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Good we might do.

t- 7 Good we might do.
We all might do good
Where we often do i'll;
There is always the way,
If we have but the will;
Though it be but word
Kindly breathcd or supprest,
1t may guard off some pain,
Or give peace to some breast.
We all might do good
In a thousand small ways
In forbearing to fatter.
Yet yielding due praise
In spurning i'll humor,
Reproving wrong done.
And treating but kindly
Each heart we have won.
We all might do good,
Whether lowly or great,
For the deed is not guaged
By the purse or estate;
If it be but cup Cs- "a
OF cold water that's given,
Like "the widows two mites"
1t is something for Heaven.
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To some men it is indispensable to
be worth money, for without it they
would be worth nothing.
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Then up spoke Horatio, proud Boosting youth
Though second in age, lowered far above Ruth
Third, came my Florence, flashing eyed child,
Last of all, Minnie, so merry and wild.
ard be monarch, and I'd wear crown;
I'd have all others before me bow down;
I'd rule the wide world, if I had the say,
And none should dispute my sovereign sway"
"And I'd be thy queen" cries Florence so
bold
"Td have fine jewels, and plenty Of gold;
I'd ride in carriage all covered with gems
Ny will should be law, throughout our broad
realms
Children, thy wishes are foolish and vain
Think, little ones, We are fitted to reign:
Have We wisdom to guide this world righti
But Minnie, my dear, what's thy wish to-
night" "
"Td be an angel-in Heaven I'd play,
Chasing the butterflies all the long day;
All things are fairer in Heaven, you know
wish the good Lord thought I'd better Co."
"But come Ruth my child, what's thy wish
to be.
Would'st thou have gold, and be of high de-
greer
Or, be an angel in Heaven to dwell'
d.. IL, r,;o1, 70 " tol1 -
"Ah mother, I'd wish for a thankful heart,
To perform with content the allotted part
Which God in his great mercy has given,
To fit a frail child like me for Heaven
Bath, Feb II, 1850.
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He will also keep hand Confectionery of the best
quality also articles of diet for the sick such as Arrow
root, Irish and Iceland Moss, Sage, Tapioca Greats, Dat
Meal, Pearl Barley, &c.
WASHING FLUID Of superiorauality, by the bottle
crsonn and strict attention will be given the
pounding of Physicians prescriptions.
4 Family and Ships Medicine Chests carefully put
up and repenished- j. MATTHEWS, ND
Bath Oct. IS 1850. 19tf
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gathered them round me one cold winter
night;
The daylight was gone, but the fire burned
bright;
asked them if they their own rulers could be,
How they would have planned their own des-
fipv
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Parallel Railway Axles.

GEORGE GARDNER 4 CO, 5 Liberty Square, Bos-
" offer for sale Parallel Railway Axes, OF superb
quality. The Parallel Axles, from late experiments
in England, have been shown by Mr. g. b. Thorney-
croft 10 be superior 10 any others i'll use.
OCt. ;, 1850. 1m17
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r. BROWNS
SarSaDarilla and Tomato RitterS

INIIIS is quack nostrum; 1t is prepared from the
best materials, and the receipt has been examined
and approved by many of the first physicians in the
United States.
These excellent Bitiers will be found n certain cure
i'll all casesef indigestion or Dyspepsia. Jaundce Loss
of Appetite General Debility, Faniness and Sinking
of the stomach Lowness of spirits, Costveness, De-
termination of blood 10 the head, pain in the limbs and
side, darrhGa. weakness dizziness cutaneous erup-
tons the face and neck, hectic fever, and
sick headache, acidty of stomach, bilious affections
piles, and IN adseases causedby mpurty of the blood
the debility OF thd SYSTEM The unhealthy state OF the
stomach and bowels
These Bters warranted TO be n purely vegetable
cempound--and mark this R5- they can nerer do the
least injury any iUhdterer.
They are kept by many persons FAMILY MEDI-
CINE, and have been given to the youngest children
account ofIhe mdness Of their operation, with excel
lent effect A PAGE, Sole Agent for Bath 1y2S.
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From many years experience inthe Express DUST
ness, while connected with Messrs Adams Co., ana
our numerous advantages in other respects, mot the
least of which is the confidence and patronage OF INC
New York community we feel assured that we shall
give the most entire satisfaction 10 our
friends the Jewellers, Bankers and Merchants gener-
ally.
We beg leave call attention 10 our California Ex-
press from New Orleans, and our Express between N
Orleans and Mobile.
OFFIcEs-St. Charles Hoiel Building, New Orleans
and 10 Wall ST., New York. 32it
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Paint yOur Roofs.

y
DLAKE'S PalentPa int OF Artificial lSlate, for
Dsale in any quantity by
KENDALL, RICHARDSON SEQ.
The value oftbis rticle will be seen by the
following certificate gentlemen who have
used il and proved its indurnting qualities.
Nh. BLAKE-Dear SRI had building
adjoining the wall ofmy stone Cotton Factory,
lbe roof ofwbich was covered with yonr Fire.
proof Paint or Artificial Slate. The factory
took FIRE, and during the progress ofi,s destruc-
ton, large Numbers Of burning shiDg es and OH
Ell combustible materials fell upon this roof, so
covered. and l expected every momentto see il
burst into flames, but after the factory burned
down examine dsaid roofand found il literally
covered with Goals nd cinders, but The FIRE had
not made the least impression upon il. After
thIstest, therecertainly can be no donbt asto
its fire. proc fqualiies.
Rochester, Sept. ISIS. SETH C.. JONES.
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Broadway, New York, Oct, 4ih, 1S4S. !
Mr.. BLAKE-Sir:-We last Spring COW
cred the roof oftbe American, with your Fire
proof Paint WeDow find that ii has become
ashard as slate, and the almost constanitread
ofthe servants (whouse the top ofthe bonse for
drying clolhes) does no, affect it in the least,
and ii provesa That was recommended.
tf6 TABER & BAGLEY.
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Raw State ShaWlS.

OPENING this morning a large assortment of Bay
" State Long and Square Shaws, direct from the mills,
for sale cheaper than ever, by ii. W. OWEN.
Oct 5, 1850 10
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Notice!
Children'S Hats and Cans,

EARNSWORTH x BROOKS have his day re-
L ceived from New York. fine assortment of n.y,
will be solb low. - "
Bath, Aug. II. 1850 a
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.n..t ia, ID Y II RS
WASHING FLUID.
The greatest Labor Sauing Article get
discovered.

RY its use, washing machines and hard rubbing are
ID entirely dispensed with and not one-haf OF the la
Dor required {, do the washing of fnmily
The Fluid is a chemical compound, Of sufficient
strength all foreign the CLOTH
by simply boiling small quantity oft with the clothes
and without the slightest injury the delicate fab
rio. Fly H. and ii IL does prove satisfactory, the
money will be refunded.
Sold al % cents per bottle, so cts per gallon.
Dyer's BIueing Fluid,
used i'll connection with the Washing, Bleaching and
Cleansing Fund, every family will be delighted with
Is cheaper and more convenient than the indigo bag,
andfew superior.
Sold al - cents per bottle.
Also as above. the
EXCELSIOR STARCH,
the best article manufactured put up pound packages
expressly Tor family Being entirely free from all
specks. Thisartcle may be used with the
hdence III preparing the finest muslins and linens II is
wholly unnecessary 10 Starch Polish Spermaceti,
as il produces fine polish without cumming up, in
Turing the fabric.
Sold nj 12. cents per Id.
~ d. Beware of injurious counterfeits md imia-
tions
For sale at the City Markedly
4mlO A. G. PAGE, Agent for Bath
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pkfN rs, Mohair Goods new and beautiful sIyl.,
me auction Room. OWEN 4 Co
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Fragment.
When gloomy clouds o'erspread thy sky
. Or round thy pathw.-
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New Fall Goods
AT THE AUCTION STORE.

TUE subscriber s opening this morning large aud
Il complete assortment of seasonabIe Dry Goods ana
will sell The n Auction prices
Oct 5, 1850. IG H. w OWEN
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New Books.

COU Kennebec. Also. per sch Enterprize, 1000
bushels of good meang Corn. For sale by
rs M VIM. MORSE& CO.
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:. Pages VerefohIc Sv.,
New Goods

t'ok females, and valuable remedy, jusi rec'o BY :
a G PAGE, SCENT for BatA
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-06-09
CITY AFFAIR 8,

LOST HIS HAr,--Charles A. Carlo white citizen,
of the Republic feeling himself perfect liberty to
carry one or more bricks in his hat, not az suited his
fancy mood undertook carry rather too many Fri
day evening, and, natural consequence sank under
the load. About9 O'Clock Waterman Bose discovered
the citizen slumbefng softly cellar door on Vr-
gnia street; and shortly after discovering him. he saw
two lads approach his couch; one of them STOPPING
down picked up the offend ng hat and made off whit
Mr.. Bose pursued the lad, him down, and carried
him to the cage He then returned and carried citizen
Carlo 10 the same place. Saturday morning the lad
Carlo and the hat all ushered into the presence OF
the Mayor: the circumstances attending The arrests
were detailed as above, when his Honour asked the
name of the lad who had taken the hat, and upon
learning that he called himself Gideon Martin, asked
that interesting young gentleman why he had taken
the hat! Master Gideon replied that he had merely
taken the hat Tor the purpose of preventing any else
from taking it A very satisfactory reason, truly; and
one SO plausible to induce his Honour send Mas.
Ter Gideon to Jail to await examination before the
Hastings Court the 1lh of August. Ctizen Carlo
stated that whilst sumberng The cellar door he had
also lost 50 IS, but the lad who took The hat no,
so fortunate to get any portion Of the money! proba
bly, some one else had taken it, to prevent its being
stolen The Mayor lectured citizen Carlo upon the i'm
proprety OF lodging out and kindred subjects and then
ordered his release.
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SUCCESS OF BRANDRETH PILLS.-A lady
to whom can refer, gwen up 10 die; her physi.
assured her friends that nothing could be do
for her, that she dying. What was the condition
of this person! She had been under our best physi
clans for months her afiicton was cancer on the
right breast and consumption. A blister was wished
10 be raised; OF e was applied to The neck; it made no
impressions whatever. Other parts OF the body were
tried, and with no better success there was not suf-
cient vitality in the system TO raise blister She was
suffering terrible agony, and she was determined as
her doctors gave her no hopes, to try what BRAN
DRETHS PILLS would do for her. She took eigh-
teen the tfst Gay; she continued them in large Doses
cou d walk about. DESTROYS OF testing whether bills.
ter could be raised, she had one put on her leg, design
Ing TO draw down the putrd hunors; the blister raised
hnely, and one OF her doctors owned that 1t was
tonshng to him to see the blister, it TO her
al all, living, and so much recovered. What those
Pills could be made Of and purge as they had DONE
and not kill, but absolutely sustain the vital powers
was more than he could comprehend. Here in New
York in the centre OF our city the greatest thing has
been done in the way OF absolute lite saving unknown
in ancient or modern times, till Brandreth's Pills were
known Two months ago and this person was dying
absolutely dying oil consumption and cancer and
now her consumption is entirely cured and her cancer
is in fair way to be SO. Is this medicine quack
med cine Can this be equalled by any oher med-
cine in the word in the good it effects answer no
and ten times ten thousand can be referred person.
ally 10 sustain my assertion. r j
BRANDRETH's PILLS, by cleansing the blood fom all
mpurity, gives power TO every organ 10 perform its
functions healthy; no matter whether externally OF
internally situated.
M. BRANCH Richmond Va.
Only authorised wholesale and retail agent
MOL east Main street, corner opposite Old Market.
Country Agents and Planters can be supplied at New
York prices. ap 10
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cessioa Of this Stae-is political separation from the
other slaveholding States could be effected as. peace
ably and quietly as some have tried to make believe
1t il could be done without the use Of a musket or
dollar, my convc ion is that it would be dire calam
ty 10 GU rseves We should be the victims ofthe most
extraordinary deuson that ever ruined country, or
people. And in my deliberate judgment all good
men-ali patriotic men-should strive without eeasng,
to avert disaster so utter and SO irreparable.
should have been most happy, il could have con
the State. l know the consequences ofdaring to dis
sent from those who have led us to the brink OF the
precipice, and am prepared meet them all. Let
Them strike, not their tobearance or their for
gveness. p~
With great respect,
have the honor to be
Your obedient servant
ARMISTEAD BURT.
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The Basis COMPROMISE.


Amongst the many objections to the prososition
which the advocates of the white basis with sew
en- Eastern members have forced through the Con-
vention under the name of a Compromise, one, of
Immediate practical Importance, is its failure to
provide either rule ofapportionnent or an actual
apportionment. 1t merely declares that in Sc
nate of fifty members the East shall have ma
ority of ten, and, in House of one hundred and
fifty, the West shall have majority of fourteen.
The select committee of twelve, appointed to re-
wise the plan and report an apportionment under
it, have very embarrassing duty to perform, and,
we understand, are involved in no little perplexi-
ty Sundry seriously conflicting interests have
to be reconciled and it is quite possible that the
deliberations of the committee may prove but an
epitome of those o. the Convention itself on the
general question of the basis of representations
Twenty Senators being allotted to the West, a
contest arises upon what principle they shall be
apportioned. The rule of the white or suffrage
basis would give Trans-Alleghany larger share
than the rule of the mixed basis, or federal num-
bars, or taxation and e conuerso as to the Valley
The Compromise does not define what principle
is to govern the arrangement, and the result is
that the question is only subdivded instead of be-
ing settled. Another difficulty may obviously ex-
list in regard to the representation of the Cities
The East being told to take ten majority in the
Senate, and fourteen minority in the House, the
committee may be divided on the question whe-
Their population lose their natural rights by living
in close proximity.
We look for the report with no little curiosity.
AT present, it is only certain that ''the end is not
yet"
P S. Since the foregoing was written, we
learn that the select committee are understood to
have agreed upon report, the difficulties referred
to having been compromised
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S1p JotJN FRANKIIN-It was six wears or

SIR JOHN FRANKLM.-It was six years on Mon
day last since Sir John Franklin sailed from
Sheerness on his dangerous expedition, and the
chances OF his safety at the present time are but
slight indeed. In a letter written by Sir John to
Col. Sabine Drake, dated Fish Islands, 9th July,
ls45, after noticing that the Erebus and Terror,
two of his expedition, had received from the
transports which accompanied them to that point
provisions, clothing, fuel and stores for three
years, namely to July, ls4S, he thus proceeds
81 hope my dear Wits and daughter will not be
over anxious If we should not return by the time
they have fixed upon, and must beg of you to
give them the benefit of your advice and ex-
perience when that arrives for you know well
that even after the second winter, without sue
cess in our object, we should wish to try some
other channel if the state Of our provisions and the
health Of the crew justify 1t"
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THE LYNCHBURG TRAGEDY.

Certain intelligence has been received from
Lynchburg that Mr.. James Saunders died about
five O'Clock on Thursday evening. the day on
ian, took place. A citizen of Lynchburg who
left there about seven o'clock Saturday morning
by the express conveyance which took DR.. Saun-
ders from Charlottesville, and arrived yesterday by
the Central railroad, brings information that Mr.
Terry was then alive, and hopes had been enter
tanned of his recovery, but message was received
from his attendants just before the stage started
that he was getting worse.
We learn that the circumstances of the de-
plorable occurrence, which has resulted certainly
in one death and probably another. were not re-
ported with entire correctness in the first account
that reached US. The facts, as we now hear them,
were as follows, though there may still be some
inaccuracy in the statement:
The Virginian of Thursday morning, contain
ing the editors reply to the card ofDr. Saunders,
was Issued and circulated Gas is the custom in
Lynchburg) on Wednesday evening. Young
Mr.. Saunders, after reading the article about his
father, sent Mr.. Terry word that he would shoot
him on sight, or attack him ON sight, or some
message that kind. Thursday morning, about
o'clock, MIR. Terry left his house, taking with
him one of Colts fve-shooters. Mr.. Saunders
met him near the market house, asked if he
was Mr.. Terry, and, upon being answered in the
affirmative, struck him with walking stick
Terry thereupon drew his pistol, and in the fight
fired four times. Saunders drew and fired
two pistols, carrying single ball each. Mr..
Bigger, a police officer interposed promptly,
and is supposed to have knocked up Terry's
pistol when he fired first, for one of the balls en-
entered high window some hundred yards dis
tant. During the combat, Mr.. Bigger received
two balls, one through the arm and the o;her
through the calf of he leg, but the wounds are
not thought dangerous. When The persons who
hurried to the scene succeeded in parting the
combatants, Saunders, strange to say, had Ter
ry's pistol in his hand, and was about to fire the
fifth load. Mr.. Saunders, we believe, received
but one ball, which entered near the navel, and
struck the spine. He suffered great agony until
he died. Mr. Terry received both the balls dis
charged by his antagonist
Such is the most reliable account we can now
give of one of the most distressing occurrences
it has ever been our duty to record.
DR.. Saunders reached Lynchburg about two
Saturday morning.
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In consideration of the painful interest excited
by the recent deplorable occurrence at Lynch
burg, we copy from the Lynchburg Virginian of
Thursday, the editorial article which led to the
combat between the editor and MIR. Saunders
The card Of DR.. Saunders, to which the article
is reply, is embodied in it,
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bers had been held with view of eifecting
settlement of the question: and it is legitimate
inference that, the impractcabIe course of DR..
Saunders had much to do in inducing the East.
ern members to consent to 60 into any such meet
ing Could they have looked upon him as relia-
pic they might have been encouraged to resist all
overtures from the West.
We pass over the intervening time till 18th
May when the committee of eight had been appoin-
ted and already reported the plan which is now
before the Convention On that day, Mr. Wise
moved to strike out proposition A, the original
mixed basis report, which till then had been re-
tanned; and the motion which had previously
been unsuccessful, this time prevailed by a
majority of one. The vote was, yeas 81, nays Sc,
DR.. Saunders again voting to strike it out. Thus
again we Ind him voting against the mixed basis.
and with the white basis party. But what is the
use Of pursuing this history further? Has it not
already been shown that he failed to act with
the Eastern majority in every trying emergency,
and that on two several occasions his vote, had it
been given as his constituents had right to ex-
pect, would have secured the triumph of the East?
10 escape this just responsibility, he now under
takes 10 say that the Eastern members were
utralsts, and he, the real conservatives
Was ever arrogance more ungracefully assumed
or more proposterousy Wanted!
1t will not do for DR.. Saunders to say that his
proposition was intended as a compromise, for he
never tried to secure either of the other plans; and
if he preferred his own as an original plan he
ought to have introduced it as a competing propo-
sition along with the others, that members might
have an opportunity of examining its merits, if
merit it had. Now can it be said that he has refec-
ted the will of his constituents by cordially CO.
operating with the mixed basis party, when in
truth he has mainly operated against them? No
body -lies that Mr. Lynch has faithfully reflected
the sentiments ofthe people, and if he has done
Sc, how can it be that DR.. Saunders has likewise
represented their views, when he has gone damet-
really opposite to the course of his colleague?
Here we might we'll be content to rest the case,
if indeed the vehemence OF the attack be not it.
selfhe best refutation of it, and yet we are tempt
ed to notice still further this pedantic effuson of
our antiquarian hero. 1t is not only pedan-
tlc,bu excessively stupid nor stupid only, but
is written in wretched, bad taste and in much
worse English, and yet the author affects the crit
ic !-another proof that ga little learning is
dangerous thing" "The schoolmaster" we are
sure, "was not abroad" before our hero embarked
in the war of 1922 Though defying, himself,
the rules of photography, of syntax, and of sense,
he not inaptly typifies one Of those interesting
"cases" who,
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THE CONVENTION.

The Convention was engaged Thursday, Friday and
Saturday upon the subject ofthe County Courts There
has been good deal OF debate but no definite vote ex.
cept one rejecting an amendment proposed by Mr.
Southal The indications are that the Convention
will agree upon having the Magistrates elective by the
people for fixed terms, and the county courts otherws
organized very much as at present.