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Love and Physic.

A clever man was DR.. Digg,
Misfortunes well be bore;
He never lost his patients till
He had no patients more;
And though his practice once was large,
1t did not swell his gains, =.
The pains he labored for were but
The labor for his pains.
Though "art is long" his cash got short,
And well might Galen dread it,
For who will trust man unknown
When merit gets no credit?
To marry seemed the only way .~
To ease his mind of trouble; +
Misfortunes never singly come,
And misery made them double.
He had a patient, rich and fair,
That hearts by scores was breaking,
And as he once had felt her wrist,
He thought her hand of taking;
But what the law makes strangers do
Did strike his comprehension;
Who live in these United States,
Do first declare intention.
And SO he called-his beating heart
With anxious fears was swelling
And half in habit took her hand,
And on her tongue was dwelling;
But thrice though he essayed to speak,
He stopped, and stuck and blundered,
For say, what mortal could be cool,
Whose pulse was most hundred?
MADAME" at last he faltered out
His love had grown courageous
81 have discerned new complaint,
hope to prove contagious;
And when the symptoms relate, .
And show its diagnosis,
All, let me hope from those dear lips,
Some favorable prognosis,
"This done," he cries, '1et's tie those ties
Which none but death can sever;
Since like cures like do infer
That love cures love for ever"
He paused-she blushed, however strange
IT seems on first perusal,
Although there was no promise made,
She gave him refusal.
cannot marry one who lives
By other folks distresses-
The man marry must love,
Nor fear his fond caresses;
For who. whatever be their sex,
However strange the case is,
Would like to have doctors bill
Stuck up into their faces"
Perhaps you think, 'twixt love and rage,
He took some deadly potion,
Or with his lancet breathed vein
To ease his pulses motion.
To guess the vent of his despair,
The wisest man might miss it;
He reached his office-then and there
He CHARGED HER FOR THE VISIT!
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

A RECIPE WORTH ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
Take one pound of soda and half pound of un-
slaked lime, put them in a gallon of water, and
let them boil twenty minutes; let it stand till
cool ; then drain off, and put it in stone jug
or jar. Soak your dirty clothes over night, or
until they are wet through; then wiring them
er of clothes we'll covered with water, add one
tea spoonful of the washing fluid. Boil half an
hour briskly, then wash them thoroughly
through one suds, and rinse well through two
waters and your clothes will look better than
the old way of washing twice before boiling
This recipe is invaluable, and every poor tired
woman should try it. With patent tub to do
the little rubbing, the washerwoman might take
the last novel and compose herself on the lounge
and let the washing do itself.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

DRESS AT SARAToeA.-A letter written from
Saratoga says that one thing particularly at
tracts the attention of the regular vister it is
the contrast between the dresses and ornaments
of ladies worn this year compared with those of
last. 1t will be remembered that extravaganza
characterized the fashions last season, and that
rivalry of display was everywhere apparent,
and that ten thousand dollar diamond sets were
not unusually the decoration of a not over veal
thy woman. This season there is an economi-
cal neatness observed by every class, and the
gaudy extravagant exhibitions in this respect,
so remarkable heretofore, appear to have been
abandoned-an advantageous circumstance to
the ladies stopping there whose beauty is more
conspicuous from the simplicity of their attire.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

UNPLEASANT PREDIcAMENT.-A friend of ours
has got so deep in debt that not one ofhis cred
itors has been able to see him for months.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

Man is never wrong while he lives for others:
the philosopher, who contemplates from the
rock, is much less noble image than the sailor
who struggles with the storm.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

The Boston Herald says Divine Providence
apportions evil to different sections about equal
Iy. In the great plains of the Northwest they
have armies of grasshoppers; in Massachusetts
they have-a Legislature.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

THE LOVE OF HoME.-Itis only shallow-mind-
ed pretenders who make either distinguished or
iein q matter of personal merit, or obscure ori-
Gin q matter of personal reproach. A man who
Is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed
of his early condition. 1t did happen to me to
be born in a log cabin, raised among the snow
drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early
that when the smoke first rose from its rude
cbimnev and curled over the frozen hills, there
was no similar evidence of white mans habita-
tion between it and the settlements on the riv-
ers of Canada Its remains still exist I make
il an annual visit. carry my children to it,
and teach them the hardships endured by the
generations cen before them. 1 love to dwell on the
fender recollections, the kindred ties, the early
affections. > and the variations and incidents
which mingle with all know of this primitive
family abode weep to think that none ofthose
who Inhabited it are now amongst the living !;
and if ever I fail in atfectionate veneration for
him who raised it, and defended it against saw
aee violence and destruction, cherished all do:
domestic comforts beneath its roof, and through
the fire and blood of seven years revolutionary
war SHRINK from no toll, no sacrifice to serve
his country, and to raise his children to con-
dition better than his own, may my name and
the name of my posterity be blotted from the
memory ofmanki kind.-Daniet Webster. = 81 .
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

RECIPE FOR DYsENTERY.-As the season is at
hand when all classes are liable to be afflicted
with dysentery, diarrhea, &C., we deem it our
duty to make public the following simple and
etficacious remedy, which has been known to US
for several years, and which we have repeatedly
used with complete success: tits simply to take
a tumbler full of water, thicken with wheat
-four to about the consistency of cream, and
drink it. This is to be repeated several times
in the course of the day, or as often as you are
thirsty, and it is not likely that you will need it
on the second day. We have not only used it
in our own case, but have recommended it to
our friends in many instances, and we never
knew it to fail effecting speedy cure even in
the worst stages of dysentery. 1t is simple
remedy, and costs but little.-Farmers' Gazette.
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H1sroRy OF BILLIARDS. origin Of this
game according to little book lately published
by the Appletons, like the birthplace of Homer,
is contested point; and its antiquity, like that
of many elderly spinsters, is involved in consld-
cradle doubt. Some suppose it to have been
imported into Rome from Persia under the con-
sulship of Lucilius, while others hold that Cali
gula introduced it from the East. The records
are unauthentic, until the return OF the Temp
lars from the first crusade. 1t soon became the
favorite amusement and means OF exercise to
which the cloistered monks of that period were
permitted to have recourse The game fell with
the Knights and Templars, and was revived by
Lonis XI, of France, who preferred it to the
bloody tournaments then in vogue. Henry III,
still more widely patronized it; and we find that
Mary Queen of Scots, in letter written the e.
vening before her execution, complains that her
"biliard table has just been taken away from
her, as preliminary step to her punishment"
1t became favorte game with the ladies' in
France and Germany. Madame de Stael was an
enthusiastic advocate of billiards. "Even when
exiled to Switzerland by Napoleon, she overstay-
ed the time limited for herdeparture from Paris
in order that she might personally superintend
the removal of her billiard table," The Dutch
ess de Berri was also noted tor her fondness for
the game. Mr.. Phelan says that "the French
man is the most brilliant the Englishman the
most careful, the American the most successful,
and therefore, if that be any arguinent-as 1t IS
commonly admitted to be the most conclusive
the very best of billiard-player
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POETRY.


Near the Banks of that Lone River.
BY GEO. P. MORRIS.
Near the banks of that lone river,
Where the water-lilies grow,
Breathed the fairest flower that ever
Bloomed and faded years ago.
How we met and loved and parted,
None ON earth can ever know
Nor how pure and gentle-hearted
Beamed the mourned one years ago
Like the stream with lilies laden,
Will life's future current flow,
Till in heaven meet the maiden
Fondly cherished years ago.
Hearts that love like mine forget not;
They're the same in veal or woe;
And that star of memory set not
In the grave of years ago.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

THE BEAUTY OF BLUsH.-Gethe was in
company with mother and her daughter, when
the latter, being reproved for some fault, blush
ed aud burst into tears. He said "How beau
tiful your reproach has made your daughter
The crimson hue and those silvery tears become
her better than any ornament of gold and pearls.
These may be hung on the neck of a wanton,
but these are never seen disconnected with NOR
al purity. A full blown rose, besprinkled with
the purest dew, is not so beautiful as the child
blushing beneath her parents displeasure, and
shedding tears of sorrow for her fault. A blush
is the sign which nature hangs out to show
where chastity and honor dwell"
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AMERICAN HOTEL,
STAUNTON, VA,
MRS. MARY A. RR0WN.

THIS new and elegant Hotel is now open for the re-
i ception and accommodation of visitors.
The Propretress the public that every effort
will be made to please her guests.
The Stages of HARMAN, BROWN & CO., arrive
and depart from this Hotel where their only office is
TO be found. .......'. ....... '
Staunton, Jan. 2s, lS57-tf -
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STATNTON, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1857.

and the enstranged ones were locked in each
others embrace. 1t WAS long while ere either
could speak. They only wept and clung more
closely heart in heart.
We will not tell the thoughts which dwelt in
Abby Leeman's mind upon this occasion, nor
will we tell of the long hours spent upon her
knees in praying while all Others Of the house
hold slept.
"Love George and Maryl Love little Nellie
always; love mama" Oh how those words
came back upon her, too-harsh, unknd words
that had been spoken to the cherub that was
gone. But she found balm in the solemn res
olution she had taken never to bs unkind a.
gain.
And the resolution was sacredly kept. Al
bert mourned for the departed one; but they
felt, too that the gentle spirit of the heavenborn
child was dwelling still with them, making a
paradise of their home, and leading them on in
joy and peace.
Ere long the old man came to live while
with his eldest child, and from that time lie d.
yided his months equally between them; and he
could no more feel that one home was pleasanter
than the other. Both were alike Joyous, peace
full and happy. When he now looked upon Alb
by's happy, smiling face, he knew that she had
no other face for domestic use. The beaming
and gentle countenance that welcomed the Wis
tiers to her dwelling was never laid aside. Its
sunshine was for husband and children, and the
clouded brow was put away forever.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

MOST STUPID IaNoRANoE.-It is very strange
that men will attempt to thrust themselves be-
fore the people to get elected to high public sta
tons, such as our State Senate congress, a'la
other places, who are SO contelnPtlDly 'gnorah.
that if q school boy ten years oia was " ahe No
the same miserable display OF ignorance tnaI I
these lawmakers do daily, they would run ,he
risk of being soundy birched. Inc otner sn;y aay
-- undertook to quote Scripture ana salu
that he was like Saul, the son OF Iarsus' tlius
confounding Saul of the city OF Iarsus, WIN
Saul the son of Kisb, who once PAID a curious
visit.to the witch Of Endor, as some called her
Hestern paper.
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VOL. XXXIV.
Stauntou Spectator.
JOS. A. wADDELL,
kicMARp Ii MAPRE5ih' Mh'UzY', ~ rr0prie''r''
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CTOVES! STOVES Nv. ]. POINTS has
full assortment of Cooking, Parlor and Box Stoves,
Coal Crates, Wooden Buckets, Baskets, Brooms, Ash
and Coal Buckets, and Tin Ware of all kinds.
S.aunton Act 1874
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e j. sKINKER H. d. WRIGHT.
SKIN kER s. WRIGHT HAVE CON
- stantly on hand Fine Ground Plaster, at their
STEAM MILL, Alexandria, Va. t-r..tf
Alexandria, April4, 1S87-to mar l5 '58
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

nENTAL NOTICE.-WM. CHAPMAN has re
~ moved to Saunton. He viii be found at Dr. AR
THURS Office four doors from the National Hotel, when
not professionally engaged in the country.
Sfnnntnn Anril & 1851 If
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n OUNNUBIAL OANDIDATE,
Messrs. Fowler & Wells endorsed the adver-
tiser, and the consequence was that hundred
ard twenty unmarried ladies corresponded
with Mr.. Goodrich, and their letters and dagner-
reotypes are now matters of amusements to the
Worcester people. Wonder how the girls like
the idea of that-the hundred and twenty-seven
who wrote those letters and sent those pictures
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KIRKWOOD HOUSE,
PENNSY YLYAN AVEN u E,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Tx MARSHALL, H.. c. WARD.
lvl and Commission Merchants and dealers in Grocs-
ries, Salt, Grass Seeds &C., No. IL King st.
Alexandria, April 4, 195T-to mar 10, '5S
PORTLAND SYRUP & SUGAR.-45O bbls
i Portland Syrup; 100 bbls. Sugar, just received
and for sale at factory prices, by
F0WLE & CO., Agents.
Alexandria, July Is, 1851.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-09-09

nR. JAS. B. GfLKESON having located in
Staunton, offers his professional services to the
public .sy- Office at the National Hotel.
Staunton Jnpe % 1857-3m-Vind copy.
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A clever man was DR.. Digg,
Misfortunes well he bore;
He never lost his patients till
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-08-29

"Our parlor carpet is beginning to look real
shabby" said Mrs Cartwright. 4" declare If
don't feel right down ashamed of it, every time
a visitor. who is anybody, calls in to see me-
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cling to their weapons even in the agonies OF
dissolution. Ammunition, too, has been falling
one by one the muzzle drop and ere the last
rifle is loaded and discharged the Mexicans gain
the wall. Fearfully conspicuous in that awful
moment, Travis receives a shot, staggers, and
falls. He dies not unavenged. A Mexican Of
fcer rushes upon him and is about to plunge his
sabre into the BOSOM Of the fallen man, when.
gathering his remaining energies for desperate
effort, he bathes the sword to which he still clings
in the blood of his enemy, and they die together.
In the mean time the conflict has become hand
to hand, and has been raging hot and thick
The Mexicans have poured into the citidel like
famished wolves, furious 70. their prey. Each
man struggles with his adversary with the ener-
gy of despair dealing the death-stroke with RI
fles, sabres, or whatever missiles may be within
reach. The Texans are almost buried beneath
the numbers of their opponents. The carnage
has been so terrible that the slain are piled up
in heaps. Death slares each survivor in the face,
yet he struggles on. Crockett has been con-
spcuous in the melee wherever the blows fell
hottest and fastest. He has forced his way over
piles Of the dead bodies Of his enemies, and has
reached the door of the chapel. Here lie de-
termines to make his last stand. At one glance
Of his eye be that the fate Of the Alamo rests
upon nliIoeH dlOue, anu tlitit idtt nOulillB can
avert.
Travis has fallen; Evans is no more; Bowie
expires upon bed of sickness, pierced to the
heast by Mexican bayonet; Borham falls di-
rectly before him, and be finds himself the only
living warrior Of the hundred and sxty-three
who had been his companions Perhaps at that
moment the life-blood creeps to his heart by a
natural impulse but it is only for moment
the desperation Of his position sends it back with
the force of an avalanche. His foes glare on him
with the 6erceness of demons, and assault him
with blows from muskets, lances, and sabres.--
The strength of hundred men seem concen-
trated in his single arm, as he deals out deaf
to his pitIiless and unsparaing assaants. Their
bodies have grown into rampant before him.
Backened with fire and smoke, besmeared with
BLOOD and reused into phrenzy, he stands like
some tabled gold of antiquity. laughing 10 scorn
the malice and the power and the fury of his ene-
mics. New fire flashes from his eye and new
vigor nerves his arm. On his assailants rush,
but it is upon death, certain and Immediate
They fall, bu Their places still supplied, and
so quickly the dead seem TO rise up before him
like armed men from the teeth of Cadmus. Al
length ball, from an unseen rife, pierces him
in the forehead; he falls backwards to the earth
in the streams of gore which curdle around him
No groan escapes his lips, no cry of agony graft
fies the implacable rancor Of his enemies. He
dies, and the Alamo has fallen.
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f. II. FEssENDEN.
n ENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY.
III Once WilIiston'h Stone Block.

The subscriber has the agency of the VT MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY, with Capital exceeding $780,
900. Also the SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSu r.
ANCE COMPANY, (sock) with Capital Of sl60 large
surplus; and the CONWAY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
(stOck with Capital Of 100000 lie Is prepared to e
feet Insurance. II desired in the ArNA INsU RANCE COM
PANl, Hartford, and ATLANTIC FIRE AND MARINE CO.
Providence. Persons wishing t0 insure property will do
well call him before electng the Insurance on
LIFE also he effected with him in the NATIONAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY, 'or any term and any amount
not exec ding $4,000 at one risk. i. ii, fEssENDEN
braitlvboro, January 9th, 1857.
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A proposition 10 do away with grand juries,
so far at least as London is concerned, is now be-
fore Parliament, and receives the support of gov
ernmeat. A motion intended to defeat the bill
was rejected by large majority. That able
lawyer, Sir F. Shesiger, defended the bill, and
referred to the repeated representations Of grand
uries themselves TO the effect that they were
not only unnecessary but absolutely an obsiruc.
tion to Justice.
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VOL. XXIV.
POET R Y.
A THOUSAND MILES A MINUTE.

Br 4. H. Br1tocK.
The molten Of the earth round the sun &, at the rate
xty eight thousand miles AN hour.-Uomstock.
sixty eight thousand mile, an hour.
Why man, the deuce Is in it.
What matches proof Of mighty power
Thousand miles minute!
This vondrous car keeps rolling on
With all its land and ocean,
The Engineer is never gone
Or varies in his motion.
No running fast no running Slow"
No bursting Of his boiler,
Nothing to pay, Of all who go
No ono e'rr gave dollar.
No upward grade, downward grade,
No stopping at u station,
Cause for repair has not been made
Since the All.wisc creation.
Since time began nccr left the track
Or called for wood water,
No switching of. no rurning back,
Collisions 10 slaughter
Because the track Is always clear,
The wachmen never slumbor,
No train behind ever fear,
Distractions ne'er cucumber.
The signal lights We oft descry,
But no alarming token;
They glitter in the evening sky
And dance with joy unbroken.
No application of the brakes,
Reversing Of the motion,
No fear of telegraph mistakes,
No sound to mar devotion.
So silently the vast machine
Obtys the laws Of Heaven,
The movement is not ict seen,
No jar Of tumut given.
Through tickets only we have
No Others to be taken
Whether live or fill the grave
The motion will not slackcn
But take us with lightning speed
Until We reach the station,
Which stands say Faith and Hope agreed
At portals Of salvation.
"Frec pass each traveller awaits
Observing rules to win it;
Soon we shall reach those pcarly gatcs,-
thousand miles a minute!
-Rwal Neic Yorker.
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May it please the court" said Yankee
lawyer, before Dutch justice the other day,
this is case of great importance; while the
American eagle, whose sleepless eye watches
over the welfare of this mighty Republic, and
whose wings extend from the Aneghanies to the
Rocky chain of the West was rejoicing in his
pride Of place, T -.
I" Shtop dare say, vat has dis suit to do nit
eagles Dis has notin to do init de wild bird
1t Is Won sheep" exclaimed the justice.
"True, your honor, but my client has rights"
Yer CLIENT has no right to de eagle"
" OF course not but the laws Of language"
What cares for de laws of de language,
eh I understand the laws of de State, and dat
ish enough for me. Con6ne your talk to de
case" '4
",Well, then, my client, the defendant in this
case, is charged with stealing sheepasnd--"
dat will do dat will do Your CLIENT charg-
ed NIT sthcaIipg Sheep jos nino shiiin. The
COURT will odjourn." sIs., s.i .rfa.. r4
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PosrAsEHE VBNoSr PHGMx Is sent into all the towns Of
Wndham County free Of Postage To any part Of this State
out Of this County for Is cents per year. elsewhere &c
per year-paymens In all to be made quarterly in
advance.
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