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[For the Bamstable Patriot .]
We shall not attempt a history here , in these arh-
cles,of the rise and progress of the Water Cure , as it
would not so well enable us to brin g in other mat-
ters which wo wish to spread before the readers of
the Patriot.
The first great and popular idea which we have
to combat , at the present time , is, th at Water does
not possess in and of itself, exclusively consideredi
an y medicina l qualities or powers. It is looked up-
on as a very simple element indeed ; in is natural )
pure and pristine state as perfectly tasteless and
colorless ; just as if that liquid , wh ich does not give
some pretty sensible evidence of its power , could pos-
sess no great med icinal proper ty. I do not know
that I so much wonder at this impression , when I
consider what nauseous drops the world general!}'
have relied upon as curatives. As if the more re-
volting in this respect to the natural senses of man ,
the decided ly greater must be their medical virtues.
But one thing is certa in, it does possess an unequal-
led power to restore the wasted energ ies of the poor,
faint and droop ing plant. See the sickl y vegeta ble
oft in sum mer time , after a long abstinence from
rain. Mark how it fades and bends its head , like
him upon whom dire consumption has long preyed.
One fresh , genia l "shower changes its comp lexion
anon. Health and life are speedil y ev inced. What
else could so effect a change in the fading, dy ing
plant ? I know of nothing. It has both a nourish-
ing and curative power here.
Again , let us take the plant when it has been in-
jured by any extraneous power, an d what can so
wonder fu lly resuscitate it as pure, cold water. It is
just the thing. As in severe droug ht , so in severe
frost it is "nat ure's great restorative."
Some eight or ten years ago, we recollect of re-
siding for a few days with a wealth y individual in
Worcester County, in this State , and of there being
a severe frost sometime about the middle of June ,
when the most of vegetables had got a pretty good
start. On rising early in the morning his beautifu l
garden presented a sorry aspect indeed. He pro-
nounced all as destroyed. We assured him other-
wise. Bade him arouse all his hel p, and immediate-
ly apply t he Water Cure, assuring him at the same
time that we knew it would not injure any thing one
grain. Kalher faithless , he proceeded to give all his
vines and vegetables a copious supply of cold water
from the pump, exce pting a few beans, omitted in
th is ablution just for the test of the thing. This was
sill done before the sun arose, wh ich always ought
to be done. When the sun had been up some half
an hour we all went out to look. And there eveiy
th ing looked perfectl y vi gorous and fresh , exce pting
the few neglected beans ; these had withered close
to the ground. We have often restored choice
plants in this way after they had not onl y been fiost
bitten but most severel y frozen. And to show the
reader there is some analogy betw een vegetab le and
an imal organisms , in this respect , I have onl y to
show him thnt Cold Water will extract frost wilh
equal facility from any portion of the human frame.
Immerse it in water a litt le lower than the freezing
point , dur ing a length of time proportioned to the
nature and extent of the freeze , and no great da m-
age will general y be done to the part frozen , more
than a slight soreness. Surel y here it discloses the
very hi ghest degree of medicinal power. Nothing
can exceed or even equal it.
And , again. It is equall y efficacious in the case
of a scald or a burn , which is an injury similar in its
nature to a freeze ; onl y there is this difference , de-
composition may commence whilst the fire is in , be-
fore the cold water is app lied. In that case there
must , of course , be a sore and more or less of pain.
But water applied instantl y, copiousl y and con tinu-
ously for some considerable length of time , either
direct ly or th rou gh a bandage , will do more to re-
move the fire and mitigate the pain and restore the
disordered fu nctions of the parts bur ned , than any
thing else whatever. This is no matter of specula-
tion , but a well attested fact. Here the superior
curat ive power is us plainly obvious.
And yet aga in. Let a person receive a severe
bru ise or blow , and immed iately commence using
cold water as above , and it will invariabl y prevent
the blood settling to any considerable extent. This
we have tried under a great variety of circumstances
and hence know it to be a fact. And this course of
treatment will also as effectuall y prevent great sore-
ness and pain. Has not, then, the pure , limp id ,
tast eless water of the well or spring, a med icinal
quality which is trul y surpr ising ? This is no strain ,
ing of the subject, but a bare statement of facts. In-
numera ble instanc es , almost , might be referred tO)
to demonstrate these positions if necessary, but ex-
perience will best test them.
But in order that experience may not misguide
the experimentor , it is important that he should first
b
^
e made to feel the force of two points . First , that
he make the most immediate application of this rem-
edy, because, if t here be any great delay, ser ious ef-
fects may alread y have taken place, which by an af-
ter application cannot , of course, be reached,though
further and more aggravated effects may be stayed.
And secondl y, thai he persevere in the app lication
of the remed y a sufficient length of time ,in the very
nature of the case,for a rad ical change to take place,
or the ravages of the disease to be checked: Some
most remarkable cures have come under my obser-
vat ion , when and where this remed y has been time-
ly and persever ingly applied , all of which go to give
me the greatest confidence in its power to benefit in
these cases.
We shall make it our aim to show in future articles
that it does not stop here in its medicinal operations:
but that its peculiar virtues in this/respect render it
eminent l y usefu l in a very ext ended sphere of com-
plaints , or large variety of diseases. S. B.
Orleans , Sept. 27, 1850.
Wate r C h i c. N o . 2.
ADDRESS
OF THE
Democratic Stale Central Committee,
TO THE
PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Democrats of Massachusetts—
The State Central Committee , in commencing the
execut ion of the trust reposed in them by the late
Convention assembled at Worcester , deem it their
duty to address to you a few words of exhortation
and encouragement.
We do not propose, on the present occasion , to
en ter into a particular exposition of the opinions and
princi ples by which the democratic party is guided
in its political action: These are full y and abl y set
forth in the resolutions adopted by the Convention ,
We repeat and resume them here onl y so far as may
be needful for their practical app licat ion to the ap-
proaching elections in the Commonwealth.
We hold that these United States are a confeder-
at ion of republics , associated together by the Con-
stitution , which is their compact of union :
That as, prior to the conclusion of this compact ,
each of the States was independent of the others ,
each of them still retains all the powers and attri-
butes of soverei gnty, except such as, by the Consti-
tution , it parted with and contribut ed into the com-
mon stock of the polit ical powers of the Union :
That therefore the Federal Government possesses
and can rightfu lly exercise no powers except such
as are conta ined in the Federal Constitution :
That , in each State , the ultimate political sove-
reignty, resides in the people of that State:
That ,in the United States,th e ultimate sovereign-
ty resides in the aggregate people of the United
States:
That , in their relation to the Federal Union , it is
the duty of each State , and of its people, faithfull y,
and in all sincerity and honor , to observe and obey
the Constitution and all laws dul y enacte d in pursu-
ance of its prov isions by Congress :
That in-their relations one to another ,each Sta te,
and the people of it , are bou nd, by the hi ghest con-
siderations of honor , conscience , and politica l dut y ,
to t he observance of concord and Amity towards each
other State and its people :
That , within these, limits of constitutional fealty
to the Un ion , the fundamenta l princi ples of the peo-
ple of the United States are, without other reserva-
tion , frankl y, emphaticall y,and proudl y democrat ic:
democrat ic in theory, democratic in spirit , demo-
cratic in forms, democratic in action , and democrat-
ic in their aims and their end :
That therefore the action of the Federal Govern-
ment , its legislation ,—w hether in its relation to the
people of our own country or of others ,—should be
democrat ic in princi ples, tendency and spir it, sub-
ject onl y to the lim itations and conditions prescrib-
ed by the Constitution :
That , as eaefi of the existing'Statcs of the Union
constitutes a polit ical soverei gnty of itself, with po-
litical powers diminished onl y by those , which it has
in common with the rest parted with to the Federal
Government , so each new State , as it successivel y
comes into the Un ion , should ,by rules of justice and
princi ple, be left in the full and free enj oyment of
all thostt funct ions of soverei gnty whic h appertain to
the interior government of each of the older States :
And finall y, that the people of each of the States
being soverei gn in truth and fact within its borders,
saving onl y its alle giance to the Union ,—t herefore
it is in the interior organization of the State govern-
ments especiall y, that social progress, reform , im-
prove ment ,—Democracy, in a word , has the largest
scope and the most appropr iate sphere of action ;
and on the State governments it prim aril y depe nds
to preseive unimpaired the. vital democratic princi-
ple of the associated repub lics , and to carry on the ir
peop le to the hi ghest point of individual and general
happ iness attainable by man.
Entertaining those views of the character of our
politica l institutions , in accordance therewith , wo in-
voke you , the democratic electors of Massachusetts ,
in the first, place, in relation to national polities :—
t hat here you spare no honorable, effort to effect , in
your severa l districts , t he election of Members of
Congress,who shall be alike lovers of the Union .and
champ ions of democratic rights and princi ples ;—in
your several towns , to elect democratic members of
the General Court , to fi ll the vacancy in the Sen-
ate of the United States, and to change the un-
wise and unjust law of the State , in virtue of
which a majority of its people are almost wholl y un-
represented in Congress, and the state is generall y
without its full number of Representatives.
We invoke you , in the second place, in relation to
State politics :—that here you endeavor to secure
the election of George S. Boutwcll as Governor ,
and Henry W. Cushman as Lieut. Governor , not
onl y as democratic candidates in all respects worth y
of your support as such ,but also as reform candidates ,
ent itled to the suffrages of all , (and we believe them
to be a great majorit y of the people,) who in com-
mon desire a reform of the political , financial and
legal administration of the State; and that , in the
same sense,you labor to effect the election of reform
Senators and Representatives in the General Court.
Democrats , we look to you for the manifestation
of renewed zeal in behalf of your princ i ples: you
have cause to bi> proud of them; for they have , by
the blessing of God , been , just now , the immediate
means of sav ing our beloved country from the unut-
terable anguish of civil war, and of preserv ing from
dissolution that glorious Union , which they had al-
read y done so much to elevate and to extend.
When the present executive authority of the Uni-
ted Stales was elected , three great parties appeared
in the field ,the Democrats .tlie Whi gs, and the Free-
soil crs, eac h with their candidate for the presidency.
The Free-soilers entered on the canvass with a
full and explicit avowal of clear and definite prin-
ci ples. With them it was a sin qua non that Con-
gress should , by its legislat ion , decide the question ,
whether negro-slavery should or should not be ad-
mitted in the new States or Territories to be carved
out of the rich regions , which our victories had ob-
ta ined from the Mexican Republic. The Free-soil-
ers were on this avowal of princi ples defeated.
We, t he Demoenits.came forward with an avowal
equall y full and explicit of princi ples equally definite
and clear. We maintained that the onl y line of
pol icy, on this delicate and grave question , compati-
ble with the integrity and peace of the United
States, was neutral ity and non-intervention respect-
ing it on the part of Congress. We alleged that
the people of the new States and Territories were
competent to decide the question for themselves ;
we argued that they would decide it right; and
we contended tha t, however they might decide
it , whether ri^ht or wrong, yet the true theory of
popular soverei gnty, of representa tive democracy, of
liberty, in short , the theory on which the Declara-
tion of Independen ce had been uttered ,and the bat-
tles of the American Revolution fought and won ,re-
quired that the constituent people of each of the
new Slates or Territories should be left to decide the
question for themselves, in the exerc ise of their own
pop ular soverei gnty, (md according to t heir own con-
victions of their own duty and interest. And the
Democrats were , also , on ' this , their avowal of prin-
cip le , defeated.
The Whi gs proceeded to the canvass with a de-
liberate suppression , by the official act of their na-
tional Convention , of all principles. Yet the fact
POLITICAL. was notorious , that one great question of princi ple,
and but one , occupied ,absorbed ,engrossed the minds
of the people of the United States ; to wit , that on
which the Democrats and Free-soilers had respec-
t ivel y made a fran k and manl y profession of their
genera l faith. All other questions weie laid wholl y
aside , or received but transient and cursory notice.
What was the course of the Whi gs in th is emergen-
cy ? Under cover of the silence of their national
Convention , they pursued the policy of professing,
at the opposite ends of the Union , opposite and irre-
conci lable doctrines. At the North their candidates
were applauded , vouched for and elected , as the
zealous and reliable friends of the ultra anti-slavery
opinions and feelings of the North : while at the
South the selfsame candidates were in like manner
app lauded , vouched for and elected , as the zealous
and reliable friends of the ultra pro-slavery opinions
and feelings of the South. And thus they triump hed .
The whi gs obta ined power, its offices and its em-
oluments ; but , with '
power , they had of necessity
underta ken all its great and try ing responsibilities.
The inevitable and importunate questio4n ,which they
had evaded in their national Convention ,upon which
they had taken opposite and contradictory sides in
the several States , now , when they held the govern-
ment in their hands , rose terrible and menac ing be-
fore them , demanding to be sett led , requiring of the
President to break his long silence on the subject by
some in itiatory recommendation , and of Congress to
act by legislation. What happened ? The Presi-
dent did break silence , and in the California Mes-
sagejreeommended —what ? That Congress should
legislate for the new Territories in the sense of an-
ti-slavery as the North had pledged him to act?—
Or in the sense of pro-slavery, as he had been
pled ged at the South ? No,neither: but he advised
Congress to pursue that very line of policy, by ad-
vocat ing which the Democrats had been divided
and beaten , and by opposing which the Whi gs had
triump hed. He said , as we had done, thnt for Con-
gress to legislate on the question would be to de-
prive the people of California of "the rights of self-
government '' and was contrary to "the princi ples
la id down in our own Declaration of Independence; "
if Congress remain neutral ,"annex in g no cond ition ,"
to the admission of any one of the new Territories
"affecting her domestic institutions ," that "the peo-
ple residing there will , at the time of their in-
corporation into the Union as a State, settle all
questions of domestic policy to suit themselves ;"—
and that then "the question which now excites
such painful sensations in the country, will , in the
end , be settled by the silent operation of causes in-
dependent of the action of Congress." This, then ,
was "the President 's plan ," so boldly vaunted by
some»of the Whi gs of Massach usetts , and so coldl y
received by others , apparentl y without their stopp ing
on either hand to consider that it was, so far as it
went , absolutel y and unden iably, the very line of
policy, wh ich the Democrats had stood upon , alike
in Massachusetts and in Tennessee, and for main-
tainin g which here in Massachusetts we were de-
nounced , reviled and proscribed by the Whigs.
That these , the vie ws and princi ples of the Demo-
crat ic party on this the great and exclusive ques-
tion of the day, were thus adopted by the late Whi g
Executive , and afterwards by his successor ,the pres-
ent Executive ,—that they also were adopted , ma in-
tained and advocated with surpassing ability and elo-
quence by the most em inent Whi gs in both houses of
Congress ,—that ,after a protracted discussion of eight
mont hs, the doctr ine df "non-intervention" has at
last been incor porated in the legislation regarding
California , Utah , and New Mexico,—and that thus ,
and thus onl y, the Union has been safely carried
throu gh the most perilous crisis to which it was ever
yet exposed ,—al l thishns now incontrovertibl e pass-
ed into the doma in of history.
We reiterate to you , the n, Democrats , that you
have just reason to be proud of your princi ples-—
You foug ht man full y under the noble flag of the
Union , lor its preservation and its honor , resolved
theiew ith to stand or fall ; and thoug h office there-
by devolved on your political adversaries ,yet by and
throug h your princi ples, their now recognized wis-
dom , and your unflinching maintenance of* them,
you have saved the Constitution. Therefore , we ex-
hort you to rall y anew in pride and confidence tc
the cause of Democracy and the Union.
And in view of tlfe same facts and circumstances ,
we ap peal to all thoug htfu l and right-minded citizens
of Massachusetts , whatever name of party they may
heretofore have borne—now that the territorial ques-
tion is ended ,'—and ended it certainl y is,for no party
in this country can stand on a retrospection merely,
or a retroact ive attempt to undo what is once done ,
and the march of parties in this Republic is always
to t he front and to new questions ,—to you , Whigs
and Free-soilers alike , who see that the Democrats
alone thoroug hl y comprehended the situation , and
with the sagacity of pract ical statesmanshi p, foresaw
and prepared the solution ,—you , who esteem trut h,
who love man liness , who desire progress , and whose
onl y interest or wish it is to have wisdom , forecast ,
virtue and patr iotism in the public councils ,—we ap-
peal to you to manifest this by resolv ing frankl y,
and regardless of past controversies , to co-operate
with tlie National Democracy lor t he redemption
and reform of the Commonwealth.
Edward Thorndike , Charlestovvn ,
John K. Going, Shirley,
Thomas J. Whittemore , Cambrid ge,
Daniel Needbain , Groton ,
I. W. Beard , Lowell ,
Thomas F. Norn's, Somerville ,
John T. Heard , Boston ,
George Roberts, do
Henry Crocker , do
Aaron Hobart , do
Charles Mayo, do
George B. Loring, Chelsea ,
Caleb 1
). Hunkin , Haverhill ,
Frederic k Robinson , Marblehead ,
Caleb Gushing, Newburyport ,
Leonard B. Usher, Lynn ,
Daniel Saunders , Jr., Lawrence ,
George Thompson , Milton ,
Lemuel Dana , Dedham ,
Isaac Tower, Randol ph,
James D. Thompson , New Bedford ,
Johnson Gardner , Seekonk ,
P. W. Leland , Fall River ,
Sylvanus B. Phinney, Barnstnble ,
Jeremiah Mayo , Brewster ,
Moses Bates, Jr., East Brid gewater ,
Samuel C. Baldwin , Plymouth ,
James S. Whitney, Conway,
A. H. Bullen , Northampton ,
Seth Nims, Amherst ,
Henry W. Bishop, Lenox ,
Phineas Allen , Jr., Pittsfiel d ,
William L. Smith , Spring field ,
Olis A. Scamans , do
W. A. Williams , Worcester ,
George A. Dresser, do
Ivers Philli ps, Fitciiburg,
John Spurr , Charlton ,
Edward Avery, Barro ,
Joseph T. Pease, Edgar town.
Boston, October 2, 1850.
At a meeting the Democratic Slate Central Com-
mittee , held this day, the foregoing Address , report-
ed by the Hon. Caleb Gushing , of Newburypo rt,
was adopted , and ordered to be published , with the
names of the Committee appended thereto.
Attest : THOMAS GILL Scc'y.
POETRY.
"We'll Meet Again.
We'll meet again ! how sweet the word-
How soothing is its sound !
Like strains of far off music heard
On some enchanted ground.
¦We'll meet again ! thus friendshi p speaks,
When those most dear depart ,
And in the pleasing prospect seeks
Balm for the bleeding heart.
We'll meet again ; the lover cries,
And oh , what thought but this ,
Can e'er assuage the agonies
Of the last parting kiss 1
We'll meet again ! are accents heard
Beside the dying bed ,
When all the soul by grief is stin-'d.
And bitter tears are shed.
We'll meet again ! are words that cheer
While bending o'er the tomb ;
For oh I that hope , so bri ght and dear,
Can pierce its deepest gloom.
We'll meet again ! then cease to weep,
Whatever "may divide ;
Nor time , nor death can alway s keep
The loved ones from our side.
For in the mansions of the blest,
Secure from care and pain ,
In Heaven's serene and endless rest
We'll surelv meet again.
Has a neighbor injured you 1 -
Do'nt 'fret—
Ton will come off the best:
He's the most to answer for,
Never mind it, let it rest,
Don't fret
Has a horrid lie been told ?
Don't fret-
It will run itself to death ,
If you let it quite alone,
It will die for want of breath ;
Don't fret.
Ar« your enomies at work ?
Don't fret—
They can't injure you a whit i
If they find you, heed them not,
They will soon be glad to quit;
Don't fret.
Is adversity your lot ?
Don't fret-
Fortune'swheel keeps turn ing round ;
Every spoke will reach the top,
Which , like you is going down ;
Don't fret.
Don't Fret.
The importance of app les, as food , has not hither-
to been sufficientl y estimated in this country , nor
unders tood. Besides contributing a large portion of
sugar, mucilage , and other nutritive matter , in the
form of food , they contain such a fine combination
of vegetable acids , abstrac ti ve substances , and aro-
matic princi ples, with the nutritiv e matter , as to act
powerfull y in the capacity of refrigerants , tonics ,
and antiseptics ; and , when freel y used at the sea-
son of ripeness, by rural laborers and others , they
prevent debility, strengthen digest ion , correct the
putrefactive tendencies of nitrogenous food, avert
scurv y, and probabl y maintain and strengthen the
powers of productive labor. "The operators of
Cornwall , in England , consider ripe app les nearl y
as nourishin g as bread , and more so than potatoes .
In the year 1801, a year of scarcity, apples, in stead
of being converted into cider , were sold to t he poor,
and the laborers asserted that they could stand their
work on baked app les without meat ; whereas a po-
tato diet required either meat or fish." The French
and Germans use ripples extensivel y ; indeed , it is
rare that they sit down in rural districts , without
them in some shape or other , even at the best ta-
bles. The laborers and mechanics depend on tJ^em,
to a very great extent , as an art icle of food ,and fre-
quentl y dine on sliced app les and bread. Stewed
with rice , red cabbage , carrots , or by themselves,
with a little sugar and milk , they make both a pleas-
ant and nutricious dish. If our friends will onl y
provide themselves wilh plenty of choice fruit , we
will venture to assert that not one man , woman oi
child in fifty, would care for animal flesh to cat.—
Who doub ts, for a moment , that many scrofulous
and othe r diseases are traceable to a flesh diet ? Ii
is well known that much of the meat we eat is in a
diseased state when slaug htered , arid ils effect may
be wall imag ined. Yet our fruit is always in a
hea lth y state , and cannot generate disease in the hu-
man body ; but it has a diluting, purif ying and ren-
ovat ing tendency — [Water Cure Journal.
TriE Right Doctrine.—The follow ing sensible
remarks are from a New York paper. They breat he
the right sentiments :
"The basest ideas with regard to the nature and
duties of cilizens are engendered by the habitual in-
difference of the majority to political affairs. 1have
belonged to the party for twenty years, and
never asked for an office before , and now t hat 1do
ask I am refused ; whines many a poor creature.
"Sordid wretch ! what did you belong to t hat par-
ty for ? Was it mainl y for the sake, or impelled by
the hope of office ? If yes, then you prove yourself
unfit to hold , and unworth y of any public trust what-
ever. But was it rather because you believed you
could best serve your country by joining that par-
ty ? If yes, what are you snivelling about ? Have
you not attained what you aspired to ? Certainl y,
you have a right to aspire to any office you think fit
—as good a right as any body else. If you obtain
it , very well ; but if not , don't betra y your unwor-
thi ness by compla ining that you have served the
party so long for nothing. If you do t hat , you full y
justif y the jud gment that consi gned you to cont inued
abstinence from public service.
Never be angry with your nei ghbor because his
religious views differ from yours .for all the branches
of a tree do not lean the same way.
It is a singular fact that when an Indian swears ,
he swears in English. There a"re no oaths in the
Indian vernacu lar.
A graceless blackleg recentl y placed some gun
powder under a gambling bible in Panama , explod-
ed it , seised about $200, and made off.
Apples for Hum an Food.
Some people are very apt to use harsh, angry
words, perhaps because they think they will be
obeyed more promptl y. They talk loud , swear and
storm , though after all they are often only laughed
at; their orders are forgot, and their ill-temper only
is remembered.
How strong is a kind word ! It will do what the
harsh word , or eve n blow , cannot do ; it wili subdue
the stubborn will , relax the frown , and work won-
ders.
Even the dog, the cat , or the horse , though fhey
do not know what you say.Jcan.tell when you speak
a kind word to them. B
A man was one day dr iving a cart along the street.
The horse was drawin g a heavy load , and did not
turn as the man wished him. The man was in an
ill-temper , and beat the horse ; the horse reared and
plunged , jjbut he cither did not or would not .go the
ri ght way. Another man , who was with the cart ,
went up to t he horse and patted him on the neck ,
and cal led him kindl y by his name. The horse
turned his head and fixed Kis large eyes on the man ,
as thou gh he would sny, "I will do anything for you ,
because you are knid to me," and bending his broad
chest against the load , he turned the cart down the
narrow lane , and trotted on briskl y as thoug h the
load wore a plaything. Oh , how strong is a kind
word ! *
The Stre ngth of a Kind Word.
•'Oh dear!" has boen an expression in use from
the earliest ages. The peasant "arid prince alike
make his exclamation at their various vexations and
trials.
The poor author , returning in the evening with
his rejected work , as he enters his garret , divested
of all furniture , save a chair and table, throws tha
manuscri pt on the floor,and "oh 1 dear 1"swells from
his inmost heart.
The laborer , after having been employed all day
in search for work, returns home disheartened with
his fruitless endeavors. His poor wife and starving
children cluster around him .and many are the "Oh !
dears !" that are uttered at the recital of his varied
disappointments.
The king, newly come to his throne ,fatigued with
the cares of governments he casts his eye upon the
piles of paper waiting for his signature , and the
thousand petitions for as many favors, exclaims,
"Oh ! dear !
" as feeling ly as any of his subjects.
The poor seamstress, working until the midni ght
hour , laboring in poverty, hunger and dirt , that
others mny gain admiration ,sighs forth , "Oh 1 dear !
"
with a burstin g heart , as she gazes upon the work
that lies before her unfinished , which must be ready
for her customers upon a certain day.
"Oh I dear!" is hourl y on the li ps of the poor
school girl , as she surveys the task before her, be it
a lesson to learn , or the more dreadful duty of a
composition to write.
I have one piece of advice to give on this subject,
if my readers will not accuse a little girl of preach-
ing before she has learned to practice. It is simply
this :—Substitute I'll thy, for Oh ! Dbau !
"Oh t Dear."
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Notice.
A tL FrOprietors of the following tracts of Land in
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nnl-°7n of Harwich , in the County of Barnstnble,
commit, 5 tllat tho sam e ore taxed in the Tax List
Said tow r0 tlle suhscribe'r.the Collector of Taxes for
folloWs Harwi<*> for the years 1847 ,'48 and '49, as
*l 45.°,
W Rntn Chase, house and land—ta x for 1847,
Heirs 5 Or 1848 > S1 45~?2 90-
1848 7, l0 estate of Josiah Winslow , land—tax for
An,] if ' tax for 1849, 60c—Si 33.
Taxes on
n
° person sliall appear to discharge said
at ^0 n'°i
r
i re the tni >'ty-nrst dayof October next,
•ell at rnv rt , .'" the afte™°°". I 'shall proceed to
°f said r»a . "s house, at public auction , so much
"''charge -'
i^6 tracts of lami as slm11 be sumeie-nt t0
charges * taxes and all necessary intervening
THOMAS ALLEN,
Rarwipt, o Collector of Harwich.
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^Pt-19, 1850. 5w—[sept 24
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Notice.
* of Wnlin P nt sea
' Sept. 9th . 1850, by sch Pauline ,
vy e"neet, 35 bbls FLOUR , in a damaged state.
T>-"ro nM , GEORGE KELLY, Master.
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XXta J°lllineyraan Wanted.
W man «? ^-"""cd'ately, an industrious Journey-
WnRes win , lloemi>ker , of steady habits , to whom good
Barnstil i &ven
' APP]y t0 HENRY ISWEli.
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* WALES & CONANT.
It was observed that a certain rich man never in-
vited any one to dine with him. "I'll bet a wager,'i
said a wag, "I get an invitation from him." The
wager being accepted , he goes the next day to the
rich man 's house about the time he waa to dine , and
tells the servant he must speak with his master im-
med iatel y, for he could save him a thousand pounds.
"Sir," said t he servan t to h is master, "here is a
man in a great hurry, w ho says he can save you a
thousand pounds.
Out came the master.
"What is that sir ,t hat you can save me a thousand
pounds ?"
"Yes sii-,1can ; but I see you are at dinner ,!
will
go myself and dine , and call aga in. "
"O prtiv , sir, come in and tyke dinner with vac,"
"I shall be troublesome. "
"Not at all. "
I hi: invitation was aeeepk-U. As soon as tanner
was over and the famil y retired , the conversat ion
was resumed.
"Wel l, sir ," su id the man of the bouse , "now to
your business. Pray let me know how 1 am to si\\a
a t housand ponnds Vrt
"Wh y, sir ," said the other , "I hear you hav« a
daug hter to dispose of in marriugc. '*
"I have , sir."
"And that you intend to portion her with ten
thousand pounds. "
"I do, sir. 1
'
"Wh y then , sir, let mo have her, and I will take
her at nine thousand !"
A Jaw Breaker.—The following actuall y oc-
curred at the house of a lady in the city of New
York , some fifteen years ago. It is the custom to
hand round crack«d hickory nuts , apples, raisins,
&c, to the company that happen in of an evening *
The lad y of the house had hired a servant a few
days before , a green Irish woman , fresh from th«
Emerald Isle, by the name of Peggy. Some nuti
were to be cracked one evening ; Peggy was called ,
and receiving a dish of nuts from the lady, was told
to take them down to the'kitchen and crack them.
It was thoug ht Peggy knew all about cracking nuts.
Time enough had elapsed for Peggy to have
cracked them , when the lady stopped to the head of
tho stairs and called—
"Peg gy !
"
"Marm !
"
"Have you those nuts cracketLj-et ?"
"No marm !"
"Well make haste , we are waiting for them."
Anoth er half hour elapsed and no nuts appeared.
"Peggy 1 Pegs)' :"
"Marm!"
"Come , come ; have you those nuts cracked yet ?"
"No marm—they ain't half cracked, and me t