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WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1856.
WHOLE NUMBER 1287
MISCELLANY.
JONES ON THE BABY.
The nurse employed by Louis Napoleon,
tit,' said Jones, 'has been forbidden to kiss
the lips of the royal baby which she suck
les. An express order has been issued to
that effect. The delicate Eugenie cannot
perform the mother's sweetest duty herself,
and the stout JNormandy woman, purchas
ed lo supply the deficiency, is prohibited
from the familiarity which even a negress
may claim in the United States. The ba
by is a fatal baby, and the solemn prohibi
tion addressed to the nurse is one of those
trifles which are tantamount in themselves
to a revolution. -
'The first Napoleon destroyed the perpe
tuity of his Empire in order to obtain an
heir, because he shocked the modesty of
the Eutes themselves; he outraged the
beauty of Josephine's love, the subtle inspi
ration of hislife, to carry out a vulgar idea,
" Rnil St. "HeJHflTnnrl lh nrpmntnrA rlpnth
of the 'King of Rome' were the "melancho
ly commentaries on his error. Does a
higher fortune await the King of Alge
ria? . ...
No sir,' continued Jones in his earnest
way, 'I do not believe in the future of a ba
by nursed by a Normandy woman who
sells her milk at so much a pint, and is not
allowed to kiss its lips. If thecliild must
be suckled by a beast, why not-procure a
tame she-wolf? There is regal vigor in
1 1 o r" Ionia ett lonct n-Knron a trio ninnlo rtf
iSornianiJy can give out only tnat democ
racy which Napoleon is beginning to fear.
France was to him, ns an English writer
remarks, a soft bosomed nurse, and kissed
him into strength and power, but she may
begin to feel that the edict applied to the
Normandy woman is really addressed to
her, and though she must give the life of
her life to tha Emperor, she must not toy
with his august hand or kiss his imperial
lips.
I hare called the baby a fatal baby,"
Jones went on, "and I believe it will live
long enough to see the end of the Empire,
though Us days may not be long in the
land. France is the Normandy nurse; the
Empire is the child. As long as the Em
pire represented the democracy consider
j i r . u ... -r . i I...: .
ed as the executor of that revolution plac
ed a sceptre in the hand of that revolution,
and acted in accordance with its ideas and
wishes so long the Empire was perfectly
sale, out when it begins to confound its
prerogative with that of the hereditary
houses, the governments based on birth,
not on successful varvenuism, its term of
existence is limited in France. The silent
power which burned the Bastile, sent
Charles the Tenth from hi3 game of chess
at Versailles into exile, and lit the throne
x LouisPhillino in the streets of Paris is
us strong, as pitiless and as prompt as ever.
It took three days to finish one Bourbon in
'30, and thirty eight hours to decide the
fate of another in '48, j and a shorter time
may be required to avenge the coup ductal
and wreak the inevitable vengeance which
awaits the crimes of perjury and murder,
even tLo en ine guilty party may be an
Emperor.
'Yes sir' said Jones, '-. !the non-kissing or
dinance is Louis Napolecn's first mistake
He forgot when issuing it that he was on
lj the personification of the people's will,
and not a despotic ruler responsible to him
self alone. If France condescend to play
the wet-nurse to his ambition, she must be
allowed to exercise me motner s privilege
or she may be guilty of infanticide. My
own impression is, he has nearly accom
plished his career. His star is in the zenith,
but it is leaning downwards with a tenden
cy to rush into the realms of Nox and dark
ness. His fall must drag the baby cradle,
ornaments and all, along with it.
'I pity the Normandy nurse,' said Jones,
but I pity the Emperor more. As to the
baby, it is not probable that its brain will
be commensurate with the rejoicings at its
birth. The child of a man whose intellect
is over-tasked is generally as weak and
nervous as the son of the first Napoleon.
The history of the children of all great men
establishes the fact, but gifted or stupid, I
doubt that it will ever wield a sceptre in
Europe.'
Here our oracular friend lit a cigar and
departed. N. O. Delta.
A. SHORT POLITICAL SERMINT.
"Mr Beethebino : I will take for my
text the same which was preached onto by
my brother, at Brandon, Mississippi, of
which you ail have doubtless heerd: 'And
he played on a harp of a thousand strings
speerits of just men made perfick.'
r'My breethren, there is as many strings
to politix as there is to a lyre and a good
many liars to eeny most every string; then
there aim but one of 'em all that rings out
the music of the Union tq which every
true patriot had oughter ' keep step fur
He played on a harp of a Aow-sand string
-speerits of just men made perBck".'
"Fast, lhar's the Know.Ncthin I His
name expresses the amount of his informa
tion, but it don't convey the idea of his re
sources. He's the most extraordinary an
imttl in the show he is fur and against a
variety of topics he is temperance and he
drinks he is fur the Maine law so perva
ded he can violate it he is fur and against
fusion he's an abolitionist and he ain't an
abolitionist he's here and he's thar and
he will be no whar in November fur 'He
played on a harp of a thousand strings
epeerits of just men made perfick.'
"Then thar's ths politikle cobbler, gam
round like a roarin' green bay jackass,
see kin whar he may humbug somebody.
He's all the colors of the rainbow, and
more changeable than the amelia Joponni
ky. He's a whig and anti-whig and No
nuthin and anti-No nmhin fur furriners
and agin furriners fur everybody, but
principally a Iong-heeled, wooly-headed,
rantin', ravin niggenst and abolitionist
fur 'He played on a harp of a thousand
string speerits of just men made perfick.'
Then there is the straight-out Whig
iucuuiui KOi i ui cuaiatiici in contrast
with the proceeding, who represents the
fusionists. He don't want to see the U-
nion destroyed, but he knows he can't help
It, if he runs on his own hook, and that
he'd better run wid der masheen that's
bound to be ahead, and wash the other
tubs. He plays on a harp of a single string,
but his execution is imperfick.
. "Then there's the liberal and the genu
ine old-fashioned Democrat He don't
go whirling round circumscribedness--they
ain't afeerd to speak right out in
rneetin they ain't afeered of nobody nor
nuthin.' They carry their Union flag a
float the bunting kivered over with stars
and stripes glorious and victorious, be
cause it is the banner of the Union. They
go for personal freedom for popular
rights for justice to all men and all parts
of the country for light instead of dark
ness for open discussion instead of mid
night cabal for self government and not
for oligarchy; and with pop'Iar feelin' iho1
'tis ir.ade of beech Wood and they play
on a harp ef a thousand strings, and every
string an honest principle."
LADY OR WIFR
I here is vulgarism in common custom
which needs reformation, that of styling a
man's wife his 'lady' does not mean 'wife.'
It may mean a very different personage.
Nor is every man's wife ipso facto his 'lady.'
AH are aware that the signification of the
word has materially changed; that from
designating a woman of high education and
refinement of manners it has come to sig
nify any one that wears a bonnet and feath
ers. It is for that very reason that we ob
ject to its being used synonymously with
wife.
Our idea of the matter may perhaps be
best expressed by a story we remember to
have seen : The wife of a dean of the
English church called at a grocer's some
distance from her residence and made a
trifling purchase, requesting it might be
sent home. I he grocer declined to send
it, as the time was worth more than the
purchase. Thinking to overpower him,
she said, with an assumption of stately dig
nity, 'Sir, I am the dean of 's lady.'
The sturdy shopman, with 'a low bow, re
plied, 'If you were his reverence s wife,
ma'am, I could'nt do it.'-
Exchange.
IDLENESS.
The besetting sin
of this country is
idleness. It is the root of all evil.
Vice, crime and immorality, are the
sure fruits of idleness. The industri
ous man or woman has not time to con
coct and carry out schemes of villainly
and crime. They are alien to the
thoughts, and inclination, and pleasures
of the industrious. As sure as the rising
sun gives light to the world, just as sure
is idleness to bang in its train vice, crime
and immorality. Why does the gam
bler resort to the games of chance?
Because he is idle. Why does the
drunkard visit the grog-shop ? Because
he is idle. True it is, that an Idle head
is the devil's work shop.
In passing through the country, we
are often amazed atthe idleness of the
people. We see great big children mo
ping away their time in idleness, instead
of being at school The parents are not
at work, if not at grog-shop. It would
seem that the chief object of life was to
be idle as much as possible ; that the
great pleasure and charm of our exist
ence was idleness ? We are taught, in
Holy Writ, that man is to live by the
sweat of his brow. Six days are we
cammanded to labor. This command
is imperative as it is to keep holy the
seventh day Of the two it is the more
important to our existence on this earth,
beyond all doubt ; and we have much
confidence in the genuine goodness and
piety of the man wholabors all the week,
than we have in him who simply ob
serves the Sabbath day.
Every one who has tried it must know
how much of pain and uneasiness there
are in mere idleness. Hence it is that
the idle are driven, from idleness, to vice
and crime for occupation. The drunk
ard resorts to the bottle, and the com
panionship of the vicious, to kill time.
The gambler goes to the card table and
the wine glass for the same purpose.
The idle boy seeks vice and crime in
which to kill his idleness. So it is with
other idlers.
PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY.
Every day brings with it evidences
of the extraordinary strides that discov
ery is making in this country. A wri
ter in the Buffalo Republic lias made
himself one of the immortals by the pub
lication of a discovery which he has re
cently made of great importance to oth
ers. It is an infallible means of keeping
babies, from two to ten months old, perfectly-
quiet for hours. This modus
operandi is as follows : As soon as the
squaller awakes, set the child up, propp
ed by: pillows, if it cannot sit alone, and
smear its fingers with thick molasses.
Then put half a dozen feathers into his
hand and the young one will sit and
pick the feathers from one hand to the
other, until it drops sleep.
MORALS AT SALT LAKE.
A traveller "who has recently visited
the Salt Lake settlement, gives us a
fearful picture of the degraded moral
condition of that "heaven unon earth."
He says that amongst the revoltine fea
tures of Mormon institutions, that which
permits marriage betwen blood relations
is the worst. He has met with nume
rous instances of men marrying both
mother and daughter. A bishoo of
one of the wards married six wives all
sisters, and moreover his own nieces.
He mentions that Brigham Young late
ly pom a harem ot stone to cage his
ninety beauties in, but that they all
kicked against the arrangement and as
sorted their right to be treated like free-
born daughters of Eve. The Grovi iM -nor,
he says, was obliged to cave in.
THE DUTCH MINISTER.
Foreign ministers in Washington, says
the New York Times, lead a very quiet
life, as a general thing, and it is very rare
that they are ever beard of again after
their credentials have been delivered. But
M Du Bois, the Ambassador of his Ma
jesty of the Neiherlands, has scarcely set
his foot upon our shores when he has be
come famous. It must shock the nerves
of even so phlegmatic a gentleman as the
Dutch Ambassador to find himself a no
toriety so suddenly, without any effort on
his own part. M. Du Bois, it will be re
n.embered. came passenger in the Arago,
in company with Mr. Buchanan, and he
was eating his first breakfast in Washing
ton, at Willard's Hotel, when the terrible
affray occurred in which one of the wait
ers of the house was killed by a member
of Congress. The newly arrived Ambas
sador looked quietly on, and made no at
tempt to interfere, for the whole scene was
perhaps so perfectly in accordance with
the travellers' stories he had read of life in
America that he regarded it as an ordinary
occurrence. He finished his coffee, and.
ascertaining that the man who had been
shot was dead, walked out of the break
fast parlor, and, meeting a gentleman
whom he knew, the Minister exclaimed.
"What a peoples ! If they do such things
at breakfast, what won't they do at din
ner ?"
ROYAL EXTRAVAGANCE.
The sum of 800,000 francs has been
placed at the disposal of M. de Morup, the
French Envoy to Russia, to enable him
to represent his country in a fitting man
ner on the occasion of the Emperor Alex
der's coronation. Napoleon will furnish
him with six of his own carriages. Sev
eral European journals have, it is said, al
ready engaged reporters to proceed to St.
Petersburg, and engaged to pay them 820
a day for their services.
Sixty thousand dollars will, it is said, be
expenJed in decorating the church at No
tre Dame, Paris, for the occasion of the
baptism of the imperial Prince.
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advertisements in length or otherwise beyond the
limits engaged, will be charged at the usual rates.
No Advertisements is Included in the contract
for the sale or rent of houses or lands in town or
country, or for the sale or hire of negroes, wheth
er the property Is owned by the advertiser or by
other persons. These are excluded by the term
"immediate businet."
All advertisements Inserted In the tri-weekly
Commercial, are entitled to one iesertion in the
Weekly free of charge.
JOB, CARD AND FANCY PHINTING,
EIECCTED IN SUPEB10R STTLE.
AGENTS FOR THE COMMERCIAL.
New Yobk Messrs. Dollnee A Pottbb.
Boitan CharlbsSmith, No. 6, Central Whatf.
Philadelphia S. E. Coris.
Baltimore Wm. H.PcAKcand Wm. Thomson
SAMUEL A. HOLMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WILMISGTOX. N. C.
Will attend the Courts of Duplin, Sampson and
New Hanover.
Office on Princess street, next door East of the
atate liana.
April 9. 9-ly
J. M. STEVENSON,
A GF.NT for the aale of all kinds of Produce.
XX Office on Princess st , under ADAMS, BRO
Si CO., Wilmington, N. C.
Feb. 12.l3l-tf. J. M. STEVENSON
GEORGE R. FRENCH,
MANUFACTURER. AND
WHOLESALE ! RETAIL DEALEll
IN
BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER, AND
SHOE FINDINGS,
NO. 11, MARKET STREET,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
March 6. 151
GEO. W. DAVIS,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
SOUTH WATER STREET,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Jan. 22.
132.
GEORGE n. KELLEY & BROTHER,
DEALERS l.t
FAMILY GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
No. 11 NORTH WATER STREET,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
WILL keep constantly on hand, Sugars, Cof
fees, Molasses, Cheese, Flour, Butter, Lard.
Soaps, Candles, Crackers, Starch, Oils, Snuffs,
&c. dec.
iimixcii :
O. G Pabslby, President of Commercial Bank.
JoH.t McRab, " Bank of Wilmington.
Wilmington.
. ill . p ... .
Rev. R.T. Hen.
IN, J
S. W. Westbbooks.
.i
Rev. W. H. Bobbitt,
Greensboro',
Feb. 14.
W. G. MILLIGAN,
MARBLE MANUFACTURER,
North Wateb Btbect. Wikmington. No. Ua.
MonumetUs, Toombs, Head and Foot Status, and
all kinds oj Marble Work furnished lo
order on reasonable terms.
June 5. 36-ly-c
NIXON'S nousE.
(FORMERLY MRS. BORDEN'S)
WEST SIDE RAIL ROAD,
GOLDS BORO, N. C,
THIS extensive and well known public
Establishment haa been purchased and
waa reopened by the Subscriber for the
reception of guesta on the 4th Inst.
It is pleasantly and conveniently aituated in the
centre of business, and is directly opposite to,
and WEST of the Ticket Offices, of the Wilming
ton and Weldon and Ihe Central Rail Road Com
panies, where the cars atop on their arrival and
departure, and where faithfc!. sbbtants will bb
in waitiko to lake baggage, and give such other
attentions as the traveller may require. .
THE HOUSE has been remodelled, repaired,
and thoroughly renovated from cellar to garret,
and furnished throughout with New Furnitore,
selected with special care, and arranged with an
eye single to the comforts of the caaual guest or
permanent boarder.
THE TABLE
Will be richly furnished with the aubstantials,
the danties and delicacies of the seasons, foreign
as well as domestic markets will be rendered
tributary to the constant supply, which will be
served up in the best style, by orderly, obliging
and well trained servants.
THE BAR
Will be a Storehouse of the best Wlaes and Li
quors, and superlnteuded by a gentleman of cour
tesy and Integrity, thoroughly acquainted with his
business comprising the knowledge of what is
due to the rights and comforts of the public, as
well as to himself end his employer.
THE STABLES,
which sre among the best in the State, have been
placed in the keeping of a skillful and careful
manager, who will alwaya have under his care
the best and moat experienced ostlers, and it will
be among the chief cares of the proprietor to see
that horses of his guests be well fed and thor
oughly groomed.
This entire establishment has been purchased
snd fitted up at an enormous expense, and it will
be the pleasure, as, of course, it will be the inter
est of the subscriber, lo render the House in every
respect equal to any in the country. Ha there
fore trusts that a generous public will renew and
continue the liberal patronage heretofore entended
to this House, while under the car of its format
proprietress, Mrs. Borden, who gained for it a
celebrity throughout tba entire Union.
H. R. NIXON.
Aug. 18. 6My.
SOAP AND CANDLES.
THE subscribers beg leave respectfully to call
the attention of the trade and families to the
Soap and Candlea manufactured in Wilmington,
N. C, by Messrs. Costin dt Gaflbrd, samples of
which can be seen at oar offiea, No. 2, Water at.,
where we keep constantly on hand larre supplies
low for cash. J AS. C, SMITH A CO.
Aptil2. 18
BUSINESS CARDS.
JOSEPH WILKINSON
UPHOLSTER & PAPER HANGER,
KEEPS ON HAND AND MADE TO ORDER,
Mattresses, Feather Beds, Window Curtains
and fixtures.
All work In the above line done at shortest No
tice. Wilmington, N. C, Market bt.
Jan. 19, 1853. : 1.
J. C. LATTA,
COMMISSIOX MERCHANT 4- GENERAL
A OK NT,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Oct. 1,1855. 85-ly-c
C. & D. DaPRE.
WHOLE SALE AND R ETA L DEALERS IN
Drugs, Medicines. Chemicals, l'alnts, Oil
Dye StuBs, Ulass, Periaatorjr, Clgara,
Old Lilquors, Fancy Articles, 4tc.f
MARKET STREET,
WILMINGTON. N. C.
Preacriptiunscarefullycompoundad by experi
need persons.
March 28. 1865.
T. C. & B. G. WORTn,
C0MXISSI0.1 AND FORWARD I XG HERlII.mS
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Jan 17, 1855. 125-c
JAS. H. CnADBOURN & CO..
General Commission Merchants,
ntiini.iuiu?!, n , u.
Jas. H. Chadsoubw. Geo. Chadsovbiv.
Jan. 1, 1856. 123.
nENRY NUTT,
FACTOR AND FORWARDING AGENT,
Willgive hit pertnnal attention to buUixtti entrust
ta 10 nit care.
Sept. 8. 1655. 75-ly-c.
GEORGE MYERS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCER
Keept constantly on hand, Wtnet, Teat, Liquorti
rravitiont,wooa ana tv Mow ware, rruU,
Confeclumariet,4'e. South front street,
WILMINGTON, N. V.
Nov. 16, 1855. 109.
"""GEO RGE HOUSTON,
DEALER IN
Groceries, Provisions, and Naval Stores
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
VESSUL AND FORWARDING! AGENT,
- rYILMINQrON. N. C.
Aug. 2. C0-if
It. DOLLNER. J. POTTI R. Jr. J. C AM C R DEN
D0LLNER, POTTER & CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
NEW YORK.
April30, 1855. 20-ly.
L. tf. BARLOW,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCER,
tsn DeLr.R in
LIQUORS, WINES. ALE. PORTER, dV
No. 3, Granite How, Front Street,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Feb. 17th, tr5C. I 140-tf.
ADAMS, BROTHER &, CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
July 23.
53
JAS. F. GILLESriE. GEO. 8. CILLESHE
JAM 124 I'. CIM.EAPII? A CO.,
PRODUCE AND FORWARDING
AGENTS.
WILMINGTON. N. C.
Particular attention paid to the receipts snd Salcnl
Naval Storet, Timber, Lumber, Corn, Bacon, Cot-
ion, q-c-i f-c. ,
March 30,1855. 6.
D. CASnWEIX,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
1VIL.3IINGTON. N. C
Sept. 30. 64 If
COCHRAN & RUSSELL.
(SUCCESSOR TO THOS. AL1B0NE I CO )
General Commission i Merchants,
No 32, North Whartct, ind 63 North Water Sit
rillL.AI)UL.lIIIA.
J. HASVBT COCHS AI,
W. S. BU9SELL. j
Liberal cash advances made ott Consignments.
July 30th, 1355. . 58-If.
HOOPER, DEARBORN & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
WILMINGTON. N, C
OBO. HOOPI1.
July 28.
t. t. DBABBOBBT.
Wit. Li
rloofuB.
63- if
JOHN A. STANLY,
COMMISSION ME R C II A N T,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Oct. 6th, 1855. 83.
T. C. WORTH,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT,
WILMINGTON, N.;C.
Jan. 8. 126 tf.
JUST OPENED. ' ;
TH E largest assortment of Chemicals evefoffer
ed in this market, consisting in uart of I , "
inn ik. e.,. r j. J :-
50 " Sulph.Zinci
25" V llett's Ms s j
500 oss. German Quinine j
10 bbls. Kpsom Salts ( j
15 bbls. Coppers s; i
25 lbs. Calomel 1
30 lbs. Blue Mass j
3 carboys Spirits M're (fIT)t
3 ArnaAmmonis.om and a num
ber of other Chemical, from the Laboratories of
rowers a Jd Wciabtman, Cbis. Mils & to. re
sale by C. D. DcPRP-
June 5. i io
CIGARS! CIGARS! !
JUST RECEIVED, 50,000 choice Havana Cl
gara, for aale by C. A 0- DcPRK,
r noletals Uruggisis, w juaraci i.
Oct. 13. 81.
PROSPECTUS OF THE
PLYMOUTH BANNER.
THK subscribers having purchased the Villa
ger" establishment, will commence publishing
a weekly Newspaper of the above title, about the
middle of January, 1856. -Our
paper will be "independent tn all things,
and neutral in nothing," giving all parties and
creeds a respectful hearing. It will be devoted to
ins interests oi fly mouth, morin Carolina, ana
the South to the cause of Education. Agricul
ture, Internal Improvements, and the development
of the resources of tha State.
We will do all IB our n wer Id mike our paper
Interesting to the general reader, as well aa wtha
business man. proper attention win ue given in
Marine List snd Price Carrent. In short, we will
try to make ho M Banner" a neat paper, and a
companion to all classes, from the Parlor to the
Counting Room, and one worthy tha aupportof
those favoring aa with their patronage.
TERMS.
1 copy In advaaee t? per annum
1 copy at tha end of six snoatha, S2 60.
I copy st tha end of the year, $3.
C. d. DAVKNPORT, ) E-iliers and
C. II. atELLV, J Proprietors.
Jan. 12. 123 31
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL.
DR. JOHNSTON,
THE founder of this Celebrated Institution cf
fsr the most certain, Speedy and unly cllcctu
al remedy In the world lor
SECKE1 DISEASES.
Gleets, Strictures, Scmlnnl Wraktoe , Pslbl ih
ths Loins, Constitutions! Debility, Irnpotency,
Weskrtessof the Hack snd Limbs, Allections v(
the Kidneys, Palpitation of the Heart, Uy.i-ej uia ;
Nervous irriiabi ity, Dlaesse of the Head. Tritoal
Nose or Skin t those serious snd melancholy diaor
ders a rising from the destructive habits of Vouih;
which destroy bo:h body and mind. Tliott tecrtl
snd solitary practices more fatal 19 their victims
thsn tho song of the byrri.s to the marimrs c-f
Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hopes or sn
ticiputions, rvndty-ing marriage, Ac., impossible.
YUUNUMKN.
Especially, who have become the victims of Solita
ry Fits, that dreadful and destructive habit w hich
annually sweeps to an untimely gfsve thousands of
?'oung men of the most exalted talents ind brilliant
ntellect, who might otherwise have entranced lis
tening Senates wiih the thunders of rlonurnre. or
waked to ecstacy the living lyre, may cull with full
confidence.
MAIJIJAGE.
Married persont, or Young Mm, contempliTt'lng
marriage, beinfi aw areof Physical Weakness, Or
ganic Debility, Deformities &c.,hot.ld linhiciil.
ately consult Dr. J., and be restored to perfect
health.
He who places himself undsrthecarrof Dr. Joi n
ston may religiously confide in his honor as a fn
tleman.and confidently rely upon hUskill ass r hv
slcian. 7
Da. Jomvston Is the only rrgulaily Educated
Physician advertising to cure Private Complaints.
His remedies snd treatment sre entirely unknown
tosll others. Prepared from s life spent In the
Great Horpitals of Kurnpe and Ihe Kirstin this
Country, via 1 Englund, France, the iilockley ol
Philadelphia, tf-c, and a more extensive practice
than any other physician in the world. Ilia mnny
wonderful cures and most important Surtrirsl Op
erations la a sufficient guarantee lo the aflllc-ied
Thote vho vith to be tpeedily and effectually reliet
ed, should thun the numerous trifling impotltrt, who
only ruin their health, and apply to Mm.
A CURE W AUR AN TED Oil NO CHARGE.
No Mercury or Nauseous JJrvfft Used.
OFFICE, No. 7, SOUTH FREDERICK St.;
left hand side goiog fiom Ualtimore street, a fi w
doors from the cornt-r. Fall not to observe Ma
name and number, for Ignorant trifling Importers,
attracted by the reputation of Dr. Johosion, luik
near..
DR. JOHNSTON.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons London
graduate from one of the most eminent Colleges cf
the United States, and the greater part of v.fioo
life has been spent in the Hospitals oi London, Par
Is, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, has ellecled sonic
of the most astonishing cures that were ever knowni
Many troubled with ringing in the ears and head
v hcn asleep, great ncrvoutnsss, being alarmed si
sudden sounds, snd bsshfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended sometimes w lib derangement of
mind, were cured Immediately.
A CERTAIN DISEASE.
When the misguided and imprudent votary of
pleasure finds ha hsa imbibed the seeds of this
painful disesse, it too often hsppens that snill-llm-ed
sense of shame, or dread of discovery, deters
him from applying to those who, Iroin education
and respectability, can alone befriend him, delay
ing till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid
disease make their appearance, such as ulcerated
sore throat, diseased nose, noclural pains in the
hesd and limbs, dimness of siht, deafness, nodes
on the shin bones and arms, blotches on the head,
face snd extremities, progressing with frightful ra
pldiiy, till at last the palate of the mouth or the
bones of the nose full in. and (he victim of this
awful disease becomes a horrid object ofcommis'
seration ,iill death puts a period to his dreadful auf
fcrings, by sending him to "that bourne Iroiri
whence no traveller returns." To such therefore,
Dr. Johnston pledges himself to preserve 1I10 moat
inviolable secreryi snd, from his extensive prac
tice In the first Hospitals of Europe snd America,
he can confidently recommend a safe snd speedy
cure to the unfortunsre victim of this horrid di
case. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands lull
victims to this dreadful complaint, owlDg to the tn
skilfiilncss of Ignorant pretenders, who, by the use
of tha! deadly poison, mercury, ruin the constitu
tion, and either send the unfortunate sullen r lo an
untimely grave, or else make the residue of life ml..
erable.
TAKK PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Dr. J.Bddrcasesall those who hsvel mured them.
selves by private and improper indulgences.
inese are Borne 01 trie s.id and mtlanet.oly ef
fects, produced by early habits of youth, via 1
Weakne.sof the Hack and Limbs, Pains In tho
Head, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Muscular Pow
er. Palpitation of the Heart. DvsDcbtv. rYervon
irritability Derangement of the Digeailve Fuhc
lions, ujncral Debility, Symptoms ofConsump.
tlon.dtc.
J.miy. The fearful effects dh IliB hilnd are
much to be dreaded 1 Loss of Memory. Cohlualon
of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil Forebodiiiga,
Aversion 01 ooclety, Sell Distrust, Love of Suit
tude, Timidity, eVc sre some of the evils produced;
Thoutandt of persons of adages, can now judge
what is the causa of their declining health. Los
ing their vigor, becoming weuk, psle and emacia
ted, have a singular appearance about the .
cough snd symptoms of consumption.
mi, juuiMs 1 un a irv vtuuKATintj KEME
DVFORORGANIC WEAKNESS.
By this great and important remedy weakness of
the orcans are eoecdilv curedand full vlior rpi,r. '
Thouaandaof the mult Nervous and Debilltutid
Individuals Who had lost all hope, have be h Iriiiiir-
tiatl rillv4 all lmiMilm.i. 1 II 1 II III I r L'
- " - .... a...,rwi . m J ... g. i f m . m j
Physical or Mental Disqualifications, Nervous If
ritabilitv Tremblings snd Weakness, or exhsusllon
of the most fearful kind, speedily cured by Dr
Johnston.
oung men who have Injured themselves by a
certain practice indulged in when alone a habit
frequently learned from evil companions, or at
school, ihe edicts of which are nightly felt, even
when astern, and If not cured, renders rnarriuvo
impossible, r.d destroys boih mind and body, should
apply iinmeoiaieiy.
vvnat a pity mat a young man, trie nope or m
country, and ine tuning 01 hia parents, rhould ba
snatched from all proipecta and enjoyments of lift',
by the consequences of devlalina from II. e hath of
nature, and indulging in a certain secret habit.
Such persons, before contemplating
MA11KIAUE.
Should reflect thai a aound mind and body are lM
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness. lndrd, without these, the iourney
through life, becomes a wear pilgrimagei the pros
pect hourly darkens to the view 1 the mind becomes
shadowed with despair and filled with the melan
choly reflection that the happiness of another bc
comes blighted with sntown.
OFFICE NO. 7 SOUTH FREDERICK-ST.,
IIaltimoss, Mo.
All Burgle al Operations 1'ei formed.
N. B- Let no false delicacy prevent you. but
apply immediately either personally or t lette r.
bus aiBca rieediiy t ared.
' TO STRANGERS.
The many thousand cured at this Institution with
in the last ten years, snd the numerous Im por
tsnt Surgical Operations perfotmrd by Dr. J., wit
neaaed by the Reporters of the papers, sr.d man
other persons, notices of which have appeared a sin
snd again Delurs the public, besides hie standing
ss a rentletnan of character snd responsibility, is
suCiClcnt gnsrsntrc to ine sunned.
TAKE NOTICE.
tt lawlttittt rmlM rrltu-lanee thai fr JOIlBTOt
permits his rrd to appear lfor lh fuWIe. drrraliiar ti
nsinrotWinSi! for phjmrimn tn arlrerti. hut .Mm Ii
did so, lb afflicted, Mfieelally lrnr. could nut fail t.)
fall Into tba bands uf lbs) many Impu-lrat and nntrarne
I m posters, with Innuiuerml.l r'alaa 'ainaa or roniblned
Ouaekahopa, swarming tbeas larva cities, e) litar I'r
Josmtoi'i advertisement or adterltstna; thetneelvaa a
physicians, illiterate ahalUrw-bralnMl fellows, too laiy tn
work at tbair ortsinal tra-ia, wllh ararca too liUoa twyocui
tha brute, who. for tha pnrpaaa of kuiiclna; and ! iv.
Inf, carry on Bra or six oftieea under Ba aiany different
Palaa Namea, so that tba afflicted Klraners, r-rf 11.
on, ta sure to tumble baadlons; Into the otl.er. I rmt.nl
Quacks wilh annrmoue lyln eertinr-alea nf rfrat and aa.
tontshln care from psranti. ho to I fi.un-1, hu kerp
you taktue larr hot Ilea of t.icosira Wrn and other
paekaeeaof flllhyand wnrthbme compounds, ruunli.f 'y
Krepared to impose apnw ths unfortunate and iiMu.rU
tor. Trill tin month afW mmrth. or aa tune oa theamatl
eat fea ana lie otrtai ned, and, I a dmna' ', h-avae yea with
rainsst health, to etirh cmr your rsllmf dleapsnmrna.
It U this muUvs that indiieaa 1T J. to adsarusa. ra
UlUIIICl.CC.I TO. T thoa anarqnainted with has
repataUon. he oWms It ner.ery to say that hia crrdau
UaJa or diplomas always har la h fne.
NO LKTrk-KU K.CEIVaU l"Nl.k"H POSTPAID
and aoataiatnc a tlam to he aeed Ur tha reply. I'ar
ants writing ahoaU atai Afa and send thai rurtlon
BdTurtlinBt sVaaertbtna symptoms. .
Jan., W'-lj