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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02
LIFE ON THE WESTERN WATERS.

Extract from a letter, dated the 9th instant
on board the steamboat Oceana, navigating the
Missouri river:
"Never was there greater variety-of blue
spirits and gray of old and young, of sinners
and saints, more heterogeneous mass-con-
gregated on one boat than may be seen on this.
We have governors, congressman, editors,
preachers, lawyers, doctors, farmers, loafers,
and pedagogues, rowdies, blacklegs, thieves,
burglars, counterfeiteTs, colonies, majors cap
tains, sherffs, constables, soldiers, wings, de-
mocrats, and locofocos. We have good look
ing old ladies, and awfully ugly old maids-be
tiful maidens and intelligent matrons-about IF
ty squalling children-one man groaning with
the toothache, another shaking with the ague,
another raving with govt, and two or three in
the last stage Of consumption. AT the present
moment there is a scene displayed, which, to
describe faithfully, would require the pen of a
Swift &c. AT one end of the cabin sits Gov.
Miller (now congressman with two Wings and
four Locofocos; they are discussing the merits
of the Bankrupt Law, the Distribution Bill, and
the Mcleod case-the different speeches, very
much like some of those made in Congress al
the late session, and there is about as much or
der preserved. In the social half sit five young
men, with each cigar in his mouth, and glass
ofiquor at his side, playing poker: "I'll bet dol
lar III see tnat anu HVe Detter5 take III i;
'd--n the luck; loan me another fve Tom,'-
A little further along sit eight penitentiary con-
victs, manacled, playing old sledge' on a box,
betting with kernels Of corn, each accusing the
other with cheating. You are no gentleman !;
you be DID, didn't you pick mans pocket !;
look at your irons Around the stove sit two
invalids, one cursing and grooming with the
toothache, and the other shaking with the ague
Scattered about in different berths are some
dozen or more children with voices like night.
ingales, pitched to every key in the scale,
screaming most merrily, occasionally varying in
tone, just according as the slaps' of the dear
con6ding mothers are administered. Down on
deck aft violin and flute are near crazy, and
almost fifty Dutchmen with their fat bouncing
lasses, kicking out Dutch reel in most ex-
cruciating manner. Forward, three or four
strapping niggers are roaring out one Q! The
fremen's choruses, as they pump water into the
boilers. Occasionally, by way OF variety, some
one treads upon dogs tail, in order TO hear
him we'll Whilst all this machinery is in mo-
ton, and the rain pouring down in torrents, with
| lightning vivid and constant, followed by almost
deafening peals Of thunder, am attempting lo
write YOU a few lines - Bulletin,
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THE PIRATE AND THE DOVE.

$50 deeply moved the pirate by the notes of
the Benaida dove, (the only soothing sounds he had
heard during his life Of horrors) that throug
these plantive notes. and these alone he induced
to escape from his vessel abandon his turbulent CON-
panions and return to family deporng his absence"
AUDUBON.
Long had he dared the mighty deep, and heard its
warning voice,
By storms upraised pronounce its doom upon his reck
less course;
And yet the pirate needed not the voice from oceans
cave,
But stained with blood his daring path across the
stormy wave
The piercing shrek which rent the air from meath
his FURNISHED knife,
The thrilling and quick -sfed prayer, of Fear mpor-
ing life;
The sob Of Innocence, that broke upon the midnight
When childhood from its dreams awoke, to meet a
watery tomb
Were but to him familiar sounds not yet regarded
Than are the flowing tides, by men whose home is on
the shore;
Gains all the pirates heart was steeled and cen the
cry that came
From wives and babes, his afar, his spirit could
not tame.
Nv.
But ah the gentle dove prevaied-her soft and plain
tive strain
Pierced deep the breast which guilt had mailed, and
terror warned in vain;
As when the ancient Prophet heard the earthquake
and the fame,
But only in the still small voice. the Heavenly
sage came.
v.
on high,
The call from eyes long dry, the tear, and wake con-
trton's sigh.
Thus Oft when wrathful tones have spent their might
the heart TO move,
A whisper makes that heart relent from thee, blest
Heavenly dovel" EC.S.
Cedar Brook Piainfetd NJ
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DHRENOLOGICALO OFFICE Of Dr. EfERNIS,
i (from Pads,) on Pennsylvania avenue, nearly
opposite Browns and Gadsby's hotels at Mrs, Mid
dleton's.
Examinations of the head, with descriptions Of cha
racer and talents be obtained at every hour in the
day and the evening Childrens heads examined
with regard their capacities, education, and qualf
cations for business or professions at halt price,
The object and use of Phrenology is to make each
individual acquainted with all the powers OF his mind,
80 tina, he may be able moro judiciously to choose
profession avocaton business, to which he Is natu-
rally adapted to enable parents to Judge OF the proper
education of their children, &c.
N.B Ladies and parties visited if desired, at their
residences. Oct. zo-ot
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HORRID LORD JOHN.

THis horrid Lord John is my lover;
He is not my choice, but mammals,
Whose reason ] cannot discover
For accepting his arm at Spas
He's so short, and so fat, and so ford,
Without the least tinctuIe of ton
In short, so exceedingly horrid,
That he's always call'd horrid Lord John
The man is my utter aversion
Yet he calls every morning of one
And I'm losing summer excursion,
To be courted by horridLord John.
If my cousin would not be so distant
Ii the Peverils had but SON
But fortune is so inconsistent,
That | have MT chance but Lord John
I've been out for four winters and springs,
And this is the lover I've won
Gracious me If old maids were MT such juds
ments Of things,
I'd have nothing to say to Lord John
SNooKs.
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THE POET OF THE POOR.

Ebenezer Elliot poor iron dealer Of Sheffield Eng
sprung hom the lowest ranks is astonishing to The
world, by strains worthy Of Burns The following
THE outward and visible gores Of crea
tion with the prospects which are opening on society
from the light Of knowledge, is extracted from
his recent productions :-Neio Era.
God said, let there be light
Grim darkness felt his might,
And fled away;
Then startled seas and mountains cold,
Shone forth all bright in blue and gold
And cried, cts day, It's dayW
Hail holy light |" exclaimed
The thunderous cloud that famed
Ger daisies white;
And 10 the rose, in crimson dress'd
Leaned sweetly DER the lily's breast,
And bushing murmur'd Light"
Then WIS the sky-lark born,
Then rose the embatiled corn
Then floods Of praise
Flowed DER the sunny hills Of noon,
And then, in stillest night, the moon
Poured forth her pensive lays;
Lol heavens bright bow is glad
Lo trees and flowers all clad
In glory, bloom.
And shall the immortal sons of God
Be senseess as the untrodden clod,
And darker than tho tomb
No, by the MIND of man!
BY the sl1drt aTtizan
By God, our sire
Our souls have holy light within,
And every form Of grief and sin
Shall see and feel its fire.
BY earth and hell, and heaven,
The shroud of souls 10 riven
Mind mind alone
Is light and hope, and life, and power.
Earhs deepest night from this blessed hour,
The night of mind is gone.
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HRAD-ouARrEms. MARINE Cosps.

Washington City, Oct. 4h, ls4I.
SEPARATE Proposals will be received al the Office
~ Of the Qaartermaster of the Marine Corps In
this city, until IL o'clock, on Wednesday, the 10Th
day OF November next, for furnishing ratons TO the
United States Marines the following stations for
the year 1912:
Portsmouth, New Hampshire;
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Brooklyn, Long Island, New York
Philadelphia Pennsylvania;
Gosport, near Norfolk, Virginia;
Pensacola, Florida; and
Washington City, District Of Columbia.
The rations to consist of one pound and quarter
of fresh beef or three quarters of pound of mess
pork eighteen of bread flour, at the option
Of the Government and at the rate of six pounds Of
good clean coffee twelve pounds of good New Orleans
sugar eight quarts Of BEANS four quarts OF vinegar
two quarts of salt four pounds OF soap and one and
half pounds of good dipped candles to each hundred
rations.
1t is understood that the full side Of beef meek and
shins excudeJ) be delivered, if required; II such
quantity be required that the fore and hind quar-
tiers be delivered alternately And the bread or flour
shall be of superfine quality All the articles to be
uDexceptionable and to be issued to the troops with
out expense to the United States.
Proposals to be endorsed Proposals for Rations
for 1872" AUG. A. NICHOLSON,
Quarfermaster.
oct 5-3tawtlOthNov.
The American Sentinel, and PennsyIvanian, Phil
adelphia; the Portsmouth Gazette, New Hampshire;
the New York Evening Post the New York Herald,
and the New York Enquirer; the Baltimore Republic
can; the Norfolk Beacon; the Norfolk Herald; the
Richmond Enquirer, and Richmond Wing; the Al
exandria Gazette, Alexandra, d. c.. and the Pensa-
cola Gazette, will give the above three insertions each
per week, and send one copy of the advertisement to
accompany the account when forwarded to this Office
for payment.
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NEW FRENCH FASHIONS-Miss MORLEY
~ respectfully informs her customers that she has
returned from New York with an extensive assort-
Of Fancy Goods comprising almost every varie-
" in use and received by the packets last week
Ivy Madam Beauard Faconer, and other fashionable
French Houses in New York and invites their atten
uon this day at her rooms Pennsylvania avenue, be
tween 9th and 10Th streets. oct 23-3t
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-02

FOR THE MADlsoNIAN.

MIR. EDIroR The fourth verse OF the enclosed lines
guage have often quoted il myself, without know
ing who was the author, or any Of the accompanying
lines. This morning, in looking over the Annual
Register for 1906, found the following stanzas in
the poetica department of that valuable work They
are extracted from Italian drama by Don Felix de
Vega Casfio which was translated by Henry Rich
ard, Lord Holland, the uncle believe, Of Mr.. Fox,
the present British Minister. Their publication may
perchance crafty the curiosity Of literary reader
who, like me- wondered where the admirable verse
alluded to originated and If it was germ alone, or
was set with Others T.
WAsAIS0Tos, Oct, l84i.
Love at First Sight.
Let no one say that there is need
OF time for love TO grow;
All no, the love that kills indeed,
Dispatches al blow.
The spark which but by slow degrees
Is nursed into fame
ishabit, friendship, what you please;
But love is not lis name.
For love to be completely true,
It death at sight should deal,
Should be the first ever knew,
In short, be what feel.
To write, to sigh, and to converse,
For years to play the fool;
Is 10 put passion out to nurse
And send ones heart to school.
Love, all at once should from the earth
Start up full grown and tall;
If not an Adam at his birth,
He is no love at all
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Sess;ou IS1l-'12

Session 1871 '42.
THE Lectures will commence on Monday, the LIST
Il of November and be continued, under the fol-
lowing arr angement, to the middle Of March ensuing
Practice and Theory of Medicine, by Nathaniel
Chapman, M ID.
Chemistry, by Robert Hare, M. ID.
Surgery, by William Gibson, M d.
Anatomy, by William e. Horner M ID.
Institutes Of Medicine, by Samuel Jackson, M. D..
Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Chill
drcn by Hugh l.. Hodge, M, D.
Clinical Lectures on Medicine, by w. w. Ger
hard, NJ. d and
Clinical Lectures on Surgery, by Drs Gibson and
Homer, will be delivered at the Philadelphia Hospital
(Bockey) Students are also admitted to the Cllnl-
cal instruction at the Pennsylvania Hospital, in the
City.
w. E. HORNER,
Dean Of he Medical Faculty.
aug. "a, -3awtNovl5 263 Chestnut Street Phil
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CABINET AND CHAIR FACTORY, A doors
~ west of 4 l-2 street James Williams has
ceved by the schooner Allyne, lot of high and low
back Nurse and Arm Rocking Chairs and Cabinet
Furniture.
Has on hand, and continues to manufacture, by
experienced workmen all kinds Of Cabinet Furniture,
and Cain and Winsor Chairs, Hair aud Shuck Mat
trasses, China Glass and Liverpool ware
Old furniture taken in exchange for new.
Old furniture repaired and reprinted.
Which will be sold low for cash or on time for good
On hand, good assortment of Mahogany, which
will be sold low for cash. oct 8 saw3w.
rHEAP PAPERS.-Fine Satin Surface Letter
~ Paper, ruled on three Sides at 50 25 per ream
Also Folio Post, Foolscap Double Cap, and Envel-
ope Papers reduced prices.
Russia and other low priced Quills, suitable for
schools, for sale by VIM f. BAYLY,
(Agent for j. X. Herrick)
Pennsylvania Avenue, bet. 18th and 18th sits
TOU SEX EEPERS, ATTENTION!-Th The sub
scrbers would respectfully call the attention of
housekeepers and others desiring housekeeping goods
to their stock which has been selected with great care
andcan be sold as low, and on terms as accommoda-
ting as they can be procured in the District.
We have Just received, in addition to former
stock
Sdeboards, dressing and plain Bureau1, Sofas
Lounges
Mahogany and marble top centre Tables, pier TIA
Wardrobes mahogany and painted Washstands
Beds - f''' ''''''''
M ,hogany, cane, and wood seat Chairs
Mahogany, cane and Boston Rockers
Trundle Bedsteads, Cribs Cradles and Settles
A handsome assortment of China, Glass, and
Crockery Ware
Stair Rods, plated Castors Candlesticks
Cake. baskets and Salvers, Butter-tubs
Shutters and Trays Butter-knives
Ivory, buck, and bone Knives and Forks, Egg
boilers
Sausepans Walters, Ovens, Pots and Skillets
Gridirons
Coal-hods, brass and iron Andirons, Shovels and
Tongs
Pokers, wire, pierced, iron and brass Tenders
Sad Irons, Hearth-rugs, Baskets
Brushes of every description, Bellows, Wood
ware
Hall Lamps, mahogany and gilt frame Mirrors,
Curtain Bands and Pins Britannia Ware
Spoons
Toiie, Glasses, Tippecanoe Sptoons, Tea-kettes
Wood horses and Saws, Tin-ware, &c. &c.
With many other articles too numerous for ad
versement
Persons wanting any of the above articles will find
II to their advantage to call and examine prices be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
BOTELER & WARING,
9TH st, nearly opposite Patriotic Bank.
oct 2S-4t
| DURNAP'S LECTURES to Young men on the
ID mind, formation Of character and the conduct OF
| life volume.
| On the sphere and duties of women &c. vol
| atey East of Gadsbys. oct l6
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LIBRARY OF CoNdREss,

OCTOBER IIth, 1911.
NOTICES. hereby given, that the Library of Con-
gress will be closed Tuesday the 18th instant,
for the purpose Of cleaning and arranging the books,
and will not again be opened until Tuesday, the 23d
Of November,
JOHN S. MEEHAN, Librarian.
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Oct. 10 colin.

CIRCULAR.-Th partnership heretofore exist
~ ing between Messrs. POPE s. GIBBS, as At
torneys and Counsellors at Law, and Solicitors in
Chancery, is dissolved by consent
They continue TO practice individually in the Coun-
ty courts of Coosa aid Autauga Coun,ies-n the
Circuit Courts Of Autauga, Coosa Tallapoosa, Mont
gomery, Dallas, Bibb Shelby, ST. Clair and Tallade
ga Counties-io the CHANCERY Courts held for
the same Countes--n the SUPREME Court Of
ALABAMA-ana the District Court of the United
THE above Circuit embraces the cities of Wetump-
ka and Montgomery, the towns OF Selma and Cahaw-
ba, and many other small towns and villages
B. r. POPE, Wetmupka, Ala.
c.. r. GIBBS, Columbiana, Ala
Messrs. p s. G. the tender Of their profess
sional services Individually TO those who have here
toore entrusted business to their joint management,
and to the public generally.
Their fees for collecting will be, as heretofore, in
common cases, viz:
For bringing suit on all hquidated demands
Gas Notes. Bills, &c.) under $500. $40 90
For bringing suit on all liquidaied demands
exceeding 300, 5 per cent
For bringing suit on unliqudated demands
Gas accounts, &c) $40 dollars added to
above fees.
For taking Interrogatories Dispositions, &c.
if not more than two pages, 90
If more than two pages for every additional
two pages, or less, w
In all cases sued to judgment and execution return
ed no property hat the above fees. fthere is
usual litigation and difficulty, resort to eItraord
nary measures is necessary 10 secure debt, add
ona fee in proportion to the services required will be
charged.
Persons sending business from abroad requiring
proof Gas accounts &c prevent delay, should send
at the same time, the names and residences of wit
nesses and the names of two three respectable ct
in the neghborhood OF the witnesses, to act as
Commissioners to take their testimony.
Partners sending business should also send the in
dividual, well joint names Of the firm.
References.-Jas. Q. Proudft, Esq. Wall ST. New
York Messrs. Gililand, Son & Harwell, Charleston,
s. c.; Messrs. T. Goddard & Co, Macon, Ga; VIM
bearing, Esq, Athens, Ga; Messrs. Holt & Rose
and Hon. E. S. Dargan Mobile, Ala; Hon. Fl. w
Hiard, Montgomery, Ala; Messrs. Crenshaw &
Bryan, A: Ready, Esq, Messrs. II. B. Bailey & Co,
and Messrs James Trmble g. Brothers, Wetumpka
Alabama. oct eff
Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-07-27
} : SlIRIVER.
3 BRADY.
III w CHAPIINE

IuN ID In Trustees Of Vm Chaplirc
rhisburgh Advocate. Boston Alias. Philadelphia
Nor'h Americas. New York Star. Providence J var
nal, copy TO amount 50 each. and ch rye thi N
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WHEELING IYCcIiAi.

A. q meeting Of The Wheeling Iyceom held oo
TLesday -Seaihg. June 3. i54l. the loving pre-
nmhlc aud resolution were presented and adopted
whereas ii'e whoeing I.yccum feels deeply the
imporanCo ofeSiendng the benefits of ducaiion and
the lights ofsCience Ia the eOe generally through
out Western Virginia; and whereas rejoice see
that spirit has been raised I'm that sccinn &c oar
mon. calculated 10 be- pr,ducIiNe of the greatest
gnod if property at'e..dsd io and fosiered. and.
whereas We navescen With pleasure that call
nr rnnvc'uiin o. take The subject into consd.ta-
tho" ~ he held si Ciarksburgh. Harrison county. on
ihr ? Wesp-sday IN September, has been made
by The ciliz~ns thereof
BE u ih-r.fre resolved, that three delegates be
appointed 20 h, sati con, eniioa frpIn this LICE m
s, IA p,vver - & N varanciss ~ their own brdy
M--Srs t. whnrtun A w Ruler. c w Russo
were npppn ell sad delegates.
On inclinn resolved that the above preamble and
esnluii0n he published IA the papers oi the city.
A. w. RUTER. Pr,std.at
e. ID. HusBaRD. Secretary.
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,,KOsr,s AMERICAN srEAhEn.

IL Containing numerous rnles. reservations aud
eIereses on pronunciation. pauscs, in1eeions, ac-
cent and emphasis also copious eqlracts IN prose and
poetry. caculased TO assist the teacher and 10 i'm.
prove the pupil in reading and 10 improve The read
leg and rceiatioH.
By John Frost. author Of a History OF the United
States FIR sale at The Store Of JAS A INGRAM.
july % No l2I. Main 81.
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NEW ARRANGEMENTS

~ RICE. a. }. J. WELLS have associated
- themselves together in business under the
name aud style Of S Rice az Co. and they now takc
pleasure in informing their old and tho
public in genetal that they now receiving from
tn" Fast most splendid stoo OF spring md summon
eoods-conssting OF
Black. Blue, Brown. oive. Dahlia. Invisible and
Bottle green broad cloths which have rot been sur.
passed ia beauty and quality in this market. here
tOfure-Also. Black, Blue. and Fancy Cassimerescf
every style and quality.
Summer cloths. Cassimerett Bombazine. Linen
dnlliEgs, Gambroons, and many other articles suia.
BILE for summer coats und pants.
Also vesiings of every variety ofstye and colour
that can be named.
Together with beautiful assortment Of Linen
Silk aud Cotton Shirls-Stocks. Collars Suspen-
ders. Gloves, Cravats, DC. &C. all Of which We shall
sell very cheap for cash.
n. d. We arc also prepared 10 make up clothes
TO order in the best and most approve ed style.
Our old customers. and the public generally are
res0ectully invi,ed to call aud examine for ihemse
v,s 1t No l39 Zane's Row.
.ai2 s RICE & co
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CDAnA.D0iUn CONVENTIUN.

CSAUh- - asOu Gun ~ IIUN.
Al a meeting Of the Teachers' Association o
Wheeling. IL aas
Resided, That the citizens OF Ohio cour ty i've ro.
qarsicd To- meet "a the Court House in Wheeling
the firS' Monday in August NEXT, COR The purpose
o, appointing delegates Ia the Convention to he held
Al Ciarkshursh; ON the second "Wednesday in Sep
iemher b-Ni
Tie object OF This Convention is the expression
1t the views oi North Western Virginia. n relstrn
% the carly establishment Of permanent AID IF.
cieni system Of primary srhools ihnughout the Com
m"nwenlih. The importance Of being fully repre-.
Senied ~ the Convention will be. on-e. duly up
prrcIaifd, and a. the citizens Of Ohio county have
never been behind in putting firth their active eE
ors IN aid &c every movement advance the true
Interests and prosperity Of the "Old DOMINION" we
confidently anticipate foil meeting.
wM. MCKAY. President.
A. w. RUrER. Secretary.
June 9lst, 1871.