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. SOOTHING SYI1
T a
For children Teething,
PREPARED BY HIMSELF.
To Mothers and JVurscs.
TBI HE passage of the Teeth through the
gums produces troublesome and dan
gerous symptoms. It is known by moib
ers that there is great irritation in tin
inioutli and gums during ibis process. Tin
gums swell, the sec retion of saliva is in
creased, the child is seized with fivqnent
and sudden fits of crying, watehings, start
jing in the sleep, and spasms of pecnlhn
jparls, the child shrieks with extreme vio
lence, and thrusts its lingers into its mouth
If these precursory symptoms are not spee
dily alleviated, spasmodic convulsions uni
versallv supervene, and soon cause tin
'dissolution of the infant. If mothers who
h ue ihn little babes afllirted with these
j'lttessiiin symptoms, would apply )r
Wiiliam Evans's Celebrated Soothing
1 Syrup, which has preserved hundreds ol
: sufaiits "hen thought past recovery, from
1 being suddenly attacked with thai fatul
malady, convulsions.
; This infallible remedy has preserved
i hundreds of Children, when thought past
J recovery, from convulsions. As soon as
. the S rop is rubbed on the gums, the child
w ill recover. This preparation is bo in
nocent, so efficacious, and so pleasant, that
no child will refuse to let its gums be
rnbb d with it. When infants are at the
aire of four months, though there is no ap
pearance of teeth, one bottle of the
'! oull ue oei on me gums
,,u u ! pores. Parents should never be
.Cub mm the Syrup in the nursery where
i'tere are young children; for if a child
i .i . i
wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediaiely gives ease by open
ing the pores and healing the gums; theie
by preventing Convulsions, Fevers. Sic.
To the Agent of Dr. Evans' Southing
- Syrup: Dear Sir The great benefit
'afforded to tny suffering infant by your
Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted
nnd painful dentition, must convince every
feeling parent how essential an early ap-
- plication of such an invaluable medicine
is to relieve infant misery ami torture, .My
infant, while teething, experienced such
acute sufferings, that it was attacked w itl,
convulsions, and my wife and family sup
posed that death would soon release the
babe from anguish till we procured a bot
tle of your Syrup; which as soon as ap
plied to the gums a wonderful change was
produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by con
turning in its use. I am glad to inform
you, the child has completely recovered,
and no recurrence of that awful complaint
has since occurred; the teeth are emana
ting daily and the child enjoys perfect
health. 1 give you my cheerful permission
to make this acknowledgment public, ami
will gladly give any information on this
circumstance.
When children begin to be in pain with
their teeth, shooting in their gums, put a
little of the Syrup iti a tea-spoon, and
i ..with the finger let the child's gums be
rubbed for two or three minutes, three
times a day. It must hot be put to the
breast immediately, for the milk would
take the syrup off too soon. When the
teeth are just coming through their gums,
mothers should immediately apply tlie sy
rup; it will prevent the children having a
lever, and undergoing tliat painful opera
tion of lancing the gums, which always
makes the tooth much harder to come
through, and sometimes causes death.
IScware of Crinutcribits.
f Caution. Be particular in purcha
sing to obtain it at 100 Chatham St.,
New York, or from the
REGULAR AGENTS.
J. M. Redmond, ) m .
Geo. Howard, Tarboro .
M. Russel, Eliiabeth City.
January, IS40V
13
From the Halt I more Post.
Twenty reasons why Gen. Harrison
cannot be elected President of I he United
Slates I. Because he is not competent
fr mi want ofth j requisite intellectual qu-
lificiti ons to fill the office. In this respect
his friends have claimed for him no merit
I lo was avowedly selected on the ground
of his availability, and not in considera
tion of any qualifications he possessed for
the station. Mr. Webster righily inter
?)eied the general feeling (among the
Whigs at lea-t) towirds him when he said
"'Jen Harrison is the pity of his friends
and the scorn anil derision of his foes."
'2. Harrison is an Abolitionist. In ad
dition to the fact ol" bis receiving the sup
port of Abolition presses and trio Abolition
party, he has been, if he is not at the pres
ent moment, a member of an Abolition so
ciety, and has, moreover, publicly deel ire I
himself in favor of placing the surplus re
venue of the country in the h inds of thes
'anatics far the purpose of purchasing and
libera'ing the slaves!
3. He is a Federalist' of the Reign of
Perror stamp; and when charged by John
Randolph with being nn open and zealous
supporter of the sedition law and black
cockade Administration, he admitted it.
4 He is in favor of internal improve
menls by the (General Government,
maintaining that Congress possesses the
power to make roads and canals within
the respective Slates, and so voted in Con
gress in opposition to every Slate Rights
member of that body.
5. He advocates a high Tariff, a protec
tive Tariff; and not only so, but even Jo
the taxing of many of the necessaries of
life. In 1S27 and" S, in the United States
Sena'o, he opposed all reduction of the
Tariff, and in June last, capped the climax
of his absurdity on this subject by declaring
that "he would sooner see the streets of
Norfolk and Charleston covered with grass,
than consent to a modification or a repeal
of the Tariff laws.' '
C. He is in favor of a National Hank,
with branches penetrating every part in
the country an institution unknown to
the Constitution of the Government,
and, as experience has proved, dangerous to
the liberlits and prejudicial to the interests
of the people.
7. When a member of the Ohio Legisla
ture he voted in favor of selling white
men mio servitude ior (tent a measure in
! perfect consonance with his black cockade
j j,; jm.jpi( s The famed blue law code of
Connecticut, the reproach of which that
State is endeavoring to remove under the
! pita that the code is
is fabulous, contained a
similar provision.
S. He contends for the right of Congress
to abolish slavery; and insists that with
the consent of the slaveholding States thei e
is no const if utional objection to it. -'The
cause of emancipation," said he in
his 4th of July oration at Cheviot, Ohio, in
1S3S, "is an obji ci near my heart;" and
added, that by a zealous undertaking of the
wotk by Congress, -we might 1 ok far
ward to a day, not far distant, when a North
American sun would not look down upon a
slave. With the consent of the slavchohl
ing States! so with their consent alone all
the other States should be faxed. And
i he re is 4ino constituiijual objection"
to this!
9. General Harrison first acquired no-
tot
lety as a candidate for the Pi esidency of
ii United Stales, thro' the political Anti-
the
masons of Pennsylvania. He avows him
self "the oldest Antimason in the country,
having formed his prejudices against
masonry as far back as he can remem
ber." The right to disbelieve in the uti
lity of this institution no one questions;
but tlie attempt to press such disbelief
into service for party purposes ami personal
ambition, can only be reg-irded with public
scorn ami detestation.
10. Gen Harrison is in favor of distri
buting the proceeds from the sale of the na
tional domain among tlie States, or in other
words is in favor of taxing the who'e
people to pay the debts which the improvi
dence of tlie few States has contracted; for
whatever is withdrawn from the National
Treasury to relieve the profligacy of State
legislation must be immediately replaced
by taxation, direct or otherwise, to meet
the unavoidable expenditures of the Gov
ernment. 1 1. He is an advocate of the 'unrestricted
fluctuating paper currency sys'em, which
has periodically, since its establishment,
produced disastrous revulsions in trade
evulsions extending to every. part of the
country, and through all classes of the com
munity. 12. His votes while a member of Con
gress show him to have favored cverv pro
fligate expenditure of the public money,
and to have opposed every wholesome
measure of reform to have supported the
consolidation of povver in Congress at the
sacrifice of the rights of the States.
t3: He is in favor of that attribute of
monarchy, ah imposing standing army:
and whilst a member of Congress gave
his vote for a standing army of twenty
thousand men.
11. lie evinced the absence of every
qualification as a statesman and a diplom
atist during hi mission . to Colombia, by
hisk-tt. r to Holivar, dictating to Him the
course proper to he pursued in his admin
isi ration of tile Government a?n interfe
rence, which, when attempted by Genet in
our Government caused him to be spur
ned from the country, and which in lh
present disastrous results, Gen. Harrison
birely escaped assassination the interests
of our merchants were placed at fearful risk,
&. die peiceable relations between the Gov
ernment and the United States subjected
to lmmiivnt hazard. Timely interference
prevented more serious consequences.
15. His supporters acknowledge bis
disqualify Mion for the office of President
of this Republic, and contend that his def
ects will be supplied by the talents of the
men who will be called into his councils;
or in other words, that the office of Presi
dent of the United States will be farmed
out, Gen. Harrison enjoying the honor
and emoluments,'and Henry Clay, or who
ever cm most shrewdly direct his imbe
cility, will bathe President in fact. It is
on this principle that he now retains the
office of Clerk of Hamilton County Court.
1G. The election of General Harrison
would give ascendancy to principles at war
with the Constitution and spirit of our Gov
ernment principles repudiated at its or
ganization, and which .lefierson, Madison,
Jackson and Van Buren have patriotically
withstood.
17. The officers in every department of
the Government would be filled with pro
lligate politicians and demagogues,- now
bound togeti.er ys leaders of a party, by
no other lie'than their ambition for power
party, numbering, to be sure, many
men of the various factions of the country
Federalists, Abolitionists, apostates, An
ti masons, stock jobbers, speculators, and
disappointed politicians.
IS. Co gress itself has pronounced the
incapacity, of General Harrison. When a
resolution was before the Senate of the
United States, directing . medals to be
struck in honor of Gen. Harrison and Gov.
Shelby, a motion to strikeout the name of
Gen. Harrison was decided in the affirma
tive, a decision too unequivocal to be
mistaken, that his services were not enti
tied to this mark of approbation from the
Government. Harrison hmvelf conside
red that by ibis act he had been disgraced
in the eyes of the nation, and in a letter on
the subject says; "A vote of the Senate
of the Unite d States has attached to my
name A DlSGKALL, which I am con
vinced that no time or no efforts of mine
will be able to efface, and which will
cause the blush to rise upon the cheek of
my chilJrcn."
19. There is a canker which lies at the
root of all his opinions. He is a Federal
ist in all his principles, whatever he may
have assumed to be in his letter of 1 822.
He denies the right of the States to inter
pose, in their sovereign capacity, when
ever they think their most important
rights are assailed by the General Govern
ment. According to his doctrine, they have
no remedy in their ow n hand. He thinks
with the Federalists of 'US that their only
resource ts to appeal to the redcral .ludi
ciary; who may right them, if they see fit
t ho' from that esprit du corps, which more
or less i tins through all departments of the
Federal Government, it is scarcely to be
expected that a Federal Judge would de
cide against his own case. In carrying out
the same docttine. Gen. Harrison pro
nounced the Proclamation (without the
slightest modification, and stripl of the au
thoritative exposition of Gen. Jackson;)
as the true text of the Constitution, and
Mr. Webster's speeches as the best expo
nents of the principles of our Government.
20. After all that we have said, there is
one reason of more weight in the coming
contest, than any we have advanced, as its
effect is immediately connected with the.
ballot box. Indeed it is an obstacle that
the hero of Tippecanoe, in 1S37, with all
hispseudo military reputation, failed as
was his custom on the field, to encounter
with success and again it will, as sure as
the election season shall wear round,
prove a dire impediment to the Presiden
tial Chair it is no more nor less than the
want of the voles of the peoplel
Grand Disclosure. M the sitting of
the commission taking testimony for the
third Congressional district in the'Northern
Liberties vi sterdav, after the messengers
h ,( n roved the service of the subpoena on
John C.Gill, his promise to attend, and
his non-attendance, ami the impracticability
m find him. the first witness called was An
drew Miller, (he Democratic candidate last
year for Senator,) who' proved that he saw
Gill at HarrisWg on Thursday night,
which was the night ot the day he was sub
poenaed to testily at eleven o'clock, and
that Gill told him he was obliged suddenly
to leave Philadelphia or it would have i
been a loss of a thousand dollars to kim, j to nvcrngvthe rate of travel in a con'tmt
which, said Mr. Gil!, is a sum not to be des jcurient at 40 miles per hous as the velo
pie:l these hard tin. e. city of the air, at an elevation where no
The next witness s.vorn wis Hugh W. J counter currents resist it, must be increased
McGlnity, who was examined the whole! th nigh the impelling power should be no
afiemoon a remarkably clear, prompt,! grca'er. At this rate, a balloon might
and intelligent man, whose testimony, in 'travel from New York to England, in thq
biief, was, that John C. (Jill was an OiriVcr sp.ce of three days and nights, and thtea
und 'r Sheriff Watmough in 1S3S, an active' hours. Tims they should deput from the
Whig, a partisan of Mr. Naylor, and one' former place at 9 A. M. on Monday, ami
of the clerks of the e'eclion that year. ! land in England at 1 2 o'clock at noon on
After Filler was elected Sheriff.-to s leeeedjth following Thursday. It nmy be con
Watmough, Gill was discharged from the sidere t that our average of 40 miles is too
placebo h'eld in the SheiiiPs offi?.e, on creative do not think o. With regard to
which , b ing a very pd or man. with a fim-j facilities, the balloon with which Mr.
ily,he told his friend, Mr. McGiuitv, thatiUreen proposes to tr ivel, is capab'e of car-
lMtler was not lawfully elected Sher ff.
nor wis Naylor lawfully e'ected to Con
gress. 15v degrees he iin.dly disclosed to
Mr. McGiniiv H w the election was if ct
ed, viz: by adding three thousand nine
hundred names fraudulently to the
registries; up .yards of nine hundred of
tbes fi uitious name being appropriated
lo the fivre Whig w..rds of the Northern
liberties (which tdlieswith the 107G fdse
votes proved by Mr. Doyle.) Gill was
present asono of the i.iiti ucd at the house
ot lieia It a Iger, vi;h s.vcral other officers i
uf the election, w.iom he n med, at a revi
sion of the registries when the doors
b.?ing loaded, and the windows closed,
after night, the performers, as Gill said,
sweating like porpoises, he saw upwards
of n ne hundred false nanies added.
which he add be could identify if the
registries were produced. He proposed to
go with him to the clerk's offi.v, where
the registries are tiled of record, and there
identify the fictitious intei pjla "uus.
Mr. McGinity th"n proved that the
afternoon before the day he was to have
testified and after he was subpoenaed, Gill
called at Mr. McGinity's,-and showed
him his poclcft hook with a thousand
dollars in it, the particulars of the votes
described.
Finally, Mr. McGinity testified that
Gill is very poor, an applicant for the
benefit of the insolvent act, McGinity his
surety in the bond, ami that he had fre
quently loaned him small s.ums for subsis
tence, twenty-five dollars of which Gill
owes him now.
To describe the effect of this evidence
is impossible. If Daguerre had been at
the hall with bis contrivance to take all the
hues of the various countenances, he might
have accomplished what no pen can des
cribe. Professional assurance was flut
tered. Mr. Liela Badger and others pres
ent; but I will not attempt what cannot,
and perhaps should not, be delineated.
The mete narrative of these enormities is
enough. The grand design was no doubt
not the Third District, but the whole coun
ty of which it is part; and the grand dis
closure proceeds from the sheriff's office,
which embraces the c i ty and county; but
sheds disastrous twilight on the Congres
sional District. Globe.
(QFrom the Annual Report of the
Commissioner of lbs General Land Ofnce,
it appears during the year ending Decem
ber 31, L"3S, the quantity of Public Land
sold amounted to SS,4I4,U97 acres, the
purchase money of which was S t,305,
5G4. During the first and second quarters
of the year 1S39, the number of actes sold
was 3,771,004, and the purchase money
for the same amounted to vi,7GS,S52.
It will thus be seen, that the sudes for one
half of the year 1S39 exceeded those of ihe
whole preceding year. This is the more
remarkable from the consideration of the
general scai city of money in the country
for the last twelve months. The year
1S3G was distinguished for the large
amount of sales of public lands. The
entire proceeds for that year from this
source amounted to more than twenty-five
millions of dollars, being about six times as
great as the amount received in 1S3S, and I
probably live times as great as that received
in 1S30.
The quantity of land to be surveyed and
bro't into the market in 1S40, '41, is near
ly fifteen million, nine hundred thousand
acres. Baltimore Jlmerican.
Crossing the Jitlantic in a ftalloon.
The feasibility of such a proposition at the
first glance seems so questionable, that, one
would be rather apt lo place it jit the hesd
of the visionary schemes of human inven
tion, and leave it without investigation.
It will however, bear examination, and for
our own part we arc far less sceptical on
the score of its practicability than wc have
been. Viewing the subject scientifically,
literally and pract'cjlly, the difficulties
and dangers which are connccied with the
undertaking, though they do not absolutely
disappear, are cert unly, grcally diminish
ed. . ,The distance which the aeronaut
must trav el, would be in round numbers,
say, 3,000 miles, and this would allow of
some little lee-way. The westerly current
of which aeronauts speak, is almost invari
ably a very rapid one; Mr. Wise was
borne by it at a rate nearly 100 miles an
hour, or 120 miles it an hour and twenty
minutes. From this we may be allovved
ry ing some 1000 or 1200 lbs. Out of this
allow GOO lbs. f r weight of two persons,
provisions and ballast, ami wchavc a sur
plus of five or s:x hundred pounds. A
hundivd pounds may be occupied bv one
of Francis' life boats, supplied wi h picssr
versj sign.ils, rockets, spars and canvass.
The elevation of the balloon would, with a
clear atmosphere, enable the aeronauts to
command an extended circle of the sea,
over which they could scarcely travel an
hour without observing a vessel of some
kind or another, so that if there existed
any necessity for a descent, a signal of
distress might be made from the atrial to
the aqueous voyager. In the night, the
use ol rockets might be made subservient
to the same purpose, and if ineffectual in
attracting attention below, still the life
boat, would offer a means of safety, till re
lief should be afforded them in the common
c)uie of events. Supplied with provi
sions, spars, canvas0,' compass, &c. the dan
ger and inconvenience would not be so
great as frequently results from shipwreck-,
though the chances of being driven to such
extremity certainly appear to be much more
numerous.
Regarding the subject, however, as wc
have done, wc do not find the risk suffix
ciently great to forbid the experiment; nor
the difficulties of such magnitude- as to
preclude the hope of success. On the
contrary, we cannot refuse our. consent to
the probability of its accomplishment.
N. Y. Eve. Post.
Rciyiarkabte Case. The Amesbury;
Transcript relates the following distressing
circumstance under which d Miss Lucy
Harrington, formerly a resident in Ames
bury, recently died in . Cornish, New
Hampshire. She was sick three years and
a half, and confined to lier lied two years
and five months. Several years previous
to her death, her right hip was dislocated
by a contraction of the muscles, while she
was sleeping quietly in bed.' Immediately
after this event, her bones began to break;
and before her death, they had broken 10
times of rriore in different parts of her body.'
At first her tinder jaw, and the bones of
her hands and feet. Their breaking was
sometimes attended with a noise, and others
not: and was always preceded and followed
by the most acute pain.' The ends of the
broken bones would sometimes, for a day
or two, grate together on being moved.
Upon a post mortem examination, not ;
sound bon2 was found. All were so soften-
Jed as to be easily cut with a knife. When
her bones began to break, the muscles of
her lower limbs so contracted that they lay
directly across her stomach and bowels.
In this position she remained until her
death. Her body was so contracted, that
one time she measured as she lay in bed
only two feet and four inches. She gradu
ally lost all strength in lier limbs, Until she
could only move slightly the ends of her
fingers. She was forty-three years of age.
. mat carnation. The . Legislature of
Massachusetts has, by a vote of 16S, to
1 64, permitted the intermarriage of whites
and blacks. The vote was very nearly a
party one nearly all the Whigs voting
for the amalgamation project, and neatly
all tlie Democrats against it.
Pet. Statesman.
Latest from Mexico. The treaty of in
dcmnily for claims of citizens of the United
States against Mexico, bad been ratified.
General Santa Ana, it is ?aid bad obtain
ed his passports, with the view of travel
ling, whether in the United Slates or in
Euiope was not known.
Tlie Mexican Congress had authorized
the Government to borrow Sl.000,00O, at'
not less than eighty cents fori ddllar.This
loan is to be one of the ways and means
for carrying on the expedition agaimt
Texas. The principal resource of the
Government for this projected invasion is
the capitation tax, of which we have here
tofore spoken. The Gazette of Tamauiipas
alludes lo this invasion of Texas in terms
of confidence:
""'The campaign of Texas will achieve
much glory for Mexico, and restore her
name and her honor. The slavery of
the black man, which is tolerated in Texrs
and which was the cause of the revolution,
will arm the Mexicans to drive those usur
pers beyond the Sabine. Mexico gives
freedom to men of all colors, and she has
her destiny 10 fulfil in this respect."