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MtSCKLLAKY. From the London Punch. MRS.CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LEC- r-f INTRODUCTION. Toor Job Candle one of (he few men whom Nature in her casual bounty to women, ends into this world as patient listeners. He was perhaps, in more respects than one, all ears.

And these ears, Mrs. Caudle his lawful wedded wife, as she would ever and anon press upon him, for she was not a woman to, wear chaii.t without shaking them took whole and sole possession of. They were her entire property; as expressly made convey to Caudle's brain the stream of wisdom that continually flowed from the lips of his wife, as was the tin funnel through which Mrs. Caudle in vintage time, bottled her elder wine. There this difference between the wisdom and tho wine.

The wine was always sugared the wisdom never. It was expressed crude from the heart of Mrs. Caudle, who, doubtless, trusted to the sweetness of her husband's disposition to make il agree with him. Philosophers have debated whether morning or night is moJt conducive to the strongest and clear-, st moral impressions. The Grecim sage confess-- ed that his labor smelt of the lamp.

In like manner did Mrs. Caudle's wisdom smell of the rushlight-, She knew that her husband was too much distracted by his business as toy-man, and doll-merchant to digest her lessons in the broad day. Besides, he could never make sure of him; he was always liable to be summoned to the shop. Now from eleven at night, until seven in the morning, there Was no retreat tor He wss compelled to lie and listen. Perhaps there was little magnanimity in this on the part of Mrs.

Caudle; but in marriage as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Besides, Mrs. Caudle copied very ancient authority. Minerva's bird, the very wiset thing in leathers, is silent all the day. So was Mrs.

Caudle. Like the owl, she hooted only at I night. Mr. Caudle was blessed with an indomitable He lived thirty years with Mrs. Caudle, surviving her.

Yes, it took thirty years for Mrs Caudle to lecture and dilate upon the joys, griefs, duties and vicissitudes comprised within that seemingly small circle the wedding ring. We say, seemingly small; for the thing, as viewed by the vulgar, naked eye, is a tiny hoop made for the third feminine finger. Alack! like the ring of Saturn, for good or evil it circles whole world. Or take a less gigantic figure, it compasses a vast region; it IV Arahia Polfr ortrl it iruu ku ..1,1,, A lemon-hearted cynic might liken the wedding ring to an ancient Circus, in which wild animals clawed one another for the sport of lookers-on Perish the hyperbole! We would rather compare it to an elfin ring, in which dancing fairies made the sweetest music for infirm humanity. Manifold are the uses of rings.

Even snine are tamed by them. You will see a vagrant, hilarious, devastating porker a full blooded fellow that would bleed into many, many fathoms of black 1.1: i i i jmuuiug you win see nun, escaped irora nis proper home, straying into a'neighbor's garden. How he tramples upon the heart's ease; how with quivering snout, he roots up lilies, odoriferous bulbs! Here he gives a restless snatch at thyme and ma-joram and here he munches violets and gillifiow-ers. At length the marauder is delected, seized by his owner and driven home. To make the porker less dangerous, it is determined that he shall be ringed.

The sentence is pronounced execution ordered. Listen to his screams! "Woull you not think the knife was in his throat? And yet they're only boring through his nose!" Hence for all future time the porker behaves himself wilh a sort of forced propriety for in cither nostril he carries a ring. It is, for the greatness of humanity, a saddening thought, that sometimes men must be treated no better than pigs. But Mr. Job Caudle wat not of these men.

Marriage to him was not made a necessity. No; for him call it if you will a happy chance, a golden accident. It is, however, enough for us to know that he was married; and was therefore made the recipient of a wife's isdomv Mrs. Caudle, like Mahomet's dove, continually pecked at the good nan's ears; and it is a to learn from what he left behind that he had hived all her sayings in his brain; and further that he employed the mellow evening of his life to put such sayings down, that in due season they might be enshrined in imperishable type." When Mr. Job Caudle was1 left in this briery world without his daily guide and nocturnal mon-itress, he was in the ripe fullness of fifty-seven.

For three hours at least after he went to bed such laves are we to habit that he could not close an eye. Mis wife still talked at his tide. True it was, she was dead and decently interred. His mind it was a comfort to kdow tt could not wander on this point; this he knew. Nevertheless his wife was with him.

The ghost of her tongue till talked as in the life; and again and again did Job Caudle hear the monitions of by-gone years. At times, so loud, so lively, so real were the sounds, that Job wilh a cold chill, doubted if he wera really widowed. And then, with the move ment of an arm, a foot, he would assure himself that be was alone In his hollaud. Nevertheless, the talk continued. It was terrible to be thus haunted by a voice, to.

have advice, commands, remonstrance, all sorts of saws and adages still poured upon him, and no visible wife. Now did the voice speak from the curtains; now from the tester, and now did it whisper him trom the very pillow that he pressed. "It's a dreadful thing that her tongue should walk in this manner," said Job, and thn he thought confusedly of exorcism, or at least counsel from the parish priest. Whether Job, followed his own brain, or the wise direction of another, we know not. But he resolved every night to commit to paper one curtain lecture of his late wife.

The employment would possibly lay the ghost that haunted him. It was her dear tongue that cried for justice, and whtn thus satisfied, it might possibly rest in quiet. And to it happened. Job faithfully chronicled all his late wife's lectures; the ghost of ber tongue was thenceforth silent, and Job slept all his after tights in peace. When Job died, a small packet of papers was found inscribed at folio wsi Cdbtaih LKCToaaa, Delivered io the course of thirty years, by Mrs.

Margaret Caudle, and suffered by Job, ber hus- bind." That Mr. Caudle had his eye upon the future printer, i made pretty probable by the fact, that in most places "he had affixed the text such text, for the most part, arising out of his own daily conduct to the lectures of the night. 1 He hid also, with an instinctive knowledge of the dignity of literature, left a bank note of very fair amount with the manuscript. Following our duty as editor, we trust to do justice to both documents. LECTURE I.

MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT FIVB POUNDS TO A FRIEND. You ought to be very rich, Mr. "Cauile. I wonder who'd lend you five pounds! But so it is; a wife may work and may slave! Ha, dear! the many things that might have been done wilh five pounds As if people pick up money in the street But you were always a fool, Mr.

Caudle! Pve wanted a black satin gown these three years, and five pounds would hvo pretty well bought it. But it's no YnatWT how I go not at all. Every body says I don't dress as becomes your wife and I know it; but what's thit to you. Caudle? Nothing. Oh, no you can have feelings for every body but those belonging to you.

I wish people knew you as I do that's all: You like to be called liberal, and your family pays for it. All the girls want bonnets, and when they're to get 'em I can't tell. Hall five pounds would have bought 'cm but now they must go without. Of course they belong to you; and any body but your own fiesh and Mood, Mr. Caudle.

The man called for the water rate, to-day; but I should like to know how people are to pay taxes who throw away five pounds to every fellow that asks them. Perhaps you don't know that Jck this morning knocked the shuttlecock through the bed room window. I was going to send for a glazier to mend it; but after you lent the five pounds, I was sure we couldn't afford it. Oh, no! the window must go as it is; and pretty weather for a dear child to Bleep with a broken window. He's got a cold al ready on his lungs, and I shouldn't at all wuiider if that broken window settled him if the dear boy dies, his death will be upon his father's head; for I'm sure we cant now pay to mend window's.

We might though, and do a great many other things, if people didn't throw away their five pounds. Next Tuesday the fire insurance is due. I should like to know how it is to be paid. Why, it cau't be paid at all. The five pounds would just have done it and now insurance is out of the And there never was so many fires as there are now.

I shall never close my eves all nitrht but what's that to you, so people call you liberal, Mr. Caudle? Your wife and children burnt alive iu tneir beds as all of us to a certainty shall be, for the insurance must drop. And after we've been insured so many years! But how, I should like to know are people to insure who make ducks and drakes of their five pounds? I did think we might go to Margate this summer. There's poor little Caroline, I'm sure she wants the sea. But no, dear creature, she must stay at home she'll go into consumption there's no doubt of that; yes dear little angel I've made up my mind to lose her, no iv.

The child might have been saved; but people can't save their children and throw away iheir five pounds too. I wonder where poor little Cherub is! While I you were lending that live pounds the dog ran out of the shop. You know I never let it go into the street, for fear it should hiv hpAn hit Ku i are unknown or anonymous, the contributors to and come home and bite all the children. It lllis are lhe mosl eminent authors of our age and wouldn't now at all astonish me if the animal was country; the very creators, founders, of onr Na-to come back with the hydrophobia and give it to tioual Literature. Especially is it celebrated as all the family.

However, what's your family ,0 i containing the choicest pro taction of the finest female writers of tile time. Every i.um ber con-yuu. so you can play the liberal creature will, five geni8 ullitll may l)e appealed to ith pride by pounds? (he sex, as vindicating their intellectual eminence. Do vou hear the shutter, how it's banging to and I' miy safely be asserted, that Graham's Maga-fio? Yes-I know what it want's as w-11 as v.i. 1,1,8 engaged a better corps of writers it wants a new fastening.

I was going to send for the blacksmith to-day. But now it's out of the question; now it must bang cf nights, since you have thrown away live pounds. Ah! there's the soot falling down the chimney. If I hale the smell of any thing it's the 3mell of snot. And you know it; but what are my feel ings to you? Sweep the ihimiicy Yes, it's all very fine to say sweep the chimney but how are chimneys to be swept how are they to be paid for by people ivho don'tjtake care of their five pounds? Do you hear the mice running about the room I hear them.

If they were only to drag you out of bed, it would be no mailer. Set a trapfor 'em Rut how are people to afford the clieeje, when every day they lose five pounds? Hark! I'm sure there's a noise down stairs. It wouldn't at all surprise me if there were thieves in the house. Well it may be the cat, but thieves ate sure to come in some night. There's a wretch ed fastening to the back door but these are not times to afford bolts and bars when fools won't take care of their five pounds.

Mary Ann ought to have gone to the dentist to morrow, she wants three teeth taker, out. Now it cau't he done. Three teeth that quite disfigure the child's mouth. But there they must stop, and spoil the sweetest face that ever was made. Oth erwise.

she'd been a wife for a lord. Now, when she grows up, who'll hate her? Nobody. We shall die and leave her alone and unprotected in the world. But what do you care for that? No thing; you can squander away five pounds. And now see, Mr.

Caudle, what a misery you've brought upon your wretched family! I can't have a satin gown the girls can't have new bonnets the water rate must stand over Jack must get his death through a broken window our fire insurance can't be paid, so we shall all fall victims to the devouring element we can't go to Margate, and Caroline will go to an early grave the dog will come home mad and bite us the shutter will go banging forever the soot will always fall the mice will never let us have a wink of sleep thieves will be always breaking into the house and our dear Mary Ann be forever left an unprotected maid and all, all, Mr. Caudle, because you will go on lending five pounds! A variety of causes combine to produce one effect Every effect is like a pin, which, though small in itself, requites one to draw the wire, one to cut the length, one to sharpen the point, one to make the head and another to put it on to say nothing of the various processes by which the wire was produced in the first instance. In Abyssinia, a grandee site at table and has his mouth crammed with raw beef till be chokes, by a lady on each side of him; the overplus being par ed off at his tips. Why does he endure that torment? Because the Abyssinian deems it dignity. "A kingdom for line to fill this column.

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The following we have just reieived from Messrs. Jolin Rowe, Druggists, ti A'ewark, in this State, to whom it was communicated by John Winter, citizen of Burlington, Licking County, Ohio. BunLiNG-roN, Licking Dec. 1. 1843.

Messrs. Josun Rowe: At your request I herewith transmit to you a statement of the case of Mrs. Wimer and child, as near as I am able to communicate, which you are at liberty topublish ifyou see fit, as I feel a desire to inform the world of the effects of the invaluable medicine called Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry to which, by the divine blessing, I am 'indebted for the restoration to health of aiy wife and child. About five years ago, Mrs. Wimer was attacked with a violent cough, pain iu the chet and side, and symptomsof approaching consumption- During the intervals from that time to sometime in February last, she had been treated by eminent Physicians from Utica, bylvania, Homer, Chat ham and Newark, and with only partial relief of the most urgent symptoms.

About one year ago, she caught a violentcold, whichseated upon the Lungs, producing an alarming aggravation of all her previous symtoms. Her Physician was sent for. and despite his best efforts, she began rapidly to sink under her disease. Cough, Expectoration Hectic, together with night sweats, soon reduced her to a complete skeleton. In February last, her attending Physician, deemed her case altogether hopeless, a council was called, and after deliberating upon her case unanimously pronounced her to be beyond the reach of means, and expressed their opinion that she could survive but short time, one or two weeks at farthest She was at this time entirely eonfiued to her bed, and scarcely able to articulate, except in a whisper.

Her daily paroxysms ot coughing would last her uninteruptedly from 3 to 6 hours, and so severe were they, that we did ex. pecttbat every paroxysm would be the last The physicians in council pronounced her Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, Spine, and Mucus Membrane of the Stomach to be incurably diseased. It was at this last extremity that we happened to obtain a pamphlet describing Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, as applicable to Lung We immediately sent to you and procured bottle, and commenced its use at evening by giving her one teaspoon full, and such wis the surprising effect, that she was able to pass a comfortable night's rest, without experiancing any paroxysm of coughing, and such was iu ultimate effect, that after taking' five bottles she was, contrary to the expectations of her physicians, and every one who saw her, en tirely restored to health; and. since last summer has done the entire work of her family.

After the last attack of Mrs. Wimer, our youngest child, then an infant at the brei st was taken down, and rapidly sinking, with the same symtoms as its mother, and seeing the happy effect of the Balsam in the case of the mother, we were disposed to make trial of it for the child, and it was attended with the same perfect success. The above statement can be attested by our physician as well as our neighbors and acquaintances, who saw Mrs. Wimer during the course of her sickness. Very truly, yours, JU11IN WIMEU, Burlington, Licking Co.

O. Let every man, woman and ciild read the follow. ing, and we are sure that it must satisfy all of me great vtriues or ine meatcme. Waterviixe. Oneida, Sept.

15, 1843. Dear Sir: I owe it to the afllictcd to inform you that in January last I was attacked by a very violent cold-'-caused by working in water, which settled on my lungs. It was accompanied by very severe pain in my breast and side, and also distressing cough. I had in attendance all the best medical aid in our and after exhausting their skill to no avail they pronounced my disease a Confirmed Consumption, and one and all gav me up to die. After much persuasion I got the consent of my physician to use Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry prepared by Dr.

Wistar. 1 purchas ed ol the agent in our place one bottle, before us ing half of which, I began to gain strength, and it was very evident my cough was a great deal better. and my symptoms in every way improving. I have now used three bottles, and am restored to health. Tho result is alone owing to the use of Dr.

Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, and I take this method of giving you the information, partly to pay the debt ot gratitude 1 owe you, and partly that others similarly afflicted may know where to apply for relief. Respectfully and truly youisk JAMES SAGE Mr. Palmer, Druggist, under the date of Water ville, Sept. 24 1843, writes "The statement given you by Mr. James Sage is wen Known to ne true ny this wnoie community ana cenainiy was a niosi remarxauie cure.

Yours respectfully, O. D. PALMER." The following is from a distinguished lawyer of the city of York, who had been afflicted with the Asthma for upwards YEARS; and who ajler reading such cases can doubt the ejficacy oj this mcdiane! New York, January 25, 1843, I have been alllicted with spasmodic asthma for twenty-four years sometimes so severely as to be confined to my room for weeks; and although attended by various medical advisers, of the highest reputation and skill in the country, the relief was but partial and temporary twice the disease prov. ed nearly lata) to my lite. Some few weeks ago, I commenced taking Wistar's Balsam ot Wild Cherry, which gave me m- stant relief, and a single bottle produced in a few days what I believe to be a radical and pcrlect cure.

A. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law, No. 58 William street, New York. We are acquainted with the writer of the above certificate, and his statements are entitled to the full confidence of the public. F.

A. TALMADGE Recorder of the City of New York. JOHN fOWEK, D. Vicar General of NewYork.l vt r. it i sr.

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A. G. II. Dav enport, by Welsh Armstrong, Beallsville. NOTICE is hereby given that a petition wil be presented to trie commissioners ol Monroe county at their iu June next, for the location of a county road through part of said county; com mencing fur the same at the first crossing place below Headley's Mill on the east fork of Duck Creek; thence up said stream on the right hand side nil it approaches near jLsq.

Waybrant nn provement; thence on the right of said improve. ment as near as practicable to intersect the Sum- merlield road at or near a wild cherry on the land of the widow Stone; thence crossing the run nmthwardly up a small run on the tight side to the fork of the tun; thence crossing the right fork and up a point on the land of Martin Baty the right of ine clearing io tne nrst inraii bench; Ilieuce on said bench till nearly opposite the dwelling of William Tidd; thence descending und crossing the run nn the left, through the improvements of Joshua Ma-thena to a low gap in the ridge; (hence northward ly along the line of section ten, as near as practicable to a public road; thence west on said loud to the top of the hill; thence (he nearest and best route to intersect lhe Sumrnerheld and Mt Euhraim road at or near the line between James Watson i John Bryan. April 20, 1845. 1 KOAii A OTIC K. NOTICE is hereby given that a petition will be presented to the Commissioners of Monroe county at their next session iu June, for the alteration of a road commencing before John Porter's door running south about 60 rods to neir the corner sections 28 and 29, where it intersects the old roadjf in Seneca township.

April 26, 1045 ROAD iNOTluE. NOTICE is hereby given that a petition will be presented to the Commissioners of Monroe county Ohio, at their next session in June praying for the establishment of a county road, commencing at the big road leading from Woodstield to lbs Ohio river, past Cline's Settlement, near (be school house in district No 10, in Perry township; thence past John Thompson's; thence the nearest and best route to iutersect the big road leading from Woods- field to Marietta, near Jesse Hall, Jr. on land own. ed by Jesse Hall. Sr April 22, 1645.

7 ROAD NO 1(1). NOTICE is hereby given that a petition will be presented to the Commissioners of Monroe county at their June session praying for the location of county road commencing in Enoch township, at Aaron Barnes on ine water lord Koad; thence the nearest and best route Io Daniel McFerson's in Enoch township. April 26, 1845. la ROAD NO NOTICE is hereby given that a petition will be presented to the Commissioners of Monroe county at their June session praying for the location of a county road commencing at William Biven's in Franklin township; thence the nearest and best route to John Smith's in said township; thence the nearest and best route to intersect the State road from Barnesville to Marietta, at or near the south east corner of S. Johnson's farm in Enoch town ship in said county.

April 26, 1842. 7p ROAD NOTICE is hereby given that a petition will bs presented to the commissioners of Monroe county at their next June session, praying for the location of a county road to begin at the Malaga road near the south east corner of Henry Ford's land; thence to the Saw Mill yard of said Ford; thence to the Miltonsburg road at the new bridge near the northwest corner of said Ford's land. May 1845. ROAD NOTICE. NOTICE It hereby given that a petition will be presented to the Commissioners of Monroe county, at their June session praying for an alteration of a part of the State road from Tuel's Landing opposite Sistersville to Cumberland; said alteration to commence at or near the twenty first mile tree, on said road; running thence to or near James Stalling' tobacco house; thence to or near the house of Joseph H.

Stewart, and thence to intersect said State road at the house of Thomas Martin, and that said State road from the commencemsnl la the' ending of said alteration be vacated. April 29,1845. THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE FOR 1845 PROSPECTUS FOR THE SECOND YEAR. At the Close of his second Volume the magazine having been commenced on the first of January, 1844, the publisher finds himself irresist-ably called oh to express the satisfaction and gratitude wilh which he has been filled by the brilliant and unexampled success that has attended jiis endeavors to wiu the public favor. Notwithstanding the difficulties, disappointments-and vexations that almost invariably follow the establishment of anew periodical, in tho production of which there must he the harmonious cooperation of many heads and many hands notwithstanding the occasional shortcomings, especially in.

the. pictorial department, which no euro or diligence can avert, and no expend iture prevent, the Columbian Magazine has gone on steadily increasing in support and popular. ity from the opening number, and if the unbqught and unsolicited testimony of the press may.be received as unswayed by partiality and unbiassed friendship, the efforts of contributors anch editor have been satisfactory to the publio and accepted as fulfilling the promises made for theui at the commencement of the enterprise. The publisher undertook the work' with a firm ponvicticn that the great city of New York was the ccst and the true home for a magazine of general literature; that notwithstanding the failure of many lirevious attempts to establish such a work, there could be no impossibility of success with sufficient, capital, perseverance and the right system of man-agement both by publisher aiid editor; stimulated by tins' convictiou he embarked in the enterprise and the result of the first year has proved that hisjuJg ment was correct. It has long ceased to' be necessary or reasonable that we should speak of the Columbian as an experiment.

At all events it is now an experiment sub-stantially tried. We feel ourselves upon as firm a basis as any aimilar journal in the world. Qu principal cares now regard not so much the securing what ground we have gained (for we consider this sufficiantly secure)! the extention of our sphere ol action and utility, not so much even the mere enlargement of our subscription list, as the most suitable modes of catering for the amusement (and shall we say occasionally for the profit?) of our subscribers in the present and in the future, the many whom we have and the many more we shall undoubtedly have as time rolls on, We have made airangements which will enabie us to present our friends with embellishmen ts of very superior taste style and finish. In this rsspect it is our firm purpose, if possible to outvie all eom-petition. Our music and engravings, we confidently believe will not be equalled very certainly they shall not be surpassed in real merit, by those of any other magazine.

We propose to give each mouth two or more superb engravings, independently of two pages of mmsic by the most eminent compos-1 ers, and plate of authentic lashions. i Regarding the literary aud editorial conducts of tho rliimKioit fl niililiuhoi tint upon to say more than very few words. The gem eral management of this department is, as heretofore, entrusted to a gentleman possessing wuiu.xu.u,., www fc auoi VHII6U qualification for the task, and who has given abundant evidence, not only of the highest ability fojput forth a- meritorious magazine, but of the ability to put forth a magazine exactly adapted to the taste of our readers. The publisher therefore has every confidence that what has already been done for the literary value of this journal will be done again. We are perfectly.

willing that our future io this res pect should be esliipated by our past. The subjoin, ed list of those who have furnished articles for the Columbian during the bygone year, will satisfy, we feel assured, the most fastidious that we are reso-lute to spare in no particular either exertion or expense. -), i Mrs Sigourney, Mrs Kirkland, Mrs Ann Stephens, Mrs Osgood, Mrs Smith, Mrs A Mowatl, Mrs Ellet, Mrs StLeon Loud, Mrs James Brooks, Mrs James Hall, Mrs Hunt Mrs 11 Lighthipe, Mrs Butler, Mrs Em. bury, Mrs Cary Mrs Steele, Mrs Erving, iMsd Mary Lawson, Miss Colinan, Miss Isabel Martha Russell, Miss Chubbuck, Miss Louise Brauner, Miss Fanny Forester, Miss Quincy, Paulding, WmC Bryant, Fitz Greene Halleck, Edgar A Poe, John Neal, Henry Herbert, Weld, Park Benjamin. William Cox, Geo Wilkins Kendall, Henry Schoolcrafti Arthur, Grattan, Tuckerman, Otis, Kob't Wade, Patterson, Ed Gould, Scba Smith, Fenno Hoffman, Theo Fay, Rev Francis Woodworth, Donald M'Leod, Willis, Walter Whitman, Isaac Shepherd, Read.

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Willi the aid or these contnbusors (of whom it needless to say one ord iu the way of comment dation) and of numerous others, perhaps equally meritorious if less celebrated, who have promised us their support, we flatter ourselves that asa literary work, the Columbian nerd be under no apprc hension of being excelled. But what we havo done is already before the public, who will not fail to iudire us with impartiality: and iu respct (4 what we intend to do, it will be both wiser and more becoming (although less fash- -ionable) not to boast. We may be permitted to assure our friends iu brief, however, (hat we have' matured numerous plans (for the Third Volume) with which we feel confident they will be pleased, It is our purpose to put forth every energy; and it will be no faii)t of our own if the Columbian shall not be found at least equal to any magazine, of any i ass or price in DEALERS IN PERIODICALS throWhoui the United States and the Canadas who wish to become agents for the Columbian Magazine will please apply to the publisher The usual discount win be made, to them. frt-Lditors who will insert this prospectus entire and send a copy marked aud addressed to the Col- -umbian Magazine shall have a copy sent (o them for one year. i TERMS OF THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE One copy one year in advance, 8 One copy two years, -6 Two copies one year, 5 Five1 .10 Eight Eleven 1 26 Address post paid, ISRAEL POST, 8 Astot House, N.

TOTHE CREDITORS OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN LINN, DECEASED, iir -THE subscriber has been appointed by the-Court of Common Pleas of Monroe county. Commissioner, on the estate of John Linn, deceased; represented insolvent The period of six months from the date ol thit notice are allowed' creditors to bring in their accounts and prove their claims against said estate. Thejsucsciiber will attend to the duties of his appointment duriog the period of said six months at his own residence id Sunsbury township, near Beallsville. Dated April 14, 1845.. 8:4 GRIFFITH.

SALE OF REAL ESTATE BY ORDER OP COURT. i.o ON Monday, the 26th day of May, 1845, between the hours of 10 o'clock, a and 4 o'clock at the front door of the Court House, in the town of Woodsfield, Monroe county, Ohio, will be sold to. the highest bidder, the following real as the. property of Jacob Ollom, deceased, to wit: The east half of the north east quarter of section 20 also the south west quarter of the south east quartet ot section 21, all in township 2, of range 8, of lands sold at Marietta, Ohio, containing 120 subject (o the dower of Sarah Ollom, the widow. Terms of sale: one third cash in hand, one third, in six months, and the balance in 12 months, with, interest from date.

April 26, 1845. 7 THO'8 WESTON, adm. J. Oilom'; dee'd? ROAD NOTICE. THERE will bs a petition presented to the commissioners of Monroe county, Ohio, at their June term, 1845, praying for a county road commencing at the point of the ridge on.

thejoad fork of Duck Creek, on the land of R. Ingram; thence to George Sill's; thence alone; the ridge to Intersect the road leading from Lebanon to Summerfield on the land of John Kerr. Miy 8, 1845..