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- From the United States Gazette.
LIFE ON A RAIL.
“De gustibus non et disputandum.”
. WRITTEN Y HENRY JOHN SHARPE.
Let them sing who may of the brisky spray
And a life on the dark blue sea;—
Let them chaunt in the praise of the merry days
They have passed in the wild woods, free :
Or revel in dreams and rude wurm’ring streams
Which rise in the mountains afar—
I'll surrender all these, my lads, if you please,
For a trip in a rail road car.
Let them sing whe may of the brisky’spray,
Or a life on a dark blue sea—
But a starry nighe, with a rapid flight,
And a life on a rail, for me,
Though some hate te roam away from their home,
Where peace and tranquility reign—
For me there’s a charm, no fear can disarm
In the track of the rail-way train,
Now swiftly you glide, through the country wide,
No hills, or no dales, to debar—
Bat fleet as the wind you leave all behind
As you speed in a rail-road car;
Let them sing who will of the sparkling rill,
Or a life in the wild woods free—
Bat a crowded car, with its crack and}jar,
And a life on a rail for me.
There is not a sound on earth to be found
That yields to my heart sach delight,
As the startling scream of the piping steam
As it breaks ou the ear of night,
The bright sparks illmine and banish all gloom,
While times flies away with the jar—
Oh! what can excel, my lads, can ye tell,
A long trip in a rail-road car?
Adown they may glide the steep monntain side,
Or rest "neath the aged oak tree—
But the startling scream of the piping steam,
And a life on a rail, for me.
ftliscellancous.
THE STUDEN 'S BRIDE.
BY EDEN LOWTHER.
“ A year ago—a year ago—now will I make
you confess,”” said Blanche ; ** can you remem
ber a year ago ™
“Perfectly,” replied the Student.
“This very night !
“This very might. I remember it more
perfectly because it was my birthday.”
* What were you doing! What were you
saying! What were you thinking.”
* Doing nothing. Saying nothing.”
“ Thinking 1" hon o %
“ Yes, 1 was thinking. Nothing, dear
Blanche, could be more unlike my last birthday
than my present. For a moment [ had gone
back to that joyless existence when your voice
recalled me to my present happiness. I was
alone in my soliary dwelling—alone in my
quiet chamber. You Jo not know what it is
to have a home which you enter without wel
come and leave withoat regret. The chari
ties of lile warined not for me. My chamber
looks ioto a burial ground. The very grass
feeds oan the mortal part of the mmortal.—
Nay, do not shudder.”
* | have never seen death,” said Blanche.
* And to me the dying and the dead are as
familiar as daily things,” said the Student.
“ Yet since I have known you, I confess [
cannot approach tlieim wich the same calm and
undisturbed spirit that [ was wout to carry.”
“Do not mention them,” exclaimed she ;
“they are but shadews ever our happiness.”
* Picture me there in my dismal chamber.
My lamp burning—my books around me.
Dust accumulating over my manuscripts, and
my manuscripts accumulating too, for he who
does not speak his thoughts must write them.
1 was always more lonely in the summer than
the winter, because my fire is in some sense a
companion, not for its comfort, but for its in
scrutable origin, its mysterious existence, and
its mighty power. Well, dearest, there sat 1
until well nigh overcome by a sense of oppres
sion, of sutfocation, by the torment of a parch
ed tongue, and heated brain. Oh, Blanche!
believe me that [ rejoice to see that smooth
brow uoruffled and unwrinkled by the toil of
thought.”
** Nay," said Blanche, *is not that so doubt
ful a compliment that | am almost bounden to
let you see it ruffled by a frown.”
* Indeed no. Men arrive at right conclu
sions through a long train of wearying argu
ment—women, by an iustantaneous and just
conviction. And indeed, dear Blanche, the
toil of the slave beneath the torrid zone, with
the lash at his back, is as nothing to the stretch
of mental labor. Through the whole of that
last birthday had I been taxing this poor in
tellect to the uttermost. [ had scarcely tast
cd food, nor exchanged word with any human
being. when the clock of the cathedral warn
ed me of the solemn and wirching hour of
night.”
“And then you went to your pillow to
dream!”
“1 did not.”
*“Then whither?”
“ Do not ask me.”
“I must know,” she answered, with pretty
waywardness.
** Ask me some other question.”
“Yes, but first answer me this. On your
allegiance.”
“I went into my dissecting room,” he said,
geavely and sadly.
Blanche hastily snatched away the hand
that he was holding, and with aun exclamation
of horror turned away. e
“[ knew,” he said, **that I should shock
and offend you; but now, dear Bianche, exer
cise your reason. Throughout that day I had
beeu pursuing a laborious iuvestigation, and [
went to illustrate and prove the trath of its re
sults. Believe me, that I could not lightly in
vade the sanctity of the dead, or approach it
with an irreverent hand. It was because I felt
the inveteracy of death, that 1 strove to grap
ple with it in its strong bholds—because 1 had
seen the tears of the orphan and the wife, that
I had labored through many days, and had
made it my companion through many pights
—for so 1 hoped te repel it in one of its bold
est forms ot approach. And now will you
think that my touch will pollute your hand
Seemingly Biaucbe dil not think so, for
she suifered him to retain it
¢ And the result 7 asked she.
“ The result,” auswered he. “Oh! the re
sult was, that I became acquainted with you,
and all other results were swallowed up in
that.”
**Shall 1 thank you or chide you for that
compliment !
“Do not ask me. To a certain extent I
ceased to think when I began to feel. The
intellects and the passions can never rule con-
Jointly. The one must triumph at the expense
of the other. Man might be wholly intellec
tual were it not for woman, but she makes
chains of our passious te bind us down to
earth.”
¢ Another doubtful compliment.”
It wanted but a week of the Student’s next
birthday—that next birthday was to be his
wedding day. Blanche had deferred it until
then. Women have a better tact at compli
meant than men after all. »
They were standing at an open window, a
little withdrawn from the festive group which
were assembled, taking no share in the past
time of the hour, and occasionally silent even
to each other. There is a deep quietness in
bappiness which belongs not to joy.
* You are silent 1" said Blanche.
“Ouly because I feel the utter emptiness
-of words.”
* Fill them with your thoughts.”
* They may couvey thoughts, but not feel-
ings.” =
& *They have done for Eve and all her des
cendants,” said Blanche, with a smile.
« Shall I infer,” said he, * that women feel
less than man—that your (eelings are less in
tense than mine 1"
* Because [ am too happy bothin the pres
ent and in the future to be sad, and you are
not s&" -
¢« Sad, dear Blanche!”
* Ay, you cannot deny it. And indeed when
you are in these silent moods, and I look on
you and your eyes see me not, and 1 watch
the gatherings of thought upen your brow,
and the gradual gloom that overshadows your
countenance, I say to myself that you were
never made for the happiness of this fair
world.”
“You make me sad now in reality, because
I have the fullest trust that your happiness is
implicated in mine.”
“Indeed I was not selfish enough to remem
ber that.”
“ And I was selfish to have forgot it even
for this little snatch of time. Perhaps it may
be my own individual fault ; and yet is it not a
law of our common nature always to be antic
ipating the future rather than enjoying the
present? Come, dear Blanche, we will for
get the future (is it not curious to forget what
has never been ?) and be happy in the present.”
“1 will not be happy now, said Blanche,
with a smile.
“ And why not 7
‘ Because you are leaving me for a week.””
“To return for ever.”
The Student had returned—all things had
gone prosperously with him. He had made
the final arrangements for his expected bride
—his relations had concurred in his views—
every thing was hopefal and happy.
Never to the Student’s eye had the sun
shone so brightly, nor the earth looked so
gaily, nor the world appeared to be arrayed so
invitingly, as on that last day of his return.
Never had he felt such a buoyancy of spirit as.
when he entered the house where Blanche re
sided.
But suddenly a chill cmn*ver him—what
and why was all this? Thehouse was dark
ened, the domestics moved stealthily and spoke
not above their breaths, a dreary stillness, a
mysterious awe hung heavily over all. The
Student staggered, gasped for breath, asked
why these things were so, and was told that—
Blanche was dend !
They led him to her chamber, and he saw
her again—saw her wan, white, motionless,
wrapped in the cerements of the grave-—he
saw the coffin and the shroud—he was among
the company of mourners, and heard that most
awful of earthly sounds, the rattling of the lit
tle handful of mean earth on the last tenement
of the earthly frame !
It was night when the Student entered his
lonely chamber. The soil of dust was over
his mourning garments, but the quiet, self
collected mien betrayed neither haste nor agi
tation ; yet, notwithstanding this external pla
cidness, there was an expression in the depths
of his eye and the compression of his lip that
chilled the heart of his solitary domestic, who,
after long watching and an enforced silence,
would gladly have heard the sound of any hu
man voice. But words of comfort and offers
of services seemed alike intrusions on the Stu
dent. “My lamp, and leave me,” in the deep
sepulchral tones of the master’s veice, sent the
man in sadness to his bed.
The student was alone—alone in the true
meaning of the world—aund that is not when
we are solitary in our dwellings, but when the
world holds notan object of whom our thoughts
can make a companion. It was the saddest
and the deepest hour of night, yet that hour
so mournful and soltitary ta him, elsewhere
rang with the carousals of protracted revelry.
His mind glanced for a moment over the mirth
ful meeting—the board crowned with plenty
—the wine flowing—the charm ot cheerful
voices—and the ringing of merry laughter :
but what are these to him, except to force on
him the countrast between the festal apartment
and his own dark chamber—between hearts
overflowing with gladness in all its varied
chanuels of jest and joy, and the deep despair
ing hopelessness of his own soul !
“Itis over!” said the Student, * this dream
of earthly happiness, this delusion of human
passions—and it is well that it should be so,
for is not happiness another name for selfish
ness ! Witness myself—have [ not been lov
ing, doting ’—and gradually has all creation
narrowed round me, until the great purposes
of existence were lost or nearly so—until the
world, to my blind perception held but my
treasure and myself! Ay, thisis the happiness
of the world—the pleasure of the passions—
given to all men—the crowd, the herd—they
love and are loved. It is the happiness of the
earth, earthy. The passions chain us down
to this lower world, but, as the links loosen,
the intellect connects us with loftier spheres.”
“ And yet I loved her! loved her as a mi
ser does his gold, as a spendthrift his pleasure
—ay, even as the pious love their God ! Sci
ence secemed a soulless drudgery while I list
ened to her voice ; its greatest speculations, its
noblest discoveries, were dull and stale to one
cheerful word, to one glance of her laughing
eye. One snatch of wild melody from her lip,
one echo of her light footstep, was enough
io win me from that noble philosophy which
mouunts the skies, and marks the broad line of
demarcation between the sensual and the sage.”
“ I will be calm, however ;—are not the fac
uliies of the mind of higher lineage than the
passions of the heart, and shall they be slaves
to its wild throbbings "
The Student laid his watch before him—
melancholy thing whereby we measure life !
he laid it before him in the dim light of the
lamp, his eye fixed upon its movements, and
his hand pressed upon his own heart.
If the ravings of despair are sublime, surely
fortitude is true nobleness. There stood the
Student, calm in his utter hopelessness, the
dim light reflected on his features, with his
eye fixed on the silent memento of time, the
noble outline of his figure and the intellectual
cast of his head partially revealed. Whe can
tell, in the five minutes that ensued, what
thoughts passed through the chambers of his
mind—by what discipline the body wasbrought
into subjection to the mental monarchy.
“I am calm,” said the Student, * calm
enough to count the pulse of dying infaacy.
1 am not yet beyond the pale of my own sub
jection. The tumulis of the body belong
‘solely to the tyranny of the passions, and I,
who have now nothing to hope, can have little
to fear.
l “ And now to my task.”
Tke Student took the dim lamp, and passed
from the dark and gloomy chamber into one
still more dark and gloomy. Reader, follow
not if death affright thee, for it was the cham
ber of death.
The Student had surrendered all human
passions, had immeolated all buman feelings
—a stern pleasure took their place—-he was
diving into the deepest mysteries of God’s
creations—the mysteries of the human frame
—that frame so *‘fearfully and wonderfully
made.”’
Ay, thou my body, part and parcel of my
self, poor, and weak, and vain, and impotent, I
am dizzy when I thivk of what thou art; and
those powers of thought which are inhabiting
within thee wonder at the strange partner
ship!” ¢« When shall I know even as [am
known !
Beautifully does light approximate with joy
and happiness, and truly is darkness the sign
and symbol of woe. How undeceiving is the
instinct of the child, who trembles to be alone
in the gloom of the night—night, the season
for evil sprits, for sadness, for sighing, and
sorrow! The Student entered the deep mel
ancholy gloom of that lowly chamber with a
noiseless step—the presence of death has a
greater majesty than that of living kings,
though it be but in a peasant’s dust, for the
impress of the Maker’s image lies legibly en
graven there. The Student entered calm,
composed, subdued, with the most perfect and
the clearest possession of all his faculties—
but we—oh ' we shudder to think that there
lay a fair young girl, in the cerements of the
grave, and that the Student stood with the
long, sharp-pointed instrument of glittering
steel, exempt from all human sympathies all
human passions, and aspiring to explore those
mysteries which occupied the mind of Deity
in the creation, with a lofty pleasure that seem
ed superior to all the happiness of this world’s
gladness.
But stay ;—what means this emotion of the
human sympathies, this softening of the heart,
which passes over the features of the stern
anatomist, as he siands with the glittering steel
suspended over the form of that youug girl?
Does he think of the violated sanctity of death?
does he think of the sacrilegious touch of the
despoiler of the grave ou the sister, the mo
ther, the wife? does compunction and the
touch of human sympathies press round his
heart? No. He thinks of the dear one he
had just consigned to the grave—just such a
fair hand had Blanche placed within his own
when last they parted ; the vigour of his mind
was gone, the shining blade fell from his hand
and shivered into fragments, a mist gathered
before his eyes—the strong man shook like the
veriest infant.
But now—is it the weakness of his vision,
or is it the fiction of his distempered brain?
—did the white hand move ?—did the faintest
echo of a sigh strike upon his ear 7—did some
low breeze undulate those vestments of the
grave? or wasit—could it be the veriest, faint
est breath of mortal life ?
A moment and all the noble energies of the
Student’s mind returned. He lifted the cov
ering from the face, raised the drooping form,
drew round her his own dark mantle to hide
the dismal cere-cloths, and then, with long
and patient care, and with more than the mo
ther's trembling tenderness over the couch of
her dying infant, sought to win back the trem
bling, the fluttering, the uncertain pulses of
life. Who can tell the apguish of that hour,
when, but for the brief breathing-times of hope,
despair must have paralyzed his exertions.—
But at length—oh joy !—the blue eyes slowly
opened, and, as they rested on him, the pale
lips relaxed into a faint smile, and Blanche
lived !
Tue £xp oF * GrßeaT MeN."—Happening
to cast my eye upon some miniature portraits,
1 perceived that the four personages who oc
cupied the most conspicuous places were Alex
ander, Haniba), Cisar and Bonaparte. 1 had
seen the same unnumbered times before, but
never did the same sensation arise in my bo
som, as my mind hastily glances over tlieir
several histories.
Alexander, after having climbed the dizzy
heights of ambition, and with his temple bound
with chaplets, dipped in blood of countless na
tions, look down upon a conquered world, and
wept that there was not another world to con
quer—set a city on fire, and died in a scene of
debauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the astonishment
and consternation of Rome passed the Alps—
after having put to flight the armies of this
** mistress of the world,” and stripped three
bushels of gold rings from the fingers of their
slaughtered knights, and made her very foun
dation quake—was hated by those who once
exultingly united his name to that of their
god, and called him * Hanni Baal,” and died
at last by poison administered by his own hand,
unlamented and unwept, in a foreign land.
Cesar, after having conquered eight hun
dred cities, and dyeing his garments in the
blood of one million of his foes, after having
pursued to death the only rival on earth, was
miserably assasinated by those he considered
his nearest friends, and at the very place, the
attainment of which had been the greatest
aim of his ambition.
Bonaparte, whose mandate kings and prin
cess obeyed, often having filled the earth with
the terror of his name, after having deluged
Europe with tears and blood. and clothed the
world 1n sack-cloth—closed his days in lonely
banishment, almost literally exiled from the
world, would sometimes see his country’s ban
ner waving o’er the deep, but which would not
or could not bring him aid.
Thus these four men who, from the pecu
liar situations of their portions of their por
traits, seemed to stand as representatives of all
those whom the world calls * great”—those
four who severally made the earth tremble to
its centre, severally died—one by intoxication,
the second by suicide, the third by assassina
tion and the last in lonely exile !
“ How are the mighty fallen ?”
UNPUBLISHED ANECDOTE OF THE LATE
CuarLes MatTHEWS.—Matthews could effect
so extraordinary a change in the appearance
and expression of his face, by simply tying up
the tip of his nose with a piece of catgut, that
he has frequently taken leave, as if for the
evening, of a company, amongst whom were
some of his most intimate friends, and return
ed to them some time afterwards, so transform
ed, that not one of them has recognized him.
He once indulged in this frolic in a manner
as whimsical as it was remarkable. He was
dining with an acquaintance, Mr. A——, re
spectable pawnbroker in the Strand. In the
course of the dinner Mr. A—— was sum
moned to the shop below, upon some business
of sufficient importance to require his person
al attention. Presently, Matthews snatched
a couple of spoons from the table, quitted the
room, disguised his face in the manner de
scribed, put on his hat, left the house by the
private door, and, entering the shop, offered to
his friend himself the two spoons in pledge ;
having received the sum he demanded, and a
duplicate, he re-entered the house, and quiet
ly resumed his seat amongst the company.—
Upon the return of Mr. A——. to his utter
amazement, Matthews placed before him the
duplicate and money which, but a few min
utes before, his entertainer had given to him
for his own property, removed from his own
table!
The following is said to have occurred in
London during the Rebellion of ’45, when the
Pretender was making forced marches towards
that metropolis :
Amongst all ranks of men who were alarm
ed on that occasion, three persons confined in
Newgate—a condemned criminal—a debtor
and a soldier, expressed their anxiety for their
country’s welfare, in the following manner
What! says the criminal, the rebels within
60 miles of London! Then we have lost our
LißerTy! Ah Tom, says the debtor (fetch
ing a deep sigh) and our ProPERTY too.—
The poor soldier overhearing their discourse,
cries out with great vehemence, D—n your
LisertY and ProrErTY! what will become
of our RELigiox ?
Dry Humor.—An Irish post-boy, having
driven a gentleman a long stage during tor
rents of rain, the gentleman drily said to Pad
dy, ¢“ Are you not very wet?” ¢« Arrah! 1
don’t care about being very wet, but, plase
your honor, I'in very dry.”
A gentleman upon being asked whether he
was seriously injured wheun a steam boiler ex
ploded, is said to heve replied, that he was so
used to being blown up by his wife, mere
steam had no effect upon him.
“ Hark ! exclaimed Talleyrand, during the
revolution of the three days, *‘the tocsin
sounds! We triumph!” ¢« We who?” ex
claimed one of his friends. * Hist!" said the
old diplomatist, * I will tell you that tomor
row !” o
It is no inconsiderable part of wisdom to
know how much of evil ought to be tolerated ;
lest, by attempting a degree of purity imprac
ticable in degenerate times and manners, in
stead of cutting off the subsisting ill practices,
new corruptions might be produced for the
concealment and security of the old.
Deliriums are dreams not enriched by sleep;
and all dreams transport us back to youth.
DODGE & BROTIIER
WILL DYE AND FINISH in the best man
ner, Satins, Lustrings, Gro de Naps, Me
rinos, Alpines, Velvets, Hosiery and Gloves, Rib
bons, &ec. &. . oS ,
~ ALSO.—LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’'S
GARMENTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Gentlemen’s zarments cleaned without ripping.
Merino Shawls, Carpets, Blankets, Piano and
Table Covers, &ec. cleansed with a superior finish,
and without injury to the borders or colors.
Having one of the most entensive establish
ments, furmished with the latest improvements in
machinery, and possessing every desirable con
venience, the public may be assured that their
work will be done cHeEaPER and in a STYLE not
surpassed in the Union, and with such despatch
as to insnre the confidence of its patrons.
OFFICE FOR RECEIVING GOODS, No.
92 Westmisster STREET, directly opposite the
Universalist Meeting House, a short distance
west of the Arcade.
J. M. HALL—CITY EXPRESS—Rep Tor
Waccon will eall for Carpets &ec. any time and
in any part of the city by leaving orders at Her
rick & Handy’s, Carpenter & Angell’s, Carpen
ter & Greene’s, Weybosset st. and other places.
Providence, April 13, 1344.
TIIE subseriber having received from siessrs.
A. H. Gale & Co. of New York, the sole
agency for this State for the sale of their superi
or mproved six, six and a half and seven octave
Piano Fortes, with French grand action, metallic
plates, long sound boards, lyre and harp pedals,
stump feet and sunk castors, tubes or iron bars,
centred butments, hollow bottoms and venered
backs, begs leave to say that he has now on hand
and is constantly receiving a supply of the above
named instruments. These iastruments will be
warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Persons
desirous of purchasiug are earnestly invited to call
and examine for themselves at 5 Westminster or
9 Weybosset street.
m 2 HENRY C. SHELDON.
A CARD TO THE AFFLICTED.—Those af
flicted with the Rheumatism, are informed
that this Ointinent is one of the best Medicines
ever applied for that complaint, and if the direc
tions are strictly adhered to will relieve the pa
tient of pain in a few hours, causing the swelling,
if any t{:ore is, to go down. There are many
people in this city and other places who are ready
to attest to its merits from experience and several
certificates can be seen, if required.
CERTIFICATE.
G This is to certify, that I was attacked, n
August, 1342, with a rheumatic affection in the
back. hip and knee, the pain being so severe I
could not walk or dressmyself. Tused medicine
of different kinds without any relief, until T ob
tained a box of ITALIC OINTMENT. Before
I had used one box I laid aside my crutch and
cane and have felt little or nothing of it since.
JESSE B. SWEET.
Providence, Jan. 7, 1343.
NOTICE TO APOTHECARIES, IN OTHER PLACES.
Those who wish to procure this ointment to
sell again can be s™ppiied at the corner of Eddy
and Elm streets, Eddy’s Point, at the house of
Mrs. J. 8. EDDY, the only place in the United
States where it is made.
N. B. All percoms having this Ointment for
sale, will be named with this advertisement in the
Republican IHerald and Daily Express.
It is at present sold only by Dr. J. A. WADS.
WORTH sign of the Great Mortar, Cheapside,
J. BALCH & SON, No. 42 South Main Street,
HENRY H. BURRINGTON, No. 57 High st.,
CHAS. DYER, Jr. 42 Westminster street, and
GEORGE W. GUILD, No. 200 South Main st.
Providence,—HAlLE REMINGTON, Fall Riv
er, Mass.—S. ROBBINS, Brooklyn, Conn.—
JOHN L. BARBER, Exeter, R. 1., and by the
proprietor at the place above mentioned, where
also can be had various articles of Thompsonian
medicine.
~ Price 75 cents per bottle. One bottle will ef
fect a cure in nine cases out of ten.
Providence Feb. 8, 1843.
FOR the cure of white swellings, scorlulas and
other tnmors, uleers, sore legs, old and fresh
wounds, sprains and bruses, swellings and infla
mation, scald head, sore breasts of woman, rheu
matic pains, tetter, eruptions, chilblains, whitlows,
biles, corns, and external diseases generally. It
is likewise greatly superior to any medicine here
tofore discovered for chafed backs and limbs of
horses; for ringworms, chapped lips, and in short
for every external bodily evil which may full to
the lot of man or beast.
The proprietor of this noble specific can posi
tively state, without fear of contradiction, that it
is vastly superior to any compound ever discover
ed, or at least that is known in these days, in the
cure of the above complaints Indced, too much
cannot be said in its favor -for there is nothing
more certain than its efficacy in the matters for
which it is recommended ; and the speed and per
fection of its cures are such as to have the appear
ance of being miraculous.
No house should be without this almost univer
sal ointmeant, for the inmates of all houses are lia
ble to scratches, scalds, bruises, burns, corns,
chapped lips, &c., fiom any or all of which they
can receive but little injury, if they have a box of
Harrison’s unrivalled specifice to contend with
them. For piles and saft rheum it surpasses all
other remedies. PO e
The genuine article is for sale by the agents,
Dr. J. A. Wadsworth, at the sign of the Great
Mortar, Cheapside, and Henry H. Burrington
57 High st., Providence.
FOR COUGHS. COLDS, ASTHMA, or
PHTHISIC, CONSUMPTION, WHOOP
ING COUGH, and all Pulmonary Affections and
Diseases of the Lungs, this is believed to be the
most popular and efficacious Medicine ever known
in Awmerica, for proof of which, we would refer to
those who have used It, and to the numerous
certificates of Physicians and others attached to
the inside wrapper to each bottle.
A distingnished physician says ‘ he regards it
asasafe convenient, and very ¢fficacious medicine,”
another * that it has justly acquired a high reputa
tion and so far as he can learn has never disap
pointed the reasonable expectations of those who
have used it.
5" Be assured that itis not genuine unless one
or both of the written signatures of SAMPSON
REED or WM. JON’N CUTLER, are found at
tached to a yellow label onablue envelope. (All
labels of and after the date of Dec. 1839, will
have the written signature of Wm.Jon'n Cutler.)
Prepared by REED, WING & CUTLER, (for
merly Lowe & Reed) Wholesale Druggists, 54
Chatham St., Boston, and sold by J. H. Mason,
J. A. Wadsworth, J. R. Balch, Providence, and
Druggists, Apothecaries and country merchants
generally. Price 50 cents. 6m* n 29
TEMPERANCE GROCERY,
AT No. 50 Broad street; where may be had
A a generaland genuine assortment of" staple
and fancy Groceries, suited to family consump
tion, at reasonable prices.
Cash or goods will be given for clean cotton
and linen rags, 8. W. WHEELER.
THE PEOPLE'S EXCHANGE.
No. 8§ ARCADE.
ANEW ENTERPRISE.
THE subseribers having received the confidence and patronage of alarge portion of the trading
community for the purchase of desirable and cheap :
DAT QOB Yy
Have thought it expedient to give their establishment a title (and a beautiful cut as above,) by which
it shall be readily designated and their advertisements easily referred to in the newspapers, and they
would, with this introduclion to their friends. renewedly solicit their heretofore liberal patronage,
assuring all purchasers that their stock of
FASHIONABLE AND STAPLE BRY GOODS,
Shall be such as to meet the demand ef buyers of the best taste and the closest economy—they will
visit the New York and Boston Markets almost weekly and no pains will be spared to supply their
store by frequent purchases, with the best styles of Goods which the markets atford, and they wonld
repeat that it is their determination to conduct their business on such principles as will secure the
confidence of all who like honorable dealing.
They would call the attention of their customers to a great variety of goods recently
received, comprising a full assortment of
DRESS GOODS
L g e S S (NS AT T LR SR T
Embracing Silks, Mouslin de Laines; Piesans, Brocade, Balzarines, Organdes, Lawns
s ? S ’ ’
&e. &e. &e. A great variety of
DRAW GOODS,
Shawls, Gloves, Hosicry, Cravats, Linen FHandkerchiefs, Linens, Damask Table Linen,
Diapers, &c. &ec., together with a large stock of
WOOLEN AND DOMESTIC GOODS,
We need not repeat that we sell cheap, as this fact is well established, we will only allude to our
motto, viz: ““ sinall profits and quick sales.” McKEE & CATLIN.
3" New Goods the first of next week. a 6
THE PEOPLE’S STORE.
No. 22 NortH Maiy STreeT, PROVIDENCE.
One Price asked and no abatement
TIIO)IAS REID & CO. have just received
and are now opening a very cheap and splen
did assortment of Dry Goods, purchased within a
few days in New York at the present ruinous pri
ces, and which will be sold at a very small advance
from cost for cash only. Our goods are all fresh
and all of the lalest styles, and have been purchas
ed by an experienced purchaser at the lowest cash
prices. We intend keeping every article called for
in the above line, and will have all our goods
marked in plain figures, so that no advantage will
be taken of our customers.
IN connection with the dry
goods business we will con
tinue onthe manufacture and
reparing of Umbrellas, Par
\ asols, and Walking Canes.
Having made an addition to
our pre:nises,and having en
gaged some ofthe mostexpe
rienced workmeninthe trade
we can now manufacture,
sell, orrepair Umbrellas, Par-
asols, or Walking Canes, as cheap as any estab
lishment in the United States.
THOMAS REID & CO.
my 27 at 28 N. Main st.
BELLS., &
SAMUEL W. WHEELER
Agent for Holbrook’s Bells,
Clocks, and Organs, No. 50
Broad street, Providence, R.
1. Bells from 50 to 150 Ibs.
generally on hand.
[s3°Old Copper bought as
,above in large or small quan
tities d 7
PIANO FORTES CHEAP.
4. A RARE CHANCE is now of
fered to those who wish to buy
9 ~ §¥ Piano Fortes. :
The subscriber has just received twelve very
superior toned Piano Fortes, some of them splen
did imstruments, purchased under circumstances
which will warrant his selling them at 15 to 20
per cent cheaper than instruments of the same
quality have ever been sold. Every instrument
warranted to give the most perfect satisfaction.
Please call and examine them, at
THURBER'S,
jell 33 and 35 Westminster street.
SPLENDID WATCHES for sale.
SAMUEL H. WALES would inform his
7%, friends, and the public generally, that he
$1::%48 has this day rec’d a splendid assortment
of Watches, of all kinds, patterns and sizes, patent
levers, patent vertical watches, horizontal, lepine,
duplex and verge Watches.
These are a part ot an invoice of Watches just
imported from Liverpool and London, thciy are
of the latest patterns, some of them very handsome
figured cases. The prices will correspond with
the recent reduction of duty. They will be put
in peifect order, and warranted to performn well.
Please call at No. 6 Market Sqnare, and examine
them before purchasing elsewhere.
P. S. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired in
the best manner, and at short notice. tf 02l
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint,
TH E Patent Medicine Stomachica et Hepetica,
formed by chemical analysis and synthesis
of several proximate vegetable principles, are
universally acknowledged to have totally eclipsed
the pretentions of every other remedy and super
seded the necessity of every other mode of treat
ment, wherever the above complaints are found
to exist, as well as an enlargement of the spleen
and in jaundice. T & i
Persons afflicted with these fashionable and
hitherto considered almost incurable diseases, are
under lasting obligations to the great scientific
skill and deep research of Dr. J. P. Peters.
Dr James Ewell, author of the Medical Com
panion, or Family Physician, gives testimony to
the following :
“To all whom it may concern.<This is to cer
tify, that I have witnessed the operation of Dr.
Peters’ Medicine Stomachice et Hepatice, in a
number of very obstinate dyspeptic and liver af
fections of long standing ; hikewise in several cases
of enlargement of the spleen, and their effects
were truly astonishing. I have no hesitation in
declaring them the most valuable preparation for
those distressing ailments that have ever come
within my knowledge.
JAMES EWELL, M. D.”
~ Dr. Wadsworth, at the sign of the Great Mor
tar, on Cheapside, and Henry H. Burrington, 57
*High st., are the only agents for this city. jy3
TO THE PUBLIC.
DOCT. J. C. DAVIS would respectfully in
form the pubiic, that he has a sure amf im
mediate cure for the present }')revailing epidemic,
known as the influenza or Tyler Grippe. All
who have the misfortune to be affected with this
complaint, may in a very short space of time be
entirely cured, and at a very trifling expense.
All other complaints so prevalent at this season
of the year, may be entirely cured in the same
short space of time, with no trouble to the patient.
and with the same reasonable charges.
A thousand sygnatures might be given to Frove
the efficacy of my medicines for these complaints,
were it deemed necessary. But as most people
prefer to be cured themselves, than to read the
certificates of others, I would invite them as soon
as they feel the earliest symptoms, to repair im
mediately to my office, corner of Clifford and Eddy
streets, and be cured at once.
. N. B. About three hundred persons have
been cured of these com‘plaints within the last
few weeks, by the nse of my simple medicines.
} C. DAVIS, Botanic physician.
Providence, July 12, 1843.
WASHINGTON HOUSE,
THE subscriber has leased this well known
House, (formerly kept by Mr. Winch, and
at an earlier period by the subscriber himself ) for
8 years, will be happy to wait npon his former
customers and all who may favor him with their
patronage. JOHN ANDREWS. ml 3
FEMALE PHYSICIAN,
| .
; I\_’[l{s. MOTT, the very justly celebrated Fe
{ male Physician, corner of Lynde and Cam
bridge streets, Boston, Macs., wonld inform the
| public of Providence, Pawtucket and vicinity, that
! she intends visiting their city for three days in
| the Spring and Summer months, and may be
{ consuited on all diseases incident to the human
frame. She will be at her rooms, at Mr. Scott
| Smith’s, No. 40§ Westmiuster st. nearly opposite 1
| the Arcade, (Entrance on the side of the house,)
| Monday, May 27, and remain until the following
| Thursday, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. She
| is constantly receiving ROOTS, GUMS, BAL
| SAMS and ESSENTIAL OILS, by the steam
| ships from Enrope—not to be obtained in this
country, with which she is enabled to cure or re
‘ lieve diseases that have baflled the skill of the
most eminent physicians.
I The following are such as have been treated by
| her with so much success for the last fourteen
years in the United States, viz:—Fits, Rheumat
ism, Gont, Decline, Debility, Liver Complaint,
Female Weakness, Falling Sickness, Hemerhoids.
Piles, Asthima, Phiusie, Catarrh, Tic Doloreaux
Neuraglia, Nervous Symptoms, Jaundice, Dys.
pepsia, Worms, Humors, Scorfula, Salt Rheaum,
Kings Evil, Canker, Ring Worms, Sore Heads,
and all other cutaneous disorders, Diabetes. dis
eases of the Kidneys and Dladder, and many oth
ers 100 numerons to mention,
[ss° No mercury or Minerais of” any kind used
in her practice.
Females laboring under various weaknesses so _
peculiar to their sex, can consult Mrs. Mott, with
the utmost confidence of being relieved and posi
tively cured, as after many years of research and
practice, she has been rewarded for her strict
study by finding a certain remedy for their com
plaints, some of which are so very dangerous.
MRS. MOoTT
Would particularly inform those persons that may
wish to consult her, that cannot make it conven
ient to visit her at her residence, that she can
readily prescribe the necessary medicines for
their complaints, by being informed by letter or
otherwise, the full particulars of the case.
Medicines forwarded to all parts of the United
States and Canadas by the various expresses from
Boston.
Ali letters from the country, post paid, prompt
ty attended to.
RIIEUMATISM,
Of however long standing can be positively cured
by the use of Mrs. Mort’s celebrated Essential
Oils and strengthening Medicines.
FITS. |
This dreadful and dangerous disease, of how
ever long standing, can be cured without fail by
the use of Mrs. Mort’s Fit Mixture. This medi
cine is so well known that it requires no further
commentsupon the certainty of its effectinga cure.
ASTHMA AND PHTHISIC. ‘
Persons troubled with these dreadful diseases
can meet with almost instant relief and speedy
cure, by applying to Mrs. Morr, who has been
so very successiul in curing this disease, having
very seldom, i’ ever failed in performing a per
manent cure. ‘
TIC DOLOREUX
This distressing complaint can be cured without
the use of the Lancet.
DIABETES.
Overflow of the Unine.—Many suffering under
these alarming symptoms, are not aware of their
danger. and with what rapidity they undermine
the constitution by neglecting to apply for aid, or,
as in too many instances, not receiving proper
treatment upon application, they are brought to
an early grave. Mrs. Mott has, after long research
discovered a sure and certain remedy, which by
long practice she has proved so thoroughly, that
she does not hesitate to prowmise a certain cure.
PILES. PILES.
Mrs. MorT has long treated this prevalent and
painful complaint with success, in ali its various
stages. The manner of her treatment in this, as
in all other diseases, is mild and strengthening,
and when all other remedies now in use have
failed, she will warrant a speedy relief and sure
cures to those afllicted.
No connection whatever with the Misses Hunt,
her foriner pupils. m3O
LUCINA CORDIAL.
DIAGNET‘S LUCINA CORDIAL, for the
sure and speedy cure of incipient consnmp
tion, barrenness, impotency, lucorh®, or whites,
gleet, obstructed, difigcuh or painful menstruation,
incontinence of urine, or involuntary discharge
thercof, and for the general prostration of the
system, no matter whether the resunlt of inherent
causes, or of causes produced by irregularity, ill
ness or accident.
The wide spread celebrity of this wonderful
and inestimable cordial in both hemespheres is a
suffidient guarantee for its quick and positive
success in curing all the above affections and
complaints. Nothing can be more surprising
than its invigorating effects on the hnman frame.
Persons all weakness and lassitnde before taking
it, at once become robust and full of eneregy
under its invigorating influence. It immediately
counteracts the nervelessness or looseness of the
female frame, which is the only cause of barren
ness ; and which, prior to Dr. Magnet’s discovery,
was considered incurable. And it speedily re
moves the imfiediments produced by physical
prostration, which frequently deter men from
getting married. Language, indeed, cannot do
justice to the morits of the Lucina Cordial, which
is regarded by the heads of the faculty in all parts
of the world as one of the most important medical
discoveries of any age Price $3 per bottle.
Sold at 43 and 45 N. Main st. and 57 High st.,
Providence. jy3
GORDAK’S MEDICINES.
A FRESH supply of Doct. Gordak’s Med
cines just received—The Jelly of Pomegra
nate; Peruvian Pills; Pulmonary Jelly or Cough
Drops; Prussian Liniment; Salt Rheum Ointment;
Colomba Drops ; Physical Drops ; Corn Plaister;
Iceland Jelly ; Strengthening Plaster ; Strength.
ening Drops; &c. at No. 1 Market Square, by
J2O A. H. STILLWELL, Agent.
Providence.
LONDON AGENCY, -1
THE Subacriber baving received his Commis
sion dircet from Messrs. Morrison, Moat &
Co., of the British College of Health, London,
as sole agent for the State of Rhode lsland, for
vending their HYGEIAN UNIVERSAL MEDI
CINE, the public may rest assured, that, should
any medicines be ofiered for sale in this State,
purporting to be Morrisox’s Hyceiax Usiver
saL Mepicines, of the British College of Health,
London, by any person except myself or my
authorized Agents, as named below, wiLL sE
COUNTERFEIT.
The Hygeian Medicines rest solely on their
own inirinsic merits, which preclndes the neces
sity of spending thousands of dollars annually,
in advertising and puffing, as is the case with
many other medicines now before lhedpublic.
Nothwithstanding that the celebrated Morrison
Pills of the British College of Health, have been
£0 many years before the public, in e\'er{ civiliz
ed nation on the Globe, and although their sal
utary eflects have been acknowledged by tens of
thousands of persons on both sides of the At
lantic, yet are there, even to this day, some
places where their useful properties are but little
Emuwn—or. if known at all, where their kealth
giving and health restoring virtues have been
confined within an extremely limited and exclu
sive sphere As in cases with all the medicines
that have become popular with any community,
these pills have been counterfeited in every pos
sible way that the most cunning ingenuity could
devise, and their valuable excellence depreciated
by every species of fraud, misrepresentation and
abuse. Where they have been tried, however,
well and fairly tried, none have been found but
to praise and recommend them. The afllicted of
almost every tongue and land, who bave been by
their use resusicated irom the very last stages of
disease, have spoken of their inestimable worth,
in langnage that has put to shame even the bold
est effrontery ; their eflicacy in cases where every
other remedy has proved unavailing, is a trinm
phant answer to every imputation which the most
base and mercenary have been able to invent.
Since the death of the elder Mr. Morrison,
even many of those who most rancorously op
posed him, have done him and his high character
and principles the justice which they withheld
from him while living ; and but very few have
now the temerity to deny the correctness of the
theory which he advocated so many years, and
the iruth of which he succeeded to establish by
an experience and practice greater than has ever
fallen to the lot of any other man. The manu
facture of the medicine is now, as for some time
past ithas been, under the immediate supervision
of the sons of Mr. Morrison.
SAMUEL YOUNG,
107 Westminster st., Providence, R. I
I Agents as at present appointed by said
Young—Mrs. Ann M. Eddy, Newport; Eliphalet
Young, Wickford. 523
DOCT. COLLINS’ PILLS.
YIELDXNG to the solicitations of my numer
ous patients, I now offer to the public a
safe, efficacious, and certain remedy for all cura
rable Bilious complaints. Most diseases arise in
the first instance from obstructions in the liver,
stomach, or bowels—sometimes in all. These
pills reach in their operation these several organs,
evacuating and cleansing them, without impair
ing in the least their healthy functions. They
remove congestions in the head, and break up
fevers and violent diseases. Persons who are at
all subject to such complaints, should always have
a box at hand, as they may be taken while at the
usual occupation, requiring but little variation in
diet; always proving easy, safe, and successful
in their operations. One or two taken on going
to bed, is sure to remove costiveness, and all
those obstructions =0 ruinous to the health of *
young females. They are eminently calculated
for persons at sea,or in sonthern climates. Once
useK and they supersede the use of other medi
cine. [ Warranted not to contain a particle
of mercury. _—
The fol{owing testimonials of the beneficia.
effects of these Pills, are selected from numerous
certificates now in the possession of Dr. Collins:
CerTIFicATE OF THE REv. Wy, Stovypr.—
Thiz may certify, that I was for a lengil of time
severely afflicted with burning in my stemach and
upper part of the abdomen. It continued unti
I was unable to attend to my accustomad avoca
tions. Having tried many remedies without any
relief, some five or six years since I applied to
Dr. Collins, and obtained some of his Anti-bil
ious Family Pills, which in a short time removed
the complaint; and I have never been troubled
with it since. I find them an easy and safe rem
edy for bilious complaints, for removing conges
tion, and for cleansing the stomach.
' WM. STOVYER, Bap:ist Elder.
Warwick, August 1, 1841.
I hereby certify, that 1 was afllicted for a grea
length of time by a severe cough, and was en
tirely cured by taking Dr. Collins’ Anti-bilions
Pilis. I found them to be an easy physic, and
can recommend them to the public as such.
SUSANNAH NICHOLS.
Scituate, June 1, 1841.
This will certify, that I have been out of health
and afflicted with a severe headache, and have
been entirely reheved by taking Dr. Collins’
Family Anti-{ilious Pills; and I think them supe
rior to any other pills that I have ever taken.
Cranston. July 1. MARIETTE ANDREW.
This may certify, that I have been long afllicted
with a liver complaint and vertigo in the head
and have been greatly relieved by taking Dr.
Collins’ Anti-bilious Pills. I think them a valua
ble medicine, and would recommend them to
all persons afflicted with chronic complaints, or
in any other case where the stomach needs clean
sing. MARY BROWNING.
Scituate, July 1, 1841.
This is to certify, that we have used Dr. Col
lins’ Anti-bilious Pills, and have found them to
answer the recommendation given them, and
think them valuable in many complaints.
CALEB ATWOOD,
ISAAC PECKHAM,
MARY A. BARNEY,
ELIZABETH PECKHAM.
Cranston, Jan. 8, 1841.
[ The above valuable medicine is sJld, at
wholesale and retail, by the subscribers, sole
Agents. at Nos. 36 and 33, Weybosset street.
GROSVENOR & CHASE.
Providence, Aug. 13, 1841.
Providence Thompsonian Depot
and Botanic lnfirmar}y.
~ NO. 105 WESTMINSTER STREET,
THE subscriber would respecifully inform his
friends and the public generally, that he has
taken the entire charge of the above establish
ment, where he can be seen and consulied, as
usual, in regard to all the diseases which the hu
man frame is subject to. No pains will be spar
ed to render the situation of patients as pleasant
and agreeable as possible. Medicines put up for
use, with directions adapted to all complaints.
Simple and Medicated Vapor Baths given at a few
minutes’ notice. Advice gratis. A large assort
ment of genuine Thomsonian Medicines, Shaker
Herbs, &c constantly on hand and for sale whole
sale and retail. No poisons made use of in the
cure of disease, being satisfied that they do no
good. bat on the contrary much injury. Patients
will be attended to, either in or out of the city,
and seldom failing medicines will be administered
as their cases may require.
D. P. B(L’KER, B. T. Physician.
N. B. From the Boston True Thomsonian :
—* Dr Buker’'s advantages for becoming aquaint
ed with the Thomsonian practice have been
excellent, and his well known faithfulness to his
patients, his enterprise and prompt business habits
will, we doubt not, insure him his full share of
patronage.”’ nlB
TO THE PUBLIC.
THIS is to Certify, that I have sold to SawvEL
Youxe my Receipt for making the Spiritus
Vite. and as I have not, and shall not dispose ot
said Receipt to any other person, the public may
rest assured of obtaining the genuine article by
applying to Samuel Young, at No. 107 West
minister street. DAVID PICKERING.
The subscriber having purchased of Rev. Da
vid Pickering his Recipe }:)r making the Spiritus
Vite, a supply can at any time be had, by apply
ing as above. SAMUEL YOUNG.
This medicine is useful in numerous cases, as
an external remedy. 3
It may be depended on as the most efficacious
remedy for Lockjaw, Hydrophobia, Bite of poi
sonous serpénts, or Felons, Chronic Rheuma
tism, White Swelling, Nervous Headache, Colic,
Diarrheea, Spasms, Sprains, Bruises, Cramps,
Chilblaius, &c.
Directions for use with the wedicine ;to be
had of Samuel Young, Proprietor, or his author
ized Agents. E
AGENTs Forß THE ABovi.—E. Young, Wick--
ford ; Anna M. Eddy, Newport ; John O. Water
man, Olneyville ; John Dodge, Dodgeville.
For sale, as above, Richardson’s Bitiers, Spen
cer’s Pills, Waterman's and Griffith’s celebrated
Plasters. 27