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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-09-23


HARDWARE, CUTLERY, s..rs.
Farming Implements. Mechanics Ts9ls,
HOUSEKEEPING ARTICLES 80
Guns, Rifles, Powde, Fasks, Shot Rssek-
IS, Percnssian Caps. Rockscays. Horse
Poscers, Plough Castings. BMigd-
ing Materials, &c &c,
At NO. l2, Royal ST., Alexandria, VA.
lThe stand formerly occupied by JAS +. Carlin.1
1TsHE subscriber would respectfully notify his
Il old friends and all others aoho soish to act
the most for their money, Tat he has again COM
menced the sale OF LANDMARK. eac., on
ROYAL STREET. few doors north Of King
Street. near the Market House, where he offers FOR
sale great variety Of goods in the above line.
which will be disposed of for small advance for
CASH. or upon short credit to prompt customers.
but will make it an object for all to pay The cash.
His stock will embrace every description Of Build
ing Hardware; all qualities of Cutlery; a good
supply Of Forming Implements; variety of Pools
for Mechanics use, and in goods required by
Housekeepers. such as Combs. Brushes, Needless.
Knife Cleaners, Meat Cutters, Apple Pesrers,
Wooden Churns, Tinware of all sorts, Knife Box
;es, Sugar Buckets. Plated Spoons, Forks Casters.
Baking Pans. Coffee Mills, Shovel and longs,
Stove Polish, Liquid Glue, Furniture Polish, Shoe
Backing, &C.. an endless variety will be en,brac-
ed. Particular attention is asked to his Guns and
all other articles in that line, which will be sold
to cost The Rockaways are single
and double seated, well built. and will be sold a
great bargain. 70 the Powers and Thfashers he
asks attention. The Minor & Horton Plough
Castings were purchased at a veryslew price and
orders for any sizes will be filled al q moments
notice. s ~, s. :. s.sE.s.5
Fully understanding the business in which he
is engaged, the subscriber fatters himself ihasbe
has advantages in the purchase Of his goods, that
will enable him to offer Inducements to his custom
ers. Wishing to secure permanent custom, eve-
~ means will be used to please, and being ven
known as q business man In Aiexandria, persos,s
may with confidence deal with him, as no repre-
sensations will be made that are MOI acrspdancs
with facts. = q =,
. Do not forget the place--No. IL, west side 81
Royal Street, Alexandra, Va. K
sep 2-iy 4. .s..s5.:5ee'. g - I'D
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-09-23
NOTICE TO TREsPAssERs.

NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.
4 LII PERSONS are hereby forewarned from
n trespassing in any manner whatever upon my
Farm, sslndiantown, or its shores. from and after
the LIST March next The law will be rigidly en-
forced against all persons who may be found dis
regarding this notice.
feb 25otf. ]. FERGUSON BRUCE.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-09-23
LEONARDTOWN. (MD. ,. (. :.
J OCKEY CT u B RACES.


TINE Races over the I4eonardtown Course will
i commence on WEDNESDAY,. the 9th of
October, 1858, and continue three days.
FIRST day. "wednesday, the Sd Of NoTember,1
Sweepstakes for three yrs. old, 500 entrance,
half forfeit mile heats.
Same day. Jockey Club purse $500. two milo
heats ISL
Second day. Thursday. } Sweepstakes for all ages,
p. p, $50 entrance, two mile heats Lsi
Same day, Jockey Club purse $50, mile heais.
Third day. (Friday.) Sweepstakes for two year
olds. 500 subscription. $50 forfeit, one mile
Same day. Jockey Club purse 1900, mile heats-
best in S. s. s.s s,35.sa efst
The above Stakes will close the l5tii OF sep
tember and all parties desiring to enter must send
in their nominations, with the amount of forfets
or good security for the same, to the Secretary.
JOHN A. CAVALIER.
Secretary,
ITThe above Stakes and Pu es are confneG
to horses which have been ownyJ- for six months
previous to the races in the Sixth Congressional
district. A.
August 26, 1s5s-tr. 77s5i's
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-09-23

CHEAP, CHEAPER, CHEAPEST!
LUMBER 4ARD,
On Union Street, foot of Queen Street.
T1OR sale every description ofLUMBER, also,
IL White Ash, Red Ash and Cumberland COAL.
Oak and Pine Wood taken in exchange for Lum
Der at market price. U. w. BARKER,
August 70, lS5S-4m Alexandra, Va.
AN OVERSEER WANTED.
TTlfIE subscriber wishes to employ a sober, at
II tentive and experienced man as Overseer for
the ensuing year. None need apply who cannot
come well recommended for the above qualities.
Liberal wages will be given. -
FRANCIS H. DIGGES.
Aug. S. 1858-2m
LAND WANTED.
4 NY, one who has q small farm, containing a
n bout 800 acres, pleasantly locatedin Charles
county, Md. may find purchaser by stating To-
cality and addressing FARMER,
No. 40 Lexington Street,
NAV eff Baltimore. Md
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
Great CLOCk.

Henry {. Wright, in letter to the
Libtrator, thus describes the great clocl,
in the Cathredal of Stra sburg
The priests aud military have retired
and | am now sitting IN a char facing the
gigantic cluCk-from the bottom TO the top
not less than one hundred feet, and about
thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep.
Around me are many strangers waiting
to see the workings Of this wonderful
clock as it strikes the hour of noon. Every
eye is upon the clock. 1t now wants five
minutes Of tweve.-The clock has struck,
and the people are gone, except few
whom the sexton or head man with u
wand and sword is conducting around the
building. The clock has struck in this
way: The dial is some twenty feet from
the floor, Oh each side Of which is cherub,
or little boy, with mallet, and over the
dial is small bell the cherub on the left
strikes the first quarter that on the right
the second quarter. Some fifty feet above
the dial, in large niche, is huge figure
of Time, with a bell in his left hand and
a scythe in his right hand. In front stands
figure of young man with mallet,
who strikes the third quarter on the bell
in the hand of Time, and then turns and
gides, with slow step, round behind
Time, and out comes an old man with n
mallet, and places himself in front of him.
AS the hour Of twelve comes, the old
man raises his malet aud deliberately
strikes twelve times on the bell, which
echoes through the building and is heard
all round the region of the church. The
old man glides slowly behind Father
Time, and the young man comes on, ready
to perform his part as the time comes
around again. AS soon as the old man
has struck twelve and disappeared another
set of machinery is set in motion, some
twenty feet higher still. 1t is thus: there
is a high cross, with an image of Christ
on it. The instant twelve is struck. one
of the apostles walks out from behind,
comes in front, turns, facing the cross,
bows, and walks around to hi place. As
he does so, another comes out in front,
turns, bows, and passes in. So twelve ap-
postIes-fgures as large as life-walk
round, bow, and pass on AS the last ap-
pears an enormous cock, perched on the
plnacle of the clock, slowly flaps its wings,
stretches forth It's neck, and crows three
times, so loud as to be heard outside the
church some distance, and so naturally as
to be mistaken for a real cock. Then all
is silent a. death.
No wonder this clock is the admiration
of Europe. 1t was made in 1871, and
has performed these mechanical wonders
ever since, except about fifty years when
it stood out of repair
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
NO.. 80.
A Yankee.

The Boston Olive Branch having called
the editor Of the New York Atlas a YAM
kee, the Atlas man gets off the following:
But we own up TO the Yankee, and
feel no little pride in it; but we didn't
hail from Berkshire exactly. We have
dropped pumpkin seeds and have eaten
hasty pudding and milk in New Hamp-
shire, and have plowed, moved, reaped,
and logged it in the State of Maine. We
have lished for minnows with pin-hook,
and carried our bread and butter 10 school
and we have seen dog-diving on the Ken
nebeck river; club.footed girl to slide
down hill made slippery by the fall of
pine leaves, on her feet, for the fun of
seeing her catch her toes and roll over
and over, and we have gone into the
swamps with two yoke Of oxen and bob
sled, when the snow was five feet deep,
and felled trees, twitched logs all day,
and went home at night-fall to bean por-
ridge hot ! we have been to few pray
er meetings, that's fact, and we've been
to huskins, too, and 'appIe.bees,' rails.
lngs,' bundlings, and militia musters.'
We have helped ma ie cider, and after
wards set "a straddle,' of barrel, and
sucked it with straw. We have set up
all night at u saw.mill, aud have set up
all night with gal. We have a high
opinion of johnny-cake and sassinger,'
and we have frequently had finger in
The making of the latter; we have eaten
our share Of Goldfish aud potatoes, with
pork scraps, and we guess we have licked
proper proportion of 'lasses candy, and
also boys we have pulled flax for nine
pence day, because we had sick head
ache and couldn't go to school, and have
had teeth pulled with piece of strong
thread we have travelled over the fields
in the Spring with a maui, knocking
about what you-call-'ems, and have popp-
ed corn in the ashes; we have turned the
grind.stone all day to sharpen a new axe,
swopped jack-knives, broken steers and
colts; set traps for skunks and woodchuks
tapped our own shoes, licked the school
master, robbed the milk pans of the cream
and laid it to the cat, pitched into the ap-
pie sass hooked maple sugar, and
nameles olher things too tedious to men
tion,' but for particulars of which seq
small bills.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
The Four Cent Man.

Among the individual peculiarities Of
New York, known alike by strangers
and cilizsns, is HIM with a laundering
voice-the "FoUR-CENT-MAN." For
many years he has made it his business
to sell paper and envelops on the street,
having but one price -four cents--for a
certain quantity of the article he has to
sell. Day after day, from morning to
night, IN every kind Of weather, he
marches moderately on the outside of the
walk, chiefly in Nassau Street, with his
samples, or parcels, arranged so as to bs
handy, and with leather bag suspended
by strap from his shoulder, containg his
surplus stock. Thus equipped, he calls out
IN distinct, sonorous voice, and with 4
slow and deliberate utterance-TwELvE
sHEETs---oF wRITIS0-PAPER-FoR
Foo C-E-K-T-s-TwEN-TY
sELF-sEALING-EE-vEL U-R
c-E-N-T-s.
Over voice like this, the combined
roar aud din Of thousand drays and ON
abuses has no power. Above the clatter
of business and the turmoil Of the streets
his voice is heard, and il resounds through
halls TO rear rooms on sixth floors all
along the street where he goes, and when
he comes down on the F-o-U.R.c.E-S.r-s,
one thinks of the lion and stops to wonder.
He regards Nassau and William streets
as his own field, and has become an es-
tabhshed institution. Some years since,
one or two men with common voices tried
to run him off by crying paper at three
cents, bit what with the meaness of the
thing, and the comparative squeaking of
their pusillanimous voices, joined to the
persistent, CONSTANT, and un9ualhng voice
of the FoUR-CEMr MAS" at their heels.
they were soon silenced. Few bought Of
them, and il was fun for the crowd 10
listen to the two voices aud witness the
unwayerlng steadiness Of our hero. When
that voice, than which there is not its
equal in the world, shall be hushed IN
Nassau Street, il will seem, as one might
suppose it would at Niagara, should an.
other Cyrus divert the river into a new
bed. Long live the famous FouR.CESr
Man"
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
A Quaker Joke.

A correspondent sends us the following
good thing for the hot weather:
K, the Quaker President of a
Pennsylvania Railroad, during the confu-
sion and panic las, fall, called upon the
W-Bank, with which the road had
kept large, regular account and asked
for an extension of part of ITS paper
falling due in few days. The Bank
President declined rather abruptly. say
ing, in tone common with that fraterni-
y:
Mr.. r., your paper must be paid at
maturity. We cannot reneiD ii.
VERY well" the Quaker replied, and
left the Bank. Bot he did not let the
matter drop here. On leaving the Bank
he walked quietly over 10 the depot and
telegraphed all the agents and conductors
on the Road to reject the Bills on the
W-Bank.-ln few hours trains be-
gan to arrive, full of the panic, and bring
ing the news of distrust of the W
Bank all along the line of the Road.
Stockholders aud depoSitors flocked to the
Bank. and making the panic, inquiring
4" What's the matter -" Is the Bank
broke 2" A little inquiry by the officers
showed that the trouble originated in the
rejection of the bills by the Railroad.
The President seized his hat and rushed
down to the Quaker's office and came
brushing in with the inquiry
Mr.. X, have you directed therefus.
al of our currency by your agents r.
Yes" was the quite reply.
why is this 2 II will ruin US"
Well, friend l., supposed thy
Bank was about to fail, as thee could mo-
renew a litlle paper for us this morning.
1t is needless to say Mr.. L-renewet
all the Quaker's papers and enlarged hi,
line Of discount. while the magic wire,
carried all along the Road, every agen
the sedauve message, The w
Bank is all right. Thee may take it
currency"
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19

ly life need not necessarily be very un.
happy one.
If agreeable to you, Mr.. Editor, | may
occasionally spend a few hours in home
that sometimes seems lonely, and sad, in
writing some pleasant rem nscences of
the eventful past, and if may find en-
ployment TO win me from sad thoughts,
and the reader may sometimes CLEAN
amusement and instruction, my object will
have been attained
And now although stand
Far beyond youths fairy land,
All alone,
Let Times touch be soft and light,
Let it rpcn and not blight;
So shall | bid lie good night,
Ere lose its morning song"
BELLEVUE, Aug. lst, 1853.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
MISCEL ANE0US.
For the Bellevue Gazette.
The Hope of I'm mortality.
BY LIMA LINwooD.

4" Cheeks have paled beneath my lips,
Dear eyes dimmed in deaths eclipse,
Loves gone down like shattered ships,
In the ocean of the past;
Yet all these know and
Wait me on the shining shore,
And the Angel will restore
All my hearts lost wealth al last"
How sweetly upon the weary suffering
heart rests the hope of Immortality,
bringing light and peace in the saddest
and darkest hours of our changing desti-
nv. Ii is well for US that life does not
ever present for US the one unvarying
scene of brightness and beauty with
which we invest il III our childhood, else
life would become too dear and valued
the thoughts of death too terrible, and
even the glorious hopes of Immortality,
repuiSiUs and unpleasant. But with its
mingled web of joy and sorrow, hope and
fear, with its cares, trials and disappoint-
menIs, how gladly we welcome its light.
Reader have you ever stood amid the
wreck of all things most loved and valu-
eds Have you with the sufocating ago.
ny Of heart from which the last tear
drop had been pressed, seen the grave
close over all that could render life dear
or attractive, aud then come back to a
home hallowed by thousand tender as.
socia,ions of the past, from which the
very sunshine looked sad, and the green
hills, the fair flowers, and even the mer-
ry happy songs of birds, came as mock
cry to your aching heart rather than eyi-
dences of kind Fathers care aud love
If so you may then know by experience
how the sweet hope Of an immortal life
beyond the grave, where the broken links
of affections chain may be reunited to be
severed no more forever, may give ener.
gy and calmness when every earthly de.
pendence has failed; and comfored by
the sublime thought, that if alone on earlh
God is in Heaven with the power and
the will to bless. with heart to love ey,
cry being God has created. with stores o
thought to interest and amuse, and Ange
voices to nightly whisper approval, lone
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
w. l. T. E'S

EAsHIoNABLE Hair Cutting, Shaving
l. Dying, and Bathing Saloon, third dooI
west Of the Exchange Bank, Omaha, MT.
onsha, Oct. I, 1857. II
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
p o E. II r Y.
Thought.

by MRS. n. NJ. y. WALKER.
We see it, feel it, know its power,
Its impress stamps the man
Oppression cannot make it cover,
IT'S always in the van.
1t glistens in the wishful tear
Which dims the infants eye;
We hear it in the schcol-boy's cheer,
The loud laugh ringing high.
We see it on the maiden's brow
In lines so sad AID sweet
That parting hand-we feel it now
That kiss-again well meet.
1t fingers in the mothers gaze
She looks upon her son;
All what will be his future ways,
The race which he will run
1t shines out in the students look,
With golden schemes inwrought
Ambitions hope, his fame, his book,
All center in one thought.
1t flashes in the statesman's eye,
1t trembles on his lip;
Its thunder shakes oppression's sky,
Its lightnings through it fit.
We read its name for ages back
Rome knows its power full well
Old Egypt bears its stately track,
And France tale could tell.
Our history's page is written o'er
With thought and noble deed;
1t drove the Pilgrims to our shore,
And thought, our nation freed.
And thought will break the tyrant's rod,
Will set the nations free,
Will give humanity one God,
The world one unity.
IT'S mighty for the loftiest deeds,
Omnipotent in power
A universe at will it leads;
You CAN NOT MAKE 1T COVER!
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
Tootle & jackson,

FORWARDING 4 COMMISSION MER-
IL CHANTS, Council Bluffs city, Iowa.
Having Large and Commodious Warehouse
on the Levee at the Council Bluffs landing,
are now prepared to receive and store, all
kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive
and pay charges on all kinds of fire. yths so
that Steam Boats will not be detained as they
have been heretofore, in getting some one TO
receive freight, when the consignees are absent.
RLFERENcEs Livermoore & Cooley, s. c.
Davis & Co. and Humphrey, Putt & Tory, st.
Louis, Mo-. Tootle & Fairleigh, ST. Joseph
Mo. J. s. Cheneworih & Co., Cincinnati Ohio
w. F, CoulbonGh. Burlington, Iowa, It'd
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
Greene, Weare & Benton,
ID. H. Solomon,

Il, TTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prae-
Nv IN all the Courts Of western Iowa and
Nebraska, and the Supreme Court Of Iowa.
Land Agency not in the Programme. no Aft
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19

The gelters.up of bear hunt in Min
nesota. invite the ladies' to participate in
the sport. But the ladies had better not
do it, especially if they dress fashionably-
Each of them might chance to be shot
from appearing to be "a httis bare"
Prentice.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19

A hpsey Irishmm leaning against a
lamp post as funeral procession was
passing by, was asked who was dead Z
Il can't say, sir said he, but pre-
sumo j, is the jintleman in the coffin"
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19

GEO. SNYDER. JOHN II. SHERMAN.
Snyder e. Sherman,
A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT
n LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC, Coun-
ell Bluffs, Iowa, will practice their profession
in all the Courts Of Iowa and Nebraska.
All collections entrusted to their care, at
tended to promptly.
Especial attention given to buying and SELL
ing real estate, and making prescriptions in
Nebraska.
Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments of
writing drawn with dispatch; aeknowledg-
ments taken, &c, &c.
Or Office west side Of Madison street,
Just above Broadway.
nov l3 l-tf,
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19

Here is an old poetical epitaph on a
woman who was struck by lightning:
She died of thunder sent from Heaven
In l777.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
JOB WORK.
BUSIN E,SS CARDS =.
Bowen e. Strickland,

TTORNEYS AT LAW. Real Estate,
City Lots aud Claims bought and sold.
Purchasers will do we'll to call at our Office
and examine our list of City Lots, &C., before
purchasing elsewhere. Office in Cooks new
building. corner of Fifth and Main streets.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-26
BITTERs-
CORDIAL FOR LADIES AND AGED PERSONS

This highly agreeable cordial taken pure and prepared
by the request OF number of families who had repre-
scented the Inconvenience resulting mixing those
Tees Of hters which be mbhed uudued the
time which they OCCASION and the mistakes made fran igno
Of the mode of administering them.
These well founded objections enabled to understand the
which deter persons making their
excellent and beneficial preparations The manufactured
be taken pure, obviates all the faculties alluded II
Is highly eeaeious in general weakness
affections generally, and certain preventative from
gasrsthAt fatal disease peculiar and humid eli
mates 1t establishes the appetite nVig0,AeH the general
and in lime healthy color persons who have
acquired Emphatic Temperament.
This CORDIAL not only the property Of stimulating the
appetite but Of aiding digestion. Ii tempted by sumptuous
epast to indulge beyond the bounds Of prudence suffer from
slow and mped digestion small glass OF this admirable
liquor occasions speedy relief aud facilitates
Persons in good hrslh use eservsve and pleas
ant beverage. It's delicious and render II such
Those who in the habit of taking unch and particularly
ladies' will find 1t invaluable addition this repas
merely account Of Its exquisite favor but from s digestive
qualities.
The most delicate constitutions from infancy old age Of
both employ It without the slightest
Directions will be given pc u,ng time
A. A. PEYCHAUD,
az 2m&W No l0S Royal street
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-26

SUNDRIES-
- $50 boxes and half boxes Virginia TOBACCO assorted
qualities.
200 bbls., half bbls. and kits MACKEREL, Nos. l. as
900 kegs "old Colony NAILS assorted sizes.
60 casks London PORTER and ALE.
90 cases Falkirk ALE.
rs sacks Old Government Java COFFEE
200 pockets 81. b.
60 Havana and German CIGARS various brands.
800 boxes and half boxes STAR CANDLEsN
81 boxes LEONARD Sons SPERM CANDLES
81 bbls., hk bbls. and a. bbls Extra CRANBERRIEs
~ bbls. aud a0 boxes BUCKwHEAT.
100 dozen Painted BUCKETS
100 cases Baltimore Cove OYSTERS, l and h. cans
80 kegs Buck and Drop SHOT and BAR Lead
80 bbls. very superior Old Bourbon and Bye WHISKY
80 cases LOBSTER; 80 kits No. l SALMON.
~ cases sARDINEs; 80 cases TOMATOES.
IS cases Baltimore PRESERVES.
so cases BRANDY FRUITS
80 sacks French s. S. ALMONDS.
100 boxes E. D, and Western CHEESE.
80 tins Bent a Co.'s CRACKERS
10 gross PLAYING CARDS
80 boxes Italian MACCARONI
300 boxes Kentucky MUSTARD US Ips and l In cnps
80 cases Fresh PEACHES.
20 cases Green CORN 30 cases Green PEAS
800 cases Underwoo1's PICKLES, assorted sizes
50 cases Preston Merrill's YEAST POWDERS.
Also
hne assortment of TEAS, WINES LIQUORS, etc.
CHARLES R. RAILEY & CO..
II Tchonpouas street and
azo 81 "a Gravler street.