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Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-05-30
DON'T ALL SPEAK AT ONCE!
House and Sign Painting, Paper
Hanging, SC.

TENHIE subscriber would announce to his friends
- and the public that he is out upon his
own hook, and will take great pleasure in waiting
upon his friends in this and the adjoining Counties
He ilalters himself that from his long experience
in the above business his work will compete with
any done in this Country. Ali work entrusted to
him will be done with neatness durability and de-
spatch. Give me call before engaging your wolk
GEORGE A. ARMENTROUT.
Staunton, May g. lS49-6m
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-05-30
kScady-Rma de CiOthing,

consisting in part, of Fine Cloth Frock, Dress and
Business Goats of all colors; Silk, Cotton, Tweed,
Fancy Casssimere Pants, great variety ofSum-
mer Pants; Black and Fancy Satin, Silk and Plaid
Vest, and every article for Gentlemen's underwear
Without Individually opposing anybody, we offer
our Goods cheaper than sold in the town of
Staunton, and comparing in prices with any other
establishment in the State. Our connections in
Baltimore and steady receipts throughout the sea-
son, enable us TO have our stock we'll assorted we
therefore most earnestly solic, the patronage ofthe
citizens of Staunton and County of Augusta, and
beg leave TO inform them that they would do well
TO call and examine our stock before purchasing
elsewhere.
DG- Store Room in the Basement of the Virginia
Hotel, next door to the Law Office of BAYLOR g.
Conner. WALDEAUR s. POLLTFZ.
Staunton, May g lS49-tf.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REP
RESENTATIvES. .l9 a'

y
We cordially congratulate our readers up
on the excellent choice of Speaker just
made.
Mr.. Breslin IS yet young man. and this
is his first session as member, and so
strong mark ofrespect, shows the high es-
limation in which he is held.
We have known him from boyhood. 4 He
is Printer and graduated in the Statesman
Office. Since his apprenticeship, he has
been the editor Of the Seneca Advertiser,
one of the ablest among the radical democrat-
ic papers in the State.
During the session Of the Legislature be-
fore the last, he was Clerk of the Senate,
and better never was in iha! or any other
Legislative body. g
Unaided, save by his own native talent
struggling against difficulties which few
could surmoun., Mr.. Breslin had been the
,architect Of his own fortunes Self educted
and without friends, he Struggled n,and the
boy, that but few years ago, trudged from.
Dayton on foot, TO our office. to learn the
printers art is nov the presiding officer Of
The Ohio Legislature, and he will perform
the duties well, and will acquire new fame
in the responsible station 10 which he has
been called by his fellow MEMBERS Ohio.
Stdtksmaa.
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IlE2D-NORK.

Head work is the hardest work in the
world. The ali san feels this If al any time
he has 10 spend whole day in calculation,
All men Of learning testify to The same trntL
and meagre frames and sallow compleSions
tell palmer tale than their words. Sir 3D.
ward Coke, the great English lawyer, speaks
thus concerning his great work: "Whilc We
were in hand with these four parts of Tic M
siilute we often, having occasion 10 60 into
the country, did in solpe sort envy the state
Of the honest ploughman and other mechan.
les. For one when he was at work, would
merrily sing. and the poughman whistle
some selt-plcasing tune, and yet their work
procedcd& but liethai takeslt upon
himself 10 grite, doth captivatc all the faculties
g. powers Of boih mindand body and must be
only attentive TO iha, which he collected
without any expression Of joy or scheef,a.,.'s44s
ness while he sis al that work. Will no.
these words breathe degree Of consolpiion
TO many who Leedlessly consider thai all
le;, K5ed tot the working classes
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d lheacher For three years, she toied in
her honorable bat laborious vocation, and
then she was married 10 one who had long
long loved her. iii dared teel you-ber h,is-
Oands name, you would recognize il at once
as oneNery familiar 10 you, Tor he is a mem
bee OF Cnngress, eloquent and patriot c, and
high-rouled.
Now, 'who can tell but HELEN Conway
will one dry be,a Presidents wifer Ofall
inIhal school,not one has fairer chance of
attaining that station; and will not the iacto-
rNg'rl, do the honors Of the White House
with superb grace?
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jsAr Discovery ANNOUNCED. The

a. suing his researches into the operations OF
q magnetism, has obtained evident proofs Of
some me echanicalpower, new 10 our knowl-
edge, and connected I'M remarkable manner
( with magnetism. s, ati s4
"a We have already given il as cur opinion
M Ii is to galyinis n we are 10 look for any
s,taew power tha, will supersedc steam. Il
would. appear reasonable, that an agent SO
swift, Ind SO powerful as to decogpose wa
Ter and resolve salts into their elementary
Y componenis, also possesses a latent motive
power, which awakened, will produce as as
tonishing results in mechanism sssit has in
chemistry. Scientific americas. tt
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WHOLE NO. 4oc.
BANYARb in EUROPE.

The following Complimentary paragraph
respecting this isi'spopnar painting, we
copy from our London files Of November
27:--M " Home Joarnat
PANORAMA OF THE M1sBrssrpPI AND Mrs
SOURI, RIvERs.-A very numerous assem-
blage of persons attended at a private view
of this work of art, on Saturday evening,
at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. II is
moving transparent panorama, exhibiting tbA
scenery OF the Mississippi and Missouri
Rivers, and is said 10 b6 The enormous
length of three milpss Il has been execu-
ted bk.a selEtaught Rae yfratr' artist, named
Ban<ard, andy having been exhibited in va
rious parts of the United States with .he,
greatest success, has been Brought to this
country by the painter, with Ahe natufal am
bilon of havingsdbe public. i,pinion express
ed upon the subeotof s6 stSpcrteusrnu.--
dertaking. An account of the motives
which induced Mr.. Banvard TO commence
and prosecute his exiraordary work is given
by Gogeraor Briggs, of Boston, who, al a
meeting ilSihat city, observed that he was
informed by MIR. Banvard thatthe, idea of
this panorama first entered his mind when,
as fa,hcrless, unprotected boy, fifteen
years9h, he was floating for the first time
down tie rapid current Of this noble river.
He was stimulated in the prosecution Of his
original aad herculean task. by seeing Il sta.
ted, in soife foreign. journal, ,lIa: in Ameri-
ca there were some Of The fiost picturesque
and magnificent scenes in The world. bus
that America had no artist adequate 10 the
task of giving coriect;hnd faithful repre.
sentaton of them. Mr.. Banyard resolved
upon an effort by which the talent of his
country should he redeemed from this as
person, and by which the world should
know that American genius was competent
to give an appropriate and beautiful represen.
tation of American scener. After the iden
of this enterprise entered his mind. /, fol.
lowed him by day and haunted him by nieb,
for months and years., until i. deyeloped Il.
self in the production of this panorama
More than four hundred days was this voi,no
man floating alone in an open skif, upon ,be
bosom ofihis majestic stream. gliding among
its romantic islands or wandering Spon ia
beautiful shores, and making his drawings
oS The towns, cities, banks and bl0ffs. "a, :
should he mentioned that this vast work n
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There is pathway paved with bones, q
cross the broad Atlantic and every fathom'
beneath is black mans sepnlcher, ,And eve
ry wave above has been his winding sheet.
Oh! tho ocean could give up It's dead! Oh
if tn ,se bones could live! "A cloud Of witt
nesses against the iniquity Of Chris.endom
would gather from cayerns Of the deep, to
affrigh. rhe earth, to appsl. and osershaddow
the heaAens, sile,sj. 4, y
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SONG OF TIE. SEA.
BY MRS. EMELlNE 5. smITH.


WAKE, slumbering billows, wake
lis near the midnigh hour;
Now lit your crested heads, and make
Earth tremble at your power.
The winds have left thcir.caves;
Dark clouds are in the sky;
And the spirit Of the gathering storm
SeLd forth its funeral cry. 49,
Then wake, my pillows, wake, :,
And duncesin wild"delight,
And sing and shout and leap about,
For Wen have gpod wefk to.nigh!
There's noble youth and gentle maid,
Who have plighted heart aud hand;
And they merrily sail with "a iavering gale,
Away from their native lana. ~
They fly from those whovainy sought :.
To sever LGve's fond tie; -
And on some sweet slo,, where sunbcoms
smile, 4;
They hope to live and die. {,
Their hearts are brave1-nnd their drcans
are fair ~
But their Bark is frnil and light ~: -,
And the Tiny thing, with its loving freight,
Must be your food tonight,
Ye may take the youth in hls manly pride /;
The maid in her blooming grace,
And bear them off on your ioa6ilug tide,
While they cling IN n ldstionbToce.
uLen down. Gar'd dawn in NO caycTSs din,
Their nup,io, couch vail sntosds
And grand shall he The bridnl 1,ymn,. A.
We chant above ,be dSod .DsAa "a,
Then. wake. nv biIldws woke,
And dance in wild ieltGGt.
And sino nnd shout lIr,d Tesr. bnnt ~
For we'll have ooodIwork as!nisbt 2
y.
so course s ''a''' s"'p ." ,a's II nomeWpro
Whose yovacc is almost ncr.m
And 4 hanpy bond,o, he dsI no.y s,o,a
TO watch for their native sAn-e,
How glad and bright. witl, FInaSpo s,veo,
light.
In every eve nnd bro ":
How blest and dear, TO ali. oppeor.
The lows tha. wait them now
Wbnt pleasant thoughts Of friends and home.
eOf love, and peace and rest,
Thrill. like n magic music.ione.
Each weary wenderer's breast!
Blu, como. my merry waves, and bid
These glowing dreams depart,
And plant, inst end, wild fear and dread.
In every throbbing heart;
Como. gather oil your sto.ny force
, And bravsiy work awhle.n
And beur the good ship from its coArse
To the rocks or ysnder iste-.a
Then morry twill be. the strife to see
A. she nears the rugged shores.
And her umbers dash, with h mjchtv Acrnsb !.
on the stern, unyie ldingaloor.
VIVA, stirring, sound wifl,peal around.
In that triumphant hour;
When eyery pailid trem5ler owns
Tho oceau spirrsvpowrf!
.s....~.............
Oh, many cry OF VITO dfsmay, !,
And many an anguish q prayer. y'F1
And many shrleE q monafdread
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IMPROVEMENTS IN SAws.--We see account
of a new improvement forsa saw mill,where
by IL is said, when the boardur plank is cui
through, the saw is reversed backwards
using thus the return.. dRRlion to cut
as well as the forward mpsSn." Now il is
certainly very plain thatabnw can be made
with doubbe teeth 10 al hplish the same
thing in more simpl6 and economical
manner Scientific Aaserican- .
The Governor of Virginia repeats his reco-
mendation that the $4,000 free negroes of
that Commonwealth shall be colonized--
he says-out of the State. lie
would send them to Liberia, the English w.
India Islands; or New York and Massachu-
sets, he supposes, would he glad 10 have
them, since they regard them a equal with
their white citizens. His Virginia Excelen-
cy seems to take peculiar pleasure, NOT
wholly free from spite,in this fling atnorthen
States 1t is, indeed, an insult TO
to which even.his high office fails to impart
the slightest sdignity'--Cin. Eaqs AZ q
VI ~. III -
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tiaa 4ss seeai ag~G ,sai4fgaai I III dsisw
.asisS,es.ss >. ssEis .ie wo ! : y -
~ ssz g 9 lsss 4 ixss wsa
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YhnEa ,igua ,ataesoFI. FI.-pssil.M ssa 40,
sl%s1skas H'fss,c.s
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-03-29

tRemapj, is corruption of fine old Indian word, aud
should be spet Remaplugh. Persons living in the vicinity,
tell me the old records OF the place have the written
What row called Romapo Pass through which flows the
stream OF Remopaugb, and is still called by the Dutch
settlers, tho CeGve." -
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For here amid these woods did he keep count,
Before whose mighty soul the common crowd
OF heroes, who alone for Fame have fought,
Are like the paarcl's sheave to heavens chosen bowed:
He, who his counry's eagle tough, to soar,
And fired those stals which shine DER every shore.
HoFFMAN.
Anxious as was the period of which we
are treating, it was, as we have said, one
full of hope. The revolt of the Pennsylva-
MIA militia at Morristown, and the subse-
qnent muiinous rising Of the Jersey corps,
while they for a moment spread dsmay
through the country, and increased the al
ready overwhelming burdens of the Com
mander-in-Chief had yet bright side, and
served to develop into stronger light the no.
bic materials of which the army was made.
Though importuned with the most flatter-
ing offers of pardon and emoument from
the British, their liberty and exemption from
military service fully guaranteed, they not
only rejected such proposals, but delivered
the emissaries Of Sir Henry Clinton up to
the Commander to be dealt with according
to the usages Of war. They loved the cause
and the country none the less, but goaded
by suffering, had resolved to start Congress
from its lukewarmness in regard to them.
Severe as was the crisis to the country at
wv ''NN ihhdl tlIdi was IuOSt HGdfilJ
felt by Washington himself. He saw that
another such winter would sink the hopes
of the country. Added to these emergen-
ces, the aid Of the French naval power had
been far from efficient or salutary. There
certainly had been too much disposition for
independent action; latent feeling of van
ity prompting to single trials of proves be-
tween English and French arms, rather than
combined and concentrated Cooperation
with the tactics of our own army. Wash
ington felt all this, and by the most strenu-
GUS efforts, and the most skllllul reasoning
counteracted the evil. He labored day and
night, vigilant for every department of in
terest, and sustaining a correspondence
wonderful alike for its volumnousness anc
ability
lie had now concerted a plan of opera
tons remarkable for adroitness and com
pleteness, the features of which demanded
the utmost powers of concealment on the
part of all entrusted with the details; 9
conceament so well sustained, that to thi,
day the whole matter is half shrouded il
mystery, and now that we are able to look
back to its entire success, we are compelled
to regard the whole as superhuman tina
something beyond mere human skill ant
forethought were requisite to bring abou
measures embracing so many contingencies
the favorable action of so many agents con
sldered iorIultous, and the exact subordina
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-03-29
DODGING A MILITIA FINE.
BY THE YOUNG 'UN.

In days gone by, when the Objectionable
militia laws were in force in old Massachu-
sets, the customary draft was made in a
country town few miles from Boston, and
notice to appear, armed and equipped,
according to law was left at the boarding.
house of wag, who possessed very little
martial music in his soul. Determined
that he would neither train nor pay fine,
and entertaining, withal, very Indifferent
opinion of the utility of the system, he took
no notice of the summons. Having been
duly warned, however, as he anticipated,
at the expiration of few weeks the SER
geant waited upon him with bill of nine
shiings for non-attendance at the muster
You're fined, sir-nine shillings-non-
appearance"
What is it ? asked the wag, pretending
to misunderstood the collector.
Fine for not trainingP bawled the 9TH
err.
Shan't pay it, fellow
{ 1t will be three dollars next time l CALL
But the wag couldn't hear a word he
said, and in the course of another month he
received peremptory summons to appear
forthwith at a court-martial in the district,
instituted for the purpose of trying dclin-
quents, and collecting such fines as could
be scared out of the non-performers ofduty.
Having fixed upon final plan to dodge the
issue, at the appointed hour he waited upon
the court to show cause, if any he had, why
he shouldn't willingly have toted musket
and knapsack about the town for twelve
mortal hours, and otherwise perform the e-
gal annual duties of live patriot
He was ushered into the court room I'M
mediately-which was held in an old coun-
try house-where he discovered some three
or four persons seated, attired in hashy reg
imentals, and whose awful 'yaller epoletts'
alone were sufficient to command the alten-
ton and respect of the proioundest behold
err. Though somewhat disconnected at this
rather unexpected exhibition of spurs and
buttons, he put a bold face on the matter,
and responding to the directions of the jun
ior member of the august court, he advance
ed to the table, and the chief functionary
commenced the examination.
Your name sir 7
The offender placed his hand quickly tC
j See 4th page.
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1Dortrp.
From the A. $. Standard
ABRAM AND ZIMRI.
by CLARENCE C COOK.

...,i,,.,. .,.., IT,, ,a,.. ,la, ,to Gala man
- - ,Lo c.tto,i, rooo, a,d coosoo,,,od en- r,o,v h
,o,tot ioo ,s chosor bv soloon os tho n,os, Wort,
-, g.. ,to ,.,,,i,, r. lie ,or,rlo 10 God
Abram and Zimr owned hold together
level field hid in happy vale
They ploughed it with one plough, and in tho spring
sowed, walking side by side, the fruitful seed.
In harvest, when the glad earth smiled with grain,
Each carried to his home ono half the sheaves,
And stored them with much labor IN his barns.
Now Abram had wife and seven sons
But Zimri dwelt alone within his house
onc night, before the sheaVes were gdthered M
As Zimri lay upon his lonely bed
And counted in his mind his li'le gains,
He thought upon his brother Abrams lot
And said, " dwell alone WITHIN my house,
But Abram hath wife and seven sonsi
lie surely needeth more lor lie than l.
iwill arise and grid myself and go
Down to the field, and add TO his from nine"
30 he arose and guided up his loins,
And went out soiily to the level hed;
The moon shone out from dusRy bafs oil cloud
The trees stood black against the cold blue sky,
The branch IS waved and whispered in the wind
SO Zimrl, guided by the shifting light,
Went down the mountain path, and iound the held,
TOOK from his store OF sheavcs generous third,
And bore them gladly to his bioiherS heap,
And thsn went BACK t' sleep and happy Dreams
Now thu, same night as Ahram lay in bed
Thinking upon his blissiu stntc in life,
He thought upon his brother Zinri's lot,
And said, "lle dwells within his house alone,
lie goeth forth to toll with few 10 help
He goe'h home at night to cold house,
And hnthtew other ifiends but mo and mine,
(Fortheso two titled the happy vale alono0
While !, whom heaven hath very greatly blessed,
Dweli happy win my whe ana seven sons,
who ard me IN my Toll ana make II lshti
And yet we share the harvest sheaVes a'Ne,
This, surely, Is not pleasing unto God
! i'll arise and grid myself, and go
Out to the field and borrow from my store,
And add unto my brother Zmri's pile."
So he arose, and grdcd ny his Ions,
And went down softly TO the level field.
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That not born to die."-HALLEcK.
The summer of 1881 opened with bet
ter prospect Of success to the cause of hui
man freedom, than even its most enthusiast
tic supporters had dared to anticipate. 1t
was evident to all that the war, protracted
to more than seven years, must soon be
brought to close that ii handful of peo-
pie, who had SO long struggled and bed for
their country, must soon cease from their
toll, or lose the hope of emancipation, the
cherished desire to become a nation; for
cold, and hunger, and nakedness had dog
ged the footsteps of war, and threatened to
annihiate them altogether. We are called
a braggart people, where Fourth of July
orations are one universal outbreak of Ia
tlonal laudation. Let it be so. We, who
in our day Of small things, when we were
held in derision by our foes, and when we,
even to the truest and stoutest hearts among
us, seemed but the Forlorn hope in the van
guard of a disenthraled people--we, who
then despaired not, and finally triumphed,
have right 10 glory in the past, right to
raise our shout of exultation the length and
breadth of our fair inheritance, that our
children hearing, may learn to emulate the
actions, which have made US great as peo-
pie.
Thanks to the living God, that it was not
amid the stinted and down-trodden nations
of the old world, that we were called to a.
chieve nationality, else might the fate OF
France, of Poland, and of Greece, have
been ours; made sanguinary by unaccus-
toned liberty, we might have rvalled the
ferocious Partisan; or hemmed in by over
whelming powers, have been dlsmembered
and scattered; and left to nations, what the
torso of Hercules is amid the feebler pro-
portions OF statuary; or again be suffered to
exist only because helpless and protected
No, the whole world had been verging to
that point when nation should be born in
day. Men from all parts of Europe, ca.
pable of feeling wrong, or of apprecia-
ting good, had sought new portion Of
the great earth, whose magnificent features
and uncontaminated soil were designed &c
cast the human mind into fresher and lar.
ger mould. Whether impelled by religion
philanthropy, commerce, or the mere love
of adyenture-whaleve the motive for GO
ing forth, the fact argued courage and in
tRemop0, is corruption of fine old Indian word nn
tell me the old records OF the place have the written
What row called Romapo Pass, through which flows tn
stream of Remopaugh, and is still called by the Duc
settlers, tho CeGye." -
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CHAPTER w.

Love peeps into the warriors heat
From the tip of STOPPING plume,
And the SERTED spears, and the merry men,
May not deny him room
He'll come to his tent IN the weary night,
And he busy with his dream,
Aud he'll float to his eye in the morning light,
Like fay u silver beam.-N =. WILLIS
1t was yet the gray of the morning, when
Wendell Blanch opened his mothers door,
to say few words of greeting before he
should start upon his mission. Early as 1t
was, for it was scarcely four, the matron
was already up, looking to the ways of her
household There was something extreme
ly touching in the demeanor of the danes
of the Revolutionary times. A sober earn
estness which impaired dignity and APP
propriateness to all their movements Dame
Blanch was as yet young and unchanged by
time but devoted and happy in her domes-
tic relations, self had become so secondary
with her, as to rarely enter into her calcula-
tons. No lurkings of vanity divided her
singleness of duty, and no love Of gossip
interfered with the well ordering Of her
peaceful household. As yet the children of
the region had grown up with an instructive
perception of the harmonies of life, the ex-
cessive training Of our modern times being
as yet unknowni they were obedient and
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CHAPTER III,

Yet nerve the spirit for the proof
And blanch not at thy chosen lot I
The timid good may stand aloof-
The sage may ifown--yet faint thou not.
Truth, crushed TO earth, shall rise again "A
The eternal years Of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, wiithcs in pain,
Aud dies among his worshippers. -DRYASr.
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