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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

WEDDING Dresses OF PRINcEssEs.-1'he Paris
correspondent of the ST. Louis Republican furnishes
the following particulars concerning the wedding oi
three Princesses whose marriages are shortly to take
place.
Nothing is talked of in the fashionable world al
present but three splendid marriages which have so
busted The merchants, miners, and mantua-makers,
that the police believed for little while that a con-
spracv was on the carpet. The brides are, the cou-
sin ofhe Princess of Prussia, the cousin Of the Prln-
cess ofSaxony, and the daughter of an English Duke.
The whole rousseau has been displayed for some
days past in the saloons of Madame Constantine,
the fashionable merchande de modes. Tickets oil
admission were sold for the benefit of the poor, and
it was said that quite large sum was realized.
The dresses are Of course as splendid and beautiful
as French taste could make them. Tha! of The Prn.
cess of Saxony is of white waered silk covered with
the richest embroidery, and trimmed with lace. The
Prussian Princess has dress Of plain white .satered
silk and an over-dress Of rich point d'Anglelerre i;
while the Dukes daughter will surpass both in
dress of white watered silk embroidered in silver. The
bridal leaves are of orange flowers and white es sa-
mine. per(umed to nature and SO light and delicate
that the suppor of knot of white ribbon, with long
end al each side is necessary. The wells are OF point
d'Angelerre, long and wide enough 10 envelope 'he
fair brides completely. There are several olher head
dresses for dinner and soirees, formed OF wreathes OF
different flowers, so admirably shaded and periumed,
that it is difficult TO imagine them artificial One OF
the most elegant of the head dresses is dadem made
of blue and pink marabout feathers, spangled with
small silver stars. This is something entirely new,
invented for the occasion. and will no doubt be wide
ly copied.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04
STANTON SPECTATOR.
TERMS.

49, The ssSPECTATOR'' is published O"ee8 "s,s, &C..
Too Dollars gear, if paid in advance or ,ta,c,
and Fifty Cents delayed beyond the Of N.
No inscription rillbe discontinued, our % '''
Editors, until Gll4rrearagsS are PAID. ,1 m,s,b,
m Al communications to the Editors 0S "a''' ""''''
no. ADvERTTSEuENTs Of ''r' lines e0r , ,s'',1 f.,
inserted three times for dollar ana tsen'es e.s ~
each subsequent continuance h,
same proportion. !i6sra' discount "a"' 70
Che wear.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

CHURCH GoINe.-Bishop Latimer, in one Of his
sermons, exorts his congregation to be constant at
public worship, in the following terms:
81 would rather you would comeas the tale Is OF ina
gentlewoman of London. One of her neighbors me. !.
her and said "Mistress, whittier 60 ye!" MARY,
said she, "I'm going to ST. Thomas Of Acres to inc
sermon. could not sleep all the last night and !.
am going hiher. never failed Of good nap there"
And so had rather ye would 60 mapping to the SER
mons than not go at all, for with what mind soever
ye come, though ye come Tor an evil purposeyet per-
chance ye may be caught ere ye CO. and the preach
er may chance to catch you on his own hook"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

AVERsATILE EplToR.-The aris,correspondens
of the N. Y. Commercial speaks of an editor who
some time since edited three papers a: the same time
"a bitter Royalist, moderate Independent and .
fanatcal Socialist OF the CADET school. In each no
played his character perfectly. Sometimes heamus-
ed himself by carrying on furious discussion be-
tween his three papers, striking terrible blows at him.
self and parrying them with great skill.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

DoN'r WAsTE-Waste nothing A crumb oil
bread may keep life in starving bird. large ahd
useful volume has been written with one quiz from
the wing of goose and an inch or SO oil writing
paper has served for dispatch TO save an army from
falling into the enemy's power. Waste no'hlng-
"Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

sz- Two lrishmen oneday wenta cunning; large
flock of pigeons came flying over their heads. Pat
rick elevaling his piece, and firing, brought one Of
them 10 the ground. 'Arrah, exclaimed his compan.
ion.) what fool are you to waste your ammunition
when the bare fall would have killed him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

~. There is not q man beneath the blue canopy
of Heaven, however chaste and moral he may be,
should his faults be written in plain and indelbls
characters upon his brow, but what would bllnb
with shame. How quickly too would he draw ne
ha. down over his eyes, to hide these faults from the
w,,rld
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

DEpENDISG ON ClRcUMsrANcEs.-SaidD Dinah 10 Sam
bo, as they were taking loving promenade.
"Sambo what your pinon bout the married life? tnk
it be de most happest 2"
"We P tell you, dat are 'pends altOgedder upon how
dey enjoy demseves."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

Novel INvESrIoN.-Au ingenious Yankee, down east,
has invented machine for milking cows The editor of
the Maine Farmer has It, and given 1t falf trial.
He says emptes the udder very freely and easily and at
the rate of quart per minute.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

"a. gentleman oflhe bar in Ireland, was walking
,ns d.v with friend, who was extremely precise in
o Urouuncia,on 5 the latter hearing person near him
saw eurositv for curiosity, exclaimed, "How that fell
Say l snpdsys y1. the English auguagem SHOT bad,
lsad s% The other,) he has only knocked al. out"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

O. The time 10 buy thing is when you really
need Il cannot we'll do without it. can buy TO good
advantage, make it profitable, and have the money to
snare 10 pay for ii.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

G. Carlyse asking "what thing TO admire f.s A.
merca ever done," has been ftly answered thus:'
@she has produced girl, deaf dumb and blind, who,
with her own hands, did sewing enough TO send
barrel of -four to some of your starving country
men sir %
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

%. There arrived at New York during the week
ending on Saturday oath August thiryeght em'grant
ships, bringing 6,6s5 passengers, principally from
England and Ireland.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

s5 little child seven years old: one day said 70
her mother aMo,her, have learned to be happy and
shall always be happy" "My DEAR" said her
mother, show can this be done She said, "t is not
by caring anything about myself but trying TO make
eyery body else happy"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

Its said that songs pouring in at the rate of fifty pei
day on Jenny Lind Song Committee. The Tribune says
that an octave volume Of thousand pages would not contain
the unsuccessful eiuson of American poeilcal genius
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

a. pious African at Louisville, stumbled while
walking one very dark highland pitched head fore
most down cellar, which afforded an aopen enc
tran, trance" sprngng to lis feet he exclaimed +5res. Dc
Lord da. lit on my head. IF dis nggar had scrap
ed his shins so hard, spec he broke his leg"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

O. There is little baby out West, Whose ann a
the elbow can be encircled by lady's ring. 1t is
three months old, and weighs Sd pounds.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

rs 1t is predicted that the time will come when mans
perspraiion will drive him up hill like locomotive.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

o. The London Chronicle states that within the last
two years 100000 Mormons have emgrated from Great
Britain to the United States, most OF them men OF some
from Wales aud the Northen and Eastern parts OF
Engand $500 left Liverpool in l649 for the Great
Salt Lake, by way Of New Orleans
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

q Did you ever know young lady who hsd
white teeth, to pu! her hand over them when .!aas
laughed9
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

RUNS OF HUmANIrY-Of all the ruins on which
man can gaze, or on which his memory can dwell,
none are more painfully sublime than the ruins
of humanity and what are they' Not The deep
frrow which time wrinkles on its cheek, or the sii-
very whiteness with which ears cover its head not
the curved spine which bows the face TO the ear!has
if it looked for the grave to rest n for the wrlnkiso
cheek and the beached head, and the STOPPING frame
are the appropriate accompsrments of age and as
beautiful in the system Of life winter with its leai-
less trees and frozen streams in the systems OF the
seasons, but the ruins of humanity are seen in wrin-
kles which time has not made, in frame trembling
with anxiety, shaken with sorrow, humbled by sin,
wi,hered by despair, when the beauty OF youth 70
gone and the beauty Of age has not supplied 10
place. 'Tis as melancholy as snow in harvest.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

q "Teddy, my boy, Just guess how many cheese
there is in this here haGanfaiih Ill -;.- :
nve.
olive" said Teddy.
Sarah by my sowl, bad luck to the man that
told vel"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

O. A smart boy that, who asked his father What
kind Of wood The board Of health vas nsds Of
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-04

A DEsoLArE REGloN.-We have already stated
that the English expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin, under command OF Capt. Austin, len the
Whale Islands OH the 1st inst, the day previous to
the arrival of the American expedition. An officer
on board the English vessels in letter thus describes
the gloomy character of that region
"In this forlorn region there is neither scenery,
manners, nor customs to describe. All IS oarrenness
and desola,ion 70 flower or shrub adorns 'he iee-
bound precpices of this sombre iocaii'y-where'
seated on his icy throne, stern winter regns supreme,
crowned with the gathered SHOWS of 5000 years, ex'
hib,pp singular contrast to the delightful gardens
of our native land whose flowers and plants are al
this momen, displaying their odorerous beauties be.
meath the genial rays of midsummer sun.
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THE UNDERSIGNED proposes TO publish a
u political Weekly paper in the German lam
guage, in the City Of Washington in support of the
principles by which the Administrations Of Gene
raj Idyim came into power, and being DESTROYS to
obtain the aid and cooperation OF the Wing party
he would respectfully state the reasons which, in
his estimation, make il desirable and necessary
that such paper should be established at the seat
OF Government.
/. The number of those who use the German Lam
guage their medium Of intercourse ia upwards Of
Three Millions, and this number is constantly in
creas,ng by immigration.
2. The name of Democrats being the appellation
OF the liberal or popular party OF Germany, to
which all the immigrants before their emigration
belonged they do, of course, range themselves with
the party bearing that appellation in this country,
as soon as they are able to exercise the elective
franchise; and the more So, as the country teens
with Democratic papers in the German language,
whose particular object and anxiety it is to this
interpretation to the best advantage
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age than on their subscription lists, they do gene
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ment, and paper conducted with uprightness, and
speaking the plain truth, will be able, by degrees
prehensions, and by its own direct influence, as
well as by its influence upon the local Wing pa
pers, now in existence, will, it is hoped, produce
the desired effect, and gain the rejecting and think
ing, that is the influential, portion Of the German
citizens, over to the Wing ranks.
s. The undersigned is well aware that he has
many and serious obstacles TO overcome, but rely
ing upon the power of truth and the cooperation
OF the Wing party, on account Of the intrinsic
merits of his enterprise does not fear to be charged
with entertaining too sanguine hopes, if he antici
FREDERICK SCHMIDT.
REcoMMENDATios.--The Wing State Central
Committee Of Massachusetts, being satisfied that
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recommend to the Wings every where to subscribe
for such paper. GEORGE MOREY,
EZRA LINCOLN, Chairman.
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DANCING ACADEMY.

MIR. +. r. Liable has the honor TO announce
lvx TO the citizens Of Washington and George
town that his Dancing School viii reopen on Tues
day, November IL, az his residence, on Pcnnsyl-
vania avenue, opposite Wizards Hotel
Days of tuition: Washington Tuesdays, Thurs
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He has the pleasure Of referring claimants and
others TO the following gentlemen:
Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, U. s. Army.
Brig General Nathan Towson, Paymaster Gene
raj u s. A..
George Gibson; Commssary Gene.
raj u. s. A.
Hon. A. X. Paris, Second Comptroller of the Urea.
Walter Forward, late Secretary of the Urea.
Simon Cameron, United States Senate.
Patrick g. Goode, Sidney, Ohio.
Alexander Harper, GAINESVILLE, Ohio
Willis Green, Green, Kentucky.
Garrett Davis, Paris,
Baltic Pcyton, New Orleans.
John w. Davis, Speaker of'the House of Reps
James g. Hampton, New Jersey.
r. w. Thompson, Tcrre Hautc, Indiana.
Il. M. Huntington, Indiana.
Edmund Deberry, Lawrenccville, N. G..
D. s. Kaufman, Texas.
M. p. Gentry, Tennessee.
!. Andrew Stewart, Pennsylvania.
Richard Brodhead,
Truman Smith, Ltchheld, Connecticut.
s. +. vinton, Ohio
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Joshua A. Spencer, Utica, New York.
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William Sawyer, Ohio.
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Joseph II. Bradley, Eco,
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A. M. Phillips q Son, 4" {"
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Rev. Richard Craighead, Mcadville, Penn.
J. ID. Defrccs, Esq, Indianapolis
June 13-dn
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