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FOETKY.
THE BUND BRIDE.
The following poem derive its origin from a ro
mance of real life, the scene of which is in one of
our midland counties. A young lady of great beau
ty and accomplishments was suddenly deprived, by
d inflamation, of the sense of sight. Nevertheless,
instead of sinking, under so heavy a dispensation,
into listlessness and melancholy, with an admirable
spirit she retained her cheerfulness, and continued
all her former pursuits, as far aa the privation would
allow. She continued to play, sing, walk, and e
ven ride out on horseback preserving a bright
mind, amidst her darkness, and a happy counte
nance. Soon afterwards a gentleman returned
from abroad, who had been the companion of her
childhood and her lover in his boyhood. Touch
ed by the noble spirit with which she bore her ca
lamity, and still retaining his old attachment to her,
he offered his heart and hand for her acceptance
in spite of the urgent counsel of his friends, and e
ven the remonstrances of the lady herself. But he
remained firm to his purpose; and the verses were
composed, as if addressed by him to his Blind
Bride:
Thou seest me not, my own dear bride;
Yet bright thy smile, my Espeiance,
As when we 6ported side by side,
Or mingled in our playmates' dance.
Thy step, as then, is light and free,
Thy stirrup firm and fearless still;
Such power abides iu constancy
- Of faith, and hope, and steadfast will.
I loved thee then, my heart's first joy,
I love thee now, and ten fold more,
That when the saddened stripling boy
Left thee and thine, and England's shore.
One lingering gaze behind I cast;
Thy young eye watched me from the hill;
0, had I deemed that look thy last !
But here thou art and dearer still.
Thy mind's a kingdom all thy own;
And like the lark, in morning air,
Thy playful voice, whose minstrel tone
Can charm away my every care.
The peace which pure high thoughts impart,
The scents, the sound of jocund earth,
Are thine and mure than all, a heart
That beats for thee and feels thy worth.
What though alike unmarked by thee
The moonbeam and the noontide ray,
'Tis mind, and heart, and converse free,
Turn gloom to joy, and night to day.
Then cheer thee love; where'er we go,
My step, my thought, shall wait on thine;
Thy spirit, tried in weal and wo,
My Esperance, shall strengthen mine.
THE PARADISE OF TEARS.
From the German of N. Muller
BY WILLIAM CCLLEN BRYANT.
Beside the river of Tears, with branches low,
And bitter leaves, the funeral willows grow;
The branchesstream, like the dishevelled hair
Of women in the sadness of despair.
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
The rocks moan wildly as it rushes by;
Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
And not a flower adorns the dreary land.
Then comes a child, whose face is like the sun,
And dips the gloomy waters as they run,
And moistens all the region, and, behold !
The ground is bright with blossoms manifold !
Where fall the tears of love, the rose appears;
And where (he moss is wet with friendship's tears
Forget-me-not and violet, heavenly blue,
Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.
The souls of mourners, who no more shall weep,
Float, swan-like, down the curreut's gentle sweep,
Go up the sands that shine along its side,
Aud in the Paradise of tears abide.
There every heart rejoins its kindred heart;
There, in a long embrace, that none may part,
Fulfilment meets desire; and that fair shore
Beholds its dwellers happy evermore.
From the Baltimore Sun.
COMMODORE DALLAS.
Notwithstanding the lime that has e
Inpsed since the death ol Commodore
Dallas, and the notices of that melan
choly event which have appeared in the
papers ol this country, our own includ
ed, we lay the following before our read
ers, as containing matter of interest in
circumstantial detail, respecting the
death and buiiul of a gallant and meri
torious officer ol their country's navy.
communicated.
On the morning of June 4th, 1814,
the harbor of Cailao was attired in the
impressive symbol of public mourning.
The flags of the United States, Eng
lish, French and Sardinian ships of war
of the many merchant vessels of dif
ferent nations in the harbor, and those
of the Peruvian castles on shore, hung
drooping at half-mast, announcing the
death of Commodore Alexander J. Dal
las, commander-in chief of the United
States naval forces in the Pacific, whose
life has closed during the preceding
night an event which had for some
days been hourly expected. The cer
emonies of wo whicli are the prescrib
ed accompaniment of the death of one
in official station, were, upon this occa
sion, in melancholy union with general
and sincere sorrow. Foreigners with
whom Com. Dallas has been brought
into social or official relations were
grieved at the loss of one whom they
had learned to respect for his character
and abilities, arid to admire for his pol
ished manners and courteous urbanity;
while in his own Hag ship were the sad
ly heavy hearts of those who feel the
loss, not only of their commander-in-chief,
1jut one around whom they had
gathered as the member of a happy
family around its head.
The death of Commodore Dallas re
sulted from disease of the brain, which
had been making a gradual but steady
and certain progress for three months
-previous to its fatal termination. It
' was the yielding of the machinery of
life to the influence of enthusiastic emo
tion. and the exacting demand of an ev.
er active mind; for his was one of those
"Breasts to whom all the strength of feeling
given PC
Bear hearts electric charged with fire from
Jleaven."
The first indication of his dangerous
situation was the occurrence of paraly
sis of the left arm and tide of his face,
during the month of February preced
ing his decease. With an accurate ap
preciation of his condition, he early felt
that an entire recovery was not to be
hoped for, and in his own words he
preferred "death to a state of existence
in which he could be of no further use
to his country."
lie had come to the conclusion to
resign the command of the Pacific
squadron, and to return home in the
frigate United States, daily expected
from the coast of Mexico, for two weeks
preceding his death. Day after day
closed in disappointment as to the arri
val ol this ship, and fearing that the pro
gress of his disease might prevent him
from giving the necessary instructions
upon her arrival, he, in anticipation,
i i - . i i i
caused ms wisncs anu oiuers w ue
written out, and three days before his
death, acknowledged them in the pres
ence of witnesses. In these instruc
tions he particularly enjoined, that in
case of his death at sea, his remains
should be there deposited, remarking
that he wished "no other than a sea
man's grave." After the execution of
this paper, he gave himself resignedly
to death, which approached so gradu
ally that the lapse of hours was neces
sary to mark its advance; and he pass
ed away as if falling into a quiet slub
ber, the moment of dissolution being
scarcely perceptible to those who
watched anxiously around him. It
was respectful to him and grateful to
his officers, to mark the considerate at
tention paid him by the foreign squad
rons during the period of his illness; the
British and Sardinian ships withholding
the customary salutes upon the occa
sion of official visits.
On the afternoon of June 5th, his re
mains were deposited in the Pantheon
belonging to the English residents in
Lima, situated at the village of Bella vis
ta, two miles from Callao. The follow
ing was the order of the impressive cer
emonies of his interment. The pro
cession left the Hag ship Savannah at
half-past twelve. It was preceded by
three launches containing the murine
guard of the squadron and the music;
next came the body in the commodore's
barge, with Admiral Petit Thouars,
commanding the French squadron, Sir
Thomas Thompson, commanding her
Britannic m ijesty's ship Talbot; Count
Persano, commanding the Sardinian
brig Eridano; commanders Stribling
and llollins, as pall-bearers, each in his
own boat. The Hon. j. C. Pickett,
charge d 'a flairs U. S., joined the pall
bearers after the procession reached the
shore. Boats containing officers and
crews of all the squadrons, each bear
ing the flag of her respective nation,
following in lines or three abreast. At
the moment the procession started, a
minute gun boomeu from the Savan
nah, and these were continued until
thirteen were t .vice fired from this ship,
the Cyanc, La Heine Blanche, Talbot.
and Lridano. ith slowly dipping
oars, anu accompanied ovine cannon s
solemn roar, the nrocPssion moved in
wards the town of Callao. As it pass
ed the British frigate Talbot, the crew
neativ dressed, manned the side of the
ship, and respectfully saluted the body,
their marines at the same time present
ing arms. As La Heine Blanche was
ipproachod, the same honors were paid,
md her band floated upon the air, as
if breathed by some attendant spirit,
most soft aud mournful notes of music.
The body was received at the Mole by
the civil and diplomatic functionaries,
the Peruvian military, foreign residents,
and crowds of citizens, who accompa
nied the honored dead to its fi.ial rest
ing place.
Commodore Dallas was the son of
the lion. Alexander J. Dallas, Secreta
ry of the Treasury under the adminis
tration of Mr. Madison. Of a family
which has occupied distinguished posi
tions in the cabinet, the Senate, in dip
lomacy and on the bench, Commodore
Dallas was no less distinguished as an
ornament of the honorable profession
to which his life and talents have been
devoted.
He was particularly fortunate in that
rare combination of character best fit
ted for high military command, main
taining a steady and systematic discip
line in conjunction with a frank and ea
sy association witi his subordinate offi
cers, leading them to the performance
of their duties more by encouraging
self-respect and professional pride than
by exercising the terrors of authority.
Of ardent and enduring attachments,
so far as was in his power, he associa
ted wi;h him upon public duty those
who had won his regard, and these he
omitted no opportunity of serving, the
interests of his friends being his own.
It was his pleasure to gather his offi
cers around him in friendly and social
union; and his own graceful vivacity of
conversation gave life and cheerfulness
to the circle. Separated in this, his
last public duty, from those more inti
mate domestic relations for which none
other can be entirely substituted, he had
about him, in his last moments, officers
of his own selection, those who had
served with him in previous years, and
had lived in the enjoyment of his friend
ship and confidence, those who could,
give to his closing life all the care and
attention springing from attachment
and esteem, softened by the sense ol
the afflicting loss which leaves
"To mourn the vanished beam, and add our mite
Of praise in payment of a long delight."
AMERICAN HONESTY.
The honesty of a people is to be prop
erly measured, not by what is honest
simply according to law, but what is
honest from their spontaneous action.
The one kind of honesty, though prac
tical, may have no spirit ol truth, bui
may merely spring from fear of punish
ment; the other arises from conscien
tious motives, and determines the exist
ence of the principle itself. We hear
a great deal of the infidelity of Ameri
cans to their pecuniary engagements;
the cry has been iterated and reiterated
until many people have come lo the
belief that their countrymen stiller in
a comparison of integrity with the rest
of the world. This scandal originated
in the English and French journals,
and in the books of insolent foreign
tourists. If we look to the fact that
the 'aw regarding the collection ol debts
is so much less rigid in this country
than abroad, we shall find that the su
periority of honesty belongs tQ the A
tnericitns who are not forced in the
same degree by legal enactments to
meet their engagements. We have
long been of opinion that the more left
to the discretion of individuals by the
government this better, the general safe
ty being considered; and, according to
this theory, the collection of debts be
ing left to private management, they
would become debts of honor, and
would be incurred and paid according
ly. But a reliance on the power o!
government to collect them in case ol
necessity, interferes with the freedom
of action, essential to the developeitient
of honest principles.
Jn exemplification of tiie fact of the
existence of American honesty in a pre
eminent degree, notwithstanding the
extensive denial given to it, we will
quote a fewloreign authorities.
One of the house; of 13 i rings, London,
recently stated to an American dining
with him, that the Americans were the
most honest people in the world; for du
ring the whole of his long experience,
with the innumerable credits on their
house that had been granted to Ameri
cans, not a single case had occurred
of an improper application of the mo
ney. Captain Marryal, in his travels, says,
while in New York, that there is no
legal mode for compelling the payment
Oi' debts. .Afterwards, while in Bull'i
lo and Rochester, commenting upon
the size and appearance of the shops, he
states that everybody obtained gonds
upon credit. The Edinburgh Review,
commenting upon these two passiges,
says that they must be an extraordina
ry people, where every body has cred
it, although debts cannot be collected
by process of law. So it'is. The best
evidence of honesty among a people is
to be louud in 'he existence ol credit,
as no one parts with his goods without
expecting to be paid for them.
The did'erence between ths official
honesty of England and tiie United
States is shown by the following: lleie
los-es of money by the post are of oc
casional, though of rare, occurrence.
There, Col. Maberly, Deputy Postmas
ter General, says, in his evidence be
fore a committee of the House of Com
mons, that 'a letter posted with mon
ey in it might as well be thrown down
into the gutter as put into tie post of
fice." It is stated that the money con
tained in the dead-letter office sent to
Washington monthly is '5,000 a
strong contrast to the other, and yet
our offices are scattered over the wilds
ol this immense country. Ledger.
AN INTERESTING RELIC.
There is a curiosity at the Fair well worth see
ing a boat containing the original engine and
boiler of the first boat that ever navigated the
Hudson river. It was built by Col. John Stephens
of Hoboken in the years 1803, and 1804, and pro
pelled by a circular scull, since called propeller.
The committee of the American institute have in
their possession a letter from Col. Stephens to
Robert Hare, Jr., ol Philadelphia, containing a
draft and description of his circular scull or pro
peller, in which the principle of its formation aud
action is bo clearly laid down that no mechanic
could make a material mistake in its construction.
The model of another boat, with its engine and
propeller, built by Col. Stephens in 1805, is also
exhibited. Mechanics and others, who take an
interest in such mutters, by examining this boat,
together with the original propeller used in 1805
and 1806, can satisfy themselves to whom the
credit of navigating steamboats' with submerged
propellers is due. We understand, from a notice
on the boat, that a trial of speed will be made after
the fair is over.
Heretofore, the public generally have been led
to believe that the propeller is an improvement ol
foreign orign; it will be perceived, however, that
it,was fust invented atHoboken, and was subse
quently abandoned for tiie paddle wheels which
have always been used. JV. Y. Courier.
Assignee's Notice.
THIS is to notify all persons indebted to the
Estate (in Bankruptcy) of John Gihsor. Jr., that I
will give them until the first of December next, to
settle up and pay oft'. Claims unsettled at that lime
will be put in the hands of proper officers for collec
tion, as I am determined to close the business im
mediately. , 1L B. HILL,
Assignee.
Woodsfield, Nov. 6. 1844 n30"tlU.
COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA.
CHERM AN S COUGH LOZENGES are the sa,
fest, most sure and effectual remedy for Coughs
Colds, Consumptions, Whooping Couth,Asthma,
Tightness of the Lungs or Chest, Sec. Sec. The
proprietor has never known an instance where they
did not give perfect satisfaction. Several thousand
boxes have been sold within the last year, restoring
to health persons in almost every stage of consump
tion, and those laboring under the most distressing
colds and coughs.
Jonathan Howarih, esq. the well known temper
ance lecturer, took a severe cold last January by
sleeping iu dampsheets.that seemed to have settled
in a consumption. He raised a good deal of bloody
matter, and his cough was so harrassing and inces
sant that he could get no rest by day or night. Af
ter trying various remedies without relief, hetho't
that death alone would relieve him of his misery.
But by the advice of a lady he purchased a box of
Sherman's C' ugh Lozenges; they gave him great
relief, and lo his surprise allayed his cough, made
him rest easy, and enabled him lo sleep sound all
night; threo'days' use of them made a new man of
him, and'hc is recommending Sherman's Lozenges
to all his acquaintances.
smehman's worm lozenci:
Are the only infallible worm destroying medicine
ever discovered. 1,400,000 boxes have been sold,
and not a failure has ever been known. They des
troy all kinds of worms, and cannot injure where
there are none.
Three diffircnt persons cured of Worms by the
use of One Jinx of Worm Lozenges. "Messrs. G.
F. T. & Co. 147 Main street, Cincinnati : Gentle
men. Myiwife has been alllicted with worms from
the age of three years, and has never been without
them. She resided at Middletown, Butler county.
At times, she has been so alllicted with worms as
to require the attendance of two of the best physi
cians in the place one doctoring her for one com
plaint, and one for another, but getting worse, she
removed to Madison, und was under the hands of
two of the most celebrated physicians of (hat place,
but all did her no good. She came to Cincinnati
some time since, and began to despair of getting
better: indeed she got so bad, the worms came up
in her throat her siilleriue became almost intoler
able. Hearing of the many cures performed by
Sherman's Lozenges, she thought she would try
them last August. 1 stepped in your store and got
a box of the worm lozenges, and 1 have every rea
son to rejoice that I did so. She took but onb
half box, when the worms came from her in
bunches. I could nol be positive, but 1 would sup
pose that there were from lifty to sixty in each
bunch. The last dose brought several while worms,
from twelve to fifteen inches long. She began lo
get well, and fell heller than she had for years. Rc
ing cured, she gave the balance pf the box to a
neighbor by the name of Herald, who lives a short
distance from us, who has two chilcren.one live and
the other two years of age, who were much troub
led with worms, and I have heard since, that by the
time they had used up the box, both children were
entirely cured."
Tlie'above i from Mr. It. Itichaids, Lawrence
street, near Front.
WEAK HACKS! WEAK BACKS!
1, 000 ,()!)() sor. n yearly!
Price I'lilij twelve nnl a ha!)' cents.
SHE RALLY'S POOR Ml.YS PIASTER.
THE best Strengthening Plaster in the world,
and a sovereign remedy tor pains and w eakness iu
Ihe back, loins, side, breast, neck, limbs, joints,
rheumatism, and lumbago; worn on the lower part
of the spine, they entirely cure the pile.; and on
the small of the back, the falling iT the womb; ap
plied to Ihe back of (lie neck ol children teething
they give great relief. In coughs, colds, oppres
sion of the chest and stomach, liver complaint, dys
pepsia, asthma, aud ail diseases where local reme
dies are required, none can be better than these
plasteis They are tonic, or strengthening, stimu
lating aud anodyne Pysicians recommend ihem
because they stick better and afi'nrd more relief than
any other ever known. One million are sold yearly-
J. W. Home, esq. who was bent nearly double
with Rheumatism, was enabled, after wearing cue
12 hours, to get up aud dress himself. In 2 days
he was nerfectly well.
Mr. David Williams, of Elizabethli wn, N.J
an old revolutionary soldier, was so alllicted wilh
Rheumatism that he could hardly help himself.
One of these Pla.-ters entirely cured him. ,
Mrs. George Nixon, one of the Managers of the
Institution for Aged Indigent Females in the city
of New York, says the old ladies find great benefit
from these Piasters, they being very liable to pains
or weakness in the back, as w ell as other parts of
the body.
Mr. Geo. W. Spencer, Street Inspector, was
cured of the Piles by wearing one ol these Plasters
on the lower part ol Ihe spine.
3 Caution. The great reputation llrcse Plas
ters h ive attlined has induced many unprincipled
persons to get up worthless imitations. Ask for
Sherman's Poor Man's Plaster, and a facsimile of
his name, A. Smermaw, M. D. is on the hack of
each. Tiust none others, or you will be deceived.
Price only Twelve-and-a-half Cents.'
G. V. THOMAS,
147 Main st, between Hid aud 4th,
fjC-Sole Agent for Cincimiali.
SHERMAN'S CAMPHOR LOZENGES
Give immediate relief to Nervous or sick Headache
palpitation of the heart, lowness ol spirits, despon
dency , inllaiuiuatory or putt id sore throat, bowel or
summer complaint, fainting, oppression or a sense
of sinking ol the chest cholic, spasms, cramps of'
the stormich or bowels, hysterical affections nlaad
nervous diseases, drowsiness through the day and
wakefulness at night, cholera or choleia morbus,
diarrhoea, or a sense of fatigue. Persons tiavelling
or attending laige parlies, will find the Lozenges
really reviving, and imparting the buoyancy of
youth.
Joseph B. A'ones, esq. Vice President of the
Washington Marine Insuiance Company, has suf
feieil for years with nervous headache, thatnolhing
would relieve till he used these Lozenges, whihe
relieved it entirely in 15 minutes.
Dr. U. Hunter bus been subject to violent attacks
of headache, so as to make him almost blind for two
or three hours at a lime. Nothing ever affo'ded
him any relief till he tried these Lozenges, and they
cured In in in a lew minutes.
Dr. Shei man's Lozenges can be obtained Whole
sale and Retail ol G. F. THOMAS, Main st, be
tween 3d und 4th, opposite Gazelle Ollice.
Qrj-Sole Agent lor Cincinnati, Ohio, and of the
following Agents:
J. A. kG. H. DAVENPORT & Co.,
Woodsfield, Monroe county, Ohio.
WELSH & ARMSTRONG, ,
licullseiiile, Monroe county, Ohio.
E. SCATTERDAY,
Jacobsbnig, Belmont county, Ohio.
Cough Lozenges 25 cents per box;
AVorm " ' "
Camphor " " "
J3-Poor Man's Plasters only 13 1-2 cents apiece.
All who buy a box of Dr. Shcrinrii's Lozenges,
or a Plaster, are entitled to one of SHERMAN'S
MESSENGERS OF HEALTH, which can he
obtained from all Agents.
DAN'L ('; KAY'S KSTATK.
VOTICE is hereby given that (he subscriber has
been appointed and qualified as administrator
on the estate of Daniel Gray, late of Monroe
county, deceased. ADAM JOHNSTON.
October 18th, 1844. 33
Ho ad Notice.
THERE will be a petition presented to the
Commissioners of Monroe County. at their next
session in December next, praying for a County
Road to begin at a County Road running tram
Surnmertield to Dates' Mill at the mouth ol Peter
Danford's lane, thence to said Dan ford's tobacco
house, thence to the Guernsey county line north
of Emmanuel Moore's house, to butt a road peti
tioned for in Guernsey county thence to com
mence again at the west end of the above mention
ed Guernsey county road, at the Guernsey line,
near (he S. E. corner of James Kent's land, thence
to intersect a county road running from Summer
(ield to Senecaville near Samuel Large 's.
October 24, 1844. tld.'
MRS. WIMER; OR
ANOTHER REMARKABLE CURE BY t'SlNO
WISTAR'B BALSAM ' .
0W1LD CUEUftY.
the GREAT REMEDY fob. CONSUMPTION
- Among all the famous medicines for Consumption
none seems to be meeting with greater success, or
gaining a higher reputation than that most wonder
ful article,
AVISTAR'S
BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY!
" That it stands at fheiead of all other remedies
is now universally conceded. It has cured thous
ands upon thousands of all classes in cases of
the most dangerously consumptive character
And physicians of the greatest eminence throghout
our whole country unhesitatingly recommend it,
as the
MOST POWERFUL CURATIVE
of Pulmonary diseases in the whole range of Phar
macy. The sales iu the Western States lipvelhus
far been unparalleled;, and the most gratifying
proofs of its efficacy have been received from every
place where it has been used. Thousands of
CONSUMPTIVE PATIENTS
have already tested its exalted virtues, and confes
sed its surpassing excellent and amazing power
The remarkable success of this Balsam is no doubt
owing in a great measure to the peculiarly agreea
ble aud powerful nature of its ingredients. It is a
FINE 1IERHAL MEDICINE!
Composed chiefly of WILD CHERRY BARK
and the genuine ICELAND MOSS (the latter
imported expressly fortius purpose,) the rare med
ical virtues of whicli, are also combined by a new
chemical process the best ever discovered for
CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS.
The following we have just rc eived from Jilessrs.
Jo. tin & Rome, Druggists, ii Jewark, in this
State, to whom it wns communicated by John Wi
nter, Eq., citizen of Burlington, Licking Coun
ty, Ohio.
BURLINGTON, LiCKINC CO., O., DeC. 1. 1843.
Messrs. Joslin & Row e: At your request I
herewith transmit to you a statement of the case of
Mrs. Wuner and child, as near as 1 am able to com
municate, whicli yon arc at liberty lopublish if you
see fit, as I feel a desire lo inform the world of the
effects of the invaluable medicine called Wistar's
Balsam of Wild Cherry to which, by the divine
blessing, 1 am indebted for the restoration lo health
of :ny wife and child.
Ahoul tiveycars ago, Mrs. Wimer was attacked
with a violent cough, pain in the chest aiid side,
and symptoms of approaching consumption,. Dur
ing the intervals from that tiluo to sometime iu
February last, she had been treated by eminent
Physicians from Utica, Sylvania, Homer, Chat
ham and Neivark.and with only partial relief of the
most urgent symptoms. About one year ago, she
caught a violenlcold, which seated upon the Lungs,
producing an alarming aggravation of all her pie
viou symtoms. Her Physician was sent for, and
despite, his best efforts, she began rapidly to sink
under her disease. Cough, Expectoration Hectic,
together with night sweats, soon reduced her to a
complete skeleton. Iu February hist, her attend
ing Physician, deemed her case altogether hopeless,
a council was called, and a I'm deliberating upon
her case unanimously pronounced her to be beyond
the teach of means, aud expressed their opinion
that she could surv ive but a short time, one or two
weeks at farthest. She was- at this lime entiiely
confined lo her bed, an. I scarcely uble to ailicu-
i lute, except in a whisper. Her daily paroxysms of
coughing woulil last lier uiiinteriipteilly liotn J to
0 hours, and so severe were they, that we did ex
pectth.it every paroxysm would be the last T he
physicians in council pronounced her Lung-. Liv
er, Kidneys, Spine, and Mucus Membrane of the
Stonach lo be incurably diseased. It was at this
last extremity that we happened to obtain a pam
phlet de.-cribing Dr. Wistar's lialsam of Wild
Cherry, as applicable to Lung alleclions. We im
mediately sent to you and procured a bottle, and
commenced its use at evening by giving her one
teaspoon full, and such was the surprising effect,
that she was able to pass a comfortable night's rest,
without cxperiancing any paroxysm of coughing,
und such was ils ultimate effect, that after taking
live bottles she was, contrary to the expectations
of her physicians, and everyone who saw her, en
tirely restored to health; and since hist summer has
done the entire work of her f.iinily. After the last
a'taek of Mrs. Winter, our youngest child, then an
infariiat the brei st was taken down, and rapidly
sinking, with the same ?ymtoins as its mother, and
seeing the happy effect of the Balsam in the case
ol the mother, we were disposed to make trial of it
for the child, and it was attended with the same
perlecl success.
The above statement can be attested by our phy
sicijnas wellasour neighbors and acquaintances,
who saw Mrs. Wimer during the course of her
sickness.
Very truly, yours, tc.
JOHN WIMER.
But lington, Licking Co. O.
Let ivry man, woman and child rend the follow
ing, unit we are sure that it must sa!iJ'y ull of
the great virtues vj the medicine.
Water villi:, Oneida, co.,N. Y., Sept. 15, 1813.
Dear Sir: 1 owe it to (he afflicted to inform
you lb il in January last I was attacked by a very
violent colli caused by working iu water, which
settled on my lungs. It was accompanied by a
very severe pain iu my breast and side, aud also a
distressing cough. 1 had iu attendance all the best
medical aid iu our village, and after exhausting
their skill to no avail they pronounced my disease
a confirmed Consumption, and one and all gave
me up to die. After much persuasion I got the
consent of my physician louse Wistar's Balsam of
lid Cherry prepared by Dr. vYistar. 1 purchas
ed ol the agent in our place one bottle, before us
ing half of whicli, I began In gain strength, audit
was very evident my cough was a great deal better,
and my symptoms in every way improving. I
have now used three bottles, and am restored to
health. The result is alone owing to the useot
Dr. Wislar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, and I take
this method of giving you Ihe information, partly
to pay the debt of gratitude I owe you, aud partly
that others similarly alllicted may know where to
apply for relief.
Respectfully and truly joins,
JAMES SAGE.
Mr. Palmer, Druggist, under the date of Water
ville, Sept. 24 1843, writes
"The statement given you by Mr. James Sage is
well known to be true by this whole community,
and it certainly was a most remarkable cure.
Yours respectfully,
O D. PALMER."
Tiie following is from a distinguished lawyer of
the city of J"ew York, who had been afflicted
with the Asthma for upwards of"TWKJYTY
YEARS;" and who after reading such eases
can doubt the efficacy of this meilicne?
New YonK, January 23, 1843.
I have been afllicicd with spasmodic asthma for
twenty-four years sometimes sosevercly as to be
confined to my room for weeks; and although at
tended by various medical advisers, of the highest
reputation and skill iu the country, the relief was
but partial and temporary twice the disease prov
ed nearly fatal to my life.
Some few weeks ago. I commenced taking Wis
tar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, which gave me in
stant relief, and a single bottle produced in i few
days what I believe to be a radical and perfect cure.
A. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law,
No. 58 William street, New York.
We are acquainted with the writer of (he above
certificate, and his statements are entitled to (he
full confidence of the public
F. A. TALMADGE
Recorder of Ihe Cilv of New York.
JOHN POWER, D. D
Vicar General ofNewYork.
P. S. The above certificate may he seen at No.
125 Fulton street, New York.
Price $1 per bottle, or six bottlos for $5.
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SiiAKSPKARi-., lately published in England, are
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The designs of Kknny Meadows for the illus
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dition, combine with the highest merits of art and
taste, such a learned and minutcaccuracy as to sce
nery, costume, architecture and antiquity, sc as
make them a perpetual and most instructive com
mentary upon tiie Poet's text. It is now proposed
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with equal excellence of mechanical execution, to
add to these, other engravings from eminent artist,
as Reynolds, Fusrli, S. Newton, Sic., und to ac
company them will, a beautifully printed aud cor
rect text.
But the publisher .anxious that his country should
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greatest of Poets, as to one who belongs not solely
lo England, but to all
., Who speak the tongue
That Shakspearc spake,
Could not content himself wilh a mere republica
tion or compilation. He has therefore picvailed
upon Ruiiert W. Wi:ir, whose reputation as an
Artist is already identified with his coun(ry's histo
ry, (o contribute a series of Oriental Designs, to
gether with such advice and assistance in other de
tails of art, as his taste may suggest, for the illustra
tion and I'liibcllidiiiienUoi' this publication. From
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curately printed text, unencumbered by nuy notes or
comments upon the page itself; as however useful
they may be else-where, they are too apt to divert
the ruiiiilfroiii the power of the Poet's thought, and
to disturb ihe magi c of his scciro. Such notes as
may be thought useful for the explanation or criti
cism of the text, will be put into an Appendix to
each play.
The text of Shakspearc 's dramatic works, drawn
from old printed copies in his age, which had never
passed under the author's own eye, was conse
quently di-ligured by many errors and absurdities.
It passed during the last century tnrougn a succes
sion of varying editions, until the revision of Ste
vens and M.donc. whose text, (or rather that of
Stevens) has become the standard from which most
of the English and American editions have been
printed, with various degrees of accuracy But
within the last twenty years, a more minute and fa
miliar acquaintance with old English idioms, hab
its and modes of thought,' guided by an intense and
constantly increasing admiration for Shakspeare's
genius, has led to the strong conviction that very
many of the numerous (huugli slight deviations
from the am lent text, appearing iu modern editions,
arc us( -less r erroneous interpolations, sometimes
weakening the sense, and often substituting an ar
bitrary monotonous, metrical regularity, lo the Po
et's own native melody. Accordingly, very many
of these emendations have been rejected by the last
and best English editors, especially Mr. Knight and
Mr. Collier, and the readings of Ihe old folios aud
quarlos have been restored, unless where some er
ror of Ihe press or manuscript wasundeniably man
ifest. Yet there are many such passages confes
sedly corrupt, requiring conjectural emendations;
there are al-o difference of reading between the
several old impressions allording grounds for some
diversity of text and warm controversy, between
the more recent editors.
Upon these, the American editor thinks it due to
the character of this edition, lo decide himself,
without implicitly-following the text of any one
modern edition. As the industry and learning o.i
prior editors have furnished the collation of various
readings, and tho authorities upon which they may
be supported, the task is no longer that of laborious
investigation, but, as it were, of judicial decision,
enlightened by contending argument.
As many of these variations are of nearly equal
probability, and as some of Ihem are, doubtless Ihe
author's own alterations ut different periods, all the
more important readings will be presented to (he
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- Executors of Ellas D. Conger, dee'd
October 4, 1844, 32
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Agent for George McCay- .
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