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The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-01-01
nARBY's UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHICAL

nARBY'S UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHICAL
~ DICTIONARY containing description Of the
Empires, Kingdoms States, Provinces Cities, Towns,
Forts, Seas Ilarbors, Rivers, Lakes Mountains,
Capes &c. in the known world; with the govern
mcnt, customs, and manners of the inhabnants; the
extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each
country aud the trade, manufactures and curiosii,es
Of the cities and towns. Third edition, with ample
additions and improvements. This day published,
and for sale by r. aFARNHAAI,
dec Bookseller, Penn. corner ! lih ST.
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* ANDERSON, BOOKSELLER AND STA
VI. TONER, bet,ceen 18th and 18th streets, Penn.
.auenue.ti. A. keeps constantly for sale the follow
ing articles, which he offers wholesale and retail on
as liberal terms can be had here elsewhere, viz:
Printing paper, wrapping paper
Binders and trunk boards
Russia, ca f. and sheep skins
Writing paper, drawing paper
Visiting and business cards, playing cards
Drawing materials, fancy articles, perfumery
Fishing tackle and Irvine, writing desks
Work boxes, blank books, Portfolios, snuff
Smoking and chewing tobacco, segars, SC
Also, general assortment of school books, CLASH
cal miscellaneous and juvenile works, Bibles prayer,
and hymn books of every denomination, Catholic,
Protestant, &c.) at the lowest northern prices.
nov ely
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T IVES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE u S.,
IL with biographical notices Of the signers of the
Declaration Of Independence, sketches of most re-
mark,ble events in the history of the country by
K. w. Lincoln. Embclished with portrait OF each
Of the Presidents, and forty-fve engravings. For
sale at the book store Of g tl.e{ \. la
nov c. rss n. FARNHAM
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NOLLOQUIAL AND GRAMMATICAL EXER-
" CISES intended to impart to the student both a
theoretical and practical knowledge of the French
Language. BY A. N. Girault, one of the principals
of the Washington High School. -
Just published and for sale by
II. FARNHAM.
nov corner 18th st. and Penn ay.
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GREAT ARRIVAL-The schooners Mary and
VI John Bell, from New York, with choice assort-
ment Of fresh family Groceries for the undersigned,
which he will sell low for cash to punctual
TONER'S consisting in part the following articles to his
former stock:
100 whole, half, and quarter boxes bunch rasins
SO whole, half quar-. and eighth barrels buckwheat
so whole and half barrels mackerel
10 bags Java, LagIyra, and Rio coffee
Is casks cheese, part English
30 barrels New York -four
Lot prime sugar
Fresh teas, latest Importation
l6 basket best Olive oil, for table use
Sperm and mould candles
5 barrels cranberres, in fine order
Is dozen brooms and 10 dozen whisps
Market baskets, mats, buckets, and keeers
4 trails soft shelled almouds
80 boxes pruncs. IN fancy and wood boxes
3 boxes fresh citron and barrels Pecan nuts, SC.
10 baskets champagne
Half pipe superior French brandy
1000 pounds Goshen butter.
With all other articles usually kept by the trade;
and respectfully solicit share Of the public favor,
as am determined to sell cheap for cash.
GEO. LAMBRIGHT,
9 doors west of Railroad depot
nov 25-3taw2wif
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T INDLEY'S HORTICULTURE--Th Theory of
IL Horticulture; or, an attempt to explain the prn-
cpal operations of Gardening upon physiological
principles BY John Lindley, F. K S. With notes
r.. FARNHAM,
nov g. corner of | lth ST. and Penn av.
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EARTHENWARE. CHINA, AND GLASS
Ia THOMAS PURSELL importer, has the plea
sure of informing his friends and the public gene
rally that he has just received by late arrivals from
Liverpool and other sources,
ll3 packages of the above articles of the newest
patterns and shapes
Ivory handle and other Knives and Forks, in set.
of 81 pieces, and separate s
German and Britannia Table and Teaspoons, and
Walters :,
Plated and Brass Candlcsticks, and Shutters and
Trays
Looking-glasses Casters, English and American
Tea and Coffee Sets
Coffee Urns, covered and uncovered Pitchers, SC
Astral, Hall, Side, Liverpool, Solar, and Reading
Lamps and Wicks, ofall sizes e
Also, Southworhs Patent Lard Lamp
All Of which will be sold, wholesale and retail as
low and on as good terms as at any other establish
mcnt. A -H&a Es Ea#Me$f
Goods assorted in the original packages, Pipes in
boxes, Window Glass Of assorted Sizes at very low
prices, Stoneware at reduced Factory prices.
The subscriber has The agency of Britannia man
factory, which enables him to sell those articles at
reduced prices He solicits call from his friends
md the public generally at his store on Pennsylvania
venue, opposite Browns hotel
nov 2s-ln N. THOMAS PURSELL.
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THOMAS P. JONES.
WAs,IrNGroN. Jan. %, 1843.

WASHINGTON. Jan. %, 1843.
Mr.. Joseph L. Hover: Sir: ] have examined and
used part Of the specimens of ink which you left with
me, and am prepared to speak favorably of them
both. Since began to use metallic pens, have
been able to obtain INK which would not more
or less co,7ode, and speedily destroy them. Yours
appears to he free from every corrosive ingredient.
The marking ink possesses, in my opinion, all the
qualities which requisite to give to the article
very high character Yours respectfully.
nov Z tN.t tu-4 r. HALL
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MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC !--GARRET AMBER
lll son, agent of AtwilI's Music Repertory New
York. has just received large assortment Of AtwiTs
most popular music
G. a. will be constantly in the receipt of the latest
publications. and will be happy to orders for
Music published at any other establishment in the
country.
He respectfully solicits strangers visiting the city
and the citizens generally to call and examine his
collection, which will be sold at the New York prices.
Between ] It'll and 18th strts, Pennsylvania avenue
nov 24-2aw6w s
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FRIENDSHIPS OFFERING for 1874 Friend.
l. ships Offering and Winters Wreath, Christ
mas and New Years present for 1874, with eight
handsome engravings.
THE LITTLE GIFT, for 1874, with engrayings
THE LITTLE KEEPSAKE, for 1874, edited by
Mrs. S. Colman, with engravngs.
ST. NICHOLAS ANNUAL, for 1874, for little
boys and girls, with engravings.
THE CHl14D'S GEM, a HOLIDAY gift for 1874
The above just received and for sale at the book
store of r. FARNHAM
nov corner l 18th st. and Penn av
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MANESCA'S FRENCH COURSE, an Oral Sys
lu tenn of Teaching Living Languages, illustrated
by practical of lessons in the French through
the medium of the English, by Jean MaResca, fourth
Doors open at 6. o'clock-performance to com
mence at y precisely.
edition, revised. For sale by
r. FARNH AM
corner It'll street and Penn.
Where may be found all the French School books
now in use, and sold at very low prices
nov tH
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r ADY'S BOOK OF FLOWERS AND POETRY,
il to which is added Botanical Introduction,
complete Floral Dictionary, and Chapter on Plants
in Rooms Edited by Lucy Hooper. a new edition
with plates. Just received and for sale at the book
store of 8 X. FARNHAM,
nov IL corner Of 18th st. and Penn. av.
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TIME WINTER GREEN; A perennial gift for
i 1914 Illustrated with sixteen beautiful engra-
wings Embellishments: The Dooa ed Fairy, illus
traied Title Page, Uncle Joshua the Land of The
Cypress Eutlanasia, Hrnpecking, The Mariners,
Managing Mother, The Minon Bride, The Eleventh
Hour, The Green Old Age, The Mariners Orphan,
The Devoted Just received and for sale at the book
store Of ~ q X. FARNHAM,
nov III corner Of 18th vt. and Penn. av.
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MOVERS BLACK, INK--The above ink is kept
IL constantly on hand by r. FANHAM, corner of
18th street and Pennsylvania avenue, who is agent
for the manufacturer, and will supply the trade at
manufacturers prices, wholesale and retail. This
ink has acquired celebrated character, and is in
extensive The following certificates are from
DR.. Thomas P. Jones, of the Patent Office, and Dr.
F. Hail. late Professor Of Chemistry at the Medical
College Of this city:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 90, lS43.
Mr. Joseph f. Hover; Sir: have made use of
your Black Ink sufficiently long to ascertain that it
possesses all the desirable qualities which are
any kind Of ink that had previously essayed and
have got pretty well through the catalogue ! have
not taken the trouble to test it chemically, as this
has been already done by others whose certificates
satisfactory to me as though the experiments
had bsen made by myself
THOMAS P. JONES.
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dLhNiCN q BLUNT,
Wiiiam r. Bayly, Agent.
nov 6--6m Penn. av., between 18th and 18th sta.
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DRINTING AND WRITING PAPERS Of every
/ quality and size made to order and sold at man
ufacturers' prices = r. FARNHAM,
nov S1t78 hE corner llih ST. and Penn. av.
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BOOTS .A.ND SHOES.

sell at COST but will be satisfied with small profit
Repairing &c., shall receive prompt attention
MOORE s. TURPIN,
One door from the corner of 10th street and
dec TT Penn. avenue north side
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23
THE FARMERS PROFESSION

Prncely patriarchs, prophets, kings, phi
losophers, the great of all ages, have honored
agriculture with their particular regard. The
pursui, is indeed laborous but labor is no
longer an evil, except in its excess. The
cheerful performance of labor by man has freed
1t from its original curse. 1t is now the boon
OF Heaven--the condition of unnumbered
blessings. The farmers calling is full of
moral grandeur He supports The worlds
the partner OF nature, peculiarly a 'co-worke
with God' The sun, the atmosphere. the
dews, the rains, day and night, the seasons
all the natural agents-are his ministers in The
spacious armament. Health is the attendant
OF his iabors. The philosophy of nature ex-
erclses and eXalls the intellect of the in,ell;-
gent farmer. His moral powers are ennobled
by the manifestations of supreme love and
wisdom in every thing around HMM the
genial air, the opening bud, the delicate flow
er, the growing and ripening fruit the stately
tree-in vegetable life and beauty sprinsng
out OF death and decay-and in the wonder,
tul succession and harmony Of the seasons :
These, as they change, Almighty Father, these
Are but the varied God. The rolling wear
Is full of Thee!
we are now beholding mighty moral re-
Volutlon. Hitherto, glory has been found in
the dcstrncf,on rather than the preservation oi
man. The history of our race is history of
wars. An age of peace and philanthropy is
arising upon us i'll which renown will be
sought IN usefulness. Justice will yet be
lully done to the benefactors of mankind.
Dung, and Watson, and Clinton, and Buel,
and others, both of the dead and of the living,
who have laid society under enduring obiga-
tons, will receive their share of public graft
tude How dim, how fleeing is the fame of
the mere warrior, when con:rasted with that
OF the philanthropist! What wasting battles
what fields enriched with carnage, what
sPolls OF victory, or what splendid lriumphs,
could confer the lasting glory of De Witt
Clinton II .4ddress Of .4nSon S. Miller, Esq,
before tie Oneida Co. Agricultural !Societu.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23
New Goods ! New Goods !

HAVE just received from Baltimore and Phi
= lade)phia supply of Spring and Sumner
Goods, which | will sell on the most reasonable
terms for cash, exchange for country produce of
all kinds, or sell on the usual credit of six months
to 2uncual customers consisting in part of Cloths,
Cassineres, Calicoes, Lawns, Balzarines, Shoes,
Boots, Molasses. Queensware, Sugar, Hardware,
Coffee, Ginghams, Checks, &c. would be glad
all my friends (and of course that includes the
public) would call and examine my stock, and if
they are not pleased in the quality of the goods
and terms, then tell me am a candidate for the
Legislature, which / am not, and if you meet
with any of your friends who do not Subscribe for
the Spectator, just inform them, if you please,
that am not candidate, don't expect to be, but
have fine assortment of cheap and seasonable
Goods, Ladies' Bonnets, &c. for sale on the m os.
reasonable terms.
Call and examine any how. will take pleasure
in showing you my goods free of cost, and to sell
you them will give me extreme pleasures to say
nothing of pocketing the money.
FRANKLIN r.. GEIGER.
p. S. Ladies' Hose for Cd. and Is. and Corn
Hoes Tor IS. April IL, 1914.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23
An Entire New Stock Of Goods.


NNHE subscriber, at the well known stand of
i JOHN g. Sewers, having returned from the
Philadelphia and New-Yor markets, has now in
Store cheap and beautiful assortment of NEW
GOODS. 1t is needless to argue in an advertise
ment the principle Of cheapness for discerning
community and will appreciate any effort
made by the subscriber TO PROMOTE THEIR PEcu-
MARY INTEREST. He therefore invites one and all
who ADVOCATE ECONOMY, TO CALL AND INSPECT
HIS GooDs, THAT THEY MAY HAVE AN oPpoRTU-
NIFTY OF PUTTING INTO PRACTISE THAT WHICH IN
THEORY THEY MAINTAIN.
Blue black and green Cloths from So TO higher prices
Super blk and cold Cassimcrcs, Valencia, Cashmere
and Satin Vcstngs, Nankccn, Plaid Gambroon, Plaid
Twccds, Barnsley Drilling, sc. &c. sc.
FOR LADIES' DRESSES.
New style splendid Balzcrinc, Changcablc Gro diva
lcnce, Afghan Cordcrics, Oriental Brants, Cha
melcon Afghans and Silks, Striped and Plaid Bo-
RACES, French cold Lawns, Scotch Ginghams, Sc
&c. SC.
BONNETS.
Neapolitan, Prince Albert, Rutland, Gimp, Florence,
Circassian, &c. &C. sc.
SHOES AND BOOTS.
Ladies' Shoes, from IS. to finest quality
Do. CATERS beautiful variety
Misses and Chdrcn's Shoes.
Gentlemen Cali and Morocco Boots and Shoes Sc &C.
Together with Groceries, Queensware, Hard
ware, and Stationary.
HUGH ]. CRAWFORD.
Staunton, APP. loft
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23
DECAY OF PEACH TREES.

singular fact, and one worthy to be re-
! corded, was mentioned to us few DAYS since
by Mr. Alexander Duke, of Albemarle. He
stated. that whilst on visit to neighbor. his
attention was called to large peach orchard,
every tree in which had been totally DESTROY
ed by the ravages of the worm, with the ex-
ception of three and these three were prob
ably the most thrifty and hourshing peach
trees he ever saw. The only cause of their
superiority known to his host, was an expe-
riment made i'll consequence of observing that
those parts of worm-eaten timber into which
nails had been driven, were generally sound.
When his trees were about year old he had
selected three of them and driven ,enpenny
nail through the body, as near the ground as
possible; whilst the balance of his orchard
had gradually and finally yielded entirely to
the ravages of the worms, these three trees,
selected at random, treated precisely in the
same manner, with the exception of the nail
ing, had always been vigorous and healthy
furnishing him at that very period with the
greatest quantity of luscious fruit IL is sun.
posed that the salt Of iron afforded by the
nail is offensive to the worm, whilst it i.
harmless, or perhaps even beneficial, to the
tree-SOuthern Planter.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23
TRIMMING TREES.

The proper season for this operation has
been subject of much discussion. Former
ly the fashion was rather general TO trim in
winter when the sap was said TO be down in
the roots Of the tree. Or at least as earlv ms
March before the buds began to swell. Blu,
many good orchardists now doubt the pro-
priety Of trimming at this season and Judge
Buel, of Albany, is decidedly of the opinion
with those foreigners who recommended fo,
this business the season between the first and
second growth of the tree, that is, some time
in the latter part of June or the first Of july.
ErceSsiue Trimmings is now generally
agreed that no large limbs should be cut of.
but that little trimming of the small twigs
annually, such as interfere with each other
may be taken off TO good advantage and will
prove sufficient
II has indeed been commended that trees
should never be trimmed, that nature gave
them no more than she intended they should
keep, and that by robbing the tree Of its ma
tnfal branches, we inAict on it an irreparable
injury.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23
TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE.
ON THE FRENCH PLAN.

First, procure the best coffee in the market
wash 1t very clean, and roast it the color o
golden brown, but not deeper shade by
any means. .ihen take the whites OF three
eggs TO each pound of coffee, mix very care
fully with the coffee while warm, and imme-
diately transfer to earthen vessels, tying over
with bladcers to render them air tight. Take
from these vessels sufficient coffee for one maxi
ing only at time. grind it, place in fine mus
I'm bag, suspend it about midway in the pot,
turn out the boiling water, aud But on the
cover, to prevent the escape of steam. By this
mode The coffee will be very strong, but il is
oestt reduce it by the addition of boiling-hot
mix, when it will form most delicious be-
verage, very different indeed, from that which
Is produced by boiling the ground coffee in
water And to be convinced of the fact bv
the above method, which is simply infusion.
all The virtues Of the coffee may be obtained.
IL Is only necessary TO take the dregs left in
the bag, and boil them in water for consid-
cradle lime; the result will be, black, bitter,
nauseous ieverish, woody extract, without a
trace Of The fine flavor of coffee, and answer
ing TO the name by which it was known on
It's introduction to use, according 10 the ac-
count published in the eighth volume of the
"iiarleIan Miscellany" namely "lhe DEVILS
Black Broth" The making of tea is by in
fusion, not decoc;ion; who ever thinks of
boiling tea Far. Cab.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23

in l7SS, $50 bags; in 1899, $40 bags an,
III 1870, 81 bags were received in Europ,
from this country.
The frs, bag OF cotton sold in S. Carolina
was purchased in 1854, by John Teasdale
from Brian Cape, then factor i'm Charleston
Inc first bag OF the wool exported from ,ha,
city TO Liverpool, arrived Jan. 90. 1855. per
Diana, and consigned to J.. s J. Teasdale.-
The exports from 1890, though very much
mixed up with foreign cottons, slowly but
steadily increased until 1894, when power
iu' impetus was given to the cotton culture
oy the invention of the saw gin by Eli Whit
hey OF Massachusetts,. This ingenious, bu,
unfortunate artist, who, by his machine.
doubled the wealth and means of employment
OIL his countrymen, and thereby in an especial
manner conferred on the plantation States a
benefit that can scarcely be estimated in mon
ey, was rewarded by North and South Caro-.
lima, and Tennessee only, and died moor
Alas too often the fate of genius 2!
we have thus briefly distracted few of
the facts connected with the cotton culture
from the mastery memoir of Mr. Seabrook /:
suIhcient, however, 10 convey Just idea of
the Importance of the labor of our author; for
the FACTS we have given, and these are not
moiety OF those we have left untouched. are
nightly interesting and instructive, demonstrate
ing, as they do, the rise and progress of The
culture OF crop which, in less than three
fourths of century, has risen from mere
article of "garden" and patch culture, to
become the greatest staple of the nation
Planters Gazette.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23

THIS doctrine may lead us too far If we
must not curtail the works OF nature, we mus.
suffer our nails to grow out. But the ques-
ton is asked, why have trees limbs and leaves
given them IN excess? The true answer may
be, that nature intended there should be, in
general, an abundance, SO that the tree might
be provided agains, cousal,ies The insects
must be PROVIDED for, and would be in want
of their portion of foliage, and if the inferior
animals did not take from it their customary
supply, it was then the duty of man TO act as
regulator and to take from the tree as much as it
sometimes loses in the natural course Of
events.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-05-23

Mr.. WISE, the daring 1ronaut, made per-
llous ascension at Hollldaysburg, Pennsylva-
MA, last Saturday week, which, fortunately for
HIM, resulted only in the loss of his new and
beautiful balloon, and in his receiving few
trliling bruises Before starting, the wind be-
ing very high, it was discovered that the net
work was fast giving way about the top of
the balloon. Nothing daunted, however. by
this unlucky circumstance, the eronaut step
ped into the car and assembled rapidly, bulb
as large as hogshead proiruding through the
netting. On reaching an altitude of about
4,O0O feet he encountered severe gale from
the west, which tossed the balloon 10 and fro
WIN great violence, increasing the rupture in
The netting at every surge. At this crisis an
exPedlent flashed across his mind. He threw
his whole weight upon the valve rope, which
soon brought the balloon to the ground Az
Ter bounding about for some distance, il was
driven into the top of high tree in piece oil
woodland, where Mr. Wise, becoming releas-
ed from the car, was glad TO part with his
erial companion, which dashed out of sight
i'll few moments.
The CatskIll New York. Recorder saws
that the balloon aighted on the premises oil
the Rev. John P. Van Valkenberg, near that
place, on Saturday evening A paper attach
ed to The car had Mr. Wise's name written on
h.