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VOL. LIV.
- (4.?"' 1 7.
AN.ADDRESS,
Delivered on. the 4th of July, 1853, before the
" Buchanan. Rifle Company," of the city of
Lancaster,
BY ROL I. E. WESTER
GENTLEmEN :—lf it were possible to imagine
an intelligent stranger, who had never heard
of this western land of freedom, suddenly
transported to the shores of America on the
anniversary of the birthday of our National In
dependence, what would he observe, and what
ideas would be suggested by his observations?
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.
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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
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445,‘,9`
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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.
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