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ABLE Ilfisitrxit, of Rending, Pa., is an assistant at this Hotel, and will be glad to see his friends at all times. - ectlo-tfw ca 001.CT.INENTAL.," THIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED, between the Stations of the Reading anti Colum bia, and Pennsylvania Railroads, ... - :-X 7 RONW. STREET, COLUMBLA,..I"A„ Ampte acecnilinbaations for Straii - Ois and Tr w elers. The Bar iht r tociced with CHOICE LIQUORS, And the Tables furnished with the best fare. URIA.II P.D.:DLEY, Columbia, April 20, 1807.) Proprietor. J_ l LOCUST ST., HO COLUMBIA, PA. This is a first-class hotel, and is in every respect .t<lapted to meet the wishes and 4esires of the traveling public. g.UCTIN ERWIN% Propri et 0 r, FRENCEI'S HOTEL, On the I7,ziropeun Plan, opposite City Hall Park Sew Yorlc. 11. FRENCH, Sept. 19, 180.4. Proprietor. MISHLER'S HOTEL West Market Square, Reading Itenu'n. L'VAN MISHLI•:K, MALTBY . HOUSE, BALTIMORE This hotel has been lately refitted with all the necessary' Improvements known to hotel enter prise and therefore otters first-class accommoda tions to strangers and others visiting Banimore. A. It. 3f I7.LEtt. Proprietor. BD'UCATIO.NAL, I El 3 YON VALLEY COLLEGE ,LL TEFtM COMMENCES AUGUST 3. 1.4115. This institution aims to educate youth of both axes i n all the solid or ornamental branches. Its °dicers hold that students should be trained with a view to the sphere of life they are to oc cupy, and to occornplish this object. the follow ing courses of study have been adopted : 1. A Classical coarse. .A Blblimi course. L A La.dies' course. 4. A Scientific course. ;5. A Teacher's course. i. An Ornamental course. A Commercial course. .. A Cinunmertichool course. Three CUM'S, are Tircatoucla. COMPREHEN SIVE and COMPLETE is thenoelves We invite all who have children or wards to educate, to visit this School before sending else where. it presents many ,sdvantages, annong which are Thoroaglt and practical instruction. 2nd. Accommodations not excelled elNewhere. "rd- 20 per cent. less In co,t, than other sehoults of equal grade. ZorfoUm awl fashion are not part of our pro; graine. \Ve aim it refinement. hut a refinement xpringing from a good heart and a cu//irated Intel eel. For Cat.q.logues or further partiernursoutdreAs T. 11.. VICKROY, A. Annvllle, Lebanon County, Pa. in.ly f. MAIIBLX a-anics. I A\ CASTER MARBLE 'WORKS, LEWIS HALDY, Proprietor. All persons in wailt of anything In the Marble [toe, will be furnished at the very lowest prices. Only the best workmen are employed, conse quently we are enable to turn out in a superior 111;l1Iller MONUMENTS., STATUARY, TOMBSTONES, ORNA3tE:siTs. MARBLE MANTLES, BUILDING FRONTS, SILLS, And Marble Work of every description. frj - Ordsrs promptly attended to LEWIS TIALDY, May 4,T:0 Lancaster City, Pa. CEIA.RLES M. HOWELL, MARBLE MASON, _ NO. 66 NORTH. QUEEN STREET, EAST SIDE. 'rho Oldest Marble Works in LancastePeounty. Thankful fur the liberal patronage heretofore nestowed upon hint, he respectfully: soliclt_A continuance of the same. Ile has on hand the largest, most varied and complete stock of finished MONUMENTS. MANTLES. andTOES, &c., to he found in the city, which will be sold at the lowest prices. huliding work. and :lobbing of every description punctually* attended to. Persons in want of Monuments, Mantles, or Grave Stones, are Invited to call and examine the stock on hand, also the portfolios of designs. June L-tf7 LADIES' FANCY FURS AT JOHN F.A.REIRA'S Old Established ELM, 3fanufactory, NO. iIS ARCH STREET, above 7th, PIIILADELPITIA. have now In Store of my own Importation and 'Manufacture, out of the Largest and most beautiful boteetlons of FANCY FURS, for Ladies' and Children's Veer, In the City. Also, a tine assortment of Gents' Fur Gloves and Collars. I ant enabled to dispose of my goods at very reasonable prices, and I would therefore solicit a tad from my friends of Lantaister county and vicinity. aTieltemernber the Name, N umber and Street! JOIIN FAREIRA, 718 Arch St.. ail. 7th, South side, rhllad'a. 431 have 00 Partner, nor Connection with any other Store in Phtladelphin. [4:lct2-tfvr: T C. BUCHER, Wines and Liquors Eras removed his Store to lila Building, adjoining EMI HERB BITTERS These. Bitters arc celebrated for the great cures they have performed In every case, when tried. Dr. INfisider oL'ers five hundred dollars to the pro prietor of any Medicine that can show a greater number of genuine certificates of cures effected by it, near the place where it is made, than Is fat axle in Columbia by Catawba, COGNAC, OF DIFFERENT BRANDS BEttekborrl .NIARI".T. ND 31 ALT AND CIDEE VINEGAR POCKET FLASKS. and FANCY ARTICLES, in great variety, MISHLER'S BITTERS! BEST STOUT PORTER! ion E. tkc G. ITIBBERT, LONDO2,;" Quartot be purcilase4l at any other eatablish- meat Su town, and Is warrautba to keep fruits and vegetables perfect. The Beet Brawls of Imported SCOTCH AND LONDON ALE TO SMOKERS AND CIIEN7RS SMOKI:s.TG _AND el -MIMING TOBACCO, SNUFF, HAVANA, YARA, and COMMON SEGAILS. 'Also, SNUFF & TOBACCO BOXES, PIPES—a thousand and one varieties. Cull at J. C. 111/CIIEWS, Loeust Street, adjoining Haldeman's Store. It-la the greatest establishment of the kind tbla aide of Pktladelphia. •Onii Agency Ihr Lee'a London Porter. and 2dlartler's • ' • •= • •• - •- • , • , „ „ • • - 4?-r. , • Th• 1•' . 4 1., , • '" • : • irn : -yr.; s^:" • . . . . • , 1 -7 rz;. „ liatto :to 4gParsrarra Arui Wholesale and Retail Dealer In FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Ifalclemau.'s Store, Locust St., Columbia, Pa., Where he has fitted up rooms, and greatly increased his facilities for doing a more extensive business MISIMER'S CELEBRATED PURE AND UNADULTERATED, 3.f1 - SHLER'S BERB BITTERS MISEILER'S lIER.B BITTERS J. C. BUCHER, At his ,tore, Locust Street, Columbia. WINES AND LIQUORS! Erebreeluz, the following Fort, Lisbon, CI err), 311de ia, Malaga, Chnnipagile, Claret, Rhine, Currant tnd Muucat WINES Also, OLD BYE WHISREY and 'BRANDTES of all kindsv Catawba Cherry MEM Superior Oh! Rye, Pure 01,1 Rye, XIC.X 01(1 Rye, XX Ohl Eye X Old Rye, Pure 013 Rye, Niduoruptheln, Itectßled Whlhky,London Brown Stout Scotch Me, ac., Sc., Sce. A ENCY FOR Ile ie ulso Agent for tile Celebrated MISITLER'S HEII3 BITTERS FOR SA LE DF.I , 4I.IOELICS, TOBACCO BOXES, At J. C. lIISCirEW% PURE S UN A.DULTERA.TED For Sale by J. C. BUCHER. Cur sal«. b S. C. 131.TCIIEE, Locust Street, above Front Agent for tho PURE MALT VINEGAR For Sale at S. C. BUCHER. 8 BUCHER will stilt keep on hand the Best Brands of COLUMBIA, lAA., SATT3II,I)OA - 1 7 MARCH 27, 1869. The IVorld itself keeps Easter Day. The world itself keeps Easter Day, And Easter larks are singing, And Easter flowers are blooming gay, And Easter buds aro springing. The Lord of all things lives anew, And all his works are rising, too. Allelujah Allelujah 1 Allelojah ! Praise the Lord. There stood three Marys by the tomb, On Easter morning early ; When day had scarcely chas'a the gloom And dew was white and pearly, . With loving but with erring mind, They came the Prince of Life to find. Allelujah &c. But earlier still the Angel sped, His words comfort giving; "And why," ho said, "among the dead, Thus seek ye for the living?" The risen Jesus lives again, To save the souls of sinful men. Allelujah ! The world itself keeps Easter Day, And Easter larks arc singing; And Easter tlewers are blooming gay, And Easter buds are springing: The Lord is risen, as all things tell, Good Christians see ye rise as well. Allelujah ! risrAzlrtueAu gtadiag RED KNIFE; KIT CARSON'S LAST TRAIL AUTUOR OF "TUE WAGON TRAIN'," "rug wiren FINDER," "TUE WATER ETC,, ore. Towards the close of a beautiful day in June, ISG",", a man and woman, mounted on fleet horses, cattle galloping over one of the great plains of the West, and drew rein in the shade of a clump of cotton-woods upon the bank of a beautiful river. They had ridden far and rapidly. Their steeds were panting, and covered with sweat and foam. "We must give the horses n breathing spell," said the former, slipping to the ground; and his companion nodded a graceful absent, as sho followed his exam ple. Tlie couple were evidently father and MEME2 The man teas iu the prime of life, hail and hearty, with a large frame, which wsas sinewy and athletic, without ceasing to be refined and prepossessing. He had the keen, shrewd look peculiar to the advance guards of civilization, and there was an honest, frank expression on the sun-brown ed face that proclaimed his integrity and cou rage. In her way, his daughter was equally picturesque and attractive. In the early flush of womanhood, with a pure, sweet, and tender face, with eyes darkly glowing, with coral-tinted lips, and cheeps softly flushed with the hue of the rose, with amber curls floating behind her, she was as graceful as a gazelle, as light hearted as a bird, as lovely as a dower, and as spirited as an untainted antelope. The stream by which the company had Blackberry, Elderberry, halted -Wood, .hraftedt 0f,..th0 Platte, in Nebraska, at a point fifty miles northwest of Fort Kearny. "Are you tired, Miriam?" asked the hunter, George Dane, with fatherly soliqi tude. lamalea Spirits, .lEuramol Giuger, "Tired, father?" rejoined the maiden, with a happy laugh. "Oh, no. 'Tow could I be tired after a day like ? Every minute has been tilled with pleasure and excitement. I feel as fresh as yonder bird." The father smiled understandingly, with a look full of the fondest affection. "I can guess the cause of your lightness of heart," said he, smilingly. "The return, now daily expected, of a certain Hubert Earle, from the mines of Idaho, may ac count, I suspect, for your present glad- 1/21311 A. heightened color appeared ell :Iliriatu's face, for tho name mentioned was that of her lover. She answered the glances of her father, however, with a frankness that at tested his entire sympathy with her, and said "Prue, hither, my heart has been nutisti ny light ibr several days past. flow could it be otherwise, since I know that Mutton, is coming?" Mr. Dame did not reply. lie was looking with kindling eyes, ever the fair flower dotted plain ; and his next remark showed how widely his thoughts had strayed. "I wonder what another has been doing without us day, Miriam. She must bo lonely, with no one to speak to or share her meats. I shouldn't wonder if we could see our home from this point," and his thee lighted up with a soulful glow. "Our cot tage is not more than seven miles distant ; let me see ?" He drew from his coat n poet:et-glass, ad justed it to his sight, pointing it in a North erly direction, and gazed through it long and earnestly, towards his rancho. on Car rev's Fork. "Yes, T see it," lie said, at last, with a long, deep, and joyful inspiration, as if the sight refreshed him in every nerve. "There is our cottage, as plain as day. I can even see the vines you planted before the win dows, Miriam. -tnd there, on the grape vine bench, under the big elm, sits your mother, busy at her sewing. Bless her! She does not imagine we arc looking at her. Look, Miriam Ile yielded the instrument to liis daugh ter, who obeyed his induction, her lovely face glowing with smiles as she regarded the distant home-seene. "Dear mother!" she murmured. "It is a treat to her to be able to sit out under the trees without fear of molestation. There are no hostile Indians hereabouts now—are there, father 7" "No. Red Knife, as you have already heard, was killed yesterday by a settler, and his band has retreated towards the mountains, I.lvtll confess, Miriam, that during all the time we have been in the West, I have not felt so light-hearted and carefree as since we received news of Red Knife's death. You have jest seen how this joy bubbles over in use. Red Knife was a demon, rather than a savage." Miriam shuddered, and her fetal-Web even paled at the memory of the Indian men tioned. "He never spared a pule face," she said, striving to speak calmly. "Desolation and cruelty marked his path. For more than three years he has raged to and fro upon the plains like a ravening wolf. lie was the terror of the border." "You have named him appropriately, Mirlarn,"said the hunt er. "lle had a fiend ish hatred of the white race, and his vic tims have been many," Mr. Dane hold out his band for the glass, and Miriam was in the act of restoring it, when a strange, gasping, panting sound startled them both, and sent them quickly to their saddles. The hunter wheeled his horse and looked down upon the river bank, from which di rection the sound had come, his manner self-possessed, but his countenance indi- Cativo of alarm. The maiden followed his example. setcrttll Fe,oetrg. BY LEON LEWIS, C:IAPTI.B 1. A LIFE GLORIOUSLY STARED "NO ENTEI?.TAINKENT SO °REAP AS BEADING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." Her eyes were the first to discover the cause of the sound that had startled them, detecting a man's figure creeping along through the undergrowth of bushes lining the shore. At the sunk moment their presence in turn avers detected, for the man dropped suddenly among the protecting hushes, as if he had been shot. "An Indian?" whispered Miriam, draw- lug from her bosom a revolver- The hunter shook his head, continuing to watch the spot at which the man had fallen,his hand on his rifle, his manner that of one ready for action. Suddenly, as the man showed a haggard face peering cautiously from his conceal ment, Mr. Dane's anxious countenance broke into a smile, and ho cried out: ! Is that you Thompson ? Do you take us for Indians, that you skulk there in the bushes?" The individual addressed was silent a few minutes, as it seemed, from sheer amazement; then he sprang out from his hiding place with a cry of relief, and ad vanced swiftly towards the father and daughter. Ho was a man of middle age, of the ordi nary type of backwoodsmen, strong and brown and stalwart, of the rude, rough typo that seems to belong to the border. Ills face was haggard and white, although covered with perspiration. his breath came through his parted lips in quick, un even gasps. Be had run far and swiftly, and looked as if about to drop from fatigue. "What has happened, Thompson?" asked Dane, with keen anxiety, the man's singu lar appearance giving him a sudden shock of alarm. "The Indians !" gasped Thompsomscaree ly able to command his voice. "They aro coining! Red. Rnife and his band—di vided—my wife—my children ! Help toe! Help me!" "What talk is this?" cried Dane, agitated in spite of his efforts at self-control. "Red Knife was killed yesterday—" "He was only wounded," interrupted Thompson. "He is coining to take his rengence on the settlers. He has divided his baud into two. They were up at the Deer Fork this morning, and arc now com ing this way. The points to be struck are your house and mine." ''My God !" ejaculated Dane, as his in formant paused in his excited, breathless narration. "A horse! s horse!" cried Thompson, reeling with fatigue. "I cnn go no further on foot. My wife, my children-60d pity and SALVQ them !C' Ire looked front the hunter to his (laugh er in agonized and mute supplication. Dane snatched the glass from Miriam' s hands and placed it to his eyes. He looked to the northward—saw his pretty cottage, his wife busy at her needle under the trees—and glanced at the dim line of the horizon stretching away east- Ward and westward from his house. Suddenly the glass dropped front his hauds—his face blanched to the hue of snow. From the west, seeming to emerge from the clouds of scarlet and gold, he bad be held a band of mounted Indians riding boldly towards that unprotected borne, to wards that unconscious and helpless woman. With a frenzied cry, he put spurs to his horse, and dashed away like a madman, shouting to his daughter to follow him ; at the same instant Thompson staggered for ward and fell in the maiden's path, holding up his hands iii anguish. "My my children !" he groaned. There was no hesitation in the soul, of the brave Al " Mine is bate single life ; he "has seven depending on him," she said, aloud. As she spoke, she leaped from her saddle, and, with a gesture, commanded him to take her place. " But—your danger," faltered Thompson. " The Indians—" Miriam again pointed to the saddle. "Go," she commanded. "Think only of your fluidly, and be gone !" Still Thompson hesitated, sweeping the horizon with eager glances, to assure him self that no immediate danger threatened. A change came over his face as he looked, and lie uttered a wild cry, catching up the glass Mr. Dane had let fall, and loOking through it. The sight he behold convulsed him with terror. Not. a ulna avail, to the West, be say.' coining over.,a ridge in the plain, and ap• proaching rapidly, a considerable body of mounted savages. " They're coming—a baud of red-,Liu,— directly towards Its !" ho gasped. 10A I , ly, while you have the time!" The maiden took the glass and bayed through it an instant at the approaching foe. A strange light appeared in her eyes --a light possessed only by those 'Ton Wilolll God has bestowed a conhCiqUYlle,S of his great protection —the light of a heroism which.death itself cannot master. "Sore enough," she murmured. "They are cooling. The leader is Rua t;o. neighbor t nompson—on the instant," " can ride together !" cried Thump- '• No ! The horse is tired. We have been to Willow - Island. should be over taken before \ Ve had gone two miles. "Then n•e•ll die together!" "Yo! 1101 You must mount I'' With a fP:fasP so-udder and firm that it startled him, the maiden pushed him to wards the horse, and in another instant he found himself, more by itiNtiact than Ly thought, seated in the saddle. " laway, Sell at r' cried Miriam to her steed, with an imperative gesture. 'Away r The horse broke furiously over the plain, giving Thompson only time enough to flash a look of gratitude towards the maiden, as be dashed away to the northeast, towards Lis menaced home. A. moment later, Mr. Dane looked over his shoulder—took in at a glance the situa tion of affairs, recognising the peril as well as the heroism of his child—bowed his head solemnly, as one submits to the inevitable, in approbation of her conduct, and then he s~eept on to the rescue of his wife, his soul torn by snob emotions as are seldom brought, to battle together, And Miriam, throwing herself fiat upon the ground, remained alone upon the plain, in the very path of a score of mounted.ln dittos, who were galloping towards her with the lilliftness of the wind, CHAPTER II A. CURIOUS' ANA STARTLINO MYHTEICY Skirting the Black Hills, forty miler. west of Fort Laramie, u party of horsemen were riding eastward. They had left Fort Bridget eight days before, taking the route of the North Platte, and were now following the Oregon emi grant road, among those long ridges, dry beds of rivers, and sterile plains, by Nalich the region of the Black Bills is di,tin guished. Tint bulk of the party consisted of ten cavalrymen, under a lieutenant, who were returning to Fort Laramie, their post of duty. They were w ell mounted, and had several led horses in their train,loaded with thou!. provisions and appurtenances of travel The balance of the party comprised three civilians, who had seized the opportunity of crossing the mountains under military es cort. Two of these were emigrants who bad settled near Fort Bridger;but who had tired of the great solitude, or been frighten ed by the Indians, and were now returning eastward in search of holhes nearer the haunts of civilization. The third civilian was Hubert Earle, the lover of Miriam Dane, the settler's daugh ter, whom wo have just left in such deadly peril. tie was; a splendid specimen of American manhood, magnificently formed, broad shouldered, deep chested, as vigorous as an athlete, and rode his horse, a fiery Mexican steed, with the grace and ease of a Cen taur, At the moment of his introduction to the reader, he was riding in the rear of the little train, busy with his own reflections, which were evidently as bright as the morning it self—the forenoon preceding the events we have recorded. His thoughts were wrapt in the sweet memory of Miriam, who had wept so bit terly at his departure, and who, he expect ed, would smile sojoyously at his return. "The dear little soul," he murmured, aloud. " Where is she now ?" Ills eyes darkened with tender sweet ness, his lips quivered with the ineffable love that flooded his being with a happi ness akin to pain. Ho pictured their meet ing, the years they would spend in each other's society, the tender mutual love and care that would bless all their coming days. He laud left her a poor adventurer, to seek his fortune among the mines of Idaho. He was returning to her a more than moder ately rich man, with bills of exchange in Iris chamois money-belt of sufficient value to support them both in luxury as long as they might live. It NY11:1 , riot to be wondered at that his thoughts were pleasant. • Suddenly ire was aroused from his trance like silence, by cries of delight from his companions, and by the fact that they had checked their speed. Looking around him quickly, he beheld the cause of the unusual excitement. To the southward, at no great distance, a small herd of buffaloes were grazing lazily, seem ingly not at all alarmed by the near pres ence of a formidable enemy. The wind was blowing from thorn, the horses were fresh, and as be looked at the tempting garlic, Hubert felt the spirit of the Minter grow strong within him. Giving rein to his horse, he galloped along the line to speak to the lieutenant, but was tom half way by that officer, whose sparkling eyes and eager demeanor attest ed to a kindling of Ninirod-like zeal. - " What do you say to an hour's sport, Mr. Earle?" shouted the lieutenant, as he bore down upon his friend, for Hubert was a decided favorite with every member of the party. "I think it would be a downright shame to turn our backs on such splendid game," was the quick response. " Who could oat a dinner of salt pork, with those fat buffa loes near us?" Tile lieutenant smiled, glanced up and down the line, reading eager longing in the M en, MitrresOlved to eairrs"=Otit his own and the general desire. Ato a word of command from him, the party set out at a quick gallop for the SCCUO 018C/1011. Tice buffaloes allowed the onemy to ap proach quite near, the wind favoring - the hunters; but at length began to snuff the air uneasily, to shake their heads, and to look for the cause of their apprehensions. A moment toter they had beheld the enemy, and, with frightful bellowings and mighty tramp, had begun their wild flight to the southward, The chase was a long one; and It was not till the hunters had run the buffaloes upon aspur of the Black Trills that they got a good chance at them. They then brought down several p 1 map young buffaloes, and dinner speedily became the watchword. "It is neon, and we'll have dinner," said the lieutenant, observing that the baggage animals With their drivers were approach ing. " Kindle a tire, boys, and we'll have steaks and roasts in abundance." 'While this order was being carried into °llea, Hubert and several others were en gaged in surveying tho scene. "A lonely and desolate spat, "said Hubert, thoughtfully. "It looks as if had never before visited it." "And no wonder," returned lirvdgos, "sieve it's five miles off the route. What could any man want here, tintless he :night be in pursuit of buffaloes?" There being no nix user to this question. Ift: bort proceeded to find tin exeellent gra zing spot for his horse, tethered hint, thing himself on the ground in the shadow of the hill. The lieutenant and a portion of 1110 men followed his example. Plenty of low bushes were found dry enough to burn, and several fires were soon kindled. The clod:nest portions of the buffa loes were readily prepared for cooking, and it was not long before the otter of burning flesh was diffused on the air ; tour or live hungry soldiers serving as cooks. It was a wild picnic scene on those lonely wilds, and every mats there enjoyed it, with truegipsy zest. S tuldenly a shout ffoin once,' the men who were strolling around, arrested the attention aline others. " Idaho, boys!" he eriod,"l'nt blest if here isn't a cave in the hill ! Come, see the hole under these bushes. Yon never saw any thing neater in your lives," "Jones thinks nobody ever saw a cave before," said one of the lou ingots. " Fur toy part, I think more of something to eat, than era bole in the ground." This sentiment was echoed by the others, but the inquisitu cave discoveror, nothing daunted, approached the tire, took from it a torch, returned to the butte, parted the bushes, revealing a dark aperature in the face of the rock, and disappeared within it, his light giving hack a yellow glare for a second after be had ceased to lie seen. The camp revelry Went on, the cooking progressed, the minutes passed, and Junes did not reappear. " If that fellow had found a gold mine in there he wouldn't call one of us," growled the lounger who had before spoken. "I wonder what Jones has found. I'll jest take a look, as dinner isn't ready." Ile ruse lazily, abstracted a stick of burn ing weld for a torch, proceeded to the cav ern entrance, and disappeared from view. " Probably," said Hubert, " there's it rarge cavern under that bill. If we had time, it might pay to explore It. Under the present circumstances, I am like Brown, and prefer my dinner to scientific explorations." The tneal seemed to be nearly ready, for the rattling of tin cups and dishes began to be board; the lieutenant's small camp-chest was unpacked, and the cooks shouted to the strollers to come to dinner. "have Jones and . Brown came back ?" asked the lieutenant, us he rose to a sitting position, and glanced towtuds the cavern. The men replied In the negative. "Co after them then,King, and hurry them up." sold the °Meer. "We must resume the march alter dinner, ind cannot afford to waste time here." King, a fine young soldier, took a torch, and entered the cave. The dinner was dealt out—hot savory steaks and roasts—the coffee measured, and the meal commenced, but none of the men who Lad entered the cave made their appear ance " liovv singular t" ejaculated I3rydges, tes tily and impatiently. " What can keep those men? King has been gone ten min utes. here, Sergeant Halsey, hurry those men up!" The sergeant, a brown, strong nun of middle age, hesitated, and ventured to stammer : "I beg your pardon, lieutenant, but I think there's something wrong inside the cave. There's three men in there—all hun gry and knowing that dinner's ready. Surely they'd come back if they could. Perhaps there's wild beasts,or some strange kind of gas that smothers 'cm, •or---" "Nonsense, Sergeant!" interrupted the lieutenant, frowning. "I give you five minutes to bring those men hack. Go !" The sergeant's face paled, but, without another word, he took up a torch and en tered the cave, disappearing from the gaze of his friends. The minutes passed, We lieutenant and the men ate their dinner mechanically, awaiting anxiously the expected return; yet none of the four came back. The words of the sergeant had Made a deep impression on the minds of his hear ers. A general gloom fell upon the camp, and the men cast frequent and fearful glances in the direction of the‘cavern. Even the lieutenant and Hubert felt a strange de pression creeping over them, which neither could resist. What cau be the !natter?" at length de manded the officer. "The sergeant's iii trouble, I should judge, by this long ab sence. There can't be gas in the cave, or if so, he would probably have had time to cry out. There can't be wild beasts, fur those four men were all well armed, and would at least have fired. 'Which of all yen men will go into the cave and learn what the mutter is?" Then) was a general shrinking back. livery soldier was brave in an Indian light, but not one dared to face a mysterious and unknown danger. Not ono wished to risk the complete and total disappearance from earth and human knowledge that hail be fallen his comrades. " Whoever will venture in search of the missing men shall receive from me a hun dred dollars in.gold !" exclaimed Hubert, in his clear, ringing tones. " Who speaks first for the money?" The offer was tempting; but it was not accepted. Not a word of reply was made to Hubert hesitated, gave a brief thought to Miriam, his loved and waiting Miriam ! His face then glowed with a heroic light, and he said, in tones that did not falter: " I will go in search of the men, Lieuten ant Brydges. Only, your party is now small, and if I do not return in twenty minutes, you may resume your journey." " But Earle," expostulated the lieuten ant, this is positive madness, You must not risk your life. We will wait a while, atkr-it-the , tnen do not retiiin",t.we.will_move on!" "Thep may need help, replied Hubert, steadily. "They may have erlCOUnteted— well, God knows what, I can't itnagine. If I fail to return within the time appointed, ZEE= Ile went up to the nearest tire, picked up a blazing stick, arranged his rifle for instant use, approached the mouth of the cave, peered into it cautiously, and listened in tently forsome sound of life within. No sound came. All was as still as death within the cavern. Tho next instant Ilubert had vanished ELME All was now breathless suspense. Thu lieutenant and his men gathered around to listen to the report of the ride. The minutes passed, but it cattle not. Five minutes dragged by—ten—fifteen, and still no sound reached their ears. They could see a brief space into the cavern, by the light of their own torches, but nothing but rocky walls and floor met their gaze. Twenty minutes were thus passed. The time was up, and Hubert lied not returned. The men looked at one another with pallid faces. As if turned to stone, they stood an awe-stricken group about the cavern's mouth, until time minutes had more than made up an hour—and still they lingered. During this time they had cleared away the bushes from the mouth of the cave. They had tried again and again to peer into the dark depths of the opening, but, could not. The lioutenaut.ad called repeatedly to Hubert, but received no answer. At length he proposed to tie a rope around his waist and descend into the sinister abyss, but his mon objected unanimously. "'What's the user' asked one, Something here that no mortal man can conquer "Wu can't risk your Hie, lieutenant," said another. "Just think how liw there are of as." The time continued to drag on At last, when two boors had passed, Itrydges staggered to his feet, and entil "This is horrible—terrible beyond ex -IYrvssior,l We have lost four of our com rades mid this noble yOunt; stranger, whom I loved as a brother. This fearful cave must hold the secret of their fate, be it what it may. Let us go." 'Without a word, but with white faces—in a sort of mute terror, the men mounted their horses and resumed their journey. The above is all of this story that will be pub lished in our columns. The continuation of it from where it leaves otr hero can be found only in the New York Ledger, which is for sale at all the bookstores and news depots. Ask for the number dated .Ipril 10, I.BOS, and in it you will find the continua tion of this beautiful tale. The Lodger is mailed to subscribers at three dollars a year. The publication Rev. Dr. Tyng's groat story which lies been written expressly for the Ledger, is just commenced in the Ledger, so that our readers Will get the whole of these two stories in it. The Lodger has the best stories of any paper in the world ; and Henry Ward Beecher, James Parton and Fanny Fern, have articles in every num ber. A Modern Ludy 'Macbeth. We find in the Easton (Pa.) Arg as—a re liable paper—a report of an interview which the edhor, in company with the spiritual ad r kW' of the condemned Twitehell, had with the latter in his cell in Moyamensing Prison. I 3s a remarkable statement, mid, bearing as it does upon its face the impress of truth, it would not be strange if it had some effect upon the tinal catastrophe. The remark of Mrs. Twhaell to the clergy' man—"lly the way, when you see George (her condemned husband) please ask him where he would like to bo buried after he is hanged"—is without parallel for nonchal ance In the speeches of Shakspeare's most sanguinary heroines. In some remote districts in France it is customary for the priest of the parish to go round to each house at Easter and bestow on it his blesSing. In return,be receives eggs, both plain and pointed. In these same regions a belief still lingers that dur ing Passion week the bells of the churches set out for Rome in order to get themselves blessed by the Pope. During this period of mourning the bells are sad and mute in their belfry, and the peasants firmly believe that they have started on their pious pil grimage, and will return to send forth a joyous peal on the morning of an , Resurrec tion. People do not come back from so long a journey without bringing presents to good children. The joy bells then al ways came first, and bore with them various beautiful play-things. The death bells came last and brought nothing. Eas ter then ♦vas like a second Is.:ew Year's Day. The peasant bestowed on his child an egg died with scarlet, like the cloak of a Boman cardinal, and supposed to come from Boyle. On Easter morning, at the sound of the rejoicing bells, fair angels with azure wings were believed to descend front heaven, bearing a basket of eggs, which they de posited in the houses of the faithful. Soule times, however, it happened that the evil one slipped in en accursed egg among those which canto from heaven. An ancient le gend of central France is founded on this Long ago there lived in a village, a widow and her daughter. Jeanne, so was the young girl named, was us good as she was beautiful. The poor blessed her, for she used to pass her time iirvisiting their hov els and relieving their distress. She had many suitors, but her 13101ber shrank from parting with her only child, and put them off. "One year more," she said, "and Jeanne shall choose a husband." On Vaster morning, when returning from mass, Jeanne met an old beggar woman whom no one in the village knew, and who implored her charity. The young girt be stowed her alms, and the stranger, whose face was hid by a ragged hood, as she re ceived it, said, in a husky voice "Beautiful damsel, do not di,dain the gill of 11 poor beggar. Take this egg,. and be fore this day twelve months a young, hand some nobleman will ask for you in mar riage. You will been tie a great lady. It is written in the book of fate. On your wed ding day break this egg—it contains a nup tial present." So saying, she gave her :I large egg of at brilliant s,carlet. Jeanne took it, laughed at tier prediction, and placed it in a casket. To tier mother site spoke not of it; but visions of ambition, of pleasure and luxury hitherto unknown to her pure and simple mind floated before her, and troubled her occupations by day and her slumbers by night. sear the - village rose the towers of an ancient castle, which had not been inhabi ted within tho memory of man. One day a gentleman arrived, proclaiming himself the heir of the ancient, lords, and ho caused the castle to be restored and furnished with luxury. :Numerous visitors arrived, cud gay feasts and balls and hunting parties suetieeaed each other without intermission. The lord of the eaelle'etiheti-hiinself—Sirs Robert de Volpaic. One cloy ho chanced to see Jeanne, and her beauty struck- him; he sought :in interview with her mother, and asked her hi marriage. The widow at first was inclined to refuse, but Jeanne, dazzled by the splendor or the oiler, prevailed on her consent, and an early day was lixed for the marriage. The union of the "very high and very noble Sire Robert de V°!pale and Demoi selle Jeanne" - tras celebrated in the chapel of the castle by a stranger chaplain, and in presence of the bridegroom's friends, A. brilliant festival, to which all the neighbors were invited, succeeded, Bat, amid all the gayety and the splendor which surrounded her, the bride did not forget her Easter egg. She had caused it to be brought in the casket and placed iu the nuptial chamber- The feast was ended—the guests, one by one, had taken their departure, and the young mistress of the castle was conducted into its most magnidcent chamber. Mid night sounded from the lofty tower when the bridegroom entered, and, advancing to wards Jeanne, was about to embrace her, but, she drew back, and said : "My deal' lord, before becoming yours, as The vu sworn before the chaplain to be, I would fain know what this egg contains." Size then told him its story, and prepared to break it. Ile stopped her and implored her to wait until the morrow. Hut Jeanne, without heeding him, seized the egg. It was burning hot, and she hastily left it fall, and it broke. At' enormous toad sprang on I, leaped on the nuptial bed, vomiting ❑:noes which set file to the curtain.. The whole castle wits Speedily in Collliagral ion, every soul in it perished, and the sun rose on a heap of black and smouldering ruin, '^l here's O Distressing 'Matrimonial: :11Fis- The special eorrespondeutorthelt. 'With; Republican, dispatched from Nashville nil der a recent date, communientes the fol lowing: An e"ttreordiner;„ , matrimonial contre temps transpired in Williamson county on Chirst Ines night. A double wedding oc curred in the same house, and the wedding festivities were celebrated in the old fash ioned style, and. in that joyful way natural ly prompted by Chistmits and the blissful event which made the two couple happy. about midnight both brides retired to rest, and in half an hour thereafter, the newly made hitsbands followed suit. By some strange Mizal23p, (Weil gentlemen found hi, way to the wrong room, actually occupied the bridal couch to which be lied no claim, Strange as it may appear, the tnistnke was not discovered until daylight, when 0(10 of the ladies shrieked her surprise utter a vigorous fashion. A. general hubbub was the result, and nt latest accounts the brides were disconsolate, partly from visions of possibillities in the dint prospective. All sorts of schemes of reparation were pro posed, but it appears that no tangible plan for undoing this double mistake was ar rived at. The above episode actually- trans pired as narrated. Tit st stosT THIS. ON Y.l It —A game that can be played by any num ber of persons ; is SUSCOptiblO of 5 0 . 000 changes ; endless transformation.; of wit and humor, producing rears of laughter. JuNt the thing for old folks and young folks, eve ning parties and dull days. A sure cure fur homesick nos. , mid blues. Sent, post-paid, by return mail, on receiptof (Tuts ; three for ;,•zl, Address Wallkill Valley Times, Montgomery, Orange Co., N. Y. Of this popular play, the " American Ng ricultureist" says: A. Hearty Laughs is a luxury—and often a first rote medicine. We indulged in suelt is laugh the other evening, while the young flints were amusing them selves with this innocent and very Mousing game. It is not a humbug, powder 11111g112,11.1.1., and torpedo factory, near Titusville, Pe.., exploded yesterday, killing three men and ntortalll• injuring Col. Davidson, the proprietor. $ O ,OO Per Year, in Advance; $2,50 it: not Paid in Advance. Au Easter Legend. tal4e. [WHOLE - NUMBER, 2,062. t faruz and '7.T.puottiotd-Colttuut. ACtlt ICULTIniE in - th - e useful and moat noble employment of matt_—WWlM4lo4. Connt - xicATtoNS. Selections, Itecipea and ar ticles of interest and Amine, are solicited for this departrnent of the paper. 'We desire to fitlpply the public with the best practiml Information 11.1 reference to tile farm, garden, anti household. II Your Oats. In moderately rich soil, oats should be planted with a grain drill, putting aboutone bushel, of forty-five pounds, to an acre. Plowing the ground in the fall will enable you to sow oats much earlier than spring plowing, and the earlier oats are sown the better are the ehanees for a good yield in quantity and quality. If Old spring season is very wet, ground that has been plowed in the fall can be sown almost as early as spring plowing Logins. Late oats do not have time to mature, and, unless the season is favorable, generally prove te—GAilure. In most of the LSoutbern States, outs Sitoe:J be sown in .Tan nary or February. Oats that are drilled in are improved by stirring between the rows, the yield being often increased twenty per cent. First-rate soil is not necessarily needed to raise oats, but the richest soil al ways pays best. Seven ty to one hundred bushels is not an extraor ding ryyield for the hest kind of oats in good soil. If the season be too wet to plow, I prefer putting in oats with a shovel plow on clay soil. On sandy soil it yields best to drill it in with super phosphates.—Farm Journal. Dry Earth as a. Deodorizer ror Pon!. try-Houses The employment of dry, pulverized earth as a deodorizer for poultry-houses appears, says the London I'ield, to be worthy of snore attention than it has hitherto receiv ed. The fact that from four to five hundred lln.cls can by this aid be kept in one build :rig, for months together, with less smell than is to be found in any ordinary fowl house capable of accommodating a dozen chickens, is very conclusive as to its effica cy. In the building of the National Com pany, where this fact has been ascertained, seven or eight fosris are kept in each com partment, twelve feet by three feet, and yet there is no smell or trace of moisture. It should be stated that the droppings that fall from the perches during the night are removed from the cans each morning, and that the dry earth only receives the manure that falls during the day ; this has its mois ture absorbed so peedilp by the earth that. it at once becomes pulverized, mixes with the soil, and ceases to smell. So powerful is the deodorizing effect of the earth, that it does not, require to be renewed in the runt-7 for many weeks together. How the Turks Work. Their methods of labor are peculiar. The Turk will invariably sit at Lis occupation, if possible. The trader, in his little store, all exposed to the street, may thus be seen, cross-legged, tailor-like, drawing in the smoke of his marghile, through its long flexible tube, seemingly lost to all subli nary affairs, and indifferent whether cus tomers come or go. If a mechanic, be also sits, if possible, and I thus see them, pres sing the block of wood which they are fashioning, between the soles of, the . feet. ,Therblae.karalth r in little".seven'7l;fy , rdne_ ;d7c7p - , -- a - rg=i67ol - 6 thus the anvil nearer his arm. If a log of tim ber, forty or fifty feet in length, is to be con verted into planks, it is first raised by main three on wooden horses, six or seven feet, , and then one man above, and another be low, pull the saw—requiring -a good day's work for the two, to do what aMa ine saw will would accomplish in five or ten min utes. And so through all the walks of life. The ancient scribe is also a Turkish insti tution. You find him cross-legged in his shop, with writing materials before him, ready to write a letter for you, draw an in strument, or sell you the materials for your self. Perhaps yonder self-satisfied Turk entering the mosque for his devotion, at the fast of Munoz:in, forms not a bad coun terpart to the Pharisee, and so we have the Scribes and Pharisees togther. ttryttittawr—Viltrit, is' it':—Where is MS The old State railroad front Philadelphia to Columbia—the eastern end of the old main line of public works—was in some places quite remarkable for its excessive curvature. Indeed, on susceptible persons, sensitive to sea-sickness, running the carves" between Downingtown and the Philadelphia line, it was said, had the same effent as an excursion in a pilot boat in rough weather. The Canal Commissioners however, had a numl,cr of the short and sharp curves taken nut, so that, on the first of August, 1557, NVI/011 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company took possession of the Wahl line by purchase. from the State, the alignment was tamsiderably better than when the road was originally opened. Still, as the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany's annual report:, certify, the road east of Downingtown needs modification in its curvature, to make it conform more nearly with the other portions of the great line. The changes to be made occur, we believe, in a distance inside of twenty-five miles; the first and easternmost cut-01l begins near the point where the road built to avoid the inclined plane left the old road leading to that abandoned work and, ends west of White Hall. The new line cuts off a most objectionable piece of curvilinear, and shortens dist :time. The tangent of the new line i 4 parallel with the Lancaster turnpike, and front Me new railroad station in Bryn- Maier to Nlarket street bridge the distance is a little short of nine miles. one of the streets laid down on the plan of /b7putnnec cross the railroad at grade; and, according to recent toodilicatiow; 01 road plans and street surveys, very few grade crossings will long remain between lirvolilawr and Market street b ridge- —Phihl. Aliniag Re gi.ster. STAMPED FE. NK , .--The new licit• requir ing franks to be written, it is stated, creates much embarrassment in the public offices at Washington. The Commissioner of In ternal Revenue and the S. Treasurer complain that the time which should ho devoted to pressing public I.)uluess is ink en up in writing franks on envelopes. A ne4ro natned Cain, is in jail at Chain bershurg, charged with un atrocious assault upon three young ladies, near that town. On Friday night a mob surrounded the and threatened to lynch him, but were in duced to disperse. The prison is now under guard. POLITICIANS are the " cheekiest" peo ple alive. party of Philadelphia lawyers called on Grant. :Nlonday, and infernied him how they proposed to distribute the minor patronage in that State. Cool ain't it, even for March ? Tug announcement made by tho .Sate Gmird a few days since, that Ceorge Berg ner had been made p4.st-master of Harris burg, was premature. TIC .1.: re:l(l.`4 ; /Vianill Legislature will a(I -jotzru on April SILL ItnAn the aslvertiveznevitg
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