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Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
HARD TINES, HARD TINES.

|n'HE subscribers having taken advantage ofthe
tight money market. went 10 Ballinore and
New York, well prepared with he STUFF which
|nbed them to purch Sc at heir own prices, one
hhe Jest aud most desirable stocks OF
Fashionable domestic ANA Fancy
Dry G0odG.
rer exhibited to the people Of Berkeley County
hey are we'll aware that ut the present hard tunes,
impossible to dispose Ola large stuck OF geo s.
aIess holding oul very strong Inducements
therefore, they will commence on
Monday the & SIh inst,
amcrifice Fall and Winter goods al lower Gg-
uos tnan ever heard ofhefore.
! F-All those that are, or ever viii be in want
|'i ynesp Dry and Faney goods VIII do we to
laI at the cheap store Of
IA GOLDBuRG & CO.,
Is@ Sign Of The Red + z III
Sept. 81, 1854
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
lAMP az

FUST received prime article OF Lamp Oil, light
~ oolorcd ami burns wen with clear and brill
liant light, win aiso answer wei for oiing Parpo-
ses-for sale by WM DORSEY,
Auguts o, 1884 Druggist
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
365 ACRES


of first-rate land-about one-half the tract be-
ing bottom land and the balance gpland mostly
in timber. the land lies on the ratanlac river.
about one mile from the Falling Waters Mil
The improvements consist &c lasgc BRICK
- DIV ELilNti, with every necessary con
venience, buildings &c alafge Pam,
A!LSneds, Sallcs &c dc. Any ope wish
ing yiev the properly will be shown over the
promises BY calling upon the unl, ~gaed near
lie Falling Waters, or Joseph Chiswell, who
lives or the Farm.
T4rms--One third Of the purchase money will
borequired in hand, and the balance In Two equal
annual payments, with interest FROM The day Of
sale--the def0rred payments TO be secured BY a
Deed of Trust on the PREMISES
GEORGE CHRISTIAN, EI'fs:' e
17@Tagerstown Herald and Chambersburg
Repository copy I'LL day Of sale apd send bills
to thts office. 3sept ~ 1851 ITS.
PgBLIC SALE.
rpyHg subscriber win sell at public auction. ut
his resiiepoe, a miles soath OF Marsinsburg,
o. IAWS91y tie 12A or 0ct0ter. all his
gsEfss3NaE Pgsg2EATY.
eonsi ting Ia part a, follow,
head Of Horses, Q head Of Cattle Il Beef ;
20 head Of ifogs a lot Of Sheep;
One horse Wagon. 2 Barshear ploughs;
Double and Single Shovel Flougis;
| Wacaa Fan, | paiF Of Wood la lders;
| WAGON Bod, Wagon and Plough Gears
r. 5is Shovels Hoes and Rakos
Wen Anglers Spuds. &C., 20 stand Of Bees
A los Of PINE PLANK.
H0USEU0LD AID KITCHEN FURNITURE.
consisting Of Beds BelstSads aa} Bidding Bu-
roaus Tables and Chairs, , Cupboards = Cases
of Drawers, Pots, Ovens and Kettles. ! large
Copper Kettle, | Cool, Stove and apparatus AVID
many other articles not necessary to enumerate.
7er@s--A credit 81 nine months viii be given
on Nll sums over 8 dollars, (under that the cash
viii be required the purchaser giving bond and
approved security. NO property 10 be removed
until the terms OF sale are complied With
Gsssale 20 commence at clock A "
Sept -. 1854 JOHN G NftIIBNAW
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
nlERWARE,

HAylNG determined to close ont NY stock Of
Hardware Will now sell it at prime cost
Those that are balls ng cau save hty per cent
by eating soon and selecting just such articles
as they may want.
August 81 j. W GRAMMAR
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
EnK MALE.

A Likely negro boy, accustomed TO farm
u work, about 20 years Of age It's desirable
Ia sel him ia one Of the adjoining counties. En-
quire AZ he GAzbilh VFfICL
August 10. 1854
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
lsgamuel eauslal;An's,

Main street, right opposite the Berkeley BANK,
aiartinsburg, Virginia,
Can be accommodated with Coats, Pants & Vests,
Ready made; which will compare favoEably with
articles made at any ether place. An experience
of five years in all branches Of Manufacturing
Clothing is a sufficient guarantee thar all who de-
sire to improve the appearance Of the outward
man, can do so on the most satisfactory and pleas
ing terms at this Clothing depot. Fall suits as
low as two dollars.
Look to your interests. and give me cal, Ms l
cry body
Having connected myself with IN extensive
Manufacturing Establishment in Baltimore, can
aiEord to sell all articles il my line fifteen pr
cent cheaper than any other house, ald thus offer
inducements that defy competition.
sSyr-Aso an extensive assortment of Boots,
Shoes Hats. Caps and Trunks, which am deter
mined to sell without regard to cost
April 70, 1851
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
RERNEIEY LAND zen ,lAlH.

Z INTENDING 10 change ny resia tace wlli
d offer 81 public af private sa8n, iar sarla 80
watch Haw iesisv, situated N.le $50 MAJ
tnshufg on the tNafm Sp{a9 ts4l,iS. 81 sd.
laniag the farms 81 Messfs Hansoa J Sci
bert, Daaiel Bufkhari, Thomas g. iagg. aud
others ana containing aa3 Acvea 81 Laird.
lis Of which are Unaei good entva,tea, nnd
FIRST rate fencing HE improvements cons s.
ola YELLING HOUSE, Two ten. sAs
ant Houses, Barn. GrameIy. Smoke IA
House. aud other necessary improve LIZA
ments. Il IS deeme4 unnecessary g aire
iu,lhe; deception as any person WISHING 70
purchase. viii isSl WISH TIE premises.
ng-Tct ufihei particulars enquire OF The
subscriber GHAHbES RiDEA0UR,
March ~. 1854.
n. b. There i aisn Two foung and pro-
daetiye Orchards, Il tue moss choice fruit
c.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
PUBLIC SALE.

Fg1iIE subscriber will offer for sale at his resi-
L dence on Thursday the 26th day Of October,
ofhis movable property consisting Of
6good gork horses, aad Colt
6 ,Hieh Cows I yearfing anil spr,ag
Caipes, Is Sheep about ~ hog,
Sows, Stoais md pigs
> Uagoas, ruth RsUs complete,
| Gait = Bacslear Piows.
3 single md , double s4oyct 40
Harow, frace Gains
BRIDES and CoHgrs.
Eousehold and Kitchen Turniirre.
,on.siina Of Bed, Bedsteads aud Bedding, Mat
nsses Tables, Chairs, ] S,dehaafd Drawers
nina and Queensware, Pots, Ovens. Grddles,
Tabs, Water buckets, &c, &c.--- stove and pine
me Wheebarrow, some Bacon &c. &c - lsu
% extensive private Library { valuable Rooks
Ttms--Six months credit W y he " ~ ON all
nrclases Over FIVE dollars il,l purchaser giving a
oge with secunty---hye doliBrs or under the q sh
vii he required II before the articles are remcv j
Sept. 20, 1854 Lewis D. WILLIS.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11
PORTER, PORTER.
VINEG
TIN(TIRE or ARNlCA.

A superior article for Sprains, Pains, Rheu
y matsm, &c. prepared and for sale by
June IS. w. DORSEY.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-10-11

TE1HE subscriber having enlarged his premises
1 aud possessing great facilities to Manufacture
Cl9thine VI all kinds, is determined 30 efIer ia
ducements 10 his customers and The public gcn-
orally as cannot be surpassed BY any other per-
son, not excepting the greatest and niost Fashiona
BILE Clothing Establishment Gentlemen calling At
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
Always Reflect.

Never do anything rashly. So reader just
set down, rest your elbows on the table, make
of your arms two pillars, rest your chin upon
the palms of your hand, look straight ahead
and think--take cursory survey Of your past
and present life. What a queer thing j, is;
almost everything has turned out different from
what you expected. How you have. changed
in purpose, in condition, in character and in
everything since the small amount of clav which
you inhabit became animated. After you have
reflected fully on the varied events OF your life.
and reviewed your past existence in all their
bearings, go to work and make the best of the
circumstances around you, be they what they
may. This is the best advice We can give you.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
Intoxicated Monkey.

Jack, as he was called, seeing his master and
some companions drinking, with those initiative
powers for which his species is remarkable,
finding half glass of whisky left, took it up and
drank it off 1t flew, of course, to his head
Amid their roars of laughter, he began to skip,
hop, and dance. Jack was drunk. Next day,
when they went, with the intention of repeating
the fun, to take the poor monkey from his box,
he was not to be seen. Looking inside, there
he lay, croucbing in corner. "Come out,
said his master. Afraid to disobey, he came
walking on three legs, the fore paw that was
laid on his forehead saying, as plain as words
could do, that he had headache.
Having left him some days to get well and
resume his gaiety, they at length carried him off
to the old scene OF reve On entering, he
eyed the glasses with manifest terror, skulking
behind the chair; and. on his master ordering him
to drink, he boted, and he was on the house.
top ina twinkling. They called him down.
He would not come. His master shook the
whip at him. Jack, astride on the rdgepole,
grinned defiance. A gun, of which he was
always much afraid, was pointed at this disciple
of temperance; he ducked his head, and slipped
over to the back of the house--on which
seeing his predicament, and less afraid, appa.
rentiy, of the fire than of the firewater. the mon
| kew Ieaped at bound on the chimney top, and
getting down into iue, held on BY his fore.
paws. He would rather be singed that drink
He triumphed and although his master KEEP,
him for twelve years after that, he nerer could
persuade the monkey. TO taste another drop o
| phisky.. s1s s@
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
PLAQUEMINE:
Saturday, May 40, 1854.
Sun Rises, 5h. 4n.---sun Sets, Oh. 4sm.


Curious Calculation about Sugar.
Last year there were consumed IN this coun.
try about 7O5,O0O,OO0 pounds Of cane sugar,
and 100000 pounds of maple sugar. This
gives more than "a pounds Of cane sugar and l
pound of maple sugar TO every man, woman
and child If this were put into barrels hold
ing 200 pounds, and each barrel occupied the
space of 8 square feet only, it would take 1856
acres Of land for it to stand upon. The barrels
if placed in row would reach $50 miles. If
this sugar were put up in paper packages of 5
pounds each, it would require l4G, 100000
sheets Of wrapping paper; and if only yard Of
string was used to each package, there would
be required 439, 200 900 feet or $4,000 miles Of
strlngs-mo-e than three times enough to go
round the earth. lfeyery retail clerk sold leo
pounds of sugar each day, it would require
nearly $4,000 clerks to sell it in year. If the
dealers, wholesale and retail togeather, made
sprofit of only two cents pound on this sugar
these profits alone would amount to nearly
$l5,0O0,0OO
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
Useful Hints on -yatrimony,

No woman will be likely to dispute with us
when we assert that marriage is her destiny
man may possibly fill some sort of an existence
without loving; but a woman with nothing to
love, cherish, care for and administer to- is all
anomaly in the universe-an existence without
an object 1t is as natural for woman to have
some one to look to for advice and assistance, =,
as to breathe Without it, no woman ever was
or ever can be happy. Itis the want of her ma
ture, and nothing can satisfy her heart will,
such void untitled. Now with the exception
of some occasional irregularities in the relative
proportion Of the sexes, produced by circum
stances, such as the settlement OF ne countries.
| there is no reason why every man should not
have wife, and every woman q husband, and
this would be easily brought about by the ex-
ercise of common sense, and less ambition
Each sex is looking up for something above
its own sphere. The son Of an industrious and
successful mechanic must be professional man
instead of following in his fathers step; and th,
| is folly the first
When he looks for wife, the neat industrious
| daughter of a.mechanic like his father, is not
good enough for him, he must make love to
some 6ne lady, who is an age in advance-that
| is, her grandfather was mechanic instead Of
her father, a very aristocratic distinction. On
the other hand, the girl who works for her living.
earning by honest labor, would not deign TO en-.
courage the addresses of laborng man; she
! would set her cap for gentleman, torsooth.-
| The mechanics sons educated on their fa-'
ther's earnings to be set of fops, and daugh-
| ters who drive honest men away in disgust, and
| then become the victim of some sorry sharper
or shallow fool. Now, this is wrong-depora-
raby wrechedly wrong. Girls should know
| that men superior to themselves in education
and position do not always associate with them
for good. Men should know that by marrying
girls educated in the habits above their for
tunes they are not likely to have good wives. A
little sound sense will enable any man TO see it
! is better to have a wife grateful for more than
she can expect, than grumblng fortune; but
horrible, jol,ing, aggravatng work TO come
down.--Home Companion
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27

| In 4 little time his bones will crack and be dis.
! located in a very different manner
/ Al a distance of five and twenty PAGES stands
another man; it is the public executioner. He
l. dressed in black velvet trousers, stuffed into
!!is boots, and a colored cotton shirt buttoninr
at The side. His sleeves are tucked up, so that
nothing may thwart or embarrass him in his
movements With both hands he grasps the
! tnstEnment Of Iunishment-a knout. Thi.
knoui consists Of illrong of thick leather, cut
IN triangular form, from four to five wards
long, and an inch wide, taperng off at one end,
and broad at the other the small end is fasten-
cd TO 4 little wooden handle about two feet
log.
The signal is given; no one ever takes the
trouble to read the sentence. The execution
er advances few steps, with his body bent,
holding the knout in both hands, while the long
tbrong drags along the ground between his
legs. On coming to about three or four PAGES
IRON the prisoner, he raises, by vigorous
movement. the knout towards the top of his
mead, and then instantly draws it down with
rapdty towards his knees. The throng flies
s'nd whistles through the air, and descending
on the body of the victim, twines round it like
hoop OF iron. In spite of his state of ten
sion, the poor wretch bounds as if he were
submitted to the powerful grasp of galyanism
Inc executoner retraces his steps and repeats
the same operation as many times as there are
blows to be inflicted. When the throng en-
velopes the body with its edges, the flesh and
muscles are literally Gu, into stripes, as if with
razor; but when it falls flat then the bones
crack; the flesh, in that ease, is not cut, but
crushed aud ground and the blood spirits out
in all directions The sufferer becomes green
and blue, like body in state of decomposi>
tion. He is now removed to the hospital,
where every care is taken of him, and is after
wards sent to Siberia, where he disappears for
ever in the bowels of the earth, mining for the
Government. The knont is fatal, # the ins.
tIce Of the Gar or the executoner desires it TO
be so.
If The Autocrat's intention is to afford hs
people sight worthy of their eyes and intel-
gence; if some powerful lord or some great la
dy, wishes to indulge in the pleasure of vew-
ing the sanguinary spectacle if they wish to
behold the victim, with his mouth covered with
foam and blood, writhe about and expire in
frightful agony, the fatal blow is given the verv
last. The executioner sells his compassion and
pity for hard gold, when tlie family of the mis-
BILE sutfare- aoei.es r"rui.e,ao
blow. In this case he inflicts death at the very
first stroke, as surely as if it was an axe that
he held in his hand-IHe Kno1 and The Rus
sian
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
Opposition.

"a CERTAIN amount of opposition" says John
Neal, sis a. great help to a man-kites rise
against and not with the wind Even head
wind is better than none No man ever worked
his passage anywhere in dead calm. Let no
man wax pale, therefor, because of opposition.
Opposition is what he wants, and must have
to be good for any thing. Hardship is the
native soil of manhood and sef-reance. He
that cannot abide the storm without finching
or quailirg strips himself in the sunshine, and
lays down by the wayside, TO be overlooked
and forgotten. He who but braces himself for
the struggle when the wind blows gives up
when they have done and falls asleep in the
stiffness that follows"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
o1G5 ann 7:u1a.

Two thousand nine hundred and thirty ejgh
immigrants arrived III Philadelphia in April.
We avoid a snarling dog. not because We
Tea: him, bat because lie d.stulbs US; So it j.
with snarling men.
For woman TO be v.rtuous it is not neces.
sary for her to be 4 prude. One extreioe is as
/ bad as the other
# is stated that the bill! for the relief Of the
small Postoiiices vii! increase tie expense O!
the Posotiice Department soue S3OO.00o.
1t is reported that dandy lately appeared
! in Iowa, with legs SO ateea.lca, that the au.
thorities he'd him arrested bccause he had "no
visible means Of support"
| Mr.. Haight, of Lafayette, New York, and
his daughter, died few DAYS ago, in conse.
| quence Of using white lead, bought for sale.
ratus.
On Saturday, 18th inst, 1000 baskets of
strawberries, 80 barrels Of eggs, and 100 bbls.
, of green peas, were shipped from Norfolk to
New York.
Olive leaves have been used successfully in
the worst cases of fever and ague. They are
made into decoction-say two handfulIs boil.
ed IN a quart OF water til reduced by eyapor-
alton to about a pint. Given in doses of n
vine glassful every three or four hours.
Letters from England alIude to the serious
Illness Of Charles kembIe, the actor, who, il.
ia thought, will not recover.
One of the business men of Sanduskv, Ohio
it IS said, has decamped eastward. on his way
to Europe, leaving creditors behind him to the
amount OF over twenty thousand dollars.
It is ascertained in France that the vine and
potato disease is caused bv the presence of
small insects of the order of the "hemipterss-
tomopteres," a species Of ground lice.
The Hungarians will, according TO 4 late Lon
don letter, rise in rev luton the moment that
Russia is unable to protect Austria
Il is said that Charles H. Peaslee, of Boston,
viii be appointed Consul to London in the
place of George w. Sanders.
A correspondent of the Nevada Demccra,
sends a patriotic poetical production to that
paper, Of which the following is stanza:
Keep your eye ever fixed on the American Eagle.
Whom as the proud bird of our destiny hail
For that wise fowl you can never inveigle,
By depositing salt on his venerable tail.
Dr. Robert de Lambelle, distinguished ply
sIcian OF Paris, announces that shock of cleo
tricity, given to 4 patient dying from the effects
Of chloroform, Immediately counteracts its in
fluence, and returns the sufferer to life.
Lord Holland tells Of man remarkable for
absence of mind, who, dining once on Il shabby
repast with friend, fancied himself in his own
house, and began TO apologize for the wretch>
edness of the dinner.
A Western paper quotes Mr.. Bancroft as
having somewhere written of Jackson that she
never died; but when Death came, the old hero
showed him aside and escaped into glory"
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27

TThe Philadelphia Sun says that when the
Russians invaded Turkey, in 1928, they were
fifteen months reaching Adrianople, one hun
dred miles from the capital. IF Diebitseh-the
Balkan Tanner as he was called-could not
make more rapid progress against the Turks
when they were unsupported by allies and had
combined Europe opposing them, there seems
no immediate prospect of a nearer approach to
Constantinople in the present war.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
pMr. Alderman Robert, of New York, VII

yTMr. Alderman Robert, of New York, who
gave the young artist, Paul Julien $4,000,
seems to be very lavish with his thousands. 1t
came out the other evening in a debate in the
Board of Aldermen, that the reception of, and
all the honors to Capt. Creighton, of the Three
Bells, including the gold box presentation, did
not cost the city penny, this liberal Alderman
having betrayed all the expenses himself!
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1854-05-27
uThe Washington Union Of Thursday,

uThe Washington Union Of Thursday, in
an article on our relations with Spain, remarks:
We are quite free to-state-and in terms so
emphatic and unequivoca as to admit of no
mainterpretation-tha if ample satisfaction is
not allowed for the piraticai seizure Of the
Black Warrior, we shall advocate an immedi.
ale blockade of the island.
It also remarks that the retention in Office
Of Gen. Pezuela, the captain General Of Cuba,
arenders the establishment of good relations
with Spain and friendly intercourse with her
possessions almost impossible"