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Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-09-01
Attention! Apiarians.
MARTINS IMPROVED
ID u q = III O VI $ H.

FENiiiS valuable Improvement in the culture o!
III Bees has been introduced into Loudoun
Fairfax, Spousyivsnia Caroline, Clarke Jefferson,
Morgan, Berkeley and Frederick, as we'll as man,
other counties in the State of Virginia, and Is uE-
quesiionsbiy decidedly superior TO any other Bee
House 10 use. IL Is 40 constructed as TO prevent
the depredalions of the eieetually. every
part OF the house being worm-prooi; il prevents
the trouble and loss incident to hivins and affords
every facility lar taking the honey without destroy
ing the Bees. The house may be constructed With
any number OF apartments from three to sixty, but
fifteen is as convenient Hay other number.
House or individual rights can be had OF
Mr. Levy, Morgan.
Mr.. StAckhouse, Winchester.
Mi Danner. MiddIetown, Frederick Co.
Dr. Kline, Front Royal.
Mr.. Latham, Upperviiic.
Mr. Fourhe, Lcesburg.
Mr. Van Ness, Dumfres, Prince William, Va.
Peske a. Maddox. Fredericksburg.
Grettsr g. Peske, Richmond
and County Rights in the State Of Virginia, Of
g. +. ROBERTS,
Berkeley Springs, Morgan Co, Va.
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CASTINGS.

h uSI RECEIVED. large supply Of Kettles
81 Pots, Ovens, Spiders, Skillets, Griddlos and
extra Lids, with an assortment OF wagon boxes, b,
WILSON & DOLL.
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The following are selected from number of
other certificates, TO show the success which has
attended il wherever introduced,
Know all men by these presents. that We, the
undersigned citizens Of East Fairfield. State
Of Ohio do hereby Gently that have aud
examined Robert Martins Bee Palace, which has
been in use three srasons aud do certify that IL is
free from webs, and that il does pass of the wotms
and answer that pun pose beyond our most sauguine
expectations; and also, thar it is the most couye-
nieni lor taking honey aud preserving the Bees Of
any plan OF which have any knowledge; and
feel ourselves justified in recommending an enter
ptising public to Try il foe themselves.
William Econ, Israel Thompson
jacob Walker II Wharton
VIM Nightwinc, John w Neigh.
WIN e.. Williamson, Jos. Patton,
Milton Grey Robert W. jackson,
GEO Hoffman, G.. III Brown,
benjamin Maiklcy, Jacob Anderson,
Lamb't Williamson VIM. Il. Marl4ell,
Jesse Williams, VIM. Hail.
JOS S Taylor Charles hay,
Benz ferrall, Jacob Richards.
April Fl, 1912.
certify the above to be true cory Of the ORR
ginal /. 7. ROPES.
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STOCK OF GOODS
ill TsE EssERGsEFsNo.
sToCK OF GOODS.

TUNII f undersigned, Trustees OF Wan. Long and
H. VIM. s. Long, offer at private sale, great
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fs5 ACRES

fS5 ACRES
Lying Immediately or tie road from Martin'hpig
to Winchester, near Bankers Hiil. adjoining the
lands Of Stepben r. Snedgrass, Coc and others
TRACT CON TANNING
About 5aO ACRES,
Near Mariiusburr, now in the occupancy ct john
5 kerney--both VI which tracts are Limestone
Land. Of the FIRST quality Upon lie last men
toned iract there are all the necessary buildings
in n good state of repair.
One other tract also, neaI Martinsburg' former =
" owned by Bernard Kaphafi, nov occupied by
AluX'r Hardin, containing
1876 IA ACRES.
well watered. comfortable buildings, and very
large potion Of excellent timber.
Fer terms, OF any fu'thrr information, apply to
Chas } Faulkner Esq Martinsbnrs. isflhly
auiho,jz,d to make sale for ne, OF 10 the gnder-
signed.
H. r., POWELL,
Midllcbute, Loudoun County, Va.
June o. Is42 If
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GEO. WELLS, 80 John st.

DiGcalfy Of Treating For several months |
haze teen turmented with disease, which rticd
every means 10 cure. Blu, DR.. raylor's BiIsom IL.
nally cured me. For sboriness OF breath it acts
ike nagir aud will he found ye,y beneficial.
ISAAC BURNS, 40 Cherry 81. N. Y.
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-02

tons upon the homes other countrymen,
and elevate their character in other lands,
was most earnestly testified by their re-
ception of Washington Irving, my dear
friend, who had recently been appointed
Minister at the court of Spain, and WHO
was among them that night, in his new
character, for the first and last time before
going abroad. sincerely believe that in
all the madness of American politics, few
public men would have been SO earnestly,
devotedly, and afectionaIely caressed, as
this most charming writer: and have
seldom respected public assembly more,
than did this eager throng, when saw
them turning with one mind from noisy
orators and officers of state, and Aocking
with a. generous and honest impulse round
the man Of quiet pursuits proud in his
promotion as rejecting back upon lheil
country and grateful to him with THEN
whole hearts for the store Of graceful fan.
cies he had poured ont among them
Long may he dispense such treasures
with unsparing hand ; and long may they
remember him as worthily!
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mind to the gradual fading away of his

mind to the gradual fading away Of his
own people.
This led us 10 speak of Mr.. Ca,lin's
gallery, which he praised highly, obser-
wing that his own portrait was among the
collection, and that all the likenesses were
elegant Mr.. Cooper, he said, had
painted the red man well; and so would
|, he knew, if would 20 home with him
and hunt bud'aloes, which he was quite
anxious | should do. When told him
that supposiug | went should not be
very likely to damage the buiialoes much,
he took it as great joke and laughed
heartily.
He ives remarkably handsome man
some years past forty, | should Judge,
with long black hair, an aquline nose,
broad cheek bones, sun-burnt complex
ion, and very bright, keen, dark and
piercing eye. There were but twenty
thousand of the Choctaws left, he said,
and their number was decreasing every
day. A few of his brother chiefs had
been obliged 10 become civilized, and to
make themselves acquainted with what
the whites knew, for it was their only
chance Of existence. But they were no,
many, and the rest were as they always
had been. He dwelt on this, and said
several times that, unless they tried 10 as
simulate themselves TO their conquerors,
they must be swept away before the
strides of civilized society.
When we shook hands at parting, told
him he must come to England, as he
longed to see the land so much that
should hope to see him there one day,
and that could promise him he would be
we" received and kindly treated. He
was evidently pleased by this assurance
though he rejoined, with a good humored
smile and arch shake ofhs head, that the
English used to be fond of the red men
when they wanted their help, but had no
cared much for them since.
He took his leave as stately and com
pletc gentleman of natures making a:
ever beheld; and moved among the PEG
pie in the boat, another kind Of being.
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-02

fro all day, and see the catarac,s from all
points ofview to stand upon the edge Of
the Great Horse Shoe Fall, marking the
hurried waters gathering strength as they
approached the verge, yet seeming, 100, TO
pause before il shot into the gulf below !;
TO gaze from the rivers level up at the
torrent as it came streaming down; TO
climb the neighboring heights and watch
il through the trees, and see the wreaihng
water in the rapids hurrying on TO take
its fearful plunge TO linger in the shadow
of the solemn rocks three miles below ;
watching the river as, stirred by no visi'
BILE cause, it heaved and edded and awoke
the echoes, being troubled yet, far down
beneath the surface, by its giant leap to
have Niagara before me, lighted by the
sun and by the moon, and in the days
decline, and grey as evening slowly fell
upon it; to look upon it every day, and
wake up in the night and hear its cease
less voice this was enough.
think in every quiet season now, still
do those waters roll and leap, and roar
and tumble, all day long; still are the
rainbows spanning them, a hundred feet
below. Still, when the sun is on them,
do they shine and show like molten gold
Sill, when the day is gloomy, do they
fall like snow, or seem to crumble away
like the from, of a great chalk cliff, or roll
down the rock like dense white smoke
But always does the mighty stream ap'
pear to die as it comes down, and always
from its unfathomable grave arises that
tremendous ghost of spray and mist which
is never laid which has haunted this
place with the same dread solcmnity since
Darkness brooded on the deep, and tina
first flood before the Deluge--l.ight--
came rushing on Creation at the word o
God,
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-02
A NATIVE CHIEFTAIN.

There CHANGED to be on board this boat,
in addition to the usual dreary crowd OF
passengers, on Pitchlynn, chief Of the
Choctaw tribe of Indians, who sent IN
his card to me, and with whom had the
pleasure of a long conversation.
He spoke English perfectly well,
though he had not begun TO learn the lam
guage, he told me, until he was a young
man grown. lie had read many books,
and SCOTS poetry appeared to have left a
strong impression on his mind, especially
the opening Of tho Lady Of the Lake,
and the great battle scene IN 'Marmion,' in
which, no doubt, from the congeniality OF
the subjects to his own pursuits and tastes,
he had great interest and delight. lie
appeared to understand correctly all he
had read, and whatever fiction had enlisted
his sympathy in its belief, had done SC
keenly and earnestly /; | might almost say
fiercely. He was dressed in onr ordinary
every day costume, which hung about his
fine figure loosely, and with Indifferent
grace. On my telling him that ! regretted
not to see him in his own attire, he threw
up his right arm for moment, as though
he was brandlshing some heavy weapon
and answered, as he let ii fall again, tina
his race were losing many things besides
the dress, and would soon be seen upon
the earth no more bat he wore it at home
he added, proudly.
He told me that he had been away from
his home, west of the Mississippi, seven
teen months and was now returning
He had been chiefly at Washington on
some negotiations pending between hi,
tribe and the government; which were
not settled yet Che said in a melancholy
way) and he feared never would be !; TO
what could few poor Indians DO agains
such well skilled men of business as TIT
whites!
He he'd no love for Washington ,iret
Of towns and cities very soon; and longet
Cor the forest aud the prairie.
asked him what he thought of Con
IS! He answered with smile, tina
wanted dignity in an Indians eyes.
lie would very much like, he said. Il
England before he died; and spok
III much interest about the great thing
be seen there. When told him 9th;
amber in the British Museum wherei
c preserved household memorials Of
ice that ceased TO be, thousands Of year
90, nc was very attentive, and il was M
ard 10 see that hehad . reference ID b
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-02


stood coaylngly open, and plainly said in
conjunction with the chair, tie portrait.
the table, and tie books, I" Walk in,
gentlemen, walk in! Don't be i'll, gen.
tlemen, when you may be well in no
time. Doctor Crocus is here, gentlemen,
the celebrated Doctor Crocus! Doctor
Crocus has come all this way 10 cure
you, gentlemen. If you haven't heard Of
Doctor Crocus, lis your fault, gentlemen. <
who live little way out of the world
here: not Doctor Crocus's. Walk in,
gentlemen, walk in!''
In the passage below, when went
down stairs again, was Doctor Crocus
himself. A crowd had flocked in from
the Court House, and a voice from among
them called out to the landlord, Colonel!
introduce Doctor Crocus."
Mr.. Dickens" says the colonel,
" Doctor Crocus."
Upon which Doctor Crocus, who is
tall, fine looking Scoichman, Blu, rather
fierce and warlike in appearance for
professor of the peaceful art Of healing,
bursts out of the concourse with his right
arm extended, and his chest thrown out
as far as it will possibly come, and says:
Your countryman, sir ~
Whercupon Doctor Croeus and | shake
hands and Doctor Crocus looks as if |
didn't by any means realise his expec,a-
tons, which, in linen blouse, and agrcat
straw hat with green ribbon, and no
gloves, and my face and nose profusely
ornamented with the stings Of mosquitoes
and the bites Of bugs, it is very likely !
did not.
Long in these parts, sir? p says |.
Three or four months, ST." says the
Doctor.
"Do you think of soon returning to the
old country, sir!" saysI.
Doctor Crocus make no verbal answer,
but gives me an imploring look, which
says so plainly, :" Will you ask me that
again, a little louder, if you please that
repeat the question.
Think of soon returning to the old
country. sir Z" repeats the Doctor.
i ITO the old country, sir" rejoin.
Doctor Crocus looks round upon the
crowd TO observe the effect he produces,
rubs his hands, and says, in q very loud
voice,
"No, yet awhile, sir, not yet. You
won't catch me at that just yet, sir. am
a little too fond of freedom, for that, sir.
Tia ha! It's not so easy for man TO
tear himself from n free country such as
this is, sir. Tia ha No no Ha ha /!
None Of that till ones obliged to do it,
sir. No, not"
AS Doctor Crocus says these latter
words, he shakes his head, knowingly,
and laughs again. Many of the by-stan-
ders shake their heads IN concert with the
doctor, and laugh too, and look at each
other as much as to say "a pretty
bright and frst-rate sort Of chap is Gro
cus!" and unless | am much mistaken, a
good many people went 10 the lecture that
night, who never thought about phrenolo'
gy, or about Doctor Crocus either, in all
their lives before.
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-02
Bunynn's Lament for his Blind Mary.
BY REV. T. d. BALcH.

Oh! have left poor blind one,
A helpless child, that never knew
The rising from the setting sun,
Or morning from the evening dew.
When maidens nimbly speed their way,
To pull the rose or emerald leaf,
She spends in night the summers day,
Nor to,tering begs scanty sheat.
She hears her mothers wheel SO round,
Till night has hushed its noisy hum;
Then at each passing footsteps sound,
She lifts hor staff" has father come =
AT eve, the shepherd quits his sheep
At eve, the scythe the mower leaves
The harvest man has ceased to reap,
And homeward bends with copious sheaves.
No yellow sheaf nor golden grain,
homeward bear, nor verna flower,
Nor ruby grape, but seek my chain,
Fer watchmen cry the midnight hour,
Let pity once my misery feel,
Let justice set the gulltless free,
Then shall this hand, now wreath'd in steel,
Like velvet TO my Mary be.
TO smooth her stoH, and guide her feet,
Or often wheel her lowly chair,
When ffuitage bands together meet,
All this shall prove a Fathers care,
To strip from nutted fruit its shell,
Unchain the grapes in vineyards found,
And tune her reel that she may tell
Her vintage joys to all around.
All, more; twill lift 10 faiths desire,
That ladder which the patriarch saw,
Now more reple.e with steps Of fire,
Whence heavenward feet new swif.ness draw
Its top is in yon clouds Of blue,
On which see nights stately queen,
That leads her vesper stars in view,
The earth and orange sun between.
How many moons in twelve long years,
Have waxed and waned, and suns have Sc,
Then rose again, but still with tears,
These links at morn and eve are wet.
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nrLLEyILLr. mL.-pR. cRocus.


Bellevlle was a small collection Of
wooden houses, hudded together in the
very heart of the bush and swamp. Many
of them had singularly bright doors of red
and yellow for the place had been lately
visited by a travelling painter, "who col
along" as was told, "by eating his
way" The criminal court was sitting,
and was at that moment trying some cri-
minals for horse stealing; with whom il
would most likely go hard: for live stock
of all kinds being necessarily very much
exposed in the woods, is held by the COM
munity in rather higher value than hui
man life; and for this reason, juries
generally make point of finding all men
indicted for catilo-steaiug, guilty, wheth-
or or no.
The horses belonging to the bar, the
Judge, and witnesses, were tied TO tempo
rary racks set up roughly in the road; by
which is to be understood, forest path,
nearly knee-deep in mud and slime.
There was an hotel III this place which,
like all hotels in America, had its large
dining-room for the public table. 1t was
an odd, stumbling, low-rooled clubhouse,
half-cowshed and halfkilchen, with q
coarse brown canvass table-clolh, and lin
sconces stuck against the walls, to hold
candles at supper-time. The borseman
had gore forward to have coffee and some
eatables prepared, and they were by thi:
time nearly ready. He ordered "wheat
bread and chicken iiXings," in preference
to corn-bread and common-doings.
The latter kind Of reflection includes only
pork and bacon. The former compre
hends broiled ham, sausages, veal outlets
steaks, and such other viands of that ma
turc as may be supposed, by toIerably
wide poetical construction, to Elk
chicken comfortably in the digestive or
gaus Of any lady OF gentleman.
On one Of the door-posts at this inn
was a tin plate, wherein was inscribed il
characters Of gold, doctor Crocus; ;
and on sheet OF paper, pasted up by tn
side of this plate, was written announce
ment that DR.. Crocus wouid that eyenln:
deliver lecture on Phrenology for tn
benefit OF the Belleyille public; at
charge, for admission, OF so much head
Straying up stairs, during the prepara
ton of the chicken-ixings, happened K
pass the Doctors chamber; and rs tn
door stood wide open, and the room wa
empty, | made bold 10 peep in.
1t was bare, uniurnished, comioriles
room. with an unframed portrait hangln!
IN at the head of the bed likeness.
take il, of the Doctor, for the CJrcheat
was fully displayed, aud great stress wa
laid by the artist upon is phrenologles
developments. The bed itsciwas covere
with an old patchwork counterpane. Til
room was destitute Of carpet or Of curtain
There was damp fireplace without. an
stove, full of wood.ashes q chair, aud
very small table; and on the !ast-uame
piece Of furniture was displayed, in gran
, array, the doctors library, consisting
some haii.dozen greasy old books.
Now, i, certainly looked about the Ia
apartment on the whole earth out Of viii,
a any man would be likely 10 get any,hiI
10 DO him good, Bul the door, rs sal
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-02
AMERICAN TRAVELLING CHARACTERISTICS

AMERICAN TRAVELLING CHARACTERISTICS.
At dinner ION board the steamcr) there
is nothing to drink upon the table but great
jugs full of cold water. NOBODY says any
thing, at any meal, to any body. All the
passengers are very dismal, and seem to
have tremendous secrets weighing on their
minds. There is no conversation, no
laughter, no cheeriuness, no socially, ex-
cept in splitting, and that is done in silent
fellowship round the stoves when the meal
is over. Every man sits down, dull and
langud, swallows his fare as if breakfasts,
dinners and suPpers were necessarles Of
nature never to be coupled with recreation
or enjoyment and having bolted his food,
in gloomy silence, bolts himself in the
same state. But for these animal obser-
vances, you might suppose the whole
male portion Of the company TO be the
melancholy ghost of departed book kce-
pers, who had fallen dead at the desk
such is their weary air Of business and cal.
cuIation. Undertakes on duty would b,
sprighty beside them and collation. o
funeral baked meat, in comparison witt
these meals, would be sparkling festivity
The people are all alike, too. There
is no diversity of character. They trave
about on the same errands, say and do the
same things in exactly the same manner
and follow in the same dull, cherries:
round.
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THE FALLS or NIAGARA.


Between 5 and o'clock in the morning
we arrived at Buffalo, where we break :
tasted, and, being too near the Great Falls
to wait patiently any where else, we set
off BY the train the same morning at g..
Whenever the train halted | listened for
the roar, and was constantly siraining
my eyes in the direction where | knew
the Falls must be, from seeing the river
rolling on towards them, every moment
expecting to behold the spray. Within a
few minutes Of my stoppining saw two
great white clouds rising up slowly and
majestioally from the depths Of the earth.
That was all. Atlcnsth we alighted !;
and then, for the first time, ! heard the
mighty rush of water, and fell; the ground
iremble underneath my feet. The bank
was very steep, and was slippery with
rain and half melted ice. got down,
but was soon at TIE bottom, and climbing
with two English officers who were eros
sing, and had joined me, over some broken
rocks, deafened by the noise, half blinded
by the spray, and wet to the skin, we
were at the foot Of the American fall.
could see an immense toren, Of
water tearing headlong down from some
great height, but had no idea of shape, or
situation, or any thing bu, vague immen-
sity. When we were seated in the little
ferry boat, AND were crossing the swollen
river Immediately before both cataracts, |
began to feel what it was but | was in a
manner stunned, and unable to compre-
bend the vastness Of the scene. 1t was
not until | came on Table Rock, and
looked-greal Heaven, on what fall OF
bright green water that it come upon
me IN its full might and majesty. Then,
when | felt how near TO my Creator |
was standng--the first effect, and the
enduring one--lnsiant and lastlng-o
the tremendous spectacle was--peace
peace of mnd-tranquIliiy-calm recol.
lection Of the deop-great thoughts o
eternal rest and happiness; nothing o
gloom ard terror.
Niagara was at once stamped upon my
heart an image Of beauty 10 remain there
changeess and ndellible until its pulses
cease to beat forever. Oh, how the STRIFE
aud trouble of our daily life recoded from
my view and lesseued in the distance
during the ten memorable days we passet
on that enchanted ground !! What voice
spoke from the laundering water; wha
faces faded from the earth looked out upol
me from its cleaning depths; wha
heavenly promise glistened in those an
gels tears, the drops of many hues tina
showered around and twined themseve
/, about the gorgeous arches which tn
; changing rainbows made
/ never stirred in all tina! time from tn
i Canadian side. whittier | had gone at frs
a | never crossed the river again for | kne'
; there were people on the other shore
/ and in such place IT is natural 10 shu
5 STANG. company. 10 wander To- an