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MORSE ~ CAMPS.
THOMAS', Kings, and Premium Brown
Il Sheetings fine and coarse Bleached
Shirtings and Sheetings; Blue, Mexican, and
Fancy Drills, for summer ware blue, white
and mixed Knitting Cotton; Ladies blk and
white Cotton Hose Gents Raw and Sew
ing Silk Gloves Linen and Cotton do; fine
Bombazine and Satin Stocks summer do.
Litchfeld, JUN %, 1880. 8
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Defalcafioas A. Mckinney, Esq in an address
to the Electors Of Tennessee makes out statement
Of the amount Of money which the peOre Of che Uni
ted States have lost by detauie during the last two
years of Van Buren's administration. To sum il all
up, it would exceed TiDO Millions Of DOElars-an
enormous pecuiaton !-unparalele swindling -
more than the Government has ever lest by the same
unhallowed means, during oil preceding administers
aoas. Il this the way in which our public stewards
are to discharge their duties 70 the public, to their
country and % their feow-cszens. who, BY the cleo
ton Of Mr.. yaa Buren, contributed 70 place them in
oaicef Does this look like fulfilling the oath which
they took faithfully to promote the best good nf their
constituents and to preserve invicable the Constitu-
ton Do they claim the arbitrary right to dispose Of
reveaue o. sheypease and set laws
At defiance1 Caa SUCH perjury and sObbery ~ this
60 unrebuked and unpunished The aaaa dat would
be guilty Of Fobbng his country. would not hesitate
TO turn his father out o doors and seize upon his
AessiOus he would rob his mother. and abandun her
70 tho pelings Of tho storm. Let the eyes Of men be
opened upon this SUBJECT and they can ne longer Be
either the partakeEs Or abetlOu Of such Jadasiks
cEiminality. Men who can no longer bs trusted in
Office without pundeEinE would beiray their country
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-08-01

in c,'l a. y sTGsGls holden al LiicheM aO.
~ ~ ~. "s district q Litchfeld, On te 241b
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09

ScrGps.-Dr. Lciber says, "women
are born to be married" Query-bow
is it with those who Miss it,
To be great man is desirable but
10 be the son of great man is distress.
ing.
A termagant told her spouse that she
believed he was related TO the devil !;
"oDIy by marriage" was the reply.
AS an old woman was lately walking
through one OF the streets of Paris at
midnight, a patrol called out, Who's
there2' 1t is l, patrol; don't be afraid.
A good one.--'High-heeled boots and
a strut, is 10 my minds eye, the plainest
sign-board in the world, hung out in ca
pitals-'Charnbers in the attic to let.
Inquire at the or's'.-AppIetreePbil.
pot. Esq.
PERsEvERE.--If seaman should put
about every time lie encounters head
wind, he would never make voyage.
SO he who permits himself TO be baAled
by adverse circumstances will never
make the voyage of life. A sailor uses
every wind to prorel; so should the
young man learn TO trim his sails and
guide his bark, that even adverse gales
should I'LL its bellying canvass and send
II forward on its onward course.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09

degrading alternative of tampering fol
votes, or cfinging and wheedling for suf
frage, pretending at the same time
entire indifference as TO the result, while
his whole soul is wrapped up in a
successful issue of the contest. He is
ever on the alert, too, dashing from post
to pillar. and riding here, there. and
every where in the county, besieging
and storning the most remote dwellings,
wherever vote is accessible, under the
specious pretence that these indefatigable
exertions are made solely for the peo-
pies benefit. Were this practice to fail,
doubt not whether they would hesitate
to resort 10 the mountebank system, and
throw somersets, to secure the peoples
interest. Really to me the one would ap.
pear equally as respectable as the other.
And to render the finesse complete, YOU
are every thing that is great, good lust,
and honorable to day, and tomorrow
they lose all recollection of you, with
many other glazing Inconsistencies to
diminutive for insertion here. Conse-
quently, after carefully scanning this adj
mirable catalogue. and giving to it the
most mature deliberation, must can
dldly say, with MIR. L., that |
sincerely wish this vagabond manner of
electioneering were totally discarded
throughout the State, and that the peo-
pie would, henceforth, come to a deter
mination, to think. and select for them
selves, independently. and in defiance
Of every disingenuous invasion or ill>
timed intrusion on their Inherent rights
and privileges. CANDOUR.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09
For lie Snectntor.

Mr.. Harper-Sir was exceedingly
gratified few days since, while perus.
ing, in your useful little paper, an adj
dress 20 the Inhabitants of Bath County,
from the pen Of one Of the candidates,
MIR. VIM. Lockridge. for the ensuing
session OF the Legislature. What partic-
ularly excited my admiration, was the
landable position he has assumed rela
tive TO the itinerant and mendicant
mode Of electioneering, as pursued by
some individuals at the present day.
His structures on the subject, precisely
accord with my own views respecting
it, in every particular. 1t seems to me
gross dereliction Of that lofty bearing
which should ever characterize a repre-
sentative Of the people, whose selec>
ton it may be presumed, is or ought TO
be made from the most deserving oil
the community OF which he is member;
one whose devotedness to duty is
ever the handspring of action, and whose
predominant passion for taking the field
is the peoples welfare, while the purity
of his principles keeps him aloof, mod,
estl5 awaiting the peoples will Here sell
is rot to be found in the front rank such
a man cannot descend,a some do, to the
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09

som. when contrasted with the empti>
ness of reality There is with us a
flame, which the many waters of this
life cannot assuage! There is an aspi-
ration Of the spirit, for which the things
oil earth are too mean "a longing for
Immortality which this earth can never
crafty, and the desire Of an existence
beyond the bourne Of the present. which
If we would, we cannot away with.
And must it be ever thus! Are the
agitated pillows Of dsquieted feeling
never TO be Gained: Are the wild as
pirations Of the heart never to be salts
fed? In the touching and beautiful
language ofthe German poet, we reply /:
There IS reality, which shall embo-
dy, and satisfy. and exceed all that is
here ideal"
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09

Religious Belief-By Sir Humphrey Da>
ry.--l envy no quality of the mind or intel>
lect in others, be it genius, power, wit or
fancy but if could choose what would be
most delightful, and believe most useful to
me, should prefer firm religious belief TO
any other blessing: for il makes life dis
ciplme OF goodness creates new hopes when
al! earthly hopes vanish: and throws over
The decay, The destruction of existence, the
most gorgeous of all lights awakens life e.
ven in death, and from destruction and de :
Cay calls up beauty and divinity; makes an
instrument Of torture and shame the ladder
of ascent TO paradise and, far above all
combinations Of earthly hopes, calls up the
most delightful visions Of palms and amar-
anihs, the gardens Of The blest, the security
OF everlasting joys; where the eensuaist
and the scep,ic view only gloom, decay, ar
utilization and despair
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09

A Coop Boy.-No mother, who has
son far away. can run her eye over
the following acknowledgment of a
mothers letter, which we clip from the
Western World, without pronounciug
its author ga good boy" In announcing
the arrival Of late mail the editor beau~
tifully remarks:
ut also brought us letter from her
who nourished us in infancy; from her
who taught us our alphabet; a letter in
the same hand writing Of the first copy
after which we made our first ATTEMPT
to trace the forms of letters yes, let
ter from her whose pious lips were the
first to tell us OF "the sinfuIness of sim"
and the excellence of virtue from her
whose cheek has paled in nightly watch>
ings. Tor months together, by the couch,
TO which, with shackles of pain, disease
had bound us from her who ALWAYS
acknowledged our joy with a smile, and
our wo with a tear; from her, who,
though of no kindred blood, has ever
loved US with "a mothers love; and who
now writes to repeat her warmest prayer
that we may meet again on earth, and
tell, in terms whose truth we know that
she who thus has ever loved us will love
us thus forever. More than two long
years have been passed since last we
met, and more than the distance of earth's
diameter divides US /; and which time
and distance may be more than twice
doubled ere we meet again; yet, in re-.
terence to her, how warmly do we feel,
aud how truly say,
"Where'er 60, whatever realms TO see.
My heart aLntrduelLed fondIy turns TO thee. -
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MISCELLANY.

HgMAN HAPPINEss.-There is beau
tiful passage from the German of Jean
Richer upon which we have often dwelt
with melancholy satislaction-"Oh God!
Thou canst aud wilt give us hereafter, a
reality, which shall embody, aud satisfy,
and exceed. all that is here ideal ~
This life is fevered, unsatisfyipg
state OF existence, aud man is restless
creature.-Be his rank, or station, or cir
cumstances, what they may, it matters
not; there remains ever an object unat.
tanned, on which his eye rests, and Tor
which his heart yearns with Unsuitable
craving. So long as that object is IN.
possessed, he is an unhappy being and
when obtained, how often is it flung a,
side as the useless toy ola child? Splen.
dor and aflluehce may sprinkle his paths
way with rose leayes-gratified ambi>
ton may fling its golden halo around his
brow-pleasure may envelope him in
her elysium Of seductions every de-
partment OF nature and Of art may be
ransacked for the elements Of happiness,
and then, from all OF them, he may turn
away, fainting, and sick at soul, with
unsatisfed aspirations.
Who has not in the beautiful day.
dreams OF excited fancy-whcn he has
cast loose the reins of Imagination, and,
for brief season, has permitted his
thoughts and his feelings unrestrained to
revel in the fairy realms of the world,
who, at such an hour, has not traced out
upon his minds tablet the outlines of
scheme OF happiness which he may new
er enjoy, and, in conception, summoned
up paradise of bliss, of which this
earth knows not? Who, in fancy, has
not sPread out to his vision greener fields
than ever, even in boyhood's hour he
has srolicked on-bathed bis fevered lip
IN tresher fountains than ever gushed
from the rock, and traced above him
biuer skies aud richer sunlight than ey-
er canopied earth !?
All, could we see the thoughts of the
hearts of the varied multitude, which in
the busting scenes Of ordinary existence,
throDg around us-coud we trace out
the untold emotions which agitate the
unseen secrecies Of their bosoms, how
many wild and bitter thing should we
there fluid ranking, which the beamy
eye, and the flushed cheek, and The sun
ny lip, had never revealed! Whatun.
speakabIe longing! What intense soil
citude What feverish aspiration -
what fearful Acknowledgements remorse-
iul meditation what wild hopes and
wishes should we not there behold
And thus it is; and, as the features
OF the human face are the same In eyery
.couDteBauce, so are the features of the
human heart in every breast Thus it
has ever been nor, in the nature of mo.
raj, or spiritual existence, can it ever, in
this unsanctifed world, be otherwise.
The objects around us are destined to
crafty the mere demands Of our pbysi>
cal organization. In the wide reaching
circle Of created things. there is naught
TO quench the feverish craving Of The
soul. The phantoms Of hope-the un>
real mockery of anticipated iuturity-
ab !! how they agitate tue unsatisfied bo-
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09

Say what you will about old maids
their love is generally more strong than
that Of the young milk and .water crea-
lures. whose hearts vibrate between the
joys of wedlock and the designations Of
the ballroom. Until the heart Of wo>
man is capable OF settling down warmly
and exclusively on one object. her love
is like May shower which makes rains
bows, but fills no cisterns. boston Ga.
lazy.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09

Happiness.-An eminent modern writer
beautifully says: "The foundation of do.
meslic happiness is faith in The virtue of
woman; the foundation of political happ-
ness, confidence in the integrity Of man
the foundation of all happiness, temporal and
eternal, reliance on the goodness Of God. %
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-05-09
POETRY.
OF TWO EVILS, CHOOSE THE
LEAST

OF TWO EVILS, CHOOSE THE
LEAST.
Come mother tell me, il you can,
Which I'd best marry Sue or Ann;
Sue, really is pretty girl,
But then she loves fine dress too we'll.
j fear her foddness TO be gay,
Would take my earnings all away.
Miss Ann, it's true is never neat,
She's sla,ternly from head TO feet;
But still, her person ] prefer,
And think il once she married were
She would be trim, and nice and clean,
And always decent 10 be seen
Your kind advice, therefore l crave,
SO let me your opinion have.
Son, since you ask my kind advice
I'll give II to you, in a trice;
Extremes DO not love 10 see,
So we'll as mediocrity
They seldom do blessing prove,
In simple f, iendship or in love,
But, since no other female can
Your fancy please but Sue or Ann,
Ally kind advice frankly own,
Is, let the sluttish girl alone.
A tawdry girl may chance he neat,
And reason may resume it's seat
And hold its empire Ger her mind,
And lead her IN the middle line
When bound bv love, 10 by men's chain,
She may he prudent neat and PLAIN.
But she that's young and sluttish too,
Will with her age more slutiish grow
i neat, she will not dress 10 gain
A husband, which to obtain,
The fair do use their utmost skill,
In all their dress. from head TO heel
But sure, when parsoa Grave has tied
The sloven miss secure bride
From slut 10 slattern, on she'll 60,
Besmear'd with filth from top to Toe.
For, she that's slut al seventeen,
Will be al wenty Gfa wife) a down RICH
quean.
And he. who takes slut TO wife,
is sure 10 have slut for life
Therefore my son, lei reasons voice
Direct thee in prudent choice;
IT'S wisdom sure, by all contest,
That OF two evils, choose the least.
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(NIIl THURsDAY, MARCH 7, lsae

matter. Nor canl forboar also, Mr.. President
to thank him for introducing, upon this most
fit occasion, those elegant and elevated topics,
which carry us for Il moment into regions OF
calm and serene air, above the smoke and din
of our accustomed and more strenuous efforts
on this floor 1t is pleasant to reposo, though
but for an instant, upon the green spot he has
presented to us,
| rejoicc Mr. President, Continued Mr.. P)
that ii has so happened that this subject de-
mands oar attention at this session. Alter a
long term OF useful and honorable public ser
vice, my honorable friend is now about to ter
inmate ibis corporation with Us on this floor
1t is his last session. 1t is fortunate, as it Is
Il most Just and fit termination Of his oliiclat
production, that he at once finishes and perlects
them by inscrbing his name, who're It will be
most appropriately placed, upon an institution
for the promotion Of knowledge hope, Mr.
President, that we shall at once proceed to an
earnest attention of this resolution, and to car
Try into effect the intentions OF the testator, with
controlled only by our constitutional
restrictions.
The resolution was then agreed to-
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CHANGNG THE TUNE.-"Run and get me an
arm full of wood, !" said woman 20 her hus-
band, one rainy day, ''as you are wet and |
am dry" The Same plea was used fora dozen
more errands. AT last il was 'Gel tns 4 back
ct Of water, for you are wet and am dry.
The bucket Of water was brought and thrown
over her, the husband eXclaimlng, snow do
your share, for you are wet too"
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MIR. THOMAS II. BENTON.

This noted individual celebrated only for his
obnoxious sins against the Constitution his par
titan reckIessncss and his empty defamation,
seems to have been constituted, appointed, and
most especially set apart by the dominant par
ty to cQlogze aud iulsomeIy hatter the old he:
ro of Orleans. True TO his position, the coun-
Try is periodically deIugod with his hosannahs
TO the greatest and best" And, it is not a mat
ter OF very grave wonder with us that Benton
should thus bind with chaplets the chariot
wheels OF his tyrant master. As Mr.. Clay once
observed he belongs to General Jackson by
right of conquest. "rha General, aided by sew
eral Of his friends, did whip Benton quite fairly
in tho Nashville affair Of honor. Benton's hui
NOR was thrown completely into the frantic,
by his uncIyil thrashing, and the most atlec-
tjonale epilhets he then felt himself safe in APP
plying 10 Con. Jackson were "buIly and liar"
Bat the tune has been changed; and he now
tells the Senate, in grave speech, that tho
General is 'coycreG, lilo! rated, rradiated with
every species Of glory" and appeals, in con-
hraation Of his remark, to the present unparal-
elcd, unriyalted, unprecedented, unexampled,
universal, peryading and exaltiqg prosperity
ol the country" And after all this sIavish adu-
Patton, he very molesty tells the Senate that it
was no part OF MS lulGHllDI W lllNhC CuIPSy
upon Gen. Jackson"
Benton no doubt has longing eye upon the
Succession, lie knows that the partzans OF
Martin Van Buren, will support any man who
wall worship Gen. Jackson ard become the PHI
ant instrument Of extending their mlsrule and
propotuatng power. Hence his suppiantpr pros
Itratioa before the man whom he once called a
lIiar, and whom he once indignantly encount
cred in personal combat. Hence his reckless
Icompanonship in the expunging Of the consti-
;uton-hs violent and unprincipled advocacy
Iof an exlravagant administration and his UNI
Qualified praise of every act which Gen. jack
son ever originated or supported. ButiI is be-
Ilicyed that in this vaulting ambition after pow
er he will most signaiiy fail. isnot possible
| that, even four years hence, the people will have
orgotten the black and daring nIquities OF
ITh0s. II Benton. The weight OF the guilty ex-
Ipunge, "too heavy for the man TO bear who
hopes for heaven" will gather m1untaln's
Iheuvinoss from the accumulated execratlons
(which time will enable tbs people 10 heap upon
him; and should ever his polluted feet essay to
stand where Washington has stood, that noun
|tains heaviness will throw him back to that
degradation from whence he Springfield uaS,
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A SENSIBLE MAN.o.There has been recently
started in the village OF Saugertes, New York,
a small paper called the Herald. NJ. McCar-
thy, n merchant Of that place, gives the publish
er a long advertisement in which he gives his
reasons Tor advertising the first Of which we
recommend TO mea Of business generally, 1t
is in this wise:
"The proprieters orths paper have per-
feet right 10 expect from all merchants, me-
chancs, and others doing business in the viii
lage ofSaugerlies, an Understanding the Her
aid, and it is our duty TO give it., in order TO
make it profitable to them. aud to give the netc
paper the appearance Of sheet published in
aourshing village, aud supported by business
men"
There he talks like a "gentleman and schol.
ar" and the editor of the Herald ought to give
him his undivided custom
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It's a remarkable fact, that JOSEPH BLOWN,
Esl., one Of the Vice Presidents oil the wing
Convention which recently assembled at jack
son. is the father OF Gen. A. IT, Brown, one OF
the candidates Tor Congress on the Van Buren,
Ticket, and will use every cxortlon 10 prevent
the election of his SOM thus afordlng slri-
king example oil stern and answering oe'o-
ton 10 yriaciDles over all other considerations.
Mr. Brown is himselfa man OF flne talents, aho
has grown gray in the advocacy Of the prime
pies he now PROCESSES, and no CONSIDERATIONS %
a personal or private, nature can drive him
from the support ofthe measures and policy TO
which the best portion OF his life has been de-
voted. Such examples Of the triumph Of pria-
CipkeS over selfish considerations, are rare in
our degenerate days. and should rot be permit
ted 10 pass unnoticed or sink unobServed into
the tomb Of oblivion There are few men now
living who would act with the same energy
and patr!otism--there are few indeed who
Would not prefer the advancement OF their own
ftnliy to the welfare OF their country; and
when such examples do occur, they deserve to
be recorded in letters Of god as a noble exam
pie Of the love OF country trumphing over all
things else. Mr., Brown has several sons, all
OF whom, with the exception Of the one nom
mated by the democratic convention for Con-
gress, are staunch wings who will use all hon
OrabIo eXertons to defeat the ticket upon which
their brother is prominent candidate. Mr.
Brown Joe 1sey remarked, in a speech deliver
ed before the convention, in allusion to his son
being one Of the Van Buren candidates, that he
had "spared the rod and spoiled child" but
that he would in the approaching contest en-
/. 4, l~c ,r,onta 80, he "a
neglect in suffering oson TO grow up in the
way he should MT go.
We opiuo General Brown will find it an up
hill business, canVassjng for Congress with his
ooa father and three or four brothers, any Of
whoms his equal in tact and talents, in the field
actively engaged against him. Vicks. Wtig
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WASHINGTON, Januarv

The incubation of Washington is estimated
at 22,G77. Thirty-seyen brick building were
erected during the last year.