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AMERICAN HOTEL.
w. H. HAGADORN

W. IL 41AOhOOItN
VNTOULD respectfully inform the travelling public
w that he has purchased the American Hotel, for=
merry owned by E. ingalls, situated on Williams street,
in the village Of WHITEHALL Just south Of the Upper
Bridge and has furnished and repaired in complete
STYLE and is now ready to attend to the wants of those
who may feel disposed togive him their patronage. No
pains will be spared to render the stay Of the traveller
pleasant and agreeable,
TIE AMERICAN HOTEL
is large and commodous and has excellent aScomni0-
dations and in most delightful location. The table
will at all times be furnished with the substantias and
luxuries the season. and the Proprietor feels conf
dent that those who call once will be disposed to do
again. Please call and see for yourselves.
MEALs-Rreaktast rs cents. Dinner 81 IL cents.
TAKE NOTICE.
Carriages always in attendance to convey passeFgers
to and from the house, free ofcharge.
Whitehall, Feb. "a, 1917. S:37:9m
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The large barn on the pauper farm in
Amherst, N H., was burnt on the Sd inst,
about three o'clock in the morning, with ali
its contents, and including t,centy.iro head of
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WILL GIVE A
VOCAL CON z RT

CAL CONC z RT
On TUESDAY, MAY 4th, 1S47, at the
BRANDON HOUSE HALL,
CONE EVENING ONLY,)
On which occasion they will Introduce a
Programme, composed by themselves among
the hills of NEW HAMPSHIRE, their ma
tive State.
TICKETS, rs CENTS CHILDREN IL IL
cents, if accompanied by Parents or Guardi-
ans.
Large families will receive liberal reduc-
ton.
Doors open at 1-2,-Concert to COM
mence at o'clock.
The Music of the Bakers is published and
for sale by them Immediately after each Con-
cert
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INN AT CASTLETON 4 CORNERS

INN AT CASTLET0N 4 CORNERS
TNHE subscriber takes this method to inform his
n friends and the public generally, that he has
taken and fitted up the TARYERN HOUSE build
ing formerly owned by Francis Hoy, one and half
miles west of the Village of Castleton, which estah-
lislnnent he intends to make (what every Public
House should beg "the travellers home"
~ Every facility afforded to Fishing Parties to
the Lake, such 4as securing Boats, &C., on short
notice.
VIM. B. CoLBuRN..
Castleton, July &C. 1916. eff
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Later.
From the Mobile Herald Extra.
ALVARADO TAKEN.

NAVY YARD, PENSACOLA, !
April 18th, 1847. {
Gendebten:-The U. S. sloop ST. Mary's has
just this moment arrived, days from Vera
Cruz, with news of the taking of Alvarado, by
Lieut.. Hunter Com'dg steamer Scourge, with.
out firing gun, on the I'd inst,
The St. Marys brings dispatches from
Com. Perry. She has a great number of her
crew sicE.
The sudden departure of our mail prevent
my giving you all the details.
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ROOMS TO LET.

TWO rooms in the building occupied by
II Howard near the bridge. Enquire o
April l, '1sl7. j. A. CONANT.
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For the Voice of Freedom
LINES

On the death Of EDGAR W., son Of John W. and
Jcrusha Rich, of Shoreham, who died April lst aged
years and months.
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Later from Mexico.

PHILADELPHIA April 81, 1917.
The towboat Daniel Webster and the
steamer Edith, arrived at New Orleans on
the 18th, with adyices from Vera Cruz to the
9th inst.
These advices confirm the accounts brought
by the St. Mary'S, at Pensacola, of the cap
ture of Alvardo without loss 1t appears that
Alvardo surrendered to Commodore Perry,
who sent into the town flag of truce, be
fore General Quitman and his troops came
up.
Commodore Perry was about leaving with
the fleet, to capture every Mexican port on
the Gulf
Several towns had already been taken-onc
south of Alvardo, fine one, called Tlactalpal
[Tlascotalpan, on the Maps which possesses
nobly sheltered harbors.
The Army was to leave for Jalapa on the
9TH, Twiggs commanding the advance, Pater-
son the centre, with the volunteers, while
Worth, with the regulars, will close up tic
rear
Col. Harvey, with his squadron of dragons,
entered Antigua, fifteen miles from Vera
Cruz, on the I'd instant, and made brilliant
charge on force of the enemy's lancers,
capturing eight men and one officer
ANOTHER IRISH TRAGEDY AT SHARON
-ONEMAN KILLED. On Sunday night last
three Irishmen went to the house of another
by the name of Jeremiah Lucy, who kept a
boarding house, about 10 o'clock, and de-
manded admittance. Lucy at first refused to
let them come in, alleging that it was time
they were at home, but after some alteration
they were admitted, where they staid awhile,
but having been drinking, they become troub-
lesomc and Lucy insisted on their leaving,
and at last succeeded in getting them out, and
followed them out Of doors, where a scufIle
ensued, and Lucy received blow from an
axe which proved fatal, and he died about
o'clock the next morning. Two of the men
we're arrested in the afternoon of Monday,
and are now lodged in Jail. The other by
the name of DAILY, has not yet been arrested.
--Mercwy, april %.
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THE BAKERS.

JOHN G. BAKER, GEORGE E. BAKER,
HENRY F. BAKER, JASPER BAKER,
MRS J. G. BAKER, Mrs G. E. BAKER.
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DESIGNATIONS,

A ND FRACTURES reduced with safety
and CELEBRITY, by means of DR.. Jarvis
SURGICAL ADJUSTER;
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-03
a Picaurc Of Roor~.

1--WE encountered on the east margin oil
the river party of emigrant Doors. with
their wagons they were returning to Ma.
halisberg, their town in the Cashan noun.
tains and during their excursion, purpose
ly hunting one, had shot seventy one ele.
plants, Of which they had killed nineteen
shortly before our arrival. The appear
ance Of these rude and bronzcd hunters was
not very prepossessing, though in some res
poets not dissimlar to our own, Their
boards had been given six weeks holiday,
their clothes were ragged, and their faces,
hands, and feet begrimed with dirt; an in
excusable fault when water ives so album.
dant. They gave us kind reception, per-
haps little embarrassed at the first by their
instructive dislike of Englishmen; and one
Of them, q son Of Potgeiter, their command
ant, recognised Balm, having seen him when
on former journey Their compilations
had not the blooming character of those of
the colonial Dutchmen, but the activity of
their life and simplicity Of their fare had pro-
duced in them much vigor Of body and good
health. Fsven are, however, more fire.
quent and deadly in the districts inhabited
BY them than in the colony" Msthwea's
South Africa.
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Glesnings.
STONY CREEK, SUssEx Co, Va.

June :. 1917.
DEAR READER: Were it not for the laws
against emancipation, slavery would soon
cease in this State by the voluntary action
Of slave owners know many cases where
the slaves would be liberated were it not
for the obstacles interposed by the Legisla-
ture. One old lady owns little land and
many slaves She is sexasenarian,
without ever having gone twenty miles from
home. With little knowledge, her con-
science becomes troubled ON account OF sla-
very, and if she saw clearly the way to free
herself from all connection with it, she
would do so. But emancipated slaves must
be sent from the State within a twelve
month after they become free, and be sup
ported in the interval She knows nothing
of society or its conditions beyond her own
neighbo,hood or State. She has no advi-
visers. Were she to strip herself of all she
has, scarcely would it suffice for what she
thinks the necessary outfit for the slaves
And thus arc her contentious scruples lull-
ed, her good resolutions baked and she con.
tinues a STAKEHOLDER Such cases are by no
means rare.
The disposition to emancipa,e by will is
growing, but here again the law frequently
postpones, if il do not defeat, the good in
tended by the testaior. In this neighbor-
hood; an old lady, at her death, s,pposing
her landed estate sufficient to meet all obi
cations, bequeathed freedom to her slaves.
Unfortunately, her estate failed to liquidate
the debts by several thousand dollars, and,
as the law holds the slaves liable for the
debts Of the masters thew are now hired ont
till their net earnings shall suffice for thai
purpose. But it has been found that, as
some OF them are too old and some too young
to work, land yet must live, the wages OF
the producing slaves are nearly all con-
sluned, scarcely anything being left towards
meeting the debt. The probability is, that
they will yet be sold 10 meet the demand
Of the creditor.
The whole system is a terribly compli.
Gated evil. Take the following as a speci-
men: Three-fourths Of the wealth Of one
county consists in slaves. The land is
growing every day less valuable and the
people are indebted ct least to the amount
Of onathird Of all their means. The 6nH
effect Of an act Of emancipation would be
the humiliation Of three-fouaths Of the wealth
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-03

"Rode with Livingston TO see the iron
works OF the Bakatlas, and found Them well
worthy visit. The construction and man
agement Of the apparatus. which, as might
he expected, was OF most primitive and
simple order, was rs follows An oval
hole, about SIX feet long. two feet deep, and
two feet broad. was divided in the centre bv
clay kiln, some three feet high In this
kiln successive layers of charcoal and iron
ore 0hc oxide Of iron dug in the adjacent
hills), were placed. Two men sat in the
holes, one on either side the kiln, and each
held in his hand two goat-skin bellows, the
MOBILES OF which were made Of horns, and
inserted in holes at the base Of the kiln.
By means Of these continuous blast was
kept up. The bellows were merely lea,h-
ern bags, made to open and close at their
mouths by two parallel bits Of stick, like
the mouth Of a carpet bag. A circular
fence enclosed the whole from public view,
for these works arc kept sccre, from all but
the initiated, and the forging art is confined
to certain families; even Moseleli, their
king, has been refused an insight into them.
White men are supposed already to under.
stand the art, and, when attended BY a mis-
sionary. are readily admitted. Four parts
OF the ore, at least, are wasted in the ash /:
the remainder, consisting Of pure metal, is
wrought into form with stone hammers and
anvils.c Tubal Cain must have made great.
er proficiency in the art.
"The smiths are very supezsttous, and
use many herbs as charms, or medicine for
tho iron. during their labor. Simple. how.
ever, as is this process. tho original discov.
cry that the ore could. by the medium Of
hre, be made available to the service OF
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a frSnssss.eoe resreseatiaE eaiid sslees ss'fh
feiries sresnd him.

frsRsssPsece represeatsag eaitd ssteep s'fh
ferries srssnd him.
tnnsssntly dreaming,
Upon thee beaming
Light from Fancy's bright do,niuions.
Rustling sounds of fairy Pinions
Str the soft and slumbrous air,
Fitting gsily here and there,
The sleep sprites have found thee,
In their witcheries bound thee,
Dreaming.
Wonderously dreaming.
Each tranced eve seeming
Restless meath its deep-fringed lid
Wake not. the fine visions hid
When the spell Of sleep Is broken;-
D! by every magic token,
Lose not Vet thine hour Of Bliss
Manhood knows no Joy like this
Dreaming.
Guileless one, thus dreaming,
Amid the cleaning
Of thy fancies young and pure
May their memory endure,
When thy mornings light
Now so dewy bright.
Burneth into scorching noon,
Then fadeth into night full soon
pfcauiihe-
For thy later dreaming
With cares and SORROWS teeming.
Will make thee dread thy sleep;
At thy waking thou wilt weep,
Gone the visionary brightness
That gave thine hours their lightncss,-
Thou wilt long for that rePosc
Whose lone couch never knows
Dreaming!
Innocently dreaming!
Thus besuteous seeming,
Long come around thee the spirits Of sluInbe
In their myriad mary number.
Through the shaaowy night,
Bringing calm delight
Or in the sunny day,
When thou'rt tired Of play
And dreaming!
w.w.s.
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Thc Jann and i6e Mookry.

Many are the extraordinary anecdotes
of the babOon One was told me BY Mr.
Moifat, Of koranna who possessed tame
baboon, which, in common with all the
monkey race, entertained an intense dead
OF snakes its master, from mere wanlon-
ness. iorciblv entwined dead snake round
the balloons neck. when the animal sat
motionless for upwards of an hour, supplied
with fear. and on the snake being removed.
stole timidly into the hut Of the koranna.
After a short lapse Of time. the baboon was,
according to custom, called on By its master
to rratch his head, but, although summoned
several times IN an angry voice 1t refused
to move. The koranna rose and struck
it with a stick, and immediately the enraged
and aggrieved animal sprung upon hun
the neighbors, hearing the scuiile, ran to set
what was the matter. but could distinguish
nothing through the dus, raised in the in
terror of the hut, except no, cinders. which
were kicked about in all directions fIom a
fireplace in the centre of the abode. The
screams of the man and the baboon were
niermingled. I'LL al length the latter dashed
out through the bystanders, and escaped to
some mountains The Korama had been
seriously bitten in the encounter, and was
some weeks in recovering, but ultimately re.
gained his strength, and, bent upon revenge
secured the mountains in search of his all
tagonist. He at last deserted his baboon
which he could discern from any other
PeePing over crag and levelled a gun Al
him; but the animal Instantly Withdrew bis
head, and held forward one Of his compan
ions as target instead Of himself, chatter
ing as in defiance, so that the man wa.
compelled to return foiled and disappoinL
ed. -Wethuens South .1frica.
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man. Is singular amonsa men livise -
tirely in a state Of nature. Hoe. ~
spears. hatchets. &c. are thus mauufscn,,.
a whole days work does 20, Yield =
than few pounds Of iron. and !, is =
during one or two months in III. yesr
i: Is lawful to work. The rocks here
tap Po'PtyIy. schis,, and sandstone,
the ore IS found a, the junction Of the !
Gus and aqueous rocks. "-Msaa1
South ifrica.
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Stony CREEK, SUSSEX Co., Va,

Stony CREEK, SUSSEX Co., Va,
June 2, Is47.
DEAR READER; Slavery is undoubtedly
doomed in this State. II does not pay
From beginning to end, it is-a loosing con.
Germ. Land is continually decreasing in val
Ne. Not far hence is tract Of 400 acres,
we'll timbered, and lying along a creek,
which, twenty years ago, brought from 818
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UForty-6, niIes en- kssr 10 the contr.e,
:i%. for esrryiseshs .ail' in E'siasd PEI
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Inward BIindness.

Talk 10 a blind mamie knows he wants the
sense of sight, and willingly makes the proper
allowances. Bat there are certain internal SEN
ses which man may want, and Yet be wholly
ignorant that he wants them 1t is most un-
pleasant 10 converse with such persons on sub
jccis of taste. philosophy. religion. OF course
there is no rsasoHing with them. for they do
not possess the facts which the reasoning
must be grounded. Nothing is possible. but a
naked dissent, which implies a sort of unsocial
contempt; or, what man of kind disposition
is very likely 10 fall into, heay;less tact acqui-
essence, which borders too nearly on duplicity.
--Colsridye.
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IRON, STEEL, NAILS, &C.
EZRA CLARK 81 CO.,

No. 81 Front Straf, eorur Of Ferry Street, '
HAVE now in store and offer for sale on liberal
III. terms, a complete assortment Of Iron, Seol, Sc,
comprising, in part,
English, Swedes and American Bar and Bolt Iron.
Mill Shafting, Of any size aud length required.
Band, Hoop and Scroll Iron, all sizes.
Flat and square Slit Rods, various qualities.
Oval and half oval Iron.
Brazier's Rods, all sizes.
Eng. and Am. Sheet Iron, No. 10 TO &c.
Norwegian and other Horse Nail Rods.
Horse and Ok Shoe Shapes.
Pipe and Box Iron, Cast Steel all shapes sizes,
Iron Axletrees, Double Shear Steel,
Cart and Wagon Boxes, English Blistcred Steel,
Carriage Springs, American do. do.
Iron Wirc, Spring Steel, ~
Malleable Iron, Swedes Steel,
Carriage Bolts & Nuts, Corking Steel,
Sleigh Shoes, Anyils and Vices,
Horse Nails, Crowbars,
Blacksmitis' Bellows, Mill Cranks,
Fire Brick, Files, Rasps, &C., &c.
Also s
A constant supply of'Old Colony Cut Nails and
Spikes.
Hartford, Nov. 10, ls47. 3ml4
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WINTER is coming, and 1t is incumbent on the
head of every family to devise measures for keeping
his house and household, n we'll as himself warm
To do this, il is not only necessary to look to the
quantity and quality Of the fuel in ore-but the
doors must be listed-the windows fastened Town
and calked-and every creyice in the floor or vain
scot filed. The cold air must be excluded-unti
that is done, it Is folly to expect that a room can
be kept warm. Indeed in many Of our New Eng
land dwellings, where the furniture and the arrange
ments present an aspect Of competence and comfort,
it is usual in very cold weather for the blue looking
group collected around the fire, to complain that
their shins arc roasting, while their shoulders are
freezingi Currents Of arr rush In from various
quarters-and agues, colds, caianhs, and rheuma-
tisms are the orders for the day. A couple of hours
labor at this season, will prevent weeks and months
of discomfort hereafer-BoSto Courier.
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Awfid Steamboat Disaster on Lake Michigan.
A sad catastrophe has happened on Lake Michi-
gan, by which nearly two hundred human beings
have been hurried into an untimely grave. On
Sunday morning, 2lst ult, the propeller Phoenix,
bound up the Lake, was discovered to be on fire
when within 10 miles of Sheboygan. The fire
broke out under the deck, and a fresh wind pre-
vaiing, spread with fearful %rapidity. The ut
most CONSERVATION prevailed among the passen-
gers, and it was impossible, amid the excitement
which followed, to make the proper efforts to
stay the flames and save the boat. There were
two hundred passengers on board, and the scene
was heart rending in the extreme. Mothers cry
ing in frantic madness for their children, wives
clinging to their husbands and crying aloud for
mercy from above. Some, in desperation, plung-
ed into the lake; others, in their wild delirium,
rushing headlong into the flames. 1t was a har-
rowing spectacle, and humanity shudders at
the recital of it Most of the passengers sue
ceeded in escaping in the boats, and the rest Ell
Their persisted in the flames or were drowned
Those who so tremendously escaped in the boats
were shortly after picked up by the steamer
Delaware, which hove in sight just in time to
see the dreadful fate of those on board the i'll
starred Phoenix, but too late to render them any
earthly assistance. Every attention was paid to
the survivors by the officers and crew of the
Delaware. One hundred and fifty of the passen.
gers were German immigrants.
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Dte0.

In West Dummcrston, Nov. II, Abby only child
OF Henry and Mary Salisbury, aged G yrs.
Dear Abby, thou art now ut rest,
Securely on thy Sayioufs breast;
The struggles past, the conflicts DER,
And nought can harm or gricve thee more.
Thou, as a lovely, tender vino,
Around thy parents hearts did %tsine;
But now with thee they're doomed to part,
It's tendriIs cling around the heart.
Dear friends, lit up your weeping eyesi
That vine now blooms IN Paradise;
10 you for n few days twas given,
To wcan from Garth and point to heaven.
lCoN.
In Drookfcld, Wisconsin Territory, Nov. II, Mr.
Nathan Hatch, n revolutionary pcnsioncr, aged 10
yrs. n mos. "a days.-lPnntes In Mass. will please
copy,l
In Sangamon, III, Oct. n, Mr. Hiram L. Webb,
formerly Of Rockingham, aged a. Also, Oct. ~,
his son, John w. Webb, aged lG.
in Chesterfield, n. IL, Nov. G, Mrs David John.
son, aged IS. Also, Nov g, Mrs David Holman,
agcd g.
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The WEsT.-The almost incredible amount
of business carried on upon our Western waters,
especially upon the Mississippi and its tributa.
ries, may be seen from the Following facts pro
sented to the late river and harbor convention
at Chicago, by Thomas Allen, Esq. lie says
THE steamers plying to st. Louis alone are
25i, and that the whole number on the Western
waters amount to 1900, valued at SIG, 000, 900
1000 keel and flat boats are to he added. In
ls46 the receipts at New Orleans, from the up
per country of the Mississippi, amounted 10
s77,00o,000. The total value of the whole ON
mercc afioat is s43s, o0o, 00o,-being double the
amount of the whole foreign commerce of the
nation"
Here is q business within n portion Of our
own country, and a portion too, hardly known
fifty years ago, double in rdiue the irAoie Of he
Foreign commerce. Of he United Safes. Who
can predict its value and importance half q CEN
tury hence The population of this section of
our country, increasing as it is with n rapidity
before unknown, is made up of emigrants from
almost every nation upon the globe. What a
field for moral and religious effort is here pre-
sented to the Patriot, Philanthropist and Christ
ian-Amhersf Express.
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FATAL RIoT.-Paddy Roc at Nerbury, ".
one man Killed. A most disgracefnl row occur
red on Sunday, 2lst ult., among the Irishmen
employed on the P~assumpsic Railroad, in New
bury. 1t commenced in a violent religious dis.
c%ussion, which finally led to a regular fight be-
tween the parties, in which clubs and firearms
were freely used. One Kelley, an overseer on
the road and a very respectable man, called in
the aid Of a sheriff to restore order and arrest
some of the leaders, when they were resisted by
a large body of I~rishmen, one of whom shot KEEL
ley through the head with a pistol. He was
killed instantly. The sheriff fortunately escap-
ed with his life. The murderer escaped, and
has not yet been taken.-HarerhM IN. H) WHO.
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The BOSTON ALMANAC for lS4S.

fI'HE subscriber respectfully announces to tho
IL numerous patrons Of this little work, that the
number for the ensuing year will be forthcoming al
the usual time. The Business Directory has been
thoroughly revised and corrected, and there have
been other Improvements, which il Is believed will
render the Almanac for ls4s equally as attractive
as any OF It's predecessors. II Is intended to give
in this number q complete transcript Of all the in.
scriptions at Mourn AUBuHs,-lhus giving to tho
country record or Directory Of that interesting
city Of the dead.
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GRooN, so State Street, are the Publishers.
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