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The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-04-06
GOOD E

4 UST received a small quantity Of Wetsells AM.
d moniacal Cough Syrup, for coughs, colds, and
all diseases Of the pulmonary organs.
n. b. Reference to its superior qualities can be
ii ven in this city. 1t is speedy cure for Group.
Call soon. as the stock is small For sale atG L.
Eckert's cabinet shop. 37i cents per bottle,
l.. HALL. Agent
Lancaster. Feb %, 1854. ~
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COMPARATIVE Loss BY FIREs.--Tho a.
mount of property destroyed by fire last year
in Baltimore amounted, as appears by
official report,to about one hundred thousand
dollars; in Boston, 20 tioo hundred and Sirty
-eiqhl thousand dollars; in New York as will
soon appear. it is said, by the report of the
chief engineer Of the fire department., it has
amounted within the year to nearly GUe NIL
lions of'dollars. The annual number oil
fires causin material damage in London, il
about two hundred and fftv;the annual num-
bsr Of such fires in Now York city amounts
to twice that number, although London has
four times the number Of inhabitants and
seven times the number Of buildings. These
are facts. the bare statement Of which
is sufficient to demonstrate that the system
If preventing and ox'inguishing fires in
New York is wretchedly defective.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-04-06

WASHINGTON, March 9s.-The official an
nouncement Of the POSTMASTER General ap-
pears stating that he has made an arrange
nents with the Australian Pioneer Line Of
Packets, to convey a monthly mail to Aus
tralia.
1t Is rumored that an attempt Ia about TO
be made TO expel o northern member from
the Senate. Mr.. Petit, of Indiana, will
lead the onslaught.
The Senate to-day ordered tho printing
Of the report Of Committee appointed to in
vestigate the ella ms presented TO the Board
Of Commissioners under the Mexican treaty
The Deficiency Bill was then taken up,
when Mr.. Gwin withdrew his amendment
providing for q Custom House at San Fran
cisco.
The House passed a resolution providing
for expense Of codifying the revenue laws.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-04-06

Nav YohK, March 3L-A block OF SIX
brick dwelling aouses or Hamilton street,
Brooklyn. was bunrned yesterday, occupied
BY many families. and as stores in the low
est story. Loss 10000 or S40,o
The Paris correspond Mt Of the Express
states that NJ. Daniels, U. 8. Consul al
Turin. Undersigned.
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GREAT ATTRACTION!

anu UIIIbI HTUESIsIb ana GTOCc
Lancaster, Ohio, August 3, 1859
The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-07-16

SAINT PAnL AND THE GREER Po-
rrs.---When certain philosophers Of
the Epioureans and Of the Stocks, en-
countered Saint Paul preaching the
Christian religion at Athens, Tin the
year Of Christ, 53), some said. "What
will this babbler say" Others said,
'IIe seeneth 10 be a setter forth Of
strange gods" and they brought him
to Areopagus to talk with him on these
matters And then, standing on Mars
Hill, it was that the eloquent 'apostle
Of the Gentiles" delivered that remark.
able discourse, the text Of which was
the inscription on one Of the affairs he
saw in Athens" "1'o the unknown
God In the course thereof, he used
these memorable words "For in him
we live, and move, and have our be-
ing as certain also Of your own poets
have said, For we a1e aIso his NJ.
spring.
Paul was thoroughly versed in all
the literature Of his time, and could
reason and argue, and speak with an
thority in the presence Of the wisest
and most learned The words here
quoted by him, as having been uttered
by certain Greek poets. are to be
found in the works Of two Of Them.
First, in those Of The poet Ayastns,
who was born in Cilioia, md wrote
some 30 years before the birth Of
Christ. The passage from which tho
Christian apostle quoted, has been
Dnglished thus
From Jrve begin re. Who ean touch The string,
And not harp praise to heavens eternal King
lie aninases the mart ami crowded way,
The restless ncean and the sheltered bay.
Doth care pefpex7 Is lowering danger nigh
Ne ote his afsp1fnp, and TO Jove we fly.
Another Greek poet, CIennthes
who was Sttdc philosopher, and q
disciple Of Xeno--and who died some
$50 years before Christ---wrote, among
other things, most beautiful hymn TO
six lines of which have been
thus rendered into English
Great Jove most glorious Of the immortal band
Wnrshirphd by many MINES; alone in might
Author Of NIL Whose word s natures law
HALL mite thee may morfals lift their voice
f9r re Mine oespring ore All things that creed
Are but the echo Of ihe voice divine.
picayune.
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n 7rue Message/rom the Spirit
W0rid.--One evening a. n worthy
couple were seated near u table, call
ing up 'spirits from the Vastly deep,
the ghost Of q venerated relative de-
manded the alphabet, that lie might
rap out an important communication
The letters were brought, paper aud
pencil procured, and now commenced
the wonderful process Of speaking by
RIPS. Letter by letter was slowly but
deliberately raped out, until the fol
lowing startling communication stared
them in the face. " YIN arr d pnW nj
humbugs.' What ? humbugs y
shouted the husband, spripging to bis
feet Yes. replied his wife, laugh
ing, "humbugs but it required no
ghost to tell us that, This sublime
truth made q deep impression upon
their minds for though several months
have elapsed since this occurred, they
have never since been known to have
any thing to do with ghostly converse.
Papers devoted to the dissemination of
ghost literature, are requested to copy
this true anecdote.
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STEAM CAnR1AeEs.-.Mr. J. f.
Fisher has been experimenting in
New York with steam carriage which
be has invented, to be used on ordin-
airy streets and roads. At late honr
on the night Of the 18th, Mr.. f was
out in the streets, and the Tibune has
the following in regad to the expert
ment:
Mr. Fisher ssys that they came over
the cobblestope pavement, not particu-
larly noted for its smoothness. at the
rate Of six miles nm hour en- level port
ious. On the Russ pavement they ran
twelve miles ON u level A backmap,
whom they overlook, put his horses on
d gallop' and was easily beaten in the
race. Whether he thought the age Of
steam il doomed 10 supersede horse.
flesh we did not learn, but some others
did not, for, when opposite the Park.
some Of the fndia-rubber packing few
out, and not having the material ON
board to repair damages, they were
Obliged to abandon their carriage, and
this morning procure horses to take il
back 10 the shop. Having fairly de-
monstrated the running qualities and
easy management Of The macllinc--that
it can be steered and turned around
corners as easy as q carriage and horses,
it will be next tried ON the Brooklyn
plank road. Il makes but little noise,
smoke or dust, and the inventor thinks
he shall DC able to make cars, similar
to city railroad cars, that will run on
the Russ pavement, so as to obviate all
necessity Of q railroad in Broadway.
Cown1prso~-We understand that
quite m interesting case Of cowhiding
came off on Saturday last in q certain
restaurant in this city; the parties be-
ing a lady and n gentleman, both
married. It appears that lady in
question, feeling herself aggrieved at
the conduct Of u certain gentleman
temporarily residing in this city, but
who had family residing at the tho
Falls, walked into the restaurat above
mentioned, and finding there the OBJ
ject Of her search, administered to
him, sans ceremonie, several well laid
blows, and at the same time giving
him a "piece Of her mind"--charged
him with making disturbance in her
fanily-pronising to marry divers
and sundry young ladies--he being
married man all the while--and she
would teach him better than that.
On leaving, she gave the victem Of her
vengeance due notice, that if she ever
craght him in the street, he might ex-
pect another installment Of the slide"
with interest Buffalo paper.
10 Mr.. A. G. Lane, a gentleman
well known for his literary attainments,
and a graduate Of Centenary College,
will open school at jackson On tho
first Monday in August. It is de-
signed as preparatory school, to fit
students for admission to Centenary.
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TIE BHLreERENTs AT SEA.-One
Of those days we may EXPECT to hear
Of a naval engagement between the
Russians and The British, in the Pa
cifc or the Indian Ocean. The Lon
don Globe says;
L'rowling abont the South Seas there
are two heavy Russian frigates, the
Diana, and eonsort A Russian
squadron is al Batavia. Lawless Cal
ifofbia and The Mongrel Republics Of
South America are infested with pi-
rates to whom piracy would be o
pleasant pastime ; and if The war lasts
clipper ptivateers from these quarters,
under the Russian flag, will soon be
at sea, lodging Our gold ships. But
to the Diana. Unqnastonably it
would be possible for this fine frigate
and her cousort, well handled by dash
ing commanders, to steal along and
successfully destroy our six Australian
and New Zealand chief towns-Sid-
ney, Melbourne. Adelaide, Hobart
Town, Auckland and wellington
Most Of these plaees are noble deep
water ports, where even n seventy four
might anchor within mile Of the
buildings. All IRE utterly defenoeless
against attack from sea, The few pop
gun batteries possessed by Sidney and
another place or two, would be swept
away by q frigate's first broadside."
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BunN's Sronv.--A thousand and
one disgusting fabrications are now CO.
ing through the press, entitled "Burn'a
Story" Il is a matter Of doubt
whether Burt,s is capable of telling u
story, and why inaict upon the read
ing public, such silly details Here
we have an example Of the madness
Of the times, poor silly Virginia ne
gro, is lionized for no other reason
than because he has legs to run away,
and he used them. Now be is stared
1t. his opinions are quoted, and many
generous fellows have gone to work to
make stories for him. Shall he not 90
down to posterity as one Of the great
men Of the day, and have monument
erected to his memory
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ETA Mr.. Merriam, of Brooklyn,
has discovered IN antique stone vessel
embedded in strata of Chalk, made
of agate, and which seems to have
been designated for a bottle. II is
very small, but Of exquisite workman
ship. The chalk deposit is anti-delu-
Wan, and therefore must have belong
cd to one of the worlds inhabitants
before the food.
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~ The citizens of the Parish of
Rapides, held meeting few days
ago at Alexandria, where resolutions
were passed recommending Judge Q.
N. Ogden, to the vacant chair in the
supreme bench, occasioned by the
resignation Of Judge Campbell.
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DEAR MUTE MARntAeE.--Mr.
Lewis Peet, son Of DR.. Peet, President
Of the New York Deaf and Dumb In
stitution, was married on the evening
Of the 9th ut, to Miss Mary Toles,
graduate Of the institution. The
ceremonies are represented to have
been highly interesting.
The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-07-16

A REDUCTION or FlFry PER GENT
Passengers are now taken through
from Cincinnati to Buffalo, over the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and
Mad River Hallway to Sandusky, and
by Lake steamers from the latter place
to Buffalo, for /oy doliars, including
state rooms and meals ON the bonts.
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HThe Hon. Erastus Brooks has
accepted an invitation, to address the
graduating class Of the State Normal
School, at Albany on the 18th inst.
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Why does father call mother honey!
asked boy Of his elder brother -"
Can't think, 'cept it is because she q
got large comb in her head,
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MATRIMONIAL MArrfRs.-lo an are

y
ceived aniss. to suggest TO The sober
part Of sensible mankind, few facts
relative to social evils, ont Of which. the
hydra headed monster Of iniquity and
sin, has 50 long raised his head and
kept lis tail elastic.
II il asserted as fact demonstrated
by the past and present, that the ami
mal called "tnan," is degenerating,
not only mentally, but physically. We
have abundance Of evidence to prove
this, by comparative anatolny-hatu
raj duration Of life. color. eet md to
what may il be attributed, mainly 7
Why to the fact, that tnen delight to
congregate in crowded localities, and
violate all the laws ordained for his
government, BY The Great Law Giyer
of Notions. The eiTeminate forms
and customs Of society, are preying
Upon the very vitality Of his physical
organism, and he must speedily be
come extinct, and give way to supe
rior order. unless reformation take
place
One Of the most important moves
in this come ction-tfat calls for i'm
mediate attention. concerns matrimo-
NAL matters, There should be a INIT
rimonial inspector, un1e1 the patron
age Of thesgovernment. One to whom
"canddaIes' should apply for license
to enter into wedlock. lie should be
man eminent for bis Physiological
knowledge. and never permit an "ill
sorted pair to be joined together.
The mind Of man is not governed
by such laws, as govern The balance
Of the "tnerting whole" Of nature.
Man is disposed, rather TO love what
he should not. than what he should
The consequence Is, that gross fat men
become allied to spare women, and
tall women are very apt to select
when they do so for thelnselves) a
small swiveled mp man, that does not
come up to the full measure. We
know that it is contelded with
some plausibility, that this i'll sorting
Of the sexes,-at the same time it
keeps The family from running into
the seed Of giants; it prevents going
back into the pre-Adamito state Of
pigmies. If this argument were good; |
we should say nothing this morning
but it is not.
Suppose now as a remedy, that
there were in every parish anti county,
a matrimonial office, under the man
.agement Of sworn officer Of Govern
ment. That each dalnsel arriving at
the ago of maturity, Qbirteen) should
be compelled to go and leave her full
length daguerreotype on the wall
and that the young men should do
the same, after arriving at the age of
manly discretionary nine and u
half9 Would not this obviato much
difficulty and save "time," which in a
fast age is nothing less than money
itself9 We do think SO; and if it
were made the duty of The 'Matrimo-
NAL Inspector" to ascertain the value
of each picture in "landed estate and
negroes" then much heart burning
would be prevented, and n very whole
some moral influence, produced upon
the cummunity at large,
How is it now Why there il n
multiplicity of evils connected with
the present system Both parties go
and put their heads into the Uymen-
cal halter, with their eyes blindfolded,
and when the bandages are removed,
they find Themselves most wofIllIy de-
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AT the Woodruff House, Cincinnati,
emales are the only waters to be seen
about the dining rooms.
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DbWitb ~ HileS premium HhrHosS
was shipped yesterday on tho Ante
lope to New Orleans from thence
they 90 to the city Of Mexico for San
ia ANN. The carriage with which
they are TO be used was purchased in
London and cost $4,000.
Louisville Democrat.
The first grand expenditure out Of
the ten millions. Where was that the
proverb says the mounted mendicant
is likely to bring up ?--Picay"nc.
WHERE Is NEpAAsK. --Nebraska Is
bounded East by MINNESOTA and Iowa !;
on the West by the Rocky noun
tains on the South by continuation
Of the southern boundry of Iowa, run
ming due West to the Rocky Noun
taions. II is about as far south as the
city of New York. The Northern
line, the 49th parallel Of latitude, is
$40 miles further north that the north
ern part Of New York state and YER
mont, and us far north rs the northern
part Of Lake Superior, and furth-
err north than any part Of New Eng
land.-OrIeniun.
The Austrian Lloyds, of Vienna,
announce that Queen Isabella, Of
Spain, has conferred the Grand Gross
of Isabella, the Catholic, on Omer
Pacba, and Mehemet Ali Pasba, ex-
Minister Of War in Turkey, and the
Cross Of Commander Of the Lone Order,
Ferilo Pasha, Mastapha Paeha, and
Tsmall Pasha.
10 A white woman, name I'M
known, fell in the public road near
DR. J. Perkins house, to which place
she was carried; and, where, few
minutes after her arrival, she expired.
Cause, sun-stroke. --B. S. Ledger,
July 9Th.
At the Woodruff House, Cincinnati,
females are the only waters to be seen
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G'bt1prrklg Cu11lrt


fE~All our exchanges are fill Of
The celebration Of Tie Glorious Fourth.
The usual amount Of stalling and cut
ting, 1uarrelling and fighting has been
done. and as usual the major part Of
il may be set down to The account Of
aaleohol" Men meet now days to
"celebrate," and the extent Of the cele-
biation, IL measured by The number Of
drunken vagabcnds on the ground
There is SO much prodigal morality
abroad, that men cannot drink n glass
Of wine at n social reunion. it must be
4 bottle---ana nothing less than tot-
tie. The fellow who gets bensfig first
il the best man. and the measure of
tue Juvenile man is measured altogeth
er Nv the amount Of whiskey he can
carry in his bladder, without stagger-
ing.
Temperance Societies. and temper
anee laws, have worked little good, for
many Of the leaders and followers unite
and withdraw, to suit their appetites
and inc1inations. They may be eS-
Cd ssively temperate to-day, and to-
morrow. the leaders Of a drunken broil
The Fourth has passed off with The
usual number Of fights resulting IN q
number Of dead and wounded
The last notice that meets our eye
is the death Of James r. Murry. a
Lieutenant in the Rapides Guards. he
wins shot OH the Fourth in Alexandria,
ny young man by the name of Doe
Culbertson, and died shortly after.
from the effects Of the wound.
---1-e-1s-
THR GuLF.-From observations
made during the past half century, it
lie clearly established that the land Dor
,lering the gulf Of Mexico, lie by some
internal power raised, pereeptably
each year. At the mouth Of the Mis-
eissippi this IL abundently proven,
hence the main difficulty Of finding a
passage to the sea, for large vessels
The bars formed BY moving sand, play
y very insignificant part in blocking
up The passes, when compared to the
internal upheaving power. There is
evidently come mighty volcano at
work in the bottom Of that great body
Of water--some internal subterranean
passage through which the waters of
the pacific ocean boil over into the
Atlantic, thus aiding Gf not the prime
ea,,se) of the unsolved problem Of the
Cuffs Stream.
BurN's STopy,--A thousand and
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DoEs THE Moon INFLUENCE THE
WEATnER9-Will somebody observe
when the moon changes at the merid-
ian, if it invariably rains or SHOWS d.
rectly after; or if the change is late
in the afternoon, that fair weather fol.
lows; or if the change occurs in the
small hours Of the night, with the
wind northerly, that fair weather fol-
lows; or if the change occurs about
six in the morning, that rain always
follows9 If these, "every body says
So facts are proven by years trial,
we will publish the case, "the Moon
VS.. the Weather" with verdict of not
proven.--N. Y Tribune.
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If the Advocate does not like our
"logic, and our "common-sense," let
hmm show his readers the fallacy of
the one, and the folly Of the other.

|
"ANorHER EDITOR GONE" This
is the expression invariably used when
some Knight of the Quill sticks his
pen back in the muddy lux, from
whence it came, and kicks the buck
ct" All other classes get lengthy
obituaries, while the poor deciple of
Doctor Foster and the devil, is des-
patched with simple notice, that
another editor has gone''-"Gone y
Gone where! Why not finish the
sentence and say gone to the devil p
Is not this this the vacuum the mind
supplies. Alas! alas!! Shades Of
Castor, Guttenhurg, Feinsheisch, Shoe
fer and Faust, you have done the
world a deal of good with your print
ing inventions, but you have done it
also a deal of evil.
Is it rights it just, to send the
Knights of the "Press" down to "dus.
ty DEATH with the press Of the whole
communities sin upon him, and say
nothing more than that "he is gone? p
Is not this the verriest cowardly in
gratitude of the world Does not the
editor tax his brains, and myrter his
mind with the contents of black
bottles, to say pretty things for the
couple that were married o Wedns.
day night! Does he not wet his pa
per with the tears of affection, when he
writes an obituary for the valued citi-
zen who died on Tuesday? Yes, he
does all this and deal more and
after doing all the good and bad he
can, bis press stops, and some beggar-
ly contemporary informs the world
"he is gone We feel disgust for
the whole fraternity, when we thing
Of this, and to rectify it; when the
Louisiana Press Union meets again(O
we shall have standing committe
en- editorial obituaries"
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~ A number of the San Francis

~
co Daily Chronicle is before us, of the
18th ulto., in which we find some Of
the later movements Of our friend
"Col. Bcs'ing." Boosting is evidently
designed to make an impression on the
affairs of men, and if he does not write
his name on the gold hills Of Orphir.
it will be for want only of "pens ink
and paper" white Surry'' is ever
saddlcd, AMI he is ready at moments
notice to write, fight or fashion his
fortune as that tickle goddess may d.
rect. At the last writing, we find
him in fuss with Major McKinistry
Cave Couts and Col. Scuttle. What
the cause Of quarrel is, we cannot ex-
actly discover; but we find by the pa
per in question that he is mad "horn
mad about something as the follow
ing paragraph from a card in the
Chronicle will abundently prove:
And now we desire to state fully
and explicitly, 1st. We supposed the
article signed "San Diego" was writ
ten by Major McKinistry. Cd. That
on this superstition our article Of the
oath of March was intended to apply
to that gentleman. Sd. That finding
we were mistaken, we desire to re-
tract all offensive expressions in that
article rejecting on Major Mckiuis-
try, and sincerely regret having ever
made them. 4th. That we are very
apt to resent an injury that if we un-
intentionally injure gentleman, we
are ready and willing to say so, but
that as to be scared or brow-beaten in
to any such measure, good Lord. we
are rather inclined, from our personal
knowledge of ourself, and our personal
resources, to the opinion that it can t
be done"
So are we. A man who does not
measure at least six foot three, acts
unwisely 10 lay violent hands on
"Bosting.'