! and dolt thou see no work to do, That thus thou alumberest and sleepest on And does thy life path seem so endless, too, That thou caWal sit and grieve o'er every thorn ? Objects of love and care around thee throng— Much goad thou mayst do—oh, then be strong! Still struggle on, though skies should darker grow, And clouds like midnight make thee_shrink and fear, Cannot the future one faint hope bestow, Beams there not forth one single star to cheer Press forward, till the goal be won at last— The Crown and Heaven—and earthly gifts be past! Arouse I and all thy energies awaken— Bend not , neath every blast, like a weak tree ; Be hopeful, and thy laith in God unshaken, And onward let thy watchword ever be. Arise with new-born strength—go on thy way, And if thou pauseth, be it bnt to pray ! A Patent Sermon BY DOW, JR My text this morning ie contained in these tew words :-- How solveless is woman! How tender is woman! How loving is woman! How childlike is woman! My hearers—sure enough, how solvelesti it, wo man I Shi , is an unguessable riddle, a most in tricate enigma, a flower which in analyzing, no one can tell to a certainty whether it be poisonous or inoxuous—not always. She has been with man from the beginning, and he hasn't found her out yet. She is comparatively an unexplored country—an alphabet of hieroglyphics--a magnetic mystery.— Nobody knows what her heart contains. Some times it seems stuffed with love, tenderness and sympathy; and at others, filled with nothing but grit and gravel. It won't answer to shake her; you cause the acids and alkalies to come in contact, and then such an effervescence takes place, as might lower the ambition of pearl ash and cider. Like the month of April, she is all sunshine and showers. Many a teardrop evaporates in the warm light of a smile, ere it has a chance to fall; and many a bright smile is suddenly quenched by a sprinkle of some passing cloud of sorrow about the size 01 a blanket. Grids bubble up from her bosom, to burst in an atmosphere of joy, like autumnal flowers; spring from the warm bed of her heart, to be cut down by the sudden frost of grid. A queer compound is woman ! She is made of modesty, boldness, beauty, silks and satins, jealousy, love, hatred, horse-hair, whalebone, piety, paint, gayety, gum-elastic, bear's grease, sympathy, tears, smiles, affections and kind ness. She talks with her tongue, speaks with her eyes, is eloquent in her actions, and yet I cannot understand it. INly friends how tender is woman? She is as tender as a chicken, and as tough as an old gobbler. She must be screened from the hot summer's sun, sheltered from the blast of winter; and-yet, if she makes up her mind to do it, she can outaweat the sun, face a northeaster, and can be a match for the devil. But inwardly, she is as tender aft the mer cies of heaven; her heart is as much softer than a man's as bees-wax is softer than a brick b at. • Her sympathies are as delicate as down on angel's wings, and her love appears as fresh and unfailing amid the sorrows of adversity, as the evergreen wreath that encircled the brow of old winter. Her tender ness is too tough to be destroyed by whatever chance, fortune, or lime may bring—as tough as tripe, and twice as common. My hearers, how loving is woman ? Aye, she is amazingly sick in her attachments. She will cling to,the chosen object of her heart like a possum to a gum-tree, and you can't separate her without snap ping the strings that no art can mend, and leaving a portion of her soul upon the upper leather of her affections. She will sometimes see some things to love where others can discover nothing to admire, and when her fondness is once fastened on a fel low, it sticks like glue and molasses in a bushy head of hair. My hearers, how child-like is woman I A play thing herself, she is fond of every plaything in the world's great toy shop. Her home is the realm of fancy, her existence is very ideal reality, her very miseries are mingled with a pleasing roniance,--her present is always bright, and her luture still bright er. Would that I were a woman, to be pleased with every poesy that pops its head above the weeds of wicked world, and have no thorns to molest me, whilst gathering the wild flowers of imagina tion. Child-like, woman is very happy. Tickled with the straw ol flattery, delighted with every rain bow-tinted bubble that floats upon the wave of time —as antic as a young coon is by Moonlight, and as a cricket, she dances in-the sunlight ol joy, and seems to use every endeavor to coax us male, moody mortals into brighter and happier paths., So mote it be! DIED WIIILE DRESSING FOR 1 BALL.--Miss Lau ra Shields, who resided on Liberty street, went up to her room on the evening of the 4th of July; to dress for a Ball, to be glean at the Union Hall, on' Broadway. When the gentleman came who was to accompany, her ' she had not come down stairs. Her mother called her, but she did not come, though nearly an hour passed in waiting for her. At length her mother went to the door and rapped, but no answer was returned, and she had locked the door. They then became alarmed and forced the door, when Laura was found lying upon the floor, nearly dresseelor the ball, - and quite dead She appeared to be in perfect healthin the evening at tea. She was buried in the dress theylound her in. On, Ow, 11:r Be STILL—MARE NO Norse—Lsr ms Dt z CM/ ETLY. " — The last moments of Fire-President King. Be still !" The hour of a soul's departure is at hand ; Earth is fading from its vision; time is glid ing from its presence ; the hopes that cluster around young lite, that swell iu the beartt of man hood, have fallen from around it, like the forest leaves;when the frosts of autumn have chilled them into death. Ambition, with its hollow prom ises, acd pride, with its lofty look, have vanished away. The world, with its deceitfulness, pleasure, with its gilded temptations, are,gone, and alone, in utter destitution of all that time promised, it must start on its solitary journey across the valley of the shadow of death ! " Make no noise!" Let the tumult of life cease. Let no sound break the soul's communion with it self, ere itstarts on its returnless flight. Trouble it not with sighing, stir it not with the accents of sorrow. Let the tears stand on the cheek of af fliction, and let not the wailing of grief break the solemn siiPnee of the death scene. Let it hear the still 'email voice that calls it away. Let it gather the ae,eias that-come from within the dark shad ows of eternity, saying to it, come. home. The whisperings of angels are in its ear; obstruct not their silvery voices by grosser sounds. A far off music comes floating to it no the air. 'Pis the sound of the Heavenly harps touched by. viewless fingers; mar not its harmony by the discords of earth. " Let'ine die quietly!'' The commotions of life, the struggles of ambition, the strife and warring of `human destiny are over. Wealth accumulated must be scattered • honors won must be resigned, and all the triumphs that come within the range of human achievement be thrown away. The past with its trials, its transgressions, its accumulating responsibilities, its clinging memories, its vanished hopes, its rendering up to the future its long ac count; disturb not the quiet of that awful reckon. ing. Speak not of fading memories of affection, whose objects perish in their loveliness, like the flowers of spring, or wither in a slow decay. Talk not of an earthly home, where loved ones linger, where a seat will sok be vacant, a cherished voice hushed forever, or of the desolation' that will seat itself by the hearth stone. The soul that is at peace with God, let it pass calmly away. Heaven is opening upon its vision. The bright turrets, the tall spires, the lofty domes of the Eternal City, are emerging from the spectral darkness, and the glory of the Most High is dawning around them. The white throne is glistening in the distance, and the white-robed angels are beckoning the weary spirit to its everlasting home. What is life, that it should be clung to longer? What the joys of the world that they should be regretted'? What has earth to place before the spirit of a man, to tempt its stay or Turn it from its rest? 13pEPENDENCE—P110131tESS.—The Albany Knick eriock.er, of the 4th, indulges in a most pithy re= vi of the past and the present of the Union. It says: . . " It is seventy-seven years since Uncle Sam was born, and what an eventful seventy-seven years they have been. Seventy-seven years ago the United States were a remote circumstance—they now compose the second commercial Nation in the world. In three quarters of a century we have revolutionized the World, built up an Empire, lick ed our Mother, and fenced in a Continent. In less time than it took Methuselah to get out of swad dling clothes, we have made more canals, tamed more lightning, and harnessed more steam, and at a greater cost in money than the whole revenue of the world could hve paid for the day he got out of his time. In seventy-five years we have not only changed the politics of the earth, but its wearing apparel—cotton shirts being as much the off:wring of the United States as ballot-boxes and Derr ocra• cy. Since the fourth of July, 1776, the whole world has been to school, and, what is bette r has learned more common sense than was taught in the previous four thousand years. The problem of self-government has been solved, and its truth as immortal as Washington or yellow corn. Its adap tation Ito all the great wants of the most aspiring Nation; has been made most signally manifest.— 'Cinder its harmonious working,a Republic hasgrown up in an ordinary lifetime that would have ta ken any other system of government a thousand years to have brought about. Yes, in less time than it takes some green-house plants tearrive at maturity, we have built a nation that has spread itself from Maine to Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific—a Nation that has caught more whales, licked more Mexicans, planted more telegraph posts, and owns more steamboats, than any Nation that ever lived or ever will live. For all which, we again say, thank God and praise Thomas Jet ferson.". . WHERE WAS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPEN DENCE WRITTEN?—This is a question which has excited much discussion. The following letter from Mr. Jefferson, settles the question. The house he designates is at the corner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia, the lower story of which is now occupied as a clothing store, and the upper stories as a printing office MONTICELLO, Sept. 2(3, 1525. TO Dr. JAMES MEASE, Philadelphia: Dear Sir :—lt is not for me to estimate the im portance of the circumstances concerning which your letter.of the 6th makes inquiry. They prove even in their minuteness, the sacred attachments of our fellow citizens to the event of which the paper of July 4, 1776, was but the declaration, the genu ine effusion of the soul of our country at that time. Small things may, perhaps, like the relics of saints, help to nourish our devotion to this holy bond of our Union, and keep it longer alive and warm in our affections. This effect may give importance to circumstances, however small. At the time of writing that instrument, I lodged in the house of a Mr. Graaf, a new brick house, three stories high, of which I rented the second floor, consisting of a parlor and bedroom, ready furnished. In that par for I wrote habitually, and in it wrote this paper, particularly. So far I state Irom written proofs in my possession. The proprietor, Graaf, was a young man, son of a German, and then newly married.-- I think he iwas a brick layer, and that his house was on the south side of Market street, probably between 7th and 6th streets, and il not the only Louse on that part of the street, I am sure there were few others near it. I have some idea that it was a corner house, but no other recollections throw ing light on the question, or worth communication. I am ill, therefore only add assurances of my great respect and esteem. TH. JEFFERSON. Elegant stock of GoOda !---TtiumAs W. EVANS Sr. CO., No. 214 Chesnut street, opposite the Girard House, Philadelphia, have now opened a very extensive stock of entirely new and elegant GOODS, which have been selected in Eu rope for the most fashionable city trade. They respectfully invite their numerous friends and customer, in Lancastei and elsewhere, to pay them a visit when they come to the city, as they feel satisfied they can offer their goods as low as any store in Philadelphia. . IN THE STORE ARE The newest styles Paris Mantillas. Shawls of every description. 10 Cases Paris Alousling de Laines. 5 Cases plain Mousline de Laine and De Bege. 8 Cases elegant real French Lawns. 2 Cases Paris Organdies. 4 Cases Broche , Baregea, entirely new. 2 Cases neat checked Bareges. 2 Cases primed and Plaid Grenadine. 2 Cases.plain Bareges, all colors. 2 Cases printed Bareges. 8 Cases English and French Chintses.• 4 Cases English and French Gingham. Embroideries, Mitts, Gloves, Veils, Scarfs. Parasols, Mnslins, Flannels, Linens. Hosiery, Br.c., &c. Alio, 90,000 yards of SILKS of every descrip tion—Plain, Watered, Striped, Plaid and Figured, with a full stock of Black Silks. Also, 100 Paris Barege Robes, the newest goods worn. [april 26 tf-1411 Sea Bathing.—CAPE MAY-CAPE ISL AND. NATIONAL HALL. This large, new and, elegant Hotel is now open for the season. The publia will this a first class House. It is situated on high ground, with n large Garden in front, and. affords a most magdificent view of the Ocean. Mr. P.M , CoLLoia is engaged, and would be glad to receive the calls of Ms friends. AARON GARRETSON, . june 21 2m-22] Proprietor, SURE CIIRE, BALTIMORE LOCK .HOSPITAL WMERE may be obtained, th e MOST SP EE DY REMEDY for SECRET DISEASES Gonorrhea, Gleets, Strictures, Seminal Weak ness, Loss of Organic Power, Pain: in the Loins, Disease of the Kidneys, Affections of the Head, Throat, Nose and Skin, Constitutional Debility, and all those horrid affections arising from a Cer tain Secret Habit of Youth, which blight their most brilliant hopes or anticipations, rendering Marriage, etc., impossible. A core warranted ct no charge. YOUNG MEN . . especially, who have become the, victims of Solitary Vices, that dreadful and destructive habit which annually sweep to an untimely grave thousands of young men of the most exalted talents and brilliant intellect, who might otherwise have entranced lis tening Senates with the thunders' of eloquence, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may• call with full confidence. _ _ _ MARRIAGE Married persons, or those contemplating mar riagre being aware of physical weakness, should immediately consult Dr. J. and be restored to per feet health. OFFICE, No. 7, South FREDERICK Street, BALTIMORE . , Md., on the left hand side, going from Baltimore street, 7 doors from the corner.— Se particular in observing the name and number or you will mistake the place. DR. JOHNSTON, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon don, Graduate from one of the most eminent Col leges of the United States and the greater part of whose life has been spent in the Hospitals of Lon don, Parts, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, has affect ed some of the most astonishing cures that were ever known. Many troubled with ringing in the ears and head when asleep,great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds, and bashfulness, with frequent blushing, attended, sometimes, with de rangement of mind. were cured immediately. TAKE PAW' ICULAR NOTICE Dr. J. addresses all those who have injured themselves by private and improper indulgencies, that secret and solitary habits, which ruin botb body and mind, unfitting them for either busines or society. The& are some of the sad and melancholy el fects produced by early habits of youth, viz : Weakness of the back and limbs, Pains in the head, Dimness of Sight, Lose of Muscular Power, Pal• pitation of the Heart, Dyspepsia, Nervous Irrita bility, Derangement ol the Digestive Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Consumption, &c ,Flentally.—The fearful effects on the mint/ are much to be dreaded: Loss of Memory, Contusion of ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil of Forebo ding, Aversion of Society, Sell Distrust, Love of Solitude, Timidity, &c. are some of the evils pro duced• NERVOUS DEBILITY Weakness of the system, Nervous Debility and premature decay generally arises from the destruct ive habit of youth, that solitary practice so fatal to the healthful existence of man, and it is the young who are the most 'Apt to become its Victims from an ignorance of the dangers to which they subject themselves. Parents and Guardians are oftill mis• led whh respect to the cause or source of disease in their eons and wards. Alas! how often do they ascribe to other causes the wasting of the frame, Palpitation of the lies ~ Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Derangement of the Nervous System, Cough and Symptoms of Consumption, also those serious Mental effects, such as loss of Memory, Depres sion of Spirits or peculiar fits of Melancholy; when the truth is they have been caused by indulging Pernicious but alluring practices, destructive to both Body and Mind. Thus are swept from ex istence thousands who might have been of use to their country, a pleasure to their friends, an orna ment to society. WEAKNESS OF THE ORGANS immediately t ured and full vigor restored. Oh, hoW lumpy nava hundreds of misguided youths been made, who have been suddenly resto red to health from the devastations of those terrific maladies which result from indiscretion. Such persona, before contemplating MARRIAGE, shook' reflect that a sound mind and body are the most necessary requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, without this, the journey throl life becomes a weary pilgrimage ; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the mind becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with the melan choly reflection that the happiness of another be comes l/lighted with our own. Let no false delica cy prevent you, but apply immediately. He who places himself under the care'ul Dr JOHNSTON, may religiously confide in his hon or as a Gentleman, and confidently rely upon his skill as a Physician _ TO S ['RANGERS 'I he many thousands cured at thi., instoutton within the last ten years, and the numerous im portant Surgical Operations performed by Dr. d., ,viin,ssed by the Reporters of the papers and ma ny other persons, notices of which have appeared aoain and again before the public, is a sufficient anarantce that the afflicted will find.a:skilful and honorable physician. N. B —Shun the numerous pretenders who call themselves Physicians, and apply to DR. JOHN STON. Be not enticed from this office. 1:1::r ALL LETTERS POST-PAID—RE ME. DIES SENT BY MAIL. june 7.1853. ;0,-20 • JNO. S. WALKER, 4 11 4 Uit )1! au Law. OFFICE—Four doors above Swope's Tavern. East King Street, LANCASTER, PA. Sept 7, 1852 6tn-33 L ANDIS & BLACK, ATTORNIES AT LA IV Office—Three doors below. the Lancaster Bank, South Queen Street, Lancaster, Penn's. •Dtr All kinds of Scrivdning, such as writing Wills, Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, &c., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. January 16, 1849 51 GEORGE W. MIEEROY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in N. Queen street, opposite Ziegler's Na tional. House," Lancaster, Pa. Also, Surveying—and all kinds of Conveyancing, writing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, &c., and stating Administrators , and Mentors , Accounts, will be attended to with correctness and despatch. april 19, 1h53. .51-13 Dr. J. Mairs McAllister, HOMOE OPTIik; PRACTITIONER.—Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster, a . few doors belovi Ches nut. Office hours, from' 6 to 9 A. M., and from 6 to 10 P. M, Dec 4- - -ly-47 A Card.—Dr. S. P. ZIEGLEk oilers his .2-3, Professional services in all its various branch es to the people or Lancaster and vicinity. Residence and Office North Prince st., between .Orange and Chenut streets, where he can be con sulted at all hours, unless pre.ressionally engaged. Galls promptly attended to, and charges moderate. spill 20. tf-L4 ernovol.—Dr. John 110 Dentist, would respectfully announce to his numerous friends and patrons that he has removed his Office from No. 8, to No. 4 East King et., Lan caster, second house from Centre Square, 1 where he is prepared to perform all oper ations coming within the province of 4,z- •-• • Dental Surgery on the mostapprov'ed principles. ' [march 22 3m-9 D emovai.--J. G. AIOORE, Surgeon Dentist .1.,110 of the firm of Dr. M. NI. Moore & Son, will remove his office from the old stand, to the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Thomas Evans, Dentist, in the building situated on the South East Corner of North Queen" - and Orange streets, the lower rooms of 'which are occupied by Erben"a Clothing Store and G. Metzger's Shoe Store, where he will have great conveniences for waiting upon those who may favor him with a call. J. G. M. having had considerable experience in the Dental Art as sures those. who are desirous of having anything done pertaining to Dentistry, that he:: prepared to give that care and attention which the case de month'. N. B.—Entrance to Office, 2d door on Orange St. march 29- .2000 dollar s New Silver Coin.— The old Coin bought at 2 per cent. pre mium, payable in the new coin. may 10 tf-16" J. F. SIIROPER 4 , CO. . Mass Meetings! AGREAT Mass Meeting of the friends of good Daguitrreotype Likenases,will be held at JOHN SION'S SKY-LIGHT GALLERY, corner of North Queen and Orange streets, every day until . further notice. frrNo postponement on account °Elle weather. • Lancaster, June 22, 1852. 22-tf JOB PRINTING nosily and expediatously exe anted at this Office . Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by .1. S. HOUGHTON, M.D., in the clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern Dia trict of Pennsylvania. Another Scientific Wonder I GREAT CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA ! ,) HOUCI ' r • Ai rs -•! kss ta,N 445,‘,9` , t; - 14. - The True Digestive Fluid or Gastric hide • PREPARED from Rennet, or the fourth Stom ach of the Ox, after directions of BARON L/I316: the great Physiological Chemist, by J. S. Hougl' ton, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa. This is a truly wonderful remedy for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaint, Constipa tion, and Debility, curing after Nature's own method, by Nature's own Agent, the Gastric Jule*. Hall a teaspoonful of Pepsin, infused in water, will digest or dissolve, Five Pounds of Roast Beef in about two hours, out of the stomach. PEPSIN is the chief element, or Great Digesting Principle of the Gastric Juice—the solvent ofin food, the purifying, preserving : and stimulatiug agent of the stomach and intestines. It is extracted from the digestive, stomach of the Or, thus firm ing an Artificial Digestive Fluid, precisely like the natural Gastric Juice in its chemical powers, and furnishing a complete and perlect substitute for it By the aid of this preparation, the pains and evils of Indigestion and Dyspepsia are removed, just as they would be by a healthy stomach. It is doing wonders for dyspeptics, curing cases of Debility, Emaciation, Nervous Decline, and Dyspeptic Con sumplion,supposed to be on the verge'ol the grave The scientific evidence upon which it is based, is in the highest degree curious and remarkable. SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE! Boron Liebig In his celebrated work on Anima Chemistry, says: ';An artificial Digestive Fluid, analogous to the Guitric Juice, may be readily prepared from the mucous membrane of the atom itch of the calf, in which various articles of food, as meat and eggs, will be softened, changed, and digested, just' in the same manner as they would be in the human stomach. Dr. Pereira, in his famous treatise on "Food and Diet," published by Fowler & Wells, New York, page 35, states the same great fact, and describes the method of preparation. There are few higher authorities than Dr. Pereira. Dr. Combe, in his valuable writings on the " Physiology of Digestion," observes that "a-dim inution of the due quantity of the Gastric Juice is a prominent and alkprevailing cause of Dyspepaiai" and he states that "a distinguished professor of medicine in Loudon, who was severely afflicted with this complaint, finding everything else to fail, had recourse to the Gastric Juice, obtained 'from the stomach of living animals, which proved com pletely successfull." Dr. Graham, author of the famous works on ".Vegetable Diet," says: "It is a remarkable fact in phgsiology, that the stomachs of animals, mace crated in water, impart to the fluid Abe property of dissolving va. tou.s articles of food, end of effecting a kind at artificial digestion of them in nowise diffrfeint mro the natural digestive process:;' AS A DYSPEPSIA CURER, Dr. HOUGHTON'S PEPSIN has produced the most marvellous effects, in curing cases of Debility, Emaciation, Nervous Decline, and Dyspeptic Consumption. It is impossible to give the details of cases in the limits of this advertiiement ; but authenticated certificates have been given of more than Two Hundred Remarkable Cures, in Pails delphia, New York and Boston alone. These were nearly all desperate cases, and the cures were not only rapid and wonderful, but permanent. It is a great Nervous Antidote, and particularly useful ler tendency to Billions disorder, Liver Complaint, Fever ar Ague, ur badly treated Fever ana Ague, and tio, evil effects of Quinine, Met. cury and other urugs upon the Digestive Organs, after a long sickness. Also, fur excess in eating, and the too free use of ardent spirits. It almost reconciles health with intempratice. OLD STOMACH CORM LAINTS. There is no form of Old Stomach Complaints which it does not seem to reach and remove at once. No matter how bad they may be, it gives instant relief! A single dose removes all the un pleasant symptoms; and it only needs to be repeated short for a time to make these good effects perms. nent. Purity of Blood and Vigor of Body follow at once. It is particularly excellent in cases of Nausea, Vomiting, Cramps, Soreness of the pit of the Stomach, distress after eating, low, cold state o, the Blood, Heaviness, Lowness of Spirits, Des pondency, Emaciation, Weakness, tendency I Insanity, Suicide, &c. Dr. HOUGHTON'S' PEPSIN is sold by nearly all the dealers in fine drugs and Popular Medicines, throughout the United States. It is prepared in Powder and in Fluid form—and in prescription vials' for the use of Physicians. PRIVATE CIRCULARS for the use of Physicians, may be obtained of Dr. Houghton or his Agent's, describing the whole process of preparation, and gi‘iing the authorities upon which the claim of this new remedy are based. As it is not a secret remedy no objection can be raised against its use by Phy• sicians in respectable standing and regular practice. Price ONE DOLLAR per . bottle. 1):!r OBSER VE THIS !—Every bottle of the genuine PEPSIN bears the written signature of J. S. OUGHTO N , M. D., sole proprietor, Phil adelphia, Pa. Copyright arid Trade Mark secured. Sold by all Druggists arid Dealers in Medicines, For sale in Lancaster by LONG & SCHOENFELD, No. , Eramples A rcade, N .•E. cor. North Qpeen and Orange sts., one door east of Krareph's Eta thinli Store, Lancaster. _ sep 16.34-Iy] ,A CARD• IIHE subscribers beg leave thus to acquaint theu friends artd,the public, that they've made such arrangements with a house in the city of Philadel phia, as will enable them to execute orders far the purcluise and sale of BANK STOCK, RAIL ROAD STOCK, STATE AND UNITED STATES LOANS, &e. &c., Al the Board or Brokers, with promptness and fidelity and on as favorable terms in every respect, as can be done in Philadelphia. The faithful and confidential execution of all business entrusted to them may be relied on. Money safely invested for individuals on Estates, in Bonds and Mortgages, State and United States securities, &c. &c. Personal attention will be given to the proper transfer, &c., of Stock, Loans, and such general supervision as will obtain for those intrusting business to them the safest and most de sirable securities: Also the collection of Notes, Checks, Bills, Ste., on Phhadclphia, New York, Baltimore, and the towns &c. in this vicinity. Also, persons desirous of buying or selling any stock of the Lancaster Banks, Conestoga Steam Mills, Gas or Turnpike Stocks by leaving the order in our sands will meet with prompt attention. JOHN F. SHRODER, GEORGE K. REED, One doorlrorn the corner of North Queen and Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa. Feb. 12, WO Sign Painting. WILLIAM E. HEINITSH, respectfully an nounces to his friends and the public, that having given up the Mere , ntile Business, he ham turned his attention to SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL, PAINTING, in Oil or Water Color. Signs Painted with neatness and despatch, on, reasonable terms and no disappointments. The public are invited to call and examine speci mens at his room, No. 18, East King street. . GILT BLOCK LETTERS—Having made ar rangements with the Manufacturer, he is now pre pared to furnish Gilt Block Letters for Signs, at short notice. Political and Military Banners, Transparencies, Awning Wings, and every description of Ornamen tal Painting, done in the beat manner. The attention of Merchants and Mechanics is re puested to his Fancy Signs in Water Colors, for dis tribution, now so much in use, in the,large 9. share of public patronage is aolicitee July 20, 1852 CHEAP LEATHER AND FINDING STORE, No. 155 North Seccndrareet, between Race and . Vine Streets, Philark/jihlg. SHOE PEGS, Wanr.s.ua, AND Arun. D. 20EPPELSHEMER. & SON, Aug. 10--1 - Succenoriao G. A. YOllO7ll. NO. 2
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