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HEMORRHOIDS.

HAYS LINIMENT--No Fiction.-This extraord
nary chemical composition, the result of science
and the invention Of celebrated medical man, the intro
duction of which to the public invested with the So
lemny of death bed bequest has since gained repu
taton unparalleled fully sustaining the correctness Of the
amented DR.. Gndleys last confession, that " he dared
ledge on this subject" and he therefore bequea,he
friend and attendant, Solomon Hays, the secret OF his
discovery. II
It is now used in the principal hospitals and the private
practice country first and most certainly for the
of the Piles and also extensively and effectuay
to battle creduty, unless where its effects wit
messed. Externally in the following complaints
For DropsyCreatng extraordinary absorption at once.
All MISUNDERSTANDING them in a few hours.
Rheumatism Acute or Chronic, giving quick ease
Sore Throat-By cancers, ulcers, or colds. ..
Group and Hopping Cough-Externally, and over the
chest.
All Bruises Sprains and Burns curing in few hours.
Sores and Whetherresh or long standing and
fever sores.
Its operations upon adults and children in reducing
rheumatic swengs and loosenng coughs and tghtness
Of the chest by relaxation Of the parts has been surprs
ing beyond conception The common remark of those
who have used it in the Piles, is 1t acts like charm
The Pes.-The price 81 is refunded TO any person
who will use bottle of Hays Lnment for the Piles and
return the empty bottle without being cured. These are
the positive orders of the proprietor to the Agents and
out of many thousands Sold not has been unsuc-
cessful.
We might insert certificates to any length, but prefer
that those who sell the article should exhibit the original
Cauton-None can be genuine without a splendid
engraved wrapper, which is my name, and also that
u ''' Nse''' SOLOMON HAYS.
AGENTS Fletcher street. near Maiden lane door be-
low Pearl street, New York. and by one Druggist in every
town in the Union.
All Editors who will insert the above months, in
weekly paper shall be entitled dozen of the article
For sale by J. l.. PEABODY,
may 10 washington City.
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From the Baltimore Lit and Rel Maea-iu


Papal Decree of 1887 against Infant
Schools.-The congregation Of the Supreme
Inquisition have addressed the following cir
cular to all the bishops Of the States of the
church. We copy it from the Italian journals ::
"Most Illusirious and Reverend Lord:
"The Supreme Congregation know that
exertions were making to introduce into the
Pontifcal States, the schools called "Free
Schools" or Sales dasyie, for children of
both sexes; and that books containing little
form Of instructions had been printed and cir
cula:ed, which are not edited in that truly
catholic spirit which ought to preside in the
formation of the first ideas Of the mind, and
the first feelings of the heart.
"My colleagues, the eminent Inquisitors
General, having given great attention to this
interesting subject, have thought that it would
be thing full of danger, to say nothing more,
to permit the introduction Of the said Infan,
Schools in the Pontfical States. They have
therefore thought proper TO forbid them, ant
to communicate this determination to all the
bishops. This step has been fully approved
by his Holiness. Your most holy and re
vcrend Lordship, in case any persons shall
endeavor to establish in your diocese, school.
on the plan Of Infant Schools, will employ al
your zeal and care to prevent their formation.
i respectfully kiss the hands ofyour Lord
ship, and remain your most devoted servant,
"CARprNAL ODEscHALcHI.
Rome, Aug. 10, 1887"
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THE WEE

We have often had occasion to remark the
fortitude with which woman sustans the most
overwhelming reverses Of fortune. Those
disasters which break down the spirit Of man,
and PROSTATE him in the dust, seem TO call
forth all the energies of the softer sex, and
gives such intrepdity and elevation to their
character, that at times il approaches to sub
Unity.
Nothing can be more touching than to be-
hold soft and tender female, who had been
all weakness and dependence, and alive to every
trivial roughness, while treading the prospe-
rous path Of life, suddenly rising in mental
force to be the comforter and support OF her
husband under misfortune, and abiding With
unshrinking firmness, the most bitter blasts of
adversely.
As the vine which has long twined its grace
full foliage about the oak, and been lifted by
it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is
rifed by the thunderbolt, cling around It with
its shattered caressing tendrils, and bind up its
shattered boughs; SO IT is beautifully ordained
by Providence, that woman, who is the mere
dependent and ornament Of man in his happier
hours, should be his stay and solace when
smitten with sudden calamity; winding her
self into the rugged recesses Of his nature,
tenderly supporting the dropping head, and
binding up the broken Observation-Disclosures
hrring.
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The following is an extract from an article
on the Dignity of the Law as profession, in
the Christian Examiner for May:
The Lawer is a teacher whenever he rises
at the bar, either Ito convince the court
persuade the jury or charm the listening
crowd that are hanging upon his accents
Many sermon, preached Of week day, in
the court house goes farther, and remains
longer with its hearers, than those which come
on Sunday from the pulpit. The. Lawyer
teaches the witness that comes before him;
the twelve sworn men that watch every move
ment and catch every word, and the client that
trusts in him, learns from him as from one
that should vindicate rights, and redress
wrong BY the wink Of his eye, or the CO.
vert turn Of question, vain juryman, or q
wavering witness may be led to act that which
will have fearful effect on his eternal well
being. As the bar is more or less high-minded,.
strict and pure, so will that great class Of the
community, which is ever in contact with it, be
made able and pure or shutting and foul. In
no way, at no spot can body Of men act pro-
fessonally, exert more moral influence, than
through legal proceedings in courts of justice.
Let the bar be corrupt, and the bench which
is influenced by it, or comes directly from it,
will be corrupt too; and let this take place,
and that corruption of the people which would
allow it, will be increased by it ten fold. Agri-
cuturalists, mechanics and even merchants,
as such have no like power, and therefore is
the Lawer pre-eminently teacher, and so
clothed with dignity"
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Hints 10 Champagne Drinkers.-Ofa all the
wines Of France, none deservedly hold SO high
rank as those Of Champagne, and none
where the constitution is sound, are more
healthy; yet, strange to say, one hundred and
twenty eight years Of discussion were neces-
sary for the physicians of France before they
came to the decision that they were not the
cause of the govt. In 1862, the School Of
Medicine of Paris began most violent con-
troyersy, and in l74S the decision Of the facul-
ty was publicly given, that Champagne was
the finest wine of France. The public, how
ever, had not waited for the verdict, but had
given its testimony in favor of the delicious
wine, by enjoying all its richest qualities, and
it has ratified the judgment Of the learned
doctors by drinking the wine with great avidi-
ty.
Many judges declare the Champagne best
that does not effervesce still, no quality OF
wine is so healthy as that which sparkles, and
the taking the contents of the glass whilst the
action is going on, is of some importance, in
many states of the system. The carbonic acid
gas that is evolved is quickly imbibed by the
stomach, and assists very much in reducing
the blood when it is highly arterialized; and
hence incapable of giving to the liver that
quantity Of carbon which the venous blood
should contain. 1t is wine peculiarly adapt
ed for females. on this account; there are
particular moments at which venous blood
should circulate in their veins more highly
carbonized than usual. The slight excitement
of the cerebal system that is produced by
Champagne is very transient; nor is it with.
out useful effect occasionally but of all the
dreadful states that intoxcation can produce,
none are so terrific as those that occur from
drinking this wine to excess. The state of
congestion of the blood in the brain is such as
TO give reason to fear that sudden death may
occur, for cxtravasation is the result. Various
phantasies, connected with the organs of
sight, arise in the minds Of those who have
taken inordnate quantities Of this wine; this
may be derived from the partial effusion of
blood on the choroid coat. The sense OF
hearing too becomes confused; and also the
touch is affected, and where delirium tremens
has occurred in Champagne drinkers, it has
almost always been accompanied by belief
that strange sights are seen, that conspirators
are heard plotting, or that animals are crawl
ing over the body. Champagne has the effect
of causing uric acid to be deposited and
whether this, under the shape of red gravel, is
to be considered an effort Of nature to expel
formidable enemy, or whether it be itself a
disease, is a subject which may admit of much
discussion, into which cannot now enter
DR.. Symond, in the Lancet.
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Strong Facts IN regard 10 Horse Racing.--A writer
in the Louisville City Gazette, thus tersely presents
this matter:
Races it is said improve the breed Of horses. And
what if they did if they degrade the breed Of men, But
l doubt the truth OF this position Some few startling
or stubborn facts are the other side never heard
of races in Arabia, yet the best horses and the best
blood in the world there. The great racing stock
of England and America came from the blood OF tho
Godolphin Arabian There races in New Eng
land, vet the New England horses are worth in this
country from fifty to hundred per cent more than
tho Southern horses The horses for the sad
die stage coach gig in New England, bring under
the hammer far higher prices in racing sections OF the
country than their own horses Racing only improves
the breed Of race horses told in Virginia, by the
stage drivers that their best horses were brought from
Vermont and New Hampshire, the Green Mountain
horses the bcstn the country Tor symmetry strength
Aeetness and endurance Yet there is no racing in
New England Racing then is surely not essential to
make good horses"
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.A,efI Confagration in North .America.-
An american house in town has just received
intelligence from Hudson's Bay, that a most
appalling fire had broken out there, which had
dissolved all the icebergs, and opened the
whole northwest passage, even to the pole ;
that the whales were all boiled to death; and
that four nations Of Esqumaux Indians, who
had been out fishing, were literally fried into
soles. The fzzing was distinctly heard at
New York, while the whole coast Of Green
land could be distinctly seen from the upper
windows. One old gentleman with a telescope
affirmed, that he could see the Pole, and read
Capt. Parry's inscription upon it.-.Nassau
Observer s.....
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The NdzoO-dzoo.--The researches Of mo-
dern naturalists are daily confirming the truth
of what were once considered the fables OF
antiquity. The Unicorn, one of the support
ers of the British Royal Arms, was long sup
posed to be an invention of the heralds, but
has at last been furnished with a local hnbi-
. tation and name 1t is described in Smiths
Illustrations of the Zoology Of South America,
and is possibly species Of Rhinoceros. The
account is somewhat incredible.
at appears, that the Ndzoo-dzoo ID by no
means rare in Makooa. 1t is about the size
of horse, extremely fleet and strong. Ithas
one single horn projecting from its forehead,
from twenty-four to thirty inches in length
This is flexible when the animal is asleep; it
can be curled like the trunk Of the elephant,
but becomes perfectly firm and hard when the
animal is excited, and especially when pursu-
ing an enemy. Its disposition is extremely
fierce, and it universally attacks man if it sees
him. The usual method Of escape adopted
by the natives is to climb up dense and high
tree, SO as to avoid, If possible, being SEEM
If the animal misses his sight Of the fugitive,
he Immediately gallops off to his haunt from
whence it my be inferred that he is not endow-
ed with the power Of keen scent. Should
he, however, espy his object in the tree, wo to
the unfortunate native; he begins to butt
with his horn, strikes and penetrates the tree,
and continues piercing it till il falls, when his
victim seldom escapes being gored to death.
Unless the tree is of large girth, he never
fails in breaking it down. Having killed his
victim, he leaves him without devouring the
carcase. The male only is provided with the
horn. The female has not any thing of the
kind-.N. Y american.
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Mr. At,eood's Opinion of The House Of Commons
AT the last meeting of the council Of the Birming-
ham Political Union, Mr., Atwood, abiding TO the
members Of the House Of Commons observed,
must say Of them, as politicians, that they are the
worst set ever knew assembled in that House. I
have been in parliament six sessions and this is the
third reformed parliament; and, as far as can Judge
of IT, il is worse than the old boroughmongering set.
II has less sympathy with the interests OF indus
trious classes; and Il is still more indifferent TO the
foreign honor of the nation" picture more faith
full than this Of the present constitution Of the House
of Commons was never yet drawn.-LoHdon paper
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From the ~ Y. Knicksrboekr
FORGOTTEN HEROES.

Torn lay on crowned Olympus steep,
" And silver Peneus' tide;
sand the giant mists wound slowly up
Along piled Ossa's side.
Il And fair as in the elder time,
Beneath lay Temples vale;
And afar flashed Rtna's tabled height,
And Malia's distant SAIL
Morning in storied Greece-and song,
Like the startling trumpels cang,
Fromthe olve-gatherers on the heights,
Through the leafy branches rang,
And where the purple dropping fruit,
Implied each teemng wan
Ger the grape-wreathed hills the vintagers,
Swelled out the Homeric strain.
And the peasant mother at her door,
To the babe that climbed her knee,
Sang aloud the lands heroic songs
Sang OF Thermopyla!
Sang Of Mycael of Marathon!
Ofproud Plat@a's day!
And back the ringing ancient hills
Echoed the glorious layl
0 godlike name, and godlike deed,
Yehad your ard--ARIsTIpEs! ....
Ye are sounds 20 thrill.like a battlc-shoutl
LEoNIDAs!-M nrADEslS
But they who lived, ere DER the land
Rome's conquering cohorts poured,
Ere the free earth echoed the charger tramp,
Of the hostile Asian horde:
Or ere DER fallen Ilium's domes, ~. .r...
High blazcd her funeral pyre-- Ks.
Ages, ere Chios' bard to praise ~
Ofheroes, burned the Tyre.
Dwell they where proud Eurotas' stream,
The crowned river layl
Or where bright lllissus wandered ON
Through lowery Attica2
Where closed the fight at eve? What grove
With songs triumphal rang
While high on the waving boughs their shields
To the cooling breezes swang2
Who were the mighty say! No voice
Breaks from their hidden urns; .
From the dim funereal cypress grove, ......
No answering sound returns.
Forgotten all for them no bard ~ :. ILL.,.
The heroic lay might swell; AZ.
There were none for them to raise the song
Or strike the sounding shell.
And the land hath now no memory z.
OF their old battle day;
With the fiery breath of their charging steeds,
They have passed from earth away.
lone.
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WHOLE NO. l52.

cal zeal every trial. she received with humility the
chastenings Of rod which IL Is not in mans power
TO resist; while she shone a bright example Of
Christian faith and forbearance, the Oldest in her
flock, sought her counsel and advice. II was most
interesting sight to see the aged looking up to youth
for guide and countenance and the declining loer-
ing steps OF decrepitude sustained by the nimbe
tons OF such youthful agility II was not the young
sapng exhausting the old oak to feed its puny exist
ence, but the ENGRAVING of young healthy cion that
made the withered stock yield an hundred fold
Josephines pride was based on that delicate sensi-
veness TO character and meritorious regard for the
esteem Of the worthy which was planted in mans
breast to elevate his intellect and refine his standard
OF morals, and was without that vanity which is nur-
tured only by applause, which is seldom ultimately
successful and too often degenerates into selfish
rogance or i'll concealed envy, malicious contempt,
and pallry misanthrophy. Her brother was fine
specimen vigorous manhood rather stout but tall
and graceful his high forehead, dark hair and large
full eye, with that rudy complexion which belonged
to his northern constitution contributed to make him
handsome man. His manner was dignifed, but
courteous; his poliieness neither the refinement
Of the saloon, lavish in its attentions upon few
favorites but IL that universal politeness which
springs from the purified fountain Of a benevolent
heart With talents above medocrity, an establish
ed reputation in his profession at the age of twenty
two, and the only male heir Of numerous and res
pected family he felt that mantle more than regal
had fallen upon his shoulders but honest pride of
character and rectude Of conduct babe him wear it
with becoming modesty. His superiors in years and
requirements he treated with veneration and respect
his interiors with courtesy and attention, and in all
those little circumstances Of life, which make mar
our happiness he was scrupulously thoughtful Of
others. Proud to look upon his sister his equal in
all but years, she pursued with him her reading her
pastimes, her rambles, and occasionally, he accom-
panied his Shakespeare, as he was wont to call her.
to the homes ofher care, while she fulfilled Sa
viour's injunction, feed my sheep twas delight
| full morning in August, while her brother alb
sent professional business, that Josephines read
ing was interrupted by the entrance of stranger ;
she was seated on the piazza as he approached
! To be continued. ~, R.
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CHEAP EDITIONS OF THE CLAssICs--All Of
~ them the Stuttgart and Leipsc editionsfamous for
their correctness. Printed in first rate style, upon fine
paper.
Eutropius 25 cents !; Phmdrus 25 cents Cicero, [de
Repubca 25 cents Homer's Odyssey, vols, 25 cents
per vol Homers llliad, 60 cents Virgil, 81 cents;
Horace, 81 cents.
Quintius Cur,ius, vols in one each vol $50 pages
Price for the whole, 62 cents.
Cesar vols in one making book Of COO pages;
price 81 cents Together with many others ranging
the same low prices. For sale by F. TAYLOR, mme-
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NAVIGATION BY STEAM, by Sir John Ross, Cap
IN tain Royal Navy-Beng Essay towards n sys-
Of Naval Tactics, peculiar to Steam Navigation, as
applicable both to Commerce and Maritime warfare
Also History of the Steam Engine, ! volume quarto
with plates Just published in London and for sale by
~" +. TAYLOR.
Also, Galloway and Herberts History, Progress, Struc.
ture, improvements and Application of the Steam En-
CINE and Steam Power vol. 200 Engravings--L London
I4ariner Steam Engine.
Renwick do. .a,
Gordon on Locomotion and Interior communication
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VOL London, plateswita variety OF other works treat
ing on the same subject and valuable collection OF the
latest and most approved works nsevery branch Of arts
and sciences (chehy impored) to which additions arc
constantly making. s,""
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CtHEAP WRITING PAPERS-Good Letter Paper
~ and Cap, at 81 rs per rcam good common ditto, at
90 and Is per ream. lar supply this day received
by F. TAYLOR Of the best and thaving regard to the
quay,l the cheapest writing pa in the District Of
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HEADACHE.

A CERTAIN CURE FOR SICK HEADACHE,
II which has been used in families, every member OF
which has had sick headache from infancy, constu
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instance yet known amounting to many hundreds. II is
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the is gradual but certain and permanent Instances
are constantly multiplying where this distressing CON-
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standing by the of Dr. Spohns celebrated remedy
One decided preference is its peasantness having none
of the nauseatng effect of common drugs.
1t is so perfectly satisfactory, that the proprietor has
given directions for his agents refund the price to any
one who is not pleased with, and cured by it. He
hopes also that this may its great benefits to the
distressed sufferers who are aborng under headache
F. Spohn Mr. D Inventor and Proprietor 2 Fletcher
street. near Maiden lane door below Pearl street. New
York
All Editors who will insert the above year, in a
weekly paper shall be entitled to one dozen the remedy
For sale in Washington by ]. l., PEABODY.
NAV l5 lawly
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NEW BOOKS. I" Burton or the Sieges,"iy the au.
IN thor Of "Laftte the Pirate Of the Gulf" Also, I'd
part Of " Oliver Twist" by Boz.
Lights and Shadows Of Irish Life by Mrs. s.
Hall, just received for saleby
july4 r. TAYLOR
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NEW BOOKS--This day received, for sale by +.
IN TAYLOR, for circulation among the subscribers
TO the Waverly Circulating Library.
Memoirs Of Sir William Knighton Keeper OF the Pri-
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sharon Turner's third volume Of the Sacred History Of
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The three first numbers, each illustrated with engrav-
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Lord Bacon's complete works
McCuIlocks Commercial Dictionary, new edition.
The Lady's Book for June ; The Medical Library for
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ID ICHARD HURDIS, the Avenger of Blood, a
IL Tale Of Alabama, in volumes. ..-
Also, The Yellow Plush Correspondence, in one vol
are Just received by +. TAYLOR,
sept 10 Immediately East Of Gadsby's Hotel
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r AW LIBRARY for September and Ladies Book for
- September. Are just ivedhy
sept II - +. IAlLOk.
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NEW BOOKS.-Ardent Troughton, or The Outward
/ Y Bound, in 2 vols -
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G. ADDISON of the Inner Temple.
Lord Bacon's Works, complete in vols.
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