MERCHANTS' STORES.
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sparkling Moselle, hock, seltzer-water, and lamp-oil ; preserved meats and soups, and kegs of crackers ; pitch, tar, rosin, and oats ; block-tin tureens, spirits of turpentine, and Cognac brandy ; crates of earthenware, rose nails, and hogsheads of tin-ware ; with London pickles, agricultural implements, and hair-brooms. On another side of the store lie huddled together hogsheads of Barclay's brown stout, boxes of soap, bundles of wood-hoops, and cases of gilded cornices ; boxes of raisins and currants, paving flags, and masts and oars ; firkins of Cork butter, hogsheads of lime, and patent corkscrews ; Hyson teas, Durham mustard, loaf-sugar, and Havannah cigars; potatoes, onions, Bologna sausage, and blacksmiths' coals ; artificers' tools, anti-corrosion paint, currycombs, and gold watches ; the whole wound up with Rowland's Macassar oil, floating soap, and quack medicines, consisting of Morrison's pills, and Swain's Panacea, which, if we believe the labels, are to cure every ill " that flesh is heir to;" while from the ceiling dangle in graceful negligence, coils of rope, and horses' halters. To prove to any of my readers who may be sceptical of the truth of such a various assemblage of goods, as I have stated the merchant's stores contain, I will give a correct copy of a cargo handed about to the different merchants, as brought by an American vessel arrived to-day :— CARGO ON BOARD BRIG " RANDOLPH," FROM PHILADELPHIA.
1 box fine beaver hats 12 barrels pitch 100 boxes cheese 118 covered hams 3 doz. Windsor chairs 2 casks of shoulders 16 nurses' rocking chairs 30 barrels pilot bread 8 ladies' cane do. 10 do. navy do. 1 doz. children's do. 30-3 do. sugar biscuits 49 barrels potatoes 20-3 do. soda 18 1\4 gross lucifer matches 20-3 crackers 1 mahogany spring-seat sofa 50 kegs lard 1 do. wash-stand, marble top 30 blls. mess pork 3 boxes stationery 100 kegs butter 4 backgammon boards 13 boxes lump tobacco 12 bridles 20 do. champagne cider 22 1\2 doz. black ink in boxes 20 doz. buckets 1 mahogany spring-seat, rock50 boxes soap, 24 lbs. ing chair 700 do. 16 lbs. 2 wooden arm chairs 50 do. mould candles 17 do. do. Offers in cash, or negotiable notes, 1 o'clock.