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The Columbian fountain., 1846-11-04

OUR MARKET.--The Centre Market was but
poorly attended yesterday and the supplies Of most
things were short WsAsnnsx tho prices Of articles
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-04-23
EIa! ha! ha! PUSHES the scales Mp and do1cn,

Fla! ha! ha! 7Pushes Tie scales up and dolcn
alternately, and SINGS
"Hero we go up, up, up,
And here we 90 down, down, down, o;
Here we go backwards and forwards,
And here we go round, round, round, >"
Good day, Monsieur Guizot; my compli-
ments TO His Majesty the King ofthe French
and please to tell him my weight exactly
(Erit laughing.)
Brit. Monsieur Guizot!
Monsieur G.. Eli bien?
Brit We've established the new Balance
of Power.
Monsieur C. Begar, he Won dem alf-orse
alC-alligator-and little bit of de swapping
turtle. He make Won Balance of de Power
vid Won dem big vengeance. (Scene Closes
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-04-23

a scolding when he's stubborn The fact
has long been ascertained, that teazng is the
most delightful thing which woman can
do; it is SO easy, SO pleasant, and puts her
in such an amiable state of mind. Just let
her get fair game, an old bachelor for ex-
ample, and don't she worry FIRST one way
and then another. Now it is, 'why don't
you get married, Mr.. Simpkins? Pm sure
you're old enough And then, ooh who'd
have such an old dried up specimen as you
are? Or if it should be coquette, with
some ill-used victim dangling after her, look
ing as thin as fshing-rod and as lugubri-
Gus as a sick monkey; signing like bel
lows and groaning like dry cart-wheel
then if she does not care about driving him
to extremities, but prefers to worry him for
the fun Of the thing, what happy opportu-
nifty to exercise this amiable Characteristic
She goes with him to a ball and dances all
the evening with Mr.. Johnson she engages
to 60 with him on the next Sabbath even
ing to hear the Rev. Dr. Poundtext preach,
and before he reaches the house she is off
with MIR. Jenkins; he visits her and finds
her so much entertained with the converse
HA"1 Va MA Voll0o1 Iil1I SHC uOCS uOL lOOh dS
him all the evening; and all this time the
unfortunate wight views the whole proceed
| ing in much the same light as little dog
looks at big one, when the big one runs
away with the little ones bone; 'grins hor-
rlbly CHASTITY smile > tries to make believe
that it is good joke, Gerry good joke,
while all the time rage is gnawing at his
heart, and every circumstance portends that
there will shortly be a grand blow up
Positively it is shame that they worry
the men so; and yet some people, say that
they are not so much to blame after all
They say that the men encourage them in
it, and as long as they do so, they must ex-
pect that the women will smile, provoke,
bother and tease them. Now, if an unfor-
tunate, love-stricken youth is troubled by
the smile of beauty, do you think that if
she knows it to be the fact, she will stop
Iit" Not bit Of it ! 1t is more than likely
that on the next occasion that she sees him,
she will smile more sweetly than ever; and
he, silly fool! instead of bracing up his
nerves, and flying TO "a lodge in some vast
Wilderness what does he do? Why, like
frightened horse, he rushes into the flames
after all t He bis eyes wide open So that
heart; and if any accident happens, let TIE
coroner's jury bring in verdict of Starved
him rightp All Of which is respectfully
submitted to the consideration of our 'lov-
! ing readers, here and elsewhere.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-04-23


LICE ON Fowls, BIRDS, Fowls,
chickens, and others of the feathered race
often suffer much from vermin. There is
very small insect, much smaller than the
common hen louise that is very destructive,
aften causing the death of the hen on her
nest, or causing her to leave her nest, often
just before the time of Matching, to the great
loss and disappointment of the owner.
These lice are not common where there
are but few hens, or when they have good
range and roost in open situations. When
they roost in a close place, these insects
generally appear in the warm season. They
are of pale color when hungry, but when
they have free access to hens they are filled
with blood and are of dark color. When
magnifed they look like a wood tick.
They are very hard to kill, far more SO
than the more common hen louise. We have
been told by two persons who have much
experience in keeping poultry and birds,
that whale oil soap, so valuable for Destroy
ing insects on vegetables, is the best remedy
for lice on all the feathered tribe even for
the delicate Canary bird. The oil soap is
used very strong, adding barely enough wa
ter to dissolve it, then take the fowl, chick,
or bird by the bill, and souse him in all but
his eyes and mouth, and rub the liquid into
his feathers. 1t is said that it will not harm
them.
Whiewashing every part ofthe hen house,
nests and all, has good effect in prevent
ing hen lice. When they are in the nests,
they should be cleared out, brushed or
washed, the old straw burnt, buried or re-
moved to some distance, and fresh lot sup
Piled. Strong scented herbs in nests have
been recommended, and camphor too, but
we have tried them in vain, as it regards the
small lice or ticks. Lard or butter are often
used to kill lice on chickens or hens, but
we have found that dry snuff put on them
in few places causes them to scamper very
quick, SO that in an hour or two after not
one will be seen, and this seems to have no
unpleasant effect on the fowls. This was
recommended some months since by one Of
our correspondents. Constant attention is
necessary TO guard against this evil, else
fowls, birds and chickens will die before it
lis known that any thing is the matter with
| them.-Boston Cultivator.
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ISCELLANEOUS
From the National Press.
DIALOG UES OF OILY MPUS
BETWEEN THE GoDDEssEs
COLUMBIA AND BRITTANIA,
NUMBER III.
By LUCIAN, JUNIOR.

[Brittana sitting solus in grove of fine trees near
fountain.
Brit. | wonder what keeps Monsieur
Guizot so long. He should have been here
before this time. am afraid some accident
has happened TO the railroad cars. Oh
here he comes looking like the personihca-
ton of Justice.
TEnter Monsieur Guizot, putting and blowing, with
great pair of scales on his back
Brit. All! Monsieur Guizot, am glad
you are come, and have brought your scales
with you. When did you leave Paris, and
how is my dear friend, Louis Philippe?
Monsieur C. En- bien-I Ieave-vat you
call? leave-eh bien---I did leave de day
after tomorrow.
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A silk-dver enriched his sign with this neat paro-
DIV on Goldsmith's beautiful lines, ''When lovely
woman stoops to folly.''
WHEN LOVELY WOMAN TILTS HER
SAUCER.
When lovely woman tits her saucer,
And finds too late that tea will stain,
Whatever made a lady crosser?
What art can wash all white again?
The only art the stain to cover,
To hide the spot from every eye,
And wear an unsoiled dress aboVer her,
Ofproper color, is-To DYE.
A milliner in Boston, harping on the same string
thus put forth, some time since, her claim to Gus
tom:
When lovely woman longs to marry,
And snatch victim from the beaux,
What charm the soft design will carry?
What art will make the men propose?
The only art, her schemes to cover,
To give her wishes sure success,
To gain, to fix a captive lover,
And ''wring his BOSOM s-To DRESS.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-04-23
P O E T R Y .
From the Boston Courier.
OTHELLO IN CONGRESS.


OR THE APosTROPHE sAUSAGEIVORoUs.
Most potent, grave and reverend Representatives,
MY very noble and approved porkonians,
That have gobbled up this greasy sausage
1t is most true True have bolted it,
And wiped my chops with an old newspaper.
The very stretch and grin of my voracity
Hath this extent-no more. Rude are my jaws,
And little graced with nceties of soldering.
For since these gums of mine had seven years teeth
Till now some nine moons wasted they have used
Their keenest action upon head and pluck,
And little of the whole hog can | squeak
More than pertains TO feats Of a broed whlsker,
And therefore leanly have creased my grinders
In munchng for myself. Yet by my patience
| will round, unvarnished tail deliver
Ofmy whole course of pig; what trpes what rotters
What big black buildings and what mighty sausages
(For such pork-feeding am charged withalD
l gormandized in greasy dignity.
Sweet piggy loved me-oft delighted me,
And piggish was the story Of my life,
From year to year, the mbbes, bites and chumpings
creased it through, even from my boyish days
To the very moment when you caught me at It.
And l can speak Of the most slippery landings,
OF moving accidents by skewer and grldron.
Ofhar breadth scapes enough to SINCE your brlstes
When squealing grunters died on point Of fox.
Of perils in snloke-house and dripping-pan,
Of being baked in the nsoent dough,
In pot-pie slavery. Ofmy muZZing since,
And tit-bits in my Congress history,
Wherein of antics vast and speeches idle,
Fsticuffs, fudge, and fbs whose headstouch heaven
Twas my bad luck to hear such was tie CANNON
Ofswaggerng cannbals that each other eat
The Anthro pqfagi-thc men whose tongues
Are broader than their shoulders-mighty bores.
Yet still the s'House affairs kept me from dinner
ALL empty chaff and draft (which observng'
Clapped fried sausage in my breeches pocket
Wrapped in a ragged "Nladisonian,"
Whereof by parcels had something srnelt,
But nought distinctly. So clutched and bit it..
Before high Heaven: Twas fat; twas passing tat
Twas peppery: twas wonderous pepperY!
wished had not bit it; yet wished
Ohio pigs had made NE such sausage,
So catawampously to be chawed up.
-Of this end dodge.
You quiz me for the sausage have munchcd,
And stump yO,t to bite harder one.
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feels premonitory symptoms of Balloon ex-
| curslon, he may secure connection with his
friends who cling SO close to their earthly
abode Were there room in this number of
| the Voice, l should like to give the reader a
portion of friend Clarke's Introductory spice;
but not having room to do him justice, l shall
not make beginning.
The reader will see that in the first place,
l called friend Clarke ga well educated well
informed, and spirited writer" In the Sec
ond place, called his editorial tact" as
near No. as any man could we'll do it: and,
after penning two sentences (each ending
with an exclamation point, the mean
ing of which he we'll understands) touc hing
his imaginative ingredient, l said =" Were
there room in this number Of the Voice,
l should like to give the reader a portion Of
of friend Clarke's introduc tory spice; but
not having room to do him justice, 1 shall not
make a beginning"
When penned the article alluded to, I
had on my mind Mr. Clarke's descriptive pow
ers, in connection with the other; but hay
ing other matters on hand at the time, / did not
present that part. Being on friendly terms
with Mr. Clarke, and knowing that he under
stood my manner of conveying ideas, I did
not entertain the remotest thought that he
could construe my notice of him into an 'un-
kind cut" If one man possesses a greater
share of the imaginative than another l have
yet to learn that an allusion to it by the one
possessing the smaller share, necessarily con-
veys an unkind intmation. hope, General,
that you will brush away your hair this time,
SO as to see my notice Of your Honor in its
true light, instead of letting your heels fly at
your old friend, in return for, at least an in
tended fduor.
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Distressing Accident.

AS child of Mr.. Finton, of West Poult-
ney, was playing about bonfire of shavings,
last week, his clothes caught fire and so badly
burned the child, as to cause his death in a
few hours.-W. Observer.
VERY REMARKABLE.-The colored peo-
pie of Washington have held Fair to raise
$500 for the purpose of buying their preach
er, who is slave. That price, for good
preacher is very cheap indeed.-Bee.
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. The Annual
Commencement of this Institution will be
held on Wednesday, the 9TH day of August.
The Celebration Of the Literary Societies
will take place on the afternoon of the 4th !;
that of the Junior Class on the evening of the
4th.-Free Press.
CoMPL1M ENTARY. A clergyman lately ad-
dressed his female auditory as follows; L" Be
not proud that our blessed Lord paid your sex
the distinguished honor of appearing first to a
female after the resurrection, for it was only
done that the glad tidings might spread the
sooner"
AMERICANS IN RUssIA.-Col Todd says
that the grading and working on the entire
railroad line from St, Petersburgh to Warsaw
(400 miles,) was given to American contrac-
tors. This contract amounts to four and a
half millions of dollars, and was given to A.
merican contractors, in the face of all Europe,
without security.
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The Science of Moving.

A writer in the New York Farmer and
Mechanic gives the following rule for young
beginners to NOW easily and handsomely:
"The first thing" he says, sis to keep the
scythe sharp. No man can be a good mower
without it, l had become good mower"
said he, "when fell in company not only
with good mower, but scientific one and
after the second or third day, finding that l
could not keep up with him without doing
myself an injury, and painful as it was to me
to acknowledge it, Qor l was ambitious,) yet
l was compelled to call my friend to stand
in the midst of a swarth. | said, Mr.. Picket,
if you know anything which you can commu-
nicate tome in the skill of moving, beg of
you to do so, for am exhausted, and may as
well confess at once that | cannot keep up
with YOU He stopped, came back, took my
scythe and explained to me the main govern
ing principles. l adopted them, and in less
than one hour | could keep up with him with
perfect case Indeed, | had at least twenty
per cent, more physical strength than he had.
1t was science alone that enabled him to lead
me to this extreme The rules which this
person taught me were the following list.
The scythe should hang natural and easy, and
be kept in first rate order. I'd. AS you APP
proach the standing grass let the heel Of the
scythe move to the very point of commence
ment and let it stop the instant it has done its
work. Thus there is nothing done by for
ward or backward swing. If the grass stands
up so as to admit Of moving on, measure with
your eye the utmost capacity forward of your
scythe; take quick easy gait, moving your
right foot well up towards the standing grass,
and your body with it, though leaning back
by bending the knee a little forward so as to
bring your whole weight to bear upon the
scythe, without twisting the body from right
to left as many do-thus giving ease to each
clip, and ability to repeat it in an advanced
position without fatigue.
The above rules we are satisfied are good.
Many who are considered good mowers have
no method about them, and hardly know
themselves how they NOW. They ''put it
through" by main strength. The operation,
like every other mechanical business is based
on certain natural and rational principles,
which, when understood, will render the labor
less laborious, and of course more pleasant
and eflicient.-lIe Farmer.
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Caution.

GJ- AT early day contracted to supply Comstock
& Co., of New ork with my Magical Pain Extractor.
did SO, but believing them to have violated their
tract with me, long since refused to supply them with
any more of that article They endcayored, bya bill
in Chanccry to prevent my selling it to any but
themselves and in this they defeated In their
bill, as long ago March, 1913 swoRR that had
refused to supply them with the Extractor, and that
they had been UNABLE REASON to supply large
orders (anHioualy waiting) which they then had ON
hand Since then they lave received single box
OF il from me. They NEVER compounded it, They
did not know how to compound it, when they to
their bill it seems from their statements and
tainy have not been fool enough since / became
dissatisfied with their conduct to go to law with them
to instruct them in the art Of making most valuable
medicine.
When made the contract with them, AGENTS,
furnished them with great many affdavs and certif
Gates which had been made, showing the value of my
medicine These they have been bold enough to copy
and insert in them the of CoNNEL instead of my
own and seek to persuade the public to buy their
compound by such means.
1t does hot become to characterize such conduct
the plain statement above given will enable every
to judge of it himself. The endeavor to initiate my
medicine shews its value. / am much obliged to c. &
Co. for doing it. as they thereby only make mine known
Men in other things do not counterfeit articles Of no
worth, but those which most precious and in this
case the attempt orc Co. to palm off their trash i'll
lieu of my Extractor, is but proof that mine is yaua
BILE. HENRY DALEY.
Dated January 18th, 1875.
V.ROSS, Agent, Brandon.
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WASuINGTON. ,July

WASHINGTON, July "a.
On motion Of Mr.. Dix, the River and Har-
Dor bill was taken up, and after debate by
Me ssrs Dix, Bagby, Westcott Berrien, john
son, of Md, Mangum, Cass, Hannegan Crit
tenden and others,all the amendments propos-
ed were voted down.
The bill was then reported to the Senate
precisely in the shape in which it passed the
House, and after speech from Mr.. Bagby in
opposition to it, it was ordered to a third read
ing-yeas 24,nays16. The bill was then read
a third time and passed.
The tariff bill was then taken up, and Mr..
Simmons resumed and concluded his remarks
in opposition to it.
Mr. Webster then obtained the floor, and
gave way to motion for an executive session,
after which the Senate adjourned
In the House Of Representatives, the reso-
luton offered Thursday, for select commit
tee to investigate the accounts rendered for
the expenses Of the Prairie Indians was laid
on the table.
Mr. Ingersoll offered resolution upon the
propriety of sending peace mission to Mex
leo, and moved a suspension of the rules that
it might be considered, Motion lost-yeas
81, nays 95.
The committee were called upon for re-
ports.
Sundry bills, mostly of a private or local
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Robberies in Canada Singular
DEVELOPMENTS,

We learn from the Toronto Colonist (says
the True sum- that some thieves belonging to
a notorious band of robbers, known as the
MARKHAM gang" have been arrested, tried
and convicted, and that their arrest is likely
to lead to the incarceration of others, and
possibly to the breaking up the gang. The
existence of this horde Of robbers was first
discovered in the township which has given its
name to the combination but it is ascertained
that their operations extend through the en-
tire province, from the townships of Lower
Canadian the east to the State Of Michigan in
the west, with branches in the States Of Yer
mont, New York, Illinois and Iowa. The
magistrates and other public officers in the
sphere of their operations have been complete
ly intimidated,so that it is difficult to get them
to perform their duty against the gang. A
singularity of this association is, that the par
ties to it are all apparently in fair circumstan-
ces, and in a condition of life which divests
them of the plea Of necessity for their crimes.
Some Of them are the owners of farms many
of them are the sons Of freeholders, strong,
able bodied, well dressed young men; some
are tavern keepers; some are owners or les
sees of saw mills; and all of them are in
condition of life to be able to earn an honest
livelihood. Why persons in such condition
of life should resort to crime, it is difficult to
conceive.
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DR. H. F. PEERY'S
VERAIIFUGE OR DEAD SHOT, u
COR WORMS.


highly rauabe preparations capable from heprompttuds
Of its action Of clearing Tie system ia te,c hours Of
every cOrRl.
The origin, development, and support OF worms i'll the
human system TO be attributed to depraved and
debtated condition oftho stomach and bowels it be-
paired, the general power of the system in healthy
state, they find no habation This preparation has
the peculiar advantage of not only destroying every
Worm but also producing healthy action OF the sQ
mach and other organs of Digestion thereby relieving
many complaints arising from arrangement OF the di-
gestve organs Although prompt and certain in its OPP
eraton and not unpleasant to the taste is perfectly
safe to the tenderest age.
The following certificate addressed to Messrs A
B. & ID. Sands, General Agents at New York
NEW York, May 5, 1S46
Gentlemen--I feel it to be both duty and pleasure
to make known the great medicinal value of DIR PEERYs
NERMFUGE, as proved by its effects on two ofmy child
rem both fwhom much afflicted, and their health
quite impaired in consequence of worms. For nine
months previous to using the Dead Shot Vermfuge,"
we had resorted to various worm medicines, which pro-
duced but partial relief their sleep broken, with
great fretunes and pains in the stomach itching the
noSeand other parts and unable to rest at night
being Obliged to wait upon and relieve them all we
Dead Shot which brought away large masses of worms
in dccomposcd state, and greatly relieved them. A
second dose entcually removed all remains of worms
and their health SINCE which now over three months
has been entirely restored make this statement that
ali having children suffering from similar cahse, may
resort to the same means for relief
RICHARD HALLORAN, Nos, Crosby ST.
The following is extract from letter apdresSed to
A G. & d. Sands from the agent at Derby Line
DERBY LINE, VT. May 18th, 1916.
Gentlemen--I received the box of Dead Shot Yer
mifuge about fifteen days since, and have now only o
few dozens left hand, which al be gone III less than
ten DAYS II seems to 40 the work to the satisfaction
OF I'LL it, Ihear some great aCeounts of where