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GREAT MEDICAL DISCOVERY!

MYTH such testimony, no stronger proof can be
w given, unless it be trial of this wonderful Hamp-
toms Vegetable Tincture.
Let the afflicted rpadf
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purposes. In time Of peace he prepares for

purposes. In time of peace he prepares for
war. ~
Already their eyes are fixed on 1856, and
every. Office filed by a barnburner they count
as fortress gained. Give them the guns, and
not the enemy but their confding allies will
feel the shot!
Ofcourse, if the barnburners were sincere in
their devotion to the principles of the party
which had pledged itself to the nom gitation
OF slavery, there would be no excuse for refus-
ing them share Of the spoils, commensurate
with their numbers and influence. But they
lose, by hasty admission of their real objects,
all claim to the character of sincerity. They
admit that they are time-servers, not patriots,
temporary allies, not genuine converts. They
declare openly their disahection, which does not
yet assume the desperate aspect Of rebellion
only because their conspiracy is not mature,
and all their plans are not ready. They must
gain additional force before they revolt. They
must hold the keys of New York before they
proclaim their rule. They must have every
gun shotted, and have free access to the ammu.
milton before they hoist again their ominous
black flag!
Are not these fair deductions from Prince
Johns explanations of his position?
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-19
SOUND DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.

We are permitted, by a distinguished friend,
to publish the following extract from letter,
dated the 18th November, 1853, and received
by him from an able and prominent democrat
OF North Carolina. He expresses such sound,
honest patriotic, and republican sentiments,
and expresses them with such force and brevitv,
that we hope our readers will all mark them. ,
They deserve to be written in letters of gold
The distinguished writer says:
- At no period in our history have the peo-
pie stood In greater need Of an independent
press-because, first, in times gone bye, there
were more OF that order than now and second
tear that the affection for principle of the few
who can claim that honor is not sufficiently
strong to resist the passion for modern pa,1y
ties
snow, do not for this set me down as a no
party man-far from it. Principles should
make party, and to that party which inhexibly
adheres to the old republican creed shall ever
be indissolubly united. But if party is to
manufacture principle to suit particular ext
gencies, or to respond to the demands of sell
fsh politicians, then am an outsider, and
shall set up for myself
:" wait with restless impotence the antici.
| patton of the first message Of our sound and
patriotic President. If he shall come out fiat.
ioofed-nothng fearing-upon all the great is.
sues OF the day, and in unmistakable language,
that all can understand; vindicate the great car.
dinal principles of the republican party, as
taught BY Jefferson and Macon, our redemp.
ton is at hand; if not, then all is lost. | sin.
| cerely hope that zoe are not destined to see re-
allied the assumption Of many, that practice is
as essential in forming the statesman as in
making the race horse.
"There are two things fear; the riches 0,
the government tits lands and surplus revenue
and the snppleness Of the press. An independ
ent press is the freeman's shield A conspi
racy of the press and politicians, no people vii
| ever be found able TO stand up against
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AT HOME IN THE EvES1NG.-One of the
grossest neglects Of youth, producing meal
culable mischief and ruin, is the spending Of
his evenings. Darkness is temptation to mis-
conduct; suffering the youth to be out, when
the light Of day does not restrain them from
misconduct, is training them to it. We have
already an abundant harvest Of this seeding
Riots, mobs, crimes, giving fearful foreboding,
are the results Of youth becoming fit agents of
outrage, by running, uncared for, in the even,
ings. What we see in these respects is deplo:
rable enough-but what is this compared with
what we do not see-multitudes making them.
selves miserable and noxious to the world, and
what is that to come to? Parents should look
at the truth, that pleasures and recreations are
often dearly purchased--the price of their own
impaired comfort, and the blighted prospects
of their offspring. It must be obvious that in
this matter there can be no prescribed rule.
There can be no interior of all the evening
recreation and employment, yet there is an evil
not only destructive to youth, but planting
thorns in many paths, and covering many lives
with desolation. The information demanded
must proceed from judgment and conscience
must be enlightened. Heads Of families must
learn that the place on earth best adapted to be
blessing, is home; and by example and whole.
some restraint they must teach this truth to
all under them.
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The New House Of Refuge.

The new house Of refuge for juvenile delin-
quents, between Parish and Popular and Schuyl-
kill, Second, and Willow streets, will soon be
completed The building, including the part
occupied by the colored house Of refuge, and
which has been in use over two years, is 400 by
AS feet. The part for white boys and girls,
extend east and west $50 feet by 60 feet in
width The wings, containing the dormitories
for the boys, extend north and south $50 feet.
They have 304 sleeping apartments. The por-
ton of the building intended for girls extends
lO2 feet, and contains l2s sleeping apartments.
Attached to the centre of the main building
is the boys dining room, "a by AZ feet, with a
chapel above it of the same size. This is a room
of noble proportions, the ceiling being % feet
in height and having gallery appropriated to
the girls. hall leading from the girls de-
partment, which adjoins, communicates with
this gallery. The grounds of the two depart
ments are separated by high wall, and the
boys, as well as the girls, are to be divided into
two classes their dormitories being located in
different wings. The bows school.room is also
spacious apartment, IS by 81 feet.
A separate building, four stories in height,
designed as the workshops, is located near the.
boys department, and is 225 feet long by rs
feet wide. In the basement is a capacious brick
basin, designed as plunge bath for the boys.
This has an outlet by sewer, so that the wa
ter can flow of, and be replenshed when re-
quired. The officers rooms are located over
the school-room, and the infrmary close by it
is light airy apartment.
/ Connected with the female department is a
spacious kitchen, washing.rooms, school and
class room. The cooking and drying Of clothes
are all to be performed by steam, the boiler for
which is to be located beneath shed outside
of the main building. This vast edi6ce, now
very near complete, was commenced by Messrs.
Kilgore & Hudder, the contractors, in April Of
1852, since which time no less than five millions
of bricks have been laid.
The colored house of refuge, which is sepa-
rated by wall, has also been receiving extern
sive additions. An addition, four stories in
height, has been made to the boys dormitories,
giving increased accommodations for fifty.six,
aud q similar enlargement to the girls dormito-
ries, adding forty to the capacities of that de-
partment. The building originally used as the
shop has been converted into school-rooms, and
a new edifce erected, four stories in height, and
ffty-6ve by forty feet in dimensions.
This excellent institution will soon remove
the white department from the sight on which
it was originally established
The new sight, though far beyond the inhab.
tied limits of our growing city when purchased
only few years since, has been already reached
by the spirit of improvement @
The expenditure made in the erection of the
buildings, and the furnishing and getting up,
will not fall short of quarter Of a million, ex-
Guiding the value Of the ground ....
.,>... Phza. Register.
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they cannot well be separated. Such is the
case with the following article, which is ex-
tracted from the Dubuque Daily Herald. 1t
shows better appreciation of our position,
and more correct understanding Of our mo-
rives and purposes than have been exhibit
ed by some other journals. Until convinced
that it is wrong in political journal to speak
the truth, we shall continue TO do so, without
fear, favor, or affection.
+ WASHINGTON Observation-Disclosures appreci-
ated or not by the administration, it is really
fortunate for it that such paper Us the Wash
ington Sentinel has been estabshedat the seat
of government. Borne into power by an al
most unprecedented unanmity, it was the more
likely to make mistakes and to commit blum
ders which it required friendly monitor to
point out, and if persisted in, to rebuke and
censure. There are those who do not appreci.
ate friendly advice if it conflict with precon-
ceived notions, but every ones experience will
bear testimony to the fact that he is not the
true friend who, perceiving the faults Of his
friend, fails to point them out lest he give Of
fence. The Sentinel is acting the part of true
friend OF the administration. 1t can look at
matters affecting its honor and integrity from a
disinterested but commanding point Of view,
and though its clidings may be now resented
by official frowns, the time will doubtless come
when its motives and services will be appre
ciated. 1t is evident that the Sentinel is de-
termined to uphold democratic principles
and to sustain the administration in carry
ing out to the litter the ideas of the Bal
timore platform and the purposes enunciated
in the Presidentt inaugural, the principles
Of both of which have received the unan-
imous appreciation Of the democratic party.
principles and purposes the party want to see
practiced and carried out. 1t cannot be posi-
bic but that the President wants to hear and
know Of any well-foulded complaint which his
friends may have to make against each other in
cases arising from the distribution among them
of executive favors. 1T certainly is no more
than just to all parties that such complaint,
when made, should beheard, .enquired into, and
if founded on real grievances that decision
warranted by the merits of the complaint be
made. With an organ at the seat of govern
ment through which the aggrieved may be
heard, and by which the President and his cabi-
net. may be informed If the injustice done to
his true friends, and thu firm and consistent be-
levers in democratic principles, by bestowing
the patronage Of the government upon unprin-
cipled, faithless men-there is hope that while
the judgment Of the President can be reached
by appeal, justice yet be done. We COM
mend the Washington Sentinel to the patron
age of the democracy of Iowa. II.
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NEW ATTRACTIONS TO FOGIEs AND
ANTI-PROGREss MEN.

The perturbation ofthat very respectable, but
timid, class Of men who oppose all progress is,
at this time truly pitiable. The bare contem-
plation Of annexation throws them into con.
sternation, but the prospect Of the acquisition
Of the Sandwich Islands excites trepidation,
which, but for its accompanying sufferings,
would be altogether ludicrous
There are men who live from childhood to
old age under the constant dread that the
world is coming to speedy end. The thought
takes such complete possession of their minds
that they finally cherish it as loved idea
True they dread the appalling thunders Of that
final day, but they have SO long predicted, and
so long expected, its approach, that the pride
of opinion makes them desire the dear danger.
They are disappointed from day to day, from
year to year, that it does not come. They die
under the belief that the mistake is not theirs,
but natures.
There is like class Of politicians, who have
SO accustomed themselves to the idea that pro-
gress and expansion viii bring ruin to the
county y. anu nave 80 ioHS PIcuiSteu tuat auheA'
alton will prove to be positive and incontestible
death, that they believe it as firmly as the Nor.
mon believes in polygamy, the Jew in circum.
cision, or the North American Indian in the
great spirit disappointment only increases
conviction-for they take the appearance OF
prosperity to be only hollow and deceptive--a
sort of hectic flush that precedes consumption,
and on the bed of death their sustaining hope;
their comforting belief, is that the country will
not long survive them.
We began our national career with the good
old thirteen States. We have increased to
thirty-one. Every link added to this chain Of
confederated sovereignties has made the gov
eminent more respectable and influential, in
stead Of causing it disaster and ruin.
The reciprocal benefits Of this quality in our
government, by which and from which, acqusi.
tons Of new territory are made, have been sig
nally manifested. A small State that cannot
alone and unaided sustain itself, is received as
separate sovereignty into our confederacy.
1t adds, alike, to the strength Of the national
government, and to the power and respecta.
| bility of the sovereignty thus received. When
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THE TRUTH CAN DO NO HARM.

Whilst some INSCRIPTIONS presses and poll
ticians have grossly and wantonly misrepre-
sented our position and purposes, and attempt
ed either to cajole US into servility or drive us
into opposition--in both Of which they have
signally failed, other presses, characterized by
more integrity, manlier spirit, and more
correct conception Of the duties and the mis-
sion Of such journal as ours, have been SO
kind as to express their aattering approval of
our course. Articles in other papers, contain
ing compliments to the Sentinel, we have for
borne to copy. By none, could they be more
appreciated than by ourselves; but good taste,
we think, forbids our copying compliments to
us, unless they are so mingled with other mat
tiers Of public interest and consideration that
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parAmong the names on the register at til

W- Among the names on the register at the
National Hotel, we notice those of the Hon.
Vim. Dickey, of New Jersey, and the Hon.
VIM. Lawrence, of Ohio; at the United States
Hotel, Hon. Linn Boyd, of Kentucky; and at
Browns Hotel, Hon. c. J. Faulkner, of Vir
ginia Hon. VIM. A. Richardson, of Illinois;
Hon. ]. A. Dix, of New York; Hon. Richard
Rush, of Penn; and Hon. John B. Weller, of
California
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Gas.--The Washington gasght company has
employed persons to make monthly visits to the
various houses where gas is used, for the purpose
Of keeping the metres in order by replenishing
them with water; an absence Of which, it is
known TO consumers, prevents supply Of the
illuminating agent. Every one, however ought
TO learn how to attend to his own metre, and to
regulate the flow of gas the lesson being exceed.
ingy simple.
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p@- The man that borrowed trouble has
returned It, but without any expression of
thanks. The man who borrowed the Bostonl
Post keeps it. Good taste, but bad morals.
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Ethiopian Minstrels.- Horn and La ndis's
company, now performing at Q id Fellows Hall,
are delighting crowded audience nightly, with
their excellent songs and burlesque entertain
ments. The old favorte, H. X. Johnson, in his hui
morous dances and by-play, is received with
great applause, while the inimitable and merry
Lands produces sho uts of laughter by exhiliara-
ting jokes.
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Three Indians, from New York, in citizens
dress, are now in Washington, abundanty pro.
vided with moccasins, beautifully worked with
beads which they sell in the to the lovers
Of comfortable and fanciful g foot gloves
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Mexican Volunteers.--At a meeting of "the
remnants Of The Maryland and District Of Colum-
bia volunteers" in the late war with Mexico, held
on Thursday evening--Captain James E. Stewart
in the chair-Lieut. P. B. Bell, Joseph P. Shillen,
Horatio Fitch, Joseph c. Kelley, and Captain
Stewart, We're appointed committee to confer,
by correspondence, with the District and Mary
land regiment, and such officers and soldiers who
participated in the Mexican war, 10 unite with the
meeting in permanent organization.
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NOV EMBER Is, 1853.

J9E- Mr.. GEORGE E. FRENCH Bookseller, King
street, Alexandria, is our authorized agent 10 re-
ceve advertisements and subscriptions. Single
numbers can be procured al his counter every
morning .1
TO Mr.. f. X. LuNpY, bookseller, Bridge street.
Georgetown, will act agent for the Sentinel in
receiving subscriptions and advertisements.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-12-09

| dy, if he has to shoot the rascal at tbe
wheel; they're bent on running us down :
elf-preservation is the first law of nature,
if two men are graphing for the same plank
at sea which will hold hut one, each has the
right to push the other off, if he can - that $
law, I'm told. though never thought it was
exactly fair, especially if the weaker man
had got the plank first. However, if these
fellows run into US it will be clear case of
murder; and they are hardly six lengths
of. Hang it, these boats bark so that you
can hardly hear yourself talk, Halloo,
there, what are you after? Here, Rogers,
you take the wheel a moment, and hand me
my rifle: you see it's necessitEk
Don't kill him. exclaimed Rogers, never
theless complying with his request.
sKill him no, but I'll just break that
right arm Of his between the wrist and
elbow, he first time he shows it fairly
So saying, the Kentuekian deliberately
lifted his rife to his shoulder. We all felt
our danger too much to interfere, or even
to say word. In moment more the
sharp report of the rifle was heard; all eyes
were fixed upon the pilot Of the Shelby. In
an instant his arm fell lfeless to his side,
and the Shelby, uncontrolled, rushed on to
shallow bar just beside her, and in another
was fast aground.
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News Iseaaa,.


Moline. in Rock Island county, lis
has population Of l.31o.
No Go.--The law to suppress the
circulation of foreign bank notes OF
less denomination than SIS, in Illinois.
is not observed.
Three persons claim to be elected Del.
egate from Nebraska--.he Rev. Thomas
Johnson, Abelard Guthrie, and II. ID.
Johnson.
The Millerites are again getting exci-
ted in Maine. There ale thousands
who believe that the grand con flagraticn
OF .he world. will take place ne1, spring.
The citizens Of st Louis have pre-
senied to the Hon. l.. NJ. kennett. late
Mayor, dinner service, consisting Of
six pieces--a soup tureen. salver and
four vegetable dishes, all OF pure silver,
and worth $1,000.
The Knud lverson contest wakes
warm a: Chicago. 1t is now proposed
that as so wide difference Of opinion
PREVAILS in respect 10 his death. that tho
funds received be appropriated TO the
founding Of a ragged school. A good
idea. if by that means the fame cf his
! honesty nasy bs petretuatsd.
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look for no more rain till next Novem
ber." We. had some very warm days in
this month.
June. Pleasant weather, cool nights
and bright days. i1st
July In this month we had the
warmest weather ever experienced, yet
the nights were cool, so cool that
never found it uncomfortably warm
sleeping in the open air, under two
blankets In the morning the first SEN
sation after turning out" was a chill.
mess. AT 9 o'clock, A. M, the heat was
almost intolerable. AT 10 o'clock A
NJ, the sea breeze springs up and,
where the country is open. il is compar.
atively pleasant till 4 o'clock, P. NJ.
when the breeze dies away and leaves
old Sol master Of the field. About the
middle Of the month, wheat was harvest
ed in the vicinity Of Pugei's Sound.
August. The weather is cooling off
a little. Vegetation is completely dried
up. and burns rapidly.
cooler. but we have about the same pro-
portion OF clear days as IN July and
August in the latter part Of the month
some light frosts.
The past twelve months. presume,
present fair average specimen Of Ore
gon weather. The big Snow" was
: rather out Of order" but such things
have been known before. ereni in Oregon.
Thunder is seldom heard; and thunder
storm Is rare occurrence; heavy DASH
ing rains are not common. but the rain
comes down gently and steadily. pene-
trating and thoroughly sa a'ura,ing eve-
rything. High winds are uncommon
and severe wind storms unknown.
II the reader believes the above he |
wilt have CRIME 10 the conclusion that
al Oregon year il uot ma lie up Of seven
dry mouths, and seven wet ones, nor
six IL each; nor yet, Of five of one and
seven ~ the other, but is i,lle mixed
up and ra her unerr:ain anyhow.
W. N. B.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-12-09

As woman was walking, man
looked ut and followed her. WHY"
said she, ''do you follow me2' "6e.
cause have fallen in love with you.
"Why so? My sister. who is coming
after, is much handsomer than | am---
go and make love to her. The man
turned back, and saw woman with an
ugly face, and being greatly displeased.
returned and said. ''Why did you tell
me story?" The woman answered.
I" Neither did you tell me the uu,h-- IL
you are in love with me, why did you
look for another woman?"
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How TO BE RlcH.--Nothing is more
easy than to grow rich. 1t is only to
trust nobody TO befriend none--to get
everything, and save all we get--,o stint
ourselves and every body belonging to
US; TO be The friend oine man, and heap
interest upon interest, and cent upon
cent; to be miserable and despised for
some twenty or thirty years; and riches
will come as sure as disease and disap-
pointment. And when nearly enough
wealth is collected by disregard of all
the charities OF the human heart. and az
the expense OF every enjoyment save
that OF wallowing in filthy meanness.
death comes to fiLish the work ,hs
body is buried in a hole. the heirs cover
il, and the spirit goes Where?