Locomotive, Volume 43, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1858 — Page 4

BAGGAGE TRAIN. From the Atlantic Monthly. NOTES ON DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. If building many houses could teach us to build them well, surely we ought to excel in this matter. Never was there such a house-building people. In other countries the laws interfere, or customs, traditions, and circumstances as strong as laws : either capital is waning, or the possession of land, or there are already houses enough. If a man inherit a house, he is not likely to build another, nor it he inherit nothing but a place in an inevitable line of lifelong hand-to-mouth . . t i . i t l,, lrt T

ion. in sucn countries nouses are uuui nuviupaio uy capitalists, and only bv a small minority for themselves. And where the man inherits no house, he at least inherits the traditional pattern of one, or the nature of the soil decides the main points ; as you cannot build of brick where there is no clay, nor of wood where there are no forests. But here every man builds a house for himself, and every one freely according to his whims. Many materials are nearly equally cheap, and all styles and ways of building equally open to us ; at least the general appearance of most should be known to us, for we have tned nearly all. Our public opinion is singularly impartial and cosmopolitan, or perhaps we should rather say knowing and unscrupulous. All that is demanded of a house is, that it should be of an "improved style," or at least " something different." Nothing will excuse it, if old-fashioned, and hardly anything condemn it, if it have novelty enough. And this latitude is not confined to the owner's scheme of his house, but extends also to the executive department In other countries, however extravagant your fancy, you are brought within some bounds when you come to carry it out; for the architect and the builder have been trained to certain rules and forms, and these will enter into all they do. But here every man is an architect who can handle a T-square, and every man a builder who can use a plane or a trowel ; and the chances are that the owner thinks he can do all as well as either of them. For if every man in England thinks he can write a leading article, much more every Yankee thinks he can build a house. Never was such freedom from the rule of tradition. A fair field and no favor ; whatever that can accomplish we shall have. " ' The result, it must be confessed, is not gratifying. For if you sometimes find a man who is satisfied with his own house, yet his neighbors sneer at it, and he at his neighbors' houses. And even with himself it does not usually wear well. The common case is that even he accepts it as a confessed failure, or at best a compromise. And if he does not confess the failure, (tor association, pride, use-and-want reconcile one to much,) the house confesses it. For what else but self-confessed failures are these thin wooden or cheap brick walls, temporarily dispraised as massive stone, this roof, leak ing from the snow-bank retained by the Gothio parapet, or the insufficient slope which the " Italian style" . demands ? There is no lack of endeavor to make the house look well. People will sacrifice almost anything to that. They will stive their chambers into the roof, they will have windows where they do not want them, or leave them out where they do, in our tropical summers they will endure the glare and heat of the sun, rather than that blinds should interfere with the moulded window-caps, or with the style generally, they will break up the outline with useless and expensive irregularity, they will have brackets that support nothing, and balconies and look-outs upon which no one ever steps after the carpenter leaves them, all for the sake of pleasing the eye. And all this without any real and lasting success, with a success, indeed, that seems often in an inverse ratio to the effort. If a man have a pig-stye to build, or a log-house in the woods, he may hit upon an agreeable outline ; but let him set out freely and with all deliberation to build something that shall be beautiful, and he fails. . Not that the failure is peculiar at all to us. In Europe there may, perhaps, be less bad taste, though I am not sure of that ; but there, and everywhere, I think the memorable houses, among those of recent date, are not those carefully elaborated for effect, the premeditated irregularity of the English Gothic, the trig regularity of the French Pseudo-Classic, or the studied rusticity of Germany, but such as seem to have grown of themselves out of the place where they stand,--Swiss chalets, Mexican or Manila plantation-houses, Italian farm-houses, built, nobody knows when or by whom, and built without any thought of attracting attention. And here I think we get a hint as to the reason of their success. For a house is not a mountain, that it should seek to draw attention to itself, but the dwelling-place of men upon the earth ; and it must show itself to be wholly secondary to its purpose. We have had a good deal of exhortation lately, now getting rather wearisome, about avoiding pretence in architecture, and that we should let things show for what they are. The avoidance of pretence should begin farther baok. If the house is all pretence, we shall not help it by "frankness of treatment" in details. The house is the sign of man's entering into possession of the earth. A houseless savage, living on wild game and accidental fruits, is an alien in nature, or a minor not yet come to his estate. As soon as he begins to cultivate the soil he builds him a house, no longer a hut or a cave, but the work of his own hands, and as permanent as his tenure. of the cultivated field. If that is to descend to his children, the house must be so built as to endure accordingly. It is the, material expression of the status of the family, such people in such a place. Hence the two-fold requirements of fitness for its use and of harmony with its surroundings. A log-house is the appropriate dwelling of the lumberer in the woods ; but transplant it to a suburban lawn and it becomes an absurdity, and a double absurdity. Tj. : . i , .. J j.u is uoi in uarmony wra me piace, nor nc tor tne use of the citizen. Nothing more satisfactory in theirplace ' than the old English parish-churches ; but transfer one of them from its natural atmosphere and surroundings to the midst of one of our raw villages or bustling cities, exposed to the sudden and violent changes of our climate, the open timber roof admitting the heat and the cold, and the stone walls bedewed with condensed ' moisture, and after the first pleasant impression of the ; moment is over, there is left only a painful feeling of mimicry, not to be removed by any precision of copying, nor by the feeble attempts at ivy in the corners.. This is all evident enough, and in principle generally admitted ; but we dodge the application of the principle, because we are not ready to admit to ourselves, what history, apart from any reasoning, would show us, that these importations are failures, and that not accidentally in these particular cases, leaving the hope of better success for the next trial, but necessarily, and i because they are importations. ' All good architecture must be the gradual growth of its country and its age, the accumulation of men's experience, adding and leaving out from generation, to" generation.. The air of permanence and stability that we admire in it must be gained hi a slow and solid

growth. It is the product, not of any one man's skill, but of a nation's ; and its type, accordingly, must be gradually formed. ' ' ' ' But in this, as in everything else, there must be an aim, and one persisted in, else nd.experience is gained. A mere successionof generations will do nothing, if for each of them the whole problem is changed. The man of to-day cannot profit by his fat her's experience in the building of his house, if his culture, his habits, his. associates, are different from ibis father's, much less if they have changed since his own youth, and are chang- . ing from year to year. lie will not imitate, he will not ',. forbear to alter. On such shifting sands no enduring structure is possible, but only a tent for the night, , '' We talk of the laws of architecture ; but the funda- . mental law of all, and one that is sure to be obeyed, is,

that the dwelling shall typify man's appropriation of the earth and its products, what we call property. A man's house is naturally iust as fixed a quantity as the

kind and the amount of his possessions, and no more so. mi . i .. . 1 .1 1 !x 1 fit J .

J. ne style ot it, appending on me iniiei-neu lueas ui uie class to which he belongs, will be as formed and as fixed as that class. . Then where there is no . fixed class, and where the property of every man isconstantly va-. rying, our quantity will be just so variable, and the true type of our architecture will be the tent, of the frame-and-olapboard variety suited to the climate. For good architecture, then, we need castes in society, and fixed ways of living. "We see the effect in the old parsonages in England, where from year to " year have dwelt men of the same class, education, income, tastes, and circumstances generally, and so bringing; from generation to generation nearly the same requirements, with the unessential changes brought in'

from time to time by new wants or individual fancies,

here and there putting out a bay-wmuow or aauing a wing, but always in the spirit of the original building, and the whole settiri" each year more weather-stained and ivy-grown, and so toned into more complete harmony with the landscape, yet still living and expensive. It may be said that the result is here a partly accidental one, and not a matter of art. But domestic architecture is only half-way a fine art. It does not aim at a beauty of the monumental kind, as a statue, a triumphal arch, or even a temple does. Its primary aim is shelter, to house man in nature, and it forms, as it were, the connecting link between him and the outward world. Its results, therefore, are partly the free artistic production, and partly retain unmodified their material character. In the image carved by the sculptor, the stone or wood used derive little of their effect from the original material ; the important character is that imparted to them by his skill. Still more the canvas and pigments of painter. But in architecture the wood and stone still fulfil the offices of covering, connecting, and supporting, as they did in the tree and quarry, and their physical properties play an essential part in the work. The house, therefore, is a work of art only half emancipated from nature, and must depend on nature for much of its beauty also. It must not be isolated, as something merely to be looked at, apart from its position and its material use. The common mistake in our houses is, that they are designed, as inexperienced persons choose their paperhangings, to be something of themselves, and not as mere background, as they should be. Thus it is that people seek to beautify their houses by ornamenting them, as a vuljrar person sticks himselt over with jew elry. A man's house is only a wider kind of dress ; and as we do not call a man well-dressed when we are forced to see his dress before we see him, so a house cannot be satisfactory when it isolates itself from its in mates and from the landscape, in sucn nouses, tne more effort the worse they are ; they may cheat us lor the moment, but the oftener we see them the less we like them. Does not the uncomfortable sensation with which fine houses so often oppress us arise from the vague feeling that the owner has built himself out of his house, and his house out of the landscape ? Ilenee it is mostly the novices that build the fine houses. A nan of sense, I think, will generally build his second house plainer than his first. Not that he desires, perhaps, any the less what he desired before, but he is more alive to the difficulties and to the cost, and takes refuge in the safety of a lower scale. His experience has taught him that where he succeeded best he was really farthest from the end he sought. The fine house requires that its accessories should be in kind. All things within and without, the- approach, the grounds, the furniture, must be brought up to the same pitch, and kept there. - And when all is done, it is not done, but forever demands retouching. What is got in this kind cannot be paid for with money, nor finished once for all, but is a heversated absorbent ot time, thought, life. And it attacks the owner, too; he must conform, iri his dress, his equipage, and his habits gen erally; he must be as fine as his house. The nicer his taste the more any incongruity will offend him, and the greater the danger of his becoming more or less an ap pendage to his house. ' . i ' i t , ., Much of that chronic ailment of our society, the " trials of housekeeping," is traceable to this source. . This is a complicated trouble, and probably other causes have their share in it. But we cannot fail to recognize in these seemingly accidental obstructions a stern, but beneficent adjustment of our circumstances to enforce a simplicity which we should else neglect. One cannot greatly deprecate the terrors of high rents and long bills, and the sufferings from clumsy and careless domestics, if they help to keep down senseless profusion and display. - - Our problem "is, in truth, one of greater difficulty than at first appears. ' For Tve are each of us striving to do, by the skill and forethought of one man, what naturally accomplishes itseli in a succession of generations and with the aid of circumstances. It is from our freedom that the trouble arises. Were our society composed of few classes, widely and permanently distinct, a fitting style for each would naturally arise and become established and perfected. There would be fewer occasions for new houses, and the new house would be less novel in style, and so two difficulties would be overcome. D or novelty ot style is a drawback to etfect, as tending to isolate the house ; and a new house is always at a disadvantage. Nature, in any case, is slow to adopt our hand-work into the landscape; sometimes the assimilation is so difficult that it must be ruined for its original purpose before it will be accepted. Sooner or. later, indeed, it will be accepted. For though most of our buildings seem even in decay to re sist the harmonizing hand of Nature, and to grow only ghastly and not venerable in dilapidation, yet leave them long enough and what ot beauty was possible to them will appear, though it be only a crumbling heap of bricks where the chimney stood, or the grassy slope where the cellar-wall has fallen in. . , ; I It is for this reason that persons of taste have taken pains to face their houses with weather-stained and lichen-crusted stone, or invent proper names for them, in imitation of the English manor-houses. But Na ture is jealous of this helping, and neither the lichens nor the names will stick, for the reason that they nev er grew there. . They cannot be naturalized without naturalizing their conditions. The grey ancestal houses of England are the beautiful symbols of the perman ence of family and of caste. They are the embodiments of traditional institutions and culture. When we speak of the House of Stanley or of Howard, the expression is not wholly figurative. ''.We do not mean simply the men and women of these families, but the whole complex of this, manifold environment which has descended to them and in the midst of which they have grown up no more to be separated from it than the polyp from the Coral-stem. All this is centralized and has its expression in the House. -. ' : ; s Now as these conditions are not our conditions, the attempt to build fine houses is an attempt to import an effect where the cause has not existed. Our position is that of a perpetually shifting population the mass shifting and the individuals shifting, in place, circumstances and requirements." The movement is inevitable, and, whether desirable or not, we must conform to it. So we naturally build cheaply and slightly, that the house be not an incumbrance rather than a furtherance to our life. It is agreeable to the feeling to.be well rooted and established, and the results in outward appearance are agreeable. But it is not desirable to be so niched into the rock, that a change of fortune, or even a change in the direction of a town-road shall leave us high and dry, like the fossils of the Norwegian cliffs, but rather, like the shell-fish of our beaches, free to travel up and down-with the tide. The imitating of foreign examples comes from no real,- heart-felt demand, but -only from a fancied or simulated demand from tradition, association ; at second-hand in one shape or another. It is at bottom something of the same finnkeyism that in a more exaggerated form assumes heraldic bearings and puts its servants into livery. ,. . rir ,-,. It may well reconcile "us to our deprivation to remember af. what cost these tilings 'we admire are established and kept . up. The imagination is pleased with this stability ; but it is bought too dear, if prog ress is to be sacrificed to it, if the freedom and the true lives of the members are to be merged into the family, and if they are to be the stones of which the house is built. It is not desirable to be adscriplus gleboz, wheth er the bonds be physical or only moral ones. We may well be content , to have our limits free, even though our architecture suffer for it. ..'It is better that houses should belong to men, and not men" to houses. :.. But whether we are content or not, it is evident that all improvement lies in the tendency, somewhat noticeable of late, to the abnegation of exotic atyles and graces. ; We have survived the Parthenon pattern, and there seems to be a prospect that we shall outlive the Gothic cottage. Even the Anglo-Italian bracketed villa has seen its palmiest days apparently, and exhausted most of its variations. We are in an extremely chaotic state just now; but there seems to be an inclination towards more rational ways, at least in the plans and general arrangement of houses. ' Of course mere negation cannot carry us far.., ,We sometimes hear it said that it is as easy for a house to look well as to look ill, and those who say this seem to think that the failure is due solely to want of due consideration of the problem on the part of our builders, and that we have but to leave out their blunders to get at a satisfactory result. ,' But if we look at the facts of the case, we find the builders have some reason on their side. ; 1 ' . ; " : " ' Nothing can be more unsightly than the stalky, sta-rino-houses of our villages, with their plain gable-roofs, of a pitch neither high enough or low enough for beauty, and disfigured, moreover, by mere excrescen-

ces of attic windows, and over the whole structure the

awkard angularity, and tue look ot barren, mindless j conformity and uniformity in the general outlines, and the meagre frittered effect inherent in the mate rial. But when we come to build, we find that the blockheads who invented this stale, or no style, have got at the cheapest way of supplying the first imperative demands of the people for whom they build namely, to be walled in and roofed weather-tight, and with a decent neatness, but without much care that the house should be solid and enduring for it cannot well be so flimsy as not to outlast the owner's needs. He does not look to it as the habitation of his children hardly as his own for his life-time but as a present shelter, easily and quickly got ready, and as easily plucked up and carried off again. The common-law of England looks upon a house as real estate, as part of the soil; but with us it is hardly a fixture. Surely nothing can be more simple and commonsense than an ordinary New England house, but at the same time nothing can be uglier. The outline, the material, the color and texture of the surface are at all points opposed to breadth of effect or harmony with the surroundings. There is neither mass nor elegance; there are no lines of union with the ground ; the meagre monotony of the lines of shingles and clapboards making subdivisions too small to be impressive, and too large to be overlooked and finally, the paint, ot which the outside consists, thrusting forward its chalky blankness, as it were a standing defiance of all assinnilation all combine to form something that shall forever remain a blot in the landscape. Evidently it is not merely a more common-sense treatment that we want ; for here is sufficient simplicity, but a simplicity barren of all satisfaction. And singularly enough, it seems, with all its meagreness, to pass easily into an ostentatious display. In these houses there is no thought of " architecture," that is considered as something quite apart, and not essential to the well-building of the house. But for this very reason matters are not much changed when the owner determines to spend something for looks. The house remains at bottom the same rude mass, with the " architecture " tacked on. It is not that the owner has any deeper or different sentiments towards his dwelling, but merely that he has a desire to make a flourish before the eyes of beholders. There is no heartfelt interest in all this on his part ; it gives him no pleasure; how, then, should it please the spectator ? The case is the same, whether it be the coarse ornamentation of the cheap cottage, or the work of the fashionable architect ; we feel that the decoration is very superficial and may be dispensed with, and then, however skillful, it becomes superfluous. The more elaborate the worse, for attention is the more drawn to the failure. -What is wanted for any real progress is not so much a greater skill in our house-builders, as more thoughtful consideration on the part of the house-owners of what truly interests them in the house. We do not stop to examine what really weighs with us, but on some fancied necessity hasten to do superfluous things. What is that we really care for in the building of our houses ? It is not, that, like dress, or manners, they should facilitate and not impede the business of life ? We do hot wish to be compelled to think of them by themselves either as good or bad, but to get rid of any obstruction from them. They are to be lived in, not looked at ; and their beauty must grow as naturally from their use as the flower from its stem, so that it shall not be possible to say. where the one ends or the other begins. Not that beauty will come of itself; there must be the feeling to be satisfied, before any satisfaction will come. . But we shall not help it by pretending the feeling, nor by trying to persuade others or ourselves that we are pleased with what has been pleasing to other nations and under other circumstances. Our poverty, if poverty it be, is not disgraceful, until we attempt to conceal it by our affectation of fereign airs and graces. ' , ;,' , Where Peanuts Come From. Two arrivals at Philadelphia, last week, from the Western Coast of Africa, brought nearly seven thousand bushels of pea or groundnuts. It is said that from fifty to sixty thousand tuns a year are shipped from Africa to this country, and to Great Britain and France. Great quantities of them are also raised in Texas, and other Southern States. ' The difference between a fool and a bore is this one don't know how to speak, and the other when. Avoid both as you would a club loaded with headache. A witness in a Hoosier court, being asked, how he knew that two certain parties were man and wife, reJ plied : " Why dog on' it, I've heard 'em scolding each other mor'n fifty times." The evidence was held as conclusive. ' ; . ' ' Woman. An article manufactured by milliners and dressmakers." ' 1 " Who wants but little on her head, , But much below to make her spread." j. - r.. BIS OWN, ' ' MANUFACTDRER OF , ' Lumber, I. a n I Ii i n gl es, Corner Pennsylvania and Merrill streets, ' UDIAHAPCLIS, INDIANA. j ASUPERIOU quality of the above constantly on hand, and all lengths and sizes cut to order at short notice. Orders from a distance promptly tilled and shipped to any point. The highest market price, in Cash, paid forlogs. deel9-3mfg ' ' ToWhom it may Concern. , ALL persons knowing themselves indebted 'to us,' either by note or book account, of over six months standing,' will please call and settle within thirty days from this date. By attending to this matter our customer's will save trouble,1 as we sliall place all unpaid accounts at that date, in the hands of an officer for collection. ' !. R. L. If A. W. McOUAT. Indianapolis, llec. 19, 1857. . - ' Kisssia Stoves. i 4 FEW of those Excellent, Genuine, . Knssiu Iron, Airtight Parlor Stoves on sale at the sign of the Gilt hall, . i ' K. I,. & A. W. MnOUAT," j dcc-12 ., , No. (ill, West Washington street, . , B. T. REED. REED, .&' WEST, C. ST. JOHN WEST., DEALERS' IN Hat's, Caps, and Ladies' Furs, No. 22, East Washington street, '' Adjoining Capitol Hotel Building, opposite the Wright House W1 E have now on hand a wry extensive assortment of' goods appertaining to our business, which we offer for sale on moderate terms. It is our design to pay special attention, to the wants of our country friends, and they will at all times, find at our establishment, staple articles that will prove as we represent them good and durable., A share of patronage is. respectfully solicited. ; r7J Wo will pay the Highest Cash Prices for domestic Furs. dccl2-0m , . ,, ... , jiKIiD & WEST, , : . OU, SiA'i'ES. .1 A GENERAL ASSORTMENT just received and for sale Cheap, at the siguef the Gilt Ball, ; R. 1.. & A.-W. McCOCAT,1 '" : dec.12 1 ' No. 09, West Washington street. ; ' ' KEMOVED. ;; FH- VAJIN has removed his New Store, No. 21, West . Washington slre-t, opposite . Browning's. Drug Store, where he keeps conslantlv on hand, Ihe largest and Best Assorted Mock of Hardware in the City, at licdnceil Prices. He has just received a large lot of Gum Belling, Rope and Blocks: Axes, Nails. Locks, Hinges, Polished Firo Setts, Ames' Shovels, Fine Cutlery, &C. . , . . i ,'.-. t-lec5 CLOAKS! CLOAKS!! ; JUST KECEIVED AT THE J ;,: ',, , ,'. "" .". ', ...V CHEAP CASH STORE, ; No. 56, East Washington St., - : A MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENT OF Clotb I'drcshaiu, Velvet ' aiuli Plush Which will be sold at astonishingly LOW PRICES, decj .: ; ... ,, CLAY & CAKTKK. WOO L E N Y A UN S ' OF THE BEST QUALITY, Manufactured at Iticluuoiifl, Indiana, . FOR SALE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, AT W lLLAKD'S. October 24, 1857 COlty CUtMSFItS Corn Shelters, Fan Mills. Hay Presses, Shovels, Spades, Forks. Axes, Farmer's Hatchets, Hames, Chains, and every thiut in the line of agricultural implements, for saleat Masonic Hall, by . ' :-5T:ly SHAWLS! GOOD ASSORTMENT, of Fall and be found at ' , .. A Winter Shawls may WILLARD'N. oct24 :

EUUEUN GAL1.EKV. f HV1E NEW YORK DAGUtKJL KEIAN GALLERY has now fitted up two fine Rooms in SHI-:U!IAI'.S NEIV No. 17i West Washington street, Up stairs, Where they take Ambrotyres, Molanotvpes, and Photographs, as natural as lire, from 40 cents to $10. BRYANT & BHO. oct3-ly CHANGE OF TIME. Indianapolis & Cincinnati Kailroad, E A W It E N CE BUHGU. No t'l mi (re of Cars to Cincinnati, Two Passenger Trains leave- Indianapolis daily, (Sundays excepted), as follows : 1st train leaves at 7:20 A. M., arrives at Cincin lati at 12:45 P. M. o.i .ft fi.-ai p. M . i it r.iiii-iminti 12:08 A. M. I trains on the Little Miami Railroad for Columbus, Cleveland, Bulhilo and New York, and with trains on the Cincinnati Wilmington and Zanesvillo Railroad, for Circleville, Lancaster, Zaucsville, Wheeling, Washington City, Baltimore, Phil; adelphia and New York. It also connects with Hie Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad lor Chillicothe. Portsmouth, Maysville, Athens. Marietta, Parkersburgh and Grafton; also l onnecling at Cincinnatll with the Covington & Lexington Railroad, for Cynthinnn, Paris and Lexington Kentucky. 1X7 Fare as low as by any other route. "iio"v7-'57 , W.H. L, NOBLE, Gen'I T. Agent. rnlHR nhnvn triiins nuilre connections at Cincinnati w NEW GOODS AT THE LADIES' FANCY STORE, IVo. 5 Bales House, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 1 J. K. WHELAN & CO. The attention or tho Ladies is called to our large and well - selected stock of Fall and Winter Goods, CONSISTING in part of the following articles: Flounced mid Pyramid Silk and Cashmere Kobes; rich Hiiyadore lirocude Silks; Plaid, plaid stripe, and chenel Silks: French Werinoes, plain, plaid and printed; plain and figured DeLains; opera flannels; silk warp mid very line wool flannels; French and English prints, jackonets, Swiss muslins, tarltons, black and white lace nets, chenile, plush, broche, slella and printed bordered Shawls; fleecy lined raw silk and cotton hose; Alexander's kid gloves; infants' embroidered dresses and caps; linen cambrics; Brussels point, honiton, Valenciennes and Maltese setts of lace collars and sleeves; Swiss and jaconet collars; point and imitation lace veils. Velvet and Cloth Cloaks, BOSKETS OF EVESCY ESCUIS.-T!OIV, . JLadies' Dress Caps, Shell Combs, Scc: ' oct3-3m ... . : J. K. WHELAN CO. FKEMCH CHINA. Gold Band Dinner Sets; . ' .' do do Tea-' do 1 ' :i . Fancy Coffey do.. . - ' .-- ' ... do . .Candlesticks; ' ' do Vases.. JACOB LINDLEY, IG, Wrest Washington-st. aug'6 PRATT'S GET THE BEST. THK Ladies' Companion. PKATTS PATENT .SEWING MiCaaiSE. Price from $13 to $35. In offering this machine to the public, we do it with, the utmost confidence that for all practical purposes it is superior to any other invention, while its cheapness, (which is as low as a good machine can be made) brings it within the reach of all. We have accepted the agencv to sell them with a view to supply the deficiency which seemed to exist between those machines which sell at ln0 to $200 and those lliat are made so cheap as to be entirely worthless. All we ask is for every one who has any sewing to do to call and examine them, and satisfy themselves.. We srive a few PATENT, ui us au vantages over omer macnines. ; . 1st. It is more durable and simple in construction. 2d. It is less liable to get put of order. 3d. It runs easier and with less noise. ,....,. 4th.. It never draws orpuckers the cloth.. ,v ath. It has a gaue to guide the work. - - -6th. It requires less skill to operate it. . It is adapted to all kinus of family sewing, and is so simple that any one can learn to use it in one hour without difficulty. Instructions free. In the oilice of the Witness, Odd Fellows' Hull, 2nd story, next door to Mayors Office, Indianapolis, Ind. r uovSl-3m ; NO YES, SPICER & CO., Agents. ' WILLIAM Y. WILEY ' HEA L ESTATE AGENT, BUYS, Sells and Exchanges Property of all kinds; Rents and Leases Houses. Lots and Farms; Collects Itenls, Notes and Claims; Advauces Money on all kinds of property; liiiys and Sells Stocks and Bonds, Notes and Mortgages; Draws Deeds, Mortgages, Leases and Agreements; Loans Money, Negotiates Loans, and makes Collections; Pays Taxes and examines Titles in all parts of the State; Buys, Sells and Locales Land Warrants; Finds Purchasers for stocks of Goods, or other Business; Attends to huing and selling all kinds of property; Enters Lands, and gives information concerning them; Sells Keal Estate and other property at Auction; . . Loans Money on all good Collateral Security; Allows from 8 to 15 per cent, for money to be invested in Real Estate Secu rities only; Enquiries by letter promptly replied to; j ; j Carriage always at Lhe door to show property; -All Business matters strictly confidential; Refers to ail the business men of the city. Office No. 10 East Washington street, up stairs, opposite the Wright House. uugB-tf i. iboi;so, Architect and Superintendent, OFFICE on the corner 4f Meridian and Washington streets, jver Dunlop's Dry Goods Store, Indianapolis. jan3 on& miss loner's saiv of Heal Estate. THE UNDERSIGNED, Commissioner appointed by the Court, of Cninmnn P 1 tn nf M:irimi P.mn.tv nifur. r u a very desirable House and Lot, situated on Pennsylvania St., siub, auoui one square norm i tne liund Asvlum. Lot 52 feet from, running oaek to an alley being part's of Lots 9 and 10 in S. R. Pratt's subdivision. The house contains seven rooms, is in good order, and supplied with water and other conveniences. ... For further particulars, inquire of Wallace & Harrison, Attorneys, at their office in Temperance Hall. .y. ,.,....,. . ... JESSE price; qujr22-tf ... Commissioner. ,..;,O.N,E"DOLLA:R:"-: W I I. li-BU -; : - t ONE OF THK liKST PURGATIVE AND LIVER MEDICINES mow before the jmblic, namely. Dr. Sanforh's Invigorator or Liver Remedy, that acts as a Cathartic, . , easier, milder and more efl'ettual than any oilier medicine iviion. i it m nob omy a amarwc, but a Liver remedy, acting first on the Liver to eject its morbid matter, then on the stomach and bowels to carry oft' that mutter, thus uceoinhlishitig1 two miron-mi pfrct n ui I v uiil....n ...... - Cthe painful feelings experienced in the operations of most Cathartics. It strengthens the system at the same time r that it purges it, and when taken daily in moderate doses pood will stregthen und build it up with unusual rapidity. Dk. Sanford's Invigorator is compounded entirely from new articles of medicine, namely, Gums. . Some idea of the strength of these gums may be formed wneu it is ktiuwii mat one oouie ot tr-e invigorator contains us much strength as one hundrea -jses of Calomel, withoulany of its deleterious effects. . - . inough possessing rare medicinal powers, these Gums have been but little known to physicians, and never used in their prescriptions until used in the form of the Inoigaralor, which met Willi siic.ii unprecedented success as to Cm induce the proprietor to offer it as a family medicine tried and known in its effects. It has rarely ever failed to cure Uggj Liver Complaints in their worst forms. Indigestion being caused by a deranged Liver, is cured when the Liver is excited to action. r88 Jaundice is caused by an improper action of the Liver, and as a proof that the invioorator relieves this disease, iei any one- iruuuicu w iui jaunuice taKe the lnvio-orator ' regularly one week, and their skin will begin to assume its original, color. . - ..... Costiv;ness can be permanently cured by the Invigorator. Take it ii small doses' on retiring, and it assists nature in her . operations. By gradually diminishing the L dose, the bowels are left in a healthy and active state, ' and work as regularly as clock work. Sick Headache is f-P very soon relieved by taking a double duse of the Ivvigpas orator, which corrects all acidity and sourness of the. . stomach. Koran overloaded stomach it has no equal, as it ror lieves all oppressive .or uneasy feeling after eating hearUgd tily. For a family medicine generally, all who use it speak in the highest terms. - v . , 1 - ..': ' - : : , r23 Dr. Sant-ord's Invioorator. came us recommended as a euro for Liver Complaiiils, and -all diseases arising from .y. a Diseased Liver. The testimonials of so many of our (2 Physicians in its favor, induced us to try it, Rnd now conviclion is certain that U is one of-the greatest blessings ever given to Dyspeptics, lor it made a complete cure before the first bottle was taken, and now can eat anything edible wilhout trouble, while before nothing but the'liglil- . est food would digest, and often that gave pain. Aow what we want to say to all our readers is, if Liver Complaint or Dyspepsia trouble you. do not fail to try tiiis the greatest i eiueuy in tue woriu. ocaie jtacc. There has never been tried in mir family a remedv which has mot with-such unbounded success in the cure LXyj of diseases '-ncident to childre n, as Dr. Sankord's Invigo 1 'hator; nor is it alone for diseases of children that we use it; for it acts as a Cathartic so mildly and gently, and 1-4 seems to renovate the system so thoroughly that we' think we are doing a service to all in advising them when tliev need medicine to try this remedy. There are cases tlia't have come under our notice where great benefit has been lf received in Diseases- of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels M2 where all other remedies failed to give relief. It has become so useful in our family that we will not be without it. Jacksonville (jSla.') Republican. - Price One Dollar Per Itotfle. SAJiFORD CO., Proprietors, 345 Broadway, New York Wholesale Agents in Chicago, Falitiestock tSi Davis; in Cincinnati. John 1). Park; and sold in Indianapolis bv W W Huberts, K. Browning, and J. P. Pope & Co., Druggist. ' . ' . julyla-611109 '

NEW VOHK UAliC

mmm TAKES pleasure in returning his thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen of tins placo and vicinity tor their very liberal patronage, and still hopes to meet tire same confidence he has engaged since ho commenced the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. : ' " Artificial Teeth, from one to a full set, inserted on Platina, Gold, or Silver. . Particular attention given to regulating, cleaning, and extracting T.-. ih. Ether given when required.. All work warranted, and charges reasonable.. Office 2d story Fletcher ii VVoolley's block, No. 8 East Washington street. -Oct. 24-tf ' ' K -W GOODS AT THK No. 1 CHHAP OASH STORE! WE HAVE JUST OPENED A Fine Assortment of Fall Goods. ; THOSE who have heretofore dealt with us, need not be told that we keep Ft rat Class troous, ona thai our prices are low. Tli n?' who have not done themselves ineiavor 10 Diiy or us, are ropjt tt'ully invited to call. We have no doubt of securing the trade of such as will give our stoclc a careful examination. Cur assortment is very full, especially in Substantial, Servicablu (Joods. , DouH 2'orget the Clicap Corner Store. Sept 12 - HUKT, SMITH & CO. v-ii it inn Blind. IHaniifactiirrr, 3 Pquan-s North of Court House, on Alabama street, i Kijens constantly on hand l-ilinds for Dwelling Houses .tnd also makes to order Uliuds for public or pri- ' f.tu Knilclii M. LONti gont for "Venitian Blinds, on Meridian St., near the Post Office, at his Furniture Wareroom. . jan31 J. F. HILL. . . B. GOLDSMITH. , . J. B. HUL. : rniit and Omanieialal Nursery; ' THE undersigned have established themselves in the Nursery business on tho well k nown Nursery grounds formerly occupied by Aaron Aldredge, a few rods east of the corporation line, Indianapolis. We have on hand a general assortment of fruit trees, of such varieties as are beat adapted to our soil and climate. The trees are of the very best quality. Also a very flnoslock of Ornamental Shr-'bbery. Jj We are now ready to fill all orders promptly. Address, HILL, GOLDSMITH CO., ; "' nov7-'o7-tf '' Indianapolis, ind. ! JOHN KALOilS ACOi:i3I ) O ATI OIV CAIUUAGE! ? JO3 Passengers conveyed to and from the LAWRENCE $ ALLEN'S LIVERY STABLE, .; " IH THE REAR OF THE PALMER HOUSE. . . ' JuncfUm - INDIANAPOLIS, IND. THE LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT! ; TO, furnish a testimony to the liberal and spirited manner in which the public have seconded the efforts employed b us, and also to acknowledge the response our energies have had from all parts of the Ktuto, it afTords us the greatest pleasure to announce our entire satisfaction with the encouragement we have experienced in our Establishment, and .can boast of a ' ' ' - - wiiee cmcxi: of patkons Than any other ' DRY GOODS HOUSE: - in the State; we are satisfied that CELEBRITY IS ONLY BASED ON MERIT! And can only be maintained by enterprise, which .mark the highest class of commercial abilities and resources; that these are in the possession of us, and that they are unsparingly used a fresh demonstration is daily given. Should our success be Jess signal it may be concluded that the channels of the world's mighty resources are dried up thnt the triumphs of trade are all expended that riches and comforts are in the possession of every individual but so long as a wish is unsupplied In the general DRY GOODS TRADE, v ' . . , We pledge onrselves that throughout V THE FALL AND WINTER, .. The first out and the lst out, IN STYLES AND FABRICS, ' ' . Will appear at the NEW YORK STORE, . No. 3 BATES HOUSE, . - . INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, '' W. H. GLENE", Proprietdrs. NOW OPENING. L AMPS, a larp:e assortment, consisting of Maud, ftolar fluid Lamps, ftatety latent; nntigmg do do do do do Side do Stand do . Mitnirinsr do do Oil . do do do do do do Side do do do Girandoles, sets 3 pieces, G burners, ; Hall Lanterns, stained and engraved; ! :Cut T. O. Barpe Globes, assorted sizes; Lamp Chimneys, ... do do Fluid Solar Wick, do do Oil, - do do . do do - Braided do ' JACOB L1NDLEY, july 4, '57. No. 10, West Washington street. 100 IRON lt(IAl) SCWAPEUS, in store and for saleat SEED & AGRICULTURAL STOKU, -i . 74, East Washington street. : 1 Indianapolis, Ind. rfVIE facilities for acquiring a thorough Mercantile EducaM. tion in this School have been much extended and are now unsurpassed in the West. Each Department is conducted in a separate room, by a well qualitied teacher, under tho specia charge of the Principal, who is a practical accountant, branch e:irS of exPeri,!":e in teaching Mercantile l LF.CHHES, t' ' three mornings of each week are devoted to the explanation of accounts by the Principal. ' o:u :i i;iicni, i w. ' tuesdayand Thursday mornings are devoted to Kecitations and Lectures on Commercial Law, under charge of Geo. K. Pernn, Esq.-, a member of the Indianapolis bar. : i COMI.IEISCI A L, t'OUISF.XPONDENCE, Ac. forenoon of Saturday is devoted to Commercial Correspondence and Calculation. PENMANSHIP, FOT Which We liavr r,...oi,-...I IV...I ..... .1 ears at the state Fairs, and on which we challenge competition, receives strict attention daily. A splendid spocimeu of which will be sent by mail on receipt or twentv-flve cents. ,, ,, TElSiTSS. bull Course, requiring from 8 to le weeks $-25 00 Partial or Practical, " 4 to u $,j Penmanship aloue, as per agreement . ' ipa,. , F. M. M.OTHEKRHEA1). ... - W C COX. ' - MOTUEKSHEAD & COX,'- " ' DEA.m:JtS D.RV. MEIMCINKS, PAINTS, I'iyeS,l,,ts'. Pcrlnmery it Fancr tioods, Fine Tobacco, V thowc Cigars, &c, Aoc. ' ;,np,i;;eredici:rsou,'awj wi,h care ' ',. KO. 18 EAST WASHINGTON ST., augJ-iy , ixiiiANPm.iM in SPLEADID PAlHU'fli SALE. ' 214 ACRES. rrH,.E..P?.DE.RR?Sli. a, executor, of the l,. WiM and ldirwtion in .lp , J"i"""'N deceased, in pursuance of remise, o L ' eS,,,,tor ' VVi11' ' public auction on the situate iirvi irio . r!, . J-ereal e,t,,le lult u' said testator, of Ind i- nano . y- f im,- north-east section ei-tt (m To. V?" so"l"-we" fractional quarterof four(4) KT,"t rnd th.;t , ,nhl9,Xteen "i)' "or,h f KP section whichMnV ,,part,ll'e """U'-win quarter of said S d l a A . ""r.th;w"t o the centre of Fall Creek. ihWandl,, witligirndbuilo- & Hm ' IT'"3-"'' ' Indian:,poli,'and Fort Wayue theei-t L ,r, 1 '"'liannpolis Kailroad pass lhrouffii o ne of ourco, , tvFSU'ne- Th" Farin ""s t"kB" P".nlu... our count Fa,rs, a, the model Farm of th county. : 0 " '. ' TKRMS OF SA1.K. tliirdtn one?f 'Ue n"rl,lse money to be paid in hand; one-' from the dVfr'i" "'e re"xi"ing one-third in two years inorto-i'n Ii lu; ,hl! lasl ,wo payments to bo secured by a 'be executed 1 "'f l'r''"'i,,'s' w,,h interest till paid. A Heed will the Br.i 1. . 1 Purchaser or purchasers on the payment of tne inrst nst,lmenl of ,1, ,Bk,' ,,...-. nd ti, itr,..be etemi "ia'e by "'e Co"r- t which time said mortgage is to be executed povvkli howland!

I BR YA NT'S y( 1 Mercantile Institute, i J I III Blake's Buiklinc opposite the VI V Bates House,

Executors. augS2-trfl

Augustas, IH.iT.