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Among the most troublesome Of the
congregation Of raw youths over whom F.
was called 10 preside, was one Sam c.,
a sly, crafty, mischisvous rogue, who
kept the master in continual hot waier.-
No. a day past bu, Sans wits were racked
for some new trick by which to tease and
worry the la!.eE; and. rs n matter of
course, when discovered, the young re-
probate was thw acked most soundly.--
Sans deviltries became at length SO fre-
quent, that he was flogged daily by sort
Of rule; and to have omitted the customary
thrashing for single day would have
seemed TO the pedagogue an innovation
upon the established order of the school.
To all this our urchin got as used a. eels
to being skinned but, on one occasion,
when smarting under an extra-seve
fagellaton, he became intensely exsspe-
rated, and inwardly swore vengeance,
though he should be fogged within an
inch of his life. An opportunity soon
presented itself. The pedagogue was
known by all the school 10 have "a sneak
ing notion after one of the pretty girls in
town, Sarah Moody by name, with whom
he had been for some months "pretty
thick'-so much so that il was confident
ly whispering they were engaged
having few hours after Sans last chas-
.i>ement, called on the Glass in spelling"
to stand ont or the floor, he proceeded 10
give out the words, one after another, till
he came to the following:
"Spell psalmody, Samuel"
"P-s-a-l, Sal, m-o-d-y-S.L MooDrs ?"
slowly and distinctly CALCULATED Sam. in
tones loud enough 10 be heard in the neigh,
boring houses, while the face Of the peda-
gogue turned to the deepest crimson, and
the boys, though biting their lips most
sorely to prevent laughter, nearly burst
their sides with merriment.
Sans revenge was complete, but the
green hiding that followed he has not for
gotten to this day = Yankee Blade.
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ther proof than this: his conscience never
awakened TO the void which so many feel
whose jndgmen, has been led astrsy. He
had no shrinking whatever from the abyss
OF negat'on, which opens on most men
when revealed truth is discarded. II was
filled up to his perfect satisfaction BY nat
nral religion. There was no doubt, no
mystery, about his God of Nature. A
few trivial deductions from design and
contrivance--a few probabilities turned
INTO axloms-w were a. ute enough to satisfy
him. |, nigh, be said of him. as Heine
says OF his ff>pring, the Genevese School;
They made of the Deity an able artist,
who has constructed the world much as
their fathers manufactured Watches The
being OF God was in view, if not quite as
strictly demonstrated as the falsehood of
the Bible, at least firmly established on
the basis Of convenience; and an Atheist
was quite as absurd person as a priest.
Whatever may have been his occasional
fits of c"mplaisance towards thoroush-po-
ing friends who onts'ripped him in their
unbrl'ei, his own judgment always repu-
dated Atheism. He also dreaded it. IT.
said he in 1865, in one of those moments
OF almost prophetic clairroyance which
distinguished him, the world were ever
to be governed by Atheists, we NIGH, as
well be under the empire Of those infer
nal beings who are represented to US as
savagely tormen,ing their victims
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IMpROMrU.

ON THE SALE OF JENNY LIND TICKETS IN BOSTON.
TO hear the enchanting Jenny sing,
Gotham halter. like a king,
Gives up Of gold store!
Boston singer. keener still,
knowing Dodge. gives with good will,
Four hundred dollars more.
The hatter's hats are in demand.
The singers notes at premium stand,
The bier too is blest;
For felt or crochets. " arm or s.cold,''
Will make. when tuin'd to Yankee gold,
SOIL nnlng 10 her nest. Phia Bulletin.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

Jenny Lind has got herself into busi-
ness. Her muniiicence in giving the to-
tai of her first nights earnings, (more than
$4,000, to charitable objects, hs. Sc, the
whole tribe Of beggars alter her, great and
small, high and low, young men and mai
dens, bond and free. She receives. ON All
average, a hundred and iucnty letters lny,
soliciting share of her llberaIltv.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

Parson Brownlow, the editor Of the
Knoxville Whig, says he is for Clay for
President; and If he .hould die, he would
20 for the man who 'ast t1itAf ut,i lam.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

Il see through il now a. the brcrar
said when stone was cast directly thro'
the hat he was holding in his hand fer
aims.
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JENNY LIND AND MosE.-A few DAYS
ago "Bowery B'hoy," the very person
ifica:ion of Nose, was addressed in an ON
nibus by an acquaintance, who referred
to Jenny's merits, and said tha, she was
without doubt, the greatest singer in the
world. Il don't know about that" re-
piled Nose. "Who is her equal?" asked
the other. "Who? why Mary Taylor; our
Mary would sing her elothc, off her back!'"
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

&. P. r. James is lecturing on history
in Boston. Hi. matter is said to be more
attractive than his manner.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

ligious views do not prevail, it will be
found that the ordinary substitute is still
the Gospel of Rousseau.'-Edinburgh
Review.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

1t is singular fact that when an In
dian swears he swears in English. There
are no oath. in the Indian vernaculsr.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

By the recen, death Of Col William
Croghan. of Pittsburgh, his daughter, who
some years since eloped with Capt Schin-
ley, of the British Army, comes into the
entire possession of an estate valued at
FIVE millions OF dollars. Mrs Schinley is
now residing at Southampton, England.
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a xEs q. EDWARDS JAMES N. BRoADwELL
a. sk IN A ~ AwA alYrirt
ls PsbliShed every Thursday,

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By EDW ARD S " ROADWE ELL.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Two DaLLARs per year; to be paid in advance.
FOR six months, one dollar and twenty five cents
1s,sn
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JOHN PRr0H. LYMAN COOK.
prUgh e Cook.
FOOte & cO.

"HOLESALE Dealers in Groceries and For
warding and Commission Merchants. Water
street, south side of Jefferson, Burlington, Iowa.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

1t is force Of thought which measures
| intellectual, and so it is force of principle
which measures moral greatness, that
highest of human endOwments, that bright
es1 manifestation Of the Divinity. The
greatest man is he who chooses the Right
with invincible resomtion-who reslsts
the sorest temptations from within and
without, who bears the heaviest burdens
Icheerfully, and who is calmest in storms
and most fearless under menace and
frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue,
on God, is most unfaltering; and is this
a greatness, which is apt to make show,
or which is most likely to abound in con-
spicuous station The solemn conflicts
of reason with passion; the victories of
moral and religious principle over urgent
and almost irresistible solicitations to self
indulgence the hardest sacrifices of duty,
those of deep-scated affection and of the
hearts Gondest hopes, Joys, and peace, OF
disappointed, prosecuted, scorned, desert
ed virtue; these are of course unseen so
that the true greatness of human life is al
most wholly out of sight. Perhaps in our
presence, the most heroic deed on earth is
done in some silent spirit, the lolliest pur-
pose cherished, the most glorious sacrifice
made, and we do not suspectit. believe
this greatness TO be most common among
the multitude, whose names are never
heard.
Among common people will he found
more Of hardship borne manfUlIy, more
of unvarnished truth, more of religious
trust, more of that generosity which gives
what the giver needs himself, and more of
a wise estimate of life and death, than
among the more prosperous. And even
in regard to influence over. other beings,
which is thought the peculiar prerogative
of distinguished station. | believe, that
the indifference between the conspicuous
and the obscure, does not amount TO much.
Influence is to be measured, not by the
surface it covers, but by its kind. 4 man
may spread his mind, his feelings, and
opinions, through great extent, but if his
mind be low one, he manifests no great
ness. A wretched artist may fill a city
with daubs, and by false, snowy style,
achieve reputation: but the man of ge-
MUS. who leaves behind him one grand
picture, in which immortal beauty is en-
bodied and which is silently to spread a
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true taste in his art, exerts an lncomPara-
blv higher influence. Now, the nOoleS'
influence on earth is that exerted on CHAR
acter: and he who puts forth this, does
GREAT work, no matter how harrow or OBJ
s 3 his sphere. The father and mother
of an unnoticed family, who, in their Sc
clusion, awaken the mind of one child to
the idea and love of perfect goodness
who awaken in him strength OF Will TO
repel all temptation, and who send him
out prepared to profit by the conflicts oil
life, surpass in influence Napoleon break
ing the world to his sway. And not only
is their work higher in kind; who knoWs
but that they are doing greater 'cork
even as TO ext Mt of surface, than the con-
ageror! Who i>no5cs, but that the being,
rhom they inspire rrith holy and dlslnter-
estcd principles, may communicate him
self to others and that, by a spreading
agency, of 1chich they acre the silent Or
igin. improvements may spread through a
nation, through the Corld!
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

vent Monarchy from gaining any new
power in North America. 1t is yet to be
shown, however, that there is any real
danger Of such result. Suppose all Cen
trail America converted into British Coio-
nv. if you will, and what will be the re-
suit? The example of Canada now as
cussing the idea OF annexation to this ke-
public, is conclusive answer 1here
can be no danger to REPUBLICAN pf'nciPles
from any new British Colony that can be
planted between Panama and the Frozen
Ocean, for civilized society tends by an
inherent necessity to come under them
In North America that tendency cannot
be resisted--scarcely can be hindered.--
Let us have little more faith in those
principles and we shall be less anxious to
keep them out Of danger, especially from
any new establishments which Great
Britain may sec fit to make on this Cont
nent. M onoPolize the ship canal she
cannot and will not Try to, and as for the
rest there is no occasion to be troubled.
IN: 7. Tribune. =.
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written for the shepherdstown Register.
REMEMBER THE POOR.
Ry MRS. NJ. S. B. sHINDLER.


All hail to the man who keeps open his door
Who m;rthful or mournful, remembers the poor
A beautiful token he bears on his face
That his puIses beat warmly with love for his
race,
And YOU feel, while you gaze in his mild BEAM
ing eye,
That the light from withini light from on high
He spurns not the bcggar away from his door
Bpt ave, like his Master remembers the poor.
Ye rich who in purple and linen are clad,
If Won pe'er made the heart of the sufferer glad,
IF Won meier have thus learned Heavens bounty
10 use,
You know not what heayen-bom pleasure you
lose!
Then seek out the suff'rng, their sorrows assuage
Give assistance to youth, and protection to age,
And ne'er turn the needy away from your door,
But aye, like your Master, remember the poor.
Ye gay and lght-hearted how sad are the means
Which might startle your ears, would We list to
their tones
But while music and laughter resoyn1 thro' your
halls
Too oft are We deaf to the sufferers calls
Then pause in your revelry-temper your mirth
With kind thoughts for the soFrowful children
Of earth,
And spurn not the beggar away from your door,
But aye, like your Master, remember the poor.
And thou Mouner beware lest thy heart-whel-
ming woe
Should sooner or later to sefshness grow;
There are others more wretched, thou weep'st
not alone,
And by soothing their woes thou may'st Tighten
thine own
All, let not thy thoughts rest alone with the dead
When on pillow Of down thou reposcst thy head !;
BY night and by day open wide thy hearts door,
And aye, like thy Master, remember the poor
Ye peaceful ami hopeful remember in time
The lost and forsaken-the children Of crime
Oh, seek them and save them t will soon be too
late
For despair will but hasten them or to their fate
When the guilty, accused one, stands trembling,
alone,
Only he who is sinless should cast the hrststone!
Oh spurn not the sinner away from your door
But forgive like your Master, the guilt-striken
poor.
Ye laborng poor ones, whose comforts ale few,
Remember how many are poorer than you;
And while your pale fingers ply stitch after stitch
If your hearts throb with pity, you still may be
rich;
More rich than the miser who hoardeth his gold,
More rich than the nabob whose bosom is cod ;
Ye will meier turn the oeggar away from your
door,
For yc, like your Master, can feel for the poor.
Yc rich and yc poor ones ye mirthful and sad
Ye can all to earth's JOY or its misery add;
There breathes not the mortal so high or so low
That his breast may not always with tenderness
glow.
Then be sure that your hearts have been warm'd
from above,
And keep burning within the pure fire of Love ;
At daylight and twilight keep oren your door,
At MONDAY and midnight remember the poor.
Shephcrdstown, Dec. 90, l849
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

SELF HELP.-Can we not learn the les
son of self help? Society is full of inhrm
people, who necessarily summon others to
serve them. They contrive everywhere to
exhaust, for their single comfort the entire
means and appliances Of that luxury TO
which our invention has yet attained.
Sofas, ottomans; stoves, wine, game fowls,
spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, en-
tertainments, all these they want, and
whatever can be suggested more than
these, they crave also, as if it were the
bread which should keep them from star
wing and if they miss any one they rep
resent themselves as the most wronged
and most wretched persons on earth.
One must have been born and bred with
them to know how to prepare meal for
their learned stomach. Meantime, they
never bestir themselves 10 serve another
person:-not they they have great deal
more TO do for themselves than they can
possibly perform ; nor do they once per-
ceive the cruel Joke of their lives, but the
more odiods they grow, the sharper is the
tone of their complaining and craving.
Can anything be so elegant as to have
few wants, and TO serve them ones self,
so as TO have somewhat left to give, in
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

THE TRUrm.-Thc g-5rcr Times says this :
If you want to obtain situation ii you want to
obtain help If you want to hire or get house !;
if you want to obtain boar;lers if YOU want TO re-
cover anything lost or stolen if you want 10 sell
your goods ware, and merchandise finally, Il
you want to get business, and make money, adj
vertise.
Nearly every body in business does advertise
to a certain extent, for every painted sign PIT
up over the door, or otherwise, Of store, office,
or shop, is an advertisements TO catch the atten-
ton Of The passcr-by, and directhim - 70 he lo-
cation and business to which 1t points. This Is
the ordinary mode Of advertising, common as
well in places where new tparcrs arc published,
os where they are not and far more ancient tha2
The publication Of newspapcrs or lhc ar. ofPrirt-
ing, and is a very good mcdc. IS far as II goes.
1t IS cheap in proportion 20 is value, aid
sign once put up remains without additional eX-
persc, 10 be read from week 70 week, month 10
month"; and from year 70 year.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

FROM TEXAs.-THE LEGIsLArURp
/ THE SANTA FE QUESTION, &c.-Galves.
ton papers TO the 10Th instant have been
received at New Orleans.
Emigration from other States 10 Texas
was probably never before as extensive as
at present. From Germany, too, it is
considerable.
Sugar making is still progressing in tie
cane growing portions of Texas with great
success.
Everything is quiet on the Western
Frontier. No Indians, nor Indian signs,
have of late, been discovered.
The Legislature. seems to be process
ing very well with business. On the
Santa Fe question they are all $40 or
fight men.
The Legislature is about making re-
quest of the General Government, "to
place on the pension list Of said govern
ment the names of all those Texans who
were wounded in the battles of the Tex
al revolution.
We make the following extract irCn'
letter dated San Antonio, Nov. Is:
Major Chevaie is said TO, have blown
out his own brains in fit of desperation.
John Glanton, who succeeded Chevalic in
his contract with the Government of he
State of chihuahua, TO Kill Indians at $3.50
a scalp. is at FL Paso, on the Mexican
side. lie recently crossed the Rio Gran
de, came one hundred miles over INTO the
territory of Texas, and attacked party
of Apache Indians. In the fight, the prin-
cipaI chief, Gomez, was MORALLY wound
ed, and is since dead. This chief had
always been friendly tc the Americans
The Indians are said TO be greatly enraged
on account of his death, and it is believed
they will soon turn their forces againstour
people instead of the MeXcans.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01
Letter from the President to UjhaZi

Before leaving Europe, Gov. UJHAzI
addressed letter to Gen. TAYLOR inform
inc him of the desire Of the Hungarian
exiles to find refuge in the United States.
Since their arrival here the following re-
plv has been received:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, l849.
SIR: have duly received your letter Of
Nov. ?, from London, announcing the de-
termination of yourself and comrAdes 10
seek an asylum in America.
The people of this Republic have deep
" svmpathized with the Hungariens in
their recent struggle for constitutional free
dom, and in the calamities which have be-
fallen their unhappy land, and | am sure
that [ but speak the universal sentiment
of my countrymen in bidding you and
your associates a cordial welcome to our
soil, the natural asylum Of the oppressed
from every cline. We offer you protec-
ton and free participation in the benefits
of our institutions and our laws, and trust
that you may find in America a second
home.
am, with high respect, your sincere
friend, Il. TAYLOR.
LAD1sLAus UJHAzI, late Governor Of
Comorn, in Hungary.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

By the Empire City we have files Of
Kingston papers for the half month ending
on the l7th of December. The Jamaica
Legislature is not yet out of the woods.
The papers complain that though ii has
been fourteen weeks in session it has ac-
complished nothing for the public benefit,
and that in the s@cdfM matter of the inan
ciaI difficulties, its action has tended 10
make things worse rather than better, in
asmuch as It's effect has been 10 impair
the public credit and throw difficulty IN
the way Of raising money on loan. There
appears 10 be little or no prospect of an
arrangement, on the retrcnchment qucs-
ton, between the Council and the Assem-
bly,. They begin to talk about annexaiior
TO the United StatcJ.-.4ier. Gdz.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

stead of being always prompt TO grasp
1t is more elegant 10 answer ones own
needle, than to be richly served t.; lnelega"'
perhaps, it may look to-day, and to lew
but it is an elegance forever and to all
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

The Printing Office of the HARRISON
Republican was entirely destroyed by fire
on Monday, December l7lh, together with
tive account books, &c. Loss estimated
at 81, 500, which the Mr.. Maupin, the edi-
tor and proprietor, is unable to bear, and it
is hoped his friends and patrons will rein
state him in his former position. The
Messrs. Wartman, of the Register, have
generously rendered to Mr.. NJ. the use Of
their press, paper and types, and from that
office the Republican will be issued on
half sheet, until Mr.. NJ. IS able to'reft
Such generosity on he part Of political
opponents is highly honorable.
We lean, from the Register, that be
tween 5 ard $500 have been subscribed
by the citizens of Rockingham, for tic re-
lief of Mr.. Maupin; the democrats sub
scribing as literally as wings.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01
BURNING OF THE CAPITOL IN ALABAMh.

BURNING OF THE CAPITOL IN ALABAMA.
Prom the Montgomery Advertiser and
Gazette we learn that the State Capitol i'll
that city was consumed by fire on the l4'h
ult., and nought is lett of that once beau
tilul buildisg but the crumbIng walls
Every possible provision was to be lmme-
diateIy made for the convenience of the
Legislature and the State officers. The
clerks of the ,wo hou>rs saved all their
papers and the archives of the State IN
the Offices of the Governor, Secretary of
State, Treasurer and Comptroller, were
also all saved. Most all the furniture, and
The larger portion of the different Libraries
were likewise preserved from the flames.
so that the great loss is the buiIding.-Rc-
public.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

SvALL NoTEs.-Thc House Of Dele
gates are again discussing the question of
allowing the Banks 10 Issue small notes.
This fayorite measure of the Banks Is.
destined again 10 be defeated, and it is idle
to waste time in discussion, as no new ar
guments can be advanced in It's favor
Specie is more in circulation than usual,
and small notes Of other States have be-
come comparatively scarce; SO much so,
that our subscribers are obliged to rse gold
dollars ana quarter eagles TO make their
rcmitlances, instead Of iIe rags h y for
merly seni.-FincGsHe Dem2cyGi.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-01

HoLDEN's MAGAzINE.-The January
number Of HoIden's Magazine contains
the usual variety of prose and poetry, en-
cravings, criticism, &c. We cannot pay
it higher compliment than to say it is
deserving of its immense and increasing
popularity and patronage. For terms, see
prospectus in another column.