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NEW & CHEAP GOODS
5.1.17,7 EL Dr:TAME le 0I r,
- ITN FORMS his Friends and the Public,
that he has commenced business a! the
old stand of Al tu.nrt & %V rruunow, and has
just returned from the city with
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
tit)01)S 1
SUITABLE FOR THE SEASON,
CONSISTING OF EVERY VARIETY OF
.Dry foods, Groceries, Hard
wart, Qiieensicare, A•c. sVc.
ALL of which lie is determined to sell cheap
col CASH or Country Produce.
April 4, 18:3G
New Goods!
GEORGE ARNOLD
EAAS just received, and now oili!rs for
Sale, on the most pleasing terms,
AS LARGE A STOCK OF
GOODS
as has ever been uflrred to the Public in this place
CONSISTING 01.
Dry Goods, Groceries, hard
ware, Edge Tools, Queens
ware9 Nap. Iron, Riot
low-ware,- !rood
. ware, oee. IPc.
WITH ALMOST EVERY. ARTICLE IN HIS LINE OF
BUSINESS.
The public are invited to call and ex
amino--and hawing a LARGE STOCK or
V KNCY G 0011210%,
Ladies, particularly, are invited to call.
April 11, 1836. 3t-2
P. S. All accounts of an old standing
would be thankfully received, as 1 am in
want of money. G.. A.
BOOTS Elic SHOES.
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Mita 411gOd
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A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
ROOTS
AN D pew
SHOES
Just received and for sale by
J. GILBERT, Gettysburg.
1:k:7 - Having made arrangements at home
for that purpose, BOOTS and SHOES
can be made to order in a workmanlike
manner and at the shortest notice.
April 4,1836.
Notice.
T HE subscribers having been appointed
by DAVID ECKER his Trustees,
under a voluntary assignment fbr the bene.
fit of his Creditors, hereby give notice to
all persons indebted to his Estate, to call
and make payment, and all persons having
claims, to present them properly authenti
cated for settlement on or before the Ist
day of July next, to SAMUEL S. Fon:it:lt, in
the Borough of Gettysburg.
The HOUSE and FRONT SHOP, to
gether with the GARDEN, will be rented
for a time, on reasonable terms.
SAMUEL S. FORNEY,
JOSEPH L ATSH AW, Trustees.
April 11, 1836.
Take, Notite ereilitows,
THAT we, the undersigned, Trustees of,
JOHN FICKES, an habitual drunkard, of
Huntington township, Adams County, have
appointed to meet said Fickes' Creditors on
Baturday the 7th day of May next, in the
afternoon, at the house of Moses Myers, in
Petersburg, York Springs, for the purpose
of distributing the moneys remaining in Our
hands of said Fiekes's Estate among his
Creditors in proportion to their demands.
Witness our hands, this fourth day of April,
]836.
JOHN WOLFORD, T rustees.
HARMAN WIERMAN,
• April 11, 1836. '
HORSE-POtrinna.
T IIIS Powder is celebrated for improv
ing the wind, strength and appetite of
horses; it *p,tves them a tine smooth glossy
skin, and greatly improves the appearance
of the animal. It operates by purifying the
blood, strengthenin g the stomach, and invig
orating the Miele system. It' seldom fails
to cure the following diseases, viz:—Distem
per, Yellow Water, Founder, 4-c.
Poi sale at the Drug Store of
Dr. J. GILBERT.
Gettysburg, Feb. 29, 1830. tf-4.9
TILE GARLAND.
----"With sweetest flowers cnrich'd,
From various zanlens cull'd with care."
THE SONG OF THE FORGE.
CLANG, clang—the massive anvils ring;
Clang, clang—a hundred hammers swing;
Like the thunder rattle,of a tropic sky,
The mighty blows still multiply,
Clang, clang.
Say, brothers of the dusky brow,
What are your strong, arms forging, now?
Clang, clan:—we forge the coulter now,
The coulter of the kindly plough:
Sweet Mary Mother, bless our toil,
May its broad furrow still unbind
To genial rains, to sun and wind
The most benignant soil.
Clang, clang, our coulter's course shall be
On many a sweet and sheltered lea,
Be many a streandet's silver tide,
Amidst the song of morning birds,
Amidst the low of sauntering herds,
Amidst soft breezes which do stray
Through woodbine hedges and sweet May,
Along the green bill's side.
When regal Autumn's bounteous hand
With wide spread glory clothes the land,
When to the valleys from the brow
Of each resplendent slope is roused
A ruddy sea of living gold,
We bless, we bless the PLOUGH.
Clang, clang—again, my mates, what glows
Beneath the hammer's potent blows?
Clang, clang—we forge the giant chain
Which bears the gallant vessel's strain
Midst stormy winds and adverse tides:
Secured by this, the good ship braves
The rocky roadstead, and the Ware
~Ybieh thunder on her sides.
Anxious no more, the merchant sees
The mist drive dark before the breeze,
The storm cloud on the hill;
Calmly he rests, though far away,
In boisterous climes has vessels lay,
Reliant on our skill.
Say, on what sands these links shall sleep,
Fathoms beneath the solemn deep:
By Afric's pestilential shore,
By many an iceberg,, lone and boar,
By many a palmy Western
Basking in Spring's perpetual smile,
By stormy Labrador.
Say, shall they feel the vessel reel,
When to the battery's dreadful peal
The crashing broadside makes reply,
Or else, as at the glorious Nile,
Hold grappling ships, and strive the while
For death or victory !
Hurrah—clang, clar , —once more what glows,
Dark brothers of the ' forge. beneath
The iron tempest of your blows,
The furnace's red breath?
Clang, clang—a burning shower clear
And brilliant of bright sparks is poured
Around and up in the dusty air,
As our hammers forge the SWORD.
The sword' a name of dread, vet when
Upon the freeman's thigh.'tis bound,
While for the altar and his hearth,
While for the laud that gave him birth.
Th.., war drums roll, the trumpets sound,
How sacred is it then
Wheneveifor the truth and right,
It flashes in the van of fight;
Whether in some wild monntain pass,
As that where fell Leonidas,
Or on sonic sterile plain and stem,
A Marston or a Bannockburn;
Or amidst crags or bursting rils,
The Switzer's Alps , gray "ryreir's
hißs-
Or, as when sunk die Armada's pride,
It gleams above the stormy tide;
Still, still, where'er the battle-word
Is Liberty, where men do stand
Forjustice and their native land,
Then Heaven bless the SWORD!
THE REPOSITORY.
The Heiress ilw Pretty
"By-the.bye, Fred., aro you a marrying man?"
said Charles Russell to his baChelor friend, Fre
derick Somerville, as they discussed a cool bot
tle together at the Star and Garter, at Richmond.
"By-the.bye, Fred., are von a marrying man?"
"My dear Charles, with a patrimony of one
hundred a year, and an allowance from my aunt
of a second, for gloves and shoe-strings, how can
I entertain such an idea? But why do you ask?"
"Because I have just heard a strange whim
which my cousin Ellen has taken into her head;
and, 'pun my soul, if she perseveres in it, I should
like some good fellow like yourself, who will take
care of her and her couple of thousands a.year, to
ho the eccentric partner."
F:ed's curiosity was now raised. He entreated
to be made acquainted with this strange whim:
and a fresh bottle having been placed before the
friends, it was not long before the generous oper
ation of the wine, and our friend Fred's inquiries,
prevented Russell from burthening himself any
longer with the secret.
And the secret was this:—Ellen Cameron, a
high-spirited and self-willed girl of two-and-twen.
ty years of age, and an unincumbered income of
as ninny hundreds, having been disgusted at the
treatment which a fair relative had received from
one whom, atter an attachment of some years,sho
had made her husband, vowed that, if over she
married, it shouli be to a man to whom she should
be introduced, for the first time at the altar where
she was to become his bride.
It was a strange idea, doubtless: but young
girls, who are mistresses both of themselves and
their fortunes, are apt to have strange notions.—
Ellen was ono of these. With a good heart, an
excellent understanding, and a cultivated, taste,
she had just so much of oddity in her disposition
us prompted her to make, and enabled her to per
severe in, this extraordinary determination.
The strangeness of the notion seemed to pos
iiesq charms for the somewhat romantic intnd of
Somerville, who, having inquired as narrowly into
the state of the case, as Russell's relationship to
the lady would admit, expressed himself willing,
could she be prevailed on to accept liitn,to undergo
the ceremonies of introduction and marriage at
t Io 1181110 womeut.
'•llut tell me, my dear Russell, do you know
any thing objectionable in her woofer or disposi
tion?"
"Nothing, upon coy word, Fred. No woman is
perfect; and Ellen has her failings: but despite
certain eccentricities and peculiarities, I do be.
lieve you would live very happily together."
"But, my dear Russell, I always vowed I never
would marry even an angel, if she exhibited a
superabundance of fool and ankle. , Tell me; has
my fair incognita a pretty foot?"
"On my word, she has—there is not the fellow
toil, I can assure you. • But I toll you what, al
though it is almost unfair to Ellen, yet I will let
you into a secret. she will be at the Opera tamor
row night—.you may get a peep at Ler there."
E 7 P.OBE.T.T WHITE MIDDLETON, EDITOR, 1 3 I7E,L1SIIER AND PROPRIETOR.
"I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION."-SHAR3
Fool.
6..wwwl.razavPmeh XeVArailUt o atizemaz 95 0 a
Full particulars of what box she was to occupy,
together with other means of identifying learovere
asked and given.
The following night saw Fred. at the Opera,
before Spagnoletti's magic tap had Riven the eig•
nal for the commencement of the overture. His
eyes wore instantly turned upon the box that was
destined to contain the object of his search; but
that, ofcourse, was empty. During the wholo of
the first act of the Opera, his attention was rivet.
ted to that spot, hut not a soul broke in upon its
solitude
During the divertissement, which followed, and
exhibited attractions so powerful as to seduce the
eyes of our hero from the object on which they
had so long been fixed, the box was filled; and
when Fred. turned his eyes again in t h at direction
he felt convinced that the most prominent person.
age which it contained was the eccentric Ellen!
His glass was now directed fbr some moment
ous minutes to the box; and when ho removed it
to return the salutation of his friend Russell, who
now approached him, he was muttering to himself,
"By heavens! she is certainly a fine girl!" Nor'
did he exhibit any selfishness with regard to this
feeling: he never attempted to keep it to himself,
tint instantly confessed as much to Russell.
"She is certainly a very fine girl. Can't you
introduce me to your cousin, My dear friend?"
"Then the two thousand a-year hare no charms
for you, Fred.," wan the reply.
"Faith! but they have though, and so has your
cousin; therebrre, the sooner you soy a good word
for inc the hotter.''
Whether or not Charles, who adjourned to his
cousin's, introduced the suhject of his friend's
admiration of her that evening, we cannot take
upon ourselves to assert; but certain it is, that
Ellen's Opera glass was, for the remainder of the
night, touch more frequently directed to the part
of the plt which was occupied by her aspirant,
than to any other.
The subject was introduced, however, at some
period, and, after sundry blushings and hosita.
lions, Russell's wooing, in his friend's name, sped
favorably; and six weeks after the eventful dinner
at Richmond, saw, a travelling chariot, with four
of Newman's quickest, draw up at St. George's
Hanover Square, and deposit at the snug and sly
vestry-door, the bridegroom expectant of Ellen
Cameron and her twenty-two hundred pounds per
Hero he was met by, his friend Russell, whose
obvious confusion and anxiety could not escape
the notice of Fred. Somerville. He was about to
inquire into Cho cause which produced this effect,
when ho was preventettliv the arrival of the bride.
He would Imo flown to assist her from her car
riage; but Russell seized him, and, motioning him
to withdraw, succeeded in leading him into the
body of the church:—not, however, before ho had
discovered that his intended had a very pretty foot,
which was certainly without its fellow—for he
saw she had but one:
He was at first bitterly enraged at the &cep•
tion which had been practised upon him; but Rus
sell soon calmed his irritation by a very satisfac
tory explanation of his conduct.
Well assured of Fred's worth, and his cousin's
amiability, he had felt convinced in his own mind
that their union would prove a happy one; but the
circumstance of Ellen having unfortunately been
deprived of one ()flier legs, lie feared, would pro.
jisdice Fred. against her. His anxiety for the
happiness of both parties had tempted him, there
fore, to conceal this fact—for, knowing as ho did,
Fred's devotion to a pretty foot, he feared least
this enthusiastic admiration of the extreme of
feminine beauty should lose him an amiable and
wealthy woman, had ho been told at once, that,
although she had a singularly pretty foot, she had
but one
That this explanation was satisfactory, we have
asserted already; and it was made evident by the
fact of the worthy clergyman being called upon
immediately to perform the matrimonial service,
to say nothing of the worthy clerk receiving triple
fees upon the occasion.
The marriage created a good deal of attention
at the time, and many ill.iiatured jokes were cut
upon the parties; but they heeded them not, and
have been rewarded for it by a succession of rnanV
happy years. One of these malicious witticisms
only will we record.
"So, Fred. Somerville has married a woman of
property, I hear—old, of courso"—said a young
guardsman at Brooks's.
..Not exactly old," was the answer, from a
quondam rival of Fred's—"not exactly old, but
with one foot in the grave."
BREVITY.
A wine merchant (says the New York Mirror) re
ceived the following note the day after the great fire:
"My Dear L—. I am sorry to tell you that your
store was last night burned to the ground, and your
Wine is all gone to the Devil! Yours truly, M.
lie replied as follows:
'•Lear M—. I am glad my wine has gone where
my frieuds will be the most likey to drink it.
"Yours truly, L."
.11USI1ANDR Y.
Why should all girls, a wit exclaimed,
Surprising farmers be?
Because they're always studying
The art ofhus/and•ry.
NFLUENCE or WOMEN.—Do Women of-
ten seriously reflect that they influence the
destinies of the whole world for good or for
Evil? That their teachings arc heard in the
heart when men have grown into old age,
'and when their characters, are fixed immu
tably? The earlier lessons of childhood ate
neverforgotten, and they mingle intimately
with the whole texture of the man's later
Impressions, and are a light to his feet to
guide him in the true way, or are as a lamp
.upon a stot my - shore to lead him to destruc
tion.
TEMPERANCE APDRESS.
EXTRACTS
Front an ADDRESS delivered before the
“Apprenticest Temperance Society,ii of
Gettysburg, on the oth of April, 1830,
Illy Ellitit Samuel Riley.
PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THE SOCIETY.)
My RESPECTF.D HEARER/3:-.
I have come hero this 'Evening to address you,
through the kindness of the Committee who have
chosen me as their speaker; and to them I return
my sincere thanks of gratitude for the honor and
hind partiality which they have conferred upon
me, although knowing it to ho an arduous task for
one so young as myself to perform; but under the
conviction that I will bo excused wherein I am
dificient, I bog leave to call your attention to a
few remarks.
Apprentices, a noble cause like that of Tem.
perance, you should advocate; for assuredly your
mechanical business, your future happiness, your
Creator's language and your country call you
to the battlefield, to fight the malignant enemy
whose actions tend to overthrow our free institu
tions and trample down the liberties which were
purchased by the blood of our forefathers, in order
that succeeding generations may enjoy freedom
of thought and action; that they may live in a land
of liberty, of equal rights and equal privileges to.
all von.
And why, young Americans, should you Imi
tate a mownt in assisting, by your example, to
free your country from such an atrocious and per
nicious evil as that of Intemperance? for Its
very foundation is connected With ruin and infa
my! Free your country from this great evil, and
then much property and many lives will be saved
from this dreadful assassin, whose aim is sure,
whose blow is doath, and whoso Intention is do
struction! Yes, accomplish this, and then we may
exclaim wo'are truly u freo people.
a * a x • •
Sirs, you mug know that temperance can in no
manner be useless or unnocossary. It truly ren
ders people happy in themselves and useful to their
fellow-crentures. It gives them peace and happi
ness, and pleasantly shown them the path which
loads to"honor & renown." And if we view intem
perance wherever it exists,oo will lind it to be tho
reverse; we will find those who aro subject to drunk.
ennoss,committing crimes oftho blackestdyo! For
bid it Heaven, that it shall exist any longer in Co.
Itimbia's dour and happy land. And will you not
turn your back to this unholy and unsanctified
cause, and enlist under the sacred and .brilliant
•
banner atomperanco? Or are you like the drunk.
ard lost to all shame and the dictates of reason?
The cause of temperance is spreading far and
wide, and my fervent wish is, that it may soon, if
it has not.yet, cross the long and wide sea and ex
tend its influence to Ireland,Gormany &other for
eign places which aro subject to wretched drunk
enness, and the deserts of Arabia, for it has al.
ready taken a permanent stand in - the wilds of
America. * • * a a e
Ardent Spirits, It must be confessed, have peo
pled our jails and penitentiaries with thieves and
murderers; it has filled our poorhouses %Atli poor
and destitute paupers; it hue laid an enormous tax
upon the people; it has destroyed the tranquillity
of many families; it has thrown upon the cold
charity of the world thousands of helpless and in.
nocent Orphans! And has It not boon intemper.
once that has caused those disgraceful riots in our
large cities that have violated the laws of God
and man, that have so often ovorrulod peace and
ustice and threatened the destruction of our lib.
ortios? Yes, those havo boon the very palpable re.
sults of the progress of intemperance; and it is but
natural and proper fur you who have been burp
in a land of liberty and nurtured in the cradle of
freedom, to help to demolish that ignominious and
detrunontal or imeofintemporance! And, Appren
tices, are you so destitute of principle and honor,
and so prejudiced against the causo of temper.
ance, that you will suffer peace, honesty, civiliza
tion and freedom to be crushed into oblivion, and
our National honor forever blasted, rather than
lend us your support? Ald I trust that time and
wisdom will teach you otherwise, and that uniting
in a good cause is the "bettbr policy." And I on.
treat you, one and all, for you aro nut too young
to discern tho danger in which you stand, of be.
coining at some future day, a habitual, despised
and degraded drunkard! to come forth, face and
fight the dangerous fun, at the hazard ofyour Jives
—for he that will fight for the prosperity and wel
fare of himself and his 'Country, is neither a fool
nor dastard: and certainly your country's good,and
your country's honor, bid you aid in the cause
of Temperance!
• • • • * •
I would be presuming largely upon your ignor
ance were Ito go into a full detail of all the evil arts
ing from the use of ardent spirits,to convince you
who aro net already convinced oftho necessity of
temperance. If,sirs,experionco has not taught you
that ardent spirits brutalizes man, then I would
ask if you have not seen a dear relative fall a vie
tim to intemperance and thrown upon the world
a wretched being? Ah! have not some of you who
are under the sound of my voice, seen a father
who was once wealthy, and by the use of ardent
spirits, cast into the vales of poverty—yes penny
less? nark! methinks I hear some one say "they
&met" Then, sirs, are you wilting to walk in the
dishonorable and polluted path of your father?—
Did You admire his practice and state of humilia
tion, when you saw him staggering from tavern
to tavern, and using the most prelim° language
any human being could over conceive? Sirs, you
have oflon witnessed the effects of ardent spirits
in your own town; ynu have frequently, yes
daily, seen, the habitual drunkard staggering your
streets in his awful situation—and were you to
trace his character from early life, you -woukl
eventually find it to be true, that he was amoder•
ate drinker—but for all this ho was once a respec.
table citizon and 'a wealthy young man, but the
vito monster, Intemperance, at last caught him
with a powerful grasp and led him into the path
of mire and destruction, and he was compelled to
bid adieu to all kind friends and associates! And
now behold him: he is poor and wretched, he is
treated as a brute, ho is looked upon as a robber
and a murderer!
"When ho hinasolfmight all these ills forego
By drinking water."
And, sirs, behold what 'miserable men the use
of Ardent Spirits has made! See the drunkard
how weakened in intellect, mortised 'in temper,
lost to all pi inciplo and honor, and lost to all love
and fondness toward the wife aids bosom and the
children of his own body! And behold the drimk
ard's countenance, his blood-shotten eyes, and his
palsied hand! And behold his affectionate wife—
there she sits in the corner ofyonder house, cover.
od only with a thin and tattered robe, and shiver.
ing from coldness—see her dim eyes, the tears
trickling down her cheeks, with her wo.bo.gone
and pallid looks! Cast next a look on those poor
and suffering children—they receive nothing but
curses and blows from their worthless father, and
nit is hoard the cry,cnured by hunger & cold,but it
is not in the power of their innocent and disheart
ened mother to alleviate their sufferings! And,
alas! Intemperance has taken the onco gay and '
promising young man, the delight of the parent,
and turned him into a brute; the once highly re•
spectod by all acquaintances, "How fallen, how
lust!" Intemperance has and will still continue,
as long as it exists, to destroy the peaeo and hap.
pitiess of many families; and, in tho emphatic
language of the poet, we can ail— .
"And hoar, drown'd in tears, the dieconsolato
mother,
Lamenting their sad and unhappy condition
Can you, my follow•nppronticos, be F o regard
less of your own welfaro as to adopt such a course
of wretchedness and despair, as the drunkard
loads, and wring your aged parents' (if any you
huvo,) hearts with anguish, and precipitate their
grey hairs with sorrow to the grave? Oh! never
lot it be said of you, that you have with parricidal
Insensibility,
"Stoop'd a mother's couch in tears,
And ting'd a father's glowing cheek with shame
Members of the Society--A few words to you,
and I have done: For tho prosperity of this Socie
ty and the cause, you must act with moderation
and forbearance. In your •actions, you must be
temperate—for by foul, harsh and vicious actions,
a Society cannot prosper. Then members should
be moderate and also active, energetic and dill.
gout in this good and glorious cause. Yos, lot
"PERSEVEIIANCE" be your motto, and you shall be
successful; and finally you may have the honor to
say, and the pleasure to sea, that you have been in
strumonlal in banishing from your native country,
that dangerous and desolate evil, INTESIPERANCE.
VARIETY.
FROM THE ERIE GAZETTE
FRIENDSHIP'S TEAR. ,
The golden tints that skies may wear,
The roses blush, and all that's fair;
To sorrow's eye seem not an dear
As friendship's sympathising tear.
Auroras beam disPels the night
With clashes pure of rosy light,
But sorrows heart they cannot cheer
Like friendship's sympathising tear.
The glitering drops of dew that shine
In beauty on tho eglantine,
In sorrows view are not so clear
As friendship's sympathising tear.
The brilliant stars in yonder blue,
Shine with a lustre bright and true,
But there's one grin without compeer,
'Tis friendship's sympathising tear.
A young person once mentioned to Dr.
Franklin, his surprise, that the possession
of great riches should over be attended with
undue solicitude; and instanced a merchant,
who, altho' in unbounded wealth, was as
busy, and m uch more anxious than the most
assiduous clerk in his counting•house. The
Doctor in reply,.took an apple from the bas
ket, and presented it to a child in the room
who could scarcely grasp it in his hand.—
He then gave it
. a second which filled - the
other hand; and chewing a third, remarka
ble for its size and beauty, he presented that
also. The little fellow, after many vain at•
tempts to hold the three apples, dropped the
last on the floor did burst into tears. "See
there," said the Doctor, "is a little man, with
more riches in this world than he can en•
joy."
A NEW ARTICLE OT TRADE.---A trader in
this town advertises—" Gentleman's bn
sums." Jibe will sell Gereleman's hearts,
the ladies will patronize him. Perchance
the b isoms are false—hearts certainly are,
at least to say the women.
A noon SPECK.-A young lady in Lon-
don, who was handsome and had a fortune
of twelve thousand pounds, while she was
buying some other small things from a
young shop-keeper, with whom she had
some trifling acquaintance, took a piece of
Hander's lace, and, out of mere gaity and
frolic, went hastily out without paying hint
for it. The shopkeeper, who had a good
head for speculation, followed and siezed
her, and charged her with the theft; and in
a serious and peremptory manner, said to
her, "Miss, you may take your choice, eith
er to go with me before a magistrate and
stair the penalty of the law fitr stealing toy
lace, or go before a clergyman and marry
me." Alter a short pause, (and who couldblame her?) she chose the latter.
Ex • TnAer.When I pass by the
grog shop and hear the idle diTtite and the
obscene song—when I see the cart rolled
along filled with intoxicated youth, singing
and shouting as they go—when I discover
the boat sailing down the river, where you
can discover the influence of rum by the
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noise which it makes—l cannot help but
ask, were these people taught to read?--
C as there no social library to which they
could have access? Did they ever know the
satisfaction of taking an irfiproving volume
by a peaceful fireside? Or did they ever
taste the luxury of improving the mind—
You hardly ever knew a young man that
loved his home and his book, that was vi
cious. Knowledge is often the poor man's
Wealth. It is a treasure that no thief cart
steal, no moth nor rust can corrupt. By
this you turn his cottage to a palace . and
you give a treasure which is alwaysirnprov.
mg and never can be lost.
Tin. TEMPERANCE PLEDGE..- The fol
lowing is given in the American Temperance
Advocate as the pledge of the American and
New York State Temperance Societies:- .
"We, whose names are hereunto annexed,
believing that the use of intoxicating liquor,
as a beverage, is not only needless, but hurt.
ful to the social, civil, and religious interests
'of men; that it tends to form intemperate
appetite and habits, and that while it is con,
tinued, the evils of intemperatice can never
be done away;. do therefore agree, that we
will not use it or traffic in it; that we will
not provide it as an entertainment or for per
sons in our employment; and - that in all
suitable' ways, we will disfountenanCe thu
use of it throughout the community;"
A person enquired of Lycurgus, the- Spat
tan lawgiver, why he had, by law, -forbid
den women on their marriage, to have any
dowry; "that," said he, "none on account of
poverty may be left' unmarried, nor any
sought on accaunt of wealth: but that every
man rerrarding . the good accomplishments
of a lady, may make his selection only from
virtue."
BnuAKlrm VP House.KEF.rirla.--The
mania for boarding appears tb he gaining
strength in New York, as well; us amongst
us. In the former city Many wealthy faini
lies are hanging out the red flag, and selling
off their furniture; considering it less rxpen
sive and troublesome to board in these times.
The high price of kovisions of all kinds, \
will cause many to follow the same example.
The following, article is from the Demo,
cratic Herald, en Anti-Banic paper. Such al
morsel of candor, in the great waste ofanti.•
bank dishonesty, is truly refreshing. .The
whole paragraph is true to the letter;
"We are fully satisfied,that the opposition
to Banks, by the leading Democrats of this
section ofcountry,is all humhug'gery. They
care no more, in reality, for the recharter
of the Bank of the United Steles, than they
do for that oftho Girard Bank—or, rather,
in secret, they approve of both! Hence, the
total inefficiency of all opposition to Banks.
The Democratic party is rotten to the:ecirit,
and if they use the "Bribery. Bank," es•an
electioneering machine, it is only to gull tho
people, and get votes!!! We are sick of this
duplicity—and feel bound to expose a friud,
which ought to stamp any set of men who
use it, with merited opprobrium." • .
Horrid Murder and Arson. •
The New York papers of Monday a week
contain accounts of the perpetration of
voltmg murder in that city: The Jeki
of Commerce recites the circumstance"
follows:
A young woman, Ellen Jewett, boardinv l ,
with Mrs. Townsend, of. No.
street, (a house of ill fame) was Murdere':
in her bed yesterday morning. The Cir.
cumstance, ns we have heard theM, are as
follows:—Miss Jewett had been for some
time the kept mistress of Richard P. Robin':
son, clerk m a respectable mercantile house ,
in Maiden Lane, who it appears, from some
cause, became jealous, and demanded oilier
a miniature likeness of himself, which he
had pre'sented to her, and also some corres
pondence that had passed between them,
which she refused to give up. Nothing,
however, occurred to lead to a supposition
that any violence was intended.
On Saturday night Robinson visited the
house at the usual hur, and remained with
her until 3 o'clock on Sunday morning when
he was heard by those sleeping on the lower..
part Of the house to come down stairs, and
finding the front door locked, he culled out
to the family to let him out; he immediately
thereafter went to the back door, unlocked
tt, and in the act Mclimbing over the fence
his cloak Was caught by a nail torn from his
shoulders, and left on the fence, with a sharp
hatchet tied to its tassels where it was found ,
in the morning.
A short time after he left, the inmnies
were alarmed by a dense smoke which filled
the house, almost to Suffixation. On going
ue stairs, into the room of the unantunate
girl, the smoke was found to proceed froM
her bed, which was on fire, and on which
lay her dead body; her head mangled in a
shocking manner,three dery wounds having
been inflicted on 'her temple mid forehead.
Suspicion immediately rested . on Robin
son, who was arrested about eight o'clock,
at his boarding house in Dey street and con-,
ducted by the officers to Thomas stree
where the murder was committed,and wb,
the coroner's jury was sitting over the
body. The following is the verdict
coroner's jury.
"It is tho opinion of the Jury,
evidence More them, that the.
Jewett came to her death by a blow,
flicted on the head with a hatchet_
.Richard P. Robinson!!
RObinsop is a young man.
twenty yeara of ago, ofgoodseh
manner.—fialtimuira CA,
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