. _ ^ - 11, stsititt p. , _ lira* , " 4. R. S. P.IXTO.4* A* VOL. X.--NO. 30.1 ADVERTISENIENTS , ' VALUABLE MILL PROPERTY ,T 0 al OWIEd o THE Subscriber will offer at Public Sale, at the house of A. B. Kurt; in the borough of Gettysburg, on Tuesday the 24th of December next, at 1 o'clock, P. M. a Tract of Laud., • situate in Liberty township, Adams county, containing 201 Acres and 31 Perches, and allowance, adjoining lands , of Jacob Weldy and others. The improvements are : A LARGE . STONE 1111 LL •. !. With two water wheels and three pair of stones—the works in good repair ; Saw-Atill, recently repaired ; A. STONE 417:. DWELLING-HOUSE, noLLTI & STONE BARN. ..-ALSTI- Jl aIIOTIA TRaC lying about 3 miles from )lie above descri bed Tract, containing 13} Acres and AO Perches, adjoining lands of Roe'eFt Stem mons, Christian Friedt, and others'. , The Property will be sbowri to sioitrPer son desirous—eh purchasing, by Maj. J. E. IVILL, residing at the Mills. r:7•Torms of sale will bo—the one-half in hand On tho 1-st day,of April next, and \ the residue in two equal : annual payments, without interest—to be secured to the sat. iifection of the subscribers. J E . Z B R . A SI I3 ,p I iTE T R U s E, os, Agents for the Creditors of Alexander Mack. Nov. 18. is SNIZOIAZI COURT. Notice is hereby Given, 111100 all whom it may concern, that, in ilk' pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act for holding Special Courts of Common Pleas," passed the 15th day of March, 1818, and the supplements, A SPECIAL COURT of Common Pleas will be held at the Court house, in the borough of Gettysburg, in and, for the county of Adams, on Monday the .23d'day of December inst. (being the 4th Monday in said month,) at 10 o'clock, A. N. to try and determine all such matters as -shall properly be cognizable by the said Court. G. W.' MiCLELLAN, Sherif. Sheriff's Office, Gelorshirre.:,Pec.2,. 1839. 5 t • SAt'EgiFF ) S S•ILLES. -; IN pursuance of sundry Writs of Veditio 'AL ni Exponas, issueikout of the Court of "Common Pleas of Adams , county, and to me directed, will be exposed'to Public Sale, at the Court-house, in, the borough of Gettys burg, on Wednesday the 25th day of De. cember bust at 1 o'clock, r. A TRACT - OF LAND, situate in Hamiltonban township, Adams -county, Pa. adjoining lands of Wm. Doug lass, George Irvine, and others, containing 200 Acres, more or less, on which are erect. ed a two-story Stone Dwelling-house, le • a double Log Barn, and other Out ,buildings, with a spring of water near the -floor. Seized and taken in execution as the -Estate of HENRY SELL. Two lota of Ground, Situate in the town of Petersburg, Hunting lon towship, Adams county. Pa. adjoining 'iota of George Deardorff and the Ilanover oand Carlisle turnpike - road, bounded on the south-west by a 12 feet alley, containing ono-half Acre, more or less, on' which are e rected a one and a half-story Loo. Dwellinm-house, and. Log Stable. Seized and taken in execution ad the Estate of JOHN SPEAL NAN. G. W. M‘C.LELLAN, Sheri I: Sheriff's Office, Gettysburg, Dec. 2, 1830. t. NOTICE. LETTERS of Administration on the es• tate of Zachariah Lauderbach, late of Germany township, deceased, have is sued to the subscriber residing in Germany township : All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to said eStato aro requested to call and settle ; those having claims will present thorn duly authenticated for,settle• 'meat. DANIEL CRAUSE. Oct. 6. • 6w rzouaErs, PLOUGHS. AV I N G been appointed agent for l , selling VVitherata cg Peircf l B' C ClOidal !elf uharpening I A.IIIOO UGH'S 11r1Vcil . - With WROUGHT IRON: ould here invite the attention genetally to those newly invent- -ad ploughs, as being an improvement on -any Self-sharpening Plough that has yet •been offered to the public. On hand and for sale at the Mill of the subscriber in Germany township, and at his store in Gettysburg. GEORGE ARNOLD. 4t Oct. 5 aratitOrelgArgiah 01111 4 (y' 32)(lart aftURPIRIENParaaPe 47)13021X2.21110 9a9 atneo A DVE RTISE “The, Empire State,” ENZARCED JANUARY It. ]B4O. PROSPECTUS. DETERMINED to make adequate re. turns for the liberal and increasing en couragement given to this paper, which bears aloft the name, end defends the honor and interests of the EMPIRE STATE— the publishers propose, on the commence ment of the year 1840, to issue this paper in the folio form, on an enlarged sheet of the Mammoth Size, to exceed in size and style of execution, any wedkly newspaper publish ed in this city or country. The most am. ple arrangements are making to give to the paper all those attractions, as a well conduct ed Political, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, which the intelligence and good taste of the present age require. In its ar rangement and execution, and the amount of reading matter it will contain, as well as in its early and faithful record of News, for eign and domestic, local and general, the EMPIRE ST tiTE will be unequalled. It will remain staunch as it ever has been, in support of sound Democratic Whig Princi ples—an advocate of Public and Private Economy, Public and Private-Virtue, Equal Rights and Equal Laws. And in catering for the general reader, we shall spare no pains or expense to render the paper ettrac- . live, valuable and useful. The choicest se lections will 'be regularly made from the current Literature of the day, together with ample original contributions from the pens of able and practised writers. Terms of "The Empire State." ENLARGED SERIES. The paper will be published on a Mam moth folio sheet, on paper of superior quali ty and beautiful type. The price will be $2 50 per annum—in all cases in advance. No paper sent until the money is received ; and no subscriptions received for a less term than six months. Those who are now subscribers, or wish to avail themselves of the privileges of the present terms, may do so by enclosing $2 at any time prior to the Ist of January, 1840, and the paper will be sent for one year. After that date, the terms will inva• riably hi) 82 50 per annum, in advance. Business letters should be addressed to J. GREGG WILSON & CO, Publishers of the Empire State, 169 Nassau Street, N. Y.. , Dec. 14. at Gouley's Vegetable Medicines UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS! No medicine has, perhaps, ever met with such decided and general success as Gouley's Vegetable Bitters. THIS medicine has been but a 'few Tears before the public, and the demand for it has already become so great, that the sub scriber finds it difficult to supply the numer ous orders which bras constantly receiving- Innumerable Certifidates in his possession bear testimony to its, medicinal virtues and attest the fact of its having preserved the lives of hundreds both in this city and else where. His VEGETABLE COUGH 'DROPS, a new article, are also getting into general use, having Been productive of the most be neficial effects in hundreds of families of the first respectability in this city and vicinity and although they have in one instance, but without any toundation or truth, been pro nounced possonous, HUNDREDS of certificates can be produced of their having performed positive and effectual cures in the most-obsti nate cases, both on young and old, and he now challenges any one to produce satisfac tory evidence that there is one. particle of any ingredient in their composition that can injure a person in the lowest stage of any disease. Having admintstered.his medicines in al most all diseases to which the human fami ly are subjected, he never, in a single in. stance, found them to produce any injurious effects, but, on the contrary,they have been attended with the most complete success. N. 13.—As the Fever and . Ague is very prevalent at this season of the year, he can confidently recommend his VEGETABLE BITTERS as a CERTAIN cormand invites all who may be afflicted with this dreadful disease to make trial of them. The attention of Masters and Owners of Vessels is called to this medicine; it will be found of great benefit nmong their crews, and a sure preventative of many of the di seases to which the mariner is subject during long and tempestuous voyages. LOUIS GOULEY, No. 21,E Baltimore street, • near the Centre Market, • between Harrison and Frederick streets. Nov. 25. ly 14 Call &ui See 12 Latest Fashion of HATS & CAPS:it:l5la WAS. W. PAXTON', HAS now on band at his old stand, a new and excellent assortment of flats and Caps of the latebt PHILADELPHIA PAM lON. Cheap for cash or country produce. 21,1959. tf. "FEARLESS AND FREE." ADVERTISEMENTS. NEW ESTABLISHMENT. PACTORT. THE Subscribers begs leave, respectful ly to inform the citizens of Gettys burg, and surrounding COU:::4, that he has commenced, the above business, together with HOUSE PAINTING, AND TUR NING, &c. &c., in Cbamborsburg street, nearly opposite the Apothecary and Book store of Mr. 9 H. Buehler, where he will at all times be prepared to execute all orders in the above business with neatness and de spatch; he will also keep a supply ofChairs of every description constantly on hand, which for neatness and durability cannot be surpassed by any manufactured in this sec tion of country. He hopes by strict atter'. tied to business and a desire to please, to merif and receive a share of public patron- acre. ADAM KITZMILLER. Gettysburg, Aug,l3, 1839. 6m20. NI El Tr See 0% DH. SWOPE, returns his sincere • thanks to the citizens of Gettysburg, and the public generall3 , for the very liberal share of patronage received by him. De termined to merit a continuance of public favor by unremitting exertions to please— and a determination to keep constantly on hand A SUPERIOR. ASSORTMENT OF British, - French, and Do m.e,stic Yaucy and Sta vie Goods, at the !meat prices—he has the pleasure of announcing to the public, that he has just returned from the city, with an additional supply of New A' most desirable Goods, which with his present 'stock will now en able him to offer to those who may favor him with a call. A VERY SUPERIOR ASSORTMENT OF _SPRING & SUMMER GOODS, to all of which he most respectfully invites their attention. Gettysburg, June 18, 1639. tf-12 117177* 0001)5. JUST received and for sale at his old stand, a large stock of .7VE GOODS, among which is a great variety of cheap cloth, Coatings, Cassinetts, Merinnes; Calicoes, Silks, Domestic Goods—and a very groat vari ety of Fancy GOods—also, Hardware, f3toves, &c. &c. Call and see, the above goods will be sold at prices to sui the times, for Cash or pro: duce. GEO. ARNOLD. P. S. Old Metal, Copper and Brass, to ken in exchange for new Stoves or Goods. G. A. LOOK AT THIS: ITEW GOOFS. Thos. J. Cooper, IS just receiving, and offers to the public a large and splendid assortment ofgoods, suitable for the season, such as Cassimere and Cassinetts, Flan nels, Illireno Shawls, Calicoes, Muslin; Shoes, 4.c. Hardware, Queensware, Gro ceries, 85c. all of which will be sold at the most reduced prices,lor cash or produce: all that he wants is for them to call and be a judge for them selves. Lumber et all kinds taken in ex change fog goods. Oct. 21,1839: 3t. TEMPERANCE. THE Temperance society of Rock Creek will meet at Rock Creek Chapel on Christmas day. A. H. McCREARY, Secretary. Dec. 14. td. LAW NOTICE. - C. BAKER WILL practice Law in the several Courts of Adams county.--Office in Chamberoburg street, one door west of Mr. Buehler's Store. Gettysburg, April 30, 1830. IJ-5 , • NOTICE. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION, on the estatate of AraRTLIV .SLUR, late of G ermany township, deceased. having been granted to the subscriber residing in Mountjoy township—he hereby requests all persons indebted to the estate to make pay ment of their respective dues—and all per sons having claims to present them; proper. ly authenticated for settlement., JACOB KELLER, Adm'r with the' Will annexed. Sept. 17. et. Office of the Star & Banner Chamber:burg Street, a few doors West of the Court-House. I. The STAR & BRIPURLICAN BANNER is pub fished at TWO DOLLARS per annum (or Vol. moo of 52 numbers,) payable half-yearly in ad vance or TWO DOLLARS & FIFTY CENTS, ifnot paid until after the e.rpiralion of the year. 11. No subscription will be received for a shorter period than six months; nor will the paper be dis continued until all arrearagr_s are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. A failure to notify a dis continuance will be considered a new engagement and the paper forwarded accordingly. Anvisrisxxxxvit ilot exceeding a square will be inserted TUIREE times for $l, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion—the number of in sertion to be masted, or they will be published till redid and charged accordingly; longer ones in the same proportion. A reasonablededuetion will be made to those who advertise by the year. IV. All Leuersand Communications addressed to the Editor by mail mnstbe post-paid, or they will not be attended to TUE GARLAND —"With sweetest fiowerteoricted . From yarioasgarden 2 cad I'd with care." WOE___ S LOVE. DT MARY ANS BROWS. When man is waxing frail, And his hand is thin and weak, And his lips are parched and pale, And wan and white his cheek ; - Oh ! then doth woman prove Her constancy and love She sitteth by his chair, And holds his feeble hand ; She watcheth ever there, His wants to understand His yet unspoken will, She hastened' to fulfill. She leads bite, when the peen Is brig . bto"er dale, or hill, And all things, save the tune Of the honey bees, are still, Into the garden bowers, To sit 'midst herbs and flowers. And when he goes not there, To feast on breath and bloom, She brings the poesy rare Into his dsziken*d room, And 'neath his weary head The pillow smooth doth spread. Until the hour when death His lamp of fife doth dim. She never wearieth, She never leaveth him— Still near him night and day, She meets his eye away. And when his blare o'er, And the Melia on his breast, Deep in her bosom's Dons Lie aoSTOWS ; Her team, her sighs are weak, Her settled grief to speak. Anil though there may mime Balm for her spirit's pain, And though her quiet eyes May sometimes smile again : Still, still, she must regret, She never can forget ! TIM LAND OF OUR BIRTH. There is not a spot in this wide peopled earth So dear to the heart as the land of our birth : 'Tie the home of our childhood ! the beautiful 1 1 )0 t Which retains when all else is forgot. May the of God Ever hallow the sod, And its valleys and lulls by our children bo trod. Can the language of strangers in accents un known, Send a thrill to our bosoms hie that of our own ! The face may be fair and the smiles may be bland, But it breathes not the tone of our dear native land. There's no spot on earth Like the land of our birth, Where heroeti kept guard o'er the altar and hearth ! How sweet is the language which taught us to blend The dear names of parents, of husband and friend, Which taught us to lisp on our mother's soft iseast. The ballads she sung when she rocked us to rest. May the blessings of God Ewer hallow the sod, And its Talley' and hills by our children be trod. From Heath's Book of Beauty—(Lonaon.) TUC 'TWIN SISTEMEI. Thrice beautiful—sweet pair ! Brrnan, apart, Might win a monarch's undivided heart ! But, would a lover to the ,one be true, Oh, never let him gaze upon the two ! For baying once beheld the twain together, His heart must beat for both—or fix on neither. Cordd sins bit teach her phial brow to frown, Or sass her eyes to look unlike her own ; Had some sweet discord snared their mutual grace; Had manners varied, though still like in face ; Had any change but mark'd a single feature, E'en for the werso—it had been kind of Nature. But, him two rays of one celestial flame ; Two virg i n loser, leaf for leaf the same ; Two asow-white doves ; two chords of equal tone; The beam, they blush—look--bmathe in unison ! As Nature hid designed their equal beauty To plus metes beasts in strife—twist love and duty. liaLOC921111&312C1110o From tho Galena Gazette, Nov. 14 A YOUNG PUTNAM. On the morning of the. 3d inst., Alfred Brunion Clark, eleven years old, grandson of the Rev. A. Brunson, went out on the Prairie (du Chien) to hunt for cows. He had four dogs with him, and seeing two wolves he hissed them on, and gave chase. One of the wolves was pursued by the dogs to ft rock on the side of the bluff, some 150 feet up the steep acclivity, where he took refuge in a crevice, whence the dogs could not oust him. The lad having followed close upon the dogs, and seeing the situa tion of the wolf, and unwilling to lose the game, tied his horse to a tree, and by the aid of the bushes, clambered up the steep hill side to a shelf of the rock, on which the wolf travelled to his retreat. One end of this shelf came to the sidling ground, while the other, 10 or 12 feet distant, is 8 or 10 feet from it. The shelf is about 12 or 15 inches wide, and over it hangs a projection like the cornice,the space between the shelf and projection being only about 18 inches. On this shelf the boy crawled on his hands and knees to the crevice in which the wolf had stowed himself away, and finding his tail hanging out, and having no weapon, whatever to kill him with, ho laid hold of the tail and pulled back. As soon as he could, the wolf turned and snapped at his hand: to avoid which the boy tumbled him off the . shelf; when the dogs seized him ere he reached the ground, ands tumbling,: rolling over fight ensued to the bottom of the hill. The boy, in the meantime, backed out of his dangerous po sition till he could nearly reach the ground, with his hands holding to the edge of tho shelf, from which he fell, feet foremost, and hurried down to the place of slaughter.— When he reached the dogs, the wolf was not quite dead, and to aid in the matter, he laid his head upon a rock, and with a club finished the work of death upon his prey. The next thing was to get him home as a trophey of his victory. The wolf was one of the largest and fattest kind of prairie wolves, and too heavy. for a lad of his size to place upon the horse,but to overcome this difficulty, he dragged the wolf to a rock,and placing his horse by the side ofit,with some difficulty succeeded in placing his booty across the horse, and mounting behind it, rode home in as much triumph as the elder Putnatn did with the wolf he killed,in hbr den. If Putnam's wolf were the largest and most difficult to be got at, his age, and his being armed for the fight, gave him an advantage over a lad of 11 years of age,and without weapons, which would probably render the cases very nearly parallel. Prairie du Chien, Nov. 5, 1839. SHUT THE. DOOR! Now the cold weather is coming in good earnest, and the mountains begin to be cov ered with snow, we beg leave to renew our hint to those who have doors, to keep them shut, to save fuel and keep them comforta. ble. It II no trifling matter, when wood is dear and money scarce, to warm all out doors. But if you are resolved to warm the country at large the, better way would be to take your doors from their hinges, to pre. vent them from slamming by the rude north easters, and lay them up safely till warm weather, then they may be needful as a barrier against beetles, flies, and musquit oes. But if you would keep the frost from. without and comfort within, recollect this homely but useful maxim: '•Tho hindmost shut the door; But, behind or before, Bo sure to shut the door." One month more, and the year 1839 will be defunct. Think of that, ye solitary, in- efficient non•producing bachelors—whether gay or grave, sleek or slab-sided, comely or carbuncled, think of it, and bestir yourselves quickly! Beware of 1840, and the matrimo nial concomitants 'thereunto appertaining;' being leap yinr, the ladies, (by the imperial rescript of "Good Queen Bess,") have a right to fasten on any lonely Benedict they please; and the poor fellow is bound to sub mit. Make the most, therefore, of the time which is left you. Strike while you are yet free. Cultivate your whlskers,pat• ronize the tailor, filch melting couplets from the poets, practice sighing before the mir ror—and then, make the assault; carry the citadel, pop the question, pay the parson, and-'—don't forget the printer. A REGU.L4R YANKEE. 'the Stamford Sentinel says, they have a man in that place y'clept Noah Webb, who is a real Jack at all trades. if the follow ing is true of him, Noah could have 'held a candle,' at least, to his great name sake of Ark building memory:—Besidea letting out boats and repairing jewelry, opening oys ters and teaching the itacordian,cutting hair and dealing in stoves, mending furniture, and cleaning watches, selling fruit and pul ling teeth, selling fish and buying shares in the Atlantic Steam Packet Company, teach ing dancing, and the way to hoe potatoes, he lectures his customers on the science of Phrenology, while he is descanting on the flavors of round clams. He also takes the papers—and PAYS FOR mem l Illatrimony.—Matrimony is a medicine very proper for young men to take. It de aides-their fate—kills or cures. Definition of a Lover.—A ?over has been pithily described as a man, who in hie anx• iety to obtain possession of another, has lost possession of himself. G. at PHILLIPS, Editdru. tWIiOLE NO. 507. BENEFITS OF ADVERTISING. Of all ,the facilities for business, afforded by newspapers, the advertising columns at ford the greatest. They put it into every man's power to send his business card into houses and families; to make himself ever present to speak for his own cause, whenev er the discussion of a subject interesting to himself comes up. If he is a dry geode dea ler, and in the family sewing circle the want of any article of clothing, or of any orna ment is spoken of, the ready newspaper tells the story, and directs them where they may at once supply themselves. The stove dea ler, the coal dealer, thetailor, shoemaker, grocer, baker, and in fact pa ry tradesman or dealer, whose' craft,minis tars to the comfort or necessities of the fa mily or individual, finds his best and surest friend in the newspaper. The dullest times are precisely those when a man should advertise the moat. If the customer has little money to expend, he ve ry naturally looks about him, to see . where that little can be disbursed to the most ad. vantage. To roam about town, and make inquiries, costs more than it comes to; con sequently, that tradettnan who publishes his terms and his 'wares, is sure of ten times in all cases, and in many of ten times in one hundred, of the amount of the sum invested. In England, where competition puts ev ery one to his trumps,, and where business can by no means done so cheaply as in this country, competition drives all classes of merchants and dealers into advertising.— Thom are for instance, the blackings of Day & Martin, and of Warren. Hundreds of others have made :he article quite as good, and even better—but, nobody else has succeeded in reaching any thing like their business. And how has this been done? Entirely by Anvairriairm. The names of Day & Martin, and of their rival, Warren, are familiar wherever the English language is spoken. The names of Day & Martin have passed into a proverb. A- man Cannot look at an ox without thinking of them - -a tanned hide spells the name of the firm, and , a pair of boots not only speaks it, but illus. tratea it. To put the worthy gentlemen in to oblivion, is beyond the power of art, or even of time. All this, we repeat has been done by ad vertising*.adsertising---Arivsenszno.— The names have been eternally before the public, • Poets, punsters, essayists, and tale and novel writers, have been called into play to ring upon the names every conceiv able change. The black pigment in-the printer's ink, which has recorded the virtues of the magic compound, would, made into blacking, outweigh the lampblack •used in the manufacture of blacking itself, and polish all the shoes'in christeadom, betsides giving the sandals of Heathendom a lick of night, and coloring thnleggings of the Se ...ten, filisiktiockialacia„ Charnkcati-Ciman, ches, Pawnees proper, Pawnee Loupe, Saes, Senecas, Kinckapoos and Flatheads. Ad. vertiling is the Archrmedian lever, with which those clever autocrats of lamp and ivory black have moved the whole leather world. Books are gagged down the throats of the public in England, by the same means., How could Boz sell 00,000 of each of bia works, except by the aid of the newspapers? How could Bentley , have burst upon us in full life and form, like Minerva from the rains of Jupiter, but for the newspapers t' n every other , craft it is the same In ngland, or in America, a man might as well have no place of business, as no ad vertisement in the newspapers. N. Y. Despatch. A Strong Horse.—A New England far mer was bragging of the strength of his horse, when a listener interrupted him by saying, "your hole ie'nt a flee bite to.one which my grandfather owned in the State of Vermont—there never was a horse that could match him—he was the strongest horso since Sampson—my grand-dad used to put two tons and a half of hay on a bob sled for him to draw on bareground, and he was so almighty stout that he had to hold buck going up hill." A man was saying the other day, in company that he had seen a juggler place a ladder in open ground upon one end, and mount it by passing through the rounds, and stand upon the top erect. Another who was present said, he had no doubt of it, as he had seen a man who had dene the dame thing, but this addition, that when be arrived at the top, he pulled the /adder up after him. - • From the New-York Minor. • A FABLE. TRANSLATED ISOM THE FIZENCTI. I.—A Knight at chess looked down tri umphantly on a neighboring Pawn. - "A fine time we should have of it if all our at , my was made up of such fellows as you'! How 'slow, you travel I only look: at me once I" so be .spoke, and jumped at : one spring half across the board. , The Pavia said nothing, but crept on, step by step, till it became—a Queen. 2.—This, however, was not the end of it. "Did not yonder idle fellow," laid-the new Queen; "sneer at my kircner , low es tate 1 Let ue see" if he to in , kjeeting mor now I" - She advanCird against and the poor _Knight fell Wirer, her at the very first attack. not such revenge aweatt"auked jha Queen of a neighboring Ciitle. "No doubt it is," wee the inewer t MBiat I am sorry to say that it *rave thy orici. nel mean extraction. The truly *Ale set er seek revenge.". .....' z 1
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