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unles the Mime for whit 1' they are to be continued is
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ind ding su scription , to the paper,,ivith the privilege
,of keeping ¢ne advert4tuent not exceeding 2 squares
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Alt notices for ineetingii.drc. and other :notices which
have, heretofore 4non l in erted gratis. Will be charged
25 dents qaciLexcept* ages and Deaths.
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TO Pamlddets,,lChecla,L,Cards, Bills of Lading and .
Handbills cf . eterin descrOtion, neatly printed at this
Qfficeat thellowest cash 2frices
/PE,NtirVl 4 /14
POTTSVI LILO, St.
1
This
gait .Al . l-. 1 1 7 1 a v clic re tci
completely
Furniture entirely new k
ftrst quality, anci,partici
led to every arrahze'men
tort and convenience. II
• The Wines and Liqts have ')een In the
most careful and . ; hliera Manner, wt.hoi reaard to
expense or labor,4ind will embrace the must favorite
brand and stock.
• The Proprietor - srilict's Iheref . ore, the support of
his friends ',and the travOlingeommunity in generill.
Should they thinit'proptly - tp visit his !lb.*, he hope.
by as3idions nitetition to t,heic ways, to Cstablisli tbr
it soch.a ebaract:ir, as rusty ensure a return of their
favors.
FREDERICK D'ESTISI AU VILL E,
Proprietor.
Pott fivill, Pa.Uune 4.2, 1840. 1 —tf '
N.'"). Thii Refectory!. in the Ihsement story, is
coniiicted iinder.The siiperintenthince ut . , Mr. lulin„
Silver. t - i-,
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G OLDE,I4t
/PAUIL•Ii
J. Iffali
'WOUOD rti
frienti# and tit
above . sttiliin
'Mr. lytltian
,street. The.
and the expbrieneo'orthe
city oflandhtrd,m.ty OLTe
who may desire kindiratti
while sojourning for _
Philadelphia
; Ills BAn is frunished th choice liquors; his TABLE
udl pre ,, ent every object Which might he expected from
an abundant and excellent. market ; his STA 61.11:G is ex
tensive and attendecl by an attentive haitler ;and with
every ithspositiort to!makt,tiest comfortable and satis
fied, he anticipates a due g tare of patronage.
Philadelphia, M4ch ISI9. 11-fimo
DONN i
.RAIg It ).. , 11)11Z.01‘.
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Acompluteassotkment of Rat' goad Iron from 23.. X
to IX; inch. I .. ''
RAIL ROA El mt S from 33 in. to 5 in ester
nal
! [ diameter, turned & un
' 1. turned. ,
RAIL ROAD AXLEg. 30,3 in.-diameter Rail !toad
1.
-" flea. mantifretured from
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the patent EV Cablellron.
RAIL ROAD FELT. for placing between the
I. Iron Chair and stone block
L i of edge RailwaNs.
INDIA RUBBER. '1101"E manufactured from
1 * New Zealand Vial saturat
. 1: ed with India Rubber, and
iI; intended fur 1 neline Planes
. Just received.' complete a.,:-
i, sortinimt MChains, from R
in, to Ii in proved & man
...'• [ tilamured from the best ca
; 1 I tile Iron. ,
ISIIIP BOAT AND AI I. ROAD SPIIC ES,
oldifferect sizes, kept con
tantly on hand and for sa eby ,
A. & G. RALSTON. & 4'o.
No. 4, Suuth Front ,St r
Philadelphia, J.an4arr 1, . . , '4-
CHAINS.
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A Forill for sale. , .
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AFARM of latid, i li Alin heimediale vicinity o
Pottsville, co/it:ming 20 Acres, 10 Acres o
which is cleared allot fl i t n grand state of coltivation
AIS ), a valuable triiet of land iii Jefferson coun
ty near Ridgeway: ettleincnt, containing 1005]acres
This tract it heavi l y tidlbered oith White Pine and
Cherry, and the sod ii i (Sxcellerdi for ag,rieultuialpur
poses. 1 'l . •
Tile "" ta ri ithtewn
.arren rink.
long said land; Thitconntv at present contuinS u bout
Eighteen Ttiousanllilnlialuonts and is fast irierras.
ing. The suhscr4r proposes dividing this tract
into five equal partS , n•ri hundred and ring acres
each, so as to nom& wilt! in the means of induStrions
men of limited cadjital in scull Ist a healthy; flour
shine, and fast county.
For terms, or furOicr Information. enquire
of
NV NI:HAGGERTY.
Executo; Of Wain tcri,ght, dece , i , cd. •
Pottsville, Nov `.4 d t tf
_ _ .
BOOK-111NtERIL
B\N has 4mtneneed a Book Bindery
in A cn l nntetifini with i is Book Store; where
all kinds of Books w&ll he bound at theHhoest
notice at low rates.
Croup, COUgh,•Astlimat.
SPITTING Blood, Illooprog Cough and all I'uI.NIONA-
DisEAsi.s.cureli by YN4'S \
and SUMMER CWirr.irs; - m.: (7110 I.ERA
kfiOEA. DYSENTE6I Witt : all the various affe , tions's of
the Stomarh and thivth :retool f•ii liv his CA RMI N A
TIVE - •
• Please read the followt e letter.
r; GING ON, Beaver County. Pa.
February. 1439 j
DEAR feel it die top-in as the insentor of the
medicine arid to the publie. who tnay he greatly'benetit
id by it. to state a ci4e t was performed in rriy family
by the use ofy our arrninative Balsam."
-
. My little son. whet? h ut t :vo months old. was seized
with a home! romplaig' caused as I suivrie, by n change
of diet. It continue 4 fo4two Weeks without ititermis
sins. It continued two rjecks wit houta termiiiSion, and
notwithstanding the .hirn6dies prescribed by a respecta
ble physician, we gaiciaini; Ihe vietim.as we sup
posed, to a fatal disi'as4 but 1 providentially leard of
" Jayne's Carminative;" las an effecinal cure_ for bowe
complaint, and immYdiately despatched a meSrenger
a town seventeen milleiff for' a bottle. Ey the use
this medicine, in less' t han thirty-six hours the discs
was checked; and by it continued use for a 'few day
the child was restorqd tei'perfect health. Shortly afte
this; there occurred a sillar case in one of the familic-';
of m 7 congregation. I reseribed "Jayne's Carmina•
titre,' and the result is-as a speedy cure. From know'
edge of t4e. efficacy of yorir medicine in bowel Complaint
a disease to which children are'constaiitly liable. I have
obtained and keep rrinstalutly in the house, a qiuinti.y of - 1
the tt....73rminative.
The same child, rtwmg to eznosure, when! recently
coatinz up the Ohio, I,wasl;ittacked by that horrible niala
dy;CßOUP. We la:tided in the night at Reamer Point,
and when our fears weirelalarme'd lest the boa rse.sepul
ehral cough; was thd forerunner of death, we gnv . e him
a teaspoon full of tt4 I , ;xpecto.rant," (a bottle of whic,h
you presented me with when in Philadelphia) pplirid
-some lineament to 11-let hroat arid breast, and before tio
ny minutes "the linarsenes was gone. the chile' breathed
:'reely and slept sweotly. o' °win to these circi'imstances
tc nnotbe wolidi , red idlo.rhe rhave so high an opinion
Dr Jayne's medicine, ;and Wale I advise every flintily
.okeep non hand ready for any emergency.
• Respectful' y. ) ours, •
• RTIII.TR B. BR ‘DFORD. '
Pastor of the PresbYtetian Church. Darlington, Pa.
Dr D. Jayne. . t ,
i
. The above valuable "Inr.dietqs Tony hp l.acnin rorTs
rjLLE. of Clemens and p'arvin. and of Williain T. Ep
ottng.alart of G. W. Oatit,e:,,. Iteadtng. and of 0. Walker
Port Clinton.
1 i . ‘,
i
litOri I STORE.
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T. C. 4.1 4v. :POLLOC,K,
. i I
'WAVE in addition 6? t heir Stock of Dry doods,Gro
ceriets, dm., a general assortment of iron and Steel.
such as , ,
Forge isfron,
Rolled, Flat, Roiind.nci Square. (all size!)
Rand and Hoop Irea, I
Nail Rods, !
Cast,l I
Shear, and Cra wly Steel, !
American and English, Blister dol. 1
With ;Ninety of other oods, all of winch will be
etl%d on reatnnahle Terme:.
catch ?I i ii.
f lal,L.
1 and commodiputi
to open for the; reception of
rpm this date. ;It has been
end supplied with
6 the Bedding We, iv of the
attention has been cfeyo
Athatean contribute to awn-
EVAN H- 0T EL
ELPIIII.I.
ghatvont
tipectfully announce to hie
Ipublic, that he has leased tht:
ishincid, recently occupied by
King, tio. CiO, North Third
central location of this
present occupant in the capu
• strop;; Inducements to those
Int totia ond realonahle c ha rgc-i
tare oriusineis iu the city of
Turnpike pa....es
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( will teac h ou to pierce the bowels° fthe Ear th and bring antfrom the Cavern. ofttie MountainsAintala which will, give strength to ournandis and subjec t all Nature to our age and pleasure.—Dlt JOUNSON
VOL. XVI.
Invitation to the Log Cabin
Boys to Old Tippecanoe's
TUNE The good old days of Adam and Eat.
Come all you Lug Cabin Boys, we're going to have
_ .
a raisin' s
Well turn nut and build Old Tip_a new Cabin,
And finish it ofF with chir.kite and daubin',
We want all the Log Cabin boys in the•nation,
To be on the ground when we lay the foundation ,
And we'll make all the rilice hdderB think itamazin;
To see how we work at Old Tippecanoe's raisin.'
On the thirtieth of next October,
Welt take some Hard Cider, but we'll all keep
sober ;
We'll shoulder our axes and cut down the timber,
And fiave ow Cabin done by the second of December,
We'll have it well chink'd and we'll have on a cover
Of good sound clapboards, with weight poles over,
And a good wide chymniv:Tor the fire to blaze - in :
So come on boys, to 91d Tippecanoe's raisin'. •
Ohin will find the houseloz limber,
And Old Virginia, as you'll remember,
Will find the timber for the - clabboards and chinkin',
'Twill all be the first rate stuff I'm thinkin'.
And when we want to' aub it, it happens very lucky
Thai we have got the best CLA Y in Old Kentucky :
For there's no other State has such good clays in,
make the mortar for Old Tipi..ecanoe'e raisin'.
Esr the hauling of the logs, we'll call on Penney-
•
vsnia
For their Conestoga teams will. pull as well as any
And the Yankee StateS and York Statei and all of
the others
Will come and help us, lift like so many brothers.
The HHonsters and the Suckers, and the Wolverine
farmers,'
They all know no•v the right way to carry up the
corners,
And every one's good enough carpenter and ma•
sor,
To do a little work at Old Tippecanoe's raisin'
We'll cutout a window and have a wide dotr in,
We'll lay a good log and la first rate floor in,
We'll fix it all complete, for Old Tip to see his
friends in, ;
And we know 'hat the latch-string will never have
its end in.
On the, fourth day of March 01.1) TIP will move in it
And then little blurtin,will have to shin it,
So hurrah 13gyc, there's no two ways in
The rut; we'll have at Old Tippecanoe's raisin'.
rALA.CE !FURNITURE.
( Coillinued. ) °
EXTRACT from the SPEECH of MR.
OGLE, of Pennsylvania, on the Civil and
Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, in. the
House of Representatives, 69, the 13th
of April, 1840:
I had thought that it was had enough for
the farmers, mechanics, and laborers of the
country to, provide hay and pasturage for
Mr. Van Buren's race and carriage horses;
to pay for the manure on his potato, celery,
-cauliflower, and asparagus beds; to pay the
hire of -ii British gardener to tnpdress his
strawberry Vines, cultivate his vegetables,
and construct bouquets for his palace saloons;
but, sir, to HEM his DISH RAGS, pay for his
LARDIN,G NDEDLES and LIQUOR STANDS is
still worse. Ay, sir, worse, if possible, than
filling tile apartments in the House of the
American People with royal and imperial
WiltonS, foreign cut wine coolers, French
bedste'ads, and one hundred dollar artificial
flowers. It is worse, sir, because there, is a
degree. of littleness in the 'thing which de
monstrates as clearly as if it were written in
characters of living light, that the soul of
Martin, Van Buren is so very, very, very di
minutive, that, it might find abundant space
within the barrel of a milliner's thimble to
1e all the evolutions of the whirling pi
rouette. avec chasee a suivant, according to
the liberal gesticulations practised by the
-most ce;ebratd danseurs.
if there was the least necessity for taxing
the People in the manner I have mentioned,
I know well they would bear the burden
without grumbling; but, sir, there is no in
telligent man residing at the seat of Govern
ment who is not satisfied that Mr. Van Bu
ren lags up annually from fifteen to twenty
thousand dollars. Can you inform me, sir,
what great expenses encumber his purse,
which any other respectable gentleman who
occupies a spacious mansion in this city has
not to meet? All the individuals at the head
of time various Departments of the Govern•
merit have to hire houses, stables, pasturage,
gardens ; and gardeners; they, have to pur
chase household furniture, raise their own
vegetables, and buy hay for their cattle; mind
yet they manage riot only to get along com
fortably, -but to hold brilliant soirees, and
make quite a display in carilages and equi
page, on $6,000 per annum:- There are but
two items in the expenditnres of the Presi
dent, which can exceed in amount the dis
bursements for similar objects incurred by
other respectable householders in Washing
ton. I refer to his state dinners and palace
servants- In regard to the foriner,,a pretty
fair estimate can soon be made. He proba
tily 25 state dinners during the
,long
sessions of Congress, and 15 at the short
A,essions, being an average of 20 dinners an
nually, with 40 guests for, each. If we al
low s:',2 .to each guest, the actual cost of a
state dinner will be $BO. 20 state dinners
would therefore require 81,600. The sum
of $2 foi, each guest is a very libeini allow.
ance, aeil within a few francs of the price
paid by Louis Philippe, King of the French.
the richest monarch in the world, to his pur
yeym, 'tor providing the most sumptuous
banquets at ;he Tuilleries and Fontainbleau.
In relation to the number Of palace servants
I shall not be rigid. lam willing to allow
25. In that number, I intend, of course, to
Mehl& ;all servants ,that may be employed
without!as well as within the palace galls.. I
presume the following offices will suffice the
Presid,ein-1 chariotee r, 2 postillions, 4-foot
men, 2 out-riders, 2 grooms, 4 French cooks,
I butler* I chief carver, 1 cup bearer, I por
ter, I turnspit, 1 scullion, and 5 chamber
servants. ldo not deem it proper to name
a " keeper of the President's dogs" although
the " k e eper of the King's dogs" in Eng
land is ; no inconsiderable nobleman; and a
recent London paper.-announces that '.Lord
Kinnairld, the new master of her • Majesty's
buckht:ends; has just taken for four months
AND . P
Weekly by Benjamin Barman, rotlsville, Schuylkill Comity, Pennsylvania.
; , ;
Colonel etivendiah's mansion atl St. Leo
nard's, within about ten miles of 'Winditor,
for the purpose of being within the imme
diate neighbourhood of the place of his
Licit duties." Excellent servants can be
hired in Washington, at from $8 to $lO per
month—twenty-five servants would, there
fore, at $lO per month, require a disburse
ment of 88,000. Now, 'sir, notwithstanding
my : admission that twenty-five palace ser
vants may be necessary for Mr. Van Buren,
I am unwilling to concede that a teal Bank
Whig could not go a-head very well with
one4fifth of that number. I have supposed,
sir, that the state dinners and palace servants
of Mr. Van Buren may together possibly
demand an expenditure of $4,500. To that
amount may be added about $2,500 for pro
visions of every kind, fuel, oil, candles, and
corn for forage, and we then have the gross
sum of $7,000, which embraces every cent
thatNMr. wren annually disburses from
his. private purse, e g hie expenses for
clothing and ornaments to decorate his per
son., And ifhe is vain enough to spend his
money in the pUrchase of rubies for : his neck,
diamond rings for his fingers, Brussels lace
for his breast, filet gloves for his hands, and
fabrique de broderies de , betigrawa Nancy
handkerchiefs for his pocket- 77 W he choose
to lay out hundreds of dollars' Ilk supplying
his toilet with " Double Extract Of Queen
Victoria," Eau de Cologne, Triple Distille
Savon Daveline Mons Sens, Bouquet and
Arabic, Corinthian Oil of Creatri,, L'Huile
de Rose, Hediosinia, Concentrated Persian
Essence, and Extract of Eglantine, the lat
ter the most charming perfume for the as
sembly or boudoir, imparting to the hand
kerchief an agreeable, refreshing, and last
ing odor, and " patronised by her most Gra
cious Majesty Queen Victoria, and her
Royal Highness Dowager Queen Adelaide"
—if, I say, Mr. Van Buren see,' fit: to spend
his cash in buying these and other perfumes
and cosmetics for his toilet, it can constitute
no valid reason for charging the farmers, la
borers, and mechanics of the country, with
bills for hemming his dish rags, for his lard
ing needles, liquor stands, and foreign cut
wine coolers.
I have now, sir, arrived at the last class
of expenditures for the palace establishment,
viz: " Alterations and Repairs." And in
this department, after a thorough examina
tion 'of the official vouchers, 1 am constrain.
ed to state that there exists more extrava
gance, if not more downright profligacy;
than' in any other. In the district of coun
try which I represent, a man is said to "re
pair his house if he patch the old roof, or
put on a new one—or if he weatherboard or
paint the outside—or if he hang a new doer,
or mend the hinges, latch, lock, or other
fastening of the old one—or if he replace
soured panes in the stead of broken windovso
lass—or if he fasten the old mantel piece,
or put up a new one—or if he mend the old
floor, or lay a new floor. All these various
improvements, and a thousand others of sim
ilar character, may be, legitimately, called,
"repairs of the house." By an act of Con,
gross, passed 3d of March, 1837, the sum of
$7,300 was appropriated "for alterations
and repairs of the Presidsnt's HOUSE, and
for superintendence of the grounds around
the same." Now, air, having explained what
I understand by "repairs" of a HOUSE,
and having referred the committee to the,
law, 'I will submit sundry , bills for disburse.'
menet; under that law:
Bill of C. Alexander, Upholsterer, from the 11th,
of March, 1837, till the 16th of May,
1837, $1,037 35,
Containing among other charges, the following:
PRIVATE OFFICE. •
To scrape tie mom and size $0 05'
22 pieces paper
3i pieces border
putting up 22 pieces paper
putting up 3 pieces border
72' yards scarlet damask
251arda of silk pd. ' 18 75;
50? yards. of silk binding 12 50,
3.seta of cornices 36 00;
36. yards muslin 27 00,
25: yards cotton fringe 6 25!
3 pairs of bands 6 00
21'rings 10 50
making three window curtains 24 00i
51" yards of Brussels carpet 103 00!
15j yards border
making 61 yards carpeting
making 31i yards border
GREEN ROOK
30. PIECES OF SILVER PAPER 120 00.
4' pieces border 18 00;
2 pieces bottom border 4 00'
putting up 30 pieces paper 11 25
putting up 6 pieces border 4 60
96:yards green silk
33 yards of muslin 24 75'
16 yards cotton fringe . 4 00'
making and putting up 2 window cur.;
tains 30 00
75' yards matting , 23 43 1
putting down 75 yards matting 7 50'
3'pieces green worsted binding' 2 25
removing furniture of the Audience.
Room to Major Earl's room, and
the furniture from this room to the
Audience Room . • 250
Bill of C, Alexander, Upholsterer, from
May; 1837, till 10th of August, 1837, $1,135 47
Containing among other charges, the following:
SQUARE . ROOM.
To taking down 2 window curtains • !El 00
washing and making again 7 00
PRESIDENTe OFFICE; !
taking down the window curtains and
taking up the carpet and moving the
furniture 400
CIRCULAR ROOM.
talfing up the carpet and 16 yards of '
linen and rope 6.00
washing and repairing 82 chair 'cover, $2 00
CIRCULAR ROOM-2d Sfos . 9.
taking -Own 6 window turtslne end tak
ing up the carpet 4 50
SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 29. 1840.
taking down the curtains, taking up 2
• carpets, and moving the furniture 400
putting up 3 window curtains in the mA
JOR'S ROOM 1 00
putting up 1 Window curtain in Mr-
VAN BUREDi'f# ROOM 56
83 yards matting 2 31
putting down matting 8 31
30 pieces of silver palier 120 00
4 pieces of border . 10 00
2 pieces of bottom border 4 00
hanging 30 pieces of paper 11 25
putting up 6 pieces' border 4 50
43 yards of blue • 131 25
4 yards silk border 4 00
33 yards muslin ' 27 75
18 yards cation fringe 4 50
10 gilding fins 5 00
making and putting up window curtains 30 00
By agreement for a carpet 2 pieces curtain
complete, and preparing the President's
office , 475 00
Bill of Ed. Burke, Upholsterer, 22d Au
gust, 1837 $985 16
Viz: To making and laying carpets and
making bell pulls $404 58
hanging paper 179 90
materials for repairing old work 26 6 1,
taking up old carpets, and tak
ing down old curtains, and re
laying and putting up same 51 00
expenses, &c. 240 00
divan frame, stuffing, and materials
for stuffing , 84 50
Bill of Zechariah Nicholas 25th August,
1837 800 00
Cleaning, repairing, and regilding n
chandeliers, -
Cleaning and repairing 3 pair of pier
table French figures,
Cleaning and repairing 1i column as
tral lamps, '•
Cleaning and' . repairing 4 pairs cornu
copia bracket brancher,
Cleaning,and repairing 1 pair mantel ,
branch' lamps,
Cleaning and repairing 1 pair candle
sticks,
Crib paid in Baltimam and Philadelphia
for glass and expenses 60 00
Taking down and putting up chaddeler •
and other ornaments 70 37
Paid for packing boxes and cotton 18 87
Paid for 11 days' hire of horse and cart,
hauling the ornaments and expenses 29 75
Cleaning 1 passage lamp and chain 3 00
Cleaning and repairing a plateau 75 00
Expenses, transportation, and putting up
plateau • 11 00
"JULY 10, 1837.
“Received for repairs of chandeliers, &c., for the
President's HOuse, one hundred and fifty dollars.
4. $l5O
I have just read several bills, which exhi
bit an expenditure, under the act of Congress
last mentioned, for what are denominated
" repairs of . the' President's House" during
the first six months of Mr. Van Buren's term,
amounting altog ether to the sum of $4,127
98. By these' bills we are taught what is
meant by the phrase, " repairs of the Presi
dent's House," in the palace vocabulary. It
appears that "repairs of the President's
House" consists in buying scarlet damask
and Brusselij carpet for the Presidents Of
fice; scraping or scrubbing, and making
window curtains for the same; purchasing
silver paper and green silk for the Green
room; and removing furniture from the Au
dience room to the Major's room, and from
this room to the Audience room; taking
down window curtains, washing and making
them again t for the Square room; taking
down window curtains, and taking up carpets,
in the Circakir and Blue rooms; putting up
window curtains in the Major's room and
Mt. M. Vari Buren's room; making and lay.
ing dowo carpets; making bell-pulls, pur
chasing divans, cleaning and repairing chan
deliers, pier tables with French figures,
column astral lamps, cornucopia bracket
branches, mantel branch lamps, candlesticks
and plateaus. I think, sir, the farmers, me
chanics, and laborers will judge the forego.
ing items to;
be a very strange kind of " re
pairs of the President's House." They will
have no hesitation in pronouncing - that there
is scarcely a single dollar included in the
foregoing bills :which can with propriety be
said to have been expended in " repairs for
the President's House." I heard a gentle.
man remark, with most cutting severity,
while speaking'on the subject of " repairs of
the President's House," that " it was the
duty of the Government who first built the
house to keep it in repair, and shelter its oc
•cupant from the rains and winds of heaven."
Don't you believe, sir, that the President
adopts a most admirable mode to "shelter"
himself from " the rain and winds of heaven"
by expending the appropriations made by
Congress " for repairs of the President's
House," in 'buying silver paper, scarlet da
mask, and green silk; in fixing I,' bell-pulls,"
I cleaning or regilding plateaus and cornuco
' pia bracket 'brandies; taking down and put
ting up wiridoW curtains; laying down and
taking up carpets, and in removing the fur
niture from the Audience room to the -Ma
jor's room, and from the latter to the Audi.
eke room'? The honest truth about the
whole matter is this, sir. Scarcely $5OO
have been expended' during the last twelve
years in making legitimate, real, permanent
" repairs or the 'President's House," except
ing on onctoccasion for painting the ,entire
building inside and outside, for which a spe
cial appropriation of $3,482 was voted by
Congress. I The Representatives of the Pep:
pie.
pie have betin.gulledyes. sir. actually gull.
ed., with the idea that large annual appropri
ations ha been necessary for "repairs of
the Piesidint's House" that it might not
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" fill to pieces and go to ruin; and "when
those appropriations have been made for
" repairs of the President's House," they
have invariably been expended in the man
ner I have indicated.
44 %o true Gentleman• '1
It is astonishing the number of individuals who
fall under the ban of Mr. Kendall, and come into
the category of 'no true gentleman.' The follow;ng
letter from a Postmaster in Michigan is in reply to
the begining epistle of the Ex-Postmaster for 'that
dollar' or that 'halfdollar'• which is essential to en
able him to 'save the country.'
RAISIN, Lena teee coLnly, Michiga n
Sia :—I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 28th ult., enclosing your Address and
Prospectus, and after due consideration, I return
them 'franked' as they came, although I have my
doubts about its being agreeable to law so to do—
Yet, if contrary to law, I can plead your own pre
cedent, as an extenuation of my exercise of the
franking' privilege, and for my charity in saving
fifty cents of the 'bard currency' in which your soul
so much delight., for yourself and needy family.
I will give you a few plain reasons why I return
them to the source from which they emanated with.
out complying with your request. Your language
is not republican. It is nut such as one democrat
should use to another, where democratic equality is
professed to be reciprocally acknowledged. • You
speak of 'sensiif of duty.' What do you mean by
that, sir? Dolyou mean that because I have had a
patty office, once dependant on your favor, that I
am bound to forego all independence of character,
and serve you from a .senSe of duty Talk that
language, sir, to the 'serfs' of Russia—Democrats
scorn it. They owe no 'allegiance' to the would-be
dictators or upstart demagogucr.
1 return your artful appeal to the people of the
United States, because I consider it a tissue of false
statements and false issues.
You pretent to be patriotic and zealous for your
country. Your past conduct belies your professions.
You have acted a prominent part iu the councils of
those who have brought our country to the verge of
ruin, and our Republic to threshold of a monarchy.
I think I understand your motives.
You talk the sawe language which the Robes
pierres Dantons and Caesars have always talked.
While You profess democracy and love for the dear
people, you aro artfully sapping the very founda
tions of that democracy.
Again, you are most insultingly hypocritical.
You talk in your Address about members of the
Whig party 'franking' documents, when you know
that the Var. Burenites have 'franked' three to their
one, a large proportion of which are bully Duncan's
hlackguardism, which you are pleased to say, 'have
a spice of coarseness suited to the Western people.'
Quite a compliment, indeed, and one for which
they will doubtless thank you and your master as
they should at the ballot box next November. The
charge of 'contempt tor the people.' which you are
pleased to prefer against Harrisonians is, from the
above take issue, particularly applicable to your
self:
You say a 'sham hero,' waapresented to the pen.
pie in the person of Harrison. And pray, air, where
was you when the battles of Tippecanoe, Fort Meigs
and the Thames were fought? Where was you
when Harrison, the 'sham hero,' as you are pleased
to call hiin, chased a flying foe into the heart of
Canada, and there conquered him
Waa you teaching school in Kentucky, or bask.
ing like - a poisonous basalisk, in the sunshine of Mr.
Clay's favor or opposing Mr. Madison and the war,
like your master, Van Buren ? Answer these ques.
lions to your conscience.
Surrounded with court spledours in the georg4-
ously furnished palace of Mr. Van Buren, you may
imagine that the people will sustain you and Ina]
in your aristocratic pride and pomp, because you
profess democracy. Deceive not yourself, sir. To
show you in what estimation the hardy backwoods
men and •log cabin boys' regard you, Michigan will
give 'Old Tip' two thousand majority next fall, in
spite of your 'Extra Globe. Note it down now in a
book, and mark the result. As my sheet is full, I
now close' with this remark : if my. office is consid
ered the price of obedience to monarchial dictation,
it is at the service of those who gave it.
With correct opinions as to your character, I
am, sir.
DARIUS C. JACKSON P. M. Rai s in
The Learned Blacksmith.—Our readers have
heard of ELIHU Boaarrr, the blacksmith of VVorces
nester, Massachusetts, who has acquired so much
reputation as a linguist, being learned in some fifty
languages. This vast erudition he has accumula
ted in the intervals of leisure snatched from the labo
rioue prosecution of his trade as a blacksmith. Ile ,
still labors daily at his vocatiou, and pursues his
studies with unremitting diligence.
At the dedication of the Log Cabin at Worcester,
Mr Buitairr took part in the ceremonies and ad.
dressed the meeting. His speech appears in length,
evidently revised by himself, in the North Bend, a
new WHIG paper published at Worcester. It re
fleets credit on Mr. Burritt as a master of the Eng•
lish language, as well as so many ltreign tongues.
His appeal to the industrious classes of New Eng
land is in a high degree eloquent and impressive.
The following is an extract :
WORKING MEN or NEW ENGLAND !—I am glad
to see and meet you at this interesting time and
place. lam this day prouder than ever of these
marks in the palms of my hands, which I have born
from my youth, and which I shall carry down with
me to the grave,--tae incontestible proofs that I
have been,and am what I am proud to be, a work
ing man. 1 esteem it the highest honor and privi
lege that has yet been conferred on me during my
short career, to be permitted to speak to you on this
occasion. Saving my hopes in Heaven, I have nev.
er, in all my busy days and nights, in all the rever
ies of my imagination, in all my 'longings after
fame,' never have I had an aspiration that reached
above or beyond the hope of seeing you instated into
all the honors and privileges of moral, intellectual
and civil beings, the privileges of freemen ! Breth
ren of the hard and horny hand ; as, opposed as it
may be to my natural tastes and habits to speak in
public, yet if 1 ever see such dastard end drivelling
drones as Benton and Buchanan plotting to sell for
a mere mess of pottage, these your high destinies,
these your indefeasible - patrimony and birthright,—
if I stand by and 'care not for the affliction of Jo
seph: or forget to °nen my mouth to plead your
cause, then, let this blistered right hand 'forget its
cunning, and my tongue be stilled in everlasting at.
fence. I rejoice that you have come hither this
day to tell , unprincipled conspirators against these
your liberties that they sadly mistook their men,
when they thought to transfer the stout and stub
born sons, Of New England ; to the miserable degra
dation of serf like bondage ; that they counted with
out their nost when they proposed to sell you as pas
sive props to hold up the infernal system of slave
"labor at the South. lam proud to see you in your
places; not 'with helmets all unbraced,' but with
all your armor on ; ready to assert and defend your
appropriate and inalientable post of honor, the life
guards of our Constitution and lam.
Matzke Corrected—An orator holding forth
51; favor of women, dear divine women," copal.
dad thue--“ph my hearers, depend upon it nothing
beats a good wife." beg your pardon," replied
one of his audiuus, a bad husband does."
Negroes in Texas.—President Lunar, of Texas,
has issued 5 a prociatnation,, Commanding all free
persona of east token on penalty of being impri•
coned cud jell under the ea of eongrese.
ilEi;i
TuarlaY 4vetting. ,I,nn. 7, IN •
i Tho show is falling tist i end "Lavin . $
rettithed fro .. 'a walk half a mile diets t i ,
where in aadding formerly occupied am a
distHet schoo house, lives the family of 7 -4--.
As the shade . of evening begati to 'appear, it
I I
appears -to e that a 'few - gli rte or milli
would be a eptable to this or. filmily:
t H3
knowing, that( the times are: such that the
father can ge but little employment. 'Put
ting on my clak and hood, I was presently
.
at 'the door o f this family. Rving an dr.
rand a few rods below, I did n bt enter, bin
said to the mother that I would Call in a fi f er
moments and take my pail. 0 my return
I went in. A (little one perhaps: a
year of ,
wak in her arms, and another right litt
boy, whose' intelligent countenace denoted
the high destinies for which the soul with
was designed, three or four years of ag ,
was crying at her side. Well, 1 5Irs.
hoW do you get along? I asked. With tr .
doWn cast look and heaving bosom, such
is horne only by the wife of a drynkard, a
replied, " Oh, Ildon't know; pretty much
usual.'' Seeing her table set as if fresh en
for iupper, and ; a tea-pot on the stove, I ,i r
qui fed, is your husband at home'!" ".No; h
is somewhere about the corner,'a place #
few; rods distant, universally designated by
that name, and of general resort for a car
tainlcla.s of the community: 99 t e two mei
chants and and two landlords who a e all in
cluster on or near the four corners of tw .
roads which cross each other, (arid I wad!,
add,, under the eaves of the sanctuary wittir4-
officiates in this day of light and effort, -
brandy making deacon) are each of the ar
drunkard makers; " Men of property a
standing," .' who speak great' swelling
words, devour widows' houses and sayP
" Ain I tint innocent ?" i ,
Upon a second survey of the table, I per
ceived a few scanty dishes neatly arrange
with ,perhaps a dozen small potatoes, a ver3
small bone of meat and a bowl or two of I
milk 1 had just brought in without bread a
butter, or a particle of any other kind
food. I resumed my inquiries and ask
How does your husband do now a days
Does he drink as much as ever? When 11.
IV O. 35
can get any money he does. He hue be
quite study for a few days, but—he has bee.
at the corner to-day. She stopped suchienly
Do ?ou have the necessaries of life at al
times? I asked. Sometimes Ido and some
times I do not, Wcs her reluctant answer
Where are yonr other children? Two ar;
in —, and one in you know. I have
but these two at home. In the mean time
the little hov had dried his tears, and brough
his book to let me hear how well he cot&
read. After some little conversation wit
him, I turned to the mother and directe..
her to go to Christ with all her trials, and
yield herself up to him as her only source o'
consolation in this world of sorrow, as it em
phatically is to her. Upon rising to depart,
with a countenance full of gratitude, she l
thanked me for the milk, saying she had
none for a week or more, and the last she
hail bought with: her labor, of one of he
neighbors.
Upen leaving the house, with some diM,
culty,in consequence of the depth end near
ness of the snow, I found my way,into lb
streeti when an unearthly sound, as of moan.
ing origroaning fe'l upon my ears. By this
time U was quite dark, but in consequence
of the contrast which the snow afforded, I
discovered before! me about two-thirds the
distance between these charnel houses and
the habitation I had just left, a dark object,
from which the Sound seemed to proceed.
An involuntary shudder seized my whole
frame! I turned to retreat as fast es possi
ble, when upon a second thought, I resolved
to stop and see if t the object moved', and i'
so, how fast: for asiit did not present the form
of a human being, I was utterly at a loss
what it could be. I halted! stepped forward;
then back, looked oLnd listened to the moan.
ings, Which thought must resemble those
of thepit, and at fi rst could not perceive that
it moved at ail. To go forward and lencoun
ter it, I had not courage. I stood hesitating
when I noticed that it advanced towards me.
At that moment the reply of Mrs.
" my husband is at ;the corner," flashed, upon
my mind. I returned and told her there
was something in the street which I believed
might be her husband. She caught the light,
and haStily left the house to meet him, and
such a spectacle! 'I literally shudder as I
wt ite. , A being made a little lower than the
angels,!
!crowned with glory and hondr,
t,
bear
ing did, image of his Maker, and the impress
ofimarrtality, purchased by the blood of
the Son of God, reduced, yes reducdd, to a
level with creeping thing; yea, turned into)
a creeping thing, as ho was actually draw
ing himself at full length upon his stomach,
by the-Sid of his aims, upon the snow. My
thoughts flew first to the poor wife, (must I,
can I say, wife) and then to these reservoirs
of deaih and damnation, at one of which he.
had been transformed from a man erect, into
a thing—l ought to say, fiend; for he spoke
the language of the bottomless pit, in impre
cations; and curses upon me, in answer to the
question, when and which of these four indi.
yiduals was it that thus rewarded your will,
your ones, for your faithful toils through
the day? For I felt that I could go; and upon
my knees entreat that individual to ,accom•
pany nie to that house of wo, and see what'
his own hands had done. His wife, for fear
of her,life upon returning reason, spoke to
him in the tenderest tones, kindly offering toi
raise him (rom the snow. With oaths and
curses he refused her assistance, and in that
condition, sometimes upon his stomach and'
sometimes upon his knees, drew himself intq
his house, there to act the fiend, both in lan.
guage and conduct until a 'full restoration ot
reason shall-bring with it shame and silence .
As I left and turned the corner, I exclaimed
audibly, How long, 0 Lord, how long moat
and will these fountains or misery and death,
temporal and eternal, be tolerated? Row,
long will men for " covetousness ," makeitia:,
voc of the bodies and souls of their felkiw4
men?—Conneticut Observer.
Standing Army.—Van Buren strongly
mended this scheme in his last Message. In a Loth*
of his, published recently, he states that he did
examine it. This places him in a most unforturiso
dilemma. If he alleges s:faleehoodrhe has ettd*
vored to force a monarchical scheme down thetboute
o f the people. If he speak' the truth. he Wendt co*
victed before the country of recommending a despotic
and unconstitutional measure without any exaatina.
uon. What • humiliating position, far the CAI
Magistrate of the nation ! How Imo:4:W and
rect a !—Phila. Silendost.
RANCE R
CORD