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R~ATTENTION YOUNG JACKSON
8 DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION -
The regular semi monthly meeting will be held
on TUESDAY EVENING, August 10TH at 8
O'Clock, at the hall, south side Pa. avenue, be-
tween 9Th and 10th streets. Full attendance is
desired as distinguished speakers have been re-
quested to attend. All friends Of the cause are
cordially invited. BY order:
B. A. JAMESON, Pres.
b. X. RlORDAN, Rec Sec. au l6-3tH
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n ATTENTION, SCOTT GUARDS-You
are hereby requested to attend a citing
mi I'M and drill Of the Company on WEDNES-
" " DAY EVENING, the Goth instant, at TX
O'Clock precisely
Punctual atten dance is earnestly requested as
business Of great importance will be laid before
the meeting.
BY order Of the Commanding Officer:
au 1927 4. WlTHERS, LIST Sgt.
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<ISLAND HALL.-AN ADJOURNED
~ meeting OF tae STOCK holders Of Island
Hall will be held In the hall on TUESDAY EVE.
MING next, the 10th instant, at 8 O'Clock. 1t Ii
desirable all Of the stockholders should be pres.
cnt, as matters OF importance will be laid before
them. BY order:
p. M. PEARSON, Sec. Beard Trus
au 49, 3t* (Orpan)
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eSf-ON PENN. AVENUE, BETWEEN
II 18th street and the Centre Mar ct on Friday
evening, large Morocco PORTE NOMINATE
containing tickets In the Maryland and Delaws re
Lotteries. The finder will receive $40 revSrd nv
leaving the Porte Monnaie and it's contents Al m,
star Office. an ~ S,s
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BUCHANAN AND BRECKIN
~ ridge Club OF 6eorg etown will meet OF
every TUESDAY EVENING, at7K O'Clock, a
Forrest Hall. All persons over II years Of age
who wish to join are invited to attend
JOHN w. DAWSON, Pres.
JAMES A. WHITE, Sec. au is 2t#
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A WHITE SERvENT GIRL OF THIS
IA city is DESTROYS Of obtaining q situation In
some respectable family as a chambermsid ct
nurse. Address Box No. g, star Once. su 10 3tf
WANTED-AT THE U. 3. TREASURY
w Extension, Washington city, thirty good
Granite Cutters, 10 whom liberal wages viii be
given. Apply on the work:
A. III BOWMAN,
Superintendent Treasury Extension.
au l4-1w
baltimore Sun and Argus one week and send
bill 70 this ofice)
WAN r ED-wANTED-wANT
w Ind persons In want Of the following ar
ticles:
French or German Looking Glasses
Portrait or Picture Frames, round oval or "a usrS
OIL Paintings, large and small
Marble-top Bracket Tables, In bronze or gold
All kinds OF Pictures framed, and any size
Looking Glasses, or other work I'm the gliding
line done to order with disnatch.
Also, lot Of cast-iron Brackets, tuitable for
shelving, &C, on hand. Terms moderate to suit
the times, for cash.
N. BOA Work Regil;, and Looking Sass
Plates inserted.
ass Penna. avenue, opposite Kirkwcod Horse.
dec ID JOHN WAGNER.
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REMEMBER TIE CHILDREN AZ home
-, = ana carry them beautiful Toy or Political
lag, or some Curious Notion from The 6reat
10y emporium OF HAMMOND, asa Seventh st.
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Appointments Confirmed by the Senate.
John +. Miller, agent for the Indians in
Oregon.
Robert B. Metcalf, agent for the Indians in
Oregon.
John j. Gage, receiver of public moneys at
Grenada, Miss.
William N. Whitehurst, receiver Of public
moneys at Washington, Miss
James Ray, receiver of public moneys at
Opelousas, La.
Charles E. Flandraw, agent for the Sioux
in Mississippi.
Peter c. Rust, receiver of public moneys at
Marysville, California.
D. Garfield, receiver of public moneys at
Olympia, Oregon.
1innols.-Extract from letter from an
intelligent gentleman, dated Bellvilla, August
8, 1856:
"Our prospects in southern Illinois are ex
counties, the most Of which have been can
vassed by Logan, Snyder, and others, that
VIII beyond any sort of doubt averas q more
than one thousand majority each for Bn chanan
and breckenridge. Our oldest and est e1-
perienced friends tell us that the majo, ity for
our whole ticket in this section of tn, State
will reach nearly if not quite Is, 600. Viii.
hanson, franklin, Perry, johnson, Jas ,kson,
Unicp, Pulaski, Alexander, and Hardi, will
be almost unanimous. The opposition of all
sorts and shades will not average fifty vot es in
any of these counties. There was a n lass
meeting in Jefferson on Friday last, and ON of
over 2, 900 voters on the ground, it was | N
possible to find single Fremont or FiIlmo 70
man. 1.-THE" Middle" does its duty, we sha, u
have nothing to fear from the "North;n but
even there We are gaining thousands eyery
day"
The Proclamation.-The Presidents call
on the two Houses Of Congress to reassemble
on Thursday next, to do that which they left
undone in the matter of providing for the de-
fence Of the country, will be found in our ad.
Vertislng columns this afternoon. 1t was is
sued an hour after we commenced working of
yesterdays edition Of the Star. We stopped
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Commodore Forrest. On the 18th inst. Com
modore Valette succeeded Commodore French
Forrest in command of the Washington Navy
Yard, the latter having been ordered TO the
command of the United States squadron on
the coast of Brazil, as we announced some
weeks since. Ere he retired from his late
command, the following correspondence, highly
complimentary to him, passed between Com.
modore r. and the civil officers employed in
the Washington Navy Yard, wherein the for.
mer acted virtually as committee on the mart
of the fifteen or sixteen hundred Of our fellow.
citizens employed by the Government in that
establishment
NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON,
August Is, 1855.
Dir Understanding that you are about to
retire from the command of this Yard, to as.
sumo more important duties on a foreign sta
uon, the undersigned, who have been so init.
not associated with you on duty here, can
press;na ~. me opportunity to pass without ex-
F., nn,. the high estimation they entertain
inc y ", Is an officer and gentleman. Wish
10 yonr PEASANT cruise, and happy return
yours, nus' We remain, truly
L. M Poo, LEN GEDDIs,
=. McNDpn' Jso +. DoBBiN,
RICHARD BARRY, w. DAIRY,
McCoMB, Jso Sxon,
GRo. HERRoLD, EDw'n Eos,
EDWARD EVANS.
Commodore +. FORREsr.
CohMASDAKr's OFFICE.
WASHINGTON Navy YARD, Aug. ls.
GENTLEMEN 1 take much pleasure in a..
knowledgipg the receipt Of your letter of YES.
terday's date, and while I appreciate, as /
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CLiNI0N'S CELEBRA TED ALCOHoi
" COOK, for sale by
au 1887 r.unn,n

NOTICE.
p b. DONALDSON, DENTIST MS DC
.es turned to the city and nav be @
lound al bis once, No 3O6 Pa. avenue,
on ana after Tuesday, the 10Th instant. 1t1B
au 1881
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~. b-fersons calling for above must pro
ouce receipts for same.
aug 10 ec3t A. JAS FALLS, Agent
ATROBE'S JUSflCE-New edition, 70.
vised. enlarged, and improved.
Just published. ........- ....
au 10 FRANCK TAYLOR
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EOR RENT.-FOUR NEW sMALl,sRICk
l. Houses just finished, immedi lately northwest
OF the Capitol, between b street and the Railroad
ClS >. BhOOhS. m 1a-eafF
True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-07-23

ANEcDoTE OF JOHN WESLEY "A lady
once put question 10 this eminent man,
"Mr. Wesley, supposingthat you knew
you were to die at l2 O'Clock TO- morrow
night, how would you spend the interven-
ing time 20
/ How, madam" be replied, why,
just as intend TO spend it now. l should
preach this evening at Gloucester, again
at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning. Alter
that / should ride to Tewkesbury, preach
in the afternoon. and meet the societies
in the evening. l should then repair to
friend Martins house, who expects to
entertain me. converse and pray with
them as usual, retire to my room at 10
o'clock, commend myselfto my Heaven
ly Father, lie down to rest, and wake UP
in glory" " N " 80
Amiable Wesley how many Of Thy
sect at the present day can honestly fol.
low suit, may well be query. But.
" Blessed is that servant whom his Lord,
when lie comcth, shall find so doing"
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The Poetic view Of America.

In the history Of the earth hitherto The
largest and most stirring nation appears
tame and orderly, 10 our ampler largeness
and stir. Here at last is something il
the doings of man to correspond with
the broadcast doiDgs Ofihe day and night.
Here is not merely nation, but a tcem7
ing nation of nations. Here is action
united from strings; necessarily blind 10
particulars; magnifcently moving in vast
masses. Here is The hospitality which
ever indicates heroes. Here are the
roughs. and boards, and space, and rug
gedness, and nonchalance, that the soul
loves. Here the performance, disdaining
The trivial--unapproache in the iremen-
dous audacity Of It's crowds and groupings,
and the push offs perspective spreads
with crampless and flowing breath, and
showers its prolific and splendid extrava-
gance. Other states indicate themselves
in their deputies ), but the genius Of the
United States is not best or most in its
executives or legislatures, nor in its am-
bassadors. or authors, or colleges, or
churches, or pallors, nor even in its
newspapers or inventors, but always
most in the common people. There man
ners, speech, dress, friendships, the fresh,
ness and candor of their physiognomy--
the picturesque looseness Of their carriage
their deathless attachment to freedom
their averlion to anything indecorous,
or soft, or mean--the practical acknowl-
edgment Of the citizens of one State by
the citizens of all the other Siales---the
ferceness of their reused resentment
their curiosity and welcome of novelty
their sell.esteem and wonderful sy mpa.hy
their susceptibility to slight--ihe air
they have Of persons who never knew how
itfelt TO stand in the presence Of superb
Ors--,he huency Of their speech-lhsir
delight in music, the sure symptom o.
manly tenderness and native elegance o.
soul-their good temper and openhand-
edness--the terrible significance of their
elections-the President taking off hi.
hat to them, and not they to him--,hese
are unrhymed poetry. 1t awaits the gt
gantic and generous treatment worthy ol
it--Leares Of grass, by Waher White.
man. ... ,t:i a
True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-07-23
Skeleton of A Fashionable Sermon.

The following, from the Knickerbocker,
is we'll merited burlesque a. on the style
Of discourses so common in these days
from dandyjaek graduates Of bogus divin-
ily achooIs, anxious to show off their
slight smattering of superficial learning,
without knowing how to properly apply
it: 'i.' '.s2 10 -''--' t''-'''.'' . ''-
TExr.-" And he killed tile FaHed
Calf" .s# r. ,!-.s.tt f..,41i..f a.
Introduction. Not necessary to say
much about the Prodigal Son, for nearly
every wealthy family has aspecimen of It's
own, and need no enlightment on the
subject. Divide tie subject into five
heads. ...- atI .l.Eta4 ...t %.
LIST. Speak Of tie CALF, and inform
your hearers how u calf should be fatted.
Give him all the milk Of two cows, except
tin cup full now and then for the baby.
Here you can make some learned remark,
about the miIky-way, the belt of Jupiter
and Lord Ross telescope. .f! ......
3D. He killed the fatted calf, but not
only the Scriptures, but Josephus and
the Fathers are profoundly silent on the
question hov he killed it. AS this was
more than a thousand years before the
invention of gunpowdcr firearms, the
presumption is that the old man didn't
shoe. the critter, hut pitched into him with
a club--for clubs are very ancient instilu.
it0ns. r.- t.- '.-. "" .3
Sd. Explain why tie old gentleman,
instead of a caIf, did'ntkill shOte--make
oue-horse barbecue and have a real
lime Of it. " .
4th. Inform your hearers what the
word cali lfmeans when used in Hebrew,
Greek, Latin, Choctaw, or Lockjaw.
5th. Dwell pathetically upon the mel
ancholy degeneracy Of the present age,
evinced by the fact that fathers, now a
days, instead Of treating runaway son Il
a. fas,Od ou'fi GRO r..;ystiy opt to treat hin
to a hasty plate of soup made from th'
hide Of the calf's maternal progenitor
CONCLUSION. Throw in little geolo
gy talk learnedly about grapswake
and Transition cOnglOmerate.' Wind
up the discourse with a most eloquent
affecting appeal to consciences of your
hearers on the Durham breed Of cattle.
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power of doing good, that they hold back
their hands. Ten Of the most wealthy
and leading woman in every. town or vii
lage, might, if they would. change the
whole social order. Men Of wealth think
it manly and ignoble, 10 live without some
ostensible bnsiness-some means OF ac-
quiring each day their daily bread, even
if they spend ten times the amount in
ways and means that best suits them.
Thus labor for maphaod becomes res
peclable, and the work, of the head and
the hands, ARE every day assimulating and
acknowledging each other as equals.
When will woman learn 10 feel that TO
procure her own subsistence is not only
respectable, but honorable I! When will
those who assume the leadership of soci.
ely, give examples of independence and
usefulness to those whom they. know
have need to toll, and give them strength
for the duties that dcvolve upon them
Every unfortunate woman in our land
needs this help. ,.-.................-
We are everywhere deploring the dis
gust with which our American women
look upon honest labors we may preach,
MIS-. Smith, and talk and pray till dooms.
day it will grow worse instead Of better
despite al. our efforts, if women who
have the power Of education, wealth and
position, do not set the example for those
that have neither.
While every laboring woman, from The
teacher down to the washerwoman, apollo
gizes for her industry, and tells with ap-
patent humiliation that she labors because
it is necessary she should do something,
and hints that she hopes the time will
come when she shall not be obliged to
toll, we need expect no elevation for the
laborng woman The workers must
dignity themselves by boldly saying, I'VE
work because labor is duty, worship, love
work, because no human soul has any
| right to idle.-Becnuse il makos us boz
ter, stronger and happier, and had we
thousands at our command, we would
still be usefpl and strive each day 10 fill
up our measure of existence with some-
thing that should do ourselves and the
world about US good. ........i.g......
OH! it is debasing to spend life in
idleness or in trilles that give no assur-
ance that'we are living true and earnest
lives. And now terrible when we must
lay our heads nightly upon our pillow.
aching with. the, consciousness that we
have done, evil, by setting examples that
help to depress the poor and struggling.
and to widen the gulf between riches and
poverty, by impressing upon the public
mind more deeply the crushing idea that
it is a disgrace for woman to be inde-
pendent through her own endeavors.'
80 And that's why Eunice Patt, now
Mrs. Faenstock, Of Elm Grove, the rich
retired bankers wife, teaches school, is
it" ...r.yl .,,....... ..3
Yes, and God bless her noble gener
GUS trust.-Woma,a's Advocate. ,.,,,
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tN ..la TlI.f fiH..
COUNT ,THEM.-Count what? Why
count The mercies which have been quiet
ly falling in your path through every peri
cd of your history. Down they come,
every morning and.eyery evening. as ange-
messengers from the Father of lights. to
tell Of } our best Friend in heaven. Have
you lived these years., wasting mercies,
treading them beneath your feet. and con-
suming them every day, and never yet
realized from whence they came f! II
you have, Heaven pity you ...-. 3D..
You have murmured under affliction
but who has heard you rejoice over bless
ings! DO you ask what are these mer-
cies! Ask the sunbeam, the rain drop,
the star or the queen Of night What is
life but q mercy? What is bealth,
strength, friendship, social life, the gospel
of Christ, divine worship : Had they the
power of speech, each would say, II am
a mercy" Perhaps you never regarded
them as such, Ifnot, you have been a
dull studento Of nature or revelation.
What is the propriety of stopping to
play with thorn bush when you may
just as well pluck sweet flowers, and eat
pleasant fruits 7 .rn b, .,,. ,......'.......
Yet we, have seen enough, Of men to
know that they have a morbid appetite
for thorns. lfihey have lost friend they
will murmur at the less. if God has given
.tbema seoreof new ones. And somehow,
everything assumes value when it is
gope, which man would not acknowl-
edge when .ho had il in his possession,
unless, indeed. some one wished to .pur-
ichaselt. Of ,.aeGEs&.Y y4s>yt .i,ao9s
.0 Happyis he who looks at the hight
side of life, Of providence. and of reyela-
Gon Who avoids ihorus, and thickets
sloushs, until his Christian growth is
such that if he cannot improve them, he
may pass among them without injury
Count mercies before you complain of
Affections. Religious Telescope, ,,qsq
True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-07-23

SIDNEY SMITH ON SWEARING. Sidney
Smith, when II aveling in a stage coach
one day, long before railroads were dream
ed Of, was terribly annoyed by a young
man, who had acquired The polite art of
swearing 10 such an extent, that he could
not help interlarding his discourse with
it, as though it were a constituent part of
the language. As there was lady pre-
sent, the matter was doubly annoying
After enduring the young mans display
for some time, The "wag, wit and vicar,
as one of his cockney admirers called
him, asked permission 10 tell the company
of little anecdote, and thus commenced:
"Once upon time (boots, sugar tongs
and tinder boxes there was King Of
(boots, sugar tongs and Under boxes En-
gland who, at grand ball, (boots, sugar
longs and tinder boxes,) picked up the
Duchess of boots, sugar tongs and tinder
boxes) Shrewsbury's garter (boots, sugar
tongs and finder boxes) and said: Honi
SOIL quit malay (oools, sugar tongs anu
tinder boxes) pense,' which means in En-.
glish, evil be to him, who (boots, sugar
longs and finder boxes) evil thinks. y
This was the origin of (boots, sugar tongs
and ,inder boxes) the order Of the garter.
When Sidney Smith had concluded,
the young gentleman said: GA very
good story, sir-rather old-bat what
the devil has boots, sugar tongs and tin,
der boxes to do with it p ....
~ will tell you, my young friend,
when you tell me what 'd--m my eyes,
&c, have TO do with your conversation.
In the meantime, allow me to say, that's
my style Of swearing" ,..,
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DOMESTIC PIETY,--lf there be one
curse more bitter than another to man,
it is to be the offspring of an irregular
home ; Of home where the voice OF
praise and prayer ascend not to God, and
where the ties Of human affection are not
purified and elevated by the refining in
Auence Of religious feeling of home 10
which, if the cares or sorrows of life shall
bring religion 10 the heart in after d lays,
that heart cannot turn without bitterness
of feeling, without anguish and vexation
of spirit. If there be curse to any
country where the truths of religion ate
known, the deepest and bitterest curse
which can be inflicted on il is multitude
of homes like the one which | have sup
posed. Such homes send forth their sons
unchecked in evil thoughts, unhallowed
iD their habits, and untaught in love to
God: the name and Cross of Jesus Christ
stamped on their forehead, but not written
in their hearts: and they send them
forth to prey upon the land. and to be-
come its curse and destruction, But on
the other hand, there is a blessing to the
religious home, which no tongue can de.
scribe. The home where in early years
the heart is trained to love of God and
to take pleasure in his worship and SER
vice, interviewer with the existence of
many holy affections which die not with
the circumstances that gave them birth
which last long, though they may be for
season forgotten and neglected, and
which shall exercise at least some check
upon the evil Of the human heart. aud Of
ten. may, commonly, recall il to hear
again the word Of God, and turn TO the
paths ofholiness and peace. How great,
how unspeakuble. is the happiness Of a
land where homes like this are common.
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A. Western Lawsuit.

Law is law out west. Some years ago
an attachment was issued and levied upon
the stock ia trade Of a stage company, and
the consequence was very disastrous, Of
course; passengers were piled up here
and there, just where the writ found
them; mails were stopped and the deuce
was 10 pay everywhere. 90 SIG "t"
John Jones, attorney for the company,
went ont through the several counties of
the State where the "plunder was
held "by authority OF the people Of the
State of -" and moved las lawyer
might move as the law then stood) be-
fore side judge, for d" dissolution Of
the writ" "-nGu-5 ,"s ."..'G 1'.s
Lawyer Jones went forward swim
mingly for awhile, and knocked over the
wrils one after another like row ofbricks.
He finally reached the county Of,
where he found the attorneys on the other
side, and the Judges all evidently expec'
ting him, for they were pouring whiskey
down The Judge ata log tavern, "a very
fashionable game in those days-but law
is law telling him funny stories. and
freely using peculiar kind of soft soap,
touching his legal ability, and the high
reputation which he had acquired on the
bench. ".sH.
Thus drenched and smeared, the Judge
at last took his seat, digni6edly put on
his specs. opened the Revised Statutes,
and spread!,hem out solemnly before him.
and the hearing went on. -r 'd'
But the fire water began to operate,
the eyes Of the Judge waxed heavy, and
now and then he gave ahalf surge side
ways in his seal, Jones raised several OBJ
jections to the proceedings, and insisted
upon points Of irregularity. But the
Judge said
He di-did mt know but Mr.. Jo-one'
was right. but he cou.couldn'l travel out
opt cider the staterts.'
The opposite council at this bright OBJ
servaion, nodded their heads and wink
ed at each other.
AT last Jones saw that it was OF no use
Some six or seven times the Judge hac
told him he couldn't travel outside o
the stalers.' Yes he would rise upon
him '--thete was no other way. He die
rise upon him. ~,
you old bloat ! exclaimed Jones'
you've been in the keeping Of those two
pettifoggers all the morning--you are
completely picked with whiskey! you
are SO drunk you don't know law from
gospel Can't travel inside the s'au e.
Ell! No indeed you can't! And if those
two shuys ers on the other side conl(
get one more drink down your throat
you couldn't travel at a!l--ou'side the
statue or anywhere else!'
Il is singular fact, that Jones had nc
trouble after this.
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-
EE One of the old travelers--Her-
odotus, we belieye,--wriles of a people
near the Scythiane, who, when their re-.
latiyes become aged and in6rm, so that
they had no further use for them, were in
the habit Of boiling them up with yege-
tables, and making public feast Of them.
The members Of the I" fiercs Democracy"
seem TO be using Mr.. Franklin Pierce in
about the same manner. They gave him
pretty .effectual boiling at the Cincinnati
Convention, and though they haven't be-
gun to eat him yet, they show jus, as
much respect for his remains. as the can
ibalic ancients aforesaid did for those Of
their defuncl kindred. The action Of the
Senate, with its strong Administration
majority, in passing the bill for the i'm.
provement Of the ST. Clair Flats, over the
Presidents Veto, by . vote ofpearly
four to one, is fair exsmplificaiion pf
this. What was the meaning Of thst
plank in the Cincinnati Platform. which
virtually asserts s'eternal hostility TO eve
~ form or Internal Improvement s--Cia.
ColumbiDs. sse Is s,sF ,