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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04
The W ashington Tragedy.

Great Excitement in Shepherdstomn !
TINE undersigned informs the citizens Of
L Shepherdstown and neighborhood that his
stock Of Spring and Summer Goods is now full
and complete, purchased in Philadelphia and
Baltimore upon the most REASONABLE terms,
which enables me TO compete uccessfully with
a. v other Store in the county. You are invited
to "a |, examine goods and piiceS. am deter
mined TO sell as cheap as any other establish
ment in town o. neighborhOod. for Cash or on
time 10 puuc;ual paying customers.
Groceries at reduced prices for cash. Prime
Coffee ID cts Brown Sugar, good article, s
cents. White Sugars 1 and II IL cents.
Molasses 40 and so cents, Syrup 62 l-2 cents,
and all other goods in proportion.
Also Potatoes for sale.
Respectfully, u. D KEN On
April 80 1859.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04

SAiA w ~ So 49,
Art, Science and E
Natural History. Y vi
Adventures, Tray
els sc. a Gel
Agriculture an d n
Domestic Economy. ~ cal
Bellies Letters, Es- S
says sc. sol
Bibles. q
Biographies. Il
Dictionaries. u I'll
Encyclopedias, n
GaZetteers. y sc
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04
GIFTS :! GIFTS GIElSI GIFTS !
The Original Gift Book Store.
D. w. EVANS IL CO.,
THE CIT BROADWAY, 671 THE
FIFTH NETWORK, FIR ! ii
YEAR. ESTABLISHED 1854. EAR.

The following is partial list of property
which will be given to the purchasers OF Books
at the time Of sale: Worth from
Gold watches English leyer:pat
en-! lever and lepines. $50 to 500
Silver Watches patent lever full
ieweed hunting cas"s, open face
and cylinder escapement. II TO 4O
Gold lockets-large size, four
glasses, and two glasses with
sprihg-large and small size with
snap. - 10 II
Cameo, Mosaic, Florentine, pain .
ted Lava, Goldstone, Garnet and
Coral Sets of Pins aud Drops. 5 to %
Ladies' Gold Guard Chains, Fan
CIV Neck Chains, Chatelaines. 8 10 Is
Gents Fob and Vest Chains 10 TO 30
Sets Cameo Goldstone, painted,
Mosaic, Garnet, Onyx, engraved
and plain gold sleeve buttons and
Bosom studs. to Ito
Gold pencils with pens, large,
medium and small. 50 To o
Silver pencils with Geld pens,
large medium annd small size ,dou-
bic aud single extension cases. = to >
Gents heavy signet rings, ladies
Gold Chased and plain rings. | to
! Gents Gold Bosom pins, Cluster
with Opal, scarf pins, Onyx, Car
net R s.: Six pr,.. patterns. . 3 to to 5 50
Cameo, Mosaic, Coral, Garnet,
Chased and plain Oval Bracelets. to 81
Silver and Gold Thimble8 5Octo
Gents pen and pocket knife. 5OctO
| Pearl and Morocco portmonaies. 5Octo
Too tn picks, Watch keys, Guard
Slides. to
Gold Crosses, small medium and
! large. 10
| Besides other Gifts, comprising large and
Iya!uable assortment Of miscellaneous articles,
varying from 81 to $40.
The propretors of the OLDEST ES1.1B-
LISTED GIFT BOOK-S TORE IN THE
UNITED STATES, for the uninterrupted sue
cess which has crowned their earnest efforts to
please during the last four years would return
their sincere thanks to the hundreds OF thou
sands who have, in past time, seen ut to be-
tow their liberal patronage upon them; ard
would further assure them and the public gen.
orally that their long experience and estab-
II ished capital warrant them in offering greater
inducements than ever and such as are out of
the reach of any similar establishment III Inc
country; and propose in this,
THE FIFTH YER
of their location in New York, to introduce
NeW Features,
Still Greater attractions,
Gifts of Greater Ualue and Uariety,
A Sill Larger and Better Selected stock
Of Books,
Commissions and inducements to clubs and
to agents who are willing to devote their time
to our business; so that those who desire can
have
Gg7 Gifts and Books oOifhoW money. -
We shall endeavor to establish an agent IN
every town in the United States so that all
who will may benefit by our liberal system OF
trade.
We have appointed JOSEPH FLEMING
our duly authorized agent for Shepherdstown
and vicinity, who will rece i've and forward all
orders with attention and despatch.
A New and Revised Catalogue
ready for distribution containing every desira-
bic book new or old now in print;and acknowl /
edged by librarians and literary men to be tho
most complete and best classified ever issued
without exception.
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04

q ~ 10000 go go "a
N. B.-.4 Word OF ,EXPL.lN4TIO.Nto
those who have known US under the style Of
EVANS & Co. The Business located by US at
No. GU Broadway, New York City, is the old
est established house in the country and IS
known worldwide as the original Evans s Co.'S
Gift Bookstore. iiany have taken the advan-
tase Of our popularity TO advertise under The
same name as originators 10 increase their
trade-and though house having neither char
acter or name of It's own, can hardly claim Tie
confidence of the commuDiiy-to protect The
few who may be unacquainted with US, we
would state that We have no connection with
any other Gift Book House-ard though many
advertise under tie name of Evans Co, The
firm constituted by d.. ". Eeans and j. H.
Preston, is the first and only concern rightfuIIy
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04

And thousand varieties of publications in eV-
ery department Of literature. We sell as low
as-and in many cases lower than-any other
house in the country; and with every book of
the value of one dollar or more we present
some useful Gift without extra charge.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04
CLOTHING !
Boots, Caters, Shoes, Hats and Caps

THE subscriber having just returned from
L the Eastern Cities respectful ly invites at
tention to his extensive assortment o. Ready
Made Clothing Boots, CATERS, Shoes, Hats
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04

! Philosophical and
Classical Works.
Historical s Mis-
cellaneous.
Poencal Theologi-
cal Religious.
| Law Medical Ma
sonic.
Standard Fictions.
Prayer Hymn and
Glee Books.
Text B o o X S for
! Schools sc. &c.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-06-04
WESTERN HOTEL.
GiA

TIlE undersigned having leased the we'll
L known T1TER.N ST.fhD Of Joseph Ent-
Ter, on German street, Shepherdstown, is now
prepared TO accommodate Travellers and the
Public generally. The HOUSE is large and
commodlous, having been thoroughly renoya-
ted. lis Table shall at all times be suppli-
ed with the best the markets afford. His Bar
IS well stocked with the choicest Wines and
Liquors Ills STABLE is large and roomy
and shall at all times be furnished with album
dance Of provedder. lie has also large
YARD for the accom- mediation Of Drovers and
Maggoners. In the yard is a pair Of nay
SCjLES where all persons having Hay, Cat
tie, or other articles 10 be weighed will be
promptly waited on.
N. B.-Boarders taken by tho week, month
or year. His Terms will be moderate and in
all cases made TO suit the times.
H. Hoping by strict attention 10 business
and desire 10 please to merit and receive q
liberal share Of the publc's patronage.
The public's humble servant.
VIM. n. CROWL.
Shepherdstown, April 2, 1859. tf
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
State Bank OF HOWa.

We learn that, at the adjourned meeting of
the Directors of the State Bank, held at Iowa
City, on the 18th, 18th and 10th instants, the
following new Branches were admitted:
"Branch of the State Bank of Iowa at Bur-
lington." President, W. +. Coolbaugh !;
Cashier, L. w. Brooks; Directors James
W. Grimes, Lyman Cook, j. n Baxter, w.
f. Coobaugh, F. w. Brooks.
"Washington Branch of the State Bank of
Iowa at Washington" President, J. A.
Green Cashier, II. M. Holden Directors =
james Dawson, Joseph Keck, J. w. Quinn
J. a. Green and G. c. Stone
These, with the "Lyons City Branch"
admitted at the preceding meeting of the
Board, make eleven Branches of the State
Bank now organized. ....
The next regular meeting Of the Boardwill
be held on Wednesday, the 18th Of May
We congratulate our near neighbors of
Washington on the establishment of Branch
Bank in their city, and also on securing the
services of such able and responsible men as
have control of it. Mr.. Green, of our city,
the President of the Washington Bank, is
among the most prominent business men of the
State, in whose integrity and sagacity all who
know him have implicit confidence. We hope
his new duties will not cause us to lose him
as citizen of Muscatine
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

ST.. PArR1cK's DAY.-A large section of the
Democratic party paraded the streets, yester-
day, in commemoration of the natal day OF
the saint who converted Ireland-the nursery
of American Pro-Slavery Democracy. St.
Patrick was ''fine ould gintilman'' in his
line; but if he should be called up by some
Spiritualist, there is no doubt that he would
rap his lament that the work which once
seemed to him SO good should prove to be so
badly done. If he could be permitted to
revisit the scene of his apostolical labors in
the flesh, he would find that, in persuading
the "b'ys" to quit the use Of rare ''mate," to
dress themselves in cloth instead of skins of
beasts, and to worship the "praist'' and the
Pope instead of other idols, he had not done
all that Ireland-the "gim ov the sae"-
demands There are snakes in that beautiful
country which the Saint-blessed be his
memory did not drive out. They are in
the Church, in the Government, and in
Society. They have poisoned the body poll
tic, and reduced a people naturally spirited,
brave and polite, to triple vassalage to their
taskmasters-the priesthood and the State.
Ireland needs a new saint-one who will
preach Democracy and Christianity; and,
until this advent, the annual shaking up OF
dead St. Patrick's bones will do her people,
at home or in America, no good. But the
parade is ovcr-let us not complain Chicago
Press and Tribune, 18Th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
II Pt1HUf1O0
I KEGS my hant at you.

ENCOURAGING ABOUT THE WHEAT CROP
A gentleman connected with the Land De-
partment of the Illinois Central Railroad,
whose posi- ion brings him in frequent con-
tact with the people along the lines OF that
thoroughfare, informs us that for the last
week or two he has made inquiry ct every
person he has met from the interior OF the
State as to the state of the growing crop OF
winter wheat, and almost Invariably re-
ceived the answer that the crop is IN the
best possible condition all along the lines o. 9,
the Central road, and that where month
ago it was supposed that much of the wheat
had been sswinter killed." farmers are now
fully satisfied that there fears are ground
less.
As far as present prospects are concerned
there is every reasen to believe that Illinois
will this year raise a full wheat crop.-cAa
caqo Journal, 18th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
IOWA NEWS.

| CoMMENDABLE. The citizens of Dubuqu
take great interest in the subject of Educa
ton, as may be inferred from the vote poll
ed last Monday upon the election of q
board of education. Seventeen hundred
votes were poled.
REMARKABLE.-The Dubuque Express d
Herald of the 18th inst. says that a DO.
named Simmons, on Saturday last at Yves
Dubuque, fell down q shaft 95 feet i'll depth
and strangely enough, was not killed. lie
was ascending from the shaft by means o
ladder, and was SO exhausted when he
reached the top, that he was unable to ge
out. He was alive at last accounts.
INooRroRArEp--The Republican says
that the town of Waverly, Bremen county
has upon petition to the county Judge.
been declared an incorporated village, ant
will soon elect its corporate officers.
SORGHUM CONVENTION. - The Waverly
Convention of Chinese sugar cane growers
was not so largely attended as was expected
owing to the bad weather. Samples of Tho
sugar from the Imphee were produced, ant
favorable reports made of the successful
cultivation of the cane.
AT late term of the District Court in
Lee county, Judge Springer made decisions
on the following points in regard to the
Liquor Law: 1st. The sixth section of the
original prohibit>ry law Is now in force
and informations under it must be sus
taincd. ID. 1t is proper for the Justice OF
the Peace to order new trial, under the
law, before a Jury of six men. a number
of 9th er questions were ised, but these
were the only ones of any Importance affect.
ing the validity Of the law.
SPIRIT LAKE ExoIrEMENr.-The Jasper
county Free Press Of the 18th inst, publish
ed at Newton, says: We learn from our fel
low townsman, Judge A. A. Kellogg, who has
just returned from Spirit Lake, that great
excitement prevails at that place, arising
from fear of Indians, numbers of whom are
reported to be lurking in that vicinity. Sew
eral trappers arrived at the settlement and
reported q band of from 100 to $50 Indi-
ans lurking about Heron Lake, 20 miles
from Spirit Lake. Preparations were made
to send out party of scouts to reconnoitre
Great alarm existed at the Lake, and SEN
tnels, were stationed around and a strict
watch kept day and night. One family that
had lived on the frontier long time left
the settlement, thinking the danger too
threatening.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

; CUR1os1rlEs OF L1rERAruRE.-A gang Of
counterfeiters has recently been broken up
in Essex county, N. Y. Upon the person OF
one of the prisoners was found book con
tanning the rules and regulations of the
"Mystic Circle of Alchemy but principal
ly devoted to an explanation Of the process
es of galvanism and electrotyping. 1t is
supposed that the book has been widely
circulated, and many of the most respecta-
BILE farmers of Essex and the adjoining
counties are suspected of having abandoned
their honest labor for the manufacture Of
bogus coin.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

cTA young man in Troy wrote to Hor
ace Greedy, requesting his autograph, and
received the following reply:
1 sYoung mani you can be in better busi-
ness than in sending for any PERSONS auto
graph. IL. GREELEY
One of the o O'Connel's was applied to fol
his autograph: He replied:
'.Sir, give my autograph to no man."
Yours, DAN'L O'CONNEL.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

GREAT FLOOD OF THE PLATTE.-An ex-
press, in last evening, informed us that the
river Platte had risen above its banks and
was rushing down in a flood nine miles
wide. The Salt Lake mail either way, was
unable to cross, and the emigrants for the
gold mines were collected in considerable
numbers on Walnut Greek, waiting tor the
waters to subside. Fort Kearny was stand
ing upon an Island, entirely surrounded by
the flood, and cut off from all communica-
ton with the main land. This fully ac-
counts for the great rise in the Missouri
which is higher than we have ever known
it to be so early in the season,--St. Joseph
mo. y Gazette, Much IL.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
The Post Office.

The correspondent of the Cincinnati Gnsettl
says that "the investigation ordered by the
President into the financial condition of the
Post Office Department exhibits much
worse state of things than was anticipated
Brown stated the deficiency to be provided
for at three millions eight hundred Thousand
dollars 1t is found to be actually between
five and six" We presume, then, the extra
| session of Congress, which, it is rumorcd,
will be called i'll July, will witness renewal
of the Presidents efforts to increase the pres
ent rates Of postage. All Mr. Buchanan's S
financial policy seems to be prcdicated on the
assumption that the people and the govern
7 Fment are two hostile parties, with dametri-
cally opposing interests, and that the chief
end Of the governors is in every mode and
manner possible to squeeze out money from
the governed. The precise legal relation
which his political ethics seems to assign to
his administration and the unfortunate coun-
try over which it administers mig ght be de-
fined as that of plunderer and plunderee -
Mr.. Buchanan seems to think that the Post
Office Department should not only sustain
itself, and all the extravagant mail contracts,
let to his favorites, but should also afford some
stealings as well as the other Departments
Tie uses this argument: ''the people should
support their own postal SYSTEM" as if all the
nfhnr pI, nf
those of the Post Office Department did not
come out of the pockets of the people.
The truth is that if the postage rates on
letters were reduced from three cents to one,
and the deficit in the postal revenue occasioned
thereby Gf amy supplied from the other
revenues of the Government, the whole cx-
pense would still be borne as really by the
people as it is now; the only difference being
that in the latter case it would be paid much
more easily. But the real difficulty with Mr..
Buchanan is that he needs all the other
branches of the revenue to support the waste
full extravaganza of his Administration, and
for such schemes as the Utah War and the
Paraguay Expedition, where the immense
military and naval forces of the country went
forth in all the ''pomp and circumstance of
war" to fight, and when they arrived at the
spot found nothing to fight with.
The Post Office Department is the only one
which is of much real value to the people,
and it is now sought to render it as useless
and burdensome as the rest If the Admin
istration persists in pressing this measure of
increasing the rates of postage, they may
expect soon to be instructed to abandon it
altogether and leave it where it properly be-
longs, in the hands of private enterprise.
The government has no right to meddle with
the matter at any rate, and the sooner the
present Administration puts up the rates and
the people blow up the system, the better for
everybody.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
VOL. X---NO. 38.
For the Journal. I
A REPLY
TO "oH, LET Us ALI. BE FRIENDS AGAIN"


TO "oH, LET Us ALI. BE FRIENDS AGAIN"
1t is well that we bave severed
r.. The links of friendships chain;
And we shall meet as strangers meet,
When we shall meet again.
Ills true our stay on earth is brief, -
And Time cuts short our lease; ..I
And we should live what time we live,
" In friendship andin peace.
But equal true, it is, that when
Strong friendship, firm and true,
Is rudely broke asundcr, it
Cannot be formed anew
Friendship is like fine porcelain,
That time can ne'er decay;
But, when tits broken, You can meier
Mend it like common clay.
If angry words and angry deeds,
True friendship thus has broken,
Say, would it not have better been, 3
If it had not been spoken?
And now our sun of peace has set
In anger, scorH and hate;
And pale RcpentaBcc turns AWAY
Repentance cuu!e too lute.
And though freely do forgive,
The wound is ranking yet;
The scorn, injustice and deceit, ...
necer can forget.
So It's best that we have severed
The links of friendships chain,
And we shall meet as stranger. meet,
When we shall meet again.
Muscatne City, Feb. 1tth, 1859.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

SAMPLE LETTER TO MEMBER OF CONGRESS
The following letter which is published
verbatim, will give our readers an idea of
W hat kind of labor members of Congress are
sometimes calle d on by their constituents
to perform:
"Will you please to inquire in the patent
Office for Inc for patent rat trap that goes
by weight like clock that will catch from
9 to IL rats at one running down Il thin
has to be wound up before it will catch any
more.
81 wish to know if there is such patent
tharc when it was patented & when the
time expires also the name of the pateatee
& his post Office address
Il thus oblige yours"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

~ The Washington correspondent OF the
Mont gomery (Alabama) Adrertiser, writing
March 4th, speaks thus of Mr.. Toomb's de-
feat of the Post Office bill:
The Senate regarded itself as wrongly
treated by the House, and many so express
sed themselves; and it was this disposition
and feeling that prompted Mr.. Toombs to
the course he pursued. Still he is con dem
ned very generally for the retaliation he
adopted in killing the Post Office bill; and
willie many sympathize with him in the
original cause of difference between the two
houses, yet all will not Justify the deed he
has dOna
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

The WHEAT CRop IN OHIo.-The editor Of
the Ohio Statesman says that, in triI
northward last week, he observed that the
wheat crop appears generally in good con.
dition, and where it was otherwise, it was
evidently owing to unskillful or negligent
tillage. The Winter, which we supposed &c
have been trying to wheat, seems not to have
injured it. In many places it has suffered
from standing water. Except in such cases
and where it was sown very late, the croI
promises to be very fair yield at least, ane
some farmers Say it is uncommonly promis
ing.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

EB@There are many persons who
fancy themselves friendly when they
are only officious. They counsel not
so much that you should become wise,
as that they should be recognized as
teachers Of wisdom.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

DEMOCRATIC PRoGREss.-The Albany Jour-
nal thus comprehensively states the progress
which Slavery has made within few years
"Seventy years ago the Democrats drew a
line around the States, and said to the slave
trader, 'Thus far you may so, but no farther
This was the Jefferson Prov:so. Thirty
years ago, they rubbed out part Of the line
and said to him, You may go into lands
South, but not into lands North This was
the Missouri Compromise. Five years ago,
they rubbed out the rest of the line, and said
to him, we will leave it to the settlers to
decide whether you shall come in or not
This was the Nebraska Bill. Now they turn
humbly to him, hat in hand, and say, GO
where you please; the land is all yours the
National Flag shall protect you, and the Ma
tional Troops shoot down whoever resists
YOU This is the Dred Scott Decision"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

o. The Washington correspondent o.
the Philadelphia Press, in speaking of Mr.
Sickles and visit to him, says:
He showed me the extracts from the Phil
adelphia papers which had been enclosed tc
him by some anonymous friend, he said: 81
have had the satisfaction to know that nearly
every religious paper that has spoken of me
has approved the step which | have been
compelled to take"
If the matter was not too serious for joking
one might laugh at the idea of such man as
Sickles receiving "satsfaction' from relig
ious newspaper We think that is spreading
it on rather thick, even for Washington
lettcr-Writer.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

fY The Mayor of Columbus, S. c., at a
meeting of the City Council of that city,
not long since, said that he received a COM
munication from the Mayor of Charleston,
in reply to one from himself, in which he
says that che is satisfied that the societies
for aiding underground railroads are quite
rife in that city, but so cunning thcy can
not be caught in the act"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

eN-The Buchanan organ of this city
sums up an article on the New Hampshire
election with the injunction '.Let MS watch
and pray" If the editor had spelled the
latter word with an he would have enun-
ciated the first principle Of the Adminstra.
! tion.- Chicago Journal