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Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
VOL. 52.N0. 81.
mArERNAL INFLuENcE.

During lecture on Popular Education.
recently delivered, Gov Briggs related tho
following impressive incident;
Twelve or fifteen years ago, l left Wash
ington three or four weeks during the spring.
While at home possessed myself with tho
letters Of Mr. Adams mother, aud read them
with exceeding interest remember an ex-
preston in one Of the letters addressed to her
son, while yet a boy twelve years Of age. 10
Eurcpe-says she, 4 would rather see you
aidin your grave, than you should grow up
a frofane aud graceless hey
After returning to Washington, went
over TO Mr.. adams seat one day and said to
him
"NIr Adams, have found out who made
YOU
What do YOU mean y SAID he.
replied 81 have been reading the let
tiers Of your mother If had spoken that
dear name to some little boy who had been
away from his dear mother, his eye could not
have flashed more brightly, or his face glow
ed more quickly, than did the eye and face Of
that venerable old man when pronounced
the name Of bis mother He started up in
his peculiar manner. and emphatically said
Yes, Mr. Briggs, all that is good in me
owe 20 my mother
OBJ, what testimony was that from this
venerable man to his mother who had
in his remembrance all the scenes Of his man
hood "All that IL good inmo owe to my
mother I" Mothers, think Of this when your
bright eyed little boy is about you Mothers
may make the first impressions upon their
children. and those impressions win be the
last to be cifaccd
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
RADwAY u co.
BEAUTY


romulexion richly tinted with the bloom Of health,
With skin as pure and fair paran marble
Soft and sweet as the fragrant rose
Teeth sound and white rs alabaster,
Breath OF sweetest fragrance, and lips Of coral tint,
With flowing Iinglets and glossy locks.
Luxurian dancing gracefully oer the swan like
neck,
No dark repulsive spots the pleasing picture,
Or to duh shadows DER beauty's master piece
Railways Medicated Soap.
Composed of the most delicious aud fragrant gums,
Ofextracts, oils and costly essences
OF flowers, roots, trees, and oriental plants,
Possessing wonderous virtues DER skin diseases
To the Complexion it imparts Beauty
By cleansing the skin from all eruptive matter,
Makes clean the pores gives action TO tina eapaTes,
By which all poisonous humors are elected
And healthy action to the skin restored
To the teeth IL gives wilderness and prevents decay,
IL makes the skin soft sweet and smooth,
Transforms the repulSive add dlsRgured Yisage
To clear and beautiful complexion
Railways Circassian Balm.
Imparts nutriment to the hair
Makes IL strong, glossy rich and iuxuriant,
Ceanses the scalp from dandruH,gives action TO the
bulbs
Fastcn the hair upon the scalp, and forces il to
Like guano TO barren SOIL IL makes IL rich ana produe
tive
To dress the hair make 1t smooth aad glossy
Strong and beautiful sc.
Railways Circassian Balm is the she plus ultra
Dcs-Price % Cents per bottle
RAILWAY & co. Practical Chemists,
Sold in Martinsburg by VIM H. Heseltnei parkesyille,
Wysongi Charlestown, Joseph Harris shepherdstoWnl
Wm n Forney.
July i. 1S5i-ly
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
F%TYS
HUsK BEDS.

No one who has not tried them knows the
value of husk beds. Straw beds and mat
trasses would be entirely done away with il
husk beds were once tried. They are not
only more pliable than mattresses, but are
more durable To have husks nice, they
may be split after the manner of splitting
straw for braiding The finer they are split
the softer will be the bed, although they will
not be likely to last as long as when put in
whole. Three barrels full, well slowed in,
will fill good sized tick, that is after they
have been split The bed will always BE
light. the husks do not become matted down
like feathers, and they are certainly more
healthy TO sleep on.
Feather beds ought to be done away with
especially in warm weather, For spring sum
mer and fall husk beds ought to be "all the
co. and such undoubtedly will be the case,
when they are once brought into use. There
is no better to procure husks than when the
corn is being harvested, and the husks will be
much nicer and cleaner when corn is cut at
the bottom and in shocks They do not be-
come so dry and weather beaten. 1t is cal
culatod that good husk bed will last from
twenty five to thirty years Every farmers
daughter can supply herself with beds against
time Of need. at thrilling expense, which is
quite an inducement nowadays.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
nrIsERIEs OF BAcnELoRsHIp.

The Literary Gazette tells a truth which
will meet with affirmative groans from many
breast. Surround bachelor" says our
contemporary, with heartless attention to
detail. with every possible comfort give
him the rooniiest of bed chambers, the most
refreshing of couches the largest Of sponging
baths cover his breakfast table with the
whitest of table-cloths, make bis tea with the
hottest Of boiling water; cnvelop bis body in
the most comfortable Of dressing gowns, and
bis feet in the easiest Of slippers; feed him
amid the Injuries and comforts Of the snug
est clubs; do all these things, and more for
him, and he viii, nevertheless, be unhappy.
lie 'muses and ponders, and dreams about
love aud marriage"
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
Ican1As COMMUNISTS AT sauvoo.

This colony formed in Paris under NJ Ca
bet, in 1871, originally numbered one thous-
and persons. Each male adult member paid
GOO francs. aud boys 800 francs, and from
40, 600 to $4,000 francs, in donations, we're,
besides, put in Nj. CADETS hands. The colo
ny has dwindled down at Nauvoo to two hun
dred persons, who invested everything they
had in the enterprise, and are now unable to
support themselves, the Society being con-
siderably in debt. 1t is estimated that NJ.
CADET received at least 100000 for the ben
eft of the Society. and probable twice that
sum. OF this amount $1,000 was expended
in Texas, and $4,000 in Nauyoo, to purchase
the property of the Mormons, who were about
abandoning the place. With the exception
of the amount spent in travelling. it is sup
posed that the remainder Of the money was
disbursed by NJ. CADET at the election in
France, in which he was defeated candidate
for deputy. The Louisiana. N O., Record,
says. the seceders, who reside at that place,
ARE men Of considerable energy and charac-
ter, industrious, well educated and unusually
intelligent They are doing well, with every
prospect of soon being able to again have
homes of their own. They complain that NJ
CADET is still practising bis receptions in
France, by representations that bis colony is
in furnishing condition, and by that means
is obtaining money from that country and
if true, he should be exposed, be having al
ready been the means Of reducing hundreds
to poverty, spending the last cent they pos
scssed who otherwise would have had abun-
dance to give them a comfortable liviuo and
homes in this country. Phila. Ledger.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
miscellaneous.
Roy LOVE.

One of the queerest things to think of in
after life is hoy love-" No sooner does
boy acquire tolerable stature than he begins
to imagine himself a man. aud to ape manisb
ways. He casts sidelong glances at every
tall girl he happens to meet, becomes reg
uar attendant at church. or meeting, sports
a cane, carries his head erect, and struts
little in his walk Presently, and how very
soon, he falls in love-yes, falls is the proper
word, because it best indicates his happy de-
lirious establishment. He lives now in
fairy region, somewhere collateral to the world
and yet somehow blended inextricably with
it. He perfumes his hair with fragrant oils,
scatters essences over bis handkerchief, and
desperately shaves and annoints for beard
Hequotcs poetry in which 'love," and dove"
and "heart," and ''dart" peculiarly predomi-
nate; and, as he plunges deeper in the deli
cious labyrinth, fancies himself filled with the
divine afflatus and suddenly breaks out into
the scarlet rash--of rhyme. He feeds upon
the looks of bis beloved is raised to the
seventh heaven il she speaks pleasant word !;
is betrayed into the most astonishing costa
cies by smile; and is plunged in the gloom
iN9o W. Nns VI uiisahefioPy ny u foWn
He believes himself the most devoted lover
in the world There was never such anoth.
err There never will be- He is the one
great idolator He is the very type of mag
nanimty and self abnegation. Poverty, with
the adorable love he rapturonsly apostrophi
SEES as the first of all earthly blessings; and
'Love in cottage with water and crust"
is his beau ideal paradise Of dainty delights.
He delares to himself, with the most SOL
emn emphasis, that he would 90 through fire
and water, undertake pilgrimage to China
or Kamschatka, swim storm tossed oceans,
scale impossible mountains, and face legions
of bayonets, but for one sweet smile from her
dear lips. He doats upon the flower she has
cast away. He cherishes her glove-a little
warn in the fngers-next to bis heart He
scrawls her dear name over foolscap- fitting
medium for his insanity. He scornfully de-
preciates the attention of other boys Of his
own age; cuts Peter Tibbets, dead, because
he said that the adorable Angelina had ear
rotty hair; and passes Harry Bell contemp-
tuously, for daring to compare "that gawky
Mary Jane" with bis Incompatible Angelina
Happy. happy. foolish boy love with its
hopes and its fears, its joys and its sorrows,
tortures, its extatc fervors, and terrible heart
burnings, its solemn righteousness, and its
intensely prosaic termination.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

The next best thing to very good joke, is
very bad joke the next best thing to a
very good argument, is very bad one
Few trains of logic, however ingenious and
fine, have given me so much pleasure, land
yet good argument is among dainties one Of
the daintiest, few, very few, have SO much
pure truth in them, as the exclamation, "How
good it was of God to put Sunday at one end
of the week for if He had put it in the mid
die, He would have made a broken week OF
it" The feeling here is so true and strong,
as to overpower all perception of the rugged
way along which it carries us. 1t gains its
point; and that is all it cares for 1t knows
nothing of doubt or faintheartedness, but goes
to work much like sailors; everybody who
does not know them, swear they must fall
yet they are sure to succeed.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
\ cLERGyMAN's OPINION OF NEwsPA-



Rev Dr. Daniel Baker, Of Texas states be
has travelled through great many States.
mixed with the people, conyersed at the
country fire side, and preached in the open
forest as well as the throngod city. Where
he found Newspapers he found intelligence
people whom be could talk to or listen to
with pleasure, and among whom his work
prospered As genera. thing where news
paper was not taken, be could tell it in the
sloyliness Of the households he ignorance Of
the children, and the uninformed parents
So marked is the difference in civilization be-
tween those sho take newspapers and those
who DO not that the traveller in the country
viii be pleased and entertained by the one.
while be will despise the other, without know
ing the cause to which the difference is at
tributable
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
TRIPLES.

A cloud may intercept the sun,
A web by insect workers spun
Preserve the life within the frame,
Or vapors take away the same.
grain ofsand'upon the sight
May rob giant Of his might
Or needle point let out his breath
And make banquet meal for Death
How often, at single word,
The heart with agony is stirred,
And ties that years could not have riven,
Are scattered to the winds Of heaven
glance that looks what words would speak,
Will speed the pulse and blanche the cheek;
And thoughts, not looked, nor yet exprest,
Create chaos in the breast
A smile Of hope from those we love
May be as angel from above;
: A whispered welcome in our ears
Beas the music Of the spheres
The pressure Of a gentle hand
Worth all that glitters in the land
Oh! trities arenot what they seem,
But fortunes voice and star supremei
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
CHOICE or woRps.

When you Doubt between two words. choose
the plainest. the commonest, the most lido
matte. Eschew the ine words. az you would
rouge lovo simple ones, as you would native
roses on your checks Act as you might he
disposed to do on your estate; employ such
words as have the largest families, keeping
clear Of foandlings and Of those Of which no
body can tell whence they come. unless he
happens to DO a scholar,
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
CHARLES l.. DREBING,
ROPE MANUFACTURES

ROPE MANUFACTURER,
.Martinsb,rg, Berkeley County, Tirginia,
INVITES the attention oil Merchants. Far
! mers, oilers and others, to his stock Of
ROPES. omprisinga general assortment OF
Coil Rope, Bed Cords Plough Lines. Mason
Lines. HaItcrs, Blocking Thine, Broom
1tcne Sc, Sc; NIL and Machine
Ropes manufactured to order.
0g-Punctual attention will be pald TO all or
ders received Jan. Z, lS5l-ly
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
Senator Douglas, of Illinois, was pres

Senator Douglas, of Illinois, was present
at the commencement exercises Of Middlebu-
ry College Vermont At the conclusion Of
the Alumni university, Mr.. Douglas "ad-
dressed the audience for half an hour or more
in very pleasing and impressive manner.
lie was received With much appreciation, and
his eulogiuns upon Vermont Vermont char
acter, her Institutions, and her men, repeat
eddy brough. down the house" Mr. Doug
las is going il strong.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
SAYINGS ron FARMERS.


Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than
labor wears, while the used key is always
bright
Dost thou love lie Then do not squan-
der time, for that is the stuff life is made Of
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
He that riseth late must trot all day. and
shall scarce overtake his business at nigh..
Early to bed and early to rise, makes q
man healthy, wealthy and wise.
There are no gains without pains.
At the working mans house hunger looks
in but never enters.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you
shall have corn to sell or keep
One to day is worth two to- morrows
Handle your tools without mittens-a cat
in gloves catches no mice.
The eye Of a master will do more work than
both his hands Not to oversee workmcn is
to leave them your purse open.
A little neglect can do great mischief
for want Of nail the shoe was lost, for the
want Of shoe the horse was lost, for the
want Of horse the rider was lost.
A fat kitchen makes lean will
If you would be rich, think Of saving as
well as getting,
What maintains one vice would bring up
two children
Beware oflittle expenscs--a small leak
will sink a great ship.
If you woule know the value Of money 60
add try to borrow some--for he that goes
borrowing goes sorrcwing.
Pride is as loud beggar as want, and a
great deal more saucy.
Pride breakfastcd with plenty, and dined
with poverty, and supped infamy.
Lying rides on debts back.
1t Is hard for an empty bag to stand up
right.
Creditors have better memories than debt
ors
Rather 60 to bed supperless than rise in
debt.
He that hath trade bath an estate; and
he that hath calling hath place, profit and
honor. A plous hlnan on his knees is higher
than gentleman on bis lcgs.-Dr. Franklin
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

geg- Nothing that has ever taken place in
the United States, it is telcgraphed, could
compare with the third days procession at
the Jubilee in Boston. 1t was perfect
Worlds Fair, and it is impossible to give
anything like description Of it. The Ju~
biee closed with military and civic process
sion--a dinner on the Common beneath an
immense tent, made for the occasion, and a
general illumination and fireworks in The
evening 1t is estimated that over 100000
strangers were in the city.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

l)oftifal.
THE QuIET EYE.

The orb like is not the one
That dazzles with its lightning CLEAN,
That dares to look upon the sun
As though it challenged brighter beam.
That orb may sparkle, flash and roll,
Its fires may blaze, its shaft may fly
But not for me; prize the soul
That slumbers in quiet eye
There is something in its placid shade
That tells Of calm unworldly thought,
Hope may be crown'd or joy delayed
No dimness steals, no ray is caught;
Its passive language seems to say
81 know that must close and die .
And death itself come when it may,
Can hardly change the quiet eye
There's meaning in its steady glance,
OF gentle blame or praising love,
That makes me tremble to advance
A word that meaning might reprove.
The naughty threat, the fiery look,
My spirit proudly can defy,
But never yet could meet and brook
The upbraiding of quiet eye;
There's frmness in its even light,
That augurs of breast sincere
And oh take watch how We excite
That frmness till it yield tear.
Some bosom gives an easy sigh,
Some drops of grief will freely start
But that which sears the quiet eye
Hath its deep fountain in the heart
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

No. SALLY" said green youth, in ia ven
cradle white hat and gray pants, through
which us legs projected half foot perhaps
more Sally. before we 20 into this museum
to see the scrcnaacrs, want to Ak Jon some
thin swell, lcha6od what is it I" "Why
you see thia ERE husiaes.is gwine to cost q
hull quarter piece, and | cant afford to
spend 50 much for nuthin Now. eff you'll
say You hev me, darn'd eli don't pay the
huh ont myself winf
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

BE- Excellence is never granted to mar
but as thereward of labor. 1t argues indeed
no small strength Of mind to perse@re in
habits Ct industry without the pleasure Of
perceising those advances. which, like The
hand Of a clock, whilst they make hourly APP
proaches to their point, yet proceed SO slow
" as to escape observation.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
BY NORMAN MILLER.
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yertse by the six or twelve months.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

ngy~Said the distinguished Lord Chat
ham to his son, II would have inscribed on
the curtains of your bed and the walls Of
your chamber, If you do not rise early you
can make progress in nothing. If you do
not set apart your hours Of reading, if you
suffer yourself or any one else to break in
upon them, your days viii slip through your
hands Improbable and frivolous, and unen-
joyed by yourself"
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

rg~Jean Jacques says that when his
wife died. every father in the neighborbood
offered to console him with one Of their
daughters: but few weeks afterwards, when
his COW having shared the same fate, no one
ever thought Of replacing his loss by the Of
fer Of another, thereby proving the different
value people set upon their cows and chill
dren
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

aSSg- Digby the other day found some money
in the street "Ah said he with know
ing look. 'the papers have been saying mon
ey's tight but wouldn't have believed il
if bad Mt found it in the gutter"
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

ggy@There are ten newspapers in Austria,
fourteen in Africa. twenty four in Spain,
twenty in Portugal. thirty in Asia, sixty five
in Belgium, eighty Ave III Denmark, ninety
in Russia aud Poland, three hundred in
Prussia. three hundred and twenty in other
Germanic States, FIVE hundred in Great Bri
tain and Ireland, and one thousand eight
hundred in the United States.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

n@y=Planters Of trees ought to encourage
themselves, by considering all future time as
present; indeed such consideration would be
useful principle to all men in their conduct
Of life, as it respects both this world aud the
next.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

What is the difference between the trunk
of tree and the trunk of an Elephant
One leapes in the spring, and the other leares
whenever the menagerie does There goes
a button off your "bloomcrs -
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

rs5~ Good reader did you ever drive a pig
to pasture, and it so. didn't you always
find it necessary, in order to get him there,
to drive him in an opposite direction ? Well
just so is it with an obstinate icomaR, If
you want to have her do certain thing; tell
her by no means to 90 it-and you will be
shure to get it done
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
vEn- Mlcn ..IIs1. 4 I.Isr.

docs your arm pain you, sir" asked a
lady Of gentlemen who bad seated himself
near her ii a mixed assembly, and thrown
his arm across the back Of Der chair and
touched her neck
"No Miss, it don't; bat why did you ask 2"
~ noticed it was out Of place. that's all"
lho arm was removed.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30
DIR. RICHARD M'SHERRY. JR,,

HAS resigned his Commission in the Naval
4 1 service of the United States, for the purpose
of devotng himself to the practice of his profession
in Baltimore. Rs3y@0ffice and residence No l2l
Mulberry Street, between Paca and Green.
Baltimore May 49, tS5l--6m
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Martinsbure, Ia, will
N give prompt attention to business entrusted
to his care in the Counties of Berkeley, Jefferson
and Morgan. Sept. /, 1919.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

asg-That woman makes good wife who,
whatever may be the length Of the journey
never travels with more than one trunk, and
four band boxes.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

asy-Inviolabla fidelity, good-humor, and
complacency oftemper, outlye all the charms
Of fine face, and make the decays Of il in.
visible
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

ltANDLES.-Jus received Adamantine. Sperm
Y ] Mould anandDip Candles For sale by
June 3. W. DORSEY.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

Somebody describes sectaranism to be lit
tie narrow prejudice, that makes you hate
your neighbcr, because he has eggs roasted
when you have yours boiled.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

r-To all men, and at all times, the best
friend is virtue aad the best compan.ors are
high endeavours and honorable sentiments
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

r7g-A tailor in Broadway has bill IN
his window Ike this - Wanted, several
hin coat makers" This is chance for
spare tailois.