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Larger advertisements chargd in the, same proportion. Those not exceeding ten lines will be charged seventy.five cents, and those making six lines or less, three insertions for 50 cents. t".'A liberal deduction will fie made to those who advertise by the year. I:V'Ogice in Hamilton St., one door East o/ the German Reformed Church, nearly opposite the "Priedensbothe Ogee." - Glorious News! "MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE.' The subscribers hereby give notice, that after the 20th of March nt xt, they tvill con duct-their-business-on-the CASH Oit READY PAY SYSTEM, Whereby their customers and a thousand more, can save from 20 to 25 per centuin upon all moneys that they•pay for STORE GOODS. As they can afford to sell goods that per cent, cheaper than any other Store that does business upon the credit system. And Another New Feature. After the above specified time, the under signed have the pleasure to annonce that to their present large nod extensive stock of Goods, they will add that of Ready *Made Clothing., Of every description, which will be sold cheaper than ever before so'd in this market. To Formers ! Bring us your Butter, Eggs, Lard. Ham, Bacon, &c. we wiil furnish you with clothing front hewl to foot, ready for wear, without any CASH having to be paid either for cutting or making. E_No goods will be exchanged for wood or produce before being delivered. SAMSON, WAGNER & Co. ¶-4w February , 28 11 Ig 4 (E) Lti Z ll ' l a 9 AT . I . OIINEY AT LAW. Office one door cost of Ko Hotel, Al lentown, LAO county, I'a. Allentown, March 28 _ . Orders nof eel red R Fruit and Ornamental Trees. THE undersigned intends visiting the numerous Nurseries, in the vicinity of New York, immediately on the opening of Spring, and will be happy to execute all orders entrusted to his care in the way of f.,r4‘i Fruit and Ornamental ',1:% ..,,-- Trees, Evergreens, Flowering t... Shrubs, Roses, Vines, Creepers, herbateous Plants, Bulbous and Tuber our holed Flowers, Esculant Roots, Hedge Plants, lies Edging, 4.c. Catalogues can be seen at his residence. All articles will be selected personally by him, and brought on itninvdint. ly. t piers should be sent in before the first of . Nialeli next. [-I. W. CID f 5131... Near the Borough of Easton, Penn February 20. ¶-2m .LOOK HERE! A Certain and Effectual Cure, The subscriber, Druggist in the Borough Of Bethlehem, Northampton county, adopts this method to inform sufferers of a Rheu matic complaint, be it Inflarnatory, Chronic or Acute, that he prepares an article of tiled eine, that will effect a certain cure of this wide spred and painful disease. It is put up in Quart bottels, each bottle accompani ed by a box of Ointment. The liquid to be taken internally, and the ointment external -I'y. The genuine article can be had wily by the undersigned, a practical Druggist and Chemist, and originator of the Medicine. Price two dollars per bottle, or six bottles for ten dollars—which will be sent to inva lids in any part of the county. free of charge. All orders must be accompanied with the Cash, or they will receive no attention. This medicine needs no puffing, it speakS for itself, while perfectly harmless in its ope ration it eradicates the system from the effects produced by unskillful treatment. It. has already produced some astonishing cures, and of cases where the patient has .been confined to the house for years, and those that got abroad only with the use of Crutches, were set at liberty by the use of from one to six . Bottels. ' Certificates of cures can be shown from the most respect able. citizens. • [i'None is genuine without his written signature in blue ink. HENRY GANGWER, Proprietor, Bethlehem, Penn. December 12. ¶-1 y ai••• • 4 14 L Philadelphia, .allentouz Mauch Chunk TRANSPORTATION LINE, For transporting merchandize between Philadelphia, New Hope, Easton, Free inansburg,, Bethlehem, Allentown, Weiss ' port, Mauch Chunk and White Haven, and all intermediate places along the Delaware and Lehigh Canals ; shipping from Budd 1 4. Candy's Third Wharf, below Vine street, on the Delaware. HECKER, LONG, & Have lately purchased the' • Line of Boats, known for the last two years as the Tren ton and Lehigh Transportation Line and previous as Cook's Line. They being new beginners, hope, by careful and prompt attention to their busi ness to get a liberal share of patronage. l'llivi- -- propri - otors - ira - v - e large and commo dious Store House at all the above named stopping places. HECKER, LONG, & CO., Proprietors. .17 G ENTS Stephen Long, Philadelphia, Sainnel L. Opie, New Hope, G. IV. flonsel & Co., Easton, C. & A. Bachman, Preemansbmg, Charles Seidel.. Bethlehem, William Hecker, Allentown, Lewis Weiss, Weissport, Robert Kiotz, Mauch Chunk, A. Pardee & Co.,•Hazleton, Horton & Blakeslee, White Haven, March ti. 11-3 in .ILL E.l* TO g POP Livery Establishment. TIE subscribers take this method to in form their customers and the public in gerier3,l, that they have lately purchased of Air. George Beissel, ,his extensive Livery establishment, ccrisistin7 in part of "rc, Horses, Carriages, &e. b - 113 and continuing the business at , 1tbk.zi.a=:.?..0,.4- the old stand on William street, in the Borough of Allentown. They will alwaysbe prepared to furnish their customers at the shortest possible no tire pith sure and gentle horses and splen did fashionable vehicles. Ong Pleasure parties or societies, will be furn ished with :gentle horses, good carriages and careful drivers, if requested. Families can be suited at all times with vehicles to their particular tastes. Their charges are reasonable, and in or der to coutilue the higlc credit it has here tofore gained of being the •best livery estab lishment in Allentown," they will leave nothing undone to keep on hand the best and :safest horses, the neatest and most splendid carriages, and sober and careful drivers. They return their sincere thanks for the liberal patronage thus far bestowed, and trmt that they tvill be tilde (either to merit romitimthre of their :-erptitt. Nv , intor . 1 eVierStrY/Miii 6," Florist, [tiring Sun Tillage, Germantown Road near PHILADELPHIA 1 A S for sale at his Garden and -"IL Nu rsety, nn extensive assort ment of Fruit Frees, consisting of - Pear, Plum, Cherry. and Apricot, as well as Ornamental and Shade Trees of every variety, and Evergreens, viz., Balm of Gilead, Silver Fir, Red and Black Spruce, Norway Spruce, White Pines, Ar bortitae, Tree Box, &c.; also Shrubbery, Roses of many kinds, Grape Vines, Hardy Plants, Raspberries. Currants, Ossage Or ange, I - lerb Roots, Vegetable Plants, Garden and Flower Seeds-117rolesale and Retail —prices moderate. His stands for the sale of the above in the City, are in the Market street Market below Sixth Street, where orderi are also received. ri — Communications may be addressed by mail, to the direction of S. NI AUPA V, Ris ing Sun. P. 0. Philadelphia &flinty. Februnry 20 EMI END MOHR, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW' Office it few doors west of the Court Ilouse. Elc can be . consulted both in the Ger man and English languages Allentown, April 4 WILLIAM S. MARX, ATTORNY & covssELLon AT LAW. Office in the western front room of the bulldog of John D. Lownll, formerly Horn beck's, west of the. Courthouse. Allentown April 4, 1850. 11—tf iration 0 J. 1 / 4 1: 'l'. 111,11.'\1 —.lin ---2 rn ME ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., MARCH 27, 1851. Look out for Ear aims • i ., Off! -A T IVV.MI3 CEA) VIIICES :Messrs. Kern (S• Kline, proprietors of the New York Store, take this method to inform_ their friends and customers, that they will after the 15t h of March next, adopt the Col II 8 1 11 8 T1E0;1 They have already reduced the price of their stock of Goods, which by these means they propose to sell out, in order to lay in an entire new CASE STOCK by the above specified time. Persons will find it to their advantage to call at the New York Store to make good bargains. Now is your time! CLOTHS, CASHMERES, Satinens. Vestings, Coatings, all of which are reduced at least 20 per cent.. front their former prices. SILK S, la BPL S, 'ombazines,_besides_alLothqr_fine_articles-I I of Dress Goods are offered 20 per cent. from former prices. E1 7 2 - To Country Merchants great induce- , - ments are held out, as wt. ofli.r Tr - stock-0H the best selected Goods ever brought to Al lontown. GROCERIES AND QUEENSWARE, They have on hand a large supply of fresh Groceries, Fish. Salt, and Queens ware, all of which they will dispose of very cheap. Ei - ... - They would also state, that under no circumstances will goods be given on ac count of wood, before the same is delivered at their yard. With many thanks to their former friends and patrons, they hope by introducing the Cash Nysicar, to be able to sell cheaper and not only to retain their present customers,but be the means of bringing to the New York Store many new ones. Feb. 21 Take 7alice Surveyor and Scrivener. =I to his lark circle offriends and the public in “eneral, that he still continues the Sur veying and Scrivenint , business, in its vari ous branches, at his office, !tear Coopers burg, in Upper Simeon township, Lehigh county. Ile has lately purchased at a very great expellee, a number of the newest and itio:t im proved Naihenutliral lusiminetas, which will enable lihn, with a practice of '4O years standing, to give general satisfaction. His experience as a Scrivener is undoubt ed, as he has also followed the business for many years. Terms moderate. 12irIle will always be ready to serve his friends, at any reuonable distance from home, when called upon. A N DRE W IC. NV IA N. -41 m Oct. 31 otite Co :assessors. The several assessors of their respective wards of the 13orough of Allentown, and of Ow several townships of the County of Le hig; , are lwri by rego , sled to meet in the C“otatissioners erlick:. in Allentown, on Nlon day the 7th day of April next, to subscribe their oath of office, (which is to be filed in said office,) to obtain the assessinents, the appeal notices, and such other !natters and instructions, relating to the perfortnauoe of their respective Jly order ty liir CommishionerN. 1. U. LINE, Clerk. llzuch 1:3, ¶-4w An Industrious Blacksmith 11P.1.7**TED , „,_ By the undersiged, residing in Stockertown,Northampton ty. A [Min of sober and indus trious habits, who understands to make light a • nd heavy work, on carriages and wa gons, will find a permanent siivation and good wages, by making immediate applica tion at, the above place to THONI AS HEINII3ACH 11`i -4w March 6. 4,') ) j,' - VI I ' , A, Notice . is hereby given, that the under signed has been appointed by the court of Cognition Pleas of Lehigh county, at its last session, a Committee over the person and es tate of Thomas Frock, of North Whitehall township, Lehigh county. Now be it known to the public, that hereafter no debts of the said Thomas Fmk, will be paid, unless contracted through an order from the under signed JOHN TROXEL, Coninzittee. March 6. 11.-6 w JOlit Neatly executed at the ..Rejister" Mice KERN & KLINE. 11-Iw HIMI For the Lelbigh negi.ter The Days of my Boyhood. The days of My 'boyhood, those moments of glad ness, . How quick they have fled with my pleasures away, And left me to mourn in sorrow and sadness, Over time's desolation and earthly mortal de cay. Oh ! often in fancy cloth my spirit recall, To its fond recollection the days that are fled, But a whisper I hear which •tells they're all; And my playmates are long ago laid with the dead. The woodiatui the scene of my wild hunting sport, IVhere often I followed the timid wild hare, NoW"echoes no more to the rifle's report; The Woodland is cleared, fix the woodman was there. • ; And the clear silver brook from whose white shining knitn, I annled the trout on a fair summer day; -Now_listenno-,more-to-the—fi.herman!s-song For the brook and the trout hive lung died 1139 And thus have tits scrnt-s of my boyhood d. partptl, Like a short summer day, from all mortal re MO Anil in my lustreless eye the tear drop has started, While my flwering, tongue speaks a silent But now in my sorrow old age coiner; alorg, (Yet this I'm told is humanity's And soon shall I pass from this world to my EMI To sleep my last sleep beneath the green sod Then my youthful days I bid you :adieu, With tears in my eyes and grief in my heart, For many the pleasures together we I; new, While in ft itmdship we dwell, and dream! not to part. Allentown, Feb. 25, 1851 ifiLicelitmcoluii !.-3ctectiow:i. (From Miss Mdutostes "Christmas Gift.") Tile Wolf Chase. During the winter of lt.ll, being engaged in the northern part of Maine, 1 l ea d much leisure to devote to the wild sports of a new country. To none of these was I more passionately addicted than to skating. The deep and sequestered lakes of this State, frozen by the intense cold of a northern ti inter, present a wide field to the lovers of this pastime. Often would I bind on my skates, and glide away up the glitte rlog ri ver, and wind each mazy stn.:toilet that flowed beneath its fetters on toward the pa. rent ocean, forgetting all the while time and distance in the luxurious sense of the glid ing, nintionthinking of nothing in the easy flight, but rather dreaming, as I looked through the transparent ice at the Icing weeds and crosses that nodded in the cur rent beneath, and seemed wrestling wide the waves to let them go; or I would follow on the track of some fox or otter, and run my skate along the mark he had left with his dragging tail until the trail would enter the woods. Sometimes these excursions were made by moonlight, and it was on one of these occasions that had a rencounter, which even now, with kind faces around me, I cannot recall without a nervous look ing-over.my-shoulder feeling. I had left my ftiorid's house ono evening just before dosk, with the intention ulskal ing a shirt distance up the nnicle Kennelyr, whicdO , Mh d ditettiv liefor.• the door. The night was beautifolly clear. A peerle ; :s moon rude th ouili an ucca,ional cloud, and stars twilikllql fria» the sky and front every frost-covered tree in Nlillions; Your mind would wonder at the light that came glinting; from ice, and snow-wreath, and incrusted. branches, as the eye followed for miles the broad gleam of the Kenneb e c, that like a jeweled zone swept:between the mighty forests on its hanks. And yet till was still. The cold seemed to have frozen ; tree, noel air, and water, and every living thing that moved. Even the ringing of my skates on the ice echoed back from the Moc with a startling clearness, and the -crackle of the ice as I passed over it icc my course see tied to follow the tide of the river with lightning sped. I had gone up the river nearly two miles when, coming to a little stream which emp ties into the larger, I turned in to explore its course. Fir and hemlock of a century's growth Inet overhead, and formed an arch way radiant with frost-work. All Was dark within, but I was young and fearless, and as I peered into an unbroken forest that rea red itself on the borders of the stream, I laughed with very joyousness : my wild linrra rung through the silent woods, and stood listening to the echo that reverberated again and again, until all was hushed. I thought how often the Indian hunter had concealed himself behind these very trees— how often his arrow had pierced the deer NEUTRAE Ib POLITICS. by this very stream, and his wild ballot) had as the • s ; rung or its vie ory. t n t ion, tar-; clashed together like the spring of a fox ; ning froth fancy to reality, I watched a con- trap. (fad my skates failed for one instant, pie of white owls, that sat in their hooded hail I tripped on a stick, or caught my foot state, with ruffled pantalets and long ear• in a fissure in the ice, the story lam telling tabs, debating in silent conclave the affairs would never have been told, I thought all of their frozen realm, and wondering if they, the chances over: I knew where they would "for all their ftmather, were a-cold," when j first take hold pf me ill fell : fthought how suddenly a sound arose—it seemed to me to j long it _would be before I died and when come from beneath the ice ; it sounded low I here would be a search for the body that and tremulous at first, until it ended in one would already have its tomb; - fur oh ! how wild yell. I was appalled. Never before fast man's mind traces out all the dark co had such a noise net may oars. I thought lots of death's picture, only those who have 'it more than mortal—so fierce, and amid been near time grim original can tell. such an unbroken solitude, it seemed as if I Pon soon I came opposite the house, and a fiend had blown a blast fro n t nun infernal my hounds—l know their deep voices— trumpet. Presently I heard time twigs on ' roused by the noise, bayed furiously from shore snap, as if from the tread of some mini- the kennels, I heard their chains rattle •mal, arid the blood rushed back to my fore-' how I wished they would break them, and bead with a bound that made my skin burn, ; then I would have protectors that would be and I felt Hieved that I had to contend; peers to the fiercest denizens of the forest. with things earthly, and not of spiritual na- ' —The wolves, taking the hint conveyed by tare—my energies returned, and I looked the dogs, stopped in their mad career, and,_ around me for seine means of escape.—The after a moment's consideration, turned and moon shone through the opening- at the fled: I watched them until their dusky mobil of the creek by which I had entered forms disappeared over a neighboring hill.. the forest, and considering this the best Then taking. of my skates, I wended my means of escape, I darted toward it like an I way to the house, with feeling which may arrow, "I'was hardly a hundred yards dis- be better imagined than described t rtt irnrl — thLr. - ITI ow----entrkl—srarerly-Trxrd my ili•sperate (;inlet: tv t, as I my b(:ad lo th shure, I could Z`.1.0 two dirk jects dashing* throuffh the underbtudi at a pace nearly &nide in spend to my own. Ey this great speed, and the sliort ytqls which Ihvy c,ccashumll3 ci:ce dint tlie:,e wcre the much dreadcd gray wolf. 1 had never To .1 IVith tilt`F , o :1111111:1k, hi? but little plea . stire in tnakin , their acriimin ; lance. !'heir untamable tieteeness.ad the ; untirinEc strength which seems part of their ; nature, render them Obil•Cts of dread to eve ry benighted traveler. "NVith their lowz, gallop, with_ h can tire The deer-hound's hate, the hunter'N they ptime their prey—never strayinLr from the track of their victim—and as the n tried Bunter thinks he has at last out stripped them, he finds :hat they had but waited for the cvvninq to seize their prey, and falls a prize to the tireless animals• E J. NI The bushes that skirted the shore flew past with the v e locity of liglitaiug as I dash ed on in my flight to pass the narrow open ing.. The outlet was nearly g,ained one second more and I wool I be comparatively ate, when my pur,ners app,are.l on the bank directly above me, which here rose to the hen , lit of ten foci. Tln•re was no titer for tlmimlit, so I boat my head and dashed madly forward. The N% Vt.', sprang, but miFeztletilatilm- my speed, sprang behind. while their iMendcd prey glided out upon the river. Nature turned nee toy.ar.l Immo. 'flu ligid ii tkes of snow spun fiolll the iron ul my skates, and I was soma distance from toy pursuers, whewtheir fierce howl told me I was still their fugitive. 1 did not look back, I did not feel afraid, or sorry, or glad ; one thought of Inane, of the, brio-ht faces ;malting; Inv return, of their tears if they never should set; toe, and dam every ener gy of body and mind was exerted for escape. I. was perfectly at home ell the ice. MInV were tine days that I had spent on my ,good skates, never third:tug that at one time they would be my only means of safety. Every half minute an alternate yelp from my fierce attendatus made me but too certain thai they were in close pursuit. Nearer and .nearer they came ; I heard their feet paltering, on the ico nearer still, until I could feel their breath and hear their k;inifEng scent. Ev ery awry, 11/111 111(1 , 6' iu Any frame was stretched to the utmost tension. The t fce, - ; along the shore seemed M dance in the uncortain and my brain totaled with my one Lt Adc ,, d, they xonted to lit s iorth their I. a th wi t h a sound truly hortilde, when an involuntary motion on my part turned me out ot . cource. The Wolves close behind, unable to stop, and as totablo to tarn'on the smooth ice, :dipped and fell, still g,oihg on far ahead; their tountms were lolling out, their white tusks glaring from their bloody mouth:l, their dark, shaggy brea s ts were Ilt.ced with foam, and as they paged nie their eyes glared. and they howled with enry. The thought, (fished on my mind, that by, this means 1 could avoid them, viz.: by turning. asi le whenever they came too near ; for they, by . the formation of their feet, are. 1111111/43 to run on ice, except nun straight line. I immediately acted niion this plan. The welvws, leaving regained their feet, sprang directly toward me. The race was renew ad for twenty yards up the stream ; they were already close on my back, when I glid ed rotund tint dashed directly past My pur suor'. A tierce yell greeted my evolution, and the wolves, slipping upon their haunch es sailed onwnol, presenting; a porfect pic ture of helplessm ss and baffled rage. Thus 1 gained nearly n hundred yards nt each turning. This was repeated two or three tithes, every moment the animals getting more excited and baffled. • At one time, by delaying my turning too long, my fierce antagonists mune so near, that they threw the white foam over my dress even ye , 1 never see a broad &wet of ire in the moonshine, ithout thinking of that snuffling breath, and those fearful things that followed me so closely down the frozen Kennebec. Census anecdotes. Tho Oregon Spectator gives seine curious facts, which it derives from Mr. O'Neil, the Cum. ns A gent for Oregon Territory. These facts wiil rtlliard some discussion among the ladies. The Spectator says The population of Linn county averages about seven to each family, and strange to tell, there is quite a number of bachelors in the same. He found one family containing twelve children, hearty and . well to do—the product of Its years ; and another containing 9 children in II years. Ile visited a num ber of families the mothers of which were but 1.1 years old, and several of the mothers of which were only 1:3 years old. One fam ily, in King's Valley, Polk county, the mother of which had three children at a birth, about five months previous, two of whom were still living, the other having died a short time before his visit. Three familio by the name of Applegate, residing in the Umpqua Valley, containing 39 chil dren ; the distribution being nearly equal beiweeli the three. There was one family, the father of which after giving in the names of nine children, being interrouated whether there was any more, replied.--V s, there are four or five more," but lie being unable to call over their Oblial'd to send for their mother w Lose assistance- the catalogue was com pleted. Mr. O'Neil called upon another family. the head of which being absent, (it should be remarked here, that it is necessa ry to inquire the birth-place of the heads of families,) his housekeeper, a colored wo man, was interrogated as to the State in which he was born—“well," assuming sa deer tetknowiog look, "I don't know 'zactly what Stat.', but I think lie was born in the State of H. Ilemony—l don't h now if it joins Kentucky or not, I've heard himn . often talk about.' Ile was a native of Ireland. Atm ther, being asked what State he was born in, replied that his father had moved round 'so much when he was a baby, that he was un able to answer correctly. goy°, I loicw ni Joe Billings, a romancing Yankee, was one evening seated in a bar-room of a coun try tavern in Canada, where were asscm -111,,d several old countrymen discussing va rious matters connected with the 'pomp and circumstance of war.' In the course of his remarks, one of them stated that the British GoVcrnmeta pos:e.sse.l the largest cannon hT the world—and gave the dimensions of ono he hart seen. Joe's 'Vanltre pride would not allow him to let such a base assertion pass uncontra• dieted. "l'oh, gentlemen," said he, "I won't de ny that it is a fair sized cannon—but you are a !cede mistaken in supposing it to be named the same minute with one of our Yankee guns which I saw in Charlestown last year. Jupiter! that was 'a cannon.— Why, sir, it was so infernally large, that the soldiers were obliged to ripploy a yoke of oxen to draw •in the ball:" 4‘The deuce they were," exclaimed one of his hearers, with n smile of triumph, “pray cnn you tell mo hoo; they got the oxen out ;whin ?" "Why. you fool," feturned Joe, "they unyoked 'em and drove 'enz through the• touch hole!" LirA lady meeting n girl who had lately left her .servicy. log oired, Mary, where do you live now ?" "PlenBe inifarn, ' unt:wered the girl, "I don't live now - -I'm married." Lir It is said that a pair of pretty eyes aro the bout mirror for a man to shave by. 'Zack ly so, and it is unquestionably the case that many a man has been shaved Ify them: NUMBER 25. Big Gun.
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