goods do you want? Ladies and
gentlemen can find every kind of goods they may
wish, in the dry goods line, at Garbutt's, plain or
fanciful, any kind of dress you are in want of.
Call at the Big Window, 204, Main Street.
Running off again. After Friday next, I shall
commence running off my beautiful stock of Paris
muslins and Balzorines, at great reduction.
N. B. Palmer, 194, Main Street.
History of Oregon, by George Wilkes, 25 cents.
T. S. Hawkes.
Gaiter Pants made to order, No. 11, Pearl Street.
E. W. Smith.
Voice of the People. Need not force them down.
Sugar-coated Indian vegetable pills.
G. B. Smith.
Illustrations of the most ridiculous kinds show that newspaper
advertisements must be very cheap indeed, for everything literally,
from a washing-tub to a steamboat, is advertised daily for sale at
Buffalo.
Buffalo is a sample city of the lake frontier of the United States,
better than Rochester, a more manufacturing mill-power place; a
specimen of what enterprise, energy, and paper money credit can do: a
specimen of the border population, where hatred to England reigns
supreme among the lower classes, and where a residence of six months
would quite cure any English ultra-radical destructive of good
education; an ultra-radical destructive of no education, or half
educated, would, however, be vastly improved.
I had a soldier with me, and he asked leave to go on shore, which I
freely granted, convinced, from what I knew of him, that he was proof
against Buffalonian eloquence. He had scarcely stepped out of the
vessel, on the wharf, in plain clothes, before he was hailed by a
deserter, who was doing duty as a porter to some shopkeeper, and told
of the delights of liberty and independence; but the porter had left
the regiment for a little false estimate of the words _meum_ and
_tuum_, and therefore the old soldier declined turning from the
carrying of Brown Bess[1] to being a beast of burden. He was then
assailed by a sergeant, who had been obliged to desert for misconduct
in a pecuniary point of view, and shown into a little grog-shop on
the quay, that he was keeping; but appearances were here not very
flattering either: in short, the deserter is not at a premium in the
United States, for he is always suspected. Strange to say, these me
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