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tons now. or one thing feel clear, enough
for confident utterance and that is that the
nation will miss them more, though 1t may
generally admire them less, than it will all the
departed and retired demi-gods-the dead, de-
featcd, and disappointed-of the two last event
full years. w. r.
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THE OYVGEN LAMP,

THE subscribers would respectfully inform the publ.
that they the sole manufacturers for the Original
Oxygen Lard Oil lamp patented by ID. kinnear zen
h ls5 This lamp kas been before the public for three
during which time there have been one hundred
thousand Sold and II has received three hst premiums ana
two diplomas.
The subscribers have hand at their shop 10 Circle
VILE Ohio fifteen thousand OF these lamps which ready
all orders that may be received In prices fer great
Inducements to Dry Goods and Hardware merchants I'm
men, Pedlars, &c,
We caution tLs public against all limitations Of this lamp
We intend all arrangements Of either MANI
fscturer, yender or user.
Persons who will make the selling Of This lamp their sole
business may realize handsome profits the Of our
agents testify.
Rights for twenty six dferent States for sale.
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THE MUSICAL WORLD ann rIMEs.

LARGE Weekly Journal Of sixteen pages, edited bv
IA Richard Storrs Willis ami which the best musical
composers and writers 10 this country make their medium
Of munication with the public contains during the
year. 20 pages Cor S25 WORTHY Of the very best music f
all kinds also brilliant aud instructive Essays Music
complete Of familiar Instruction In Harmony
which any body underSand vast amount of attract
I've musical reading clotes and sketches Of celebrated
musicians Of musical history, &c. The fearless and
truthful criticisms Of musical publications and perform.
ances, and the very pick and Of Musical News
whole forming the most complete and valuable record
Musical Art it is possible to obtain The wants Of Country
Choirs and of ladies wishing for music but who
not living music stores especially attended to
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for his trouble Address Dyer Willis, publishers Of the
Musical World and Times, 257 Broadway, New York.
or ANOTHER MUSICAL JoURNAL.-The subscribers
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journal Of eight pages each number containing four pag
Of music, (making forty-egbt pages year and great
variety ofintersstng musical reading matter The Month.
" Musical Gazette Is designed for the especial benefit Of
the thousands Of music lovers whose musical knowledge
and tastes demand easy and simple music, and whose
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dress Dyer Il Willis.
N. B.-Ckrgymen will be supplied with The Masical
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Monthly Musical Gazette at twenty. five cents yesr.
Agents wanted TO obtain subscribers for the above
named publications. Liberal commission allowed.
Now Is the time to sub cribe the volume begus
on the lat Of January, 1854 Jan b.
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AUSTRALIAN SrEAMxHIP COMPANY.

1NIIE Company's magnificent new steamship GOLD
l. EN- AGE 5000 tons, will BIO dispatched for Port
Philip. Melbourne, and Sydney Australia, about the
18th Of May. This steamship is Of the size and
strength, and in every way equal to the Collins line
Of steamers being 300 feet in length, 43 feet beam
and 80 feet hold She is double dagonaly braced
with iron bars, and every Improvement that expert
and science can suggest has boon adopted. Her
accommodations for frat second, and third class pas
songers are believed to be superior to any steamer
ever built Her model is unequalled, and II is conf
IDENTIFY expected that she willmake the trip from New
York to Australia within so days stopping only at
the Cape of Good Hope to coal. Passengers may re.
ly that every attention will be paid to their wants.
and that the ship will be libauy supplied with every
comfort An experienced Sotgeon will be attached
TO tho ship.
Rate, of FARE - First cabin, ladies saloon, 1915
first cabin upper saloon, $3.50; second cabin. lower
saloon, 500 third class, forward, 5000. Children
under twelve years of age, half price. Eight cubic
feet Of baggage allowed each passenger not exceed.
ing 200 pounds in weight Books are now open. A
remittance Of one half the amount will secure berth
balance to be paid within 30 days before the time of
sailing. For freight passage, apply at the office Of
shc Company, or to j. HOWARD 4 son,
March 2i-6t Agents, "A Broadway. n. York.
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To the Editor Of the National Era

y He SuuW " He INWtoH"' If"'
Thomas Davis, of Providence, R. l., is the
Democratic nominee Of that district for the
next Congress He ought to have the support
of the Free-Soilers of that constituency for
reasons which think are good and valid in
the circumstances. His competency is above
question it has been we'll proved in the State
Legislature ana is otherwise well known to all
who know him. His acquaintance with all the
issues involved in the struggle which we main
tain with oppression in its various forms is
full, clear and available wherever and when
ever it is wanted. But his special worthiness
is in the soundness and thoroughness of his
Anti-Slavery principles, and in the resolute in
tegrity with which he has ever and in all places
maintained them He is Democrat of the
style and stamp that Whittier describes in his
poem on Democracy--a man that will not be
bought and sold, or fooled out of his better in
stincts by the jugglery Of party politics, Now,
nominated as he is by the party in power, mus
tered with the majority, and capable, by posi-
ton as in character, of the best services to the
right which We could ask from an honest man
and upright representative, ! think it sound in
principle as in policy to let the party have him,
and help them to success. They must have
meant dedication of the man to our use,
| Nhcu NNty OHcTcO ou, ucttItttlCt. IL
is the beginning of better days for Rhode Island,
when its Democracy will stand committed for
the doctrines and drift of such man it will
help the Wings into position, and our balance
of power there may be most happily employed
for such general reformation.
A round dozen of the most famous names on
our record have been struck at one blow from
the rolls of Congress. Hale, King Mann, Allen,
Tuck, Perkins, Cleveland, Townshend, Howe,
Allison Durkee, and Doty-all gone and the
next Congress numbers, Of the old and the new,
but Chase and Sumner in the Senate, and Gid
dlngs Wade, and Smith, in the House By one
casualty or another our array is cut down to
this, and the matter is not to be mended for
two years to come, but by the chances offered
us here and there, by nomination so COM
pletely to our purpose as Mr.. Davis's
| have been thinking over the loss of those
twelve men from the service for the next two
years-what 1t may result in, and what it
means to Us that we should learn by it but |
will not trouble your readers with my refec.
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THE JUVENILE ISSrRUCrOR--vOL. TX.
For Children and Sabbath Schools.
ny UNCLE LuCIUs.

A SEMI. MONTHLY paper which aims to interest
"A and inform the young mind. Special effort is
made to give proper direction to the minds Of chill.
drcn in these times Of strife for tho supremacy Of
slavery Prico25 cents for single copies five copies
for 81, Sl2 per hundred. specimen number, free
Of charge, will be sent to-any person.
LUCIUS c. MATLACk, Editor and Publisher,
Mar. 2i-am 60 South SAlina st, Syracuse, n. Y.
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Copy Of a letter from Roderiek Mckee Esq., 10
non. Luxe Leo. Commissioner dated San
Francisco, Aprii 5, 1852.
Since my regular despatch per this steamer
was mailed, | have received from the tempo
rary agent in Shasta and SCOTS Valleys very
unpleasant news, revealing the murder, almost
IN cold blood, OF some thirty or forty Indians
at the Jerry to upper crossing Of the Klamath,
and at Indian Fiat, two miles above, on or
about the 18th ultmo Some time before, u
young Indian, whom had seen ut Happy
Camp in November, and had commended to
the protection of Judge Roach, had, it appears,
been shot by man named irwin r. Tompkins.
tie (the man shot was connected with the In
dams at the ferry some Of whom made COM
plants about his death, and gave some miners
IN the neghborhood the idea that they 1.-THE
Indians contemplated revenge. Instead Of
gong to the agent, who, with his interpreter
could have settled the matter amcaby in a
few minutes, the miners went down to 'Happy
camp expressed their fears raised party, re
turned, surrounded the rancheria ut the ferry
and shot down all the men there with several
women they then proceeded two miles farther
up to the other village, and in like manner sur
rounded it, and killed the inmates In all
tome thirty or forty fell The women and chill
dren who escaped fed to SCOTS Valley, where
the agent says, they are mourning the loss OF
Their friends, and almost wholly Dependent
upon him for food
What will be the result of this breach Of
treaty arrangement and most unnecessary anc
cruel sacrifice Of life il of course unknown
bat have fears that the law of retaliation, &c
deeply implanted in the Indian nature. will
again overcome all prudential considerations
| have received accounts Of an almost similar
outrage committed by small party of whites
upon the Indians at Humboldt bay and Elk
river, resulting in the death OF some fifteen OF
twenty.
There are many rieht-thinking, considerate
men in this country, who deeply deplore this
savage spirit ON the part of some of the settlers
bat, living 80 far distant from the county seats
and Their own lives and property at risk, they
are afraid to speak out as tho therwisc would
81 will, hope receive further advoes in q
lew days, and by the next mail will write you
again.
"ln the mean time design appealing to the
governor OF the State TO order q rigid scrutiny
into the Facts OF these outrages and take such
measures as may be proper TO bring the offend
ers TO justice. la all the frontier settlements
there are many men, from Missouri, Oregon
Texas &c, who value the life OF an Indian lust
rs they do that OF tdy0td, or u rolf and EN-.
brace every occasion TO shoot him down.
despair OF seeing the peace of these settlements
fully established until the laws of the State are
enforced, some terrible examples made, OF the
Government of the United States send the mill.
tary commandment of this division the men and
means 10 establish several small military posts
to protect the Indians from such attacks"
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March "a Candle Manufacturer, Cinslnnau, w.
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IRON S. to $40 day say be made by any indiyida,
in city country, with the knowledge OF highly use.
full discovery, In universal demand, which will seed b.
return mail enclosing TO me postage paid directed
10 H. 5. HOLT, Post Office Box No 3J0 Rochester New
York This is first rate opportunity for students CLERKS
invads any young or young lady on. OF basine
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The largest chance, ,rith risk equal 10 no risk :
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VOL. VII.
SOLDIERS CLAIMS.

AM still engaged In the prosecution OF claims
Il Government. Such Of the soldiers Of the MeSis
or their heir as have hed claims TO bounty land ana
well to open correspondence with me- as can
land in most every instance. There are about N a wen
claims Gle In the Pension Once nearly such
can have allowed II authorized act tor the shea
word to the wise 10 sufficient "A
Gy- Suspended elaine under act Of Septemb.r 90 ,s
also successfully prosecuted, and fee viii bs iS.J
any case unless land is procured Address ~lsed 10
Sept IS. A. M. GANGEWEk Washi,.4 -
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ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.

DY T. l.. Nichols, NJ. D., Port Chester New York-Prn.
ID cipa Of the American ydropathic Institute. pocket
volume 6no about 450 pages nearly 100 engraving cloth
comprehensive and confidential treatise the structure
functions passonal attractions and psrversons true and
false conditions and the most intimate relations Of and
women anatomical physiological psychological pathology
cal obs,etrca and hydro treating especial
and with fulness and fidelity of ILLUSTRATION Of the laws
and processes of generation CESSATION evolution paruI
ton, and lactaton This work inter ded 10 be strictly
private book of study and reference and full all
professional will not be sold by booksellers
agents but will he sent by mail post paid receipt Of one
dollar, by the author. Dec. s-Sw
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AvERY'S SEWING MACHINES.

FT1te OHIJ NO = FdleHIed OtIoOsT IS, IoJZ
THIS machine Is acknowledged by all who have used
to be superior to that OF any other sewing machine ever
invented for its simplicity the besuty and
strength Of Ice siteh and its chespness weighs about
Is pounds aud costs only from 32j to $50 II will worS
neatly, with the smallest thread the finest muslin csn
brc silk we'll linen, wooen and cotton goods and
all kinds of leather IL Is simple that child OF ten
years Of sge understand and work rapidly without
danger Of its getting out Of order and do the work
Of than tweuty much better In every re-
spect than be done by hard The stitches indie
pendent Of each other mnch So that If every other
stitch ia cut, the seam still holds good and strong
unlike and much better than other sewing machine ever
invented This machine Is peculiarly adapted family
use will do all kinds Of sewing and known will
be generally introduced into families.
The Avery Sewing Machine Company have perfected
their for the scale
and will supply any number Of machines at the
notice Orders addressed 10 CHARLES NETTLETON.
ISL Broadway, New York will receive prompt attention
2l--Gmif
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BUSINESS MEN,

THO roach the eye Of the immense travel daily pass-
l. ing through Pttsburg, Pa, should send their
advertisements by mail to the Pmsbarg DAILY
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81 twelve months 500 Feb M-Gi
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TO BOOKSELLERS AND THE PUBLIC IN TIL
WESTERN STATES.
JEWETT, PROCTOR, 4 W0RTHlNGTON,
Clepel1nd Ohio.

Cleveland Ono,
MOULD respectfully announce that they are tho
w Western publishers of all the works issued by
John p. Jewett & Co.. Boston, and that we supply
all their books, ut their prices, in any quantity
Among these books are the following:
Uncle Toms Cabin. BY Mrs. Stowe. Various
editions
Uncle Toms Cabin in German. Soon to be is
suod
Key to Uncle Toms Cabin. Soon to be issued
BY Mrs. Stowe.
The Autographs of Freedom.
The Trial by Jury. By Lysander Spooner.
The Book Of One Thousand Anecdotes.
The Shady Side; or, Life in Country Par
sonage BY Pastors Wife.
The Philosophy of Mysterious Agents. In three
Parts BY DR.. e. c. Rodgers. An Expose of the
Heaven and its Spiritual Emblems. A Religious
Gift Book. Beautifully bound and illustrated.
In PRESS:
White Slavery in the Barbary States. By Hon.
Charles Sumner. With 40 splendid illustrations
by Billings, engraved by Baker Smith. This
will mako one beautiful l6mo volume of about
I40 pages bound in cloth, thin boards, printed
in the most elegant style, on tho best paper
Price at retail, so or 62f cents. Ready about
tho goth of February.
We hare also an Press, to be issued IN MGrch-
The Speeches of the Hon. Joshua R. Giddings.
With Portrait In volume limo, of about
500 pages, cloth. Price ST. valuable volume
of strong and truthful utterances from the Ohio
veteran, who is still in tho harness.
Also
The Writings of Hon. William Jay, on the
Slavery Question and on War. This volume will
be a most invaluable contribution to tho stand
ard literature of our country. No man stands
higher, in the estimation of the truly groatupnd
good than tho venerable Judge Jay. And no
ono has contributed greater number of articles
of sterling value to the Of freedom and
peace than he To be published in ono limo
volume of about 500 pages, with fine portrait
of the author. Price 81.
DJ All orders from the West, for any of the above
books, should be sent to -
JEWETT PROCTOR, WORTHINGTON,
March at Cleveland, Ohio,
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AIR. e. Il. WARNING
CARD,
A CHANCE TO MAKE moNry-

ISAAC ROBERTS, Dealer in Real Estate. Once Ma
Union Buildings Norrist n, Pennsy yania and Ma "A
| Walnut street Philadelphia. Feb 3-iv
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ment in
Germantown, near Philadelphia.
Those who have become conversant with Mr.. Rich
ardss node of treating this class of unfortunate chill
dren will testify that very much has been done IN
raising those under his from condition OF I'M
becilty and stolid diocy to one Of comparative IN
telligence and thing which, but few years
ago. was thought beyond the reach of human effort
In Europe Mr.. r. became familiar with similar in
stitutions which have boon the means, by a course
of early training of rcscuing many from a state of
hopeless diocy. Since then, he has had nm expert
ence of than four years in teaching this class
of our unfortunates.
Please address at Diwyn Parsb's Drug Store
southwest of Eighth and Arch streets, Phila
delphia
In Philadelphia, he has tho pleasure Of referring
to tho Rt. Rev. Bishop Potter, Rev. Albert Barnes
Hon. Judge Kane, Hon. Judge Stroud Hon. Henry
ID. Gipin, Thomas S. Kirkbrdc, NJ. D., Prof George
B. Wood, NJ. D., Prof Samuel Jackson NJ. D., Prof
Thomas ID. Mutter, NJ. d., Alfred L. Elwin, NJ. d.
In Washington, he will refer to his friends Gen
James Hamilton. Hon. Horace Mann. March "a
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MARLBOPO' UOTEt

TEMPERANCE HOUSE. JEkKg papKs .
Il 22s Washington street, Boston. G. W. I'M
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IRRIGATION OF IMBECIL Es.

TAMES b. RICHARDS has located his School for
j the education of children of slow mental develop
ment in
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Reduced Postage.

The following table will show the g,ea reduction which
has been made these periodicals. since le4i lnd the
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nuR lpsltuuon Hal-teud Hall, Rochester. y. V,
now 90 be successful treatment of Chfonir dsenees, bt
this syscm OF Therapeutics, which s supe mtlona tpd
feahie based upon pathological principles by which
the wosi orms of Pulap-us Uttr, Hnd other functional
bud Organic arrangements cured without supporter.
any ofhe usual of The day. It controls
the most unmanageHho aud long standing diseases, without
pam o. Inconvenience The principles OF Motos shs hay.
been thoroughly tested m the treatment of hy thou
sand of female Diseases, which
cured ~ few lays, others 10 few wesks
MoToBFArHY gives vitality aud force the functional
powers oths organs. restores the n,n the
abuses Of dlsspaon aud sell iudulsenc the ooiy
agent which will spinal difficulties, rvent abort
and ohviao steni. 1t Is equal, efficient the
iucipen consumption, bronchial atectons tatnisss new
Gus arrangement, liver complaint, aud all troubles arising
tiom organic weakness, torpid Calculations dyspepsia,
scroiula, aud pulniul periods, SC.
This treatment has also hoeR succrss epilepsy heart
disease and dtopsy. Ia alt Of peculiar eNcitbui
los. OF memory slight alterations mnd where she Lu
matte Asylum is iorbiddng, the this institution
! is truly gratifying.
There is extensive WATER CURE attached. wilh
gardens, lawns aud spacious accommodations where kna
nrss and pleasure among the remedial secure
buoyancy of spiuts aud cheerful enioyment
| work MOroRPAThY, and other particulars rar
he had, free OF postage, by osug letter de-
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Hobensack's Liver Pills !

No part OF the system h4hls disease han the
LIVER, itseYlng a. heTer 10 puniy the blood, giving
the proper tho bile, uny vrone ac'oa
Liver affects the other important parts the system,
and results yauousiy IN LAYER Complaints. Jautd,ce. uys
pensin, sc Ne should, Therefore, uvory symptom
that might indicate wong arpu of the wet hose
Pills hring composed OF ROOTS and PLANTS furnished hy
nainie tohral the slrh name hrst an EAPErIuRANT
which augmonts hs secretion from the Pulmonary mucus
membrane promotes the discharge OF secetrd m4tte
Second, an ALTERAIlNk, which changes incKpi-
cable and nsensh.e the mGbld action
system. Third, TONIC, winch gives tone aud strength
Ia the neppus system, Ianewng peulth vsuf al
pars OF The body. Fourth, aCAIhAkriC, wuch Ia
perfect harmony with he other Ingredients, upe
on the Bowels, and rXpelng The whole ofcoup and
vatul matter and purifying the blood which destroys
ease and festufes health