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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-11-20
A Short Patent Sermon.
BY Do W, JR.


At the reques, Of brother S. VI. Kerr !
will meddle with the following
Nv har de hen scratch dar she spec TO
find de bog"
AlY HEARERS u am informed that a
preacher in Columbus, Ohio, once took
the above for his text, and provtG from it
that our First Parents fell out of an apple
tree into mud hole, which caused their
irsl-born To be as black as your hat.
am afraid my colored co.labored has made
much more Of il than | can; for turn ii
over, set it upon end, lay ii down, and
sprawl it opeu-aFer all, this old rooster
don't find grea! deal 10 pick at.
In the first place, my brethren, pro-
pound a pous conundrum: Why are
men like watches! Because we must
look inside of them for their good quail
ties anI judge Of them by their works
Well, my brethren, the work OF men
and Women iG general, consists, for the
most part, in scratching, and thu prospect
OF bug 10 ,ho incentive. You may no.
ice, brethren, that whence a hen
makes a scratch she always gives pick;
but whether she gets bog al every DIP,
is very uncertain. imagine not; never
heless, where the hen scratches there
she eTpectS to find bog.
Expecting is one hing, you know, my
friends, and finding another. You may
turn over many a stone in this precarlous
world. and find no bug after all. Fhreno-
logically speaking the human head is one
vast pump Of expectation, and nothing
else.
There are various sorts OF bugs, bEsih-
len in ,his buggy sphere. There are big
bugs, lille, bugs, tumbe-bugs, June-bugs,
slraddle-bugs, hum bugs, and bLg-bears.
But you needn't scratch about much 10
find any Of these; for they are every
where thicker than shippers in seven
year old cheese.
To find he bug you so earnestly de-
sire, requires dlligent scratching: and if
by so duing you don't happen to catch IL.
you can comfort yourself with the refec.
tion that you puI in your best. If a
young man takes girl about 10 see the
shows, feeds her with csndy. and buys
her pretty calicoes, his tile 10 kiss Is
clear and undispuiable-for "waere the
hen scratches there she expects 10 find a
bug"
The bug that You are al after, my
brethren is the gold bug; but, alacsday,
how many of you scratch in vain; YET il
is found in manure heaps, as we'll ss in
aurferous places. The farmer turn il up
with his plough, and the gardener with
his spade; and yet thousands keep scratch
ing here and there without finding 'ary
bug.
A few years ago hundreds Of you fell
10 scratching al Kern River expecting 10
find mighty big bug. Wei yon scratch
ed, and scratched, and scratched: and
what did you turn up at issl!-a mon
sroushumbug!-GeI frightened and sersb-
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-11-20
TAGTAEI5 1BGgE83.

70 CURE HoARsESE's.--Tske The
whites OF Two eggs and beat them with
two spoons Iull Of sugar. grsie IN thfm
luIe nutmeg, then add pint Ol luke-"sfm
waIer. Sir well. and dunk often. Re-
peat tie prescription G necessary. and Il
will cure the most obstinate case VI
hOaTseness.
PREsgRyING FRUITs WITHOUT SrGAR.
TO preserve lTulI Tor winter use, pui u IN
bnrllrs, Gil them up with cold sprIng wa
Ter up to Tie neck # lhe bonles. with hay
10 keep lhem sieaJy let them simm'r
for i quarter ol sn hour. bul not boil let
Iaem cool ~ tie water IS jpe the bottles
and put away 10 a cry place. On no se-
count open nH their contents are wanted
for ealing.
WARTs.-The bark Of the willow iiee,
burned TO ashes and mixed with sirong
vinegar. and applied 10 the part Affected
wIlI remove all warts. corn', or excresen'
ces, on any part OF The body.
CnoLIc IN HoRsEs-An officer Of tho
Uni!eJ States Navy. at present resident
of Norfolk, Va, says that be has found
eighteen drops Of Croion oil. from bis
own experience. TO be.s sovereign cure
for cholie in horses. ft
A correspondent of the Farmer and
Planter writes "0ne pint oi sal' dissol-
we'd in warm water will cure horse of
cholic. have tried il lwtniy ysaia
without failure,
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-11-20
The Extravaganza Of the Day.

II, Parker says some shrewd things,
which 60 directly 10 the heart OF the pop
uIar follles of the day. He has no exall-
ed idea of the present system Of domestic
education, as lending 10 frugallty or econ
lomy. He says in one OF his sermons:
ain the town of Somewhere, lives Mr..
Manygirls. He is a toilsome merchant,
his wife hard-woIking housekeeper.
Once they weIe poor. now they are ru-
nousIy rich. They have seven daugh-
iers whom they train up in utter idleness.
They spend much money, but not in
works Of humanity, not even in elegant
accumplis hmenis, in painting, dancing,
music, and the like, and so paying in
spiritual beauty what they take IN mate
rial means. They never read nor sing;
they are know-nohings. and only in vain
show, as useless as ghost, and as igno.
rant as ihe block on which their bonnets
are made. Now, as these seven ladies,
as Il e newspapers call the poor things,
so ignorant and he pless, ARE not only idle,
can earn nothing but consume much.
What load of fnery is on their shoul-
ders, head and necks. Mr.. Msnygirls
hires many men and women TO wait on
his daughters ideness. and these SER
wants are Withdrawn from The productive
work Of the shop or The farm, and Sc, 10
The unproduclve work Of nursing these
seven grown up babies.
"On the other side Of The way The Hon.
Mr.. Manysons has seven sons who are
he exact match for The merchants daugh-
tiers; rich. idle, some Of Them dIssolute;
ldebauchery coming before their beard; all
useless earning nothing, spending much
and wasting more. Their only labor is 10
kill lime; and in summer they emigrale
from pond to pond, from lake 10 lake ,hav-
ing fishing line with worm at one end
and fool a, the other. These are fast
families in Somewhere. Their idleness
is counted pleasure. Six Of these sons
will marry and FIVE perhaps of Msnygirls
daughters, and what families they will
found. 10 live on the toll Of their grand
fathers bones; uniil commercial crisis,
and the wear and ear Of time, has dss-
paed their fortunes and they are forced
reluctantly 10 toll.
Besides, there is an enormous waste OF
food, fuel, clothing, of everything. We
are lhe least economical. civilized people
on earth. Of course the poor are waste
ful every where, 'hey do not know how 10
economize, and they have not the means.
They must 1--we from hand to mouth, and
half Of what is put into The hand perishes
before il reaches the mouth. So likewise
are the rich was,eful who have inherited
money, almost never such as have earned
it. The great mass Of the people are not
economical, bot wastelul. Ii is the habit
OF the whole country.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-11-20

A witty lawyer once jocosely asked a
boarding house keeper the following ques-
ton
.Mr. If man gives you FIVE hun-
dred dollars to keep fot him, and he dies,
do you pray for him 2
No. sir replied - pray for an
other like him.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-22

q. HAYES & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF every description of Carrlares
~ Luggles Harness, and light ana fancy work Of ali
are new prepared with null stock for Spring
trade Parties wishing to purchase invited to call
Ware Room corner OF Market John streets Wheel
i1G1 va Nlh3U Sm
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TC CORKNSPONDENps.

LETT ERs concerning subscriptions advertising other Il.
be Fropric,ors
Letters concerning the editorial department of the raper
hond he eaIiresset the Editors jointly either one
them.
Correspondents writing for publication will please write
only one side of the paper.
Al observance of the above rules will greatly Obge
nd sera prompt attention correspondents than
y IaisLt t2erwise receive
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-22
JAS. NJ. DILLON
1O2 MARSEIli STFRJIEIfJT
Just ReoeiVed AID Now Open=

just Received and Now Open.
pleasure in informing friends, ,patTous and
w the public generally that have streceived onr
Spring stock of CEOTIKS CASSElLEEESS IESTYN(JS
together with generaI assortment OF Purnishhs
Stoodsa of which will sell prices the
We only ask CALL feeling confident you examine our
stock you Will be satisfied that exceled either
IN the style or quality OF the sale We.
SNOW IN that our stock consists OF FonatEe Goods and
tIp Goods, and we prepared up to or
der ia style secendto none ster or West of Inc
mountains, and short notice. storeroo1 No.
l02 SIain ST. WHEELER 4 IAFSTN 80
apl2 EIeTchuf,t TaiIo22a
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7Hope GLASS works! :

AIDES" RSSRANSffN SKIRTS, HMfiIped Recess SKIRT
l CSes SKIRT Rests patentl Fancy Baskets PER-
umeFy, Soaps, Brushes of kinds, always hand cheap
or casi. Ije1e1 PAYNE COZ
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-22

E..
How a CREvASsE LooKs.-Thc Memphis Ap.
pealhas a letter from Helena, Ark, written un-
der pressure ofthe last crevasse;
"On Saturday, about one o'clock P. NJ, the
levce gave way about one milo below Helena,
and ina short time the cregasse was one hum
dred yards wide. l went to see it, rs l had
heard so much about 'crcrQsscs' and the devas-
tation produced by them. Ttwas fearful sight
to behold; torrent Of water. one hundred
yards wide, bounding over til!.of five or six
feet, tearing everything before it; the waves
caused by it six feet in hight, and the Whole
volume of water spreading up and down through
the green corn. This looks like destruction
indeed But tlis'iS not ALL Now comes the
ting ofwar Thcwater torcedits the glen,
andiby sunset the back streets of the city began
to be covered with water, and the water rising
at the rate oIlfron four to six inches an hour
NOw. everybody is on the Loo k-Out. Those per-
sons whose houses are onTthe lowest places are
compelled to move out the hills, or transfer
their property to the upper stories of their
houses, where there happens to be moro than
one story! The night was beautifully lighted
by the moon, so that it was most favorable for
aIretreat.7 The whole town appeared to be in
motion; men, women aud children moving to
hndatT0, every one taking Care of what lie had.
Afltthc available force, White and black, that
could be raised, was immediately placed and
kept upon the leyees all night to Keep the water
rom breaking III from fl4au II uOhe So
some lives might have been LOST, as the water
would lmvc flooded the whole place in an hour,
or two. cd remained witness ofithe scene Until
l2 O'clock p. NJ, and dthen retired to rest,gnot
knowing aNvlratother strange sight might greet
my eyes in the morning. was up at five the
morning following, and was glad to discover the
levcc all lsound aud in good order, but about
one half 6f the town undcrva
1t is now eleven o'clOck; l have Just returned
from a stroll up the levee, aud find that the
water is over several streets. 1t is amusing to
see how things arc managed here. Boats of
all kinds, and even boxes, are bought iuto re-
quiSitionto facilitate the movements Of the peo-5
pie. Wagons, carts and buggies, horses and
w6nla, and child. are iTl great demand nj this tbis
time, and command any reasonable priccN u
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-22
ODD FELLOWS, DIRECTORS

vtrSsntns Lodge No. ;s.-s1eet, every rspr.6av
evening atthe Hail, corner Market and Quincy streets
JAMES NJ HALL, n. G.; 3. " Carr, Secretary.
%UankItn lodge No.aI3.-Neets as aboveevery
Monday evening. DAVID BAYHA, N. G.; WqWianf r.
Nt 'a'pay, Secretary.
,vua. CeII lodge NO. ;s:s.--srests asaboveeve.
r. Wednesday evening. wttLIAM HHarEs, N. c.; John
Sr'ade, Secretary.
yy',,ee,ing lodge No. oO,-ateets as above every
". u. parrs, N. g.; ,Fohn TAoburn, Secretary.
PluoIn lodge No. S2.-Meets as above every
PFiiay eveang. JOS HAsELv, N. G.; Join L. liatCcls
secretary.
WIN. Teu Eucnmpment No. 3l.-Mee.s as
above the second and fourth Tuesday evenings each
month. JouS BNpER, q. P.i oaas. L5nek, Scribe. 5s
1hrRm's EnCHruplnent NO. I.-Meets as
sbove the Hrstandttira of month
Ws FNytoa, G. p, GsoBatr@, Jr., Scribe. March IS.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-22

III AY ELEVATORS. Hay Elevators with
III anti-irtctton Blocks. for sale by 80 y "a
jee5 f9sSiss SAIITH & iGoRRELIs.
~ Gall and see them. ijeQe] 8. y, HARPER SONS
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masonic DIREoroRY.

Ohio lodge No 1o1.-Neets Masonic Hall,
corner Market and Monroe streets, hrs ard third Non
dayevennsso each month. e. W. s,aLTs W. NJ; 4tee-
andsr Llng.liR, Secretary.
wheeItnR s.odEe No. 12S Meets as above on
theFrs and third Thursday evening Of each month. F. A.
BRESrLrScRR, w. NJ; s, W Pearson, Secretary. :
wheeling Union Chapter no. 1G-Meets as
above on the secosd Monday evening of eachmOnth W. q
scoEr, II. p; S. ". Pearson, Secretary.
Wheeitng EncHmPmeat NosA1.-Meets.a
b"veonthe3oara Monday evening of month. VI,
ALoriAg,
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cHURCHEs OF WHEELING.

For the information Lstrangers visiting tie city, we pul
i.h tie following list Of the Churches, their
and place OF meeting. II any mistakes, NE
will make the necessary correction with pleasures
ST. MttesD'S, E2iscCpaljsn Corner Monroe and Byron
treets Rev. T. Il PEERLESS, Rector; morning services 1O
clock, ereninr,7.
81 ohu's, Episcopqlta, Main street, and
SecoHd Centre Wheeling, Rev. j. H. SMITH, A. NJ, Rector
services-NIornng 1G]5; afternoon 3l; night ~. -
First Pfes6yfeita, Rev. r. H. WEED, Pastor, Fourtist
etweer Monroeand OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES afternoon
Second freSeridT, Webster street, between Main
Marke Centre Wheeling, morning evening".
2Aid Pcs5yteria Fifth street, between Chestnut and
Tabert South Wheeling, Rev E. Woons, Pastor
smorning and evening.
Fourth res6yterion Rev. "A. PAUL. Pastor Sainstreet,
etween Washington and Adams sts morning
evening.
Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Rev. ]. E. WILSON,
Pastor Fourthseet between Monroe Quincy services
morning and evening. tFs
Worth Street 1etaodist Episcopal Rev IA A. REeER Pastor
corner Market and North sts., North Wheeling;
morning and evening.
Caa5iae Street lfethodtst Episcopal, Rev. T. II. Mos
RoE, Pastor, Ghapline street, Second,
/ O.ntre Whee' 'nF' services morning and evening.
South Rhee'inO H. E. C2wset, Rev. J. s. HALL,
astori services morning and evening.
Wheeliag Esldnd Chapel, on Wheeling Island, Rev. J.
WILSON, Pastor
German 1ieoaist Episcopal, Rev, O. HELwIo, Pastor,
chaPne street. between Webster and Third Centre hee
pE.
d. "'"eS CGhe"rdt, Roman Catholic, Rt. Rev. BISHOP
R. WnELAN, Fifth street, OF Hampden; services
morning and afternoon.
associate REFORMED, Rev. MootusE Pastor, corner
Ofarketand Jefferson ss servicesmorning and
Disciples, Market street, between Webster Third
Centre WheelinEi services log in the morning, and ~
evening.
ssaage'fca1 Protestant, Rev Wa HkLrrR, Pastor, Clay
rect, above Sixth, East Wheeling.
Zto" EoH"ge'tcat zutAertom, Rev. p zI,nnERsLAS,
stor Market street, between Webster Third;
Wheeling; services morning and evening.
.0iaA Synagogue, Quincy street, between Market and
Main.
Germdn Protestant, Union HALL Main street, between
Monrae aaa oanoyi services 10Y morning.
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-11

The Compromise and Fugitive Bill had been
forced through during the first session of the
first Congress under the ne,o Administration :;
so that plenty of time was secured for paci-
flying the public mind, and raising new issues
for the next Presidential election; and this
policy has been uniformly pursued by the Slave
Party ever since.
The Presidential election of 1852 having been
carried, and the President inaugurated March,
1853, the first Congress under his Administration
was chosen as the instrument for accomplishing
another great object of the Slave Power. The
People, deluded with the notion that the exac-
tons of that Power had been finally Quoted in
1850, had trusted the so-called Democracy with
almost unlimited power. 1t possessed the en-.
tire Executive Department, majority of twelve
in the Senate, and of eighty in the House. We
shall see how it repaid their confidence. The
Slave Power, which has always relied upon it
as the chief agent for carrying forward its am.
bilious schemes, understood much better than
the People its spirit and policy. Now, in the
beginning of mew Administration. at the first
session of the first Congress under this Admin.
istration, now was the time to strike another
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-11

Slave Democratic majority of twelve in the
Senate, seventeen in the Housed
Well-how did the Party, which the People
delights to trust, keep faith with them? The
constrained resignation of Governor Walker:
the abrupt removal of Acting Governor Stan.
ton; the recognition of the Lecompton Fraud |;
the Message of the President to Congress, as
serting that Kansas today is as much a slave
State as Georgia or South Carolina, denouncing
the Free State Party as rebels, insisting upon
the admission of Kansas under Slave Consti
tuition, which received but six thousand votes.
three thousand of which were spurious, and was
voted against by eleven thousand voters-let
these facts answer.
The Slave Power struck the first blow in
l85O-the second in l854-it has waited patient
ly, and has lifted its hand to strike another blow
in 1858. And now, if Popular Sovereignty be
trampled under foot in Kansas-if Freedom be
put down there by Federal bayonets-if Kan
sas, as slave State, with a slave Constitution,
against the will of four-ffths of her people. be
dragged into the Union, at the first session of
the first Congress under the new Administra
ton, who are to be blamed? Who, but those
who, blind, stupid, and stiffnecked, will never
learn? What was once the Democratic PARTY
of the North has degenerated into servile or.
ganization, controlled by the Slave Interest.
The best Democrats have abandoned it. Even
Douglas, its idol and long time leader, is be-
ginning to occupy doubtful relation to it.
Again and again has it betrayed the interests
of the Non.Slaveholders of the country, and
trampled upon the Public Opinion of the Free
States, and yet again we find it placed in power
by stupid responsibilities at the North and, as
we foresaw, but they did not, its first demon.
stration is against the rights of the People.
The recognition and adoption of the Internal
Lecompton Constitution is held up as Dem.
Ocratic measure-the infallible test of fidelity
to the Democratic Partyl
The passage of the measure would not sur.
prise us. 1t is in accordance with Democratic
usage. The People of the Free States have
placed In the Presidential chair a man who
will use his patronage to aggrandize Slavery
and in Congress enough Senators and Repre-
sentatives to do its bidding. They were fully
warned, but experience, however bitter, seems
lost upon them. Let this enormous outrage
be perpetrated, and they will be shocked-grow
ENTHUSIASTICALLY send an Opposition Ma.
jority to the next Congress, and then-what
thenf-yote into power in 1860 the same Party
which quadrennially outrages and quadrennially
cheats them. If such should be the course of
things, the year 1860 will witness some deed
OF aggression, whose enormity shall cast into
the shade all that have gone before.
This Slave Democracy must be destroyed, or
it will destroy the Republic.
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VOL. XII.

hold any relations either by writing or BY !,
tervention of third parties-excepting tbo,.
official communications which have all bsa.
published at the proper time; that, as bsva
already said, preferred exile to the celebr.
ton of a treaty of peace which would dimipst
the honor of the territory of my country, not
withstanding the entreaties of many Of N.
countrymen, who, forgetful of their dutv. .,
deavored to convince me that the peace Wb;cb
the Government of the United States pronoss5
and solicited, was preferable to the ends :;
war. This conduct, which should have gaips5
trends and admirers, l am sorry to say, gained
from me only hatred and enmity. Consn;r.
cies were Matched against my person and N,
Government, and was Obliged at the sams
time to defend myself against the attacks NJ
enemies from without and enemies from within
The friends of General Pillow will not be an,
to acknowledge the testimony of an intereste5
party as of much weight in the dispute.
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-11

There were four vacancies at first, but they
were so filed as to enable the Wings to elect
their Speaker.
The great subject of discussion and action
was the Slavery Question, as it affected the Ter
ritories and the claims of Shareholders to Fugi.
tives from service or labor. At first, the friends
of Freedom were preponderant, the Administra-
ton of General Taylor being adverse to the
policy of the Slavery Propaganda. His death,
followed by the accession of Mr.. Fillmore,
changed this preponderance, and determined
the struggle against them. By the efforts of
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, enforced by
the Fillmore Administration, a bill was passed
for the reclamation of fugitives from labor,
odious to the majority of the People of the
Free States, and the Territories were organized
under laws which made no provision against
the introduction of Slavery, but expressly pro-
vided that when admitted as States they should
be received, with or without Slavery, as they
This legislation was signal departure from
the policy which had been pursued by the Gov
eminent from its foundation, was claimed as
triumph of the Slave Power, and condemned by
the Public Opinion of the Free States. But the
joint efforts of the Administration and Of the lead
ers of the Democratic and Wing parties in those
States, appeased the popular discomfort, and
the masses of the People were induced to &C.
quiescence by the assurance that the vexed
question having been finally settled, no further
aggressions were to be apprehended from the
Slave Power. The Wing Party, having been
loudest in its professions of regard for the in
terests of the Free States, suffered more than
the Democratic, for its concessions to the de-
mands of Slavery. The People of the Free
States could not forget that the Fugitive Bill
and the Compromise were the measures of
Wing Administration; while the Shareholders
saw that, although the measures of Wing Ad
ministration, it was Democratic votes at last
that secured their passage.
The result appeared in the political complex
ION OF the Thirty second-Congress, which
stood ga followu.