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VOLUME XVII.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL
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HERE may he obtained the most speedy re
medy for
SECRET DISEASES.—GIeets, Strictures
Seminal Weak 'ain in the Loins, Affections'
bf the Kidney ' 1 those Peculiar Affections
firrising from a .
*
T HABIT, particularly the
teeth of both sex' s, which iLukt cured,prod
uces
Constitutional Debility, rend Mil Marriage impos
sible, and in the end destroys both Mind and
Body.
YOUNG MEN Especially, Who have become
the victims of Solitary Vice, that dreadful mid
destructive habit which annually sweeps to an un
timely grave thousands oryonng men of the most
tanked talents and brilliant intelect, who might
otherwise have entranced listning Senates with
the thunders of eloquence, or waked to ecstacy
the living lyre, may call with full confidence.
Married persons, or those contemplating marri
age. being aware of physical weakness, should
Immediatedly consult Dr. J., and be restored to
perfect health.
DR. JOHNSTON. Office No. 7 SOUTH
FREDERICK STREET, SEVEN DOORS
FROM BALTIMORE STEET,East side UP
THE STEPS. lir BE PARTICULAR in ob
serving the NAME and NUMBER. or you will
mistake the place.
A CURE WARRANTED, on NO CHARGE
MADE, IN FROM ONE TWO DAYS.
Take Notice—Dr. Johnston's Office is in his
dwelling. UP 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
Each that thousands fall Victims to this horrid dis
ease owing to the Unskillfulness of ignorant pre
tenders, who by the use of that deadly poison
Mercury, ruin the Constitution, causing the most
serious symptoms of this dreadful disease to make
their appearance, such as affections of the head,
throat, nose, akin, etc., progressing with fright
ful rapidity tilideath puts a period to their dread
ful sutfering, by sending them to that Bourne
wienee no traveler returns.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.—Young
men who have injured themselves by a certain
practice indulged in when alone—it habit frequent
ly learned from evil companions, or at school—the
effects of which aro nightly felt, even when asleep,
and if not curia 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 meets should be
snatched from all prospects and enjoyments of life
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 most necessary requisitsts to
promote connubial balminess. Indeed, without
those, the journey through lifb becomes a weary
pilgrimage, the prospect hourly darkens to the
slew; the mind becomes shadowed with di , pair,
and lied with the melancholy reflection, that the
happi-ness of another becomes blighted with our
.own.
CONSTITUTIONAL DEBILITY.—Dr. J.
adi rosses young men, and all who have injured
themselves by private and improper indulgence.
1 MPUISSANE.—These are souse of the and
and inehuicholy effects produced by early habits of
youth, viz: Weakness of the Back and binibs,
Pains in the head. Dimness of Sight, L.. o f
Muscular Power, Pulpit:aloe of the Heart Dys
pepsia, Nervous Irritability, Detaimmucuts of the
Digestive Functions, ticiteral Debility Symptoms
of Consumption, &c. .
Jtkataffy—The fearful effects on the mind are
mach to be dreaded; Less of Memory, Confusion
of ideas, Depression of Spirit, Evil Forbodings,
Aversion to Society, Self Distrust, Lore of Soli
tude. &c. are some of the evils produced.
Thousands ofpersons dab ages, can now judge
what is Use cause of their -declining heath. Los
ing their vigor, becoming weak, lade amt emacia
ted, I ire a singular appearance about thin eyes,
cough and symptoms of consumptiou.
Married pcivons, or those contemplating marri
age, being aware of physical weakness, should
immediately consult 1)r. J. and be restoreu to
perfect health.
01 FICE, NO. 7, SOUTH FREDERICK
STREET, Baltimore, ild.
AL S U lIGI CAL OPPERATIO N S PE 11-
FORMED.—N. B. Let no false delicacy pre
vent )on, but Imply immediately either personally I
or by letter.
Skit Diseases S- eedily Cured.
TO STRANGERS.-7'/ic many thousands cur
ed at this Institution within the last ten years,
and the numerous important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. J., witness by the Reporters of
the papers, and many other persons, notices oh
which have appeared again and again before the
public, is a sufficient guarantee that the afflicted
willtind a skillful and honorable physician.
As there are so many ignorant and worthlors
quacks advertising themselves as Phisicians, ruining
the health of the afflicted Dr. Johnston would
say to those iinae9itainted with his reputation that
his Credentials or Diplomas always hang in his
office.
WEAKNESS OF THE ORGANS immedi
ately cm ed, and full rigor restored.
-- iALL LETTERS POST PAID—REAM
DI 'S SENT 11I' MAIL.
Jan. 8. 1852.—1 y. ,
Hardware Cheaper.
JOHN A. NEFF, for many years in the house
of Mr. Buehler & Bro., desires to inform
his friends of Huntingdon county that he has
connected himself with the firm of Messrs.
Lower & Barron, No, 17,1, North Third Street,
3rd door above Vine Street, where he will be
pleased to offer every article in the HARDWARE
Lisa AT u ucu LOWER cairns than ever before
sent to his native county.
Philad'a, March 20, 1851.—tf.
Are you Insured I
IF not, Immo your property at once in the Cum.
borland Valley Mutual Insurance Company.
Apply to Gao. W. SPEER, Agent,
Bridgeport, Pa.
H. W. SMITH,
DENTIST,
RUNTINVDON,
(Woe apposite Couto' Hotel, Market et.)
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of
Quarter Sessions of Huntingdon county.
The petition of Andrew Johnston of the Bor
ough and county of Huntingdon, respectfully
sheweth that he has lately taken that well known
tavern stand in the said borough, called the Black
Bear Hotel, which has heretofore been used and
occupied as a public house of entertainment, and
is desirous of continuing to keep a public house
therein. He therefore prays your Honors to
grant him a license to keep a public house at the
place aforesaid for the ensuing year, and he will
ever pray. ANDREW JOHNSTON.
March 11,1852,
The subscribers citizens of the borough of Hun-'
tingdon, in the county of Huntingdon, recom
mend the above petitioner and certify that the Inn
or tavern above mentioned it necessary to accom
modate the public and entertain strangers and
travellers; and that the petitioner above named is
of good repute for honesty and temperance and is
well provided for house room and conveniences
for the accommodation of strangers and travellers. I
C. A. Newingliam, James Bricker, Elias Bar-'
tle, J. S. Stewart, Edmund Snare, William A.
Saxton, John Flenner John Simpson, T. K.
Simonton, M. F. Campbell, Jacob Snyder, Geo-
Gwin.
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of
Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the county of
Huntingdon.
_ _
The ''petition of Samuel Steffy respectfully
sheweth : That your petitioner now occupies the
house heretofore kept as a public house of enter-
Comment, situated on the road leading from Pine
grove to Lewistown, in the township of Jackson,
that he is vi ell provided with stabling for horses,
and all conveniences necessary for the entertain
ment of strangers and travellers; he therefore re
spectfully prays the Court to grant him a license
to keep an Inn or public house of entertainment
there, and your petitioner will pray, &c,
March '52. SAMUEL STEFFY.
We the undersigned. citizens of Jackson town
ship, being personally acquainted with Samuel
Steffy, the above named petitioner, and also hav
ing a knowledge of the house fur which the license
is prayed, do hereby certify that such a house is
necessary to accommodate the public and enter
tain strangers and travellers, and that lie is a per
son of good repute for honesty and temperance,
that he is well provided with house room for the
lodging and accommodation or strangers and
travellers. We therefore beg leave to recom
mend him for a license agreeably to his petition.
Elias Musser, Solomon Ruttier, Henry Wal
born, James Fleming, George Steliby, Samuel
Rudy, David Little, Wm. Mears, Wm. Walborn,
Robert Barr, George Wilson, John Stem.
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of
Quarter Sessions of Huntingdon county.
The petition of Patrick M'Ateer, respectfully
sheweth : That he is desirous of keeping. -Inn
or tavern in the house formerly kept by Michael
Sissler, situated near the Canal, in the borough
of Alexandria, and that it is well provided with
stabling for horses, and all conveniences necessa
ry to entertain strangers and travellers. He there
fore prays the Court to grant him a license to keep
an Inn or public house of entertainment there,
and he will pray, &c.
March 11, 'au. P. M'ATEER.
, . - ...... .
We the undersigned, citizenS of Alexandria,
being personally acquaintct I with Patrick MeA
teer, the above named petitioner, and also having
a knowledge of the house fur which the license is
prayed, do certify; that such house is necessary
to accommodate the public and entertain stran
gers and travellers; that the petitioner is a person
of good repute for honesty and temperance, and
that he is well provided with house route and con
veniences fur the lodging and accommodation of
strangers and travellers. We therefore recom
mend him for license agreeably to his petition.
John Fleeting, John 'Gayhagen, Francis Con
ner, Alexander Stitt, Wm. Christy, Enoch Kline,
David Jones, Samuel Baker, George 11. Fleming,
John Piper, jr., Benjamin Cross, John Bisbin.
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court ofl
Quarter Sessions of the Peace in nod for the
county of Huntingdon.
The petition of Alexander Carmen, of the bo
rough and county of Huntingdon, respectfully re
presents : That your petitioner is well provided
with house room and other conveniences for the
accommodation of strangers and travellers, at his
old stand, in the borough of Huntingdon, where
he is desirous of continuing to keep an Inn or'
tavern, as heretofore. Ile therefore prays your
Honors to grant him a license to keep such Inn
or tavern for the accommodation of strangers and
travellers, and he will pray, &c.
March 11, '52.
A. CARMON.
„ ....
We the undersigned, citizens of the borough of
Huntingdon ' in which the above Inn or tavern is
ro
pposer! to be kept, do certify that such Inn or
tavern is necessary to accommodate the public
and entertain strangers .and travellers, and that
the said Alexander Carnmn, the above petitioner,
is a man of good repute for honesty and [wiper-
SUM, and is well provided with house room and
conveniences for the accommodation of strangers
and travellers.
John Albright, Reuben Romig, Wm. Rothrock,
R. Zeigler, John N. Trowel', C. S. Black,
Robert Stitt, Jacob Snyder, C. A. Newinghani,
John Flenner, T. R. Simonton, Geo. A. Steel.
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of
Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and for the
county of Huntingdon at April Term A. I)., t 852.
The petition of Wesley I'. Green of the bor
ough of Birmingham in the county of Hunting
don, respectfully represent: That he continues
to occupy that well known comodious Brick house,
situate on the corner of market and commerce
Streets in the borough aforesaid, as an Inn or
Tavern, that ho is well provided with all neces
sary accommodations for the entertainment of
strangers and travellers. Ile therefore prays
your Honors to grant hint a license for the contin
uance of said Inn or Tavern for the ensuing
year, and lie will ever pray &e.
March 11, 1852. W.l'. GREEN.
We the undersigned citizens of the borough of
Birmingham in the county of Hutitint, , don, do
hereby certify that the above named petitioner
Wesley P. Green is a person of good repute for
honesty and temperance, and is well provided
with all necessary house room and other conveni
cures for the uccommodation of strangers and
travellers, and that the Inn or Tavern proposed
to be kept is really necessary to accommodate the
public and entertain strangers and travellers.
John Baker, Henry Smith, A. P. Kinney,
John Buttonstene, RA - Alin Morrow, James Temple,
William Edmiston, A. I,'. Owens, Robert Mc-
Donnald, Thompson Mettlen, John D. Stewart,
J. B. Stewart, John Homan, J. H. McCracken.
HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1852.
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the
Court of Quarter Sessions of Huntingdon
county.
The petition of John Livingston respect
fully sheweth : That he intends to occupy,
and desires to keep as a public house, the
one now occupied by Christian Couts, in the
borough of Huntingdon. Ho therefore
prays the Court to grant him a license to
keep an Inn or tavern in the house afore
said, and he will pray, &,c.
JOHN LIVINGSTON.
March 11, 1852.
The undersigned, citizens of the borough
of Huntingdon, being personally acquaint
ed with John Livingston, the above peti
tioner, and also having a knowledge of the
house for which the license is prayed, do
hereby certify that such house is necessary
to accommodate the public and entertain
strangers and travellers, that he is a per
son of good repute for honesty and temper
ance, and that he is well provided with
house room and other conveniences for the
lodging and accommodation of strangers
and travellers.
Thomas Jackson. Louis Schneider, Jno.
D. Herr, Wm. B. Zeigler, Win. A. Saxton,
C. A. Newingham, Geo. A. Steel, T. K.
Simonton, A. Johnston, Frederick Schnei
der, C. S. Black, Geo. Gwin.
HUNTINGDON COUNTY, SS.
Tile Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, to the widow and heirs of Simon
Smalley late of Shirley township, Huntingdon
county, deed—Greeting;
On the petition of Peter Etneir, and Elizabeth
Etneir, formerly Elizabeth Smalley, a legatee an
tler the Will of Lewis Smalley, late of Shirley
township, dee'd, at an Orphan's Court of Hun
tingdon at November term 1851, a citation was
granted on the widow and legal representatives
of said dee'd, to conic into said Court, and show
cause why the real estate devised to the said Si
mon Smalley, dec'd, by the last will and testa
ment of Lewis Smalley, dee'd, should not be sold
for the payment of one third of the legacy, be
(mouthed to the Petitioner (Elizabeth Etneir) by
the last will and testament of Lewis Smalley,
dec'd, or why the payment of said legacy should
not lie enforced, and whereas the said citation was
returned to the present Term, by the Sheriff of •
said county, stating that the parties named in said
writ, was not in his bailiwick. Whereupon, on
motion of William I'. Orbison, Esq., the Court
awarded an alias citation, on the said parties, and
directed the same to be published in one paper
published in Huntingdon county. All persons
interested are • hereby notified to come into said
Court on Monday the 12th day of April next, and
• show cause if any you have, and atbida the order
and decree of said Court.
WM. B. ZEIGLER, Sheriff.
Slierifry Office,
Huntingdon, Feb. 26, 1852.
To the heirs and legal representatives of PHILIP
SHULTZ, late of the borough of Hun
tingdon, deceased.
In pursuance of a writ of Partition or valuation
issued out of the Orphan's Court of Huntingdon
county, I will kohl an inquest to make partition
or valuation of the real estate of which Philip
Shultz deed was seized, situate in Henderson
township, Huntingdon county, on the premises,
on Saturday the 27th day of March 1852, when
and where all persons interested may attend.
WM. B. ZEIGLII, Sheriff,
Sheriff's Office,
Huntingdon, Feb. 26, '52.-4t
C;0 CD
wAra:it.
For the Mau what struck Billy Pat-
terson.
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
The attention of the public generally is invited
to the flirt that
& W . , SAXTON
have just received one of the largest assortments
of Fall and Winter Goods ever brought to this
place; all of which they oiler at prices so greatly
reduced ns to make their store
HEAD QUARTERS FOR BARGAINS !
Their supply embraces all the usual variety of
Cloths, Cassimeres, Sattinets and Vesting;
Muslins, Prints, Flannels, &c. &c., to
gether with the latest styles of
LADIES' DRESS GOODS,
Consisting of Silks, Merinos, Par
metro Cloths, de Lanes, Ginghams, Ho
siery, &e•: and a very large assortment of
Ladies, .)IISSeS and Children's Shoes;
and also of MEN'S AND BOYS' BOOTS AND
SHOES of every description. They also invite
particular attention to their stock of
QUEENSWARE AND GLASSWARE,
And the best stock of HARDWARE in town.
They have also
FRESH GROCERIES,
of the very hest quality, which they will sell at
a very smell advance on cost. Call and exam
ine for yourselves. They have also a beautiful
article of
LEZczailso ci:l6 C.Marianzs e
Carpeting, and every other article usually kept in
country stores. Wire will receive and store
grain, and also pay the highest market prices for
it and it is admitted by all that we have the
most convenient place to unload grain in or about
town. Oct. 6, '5l.
OILS,GLUE, TURPENTINE, Sand, Paints,
Paint Brushes, Sand paper &c. & &c., at the
cheap, store of BRICKER & LENNEY.
BUTTER, Eggs, Rags, Lard, Clover Seed,
Grain, Potatoes, &c., &c., taken in exchange
for goods at market prices at the new store of
BRICKER & LENNEY.
For sale, or Rent.
The Farm, on which 1 at present reside .arlv
opposite the Borough of Huntingdon.
JOHN )10CAHAN.
0et..2,1851.—tf.
AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.
FEMALE INFLUENCE Fon THE " MAINE
LAW."
"Ho comes not. I have watched the moon go
down,
But he COMC6 not. Once it was no so.
He thinks not how the bitter tears flow
The while he holds his riot in that town,
Yet he will come and chide; and I shall weep,
And he shall wake my infant from its sleep
To blend its feeble wailing with my tears.
I had a husband once who loved me; now,
He ever wears a frown upon his brow;
But yet I cannot hate. 0 there were hours
When I would hang forever on his eyes;
And tune, who stole with silent swiftness by, .
Strewd, as he hurried en, his path with flowers.
I loved him then; be loved me too. My heart
*till finds its fondness kindled if he smile.
The mem'ries of our love will ne'er depart.
Though he should spurn me, I will calmly bear
His madness; and should sickness come and lay
Its paralysing hand upon him, then
I will with kindness all my wrongs repay
Until the penitent shall weep and say
How injured and how—faithful I have been."
WOMEN OF AMERICA!—Were this the
last hour in which this soliloquy of wo,
ten thousand times repeated by your suf
fering sex, should ever be uttered, and wo
man henceforth should never be dragged
by a drunken husband or son to the grave,
would you.not consider it one of the most
blessed hours on the dial of time; and
could you by any act of yours hasten it
onward, would you not be grateful to the
God of providence that he gave you the
heart and opportunity to do it?
WOMEN OF AMERICA?—The hour is
come when the hydra Intemperance may
be destroyed. The weapon is forged and
put into our hand; and heaven only waits
for man to strike the blow, to write upon
its eternal scroll—lt is finished. The
Maine law is that weapon.' You have
heard of its provisions. The sound of its
operation has reached your ears and glad
dened your hearts. Now, in that noble
State, no woman need fear that her hus
band will become a drunkard, or that the
son of her love will be scathed with that
which is worse than the lightning's stroke.
Hundreds of wives had their intemperate,
abusive, cruel husbands handed over to
thorn sober because of the law, and their
homes are happy. Thousands of children
on her broad domains, in all her schools
and at the fireside of parents, will not now
as in time past be tempted with the drunk
ard's drink or caught in the vender's snare.
Poorhouses and jails, those creations only
for the outcast, the houseless and the vile,
are scarcely needed. The Sabbath is deliv
ered from its worst desecration, and a gos
pel of the grace of God may have free
courand be glorified.
WOMEN OF AMERICA.—Is this nothing
to you? Who have been the torn, bleed
ing, scathed sufferers of Intemperancel—
Whose heartstring have been broken by
this loathsome vine? Who has been rob
bed of beauty, comfort, friends, home, rea
son, life? Do not answers conic from ev
ery hill and valley,—WostEN. "The
tears she has shed would make a river;
the groans she has uttered, collected and
concentrated, would be louder than the
earthquake." But what, it will be asked
can wo do to secure the Maine law?—
Much, every way; in your own houses, in
the fashionable circle, among all minds,
whore, by your indignant frown on vice and
approbation of virtue, you can bear sway.
As you have helped on the terrific evil,
enticed the young to drink of the cup, and
sustained customs and fashions have drag
ged thousands to perdition, so now bring
all your fascination and energy to break
the chain and save a world.
1. So far as you can affect it, let the
Maine law be the law of your house.--
That law treats spirituous and intoxica
ting liquor as vile and worthless, danger
ous and deadly in all its tendencies, and
where it is exposed for sale to be drank as
a beverage, devotes it to destruction. If
the women of the Revolution did not so
look upon tea, still they considered tea the
instrument of tyranny, and its entire ban
ishment was the law of the house. Noble
Women! flow did they come to the res
cue of their country! "Where aro their
daughters! As you claim their character,
banish these vile drinks, these lire-waters
of the pit, from your dwellings; pour them
out upon the ground that the earth may
swallow them up and no more be slain.
2. Let the Maine law be the law of your
social parties. Can a woman in Maine,
who has the least spark of patriotism in
her bosom, display that in her social par
ties, whose sale, by the Law of her State,
is crime! can any be found breasting every
influence to deliver community from untold
poverty, degradation, theft murder, and
every iniquity? surely not. But if not
there, how can they be elsewhere? The
same principal calls you to the seine deci
ded stand wherever you are, iu what eon
ditiou so over placed.
8. Make the Maine law the law of your
holidays and annual festivities. These
festivities and seasons of relaxation and in
tercommunication, have been the occasion
(
I'l rft
wow
lof untold amount of intemperance and
wo. "Ah" many a lost young man ex
claimed, "At that New-Year'S call I took
my first glass; by those numerous drinks
I first became intoxicated; there I first
lost my character and laughed at hell;
from thence ' , rushed onward and down
ward, and there was no redemption. How
shall woman atone for the past, but by es
tablishing a Maine law in all these seasons
of peril? She can do it. She has done
it; and gained honor in the breach of fash
ion. Women of America! here is a pre
cious opportunity to throw your influ
ence into the scale of Humanity, patriot
ism and religion. Improve it; and let
each succeeding year, as it commences,
testify to the power of your self-denial and
the virtue of your principles.
4. Make the Maine law the subject of
thought, of reflection and conversation.—
Roll it over in your mind; see wha,t, it
has done for Maine; what it will yet do;
what it would do for other States; what,
for women; from what poverty and deg
radation it would save thousands on thou
sands; and as you muse in your hearts and
the fire burns, speak out freely and boldly
to all around you, and say, We must have
such a law. Talk of it in the house and
on the way; when you go out and when
you go in; when you lie down and when
you rise up. Let no tongue be silent un
till it is the law of every State, and its
I broad shield is spread for the protection of I
1 every -child, in this our fair inheritance.
5. Make the Maine law the constant
subject of petition and prayers. If you
cannot make laws, you can ask them of
those who are bound to give them. If you
cannot protect yourselves and your chil
dren from men-stealers, from murderers.of
fathers and murderers of mothers, you can
demand protection of those who have pow
er to bestow it. Pour in petitions, then,
upon your Legislature by thousands and
tens of thousands for a MAINE law. Do
it now, in all your towns and cities and
villages, and if you fail here and the rum
sellers taunt an scoff, as they will, go up
higher, for "he that is higher than the high
est regardeth, and there be higher than
they.' Long has it been the prayer of
thousands of suffering women, that every
drop of liquor might he poured upon the
ground and every distillery and dram shop
might be exterminated from the land.—
These cries have entered into the cars of
the Lord of Sabbath. The Avenger has
come. He has begun his work in Maine,
and he will roll it onward and upward;
and while the cry of the suffering goes up
to his throne, no enemy shall hinder. A
rumor reached the wilds of Maine that the
life of Neal Dow, the favoured instrument
in making this law, was in danger from its
foes. It drove a poor woman, whose in
temperate husband had become sober and
a blessing under the law, to her knees:—
She prayed that not a hair of his head
might be injured. It was enough.
WOMEN OF AMERICA! A license law,
worse than the law of Haman, has consign
ed your people to destruction. Thirty
thousand are its annual Alain. Who can
tell but you are raised up for such a thee as
this? Go to the king. Go, and pray that
governmental patronage no longer be ex
tended to the monster evil; that the Maine
law be everywhere established, and the
great dragon be bound a thousand years.
Pray now and petition now, and demand
now, that no hapless sister shall say twen
ty years hence, when a better generation
shall rise and do your work: "Oh ! had
this been done twenty years ago, and the
liquor destroyed, my husband would not
have died a drunkard and I and my little
ones would not have been the tenants of
an Almshouse. WoMEN Or AMERICA,
WILL YOU DO YOUR DUTY?
Large Farms.
The Cincinnati Gazette states that J.
Davis ' of Ross county Ohio, cultivates
1,800 acres of Indian corn and that ho
has, this winter; 'a corn-crib filled, which
is three miles long, ten feet high, and six
feet wide.' H. L. Ellsworth of In., cul
tivates 12,000 acres in corn, which would
require a crib twenty miles long, six feet
is width; and ten feet in height. llejs de
sirous of selling thirty small farm ot 1,000
acres each. So says the Lafayette (la.)
J ournal.
The people ofthis country pay enor
mous sums of money for the foreign made
silks which they wear. It is stated in
Hunt's Merchant's Magazine for February,
that the amount of silts passed iu con
sumption at the port of New York alone,
for the twelve months ending December
last, was $23,486,456. 'What the amounts
may have been at other ports we can only
conjecture, as no returns have been pub
lished. We will assume them to be $3,-
000,000; and thit gives us the enormous
amount of $26,40 456 for one year's cost
of foreign silks.
V' Why are the young ladies of this
plane like a bonnet half trimmed l Be
cause, they are is want of the beaux.
NUI\IBER 12.
AN IRISH LETTER.
Copy of a letter written during the re=
hellion, by Sir Patrick - ,an Irish
member of Parliament to his friend in Lon:
don :
"MY DEAR Situ—Having now a little
peace and quietnessi I sit down to inform
you of the dreadful bustle and confusion
we are in from these blood-thirsty rebels,
most of whom are (thank God) killed and
dispersed.
We are in a pretty muss--can get nothing
to eat, nor wine to drink, except whiskey;
and when we sit down to, dinner we keen
both hands armed. While I write this,
I hold a sword in eaoh hand, and a pistol .
in the other. I concluded front the be
ginning that this would be the end of it,
and I see I was right, for it is not half over
yet.
At present there are such goings on that
everything is at a stand still.
I should have answered your letter a!
fortnight ago, but I did not receive it till,
this morning. Indeed l scarcely a mall
arrives safe without being robbed.
No longer ago than yesterday, the coach:
with the mails from Dublin was robbed
near this town—the bags had judiciously
been left behind for fear of accident, and
by good luck there was nothing in it but
two outside passengers, who had nothing
for the thieves to take.
Last Thursday, notice was given that a
gang of rebels were advancing under the
French standard, but they had no colors, nor
any drums, except bagpipes. Immediately
every man in the place, including women
and children ran out to meet them. We
soon found our force much too little;
and we were far too near to think of re ,
treating. Death was in every face; but at
it they went, and by the time that half
of our little party were killed Vre
began to be alive again. Fortunately the
rebels bad no guns except pistols, cutlass
es and pikes, and as we had plenty of guns
and ammunition we put them all to the
sword. Not a soul of them escaped, ex
cept some of them who were drowned in
an adjacent bog; and in a very short time
nothing was to be heard but silence. •..
uniforms were different colors, but
all green.
.Ater the action we went to rummaging
a sort of camp which they left behind'
them. All we found was a few pikes,
without heads, a parcel of empty bottles
full of water, and a bundle of French
commissions filled up with Irish names.
Troops are stationed all round the conic.'
try which exactly squares with my ideas.
I have only time to add that I am in
great haste.
Yours truly,
PATRICK
P. S. If you do not receive this, of
course it must have been miscarried; there
fore, I beg you will write and let me'
know."
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HOW A COAT WAS IDENTIFIED.,
In a Justice's Court, in this city, a,
case was recently decided in a most novel:
way. A coat was in dispute, and the evi-
dense was directed and positive for both'
claimants: the parties were Irish, and full
of grit, "ready to spend all they had rath
er than give up the beat."
The affair had been carefully examined
and the Court was "in a quandary," not
knowing who had the best claim on. -the'
garment. However, a moment before His
Honor was to sum up the evidence, Pat
rick Power, one of the claimants, made the
following proposition for settling . the affair.
Said Patrick:—
"Timothy Maguire, now yo say that
coat belongs to yersilf intirely; I .say it is
me own. Now mind ye, Timothy, thel)oth
iv us will take the coat an' look it all over
and the man that !finds his name on it
shall be the owner."
"Done," said Timothy.
"An," ye'll stick to the bargain?" said
Patrick.
"To be sure,"
" answered Timothy, and
"Yes" rejoined counsel en both sides.
"Thin Look at it," said Patrick, as he
passed the coat into the hands of Timothy,
who vainly searched every part of it for
his name, and passed it back to Patrick, •
boastingly saying, "An' now let us say if
ye can be findin' the likes iv yer own name
upon the garment."
"Yell stick to the , greement,"' said
Patrick, eagerly grasping the coat:
"Upon . the honor iv a man," replied
Timothy.
"Thin howld on a bit," said Patriek, as
he drew his knife and opened a corner in
the collar of his coat, taking therefrom twd
very small peas,
exclaiming as he held them •
out in his hand:
"There d'ye bee that!"
"Yes; but what iv that," said Timothy.
"A divil a dale it has do to wit it—it is
me name to be sure— , -pa for Patrick and
pa for POwere r lseJabers?"
He got the coat—he did.—Bost. Bee.
IC?" If a fat hog comes to five dollars,
what will a lean one come tol Analytic
—To a bucket of slop.