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Washington sentinel., 1853-12-21
ANOTHER TEN DOLLAR LOTTERY.
Capital $4O,OOO.
GRAND CONSOLIDATED LOTTERY,

THE MAMMOTH OFTHE MONTH.
Capital $6O,OOO.
S3l ,535 prizes, amounting to 81 ,0S0,400.
4 GRAND CONSOLIDATED LOTTERY OF
MARYLAND.
For the Benefit Of the Consolidated Lotteries
Of Maryland
CLASS b.
To be drawn In Baltimore Md, Saturday Dec. 81 1858.
SCHEME.
Washington sentinel., 1853-12-21
FURNISHED PARLoRs AND CHAM.

EOUR FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET,
JIG and servants for hire. Apply to DIR. r. t.
Browne, opposite U. s. Hotel.
Dec 11-eo1m
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WASHINGTON COLLEGE.

VyHE next Session of this Institution VIII open
Il on the second Thursday (Sth) September,
and close Srd July next. Catalogues exhibiting
the course of instruction and the standing OF the
students during the past session, nc, &c, Will be
cheerfuly sent to all requesting them, by Prof.
Campbell, Clerk of the Faculty. The Tuition
fee is forty dollars per aunum. The best Board
inc can be procured at $3.50 per month.
FACULTY.
George Juukin, d. D., President and Prof OF
Mental and Moral Science, Logic. Rhetoric, &c
Mai. d. H. Hill, Cincinnati Prof. of Mathemat-
les and Military Science.
John l.. Campbell, A, NJ. Robinson Prot OF
General aud Agricultural Chemistry and astron-
James ]. White, Prof. of Greek Language and
Literature.
Junius NJ. Fishbum, A. NJ. Prof of Latin aud
Modern Languages.
Lexington, Va, July 27, lS5S.-tlstS. So
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How many lovely things we find
In earth, and air, and sea-
The distant bells upon the wind,
The blossom on the tree;
But lovelier far than chime or flowers,
A valued friend in sorrows hour.
Sweet is the carol of a bird
When warbling on the spray,
And beautiful the moons pale beam
That lights us on our way;
Yet lovelier friendships look and word
Than moonlight or than warbling bird.
How priced the coral and the shell,
And valued, too, the pearl;
Who can the hidden treasures tell
Der which the soft waves curl 2
Yet dearest still friend to me
Than all in earth, or air, or sea.
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HIGHLAND ACADEMY

YI>HF exercises of this school will be resumed
J. ON the LIST Monday in September next, and
continue for the term of 10 months. The Irus-
tees have engaged the services of Mr.. JACOB j.
HrLL,a gentleman who comes highly recommend
ed not only for efficiency as teacher,but tor cor
rect moral department. 1t was the design OF the
founders of the "Iighland Academy" to afford an
opportunity for good practical education, and al
so to prepare young men for a regular collegiate
course. All that is now wanting to secure this
result is the liberal patronage of the public which
the Trustees now respectfully solicit.
REFER TO Rev. DIR. WHITE, Lexington Ma
jor ID. H. HIT, Lexington; A. q. McCHEs'
NEY, NJ. d., Warm Springs; f. f.. LUcHEr'
NJ. d., Warm Springs; STEPHEN A. PORTER
Warm Springs.
Monterey, August II, lS5S.-3t
E,E5- Vindicator copy st.
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A GUILTY CoNsc1ENcE.-When Dr. Dome,
afterwards Dean of St. Paul's, took possession OF
his first living. as he walked into the churchyard
he took up skull thrown by the sexton out of the
he drew out secretly, and wrapt in the corner Of
his handkerchief He then asked the grave dig
ger if he knew whose the skull was. He replied
that it was the skull of person who kept spirit
shop. and who, having gone to bed intoxicated was
found dead in his bed in the morning.
.eHad he wife 2" asked the DOCTOR eyes"
"Wbat character did she bear?" s'A very good
one; only the neighbors reflect on her, because
she married the day after her husbands burial"
A few days afterwards the doctor paid her a
visit, as if by accident asked her some questions.
and at last, of what sickness her former husband
died AS she was telling him the same story as
the sexton, he opened his handkerchief, and cried
in an authoritative voice: "Woman, do you know
this nail? 2" Struck with horror, she instantly
confessed the murder.
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VERY SHREwp.-The New York Journal of
Commerce says there lives, not thousand miles
from Gotham, 4 dealer in small wares, whose
greatest fear is of being overreached. He goes
without milk in his coffee, in dread Of buying
spoonful of Croton, and never pays for newspa-
per, lest it should not be published to the end Of
the year. His little shop is without gas, for he
has no faith in the metre, and he even dips his
own candles, to insure that they are all tallow.-
In one thing he is liberal he makes large purcha-
ses of counterfeit detectors, and buys an extra il
there are any whisperings of broken bank. A
neghbor of his was imposed upon the other day,
with bank note. which had been ingeniously
altered from seone" to "'fve;" and our dealer has
been on the watch ever since for fear Of similar
imposition.
The other day, young girl stepped into his
little store, and purchased pair Of stockings; Of
fering one dollar note in payment. The old
man eyed the girl SO sharply that her face became
suffnsed with bushes, and this was to him an ac-
acknowledgement of guilt. "How dare you offer me
this 2" he asked in an angry tone. 81 thought il
was good" she replied timdly. "What is the
matter with it2" asked bystander, who had been
attracted by the dispute; 'it looks like genuine
note"
'Gcnuinc enough" said the shopkeeper, his
face crimson with passion, ''but don'tyou seea--
It's one altered from a t,centyW
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The Chinese Revolutionists.

Hung -sin-tsiuen, or Tae- Ping, the reputed i0-
der of the rebellion, is native of the Hwa dis.
trict, near Canton. His history, as communicated
to the English press aud the Missionaries. repre-
sents that he took the first, if not the second lite
rary degree, at Canton, but found his way to Of
fee barred; that he then tnmed his attention 10
the doctrines of Christianity, and was for a time
in direct connection, more or less intimate, with
Protestant medical missionary at Canton that he
afterwards established in Kwang-se community
OF Christians composed Of both Kwang-tung and
kwang Sc men; that persecution compelled him
and his co-relgionsts to take arms in selfdefence;
and that after this sense Of double Injustice and
injury from the government acting on an ambitious
mind, strong feelings, and an enthusiastic temper
ament, gradually brought him, as the success Of
his arms increased. to the belief that he was the
recipient Of divine mission to extermlnate the
Manchoos, abolish idolatry and found new Chris
tian dynasty.
One account states that Hung, under the i'm
pulses with which he was fired, enlisted the rob
bers of Kwang Sc in his cause and that they COM
posed large if not the greater portion Of his fog
ces. A part Of the Chinese considered him as de-
scended from Heaven, and recent publication
speaks of him as Heavenly Prince, son Of God,
and as bearing the relation ofcadet to Jesus Christ.
But no publication pretending for him anything
like divine origin, has been traced to him.
1t appears that there are five divisions Of the re-
bel forces, and though Hung or Tae ping is the
most conspicuous of the leaders according to &C.
counts that have reached us it is not known wheth-
er they all adopt his religious views. 1t is gene
rally stated, however, that the rebels are fighting
under the same religious ensign. Some correspon-
dents of the European press are ofopinion that the
different divisions of the rebels are entirely inde
pendent Of each other-and that they only co OPP
crate in their efforts to destroy the present Chi
nese Monarchy, intending, il successful, to form
separate and independent governments upon its ru>
ins.
The extraordinary statements that have been
made concerning the religious notions Of the Reb-
els, as illustrated in their books, which have been
translated by reliable Interpreters. have very much
increased the interest in the rebellion. It's course
will now be watched more closely and We shall
probably have more reliable information concern
ing it, Giving to the statements already made even
partial credit, it is very reasonably inferred that
much will be gained by the success Of the rebels
that China will be at least opened to commerce
with foreign nations, and that through the aid Of
commerce, even if the indications of religious i'm
that show themselves now are falGs-
cious, China will ultimately become more lits-
raj part of the globe and be blessed with better
religion.
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IDEAS AND MANNERS OF THE AGE OF QUEEN
MARY.-We give only one or two instances of the
manners and ideas of the age in which Queen Ma
ry's lot was cast. 1t is generally known that
Henry VIII put seventy-two thousand persons of
all religious persuasions the scaffod during his
single reign but it is not equally known that his
daughter Elizabeth had an array of three hundred
heads of persons convicted of high treason placed
on London Bridge, including those of her cousin
and friend Norfolk and her romantic lover Essex;
and that, so far from being shocked at the ghasly
array, she took the foreign Ambassadors to see it.,
in order to show how we serve traitors in Eng
land'
After the Massacre of ST. Bartholomew. the
ladies Of the Court of Paris went out to examine
the long rows of bodies of the Huguenot cavaliers
who had been slain during the tnmult, and curl
ously turning them over when half stripped of
their garments, said to one another, 'this must
have been charming lover that was not worth
looking at And when the fanatic assassin. Ra-
vllac, was brought out into the square of the Lou
vre to undergo during four hours the most fright
ful tortures which human ingenuity or malignity
can devise. or the human frame endure, the whole
of the ladies of the Court of Paris assembled to
witness the spectacle, and as nigh prices for seats
nearest the scene of agony as were given for the
best places on the streets leading to ST. Pau's on
the recent occasion when the first and noblest of
Britain attended her greatest hero to his last rest
ing place !-Backwood.
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House and Lot for Sale.

WILL sell privately Lot lying on the Lex
IL ington road within three quarters OF mile OF
Staunton, containing about y ACRES, and has
on it comfortable new FRAME BUILDING,
two stories high, fine stable and other suitable
out buildings.
Messrs Imboden s McCue are authorized to
sell the said property and will show 1t to any one
who may desire to see it. ,
THOMAS w. McCUE.
July 1S, lS53.-tf
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FoUR Coon HABITs.-There were four good
habits wise and good man earnestly recommend
ed in his counses, and also by his example. and
which he considered essentially necessary for the
management of temporal concerns; these are
PunctuaIity, Accuracy, Steadiness, and Dispatch.
Without the first Of these, time is wasted with
out the second mistakes the most hurtful to our
own credit and interest and that of others may be
committed without the third, nothing can be well
done and without the fourth, opportunities OF
great advantage are lost which it is impossible to
recall
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Notice..

INTENDING to go North shortly, we would
respectfully request those of our friends indebt
ed to us, to come forward immediately and settle
their accounts up to the lst of July.
GOODMAN s. co.
n. B.-Bargains in Summer Clothing may be
expected, we desire to close out beture the fall
season commences. GOODMAN s co.
Staunton, Aug. 10, lS53.-M, copy.
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STAUNTON SPECTATOR.
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BY j. A. Il l.. R. WADDELL.
TERMS.

u- Tie SPECTaTOR'' is published Oncea
1eek, at Ttco Dollars year, GPaid in adrance,
or Ttco Dollars and Fifty Cents i delayed beyond
the expiration of the gear. No subscription 'eilt
BE- discontinued but al Me option Of the Editors,
until all arearGges arc pad.
nr .4U COMMUNICATIONS TO the Editors By mail
mast Be paid, or they ,ciU not be attended to-
n,- ADVERTISEMENTS Of thirteen lines
Tor less, inserted three times for one dollar, and
t,csntyfre cents fer each subsequent continuance,
Larger advertisements inserted IN The same proper
tios A liberal discount made to those who adrer-
tise by the year.
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er,- England is SO deeply engaged in Manufac-
lures that she brings large portion OF her bread,
stuffs and provisions, as well as the raw material
for her manufactures, from every part ofthe world
During the first twenty weeks OF the present
wear the importation of -four and wheat alone into
the ports of Great Britain was equal to l6,l O4752
bushels of wheat. This quantity was brought
from forty-eight different ports in all climates
The list begins with the northern port of Russia.
(Archangel, J and ends with Peru. 1t includes al.
most every European State, includes Egypt and
the west Of Africa the Philippine Islands and the
Brazils, Australia, and the United States of North
America
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A CANINE CRITIc-An amusing story is told
of young Partisan artist, who lately painted a
portrait of a duchess, with which her friends were
not satisfied, declaring that it was totally unlike
her. The painter, however, was convinced that
he had succeeded admirably, and proposed that
the question of resemblance or no resemblance,
should be left TO little dog belonging to the duch
ess. which was agreed to. Accordingly the pic
ture was sent to the hotel of the lady the next
day, and a large party assembled to witness the
test The dog was called in, and no sooner did
he see the portrait than he sprung upon it, licked
it all over, and showed every demonstration Of the
greatest joy. The triumph of the painter was
complete, and all present insisted that the picture
had been retouched during the night, which was
actually so, the artist having rubbed it over with
a thin coating of lard! The dogs nose was sharp
er than the critics. eyes.
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ROCKING CHAIRs.-Miss Leslie says this arfi-
c.e Of furniture is now seldom seen in the parors
of genteel people. She thinks rocking chairs are
fit only for nurses, and says ga lady should never
be seen to rock in a chair, and the rocking Of q
gentleman looks silly" Those who think more
of gentility than comfort, must Danish the article
from their drawing rooms to their private apart
ments, for Miss Leslie herself admits that even
genteel people indulge in the luxury Ut rocking
chair "when entirely alone"
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In2ratitude.

A merchant of Munich, having obtained large
fortune, gave each of his three daughters con-
siderably large sum, and married them to three
brothers, sons Of worthy man of Hamburg. He
reserved to himself large capital, and his sons
in-law employed all their efforts to induce him 70
give it to them At last, by fattery and demon
strations of affection, they got the old mans mo-
ney. But from that time they commenced to show
indifference for him, and at last totally neglected
him. The good old man was very wretched, and
what was worse, very poor. One day hts young
est daughter went to him and tried to console him.
In the course of conversation, she suggested TO
him that he might gain the good will Of her sod
her sisters husbands and obtain from them all be
needed, by pretending to be still rich. The old
man, seeing the idea was good one, resolved ss
once to act on it. He went to friend Of his, q
banker, and obtained an advance of money, and
the loan of service of plate. The next day he
invited his sonsln-law to dinner. They were as
tonished to find service of plate on the table, and
still more so when the servant brought the old
man letter, and he exclaimed,
"What let an old friend be embarrassed for
ten thousand florins!" and he went and got tho
sum from his strong box, adding, "There! takeit
to your master You see," said he, 81 am still
rrch."
The sons-in-law were confounded and each with
great earnestness, Immediately pressed the cid man
to 90 and live with him, promising him that he
should receive every attention, and everything he
could possibly wish for. But the old man laid
down bis conditions-that he should have his own
apartments and domestcs, a carriage, and certain
sum placed at his disposal. To this the sons-in-
law eagerly consented.
For some time the old man lived comfortably
enough, and wherever he went he took the pre-
caution to carry with him his strong box, which
was very heavy.
Shortly after he fell i'll. His sonsin-law press
ed him to make his will, but he said that his in
tenton was to divide the contents of his strong box
equally between them and friend, and that they
and bis executor should each have key. About
fortnight after, he died.
BY writing which he left behind him, he d.
rected that the box should not be opened until FIVE
days after his interment- that he should be buried
with the greatest pomp, and that each poor man
in the town should receive an entire new suit of
clothes and a florn At last the day for opening
the strong box arrived. The sons-in-law, to their
bitter modification, found not, as they had expec-
ted, money or securities to large amount, but
lead and stones!
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DRS. LAIRD & TRIMBLE,

TIME firm of DR.. A. II. Laird s Co. being dis
Il solved, we, the undersigned, propose to carry
on the Drug Business, at the old stand, Virginia
Hotel Street,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
under the style aud firm Of Drs LAIRD < Trim
BILE.
DR.. Trimble. the junior and active partner,
flstters himself that by diligence and unceaslng
attention to the AP0THECARf, he will be a.
BILE to give entire satisfaction, to each and every
patron Of the establishment.
All orders promptly executed, and packages for
wafded to any point ON Stage Line:
A. Il. LAIRD,
G.. b. TRlMBLE.
Staunton, April 6, 1858.
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0o- Grant Thorburn says of his last wife, in a
letter to a Philadelphia paper: "My wife is a
blooming lass of forty summers; succeeded IN
capturing the prize only two weeks ago my own
age is 81, so ,hatm wife just meets me half way.
She is two inches taller and five pounds heavier; ;
so think on reflection have got the best fthc
bargain"
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A DRoLL CnIRoGRApHrcAL MIsTAKE.-A gen.
tleman in London, Git has been often stately wish
ing to obtain some pets for his children, wrote to
friend, in Borneo, to send him or s monkeys.
Judge his surprise, few months afterwards, on
being notified that whole cargo OF monkeys a
waited his order on shIPboard at the dock. At
the same as ho had duly received ed his order s or s
monkeys would oi IGsd Ss ssd sa sda 0n l
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A CHEERFUL HEARr.-I once heard young
lady say to an individual, ''Your countenance to
me is like the rising sun. for it always gladdens
me with cheerful look"
A merry or a cheerful countenance is one of the
things Jeremy Taylor said his enemies and per-
secutors could not take away from him. There
are some persons who spend their lives in this
world as they would spend their lives if shut up
in dungeon Everything is made gloomy and
forbidding. They go mourning and complaining
from day to day, they have so little, and are con-
stantly anxious lest what they have should escape
their hands. They always look upon the dark
side, and can never enjoy the good That is not
religion. Religion makes the heart cheerful, and
when its large and benevolent principles are exer-
cised, man will be happy in spite of fhimself
The industrious bee does not stop to complain
that there are so many poisonous flowers and thor
ny branches on its road, but buzzes on, selecting
honey, where he can find it, and passing quietly
by the places where it is not. There is enough
in this world to complain aboutand find fault with,
if men have the disposition.
We may travel on hard and uneven road, but
with cheerful spirit, and heart to praise God for
all his merces, we may walk therein with COM
fort. and come to the end ofour journey with peace
-Dewcy
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The Cabbage.

The Cabbage, though now exiled in great meas
ure to the tables of rustics, was highly regarded
by the ancients Pliny has extolled its whole
some qualities; Chrysippus, Greek physician Of
Gnidos, wrote large book in its praise Nicander,
another Greek physician, called it divine (n'ar-
tin }. In Rome 1t was considered a specific a.
ganst the plague; and Cato the censor (not he
who died at Utica), during a pestence fed his
household upon it as preservatve from infection
The Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, began their
repasts with cabbage, believing 1t to prevent in
toxcation. In the banquets Of the Athenians, up
on the birth of child, cranbe, or colewort, form
ed an important part of the good cheer, and was
even given to the mother as restorative. 1t ap-
pears, from some fragments Of the Greek comedi-
ans, that it was usual among the lonians to swear
by the colewort. Ancient mythologists ascrbe a
strange origin to the cabbage. Jupiter, say they,
was one day so much perplexed in attempting to
reconcile two contradictory oraces of destiny THAT
profIse perspiration burst out upon his brow and
and from the drops, as they fell, the cabbage sprang
up.
Formerly, cabbages were esteemed by English
herbaliss as eficacious in the early stage of con-
sumption. A cabbage is sculptured at the feet Of
the effigy of Sir Anthony Ashley, on his tomb at
Wnborne, St. Giles, Dorsetshire, in memory of
his having revived in England the culture of that
vegetable, which, before his time, was annually
imported from Holland, though it had been former.
ly well known to our Saxon ancestors, who called
the month of February sprout-kail, or the sprout-
ing of the cabbage. The different varieties ofcab
bage all have their origin from the crambe n.arti
ma, or seaside cabbage (sea-kaD which IS still
found wild in some parts of Englsnd. and espe-
cially in the neighborhood of Dover. Broccoli
was brought from Italy to France at the end ofthe
sixteenth century, and thence TO England. eau
lifower (that most delicate species of cabbage),
which DR.. Johnson pronounced to be the finest of
all the flowers in the garden, was brought from
Cyprus to Italy, and thence to France and Eng
land, at the close of the seventeenth century.
There has been from time immemorial, in Scot
land, some rural superstition ascribing fatidical
to the cabbage, even as Nicander called
it, n,a,,tin, the divine. or the sOoth-sayng, for
the Greek word signifies both. In the witching
hours of night on All-hallows' E Zen, the rustics
try theig matrimonial fortunes by pulling up cab
bages by the root, haphazard and darkling, in the
kall-yard. The taste of the pith, sour or sweet,
betokens the temper of the future spouse; the
shape of the stalk, straight or crooked, the figure
and the absence or presence of clay adhering to
the root, fortune, or no fortune in the match.
The term "cabbage," by which tailors desig-
nate the crbbed pieces of cloth, is said to be de-
rived from an old word, cablesh, e., wind fallen
wood and their hell, wherein they store the cab
bagc, from helan, to hide.
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TO TIE PUBLIC.

THAVE now for sale fine London and Geneva
Il Watches. in Gold aud Silver Cases; those
wishing real fine article can get supplied at low
prices by giving me an early call:
DAVID S. BEAR.
Staunton, June %, 1853.
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Plank. Plank.

VHAVE on hand and for sale. about $4,000 or
Il $4,000 feet of good inch PINE PLANK
also, about 20, 900 WHITE PINE SHINGLES,
and lot of Poplar Weather boarding. all ofwhich
4 will sell low for cash. Call on the subscriber at
Buffalo Gap. ISAAC ROGERS.
MAY Is, lS53.-4m.