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THE AMERICAN FLAG. v
BT J. ». DRAKE
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night.
And set the stars of glory there
She mingled with the gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pare cclestial white
With streakings of the morning light,
Then, from his mansion in the sun^
She called her eagle bearer down,'
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land.
Majestic monarch of the cloud,
Who rear'st aloft thy regal form.
To hear the tempest trumping loud,
And see the lightning lanccs driven,
When stripe the warriors oi" the storm,
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven.
Child of the Sun! to thee 'tis given
To guard the banner of the free—
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle stroke,
And bid its bleudings phine afar,
Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbinger of victory.
Flag of the brave! thy folds shall fly,
The sign of hope and triumph high,
When speaks the signal trumpet-tone.
And the long line comes gleaming on,
(Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet,
Has dimmed the glistening bayonet,)
Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn
To where thy meteor-glories burn,
And as his springing steps advance,
Catch war and vengeance from th' glanpe
And when the cunnon-moutiiings loud,
Heave, in wild wreaths, the battle shroud
And gory fibres rise and fall,
Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall!
Then shall thy victor-glances glow,
And cowering foes shall sink beneath
Each gallant arm that strikes the blow,
That lovely messenger of death.
Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave
Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave,
When death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
And frightened waves rush wildly back
Before the broadside's reeling rack
The dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look at once to Heaven and thee
And smile to see thy splendors fly
In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Flag of the free hearts' only home!
By angel hands to valor given,
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in Heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe, but falls before us?
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?
I HAVE BREATHED THY NAME.
I have breathed thy name on India's shore,
When the stars and flowers were bright,
And amid the fierce tornado's roar-
In the sable gloom of night!
I have breathed thy name in dreams of home
When my proud and gallant bark
Was dancing o'er the tempest's foain,
And even hope grew dark!
I have breathed thy name when other eyes
Were glancing into mine,
But still I kept my heart's pure sighs
To lay upon thy shrine!
I have breathed thy name when music's spell
Was stealing o'er my heart
That name was the pure, the magic well
That drown'd the sorcerer's art.
I have breathed thy name when in my ear
Came beauty's dulcet tone
*Twas a spell fraught word, that name so dear
My idol-love! my own!
I have breathed thy name when the midnight
sea
Seemed Heaven's star spangled shrine
And each thought was marshalled back to thee,
To that glowing heart of thine!
I have breathed thy name on the burning
mount,
As if 'twere life's last shield
'Tis a mystic word, 'tis a sacred fount,
Where my love and my heart is sealed!
EUKBIA.
From the New York Literary Gazette.
ORIGINAL PAPERS OF THE PAN
TAGRUEL CLUB.
THE VICE OF PUNNING.
Mr. Editor,—Being a member of the
Pantagruel Club, I am, of course, a sub
scriber to your journal, and wish it well
but I have been pained to see several vile
puns in its pages. I am a hater of puns,
and believe in the truth of this dictum,
which has been affiliated on Doctor John
son, That he who would make a pun,
would pick a jyocket." What is punning?
Merely distorting words and sense to make
fools laugh. A punster is a player upon
words, not upon ideas. A punster never
has ideas. You must know, sir, that my
son John, a lad of nineteen, has been ru
ined by puns for a fondness for them led
him into the low society of bar rooms and
singing clubs, and rioting and drunken
ness follows, as matters of course. I this
morning received a note from him, desir
.ing me to release him from the watch
house and that you may know, sir, how
lamentably he is afflicted with the infirm
ity, which even the horrors of confine
ment are too weak to overcome I will
send you a copy of his letter.
Watch House, Friday morning.
4,Dear
Father,—I was thrown into this
vile receptacle (vide date) last night.—
The watchman was inexorable. Vainly
did I tell him that I was only out
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harmless bender. With unbending firm
ness, he bent his way, with your affec
tionate son under convoy, to this/os/ness,
where I have fasted for the last twelve
hours, though fast asleep a greater part of
the time. Come down as fast as you can
and believe me, whatever my mother may
say to the contrary, your affectionate son,
"JOHN DUNN, JUX., or, Demi-John.
"P. S. I notice in the papers that there
ate shad in the market, and, as this is Fri
day, conclude that you will have one for
dinner."
In this manner am I daily annoyed ei
ther by verbal or written puns. At table,
"I have no peace omelette, he calls an
•eggstatic dish.' He makes a inonosylla
"ble of teapot, thus, p-o-t, tpot. He calls
my old port wine, "any thing but Sub
lime Porte," but never tails to add, "any
^'port in a storm." Reproving him for the
\folly of punning, he says, "No /ju/ash
inent shall prevent my carrying on the
Jyf
JPttnic war and adds, "speaking of fol-
the height of it is, to bolt^your door
with a boiled carrot." Telling him that
I hoped the scales would one day fall
ijfrom his eyes, he said "There is n af/frm-
a
He says he likes every thing about the
Treasury Bill except its obnoxious claws,
as the herring said of the fish hawk.—
All over the continent, Sunday is the
great day for observing national ma li
ners and customs. I dined at an early
hour vvith my friend the Marquis, and un
der his escort, mounting a drosky, rode
to a great promenade of the people, called
Bailee des Peuples. 'It lies outside the
barrier, and beyond the state prisons,
where the exiles for Siberia are confined,
on the land of Count Schremetow, the
richest nobleman in Russia, having one
hundred and thirty thousand slaves on his
estate—the chateau is about eight verahs
from the city, and a noble road through
his own land leads from the barrier to his
door.
ty betweeneyes and scales the latter ap-' tention, and when she spoke her eyes
plies, in a double sense, to porgies sold
by weight."
Shakspeare's Othello, he calls, "Othello, with that Gipsey girl. 1 would fain have
or, is He Jealous." He says, when he
present cabinet will eifect meal and pota
toes.
I will no longer weary you, sir, with
my son's nonsense, but I wish you to
know how serious and fatal, to others at ft
Your obedient servant,
JOHN DUNN, SEN.
\JDone!—Ed. L. (x.3
This promenade is the great rendezvous
of the people that is, of the rperc^ants
and shop-keepers of Moscow. The p:om*
the favorite and refreshments were dis-
i
ing it out, and that, in return for his man- character of my queen was not above re
uscript, he got an impression of Foot's proach and as I had nothing but my
works, as he left the green room. He character to stand upon in Moscow, I was
says he knows but one friend in the obliged to withdraw from the observation
world, and he's a Quaker, of course. I
told him I thought of commencing an ac
tion against a man who had swindled me
he dissuaded me from it, saying, "I see organization of the Governments of the
enough of my relations daily, and do not North American Republics," by Dr.
wish to see my father-tn-Zaw." He says MAYO. The edition is enlarged and im
that aldermen are the best livers, but not proved. We extract from it the follow
the best lights, of the age. He would ing table and note on population.
like to know how the measures of the Table showing the White •population and
A SUNDAY AT MOSCOW.
BY MR STEPHENS.
A Sunday at Moscow—To one who had i Georgia,*
for a long time been a stranger to the Ohio,
sound of the church-going bell, few things Kentucky,*
could be more interesting than a Sunday Tennessee,*
at Moscow. Any one who has rambled Louisiana,*
along the Maritime Alps, and has heard! Alabama
from some lofty eminence the convent Mississippi,*
bell ringing for matins, vespers, and mid-j
night prayers, will long remember thejjndiana
not unpleasing sounds. To me there is
always something touching in the sound
of the church bell in itself pleasing by
its effect upon the sense, but far more so
in its associations. And these feelings
were exceedingly fresh when I awoke on
Sunday in the holy city of Moscow. In i
Ppooro nn Tl thpr nn hpl
ureece ana 1
in Russia, they are almost innumerable lcordi
but this was the"first time I had happened
to pass the Sabbath in the city
listened, almost fearing to move lest I
should lose their sounds—thoughts of
home came over me of the day of rest
of the gathering for church, and the
greeting of friends at the church door.
But he who has never heard the ringing
of bells at Moscow, does not know its mu
sic. Imagine a city containing more
than six hundred churches, and innumer
able convents all with bells, and these
all sounding together, from the sharp,
quick, hammer-note, to the loudest deep
est peals that ever broke and lingered on
the ear, struck at long intervals, and
swelling on the air as if unwilling to die
away. I arose and threw open my win
dow, dressed myself, and after breakfast,
joining the throng called to their respec
tive churches by their well known bells, I
went to what is called the English cha
pel where, for the first time in many
months, 1 joined in a regular church ser
vice, and listened to an orthodox sermon.
I was surprised to see so large a congre
gation, though I remarked among them
many English governesses, vvith children,
the English language being at that mo
ment the rage among the Russians, and
multitudes of cast off chambermaids be
ing employed to teach the rising Russian
nobility the beauties of the English tongue.
seemed to read me through. I ought
perhaps, to be ashamed of it, but in all
my wanderings, 1 never regretted so much
my ignorance of the language^ as when
it denied me the pleasure of conversing
known whether her soul did not soar
goes to bed, he thinks of the "Mayor of above the scene and the employment in
Garrett," that his puns then arc always i which I found her: whether she was not! ly eulogized
attic.—He left a manuscript play with the formed for better things than to display
manager of the Theatre, and says her beautiful person before crowds of
he called the manager an ass for not bring- boors but I am sorry to add, that the
which her attention fixed upon me.
A third edition of the "CHART of the
Congressional representation of the sev
eral States, and of the United States.
States,
Maine,
e
least, the sin of punning is, that you may, Vermont,
hereafter, avoid it altogether in the Liter-Massachusetts,
ary Gazette, If you will publish this, Connecticut,
and avoid punning hereafter, I will do all New York,
that I can to support your journal.
w Hampshire,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Delaware,
Maryland,*
Virginia,*
North Carolina,*
South Carolina,*
Missouri,*
Illinois,
Michigan,
Arkansas,*
United States,
POPULATION.-
,_
urKej, mere
1
deducting only
and these young girls, well dressed, tho\ non of Tennessee, and the late Speaker
in general, with nothing peculiar in their Polk, are opposing candidates for the
costume, moved about in parties of five next Gubernatorial term in that State
or six, singing, playing and dancing to ad- and, as is the custom of that region, thev
miring crowds. One of them, with a red are stump speaking in the different coun-|
silk cloak, trimmed with gold, and a gold ties.
band round her hair, struck me as the] At Murfreesboro, Mr Polk majie a
very beau ideal of a Gipsey Queen. Re-! speech, and the Governor replied from
cognizing me as a stranger, she stopped this reply we extract the following por
just in front of me, struck her castinatsj traiture of the man who never forgave.—
and danced, at the same time directing Pittsburgh Gazette.
the movements of her companions, who) "You observe, fellow-countrymen, that
formed a circle around me.—There was my competitor appears to take pleasure
a beauty in her face, combined with in-j in referring you to General Jackson's mil
telligence and spirit, that riveted my at-jitary achievements—to having fought the
White pop. Rep
393,263 8
263,721 5
279,771 5
603,359 12
289,603 6
1,863,061 40
300,266 6
1,309,900 28
57,601 1
291,108 8
694,300 21
472,842 13
257,863 9
295,806 9
928,829 19
517,787 13
535,746 13
89,231 3
190,406 5
70,443 2
114,795 2
339,399 i
155,061 3
31,346 1
25,671 1
the slave-holding States, and nothing for
their great population of free negroes, who
in this basis, count one for one with the
whites whereby those States have a much
greater representation, in proportion to
their white population, than the free
States. Under this view, it is obvious
that the abolition of slavery would imme
diately give the present slave-holding
States an increase of their Congressional
representation, of sixteen members, ac
cording to their slave population of the
last census: and this preponderance would
increase hereafter, instead of being dimin
ished. for which there would be no reme
dy except by an amendment of the Con
stitution, in regard to the basis of repre
sentation, which is utterly impracticable.
Take for illustration of the above, the
States, Ohio and Virginia, Ohio (hav
ing no slaves, and but few free negroes,)
has a population of 928,820 whites, which
on the established ratio of 47,700 for each
Congressional district, gives her nineteen
representatives, based on her white pop
ulation alone. Virginia, on the other hand
has, of white population, but 694,300,| it
which, on the same ratio of 47,500 to each
among which the Russian mountain is representative would entitle her to jour-1 out asking any questions. Returning sev-,
teen
PORTRAIT PAiNTiNG.-^Governor Can-
Indians successfully, and to the manner'in
which he pointed that long significant fin
ger, at Washington, whenever he wished
when our armv was reposing on this
of
the Coosa—that
.1 1 .1
Rep.i much from fatigue and
occasion.
$10,526,248 242
There exists a great
1 1 1 mi 1
to the last ceiisus was
020
,=
I lay and
hich it ig eener
n()W
Jeached
me. I was on the jury to try,
de-ji
tr
lusion upon this subject. The grand to- „ature and education.
I tal of our population, of ALL SORTS^
ac-|
12,806,-j
allv supposed, has
16,000,000.) Of the 12,-
866,020, there were 2,009,043 slaves,
and 319,599 free negroes. Leaving out
the negroes, I have given the white pop
ulation of each State, making 10,5'26,248
including paupers, minors, females and
aliens. Deduct females alone, amount
ing to nearly one half, and we have 5,
355,133 males. Of these, again, at least
one half are minors so that we have lit
tle more than two and a half millions of
men, to boast of for protecting the rest.
There is another delusion: The States
above distinguished by asterisks, are gen
erally considered as slave-holding States
whereas, there are but two States Ver
mont and Massachusetts, in which there
are not slaves, more or less. In Dela
ware, there are 3,202 in New Jersey,
there are 2,254 and in Pennsylvania,
there are 403. There is a still greater
delusion: This population of ALL SORTS
sl:,ot
1 11 1
tributed in great abundance. Soldiers, ^er ^ree negro population of 47,348, she[ still a collection of idlers at the same place| tants engaged to wear mourning for six
To make it understood that his will was to' the times, there is a growing disposition
be obeyed1 Well, Gentlemen, said the the Van Buien party, to make the ju
Governor, I and some of you had
some-]
thinp to do in fighting with the Indians known that many who are leaders of the
also As you well know, I never have cohorts of party, are loud in their denun
been a favorite with my opponent's high-
Old Chief." His popula-
rity never bore me along to smiles
and
fortune: 1 never clung to the skirts of his Ilarrisburg Reporter, where the first ob
coat, or, when danger approached, jump-! ject of attack is declared to be the judi
ed into his pocket.
I have been opposed to the Old Chief,' and Oliver Ellsworth and Patrick Henry,
on many occasions. I remember the| are quoted as having evinced a
time that emphatic finger, my competitor hostility not only to the Constitution,
loves so well to describe, was pointed at| to the words, "We, the people," with
YVil-j
jliamson, old Mr Magnas, on a charge of "May the spirit of Patrick Henry and
in a true verdict. We did so, according: their descendants!
to our judgments, and when I handed the!
verdict in, General Jackson pointed that From the
that General Jackson was a tyrant by' most important affair contained in bloody
He
v v.* .i i i
coniycied idleness, where there is the
u*
seemed to be observing a certain house
enade is simply a large piece of ground,
ornamented with noble trees, and provi- ulation alone. Virginia, on the other hand with much attention. He also looked at
ded with every thing necessary for the has, of white population, but 694,300, it very carefully, but seeing nothing re-1 were muffled, and tolled during the day iVrmonVv""bnt"bc
enjoyment of all the national amusements, which, on the same ratio of 47,oOO to each'markable, he pursued his journey with- —the shops, at the instance of the com-
From tl%& United States Gazette.
THE ITUDICIARY AND "THE CONSTITU
TION.—If we rightly interpret the signs of
dlcial tenure a national question. It is
ciation of the principles upon which the
United States Courts are founded. We
see this, not in the direct assaults in the
cz'^
I have known him long, and met his lutionized—but we have it also in the suc
displeasure before now. If my competi-j cess which attended the attempt to des
tor can boast having rode smoothly uponj troy the tenure of good behaviour, of the
the billows of the Old Chiefs popularity,! judges in Pennsylvania. We see it in the
I can say with truth that I have had to
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side
puted my regiment and another to cross! pears to be more ultra, more Jacobinical
that turbulent stream and attack the ene-j than any thing that has previously reach
my in his strong holds—that we went as! ed us. Phe editor of that paper, (the ar
we were ordered, while Gen. Jackson lay tide is editorial,) is anxious to prove that
1 A A
hunger—
should cross the Coosa on that perilous
tenure, which is at once to be revo-
ravings
stem the bufferings of his wrath. Fellow and we find it in the insidious attacks up
citizens, some of you remember the time
and his slave." Ambassador to the Rupublic at Paris. I *h.inS
"Time is money," said Dr FRANKLIN.|a pamphlet published by Dr. Cooper,
If the old philosopher could cast an eye which contained the following passage:—
towards our great bridge, where more than| General Hamilton and Dr Kent say, that,
a hundred, on an average, are constantly: they consider Colonel Burr as a danger
gazing idly at the workmen, he would say ous man, and one unfit to be trusted with
the work must be an expensive one.— the reins of government.' 'General Ham
Proc-idcnce Herald." 1 ilton has expressed of Mr Bun* opinions
The Providence bridge is not the only, still more despicable.' This latter pas
place where people squander that com- sage excited the resentment of Col. Burr
modity which Franklin regarded as so pe-j who sent a friend with a letter to General
culiarly valuable. Mankind every where! Hamilton demanding a "prompt and un
are fond of the dolce far niente, and ea-,.qualified acknowledgement or a denial of
gerly seek opportunities of doing nothing'the expression which could justify this
in the least troublesome manner. To inference
,i,„ 1
where a was hurt or a
is
two-fifths of the slaves in that prompts them to
long after the occurrence, gazing at the ling on him to retrace every conversation
do& wasi
in each of the States, is the BASIS oi their run over, as if the very stones were nar- fidentially, in the course of fifteen years
Congressional representation in the pop-! rating the particulars of the tragic occur- opposition, and to contradict that which
ular branch of the National Legislature rence. It
do
fnenr.. ^Sme time since, while passing' than four feet out of the line of direction
representatives only but by virtue ofj eral hours after, he found that there was, suspended and the principal inhabi-
were stationed at different points to pre-j is entitled to ONE more and by virtue of who ever and anon regarded the house weeks. After the funeral service the /°W wuh sincerity and
serve order, and the people seemed all three-fifths of her slave population of 469,-J with a sinister aspect, as if there was Governor of New York delivered to an EDWARD WEB«»
cheerful and happy butthe life and soul1 "1s~ 1 1 ..
of the place were the Bohemian
sey girls. Wherever they
gathered round them. They were the
first I had seen of this extraordinary peo
ple coming, no one knows whence, and
living, no one knows how wanderers
from their birth, and with a history in
volved in doubt. It was impossible to|
mistake the dark complexion and piercing! Columbia had 27,563 whites, and 12,271
coal-black eyes of the Gipsey women.! negroes, 6,152 being free.
The men were no where to be seen, nor
w6re there any old women with them
Siricted right oi suffrage Virginia,) by, himself, and addressed several persons in had sustained in his death. The coro
less than one-half the number of voters| turn to learn why they stood there. None: ner's inquest returned a verdict of mur
that elect the smaller number of NINETEEN could tell, until, .at last, a woman more in- ler against Burr and his seconds
representatives in Ohio—(NOTE.—Flori-j telligent and better informed than the rest
da has 18,385 whites, and 15,345 ne- drew the querist aside, and in a half whis
groes, 844 being free. The District of per, while her brow, like Tressel's be
came a title page, which foretold the na
ture of a tragic volume, she replied.—
"Why, sir, that's the very house the peo
ple moved out of night afore last without
paying their
Tent."-r~Pennsylvanian.
RIGHT ENOUGH.—A Texiati letter wri
ter, corresponding with his friend in the
United States gives our country a hard
rub, and a deserved one too, in the follow
ing hit. He says to his friend: "You will
bear in mind that, we are decidedly in ad
vance of the United States in civilization.
We hang men for murder in Texas, with
you they escape. v
Dr. Cooper, President of Columbia Col
lege,, S. C., and a man of great literary
attainments, died oa: the 11th inst.
of the Globe upon the subject,
the Constitution, in other papers of the
same political caste. An attack in the
General Jackson de-j Boston Post upon, the Constitution ap-
AMntihiti/'iri +li
N
lit? I O
on this side in security—that we suffered the Constitution of the Uni.sd States is
—that we'not binding upon "the people,"—and that ana £0 aeciare, nm uiey are worth m0
that we, not binding upon"the people,"-—and that
found the enemy strong and
but beat him triumphantly—and returnedj ster, and other members of the Hamilton
conqueror' But suppose we had been school—(John Q. Adams of the Hamil
beaten, cut off, slain, how long would itj ton school!!!!)—are anxious to consider
have been before General Jackson would! that weighty instrument of good, a work
have been
nessee?
I may be mistaken, but I have is founded upon the assumption, that a^ ^"cxJeUiSTsmall
always thought there was a motive which majority ol the peeple—or rather as the
powerful,! only John Quincy Adams, Daniel Web-.jall the patent medicines I have ever seel!
a found on this side of the Ten- approved by.
the people: and the argument agonising 1 nrcc successive doses of
governed the selection of those who Post sc.ys, the people themselves, would recovered his health and strength thou
the time it was accepted by the States
which it commences and the Post adds:
murdering Patton Anderson, (Gen. Jack-j Oliver Ellsworth nerve the ARMS, and they arc gaining rapidly in public estimation.
son's friend.) We were sworn to bring warm the HEARTS, and guide the minds of I
TT 1 I -x 1 "UCIII luuiuunu uiuuuy
had witnessed pages of their annals:—we allude to that:
his movements on many occasions—seen, fought in 18C4 between Col. Burr
his various plans of operation, when he! Gen. Hamilton. At the time the
lmd his elans about him-aml he always occurred Burr was Vice Preside of Ihe
would have his clans, but no man in them United States, and Hamilton had been ap-1and
to follow him, who would not be his tool poiuted to succeed Mr Livingston as the
I The immediate origin of the dispute was
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the part of Dr Cooper."
gape by the hour at street pavers is a pop-1 The General objected to this demand,,.
...
ular amusement, and crowds will stand, considering it as too indefinite, or as cal-
which he had held, either publicly or con-
not a thirst for information! very possibly might have escaped his
this—they mere- memory. If any thing more definite
ly want a point d'appui for lounging for! should be proposed, he expressed his wil
if any one will take the trouble to ask a, lingness to give Col. Burr all proper sat
member of the assemblage what's the mat-' isfaction. That gentleman, however, in
ter, the reply in nine cases out of ten willj sisted upon
.. a general retraction, stating,
be a vacant stare and a drawling "I don't that it was no matter whether his honor an* I
know." The majority composing the^ had been attacked loudly or in whisper.!
cluster neither know nor seek to know General Hamilton refused to acquiesce in I
why it is that the spot on which they his demand and a meeting was required
stand is so peculiarly attractive. They by Burr.
are satisfied with the bare fact that it is ai Tliev met, and General Hamilton re-ihe
small centre of a congregation, and arefceived'a fatal wound It anneared tint suiloca/inn, ^'Kyl5-
1
placidly delighted at having lound a place he had determined not to return Colonel &c L. F. W. AisDREW^, M
to stop at where others arestoping. It is Burr's first fire but that on his receiving Letter from the Hon EDWAKD WK«K«-'
an excuse for not working, and it in a the shock a mortal wound, his pistol i
measure saves the trouble of thought— went off involuntarily, and without being ln?r
two means of occupation which are dis-| aimed. Search was afterwards made fori
tasteful to many. his ball. which was found lodged in a ce-
A curious instance of the fondness for dar tree, at the height of eleven feet and
a
least l^^ise for it, is mentioned by a where General Hamilton stood and more
along a streUlL' Philadelphia, on his way between the parties. cases in which I have le tmy
to business, he a group of men, wo-| Genera Nmilton was greatly respect- o^AmXln^^heyt^cT^tried.Vy ov.n1^
men and children,
ous colors, who! ed, being ,er of his party. His funer- fs"greatly
a
x»
aries
m0
was attended by all the public function-
n council, were closed all business
the German ladies employ men dress ma
kers.
lilPE PILLS
Sc
M'OFFATVS
gestive organs, and in ill general den*
of health, these racdicines have invariM
manent good for his fellow
an^c
U11
TV..A\A*n nwlinJ .U, .lo.nnn.Ufoi'i qertilicatc, but _you think proper you
i:Progress
"long, significant finger" at me and said nineteenth Century."
in his peculiar manner,—"P/7 mark you t. Although the notice of American duels
young man!" And, said the Governor, does not fall within the scope of the pres
I believe he has kept his promise pretty! ent article, yet we cannot forbear from of- 'MOIVAT—Kespeeted £ir:
faithfully to this day. He used to think: fering our readers a slight sketch of the !num^er
of Duelling in the
ccec,inS
a
ffair:°wn
1
of
now
of New York—the bells of the city '?d
1
ved a certain and speedy remedy, 'j-i/pf'-i
store vigorous health to the most
e
constitutions. A single trial
LIFE PILLS and PHlENIX BITtLSk?
the reach of competition, in the
TEI{SV,eatimav
every patient.
Happy and grateful in the possess!*,,
medicine which effects so much real
of
and
MOFFAT bc.rS to say, that he^cannof'
the gift of Providence, and assail the he.|J'.%!'
the community, by adopting the mcr
practice of recommending them to be talf^
inordinate quantities.—From two t0
fiv n't
is an adequte and proper dose of any
e0
orf
ieine in this form and tiie excessive qu-,
which the public are advised to take b
practitioners, only engender tha hurr/°l!i^
corruptions which they profess to rcinov^
practitioners, only engender the hum",.,
hflieyprofe* forcS?,.
move them they may, but fliey
create
first, and the debilitated patient is d0
i
be a pill-swallower to the end of his dav^ i
Moffat wishes to ber fit the public health I
not to destoy it for money.
LETTEft
about
not have approved of the Constitution at !liad bjfo^e
three feet
,l!J
FROM UK. CLEVELAND,
WATERVILLE, July 19, 1837.—Sir:
Physicians do not often approve of the ""^l
of medicine by laymen, in any manner
have myself been accustomed to coiis':,5DC
6uch as quacks, and therefore not to b- n"
ised. Yet I have lately seen such benefe!-"''
fects, resulting from the use of your Life
that I am constrained to discard niy preju^
and to declare, that they are worth more
e
1
heard of.
The case I allude to, particularly, wa ?...
of an adult person, laboring under evcrvV
torn of worms. He was much emaciated'-*
very feeble and suffered at times extrum'
Three successive doses
TcJ{
long, and
the patient spee^
tned
1
v*ithc5:||L•
man^
P'^criptions,
5ha11 have used them in every
,^ ,u
y
|0f
complaint,
Aiiwuuiintsarea-,
where
,ation is
1
physicians
cathartic nledi'c'inesa
steady nlicablc, with genera! good success: tiaircul
n, but
VERY MILD'
Pr°ducing less
with them,
irritaticjl
oL ?hav^alL"
and
persuaded
tiicmt
use them, in their practice. And Icanass^
the
puriK*boi
irr
liberty topublish it, and may arid also
timony of my brother, who is also a
uhv-i
7
and who has used them in his own fu'iuTivc:
has a very high opinion of them. Yours,
A
UKO. W. CLEVELAND, 31. L'.
LETTJLR FROM JL'STLCE FLANAGAN",
NEW YORK,
Oct. Cth,
1836.—To MR. JO
Havins
labored
years under great indisposition,
frf-mafter
disorganization
ease, to iry
of ihe digest
'power, and having tried many remec*
prescribed by resizable physiciani, 1
andjduced, from my personal knowledge of
the
same remedies
that
yous
the Phoenix Bitters they are the only
ledies that
have used, that have all'trcd.-
like
Perinaiient relief- 1 have greats'
fidtnee in them, and intend continuing tL
use. Yours, &c.
JAMES FLANAGAN,
was
the
Sth Avenue, near lflhit
LETTER FROM THE REV. ROBERT SMITH.
BALTIMORE,
Jan. 19th. 1837.—To
a,ny a?,l.Lve
DR. 5'J
FATT.—Dear .Sir: I feel it a duty I owe
public and yourself, to place at your eiisptsa
case of a somewhat novel character, iD
your Life Pills" have performed a euro
no other medicine 1 know of could hamf
ted. It is as follows :—About the last ol
ult. I was poisoned by tiie flowers o!
•Latifolia,"* and again in October foJlov.ins:
an application applied to the top of my i. ..
which I am convinced contained the"Ki'iu
In both cases a violent nervous prostrnt, n
the consequence. The latter case was CM
ingly violent and of long continuance. It si-:
ed at times that my nervous system
lv prostrated—so much so that was mcap
cxcrtion for somc
"r,t
weeks, lhesc symptoms I am sateud v
have been produced by nothing cku Lu:
above named poison. Aly appetite urd
in all other respects were usually gooc.
Three doses of your "Life Fills" havered
ed mc to full health and vigor For («O«J
befox-e taking them
I
could neither ting.
loud, walk fast, or use any kind of cic U
now
I
can sing by the hour, read at /lie top
my voice for a day, and
I
was going to raj
a mile no exertion has the slightest nr.p:«
ant cllect.
I
consider your "Life Tills,"J
best medicine of which
1
would
consideration. Yours
have any kao»iec:«
not
be deprived of them for^
^truly,
[Smith, of this city.
/rot,b!td
ROBEXT Ssra
MT."J.'^IOFFAT.—Dear Sir:
ALOW
will find a certificate from the Rtv. K*
lie states
in addition
with a
11 appeareu tnat hapmly relieved by the use of yourpulf.
Rnmney,
illness of tu
N
Hampshire, to
yP0Ru.Xv
%vllcu 1 was
half, fourteen paces from the place ^rcd bv Dr °M^KAT?f oOIcw York.
Fcbn.ary l«'
SIR—You may probably recollect b«y
seen me at your store on the 1st oi
VcTnrr
K
pleasure to sav,
•..' natural action oi the bowels is loft
MAN-MILLINEBS.——In Germany,- men
do all the ladies work. There is no lady
in Dresden who can make a dress. All
PIICEN1X BITTERS.
LIFE PILLS & PHCENIX
BITTERS. The high and envied celeb
rity which this preeminent medicine has acquir
ed for its invariable efficacy in all the diseases
which it professes to cure, has rendered the
usual practice of ostentatious puffing, not only
unnecessary, hut unworthy of ihem. They
are known by their fruits their good works tes
tify for them, and they thrive not bv the faith
of the credulous. In all cases of C'ostiveness
Dyspepsia, Bilious and Liver Affections, Asth
ma, Piles, Settled Pains, Rheumatism, wheth
er chronic or inflammatory, Fevers and Agues,
obsti nate Headaches, Impure State of the Flu
ids, unhealthy s.ppearance of the skin, Nervous
Debility, the sickness incident to females in dc-
licattt health, eyfry kind of weakness
that they
it my duty to introduce
hcre'.a?
have
great satisfaction in my family, and in
improved, and 1 have no
doubt,1
the Divine Blessing, those pills have
contra
vFry nuch_t° my comfort.
ted very much to my comfort. I
therefore to send me somc more, for vl
Bt-nd
particular
me none but the'GKNUINE. I
HAVE
rienccd so much benefit from them,
c.
tlut
UH
them into
tlie
bcti*8ervice
oan
*€n(ier^(BI,
respect,Your's,^
S i n i e
MR. MOFFATT—Sir:
It is
now
!3Very few _days to
June 6,1839.
of
the
di-
thirteen,
that I have suffered from an infirmit) °^.|
I bowels—the consequence, as I suppC!,e
severe illnetis of inflammatory rheumaUf-'•
1
,and severe pains occur, with much
jand depression. Cathartics heing
1.4
counteract
havc consulted good physicians, and .1
'ed almost all the kinds of pillsa. ®vertJJ*e.jPr
seemed suited to my case, in vain. 1
u11
A
lust year, I have boujj.ht and used s^c
ea of your "Life Pills," and have ^ul $
benefit from them more relief and
adl1''
to my case, for a lei.gfh of time, than
1
medicine 1 have yet tried. Yours,
SAMUEL
For further particulars of the above
ne
sec Mofl'ats Good Samaritan a copy
0
accompanies the medicine a copy can
obtained application at the
Drugstore.
lur
BLANKS.
BLANK'Water
DEEDS and Justices
for sale at this Office, corner
ington and Streets.
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