"My Lord;.--1 ant 4z poor stranger in this
,l.tce, without a friend to turn to for aid in
ray emergency; bat I am innocent of the
!sigh crime you have charged against we.
At the time this alleged robbery vas com
mitted I was far distant from the place
where the rubbery was effected, and I never
was in that locality at all in my life. I am
totally ignorant of your rules of law, and
may nut be permitted perhaps, to
present evidence that may offect ray unfor
tunate east fa% urably. Nevertheless, I see
imrong, thn spectators present one person
who, fro‘identially, may save me. I du
tn.w nut know his name, but 1 beg thsd the
gentlemen who sits on my right, yonder
Spointing to Henry Ildgeford) may be placed
u.p..,n the wittu•ss-stand and sworn."
All eyes were testy turned upon the
traveler, who, at the rotle,3st of the court,
entered the witess-lox, %then 1 , 114011(4'
thus interroz:ii.d
••flare you el.er before seen me to your
knowledge?"
•'I am quite sure I have."
you give th.e court your name and
tuAneib•?"
"31v rutrae is Henry Edgc.forkl, of Lecds,
arvi I tan a luanufactulaT of cutlvry."
-Will yuu state when and where you met
111 e. :Ind under Nvhn.t ein-umstances?"
••I. wag traveling about the middle of June
ia.t from er to Aldoboro', and upon ar
arri%ing at the latter place I saw you Wait
ing at the I \cur stage liaise. Being en
cumbered with luggage, I engaged you .to
carry ray bo4 to the hotel, a f:Qrwar.:ll to
Lcr ludziogs, Grid i alai rly remerobcr your
person and features."
Nt hat CI Mt: tl,l-""
"Alout the inLlale of itme."
''Can yon stoic the Ferit.e doste of your
nt-:•;%111 tbeler
1 thluk it was un the 13 , h ur
of the month." Then turning to the court,
the witnos , adilinit "1 ate not clear. your
h“uons, as to the exact day, I,ot it your
honors will allow me to rend to my hotel,
vi here I am temporarily iitopping lime, I
van obtain my memoranda In I_ k, v.hidh
pair honors permitting it.'
Lease was giteu at Once, nil in a few
minutes a ! , niall trunk was brought ha..
(mart flout the istranget ' s room at the little
hotel. Upon opening the box the tihtt'y tt rt ,
)tlel, amd the w itue tinmsl to the 1,.,th
, )1 . Jute, tinder Which date the falium hag
"item " occurred:
•.Nlein—l'aid l'orter for carrying
to lodging iu .. , A.lduliorui, half a crowti.
rived at 2.1 p. ta."
'rho judge now asked again, •And Jo you
Watc th:-.; prisoner WILS the id entival
person who did this service f,r you, Mr.
Edgefi,rd, at that ti oe':"
-1 ant perfectly clear, your honors, in
this belief."
Hero nas a singular statement, that
staAtlered the court, the jury and the popu
lai.e—ando by no means least, the honorable
to:inber of l'...rli.uneut who had been rob
btd the 11;ghwas: If this statement was
correct, Aldohoro' being near a hundred
leagues distant front Barrington road—
surely - Burrows could not have been in butte
places on the same night, to nit, IGth of
Jane, 1t.41-1.
paid him a 'half crown piece, your
'honors which had an num-many large hole
is it; and I remember a remark that he
made at the time—that it had been zadly
.lew'd, alluding to its lightnets from this
cause. ,,
'lr. Eageford sat down, and tire prisoner
then nsked that the officer who arrested
hint might he called for a moment. \Vho wa ,
subsequently requiriod to produce the con
tents of tine prisoner, pockets, found au
him when, taken. .:Ittiong. the small amount
of silver thus seourol was a mutilated half
crown piocc, which was shown to Mr. Edge
il, who illAtalltlF fieVlOre , l it to I.e the
one paid to the porter, to the Lest of his
Thiq Fettle] the vcr , l , ,t at once. The
cro•rd applawle‘l, tho jn41;40 Fat (1111V11 in
and tile, C.LII , e Wont to tlin jnrc,
tho result tvas un tinr i uttlifie.l a , rilittal. on
tier part, Isitit - mt irt.e,in ; .t: the 1„..x.
The :IMP(' C1 . e:11;...4 'Henry ,F.l4erOra,
," and .John Bdrrows left the town of
Th. , -tr ware tire confed
er.nos in crime, both being accomplished
— gentlemen trf tiro rand." Burrons urn,
the rubber of the II in. M. r.• lie nits really
guilty; but his friend and companion iu
mil assumed the disguise of a gentleman
trat elcr, and being aware of all Weed] cum
stances of tire ease front the tegiuning,
!Lund no difficulty in coining a :,b.ry adapt
ed to the moment and the imminent erner
gency of hi; a , sociate. Ilk letters were
forgeries, his bills of credit the same; he
!earned what cuing ware found upon Bur
rows when he was arrested, and his deter
mination to clear bill] was emit ely success
ful. There was no trine or opportunity fur
rebutting the testimony of Edgefurd—his
whole plan wag a im feet coup de grace.
end to his eonfe.lcrate in ,rime he prrwcd
eminently, on that ocrmsion, it Lately ,tit-
ENE
PCNCII ' S TEST . ; ( int)l3 o :l;;;.—The Test
of a Good Ilusband.—Look at the key-hole
of the latch-key on the street door. If the
paint is not rubbed oft two Or three inches
iound it. if the edges are as rh.itp and clean
hen the door WiLS first latiatc43, yen may
Le sure that it is a truthful indication of a
good hush Ind, tt ho i. most regular, slid so
oarly -earcoly ever to lost e occasion to use
latch-koy, supposing lie (Lois, is so ae
t'unite 'llllll, Itia) 1)5 to Ise hit the
Ley-hole th. , ‘flr: of it.
1111 , 1,11.1.1 stemg LC 1.11.: I.oe.
Wlllll , l 1,.. t lico• - mt. '
'I hi! Test of ti .o 1 Yo...ritt Man.—This'
test takes pretty nearly the tame circle
the above. dlowet er, instead of the street
dour, look at his watch. If the ley-hole
where it is wound up is %aid without
the smallest marginal otite—if there Le on
rematches, running in a giddy maze around
it, such as betray decided marks of fuuibling,
you may look upon it Its a shining mirror of
a good young man, whose hand, when he
goes to Led, is as steady 0:3 Ills csinduet has
Leen thrungli the 1 is.
Ctft Caiumbia glib;.
COIJNII3I.A.,
SATUE.D-tY, DEC. 4, MS
~..". S EE NEW ADVE*TISEMENTJ OF A. M.
RAY2O, ODD FELLOWS' HALL., IX TO-Dsx's
ITEM
Zel-Seo Tundersznith's advertisement of
Holiday Goods. A I,trgk and elegant as
,
sortawur.
Nr•w Ors•rEß SALOON.—Sirs. Hunter in
vites the rotentiun of the public to her New
Ladies' Restaurant; and \\o bespeak fur her
encouragement in her present enterprise.—
We need not recommend Airs. Hunter's
ability as a caterer; her saloon during the
past summer was patronized as it merited
to be, and the community is competent to
form a just idea of her ability to serve her
customers with oysters and refreshments
suitable to the season.
A Nziv num.—By advertisement it will
be seen that Mr. Samuel Carter hes asso
ciated with him in business Mr. Edwin A.
Becker, and under the firm of Carter
Becker they will carry on the Cuaehmalting
business ltt tho old slam' in Second street.
the year and a half that Mr. Carter has
been in business in Columbia, ho has built
up an establishment that turns out work
with a wide reputation. Ilis carriages and
Buggies arc sought after, nut only by our
citizens but from abroad, and we tru4t that
the new firm will meet with equal aud in
creased success: we are sure there tit ill he
no decrease of desert.
Nine 80w,,.--The following new tools
are for sale at Saylor Mel un:o4're Every
man her own Law} er; Autocrat of the
13reakfast Table; The SoLiahle, or It./.1 Howe
Motoo.n.ent-.; Lect uI es uf L.la Mout ez; .Art
of Eloatity, 1.3 1...1a Montez.; The Pour Sis
tt ri,do•ika, brewer; The 11.1.tory
Prostitution, hy Dr. Sanger.
col . Foit.cnv's Lrcrur:r..--oo IN'tlue , lay
evening a large and :ippreciative audience
iistwindded at Odd Fellows' Hall on then:ea-
the delivery of the opeciizi;.; ilia
lieetnie, by Col, John 'IV. Ferries
The
MEM
was One upou N 1 Idyll the lecturer might
he sopp)s o d particularly competent to
ith the great states
men, founders and fathers of our govern
ment, to lie looked fur in
0110 uccup)ing, as journalist and politician,
the prominent psation of F orm iy,
while from personal ciintance and con
tact either as supporter or opponent, oho
better qualified to discuss the gianzs of late
years—those mighty men of whom the last
survivor but yesterday departed from the
scene of life-lung toil in the service of our
country—the idols Of their respecti‘c par
ties, and the glory of our nation! Much
was expected of the lecturer, and WI3 have
. yet to hear from any quarter an expression
of disappointment either as to matter or
manner. ()polling with a comparison be
tween the careful training and het cd!tary
succession of English statesmen and the
self-construction of political fortunes in our
own country, he passed to individual eulogy
--for the discourse was justly, laudatory,
and not critical—of the men of mark in
the, history of this Republic. rranklia,
Washington, JeTer , on, formed the subject
of his first grateful awl g,racerfut tailinte,
and of these contrasting statmmen and pa
triots lio spoke in terms which found a re
sponse in every ldstner.
l'assinz, to the succeeding generation of
great men, he paid eloquent homage to the
surpassing powers of Jackson, Clay, Web
ster, Calhoun and Benton, impartially ren
lering justice to politie.d friend and foe
alike. From the limited space necessarily
devoted to the di-eussiou of each character,
material for volumes was compressed into a
few littestimt in this emidensation the speak
sr evinced judgement. tact and skill, each
sketch pre , enting, fairly and forcibly the
distinguishing characteristics of the sub
. ject: the true philosophy of Franklin, flue
surpassing integrity of Washington, the de
mocracy of Jefferson, the ruck-like firmness
of Jackson, the eloquence, statesmanship
and personal popularity of May, flue to/utfic
of Webster, the ability of Cal:Loan, the in
dustry of Benton and the rare patrioti-no of
all, were clearly laid before the audience,
by whom, the whole was IL-tenet to with
attention and, as we have '4.64, with appreci
ation. The guncutl mice pronnuimed Mr.
Forney's discourse a finished literary pro•
auction and its delivery (necessarily) an
entire success.
'We trust that the r.tre taste we have ja , ,t
had of intellectual entertainment will tha
ulate our citizens to the demand for a Suc
cession of leJturci by prominent public.
men.
Scutt - E . ., NEw SLR/AL—Tile reading
pubii will .be glad to learn that the story,
etrLitled "The Minister's Wooing," com
menced in the Atlantic Monthly for Decem
ber, is the beginning of a serial novel from
the pen of Mrs. Ilarriet Beecher Stowe; and
that portions of it will ay pear from month
•to month until it is completed. The story
is marked by all the characteristics of style
and spirit which have made the author's
forme: end, so famous. The scene is laid
in New England inunealitstely after the rev
olution,—the period when all that was most
simple, quaint and peculiar in character
and manner, was iu full foree. It nelts the
era before railroads, steamships, lightning
presses, fashionable an d Gtihiouu
clergymen,—in sin - at, the ;poi oil terser o f
which the present generation have so often
heal d. We look forward to see a masterly
poi trait of Puritan life sketched in this CO-
Ilt,WeEer, it is not necessary to do
More these to =ok:two the fact; an author
whose name and works are known iu more
than thirty languages, and whose two novels
have reached a sale of more than eight hurt
dred thousand ..eluines 41 this country :alone,
; will not surely waut f..r reader s . Wo shall
look for the coining 1.1.11111.4:vs of "The Min
ister's Wooing," with great interest —l3. -
T ~p 1
Ocn Hae.t..—Who remember's the enthu
siasm excited in our community when the
magnificent project of a public Hall, worthy
of the bustling, thriving town of Columbia
and capableuf containing our lecture-going.
concert-loving, ball-attending population,
was first projected? Has the energy with
which the very creditable edifice which first
strikes the eye of the York Comity traveler
was run up, and pulled down, and rebuilt,
been forgotten? Da we not remember the
eagerness with which its completion was
looked forward to, and the imposing cere
monies with which that consummation was
celebrated! One warm summer's evening
the entire community turned out and filled
the really commodious and bright new Hall,
of which we were justly proud,ltrying the
spring of the floor to merry music—dancing
and feasting away into the small hours.—
It was a fine Hall—at that time superior in
every respect to any public room in the city
of Lancaster—and during many succeeding
months was liberally patronized by our citi
zens. Whether the proceeds of the open
ing ball or of a succeeding entertainment
were devoted to the furnishing of the room
we eannst remember, but an effort, more or
less enccessful; was made we know, to pro
cure funds by such means fur such purpose.
many, many years ago—so long
ago that our town hoe had time to grow
solemn, and slow, and opposed to the gay
eties of the Hell, and, :dee, not user disposed
to encourage some of the gravities of the
Hall. So the Hall has grown to ben staid,
proper (except under the Inger invasions)
sedate old Hall; yen,—we say it with tears
in our eyes—a scrubby (it's not scrubbed
hull often enough, by the way!) fusty,
musty, filthy, offensive old Hall, and that's
plain, unadulterated, unmistakable English,
as well as simple truth.
The recent attraction to the Hall of two
large and respectable amliences, on the oc
casions of Miss Dean's Concert and Mr.
Forney's lecture, has moved us to these few
ineffensive remarkJ. On the former
occasion the contra-I; between the young
lady's charming costume, double gilt Italian
notes, stage courtesy, mitigated Prima Don
na-hip and general fascination, and the
dim light and dingy walls of the apartment,
was marked and not flattering to town pride.
At Mr. Forney's lecture last Wednesday
evening, the appearance of the Hall was
equally humiliating.
Our complaint thus far has been general:
may we pesticularize? Firstly, the Hall i
dirty. We believe that it has not been painted
since its completion, and the wood-work and
walls are unfit for civilized contact; stained
and greasy, they are positively disgusting.
Then the curtains are shabby and the walls
diefigured with spikes and nail holes—the
legitimate result cf endeavors to cover up
their nakedness and filth on gala occasions
with pictures, wreaths, &c. The Hall is badly
lighted. The chandeliers are too small by
about eight burners, and to remedy this de
feet two lights have been introduced, in
the rear of the stage, which are eery ex
cellent accessories 011 ceension of Balls,
Fairs &c ; but ngainst their illuminaCon
ss Idle the platform is occupied by perfor
mer or lecturer we beg most earnestly to
protest. Whoever amongst the audience is
unfortunate enough to obtain a side seat
has the light of ewe of these burners glaring
over the shoulder of the of the occupant of
the stage, Minding aril dazzling, and con
verting the face of speaker or singer into a
black inexpressive patch. Had we not been
ashamed to look the lecturer of Wednesday
evening in the face, the fierce eve of that
gas burner, boring us through front behind
him would have caused our head to hang.
Now we suppose that in the opinion of
the 4d•? Fellows' Hull Aesuciation we are
meddling with what does not in the least
concern us, and the members of O. F. A. are
doubtless correct in so belies ing. But NI
are notoriously of a meddlesome disposition;
minding outside business rather than our
own; exercising ourself more for our neigh
bor's mote than fur our own heavy timber.
So we trust that in cens'deratiun of our
little infirmity, we may be held excusable
in time parading the notorious deficiencies
of "our Hall." We do it in the kindest
and most benevolent spirit, and in the hope
that improvements, in all seriousness very
much needeo, will be undertaken by the As
sociation.
Iliat-crt's 11 toAztvE.—Harper for De
cember, commencing a new volume., is a
model weber,:not:enlv in contents but illus
trations. •'A Winter in the South" is eat
`With admit able eats after drawings
by "Porte Crayon," ••The Mosquito" b.
inar•nified and depicted, "An Ohl Fillibus
ter," is profusely illustrated, Thaekeray,
"Virginians" is accompanied by the usual
number of cuts, and last and best, John
MeLenan perpetrates a couple of pag,es of
really humorous hits at English exaggera
tion of American "eccentricities." "Have
we a Bourbon among.,t us?" and "Hark
trout the Tomb," are the best things we have
eet) in :Harper, in this department. The
tales aro good, as usual, and the editorial
chat amusing.
PETERSONS ' DETETOR.—PaCISOtIe Coun
terfeit, Detector for December describes 66
new counterfeits i.sned since Nor. Ist.
Among them we find Vs on the Bank of
Chester Volley, at Coatesville, arid Ss on
the Philadelphia Bank. The value of
Petcrsons' Detector to the merchant and
every man doing business cannot be !nag ,
gerated. :cot only every store but every
bouoo should be provided with a copy of
this safeguard against imposi don and fraud.
A %Lai( .1%; AGRILL:I.TCRISI.—ThiS great
Journal f r farmers is undoubtedly the be , t
published in the eiantry. We can recom
mend Una only :tutu our own judgment
but front the aerdict of experienced agri
culturists of till; neighborhood. The sub
scription price is only one dollar a year.
The periodical is published monthly by
Orange Judd, Near York.
Tun CANALS.—We see it staled in the
Baltimore America/A that it is intended to
ker.]. the water in the Penneyhatiin and
Su-quellanna and Tide Witter Canale until
the 27th in,t.
Philadelphia, Correspondence
Dalr4DELrlnA, Dee. 1, 1858.
Progress—Financial and Moral—Railroad
Progress—The Wisconsin System—Farm
Mortgages—LThe Crisis—The Last Re
source—The Mortara Petition—City—
Coal, &e.
"Progress" is a term so applicable to the
development of our country's resources, and
so significant of the genius of our people
I that it has virtuallybecome an Americanism
i in the i.ocabulary of the English language.
The progress which the American nation
has made in commerce, manufactures, edu
cation, the improvement of their territory
and the acquisition of new fields in which
to display their extraordinary genius for
improvement, is so plain to every man who
has the use of his eyes and ears, that farth
er illustration of these facts would be as
tedious as the subject is trite.
But there is a kind of progress, also so
purely American, that we would he safe in
boasting of no fear from competition in any
quarter, bot :that a feeliog of something
akin to shame will prevent the faintest
show of exultation or solf,approual. And
the field of this last named species of men
tal development, is our "Railway and finan
cial system." The agents by whom this
peculiar species of "human progress" is
Crl!Cteii hit. a tangible and permanent "In
stitution" and exhibited to the gaze of all
the slow-moving, benighted nations of the
earth —are the men who ore known and who
delight to be known, as the enterprising citi
zens of the mina.% whose palladium is
intik id utility, whose boast is a self-creating
faculty, and nho being, in the language of
their egotistical tirades, "without antece
dents," are reckless of the conseguents cud
careless of the resultv, except only just so
far as they tend to the acquisition of wealth.
These are the gentlemen who, (in the lan•
guage of a gifted member of the fluter
nity,) in early youth, "fell out with hard
work, and took to figuring." Nowhere in
the United States are su many of these
..\ - upoteon3 of progress to be found, as in the
State of Wisconsin; and nowhere else have
they crowded progress so close upon the
brink of ruin. In Wisconsin,—the favorite
child of "glorious New lingland"—there
was initiated. the shrewdest, the most
plausible and, fur the first part of the
game, the must thoroughly successful sys
tem of Railroad mice/iv.
The foreign market had been glutted with
Itailway bonds on public land security, and
the representatives of the people had dona
ted to the Roads of Illinois, Arkansas and
other States, so many millions of acres,
that it seemed to be necessary to devise
some new kind of security which would be
able at once the startle the capitalists by
its boldness, and captivate theta by its supe
rior merits. Acting under the stimulus of
this necessity the citizens of Wis
cousin conceited the happy idea that the
improved farm lands of their territory—of
which there was more titan enough to meet
the exigency—must furnish the means to
e instruct the Railroads and keep within
their own borders the trade which was
building upChicago and Cairo, at the ex
pense of Milwaukie and Racine.
Their plan was to engage numbers of
"smart men," a kind of Internal Improve
ment missionaries, or canvassers, vulgarly
termed borers, who traveled ever the coun
try in pairs, taking an accurate census of
the agricultural community for five miles
on each side of a projected line, an inventory
of the improved property, and thus appor
tioning the shares of stock necessary ti be
taken by each farmer within the range of
their operations. No money was required,
but only the pledge of the subscriber to so
ninny shares—just the number which the
figurers hal boned themselves to get out of
him—but this subscription was to ho guar•
anteed by a mortgage upon the improved
land and and appurtenances of [the sub
scriber. Ai startling as this proposition
may seem to the reader, and oven at first
to the careful husbandman, the most aston
ishing part of the story is, that the plan
under tho persevering efforts of the mercan
tile interest, was completely successful; and
so it. happens that the liabilities of the
farming interest in Wisconsin for Railroad
purposes, are at at this moment $7,265,000
secured by mortgages on their homesteads.
On these securities the Railroad compa
tiles issued bonds bearing high interest—
some as high as ten per cent, within the
knowledge of the writer—which were sold
in the Eastern market at various rates of
discount, often as high as 20 per cent, to
raise the necessary means for the proseou
tion of the work. Now the time draws near
rwhen this splendid financial scheme roust
be clotted up—pay day is at hand, there is
no money in the country to pay the sub
,criptious. There is nothing left but the
usual course of sale tosatisfy the mortgages.
flue is the crisis, in a country which need
ed no "protection," and never had any, be
cause it never was a manufacturing region.
This is the crisis which the' - most reckless
speculation has produced, the crisis in a
'chews utterly hopeless of anything but a
disastrous result; cunning in its inception,
delusive or deceptive in its operation, and
inevitably ruinous in the end.
Now the Legislature is petitioned to as
sume this "farm mortgage" Railroad debt
in the name of the State, to call in and can
eel the mortgage bonds bearing from 6 to
10 per cent interest, and to replace them
with Safe bonds bearing 5 (i) per cent in
terest. Ingenious device: Cool, amiable
and deliberate swindle! But in the event
of the failure of this plan "for the benefit
of the creditors," what remains to be done?
I Nothing. Thera is no resource—sale re
! pudiiition. Of course the farmers will not
permit their lands to be sold; all tuition will
be resisted tin the ground of alleged fraud
or misrepresentation on the part of the
Railroad managers.
Having reached the sublime acme of high
toned morality, the culminating
. point in
the march of "progress," nothing remains
' now but for Wicieensin to sink gradually
into the abyss of average wickednes; and
by way of a beginning iu her downward
career, it may not be amiss to change her
; p , dities next year orlite year following.
The case of Edgar Mortara, the Italian
child of Jewish patents, who was by order
of the .13omish hierarchy taken from his
parentstand clintaitted to the care of Catho
lic instructors, because he had been in
infancy baptised by a Roman Catholic ser
vatit--,has been dispo,ed of, so far as our
Government is concerned, by the declara
tion of Secretary Cass, that is out of the
province and contrary to the policy of our
Government to interfere with the. internal
affairs of other countries except in regard
the rights of American citizens. But, as a
city paper very justly suggests, this action
of the Romish Church will tend to "widen
the breach which is now so clearly defined
between the Catholic and Protestant mem
bers of our community ; and * Protestant
families will be more careful than ever in
the selection of servants." Such will un
doubtedly be the effect; fur though it is not
possible that a decree of any church, like
the one referred to, would bo . tolerated in
our country, the mass of the people will
not stop to reflect upon this fact, but regard
less of it, will carefully avoid what they
consider an impending danger.
There in nothing now or exciting in the
cityjust now. - We observe a vast number
of stumped-tailed grey coats parading the
city in every direction, and are frequently
distracted by the near rattle of the "kettle
drum and the squeaking of the wry-necked
fire," but cannot divine the meaning of it
all, unless it is the prolonged welcome home
of the Hibernia Engine Company, who
have latety returned from a visit to Now
York and Boston to exhibit the powers of
their new and beautiful Steam Engine. We
saw a trial of this machine, as we supposed,
a few weeks ago, which was very satistae
: tory—at least it caused the most lively ad
miration of the successful appliance of steam
power for the most useful and beneficent
purpose. The Engine stood near
- the curb
stone on the North side of Arch street, half
way between 11th and 12th streets, the
hose extending to the lino of 11th street,
and at an angle of about 20 degrees with
the horizon, throw a four inch stream more
than half a square.
The old quarrel of last winter about the
weighing of coal is still progressing; the
coal dealers generally arc violently opposed
to any laws on the subject, lest the public
weighers may be bribed by some dishonest
men, and the citizens defrauded. This is
an exceedingly kind and considerate view
of the subject; and it is also tolerably ab
surd. Certainly it is very strange that the
custom of having coal weighed and certified
by public weighers has prevailed for a
quarter of a century in other large cities,
and here we are in Philadelphia wrangling
about whether it is best to have it weighed
at a cost cf 25 cents per ton, or continue to
be cheated by a majority of the dealers.
The weather has become very cold, the
ground is frozen hard, the gutters are tight,
and so is money—which circumstances
naturally suggest the need of fuel and its
cost. Pit.
Tu EA.RLY BALD.--"lleads bowed
down" fur the mortifying lack of nature's
covering, why do you droop? We can un
derstand the depressing effect of premature
baldness on the young man full of life and
health and spirits. Ile is in the midst of
life's pleasures and gayeties, and with, pos
sibly, a handsome pre-once, prepossessing
manners, a fund of wit and humor, he yet
wants the crowning glory, a "head of hair."
See him in the street—proud in carriage,
bright-faced, happy looking, he shows no
care or sorrow; you believe him the "fortu
nate youth." Ile meets a fair damsel—a
brilliant, beautiful butterfly, who smiles and
nods and greets him as a friend! But why
dues his countenance fall? Where is the
proud elasticity of his stop—the erect and
manly bearing of the young fellow? Gone!
Gone! With a despairing look he raises his
bat of the latest style, bows meekly his
head and discloses—the scanty locks of the
early bald! My young friend, why do you
suffer? See 0. J. Wood & Co.'s advertise
ment! Buy a bottle of his wonderful Re
storative and our word fur it you will find
your youthful looks return in more than
primitive luxuriance!
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.—We have re
ceived Blackwood for November. Its con
tents are Buckle's History of Civilization;
What will he do with 10—Part XVIII.; Ed
ward Irving; Tan Light on the Hearth—
Part III.; Cherbourg—The Port and Fort
ress; Lord Canning's Reply to the Ellenbor
ough Dispatch.
Published by Leonard Scott & Co., New
York.
A PERFECT SIIOWOR OF ACES.—I See a
mighty funny puker game oncet on the
Massesit), a goin' up from Orleens.
There were four old coast Frenchmen, all
sugar planters, just sold thar crap and got
thar pockets full of rocks. They went it
strong, I tell ye. They'd got their backs and
tails up. Captain Whisky had got a pow
erful grip on 'em, and if they waru't a
humpin' it, "hark from the tombs."
At last they went to the bar to stretch
thar legs and wood-up; and while they were
gone I see a mischievous lookin' chap a
changitf thar papers.
"Keep shady," says he, a winkin' to us
that were standin' round the table, "and
you'll see the old boy riz directly."
Back come the old chaps, the keerds war
dealt round, and I see thar eyes a snappia',
but all a tryin' to look powerful solemn.
A "blind" war bet, and up spoke the nex
hand.
"I see ze blind, an' and four beets bettair."
"I see zat an go fife dollar."
"Twenty bettair zan you—nh, ha!"
"Sncray toenails! one hundor bettair zan
.vou."
"Oh, ginger, Fuel a shellin' out as thur
war, to be shun; and when the dimes run
dry. they drawed drafts on Orleens, and
give notes tell they'd. Let all they were
truth, and when the hand was called, ivery
man Jack slaps down four ace•, and dove
for the pile; and such a yellin' and carom'
and saekrayin' as thar war when they is
kiNered how they'd been sold.
The deck on the table were all coos, and,
as it were half deck poker they were play in'
ivory man got five aces, and thinkin' anoth
er ace had crawled iuto the pack somehow,
they all cached one, and kept - the others.
One run for his pistols; another pulls out
his knife„ and if they'd ondly diskivered
who sarvcd 'em out, timed a been a mighty
small chance for him; but they went on so
that the captain had to interfere and shut
'em up.— Sam Slick in Texas.
j3amszt VIEW OF AN AMERICAN MAGA..
ZINE.—The London Critic has a genial and
very complimentary notice of the Atlantic
Monthly, in the course of which it says:
To speak the truth, our Transatlantic
cousins are running us hard in the matter
of magazines, and bid fair soon to beat us
in them as completely as they have done in
chess-playing, yachting, and trotting horse'.
Difficult would it be fur us, even now, to
prove that we have a better magazine than
the Atlantic Monthly; nor is it so much to
be wondered at when we know that some of
the best men in America—Longfellow,
Emerson, liulmCS, Prescott, Road and
Lowell—are engaged in filling its pages.
Da- 0. W. Hoxxxs.—A writer in the Bos
ton Transcript says: "While every news
paper in this country has been full of the
Autocrat's praises, has quoted his poetry,
his puns and his epigrams, we learn that
literary men in England give him even higher
commendation. Several London journals
have alluded to these papers in high terms,
but from private sources we have more reli
able opinions. At a dinner party in Lon
don, some months ago; Thackeray spuke - of
this series of papers as among the foremost
in modern literature, adding with emphasis,
that no living Englishman could have writ.
ten them. Wilkie Collins, after alluding to
these articles, and to the new essays of
Emerson, said, that 'with such contributions,
the Atlantic need not fear competition any
where in the civilized world.' And recent
ly Charles Read°, alluding to the Atlantic
Monthly, held this language; 'The stories
are no worse than Blackwood's and Fraser's,
&c., and some of the other matter is infinite
ly beyond our monthly and trimestrial scrib
blers, being genuine in thought and English
in expression; whereas, what passes for
criticism hero is too often a mere mixture
of cuck-oo and hee-haw—a set of conven
tional phrases, turned, not in English, but
in Normal French and the jargon of the
schools. After five and twenty years of
these * * * without a spark uf thought
novelty or life among them, I turn to such
papers as the "Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table', with a sense of relief and fresh
ness.' "
DALLEY'SNIAGICAL PAIN EXTRACTOR.
In nll dicea-es inll.4Bnonnion elll,le or lees pre:Almon
inneg—now to nrniy snfLognntniioll -take, nt the rOl.l
of di-en.e—lienve on limn...lino. en r.•.
Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor,
mod nothing el-C, Will allay Inflammalion at once
and make :I certain care.
Dailey's Magical Pain Extractor
will cure the following among a great catalogue of
di-ease-: Ilurn., Scald,, Ca:4, Chafe. , , Sore Nipple..
C0rn...13111110n., litUiSe., Sprains, Bate., Potron,
(Wei, Scrofula, Ulcers, Fever Sores. Felons:,
rue Ache. P.les. Sore 1:} e-, (tout, Swelliegs. IttiCo
- ...raid 11...1,1, Salt 1111einn, 11.11.111e.5. Ery•ipt.•
ht., ItillgWollll, Barber', hell, Small Pox, Meases.
Rash, 'Le ,
To ..onte it may appear incredulous: that no many
diseases +hoard be reached by oar article; such ail
idea will vanish when reflection points to the fact,
thrit the salve is a combinttion of ingredient., cacti
and every one applying a perfect antidote to its oppo
site disorder.
Dailey's Magical Pain Extractor
in it+ ecrectr; bemuse the time in f.. 0 short
betwt.c.ti disease mid u it:auk:few cure; and it if nu
extractor, as it draw, all out of Ore alfeeted
Dart, ;caving' eater° no perfecta n•fore tau• inmi y
It I. i,enreely neeeSsery to a ry that no linii.r, work-
Of manufactory should be one moment with
out It.
No Pain Xxiraelor Is grannie unlr-. the box has
upon it it steel plate engraving. with the name of
Ilenry Dailey, Maiallneturer.
For sale b) till the Drugg,te and patent medicine
dealers througitont the Fatted States
Principal Depot,lG.s Chamber: Nco•-York.
C. F. CIIACE.
Sold by Droggo.bg to Wool bin
It \N. A !relit
HAIR DYE—DAIRDYE-lIAIR. DYE.
WM. A. BATCHELows HAIR DYE;
The Original and Best in the World!
All others are mere unit:mons, and 'hould be avoid•
ed, if you sylph to escape
Gray, Rad, or Ite.ty Hair Dyed instantly to a beau
tiful and 11:11U rid Brawn or Black, without the least
injury to Hair or Skin.
Fifteen Medals and Diplomas have been awarded
to Wm A. Batchelor since 1e39. and over pO.OOO :ap
plications have been made to the Hair of 1:14 patrons
of his farnous Dye.
Wm. A. liatelielor'.. ?lair Dye produces a color riot
lobe tbittnr,miskeil from num re, and ie warranted not
to inure iu the least, ho Never long it miry be conrin•
ued, and the ill effects of had dyes remedied, the (lair
invigorated for Life by tins Splendid Dye.
Made, mold or applied (it, 9 private rooms) at the
Wig Factory, 233 Broadway, New York.
Sold 111 all cities arid towns of the United States,
by f.ruggists and Fancy Good. Dealurs.
117 - Tin, genuine has the none and :Ware , . upon a
steel plate engraving on four sides of each box. of
W5l. A. DATCIIELOR,
Nov. t 3, '3d. 331 Broadway, New-York.
Sold by Druggists a 111 Columbia. It. Williams,
Agent:
WIGS-WIGS-WIGS
liatehelor's IVig,s !land 'l'oupeer surpass all. They
are elegant, light. enry and durable.
Fining to a charm—no turning up b eltind—no rh rink.
Mg oil the Lead; indeed. thin lo the only establishment
where there 'Mop are properly Ullder.,tood and made
Nov 233 Broadway, New Yolk.
THE GREAT ENGLISH REDIEDY.
SIR JAMES CLARKE'S
CELEBRATED FEMALE PILLS.
Prepared from a prescription of Sir J. Clarke,
M. D., Physician Extraordinary to the Queen.
This invaluable medicine in unfailing in the cure
of all those painful and dangerous diseases to which
the female constitution is subject. It moderates all
excess and removes all olistruntions, and a speedy
cure may be relied on.
TO Al MIRIED LADIES
ir is peculiarly suited. It will, in a short time, bring
on the monthly period with regularity.
• Foch bottle, price One Dollar, hears the Govern
ment is - te - htp of Great Britain. to prevent couuterfens.
CAUTION.
These Pills should not be taken by females ducal;
the IN CST Tfl DICE MONTI I ix of Pregnancy, as they
are sure to bring on mtsearrrage, lsaa at any other
lime they ere safe.
' In all eases of Nervous and j.pittal Affections
Pain in the Rack and Larilti,Patigue on slight ester.
non, Palpttarion of the Deem Hysterics lII] Whiten.
these Yrlls oral effect a cure wnen all other means
have lslled, and although a powerful remedy, do not
content iron. calomel, antimony, or anything hurtful
to the con-toution.
Fall dire-momns in the pamphlet around each pack
age, which should be carefully preserved.
dole Agent for the Untied :States and Canada,
JOll ItlOssEit,
male I. (; Daldwin k C 0..) Rochester. N. T.
N. 11.—el no and G postage stamps enclosed to any
authorized agent, will insure a bottle, containing 51.)
Pinr, by return mail.
For sale by Dr. E. B. lIERTI. Agent, for Columbia
T W. DYOTT dctsONS, Whole-sale Ageuta,Phila.
May f 29,13.7.9.
A LI. gaoling mike climate, to emigrate 10 a mi climate, gooJ
!lame. and line market, ree adverterement of !Lam
entation I.,lttels. Aug. 23 3m
wonting. 'lO emigrate. to elitnete, go.,
Asoft, a nd flue tnarkot, net 11 dVerliSCIOCIll or }I to
ionnton 1. In Gt ug.
(ilo 4).E. Wallllllg Farms, see adyerm.ement of [W m
111/1111011 Land%
f 11( ) A Lb Wall II rig I'mrms,ste udv,tiarment 01111 an,
1 trion:on [Aug 2,:ion
fro ALL wmoooz 1'..tt04, stairerti-orneot of Ihm
morfionA...ohili A e3.•tin
ALL wal1111.:2 10 ciiil,lol.• 10 a 011115 elloiale. good
ch,,, -ce .Avy,ll.rmrui
MOlllOll Laud, lAug
-----
A LL wanting to enintrnte to a fond f•lnflair, good,
a soil. and fine rearkei,..,ee advertkernent of Jialn
=mon Lands ( tug 2.4-3 n
~__
---
_ . -
A LL wanting lo ernigrnie to a mild climate. good-
A. FOil, and fine market, see wives ii , Pll,lll of linin
inontoll Lands. [A alf. 39-3 in.
rilo ALI, venni ing Farms, see adveropement of Ham
1 mouton Lentil. (A ag.Yd-9•a
ITIO AGI. wnnting Flattn.t, see advertS4e.rsient of Ho m -
A mutton f.nud..• (Aug. 29 3m
rilo ALL I.v:tiding Fsrmsome advertisement. csi Ham
I mouton Land... ug. 21,2 in
'DA R%l LANDS FOR SALE 25 miles from
phia by Railroad in the Shale of New Jersey
Soil inuring the beet fur Agrieuli oral purposes, being
a good loom soil, with n cloy bottom. The land in o
!urge tract. divided into small farms, and hundreds.
(loin all puns of the country are now settling and'
budding. The crnpc Jinn be Fenn growing Terms
fr o ,. S S to $2O per nere, payable within four year;
by 11,11.1[11..111 5 . To visit the plaice—Leave Vine st .
Wharf:it nt 7L- A. NI. by Railrond for Ilammou.
ton. or addles.; It. J. Byrnes, by letter. See lull ad,
verti-ement in another column. [Aug 23.3nt
11A RNI LANDS FOR SA LE 25 miles from Padlock!.
J 1.2 ;dna by Railroad in the Stale of New Jersey
Soil among the be.t for Agricultural purposes. being
a good town soil, with a cloy bottom, The lend is a
large tract, divided into smell farms, and hundred,
pant of the country are now settling and
building. The crops can be seen growing. Term,
from $1.5 to 5.20[1er acre, pa:.oble within for year,
by tn.tillmenas. To visit the place—Leave Vine Pt.
%%quiff ut Plata, at 71 A. AI. by Railroad for Hainntoo
toll, or addre-.. R J. Byrnes, by letter. Sec full ad
verti,enient in another column. [Aug 2d-3m
rIIIIM lIAMMONTON FARMER, u new‘priper
L v0:..41 to LPeruture and Agrteuhure, Rho .etling
forth full necounnt of the lIONV mettlernent of lfuncrion.
ton, in New Jerney, cuu be rubscribed for at only 2.;
et. per
Inclose postage stamps for the amount. Address to.
Edi.or of the Fanner, 11 anlmollloll. A ilaniie Co, New
Jersey. Those wishing eheap land, ofihelest quality,
in one of the healthiest a nA mo-t delightful climates to
the Llaion. advertisement of lianinfonton Lands.
A ugu-t
LET'Sce advertisement of Dr. Sattford's LIVER I
VIGOIIATOR.IIIIIIIOther column.
May '.12,1t5d.
A 1 ,1 • wants ig to emigrate in a fluid rims te rood
toll. and fine market^CC advet lineMclll of /la hi
lantana Lurid,. 23•Ztin
rpliE lIANINIONTON I A RAIRIL, a newPpnper de
vonell to Liter:time. a nd Agriculture, ulna
forth full account. of lb, new sett/Talent of fiammoa
too, in New Jer.wy, Clill be EuWeribed for at only 95
ci-• }er Ullll.ll.
Iiielo•o po•toge clamps far the amount. Adtlre.., to
Editor of the Farmer. Hammonton, A tiontie Co, New
Jor-ey Thole otioup Lot, of ihe 1,41 quoloy
in one of the Itettititiei,t and too• 1 delightful etiolates
IIIII).• lineiort, see advertteesount of linnononton Lunde.
A tigo•t itm
WHAT THEY SAY IN SOUTH CAROLINA,
Abbeville, S. C., Aug. 21,105 a.
Herring &Cu , Philadelphia.
Ceutletnei,—The close attention which our own
ve 0,1111001 1 .100 1 lira fire, has hitherto pre
% ea it tl u. Gmu Writing I.ou about the Safe.
tin oee.i.oin of 1101 fire 19111 or July, by which .r
sufle red 11 11Irge Errs, 000 1.101,1, WIIII u IlUlliber of
what was reauntned. 'rile Safe, of your
outtitifaetii re, Willeh We 111111 10 111C 1, 100. 1 .wat expo -C4l
111 a 01.,.1 1111011'V 11031. on Is Weil UllOOOlll by el
feel on strong it oil Name, whieli, front Ito ttat.ett
000 .coly f.ppf, Mill,. 1001:5 110 though it had Levis
iu•ated for .1 Im,c 111,10 111 a fur:Jape. 1110 Safe. with
1101111.0 f n 1 .11e11 g keg% of 11311., fti.t•it into an
1011 'fit, eellar, rounded try 101011101! 01111-
.0101, .I 00 110 r: ‘v.o. ...tith•reJ to remain. lat 1110
lent- loosed befnle the fire reached 11s4
until the 9hl of tl_l3-t. 14 day , afterwarth.
lidifettlf!. 111 0111111ig II 01001 \lila 1110 he., toads
that conk] it, 1.11.1 urn 11 1001111110011 11c of powcr to
0-1-t loh•niiii, of burglar,, and when to„,,i.
11f. oh_.!.,e 1;00111 the 1010 000, 10 1110 11.101111111110111 of
1111.011110 IV 111110211 red Ivy fi cc
Tlll- te.t ha- .0 ltdly convinced toff of the enraibili
tie- of 3011 r 511(0 11 , 11101 ire ATOIIIII not part with the
one we have tit tti e for st lame ruin, Were wedeblo,oll
Lae pre el lege of getting another. It e-peCIrIIIIV 7011 rs.
It 11. WA ItDLAW Sr. SON.
FARREL, ILERRING & CO,
130 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Orly Nlnkels in iltia Strtle. or
oEuraiNG's PATENT CHAMPION SAFE,
Tile 1110.0 re!, ride .c cmcurry awn fire now knOwn.
Ocuiloer 111. 1:5--2sn
iu lllLltnnore, on Friday. November :2611, nomuNct:
OLIvEg. danyiner of k% ollarn and Margunl Brown,
aged 2 3 ear, and I I mow Lx.
COPARTNERSHIP.
THE undorsig ed has this day asocialvd with
Imo t•I Ihr 1 u.... 31.61 I:timn
Ili , Ihe All bereft/Let b, eonalucieS
under he firill nrCne it, n...
111. •11111., llik. ila• (ar
ii .apaiat avd•orded lam and s.L. fur
votatati.llls,TO ~, rn i „
Colllllo.la, I), /. I, 1 . 75 i SAM'I. CA wrim.
'I'LL nil
scriber. uticulion to ih , ir establi.ll
, or 111. 11 1,1111 1 t ,,„, 1 , of
CARRIAGES, COACHES, WAGONS, &e.,
no•arly oppo.iir l.ruhernu•
Church, Colntnn,nn, P.i.. wlnn.re iln,v I any oil
nine, I.il-intr•%. ill al/ is brunches. The patronage of
the• puntir n.
Dee. 4, - 53. CARTER & BECEZE3
IEIX3=I
LADIES' OYSTER SALOON.
ii n w Er t7ll7 E N ll ' i lt d ol ti n til, e r t o
M ort h l e lf,
t4ali.he Los opened h., t.titooott for the sale of •
OYSTERS, &c.,
• •
which she will aerve in all the various styles. Star
would ask a COUllittlilllee. Cl thr Pubttc favor beatnwed
nn her Ire Cream Salamis during the past summer,
a“uring her eu.tonirrB that tie pains will be span d
to •err a 01,11 in good style wits such ref:eslinients
as the season afford, [Dee. 4, '5B 3t
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
LETTERS Testamentary on the estate of
Jioltn M. Conl.llll. Ilee'd.l.ll,llg hcen grunted to
to the under , ottned, milt perca ns s.ltesving Theo..lves
indebted to e•tute are rya ise,ted to mid, payment
011 or before the FIRST I/AY OF JANUARY, 1E59,
111111 per.rots !mint% deans wit/ pleus.e preerot them
for settlement, to
HENRY CONKLIN, Executor
December 4, 155r,31
FOR SALE OR RENT.,
THE subscriber offers for Sale or Rent the
COllll[lollloo - three•ato ry•
BRICK HOTEL,
now occupied by htmaelf, and known as the
Ante ric.ta Ileu.te. Front litre et. Columl.m. PM. The
aiitial ion ii a good one, and the eland well cmabli•licti.
The basement to conveniently fitted up as a Restaur
ant. I'o•eeclnn given immediately.
Dec. 4, teSSAI JACOB Td. WALL.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
VIE undersigned, Auditor appointed by
the Court of COMIIIOII Plena of Lancaster county,
to distrabute the funds In the hands of Thomas Lloyd,
As.iguee of the Columbia 'Muter Company, to and
among the ereattore, wall meet for the perpom of his
mmointment, al the office of Col. J. W. Fisher. on
TI.; ESL/AA - 01m Si:lh day oflideeernher next, at 10 o'r roc k
A. M. (31:011(jE WILFORD.
Columbio, December 4. lf , Sti-4t
The Ouil y Evening Exptess insert 3 times and send
bill to the Auditor.
rn Irr. Stockholders of the Odd Fellow' Awn
-1 elation. will meet at the tali, on SATURDAY.
DECK:MUER :15, I s.se, between ilia lt,oar4 of; and s
o'clock P . . 1 ,4, for tl.e purpose of electing siren Tot,-
Esc retary.
ter ;:lareleia, December 4. 19.56-te
Goods for the Holidays.
reCri ved .t large o..onment of Fruit. Co•tdre.a
a Toy.. &c., Ac , whirls will be sold, wholesale and
retail, very low.
A it RAMBO,
Fomily Grocery Store, Odd Fe lll "ve Han.
Columbia. Dee. •4. lo:Pr
Sweet Cider.
Twin: Sweel Cider; alto Illuiced Meat, furl re
.L cetved,al. . _ •
A.M. RAMBO'S
Fnmily OrArerr, Odd Fellows' Hull, Colombia
J)ece•mber 4,
English and American Pickles.
VETCH UPS, rich rimp'. GMatiste, New
Li: Crop Oranget; and Lemon,.
A. NT 11.ANIDO.
rpmity Grocery Store, Odd FeUms Hall.
CoMmbia, Deeember 4, IBs'.
Orgenial Letermive. ,upP.
HOUSEKEEPERS Attention! Money, time
I_l and labor sound. In using ii clothes requite Ito
boiling or rubbing or wash-hoard One pound will go
as fur As tone pounds of common resid soap. {Var.
Mined to give perfect sutisisictmax 11011.7. y Tenand.'d
It bus proved itself deenfetily the cheapest and best
washing soap seer otTered to 11101,1.014. We
guaralttee
butt 0 will 001 injure clothes us the least.
:11anufactured o.fy by Vim Haagen & btcgeone.—
For .ale by all respectable grocers its the say, and
wholesale only by
710,1-17 J bkcEo l
No t' South Whoever, between Merkel and Chesnut
street, Philadelploa. !Dm 4,
C!'
`l .— r Zr', c,
NOTICE!,