HAIR-CUTTING SALOON, 1 MAIN-STREET. I CUSTOMERS NOT BLOWED ON. tf. tively laughed right out. Others have said, PUTTY.-Six quintals of Putty, aswortet, that we cannot in conscience and from an im- 'DEAR SIR: Your Raxamillion has acted to a charm. When all hope seemed to be fled it stepped into the field, and positively worked wonders. It has put the sunshine of happiness where before there was nothing but a cadaverous gloom. We may say that we had pretty nigh given up all hope, when, reading the Flag-Staff,' we saw by accident the advertisement of your Raxamillion, and fled to it as the last ark of safety. I suppose our family is without exception the most worm-eaten family this side the Rocky Mountains. My youngest son, THOMAS ANDREW, was a perfect little HEROD. Nothing did n't do them no good. Ten bottles of your Raxamillion restored them all to perfect health. Please send me ten bottles more, WITHOUT THE LEAST DELAY. I make this acknowledgment from a sense of gratitude; and if it will do the poor afflicted public any good, you are welcome to publish it. h.a! h.a! 'WILLIAM JAX.' TRIPE-Four Cases Connecticut Tripe, in bond, subject to debenture. Also, three carboys of Provincetown Cod-Fish. Sale without reserve, by Testimonials in our next. 8.h.a.w. the best fork-Steaks, Welch-rabbit and Ale AM prepared to furnish my customers with to be found in all Bunkum. If I don't, call me JOHN ANDERSON. horse; spit on me. UNKUM SAVINGS' BANK.-Four shares BUNKU SA Savings Bank, (coupons at- RANTICUM SCOUT PILLS! HIRAM HINKSTON. W GREAT AND GLORIOUS DISCOVERY! MEDICATED APPLE-SAAS! WE HEN CAPTAIN CODDLE walked upon the sea-beach on that ever-to-be-remembered morning, his benevolent eye at times wandering over the expanse or cast upon the sands in deep reflection, he little thought of those glorious results which would ensue from his invention to the whole human race. He had long been studying how he could turn his talons to do good, when his kind genius, quicker than a flash of blinding light, whispered in his ear 'MEDICATED APPLE-SAAS!' We defy the whole annals of science to furnish a parallel to a more wonderfully ingenious idea; and the only wonder is, when we consider its great simplicity, that here, after eighteen hundred years or more of the Christian era, it never should have been thought of before. When they have reflected on this, many have posi THE GOSPEL! CHILDREN ORY FOR IT! WHEN Charlatanism is making such in- This de of the world's being overstocked! superinduced by RANTICUMSCOUT PILLS! FITS; we had not claimed for them the merit of 'DEAR SIR: Our eldest boy, GEORGE WASH- pealed to the medical faculty-did n't do him oats, eggs, beans, pork, grits, hay, old rope, no good. We tried Graffenberg Pills, did n't lambs'-wool, shovels, honey, shorts, dried cod, do him no good, and various remedies, with a catnip, oil, but'nut bark, paints. glass, putty, ditto result. At last, hearing of your Ranti-hemp, snake-root, cord-wood, live geese feacumscout, we procured a box, and after taking thers, saxafax, dried apples, hops, new cider, that and ten other boxes, he has n't had another axe-handles, mill-stones, hemlock-gum, bacon fit in several changes of the moon. His mo and hams, gingshang-root, vinegar, pumpkins, ther and myself consider GEORGE WASHINGTON ellacompaine, harness, hops, ashes, slipperyto be cured up; and should THOMAS JEFFER- ellum bark, clams, manure, and all other proSON be afflicted the same way, rest assured we duce, taken in exchange. FOR SALE, A ONE will use your Ranticumscout.' YEAR OLD HEIFER, PAIR OF YOUNG BULLOCKS IN HARNESS. WANTED TO HIRE, A NEW MILCH OFT SOAP.-Fifteen pipes and half-pipes FARRER COW; give eight quarts of milk night sale at this orifice. TH HE BUNKUM FLAG-STAFF is published every now and then at Bunkum, and also at the office of the KNICKERBOCKER in New-York. It will take a firm stand on the side of virtue and morality. All kinds of job-work executed with neatness and despatch. The Fine Arts and Literature fully discussed. There will be a series of discriminating articles on music, to which we call the attention of amatoors. PRINCIPLES OF 'NINETY-EIGHT, and all the great measures of the day, as well as all other principles, fully sustained; vice uprooted by the heels, and cast him like a noxious weed away. (For further particulars see large head.) The Bunkum Flag-Staff Is edited by Mr. WAGSTAFF. Horses and cabs to let by the editor. Old newspapers for sale at this office. WANTED, AN APPRENTICE. He must be bound for eight years, fold and carry papers, ride post once-t a-week to Babylon, Pequog, Jericho, Old Man's, Mount Misery, Hungry Harbour, Hetchabonnuck, Coram, Miller's Place, Skunk's Manor, Fire Island, Mosquitoe Cove and Montauk Point, on our old white mare, and must find and blow his own horn. RUN AWAY, AN INDENTED APPRENTICE, named JOHN JOHNS, scar on his head, one ear gone, and no debts paid of his contracting. California gold, banks at par, pistareens, fippenny bits, and United'n States'n currency in general, received in subscription. Also, store pay, potatoes, corn, rye, neighbor with a cheese-press for a skim-milk cheese once't a-week. Contents of the Present Number. THE EDITOR IN WANT OF SHAVINS. FLATTERING ENCOMIUMS. JOHN B. McGOOSLEY. MAJOR KEOKUCK'S MILITARY EXPERI ENCE. STATOOARY: POWERSES PROSPERINE, GREEK MUSICAL CRITICISM: M. FIDEL STICKH. SUMMARY: JARROLDY, SCRIBBLEDY, INCON- POETRY: I LOST MY SILKEN UMBERELL.' WORDS O F CHEER FOR MEN O F GENIUS. BY WILLIAM P. MULCHINOCK. 'AND after all,' continued FLEMING, 'perhaps the greatest lessons which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word: Wait! Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait.' LONGFELLOW'S 'HYPERION.' 'ALL the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day, will of course at first defame what is noble; but you who hold not of to-day, not of the times, but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it; and the highest compliment man ever receives from Heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels. EMERSON'S LECTURES ON THE TIMES. Oh how I envied, in the school-house dreary, Cutting the wind on pinion never weary, And when the bird and his blithe mate beholding Their evolutions filled my soul unfolding With images of grace: And O! what rapture, after wintry chidings, Thrilled to the core my bosom at the tidings, Announcement of an angel on some mission Could not have sooner wakened a transition For summer to the dreaming youth a heaven And in her sunshine less of earthly leaven In honor of the bird, with vain endeavor, By SHAKSPEARE's art he is embalmed forever - W. H. O. H. LITERARY NOTICES. THE NORTH-AMERICAN REVIEW for the October Quarter, 1849. Boston: CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN. New-York: C. S. FRANCIS AND COMPANY. London: J. CHAPMAN: PUTNAM'S American Agency. 6 THE present number of this time-honored and influential Quarterly is one of the best issues of the work which we have read very many months. There is abundant variety in the character of the books reviewed, as well as in the style in which the reviewers' several tasks are accomplished. Cordial praise is awarded where praise is deserved, and where the whip and branding-iron are demanded, these instruments of justice are put in requisition without undue severity, but yet with an unflinching hand. The first paper in the number, upon ‹ French Ideas of Democracy and a Community of Goods,' embracing a running commentary upon the contents of some seven or eight recent works from the French press, bearing upon the general theme illustrated by the reviewer, we have not yet found leisure adequately to discuss. The second article in the Review, however, we could not pass by. It is upon ‘Lyell's Second Visit to America,' and is an admirable paper, both in its spirit and in its style. Ample credit is awarded to this intelligent and fair-minded author, although the reviewer does not in all cases agree with him in his geological theories. We collate a few passages from this paper, which will afford the reader some idea of its spirit and the felicitous ease of its style: 'SIR CHARLES LYELL's book is a very amusing mélange of observations on geology and men and manners in the United States; he speculates with about equal success on the various formations of rock and the different strata of society, taking rather a deeper interest, we suspect, in the former than the latter, but expatiating upon both in a very sensible and judicious manner, and always choosing to examine and form his opinions for himself. He is a sturdy Englishman at heart, and judges of things quite involuntarily from an English point of view; but he has wandered about the world so long, and seen so many varieties of human nature, that he has worn off most of the knobs and sharp corners of his Anglican peculiarities, and writes at times almost like a cosmopolite. If he has any weakness, it is upon the subject of old fossil bones and shells, of which he is so fond that he cannot help thinking well of the people who live in the districts where they abound. The sight of them invariably puts him into good humor; he rubs his hands, and the country about him forthwith assumes a smiling aspect; the people and the institutions appear very well, and really seem to be admirably adapted to each other. The truth is, we believe, that his observations on the state of society are inserted only by way of condiment to his geological pudding, in order to make it palatable to a larger portion of the public.'... His passion for geology was a signal advantage for him as a general observer in another respect. It carried him off from the great routes for travellers, and away from large cities, into remote districts and obscure villages, where he became acquainted with all classes of the population. Accustomed to hard fare and still harder lodgings from the many similar excursions which he had made in Europe, he submitted with invincible good humor to the various privations and annoyances which he had reason to expect while journeying in such regions, and was not made so terribly uncomfortable as Colonel HAMILTON was, by not finding all the luxuries of a Parisian hotel in a little back-woods settlement on the banks of the Wabash. If elated by some geological good luck in groping about in a dirty coal mine, or in grubbing after fossils and shells in a mud-hole, he comes up with a smiling but smutty face, and VOL. XXX. 29 |
