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The whole art ok Government consists in-the art of being; honest. Jefferson.
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YOUNG, M. D. '
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fering from secret disease noed no Wre he
comtTihe victims of Quackery, as by the. pre
scriptions contained in thisouU,any one. may
cum lum-elf, without hindrance to business, ,or
tlie knowledge of the nioM intimate friend., and
ivilh one tenth the usual crpe?se. I n addition I o
the fieneral routine of prnate dts.fiasos, it fully
explains the cause of Manhood's- early decline,
with observations on Marriagc-trhppes many
uihrr derangements which it would noi be pro
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For Passengers :
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Duane Street at 7 1-2 o'clock; a. M.
PORT JERVIS, at 6 1-2 o'clock- a. m.
0T1SVILLE, at 7
" MIDDLETOWiN at 7 1-2 "
" GOSHEN at 7 3-4
CHESTER at 8
-stopfng each way at the several intermediate
passenger stations.
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gage except personal, consisting of clothing, not
exceeding 50 lbs.) will be taken by tlie rasaen- j
tier Boat or Trains, unless by special agreement .
and payment made in advance, in wnicn case
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Agent, not exceeding double the published
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office on the Pier foot of Duane St., upon whose
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1-2, Goshen at 10 1-2, and Chewier at J 1 a. m.
An Accommodation IriiiR Trai:a
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which lows the Freight Barges, leading New
York at 3 o'clock P- M. and ordinarily arming
at Piermont in time for ihe tram lo stun from
G lo 7 o'clock for Port Jen'is; and all the inter-
. ..:..n T Y,ir prvu nt l-'A
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p. m. Otisville at 2. Middietown at 2 1-2, Go-
shen at 3, Chester at o 1-4,
at o o'clock and arrive at
p. m- ; thence leaving for
loriauie sieamuoai, as aouu as mc umu ia
r (I I . ........ . . 1 1 mill t T-i.ll
on ooaru ana me Darge is in icauu.cDs. wuUU
Ber,h5 w,U bo provided on board W cC!6
.nd MEALS a. 37 1-9 cen.s ea,l,
N. B.-Fersons having articles lost, dam -
3 or unnecessarily delayed are requesteo
'TpAt tQ faCt m Vmngr
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H. C. SEYMOUR. Snp't:
January,.!, 1&48. jn. 20---if.
Thrj MibscVib'er wishes to engage in the sale'
it '.its Map-' "a number of young and widille
Jiged men of moral and business haHIs. aVl rav
elling agents.
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Having
greatly unproved
euwons oi ins v 'j;7.-" -
las.
73 Maps; Urge Map of th.f Wori. efer
s arid Distance "'ftan of the Uifiied' Sates,
ence anu instance Map
wmmffl
National Map of the United States also, a va
riety of other Aaps, including several ilips of
Mexico, the subscriber is prepared to funiish
agents, for cah", at the lowest pos&ibleprices..
Address,
S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL,.
Northeast coiner of Market and Sexenth
Streets, Philadelphia.
January 6, 1648.
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Charcoal to Sell.
AN INGENIOUS PARODY ON "'EXCELSIOR.1'
"The shades of night were falling fast,
"When through a Yankee village passed
A youth who drove through snow anil ice,
Xn ox sled, with the strange device,
Charcoal to sell.
His brow was black, his eyes well told
That not a bushel he had sold,
And likea silvery tin-horn rung
The accents of that well-known tongue,
Charcoal to sell.
In happy homes he saw the light
Of walnut fires gleam clear and bright ;
Near by the tavern windows shone,
But on he passed without a groan,
Charcoal to sell.
" Haw, to your sled !" the landlord said,
" Dark lowers the tempest over head,
Turn out your team and stop awhile !"
"But still he answered, with a smile,
Charcoal to sell.
" Oh stay," the daughter said, "and rest
Your dusky head upon this breast I"
A tear stood in his coal black eye,
But still he answered, with a sigh,
Charcoal to sell.
"Beware the pine stumps on your road !
Look out, or you'll upset your load !"
This was the old man's last advice;
"My coal," he cried, "is good and nice,"
Charcoal to sell.
At break of day, when rowdies shout,
When watchmen sleep, and lamp3 are out;
There,'chanting faint that same old song,
A tipsy youth came staggering on,
Charcoal to sell.
team jmc topped far down the road,
Jut nouht to h;m were team or load,
ught
. For fast he held with grasp of vice,
A bottle, with that strange device,
Charcoal to sell.
' There in the twilight cold "and grey,
Most beautifully corned he lay ;
0A tarnished, dimmed, and fallen star,
While boys were shouting, near and far.
Charcoal to sell.
WnWS Vou ITlarrT.
The following doubtful advice was given by 1
a Wisconsin editor to his readers. His name,
.. .l.Jr,,l nno itrn lint'o fnranttpnr hill
o J "
. III I . 1 1 I I 1 I I I U V UN Li" II V IIU ' " v.w...., " -
he i known 16 be a testy old bachelor, hose
"If a man f(;els very much like gelling mar-
- . . .
, nc jor ,m. . . - " a
' m borrowfeabou, ,e f
,. , Q,iri ur th
His cniiureu, mi unw -
, & q( d W00(J) and
' hon .he moke i. tho room is the thickest,
: scol( for aboIl lw0
,,IIts a ,''l",,a,, .... .. i i. i
hou-s. If he can stand an tnese winig, uo
better get married ihe next day give his wife
the pamsj and be a sileni partner in the great
fi'nn of matrimony. The remedy is severe, but
Urrv man is liable to these things after he
. . . . h i . i. : u l.,l
y.ikes himself up, it would be no harm to tryj
Unbe fore.
EcccJitric Cottrtsliipi
rntiTla III his "Sketches in America." re-
, Turners 4, Mousey single blessedness is a matter of necessity, not
Piermont at 0 o clock choice. Girls arc not so plenly out west as at
New York by a com-! , . , , , , f .low.
ll iUOV lY'MlblU I"
W'?,ti-..ti..'.".yroltoWi8 necdo.o,of thai odd genius
T - r .
Lorcnz., Dorv : He
j jngton in June 1830, a
He was preaching at Wash-
ngton in June 1S3U, ana a. uie
ligious meeting he observed that he was in
clined lo matrimony. IT any lady in his con
gregation had similar inclinations sho was re
quested to rise. A lady a little advanced in
life, gate ihe irquiied intimation. Lorenzo
vUited her ; she became his wife and thar.cd
her fonufio wh& him.
The Slights of the Age.
When we see all the leading spirits of the
War of 1S12, Falsing iheir warning voice a
gainst the prosecution of our present policy to
wards Mexico, should we not pause and en
quire of our own conciencos, whether there is
, .i . fninrH -is wpII n; pvil in our
' Uanger 10 our luture, as well as ell in our
present progress ? Homy Clay, John C. Cal
houn, and other sages of the better days of the
Republic, when condemning the policy of the
Administration, are charged with ambitious asr
piratious for tho Presidency ; but in Albert
Gallatin standing as he does on the very verge
of the grave, looking upon all the false honors
of earth as mere dross, we behold as it were,
the voice of one risen from the dead, to in'er
pose his counsel of wisdom, to save his beloved
country front the gulf yawning before her. Let
us hear him !
In their external relation-, the United Sta'es,
before this unfortunate War, had, while sus
taining their just rights, ever acted in strict
conformity with the dictates of justice, and dis
played iho utmost moderation. They never
had loluniartly injured any other nation
E
ve
ry acquisition of territory from Foreign Powers j
was honestly made, the result of Treaties, not t
imposed, but freely assented to by the other
party. The preservation of peace was ever a
primary object. This recourse to arms was
always in self-defence. On its expediency there
may have been a difference of opinion ; that,
in the only two instances of conflict with civ
ilized nations which occurred during a period
of sixty-three years, (1783 to 1846) the just
rights of the United States had been invaded
by a long continued series of aggressions is
"undeniable. In the first instance War was not
declared ; and there were only partial hostil
ities between France and England. The Con
gress of the United States, the only legitimate
organ of the nation for that purpose, did, in
1S12, declare War against Great Britain. In
dependent of depredations on our commerce,
he had, for twenty fears, carried on an actual By 'hese, and by ihese alone, .he Christian re
.uraeainst the United States. I say actual J Hgion was propagated, and enabled m Jess than
war against tne Uniteu estates, l say
war, since there is now but one opinion on that
subject ; a renewal of the impressment of men
sailing under ihe protection of our flag would j
be tantamount to a declaration of War. Thei
partial opposition to the War of 1812 did not
rp.m nn a denial of the agressions of England
and of ihe justice of our cause, but on ihe fact
that, with the exception of impressments, sim -
oo k '
ilar infractions ol our just rights Mad Deen com- consult tneir own conscience, r ur uu. , .(g . , &, roSOWI has protuce(l for
mined by France, and on the most erroneous ulent Creator has implanted in the hearts ol j J , . t. , .
belief that the Administration was partial to men the moral sense of right and wrong, and j him a superabundance almost bejond ihe,
that country, and insincere in their apparent that sympathy for other men, the evidences of dreams of avarice.
efforts to restore Peace. j which are of daily occurrence. There has been shown lo us recently an atf-
At piesent, all these principles would seem ( It seem9 unnecessary to add anything re- v.er,isement from a newspaper of the last-cento
have been abandoned. The most just, a . SDeciing that false glory which, from habit and j . . r , . .
. , r . , , u. : 1 & j urv characteristic of the man. Hore it is :
nuraifr Moionsit'n war :nii mi iiitmr is nisi i u -
able is necessarily attended with a train
great and unavoidable evils. What shall
n : 1 I
rr r9 AHA I II 1 r 1111 llllw 111 UU III I II I II H I I I I I I I I I V I I l I'll
, J i r r t i
uy uu.SCnC5, u. a a. w, a65.....
now publicly avowed to be one ol intended
conquest 1
If persisted in, its necessary consequences
will be a permanent increase of our Military
Establishment and of Executive patronage ; its
npnornl .P.ndenr.v lo make man hate man. to
awaken his worst passions, to accustom him to
the taste ol blood, it nas already uemoranzeu
no inconsiderable portion of ihe nation.
The general Peace which has been preserved'
tween ihe great European Powers, during j
bet
ithe last thirty years, may not be ascribed to
the purest motives. Be these what tney may,
this long and unusual repose has been most ben
eficial to the cause of humanity. Nothing can
be more injurious to it, more lamentable than
ihe War between two adjacent Republics of
North America
Your mission was to be a model for all other
Governments and for all o'her less favored na
lions, to adhere to the most elevated principles
of political morality, to apply ail your faculties
to the gradual improvement 01 your own man-
.'.:.. n,wl Rimini ci-ito nnrl hv vnur nVnuiliifi
to exert a moral inlluence mos.t beneficial to
mankind at large. Instead of this, an appeal
has been made to your worst passions ; to cu
pidity, to the ihir&l of unjust aggrandizement
by brutal forco ; ;o the love of military fame
and oHMse glory ; and it has even been tried
to. 'ervert the noblost feelings of your natuie.
The attempt is made to make you abandon the
lofty position which your lainers ocrupteu, in
substitute for it tho political morality and hea
then .patiiotism of the heroes and statesmen of
antiquity.
Wo should have but one. conscience ; and
most happy would it be for mankind, were
siatesrnen and poi'nici.ins only as honest, in
their management of the internal or external
national concern, as ihey re in private life.
The irreproachable private characier of the
President and of all the members of his admin
Uiraiion, is known and retimed. There is
not one of them who would not spurn with in
tonation ihe most remote hint il'iai, on similar
pretences to those alleged for dismembering
Mexico, ho might be capable of an attempt to
appropriate to himself his neighbor's farm.
In the total absence of any argument that
can justify the war in which, we are now in
volved, resort has been had to a most extraor
dinary assertion. It is said, that the people of
the United States have an hereditary superiori
ty of race over iho Mexicans, which gives them
the right to subjugate and keep in bondage the
inferior nation. This it is also alleged, will
bo the means of enlightening he degraded
Mexicans, of improving their social stale, and
of ultimately increasing the happiness of the
masj;es.
Is it compatible with the spirit of Democracy,
which rejects every hereditary claim of indi
viduals, to. admit an hereditary superiority of
races At tills time tlie claim is om a pretext
lor covering and, jusliiying unjust usurpation
and unbounded ambition.
But admitting with respect to Mexico, the
superiority of race, this confers no superiority
of rights. Among ourselves, the most ignorani,
ihe most inferior, either in physical or mental
faculties, is recognized as having equal rights
and he has an equal vote with any one, how
e; er superior to him in all those respects. This
is founded on the immutable principle that no
one man is born with the right of governing an
other man. He may, indeed, acquire a moral
inlluence over olhers, and no other is legitimate.
The same principle will apply to nations.-
O i
However superior tho Anglo-American race know its exact aggregaie Bum anu me manner
may be to that of Mexico, this gives the Amer-j ()f jS disposal, for almost all persons are enri
icans no right to infringe upon the rights of an QU8 abom such mallers. Whether he owes his
inferior race. The people of the United States Qr
may riwhtfullv, and will, if they use tho proper .. .. er i .
o m.,0t hnfi,.ial mnral infln-! whether to the chance favors of'forlune wheth-
ence over the Mexicans and other less enlight
ened nations of America. Beyond this they
have no right to go.
The allegation that the subjugation of Mexi
co would be the means of enlightening the Mex
icans, of improving their social slate and of in
creasing their happiness is but the shallow at
tempt to disguise cupidity and ambition. Truth
never was, or can be prorogated by fire and
sword, or by any other than purely moral means.
three hundred years to conquer idolatry. Dur
ing the whole of thai period, Christianity was
tainted by no o.he.r blood than that of its mar
tvrs. ' The duties of the people of the United States
toward other nations are obvious. Never los-
ing sight of the Divine precept, "Do to others
'as you would be done by," they have only to
(noun-, tne general lenor ol our eariy euucatiou we are j -
ain of. iaUghi to admire. The task has already been! TOHN JACOB ASTOR, at No. 81 Queen St..
iU wj repeatedly performed, in a far more able and ;J next door but one to " The Friends Meeting
.yoked impassive manner, than anything I could say House," has for sale an assortment of Piano l'or
t. ""1" W ' ' r b ... J. tps nfiho newest construction, made bv the best
. i. immr n nnr prinu miiinniinn wh nre
I . ..l..-t
. . . , ,v .1 .
. on me feUHjei:i. lv l3 B,..i.....i .
,njs nine, neither the dignity or honor of the
nation demand a farther sacrifice of invaluable
jVCjIj or eVen of money. The very reverse is
j the case. The true honor and dignity of ihe
, na,jon are inseparable from justice. Pride and
' ! .iJmand the sacrifice. Thoueh so
j jj.. T)urchased, tho astonishing success of
lne Amortcan arms have at least put it in me
power of the United S'ates to grant any terms
of peace, without incurring the imputation o!
being actuated by any but the most elevated
motives, it wouiu seem uiai uie iiium piunu
and vain must be satiated with glory, and that
the most reckless and bellicose should be suf
ficiently glutted with human gore.
A more truly glorious termination of the
war, a more splendid spectacle, an examplo
' moro highly useful to mankind at large, cannot
well bo conceived, than that of the victorious
forces of the United States voluntarily aban
cloning all iheir conquests, without requiring
j anything else than that which was strictly due
iu ou;
citizens.
Curious Facts in Natural History.
In looking over Galignani's Magazine, we
discover the following curious facts res'pecjling
ihe bones of the American Rattlesnake : About
the year 174S, some laborers in wooing a quar
ry in the neighborhood of Princeton for the
stone with which the college Is outlt, discovered
a cavern which contained the entire skeleton
of an immense number of tho Rattlesnake
(Croialus ) The bones were in such quantities
as to require, two or three carts for iheir re
moval. There can be but liule doubt that this
cavern had once a small opening, which was
afierwards closed by iho accidental fall of a
stone, or omt other impediment. This cave
had probably been the winter abode of ihe rat
tlesnake for years, here many had died through
age, and others in consequence of the circum
stances just mentioned. M. Humboldt, in the
third volume of his Personal-Narrative., hints at
an occurrence somewhat similar lor.thesabovejr
" I had visited the caverns of ihe liartz; thos
of Franconia, and iho beautiful grotto of Trevf
hemienshiz, in iheCarpathiain mountain, -which
are the vast cemeteries of bones of tigers, hye-'
nas and bears, as largo as our houses"."-
Bakewell, in his Geology, has an accountoh
the entire size, discovered in Derbyshire; in a'
cavernous rock. He supposes", the cavern, to
have been open, and afterwards closed by stal
aciites ; instances of which are common in'
Derbyshire. " Into this cavern, I conceive,"
: , , " . . . i th ,J) '
says ho, " the animal had retired to die, at a
period long after the existence of the macifft
animals which are imbedded in the surroun
ding rock."
. : 1-
TSsc Richest ITIau in America-Johfi
Jacob Astor. 1
This venerable citizen who has become f i
mous all over the new world for his enorfnou-
wealth, and whose property is suppose? ur t
ceed thirty millions of dollars, is now i ffiS
last stage of his earthly career. Our c::;3ei:t
manifest much curiosity about his wealjh, and
t - ! I . t l . 1 t . I . . .
woKing anxiouwy .or me ume wB, u.,:v ,,.a.v
er, in popular parlance, he is a smart man. or
whether he is meiely a close and penurious
calculator and accumulator are questions which
gossipers are in the habit of discussing with,
some tale or anecdote. -
Mr. Astbr is a German by binh, and for a
short time resided in England. He came to
this country about ihe close of our Revolution
ary war, and began his course here in the pur
chase and sale of furs. He was attentive, fru-
j gal, economical was eager to amass wealth
and loth to spend it, satisfied with small begin
nings and small earnings, averse to hazard and
speculation, enterprising when profit was to be
obtained and hesitating when there might be a
rj.fc 0f los8. Pursuing
! a jong jjj-e pr0Speriiy w
such a course through
was made secure to him,
'
tes of tho newest construction, made by the best
; makers in London, which he will sell on reasona-
' be teTtaSm He gives cash for all Icinds of Furs,
(j jias for sriie a quantity of Canada Beaver and
' Beaver Coating, Raccoon Skins, &c.-,
j tiq aboye wag printe( in ll)e New 'York
, , np5ru Q, .a(Xt ,r.
! Daily Advertiser of January 2d, 1,89: T.ie
house in Queen street yet stands, but with a
modern Iront, ana is now Known ns io. jo
Pearl street. From being a p'jere seller of
coon skins, the now coin -begirt M,r. Astor be
came an extensive merchant in. furs, and com
manded and controlled tbe market. His trade
was large, his profit were enormous, 'and
wealth rapidly followed, Mr. Astor had some
thing of the Yankee in his composition. Many
years ago he tnad.e four hundred thousand, dol
lars in one speculation. He purchased to
right of the heirs of Mrs. Morris, the wife of a
refugee rjamed Roger Morris, whose prqpecy
had hoen confiscated and sold by the Slate , ot
New York. From somo irregular proceedings
Oil the part of the State, Astor, saw the chance,
and he went lo England and bought oui
heirs for twenty thousand pounds. Ho .then
sued the Slate of New York, and. the matter
was compromised by the Slate paying
a million of dollars to pay whlrb. ajognva...
contracted which is s'til jn existence;
known. as the Astor loan.
Brother Junuthun.
- The.joint weight of the two4liss Macombers,
who are now singing in NevvWk, is exactly
four hundred and thirty pou7ids.
" Laugh and grow fai" bhould ba superceded
by." sing and grow fat."
A paper out West, inpeakingof arforato
out lhat way, 6aid that he spoke an1 hour and u
half, and " wai lensible t.o the laav."