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OUR HOMESTEAD.
BY MISS PHOERE CAREY,
Our old brown homestead reared its walls,
From the way side dust aloof,
Where the apple boughs could almost cast
Theur fruitage on its roof,
And the cherry trees so near it grew,
That when awake I've lain,
In the | nesome nights, I've heard the limbs,
As they creaked ngainst the pane ;
And those orchard trees ! O, those orchard troes !
I've seen my little brothers rock *d
In their tops by the summer breeze.,
The sweel briar under the window sill,
Which the early birds made glad,
And the damask rose by the garden fence,
Waere all the flowers we had.
I've looked at many a flower since then,
Exotics rich und rare,
That in other eyes were lovelier,
But not to me so fair; ‘
For those roses bright—oh, those roses bright,
I have twined them with my sister's locks,
That are laid in dust from sight,
We had a well, a deep old well,
Where the spring was never dry,
And the cool drops down from the mossy stones
Waere falling constantly,
And there never was water half 8o sweet
As that in my little cup,
Drawn up to the curb by the rude old sweep,
Which my father’s hand set ux:
And that deep old well, O, that deep old well,
I remember yet the Mlnl sound
Of the bucket as it fell,
Ounr homestead had an ample hearth,
Where at night we loved to meet ;
There my mother’s voice was always kind,
And her smile was always sweet :
And there I've sat on my };nhor’- knee,
And watched his thoughtful brow,
With my childish hand in his raven hair—
That hatr is silver now !
But that broad hearth’s light, O, that broad hearth’s light !
And my father’slook, and my mother’s smile,
They are in iy heart to night.
THE ACRES AND THE HANDS.
JBY DUGANNE,
“The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,”
Says God’s most holy word :
The water hath fish, and the land hath flesh,
And the air hath many a bird ;
And the soil is teeming o’er the earth,
And the earth hath numberless hands ;
Yet millions of hands want acres,
While millions of acres want hands,
Sunlight and breeze, and gladsome flowers,
Are o’er the earth spread wide ;
And the good God gave these gifts Lo men,
To men who on earth abide ;
Yet thousands are toiling in poisnous gloom,
And shackled with iron bands,
Whiie millions of hands want acres,
And millions of acres want hands.
Never a rood hath n'poor man here,
To plant a grain of corn—
And never a plot where his child may cull
Fresh flowers in dewy morn ;
The soil lies fallow, the weeds grow rank,
Yet idle the poor man stands !~
Ah ! millions of hands want acres,
And milhions of acres want hands.
Miscellancous.
Prom the New Orleans Picayune
THE LOST MAN:
A PRAIRIE SKETCILI.
Au unfortunate trader once sirayed from big
companions, and was lost four or five days, suf
fering the keenest pangs of starvation. [t was
years ago, vet the story has only been told in
otal repetition among the old traders, and has
never before to our knowledge, fallen in the
way ol a scribe,
The man wandered away upon asultry mid
summer alternoon, oppressed to desperation
with thirst, 1o scarch of water, ~hile the cara
van was dragging slowly stong the dreary aund
heated prairie. Mohing his way to a cluster
of limber (bnl flppefl’cd at no Vel'y (edlUu. (“"
tance ke was fortunate enouch 1o find a small
<ool spring gushing and vippiing at the bottom
of a deep rocky hollow. The fresh water, the
cool shade of the deep rock, und the trees a
bove, together with the knowledge that the wage
ons were still moving along w sight, induced
the poor fellow to yield to his weariness and
suffer his eyesto close. When he awoke, the
grey of the eveniog was deepening around the
prairie, and rushing up from the hollow, his eye
wandered about in search of Lis companions.
He was a raw adventurer, upon his first travel,
knowing nothing of how to direct his steps in
the wilderoess, and trusting eutirely to the guid
ance and experience of those with whom he
travelled. Hasty, impulsive and rash as he
was careless, and without possessing a single
quality of character to assist him in such an
emergency, confused terror at once took pos
session of him, and starting as he thought in
the direction where he Lad last seen the wag
ons, he ran with headlong speed, shouting wiln}-
ly at every step, in bopes of being heard and
answered by his companionps.
The terriffed man, bereft of all thought by
the fear(ul nature of hLis predicament, could
not even remember to fire the rifle he held,
but continued tearing his lungs with wild and
desolate cries for assistance. While rushing
blindly forward in this manoer, the night sull
deepening around him, the man met with a
violent fall and was stunned into insensibility
for some hours. We are giving now the sub.
stauce of the poor fellow's own relation. He
carue back to consciousness some time during
the night, in the midst of a pack ol howling
wolves, and found himself lying by the side of
a buffalo’s skeletou, not yet entrely stripped
by the prowling dogs of the desert, = A situa
tion more appalling to heart and nerve cannot
be imagived. The man doubted vot but that
be was aroused prematurely from his state of
torpor by the hungry creatures assaulting his
own body. for his clothes wore mauled aud
torn, lndythe scratch of a claw was on his leg,
though a tooth, it seems, had not yet touched
him. He had tripped upon the skeleton, and
struck his forehead on a horn or some other
part; as he discovered a huge lump upon his
bead, which also ached distressingly when he
came to his senses,
The poor fellow in the heat of his terror.
made out to scare away the wolves from him
self, and escape from the spot, icaving the fam
ished avimals to return again to the buffalo's
bones, und give themn a cleaner polishing.—
Just escapiog from one frightful danger, per
haps took something from the keen horrors of
his desolate and wretched condition, but the
ushappy maa's sensations were harrowing and
fearful in the extreme. He siill pressed on
ward, bis strengih fuiling at every step, calling
in harsh and broken shirieks to his friends, and
changing his course again and again, in utter
and miserable uncertainty of which Wiy to turn.
Daylightcame, the sun rose, noon approach
ed and passed, and the lost man was slone in
the descrt, famishing and faint, and without a
solitary hope of reguining his companions, or
finding the track they were pursuing.
That vight the unhappy wretch sank ex
hausted upon the grass and slept, to awaken
10 & state of fear and danger more apalling e
ven than the night before. A compact and
inoumerable band of buffaloes came moving
slowly across the region of the prairie on wihich
he lay, and he sturted from sleep in imminent
peril of beinr‘ trodden to death by the huge
monarchs of the plain. As these dense mass
es of bufluloes move, they emit sounds that
rine in the air like a sea surge, and as the vast
black berd came towards bim in deep mid
vight, the poor trader declared that a rolling o
cean secmed about to overwhelm him. Ul
terly paralyzed with his danger, the unfortu
nate man could but start to his feet and stand
confounded, fearing either to fire or to use
other means (o alarm the buffaloes, lest by ex
citing their terror, he shoyld but increase his
own peril. From this critical position, how
ever, e likewise escaped unburt, for the ani
mal separated. as is their Custom, when a
strange scent is detected, and passed on in two
divisions, keeping some Iwo hundred yarde
clear of the mysterious intruder in the middle.
Daylight '..o.f”i' “ppeariog. as the last of
the vast herd of creatures pessed him, and the
man was starving !
He lok aim with his rifle at » retreating
baffalo ; and missed fire, for byis percussion cap
was damp with the night dew. Still he was
famishiong, snd bis on) hope seemed 1o be
the slaughtering of a lnflulo. He followed
crawling on bhis bands and koees, and, ufier
hours of weary watchiog and labor, wounded
a cow at last with a successful shot, and the
teriified creature limped away, and the whole
band disappeared, while the poor trader fell
prostrate, too exhausted and faiot to make an
other effort in the pursuit,
The unhup[:{v wretch lay groaning aloud, a
lone in the midet of an interminahle waste, a
bandoned to desperation and deapair, when the
‘ thin bark of a prairie-dog attracted his atten
tion. Once more he charged his rifle, fur the
, little creature was iln sight, with its nose lifted
[ just übove the mound surrounding its hole.—
The starving man lay prostrate upan the earth,
took slow and cautious aim at the dog, and
was fortunate enough 1o knock it out of its
hole with a broken back ; but before he conld
reach the spot, the dying creature had wrig
gled back into its hole and d.sappeared. With
his ten fingers, the desperate maa caked up the
earth, and succeeded 10 dragging the dying
dog out vpon the grass, where without wait
g to finish his agony, he tore its warm flesh
with his teeth, like a wolf, while the expir
ing creature was still biting his fangers.
This unnatural sustenance restored the
drooping man, and he was enabled 10 resume
his warderings, which he continued thicee more
days and nights, alone, desolate and nuserable,
runnl he encountered a hauting party of Ca
manches, whom, 8o {ar from avoidiug, he rush
ed to embrace, as though they were kindred
near and dear, and the best (riends he could
meet on earth. They were friends, as it turn
ed out, for they set him upon the track to re
gain his comrades, with instractions to direct
him, and buflalo meat 10 support him, paying
themselves by stripping bim of his rifle and
everything else of the slightest value he had
about him,
~ After four days' travel the poor trader reach
ed his friends again, and was welcomed as one
from the geave. Upon the evening of his loss,
search was made in all directions, and signal
guns fired which he wonld have heard, had he
not been lying insensiliie by the bulale's skel
elon. Search was also continued upon the
succeeding days, as the caravan moved along,
but his wanderings had been so irregular tend
ing in a far and opposite direction, that it was
impossible to trace him. The five days suffer
ing of this unfortunate man may te but faintly
imagined.
A SQUINTING JURY.
Once upon a time, or to be a little more
particular, nearly hall a century ago, (for the
editor of this paper well remembers the time,
place and scene, which are firmly fixed upon
his boyish recollections,) there dwelt in the
tOWD Of e, in old England, a remarkae
ble oddity, in the person of an attorney at law,
who, although vot fair to look upon, (for bhe
was in truth one of (he homeliest specimens
of bumanity ever belield by wortal man,) was
withal a person of sound yudgment, great be
nevolence, varied learning, a poet, painter, and
a wit of no mean order,
It 8o happened that the aforesaid gentleman,
G e (===, K3l, was appointed high sher
iff of the town of e, [de was a man of
fortune and had a kind heart, as many a poor
prisoner could tesufy, who partok of (he
good cheer with which the prisoners were lib
erally supplied at Christmas, and other well
known festivals, from the private purse of the
sherifl.
It was of course the duty of the high sher-
Ml to summon a grand and petit jury, to at
tend at the quarter sessions of which the re
corder, mayor and alderman of the borough
fcumpmed the court. In the performance of
his official duty in summoning the petit jury,
‘our high sheriffindulged in some of the strang
est and drollest freaks that have probably been
heard of in any other town or country. Inthe
first place he sumimoned for the October courr,
a jury consisting of twelve of the fattest men
he could find in the borough, and when they
came to the book to be sworn, it appeared
that ouly nine jurors could sit comfortably in
the box! After a great deal of sweating,
squeezing and scolding the panel was literally
Jammed into the box, and when seated, they
presented to the eye of the court, the barrister,
and the andience, ‘the tightest fit' of a jury
that was ever seen in a court room. Literally
they became, much to the astonishment of the
court and its robed advocates, ‘a packed jury,’
and no mistake.
For the Jaouary term, our facetious high
sherifl (in consequence, it was "s4id, of some
hint from the recorder, that there should be
no more fat panels sunmoned to his court,)
(went into the opposite extreme, IHe sum
moned twelve of the leanest and tallest men
‘ he could find in the borough ; and when they
took their scats in the box, it appeared com
‘paratively empty—there was indeed room for
twelve more of the same sort and dimensions.
~ Forthe Aprilterm of the court, our humor
ous functionary summoned a Jury consistiog
of twelve barbers. Now it so bappened that
among the latter, were the very perruquiers
who dressed the recorder's and barrister's wigs,
and some of the latter, arriving late at the bar,
had to appear that morning in the court with
their wigs undressed or half dressed, so as to
cut a very ridiculous figure, amidst the swiles
and half suppressed laughter of the bystauders.
T'he high sherift enjoyed the fun amazingly,
but looked ‘grave as a Judge,” while he tried to
keep silence in the court room.
Buthe crowning joke of this waggish func
tionary occurred at the summoning of his
fourth and last jury, at the summer session, in
July. For that térm of the court, the high
sheriff not having the fear of the recorder, the
mayor, and the aldcrinen before his eyes, act
ually summoned a squinting jury 5 twelve as
queer looking bipeds as ever took theis seats
in a jury box—a jury that was probably more
looked atthanany of the appointed twelve that
ever were sworn, to well and truly try and
true deliverance make between their sover
eign lord aod king, and the prisoner at the
bar.!
But the scene was so irresistibly droll that
the learned recorder could not maintain his
gravity. The mayor and alderman followed
suit. The barristers luughed while their wigs
became bald, powderless : nay, even the poor
‘prisouers iu the dock, who were to be put up
“on their trial, and some ofthem undergo trans
porttation, could not refrain from joining in the
general cachivation! And when the learned
recorder commanded the high sheriff 1o bring
the court room to order. and intimated with o
hall suppressed taugh, that the later ought to
be ashamed of himself for summoning such a ju
ry, the drollery of this court scene was height
ened considerably by the quick, ready, and
sonorous respouse of the high sheriff, who,
looking at the same time at the squinting jury,
exclaimed—‘all good and lawful men, your
hooor.'
TALLEYRAND AND ARNOLD.
' There was a day when Talleyrand urrived
io Havre, hot foot from Paris. {l was in the
' darkest hour of the French Revolution. Pure
' sued by the bloodhounds of the Reign of Ter
ror, stripped of every wrech of property or
power, Talleyrand secured a passage to Amer
ica in a ship about to sail. He was going a
beggar and wanderer to a strange land, to earn
his bread by daily labor.
‘lstherean American stagingat yourhouse !’
he asked the lundlord of bis hotel. | am
bouad across the water,—~and would like « let.
to some person ofinfluence in the New World.
The landlord hesitated a moment and theo
replied ; :
“There is a gentleman up stairs, either from
America or Britaio, but wheither an American
or Englishman 1 cannot tell,’
e pointed the way, and Talleyrand—who
in his life was Bishop, Prince, and Prime Min
ister—ascended the stairs. A miserable sup
pliant, he stood before the stranger's door,
knocked and was admitted.,
Ia the far corner of a dimly lighted room
sat a gentleman of some 50 years, his arms
folded and his head bowed 1o his breast.—
From a window direcily opposite, a flood of
light poured over his forehead. His eyes
looking from beneath the downewst brows,
gazed in Talleyrund’s face with a peculiar and
searching expression. Ilis face was striking
in its outline ; the mouth and chin indicative
of an iron will. Llis form, vigorous even with
the snows of fifty winters, was elad in a dark
but rich and distinguished costumo.
Talleyrand advanced—stated that he was a
fugitve—and under the impression that the
gentleman before him was an American, he
solicited his kind offices.
He poured fourth his history in eloqueat
French and hroken English.
‘Lam a wanderer—an exile. lam forced to
fly tothe New World without a friend or hope.
You are an American! Give me then | be
seech you a letter of yours, so that | can earn
my bread. lam willing to toilin any manaer ;
the scenes of Puaris have filled me with such
terror, that a life of labor would be a paradise
to a career of luxury in France. You will
give me a letter to one of your friends. A
gentleman like you has douliless many
friends.’
‘I am the only man bornin the New Waorld
who can ruise his hand 1o God and say—l have
not a friend,—not one—in all America.
Talleyrand never torgot the overwhelming
saduess of that look which accompanied these
words.
‘Who are you ! he cried, as the strange
man retreated towards the next room. *Your
name !’
*My name,"—with a smile that had more
mockery than joy in its convulsive expression,
my name is Beoedict Arnold.
He bas gone. Talleyrand sunk into a chair
gasping the words : Arnold the I'raitor.’
Thus we see, he wandered over earth an
‘other Ciain, which was a wanderer's mark up
on his brow. Even in the secluded room at
that lon of Havre, his erime found him out
and forced him 10 tell his name—that name,
the synonyme of infamy. |
The last 20 yeam of his life are covered
with a cloud, from whose darkness but a few l
gleams of hight flash out upon the page of his- |
'0".
Trusr 10 Provivence.~The Natcliez
Courier tells an auecdote, in which this spir
ited admonition is brought humorously iuto
play. Itruns thus: )
*An old gentieman who does not live more
than a thousaud miles from an adjoining
county, had two negroes, named Paul and
Providence. These negroes were as dissimi
lar in habits as it is possible for negroes to be.
Paul was an industrious, thrifty negro, and
was thought a great deal of by Lis master,—
His patch of melons and vegetables was the
best kept and most flourishing on the p'anta
tion, and iu all things did Paul excel his fellow
negroes. Providence, on the contrary, was u
lazy, trifling fellow, and had to be frequently
punished io order to get sufficient work from
him to pay his board. His patch was never
hoed or cultivated inany degree. T'he weeds
completely outgrew and overshadowed his
vegetables. T'he seed once in, and the cares
of Providence were ended. He *trusted to de
good Lord,” was his favorite expression, and
conscquently, never brought the services of a
hoe into requisition to disencumber bis little
garden spot of the rank weeds which were
choking his vegetables 10 death. We wish
we could stop here, but candor as a fuithful
histortan, compels usto record that Providence
was often charged by Paul with pilferiog from
his patch!
' Well, Paul, one Sunday morning, was dis
covered, by a Methodist preacher on his way
} to the neighboring meetinghouse, in his gar
| den patch hard at work. The minister stop
| ped, called him to Ihe roadside,and commenced
expostulating with him oun the impropriety of
working on the Sabbath—told him that it was
wrong—that the Sabbath was a day of rest,
and that, instead of being at work, he should
be at church, listening to the word of God,—
Now Paul had avery high regard for his char
acter, and forthwith commenced explaining to
the minister the circumstances which some
times compelied him to hoe his patch on Sun
day. He seid that his work was very hard,
that at that season of the year darkies had very
little spure time, and that'if his pat :h was not
hoed on Suunday, all his plants would be ru- ‘
ined, &c. The minister told hia: that his rea
soning was not good, that he should do a)l he |
could week days, ‘and trust the rest 10 Prov- 1
idence.' Can't do dat," said Paul; ‘Provi
dence is 100 d——n lazy to hoe his own patch!
besides dat, he steal wegetables from all the ‘
niggers on de place !*
Imponrance or Fresw Air.—Dr. Gris
com, lecturing in New York upon the impor
tance of air, u fact of which builders do not
seemn to be sufficiently aware in the construc
tion of houses, says the lungs can contain a
bout 12 pints of air, hough 94 pints isas much
as is inhaled at a single inspiration. In ord:-
nary and placid breathing we inhale about 1
pint at an inspiration ; public singers, when
they ‘take breath,” as it is called, inhale from
sto 7 pims. Eighteen respirations take
placein aminute ; it takes, therefore, 18 pinis
of air every minute ; and 57 hogsheads every
24 hours, to supply the lungs. Seventy two
pulsations occur in one minute, and 103,680
in 24 hours. The dark vemous blood passcd
and repassed fron the veins throught the heart.
to be purified into vermilion colored arterial
blood, by contact with fresh air in the lungs,
amounts to 24 hogsheads in 24 hours. It is
then sent through the arteries to nourish the
whole system, distributing the vitality, to be
recovered again (rowm fresh air in the lungs.
From the construction of some of our public
buildings, it would seem that the buiiders
thought that pints of air were sufficient, in
place of hogsheads.
A NEW ARTICLE POR THE DAIRY— lass
Milk Pans.—Gen. Tallmadge also exhibited
at the Farmer's Club a glass milk pan, import
ed from Fngland by a geatleman in the inte
rior of the State, who had sought in vain to
find them in our own markers. They are
coming into use in England, and there are
considered much preferable to any others. 1y
the milk becomes acid in a wooden pan, the
wood absorbs a portion of the acid, and must
in some degree, effect the fresh milk the fol
lowing day. Iv an earthan or tin pan, any
acidity in the milk will act upon the lead witl
which those articles are covered, and the milk
will be in some degree injuriously eflected,—
T'he glass pan is entirely exempt from any of
these effects, and hence its value. This sub
ject is well worth the attention of both our
farmers and glass manufacturers.— .V, Y., Adv.
MogAL Cuaracren,—~There is nothing
which adds so inuch to the beauty and power
of maun as a good moral character. It is his
wealth—his life. It dignifies him in every
station, exhaults him in every condition, and
glorifies him in every period of life. Such a
character is more 1o be desired than any thing
else on earth. It makes a man free and inde..
pendent. No servile tool, no crouching sy
-cophant, no treacherous honoi-seeker ever
bore such a character. The pure joys of]
truth and righteousness never spring in such |
a person. ffyuung men but knew how mach |
a good character would dignify and exalt them ’
~how glorious it would make their prospects,
even in this life ; never should we find them
yielding to the groveling and base born pur
posses of human nature.
An attorney in this vicinity once addressed
a man agaiost whom he had a *small demand
for collection,’ requesting him to *call and set
tle." Not receiving any answer, however, he
again wrote him, but with no better success.
After having seut him a number of letters, he
at last obtained one in return, in which the
debtor said he would ‘try and dew somethin’
when sleddin’came,’ and closed with : *But for
God's sake, ‘squire, don't write any more let.
ters, for it will take all the debt to pay the post
age.~Knickerbocker.
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of Europe, as well as those of our own country, have pro
nounced Epilepsy incurable. And it has beeu so consid
ered by many, until this most important of all discoveries
was made by Doctor 8, Hart, nearly sixteen years since,
during which thoe it has been rrrll-rmlna 50 1 eol the most
REMARKALLE CURES
upon record, and has acquired a reputation which time
alone cin etface. Physicians of undoubted skill and ex
perience, Ministers of various denominations, ns well as
hiundreds of our eminent citizens, all unite in recommend
ing the use of this truly valuable medicine totheir patients,
charge, and friends, who are afllicted, ns the only remedy,
WE QUOTE THE LANGUAGE
Used by those who have been cured by this valuable med
icine. One says, “I have suffered heyond my power of
description, but now I rejoice in being fully restored to
health and happiness.,” Another says, “I thank God 1
feel that T am a well man. [ also feel it my duty to pro
claiie it tothe ends of the earth, that those similarly atllicted
may find relief. Another, (who is an
EMINEN: LAWYER
and well known in this city,) says, ".\ly son has been
atllicted for years with Epilepsy, but is now enjoying good
health from the Ve‘otn‘;lo Extract. Its fame,” says he
Hshould and onght to be sounded to the ends of the earth.”
Another snys, “‘i.an nuage 1s entirely inadequate to express
my gratitude to Dr, fllfl. for having been the means, un
der the blessing of God, of restoring me to the q-n'Jnyuu-nt
of good health, after having been afficted with ipilepsy
ts worst forins for more than twenty three years, and
my inorning and evening obiation of praise and thanksgiv
g shall continue to ascend to that God who has aufflicted
but to make me whole,”
Mr. Stephen E. Pratt, corner of Rixth Avenue and Twen
ty-Sixth street, New York, states that Mr. Chas. H. Bough
ton, a mewber of his family has been so severely atflicted
with Epileptic Fits for many y -ars, that he was obliged to
relingui<h his business. Having used Dr. Hart’s Vegeta
ble Extract (says Mr. Pratt,) ho was soon restored to per
foct health, and left this city for the State of Olio to resume
his husiness,
Rev. Mr. Simith, Rector of 81, Peter’s Chureh, Spotswood,
New Jersey, who has been atlicted with Epileptic Fits for
more than forty years, states that he has unw‘ Dr. Hart's
Vegetable Extract, and his health has been so much im
proved that he hopes by Divine blessing, to have no more
Fits,
EPILEPTIC FITS,
t For twomy-nvan‘r}rn and six months, cured by the
use of this truly wonderful medicine,
« Read the following remarkable case of the son of Wm.
Secore, Ksq., of l’hilldo:rm‘l, afllicted with Epleptic Fits
twenty seven years and six months, After travelling
through England, Scotland, Germany and France, consult
ing the most eminent physicians, and expending }ur medi
cine, medical treatment aud advice threo thousand dollars,
returned with his son to this country in November last,
without receiving any benefit whatever, and was cured by
using
HART’S VEGETABLE EXTRACT.
I have spent over three thousand dollars for medicine
and medical attendances I was advised to take a tour to
¥aurope wi h him which I did, I first visited England, I
consulted he most eminent physicians there in respect to
his case ; they examined him and prescribed accordingly.
I remained there three months without perceiving any
change £ r the better, which cost me about two hundred
and fifty dollars, pocketed by the physicians, and the most
I received was their opinion that my son’s case was hope
less, and lEe)
g POSITIVELY INCURABLE.
I accordingly left England travelled through Scotland
Germany and France, and returned home in the month u}
November Inst, with my son as far from being cured as
When Lleft. I saw your advertisement in one of the New
York papers, and concluded to try Hart’s Vegetable Ex
tract, seeing your statements and certificates of so many
cures, some of twenty and thirty years standing, and 1 can
assure you lam not sorry [ did s, as by the use of Hart's
Voegetable Extract alone he was restored to
= PERFECT HEALT.
His reason, which was so far gone 28 to unfit him for
buiness is entirely restored, with the prospect now hefore
him of life, health and usetfulness. He is now 28 years of
age, and 27 years 6 months of this time has been afllicted
with this most dreadful of diseases, but thank God is now
enjoying good health,
Now, sir, faith without works I don’t believe in. To
say 1 shall be ever grateful to you is one thing, and as |
here enclose yon one hundred dollars, I have no doubt but
you will think this another and quite a difterent thing.
I'he debt of gratitude 1 still owe you; but please accept
this amount as interest on the debt in advance.
Yours, very respectfully,
(Bigned) WILLIAM SECORE.
THE TIME IS NOT FAR DISTANT
When thousands who are now trembiing under the hand
of this dreadful disease, and foearing that every attack may
prove fatal, will find permanent relief and be restored to
new life, by using this celebrated medicine,
OVER ONE THOUSAND CERTIFICATES
Have been received in testimony of the beneficinl results
produccd by the use of Dr. Hart’s Vegetable Extract,
Prepared by 8, HART, M. D., New York.
Price, one package, $3OO
Do four packages, 1000
Do eight lpm'kalen, 20 00
Itis carefully packed up in boxes for transportation, and
::m u; mlny part of the United States, Texas, Mexico and
‘est Indies.
THOMAS & MILES, 169 Main street, Cincinnati, Ohio,
General Agents for the United States, to whom all commu.
nications must be addressed ron paid.
A. B, & D. BANDE, 100 Fulton st, Agent for New York.
ABEL TOMPKINS, 48 Cornhill, A’enl for Boston,
OHARLES DYER, Jr, 40 and 42 W estminster st, Agent
for Providence,
And for sale by most of lhos»rlnclpal Druggists and Mer
chants throughout the Unite States, Canada and West
Indies. —sw& weow. oA
COMPOUND SYRUP OF DOCKROOT, DAN
DELION AND SARSAPARILLA.
w E,the undersigned, having made use or'the Compound
Ryrup of Dockroot, Dandelion nnd Sarsaparilla, (pre
pared IQ' Ambrose Morse, No, 142 Westminster street, cor
ner of Eddy,) ourselves or in our families, we have no hes
itation in saying that it is in our opinion one of the best,
safest, and most effectunl medicines, for the diseases for
which it is recommended, that we have ever used or been
acquainted with—
JOHUN GLADDING, 20 Arnold street.
JAMES BOYCE, 21 Carpenter street,
W. K. ADAMS, 154 Bonth Main street,
Mr. AMerose Morsx, having made known to me the
erwml by which he prepares his Coll:rnnd Syrup of Dock
oot, Dandelion and Sarsaparilla, I therofore #ay that the
process is i sirict accordance with well known chemical
~'\wn, and that the preparation must contain all the valua .
ble medicinal properties of the ingredients of which it is
composed,
And I hesitate not to u{. aftera good deal of experience
ol its use in my practice, for more than a yenr rnl. that |
Know it to be a valuable medicine for all those ¢ iseases for
Which it is recommended ; likewise the best medicine to
take to sea for preventing Beurvk Costiveness and Ship
Fever. CALEB BELCHER, M. D,
Providence, Jan, 11, 1848, Jy®
| MORSE'S COMPOUND SYRUP
f Ol" YELLOW DOCK ROOT, for purifying the blood,
&c. This Compound will remove and cause a perma
nent cure of all disenses uhia* from an impure state of
the blood, such as Scrofula, which presents itself in a va
riety of furms ; Salt Rheum ; King’s Evil . Pimples on the
Face ; Blotches ; Ulcers ; Erysipelas ; Ring Worm ; Costive
ness | flusmerntmnormuludo; Mercurial Disease«; Dys
| ropnm i Jaundice; Liver Cmn.rlulnta; Dropsy ; General
| hbm:]; Colds ; Coughs; Giddiness; and remove every
taint, from whatever cause it may arise, and completely
renovate the system. Taking into consideration the salu
tary effect of this medicine, together with the quantity sold
for the price, it renders it ‘oeldodl‘.lho cheapest prepara
ton in use. As fur as this article has been used it has sy
perseded all other preparations everoffered to the public for
the above complaints,
l({'l‘m- medicing is put up in quart bottles, with the
words—‘“Morse’s Celebrated Syrup, Prov. R. 1,” blown in
"'he lass, and «old for one ‘d{u per bottle, or six bottles
or five dollars,
‘ l“o'w::«:. u;ld N&VM:.R(I m.ll,by"lwnnwlflnr,
Y MORSE, Jr., and Apothecary, 167 (formedy
%9 Baad sseet, --3:“. R. 1 a 9
PROPOSALSFORCARRYINGTHE MAILS.
l'un:yb-n the act of Congress ’134 March, 1845, section 18,
“And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the Postmaster Geueral, in all future lettings of contracts
for the transportation of the mail, to let the same, in every
case, (o thy lowest bidder tendering sullicient guarantees
for l'lmlrul performance, without other reference to the
mode of such lramponutfun than may be necess ry to pro
vide for the due celerity corta nty, and security of such
trtwnsportation ; nor shall any new contractor hereafter be
required to purconse out, or take at a vialuation, the stock
or veliicles of any previous contractor fur the sawe route,”
{7 Bidders w!ll be careful to rend the forms and inst-ue
tions appended to this advertisement. ‘T'hey are requested
<0 state, in their proposals, the mode by which they intend
to convey the mail. Whese the size and weight of the |
mails, or the speed ealled for in the schedules, shall requi-e
It, the contracts will be made for conch, steamboat, or rail
road conveyance, as the ease may be; and, conseguently,
such routes will be let to Lids proposing such mode of con
veyance. In all other cases, the routes will be assigned to
bids proposing the chicapest mod» of transportation,
{7 Railroad companies are specially notified that thei
regular bids are to be under«tood as inclading the supply
of each uffice gn the line of their respective roads, not over
l';rmner of amile from a depot, Beoarate proposals for
offices more than aquarter of a mile off, will be considered.
PROPOS.\L! for carrying the mails of gho
United States from the Istday of Jnl{, 1849, to the 30th
of June, 1853, inclusive, in Rhode Island, will be received
at the contract office of the fost Office Depa:tment, in the
city of Washington, unti! 9 a. m., of the 4th April, 1849,
(to be decided by the 24th day of April, 1849,) on the routes
and in the manner and time herein a]gocmu', viz:
RHODE ISLAND,
601, From Providence nt 9 a.m., ev ry day, oxcort Sunday
By Vue de P'Eau, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, and
Postsmouth
To Newport, by 3 p. m, 29 miles
And back between 10am and 4 r m; with six ad
ditional weekly trips to Bristol 8 months of .he
year.
602. From Providence at 6} p m every day except SBunday
By East Greenwichi, Kingston, Ufuuu‘ock Mills,
Dorrville, and Westerly
To Stonington, by 9 p m, 444 mil s
And bacs between 24 a m and 5 a m.
603, From Providence at 3§ p m evvri dav, exeept Sunday
B{vl‘nwtuut. Warwick, and East dreonwicn
To Wickford, by Bpm, 22 miles
And back between 6 a m and 10 a m.
604, Frovidence at Ip. m, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
By Kninm-wll«,.‘Jnick,Cemrovillo,Coven'ry,Wnl
Greenwich, Pine Hill, Brand’s Tron Wurk-,‘ Hop
kinton, North Stonington, (Conn.,) Mystic, Centre
Groton, and Groton
To New London, by 5 p m next days, 57 miles
And back between 7 i m, Monday, 'Wodnndny,nnd
Friday, and 10 a m next days ; with thrév addi
tonal weekly trips to Coventry, 14 miles,
605, Prm:: :‘:uvuluncu at 12. m, Monday, Wednesday, and
riday
By Simmonsville, SBouth Scituate, Mount Vernon,
Rice City, Quondoe, and Moosup, (Conn.)
To Ceatral Village, by 5 p m, 30 miles
And back between 7 am and 1 p m, next days.
606. From Providence at 55 a mn, Monday, Wednesday,
and F iday
By North Scituate, South Foster, nnd South Killing-
Iy, (Cona.) to West Kallnu‘lg, by 11 a m, 26 miles
And back between 2p m and 74 pm, next days.
67, From Pr vidence at 5} a i, Tuesd .y, Thursday, and
Saturday
By Nor hi=cituate, Poster,and East Killingly,(Conn )
To {(illmgh', by 104 @ m, 259 miles
And back between 2} p m and 7§ pm, Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday
608. From Providence atd p. m, Monday, Wednesday, and
Saturday
B{_ Lippitt,
To Fiskville, by 7pm, 12 miles
And back between Gam and 10 a m same days,
l"m;_m-uh Tor six-times a-week service will be considered,
609, From Providence at 3 pmevery day, except Sunday
Il{ Friut Hill, Greenville, and Chiepachet
To Pascoag, by 7 p m, 19 miles
And back betwe n Gam and 10 a m; Frait Hill to
be omitted by three of the trips, each way,
610. From Providence at 7 a m every day, uc«ln Sunday
By Pawuwucker, Valley Falls, Lonsdale, Lime Rock,
Albion, Cumberland Hill, Woonsocket Falls, Wa
terford, (Mass.,) Blackstone, Slatersville, Millville,
Uxbridge, Whitinsville, Northbridge, Farnums.
ville, Wilkinsonville, and Milibary
To Worcester, by 93 a m, 44 miles
And back between 74 a m and 10} a mi ; with an ad
ditionnl six times-a week mail between 34 pm
and 6 pm going, and 3¢ p m and 6§ pm rturning.
611, From South Scituate at 6 p m, Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday
B{ Clayville
To Foster Centre, by Bpm, 6} miles
And back between 6 a m and 8 a m, Monday, Wed
nesday, and Friday
612. From Chepachet, at 6 p m, Tuesday, Thursday, and
Haturday
To Burrillville, by 7 p m, 3} miles
And back between 6 am and 7 a m, same days,
613, From Newport at 6 a m, Tuesday and l’rlw
By Jamestown,Narragansett, Tower Hill, akefield,
Perryville, and Charleston
To Westerly, by 7 p m, 37 miles
And bock between 6 am and 7 p m, Monday and
Thorsday.
614, From Newport at 8 a n, Friday
To New Shoreham, by 6 p i, 31 miles
And back between 8 am and 6 p o, Thursday.
615, From Wakefield at 6} a m overy day, except Sunday
By Peacedale and Kingston
To fimlmul Depot, by 8 a m, 6 miles
And back between 4 p m and 6 p i,
616. From Coventry at 8 a m, Saturday
BBy Noose Neck Hill, Woat Greenwich Centre, and
Escoheag
To Voluntown, (Conn.) by 4 p m, 26 miles
And buck between 8 a m and 4 pm Friday,
617, Fm:n ‘}\'eamly atBa m, Monday Wedno-day, and
‘riday
By Potter’s Hill
To Hopkinton, by 10 a m, 8 miles
And back between 10} i m and 12m, same days.
Form for a bid where no change from ad
vertisement is contemplated by the bidder.
“I (or we, as the case inny be) [here write the name or
names in fullj of [here state the residence or residence 1]
hereby propose to carry the mail on No, from to
as often as the advertisement requires, in the time
stated in the schedules, and by the following mode of con
veyance to wit : [Here state how it is to be conveyed,] for
the annual sum of § o
Form ofa guarantec to accompany cach bid.
“The undersigned [here insert the name of the guaran
tor or gllfll‘lllllul’n} guaranties that, (here insert name of
bidder or names of bidders, as the case may be,] if his (or
their) bid for earrying the mail from to be ac
cepted by the Postmaster General, shall enter into an obli
gation prior to the first day of July .ext, with rood and
suflicieut sureties to performn the service proposed.””
Form of Certificate,
Thenndersigned. postmaster of certifies that
the guarantors above named are sufficient and able to make
good the r guaranty,
Instructions.
1. Eeven minutes are allowed for opening and closing
the mails at all offices where no particular time s specified ;
but on railroad and steambout routes there is to be no more
delaythan is necessary to deliver and receive the bags.
2. The mail is 1o be conveyed in preference to passen
gers, and to their entire oxclusion, ill Its weight and bulk
require it,
:;. Post vfiice blanks, mail bags, and the special agents of
the department, on the exhibition of their credentials, are
to be conveyed without further change, on mail lines ad
mitting of such conveyance,
4. A\fnil agents are to be conveyod without charge on the
principal railroad snd steamboat lin s, where the size of
the mails and the number of the offi es will require their
empleyment by the department; and in that case, n sepa
rate apartment for the assorting and safe-keeping of the
mail is to be provided by the contractor, under the direc
tion of the departinent.
5. Tn all enses thers is to be a forfeiture of the pay of the
trip when the trip is not run ; a forfeiture of at least one
fourth part of it when the running or arrival is so far be
hind time asto lose the connexion with a d spending mail ;
and a forfeiture of a due proportion of it when a grade ol’
service is rendered inferior to that in the contract. These
forfeitures may be increased into penaltiex of higheramount,
according to the nature or frequency of the failure and the
lm'fmm\nre of the mul,
« Fines will be imwsed,mloss the delinquency be sat
isfactorily explained in due time, for failing totake from, or
deliver at, n post office, the mail, or any pa‘t of it ; for suf
fering it Lo be wet, injured, lost, or destroyed ; for convey
ingitina place or mannerthat exposes it todepredation loss,
orinjury ; for refusing after demand to convey a mail by
any couach, railroad ¢ 1, or stenmboat, which lgo contrac
tor regularly runs on the route beyond the specified num
ber of trips in the contract, and for not arriving at the time
set ; and for setting up or running an express to transmit
commercial intelligence in advance of the mail, a penalty
will be exacted equal to a quarter’s pay.
7. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for
repeated failures ; for violating the post office laws ; for dis
obeying the instructions of the department ; for rafulin; to
discharge a carrier when required by the department ; for
assigning the contract without the consent nlpt.he Postmas
urdflmmnl, or for setting up or ruaning an express as afore
sand,
8. The Postmaster General may alter the contrart, and
alter the schedule, he allowing a pro rata increase of com.
pensation, within the restrictions imposed by law, for the
additional service required, or for the increased speed, if
the employment of additional stock or ¢ rriers is rendered
necessary ; but the contractor uu\')". in such case, relinquish
the contract, on timely notice, if he prefers it to the change.
The Postinaster General inay annul the contract or curtail
the service, and pay when he wishes to dispense with the
service, in whole or in part, or place a higher or different
grade of service on the route, he allowing one month’s ex
tria pay on the amount dispensed with.
9. The payments will be made through drafts on post
offices or otherwise, aftor the oxpiration of each quarter—
sav in Fobruary, May, August, and November.
10. T'he distances are given according to the best infor
mation ; but no increased |u|{ Will be allowed, should they
prove to be greater than is advertised, if the p‘ucoun cor
rectly named. J
11. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from
knowingly making a contract for the transportation of the
mail with any person who shall have entered intoany com
bination, or proposed to enter Intnlnr combination, to pre
vent the making of any bid for a mail contract by any other
person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement,
or shall have given «r performed, or promised to give or
perform, any consideration»to do, or not to do any thlnfl
whatever to induce any other person not to MJ for a ma
contract. Particular attention is called to the 28th section
of the act of 1836, prohibiting combination te prevent bid
ding.
l;. A bid received after time, to wit: the 4th April next,
ALY a. m , or without the guaranty required by law, or that
combines several routes in one sum of “ompensation, ean
not be considered in competition with the regular proposal
not adjudged to be extravagant,
13. A bidder may offer, where the transportation ealled
for in the advertisement ‘- difficult or impracticable at cer.
tain seasons, to substitute an inferior mode of conveyance,
or to intermit servive a specified number of days, weeks,
OF months. He may propose to omit an office that is inac
censible, or is not on the stage road, the railway, or at a
steamboat lunding, as the case may be ; or he may offer to
substitute an inferior mode of Supply in such cases. He
may propose diffsrent days and hours of departure and ar
rival, provided no more ranning time is asked, and it is
“obvious that no mail connexion o other publle aceommo
dation is prejudi ed. He may ask for more running time
to the trip, during a specified numbor of days, at certain
seasons ul'romliavly bad roads ; butbeyond |‘on changes,
A proposal for service different from the advertisement will
prevent its being considered in competition wit)s a regular
LM not set aside for extravagance ; and where a bid con
tains any of the above alterations, th it disadvantages wil
be estimated in comparing it with other proposals,
14 There should be it one route bid for n a proposal
15. The route, the scrvice, the yearly pay, the bide®r's
e and residence, und the name,of each member of the
firm, where a company offers, should be distinetly stuted
also the mels of conveyance, if a higher mods than on
horseback 14 intended.
16, T'he bid should be sent under seal, nddressed to the
First Assistant Postmaster General, with **Mail Proposals
in the State of —— " written on the face of the letter
and should be despatehed in time to be received by or be
fore the 4th April next, at 9 o’clock, a. . It shonld be
guarnntiod, amd the sufficiency of the guarantors should
be duly certified. (Bee forms,)
2 1.1. ’X\\o contracts are to be executed by or before the st
uly next, g
15, Postinnsters at oflices situated upon or near railronds,
bat more thn eighty rods from a depot, w Ul tmmediately
after the 24th Apri! neat, reportthat faet to the departinent
stating their exact distunce from the railroad depot mu'
how otherwise supplied with the mail, to en ble llu “unl
master General Lo digect the proper supp.y to be made from
the railroad by mail messe gers, from und after the st
July next,
19 Under the act of 30 March, 1845, the route is to be
let Lo the lowest hidder, tendering sufficient guaranties for
faithful perforinance, withont other reference to the mode
of trunsportation than may be necessary to provide for the
due celerity, certainty, and security of such transportation,
When the lowest bid proposesamode of conveyanee that
is inadequate for the route in respect to the certainty ' se
curity, and celerity of the mails, aside from any accommo
dation for travel, t will not e entitled t» the route.
20. When the bid does not name a mode of conveyance,
Lit will be taken and naderstood to be for the lowest mode
of conveyance, it will be taken and understood to be for
the lowest mode of conveyance, to wit: on horseback.
When it proposes to earry according to the advertisement,
and no mode of conveyanee is stated for the route in the
advertisement, it will’ be considered as offering only for
horseback conv yance,
¢l Since the passage of the act of March 3, 1845, a new
description of bid has been received. It sp-cifies no mode
of conveyance, Lutengages to earry the mail with certainty ,
celerity, and security, using the terms of the law. These
bids are called, from the manner jn which they are desig
nated on the books of the departinent, “star bids.” It has
been decided, after mature consideration, that a bid pro
posing a upocfflc mode of cunve{nuce of us high a grade ns
two horse coach transportation s to be preferied to the star
bild. T'he experience of the department enables it to lny
down the followin : riles, viz:
When the mail on the route is not so large as to require
two-horse conch conveyance, a star bid, if the lowest, will
be preferred to the =pecific bid,
22, When the mails are of such size aud weight as to
r render it necessary orexpedient, in reference to them nlone,
| to provide two horse conch conveyance, the specific bid,
though the highest, will be preferred to the star bid, t the
extent of a moderate difference in the compensation, in
case the difference is not such as to interfere with the pol
lc'y of the new law, which looks to a reduction in the cost
o tmmrmullon. l-}xcepliom. howeve', may be allowed
where the star bid is made by the present owner of the
stock on the route, and it is manifest that the reasons for
preferning the speciiic bid do not exist in his ease.
23, On routes of the highest class, whre four horse coach
or steambont transportation is required by the size and im
portance of the mails, the preference for the specific bid
will be, if necessary, earried, to n greater extent of differ
ence than on the inferior coach routes ; subject, however,
to the exceptions ahove stated,
2L A modification of a bid, 1 any of its essentin! terms,
is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot he received, so as
to interfere with regular competition, after the last hour
set for receiving bids,
~ €, JOHUNSON, Postmnaster Genoral,
Post Orrice Devartmest, Dec. 18, 1848,
d3o—law 12w
ASTHMA! ASTHMA
The Asthma can be Cured !
THE ONLY REMEDY !
‘)R. PETER [ LEE has discovered a remedy that will
certainly and etfectually eure the Spasmodic Asthma,
A 8 has been dewonstrated in hundredsof instances beyond
all doubt, e asks the aitention of the atlicted to the fol
lowing letter from Rev. I, D, Williamson, who s well
known thronghout the United Stutes ;
Editor of the Star—lt is known to some of your readers
and many of iy friends, that 1 have recently found a cure
for Asthma, with which I have suffered severely for many
years. During my recent visit to the East, many anxious
inquiries were made as to the means of a cure which ap
penrs astonishing, °
T'o save further inquiries, and ‘also to put othersin the
way of procuring a like reiief, allow me to sy, that I pro
curced a prescription from Dr, Peter H, Lec, to which alone
[ attribute a cure I have every reason to helieve perfect
and radical. 1 have indeed no symptom orteeling of Asth
ma left,
Through a long period of fifteen years I have suffered
much—tried various medicines, and been acquainted with
hundreds of cuses and I am well satisfied that Dr. Lee’s is
the ouly prescription that can be relied upon. Gratitude
to him for the immeasurable relief he has broll'fhl me, and
i desire to serve the suffering, have alone induced me to
make this public statement, which [ do in the ntmost con
fidence that those who fullow iy advice will not be disap
pointed, I. D. WILLIAMEON.,
Cincinnati, Oet, 10, 1847,
In a letter sent Rev. Mr, Drew, of Augusta, Me., he says :
*“I have not taken a half bottie, and am well, and have
no fears of Asthma again, inasmuch as I have for the last
two months been exposed to all sorts of weather, and am
free from that complaint which has made mo a sutlerer
through long dreary years,”
l)r.ieo believes, fromhis knowledge of the medicine and
its eflocts, that the five cases will be permanently cured,
ifthe use of it is continued.
Now letthe reader examine the impartial statement of
Rev. Wm. A, llrew,nlilnrul'the(im-pclßnnner. of Angus
ta, Maine, and he will be in porsession of wctual experi
ments, He says :
‘“l'he editor of the Banner is no friend of humbuggery ;
and would not consent to receive any of this medicine on
sale until he had, by means of several bottles forwarded
through him ascertained to his own satisfaction, that it is,
on the whole, a good medicine. He did not require that it
-lmuhb.cure every body, for such a ,neh-uniun would be
humbdggery ; no medicine will cure in cw-v‘y case ; but if
he should ascertain that it accomplished the object in a
mujority of cases, he meant to consider the fact us enough
to establish for it a good claim to genernl confidence, e
has ascertained that in fifteen out of seventeen cases ithas
given relief; that in ten of that number it appears to have
effected a cure ; and that, in the other two cases, no effects
g-md or bad have heen perceived from its use. Justice,
owever, requires us to s.y, that these cases were quite
hopeless ones, which it was not really expected any medi
cine could reach.”
T'o this might be added hundreds of similar testimonies ;
but the following from the editor of the Starin the West
Who is personally acquainted with Dr. Lee, and knows ol‘
the sucesss of his medicine, is worthy of notice :
Tue Astuma Menicing.—Persons frequently write us
letters of inquiry about this medicine, to know i}ilhronlly
what it claims to be. Wecan only say that the certificates
in the Star are aeNviNg—to which might be added many
more of a similar character. Our own opinion is, that it
will pcnnnncml“ cure at least eight out of every ten who
are troubled with the spasmodic asthma. It is certainly a
very remarkable medicine, although we know nothing of
the ingredients of which it is composed. It is the ‘rut
medicine, we believe, ever made known that will cure
the spasmodic asthma of long standing. A physician of
this city said to the maker of the medicine a few days ago
“Tell me what the medicine is made of and 1 will give
you a hundred dollars ! It has cured an old gentleman, a
patient of mine, who has had the asthma these twenty
yvears!” He will only add some
IMI’UR'I‘.\N": CONSIDERATIONS,
Unlikequack medicines, it claims to cure but ene disense ;
and there can be no deception when a case of asthma is
cured. The complaint is of that nature, as all know who
have it. that it eannot be charmed away by faith or other
wise. A man with a cough may suppose he has the con
sumption, take medicine, und got well Perhaps he would
have recovered without it—but the medicine gets the cred
it The same is true of patent pills and other nostrums
which claim to cure almost all diseases, Not so with the
asthma. It generally follows a man all his life—and if he
therefore gets well after taking a certain medicine, he
knows that cured him. He cannot be deceived, and no
remedy has ever been discovered oxcept Dr. Lee’s that
will cure it.
To prevent imposition and counterfeits he designs to
confine the sale of it to a few responsible agents. e pre
fers that it shall become known more by its success, lfi:n
by extensive advertising.
All orders forthe medicine, wholesale should be directed
to JOHN A.GURLEY, Cincinnati, Ohio, who can send it
by express to almost any principal tovn in the United
States ; it may llWflYl be found at his bookstore on 4th st.,
five doors west of Walnut street. Price #3.
Jason Gurley, of Cincinnnti, Ohio, is the exclusive gen
eral agent for the medicine throughout the United States,
The medicine may be had of the Messrs. ROWE, No, 25
Market uLm\re, Providence ; of J. M., Twee, N 0.9 Bowery,
New York,and W, A, Drew, Augusta, Me Jy26
R ———
GREAT BLESSING OF THE AGE.
I‘/] ORSE'S (,‘omround Syrup of Yellow Dock Root—" The
demand for this celebrated article is daily increasing,
We are continually receiving orders from all parts of the
country for it. Our Agent says in a letter we received
from him this morning that he had orders on hand for 76
dozen bottles. It is the grentest preventive of diseanse ever
known ; persons who tnge this will not be attacked with
Summer complaints ; it is a great article to have in a family
to give to children to keep them well. l'rmmrod c‘ml! by
the proprietor, at 167 Broad st. C. MORSE, Jr.
ACCOUNT BOOKS, PAPER,
ND STATIONARY—The subscriber invi‘es atten’jon
A to his extensive and well selected stock of Account
Books, Paper, Stationery, &c.
Account Books, ruled to all the patterns in general use ;
al o manufactured to order to any pattern and sty le re
quired, and warranted to give satisfaction.
Writing Papers, of every description, including blue,
white laid and wove ‘uor and Cap Papers, of Enghish
and American manufarture ; Playing Cards,
Note Paper and Envelopes, plgin and funey,
ln'llk—!:ngli-h and American writing, copying, blue and
red Inks,
Sealing Wax and Wafers—Jones’, Vietoria Harp and
Dutch Crown Sealing Wax ; Royal, Scarlet and Red Wa
fers, assorted sizes.
Steel Pens, of Gillott’s, Windle's, Hertz’s, Perry’s and
Leman’s manufacture.
Gold Pens, from the different manufacturers.
Quills—A full assortment, of all sizes.
Whatman's Drawing Papers—A full assortment.
Slates—Hard wood f‘nmo School and Log Slates ; proce
tin Slates and Tablets,
Cutlery—Pen and Pocket Knives, Erasers, te;“
ter st
GEO. . WHITNEY,
f 7 Successor to C. Burnett, Jr, 3 Westminster
WESTMINSTER LIBRARY.
WI-I have established a circulating Library, with the
above name, in connexion with our booxstore, at 140
Westminster st, and shall be happy to receive the calls of
the reading community in town and country. We have
nearly one thousand voliumes to offer at the start, compris
ing the most valuable in every do_F:‘nmcm of Literature,
Blocnphy, llluorz. Voyages and Travels, Domestic Econ
omy, Poetry, all the best novels and the latest works on
the ancient and modern sciences. Additions will be made
from day to day of new works, as soon as they are issued
from tho‘rnu. Rich, rare and racy Antiquarian Works
will be added oceasionally. We shall endeavor to necom
modate the wants of the public and we solicit a share of
public patronage. WINSOR & PERRIN,
PAPER HANGINGS.
FIBN(‘H and American Paper Hangings—Hgxny Cosn
& Co, 116 Westminster st, have Justrec’d from France
AN assortment of elegant gilt and other l’u';ev Hangings
and Borders, Landscape Views and Fire Board Land.
weapes ; also, a handsome up‘dy of American Papers of all
prices and a great variety of ¢ cg'am printed Window Cur.
fains, ‘Those in want of the above articles are invited to
eall and examine them, as it is presumed that their assort
ment is as complete and will be sold as reasonable as ean
be found in the city. mi
LOOKING GLASSES,
2"0 DOZ common Looking (mnn.#m ree’d and for
sale unusually low at 51 and 53 North Main =,
r THOMAS WHITAKER& SON.
SADDLE, HARNESS AND TRUNK MANU
FACTORY,
SAMUEL WESSON,
NO, 4 NORTH MAIN STREET,
W()l«'l.u infosm his friends and the public that he is
still to be found at his old stand, No. 4 North Mgin
street, where he w uld be happy to furnish them with all
descriptions of articles in-his rine of buyyness,
Now on hand and for sale on the most favorable terms
a conrlo(a assortment of addles, Harnesses, common on(‘
travel "l’ Trunks, Valises, Carpet Bags, Portmanteaus,
Whips, Fly Nets, Collars, and a great variety of other arti
cles Loo numerous to mention. je24—ar
e, VD R SRS
ECONOMY IN KINDLING FIRES.
. (PATENT RIGHT SECURED.)
| The attention of lousckeepers, Ship Masters, Grocers, Man~
' Wacturers, Tin Smiths, &c, 1o invited to n Patent
00-:onlilm. called
CHEEVER'S FIRE KINDLING
WHICII i the best, most safe and ccom-uuu‘ article
ever used for kindling fires. Many testio onials as
to its utility might be offered, but a trial will convinee the
most incredulous. Fifty cents will supply one fire every
day for six months, 1t 'will dispense with the use of shav
ings and paper, and thus remove a very great risk from
“many houses, ‘luch package contains 24 cakes, each enke
10 inch squares, one of which, instantanconsly taking fire,
will burn with sufficient heat and blaze toignite bitnmine ns
coul; and by the addition of a few small pleces of wood or
charcoal will Kindle the anthra<ite, or by using a little
lm’lger quantity no other kindling i required,
‘o every shipmuster it will be of great utility and con
venience, as it is not affected by water or climute,
Dinecrions—After placing one or wore of the small
squares, (as the kind of fuel requires) in the bottem of the
giate or stove, put on the fuel, then a ply a lighted match
to the kindling underneath., One of th inch squares will
give a strsng and intense blaze from 15 to 20 minutes.
Manufuctured t-xflumvoly for GRAY, WOLCOTT &
GREENE, Industrial and General Agents, 3 Fpruce street,
New Yur k.
M. ROBINSON, general agent for Providence and vicin
ity, Howard’s U'lock, Musenum Avenue, of whon it can he
had wholesale nnd retail on favorable terms. Retail Lro
cers and others disposedto sell the above article are invited
to call and sec its operation, 4w dl6
WILDER'S PATENT SALAMANDER IRON
HA‘ FESQ
MANUFACTUNRED BY
SILAS ¢ HERRING, New York,
\ TRIAL was made before a Committee of eminent Mer
£A chants at the foot of Wall street Nrwr\’utk‘ for the
gunme of testing the fire proof ltunlltfuul' Wilder’s Patent
nlamanderr Safe, as compared with those elaimed for
Jesse Delano’s, ~ J, Gayler’s Patent Double, and Scott’s
Patent Asbestos Bafe. The subjoined extract from the
Committee’s Report, with the uames of the gentlemen who
rendered that decisive verdict attached, prescnts clearly and
concisely the result of the experiment,
EXTRACT,
The above was a fair trial, and was tons a convineing
proot of the superiority of the Salamander Safe over all oth
ers; and considering that it wus exposed to an intense beat
tor a period of eight hours, while each of the others were
destroyed by the same heat in less than two hours, We
have no hesitation in suy ing, shat we consider Wilder's
Salamander Safe really fire-proof, and affording peifect se
curity to books and papers 1 case of fire. We therefore
take much pleasure in making this statement to the public,
and in recommending to them Wilder’s Patent Sulamander
Sale, as fully entitled to their confidence.
’\\'Al»‘VY\'(&R’l'H & EMITH,
lALDWIN &O, “
h'lN-l\'vß‘\' & ). anln“lee.
CHARLES I MARSHALL,
Fubsequent uccidental trials have been ecqually satisfac-
Cly as can be shown by numerous certificates and testi
monials, and al<o by the Safe, which was tested in the
curning of the building ocenpied by Messrs, Stone & Wea
ver, in this city, last December, and which can be seen at
he store of BROWN, BARKER & ('« ~ No. 53 Market
treet; and have an nssortment of the Genuine Salvmander
ufes, for sale at manufacturcr’s prices, fl 7
CAUTION, :
AH my Spanish Lustral and Medieated Hair Preservative
has acquired a high reputation, and is almost universal-
Iy used for promoting the growth and preserving and beauti
l‘;mu the Lair, another article has been brought betore the
publiec under the same name, but entirely different in ite
Composition and effect, and | bereby caution the public not
to be taken in by it, but always to mquire for “Camm’s
Spanish Lustral’ and use no other, if they wish to be se
cure from deception. The ingredients, and a portion of
them can only be obtained from the Spanish markets, and
the manner of compounding the Lustra) are known only to
myself, the secret having been communicated to me 12
fennt simce by a distingu shed siurgeon in Ed nburgh, Seot.
and, and was by me introduced 1o the publie for the first
time. My Npanish Lustral may be known by its bright gold
en eolor, being free from all coloring matter which is al
ways injurious to the hair, and 1 would caution the public
not to use any article of red eolor for the hair, as it must
tend to injure it very materially, and above all to purchase
no article bearing the nume of Spanish Lustral unless my
name is n!lurhed'tn ity as all others are vile imitations cal
culated to deceive those who are unacguainted w Alfl the
genuine and highly approved Camm’s Fpanish Lustral,—
For sale by the proprietor,
B T.W.CAMM 60} Westminster st,
And also by CHARLES DY ER, fr., 40 and 42 Westmin
ster st sole agent for the Spanish Lustral, auleaf
LELAND'S MUSIC ATORE.
Musical instrumients and Musical Mer
chandise, can be obtained at this estob
lishment, of every description, and of
the very best quality, Consisting of supe
rior Guitars, plain and ornamental, at prices friom $5 to
$25; Flutes of every deseription, from $! to $.5; Clari-
I nets, Flagelets and Fifes, of various kinds of wood and
finish ; Violins at every price from g 1 50 to ’3&; Brass in
' struments ef every lmu‘ i Banjos ; Tamborines ; Tuning
Forks; Pipes ; Hammers ; Reeds i Bridges ; Etrings ; Rosin 3
‘ Pegs ; Bow Hair; Violin Bows, and Violin Trimuangs ot
allkinds ; also, Seraphines ; Melodeons ; Accordecns ; Mu.
#ic Boxes; Music Kacks, and Folios, &e,
Glee and Music Instruction Books for every instrument
' THE SHEET MUSlC—Consists of an extensive stock
of old and new wmsic, The publications of every store in
the conntry can bo obtained at this ftore. Purchasers will
find all the newest and most favgrite Bongs and Pieces
continually for sale. Piano Fortes to let, at prices from 85
to 812 per quart r; also, second hund Pianos for sule,
PIAA{'() FORTES tuned and warranted to give satisfac
tion,
REPAIRING of every kind of Musical Instruments
with neatness and in the most expeditions manner,
The price of Music, Instruments and Merchandise as
sold at this establ'shment, as low, if not cheaperthan New
York or Boston. Orders will be atiended to with the great
estcure by A. M. LELAND, 135 Westminster st. mylo
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| PIANOFORTES.
HALLETT, DAVIS & CO., Boston, re
spectfully imfurm llm,mhlir that they have
appointed Mr, 8,1, T lURBER, sole agent
| for the sale of their Piano Fortes in the
| State of Rhode Island, They take this opportunity to ex
| press their thanks for the very liberal patronage they have
received from this city and v icinity, and would call the at
tention of purchasers and others to the recentimprovements
they have made in their instruments, rendering the tone
| nm]yacuun unsurpassed it equalled by any other make,—
T'he numerous medals and Jiplomu which they have re
ceived from the different fairs at Philadelphia, New York
and Boston, is suflicient proofofthe high estimation in which
they are held abroad as well as at home. Mr. Thurber will
be always supplied with n large assortment of Piano Fortes
of the first class, which can he obtained of him as low as at
the manufactory, and which will be warranted in all respects
pecfect instruments,
ST Thurber had just received a large supply of Piano
Fortes from the above makers, which he offers for sale at
his ware-rooms, 33 and 35 Westminster st, 024
PIANO FORTE,
A large assortment of Rosewood, Black
walnut, and Mahogany Piano Fortes
made by Hallett, Davis & Co., Boston,
and warranted equal to any made in this
country, for sale very low at
m 7 THURBER’S, 33 and 35 Westminster st.
New, and second hand Piano Eortes to let,
PIANO FORTES,
J('H'l‘ received nt THURBER'S Piano Forte rooms, 137
Wostminster st, Howard’s building, a fine assortment
of Piano Fortes from the manufactory of Hallett, Cumston
& Allen, Boston, warranted of the vcr‘y best quality, and
or sale atthe manufacturers’ lowest prices. my2o
SHEET MUSIC AT 3 CTS, PER PAGE !
T HE subscriber wishing to reduce his stock of sheet mu -
sie, will sell it at 3 cents per puge. New and popular
music received weekly from New York and Boston, w hich
will be sold at the same reduced price. Instructicn Books,
and all Musical publications, for sale at much Jess than
former rices at THURBER'S, 157 Westminster st.
CHURCH BOOKS,
l IOR:\'I-:’B Works, 2 vils ; Horne on Psalms ; Jackson's
Remning ; Rtanford’s nged Christian’s Companion ;
Hawketone, 2 vols; Churehman A rmed 3 Christian’s Man
| ual; Mant’s Hore Liturgical ; Bickersteth on the Lord's
Supper ; Mrs, Fry's Memoirs ; l‘npt’c Sermons ; Colvidge’s
Aids to Reflection ; Mant’s Happiness of the Blessed } En
ter thy Churelh ; Tnornton’s Family Prayers ; Mnr'nrel or
the Pearl; Lady Mary ; Palmee’s Church History ; Hobert's
Apclogy ; State of Departed ; Companion to ‘the Altar;
What s Christianity ; Ferrien’s l'ra{ ers ; Simeon on Holy
Spirit ; Father Clement; Christ’s Varning to Churches
Religion as seen ""“H.h Christ; Recanta ion ; Cecil lIMI
his Dog; Cousin Berfha ; Always Happy ; Steps 1o tho
Altar; Vast Amry 3 Jones on Trimity ; Chapin on the Puri
tans ; Etanley on the Poarables ; Fpencer s Reformation 3
Hymns on Catechism ; Sacra Privata i Lord’s Buper ; Do
vout Churchman’s Companion; Law’s Serious Call;
Bword’s Pocket Almanac, for 1849, a fresh -n“:';,jln
rec’d, for sale by GEO, 11. WHITNE s
fl 4 Successor to C. Burnett, Jr, 3 Westminster st.
e
RUBBERS! RUBBERS ! RUBBERS!!!
(‘ HILDREN’S imported Bubbers, 37 cts ; misses’ mann
-7 factured do 50 ; ladies do do 62 ; fnl'l Over Shoes,
leather soles, $1 25 ; ladies’ Rubber Bus ins, 62cts ; gent's
imported Rubbers, 75 ; misses’ Rubber Busking, 50 ; ladies®
imruned Rubbers, 62; gent’s mannfactured Over Bhoes, 87,
dl3 ALLEN J. BROWN, 111 Broad st.
e Y eBV S
IVORY,
3 CARER Ivo(r'y handled Knives and Forks, Knives with
out Forks, Guard and Game Carvers, Beef Slicers, Nut
Picks, &e, of American manufacture, just rec’d and for
sale very low at 51 and 53 North Main 1,
a 6 THOMAS WHITAKER & FON,
DINING WARE.
Fll'g‘?" N& mulborr;)l'; flowing blue,and white iron stone
ning Ware, a ascortment, rec’d and for sale ver
low at 51 and 53 Noflh Main st. » ’
Y THOMASR WHITAKER & BON.
_ LETTER PAPERS,
AN Involrour(‘n}nnd Letter Papers, from the celebratea
manufactory of D, Carson & Em-. Justrec’d and for
sale low, a nice article for nln“ln&.
13 - WINSOR & PERRI! s 140 Westminster st,
LETTER, CAP AND DRAWING PAPERS,
l,‘ll(l.\l the celebrated manufactory of D. Carson & Sons,
. for nh'hy mo'.qmnmy. ream or single quire, at very
‘W prices for cas
f'l" WINN:" & PERRIN, 140 Westminster st.
SECOND HAND BOOKS,
U!‘ ANI kinds, bought and sold at 140 Westminster st, by
fid WINSOR & PERRIN.