Kansas Constitutionalist from Doniphan, Kansas • 1

KANSAS CONSTITOTIONAt I VOL. 2. DONIPHM, KANSAS TEEEITOIiY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1857. KO. 17.

flonstitrtioTiakt Jon Offife Koacbes, Bed Bugs, Insects. TEE KANSAS COESTITTJTIOEALIST of i Am Yooa Papek. Read the fol double gang cf men at the crank, I laid it to the cheese, and made a strong resolve to et no more cheese without taking plenty of lager beer, (a medical preparation of a tonic and diuiectic character,) to correct the ill effects. Inflexibly, Q. K.

Philander Doesticks, P. B. S. Lager does not intoxicate. men, let's have some layer." By this time toy friend had by some mysterious process mysteriously multipiied.and there vtiv fifty Damphools, and ihey all accepted the invitation and we bad kger there furty glasses, and in trying to mate the circuit of the room to touch my lo every one of theirs, I fell over a tiJe which very im-pertinently stepped fcyfore me and as 1 went down 1 ki.oekqj a 'small Dutchman into the comer, the 1 over him, then I partly recovered nysrli and sat on his stomach then I au instant ap-pology then 1 calltji -r fix' glasses of lager, and thei brought them all in one hand, I trij to sake them all in one hand, but 1 broli tim then I tried "Costar's Bed Bug Exterminator; is published evesy Wednesday, bt "Costar's" Electric Powder, for ants, insects, fce.

The only infalable remedies known. THOMAS J- KEY. tyCostar" eend6 bv mail, orep.ircd, a ii. advance, sample boi of the Sat, Roach, fcc. Ex.

to any jr-0ffice for the pr sent in brick build-address in the U. on receipt of $1, or the in Aarsve eamtoat lanling. Electric Powder for doc. (The Bed Bug Ex. JLiTES OF ADVERTISING: being a liquid cannot be sent by mail.) ie square, of 10 lines or less, 1st ir.ser.

$1,00 Druggists, Deal- One square eaeh 50 era and Store keepers, a $10 sample package On ouare three months 5,00 One square six months, of hn various preparations (assorted) with 0n circulars, bills, posters ou the receipt of. Half column six months- ,30,000 $5, leaving balance of $5 due when sold, in Half col year 45.00O order that they may test their merits. See Advertisement. For Circulars, fcc, edverrisements, unless the time is "The Star-Spangled Banner." Associated with the bombardment of Fort McIIenry which we noticed on the anniversary cf the retreat of the British from their failure en Baltimore is an episode which cannot fail to receive lusture from, and gire lustre to, the incidents of the brilliant defence of that point. Young Korner he.

of the Lyre and Sword wrote many an inspiring couplet the battle-field. Campbell's "Hohen-hndeu" received its great force from the actual observations of the poet, who from distance beheld the battel. Francis S. Key the author of the coble national song, "The Star-Spangled Banner," received his inspiration under the most deeply exciting circumstances. A friend of Key being a prisoner in the hands of the effect an exchange, and was retained during the bombardment of Fort McHeury.

Placed on board a small vessel close to the Admiral's frigate, he beheld wilh almost overpowering emotion the cannonading of the 13th of September. He beheld Address "COStar." XO. 3SS Bread-Specified, to drink ou' of the three all at once Hjce.ond in doing sdAook aninvoltiuta- -y shower bath-Uietined Jo pay for he wtwle fifty t'lastc diuie arid a I 1 -V. ouvuMr-sHry I'M lZ there appeared to be tome difficulty! about this, and if I hadn't known that lag-1 er isn't intoxicating, I should have thought! the man was drunk I ivas on the point of calling in a policeman to arrest him for swindling, when Domphool came and explained the matter, and his thick head at last comprehended that I was right. Little tamborine girl camt along and wanted money for a man who was performing with a great deal of skill ou a crank outside felt generous, and tried to put Datnphool into the tamboriue under the impression that he was a half dollar finally presented the Utile girl with my compliments, two cigars and a penny, with which she went off satisfied.

Then I thought I'd make love to a pretty girl who had just fcroight me a glass of lager (a beaverage prevalent in that vicinity, and which does not possess any power) so 1 pressed to my heart for two minutes what I supposed to be her had, and didn't find wit that it was her petticoat until I tried fo kiss it, and got my mouth full of woolen yarn looked at the pretty g-rl with indignation, and asked her what the meat. Ly such con- (uct then thought I had a mug of lager; (a liquitt wn.cn uoes no uuu which is much used ly tBc German nopu-i i Then the music struik tip, when I saw i ihc fellows with crooked brass horns I thought they were drinking some kind of 1 bocr that 1 had nol had any of so I snatch- ea me lauioi iuc unu oruertu uib lu i fill it up again and Lriiijj it lo me imme. dialelv then I volunteered a son? the! company all kept silence in order to hear; me, and 1 began to whistle Old Uog 1 ray, wit intervals or live minutes between tne i notes then 1 had a glass of lager, kind of beer much fancied by the foreign-A. was engaged to be married to elderly elements of onr city, and which does not! gentleman's daughter, Mr. A.

smelt a IS sonnection with Uie Kansas ionsum tionalist, is one of the best arot Office im Kansas Terri'orv. Our material is all ad embraces the latest and most improved Styles of Type! We are prepared print showy Hand Bills, Bills of Lading, Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, and almost every descriptions of Ws have on band several thousand various color and size, and also fancy e.11 of which we prepared to print and Bronze in the neatest manner, fiohlphan, December 17, 1856. FKRII.1M OUTCOXE. THE Proprietor of the Mercantile Guule would respectfully call the attention' of merchants, farmers and mechanics residinsr outside of this City to the moderate sum of yearly subscription to the Guide, being to mail subscribes only fifty cents per annum, making it the cheapest family newspaper in the United States. The columns will contain the usual variety of original and spicy articles, written not onlv to please bat to instruct.

In regard to politics, the Guide will maintain an Independent tone, and from time to time will advocate measures as conductive to benefit the greatest number. Postmasters and others are respectfully requested to act as agents for this paper, to whom we forward specimen copies free, when desired to do so. PREMIUMS: As inducement for persons to interest themselves to obtain ubscribers to the Mercantile NGnide, we otl'er the following premiums. Upon receipt of the names wd pay in advance, we 1 -ill forward them byexpress, or otherwise if rdered. to the address of those entitled to them for three hundred and sixty subscribesr, cash, thirty five dollars: for two hundred and fifty subscribers we will give a splendid fine cold watch, warranted, thirty dollars; for two hundred subscribers, one elegant gold locket, four elasses, worth fifteen one hundred and sixty subscribers, an elogant bracelet, worth elevcn'dollars; for one hundred subscribers, a gold vest chain, worth eight dollars: for seventy-five subscribers, a gold pen and holder, haridsomelv engraved, worth ten dollars: for fifty subscribers, gold pen and holder, worth eight dollars; for forty subscribers, a gold and holder, worth six dollars; forfifo subscribers, a medium gold pen and hol der.

worth two dollars; for twelve subscribers, a gold pen and holder, worth one pillar and fifty rents. All communications should be iudressed ot BIjAICEN'Y, Editor and Publishof of the New York Mercantile Guide, No. 163 Greenwich street. New Yerk. January 1857.

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Bbieblt, master, will commence her regular trips to the above and intermediate points, and run regular in the tradp throughout the entire season. March 11, 1S57. HERINGS PATENT Champion Fire-proof Safes, ITH HALL'S PATENT POWDER-Poof Locks the same that were awarded separate Medals at the World's Fair, London, lo51, and the World's Fail-, New Fork, 18a3 and af a the only American Safes that were medals at the London World's Fair. These Safes are now admitted to be superior to any ever offered to the public; and the subscribers challenge the world to produce an nf these Safes fallinsr to preserve their eontents through the hottest fires, or a burglar picking the lock. Th and their scents are the on ly persons authorized to make and sell Herr-Ine's Patent Champion Sale, with Hall's Pa tent I'owtier-rrooL uuciia.

S. C. HERRING Green Block, 135, 137 and 139 Water St. and 5 Muarry New York. Febl8-3m It.

1.MCGHEE&CO. WHOLESALE anocers, Forwarding and Commis-sion Merchants. NO 33 LEVEE, SAINT LOUIS, MO IS56 l2m J. DAVIS, M. DONIPHAN CITY, K.

T. OSca at the Doniphan House. March 25th, 1857-tf. SAINT LOUIS. JOHN A.

Commercial Street, BETWEEN PINK AND CHESTNUT, General Commison and Forwarding Particular and prompt attent1 'ill be given 4,.. nr Bain of e. and For- wM-dina of Goods. Ord-rsi j0 purchase of cad, Provisions, Flour, R- acmp and uen TAflnfiCtflll Solicited. Pvi-fcrs to Merchants of St.

Louis Generally 8(1 to LOREZE, STEWART nd Spako Pittsburgh, Pa. Mareh 25, 1857-tI. Ot. A. W.

DONIPHAN. t. I. HUDOF.VS Doniphan Hudgens, General Land Agtn9 Lawyers, lowing, it is from the pen of a wise States- man and an extensive business man by practical experience he has found thai it is to the interest of the citizens of town and county to sustain their home paper. -lead, and ponder it well, ye worthy denizens of Doniphan; "We believe it is the duty ot every one- to endeavor to sustain good newspapers in his own city or county.

The expense which each individual incurs by patroniz- ing his his newspaper is only trifling: when compared with the incalculable- 1 benefit which is derived from i well con- ducted paper. A paper may be conduct- ed on a moderate scale and its amount of reading matter but small, and while in existence it may not be regarded as of much importance, but let your small coun- yS-PaPS fMWft trre-uxies'o't trig munity were creaking and needed greasing." Insults are like counterfeit money we can't hinder them being offered, but we are never compelled to accept them. A Goon Receipt. Take one pound soda and half a pound of unslacked lime, put them in a gallon of water, and them boil twenty minutes; let it stand cool; then train off, and put it in a stone jug or iar. Soak your dirty clothes.

over night, or until they are we through; i then wring them out and rub on plenty of soap, and in one boiler of clothe well covered with wator, add one teaspoonfui the washing fluid. Boil half an hour briskly, then wash them thoroughly through one suds, and rinse through two- i waters, rnd your clothes will look better than the old way of washing twice before bajling. This recipt is invaluable, and every washerwoman should try it. With, patent tub to do tne little rubbing, the washerwoman might take a good book (that is provided she is a white woman,) and compose herself on the lounge, and let the, washing do itself, Sydney Smith once commenced a charity sermon by saying, Benevolence is sentiment common to human nature. I never see in distress without wishing Cr relieve him.

The antipathy between cattle and dogs is so universal that -when oxen are sulky and lie down, as they often do, if a rlnrr is thrmvn An ihfim ftp tl-ior, will instantly rise and go on, when noth ing else will move them. The science of agriculture is by no means at its height; in the almost miraculous advance of chemistry, new means may be found from the concentration of known composts, to lessen the costs of cul- ture and to increase its return. Ladies will be filad to learn that alcohol will wash kid gloves without eith- er staining them or leaving an unpleasant ordor about them. The gloves are simply drawn upon the hand and carefully rub-ed with a piece of clean flannel, wet with alcohol, until the soil is rarnoyed, then hung up lo dry, and afterward slightly stretched, when the original color re-ap pears. g3 Profane swearing is abominable.

Vulgar language is disgusting. Loud laughing is impolite. Inquisitivenesa is offensive. Tattling is mean. Telling lies contemptible.

Slandering is devlish. Ignorance is disgraceful, and laziness is seamef ui. Avoid all the above vices, and um at usefulness. This is the road in which to become respectable. Walk in it.

Never be ashamed of honest labor. Pride is a curse; a hateful vice. Never act the hypocrite. Keep good compauy. Speak the truth at all times.

Never be discouraged, but persevere, aud mountains will i i Complimentary to "hnrn dealer descrtbing a used up horse, said he looked as if he had been editing a dialy newspaper. It is said tbift Donald McKay, the ship builder of east Boston, has commenced a suit against his brother, Capt. L. McKay, for slander, fixing his damages at the sum of $20,000. TneHAiroior Judge a considerable farmer of couty, Ver mont, bought a new sythe for his son Jim, and set him td work in the meadow, with the rest of the haymakers.

5v, "It don work right" said Jim to the honored "parent," after cutting two or three clips. What is the matter wiin itr inquired the Judge. It don't hanjr right on the said Jim, stopping awhile to adjust the scythe anew. Scythes often plague the mowers in this way, at first; and Jim's scythe was partic ularly obstinate. So the old gentleman tinkered over and over again.

It don't hang any said Jim, plaintively. 'Then hang it to suit said the om juugu. 'So I said Jim, and hanging ii upon a tret, he lazily retired from the field. The 'parent' was 'slightually' but na let him intoxicate,) auo I ear I abusea the ter because he didn't bring any gravy oi: it then 1 had another, into which 1 poured vinegar, mustard and line cut of tobacco, under ihe delusion that I was making a brandy punch then I remembered 1 had resolved not to drink anything that would intoxicate, so I heroically threw my brandy punch into the fire, and called for a glass or lager, i drink which the ear eutons introduced into this country, lid which does sea- intoxicate. i (-.

len the in us to struck up again, struck and 1 wanted the aligator to waltz aligator refused to sjak to me thought I'd lake off my coat iid whip aligator to decencv. en1, as 1 was.irnnrr toaccom lisii Consequence of a Collapsed Hoop. Ou Wednesday afternoon, Messrs. A. a brace of jolly bachelors, were sitting in their counting-room, on Walnut Street, about a stone's throw from the Exchange, Philadelphia, looking over a bundle of collaterals which had come into their possession through the medium of their whk.h happened to be thai lady, all bathed in blushes, and carrying a set of skirts that 'set' like a table-cloth hung upon a thorn-bush, made her ap.

pearance at the door. Mr. A. felt sentimental and adjusted his neck-lye, while Mr. who is some ten years older, took matters morecooly, and asked the young lady to take a chair.

Young lady blushed scarlet, and said that having ''met with an accident" she preferred betraying her embarrassment before one or two gentlemen lo being a laughing-stock for all Walnut Street. Her hooped skirt had collapsed, and she requested the temporary use of a private room in order to repair damages. Having no "inner temple" worthy the presence of so much beauty, Messrs. A. B.

delicately vacated the apartment, and, while young lady was reuniting the ends of her hoops, took up a position upon the dco-step. Five minutes afterward young lady emerged. The damages had all been repaired, and smiling'. gratefully at the accommodating she saUeil oa her way like a ycarling laloOD. tco lar so good.

Just as ycuaj lady clear id door-step, however, an elderly geiv tlcrnan passed ly. Elderly" gentleman wore a rujgej sbirt, which projected from hk loscm he dorsal filis 0f a sunfi.h, i i i aild carried a stylo of doulle-cam and gold-headed cane that told of corner, lots and a fat hank -book. Mr. A bowed to o-enilemsn, while the latter passed once became as meiuiioho! as a sick turkey. In the evening Mr.

A. went up to elderly gentleman's house for the double purpose of smothing over maters with the elderly gentleman, and exchanging palpitations with his 'own Mr. A. reached the house, and jerk ed bell-pull, his heart fluttering meanwhile like a wounded swallow, xaueriy geuuc Unan anneared in person, and told Mr. A i 11 11 THI .1.

hn revived strand young iiuies in ins uusiuesa unite ohuuiu ever become his saying which. Mr. A. found himself slanumg solus on ce Tantalus at his well-curb. Fortunately for Mr.

a gentleman svimest.ed the incident about the hoops, wno chanced to be' well aware of the la jh' respectability. Yesterday af- "moon tins gentleman accompanied Mi. A to elderly gentleman's house, and so explained matters that Mr. A. was imine- elderly gentlemen's family.

Mr. A is now as happy as a prize pig in a clover field. He desires us lo say, however, that he has done his share toward relieving the embarrassment of la dies with collapsed skirts, and trusts that any future breakdowns in that vicinity may be taken for repairs to some other office. Later from Oregon. The Constitutional Convention was to meet on the 17th of August at Salem.

There had been much discussion upon the slavery question in the territory, and it was supposed that an effort would be made to insert a pro-slavery clause in the new Constitution. The San Francisco Bulletin remarks "Some of the Oregon papers think that the constitution framed will contain a pro-slavery clause, and therefore will be rejected by the people, as a majority are opposed to the introduction of the "pecu- lias institution. ine papers in ine omer interest claim that the majority is the other way. We have lately conversed with intelligent gentlemen lrom uregoti, who really believe the vote will be in fa vor of slavery. "Not," say "he-cause men think of extensively introduc ing slaves in such a country; but because of tho present impossibluy of geiting and trouble of keeping domestic servants, Their wives need 'help; and when they send a thousand miles and import a Girl, she eels married in a month, and leaves e.

i- Ilium in as oau a nx as oeiore. now, they could buy and hold two or three slaves, they would keep them in their families, nnd treat them like one of themselves; and so there wouldn't be any harm in it after all." Many who think thus, they say, are, in the abstract, anti-slavery men. Matlimonial Spice. Saolding is the pepper and ladies ore the per-per-bsxes. on a it will he till forbidden, and charged by the insertion.

Boeslieks' Last Lager Beer Experiment. Lafpr Tber- kindly liquid, aoi-i great moral airent; it is pleasant to the taste, and withal is not' so people say. Laner has taken out his pa- Lr, nri and thoroughly American as he was before peculiarly German. Lager IS a capital fellow to know, and I have just formed his ac(inaiiince. I never drink inebriating compounds for several reasons; one of which is, I can't aiibul the money it costs, to get drunk, or the tuna it takes lo get sober.

I have therefore renounced my former friends, Brandy Cocktail and Whisky Puch, who are slippery chaps. B. C. once left me in a station house with my head the size of a peach basket; W. P.

on one occasion led me into the society of some gentlemanly looking individuals who picked my pockets of all my money and then black my eyes because I didn't get a bigger salary. But the other night I went with Dam-pliool to dwnk Lager because I am convinced that it does not contain half as ir.uch aicohol as distillery milk, and there is no mere danger of a man getting drunk ou Lagor than on sweet We went to the place: there was a liuga ahgator nailed against the wall, and about fifty men were sitting at round tables, each with a pipe in his mouth and a glass in his fist. Twenty girls were running' about with great clusters of beer mugs in their hads and i heir pockets full of cop per change. i liieie was a nuie place ot one ena oi the room devoted to music, containing one piano with a Dutchman attached, two vio- ns, a horn with so many twists and cur that ii looked like a very elaborate varia- lion ot 1 aukee llooctle, done brass, and a patriarchn I tiduic or immense corpuieii- cy, wliicli scorned to utter a note or less than a double and which was big enough for two to sleep in, with room to turn over separately. After a long search we found two chairs that were not pre-empted by Dutchmen, but the smoke was so thick that we had cut little air holes with our Jack knives we could see to sit down without into somebody's beer mug.

Then we thumped on a vigorously, till a German maiden loomed through the- tobacco fog, and finally answered our summons. Some one of her playful countrymen had jut baptized her with beer slops, and she was now "all dripping from the recent fiooJ," and as wet as if she -had been out in a shower of Lager, without an umberalla. Daivsirh-rwl gave her a feeble wh.k, and said, whereupon she brought us wilh her o'-vh fair hands, two mugs the beverage kntuvn as "Lager," and stood with her bauds on her hips thought she wanted to enter into conversation, so, by way ot making myseil agreeable as pos- siblo.l winked as Damphool had, and also said "zwei" 1 thought "zwei" was a term of endearment. She deserted us for an instant, and came back with two more mugs of beer. I imagined that of course "zwei" meant "darling," and that she had misunderstood me attempted to explain in manner following, "zwei, zwei" said "not more beer but zwie," after which lucid explanation, she vanished again, end brough two more mugs, at which Damphool stopped laughing long enough to tell me she would keep bring ing pun doses of lager as long ns 1 continued to remark "zwei" which he inform ed me meant "two glasses of lager, and to be in a hurry about it'' he also said the reason she didn't go away when she had served us was because she wanted her change paid her the' money, thanked my friend for his gratuitous lesson in German, and began to dtink.

The first glass seemed like sour strong beer with a good deal of water in it; the next wa3 not quite so sour, and the succeeding one tasted as if the original beer had been stronger and they had nol diluted it so much. Then we rested, and as 1 had drunk unee pints already, was willing to stop Damphool assured me "lager isn't intoxicating," so after a little settling down, 1 thought I could hold an other glass and order it it was brought by a young lady who seemed to me to have four eyes and two roses pointing in dif ferent directions, wluco unsual eiiect was undoubtedly caused by smoke. Then I thought I'd have a glass ot hig-er, (a liquid known to most of the inhabitants of Manhattan.) Ii was brought by a girl so pretty that I ordered two more, and kept her waiting for the change each time so 1 could look at her then we had some cheese a'l full of holes then we had some lager to fill up the holes-lhen we took a sausage; Damphool suggested that the satitiuge was made of dog, so we took some lager to drown tho dog then ft bud some sardines: Damphool said it would be cruel to keep the fishes without a supply of the liquid element, so we had some lager for the fishes to swim in then we had some brcizels, so crooked they would not pack close so we 'iad some lager to fill up the chinks then I mad a speech to tho company; short but very much to tho point; and received with up-plause it wna addressed to tho whole crowd, and was lo this effect: "Gentle- I way, X. IT. IFLg 2a.o-VvT SMITH" WITHERS, DEALER9 IN STAPLE AND FAKi" BKT GOODS.

TTAVE removed to No. IS, Second Street. in XI the new Brick store room next door from Vanlear Brittian'f new drug store, nearly opposite Tootles Farlcith's, and between Francis street and Market square, where they will be nleaaed to see their former customer's I and the public generally, assuriniug all that they intend to continue sell CHEAP GOODS. They have reduced the price of their 'Lawns, Bareges, and Tissue's, and all Fancy Summer Goods, feeling certain that all who see them cannot resist buying. We are sel'irifr goods of every description at a small advance on cost.

SMITH WITHERS. HOUSE, MAIN STREET, DONIPHAN KANSAS TERRITORY. LARGE and commodious House just being il fitted up, and now open to the public. The travling public are respectfully request-to give me a calf. A.

LOWE, Proprietor. July 1st, 1857. Foundry, DOWDALL, MARKHAM CO. Manufacturers to order AJVD BOILERS; Saw and Grist Mill BTacUiuery, Single and Double Circular mOBACCO Screws and Presses, Lard ket-X tics; lard screws and cylinders; wool ami cotton cardinsr machines. Also, very superior SMUT MACHINES, Young's improved patent, well tried, always successful, fully guaranteed.

A large variety of pattering for Gudgeons, Cranks. Rag Irons, carriage backs and pinions. Lead furnace castings. Fire fronts and Grate bars, for FURNACES of ALL SIZES, kept on hand. Patterns for all sizes of and EailroadWheels brass uastmgs mode to order.

Asrenls for the sale of James Smith superior Machine COR. 2d AND RGAN STSREETS, ST. LOUIS, ire also manufacture MULEY MILLL.v.liich we believe are superior for sawing iarge logs. June 24, 1S57 A SORREL pony was taken up by the subscriber, on Tuesday the lilh inst, he can be seen at my jesidence, three miles west of Sacramento, and by charge can bo ta ken by the owner. DAVID JUAlUJNUrU.TI.

Aug 19, 1857. cw. NOTICE PERSONS are hereby notified not to purchase a note of A. J. Alison's to J.

E. Burbank, due 90 days from 25 July, 1857, for one hundred dollars. Also a note ot A. J. Seshazzo's to A.

J. due 91) days from the 11 July; also 7 shsrai City stock, JOS. 112, 1UI, 1U7, 161. 13:, and lU'J. The above heins lost with a black carpet sack, which was probably taken from the steamboat Oglesby at Atchison on the night of tne tilth mat.

Augl9. J. E. BURBANK, COUNTRY produce of all kinds taken at the very higest market price such as cow hides, furs of all kinds, hemp, bacon, lard, butter, eggs, chickens, tallow, beeswax, Lin- rags, Dy (J aiyzx I Barrow Hitchcock, Wholesale. Dealers In Groceries, "Wines and Liquors.

Commission and Forwarding MERCHANTS, C0BNEB FOURTH AND FELrX STREETS, ST. JOSEPH, MO. WE have just opened and large and well selected assortment of Staple aud Fancv Groceries, to which we invite the attention of country dealers, being fully satisfied that we can suit them as to quality and teims. Shall also keep on Hand a tull stock ot i lour, made expressly for us in St. Louis, from selected wheat, which we will gnarrantee to give satisfaction and warrant to keep.

The highest cash price paid for hides, furs and country produce generally. BARROW HITCHCOCK. September, 2, 1857-tf. Ofl A LE3 Cod Fish, received s.nd for sale by Z)) July22 F. F.

taa KEGS ot nails, received and for pale LUU by (Julyi22) F. 4. F. ASAl'H ALI.F.N. HARRIS STRATTON ALLEN STRATTON GENERAL LAND AGENTS, DONIPHAN, K.

T. I thiiiR connected wilh Real Estates, buying and selling Lots and claims, renting houses, tc (april22-tf) LAND WAHUKSTS for sale. Call on JOHN W. FORMAN. Doniphan, April VK UM' this enteral-; ze I lost ay balance and st00pi a chargin and disappointment the power of the British guns; and saw the efforts of his countrymen to reach the enemy useless.

The American guns fell far short of reaching the British; the Bru sh hurled their shells over the fort. How his heart must have throbbed as the Eng lish drew nearer to the fort. What eager suspense must have de voured these moments lo! Annistead.s batteries opened, and with their well-di rected fires poured shame, terror, and death into the British squadren, and drove back, beyond the reach of the Ameri can guns, llow tne heart oi tne patriotic Eahimorian must have leaped in exulta tionas the British receded, and the echoes of the three cheers from the fort burst upon his ear! All day his eyes watched that low fortification; night came, aud still the flag of his country was flying defiantly. Throughout the night the sleepless watch er strained his eyes to see, by the light of exploding shells, if his flag -was still there. Fitful gleams occasionally struck their rays against the rival stars and stripes; and thus; as it were, the enemy by illumining the flag, gave cheer and in spiration to one whose words will for cen turies make every American s- itcher of Fort McIIenry.

As deepened and the preparlion for a grand attack in the morning lengthened, an intense, calm passion kept his eyes still in the direct-ion of the fort, praying for the first glmm of Morn came. If his delighted eyes could not have seen the immortal flag, the resonant belching of bomshells and roaring of cannon would have proclaimed to his senses that it still waved its bounteous folds. The pent-up thanks-givings of his soul, suffused with the emotions, prayers, hopes and longings of such a night, burst forth into that picturesque, proud, and defiant ode, which has become forever associated with the banner, whose fate on this occasion inspired it. The song never should be printed without the history of its inspiration; nor is that page of history complete without the song: say can you see by the down's eraly light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars throug the perilous flight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly And the rocket's red glare, the bombs burst ing in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, say, does the star-spangled banner still wave O'er the land of the free and the hom of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mist of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the tower ing sleep, As fitfully blows, half conceals half diseloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the Btrcam; 'Tis the star-spangled banner, 01 long may it wavel O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And here Is the band who so vauntingly swore That the havock of war and the battle's confu sion, A home and a country should lea us no more? The blood has washed out their foul footsteps-pollution, No refuge could save ths hlrillng or slave 'i From the terror or flight or the gloom of tho grave; i And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

thus be It ever when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and war's desolation Bless'd with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land Praise the power that hath mads and preserv ed us a nation! Then conquer we must, When our cause it is just, And this be our motto "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner In triumph shall wavs O'er the land ofthtfrce, andtlis horns or lh hrATe. of let till of a uown a uiaie uc nun uuu uc- longingto a Giinnan, whom I in stantly sei-eJ by the moustache, where- upon he knocked me down resolved to kill fierce German lniaiediateiy, ana ex-1 pianieu lo mm at lenjin, mat lie iei; knife-then Damphool came and pacified me, and took the herce German away got up and look some lager, the whole of which 1 poured mlo my bosom as wasj restored to his former footing in trying to explain to the bystanders that lager (a pleasant campounu or unknown ingredients) isn't intoxicating. Suddenly I again determined to dance and started'of with that intention. I have an indistinct recollection that about this time there a' great upsetting of table and smashing of glasses, but I reallj can't undertake to say whether! fired the loaf of bread through the indow before I threw the castor bottle at the fiddlers or not; or whether that innocent demonstration preceded by breaking all the decanters in the window witn a ham, and staving a beer cask with an axe nor can I tell whether I extinguished the clarinet player with a big cheese before or after I sat down on the piano and got the cramp in my right leg trying to play a base solo with my heels, but 1 find all these little occurrence were in the programme. Why I coudustcd myself in this manner I cannot say I could not have been drunk, for I had partaken of nothing but lager beer, which is a fluid innocent.of alcohol.

It may have been that the sardines, or the cherse perhaps the sausage flew to my 1 was finally cammed by four Dutch men led on by Damphool. who look me off the floor behind the piano, where I was trying to pour beer out of anE flat bugle, and was asking tho base drum if it would not have another mug. I was supported by the strength of th'' whole company as far as the door, where Damphool took charge of me. I went along well enougn, though why I desired to snuff the gas with my fingers, I don't know, nor can 1 tell what induced me to make so many ineffectual efforts to open my door with my coat tail, instead of a latch-key, nor why I seized my lady's night-cap to light me to ben Willi, in place of a night lamp; it couldn't have been the lager, for that in- ocuous beverage does not intoxicate the partaker thereof. This sketch of my performance is related to me by Damphool, as 1 lost memory immediately after the love episode with tho waiter.

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