Ell El OFFICE OF THE STAR, PIWILBEIIIIB Mtn ST I7 Virt.,-IA--F-aw--Dooi WEST OP MR. FORRY 7 B TAVERN. ADVERTISEMENTS . Conspicuously inserted IVOR times _for-ons poLLAR per square—over four times, TWENTY-FIVE ORNTS per square Iva be charged. tia ar.9W1.1i14 - 1 NSYo IDlMlDEtattalito At $2 per 0.11111/111, halfryearly is &dynmic. A DV ERTISEMENTS. Id 4 tiCkgiLikb 3 + - iii-4/ 11 A 4-11 The subscribers, Trustees of John Brown ,will offer at public sale, Oa Saturday the 8d day of December newt on the promises, TUE Tlt A.CT OF LAND, on which said Brown now lives. Situate • part in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and part in Frederick County, Maryland; three miles from Littlestown, one mile and a hal from Peter's Tavern and one mile from Da vid Shriver's Mill, between the Taneytown and Emmittsburg road, and adjoining lands of Deitrich Bishop, Morits Budy, John Bowers and. others 4 . Containing about 132 efereS eland, of which 10 Acres is Timber, 16 meadow , and the balance in a good state of cultivation. The improvements are a GOOD HOUSE,. mo an'''_ and Barn, with an Orchard of choice - fruit, it well of excellent water at- tie door-- Possession will be given on the Ist day of April next. Or - Tho Terms of sale will be made known by either of the subscribers, living in Littlestown. Sale - to commence .at 10 o'clock A. M. of said, day. JACOB KELLER, Tuatees. JAMES RENSHAW, November 1, 1831. ODD & EVEN SYSTEM. alarylatul State Lottem__ -* • -No. 9:Foß.l§il. -- To be drawn . ,in Baltimore on WEDNES DAY, the 30th instant. IHGIIEST PRIZE, 6,000 DOLLARS! SCHEME: 1 prize of 06,000 5 2 1,000 10 2 500 20 2 300 100 2 - 200 150 4 prizes 9ft 8100 10000 ,A**' half Tickets, One Dollas--Quartere 50 eta. TO DE lIAD AT CLARK'S , Offices, N W. corner of Baltimore and Calvert, N. W. corner of Baltimore and Gay, N. E. cor ner of Baltimore and Charlea-sts. 117 Where the highest prize in the recent State Lotteries has been oftener sold than atany other offices ! ! ! ErOrders, either by mail (postpaid) or private conveyance, enclosing the cash for prizes, will meet the-same prompt and punctual attention, as if on personal application. Address to JOHN CLARK, Lottery Vender, Baltimore. td-30 November 1, 1831. THE .L.tiorls Isook - FOR OCTOBER, "[UST PUBLISHED.-This number 'sosur passes any Other that has yet appeared, in its beautiful delineation of the quarterly sketch of PHILADELPHIA FASHIONS —the Engraving is very handsomely color ed, and wilt no doubt give general satisfac tion to the patrons, of the work 7 -there arc besides, several other embellishments which are calculated to recommend the Book. CONTENTS.—Philadelphia Fall FaShions, lustrated with a splendid Engraving, by Kelly. Fashions of the Past and Preserk Times. ZoolO. weal Weather Glass. Spire of Strasburg.. Song, by Graham. 'Sung by Mrs. Hemans. Rocolloc. lions of Scenes and Cities. He strikes tho Min strel's Lyre again. Moonlight. Man. Tho Fi. nes Affections. Female Constancy. The Alban. ian Girl. Morality. Mary Queen of Scots. Evening ,Inconstancy. Maria. The Superior Man. Rose Malcolm,' illustrated with an Engra ving, by Harrison. Popular Judgment. Effect of Cold on Children. The Ward, a Petite Come. dy, in ono Act. Tho Season. Frailty of Female Beauty. The OrnamentA AKljst, illustrated.-- Miranda D'Aragan. When Maggy gangs away. Summer. My Wife. Oriental Apologus. The Flower, &c. The Grave. Embroidery, illustra. ted. A Birth-day Ballad. The Disinterred Warrior. 'rho Lady Emmeline. A Fragment. Obscurity of Language- The Tornado. A Death Bed, Poor Bobby. The Flower ; Girl's Song— by S. Stanzas. A Broken Heart. The Death. beds of Great Men. Annot Lyle, ajtffiular Air, sot to Music, with the accompannents. The Five Dreams. She weeps in' her °BoWer. The Gatherer. Recipes. TO OUR CREDITORS. WAKE. NOTICE, that ' we have applied to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county, for the - benefit of the laselvent laws, and that the said Judges We, appointed Meru lay the 28th day of November next,for the hearing of us and, 'our creditors, at the Court-house in the .bor. *Ugh of Gettysburg, where you may attend if you think paoper. • ALEXANDER SCOTT, . . jACOWSMITH, HENRY WOLF.. .. October 4, 1831. ciao careakutrimeza4 • • "To the , business, wanted, imaiiaiately, at the Star 0&e. Ma atmittits County - - mum= • DUCIT•AMOR PATRIE ORODESSE CIVIBUS-4-"THE LOVA Or MT COUNTRY LEADS ME TO BR OF ADVANTAGL'TO,MY PICLLOW-CIThENII." "With sweetest flowers enrichsd From various gardens cull'd with care." The following lines originally appeared in the Charleston, (S. C.)Courier, and are from the pen of a young lady of that city: A DOMESTIC SCENE. It wits a picture, of soft loveliness— A picture mon vvould,lot-o to look upon, , Though seldom so permitted. A sweet child, That laughed in the possession' of his prize, Lay in its mother's arms,and'drow its milk And nutriment and life, roin a half hid ( • And hall'unveiled,aud delicate white mound, That seemed an orb of purity and bliss. Its little lips, and full and glowing cheek, Were of one color—rich and ripe and trash— And only such aro beautiful. Its eye Gleaned archly on its property, the imp, As if it knew such things were not for all To look at, or to linger on with hope; Anclpeeped beneath, and with its little arms Possessed itself of all, and placed its head Upon its natural pillow, and looked up In its found mother's face, and smiled with joy, And knew not, happy infant! that the tears Stole forth for it, that filled the mother's eye. HOLY SCRIPTURES. Bir . 1.A14. In the world a trembling stranger, Shall I slight a heavenly guide? Wherefore roam inlear and danger, When the Lord would help provide? Snares and perils spread before me, Welcome be the be Ern that shows Every evil boding Wei - me, Each device of crafty foes. While the page of truth pursuing, Lord, do thou unseal mine eyes; So, the trifler's part refusing, I should run to roach the prize. On my solemn thought impressing Things eternal, though unseen; Bid me ec► the worldling's blessixtg, Joys unsrible, poor and mean. ts-30 When thy law, declared in thunder, Makes my guilty soul afraid ; Let- nw speech F in-grafefix • To the rock's protecting shade. Blessed Jesus, Rock of Ages, Holy Spirit, help I crave! When I searcli4he sacred pages, • On my soul the word engrave. IlLtAc9lA 3. ldad.V&W.uk.Voc; THE 111.1.11rKEE Joshua Peabody was one of the five sons of a Connecticut farmer, who had just enough land to support one family, and no more; so that all the SOILS but the eldest early discov ered the necessity - orresorting to some busi ness, in which they could support themselves by their own exertions. Long before Josh ua was of age, lie had determined to pursue the honorable employment of peddling. In the fall of the year in which Joshua was 19, he obtained his father's consent to try his skill in the employment he had chosen, and was soon equipped in the first rate style— not with a crazy vart 'and half starved horse as was the custom fifty years ago; but with a SabStantial, well made and well-fed horse, and covered wagon with all the colors of the rainbow—ornamented with curtairN, and trimmed with many a. yard of red cotton fringe. His load requires a minute descrip tion, as it is often thought very wonderful that a pedlar can travel a thousand miles and back, and make money, by selling out a load which does not appear to be worth , half enengb.to defray his expenses.' The most bulky part of our hero's load consisted of wooden clocks without cases, which- cost two dollars and fifty cents a piece, on which he expected to make a pro fit Of what he called ten per cent. ten times as much as they cost. Steno forty or fifty of these were snugly stowed on the bottom of the wagon, and a nice lid shut over them to keep them secure. On this lid woke pla ced a bag full of whiplashes, a few parcels ofcigars, and a number of boxes containing all the variety of combs, -from coarse louse traps to superfine ivory and high-finished tortoise shell. The fore part of the wagon box, on which he expected to sit, constituted a separate apartment, the approatyto which is secured by a formidable pad-lock which dangled in front. This box contained, an assortment, on the profits of which he was to subsist himself and his horse; and consis ted of a great variety of good-for-nothing little things which women are so fond of purellarigsuch as beads, earrings, breast pins, and all the little etceteras ; of jewelry; besides good store of essences, shaving soap, scissors, thread, needles, pins and stir lettoes, not daggers, my friends, but little instruments made of ivory, which the ladies use for piercing round holes in muslin, for the- express purpose of darning them up again. • Joshua's dress had nothing of antique mode. His hat had a brim that was no broader than usual, and his hair wasnot tied With an eel skin hut his outward man was clothed in the substaritial,'comfortable, fear nothing style of an independent unassuming farmer. Thus equipped, Joshua made a comfortable :excursion to 0hi0, , -and the same was annually repeated forge veral years. In every voage numerous incidents occur red, Of sufficient rmportance 'to' deserve place in some of our fashionable periodicals, with ell their minute ttetaile4puif out into' the firgniclable - lenith ef.niost s modern tales, in which a page is taken op in telling What fifty years ago would have erbeeri toldin a singl6 these , ocCurrences;it'is. my hum, ,• 1.4.4 4t-26 SE _ . - - . • • . • • ------- arateuizraratruis.Qa.4 toPreozholizr o 0 4 07 3 .21X22112,111 st e usas ULLCO (f)&l2Lta&3lWo EIII lb anster. ble province to relate one, and that \vith all convenient brevity. • In Joshua's fourth voyage,• he had with him a larger number of clocks than usual; and would willingly have sold them at a less price than formerly, but for the fear that it would !injure his business, and. .lower the price of his clocks forever-atter; He, there fore, wisely concluded to keep up the price to twenty-five dollars, as *usual and when he could do no better, to take any thing that was oared for ten •of it, provided the re maining fifteen was paid in cash. In this manner he obtained a great many queer ar _tides; and in many instances _had to exert a goodly sbare of ingenuity to dispose of them to advantage. One farmer insisted on his taking stock, as he termed it, to whicliJoeh ua readily agreed. The old gentleman had in his mind's eye, at the time of making the proposition, a calf which was so poor he was afraid it Would die before spring. The said calf was selected, and with all due formality was delivered to our horo. He made no objections; but with his usual gravity pock eted his fifteen dollars—tied rope round the. calrs neck—hitched it to the back of the wagon and drove on. - Great wonder prevailed throughout the country, to see the pedlar with so mean a calf—or indeed with any kind au call; tied to the wagon; and many were the questions asked concerning so rare an occurence. But Joshua was as grave as ever. lie knew his own business, and that was enough fOr his purpose. In'one of his first peddling voy ages he had formed an acquaintance with "'Squire Leeland,' as he was called in-Lick ing county, who had long been in the habit of reading whatsoever came in his way, that treated on agriculture; and was extremely anxious to-.improve his breed of cattle and sheep. In fact he had paid a large sum of money the year before for a merino buck and ewe by which he 11, ! t . quire_ Turk ce e ray that he was looked up tNvith wolf der by a part of his, neighbors, anorlaughed at by the rest. To the 'Squire's, then, Joshua made his way—not that he had the least wish to cheat his eld friend. He was too honest for that; for he was in the habit of boasting that he cheater nobody—told no lies, and -never travelled a road wh' h he was afraid to travel apin. "But , ".thought Joshua, "if the Squire, hiILS a: +4 6 cheat himself it'anobody's - businew - I — eariThe - to Blame.", His reception at the house of his old ac ' quaintance was as cordial as he could have desired, and the evening was spent as usual in recounting the incidents which had occur red to each other since they last met. In the morning the Squire for the first time noticed the calf. "Why, Joshua, what in the name of common sense have you got there?" "Nothing but a poer, mean, lousy, calf, that's altr,.. "But what did you bring it here'for?". I'll tell you what, Squire,a pretty considerable long story, and a fbol ish one to boot; but I must tell it to you.— You know the 'Boston, folks are full of no tions,' and amongst other foolish ideas that's got into their heads, they think if they can only send to England and get any thing, it will be as good again, as if they got it at home. So off they sent last summer, a'rter a drove of cattle: and you know, that there were thousands on 'em in the Bay State and Connecticut to be got as cheap agin. "Yes, but Joshua remember the 'importance aim proving the breed of cattle in this country." "Improve a fiddle-stick I I beg your pardon, Squire, but it puts me out of pitience to hear folks talk so. Now, look at that calf! and s'posing he did come over from Engleidii and they called him a Devonshire bull, and gave five hundred dollars for him:—do you s'pose he'd improve your breed of cattle I" The eyes of Squire Leeland opened wide with astonishment, and he inquired with the greatest eagerness, if the calf was in fact one of the far famed :breed from Devonshire— "l didn't say he was, for I don't know any thing about breeds; but if General Braynard has a mind to pay five hundred dollars for him, and give me fifty dollars to fetch him all the way from Boston, why, I say the greater fool he." The squire was all in extasies. He knew that a number of the first breeds of cattle in England had been imported into Boston, and that General Braynard had been striving to procure some of them. This calf must be one—worn thin and meagre by his long jour ney Ly sea and land. asked a. few per- tinent questions, which Joshua answered with his usual circumlocution, and the squire was entirely satisfied that he,then had the pleasure, for the first time in his life, of viewing one of that identical breed orcattle which he had so long been desirous to ob. tain. Joshua read all that passed in his mind, - and proceeded accordingly: "Now Squire, I want a little of your candid advice; you see this . poor calf is almost dead with his journey,nnd it's pretty nigh two laindred miles to Genoral Brayna.rd's, and I'm m•'l - 1 ty fluid he'l die before get there. It. 't lent, for fifty' dollars, • which Img pay for uy land, should--have killed him long agcr.. Tod can't tell what aping.. ie he is to ine,• I have to drive so tonfotuickl slow, and spend half my dine in igurningna him, that I dotet know.what to do." • , Joshua, if the fifty dollars is all your . troable, only leuilir him with 'me, and MI .= a== ISIM I'll give you that sum in a jerk—but don't think of killing him." "I'll tell you what, Squire Leeland, you and I have been ac quainted these tbur years, and have always hitched our horses together pretty well; and now I advise you, as a friend, to give up your notions about merino sheep audDevon• shire cattle—to keep your fifty dollars,- and have nothing to do with such a-shabby look ing creature as this is: But then, if you'll have your own way, I'll make you an oiler. You know a Yankee is always true to his employer; and I shan't leave General Bray 'lard's calf without giving him a chance to get it again:" The - squirelooke - d - grave "Now; if you've a mita! to give me fifty dol lars, and make out a writing with your name to it, that any Aline within six months. the General may have the critter, by payingyou back the money; and paying for the expense and trouble of keeping him." "I'll do it," says the Squire; "But hark ye, Joshua, tell him a pretty 'bad story about the bull, and discourage him if you can." "Well, squire, you may take the calf; but I shan't tell nothing to the. General, nor nobody Age, that a'ut true. But in this case the truth is bad, enough: and I rather guess he won't come. And now, Squire, remember what I tell you_,--I"d rather have one calf from our_ old brindled .cow_.thatt to have halfa doien rich critters as this is—l wouldn't give four pence-ha'penny for - him.", The Squire smiled sagely, and . said as plain as any man' can say without speaking, "I know what I'm about." Joshua pocketed his money, and departed with the gravity of a sexton; and the Squire commenced nursing his - Calf.— •By dint of uncommon attention and double feeding he soon began to thrive,-and in due time beuarne the wonder of the neighbour. hood. The mi*take was never discovered. Joshua continued to make the Squire's house a regular stopping place; but a close obser-_ yo_u-eauld-see Arkiad - of queer-expression--i the corner of his eye,- when he heard the neighbours extolling Squire Leeland's De vonshire Bull. From the Frederick town Examiner THE DEVIL WITH TWO TAILS. We have all heard of Diable Boiteux, but it was reserved to this age, and to the city of Frederick, to discover the Devil with two tails. On Thursday night last, a caravan of wild beasts arrived in this place, and put up at one of thi hotels. Among them, there chanced to be a huge Elephant, which, be ing too large to enter any ordinary stable, it was found necessary to accommodate in a large and close carriage house. This, it seems, had been previously taken possession of as a lodging for the night, by a hale two fisted' negro from the mountain, who was employed in hauling timber to the Rail-road, and who had never seen, or probably heard of, an Elephant before in his life. He was fast asleep when his room mate was ushered in, and did not awake until, as was his cus tom, at the first dawn of the morning. Hear ing a rustling in the straw, he turned and looked, and rubbed his eyes, and looked a gain, until the pupils dilated almost to burst , mg— . N Hence, horrible shadow, unreal mockery, hence!' What could* be? The Devil to a cer tainty ! The huge mass moved and ap proached him, when le! a tail at both ends put all doubts to flight, and revealed his Sa tanic Majesty in all the terrors of his repu ted attributes. With one despairing spas modic leap, the affrighted wagoner rushed, against the door—it was locked, and there was no other possible way of escape._ Ile screamed for help; he groaned in agony.— Worse than that of Sancho in the pit, was the predicament of the miserable African— for no kind master was within hearing to afford him protection. The "Devil with two tails" stood over him, and wrapped his soft and flexible fore-tail around his ,neck and whisked it° in his faceand then he '"grinned horribly a ghastly smile." in vain he besought him to have Mercy—to spare him yet a tittle longer. ;The 'Devil with two tails heeded not his Supplications --but kept smelling [Eliphim s are accustomed to, and' love-the scent of African mask]and ,feeling him and bm'shing his tail, which 2 / he now extended atl now contracted until in the imagination of the negro, there was nothing so distant or so near - RS - to be secure :from it. ' The louderAmciearned, the more the Devil felt him. Shrunk up within•the least possible dimensions in a corner of the room, he awaited, in a state of alarm-border ing upon distraction, the'issue of his horrible adventure. The keepers of his tormentor at length came to hisrelief, and released him from the jaws of the enemy: After his lib eration,' lre had a severe chill of several hours duration, accompanied"by a transient derangement. Havinir now recovered not only his ~h ealth but hi courage, he swears "by ginny ho was no n sa qua, sheered at hiA• bigness—hut Mat tarnal tale at each ' &nil i!" - f. ' • - , . 1- • Qinear-.DOes not - Samb a deserve the premium offered for The best original tail ? .. , 1 Negligencein reading sonteti .; . .whimsical coincidences. An _oh' Joe Mil ler records the' story of a clergyman, who reading to his ,congregaticn l e chapter i n Genesis, fonnd the hit sentence in the .page to be,. the Lqrd gave unto Adam a l l ernet—Two-Demvot per anip,r.. payable tall:yearly. in advance., .No ei; sc,riptions taken for leffi than aix "oath., and none discontinued Until ail arreargei ate paid —A Utilure for notify a discontinuance p will be considered a new engagement aed• the piper forwarded accordingly. ni vPwacilkaGivaßP . ea, Whole Number. 193. wife." Turning over two leaites together he found written,and read in ania.uciible voice, "And she was pitched within and without." He had unhappily got into the middle of a description of Noah's ark: Missishrtu.—ThS .late 'coned* of State sheWs the following results, white males 38,497 females 32,1 4 2:1—t0tal 70,618 white:4; slaves 66,059; free persons of color 529; grand total 136,806. COFFEE in Boston.—Thei3naton`Com. mereial Gazette states that the amount of Cotibe now in the Custour au f t}tst city; awaiting the reduction of duty, which take& place on the Ist January, is fifty seven thou , sand bags, or about eight and a half millions of pounds. Cat,. last aneedotti (eityit the Chambersburg Republican) of Ooketoi Crocket that we have hoard, has not appear ed in print, that we have seen. It ie-thise The , Col. was either travelling towards .oe fitMilonle (it is not material which), in a steamboat, which going entirely too slow for his calculations, _he ordered .therticat.a.. shore, took it under his arm and marched oft' at.detuble.,quick.time I Progress of Refinement' .—A Philadelphia+ Editor "has modified the vulgar and haeknied expression, "Going 'the whole hog," by sttb fitituting the following more polite and gen teel words: "Proceeding. the_whok_Por,k 1" Another Editor is for "going the entire' Swine." This latter editor discovers the' - - most taste and refinement. Dutch wives gerieray essist their hus-' bands in their business often taking thee most active share in it; and it is a common remark have -tiie-iiirection of the' purse end . . the husbands , seldom become bankrupts. RZTORT.-A pessiourtmvelling Newport, N. H. on foot a short tam idstev thus accosted a young man whom he me; "Mr. can you tell me how far it is (4*, , :*w lam going'!" To which the repl = y is about 20 miles to Charleston jail—llia* kiwi , exactly the distarics to the galloWe. A person who had amost cpsplendep;_nA face, was angry with his son for having gun-. powder. "Having gunpowder!" said - hr "I will set my face against il;" "For hea: ven'esake, sir, considerw hat you are about, * answered the boy "for .if you do we shall be' blown up." ON FEEDING HOGS. Our good farmers find the month of Sept tember to be a very important one in regard to feeding their hogs. Those who wish to' be econimical in feeding, should begirt Every farmer who is fattening hogs, should have a cauldro n set iu arch near his pear in which he can boil pumpkins, potatoesy meal, &c. as it will be found much cheaper' in this section of the country to feed with boiled food than to give it to them 'ravv.-, 77 . From the low price which potatoes Cupi d pumpkins are sold at in our market - tom* end their great weight and small valuethey will not bear long transport; therelbri- t iff better to feed them to the hogs and save thei corn which would-be required, where they fattened on it, as that is not so perishable ao article.. When =potatoes are boiled&ill mashed, they make excellent food for how if a proportion of purrtp_kins are ed them they are still better, and if to it but e small quantity of corn meal be' added, we do not know of illy food with which hop v , can be fattened to more advantage. We know that it is said that pork which is fed with boiled food, is not as hard, and downier the purchaser, will endeavor to take• advert* tage of the circumstance; but let hogs bo fed in this manner for the first three.fourtlia of the time they are fattening; the remfdlid, er with meal or soft corn; and we assup our farmers they will find a ready market for their pork, and at first price. It is well to apprise our readers, that pork fhtteded with still slops is a different article; doff, , and charged with the acetic acid or vinegar from the slops on which they are OA, from _which' circumstance it is almost impossibleta prew vent the pork from becoming sour„,and ing after it is packed in the barrels, unless there is en alkali added to neutralise their acidity contained in it. From this acidity,. porlf,led on boiled food as above, is entirely: free, and therefore is.as easily kept as if fed with ealk;;„hied if not quite so hard it cannot operate to lessen the value of it, as-the hams will be increased in value as much as the sides or mess can be deteriorated, • A per. fion of time spent in gathering tip those things4vhich of themselves are not so Mar ketable, and convng them into food for' hogs at this seasoniall stiveemuch, that it, more directly so, and will polyp equally as profitable, as that spent in raising such crops,. as the old - 1.(1, : e "a,p enny owed, is 10 drxi as a - 7 - it mined. 'rho earth is 2,048,572 mires Muer 040 An in winter than in summer. Its Jodi", is 17 miles in a se cond: i solluOita otr his hat to another in the 111 *4 4 ZZ .many miles bare hetuiedkvativa% MEN • .. . ' bt!'' II IN MI