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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-03-11

CTOVES! STOVES Nv. j. POINTS has a
full assortment of Cooking, Paror and BOX Stoves,
Coal Crates, Wooden Buckets, Baskets, Brooms, Ash
and Coal Buckets and Tin Ware of all kinds.
~" One door below the Marble Yard
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-03-11

- TONS PRIME LUMP AND GROUND PLAS-
O(J TER now receiving, and low for cash.
J. BRANDEBURG d co.
Staunion Dec 8, 1856.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-03-11

nLASTER! PLASTER !--lOO TONS
PLASTER FOR SALE.-Forconvenienc ofbuy-
ers, it will be ground at Bells Mill, Waynes60ro'
WM. WITuR0W, JR.
Wavnesboro' Feb, is, 1857
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-03-11

NALL GOODS.-PIPER Il FUNkHOUSER
will. in few days offer decidedly the largest and
,no,t handsome Stock Of DRESS GOODS they have
ever heretofore had the pleasure of showing. Goods
are beautiful this fall.
lctnhnr / 1Sa6
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
10 BE Thought About,

Can farmer find any better invest.
n:ent for his money, over and above hal
is required for the support and education
of his family. than to expend it upon his
fam in the Improvement of his stock, IN
planting trees, in draining, enriching, in
proving and ornamenting the place lie
has chosen as the scene of his labors, and
the centre of his comforts Rurm .New
Yorker.
We say not. The putting it at into
rest on bond and mortgage, or the irves.-
ing it in new, needless, aud unimproved
lands, is just as foolish, practically, AMI
50 far as o res happiness or usefulness is
concerned, as throwing it into the sea-
To-day is all that we can call our own.
and the leaving an oyerabundance of loose
property to hers, is at least dangerous
experiment. Better far have finely i'm
proved farm, and good practical knowl
edge among sons and daughters, of the
best mode Of using it So say We
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
Kind words.

They never blister the tongue or lips:
and we have never heard of one mental
trouble arising from this quarter. Though
they do not cost much yet they accomplish
much. They help ones own good ma
ture and good will. Soft words soften
our very soul. Angry worts are full Of
the flame of wrath, and make the fame
Nore fierce.
Kind words make other people good
natured. Cold words freeze people, and
hot words scorch them, and bitter words
make them bitter, and wrathful words
make them wrathful. There is such q
rush of al other kind Of words in our days
that it seems desirable to give kind words
a chance among them. There are kind
words, vain words, and idle words, pro-
fame words, and warlike words. Kind
words also produce their own image on
mems souls, And q beautiful image it is.
They soothe, and comfort the hearer.-
They shame him out Of his sour, morose
and unkind feelings. We have not be-
gan to use kind words in such abundance
as they ought to be used.
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WHO Writes the songs 2

The principal writer is Stephen c. Fos-
ter, author of "Uucle Ned" -'Oh Susan
nah" DE. Mr.. Foster resides near Pitts
bnrg. v here he occup:esa moderate clerk
ship, upon which, and percentage ON
the sale of his songs, be depends for
living. He wri2cs the poetry as we'll as
tho music for his songs. These are surg
wherever the English language is spoken
and the music is sung wherever. men
sing. In the cotton-felds of the South,
among the mines Of California and Aus
tralia. in the sea-coast cities of China, IN
Paris, in the London prisons, every
where, in fact, his melodies are heard
"Uncle Ned" was tho first. This was
published in 1S45, and reached sale
unknown till then in the music publishing
business. Of the "Old Folks at Homo"
100, 900 copies have been printed in this
country, and rs many more in England.
MY Old Kentucky Home" "Old Dog
Tray" and all his other songs have had
q great run.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
GU r OHIO .

A NUMBER of women in Erie county,
N. Y, have issued a circular $50 the
friends of human progress" calling a con
yention for the oath, 18th, and 26th insts.
They state that their object is to gain a
"true knowledge of the nature and a:tr.-
butes of man." Why don't they get mar
ried2
WE were once asked the question,
"What is always ready and never want
ed II" If we were compelled by q court
of law TO answer the question, we should
say, "old naaids."
WIFE, l don't see for my part, how
they send letters on them ere wires with
out tearin' 'em all to bits" "Oh my !!
they don't send the paper; they just s.nl
the writin' in fluid state"
\ PRETTY foot is generally an Indication
ola pretty face, for the reason that "all's
well that ends well"
MRBRowN, you said you boarded at
the City Hotel SIX months; did you foot
your blli?"
''No s:r, but it amounted to the same
thing-the landlord footed mel"
"IF there is ANYBODY under the CAMS
ter of heaven that have in utter excres-
ence," says the am:ebe Mrs Partington,
at is slandcrer, going about Ike vile
bny-constructor circulating his calomel a.
bout homes. folks. always knew one by
his phismahogany. It seems rs though
Belzabub had stamped him with his pr
waite signal, and everything he looks at
seems to turn yellow"
"DrcK," said joker, ''why don't you
get your ears cropped-thcy are entirely
too long for q man!'
And yours, rep.icl Dick, sought to
be leugthencd-thoy are too short for an
Rss."
The following from the Boston Post,
is fair commentary upon the imaginary
omnipoteuce of numerous misses of the
boarding school:
Queenly Miss Quaint, the aim of whose life
Is to die an old maid, or = minister's wife,
GrotesqUely averrcd, after hearing young
Spread.
I'm hear him all day, fI,ra'k on my head!"
"Good," said old Hunk with comical smile,
but please if yoa'rc late, don't come up the
broa,; aisle u
tx Rochester, women who wear the
"Bioomer uniform" are warned TO do nil
itary duty. n good idea. As they want
their "rights, let them take the first liz
stallmcnt by carrying fourteen-pound
musket through the mud all day.
ARE you afraid Of banks falling ~
asked the cashier, as Mrs Darlington went
to draw her pension. Blanks falling,
said the dame, Il never had any idea g.
bout it at Ill. If he gets votes enough |
don't see how he can fail, and if be don't
! can't see how he IS to help it." But |
meant" said the cashier, ''the banks that
furnish currency for the country" She
stood moment counting her bills. '.Oh
you did, did you?" said she; swell its
about the same thing. If they have mou-
ey enough to redeem with, and heaven
knows there's need enough of redemp-
ton for a good many of them, and
more grace than they allow Their Gus
toners, they may stand it, but doubt
full things are uncertain" She passed
off ike an exhalation, and the cashier
counted out one hundred and fifteen dol
lars and seventeen cents fifteen times
vhile bordering what she said, in or
der 70 catch her uiean;ng.-Boetoa Ga
saxa
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Press On.

This is speech brief but full Of in
SEPARATION, and opening the way to all VIC
tory. The mystery of Napoleon's Ca
reer was under all difficulties and dis
couragements to press on" 1t solves
the problem of all licroes-it is the rule
by which to weigh rightly all wonder
full success and triumphal marches OF
fortune and genius. 1t should be the
motto Of all, old and young, high an
low, fortunate and unfortunate, so called.
Press on! Never despair; never be
discouraged, however stormy the hcav-
ems, however many the difficulties, and
repeated the faiIures-Press on.
If fortune has played false with thee
to-day, do thou play true to thyself to-
morrow. If thy riches have taken wings
and left thee, do not weep thy life away
but be up and doing, and retrieve thy
loss by due energy and action. If an
unfortunate bargain has deranged thy
business, do not fold thine arms, and give
up all rs lest; but stir thyself and work
more vigorously. rar
If those whom thou hast trusted have
betrayed thee, do not be discouraged, do
not idly weer, but ''press on, find 9TH
ers, OF what is better, learn to Hve aoits-
IN Myself. Let the fooishness of yester-
day make thee wise to-day. If thy af-
fections have been poured as water in the
desert, do not sit down and perish Of
thirst, but press on; g beautiful oasis is
before thee, and thou nlayest reach it
if thou wilt. If another has been fase
to thee, do not thou increase the the
evil by being false thyself. Do not say
the world has lost all its poetry and
beauty; it is not 80; but even if it be
so, make thine own poetry and beauty
by bravo ana true life.
Press on! say we TO every man or
woman, for on this depends success,
peace, life! Work while it is day, for
the night cometh in which thou shalt
have rest enough. Thy hand IS t. the
plow-look not back forevcrmore till thy
work is done.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
HuMAN L1rE.-L;ke the sea. it IS ex-

HUMAN LIFE.-Like the sea, it IS ex-
posed to frequent hurricanes, and the
brightest DAYS are often obscured and tenn
pestuous. The wise ought to say of the
world as Palinurus, the famous pilot said
of The sea, SHALL confde to that monster.
Should we learn to distinguish the feli>i-
ties of nature from the chimelas of the
rid All to discover truth in the midst
Of the shades that surround it; to do this
should be the constant aim of every NOR
tai; it IS indeed the one thing necessary.
Tbs manner of life should be the object
Of al our desires-and if we could obtain
it there would be no cause of envy and
d.sco0taat.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
GREENWOOD HOUSE
W. II. WINCHESTER, Proprietor.


ryHE GREENWOOD HOUSE is well fus~
I nished and kept in the best style. Tho
proprietor flatters himself that by strict atten-
ton to the wants of hiss guests, he can mako
their abode with him pleasant and agreeabas.
Pleasure Parties
will find this House an agreeable resort. Tns
Natural Scenery of the Kinnickinnlc Rly~
in the vicinity, is as fine as any in the orth.
West. The streams abound with Speckied
Trout, and afford the best amusement to the
lovers of the angling art. Fishing tack4Ins
always on hand
The proprietor respectfully invites his frieada
seeking either pleasure or profit to give him
call.
Commodious Stables are connected with
the House.
BeARD.-One Dollar Per Day. Four
Dollars per Week.
Rire~ Falls Pierce Co, WIS., Suus ~ 1857
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
Portrait Of Gen. George Washington !!
TIRE rArHER OF OUR COUNTRY.

l.
TIE rAruER OF OUR COUNTRY.
He is represented in the garb and regalia Of
a Free Mason, standing in the entrance of the
great and magnificent Temple Of King Solomon
the picture being superbly decorated with
the mystic symbols of Free Masonry. and ap-
propriately colored in the highest style q art,
presents one Of the most gorgeous spectaclee Of
oriental nagniicence of which the mind can
conceive The likeness is striking and grand,
and for the sublimity Of attitude, and the ease
and dignity Of manner, is unsurpassed by any
oth.r painting ever executed either i'll this
country or Europe.
This surprising picture has been produced at
an enormous cost, and in order to supply the
demand of all classes and tastes. has been exc
cuted in various styles Of coloring. at proper
tionate cost, ranging at retail from 81 to S..
Pictures on other subjects far inferior to this
are sold daily at 81 and $40 per copy but in
order to place them within the reach of all, that
no American citizen need be deprived of hav-
ing their parlors or offices honored and adorned
with one of these magnificent specimens of
American art, in the form of the great aud the
good, the Father of our Country, have made
the price thus low.
Sample copies will be sent by mail or ex-
press to any part of the United States on re-
ceipt of the retail price in current funds or post
age stamps.
gS- For terms to agents. full list of my
new publications for 1857, or for sample copies
address II. NJ RULIsoN, al Main street, Gin
cinnati, Ohio, or if living East, address D.
RuLIsoN, % South Third street, Philadelphia
P.S. Publishers of newspapers or periodi-
Gals giving the above advertisement including
this notice, four more insertions in con-
spicuous part of their paper. sending me mark
ed copies of the sam. shall have one of the
highest priced of these pictures mailed 10 their
address, II. M. RULTSON,
Queen City Publishing HOUSE.
no5.H III Main street, Cincinnati
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
AppraRAycEs.-A coat that he's marks

APPEARANCES coat that has marks
of use on it is recommendation to peo-
pie of sense, and hat that has too high
o lustre or too smooth nap is derogato-
ry circumstance. rhr best coats in
Broadway are on the backs Of pennies
broken down merchants, clerks with pit
tiful salaries, and men WHO don't pay up.
The heav est gold watch-chains danglc
from the fobs of gamblers and gentlemen
of very limited means. Costly orna-
ments on ladies indicate, to eyes that are
well open, a silly lover or a husband
cramped for funds. And when q pretty
woman goes by in suit of plain aud
neat apparel, it is a sign that she has fair
expectations, an | husband that can al
ways show balance in his favor-1Nesc
York Times.
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HATRED OF WORK. = Henry Ward
Beccher says: "God is the most Won
drous worker of the universe facile,
sleepless, untiring; bat men, instead of
counting it & JOY to labor, are always
striving to evade what is to them bur
den, and look forward to the time when
they can ''retire" AS worm feeding
upon mulberry leaves might say, how
glad I shall be when | am fat enough
to roll myself into q cocoon" so they
eat the leaves duty, and long for no
higher joy than the silk-worm happiness.
And thus we have cocoon merchants, CO
coon lawyers, cocoon ministers, cocoon
everything. The worms cocoon is worth
unwinding, but these men are spoilt--it
does not pay to untAr-al tAeal. a
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21
THE MILWAUKEE, SENTINEL
FOR 1857,

II oh 1901.
DAILY $7-Tri-Weekly $35o-wsekly o..
THE PROPRIETORS of the Milwaukee
Sentinel, grateful for the very liberal patronagc
extended TO them, respectfully submit bfisS
prospectus for the coming year.
The Daily Sentinel, containing See
Latest News, received by telegraph and the
mails, carefully prepared Market Reports. and
full details of all local and State intelligence. ia
published every morning, Sundays cxcepted)
at SEVEN DOLLARS year, PAYABLE in advance.
The Weekly Sentinel, con-
tanning all the reading. news, and commercial
matter of the Daily, is published every Tuae-
day. Thursday, aud Saturday mornings. AZ
THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS year, pay
able in advance.
The Weekly Sentinel, containing
all the reading, news, correspondence and cdr
torial matter of the Daily; very fall market
reports, revised weekly, and variety of inter
esting miscellany. is published every Wednes-
day morning at ONE DoLLAE year, payabls
in advance. IN
1t is the aim and will be the constant effort
of the proprietors to make the Weekly Sentinel
The Largest, Cheapest, and Best Paper
published in the State. Address
RUFUS KING & CO..
205, 207 East Water Street, Milwaukee,
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POETRY
From the Evening Post.
SONG OF THE STREET.

Rushing 'roand the corners
Chasing every f.iend,
Flunging into banks
Nothing there 10 lend
Piteously begging
Of every man you met.
Bless me ! this is pleasant
Shining in the street.
Merchants very short
Running neck and neck.
Want to keep going
Praying for a check;
Dabblers in stock,
Blue as blue can be,
Evidently wishing
They were fancy free"
All oar splendid railroads.
Got such dreadful knocks.
Twenty thousand Bulls
Couldn't raise their stocks
Many of the Bears,
IN the trouble sharing,
Now begin to feel
They've been over Bearing.
Risky spectators
Tumbling with the shock,
Never mind the stopping
More than any clock;
Still they give bis dinners,
Smoke and drink and sup,
Going all the better
For winding up.
Banking institutions,
Companies of trust"
With other peoples money
Going off on bust;
Houses of long standing
Crumbling i'll the night
With so many "smashes,"
No woudcr moneys tight"
Gentlemen of means
Having lots to spend
Save little sympathy,
Nothing have 10 lend;
Gentlemen i'll want
Willing to pay double
Find that they can borrow
Nothing now but trouble.
Half our men of Business
Wanting an extension,
While nearly all the others
Contemplate suspension;
Many of them, though,
Don appear to dread it:
Every cent they owe
Is 50 much TO their credit.
Brokers are all breaking,
Credit all is cracked,
Women all expanding
AS the banks contract.
Panic still increasing
Where will the trouble end,
While all hands want to borrow,
And nobody can lend2
Running round the corners,
Trying every source;
Asking at the banks
Nothing there "of course"
Money getting tighter.
Misery complete
Bless me! this is pleasant,
Shining" on the street.
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AMERICAN AND
Q r I Ct 7 n AL
kNlCKERBOCKER
TAGAzINE
FOR 1857.
AMERICAN AND
FOR 1857.

TvHE Forty ninth Volume Ct tns Kmcesr.
Il booker Magazine will commence with thu
number for January, and it is the intention Of
the Publisher to make great additions to tia
literary merits of the work.
We take it for granted there are but few mag
azine readers in the country v no are not farnil-
lar with the authors Of ST. Ledger, and the
Sparrow Grass, both old contributors to the
kickerbocker. We are pleased to be able to
announce that they Wilt both write for our
magazine the coming year. Mr. Cozzens win
contribute a new and really original Story.
which viii appear in every number; and Mr..
kilnball will furnish Sketch or Story Sd OF
EN- as his other duties willpermit.
We have now two contributors not excellod
by any writer's in the country, namely, Rov. p.
W. Shelton and Charles G. Leland. The frss
known as our up River Correspondent" has
written series OF Letters. part of which HAYS
been issued and extensively sold in beautiful
illustrated volume, and the latter is now writ
ing series of Observations of Mace Sloper.
which delight all who read them. These viii
be continued regularly, and Mr. Shelton viii
give Sketch or Letter each month
We have also several highly accomplished
Lady Contri butors, whose favors will grace our
pages regularly, and whose names would
be glad to publish. if We were permitted to
do So
With these and other contributors, and the
Table of Mr.. Clark. whose long experience has
made him fat in his department, we shall
be able TO present monthly literary treat -
varied thai no refined taste can fail to be graft.
fed. Weonly ask TO be judged on our merits
9 ter fair trial.
TER NJ ST.
Three dollars a year in advance.
Two copies one year. Five dollars.
Five copies one year, Ten dollars.
The Magazine is sold by all periodical deas-
ers. Specimen numbers sent free of charge.
| The knickerbocker and any other 90 maya
zine sent one year for S5 The Knickerbocks
and Home Journal, one year for 81.
Letters containing remittances, and every
| thing connected with the department, should
| be addressed to
SAMUEL HUEsTON.
Publisher, 348 Broadway. Now York
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Chicago Tribune for 1857.

rE,HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE is bold, earn
l. est and straightforward Republican paper
devoted to the cause of Freedom, Progress. and
Reform. Believing that Liberty. and not
Bondage, is the saving principle ofthe Repub-
lie. it is enlisted into the Republican ranks,
not for campaign, but during the struggle
between Freedom and Slavery. 1t contends
for the principles declared by the unanimous
vote of the Fathers of the Republic in the Con-
vitude shall never exist in territory now free, -
and it therefore insists that Kansas shall be free,
that Slavery shall be excluded ftom all Ma
tonal Territory, and that the influence of the
&c neral Government shall be exercised Oh the
sd of Freedom. -E
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Cheap for CASH, or Ready Pay.

We will not give you a long gassy advertise
ment, that We will sell 20 or 80 Per cent. cheap
er than any other store in the country; we shall
do no such thing We expect a reasonable
profit for our Goods. Our motto is, :" live and
let live" All we ask is for the people to give
Us a call, and ascertain for themselves. We
shall endeavor to keep an assortment of the
above goods at all times, when they can be pro-
cured in the market. We also have small
stock of
Dry Goods, Yankee Notions, DC,
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A Great Chance to makeMoney
With a very Small Capital!

A GENTS wanted in every town and county
n of the United States. to sell by subscrip-
ton one of the grandest and most beautiful
pictures ever published in America, being a
highly ornamented
D4,;4 &c a., Coo-~. uyonb;n,-xr
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TIE TRIBUNE AS A NEWSPAPER.

The City Of Chicago has become the news
centre, as well as the Commercial emporium,
of the great Northwest. The vast system OF
railroads terminating in it, afford facilities for
gathering intelligence from all directions with
great dispatch, and the Tribune is unrivalsed
in the W est for it's enterprise in this department
It's long and spacious columns are filed with
fresh and entertaining matter, embracing essays,
tales, letters, narratives, poetry, politics, and
miscellaneous articles. The Tribune is elevated
in moral tone, and eminently adapted to the
western home circle, and the Preside of inteni-
gent, freedom-loying families
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Peterson's Magazine!
The Best and Cheapest Magazine
In tha W or1d for Ladies.

IL Lna w crlo ioT Ladies.
TENHIS popular Magazine, already the cheap
J.. est and test Monthly of it's kind in tAa
world, will be greatly improved for 1857. Il
will contain nine hunpred pages of double ool-
urnn reading matter; from twenty 10 thirty
steel plates, and five hundred wood engravings
which is proportionally more than any ps-
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IT'S Thrilling Original Stories
Are pronounced by the newspaper press 70 ts
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virtue a1e always inculca:ed.
yts Co1ored Fashion Plates in Advance
It is tire only Magaaine whose Fashion Plat@,s
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It's Superb EYsxzotints
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tanning so Steel Plates. all of which are entire:
" original, or .Nrs. Widdifelds Cook Book"
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Garland in addition.
@ CHARLES J. PETERSON,
No. 100 Chestnut Street Philadelphia
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THE TRIBUNE AS COMMERCIAL PAPER.

THE TRIBUNE AS COMMERCIAL PAFER.
The Tribune is the best commercial paper in
Chicago No expense or labor is spared to
make its market reports reliable and satisfac-
tory, net only fer Chicago. but for the princi-
pal eastern markets. The Chicago quotations
are based on actual sales.