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REMEMBRANCE.
FROM THE FRENCH OF LAMARTINE,
11 vain, in vain—day follows day,
They "“ without a mark away ;
But nought shall from my soul remove
Thy memory, latest dream of love.
I see my rapid years gone by
Behind me heap:d as mountains high;
E’en as the Oak in autumn time,
The frost of age is on my brow.
meliny blood will scarcel .l')' 3
e this dark wave o’er w{ich has passed
The cold breath of the wintry blast.
But thy serene and youthful face,
Which sorrow only comes to grace,
Still lovely in my heart, I hold,
For, like the soul, it ne’er grows old.
No! thou hast never left mine eye,
My lonely m.mum-n-tg';'
And when [ ceased to see thee x
I saw theo in a brighter sphere.
There I behold thee such :rin.
As on that last dread day of pain—
When to thy blest abode away
Tho 2 fleddest with the morning’s ray,
Thy pure and touching loveliness,
In {!nnn’c sweet air shines none the less ;
And eyes where life had ceased to be,
Are bright with immortality.
It is thy hand which dries my tears,
And calms my spirit’s anxious fears ;
Thy voice doth whisper in my ear,
“Pray thou in secret, God will hear.”
And e'en in sleep thou dost attend,
The guardian angel of thy friend ;
For all my dreams are filled with thee,
Pure as the thoughts of seraphis be.
SLANDER.
Tis wonderons strange, and yet "tis true,
That some folks take delight
The deeds of other men to view,
As if their own were righ'.
And if a piece of news comes out ;
They'll eagerly pursue it ;
Then hand the charming dish about,
And add alittle to it.
Each fault they’ll try to magnify,
Yet seeming to bemoan
The mote within a brother’s eye,
Are blinded to their own.
And if a brother chance to stray
Or fortune on him frown ;
The’ humbled in the dust he lay,
The text is, “keep him down.”
They'l preach up penance, with a sigh,
To cure, or nahilf can—
Sufferings are good, I’ll not deny,
But not when sent by man.
Each worthy deed is now forgot,
As if not worth retaining ;
Buat O ! let failing= fill the pot,
And slander sucks the draining.
Unto the dregs she drawsit out,
Delighted with her labors,
Then bours the charming swill about,
To treat her thusty neighibors.
'Neath 'riondshi'y's mask she often furks,
And smiling, fawns around you ;
Concealed, she wore securely works,
And kisses, but to wound you.
Deteated pest of social joy,
Theu spoiler of life’s pleasures ;
Like Sampson’s foxes woald destroy
What’s more than all our treasures.
Miscellancous.
A THRILLING SCENE.
AN INDIAN COUNCIL.
The subjoining stirring sketch is from anew
work by Judge Hale, entitied *The wilderness
and the War Path,” and is descriptive of the
coolness and the presence ef mind of Col.
George Roger Clark, at a council st North
Bend.
An Indian counci is one of the most impos
ing spectacles in savage life. It is one of the
few occasions in which the warrior exercises
his right of suffrage, his influence and his tal
ents, in a civil capacity, and the meeting is
conducted with ali the gravity, and all the
ceremonious ostentation, with whichit is pos
sible to invest it. The matter te be consider
ed, as well as all the details, are well digested
beforeh.nd, so that the decorum must prevail,
and the decision unanimous. The old sages
—the leaders and orators—occupy the most
conspincous seats ; bebhind them are arranged
the younger braves, and sull furtherin the rear
appear the women and youth as spectators.
All are equally attentive. A dead silence
reigns throughoutthe assemblage. The great
pipe gaudily adorned with paint and feathers,
1s lighted, and passed {rom mouth to mouth,
commencing with the chief highest in rank,
and proceding by regular graduation to the
inferior order of braves. If two or three ua
tions be represented, the pipe is passed from
wne party to the other, and salutations are
conrteously exchanged, before the business
of the council is opened by the respective
speakers. Whatever jealousy et party spint
may exist in the tribe, 1t is carefully excluded
Trome this digoified assemblage, whose order
ly cenduct, and close attention to -the proper
subject belere them might be imitated with
profit by some 9 the most cnjightered bodics
of christendom.
It was an alarming evidence of the temper
now prevailing among them, and of the brood
ing storm ¢hat filled their minds, thatmo pro
priety of demeanor marked the exntrance of
the savages iunto the council room. The us
aal fermalities were forgotten or purposely
dispenaed with, and av iusulting lexity sub
- stituted in its place. The chiefs and braves
stalked in with an impression of light tegard,
and geated themselves promiscuously on the
floor, in freat of the commissioners. An air
.of insoience marked all vheir movemests, and
showed an intention to dictate terms.or to fix
a quarrel upon the Awericans.
A dead silence rested over the greup; it
was the silence of dread, distrust, and watch
fulness ; vot of respect. The eyes of thesav
age band gloated upon the baunquet-ef blood
that seemed already spread out before them;
the pillzge of the fort and the scalps of the A
mericans, were almost wiihis theirgrasp; while
that gallant litttle band saw the portentous na
dure of the ciisis, and stood ready to sell their
lives as dearly as possible.
The commissioners, withent noticing the
disorderly conduct of the other pany, or ap
pearing te have discovered their meditated
treachiery, opened the council in due from.—
They lighted the peace pipe, and after draw
ing a few whifls, passed it te the chiefs, who
received it. Co'onel Clarke then rose 10 ex
plain the purpose for which the treaty was
ordered. With an unembaragsed air, with
the tone of one accustomed to commaad, and
the easy assurance of perfect security and sel(-
possession, he stated that the commissioners
had been sent to offer peace to the Shawnees;
aod that the President had no wish te contin
ue the war; he had no resentmeunt te gratify :
and that if the red men desired peace, they
could hiave it on lideral terms. ‘M such be
the will of the Shawnees,’ he.concluded, ‘let
some of the wise men speak.’
A chief arese, drew up kis tall person to its
full beight, and assuming a hanghty attitade,
threw his eye contemptuously over the com
missioners and their retioue, as il to 9 measure
their iesiguificance, in comparison with his
own numnerous train, and then stalking to the
table, hrew vpen it two belts of wampum, of
different colors—the war and the peace belt.
*We come here,’ he exclaimed, “to offer you
two pieces of wampum : they are of different
colors; you kaow what they mean: you can
take which you like." And tursing upon his
heel, be resumed his seat. .
The chiefs drew themselves up in the con
sciousaess of havieg harled defiance in the
teeth of the white men. The’ kad offered
au inswit to the renewned leader of the Long
Knives, to which they knew it would be hard
for him to submit, while they did not suppese
be would dare to resent it. The council pipe
was laid aside. Those fierce wild wen gazed
intently ¢ Clark. The Americans saw that
the crisis had ariived ; they could no longer
doubt that the lodiaas uaderstood the advan
tage they possessed, and meant to use it ; and
a commen secse of danger caused each eye
0 turn on theieadiag commisgioner. He sat
uadisturbed, and appareatly careless until the
chief who Lad thrown the belts upon the ta
ble bad taken his scat ; then with agmall cane
which he held in lis hand, he reached, as if
plnadyfully. towards the war belt, entangled the
end of the stick in it—drew it towards him
and then, with a twitch of the cane, threw the
belt in the midst of the chiefs. The eflect
waselectrical. KEvery manio council, of each
party sprang to his feet—the savages with a
loud exclamation of astonishment, * Hugh !"
the Americans ia expectation of a hopeless
conflict against overwhelming numbers. Ev
ery hand had grasped a weapon.
Clark alone was unawed. The expression
of his countenauce changed to a ferocious
sternness, and his eye flashed, but otherwise
he was unmoved. A bitter smile was slightly
perceptible upoa his compressed lips. as he
gazed upon that savage band, whose hundred
eyes were bent fiercely upen him, as they
stood like a pack of wolves atbay, thirsting for
bloed, and ready to rush upen him whenever
omne bolder than the rest should commence
the attack. It was one of these thrilling mo
meunts of uncertainty when the slightest weight
turns either scale—a momeant ia which a hold
maun, conversant with the seceet springs of hu
man actien, may seize upon the miads of all
arowad bim and sway them at his wil. Such
a man was theintrepi! Virginion. e spoke,
and there was ae man bold esough to gainsay
him—nomne that could return the fierce glance
of his eye. Raising his arm and waving his
hand towards the door, he exclaimed—
*Dogs ! yéuvga_:}—g-b‘."m > o b
The Indians hesitated for a momeat, and
then rushed simultaneously out.of the council
room.
The decision of Cliwk, on that occasion,
saved himself and comrades frem massacre.—
The plan of the savages had beea arfully laid ;
he had read it in thewr features and conduct,
as plaialy as if it had been written oa a scroll
before them. He metit in a manner unex
pected ; thecrisis was brought on soover than
was intended ; and upon aprinciple similar to
that by which, when a line of batule is broken,
the dismayed woops fly before order can be
restored. The new and sudden turs given to
these proceedings by the energy of Clurke,
confounded the lndians, and before the broken
thread of their scheme of weachery couid be
re-united, they were panic struck. They had
come prepared te brow-beat. to humble, and
then todestroy; they lonked for remeastrance
and altercation ; for theluxury of draw.ng the
coils gradually around their victims: of be
holding their agony and degradasionm, and of
bringing onthe final catastrophe by an appoint
ed sigaal, when the scheme would be ripe.—
They had expected to see on our part great
caution, a skilllul planing off, and an wnwill
ingness to take offence, which wese to be grad
ually goaded mto alarm, irritatson snd submis
sion. The cool coutempt with which their
first insult was threwn back inte their teeth
surprised them, and they weve foiled by the
sell-possession of one man. They had no
Tecumseh among them, ne master spirit to
change their plan, so as to adapt it to a new
exigency ; and those braves. who in many a
battle had shown themselves to be mea of true
valor guailed before the moral superiority
which assumed the vastage ground of a posi
tion they could not con.prehend, and therefors
feared to assail.
From the N. Y. Spirit of the Times.
AMERICAN RIFLES, AND DEER SHOOTING.
Friend P.—lconsider Mr. Herbert as high
authority in all matters pertainiug to liunting,
and his receat work on *Field Sports’ a cred -
it to himself’ and our country. Qur favorite
weapon the American rifle, ( Wesson's) in skil
ful hands 1 think has no competitor for hunt
ing purpeses—patent belted buliets not even
exepted. A moose I have met yet bad Ihe
pleasure ef killkng, but for deer, a geod hunter
waats nothing heavier than a dall of 20 too the
pound, which will bring dowa the ‘aadered
monarch of the woods’ with as much certainty
as a grape-shot would.
My rifle carries 88 te the pound, and [ will
cite my experience during a recent excursion
to the Adridocks. I shot one six year old
buck, and no musket ball could have been
more effectual. The creature stood quarter
ing : the bail ranged through the lungs and
left shoulder: he rau perkaps.fifty yards, (ell,
rese again, and made directiy for me, expiring
witkin ten or twelve feet of where [ awaited
bim with my buntng koife. The hole in Lis
side seascely bled adrop, buton opening him,
the bicod gushed out in a torrent. Y,
Now in this instance, the smail size of the
ball had caused thelipssf the wound to close,
and prevented any external bleeding, but. on
the eontrary, caused a severe iaternal hemor
rhage, which I feel confideat made him ‘bite
the dust' much quicker than i the bail had
beea larger, for adow of bloed from the wound
would, in my opision, have relieved him in a
degree. and he would have run much farther
than be did. This, to be sure, is but one in
stance, but it may answer several.
Ishoulllike very much to be preseatata tri
al of the different rifies, as propesed by Mr.
Chapmaa, and will thauk you te give your
readers due notice if any such trial comes oft.
While my *kand is in. altheugh not much
of a writer, | must tell you of a double shot
made by my friend M—— aud myself duriog
an excursion. We were passing through the
outlet of one of the lakes, near Oid W hiteface
Mountain, when our guide discovered a doe
some quarter of a mile off, ona beaver mnead
ow. He ipstautly paddled our canoe in that
direction, while M—— prepared for a shot.—
After Curtis had paddled, with death-like si
lence, to within about filty rods of the creat
ure, a buck came from the belt of the woods,
and commenced feeding (on the ‘lilly pads,”
with which the stream was lined,) near the doe ;
with the least possible movement my rifle was-:
brought to bear; in a whisper we agreed that
M- should take the left hand beauty, while
of course, mine was on the iight. The deer,
not uspecting (as is their nature) any mis--
chief from the water, kept feeding aboat the:
the meadow, occasionally lifting their heads,
at which time Curtis ceased paddling, and
neither of us moved a hmh. [a this manner
we reached the edgze of the rushes, to within
some 20 rods of the graceful creatures. At
that moment they overlapped; the doe, on
the left, was all exposed, while the buck was
about half concealed by her leaviag his hind
er quarters visible. We paesed a whisper,
ready ? and our rifles cracked like oae report.
Both of the animals droped in their tracks.—
My game, the buck, was dead before we could
reach him, the ball having passed through his
kidneys. M-— had shot the doe in the
shoulder, and soon ended hertroubleswith the
keen edge of the knife.
Our guide, Curtis, was delighted, and I wish
you could have heard him whoop—the wood
fairly rang again, uatil the mountain sent back
the echo. It was sport, indeed, and such as
is not met with every day in the woods, and
then the steak cut from the saddle, held on
long green sticks before a rousing fire, until
nicely cooked! Oh! Mr. P., those feeds’
beat anything your city can produce ; one
dioner in the woods is worth fifty festivals, even
il got up at the Astor or Delmonico’s.
Yours, SarANAcC.
ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON.
During the rapid sojourn that he mude in
Belgium, in 1810, Nupoleon, according to his
habit, went ove morning, very plainly drossed
to walk in the gardens of the Lacken Palace,
accompanied by ,an aid-de-camp, where he
met a young man, who was occupied arrang
ing some flowers. He was pleased with the
frank and prepossessing features of the young
botanist, and began a conversation with him.
The young man, who was the son of the head
gardener—had studied with great care and e
conomy the history of the vegetable world—
he could name without hesitation, the foreign
and compiicated names that the over-learned
have given, often in so ridiculous a wanner,
to the most grateful prodactions of nature.~
He spoke of the Sedosanthe, the Aristoloche,
the Ralhioa, the Sceroxilon, the Hydrochardee,
and thousands of plants with difl{cult names,
as another would have talked of spinach and
parsley. Heknew the nature and property of
cach plant—in short, it was botany personified
in a young man of twenty-two.
*‘Are you . comiortable in your situation
here 1’ says the Emperor speaking with in
terest
*Yes, sir,” replied the young artist, who was
far from suppesing the rank of the person
who :nterrogated him, *I hve in the midst of
what 1 love, but | am only an assistant to the
head gardener.’
Napoleou never disapproved of ambitious
ideas. lle had remarked in the young florist
his profound study, and the interest he ook in
his profession.
*What would you like 1" says he.
*Oh." said the young Belgian, *what [ would
like is madness.”
‘But still let me know,” says the Emperor.
It would require a fairy to realize the dream
that has often occupied my mind.’
*[ am not a fuiry,” replied Napcleon, smil
ing in his turn, *but 1 am about the person of
the Emperor, and he could, if he kuew themn,
realize your wishes.
*You are too good, sir," said the young mun.
‘lt is certain that the Emperor could be the
fairy 1 wish for, for it all depends on him.—
During a journey that I made for my instruc
tion, I saw in France the gardens of Malmai
on, with its eleven bridges and T'urkish Kosks.
The Emperor, | understand, has given tins
charming place to Josephine—if a fairy were
there, I would ask for nothing nore than to
Le head gardenerto Jusepliine. Yousee how
modest 1 am.'
‘1 will think of it," says the Emperor, almost
betraying his incognito, ‘but do not despair
of fairy lore ;' and after some further conver
sation with tha young botanist, Napoleon with
drew. He left Brussels on the morrow.
During the two months that followed this
conversation, the young gardeaer couldscarce
ly think of anything but the wand of a fuiry
and the place of head gardener, when one day
e received a sealed packet with the arms of
the Empress Josephine upon it ; it contained
his nomination to the post he had so much
wished for. He hastened to the spot, and
was very soon introduced to the fairy of Lack
en, THAT MAN WHO FORGOT NOTHING. and in
whom he only recognised the Emperor, to ex
press to him almost a species of adoration.
He sull occupied the post of first botanist
at Malmaison, when the Empress Josephine
died.-= L' Impartial.
Oricin oF THE Oup Oakex Bucker.—
We came in possession last week of an anec
doterespecting the originof Samuel F. Wood
worth's famous ballad of that name, which
appears 1o us to possess so much interest, that
we cannot withhold it from our readers—es
pecizally as it has not befgre Leen in print.
Some years ago, when Woodworth, the
printer, and several other ‘old New Yorkers,’
were brother typos in a printing office, situa
ated at the corner of Chatham and Chambers
streets, there were very few places in this city
where one could eunjoy the luxury of a really
‘good drink." Among the few places muost
worthy of patronage, was an establishment
kept by Mallory, in Frankfort street, on or a
bout the same spot where St. John's Hall re
cently stood. Woodworth, in company with
several particular friends, had ‘droped in’ at
this place one afternoon, for the purpose of
partaking of some brandy and water, which
Mallory was famous forkeeping. The liquor
was super-excellent, and Woodworth seemed
inspired by it; forafter :aking a draught, he set
his gliss upon the table, (remember, reader,
if you please, that in those ‘rare old times,’
an man rarely met with a friend without iuvit
ing him to imbibe ;) and smacking his lips
declared that Mallory's ezu de vie was superi
or to anything he had ever tasted !
*No,'said Mallory, ‘you are mistaken; there
was oune thing which, in both our estimations,
far surpassed this in the way ef drinking.’
*“What was that 7’ asked ‘Voudwonh,vdubi-
ously.
The driught of pure, fresh spring water
that we used to drink from the old oaken bucket
that hung in the well, after our return from
the labors of the field on a sultry day iv the
summer.’
The tear-drop glistened for a moment in
Woodworth's eye.
‘T'rue—true!” he replied, and shortly afier
quitied the place. He immediately returned
to the office, threw down his stick, grasped
a pen, and in half an hour *‘The Old Ouaken
Bucket’, one of the most delightful composi
tions in our language, was ready mn manu
script to be embalined in the memories of
succeeding generations.—Sunday Age.
The following rather tough story is found
in Captain Marryatt's Scenes in Africa:
Tae Lion's LEap.—Once when I was trav
elling in Nemaqua Land, | observed a spot
which was imprinted with at least twenty spoors
ol marks of the Lion's paw ; and as 1 pointed
them out, a Nemaque chief told me that a li
on had been practising his leap. On demand
ing an explapation, he said, that if a lion
sprang at an animal, and missed it by leaping
short, he would always go back to where he
sprang from and practice the leap so as to be
successful on another occasion : and he then
related to me the following anecdote, stating
that he was an eye-witness to the incident :
I was passing near the end of a craggy hill,
from which jutted out a smooth rock, of {rom
ten to twelve feet high, when I perceived a
number of zebras galloping‘round it, which
they were obliged to do, as the rock beyond
was quite steep. A lion was creeping towards
the rock to catch the male zebra which brought
up the rear of the herd. The lion sprang ;
and missed his mark ; he fe!l short, with only
his head over the edge of the rock, and the
zebra galloped away switching his tail in the
air. Although the object of his pursuit was
gone, the hontried the leap on the rock a sec
ond and a third time, till he succeeded. Dur
ing this two more lions came up auzd joined
the first. They seemed to be talking, for they
roared a great deal to each other; and then
the first lion led them round the rock again
aod again. He thenmade another grand leap,
to show what he and they must do another
time. The chief mded, they evidently were
talking to each other, although they talked
loud enough, but I thought it was as well to
be off, or they might have some talk about ie.
Pravive TaE DeviL.—We were a good
deal amused at an anecdote we heard the oth
er day, of a certain preacher whose calling con
fined him within the limits of old Kentueky.
He had préached in his parish many years,
and of course had run short of the eloquence
so much needed to keep his hearers awake
and astonished. Let him preach ever so well
now, it makes no difference, they have got
used to him and used to sleeping: sleep they
would to his great annoyance. At last he hit
upon an expedient to ‘bring ‘em up standing,’
as the saying is. He procured a small tin
whistle, which he took with him into the pul
pit. and alter taking his text and *blazing away'
until his lungs were sore and his hearers all
comfortably dozing and nodding approval to
each other, hesuddenly drew it forth and gave
a shrill toot-a-toot. In an instant the whole
congregation were awake and upon their feet,
staring at the minister, at each other, wonder
ing what in the name of pickles and human
natur, as Sam Slick says, was to come next.
*Your a set of smart specimens of hdmani
ty, ain't you !’ said the divine whistler, as he
slowly gazed around upon his astonished as
semblage.
*When I preach the Gospel to you, you all
go to sleep; but when | go to playing the
devil, you're all wide awake, up and coming
like a rush of horoets with a pole in their nest!
Fine sense and exhalted sense are not half
60 useful as common sense.
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year §1 75; for one quarter 1 ; Books loaned to non-sub
scribers by the week. Westminster Library room, 14)
Westminster st. WINSOR & PERRIN.
l MEMOIR
! OP the Liie of James Miinor, D. D., late Rector of St.
| George’s Church, New York, by the Rev. John S.
| Stone, D. D., Rector of Christ Church, Brooklin, racently
| published and now added to the Westminster Circulating
Library, 140 Westminster st.
mlo WINSOR & PERRIN.
| PORTFOLIOS.,
! \ GOOD assortment, cap and quarto, with and without
£\ locks, for sale low by
| mlo WINSOR & PERRIN, 140 Westminster st.
{ ROMEO AND JULIET,
i AND all the plays embraced in the modern drama—a full
i supply just rec’d, for sale by
om? WINSOR & PERRIN, 14) Westminster st.
| NEW BOOKS.
RAPHAEL. or Pag-s of the Book of Lafe at Twenty, by
Alphonse de Lamartine.
! Oregon and California in 1843, by J. Quinn Thornton,
late Judge of the Supreme Court of Gregon, with an ap
pendix, including recent and authentic information on the
subject of the gold mines of California and other valuable
matter of interest to the emigrant, &c, with illustrations
and a map.
Franklin’s Life_ illustrated, part 4, just published, for
sale by GLADDING & PROUD.
BOOKS.
‘VH.-\T I saw in California, by Bryant, with a ma;.
Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines.
| Salkeld’s First Book in Spanish.
I Ollendoff”s Spanish Grammar.
A further supply of these indispensable works to those
going to California, just rec’d by
| m 3 GLADDING & PROUD.
! PART 3d OF LAETON PARSONAGE,
\ T ALE, by the anthor of Amy Herbert. Gertrude, xec.,
L 1 cdited by the Rev. \W. Sewell, D.D., just published by
the Appletons, for sale by
m 3 GLADDING & PROUD.
| MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND,
B()S'l‘tk\' edition, just rec’d by
m 3 WEEDEN & PEEK, 2 So. Main st.
THE MINER'S GUIDE
‘ A‘.\'D Maetallurgist’s Directory, by J. W. Orton, just pub
, lished, and for sale by
mlo WEEDEN & PEEK, 2 8. Main st.
; THE DAGUERREOTYPE
{ AND Foreign Miscellany, No. lv, received. Contents:
I British Tudia; Our Times ; Hungary 1848 ; Life and
Letters of Thomas Campbell ; Life and Remains of Theo
dore Hook ; Ancient and Modern Monster Reptiles ; Liter
ary and Scieuntific Intelligence. $3 per annum semi-month
ly. O. WILMARTH, No. 5 Market square.
| WRIGHT'S CASKET FOR MARCH,
\.\'l) Wright’s Paper for Febrnary. Both of these publi
-47X cations are devoted to universal education, education
of mothers, promotion of iome joys, intluence of womau,
and humen improvement, only 36 ct: per year, moathly.
mlo 0. WILWARTH, 5 Market Square.
| CULTIVATOR FOR MARCH, 1849.
J UST received the Albany Cultivater for March ; also, a
number for January and February, to complete setts for
new Suhscribers, which may be lad by apFlying at No. 1
Market Square. A. H. STILLWELL, Agent.
SHAVING CREAM.
J UST received Hawkes’ Emollient Cold Cream Shaving
Paste, which mikes shaving a pleasure with eiher
warm or cold water, prepared by P. Hawkes, of Lowell
' Mass. The above beautitul article will need but one trial
to ensure it complete success, for sale #t No. 1 Market
Square, by A. H. STILLWELL.
MUSIC.
'I\IH‘. Music and Library of the late E. B. Bohuszewicz
is now for sale. Those who wish to purchase are in
| vited to call and examine at
{ LELAND’S Music Store,
fi4 No. 135 Westminster st, lloward,s Block.
NEW SPRING GOODS.
(‘! F. GLADDING & CO. are now receiving aimost
A . every variety of new and desirable Dry Goods, con
sist ng of rich long and square all wool Cashmere Shawls;
woolen plaid do, in handsome patterns ; also, alarge assort
ment of other Shawls, of new styles ; latest styles of spring
dress goods, in Mouslin de Laines, Linen Ginghams,
French Cawbric Prints, French Berages, Muslins, &cj
Hosiery ; Gloves ; embividered Muslin and Lace Capes,
Coll irs, Cuils, and Cambric Edgings and Insertings ; Demi
Veils ; figured and plain Laces ; evary description of house
furnishing Dry Goods, domestic Cotton Goods, &ec, all
which they offer at the very lowest prices at 35 N. Main st.
i CALIFORNIA BLANKETS.
| G F. GADDING & CO. have just rec’d blue white and
. « drab Mackinaw Blankets, extra heavy and stout, for
sale at low prices at 35 North Main st. m 7
| CARPETINGS.
BRUSSELS, Damask and plain Venetian Stair Carpet
| ings ; Floor Bockings ; Hearth Rugs ; door, entry and
carriage Mats, constantly on hand at Carpet Hall, opposite
the Post Office. ROBERT STEERE & BROTHER.
| FLOOR OIL CLOTHS.
: ROB’T STEERE & BROTHER will receive in a short
time a large assortment of Painted Carpetings, from
one of the best manufactories in this country, comprising
patterns never before offered in this market. )
| SUPERPINE ANDCOMMON CARPETINGS.
| A GOOD assortment for sale at the lowest market prices,
| at Carpet Hall, oppusite the Post Office.
| 28 ROB'T STEERE & BROTHER.
{ SILK PLUSH CAPS.
i JUST rec’d, a good assortment of silk plush Caps, opera
style ; also, cloth and glazed Caps, all qualities, some
entire new styles.
m 7 BUTTS & WHIPPLE, 5 Westminster st.
! N.B. Caps made to order, any style wanted, at short
| notice. 7
| BURNING FLUID.
; 50 GROSS Britannia Fluid Tubes, for altering Oil Lamps
to Fluid Lamps, just rec’d and for sale very low at 5l
and 53 North Main st
m 7 THOMAS WHITAKER & SON.
| LANTERNS.
! 26 CASKS Glass Lauterns, a variety of shapes and
| sizes, just rec’d and for sale at unusially low prices
| at 51 and 53 North Main st.
I m 7 THOMAS WHITAKER & SON.
SOLAR LAMPS.
A FULL assortment of Cornelius & Co’s patent Solar
’ Lamps, in silver, gilt and bronze, with rich cut shades
and drops, just opened and for sale very low at sl.and 53
| North Main st. THOMAS WHITAKER & SON.
| B SRR er
. House Paper, for eat cost at
: 10’000 and 53 North Main st.
| m 7 TUHOMAS WHITAKER & SON.
‘ A CHEST HANDLES.
| E.\ TRA strong Chest Handles; also, a few first rate
| double bolt Locks, for sale at 53 Broad st.
m 7 GARDINER & PHILLIPS.
| CARRIAGE BOWS,
BOLTS, back and side Lights, Springs, Ailes, Boxes,
midlle Tron, &e, &e, for sale at GARDINER & PHIL
LIPS, 53 Broad st. w 7
EXTRA FAMILY FLOUR.
800 BBLS Hiram Smith, Shelby Centre, Le Roy Mills,
l - E. 8. Beach, J. I. Beach, New Sumuit, Eagle
Harbor, J. Weston, zl‘ Kempshall, E. H. W. P. Collins,
constantly on hand and for sale at the lowest market price
and warranted to suit by
__J'H B. B. KNIGHT & CO, 14 W Water st.
HALF BBLS FLOUR.
100 HALF bbls E. 8. Beach extra and T. Xempshall, a
beautiful article, for sale by
2 B. 8. KNIGHT & CO, 14 West Water st.
BAKERS' FLOUR.
150 BBLS E. 8. Beach & Co. Akron, for sale by
s j 24 B. B. KNIGHT & CO, 14 W. Water st.
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, GRAHAM FLOUR
R YE: Comn, Oats, Ship Stuif, Fine Feed, Shorts, oil
Meal, H?, &e, constantly on hand, for sale by
_J¥ 8.8. KNiGHT & CO, 13 and 14 West Water st.
FLOUR.
500 BBLS Flour, E. 8. Beach,a Srrlor article, for
sale by B. B. KNIGHT & CO.
"MOLASSES.
10 HHDS Havauna, of extra quality, this day landing
I from steamer Argo. will be sold low if mfliod for im
mediately. TILLINGHAST SHELDON.
LIPS, 53 Broad st.
PROPOSALSFORCARRYINGTHE MAILS.
Extract from the act of Congress of 3d March, 1845, section 18.
“And be it further emacted, That it shall be the duty of
the Postmaster Geueral, in Jl future lettings of contracts
for the transportation of the mail, to let the same, in every
case, to th? lowest bidder tendering sutlicient gnarantees
for faithful performance, without other reference to the
wode of such transportation than may be necess ry to pro
vide for tho due celerity, certa nty, and security of such
transportation ; nor shall any new couatractur hereafler be
required to purchiase out, or take at a valuation, the stock
or vehicles of any previous coutractor for the same route.””
- Bidders will be careful to read the forias and inst uc
‘tions appended to this advertisement. They are requested
1.0 state, in their proposals, the mode by which they intend
to convey the mail. Where the size and weight of the
mails, or the speed called for in the schedules, shall requi e
it, the contracts will be made for coac?, steamboat, or rail
road conveyance, as the case may be ; and, consequently,
~such routes will be let to bids‘msposln; such wode of con
vej'tnco. In all other cases, routes will be assigned ta
bids proposing the cheapest mod : of tranzportation. '
& Railroad companies are specially notified that thei
- regular bids are to be understood as including the supply
of each flice ou the line of their nsg:fli" r.ads, notover
} :l'guartor of a mile from a depot. oarate proposals for
“offices more than a quarter of a mile off, will be considered.
PROPOS.\ LS for earrying the mails of the
; United States from the Istday of July, 1349 to the 30th
of June, 1833, inclusive, in Rhode Island, will be received
at the contract office of the Post Office Depa:tment, in the
city of Washington, until 9 a. m., of the 4th Apri‘, 1849,
(to be decided by the 24th day of April, 1849,) onthe routes
and in the manner and time herein specified, viz:
R = RHODE ISLAND. P
601, From vaid;;::;:t-s:n_;.:o—ift& day, except Sunday,
By Vue de I’Eau, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, and
Postsmouth
To Newport, by 3 p. m, 29 miles
And back between 10 am and 4 f m; with six ad
ditional weekly trips to Br 8 mouths of ihe
year.
602. From Providence at 64 p m every day, except Sunday
By East Greenwich, Kingston, Shamrock Mills,
Dorrville, and Westerly
To Stonington, by 9 p m, 43} miles
And back between 2} am and 5 am,
603. From Providence at 3} pm cvelzudnv, except Sunday
B{ Pawtuxet, Warwick, and East Greenwich
To Wickford, by 8 pm, 22 miles
Aund back betyyeen 6 a m and 19a m.
GO4. Frovidence at 4 p.m, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
By Knighuville,!\’atkt,Conlnvillo,Coven'ry, West
Greenwich, Pine Hill, Brand’s Iron Works, 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 am, Monday, ‘\'odnesday,and
Friday, and 10 a m next days ; with three addi
tronal weekly trips to Coventry, 14 miles.
605. Ptonl; !’{uvidonce at 12 m, Mon !ay, Wednesday, and
riday
By Simmonsville, South Scituate, Mount Vernon,
Rice City, Quondoc, and Moosup, (Coan.)
To Ceatral Village, by 5 p ni, 30 miles
And back between 7 a m and 1 p m, next days.
606. From Provideuce at 5} a n, Monday, Wednesday,
and F.iday
By North Scituate, South Foster, and South Killing
-Iy, (Cona.) to Wes: Killingly, by 11 a m, 26 miles
And back between 2 p m and 74 p m, next days.
607, From Pr vidence at 5§ a m, Tuesd Iy, Thursday, and
Saturday e
By Nor hScituate, Poster,and East Killingly,(Conn )
To Killingly, by 10} a m, 26 miles
And back between 2§ p m and 7} p m, Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday
608. From Providence at 3 p. m, Monday, Wednesday, and
a Sulgxrday
ppitt,
To i‘i:kville. by 7 p m, 12. miles
And back between b a m and 10 a m same days.
l"meoeals for six-timesa-week service will be considered.
609. From Providence at 3 p m every day, except Sunday
By Fruit Hill, Greenville, and Chepachet
To Pascoag, by 7 p m, 19 miles
And back betwe n6am and 10 a m; Fruit Hill to
be omitted by three of the trips, each way.
610. From Providence at 7 a m every day, except Sunday
By Pawwcket, Valley Falls, Lonsdale, 1..1me Rock,
Albion, Cumberland Hill, Woonsocket Falls, Wa
terford, (Mass.,) Blackstone, Slaiersville, Millville,
Uxbridge, Whitinsville, Northbridge, Farnums
ville, Wilkinsonville, and Millbury
To Worcester, by 93 a m, 44 miles
And back between 74 a m and 10} a m ; with an ad
ditional six times-1 week mail between 3} pm
and 6 pm zeing, and 33 p m and 6} pm r turning.
611. From South Scituate at 6 p m, Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday
By Claywville
To Foster Centre, by 8 p m, 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
Saturday
To Burriliville, by 7 p m, 3} miles
And back between 6 a m and 7 a m, same days.
613. From Newport at 6 a m, Tuesday and F‘rida’y
By Jamestown,Narragansett, Tower Hill, Wakefield,
Perryville, and Charleston
To Westetly, by 7 p m, 37 miles
And b.ck between 6 am and 7 p m, Monday and
Thursday.
614. From Newport at 8 a n, Friday
To New Shoreham, by 6 p m, 31 miles
And back between 3 am and 6 p m, Thursday.
615. From Wakefield at 6 a m every day, except Sunday
By Peacedale and Kingston
To Railroad Depot, by 8 a m, 6 miles
And back between 4 pm and 6 p .
616. From Coventry at 8 a m, Saturday
By Noose Neck Hill, West Greenwich Centre, anl
Escoheag
To Voluntown, (Conn.) by 4 p m, 26 miles
And back between 8 a m and 4 p m, Friday.
617. From We terly atBaia, Monday Wednesday, and
Friday
By Potter’s Ilill
To Hopkiuton, by 10 a m, § miles
And back between 10} a m and 12m, same days.
Torm for a bid where no change from ad
vertisement is contemplated by the bidder.
1 (or we, as the case may be) [here write the nuame or
names in fullj of [here state the residence or residence ]
hereby propose to carry the mailon 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 guarantee to accompany cach bid.
“The undersigned [lhere insert the name of the gaaran
tor or gu:\mnlurs}_ guaranties that, [here insert name of
bidder or names of bidders, as the case may be,] if his (or
their) bid for carrying the mail from to be ac
cepted by the Postinaster General, shall enter into an obli
gation prior to the first day of July Lext, with good and
suflicient sureties to perform the service proposed.”
Form of Certificate.
The undersigned. postmaster of ,cortifiesthat
the guarantors above named are sufficient and able to make
good the.r guaranty.
Instructions.
1. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing
the mails at all offices where no particular time s specified ;
but on railroad and steamboat routes there is to be no more
delaythan is necessary to deliver and receive the bags.
2. The mail is to be conveye ! 1 prefercice to passen
gers, and to their entire exclusion, if its weight and bulk
require it.
3. Post office blanks, mail bags, and the special agents of
the department, on the exhibition of their credentials, are
to be conveyed without furiher change, on mail lines ad
mitting of such conveyance.
4. Mail agents are to be conveyed without charge on the
principal railroad and steamboat lin s, where the size of
the mails and the number of the otfi ‘es will require their
empleyment by the department ; and in that case, a sepa
rate apartmant for the assorting and safe-keeping of the
mail is to be provided by the contractor, under the direc
tion of the department.
5. In all cases there 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*pending mail ;
aind a forfeiture of a due proportion of it when a grade of
service is rendered inferior to that in the contract. These
forfeitures may be increased into penalties of higheramount,
according to the nature or frequency of the failure and the
importance of the mail.
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be sat
isfactorily explained in duetime. for failing totake from, or
deliver at, a post office, the mail, or any pa t of it ; for suf
fering it to be wet, injured, lost, or destroyed ; for convey
ingitina place or mannerthat exposes it to depredation loss,
orinjury ; for relusing after demand to convey a mail by
any coach, railroad ¢ 1, or steamboat, which the 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 setling 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 ; fur violating the post office laws ; for dis
obeying the instructions of the department : for refusing to
discharge a carrier when required by thre department ; for
assigning the contract without he consent of the Postmas
urdGenenl, or for setting up or runing an express as afore
said.
8. The Postmaster General may alter the contract, ard
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 contractur may, in such case, relinquish
the coatract, on timely notice, if he prefersittothe change.
‘l'he Postmaster General may annul the contract or curtail
the service, and pay when he wishesto dispense with the
service, in whole or in part, or place a higher or different
grage of service on the route, he allowing one month’s ex
tra pay on the amount dispensed with.
9. The payments will be made through drafts on post
offices or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter—
sa’ in February, May, August, and No ‘ember.
10. The distances are given according to the best infor
mation ; but no increased pay will be allowed, should they
prove to be greate: than is advertised, if the Flacesare cor
rectly nawed.
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 intoany 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 thing
whatever to induce any other persen not to bid for a mail
comtract. Particular attention is called to the 28th section
:f the act of 1836, prohibiting combination to prevent bid
ing. .
12. A bid received after time, to wit: the 4th April next,
‘at 9 a. m , or without the guaranty required by !aw. or that
-combines several routes in one sum of ‘ompensation, can
- not be considered in competition with the regular proposal
not adjudged to be extravagaut.
13. A bidder may offer, where the transportation called
for in the advertisement is difficult or impracticable at cer
tain seasons, to substitute an inferior mode of convayance,
“or to intermit servie a specified number of days, weeks,
or months. He may propose to omit an office that is inac
ceasible, or is not on the stage road, the railway, or at a
‘ steamboat landing, as the case may bte; or he may offer to
substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He
may propose diff :rent days and hours of departure and ar
rival, provided no more running time is ask>d, and it is
obvious that no mail connexion or other public accommo
dation is prejudi-ed. He may ask for more running time
to the trip, during a specified numbor of days, at certain
seasons o{ peculiarly bad roads : butbayond these changes,
a proposal for service different from the advertisement will
prevent its being considered in competition wit 1 a regular
bid not set aside for extravagance ; and where a bid con
tains any of the above alterations, th irdisadvantages wilk
be estimated in comparing it with other proposals.
14 There should be hut one route bid for in a propnsal
15. The route, the service,the yearly pay, ihe bidler's
name mm.ndm‘a-o’d'ufinmam
firm, where a compaay offers, should be distinctly stated
also the mele of conveyance, it a higher mod¢ than on
horseback is intended.
16. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed to the
First Assistant Postmaster General, with *“‘Mail l‘ng:'u
in the State of ——."" written on the face of the :
and should be despatched in time to be received by or be
fore the 4th April mext, at 9 o’clock, a. m. It should be
guarantied, and the sutficiency of the guarantors should
be duly certiied. (Sce furms.)
17. The contracts are to be executed by or before the Ist
July next.
15, Postmasters at offices sitnated upon or uear railroads,
but more than eighty rods from a depot, wiil, inmediately
after the 4th Apeil next, reportthat fact to the department
stating their exact distance feom the railroad depot, lll‘
how otherwise uq:vlml with the mail, w en ble the Post
master General to direct the proper supp yto be made from
the railroad by mail wmesse.gers, from and after the lst
July next. *
19. Under the act of 3d March, 1845, the route is tv be
let to the lowest bidder, tendering suflicient gnaranties for
faithful performance, without other reference to the mode
of transportation than may be necessary to provide for the
due celerity, certainty, and security of such transportation.
When the lowest bid proposes a inode of conveyance that
is inadequate for the route in respect to the certainty, se
curity, and celerity of the mails, aside from any accommo
datica fur travel, t will not _e entitled t) the route.
20. When the bid does not name a mode of conveyance,
it will be taken and understood to be for the lowest mode
of conveyance, it will be taken and understood to be for
the lowest mode of conveyauce, to wit: on horseback.
When it proposes to carry according to the advertisement,
and no mode of conveyance is stated for the route in the
advertisement, it will be considered as offering ouly for
horseback conv ‘yance.
21. 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, Yutengages to carry the mail with certaiuty ,
celerity, and security, using the terms of the law. 7These
bids are called, from the manner in which they are desig
nated on the books of the department, “star bids.”” It has
been decided, after mature consideration, that a bid pro
posing a specific mode of conveyance of as high a grade as
two horse coach transportation is to be preferied to the star
bid. The experience of the department enables it to lay
down the followin* rules, viz:
When the mail on the route is not so large as to require
two-horse coach conveyance, a star bid, if the lowest, will
be preferred to the specific bid.
22. When the mails are of such size and weight as to
render it necessary orexpedient, in reference to thein alone,
to provide two horse coach 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
ey of the new law, which looks to a reduction in the cost
of transportation. hxceplions, 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
preferring the specific bid do not exist in his case.
23. On routes of the highest class, wh ‘re four horse coach
or steamboat transportation is required by the size and im
portance of the mails, the preference for the specific bid
will be, if necessary, carried, to a greater extent of differ
enca than on the inferior coach routes ; subject, however,
to the exceptions above stated.
~ 24 A modification of a bid, mn any of its essential terms,
s tantamount to a new bid, and cannot he received, so as
to interfere with regular competition, after the last hour
set for receiving bids.
C. JOHNSON, Postmaster General.
Post Orrice DerartMesT, Dec. 18, 1848,
d3o—lawl2w
The Asthma can be Cured!
: THE ONLY REMEDY !
DR. PETER H. LEE has discovered a remedy that will
certainly and etfectually cure the Spasmodic Asthma,
as has been demonstrated in hundreds of instances beyond
all doubt. He asks the attention of the atflicted to the fol
lowing letter from Rev. I. D. Willilamson, who is well
Known throughout the United States :
Editor of the Star—lt is known to some of your readers
and many of my friends, that I have recently found a cure
for Asthma, with which I have suffered severely for many
years. Daring my recent visit to the East, many anxious
inquiries were made as to the means of a cure which ap
pears astonishing.
To save furthier inquiries, and also to put others in the
way of procuring a like reiief, allow me to say, that I pro
cured a prescription from Dr. Peter 1. Lee, to which alone
[ attribute a cure 1 have every reason te believe perfect
.-unllmdic:\l. 1 have indeed no symptom orfeeling of’ Asth
ma lefl.
Through a long period of fifteen years I have suffered
much—tried various medicines, and been acquainted with
hundreds of cases and [ am well satisfied that Dr. Lee’s is
the only prescription that can be relied npon. Gratitude
to him for the immeasurable relief he has brought me, and
a desire to serve the suffering, have alone mduced me to
make this public statement, which [ do in the utmost con
fidence that those who follow my advice wili not be disap
pointed. I. D. WILLIAMSON.
Cincinnati, Oct. 10, 1847,
In aletter sent Rev. Mr. Drew, of Augusta, Me. he says:
*[ have not taken a half bottle, and am well, and have
no fears of A=<thma again, inasmuch as 1 have for the last
two months been exposed to all sorts of weather, and am
free from that complaiut which has made me a sufferer
through long dreary years.”
Dr. Lee believes,fromhis knowledge of the medicine and
its efiects, that the five cases will be permanently cured,
if the use of it is continued. : . 8
Now let the reader examine the impartial statement of
Rev. Wm. A. Drew, editorof the Gospel Banner, of Augus
ta, Maine, and he will be in possession of actual experi
ments, He says:—
“The editor of the Banner is no friend of humbuggery ;
and would not consent to receive any of this medicine cn
sale until he had, by means of several bottles fuiwarded
through him ascertained to his own satisfuaction, that it is,
on the whole, a good medicine. He did notrequire that it
should cure every body, for such a pretension would be
humbuggery ; no medicine will cure in every case ; but if
he should ascertain that it accomplished the object in a
majority of cases, he meant to consuier the fact as enough
to establish for it a good claim to general contidence. He
has ascertained that in tifteen vut of seventeen cases it has
given relief; that in ten of that number it appears to have
effected a cure ; and that, in the other two cases, no effects
good or bad have been perceived from its use. Justice,
however, 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 hundredsof similar testimonies ;
but the following froin the editor of the Starin the West,
who is personally acquainted with Dr. Lee, and knows of
the sucesss of his medicine, is worthy of notice :
Tue AstMa Meoicixe.—Persons frequently write us
letters of inquigy about this medicine,to know if itisreally
what it claims to be. Wecanonly say that the certificates
in the Star are cexviNeg—to which might be added many
more of a similar character. Our own opinion is, that it
will permanently cure at le st 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 first
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
vears!” He will only add some
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.
Unlike quack medicines, itclaimsto cure but one disease ;
and there can be no deception when a case of asthma is
cured. The complaint is of that nutare, as all know who
have it that it cannot be charmed away by faith or other
wise. A man with a cough may suppose he has the con
sumption, take medicine, and get well . Perhaps he would
have recovered without it—but the medicine ge'i: the cred
it The same is true of patent pills and other nostrums
which ciaim to cure almost ali 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 except Dr. Lee’s that
will cure it.
To prevent imposition and counterfeits he designsto
confine the sale of it to a few responsible agents. He pre
fers that it shall become known more by its success, than
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 always be found at hisbookstore on 4th st.,
five doors west of Walnut street. Price 83.
Jason Gurley, of Cincinnnti, Ohio, is the exclusive gen
eral agent for the medicine thronghout the United States.
The wedicine may be had of the Messrs. ROWE, No. 25
Market square, Providence ; of J. M. Twee, N 0.9 Bowery,
New York, and Wwm. A, Drew, Augusta, Me 26
GREAT BLESSING OF THE AGE.
Dl‘ ORSE’S Compound 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 Limm this morning that he had orders on hand for 76
dozen bottles. It is the greatest preventive of disease ever
known ; persons who take 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. Prepared only by
the proprietor, at 167 Broad st. C. MORSE, jr.
ACCOUNT BOOKS, PAPER,
A ND STATIONARY—The subscr.ber invi es atten ion
to his extensive and well selected stock of Account
Books, Paper, Stationery, &e.
Account Books, ruled to all the patterns in general use ;
al :0 manufactured to order to any pattern and st, le re
quired, and warranted to give satisfaction.
Writing Papers, of every description, including blue,
white laid and wove Letter and Cap Pn&x-rs, uof English
and American manufarture ; Playing Cards.
Note Paper and Envelopes, plain and fancy.
Inks—English and American writing, copying, blue and
red Inks. Y
Secaling Wax and Wafers—Jones®’, Victoria, 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 difierent manufacturers.
Quills—A full assortment, of all stzes.
Whatman's Drawing Papers—A full assortment.
Slates—Hard wood t‘nmo School and Log Slates ; proce
lain Slates and Tablets. vl i 2
Cutlery—Pen and Pocket Knives, Erasers, &ec.
GEO. 11. WHITNEY,
7 successor to C. Burnett, Jr, 3 Westminster st.
WESTMINSTER LIBRARY.
‘VE have established a circulating Library, with the
above name, in connexion with our booxstore, at 146
Westminster st, and shall be happy to receive the calls o
the reading community in town and conntry. We have
nearly one thousand volumes to offer at the start, compris
ing the most valuible in every department of Literature,
Biography, History, 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 scon as they are issued
from (hefrns. Rich, rare and racy Antiquarian Worky
will be added occasionally. We shall endeavor to accom
modate the wants of the public and we solicit a share ¢’
public patronage. WINSOGR & PERRIN.
PAPER HANGINGS, .
FRF.N(‘H and American Paper Hangings—Hexry Cusp
& Co, 116 Westminster st, have just rec’d from Franc
an assortment of clegant gilt and other Paper Hanging
and Borders, Landscape Views and Fire Board Lans
ueapes ; also, a handsome supply of American Papersof »™
prices and a great variety of elegant printed Window Cm
tains. Those in want of the ahove articles are invited t
eall and examine them, as it is presumed that their assorn.
ment is as complete and will be sold as reasonable as cay
he found in the city. m 4
LOOKING GLASSES, O
100 DOZ common Looking Glasses, just rec’d and for
sale unusually low at 51 and 53 North Main st.
7 THOMAS WHITAKER& BON.
SADDLE, HARNESS AND TRUNK NANU
FACTORY.
SAMUVEL WESSON
NO. 4 NORTH MAIN STREET,
WOULD infoim his (riends and the public that he is
still to be found at his oid stamnd, No. 4 North Main
street, where he wuld be Illrpy to farnish them with all
descriptions of articles in his line of business.
Now on hand and for sale on the most favorable mm
a complete assortment of €addles, Harnesses, common
traveling Trunks, Vakises, Caspet Pags, Poitmanteaus,
Whips, “ly Nets, Collars, and a great variety of other miti
cles Loo numerous to mention. je2d—r
ECONOMY IN KINDLING FIRES.
(PATENT RIGHT SECURED)
The attention ¢f Heusckecpers, Skip Masters, Grocers, Man
wfacturers, Tin Swmitks, §c, is imvited to » Fatont
Composition, called
~ CHEEVER'S FIRE KINDLING,
WIHCII is the best, most sufe and econcmical artiche
ever used for Kindling fires. Mruy testio cuinls as
to its utility might be «fered, bu’ a trial wiil cenvince the
most incrednlons, Fifiy cents will suppiy cre fiie every
day for six months. 1t wili dispense with the use of shav
ings and paper, and thus remcve a very gueat risk from
many houses. Luch panchage contains 24 cokes, each cike
10 inch squares, cue of w hich, instantaneously taking Sive,
will burn with sufficient heatand Baze toignite bituninous
coal ; and by the addition of a few small picces of wood or
charcoal will Kindle the autlar<ite. or by using a little
h"F" quantity no otizer Kindling is reguired.
0 every shipmaster it will be of great utility and con
venience, as it is not affected by water or climate.
Dirzcrioxs—After placirg one or wore of the smmll
squares. (as the kind of fuel requires) in the bottcn: of the
grate or stove, put on the fuel, then apply a lighted match
to the kindling underneath. Cne of the inch squar s will
give a strsng and intense blaze frcm 15 to 20 minutes.
Manufactured exclusively for GRAY, WOLCOTT &
gREFi.\' Ek‘ Industrial and General Agents,3 Spruce street,
ew York.
M. ROBINSON, general agent for Providenceand viein
ity, Howard’s Block, Mascum Avenue, of whom it can he
had wholesale and retail ou favorzble teims. Retail gro
cers and others disposed to sell the above article are invited
to call and sec its opermion. 4w dl6
WILDER'S PATENT SALAMANDER IRON
. SAFES,
MANUFACTURED BY
SILAS C HERRING, New York.
A TRIAL was made before a Committee of eminent Mer
chants at the foot of Wall street, New-Yoark, for the
rpose of testing the fire-proof qual.ties of Wilder’s Patent
gl:mmnden Safe, as compared with those claimed for
Jesse Delano’s, C. J. Gayler’s Patent Double, and Scott’s
Patent Asbestos Safe. The subjoined extract from the
Committee’s Report, with the names of the gentlemen who
rendered that decisive verd.ct attached, presents clearly and
conciscly the result of the experiment.
EXTRACT.
The above was a fair trial, and was tous a convincing
proof of the superiority of the Salamander Safe over all oth
ers ; and considering that it was exposed to an intense heat
for 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 saying, that we consider Wilder's
Salamander Safe really fire-proof, and affoiding perfect se
curity to books and papers ' case of fire. We therefore
take much pleasure in making this statement to the publie,
and in recommending to them Wilder’s Patent Sslamander
Sale, as fully entitled to their contidence.
| :‘\'.\Lllls‘“’uk‘l'll & SMITH,
ALDWIN & CO.
MINTURN & CO. Committos.
CHARLES H. MARSHALL,
Subsequent accidental trials Lave been equally satisfac
-Icly as can be shown by numerous ceit ficates and testi
wonials, and also by the Sate, which was tested in the
burning of the building occupied by Messrs, Stone & Wea
~ver, in this city, last December, and which can be seen at
the store of BROWN, BARKER & CO., No. 53 Market
Street ; and have an asscrtment of the Genuine Salamander
> afes, for sale at maunfacturer’s prices. 17
CAUTION.
[‘S my Spanish Lustral and Medicated Hair Preservative
4<% hasacquired a high reputation, and is almost univer: al-
Iy used for promoting the growth and preserving and beauti
fying the hair, another article has been brought before the
public under the same name, but entirely different in its
composition and effect, and I hereby caution the public not
to be taken in by it, but always to inquire for “Camm’s
Spaaish Lustral” and use no other, if they wish to be se
cure from deception. The ingredients, and a portion of
them can only be oltained from the Spanish warkets, and
the manner of compounding the Lustral are known only to
wyself, the secret having been communicated to me 12
years since by a distingu shed surgeon in Ed-nburgh, Scot.
land, and was by me introduced 1o the public for the first
time. My Spanish Lustral may be known by its bright gold
en color, being fiee from all coloring matter which is al
ways injurious to the hair, and I would caution the public
not 1o use any article of red color for the hair, as it must
tend to injure it very materially, and above all to purchase
no article bearing the name of Spanish Lustral unless my
nane is attached to it, as all others are vile imitations, cal
culated 1o deceive thuse who are unacquainted with the
genuine and highly approved Camm’s Spanish Lustral.—
For sale by the proprictor,
T. W. CAMM, 60§ Westminster st.
And also by CHARLES DYER, Jr., 40 and 42 Westmin
ster st., sole agent for the Spanish Lustral. aul—lf
LELARND'S MUSIC STORE.
Musical instruments and Musical Mer
chandise, can be obtained at this estab
lishment, of every descripticn, and of
’ the very best quality, consisting of supe
rior Guitars, plain and_ ornamental, at prices om $5lO
$25; Flutes of every description, from $1 to £35; Clari
uets, Flagelets and Fifes, of varicus kinds of wood and
finish ; Violins at every price from 81 50 to §25; Prass in
struments ef every kind ; Banjos: Tamborines; Tuni o
Forks ; Pipes ; Hammers ; Reeds ; Bridges ;&trings ; Rosn
Pegs ; Bow Hair; Violin Bows, and Viclin Trameangs ot
allkinds ; also, Seraphines ; Melodeons ; Accordecns ; Mu.
sic Boxes ; Music Racks, and Folios, &ec.
Glee and Music Instinction Pocks for every instrument
THE SHEET MUSlC—Consists of an extensive stock
of old and new music. The publications of every store in
the country can bo obtained at this store. Purchasers will
find all the newest a.d mest faverite Songs and Pieces
continually for sale. Piano Fortes to let, at prices fiom §5
to 812 per quart r; also, second hand Pianos for sale.
PIANO 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 attended to with the gicat
estcare by A. M. LELAND, 155 Westminster st. myllo
PIANO FORTES.
. HALLETT, DAVIS & CO., Boston, re
5 fl—'@ spectfully imform the public that they have
o § appointed Mr. 8T THURBER, sole agent
- fur the sale of their Piano Fortes in the
State of Rhode Island. ‘They take this opportunity to ex
press their thanks for the very hberal p-lmnnfi they have
received from this city and vicinity, and would call” the at
tention of purchasers and others to the recent improv ements
they have made in the'r instruments, rendering the tone
and action unsurpassed if equalled by any other make.—
The numerous medals and diplomas which they have re
ceived from the different fairs at Philadelphia, New York
and Boston, is sufficient proof of the high estunation in which
they are held abroad as well as at home. Mr. Thurber will
be always supplied with a large assortment of Piano Fortes
of the first class, which can be cbtzined of him as low asat
the manufactory, and which will be warranted in all respects
perfect instruments,
8. T. Thurber has just received a large supply of Piano
Fortes from the above makers, which he cffers 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 Ecrtes to let.
PIANO FORTES.
J UST reccived at THUREER'S Piano Forte rooms, 137
Westminster st, Howard’s building, a fine assortment
of Piano Fortes from the manufa: tory of Hallett. Cumstcn
& Allen, Boston, warranted of the very best quality, and
r sale at the manufacturers’lowest prices. my2o
SHEET MUSIC AT 3 CTS. PER PAGE!
THE subscriber wishing to reduce his stock of sheet mu -
sic, will sell it at 3 cents per page. New and popular
music received weekly frem New Yk and Poston, w ich
will be sold at the same reduced price. Instruction Bocks,
and all Musical publicat'ovs, for sale at much less than
former rices at THURBER’'S, 157 Westminster st.
CHURCH BOOKS.,
HOR!\‘B'S Works, 2 v s ; Horne 01 Psalms ; Jackson’s
Remains ; Stauford’s aged Christian’s Companion ;
Hawkstone, 2 vols ; Churchman * rmed ; Christian’s Man
nal ; Maut’s Hwre Liturgical ; Bickersteth on the Lord's
Supper ; Mrs. Fry’s Memoirs ; Paget’s Sermons ; t‘nllidg'-
Aids te Reflection ; Mant’s Happiness of the Blessed ; En
ter thy Church ; Tnomton’s Family Prayers : lu{nrfl or
the Pearl; Lady Mary ; Palmer’s Church History ; Hobert’s
Apology : State of Departed ; Companion to the Altar;
What is Christianty ; ! errien’s Pravers ; Simeon on Holy
Spirit ; Father Clement; Christ’s Warning to Churches ;
Religion as see through Christ ; Reeanta ion ; Cecil and
his Dog; Cousin Bertha : Always Happy ; Steps to the
Altar; Vast Amry : Jones on Trinity ; Chapin on the Puri
tans ; Stanley on the Parables; Spencer s Reformation ;
Hymns on Catechizm ; Sacra Privata ; Lord’s Suwper ; De
vout Churchman’s Companion; Law’s Sericus Call;
Sword’s Pocket Almanac, for 1849, a fresh supply, just
rec’d, for sale by GEO. H. WHITNEY,
fl 4 successor to C. Burnett, Jr, 3 Westminstcr <t.
RUBEERS! RUERBBERS!! RUBBEFRS 11!
C HILDREN’S imported Rubbers, 37 ct#¥ misses’ manu
" factured do 59 ; ladies do do €2; gent’s Over Shoes,
leather soles, §1 25 ; ladies® Rubber Buskins, (2 cte; gent’s
imported Rubbers, 75 ; misses® Rubber Buskins, 50 ; ladies’
imported Rubbers, 62 ; gent’s manufactured Over Shors 87,
di3 ALLEN J. BROWN, 1!1 Broad st.
IVORY.
3 CASES ivory handled Knives and Forks, Kuives with
out Forks, Guard and Game Carvers, Reef Shieers, Nut
Picks, &c, of Awerican manufacture, just ree’d and for
sale very low at 51 and 53 North Main st 5
6 THOMAS WHITAKER & SO!:.__
DINING WARE. Lo b
Fl.O\\'l.\'G mulbernry, flowing blue, and white iron stone
Dining Waie, a full assortment, rec’d and for sale very
low at 51 and 53 North Main st
iy THOMAS WHITAKER & SON.
LETTER PAPERS.
AN invoice of Cap and Letter Papers, from the celebratea
manufactory “’l D. Carson & Scns, just rec’d and for
sale low, a nice article fur retaling. .
di3 WINSOR & PERRIN, IQ_ Westminster =l,
LETTER, CAP AND DRAWING PATERS,
qu :aelebmted mnnufacfldb. Carson & Sons,
for sale by the qnantity, ream or single quiic,at -y
low for cash b ;
nprtcn WX.\'SO{ & PERRIN. 140 Westminster st. ‘
O e T
F all kinds, bought an at 139\ cxtminster st, hy
OFa WINSOR & PERRIN.