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VOLUME XVII.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL.
WHERE may be obtained the most speedy re.
v v medy for
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SECRE 1 . DISEASES.—GIeete, Strictures,
Seminal Weakness, Pain in the Loins, Affections
of the Kidneys, and all those Pecnliar Affections
arrising from a SECRET HABIT, particularly the
youth of both sexes, which if not cured, produces
Constitutional Debility, rendering Marriage impos
sible, and in the end destroys both Mind and
YOUNG MEN Especially, who have become
the victims of Solitary Vice, that dreadful and
destructive habit which annually sweeps to an un
timely grave thousands of young men of the most
exalted talents and brilliant intelect, who might
otherwise have entranced listning Senates with
the thunders of eloquence, or waked to ecstacy
the fixing lyre, may call with full confidence.
Married persona, or those contemplating marri-
age, being aware of physical weakness, should
iimnediatedly consult Dr. J., and be restored to
perfect health.
DR. JOHNSTON. Office No. 7 SOUTH
FREDERICK STREET, SEVEN DOORS
FROM BALTIMORE STEET,Eaat side UP
THE STEPS.*aI" BE PARTICULAR iu ob
serving the NAME and NUMBER. or you will
mistake the place.
A CURE WARRANTED, OR NO CHARGE
MADE, IN FROM ONE TWO DAYS.
Take Notice—Dr. Johnston's Office is in his
dwelling, ur THE STEPS. His very extensive
practice Is a sufficient guarantee that he is the on •
ly proper Physician to apply to.
DR. JOHNSTON, Member of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons. London, graduate from one of
the most eminent Colleges of the United States,
and the greater part of whose life has been spent
in the Hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia,
and elsewhere, has effected some of the most as
tonishing cures that were ever known, many
troubled with ringing in the ears and head when
asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at sud
den sounds, and bashfulness, with frequent blush
ing, attended sometimes with derangement of
mind, were cured immediately.
A CERTAIN DISEASE.—It is a melancholy
fach that thousands fall Victims to this horrid dis
ease owing to the Unskillfulnesi of ignorant pre
tenders, who by the use of that deadly poison
Mercury, ruin the Constitution, causing the must
serious symptoms of this dreadful disease to make
their appearance, such as affections of the hood,
throat, nose, akin, etc., progressing with fright
fnl rapidity till death puts a period to their dread
ful suffering, by sending them to that Bourne
whence no traveler returns
TAKE nurricuLAß NOTICE.—Youn g
men who have injured themselves by a certain
practice indulged ni when aluno—a habit frequent
ly learned from evil (ammonium, or at school—the
effects of %hien are nightly felt, even when asleep,
and if not cured renders marriage impossible, and
destroys both mind and body.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his
country, and the darling of his parents should be
snatched from all prospects and erkitgaents of hie
by the consequences of deviating from the path of
nature and indulging in a certain secret habit.—
Such persons before contemplating.
MARRIAGE, should reflect that a sound mind
and body are the must necessary requisitsts to
promote connubial happiness. Indeed, without
these, the journey through life becomes a weary
pilgrimage, the prospect hourly darkens to the
view; the mind becomes shadowed with dispiiir,
and filled with the melancholy retles•tion, that the
happi-mess of another becomes blizlited with our
own.
— (YONSTITUTIONAL DEBILITY.—Dr. J.
addresses young men, and all who have injured
themselves by private and improper indulgence.
IMPUISSANE.—These are some of the sad
find melancholy effects produced by early habits of
runt::, viz: Weakness of the Back and Limbs,
Veins in the head. Dimness of Sight, Loss of
Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart Dys
pepsia, Nervous Irritahility, Dinangements of the
Dctestiye Functions, General Debility Symptoms
of 'Consumption, &e.
Mentally—The fearful effects on the mind are
much to lie dreaded; Loss of Memory, Confusion
of ideas, Depression of Spirit, Evil Forbodings,
Aversion to Society, Self Distrust, Love of Soli
tude, &e. are some of the evils produced.
Thousands of persons of all ages, cats pow judge
what is the cause of their declining health. Los
ing their vigor, becoming weak, pale and emacia
ted, have a singular appearance about the eyes,
cough and symptoms of consumption.
Married persons, or those contemplating marri
age, being aware of physical weekness, should
immediately consult Dr. J. and be restored to
perfect health.
OFFICE, NO. 7, SOUTH FREDERICK
STREET, Baltimore, 3/d.
ALL SURGICAL OPPERATIONS PER
FORMED.—N. B. Let nu false delicacy pre
vent you, but apply immediately either personally
or by letter.
Skin Diseases Speedily Cured.
TO STRANGERS.— The many thowands cur
ed at this Institution within the last ten years,
and the numerous important Surgical Operations
performed by 1)r. J., witness by the Reporters of
the papers, and many other persons, notices of
which have appeared again and again before the
public, is a sufficient guarantee that the afflicted
will find a skillful and honorable physician.
As there arc so many ignorant and worthless
quacks advertising themselves as Phisicians, ruining
the health of the afflicted Dr. Johnston would
say to those unacquainted with hi; reputation that
his Credentials or Diplomas always hang its his
office.
WEAKNESS OF THE ORGANS immedi
ately cured, and full t igor restored.
ALL LETTERS POST PAID—REME
DIBS SENT BY MAIL.
Jan. 8, 1852.—1 y.
Administrator's Notice.
tate of John Pl u mmer, late of Penn town.
ship, Huntingdon county, deed.
LETTERS of administration upon the estate of
John Plummer, late of Penn township, dee'd,
have been granted to the subscribers. All per
sons having claims will present thetn properly au
thenticated, and those indebted are requested to
make immediate payment.
ELI PLUMNIEt, Ilopowell tp., ?
ABRAHAM PLUMMER, Penn tp., 5 Adm.
Jan. 1, 1152. 6t.
Executor's Notice.
In the matter of the Estate of Abraham Zimmer
man, late of Tod township, dec'd.
Letters Testamentary, upon the last Will and
Testament of said deceased, having been granted
to the subscriber, all parsons knowing themselves
indebted to the said estate will make payment to,
and all persons having claims against said estate
will present them duly authenticated, to
ANDREW Ci. NEFF, Z.
Marldesburg. Dec.. IC. Ital.
A WEEK'S WORK.
SUNDAY—church doors enter in,
Rest from toil, repent of sin;
Strive a heavenly rest to win.
MORDAT—to yonr calling go;
Serve the Lord; lore friend and foe
To the tempter, answer, no.
TorenAT—do what good you can;
Live in peace with God and man;
Remember, life is but a span.
WEDNESDAY—give away and earn;
Teach some truth, some good thing learn,
Joyfully good for ill return.
THURSDAY—buiId your house upon
Christ, the mighty Corner stone,
Whom God helps, his work is done.
FRIDAY—for the truth be strong;
Own your unlit, if in the wrong.
Put a bridle on your tongue.
SATtlßD•Y—dunk God and Bingl
Tribute to his treasury bring;
Be prepared for Terror's king.
Thus—your hopes on Jesus cast--
Thus let all your weeks be past;
And you shall be saved at last.
From ilrthur's Home Gazelle.
THE LADDER OF ROSES.
The beautiful Angel of sleep folded its
wings over the earth, and all became silent.
The flowers drooped their fair heads, clos
ed their satin leaves and fell asleep be
neath the kind rays of the stars. No
sound was heard, save the voice of the
evening breeze, whispering to the leaves.
The moonbeams stole over the earth and
kissed the sleeping flowers gently, that
they might not waken them; then softly
glided through the open lattice of the poor
man's home.
The beautiful beams shed their silvery
light upon the couch of a young girl, who
slept sweetly upon her humble bed after
the wearisome toil of the day was over.—
What was the maiden dreaming about ?
Ah, she heard, in her dreams, soft, low
music such as she never heard in waking
hours; she thought she was in a beautiful
garden, from the midst of which arose a
ladder that reached even to the skies and
was lost in the snowy and golden clouds
about. And, lo; it was a Ladder of Roses,
of beautiful tints, twined with each other;
and as the wind waved them to and fro
there came forth from the leaves this heav
enly music.
A voice called to her from above, and,
as she looked up, she beheld, standing
amid the clouds, an angel form transcen
dently beautiful, which beckoned and sang
to her—" Come up here, thou Earth-child!
come up through the roses, to this beauti
ful cloud-home !"
The maiden hesitated a moment, then
sprang up the ladder; and the roses waved
and sent forth perfume and silvery music.
Up, up, went the maiden, longing to be
clasped in the arms of the Angel above;
but, hidden thorns beneath the rose leaves
wounded her feet and she could go no fur
ther. Then the Angel wept, and as her
tears fell upon the roses they changed to
pearl-drops and rolled away.
The girl saw the tears, and was reas
sured, and up, up, she went, forcing her
way through the thorns and the roses.—
Still sang the voice, and a ray of golden
sunshine fell among the roses. Half way
up the beautiful Ladder, the maiden stop
ped and looked back, and lo! amid the
flowers at the bottom of the ladder there
knelt another Angel with clasped hands,
whose tearful eyes besought the maiden to
go still higher.
The girl was about to ascend once more,
but the thorns pricked her feet, and an in
visible hand held forth a golden cup while
a voice whispered, "Drink, and thy pains
are over."
The maiden reached out her hand, hut
she saw that the Angel above smiled no
more, and her sweet voice was hushed.
The music of the leaves wag sad and seem
ed to be far oil. She looked below; the
second Angel had turned away and stood
sorrowfully with her white wings drooping.
Joy ! joy ! She pushed aside the cup
from her lips, and, heedless of the thorns,
still clambered on. The clear music of the
leaves sang forth joyously; the Angel be
llow smiled and waved her snowy wings:—
' Exhausted, but happy, the Earth-child
HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1852.
slept in its Cloud-home upon the kind bo
som of its guardian Angel.
The young girl awoke, and saw that the
radiant sunbeams were stealing through the
lattice upon the sanded floor. She arose and
dressed herself, and commenced he daily
toil. A wearisome day would it have
been, but for the thoughts of her beauti
ful dream, and the perfume of flowers, and
the golden sunshine that stole in beside
her as she toiled away. At noon the mai
den carried her father's dinner into the
fields, and, as she sat down beside him,
beneath a shady tree, she told him her
dream. When she had finished, the old
man wiped his wrinkled brow, and a tear
stood in his eye as he said,
"Mina, my child, thy dream is beauti
ful; the Ladder of Roses is the pathway
to happiness, but, beneath the flowers that
send forth their perfumed music, lie thorns
—the cares and sufferings of life—which
makes us afraid to do our 4lsuty. The first
Angel in the clouds is Faith, who lures us
on, while Hope kneels below to encourage
us; but Temptation offers her golden cup
of Pleasure, to which we too often turn to
seek forgetfulness of our woes. Then
Hope turns away and Faith weeps for us; .
but if we push back Temptation's cup and
force our way through the difficulties that
surround us, then the beautiful sunbeam of
Hope falls kindly on us, Faith smiles again;
and amid sunshine and flowers our souls
ascends to that beautiful Cloud-home, from
which we arc never snore to part, but to
become holy Angels to watch over the lov
ed ones below."
The young girl wept and was silent; the
old man kissed her brow and said—
"Mina, in thy dreams thou didst win
this heavenly peace. May it be so in real
ity. Heed not the thorns that surround
thee, but think only In the Roses of Hap—
piuess, and they will guide thee in the end
to thy last and best resting place in Heav
en. Etate.
Cincinnati, Oct. 9th ISSI.
Lime as a Fertilizer.
"J. F. H.," of Lancaster county, argues
'strongly in favor of lime as a permanent
fertilizer. His experience was also from
mixing the lime with mud from ditches in
the fall, and applying it in the spring, when
the mass was as mellow as an ash heap.—
The whole of the heap was then drawn
upon an acre and a half of timothy sod,
which had been previously plowed to a
depth of eight inches, and carefully spread
and harrowed in. It was then put in corn,
"and although we did not measure the
crop, I am satisfied that the yield of the
acre and a half composted, was at
the rate of a hundred bushels to the acre.
The next year it was put in corn, and the
yield was equal to that of the preceeding.
We then put in wheat. The average of
of the whole field, of which the acre and
a half was a part, was forty bushels, and
from the decided superiority of the part
composted, I cannot but think the yield
from it amounted to six or eight bushels
wore. We put it in wheat again the fol
lowing year, the crop being fully equal
to the last. We then sowed it in grass,
(clover and Timothy mixed,) and finer grass
I never saw. The difference between the
composted and non-composted part was
plainly apparent.—Village Record.
DEATH OF A BRITISH NOBLEMAN.-
The Coroner of Now Orleans last week
held an inquest over the body of Lord J.
Loughborough, found dead on board the
schooner Mary Elizabeth, lying at the
First Municipality wharves. The deceas
ed was a British Nobleman, and was only
twenty-throe years of age. He had taken
passage at Havana for New Orleans, in
the Mary Elizabeth, and died while the
schooner was coming up the river.
POCKET STovEs.--The Milwaukie Ad
vertiser says that a gentleman of that city
has invented a spirit stove, which, while
only a foot square, will warm an ordinary
sized room. It weighs lees than ten
pounds, is convenient for carriages, cars,
and even small ones may be carried in
one's pocket of a (sold day, and producing
neither soot, smoke, nor ashes, might be
made as ornamental a piece for personal
wear aa• a watch or breast-pin. It only
consumes a pint of alcohol per day.
SISITHSONI AN LECTURES.
Dr. Bane's Third Lecture
ARCTIO EXPLORATIONS,
The third Lecture of Dr. KANE was
delivered on Friday night before a large
and intellectual audience. The lecture
room was densely packed at an early hour,
and many were unable to obtain admission.
We think that the sanguine views of the
speaker were fully borne out by his facts,and
were loudly responded to by the audience.
It was impossible not to feel the sincerity
of his own convictions and the strong
grounds upon which ho based them.
After repeating, by request, his former
arguments in favor of the existence of Sir
John Franklin and his party, Dr. Kane
went on to describe the perils to which the
American expedition was exposed during
its long and unique drift in the polar ice.
One of these struck us as especially fear
ful. The vessels were about to enter
Baffin's Bay fast in a great field of solid
ice, when suddenly this was rent into
chasms, which rapidly opened into what
were characteried by Dr. Kane as "dark
rivers" nearly half as wide as the Potomac.
On the 13th of January, of last year, these
began to close with frightful clamor and
disruption. The brig was bodily lifted up
seven feet, and an advancing mound of ice
threatened to overwhelm her, when, by
some miraculous agency, its course was
arrested.
The subsequent portions of the Lecture
were full of novelty; they related to some
of the physical phenomena of this won
derful region. The first of these was
TILE POLAR CIRCLE,
This, with its gradual and insidious ap
proach, was graphically depicted. At the
appalling temperatures-40 and-90, or
70 to 80 below the freezing point, cold
became as sensible in its effects as heat;
indeed, between the positive effects of the
very high and the negative of the very ,
low scale, it was impossible to distinguish
by sensation. Upon going out into the
' open air the face became encrusted with
an icy rind, and the lips were glued to
gether by the cementing aid of the beard
and moustache. The trigger of a gun
blistered the finger, and a jack-knife in the
pantaloons pocket caused you to jump as
with a sudden scald. During the, long
darkness, when they attempted to beguile
the winter hours with theatricals, an unfor
tunate Thespian dropped the pantomimic
flat-iron as though receiving a sudden burn.
Indeed, next day a row of blisters had giv
en evidence of the truth that, in tempera
ture as in every thing else, extremes meet.
THE POLAR NIGHT
With the cold came darkness. The
long night stole gradually upon our voya
gers, and at last the clear heavens shone
out perpetually with unchanging stars.—
The pole star was so nearly overhead as
to appear in the absolute zenith, and
around it the "great vault of heaven re
volved with perpetual twinkle." This
portion of the Lecture was listened to with
breathless attention. At last, however, the
night passed away, and, almost by an im
mediate transition, day came upon them.—
Dr. Kane said this short period of alter
nation, giving them as it did the familiar
day and night of home, was full of painful ,
associations.
At this time many peculiar phenomena
were noticed. Among these etood promi
nently.
PARASELTNIE AND LUNAR HALOS,
The moon was observed surrounded by
two concentrate circles, each intersected
by luminous bands passing through her
disc. Dr. Kane has seen at one time six
imitative moons, aping, through feebly,
the great satellite.
TILE AURORA
This was not the display, either of col
or, or illumination, or movement, which is
seen in more southern latitudes. Dr.
Kane mentioned that he bad observed the
aurora arcs direotly overhead, nearly coin
cident with the magnetic meridian. They
were then north of the magnetic pole of
earth, and the south polar direction was
read by the compass as north. In other
words, their magnetic variation was 180.
PABRELIa.
With the daylight come the parhelia,er
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11:1111 IT,ll)Cam;
mock suns, These, like the partugelinte,
or mock moons, wore full of variety.—
The lecturer very properly observed, that
it was a sort of profanation to attempt to
describe a sky traversed with rainbows
and glittering with imitative suns.
REFRACTION
Last of these most interesting displays
came "refraction;" that form of it was so
well known to us under the name of "mi
rage." The marvels of this wonderful il
lusion, although sustained by the united
exeripence of all artic voyagers, surpass the
conception of the reality. Saracenic cit
ies glittered in the "purples of low sun
light;"ocean steamers fumed in the vibra
ting distance. All these were described
with poetic yet truthful force of detail.
But, leaving all this, Dr. Kane at last
escaped from the great pack ice by Baffin's
bay. Once more the yeses' dashed the
free water from her bow. Here a sincere
but expressive eulogium of his commander
and nuessmates came naturally from Dr.
Kane. Lieut. De Haven had determined
to renew the search to the northward, and
his office, s, to a man, sustained him.
THE SECOND SEASON,
Once more, then, the battered little
vessels turned their bows to the north,
but their path was not a free one. Ice
bergs hemmed them in, and soon they were
fast bound by midsummer ice. Here, but
for the exercise of unceasing watchfulness,
they were upon the very verge of being
made prisoners for a second winter. But
Providence had otherwise willed it, and by
incalculable exertions they escaped.
In the concluding sentences of his lec
ture, Dr. Kane reviewed their operations,
stating that they had fallen upon the track
of Franklin, and had been imprisoned a
winter at the north almost directly upon
his track; but circumstances beyond their
control called them from the seat of
search. He alluded modestly, but in
terms of unrestricted commendation to the
course of Henry Grennell, in connexion
with the expedition which bears his name.
It is not enough, said Dr. Kane, to have
impressed that name upon the furthest
land range that any polar navigators have
yet returned to verify its more substantial
record is that universal recognition of pu
rity of intention and honesty of purpose
which is impressed upon the convictions
of our entire community.
Dr. Kane then made au eloquent appeal
in favor of a renewal of the search for
the missing vessels and crews which to be
appreciated should have been listened to,
and thus closed one of the most interest
ing courses of lectures ever delivered at the
Institution,
A SINGLE SENTENCE.
Rev. James A. Haldane, a venerable
Baptist Pastor, recently died in Edinburgh.
In his early life he commanded the man-of
war "Melville Castle." When engaged in
an action, he ordered up a fresh set of
hands to take the place of those who had
been killed by the broadside of the enemy.
The men seeing the mangled bodies of their
comrades, instinctively drew back, at which
he poured forth a volley of oaths, and
wished them all in hell. A religious sea
man shortly after said to him, respectfully
and seriously, If God had heard your
prayer just now, where should we have
been?" His words were winged by Him
who never mites in vain, and from that day
the captain became a changed man. He
lived to preach the gospel fifty-four years.
His brother Robert, now known as an able,
learned, and pious commentator, was early
converted under his preaching. Robert
wont to Genova, and while there a number
of young men were converted under his la
bors,
among whom were Frederick Monod,
now one of the pillars of the Evangelical
Church in France; Felix Neff, the devoted
young Pastor of the high Alps, and Merle
D'Aubigne, the historian of the Reforma
tion. Who can gather up the results of
that single oonvertian on board the Melville
Castle, brought arout through a single
sentence addressed by a sailor to his pro+
fans commander/
tr...-" Eggs sold in Philadelphia market
on Saturday morning last, at fifty oents
per cloven.
NUMBER 5.
The Course of 'Foreign Trade.
IMPORTS AND SPECIE.—The importe et
New York from the first of this month t?' ,.
tho I7th amounted In value to $6,908.877
—nearly seven millions of dollies: Of this
aggregate the importations of dr§ goods
alnollntcj to $4,348,999; other merchan
dise, to $2,559,878. The rxports of spe
cie for the same period amounted to $l,-
855,730.
The coarse of trade indicated by th ese
items, remarks the Baltimore American,-
has been for some time past steady and
undeviating. It is likely to continue unfit
the limits of credit on this side of the wa
ter are pretty well stretched, when a ro.
vulaim may come proportioned in reveriti
and disaster to the accumulation of our r‘.
sponsibilities beyond the capability of pres
ent resources to make good.
Every generation, it would seem, must
learn wisdom for itself. A full Treasury ;
accruing from the large mass of importa
tions, renders the Government, so far as
the Legislative part of it is concerned,
quite easy on the score of national finances
—although the President, in his Annual
Message, and the Secretary of the Treae•+-
ry, in his report, took occasion to warn the
two Houses of the palpable tendencies of
the present importation-mania, and called
their attention to the necessity of such
modifications of our Tariff system as might
have the effect of saving the country from
the dangerous effects of the reaction, the
elements of which are apparently coming
to a head.
But the Treasury is well supplied; and
those who hold the doctrine that tho Tar■
iff system should have no other end or pup.
pose but to supply revenue to the Treasn.
ry persuade themselves that as the exis
ting system does that it accomplishes al/
for which it was designed and needs no
modification. These gentleman seem to
forget that the national Treasury was nev
er so redundant as at the period just pre
ceding the terrible revulsion of 1887,
which caused the suspension of every
Bank in the Union and overwhelmed thcin
sands of individuals and families in ruin.—
So large were the accumulation of treasure
in the national coffers that after meeting
all the requisitions of the Government and
paying off the last instalments of the public
debt, a great surplus remained which was
distributed among the States. This ple
thora of superfluity in the wrong place, the
attestation of profuse importation, caused
the collapse which followed to be doubly
distressing, it was like a forced elevation
in a hallon which in proportion as it be
came higher gave to the downward fall a
heavier shock.
The substitution of specific duties where
they can be applied in the place of the ad
valorem principle, is one of the recommen
dations of the President, which, if carried
out by Congress must have a very happy
effect in transfusing a more wholesome spir
it into the whole system of importations.
If Congress is unwilling to increase the
average rate of duties there is no good rea
son that we can see why it should not
make those duties definite and certain—
which cannot be the case so long as they
are levied upon varying invoices
I made up in foreign countries under cir
cumstances which are more or less favora
ble to evasion and fraud. There is, on the
other hand every reason why the legisla
tion of Congress on this subject should be
definite and certain, so that the law in its
inforcement may be what it purports to be..
Specified duties will accomplish this desi
deratum and we know nothing else that
will.
LACOIIAIILE MISTAKE.- SOESS of thff
English newspapers having heard of but
one distinguished "Douglass" in the tini
tad States, have confounded him with the
little Senator from Illinoss, and have late
ly gravely announced that the Hon. Freder,
ick Douglass, a colored gentleman, is a
prominent candidate for the Presidency.
ttPA man named Foreno e, in Westmore
land county, was killed on New Year's
day, while etanding in his own door, by a
rifle ball which had been shot at a squir
rel, some four hundred yards distant from
the house