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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14
NEIGHBOR NELLY.

I'm in love with Neighbor Nelly,
Though I know she's only ten;
While ! am eight-and-fOrty,
And the married est OF men.
I've wife that weighs me double,
I've three daughters all with beaux {;
I've a son with noble whiskers,
Who at me turns up his nose.
Though Squaretoes and Buffer,
Yet I've sunshine in my heart;
Sill. I'm fond Of cakes and marbles
Can appreciate tart.
can love my Neighbor Nelly
Just as though were boy,
And would hand her cakes and apples
From my depths of corduroy.
She is tall, and growing taller;
She is vigorous Of limb
(You should see her play at cricket
With her little brother jim y
She has eyes as blue as damsons
She has pounds Of auburn curls :;
She regrets the game of lesp-frog
Is prohibited 10 girls !
adore my Neighbor Nelly;
Invite her into tea,
And l lei her nurse the baby,
Her delightful ways 10 see.
Such darling bud of woman!
Yet remote from any teens
have learnt from Neighbor Nelly
What the girls Doll-insiinct means.
o, 10 see her with the baby,
HE adores he- more than l.,
How she chorusses his growing,
How she bushes every cry
How she loves to pit his dimples,
With her light fore finger deep;
How she boasts, as one in triumph,
When she's got him off TO sleep!
We must part, my Neighbor Nelly,
For the Summers quickly fee,
And the middle-aged admirer
Must, too soon, suppIanted he.
Yet, as jealous as a mother,
A suspicious, canker'd churl-
| lock vainly for the setting
To be worthy such pearl
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14
C8O3C8 90B3Z,.E2To
WISH soMEBODY'D COME.

The flowers are blooming on the lawn,
9I.e birds are singing free,
And everything is full OF life
And happiness but me;
The flowers look strangely dull to-day,
they are as shadowy as my dreams,
And very lonely seem to me
The sunlight golden CLEANS,
As for the birds heed them not,
They had as well be dumb,
They cannot charm my heart to-day
wish SOMEB DY'D come.
I've tried my book--my music, tco,
I've tried it Ger and ore
But, pshaw ! | cannot see my note,
My eyes keep wandering 50,
Unanswered notes before me lie,
I'll count them, one, two three
And here are letters waiting too,
And what ale they TO me !
Ny books are stale-my music
Discordant as a drum,
My voice is very bad to-day
| wish SOMEBODY D come!
The sun is setting in the West,
And twilight deepens now,
And night comes forth as ebon queen,
With jewels on her brow;
The Cat is sleeping on the hearth,
The bell has rung for tea,
And not one living soul has come
What can the matter be a?
The day is gone, the night comes on.
And | will look no more
There Bette, don't you hear the bell /!
SOMEBODY'S at the door
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14
8S8SGBGGANSCU9.
THE BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER.
BY KATE GLESMORE.

81 wish TO exact promise from YOU,
Fred, on this anniversary of my birth.
day. say shall i, be given p
Most sssuredly, Lucy. if IT be any,
'hing consistent; IN less indeed, it be
that lrelinqnish my cigars ?"
"No, Fed, that was not uhstI was
aiming at, so rest easy. Twill no. tease
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

LADIES WILL PLEASE SKIP THIS. mo
body seems to have heard Of that chap in
Aberdeen who just came home from a
years absence in Nicaragua. On his way
up from the landing he met quite mum,
Der Of ladies. After kissing his sister,
&c, "pray," said he "are all the girls in
Aberdeen married? | met Miss A"
"Why brother, Miss A isn't married. !"
No! married Nor Miss B.? nor Miss
Co." nor Miss -" ooh, pshaw bro
iher," SAID Sis, just beginning 10 catch
the idea, ''that's nothing but hoops"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

TAX ON BACHELoRs.----The Georgia
legislature has taxed ali bachelors over
twenty eight years old. the tax 10 60 10
educate orphan girls. 1t is time bache-
lors, in other places, were taxed. A gay
girl, by us, says the reason the ladies
wear enormous hoops is TO keep such
..halelul creatures" off.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Happiness is like pig with a creased
tail, which every one runs after, but no.
body can hold.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Frogs are becoming favoriie beverage
with the bon vivants of Boston. The
birds sell at 50, so per hundred.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

The stou,er lady is, the more she
rolls her eyes up whne walizlng.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Who ever felt the breath from the lungs
of chest Of drawers T!
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

lUALlF ICATIONS FOR LAWNE -AH
old lady walked into lawyers office
lately, when the following conversation
took place:
Lady. Squire, called TO see if you
would like to take this boy and make a
lawyer of him.
Lawyer. The boy appears rather
young madam. How old is he?
Lady. Seven years, sir.
Lawyer. He is too young, decidedly
too young. Have no older boys!
Lady. o, yes sir ! have several but
we have concluded 10 make farmers Of all
the others. | told my man | tho't this
lille fellow would make 6rst-rate law
yer, and so | called 10 see if you would
take him.
Lawyer. No, madam, he is too young
yet to commence the study of the profess
sion. But why do you think this boy SO
much better calculated for lawyer than
your other sons
Lady. Why, you see, sir, he is just
seven years old 10 day; when he was only
five he'd lie like all nature, when he got
10 six, he was sassy and inpudent as any
critter could be; and now he'll steal every
thing, he can lay his hands on.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Here lies the tongue of Godfrey Lii,
Which always lied, and lies here still.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Where is The person who has ever
been felt for bv the heart of an oak
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

How to sweeten soltude.--shut boy
down in a cellar, and give him free access
to the molasses barrel.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

mike, if you meet Pat, tell him to
make haste" "Shure, an | WILL" said
Mike, "but what shall | tell him if don't
mate him :"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

The individual who has been seen by
the eye of potatoe. has never been visi-
bic. Basnum may possibly discover
him.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Where is tie identical nose Of a be-
lows that smell, rat !
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Was there ever an individual unluck y
enough TO be abused by the mouth of {
river
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

At late public meeting, the following
"dry" toast was given. The author will
get "bullered" when he reaches home
"The Press---the Pulpit---aLd Petit
coats the three ruling powers Of the day.
The first spreads knowledge, the second
morals, and the las, sPreads--considera-
bly."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Il you want 10 preserve your children,
do nol stuff Them.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14

Show US The young lady whose waist
has ever been en- compassed by ,hc arm o
tie sea.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-03-14
enero 1nacte A0prrsine Gheraturr ora


is the presiding genius. While, per-
chance, some more intellectual in their
tastes, find deeper source of enjoyment
in the discussion of graver topics.
Lucy's eager eye took in at glance the
gay assembly, then wandered inqulrlngly
from one group to another, 10 Distinguish,
if possible, the star which reigned pre-
eminent but all seemed to her gay and
beautiful, and she soon, in the fascinating
eloquence of the gentleman on whose arm
she leaned, half forgot heI womanly curl
osty, and the promised introduction, when
the announcement, Of MIR. Preston and
Miss Howard, excited both curiosity and
astonishment. The suppressed m1rmur
of admiration which greeted their entrance
had scarce subsidized when her astonlsh-
ment was as suddenly changed to the
deepest chagrin and modification ; for
there, in the sister Of the man she so
much admired, and the acknowledged ia
vorle of The most refined circles OF the
capitol, she beheld hone other than our
blacksmilh's daughter.
4 =
The following Christmas witnessed a
merry party assembled beneath the roof
of our worthy black mith, and Lucy Pres
ton-now Mrs. Howard, the bride of the
blacksmilh's son-rejoiced in the beauty
Of those liberal Institutions, which short
year before she had held in such con-
tempt.
"The distinctions in society should be
observed, Lucy, else what will become Z"
whispered Fred Preston 10 his sister, on
this merry Christmas evening"
ooh, Fred will you never forgive my
folly You have already punished me
enough"
"Yes, sister dear; only wished to in
quire what reception the blacksmlth's
daughter would receive from the wife of
the dsting guished member Of C "
"You are positively too bad. There
Susan Is calling you, 60. and try TO be
civil on this, your wedding night, at
least"
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-12-10
To the Democratic Party Of Kansas
- Territory.

y Kansas determines for herself, on the
2lst day of December next, whether she
will be a free state or a slave state. On
the lst Monday in January following, the
people are called upon TO hold their first
election undef the Stale Constitution, for
Governor, Lt.Governor, Secretary Of State,
Auditor of SIate, Treasurer of State and for
Representa- in Congress.
The several counties are requested TO
nominate candidates for each branch OF the
Legislature.
The democratic party of Kansas, without
regard TO free state or slave state, are re-
questcd to send Delegates from the several
counties Of Kansas TO "a state Convention, TO
be holden in Lecompion on the first Mon
day, the 7th day OF December next, for the
purpose Of nominating Democratic candi-
dates for all of the above named officers, TO
be supported by the Democratic party at
the election to be holden on the lst Mon
day in January, 1853, for State officers.
under the Constitution for the State Of Kan
sas.
By order OF the Central D mocratic Com
mlttee, at Lecompton, this the 18th day Of
November, A. d. 1857.
Jno. d. Henderson, Chr.
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-12-10
Speech of James H. Lane, in Market
Hail. Leavenworth City, Kansas, Sat-
urdaY Evening, Nov. 18th, 1857.

FELLOW CITIzEss:-I feel very happy
for the opportunity of addressing the peo-
pie of Leavenworth. | never seek the OPP
portunity Of speaking, but am always ready
to lend my voice when the good Of Kansas
is the object. Gentlemen, we have come to
the last move on the chess board Of Kansas
politics. 1t is the last move and the great
est move On this great political board
Gentlemen, this last great act Of the Pro-
slavery party is consistent with all their
former acts. Only this is the last and alto.
gether the most desperate. 1t stirs up all
our blood, and we hardly know what 10 do
in this trying time.
have stood here on Kansas soil and
. seen fraudulent Legislature forced upon
us by neighboring State. have seen IN.
vasions come pouring in upon us, have
seen crimes in every shape committed upor
the settlers of Kansas, Sbat this last ac
crowns them all in villany aRd fraud. Ant
speak here in Leavenworth responsible
for all chat may say, that these viIlian
who have committed this last great fraud
have forfeited their lives to an injured peo
pie. That crime Is SO hellsh thdA thes'
outlaws have lost lheir claims upon the A
merican people. That Constitution heapec
upon us is awful, disgraceful, and damna
bic in all its forms. cannot express m,
contempt for il in half severe language e
nough, when think Of the consequences i
may bring about.
The question to night is not wholheI
Kansas shall not be slave State. 1t is I
slave STATE now. II is slave State by th'
body Of their Constitution. Even th'
youngest slave in this Territory will remain
aAlaYs as long as be or she may liYe. Bu
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-12-10
CURRENCY WANTED.

NN7 e will sell goods at the lowest cash rates,
w and receive Currency at Par, or allow n
Premium Of Ten cents on Gold and Silver. Our
Stock of Agricultural Implements is unsurpass6'
by any in the City. We will also allow the SAN"
facilities to parties wishing TO purchase fruit shade
and ornamental trees and shrubbery, of which We
have more than one hundred thousand dollars
worth, ready for sale and delivery.
JOHN sIGERsoN = BRO,
Oct. 20, IssT-s2
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-12-10
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI.

SESSION BEGINS, ...lst DAY OF OCTOBER
80 ENDS, ...... .....z 9Th, OF JULY!
Boarding in private families, per week. 81 to So.
Tuition in the University for the SCho-
lastic Year, ..,... ....., .... '-.... S2l 90
Tuition ia the Primary Department, .,.,. $42 so
The Organization embraces eleven officers, and
a full course of instruction is given in Mathenat-
les; Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, Ancient
Languages, English Literature, Chemistry and
Cognate branches. Modern Languages, Drawing,
and the elements of an English education.
For fu ther information letters addressed to the
President at Columbia, Boone county, Missouri,
will be promptly answered.
w. w. HUDSON,
Aug 81, 1s57-5d. Pres't
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-10-15
THE NATIONAL ERAr WASHINGTON d. c. OCTOBER is 1a57

they have majority of two in the Senate, and
6ftyfour in the House of Representatives, soon
to be increased by the Senator'S and Represent
atives from Minnesota, jp5t organized as a
Stats-they have at last carried the day in
Kansas command Nebraska -are gradually
preparing Oregon and Washington for States
Such is their power, preses. and prospective,
and where are the slave Statesa What new
States have they in preparation, to balance
those inevitable gains to Fseedomf And yet
at such moment the freq States are called
upon to Dissolve the Union, for the purpose of
protecting themselves from the aggressions of
Slavery They will do NJ such thing. The
staff Of accomplishment ie in their hands, and
they vill use it. Their just weight in the Fed
ersl Councils win yet be felt. They will put
an end to the Legitimate preponderance of the
Slave Power, and make the Federal Govern
ment conform to the will of the majority, in
obedience to the Constitution. If disunion is
to be attempted, let the t1tten9t be made in
another quarter. Let the onss of secession
rest upon the slave Stages. We, non-slave.
holders, although for so many PEARS governed
by the Slave Power prescribed and endam-
aged in various ways-hare been loyal TO the
Constitution and Union. Whea we obtain the
reins of Government, and the Flee Power is in
the ascendant, it will be for Slsseholdess to fol.
low our example, and maintain their loyalty to
the Constitution, or take the POSITION of def
ance and rebellion. -
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we have not seen great company going about
from house TO house, begging for an immediate
loan to pay the interest due on its bonds, and
Lombard street crowded with spectators whose
lives depended on the result.
In fact, the best comment on this sort of
transaction is the value of the shares in the
market What is share worth, when il be-
comes merely an authority to half dozen gen.
tlemen to contract any debts they please, at
any rate of interest they may find necessary
Railway stock, which was supposed to have
fallen quite low enough, had gone down ten or
twenty per cent lower at the last date. and was
still going down. The truth is, American rail-
ways have been burning at both ends-both on
their income and on their outgoings. The
crops have not been quite 30 good; travelling,
therefore, not quite so brisk while railways
have had to borrow money against host of
needy competitors. There is crowd of spec
ulators in sugar, in cotton, and in corn; there
are States with debts rather above their present
means, and wanting more money still ; and
there are banking companies with names that
would not bring them much credit in this coun-
try, but which hitherto have won American
confidence. At the beginning of the month,
there was crash of them, and, as one reads
the list, one seems to be reading a page of some
commercial romance, and not a matter of-fact
report.
The peculiarly of the New York panic is,
that it is industriously and avowedly got up,
aggravated, and prolonged; that this is done
with the most entire success, and with the most
formidable results upon every class of debtors /;
and that to this market, thus in the hands of
The money-lender, aud liable TO these fearful
fluctuations, most of the American railway
companies have to come for the means of COM
pleting their works, paying the interest on
their bonds, and the dividends, if any, on their
shares.
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SPECIE FOR BILLS.

A manufacturing house somewhere at the
North, so says an exchange, has threatened to
discharge any of its workmen who present the
paper bank notes with which they are paid BY
their employers at the bank counters fer specie
and large number Of newspapers applaud this
action on the part of the manufacturers.
For ourselves, we cannot see anything but
oppressive dictation in it. What is a note worth,
if it will not command specie OF what value is
promise to pay on demand, if the demand
can never be made? This is dishonesty. though
perhaps unintentional. 1t is making bushel
of paperrags worth a CARLOAD, or dozen of
carloads, of gold There is no real value in
the paper itself, and if the promise on the face
of it is to be broken at pleasure, what is that
worth
Several journals condemn with terrible sever
ity those brokers whose business it is to run
home bank bills. A Cincinnati exchange re-
marks, justly:
"The dealer in coin is an effect. His bust
ness is natural and necessary consequence of
the existence of paper currency. Wherever
such currency prevails, he will be found and
"notnef nio Calilug De OlsreputADle or OJnerWlse,
it will never cease to be pursued until the day
of bank paper is at an end.
But we have been unable to convince our
selves that the man who buys bank notes and
sends them home is bad member of society,
or that his occupation is disadvantageous to the
community. To take the promises of a man
or institution to pay on demand, and present
them for payment, is surely, in itself considered,
very innocent employment. 1t is true that
bankers are not by any means excessively anx.
ious to be reminded of their obligations, but
even they have no right to complain of that
which requires from them nothing but what
they have solemnly contracted to perform.
:" We deny that there is any obligation, ex.
press or implied, on the part of the community,
either as individuals or as an aggregate, to
keep out bank paper, because it happens to
have been issued. The makers of paper prom.
ises to pay should have but one claim upon the
public to take and use their emissions, and that
should consist in the fact that they are equal in
value to gold in the market"
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IA We are at q loss just now to advise our
subscribers what kind of money to send us. New
York cite and Boston Banks are yet good. So
is the Ohio State Bank, although we cannot
sell it to the Brokers here except at grinding
rates. Where you can, send us gold. Just
now, we would as lief have no Virginia money.
Paste or wafer your gold in carefully, and then
seal up the envelope well, and it will come
safely. Hard times indeed are these. We do
hope you will keep US in funds enough to pay
our hands, until the time for general renewal
shall come, next month, when we hope the cur
rency win be assuming more satisfactory as
pect. Let our subscribers see to it that our lis.
be not cut down in this dark hour.
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smash-up on the Lake shore Railroad.

The train which left Dunkirk for Clevelend,
at Ii 2. III. on Thursday, on the Lake Shore
railroad, met with serious accident about
seventeen miles east of Erie. A pile of wood
was found on the track. The night was dark
and wet, and the engineer did not discover the
distraction until too late to check up the train.
The locomotive was thrown off the track, and
completely smashed. The baggage car was
also thrown off, and broken to pieces. The
baggage master, who was asleep on the floor,
opposite the door, was, by the force of the col
hsion, thrown in an opposite direction from the
car. The emigrant car was also thrown of,
and separated from the track. The first pas
senger car remained on the track, but was a
good deal broken. The second passenger car
was also considerably broken. Strange to say,
no lives were lost, though quite number, in
GLIDING the engineer, fireman, and baggage
master, were severely injured. = Cincinnati
Gazette, Oct. 5.
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THEODORE Parker ON " rHE Crisis. The
odore Parkerdelvered lecture few days ago
in Boston, upon "the monetary crisis" as Henry
Ward Beecher and DIR. Cheever have done in
New York In the course of his lecture, Mr..
Parker gave the following, as one of the causes
of the present troubles
Ne make money out of sohdt as Of no an
tri'sic ralue-OM of paper. All property Is
the product of labor. To distribute from the
producer to the consumer, there must be trade.
For that there must be money, which is simply
the instrument of trade-a labor-saving ma
chine to promote buying and selling. After
much experimenting, mankind has taken gold
and silver, aud thereof made money, the instru-
ment of trade, the medium of commerce. Gold
and silver are property, and so represent the
labor requisite to acquire Them; they are trans
ferable property, and, of course, subject to the
laws of property they rise and fall in value,
and no legislation can prevent that, any more
than iron or tin; yet commonly, they huctuate
less than any other substance that could be
chosen. They are condensed property. And
not only are they the medium by which debts
are paid, but they are the standard measures
of all value. Gold or silver made into coin has
no more value than before. At the mint the
Government puts stamp upon it, which is
simply national certificate that it has GER
tain purity, or comes up to certain weight.
1t is certificate of value, not a creating of
value.
SNOW, in America, we make fictitious money
out of piece of paper, which contains some
body's promise to pay dollar, and this be-
| comes an instrument of trade, by which debts
are paid, aud the standard measure Of value.
Unlike the metallic dollar, the paper dollar has
no intrinsic worth, is not property, only the
lawful representative of property. We have
chartered some twelve or thirteen hundred
banks in the United States, to manufacture
this substitute for metallic money, on condition
that when the paper is brought back, they shall
pay metallic dollar for it. A bill, which is
promise to pay, is taken in payment of debts,
said to be as good as gold; certificate of debt
is taken instead of a certificate of property"
Add to this statement the fact that these
banks suspend redemption of their bills at
pleasure, and what shall we think of such
currency?