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ROBERT s. LAVENDER.

HOBEkT Sc CAVENDERs
WHOLESALE DEALER IN WOODEN, WILLOW, AMI
CEDAR WARE.
No. IS North Second ST., opposite Monroe House. st. Los
Missouri.
LAS on hand and is constantly receiving
Ill Tubs, Cedar Measures
Hoop Pals, do Tubs,
Covered Buckets, do Churns,
Well do do Faucets,
B. B. Cedar do Brooms of all kinds,
b. do Go Brushes do
Mop Handles Willow Cradles Wagons.
Bale Boxes do Baskets,
Halfbushel Measures, Rattan do 3bu.
Clothes Pins, Corn do
Rolling Pins Nest Boxes,
Wood Barrels, Manila Mats,
do Trays, Int do
Axe Handles, Nests Measures &c Gc
All OF which is offered at the lowest Cash Prices
st. Louis, Mo. aug 17-d2m&w1y
REAPERS, MOWERS, &C., FOR 1884
SAINT LOUIS AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE AND
WIN. M. PLANT & CO., sign of the Gilt Plow, No.
corner IL R MORN MAN street. st. Louis Mo- also
Garden, Grass, and other Seeds;
Agricultural and Horticultural Machines and Tools in
FDescrptive Catalogue furnished gratis to post paid
applicants.
SO Riggs Improved Reapers, 'sla5
R Rs.S. DO d's sickle Reaper Mover,
100 Ketchum's Improved Mower 1875
IL Emery's do horse Power Tresher 4 cleaner ESQ
loo Emery's do horse Power Thresher and Sep
IL Lewis horse power with Tumbling Shift
Thresher, 100
N. b. Persons wishing any of the above will please
send in their orders early, the number is limited.
SO Burrows Portable Grist-mills, horse,
steam or water Power Sis to 5000
IS Corn and Cob Crushers, Little giant,
Nichols, and others, Lotto IS
800 corn Shelters, horse, steam and hand
Power, ste So
1000 Ne Plus Ultra Straw and Hay Cutters, Ito IS
100 Hickock's Portable cider Mills, with
Press, 45to SO
200 Revolving Horse Rakes, Ito u
1000 plows, Peoria, Jewett, Como, Eagle
and others, ito 81
rs harrows, Geddes triangular and others to So
$50 CultivatOrs, different patterns, 6to 80
1000 Churns, thermometer, CYLINDER Others 75c Is
Shovels, Spades, Hoes, Forks, Scythes Axes, Apple
parers, hay Presses, chain and suction Pumps, &c.
Please recOect the Gilt PlOw, No. IL North Main
st. Louis, Missouri. AZ 3m
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SUCCESSOR TO ALEX REY, DESIRES TO SAY

TO THE CITIZENS OF MINNESOTA
HAT, having this day purchased from Alexander Rey
Il the entire stock of - -'.st W
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS FAMILY SUPPLIES
At his old and popular store Roberts street. respect
fully invite continuance of the liberal patronage hereto
fore SO partially bestowed by the public upon the estab
to maintain and deserve these fvors have purchased
the above stock at the lowest cash prices besides
ing the choicest articles of every description in my line
promise to afford my goods to purchasers
CHEAPER FOR CASH
Than can be found elsewhere in this city. "a. Please
call and examine my stock. -
Oct. 19, 1854. octl9w1y
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A LII the late novels Just RECEIVED per Express az
"a Nov. 30, 1s54-dn DAHL's.
aEHESS AND CHECKER gROARRS. I
LARGE assortment for sole ny }
n No 80 ls54-df DAHL.
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VALENTTNES |!

.-t VALENTINES! VALENTINES!
toBS ison hand rs usual with the largest and most
complete stock Of Valentines in Minnesota. Call and
see AZ the franklin Book Store the American House
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LIFE INSURANCE!
% State Street, Boston, Mass.
ESTABLISHED IN 1S43.
GUARANTEE GAf1rL $5o nU CAPITAL
DIRECTORS:
George H. Kuhn, Thomas A. Dexter
Charles Browne William Perkins,
Sewe Tappan, N. F. Cunningham
Marshall P. Wilder, ~ Charles Hubbard,
BENJAMIN F. STEVENS, Secretary. y
Il years. Its directors are men high standing and
its business is conducted high and honorable princi-
Piles.
Forms of applications and pamphlets of the Company
and its reports, to be had at the office Of Newell
Tompkns on Third street opposite MsyG Co.
G. 8. spERRY, NJ. D., Medical Examiner.
Saint Paul, Nov 22-dtf Fl
MUTAULLIFEI INSURANCE. COMPANY
OF NEW YORK,
OFFICE III, BROADWAY, TRINITY BUILDING.
NETT ACCUMULATED FUND, FEBRUARY l, 1853
$2,O1S,775 64!!
THIS Company has now established itself on such
l. firm basis that it offer those desiring an in
vestment their lives that greatest of all desderatums
in life insurance. viz full and perfect security Its his
mencing LIST February, ls43 90 years ago. without
dollar of capital except its receipts for premiums it has
now actual cash capital which is nyested in Bones
and Mortgages Real Estate, principally in the cities
of New York and Brooklyn, worth double the amount
loaned thereon of over Its receipts for
miums during the past five have been nearly g.
100000, and for interest investment $4,000
and has paid policies terminated by death during the
tme nearly $780, 900. Its dividends (after
ing fund sufficient to rensure all outstanding pOlicies
were So the first five years. and SO 3 per cent
the last five, the amount of premiums paid, being an
average of over AZ cent annum for years
These dividends added the policy their
sonary value, payable death with the amount nsur
ed be applied to the reduction of future premi
ums, the option Of the insured The business of the
Company is conducted strictly on the cash pan-nO
credits-and ii is believed to hold out greater induce
ments than any other COMPANY, whatever.
Its rates of premium as low those of any good
Office and are believed to be lower than some who pro-
fess 10 insure from 25 to so per cent less.
FREDERICK 8. WINSTON, Pres't
Isaac ABBOTT, Sec'y.
Charles Gill, Actuary.
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JESSUP a CONIPANY,

BANKERS &c.
EVXCHANGE sold and purchased on New York Hos
IL tOn Philadelphia Chicago, Detroit, and other CT
ties Of the United States Notes collected and proce ID
RENTED at current rates of Exchange Interest allow.
ed on special deposits. We also draw direct, pay able
without discount,
ENcLAND.-Liverpool, London, Manchester, &c.
lRELAND.-Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Belfast, &c.
scorLANp.-Edinburg, Glasgow, Perth, &c.
Aso Drafts payable in Francs, Florins Thalers,
rRANoErp Paris, Havre, Lyons, and Marseilles.
Amsterdam, RotteIdam, Antwerp Cologne, Zurich
Copenhagen, Dresden, Berlin, Hanover, strasbursh.
neutrality-suspicious. Bsrne, Basic e.
ITALY.-Milan, Florence, Rome. Naples, vesic.
Messina in Sicily. -
AUsTRIA.-Venna and Triest,
RUssIA.-st. Petersburgh, Warsaw
SwEDEN.-StOckhoim. ,s -,3t...
NoRwAv.-Christiana.
Dubuque, Iowa, Nov. 10, 1853. -y3o.
s: J. r. MCMILLAN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
WILL attend promptly and faithfully to all business
w entrusted to him in the line Of his profession at
saltwater, st. Paul St. Anthony, and throughout the
Territory of Minnesota, and the adjoining counties
the State Of Wisconsin. Office, srILLwATER, Min.
His Elk. Alex Ramsey, Geo. W. campbell& Co.,
-.-t st. Paul. Galena.
Dr.. c. w. Berup, - MFR. Lansing, ---W--
Mr.. J. w. Simpson, !" MIR. s. o. Butler st. Louis.
on.A.w. LOOMS, Pi.tsb's J. IL: Larkin & Co. :.
4" &. Shaler, 3" Sam'lJ Wetherellk Co."
J. r. Moorhend, ESQ. =" JOS G. Butler e. Co. Gin.
G. w. Jackson, Esq. 7" Mr.. Jos. p. Beggs,
sam'l Gormly, Esq: !" Mr.. O.Walker, Marine Mills.
MAJ. J. b. Butler, and {. H, Burke, C. /"
tttzens generaiiy, - --..G .c.. Butter, -. -
1884. Is > y FALL. CLOTHING !! d 4 1859.
%. n. L. & II. VAN DEvENTER Y Co.,
Wholesale Clothing Store, No. 162 & 1874
Main Street, Saint Louis, Mo-
WE in receipt Of the largest stock Of Men
w and Boys Ready Made Clothing, Furnishing
GoOdA India Rubber Goods, &C, g., ever brought to
Aint Louis, which will be offered 1.-THE very, lowest
prices and on liberal terms.
To cash buyers and prompt men we offer great in
dueements. 80 ~. x Z % rssr.- r. F, rorz--sS
asp l-wsm PL, VAN DEvENfER s-Co.
n IN, by the pint or barrel, for sale by
U Nov. 2, 1s54dtf w.B McGROARTY.
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NEW YOR K BAZAA RI!
IN W. H. FORBES OLD STAND

ST RECEIVED, by the War Eagle, large assert
81 ment of FALL GOODS
Consisting of all kinds of Staple and Fancy Goods
Hosiery Black and COored Silks and the largest
ment of Embroidery and Jewery of every description
ever brought into the Territory Ladies' give him call
and examine for yourselves sent 5dtf
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TO THE GENTS.

MO excuse for bald heads now We have been ap-
N pointed the wholesale and retail agents, of the
Territory, for Professor o. Woods great and unri
vailed Hair Restorative. We offer it in all confidence.
has and will produce good and perfect crop Of the
finest hair Call and see the proof, at
BOND r KELLOGG'S
City Drug Store, st. Anthony ST., upper st. Paul.
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ELEGANT, DELICIOUS AND SUPERB II
"Ehave pipe OF very old, soft and oily Pale Otard
w pupuy. The best that money can procure in the
United States and of the best imported into
Minnesota So say all the Doctors and Bons Virants Of
the city. ALI persons desiring perfectly pure French
article for medicinal purposes had best call soon at
BOND KELLOGGS
City Drug Store, Upper Town
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MONONGAHEIA WHISKEY.
nLD enough to stand on its merits and speak fo
~ itself. Good for medicine and for havoring til,
culinary departments Of the Household. At
.-.. BOND KELLOGG'S
nruO Sfprn Anti
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ATTENTION FARMERS.
IL ILL the varmnt We are as usual I" death ON
IA wolves" On hand, large quantity Of strych-
nine just the quantity you want, in bottles also,
and mice exterminators, chemical PREPARATION supe
rior to and more safe than arsenic. Gallon
BOND 4 KELLOGG
nov2S Upper Town.
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ED w AND M'LAGAN.
STORAGE FORWARDING AND COMMISSION,
At the Lower Landing, st. Paul.
A LII Commission and COnsignments, will be prompt.
"A ly and carefully attended to.
References b. II. Campbell, R. M'Lagan, Galena
Geo DeBaun, st. Louis.
Lower Steamboat Landing st. Paul, Min.
March Is. 1852.
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GORDON SHERRY,
4 ND South Side Madeira Wine, Holland Gin Jamaica
n Rum and Scheidam Schnapps, all warranted pure
vnd good
These liquors of course cost more but are Just what
saery family wants. We have cheaper qualities if de-
erred. Call Immediately on
sep26dwtf BOND l. KELLOGG, Upper Town
Eastern times., 1855-11-15
BATH, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER Is, 1855

that the design should be carried into execu.
ton. A messenger was forthwith despatched
to Covington, and before twelve O'Clock The
following day we found the little howi,zcr at
place in the woods previously agreed upon.-
My friend, Captain c., had sent .live
corporal along with it, and We had no Difficult
ty in its management.
As had anticipated, it answered our pur.
pose as though it had been made for it. Ev
cry shot brought down shower Of dead birds
and after one discharge alone the number OBJ
tanned was 1913 At night our game bag
counted over three thousand birds We were
sure of the ladies for the morrow.
Before returning home to our certain tri
umph, however, there were some considera
tions. Tomorrow we should have the ladies
in our company some of the fair creatures
would be sure to split upon the howitzer.-
What was to be done to prevent this
We eight had sworn to be staunch TO eact
other. We had taken every precaution; We
had only used our great gun when far Of, Sc
that its report might not reach the ears of oul
antagonists but how about tomorrow Z
Could we trust our fair companions with Sc
cret! Decidedly not. This was the unani
nous conclusion. A new idea came to oul
aid. We saw that we might dispense with
the howitzer, and still manage to out-count oul
opponents. We should make depository O
birds in safe place. There was a squatter's
house near by. That would do, so we took
the squatter into council and left some 15O(
birds in his charge, the remainder being deem
ed sufficient for that day. From the 1900 thus
left, we might each day take a few hundred
to make up our game-bag, just enough to out
number the other party. We did not senc
home the corporal and his howitzer. We
might require him again SO we quarteret
him upon the squatter.
On returning home we found that our oppo
nents had also made big days work of it :;
but they were beaten by hundreds. The la
dies were ours!
And we kept them until the end of the hunt
TO the no little modification of the gentlemen
in the minority to their surprise-for mos
of them being crack shots, and several of us
not at all so-they could not comprehend why
they were every time beaten SO outrageously
We had hundreds 10 spare, and barrels of then
were cured for winter use. 1t was not until
the colonel's reunion was about to break up
that our secret was let out, to the no small
chagrin Of our opponents, but to the infinite
amusement of our host himself, who, although
one of the defeated party, often narrates to hi;
friends the story Of the Hunt with the How.
ilzer. .'-Frank Lesfes N Y. Journal. /.
Eastern times., 1855-11-15
Grand Peach Crop.

Mr. Loughry, whose farm is on the Ohio
river, in Adams county, ten years ago set out
eleven acres with the choicest varieties of the
peach, the orchard being the top of high hill
overlooking the river. An Ohio journal says
aWe learn from him that his eleven acres
of peaches this year will bring him the sub
stantial sum of fue thousand dollars, or nearly
fine hundred dollars per acre. At the present
time, when ordinary peaches are selling for
from twenty-five cents and upwards in Gin
cinnati, his peaches readily bring two dollars
per bushel. The present season has been very
prolific, and his peaches have been exceeding
ly fine and large.
Mr.. Loughry stated to us the manner he
treated his fruit. When the peaches had ar
rived at the size Of hickory nut he employed
large force, and put in one hundred and
eighty-fve days work in picking off the ex-
cess of fruit. Probably more than three
fourths of the fruit then on the trees was care
fully removed Each limb was taken by hand
and where within space of eighteen inches
there would be perhaps twenty-five peaches,
but five of the fairest ones would be left to rip
en-. By carefully removing all but the choic-
est specimens, and throwing all the vigor Of
the trees into them, the peaches have ripened
early, and are remarkable for size and excel
lent quality.
Mr.. Loughry states his trees are now in full
Eastern times., 1855-11-15
wakefulness---1ts Cause and Remedy

EDITOR OF THE RURAL MANY persons of
nervous ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with
uneasy stomachs, from the use of too much
rich and highly-seasoned food, knick -nacks, or
thors, and those who have domestic or other
troubles pressing on the brain in fact all who
are not of mere animal construction and of re-
dundant health, are subject more or less to
,Caketulness, and difficulty of obtaining that
repose necessary 10 reinvigorate the system,
after the labor and cares of the day. 1t be-
comes disease, and sometimes as distressing
as 'the. snakes in the boots'' of the inebrate.
What is more tedious and eneryatng than
the difficulty of procuring sleep, or of waking
and waiting for the sonorous bell of the clerk
of time, and after hopelessly trusting it will
proclaim the approach of day, hearing him
bluntly tell all he knows by striking tloelre :
Then, the melancholy hours passed in solitude
and thick-coming thoughts of real or anticipat-
ed troubles and cares, are painful in the ex-
treme, and disorder the whole vitality of the
animal machine.
Many devices have been suggested to be-
wilder the mind and induce the lethean forget
fulness of sleep. Counting up TO hundreds
multiplying two or more numbers in the mind
and obtaining the result-calling over the
names of acquaintances, or the counties in the
State, &c. The most effective course is to
jump out of bed and commence walking in the
dark, exercising your judgment in avoiding
and in finding objects about the room, taking
no heed what the matter is /; Its effect is to
break the chain of thought-disPel vapors-
equalize the circulation and disperse the cleo
non-conductor, cannot do. The antagonisn
of the warm bed and cold air gives a shock tc
the nervous system, acting like cold bath,
which it is, only air instead of water. On
getting into bed pleasant glow is felt, and in
nine cases out of ten the brooding nightmare
of wakefulness is driven to the land of Nod
and forgetfuiness and refreshing sleep ensue
| No one can take cold when every part is
equally exposed the most delicate constitu.
tion may run naked mile in the greatest rain
or snow storm, and if they do not freeze, nc
i'll effects will follow. 1t is partial exposure
that deranges the system and creates the colds
lung complaints and rheumatisms of life.-
Baptism by immersion is case in point and
the thousand accidents by flood and storm
while a spoonful of water in the shoe, or damp
feet, or sitting by a cracked window-light
gives cold that costs life. The only pre-
caution is to keep moving; exercise and mo
tion and a will, can carry the person safely
through almost any exposure.
1t is simple experiment, and the fees fol
advice-gratis. Neiu- Yorker.
Eastern times., 1855-11-15
Cockroaches and Rats.

The Scientific American vouches for the
fact that
:. Common red toafers, scattered about The
hdunts Of cockrodches, ioiH often dr7ve acay, if
not destroy hcns''
These waters, like candies, are colored red
by oxyde of lead, most deadly poison, and
SO is the acetate of lead, or sugar of lead, as
1t is sometimes called, on visiting cards, which
being little sweetish has been known to de-
stroy young children to whom they were hand
ed, to be amused with. Fashion for once acts
sensbly in discarding glazed cards, using in
stead Bristol board, more plant, less cumber-
some, and really more delicate And while
we are speaking of one of the pests of house
keepers, it may be well TO know
How to get rid of rats, old, young and mid
dle-aged, with the shortest possible suffering
to them, and with small probability Of their
dying in their holes, or other uncomeatable
places.
Spread level teaspoon of flour or corn-meal
on chip or small piece of dirty board, sprin-
kle over this half grain of strichnine it kills
the rat before he can get to his nest.
1t would be wrong to let this statement pass
in journal like this, without cautioning the
reader that strichnine is a fine white powder,
much like flour, made from the seeds Of fruit
which looks like an orange, growing on
moderate sized tree in the East lndies in the
Island of Ceylon and neighboring islands. A
sixth of grain of pure striehnine will kill a
dog in half minute. One grain, which would
easily lie on a three cent piece, or even less,
may.prove fatal to a man. Hence the reason
for not mixing more than half grain at a
time, and by putting it on chip. or dirty
board, it would not be likely that children
would taste it, although the mixture with -four
looks very much like white pulverized loaf
sugar. AS it is such deadly and instanta-
neous poison, no more than half grain should
be purchased at time it should not be al
lowed to pass out Of the hands of the head Of
the family for a single moment. The mix
ture should be placed in room the last thing
at night, The door locked, the key put in the
pocket, and removed the first thing in the morn
ing, by throwing chips and all into the fire,
washing the hands we'll after doing so, as also
after first mixing it, for a great deal less than
grain would kill man, if it happened to fall
on sore or cut finger
Eastern times., 1855-11-15

The Wounded in the Dockyard at
SeYastapol.

An English provincial paper publishes the
following letter addressed by non-commis-
stoned officer of the 23d Regiment 10 his moth
er at Bristol, and dated Hospital, Camp before
Sevastopol, September IA : s'My dear mother,
Through Gods wonderful mercy still live,
though, after all have seen and gone through
it is almost more than miracle. However,
l can truly say that was one of the first in
Sevastopol, nor did leave till was carried
out. 1t was on the 9th of September, between
twelve and one O'Clock, when. the word was
given, and we sprang from the trenches to
double over the Hacis and scale the walls of
the dreadful Redan Battery. The distance to
run was only about two hundred yards; but
many hundred brave fellows were laid low be-
fore they got half the distance. The fire was
hot at lnkermann, but it was worse here,
mostly grape and canister. My comrades fell
on both sides of me. One cried, My God !
I'm hit! The other dropped down without a
word and by the time l reached the ditch
seemed to have lost my own regiment alto
gether. Then / saw one of my officers shout
ing for the '23d' on the parapet, and [ made
! for him. The ditch was half full of dead and
dying even then, and just as got up to it,
| there was rush from above, and scores of
men of the 9th and 33d were hurled or fell
| from the parapet down upon the poor wounded
wretches who were shrieking in the ditch
Many of our men were impaled upon the bay
onets of their comrades as they fell. But they
still came on behind, and in another minute
had one foot in the embrasure, and was in the
place. | had nothing but my bayonet, as my
| piece was discharged. | had just time 10 see
| that the place seemed more like town than
an open fort6cation, as we had supposed it 10
| be, and the Russians were hidden, for | saw
very few of them. There were, however,
plenty concealed, for before had advanced
two steps / was down, shot in the hip with a
Mimic ball. | asked the mercy of the Al
mighty as | saw Russian coming up to me,
for we.had thought that they murdered their
prisoners in cold blood, but he only lifted me
on one side where | lay, for it seemed nearly
an hour, listening to the horrld hell going on
outside.
The roar of the guns and the yells OF the
men were awful, and every minute more OF
our fellows who got into the works were shot
down and made prisoners. At last we were
put into stretchers, two into litter, and moved
off to the town, and taken more than mile to
| u, - nda1
Russians were already lying. They seemed
enough to fill all the buildings, though these
were very large and beautiful. was put up,
with scores of others, into vault underground
where stores had been before kept. Russian
doctors were in waiting, and they began to
kdress some Of the mems wounds, though num-
bers were already dead. My turn had not
come when the doctor walked off, and we saw
nobody but ourselves again that night. Very
Eastern times., 1855-11-15
American Jews.

The San Francisco Sun, in very sensible
article upon the present condition of Jews,
closes with the following paragraph =
&C The American Jew is only less proud Of
his country than his religion. To say that he
is mere dweller upon the soil because it aE-
fords him the means of support, is TO libel the
most noble traits of his character. The graves
of his ancestors are around him. His heaven
is as near to him on the shores of the Pacific
as upon the sacred Mount of Olives or within
the classic walls of Jerusalem. His God is
omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. He
has knelt before that awful presence alike on
the deserts of Arabia and the frozen zones of
Siberia and why should we here-where the
law recognizes his religion and his political
privileges, withhold an affection to which he
is impelled by every consideration of prosperi-
ty to himself, and future happiness to his chill
dren!
His respect for our laws is shown in the
fact that he seldom violates them. His wealth
has gone towards building up and enricbing
our cities. He cultivates the arts, and goes
heart and soul with our active citizens in ev-
cry useful enterprise. He quarrels but little;
heads mob-never. You will find him in
our courts of justice, on the bench, at the bar,
in the jury box, but seldom ever arraigned for
heinous criminal offence. This is the Amer
can Jew. Let his good qualities be initiated
his bad ones should be forgotten"