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Sunhury, March 29th IStR. . .
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merchants. ' ; -, c1 ' - ,; ..,. ., j
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'I -tlllS Machine . is now b.-en tested by more
1 ' than thirty famdie in thi neighborhood, and
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rl out of renoir. It will do twice as much wah.
ho, with les than halfthe wear and tear of an) of
Selvte inventions and whit is of greater injpor
itice.it centa but little over half as much as other
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hire 1 6. H. B. MASKER.
The following certificate ia from a few of thoae
ho have tbe machine in use,
Sunbury, Aug. 24, 1M1. ,
We, the subscribers, certify that we have now
i ue, in our families, Shugert's Patent Wh.
g Machine," and do not hcailate siying that it is
most excellent invention. That, in W aching,
will ave more thn one hall the uusl Tabor.
hat it doe not require more than one third the
iiial quantity of soap and water t and that there
no rubbing, and conaequenily, little or no wear,
g or traring. Th.it it knocks off no buttons, and
nt the finest clothe, such as collars, laces, tucks,
lis, &., may be washed in a very short tims
thout the leaat injury, and in fact without any
parent wear and tear, whatever. We therefore
torfuUy recommend it to our inenos and to me
blic, as a most UM'ful and labor saving machine.
CHARLES W.HEG1NS,
A. JORDAN, - '
: , CHS. WEAVER. , ,
. CHS. PLEASANT8,
GIDEON MAKKLE,
Hon. GEO. O. WELKER,
BENJ. HENDRICKS,
GIDEON LE1SENKING.
iia'a Hot it, (formerly Tremont House, No.
1)6 Cbesnut f treat,) Philadelphia, Septeoiber
list, 1844.
have used Shugert's Patent Washing Machine
my house apwarda of eight months, and do not
itate to say that I deem it one of the mo4 use
end valuable labor-saving machines ever inveo
, I formerly kept two women continually oe
led in washiug, who now do as much in two
a as they then did in one week. There i no
xt ot tear in washing, and it requites not mom
n one-third, the usual quantity of aoap, . I he"
I a number pf other nuchinea in my family, but
i ' .n dridedl suDerior to evert thing else, and
.ittle liable to get out of tepair, that I would not
without one if tbev should oat ten time the
ia Jhey refold r!jIMJEERJ
tllPKlfuYa Port wine. Muderta end"libon
O wioei. Alo superior Brandy and Gin, Lmon
Ahn a tew barrels of BlCB FiaH, for sale
d ' ' HENRV MASSER.
6nhnry, July 19th, U4i. ,. , . : . i
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. ADiojute acquiescence in the decisiona of the
Hy lllasser & Fjsely.
.1' ot i'
The Klea behlaif the Parle Doer.
b l,i
BT f. WAKtFICU),
'! '"Take all the pleasures all those three . A
n ,. Can give r.wealth, fame and wine $,, j...
Still all will be the same to me, , i , ,!,.
While this remains but mine :
. (1 ( fciit give me this nothing nias, v .. .; r
. For tittle needs ha mora . -i-., t ; i oi
Of pleasrire, ho tan eteala kill ' ' !
' 'BehindtheparW'door.' "; ,M ', ? ; ;
1 If there.a auch pleastrre in kisa, -
' " That "wealth, and fame and vrint" s
Cannotcompare with it, I'll make ; " '. 1
v , , The precious treasure mine I,,. , , (
- Vea, though I meet with watchful aunta, '
' And frowning 'mnv" a eore, v ' '
i. Tftt ttext chance I w ill steat a, kiss
ii i i Behind some parlor door I . :
, ' Now if It's as they say it ii, ' 1 ' ' ; ' ;
...That "stolen fruit ii weet,',' , ' " .' '.
It proves that JU'ssc tnurt bt ttoltn :
To make tl'ie bliss complete; '
If so, I'H pluck the'm from the tree,
. .1 Nor trouble heaven for more ! ,. :
Oh, the kisa--the lokrl kisa for me, '
Pehindthe parlor door Vv
. - . . a . ... i - . i, r
: Klutse were the fruit that graced ... .
. The "tree of olden fame," " -r
In plucking them I do flo't think ' r ' "
, .'.That Eve was mncli to blame. ; ,
I find but one fault, with the dame, . .
n - Though some have found a score
To ent the fruit she should have gone,
, ' ; Behind the parlor door , t j. , , -,
Moperu Poetr v. The following delectable
little morsel is an extract from, a poem.V furnish
ed by a correspondent of the Northern Cabinet
over the signature of 'Synonymous,',; . Truly the
poets are not all de.ad yet!., u', ,;
. ; . i t- '.'tbare waa a man in Canada, , . j ..
i- ' . a colder by trade - . -,f'., i .1
7 he married him a hansum wife , - Vf
' - and after wordi she died . ' t ,n
1 " ' lie marriad next' a linty " ' " -' ' '!
'lmr cheeks' were like the tose tii s
' luir1 ej'es like sparing Dimons '
! ; v' (Trn-vurar'did disclose '' 1-
she settled down in Stockholm '. '
'if - .. i ' . . , i i ; inn
! upon a pece ofland
, , and tbare they hilt all for Jhcre use1 ' '
a log house And a barn. , ('
In just about Ji.mtmth.from this,t r , ,
there was a nouther cry
, . " that he had save hur ptson stuf,,
Oil fur to make bur dy," ,
" - i . . t- . r .; ft.- t " '
" PjiFNf'K of Minb. A boy returninff borne
from Montreal with the price of a pr.'of oxen, was
lately accosted by a highwayman, who presented
pistols, with the usual order, "stand and deliverr'
The boy becoming alarmed, pulled Trom his pocV
et the purse containing the money, which fortu
nately dropped on the road ; the'1 robber imme
diately jumped out of his sleigh, which was then
some yards in advance 'of' the purse,' and ran
back for his longed-for irea'sure," wnert the boy,
with great presence of mind,' took 'liold' of the
reins! tind drove off as fast as lie could, Vifh both
horses' arid efh. ' Tlie'rooWf then 'fired his
pistol, the contents of whfen peUicf through the
back of the s'feigh and' nef,'ween the boys legs.
The boy reached hojne in safety, and after exam
ining the sleigh,' found in the box of it, which
was locked, the sum of three thousand francs.
Sfnnot. Bnr Wit. A poofolJ horse covered
with wounds and pitiful Sores, turned to die by
some cruel ' owner, found his way to the gate of
the public school one day last week,'- where he pa
tiently studied away a starving existence. One of
the boys fastened oh his rriane a paper with the
following notice : V ' ''' ' '"
; ' "W'anied. A peck of oats. "F.nrjuire within."
Calvk. 'Vnu are from the couotry, are you
not air 1' paid a dandy clerk, in a kxik-More, ti
a handsomely dressed inker whe had given
him some trouble.
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' 'Well, here'a an Essay on the Rearing of
Calvea.' , ' ' ! . ;t in ' n
' ' 'Thut,1 said Aminidab, as he turned to leave
the store, 'ihee had better present to thy mo
ther.' ' . l-"'"' Y"
A clutton of fellow wasininjr at a hotel,
and io the course of tie battle of koivea and
furka, iccidenully cut hie mouth, which waa
observed by a Yankee Bitting- opposite, who
bawled out, 'I say, Mister, don't make that 'ere
hole in your countenance any larger, or we
shall starve te death !' : ' ' '."
i OYisI OYisI U Visit Cried as Irish
man on the street, a few days since, ringing a
bell, Lost bet wane twilve o'olock and Mr. Mc
Kinstry's store, on Market strste, t large brass
kay. I'll "not be aKher tellin ye what kay it
was; but it was the kay of the Bank, sure.' ''
A kiss by mistake is now called blunder-Jw.
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I; ANDtSHAAIQKINaOURNAIi.
majority, the eltal principle of Republica, from which
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tlomocopathy, Allopathy aaid Tonng Thyste,
( n ! (Concluded.) ..... ! ,,; ,;
There is a case equally remarkable, showing'
the effects of Ipecacuanha in this disease, recor
derl by Dr.' Scott, In the rhitMophical Trent'
actiont for 1T70.'" The patient was the wifo of
an apothecary, arid' became subject to Tegular
attacks of asthma after her marriage.' ! ' For
eome years no pirltcular cause was suspected ;
oui it was at length discovered that the parox
ysm invariably came on when ipecacuanha was
powdered' in the shop.', This practice' was ac
cordingly discontinued, and she continued well
eight or ten years, until one day, when her has
band again brought, home some powJtred ipe
cacuanha, and opened the packet in order to put
the drug into a bottle, 'his wife not being fat
oft at the lime, and in perfect health." Thia
occasioned, most violent fit of asthma, which
lasted eight dsys, becoming better during the
dsy, and much worse at night." '
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How much .Ipecacuanha did this druggist's
wife inhale ! what was its weight! what would
it look like, jf put en. the end of a penknife
Sbamt on such material doctrine ! , , , .
s Dr. Forbes notices the report o( Fleiachman,
physician to the liospital of the Sisters of Char,
ity in Vienna, during a period of eight years,
from the beginning of 1S3& la the end of 1843
The number of patients, all of whom are treated
IIorrxDopathically,' was 6351, of whom 407 died;
being one in 10, or I fraction over G per cent.
Doctor Forbes sums up his opinion of the result
of the treatment, in the following words:, s
"No candid physician, looking at the original
report, or at the small part of it. which we lieve
extracted, will hesitate to acknowledge that the
results set forth would have been considered by
him as satisfactory, if they had occurred -in his
own practice. . M rf.w
: But the results presented to us in the several
internal inflamations, sre certainly not such al
most practical physicians would have expected
to be obtained . under.Jthe exclusive administra
tion of s thousandth or a millionth, or a billionth
part pf pliosphfiroiiF, every two, three or four
hours, ,.It would, bo very unreasonoUo, to be
lieve that, nu op(K) cases of pleurisy, and. lUo
cases of peritcniVs, (in all G2Q cases) rpreaJ r
ver a period of eight years, oil the cases, except
the fatal ones, (27 in oumbcr) wcro slight, and
such as would havo seemed to us hardly requi
ring a treatment of any kind. In fact, accord
ing to all experience, such could not be the
cafe. . Cut, independently of this a priori ar
gtimentj we have a sufiicicnt evidence to prove
that many of the capes of pneumonia, at lca?t,
were indeed severe cases. A few of these ca
ses were reported in detail by Dr. Fleischman
himself, and we liive' ourselves had the state
ment corroborated by the private testimony of a
physician (not a honiawpathiesO who attended
Dr. F's-wards for three months.' This gentle
man watched tha1 course of several cases' of
pneumonia and traced their progress by the phy
sical signs, through the different stages of con
gestinni hepatization, arid reeohition,' up to a
perfect cure, within a period of time which
would have appeared short under the most en
erpetid treatment of allopathy. " ' " '
" Dr. Forbes also notices Professor Henderson's
enses, and observes in regaVd to tlierri that they
would have been regarded as very satUfactoty
under any mode of Allopathic treatment ; that
many were successful, and eome of them fritwi
phan ! " Indt-ed lie bestows so mtrch praise nn
Professor Henderson, that the thought eeeme to
occur to him that he is overstepping the limitu
of orthodox Allopathy , and thus apologises for
his warmth: ' ' ' ' -1 ' : '"
"But many of our readers, we rxpect, will
be of opinion that, in admitting what we have
done, we are betraying the eue of legitimate
medicine, and lending onr aid to extend the he
resy of Ilomce'opathy.' 1 If such should be the
result of o'ur admissions, W'e eannot help it;
we have saiJ only what wo believe te be true,
and if what we believe, is in reality the truth,
the promulgation ot it cannot lead to evil -Truth
ia good !' If the art of medicine, : as we profce
and practice it cannot bear'fnvestlgatlon,' arid
shrinks before the tight of troth, from whatso
ever quarter it may eome; it is high tims that
it should ' cease to be sanctioned and uphold
by philosophers and honest men."-' " .
" The same Idea seems to have occurred to Dr.
Forbes; lor he says, on a subsequent page :
IV ) ' I f. Ill ,i ..I . .'I ... I .l l . , I
, But while we are tljus exaljiig the pqwer
of nature at the expense of Homoeopathy,' are
we not, at the same time, laying bare the na
kedness of our pwn cherished Allopathy 1 ' If it
is nature that cures in Homoeopathy, and if Ho
moeopathy (as we have admitted) does thus
cure, in certain cases, as' well as Allopathy, do
we not, ' by ' this sdm isaion, 'inevitably ex pose
ourselves, defenceless, to the shock "of the tre
mendous infereuce that the treatment of ma
ny diseases on the ordinary plan must, at tha
very best, be useless ; while It inflicts on our
patients some serious evils, that" Homoeopathy
is free from, such as the' swallowing (if djsagret.
ab!a and expensive drugs, ami the frequent!
Jji"?aFji iej nrrtfmtfm . ' .i jaawjjai!ai
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there Is no appeal but to force, the Vital principle
-- ... .
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Pa. Saturday f March 29, 1946.
Vi '. ,ij vi ' " I" . . T 1. !,...' I.,- . .nil
gainful, and almoef , always . unplesaot effects j
produced by ,thenj during.uiejir snpliqatmn
"It is ofton saiddds Do.licndcjrson,' "that
tho benefjts of Homoeopathy flaw .mainly 'from
the omission of medicine altogether,'knf whicli
the system Is supposed, by its oppopeqts, in re
ality to consist. This opinion had better be re,
considered, if it lead to tho practical inference,
as I think it does, that Some 80 or 00 per cent,
of the patients who employ medical practition
ers would be better off without them." (p. 227.)
(,Dr, Forbes proceeds j , t ,
,,'This (estimate) may or.may not be accurate;
we will believe that it is exaggerated ; but be
this as it may, tre concede to him at once thi
trcth or ms cencral rsoroNiTioit ; p and
adhere to AuxrATHt." (!!) ' 1
....... . ......i.j..
Listen now to his reasons fur hia belief and
unbelief: , ...
"In doing so, we consider that we are embra
cing a system extremely imperfect, &e., while
in rejecting i Homoeopathy, we consider that
we are discarding what is at once f elite and had
vtelcss to the tnjffcrrr, and degrading to the
physician."
'" Heavens! what ded'ttctirms front the 'premi
ses laid down by the reviewer himself! He
rejects Homoeopathy, because it is "false and
bad, useless to the sufferer," before the ink is
well dry with which he records the successes
and triumphs of Homoeopathy.
., The reviewer next proceeds to the examina
tjon of Allopathy, , which, sooth to say, . meets
with po very delicate manipulations at his linndi
and concludes with a few stigestione, "things to
be thought of, and things to be done," from which
we mske the following extracts :
.-"No. 6. To endeavor to substitute for the
nwnxtrovt system of Polpharmacy, now ttniver
sally prevalent, one that is at leaM, vastly more
timple', more intelligible, more agreeable, and
ft maybe hopetl,'one Wot? rational, mam scieni
tific, more certain, and rnore oenefr!!.'':
"Nq 8. To inculcate generally, a milder an
Itss energetic mode or practice,, both n acute
Und chronic diseases ; ,to encourage the F.srpecr
tanl, prclerably in the ferni's system, at least
where the imlicalionanre net manifest.".,:.
.,, "No, 9. To ance all active and
poirervl mdicalien ia the acute exanthemata
and diaeasea of specific type, as small pox, mea
ales, scarlatina, ty pue, &c., until we obtain some
evidence that the cause of these diseases can be
beneficially modified by remedies."
' "No. 10." To discountenance, as much as pos
sible, and eschew the habitual use, (without any
sufficient reason,) oTerrlain powerful remedies.
a practice now generally prevalent, and fraught
vith the most hnnrfvl consequence?
"This is one of the besetting sine of English
practice", and originates partly in ' faW theory,
and partly in the desire to reo manifest and
ttrong cflects resulting from the action of medi
cinea. , Mercury, iodine coh licvm, antimony,
also purgalhtt in -general and bload-lettin,
mifrighlftdlij misused in 'this manner," j ,
..,"No, 12. To make every cflort not merely to
destroy the prevalent syEtera of gividg. a vast
quantity and variety of, unnecessary and useless
drugs, (to say the least of them,) but to encour
age extreme simplicity in the prescription of
medicines that ecrm to he roquieitu."
Well, here are admissions enough heaven
knows to satisfy the Htaunchest homoeopath.
What, encourage milder and less energetic
mode of practice I Echew powerful medicines,
and larger doseat Take away mercury, blood
letting and purgatives! and what will yotiloave
poor Allopathy ! The power of its drugs and
the size of its doses, we ihnughtj were ite grand
distinctive characteristics. But hear Dr. Forbes
... i , , i , , i
once more : . ,
"No. 13. To endeavor to break through the
routine habit, universally prevalent, of prescri
bing certain determinate remedies' icr certain
determinate dihtoses, merely bccaiiselhe pre
server has been taught tq do so, ami on mo, Ut
ter grounds thn conventional irodftiqn." ( f(
, "Na 14. . .Also to tcacn students that no pyt-,
tematic or theoretical cluuijicatio of disomies,
or of therapeutic geut$ ever yet promulgated,
is trur, or anything hit the truth, and that
none can be adopted as a sale guale iu piuo
tice." ' ' ' ' ''- '
' "No. l.V To endeavor to introduce more
comprehensive and philosophical system of No
sology, at lesst in chronic diseases, whereby the
practitioner may "be led less to consider the
name of a disease or some one symptom or some
one local affection in a diseasevthan the disease
itself that, is, the jfhde of the! deraogements
existing in the body, and which it is his object
to remove, if possible.", , v,rl
t Hahnemann's self could not have spoken more
like Hahnemann.. What! no classification of die
ease 1 no classifies ion of drugs! Are we to have
no more antispasmodics, no more diuretics, no
more emmsnagogaes, no more diapohretissJ
Even se and Dr. Forbes brings tis back to the
individual character ot d and the tpteific
application of dnigs, not, indsed, to the skimes
of disease, butftd the Moity of tlw symptoms
in each iudivldual case? this' Is true Hotnoeo
pithy.1 "';' 1 ' 4 I.
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and Immediate parent of despdtlem JirriaaoaV
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The reviewer! after having1 thus demolished
Allopathy, endeavors, tiaturally enough," to
knock away the supports of Homoeopathy, and
to refer everything back to the curative powers
of nature, with the significant hint that the
"Reformation" of "Practical medicine" (Allo
pathy t) "is impending," and narrates an anec
dote of "a highly reepeetod and learned physi
cian of Edinburgh, still living at an advanced
F,nas'illustrative of this point "On some
one boasting before him of the marvellous cures
wrought by the srrall doses nf the Homoeopa
th ists, he Mid, 'this waa no peculiar cause for
boasting, as he himself had, for the last two
years, been curing bis patients with even less,
vit'i "That the curative powers of na tore suffice
to explain all the triumphs of Homoeopathy."
Indeed ! How, then, will the "highly respected
arid very learned physician of Edinburg" and the
host nf Allopathic doctors answer at the bar of
God for drenching their poor patients with poi
sonon drug, for exhausting their life's blond
from their veins, for torturing them with blis
ters, conn, setons, issues, moxas, and the actual
cavrtrrtf, while their champion is obliged to ac
knowledge that the enrative powers of nature
(i. e. being let alone, or as Dr. Forbes would
say, the Hornoeopathic treatment) would pro
duce what even be is forced to own as a ' UU
umph?"' - :" "'
We should like to give him a few general
reflection?' onflie wbole subject, but find that
wo have already -trtinpgrensed the bounds we
had marked out for ourselves; and have, no
dntilit, tried our readers' patients. ! The views
of Dr. Forbes acquire additional force from the
fact that he has, for a long time held a proml
nent position as a modioal practitioner, and hsa
for many years stood in the foremost rank vA
British rrviqwers; The favorable teetim6riy
borne to Homoeopathy, and the unfavorable to
Allopathy; from such a source, must, if anything
can, arouse the sleeping Allopathistsrrom their
dream of security, ami urge them to the inves
tigation of a subject ignorance of which, in
Dr: Foibes's own words, is 'f mere ignorance," t
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I , . . TMB DEAU1.KTTKR OFFICE. v, -
.-.The Washington correspondent of the Port'
land Argua furnishes the following Interesting
description of the Operations of that branch of
the General Fost office. .Department to which
are transmitted nil the uncalled for letters re
maining in the various post offices throughout
the Union j v'i m!V' - .- ."r i
. Among the places wbich I have visited, is the
Demi Letter Office, in the Poet Office Depart
ment., it It is. certainly an interesting' part of
that buikiing.'. You will be aurpriaed at some
facts I learned there. Tho business of tho
dead laV.er office alone employe' four clerka all
the time. One opens the bundles containing
the letters sent to Washington, from the sever
al Post Offices, after they heve been advertised,
and no owner fonnd for litem. 'lie passes the
letters ov er to two other clerks, who open them
ell, to see if they contain any thing valuable.
If they do not, they are thrown on to the pileon
the floor. ' No time ia allowed to read them,
as that would be impossible, without a great ad
dition of help. The number of dead letters re
turned to the General Fost Office is astonish
ingly large. Yon will be surprised when I tell
you that it is fourteen hundred thousand a
year,- and under the cheap t postage ' system ji
increasing! Hence it requires- swift hsnds to
open so large a number, without stopping to
read a weruV- A.ty one who is se silly aa te
write a mess of nonsense to an imaginary per
sun, supposing it will be ultimately read by
some one, may save himself the trouble hereaf
ter. He may depend upon it, not a word will
be likely to be read of the letter, unless ho en
closes some thing valuable in it; and that
would be paving ton dear for so small a whistle
At the end of eaeh quarter, the letters that have
been tiend having aecittntilatod to a hnge
rnass, and ha ving been in the mean time stow
rd into luge; are carried out on the plains,' and
Hiere 'consumed in s bcr.rlrf. ' The huge bag
make five or six cart loads' each quarter."
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The letters containing any tiling valuable, or,
in, fact, any ruutter cnclpscd are passed over
to a fourth clerk, who occupiea a separate room
for the purpose, and there are canvassed by thia
gentleman : It u very, iuleresing. to examine
the heterogenous materials i of this i room, that
havo been extracted from letters, and accumu
luting for years. Here you see tho singular
matters that are sometimes transported through
the Post Office. The amounts of moneys,, that
at various times has been found in letters, is
tery large. 1 When any thing of talus, as mo
ney, drafts, & c. la founrt the rule' t, to return
it rbhe Post Office, Whence it came,' and the
PdatmastW of that 'office must advertise'rCir
use afty other means best calculated to find the
owner. If all his efforts fail, he returns it to
the General Otffce? It is labelled and filed away.
Somttmes as touch as $300 are found M a week
in dear letters r 1 f think within this month sev
eral hundreds have been found. An iron chest is
kept on purpose for ihe'eo depositee In looking
over the files in that chest, I wu astooisbe Kt
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Every subsequent insertion, n n .0 V
Yearly Advertisements i, one column, t'J5 1 blf ,
Column, fl I, three squares, fit' two squares, f 9
one square, Half-yearly t one column, fit "
half column, $lt three sqaares, ft X two squares,
$5 one square, 3 150. , n .i-it vt .,. oi
.Advertisements left without directions as to the ,
length of time' they are to be published, will be
continued until ordered out, and charged accotd;
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Cgixteen lines or less make a sqaare. ,-,r
the amount of money there, and the large soma
contained in some of the letters, ,. Some single t
letters containing $S0 $40, f 16, and down to
$l.i One letter contained a 10 note very -likely
the property vf eome rjoor emigrant (ih"
tended for his wile or children,) who had made
a mrstakeifl sending it, and no owner could be
found. " ' t ' ' 1 ' t
Among this money is a good deal of counter-'
felt The letters are all labelled, not onlv with
the sums, but also whether containing counter-'
feit or good money. ''There 'were many bad
small bills, scattered through the piles.' In orni
case tbere was! a bad liatf. eagle in anotlur
were two letters, each containing $300 coun
terfeit money! It was on eome New , York
Bank, new, and very niculy done and was, no
doubt, the remittaucp.of one counterfeiter to an-.
other who had been, in the meantime appre
hended, or was suspicious lis was watched, and
hence had been too cunning to call for ths
wicked deposite pf , his confederate. In tb'5
strong box, was a box of change, of all kinds,
and a large string of rings of various fancies and
values, 'taken from the dead letters. Many a
love token of this modest kind, enveloped in a '
letter couched in most honied 1 words, and in
tended, in the mind of the writer, for the dear
est girl in the universe, had, instead of reach
ing its interesting destination, brought up in
the dead letter office, passed through the prac
tical hands of these cold,1 grey-haired clerks,
who never stopped to read the tender efIueion
that tost so' much racking of the bcart-slrings
and' the delicate pledgo of' effection had been
tosFetl into the iron chest, instead of encircling
the taper finger of 'the love' for whom it waa
purchased. . ( .... , ,
( But passing out of, the chest, the matters
that meet your eyaon the ahelvesand in the
qase are equally interesting, , Here are books
and . ribbons, and gloves, and: hosiery, and a
thousand other things- : I saw one specimen of
a most splendid ribbon, op several yards that
seemed very much ont of place here when it
wai intended to adorn the bonriet of some lady.
A package lay near that had not been opened;
If was from England. ' The postage was $9,G3.
It had been refused at the office where sent, be
cause o? its enormous postage, and was sent to
the dead office in clue coarse of time,. Now,
said tha Superintendent, I will show you what
yaluoless things are sent through t(ie mails, in
comparison to their .ejepenao: , I do not know
what ia in this, but we will see.,, So he opened
it, and behold, it contained about a yard of
coarse cloth, like crash, worth .perhaps a shil
ling, which had been sent to some cry good',
bouse in this country, as a specimen of tho man
ufacture of the article, by some factory in Eng.
land. Of course, the postage being thirty times
its value, it was refused by those to whom
it was directed. I saw : tvo night capt that
were taken frem a letter only a fowdaya since;
If the poor fellow to whom they were sent doea
not sleep in a night cap r.ntil he cets these, iiis
head will be cold. " It ts imposible for the Do
partment'to attend to finding 'owners for the
comparatively valueless things that are receiv
ed; as nightcaps, ribbons, garters, 'stockings,
stays, bustles, &c, tic, and they are therefore
thrown into the receptacle pf 'things lost to
earth,' and a pretty 'kettle of fish' , there is in
that receptacle, you may depend. ,
, In tho cases, arraogod and labelled for the
purpose, are the legal docuwenta found in let
tcrs. Theae are numerous, am) run back for a
long terms of years. They are most, carefully
preserved. The beneficial policy of this pre
servalion hss been often illustrated, and most
strikingly so, only the other day. A gentleman
in a distant State wrote ' the Superintendent
that some seven or eight years ago a large pack
age of most valuable papers had been lost
thro' the Fost Office. 1 They involved the right
to a large estate. If he could not find them he
would be irretrievably ruined, and begged bim
to search in the Department fur them. He did
60. ' He told me that the first case he opened,
under a pile of other papers, ' he saw a large
package, answering the description. He took
it mit.and it was the very papers wanted. They
had slept there quietly for years. The poetace
was about $10 and they had originally, by
some mistake, failed of their rightful owner.
The package had been cnrcfully preserved, and
the owner was pecuniarily saved.
I have given you but a faint description, af
ter all, of this interesting portion of the Gener
al Poet Office operations. My letter, however,
has reached s prudent length, and I must atop.
The gentleman who superintends this wing is
Jere. O'Brien, Etj., vjf Brunswick, in our conn
ty."1 He ha been hereabout ten months. ' To
his politiness 1 was much indebted, in tny ob
servations. ' I have heard hia gentlemanly de
portment spoken ol by' others in this connection.
He isefine specimen of the New England gen
tleman, audi am happy to record hie success
in obtaining a place in this' Department.1 ' -
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HCol. Crockett once said that 'poputsrfty is
like soap it hardly atiflenaWfota, it' oes back
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