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that disclosure of these facts woul render
them infamous; and in other cases tn. witness
es claimed protection, on the ground that an
swers to the questions would Grimm ste them
selres. Having thus been deprived the full
disclosure of facts, no individual cs les have
been presented by US, and the Jury wherefore
beg leave to make this general pre- entmept
against such combinations, that are, in their
opinion, direct violation of the stat lite in re-
lation to elections, as the law was de igned to
protect and guard every elector in free and
voluntary choice in casting his ballo., and to
allow every citizen, otherwise worthy to be a
proper subject of such suffrage. We believe,
from the testimony before us, that such proceed
ings strike at the very foundation of Individual
liberty of action, and tend directly to destroy
the great and cardinal principles of our institu-
tons, as founded by our forefathers, that our
institutions can only continue to exist by the
free and uncontrolled action of the citizen, and
that all such restraints and obligations are de-
structive to an elective and free Government.
All of which has been duly adopted, and it is
most respectfully submitted.
WIN. c. BLoss, For man.
The following is list of the Gre I'D Jury.
Those wh, signed the Know Nothing minority
report are in italics: VIM. C. Bloss, brennan;
Chauncey Allen, Caleb b. Corser, CT orge W..
Goodman. William l. Hanford, Ebe hezer L..
Gage Mason Cole Jared Coleman, Ddsid Star
key, Philsp M Simmons, John Graham, Lewis
Billings, Elias Garrison, Robert j. Fellows,
David M Kay, Thomas D. Walker, Roswell
Lockwoo Jacob Garrison, Lyman Johnson,
Butler b.. dwell
THE MINORITY REPORT
To the He sorable Court Of Oyer and 1ermiaer ::
We, tk- members of this Grand jury beg
leave to ,eport, that we have diligently and la
boriously investigated for days into the doings
and sayings of Secret Political Organizations,
and their Bearings upon the elective franchise;
and, also, we have deliberately and candidly
inquired If any person or persons, party or par.
ties, had stiHed or suppressed free speech and
liberal discussion, and have not been able to
substantiate the crime, or violation of the cleo
ton laws or the elective franchise, upon any
person or party.
This we humbly beg leave to submit as a
Minority Report. DAVID STARKEY.
JARED COLEMAN.
w. /. HANFoRD.
MASON Cole.
PHILIP NJ SIMMONS.
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LAND FOR SALE

- TX valuable lots of land well situated country
- dences in Prince Georges county, Maryland, about
81 miles from Washington.
-Four of the lots of so each nearly all in wood
and well watered about two and half miles from Ba-
dcnsburg.
One lot of 81 nearly all in wood adjoining the
farm OF John Marron Esq, about three miles from Ba-
densburg.
One lot of 900 lately occupied by DR. Tudor This
place is exceled in beauty of scenery by any in the
country, and has il abundance pure spring
and fine stream of water running through the place Ii
has also abundance of fine building stone
have also 2l2 of heavy wood land about and
half miles from the railroad. The wood from this land
be cut and brought 10 the city a very small ex-
pense by way of the railroad.
All any of this land will be sold very accomIno
dating terms by applying TO the subscriber the Wash
ington City Savings Bank.
135 EDWARD SINATS
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that he only pays them for what he orders. AT
a hotel on our system, a sojourner is required
10 pay his fixed bill of two, three, five, ten, or
twenty dollars day, though he and his family
may dine out every day for a month or SIX
months together. At a hotel on the European
plan, if dinner is lost, it is dinner saved.
The extravagant expenditures in the decora-
tons of our modern American hotels necessari-
ly lead to extravagant charges, which in these
hard times are not calculated to increase their
patronage.
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UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS.

GnGWashington was number one;
The1 senior Adams next came on.
Jefetson made the number three;
Then Madison the fourth was he.
Monroe, the fifth, just here came I'M
Then, sixth, an Adams came again;
Then, seventh, Andrew Jackson came
Aud, eighth, We count Van Buren's name
Then Harrison made number nine;
And, tenth, John Tyler filed the line.
Polk was the eleventh, as weknow;
The twelfth was Taylor, in the row.
Fillmore, the thirteenth, took his place;
And Pierce is fourteenth in the race.
Now let US stop until we see
Who our next President will be.
Sunday School Visiter.
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A suit has been commenced in the courts of
New Orleans, in behalf of Josephine Smith,
alias Barrett, now in Canada, who Is claimed
as a slave, but is white woman, and alleges
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Hotels on the European system are increas-
ing among us, and they will continue to in
crease from this time forward, for the very good
reason that they are cheaper to the guest and
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Platform. Besides, you all know that the Ma
tional Know Nothing party is actively Pro-oia-
very. In all the Slave States, and In at least
one half of the free States, its position is une
quivocally Southern. The ruling power at the
South will unite with no Northern party that M
its action is not essentially Pro-Slayery. Iney
make and ALWAYS have made the Slavery ques-
ton paramount, and successfully demand that
their Northern allies should be at least negative
on the subject. What is the result but the ne
cessary one? They always rule US, and they do
and ioiH rule you IA the same acay.
4th. Free labor is curtaied, and, while rolling
towards us its energies and its blessings, is rude
" thrust back. The whole controversy is one
of labor Shall this Continent be subdued and
occupied by Free or Slave labor? Shall our
unoccupied West be an Ohio or a South Caro-
lina2 The object and effect of the prevalence
Of the nativistic doctrines is to stop the stream
of free hands that long to subdue our soils and
make our improvements, and thus to restore the
balance to Slave labor. Missouri Anti-Slavery
men are welcoming the hardy and Slavery a-
ting German, as the means OF ultimately re-
deeming the State. They declare the Know
Nothing movement most efficiently Pro-Slavery,
and that it has almost extinguished their hopes.
And now, Anti-Slavery men, will you perse-
we're? Will you ALLEVIATE your Thanksgiving
upon them new and false issues, and thus serve
the common enemy? Are you sure that you
yourselves will always remain Anti-Savery, if
you continue to make the question subordinate?
Look at the many early and earnest opponents
of Slavery who have made shipwreck of their
faith, by making it subordinate to some politi-
cal or sectarian interest. See, for instance, the
present position of Stanton and Cox, of New
York. Already Anti-Slavery Know Nothings
are preparing to drop the question. You all
know the past position of Judge Bissell, of
gainesville. But a few weeks since, he was
found in the Lodge room, in gainesville, along
side of Silver Gray and Dougasite, advocating
and voting for resolution instructing their del
egate to the State Council to lay aside and sub
ordinate the Slavery question. And are you a
better friend of Freedom, have you uttered
louder pledges, than he? Does your attendance
upon the Lodges increase your love for your
race, your zeal to redress the wrongs of Cypress
ed Humanity? Do you feel your hostility to
the real and constant aggressions OF the Slave
Power made more active, by making old women
tremble at the terrible dangers that threaten
from the aggressions of the weak old dotard Of
Rome, or from the ingress from our fathers
homes of free hands and warm hearts-wild
though their heads may often be-anxious only
to serve us, while they serve themselves? Your
friends think you are becoming Indifferent to
the great question of the day, and that you will
shortly slide under the yoke of the Slave Pow
er. We pray God they may be disappointed.
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NEW YORK LUNG INSTITUTE,
GUILFoRD D. sANBoRN, MD.

ESTABLISHED for the Exclusive Treatment Of
IA eases Of the Lungs and Throat, by the Inhalation
old Medical NapoTs. under the charge nnd cnnlrL o.
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Cheap Clothing
At G.. w. MARSTON'S
GRAND CLOTHING
ESTABLIS M f N Il.

THE subscriber has, in addition TO MS
large stock Of fashionable hats anu caps
has added new and find stock OF clothing
Every garment and article is OF the most
modern styles and latest fashion; all OF
which he will sell. and can sell, cheaper
than can he bought in this vicinity. lie
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that those that buy will be better pleased
A part of our large stock Of goods may be
ound in the following.
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Fine black doeskin, French Cashmere, plain
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With fine linen bosoms white flannel, cot
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neck stocks, and scarfs.
Also,
Hats of the latest winter styles. Th'
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| All who wish fine suit Of fashionable
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DIR. j. SCUENCK'S
PULMONIC SYRUP,
For the cure Of Consumption.

The proprietor If this medicine was himsel
many years ago reduced 50 low as to be given up
by his physcians aud friends. in the last stage Of
Consumption. Nhen all hopes of ever getting well
had fled. he was strongly recommended to use
syrup made from old Indian rec, ipt. which suc 4
cecded in ehestGaily cure ing htn. 1he family
physicians and Il large number of rcs pccthblt g,n-
tlemcn certified to the facts Of this case aid soon
the Pulmonic Sytup obtained reputation never
equalled in that section of the country, Creating.
aS this case did. sensation second 10 that only Of
Il miracle. DR.. Schcnck was waited upon By many
similarly afflicted. to whom he administ,r,d the
syrup with the same beneficial results In fact.
such was the notOricty Of this medicine that en-
lncnt practicing physicitus had their attention
drawn toward the rising reputation of it, nUm hay-
ing witnessed its curative powers, and freely cX
tended the hand of friendship and encouragement
to Dr. Schcnck. and introduced the medicine to he
public and used it in their daily Practice.
No other mcdiciue operates upon the system ip
the manner that the Pumonic syrup does 1t pro-
duceS II healthy action upon the morbid parts. by
purifying them from diseases IL promotes the TX
pectoratonS a,layS the cough ripCus the matter in
the lungs. and when it is discharged, it heals the
opening that the breaking of the tubcrcles Or abb
scesS produces and the lungs become sound and re-
sumo the Performance of their natural functions :.
ii also soothes the iitatcd portion Of the and
other organs and thus restores these parts TO health
A superior property that the medicine possesses
over all others is. that it contains opium calo-
mel. or any other dcletrious medicine
In lS4l Dr.. Scherck removed from Flemngton,
New Jersey. to Philad,lphin. and commenced the
practice of his profession. whore he soon acquired
reputation cXcellcd ly none. in curing Il disease
that had heretofore been deemed ncuIable and he
has since then daily presentad to the world ncon-
testiblc evidence of his success.
Both Of his parents died with Consumption. which
appears to have been an hereditary disease with his
father family All his brothers and sisters. except
one. died early Of this disease. none Of them, but
the one brother. reaching tho age Of twenty.
Thus left. nearly the last of his family he naur-
ally felt some alarm as one after another were CON
signed to the silent tomb by this fell destroyer.
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Voluntary testimony.

! We. the subscribers. residents Of Pennington, do
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
=, w. J. H. Schenck. lie was attacked by disease,
whib we believe terminated in Pulmonary Con-
sumwtion M Ter the operation of which. he was re-
dmccd sn low os n unable to leave his bed for n
long time, aud to all appcal" "nco was PsSs
lie is perfectly wcll-his coug, anu iefcr nave
left hm. and we feel justified in decarl II @ az GU, !,
belief. that these salutary effects have resulted
from the use of the Pulmonic Syrup.
MEMBER coNoREss.-Isaac g. Farley
COUNTY cLERK.--Joscph Benson.
sURRoGATE.,-G c. Seymour
JUDGES OF riE EcouRr.-SamuellIill, Robt. r. Read
ing, a. G. Davis.
MEMBERS oF rHE BAR.--Petcr J. Clark. VIM. II
sloan. &. Bartlcs. Nathl Saxtou. George A. Allen
jar. y. Reading, Alex Wurts
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cirlzfNs-John N. Capner. Mahlon C. Hart. Pc
yer Ewing. Asa Jones, Wm. X. Moore, p W Burk
ilugh Capner John l.. Jones' Thomas Gray, A. ]
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Az this time there is not n town or village in the
United states but in which can be found more or
less wonderful cures by the use of schcnek's Pull
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Rcspirometer for examining and detecting all dis
cases of the Lungs, Heart, &C.
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