41als triitting: UDLIP LIMPL7GI24I2P UD1ANC416121aUtP913•120:105.31. Neatly and Promptly Bageuted, at the ADVERTISER OFFICE, LEBANON, ?BAWL Tire nntablishtnent is now nupplind with en exteusive ansortment of JOB TYPE, which will be Increased an the pamnugo demands. It can now turn out FIRCNTINO, of every description, in a neat and expeditious manner— and on very reasonable terms. Such aa Pamphlets, Checks, Business Cards, Handbills, Circulars, Labels, Bill Headings, Blanks, Programmes, Bills f Pare, Invitations, Tickets, &c., ao. - titrDnene of all kindle, Common and Judgment BONDS. School, Justices', Constables' and other licaume, printed correctly and neatly on the bast paper, constantly kept for sale at this orrice, at prices "to cult the times." *0 Subscription price of the LEBANON ADVERTISER One Dollar and a Half a Year. • Address, Woe. M. Duestitt, Lebanon, Pa. Private Sale. THE Subscriber olfers at private We all that certain farm or tract of lend, situate partly in Pinegrove township, Schuylkill county, and partly In Bethel town ship, Lebanon county, bounded by landeof Eck ert and Guilford, UelljPlTliti Ayertgg, Daniel ~, Gaubert end others, containing one hundred and !, 1 forty-eight acres and a quarter, with the appur tenances, consisting of a two story log dwelling. ease, (weather boarded) a 136 story log dwelling house, a new bank tarn, other ottkatildinge, and a new water power saw mill, or terms, &a., which will be easy, Apply to G. W. IiIATCLILS, Agent. Pinegrove, April 20, 1869,-tf. Out. Lots at Private Sale! WILL be sold at Private Sete, 8 ACRES OF LAND, ' situated halLong Lane, near the borough line, in Corn . wall township. It adjoins the land of Widow Fulmer, .on the North, Wm. Atkins and John Krause on the East. There], a one story LOG noun, weather boarded, ~erected on the lanq, and good WELL in the garden.— iThe lend has Pim stdiles for quarries. This tract will make a nice home for a small family. twa,, It Is tree from Ground - Rout. Good title will be rgirea.;ADAM KITCHEN. N, trait to now covered With fine grass, bait' 'of which will be given to the purchaffer. 'Ldbaoon, Attie IS, MM. A RARE CHANCE. U. KRIM offers his well known PELOTOGRAPIIIO t stiIIUSIIMEN T for sale. Thorough instruc tions will be given t any one purchasing not acquaint ed with the business. Yor garteularscall at bis rooms, in A. Rise's building. (Lebanon, March x'Bl-3m. Blanket Shawls, CLOTH, WOOLEN CLOTHING of all colors, dyed Jet heck or Glue Klock, pressed, the color warranted end goods turned out equal to now, by LYON LEGBERGER, Fast lie:toTer, Sir Articles to be dyed can be left at Joe, L. Leather pre s s Drug Store where all orders for the above will b attended to. [Pub. S. 1860. NEW CASH STORE! NEW GOODS AND NEW PRICES., If. BWARTZ hereby inform the public that he „ his Just opened a stock of YEW GOODS at the old Stand of Swartz & Bro., flail Building, whin), will be cold for cosh at prices to suit the times. All aro In vited to rill and examine. [Lebanon, April 10,'61. NOTICE. Tlll4 greatest variety of etyles of CANE SEATED CHAMP, now selling at a great. reduction: whole. sSale and retail, on account of rebuilding the Factory and Warerooms_ j NOR. 223 and 22b North 6th street, above NAM PHILADSLPHIA. N. B.—The stook comprises very handsome new patterns, for Parlors, Dining Booms and Chem berm: handsome new styles of !Attlee' Sewing Rocking Chairs, Reception Chairs, Arm, and a large variety of Canip Chairs, ell warranted to bo my own manufacture. March 21, 1801.-ly. , T. 0. WISLEIL Mational Mouse. NORTH E. CORNER of Plank road and a u Went Streets NORTH LEBANON, PENN'A. TO Tfl Ptrlll.lo, 110 I all ye thirsty come and drink. for nice cool mineral water, the choicest t !aloha°, and the pureetmalt liquors grace my bar. And ye hungry come and eat, RS the table is loaded with the moat substantial tare, and the richest delicacies of the meson crown my board— Vonte man and beast; my house is always open to the stranger and the friend, and for miltnals the best of pre tender, QM' etabling, and attentive butlers, are ever toady at my stables. Yours, Respertfnliy, North Lnbanon,Bept.l4,llBs9. HENUY totaz. Lebanon remale'Seminary. RACHEL F. ROSS, Principal. JULIA ROSS, Huscial Department. GEORGE LICHT, Drawing. I (MU NINTH SESSION will cotnitionce Soptcmber 3, MO. This School le dellgued to elevate the stand• and of female education, and to offer superior advanta ges at al MAX alto cost. The school year le divi‘led into two sessions of five months each. Charge per session, from 7 3 ,4 to 25 dollars. according to the studies of the "choler. Extra for Music, French, Latin, and German. *0 Particular attention given to the musical depart ment. Inetrnction upon the Plano. Melodeon and Gui tar 51)11 In Singing. Pupils not connected with the School will be wafted upon at their homes, when desk. ed, and at the usual rates F. srly application should be made to S. J. STINE, et J. W. 111511. hoard of Directors: B. D. LEEMAN, S. J. STINE, 0. B. FORNEY, J. W. MIMI, JOHN NIEILY, 0, OHEENAWALT, 0. D. OLONINGER, BECKLJOSIE YAH /HECK, ISAAC , . Lebanon, Fob. 27, MI, f fft if iff fr '4 Geo. 11. Stoat 4' Co's IMIP'IIO LOCK-STICH FAMILY SEWING MACHINE, MARKET STREET' LEBANON. 1 1 11.1CMS.—$50, $OO, $O5, $75, $B5 and $lOO. These blachinei make the SritrelLe OR LOOK•STITCH. 4lir alike on both siderrairottwithout the use of the leather pad. They have an entire NEW xcvlion of forming the stitch—simple and unerringinits operation. They have a New Patent Under Tension and a New Upper Tension. Which can be regulated without stopping the ?Jachlue —simple but effective. They will sew with greater speed never drop a stitch, and do more work in the same time than any other sewing machine ever invented. These Ma chines bare power sufficient to sew 'THIRTY THICKNESSES Of heavy sheeting. They wiltetitch, run, hem. gather cord, quilt, felt. &c., Le., and for Welding LINEN have no superior. Also, Sloat's Improve& Shuttle Machine For tailoring and heavy work. Thur Machines Aare been well tested atuobg tailors, and are pronounced equal to those sold elsewhere at double prico. Let all who Intend to purchase ,a Sewing Machine call at our Balm Room and see our Machines practically tested, or send for a circular. J. J. BLAIR WATCII3IA KER. AND JEWELLER, Market Ntreet, Lebanon,Pa., or (MORON H . BLOAT & July 3, 1361. PHILMALPHILA k i.O Hooks and Stationery Em porium., AND TEACHERS' HEADQUARTERS! ( MOW RAS REMOVED Mae removed hie Hook Store to Market Square. Let anon, IXT SIEUE may be bad, on reneonabie terms a general assortment of SCHOOL, SUNDAY SCHOOL, THROLOO IICAL and MIROELLANCOUS BOOKS of ovary description. Copy-Hooke,Cypherlug Books, blabber and paper bound ram Books, and every variety of STATIONERY, Ac., wholesale and retail. WINDOW SHADES. A large Of variety . Pia* Panay, BUM Croon, Gilt, AG. PAPER SHADES. Neat Patterns, Plain, Green, Blue and Gilt. Also this latest and almpleal STYLES OF PIXTOEVE. AMP" CALL AND EXAMINE. WOrnon, Beptambar 2T, 1880_ AVE. MINIM JONA. OEMANIAN. D. 5. LONG. •' ' • New Firm. Cheap ea sh Store, and Milling and Grain Businea /THIN undersigned having formed ispartnership in the j. MERCANTILE, 'MILLING AND. GRAIN BM EROS, would respectfully invite the attention of the piddle to their establishments. They will oontlue to keep, at the isle stand of SilEgli A LONG, a most com plete stook of all kinds of GOODS usually kept in a country store, which they will retail Cheap for CASH, or COUNTRY PRODUCE. They also want to buy for cash 60,006 Bushels of WHEAT, 80,000 Bushels of RYE, . 20,000 Bushels of CORN, 25,000 Bushels of OATS. For which they will pay the h Wiest Market Priem-- They will also take GRAIN on &imam The will keep always on band and sell at the lowest prices, COAL. by the it Laud or by the Ton; all kinds of MILL FRED, SALT, PLASTER, Se. Sir They solicit the business of all their old friends end the üblic, and will endeavor to deal on such lib eral and j ust principles as will give malefaction to all. SHEEN, GESSAMAN E LONG. North Lebanon; March 13,1561. SALT FOR SALE. rPUS Subscriber bas on band and for sale, Wholesale 1 and Retell, a large quantity coarse and fine SALT. June 19, 11301-3 m. • ABRAHAM` STRICHLMR. jarY & STINK are dally receiving fashionable - rase Goode, Duch lU3 Clatelles. MosArtiblques, Me- Imes, balm., Level lei °fell kinde for traveling dresses, SDK Challys, fillic Themes, ()rape Pe Spumy, OlogAm! Audi:trey Dress Doodle, or every deedilption, offered at unusually low prices by HENRYdo STIRS. Air AU the above geode offered at very low prices. . . • ' 141 / 4 , 2 an° b tt TUE IikRYT INDCP.ENC,ET4E. C VOL. 13--NO. 13. ` They go Right to the Spot.' INSTANT RELIEF! STOP YOUR COUGH I PURIFY YOUR BREATH! STRENGTHEN YOUR VOICE! SPALDING'S THROAT CON FEC TION S., ARE GOOD FOR CLERGYMEN, GOOD FOR LECTURERS, GOOD FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS, GOOD FOR SINGERS, GOOD FOR CONSUMPTIVES. GENTLEMEN CARRY SPALDING'S THROAT CONFECTIONS. LADIES ARE DELIGHTED WITH SPALDING'S THROAT CONFECTIONS. CIIILDRRN CRY FOR SPALDING'S THROAT CONFECTIONS. They relieve a Cough instantly. They clear the Throat. They give strength and volume to the voice. They impart a delicious aroma to the breath. They are delightful to the taste. They are made of simple herbs and cannot harm any one. I advise every one who has a Cough or a Husky voice or a Bad Breath, or any difficulty of the Throat, to get a package of my Throat Confections. they will relieve you instantly. and you will agree with me that "they go right to the spot." You will find them very useful and pleasant while traveling or attending public meet ings for stilling sour Cough or allaying your thirst. If you try one package I am safe in saying that you will ever afterwards consider them indiagensible. You will find them at the Druggists and Dealers in Medicines. PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. My signature is on each package. AlVisthers are counterfeit A Package will be sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt. of Thirty Cents. Address, KENNY C. SPALDING, No. 48 CEDAR STREET, NEVT,YORK. Al;* -431 ct .4e% diN l Aleatia p 1) er n CURE 07 Nervous Headache za ßE as Headache. By the use of these Pills the periodic attacks of No. tons or Sick Headache may be prevented; and if tskeis at the commencement of an attack immediate relief from pain and sickness wilt be obtained. They seldom fail in removldg the Natised and Head ache tb which females are so subject. They act gently upon the bowels,—ittliovilig dOS TIVEN Fer LITERARY MEN, STUDENTS, Delicate Females, and all pereons of SEDENTARY lIABITS, they are valuable as a LAXATIVE, improving the APPETITE, giving, TONE and VIGOR to the digestive organs, and restoring the natural elnaticity and strength of the whole system. The CEPHALIC FILLS are the result of long inves tigation anti carefully conthicted experiments, having been in use runny yearn, during which time they have prevented and relieved a vast amonr.t of pain and nut. tering ROM. Headache, whether originated in the ner vous System or 'Vow a deranged state of the stomach. They are entirely vegetable in their composition, and may be taken at all times with perfect safety without making any change of diet, sod the absence of any dis agreeable taste renders it easy to adminiettit them to children. BEWARE or COIIItEItFEITS The gen nine base five signatitres of llenry C. Spalding on each fox. Sold by Druggists and ell other Dealers in Medicines. A Box will be sent by mall prepaid on receipt of the PRICE 25 CENTS. All orders should be addressed to JUNKY C. SPALDING,- 43 Cedar Street, Now-York. TUB FOLLOWING ENDORSEMENTS OF SPALDING'S CEPHALIC PILLS, WILL CONVINCE ALL wno RIIFFER FROM USABiterL, THAT A SPEEDY AND SURE CURE Is WITHIN THEIR REACH. Is these TettimaniatS were unseticited by Mr. SPALDING, Mew afford unquationabte pronfof the efficacy of this truly scientific discovery. Mahwah):lle, Cohn., Feb. 5, 1861 Mr. Spalding. Sir: . I have tried your Cephalic Pills, and I like them so vieil that I want you to send me two aollare worth more, Part of these aro for. the neighbors, to whom I gave a few out of the first box I got from you. Send the Pills by mail and oblige Your ob't Servant. JAMES KENNEDY. Haverford i Pa, Feb. 8,1881 Mr. Spalding Slif I wish you to send me otio afore box of you Cephalic Pills, I hare received a great deal of benefit from them. Yours, respectfully, MARY ANN STOIIIIIVISSM • Spruce Creek; Iluntingdtm Co. Pa. January IS, 1801. lI C. Spalding. Sr: You will plea-se sewl. !no two boxes of your Cophdic Pills. Sent them humediately. Beepectfully yours, JOAN SIMONS. P. S.—l have used one box of your Pills, and find tqem excellent. Belle 'Vernon, Ohio, Jan. 140.1361: Henry C. Spalding ran-, Pleats find inclosed twenty-live cents, for which send me another boa of your Cephalic Pills. They are truly the best Pills I bays ever tried. Direct A. STOVER, P. M. Belle Vernon, Wyandot Co., 0. ` _Beverly, HIM, Dec. 1.1, 1860. H. C. Spaldlng, Esq.. I wish for some circulars or large show bills, to bring your Cephalic Pills more particularly before my emu. mere. if you have anything of the kind, please seud to me. One at my customers, who is eubjoct to Severe Sick Kea. ache, (usually lasting two days,) wee cored of an attack. in one hour by your Pills, which I sent her. Respectfully yours, W. D. WILKES. Baynolilaburg,'Frankl in Co., Ohlo,} January 9, .1801. Iltairj , O. Spalding, No. 48 Cedar et., N. Y. Deer Sir: Inclosed And twenty-Arc cents, (25,) for which send box of "Cephalic Pils." Send to address of Rev. Wm. C. Filler, keynoldsburg, Franklin Co, Ohio. Your Pills work like a charm--sure Q eadache al most instanter. Truly yours, • WM. Q. FILLER.. sar A Dingle bottle of SPA LD USW& PREPARED GLUE will save ten times its coot annually. 1W SPALDING'S PREPARED GLUE SPALDING'S PREPARED GLUE! SPALDING'S PREPARED GLUE! BATE THE PIECES 'ECONOMY I DISPATCII I lift- "A STITCH IN Tata SAVES NINE." ^ DDR_ As accidents will happen, even In well regulated fam ilies, it ix very desirable to bare Borne cheap and conve nient way for repairing Furniture, Toye, Crockery, dm SPALDING'S IREPARED GLUE meets all ouch emergencies, and no household can af. ford to be without it. It is always ready, and up to tile stick ing point. "USEFUL IN EVERY HOUSE." N.B.—A Brush accompanies each Bottle. Price, 25 cents. Address, HENRY D. SPALDING, No. 48 CEDAR Street, New-York. CAUTION. As contain unprincipled persons are attempting to mint off on the uustomseting public, Imitations of my YftkPAll* GLUM,' would caution all persons, to ex amine' before pnrch'asing,and see that the full name. w, SPALDING'S PREPARED GLUE, .110 Z lw on the ontaide wrapper; All othero are, swindling -ounteradts. [Marc& 43i 1861. LEBANON, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1861. etvitr tbetrg, WILL HE BE HOME TO-NIGHTI—A SONG OF THE "OLD LOVE AT ROME." The light fades out from the purple hills, The woodlands are turning brown, On rock and river, and musical rills, The shadows are coming down. A faint blush lingers along the sky, And over the mountain's height—. Ohl speed deck hours like swift birds by," For he must be home tonight. - See? nestled eo, In their snowy beds O'er which the fire light glows, Peer out three golden corly.heads And cheeks of richest rose. The board is spread with its dainty cheer s , The tapers are all alight, My flowers in bl - om—but—ran tidal* fear Oh I will hi come home to-night? Nine eyes are bright—its because they see And mirror with faithful shine, The stars of love thou wilt bring with thee In those soft dark eyes of thine ? And the golden gleams like the sun on the streams And the floating of fancies light, That will dance o'er my heart in its gladsome dreams If thou wilt come home-to-night? My cheek's aglow it's because drest In his fancy's favorite hue t Come tell me Elsie. do I "kook my best" In this robe of richest hue t Is my hair in the way be loves you know Is the fall of the ringlets right / Do you think me vain t And, is It mit so— But—he will be home temightt "Look Well" you say I—l am glad the while And I hope he will note the glow, And the lighted eye and the Bunny smile, 'Which charmed him—an long ago. I know my summers are passing away, That I'm not as beautiful—quite— I know what he'll say, with his smile so gay If he should come home tonight! Yes--I think he'll come o'er the crimson key* Oh my heart doth a music swell, Like the soft, sweet chiming of distant seas Through the folds of a lonely spell. And something that's neither of earth nor air But endowed with angel's might, Roe met my spirit and whispered there, "Rest! he will die home to-night I" Oh! God be thanked who bee kept him safe In his wandering wild and wide; And guided trim back like a precious waif Astray on a stormy tide. Ha I there's the train with a signal shrill, Oh dark hours speed your flight I Oh I soul rejoice, oh I heart be still, He has come—he has come to-night fftisefttansoitos MY HUSBAND'S CHILD. A SECOND WIFE'S STORY I had a little dauglitei, And she was given to me tejeatl me gently backward, To the Heavenly leather's knee I had married a widower. 11 - 0 W many times I had wondered, blamed, laughed at such marriages. How ma ny times said that I would remain single, if Fate so pleased, to the end of the chapter, but never, never mar ry one whose first love had been giv en to another-- , --who offered me the ashes of a heart. A second-hand gar ment, I had said, was bad enough ; still, were it a choke between that and freezing one might wear it; but not a second-hand husband. Better freeze than warm one's being at such a fire. I had said all this, and yet I wedded Hiram Woodbury. When I first met him, however, I did not know that he had ever been married. Our acquaintance came about odd ly enough. 1 was staying with my old school-mate, Elizabeth Simms, now Mrs. Dr. Henshaw. I had been there for a week, er.joying myself heartily. It was a pleasant change from the boarding-house in 'the city, where I lived, in three rooms and a bandbox, with my guardian and his wife, to Lizzie's pleasant and spacious country house, with the wide, hand somely laid-out grounds around it, and the free range of wood and hill in the back-ground. I had thought, at first, that. I should presently wea ry of the monotekhy, hilt each day of seven I had grown mot% ilhd there charmed, until I began to believe my self in love with nature. "1 like it," I said to Lizzie, throw ing myself down, after a long morn ing's ramble, in the easy chair in the sitting-room. She looked lit me fon,- ly with her kind blue eyes. "I knew you would like it. Look at yourself in the glass, Agatha Ray mond. See that strong, well rounded form, those great, black, earnest eyes —the forehead with more brains than beauty—the dark fate with the crim son blood glowing through its olive Does it look to you like the face and form of one to be contented with confinement, and sloth, and fashion?" I langhed. . . sq. never had the means to be fash ionable, Lizzie: My poor five hund red a year has to find me food and shelter, besides garments. Even if I had it all to spend in personal adorn. ment, I could only stand in the outer vestibule of the temple of fashion." "If you had five thousand a year, instead of five hundred, fashion and frivolity would never fill your heart. It is a good, honest, true heart; tho' it is proud and wayward-1 know it well. I can see just the kind of fu ture you ought to have. You should marry a man who is a worker, a bold, strong Worker in the strife f life-- one whom you could be proud of and look up to—one whom you could silently strengthen and help. You would be at rest then. Failing such a husband, you will have to make a career for yourself. Some way the world must be better,for your living in it, or your heart will know no peace." 1 made no answer, but her words touched a responsive chord. I felt that she had painted the future which I needed; but would it ever come?- 1 had never yet seen a man whom I could look up to and trust entirely— fearing nothing earthly so he was mine. Kind and good as Lizzie's hus band was, I sever could have married him. I have never seen the man I could have married. It was notlike ly, I thought, that I should see him. If not I must do something myself. What path would open for me—what and where ? I. looked listlessly from the window. A, man was coming ,pp the walk, dusty and stained with traVel, carrying a heavy portmanteau. —a man not handsome exactly, nor graceful exactly, but with a good face, a face expressing dignity, kind ness and much power—the ability to command himself and others. "Who is it ?" I asked, beckoning Lizzie to the window. "No other than Hiram Woodbury, the Doctor's fast friend, and certain ly the last man I expected to see to day. He's always welcome to Dick, though, and of course that makes him so to me." I ran up stairs to smooth My tan. gled hair, and make my costume a little more presentable, and when I came down Mr. Woodbury was en gaged in an animated conversation with the Doctor and Lizzie. .He was a tall, powerful man of thirty.five„ with lightish brown hair, bold :and somewhat massive features, and eyes of Saxon bine. I learned, afterward, that he was a remarkable mechanical genius and had realized a handsome fortune by some of his investments; also that be was it iehlous reformer, leading.the van, of every noble work. I lied nut known Mr. Woodbury four days befole I felt in my heart of hearts that here was a man whom I could entirely trap and reverence, nay, whom I could entirely love.— Still 1 was proud, and strove to retain my affections in my own keeping.- 1 'did not feel sure that he was inter ested in me, but sometimes there seemed a language in his eyes I dar ed not trust myself to interpret. By the time he had been there a fortnight, we knew each other better than we could have done in a year bad we met solely in society. It was on the fifteenth day after his coming, that he told me ho loved me , and asked me to be his wife. We were alone, sitting under a clump of pines at the west of the house, where he had gone to see the July sunset. We had watched the clouds silently as they changed from gold and 'crimson to the softer shades of rose and azure, until they were all gone. Then I looked up and saw his eyes were looking at ine very earn estly with a strange tenderness in their depths. As he met my glance be spoke— "l have only known you a short time, Agatha, but you are already dearer to me than I can say. Do you think you could ever love me well enough to be my wife .1" <I do," I answered struggling with d. strange sensation of fullness at my heart, which seemed almost to choke my utterance. . "God bless you, Agatha. i tod are what my soul needs." His words wore strong and fervent, and he gathered me close in his arms to his breast—me, an orphan since my earliest recellections, and realiz ing now, for the first time, what it was to be intensely loved by any hu man being. We did not talk much about our emotions. I think we both liked best - to sit there, hand clasped in hand, feeling how utter was the happiness and satisfaction of each in the other's presence. At length he said— "I know that I shall be giying a good mother to my little Laurie. I should be cruel were I to forget her in my . joy." "Your little Laurie?" "Yes ! my child, my little girl.— You knew of her existence, surely." N o. "I had supposed that the Henshaws had told you all about my history.— Did you not know I had been marri ed ? My wife, my Laura, died five years ago, and my Laurie is just five years old." What could I say—l, who had said so often that I would wrong no dead woman by taking from her, her hus band's love ? I could g ive up Hiram Woodbury, perhaps, but I could give up my life as well. I clutched at a hope. I asked— " Did you love her—your wife?" "Tenderly—most tenderly." "And she loved you?" "With ail her heart." "She was your first love r' "Yes, the love of my youth. But Why these questions, Agatha ? Are you not satisfied with the love I pledge to you—a love as strong and as true as man ever gave to : wornan ?" "I must be," I whispered in a voice whose calmness startled me, it eon. trasted - so strangely with the tumult of my heart. "I must be, I love you so well, Heaven help me, that I have no other .choice. And yet I had thought to be the first love of the man I married.•" "You are. my love, Agatha, my dear, true love! You will be Laurie's mother; will you not?" Ilea:von - made me truthful. I did not deceive or belie myself in that hour. I answered honestly. "I will be Laurie's mother, so far as seeing to all her wants is concerned. I wilrlove her if I can. If. I cannot you must not blame me. We cannot force our hearts to love, merely be cause it is our duty. I was born jeal ous, and it would be hard for me to forget that you had loved Laurie's mother before you loved me, perhaps better than you ever could love me." He looked at me sadly, yet trust ingly still. "1 believe you are better than your' own estimate, Agatha. At any rate, whatever you are, I love you." . It was with such an understanding as this, that we were married, but my wedding day was not as happy as my girlish hopes had always pictured it. A. phantom seemed continually at my side—Hiram's first wife. ' She came between his lips and mine, and made his fondest kisses seem cold. "How did she look ? 1 wish I could know." I asked him this question, as we sat alone together on our weddin g night. Had he been thinking of her too? He understood me atonee. Reopen ed his trunk and took from it a min. iature painted on ivory, and placed it in my hand. Oh, how lovely she was —just the being to be cherished in a man's ininest heart; idealized, wrap ped around with love's idolatry. She looked like one to die young, with that clear, transparent skin, the In'ol,V so white and the vivid rose bloOnt in the cheeks. The eyes were large and blue, with an innocent, ap• pealing, unworldly look, and the hair, in the picture, was dusky gold. how could ho ever lave me, with dark Paw nee face ; and if.tegular features after that? I asked him the question, I Voillet not help it,. do love you, dear, Is not that enough ? I love you as tenderly as any woman's heart can ask." I was silent on the subject after ward, for very shame, but the demon Of jealousy made his lair in my heart, and I am afraid his wicked eyes look ed out of mine now and then. For five weeks we wore traveling together, and this our honcymoom was a happy one. For the most part, my jealousy slumbered, for there was nothing to arouse it. Sometimes I tormented myself with the fear that there might have been some charm in the earlier days of my husband's first marriage, which was wanting now. But hisjoy was so evident, his tenderness so con stant, that I had little opportunity for such gloomy thoughts. After our bridal night until the day before we were to go home for the first time, I had not alluded again to his first wife or his child. It was while I was packing my truck pre. paratory to an early start the best . morning, and he was talking to me of my new home, that I looked up and asked— "Where is little Laurie ? has she passed the time while we were getting acquainted, and those weeks since our marriage?" I suppose he interpreted the ques tion as a sign of an awakening inter est in hia child, for ho bent over me and kissed me before he answered. "Thank you, Agatha. I am glad that you think of Laurie sometimes. She. has been spending the summer, so far, at my Bisteks'e, but she will be there to welcome us to-morrow.- 1 have taken care that she should be taught to love her new mamma." It was a beafitiful home on the east bank of the "Judson, to which. we Went the next day. A handsome car riage met us at the boat landing, and the drive wound from the river along the ascent of a wooded hill, every moment revealing new glimpses of beauty. A short turn brought us in sight of a stately stone house. "With the battlee:ecits high In the rusk of the air, And the turrets thereon: I had not been prepared for so splendid a sight. It was a perfect architecttital inspiration. The emi nence on which it stood commanded a fine view of the river flashing in the sunlight. The rocks left as Na ture had hewn them out, were gay with climbing vines, and the air Was full of the oorous breath of sweet scented flowers. "I never saw anything half so beautiful," I Whispered ecstatically to Hiram, who sat enjoying ,my sur prise. As the carriage stopped 6, little girl ran out upon the piazza. I think I should have known her anywhere, from her likeness to her mothces pie tu-re. Shohad the same innocent, ap pealing blue eyes, the same trauspa• rent skin, the same features; only the gold of the hair was lighter and sun nier than the picture. It lay about the child's head in lights rings, such as you have seen iu paintings of cher. übs. My husband stepped from the carriage and only paused to hand me out before the little creature was clasp ed in his arms. . "And is that New Mamma ?" heard her ask, as -be•put her down. lie nodded:. 'P.May I kiss her ?" MEE She came up' to me little timidly. I bent over her and received her ca ress passively, but the kiss I gave her was a very, cold ono. Selfish heart thati was; I could not love her for she was-her mother's child—a daily reminder, so 1 felt, to her father, of my dead rivaL should blush to describe all the incidents of the year which. followed. How putisently theToorlittle mother less girlmotherless still, though I had taken het Mother's name and place---:strove to propitiate and please me. How cold L was to here I neg lected' none of her bodily : needs, but to the little heart Which asked me , for bread I gave only a stone. Not once, in arl these' twelve months, did 1 gath er her into my arms and kiss her; not once did I bestow on her any volun tary caress. I wonder I did not soft. en.. to her, for I was myself expect ing to give welcome to a little child, who might be left motherleSS as she had been: Perhaps this hardened me the more. If my child were left, I questioned, would its father love it half as well as- he loved Laurie ? She is his idol I said bitterly, to myself, his idol, as her' mother was before her and I who give him fa' spite of • my self such absorbing love, hold only, a second place in his hetert. Looking back those days I really wonder that be loved me at all. I had disappoint ed him so thoroughly. Ho had be lieved me noble and generous. He found me selfish and exacting. Yet I do not believe his great, noble soul, for a moment, failed toward me in tenderness and patience. He bore with my way*aidness as 'one betirs WHOLE NO. 635. with the faults or an irresponsible child. Perhaps he never lost his fitith in ray regenetiition. think Laurie suffered beyond what I had supposed a child's capaci ty for purely 'Mental suffering. The disappointment to her was most cru el. She had longed all her little life for a mother to love her as she bad seen other children loved. For ma ny weeks before I came she had been told that she was to have what she most craved—a new mamma, all to herself. She had lotthd in me less af fection than she would have received from a governness or a housekeeper. I knew all this. I had never been de liberately (cruel before but I was now. All Laurie's gay vavacity was gone. She seemed all the tune learfarot dis pleasing the." She moved and spoke in a slow, iltrititway, that I could see it was excititaitety painful to her fa. tiler; to behold.' .1 do not know how it was that his' love for me was not utterly qu'enehed, his patience, all worn out. Perhaps he thought that I was not well, and that the sweet new corner, for whom we hoped would heal my nature of its pride and pain and passion. At last my day of trial dawned.— There were many hours of terrible suffering, during which my husband hovered over me almost in despair, re vealing his depth and the fullness of his love as I had never divined it be fore. I lived, but the baby they laid on- my breast was dead. No faint- est thrill of life shivered those deli cate limbs—no pulse fluttered in the tiny wrist—no heart-beat stirred the little still breast. The delicate blue. veined eyelids would never lift; the lily bud mouth never open, This lit tle cold dead thing was all. Where was the soul ? Would they treat it tenderly In the country of spirits , --- that soul so young, so tender,- going out into the Infinite Dark ? Had God Measured out to me such meas. tires as I had measured, and to nty cry for bread given a stone f' My husband could not fully share my feel ings. He was disappointed, it is true but in his thankfulness for my spar ed life he had little room for grief.— It was not his first child—the loss could not be to him what it was to me. I had been ill three days, when one morning, my nurse went out for a few moments leaving the door open. I lay there with closed eyes, my heart full of bitter rebellious grief. I heard little footsteps crossing the room soft ly. 1 know Laurie had coins in. I did not move. I wished her to think I was asleep. I felt that I could not bear to speak to her then. She came to the bedside and looked at me for a moment, then she knelt down and murmured a little prayer, whose words pierced me like a sword. "0, Father up in Heaven, please let dear new mamma get better, and make her love little Laurie." I believe since that hour there may be sudden conversioma—single mo• meats Which change the whole tone and Current of a life. Mine was changed then. I open my eyes, my arms,,my heart. "Come up here little daughter," I whispered, with such tenderness as she had never beard in my voice be fore. She crept up beside me - , and I drew her to my-bosom—a mother's loving bosom to her forevermore. For a few . moments I wept over her silently—l could not help it. Then I told her of my sorrow. "Laurin," I said, "God gave me a little daughter, and the same hour He gave it He. took it from me.— Your mother and my baby are both in Heaven ; will y:Jf be my little girl on earth in place of the dead 1 " llext eyes - brightened. She cried eagerly, plaintively! "Oh, I love you now mamma, I al- ways did. Will you love ins too, and let one be your little girl ?" "Forever, my darling whom God has given me." When my husband eame in half an hour afterward, he found mo asleep with Laurie watching me. "New mamma loves mc—loves me" dearly," she whispered joyfully; and her father's tears,..which fell on her face•and mine awakened ine. There was never any jealousy in my soul afterward. The fulness of Hiram Woodbury's love satisfied ev ery longing of nay heart, and Laurie was as dear to me as him. • I snmetives think the institutions of childhood are deeper_ than the love of philosophers. It . was Laurie's childish faith that "the Heavenly ba by," as she, always called my lost One had been given in charge - to her dead mother, who was nursing it tenderly, as I her child below. It was a child's conceit, but it has dwelt pleasantly in my heart. Laurie isgrowing toward her sweet womanhood. I never had another child. Igo alone sometimes, to a Mae - grave, where the blue violets spread their canopy, and weep above it tears Which long ago lost their-bit ter-nem But esen if its tenant could have lived to bless . my arms and' htart, she could hardly have been dearer to me than the sweet daughter of my adoption. HUGH MILLER & MARY DUFF Hugh Miller, the geologist, joinmal. ist and man of genius, was sitting in his newspaper office late one -dreary night. The clerks had all . left, and be was preparing to go, when a quick rap came to the door. He sa id ~ c g tee in,' and lookingtowards the entra:ticc saw a little ragged girl, all wet with sleet. 'Are ye Hugh Miller ?' 'Yes.' 'Mary Duff want's ye,' 'What does she want P 'She's goute Nrbanou Stifevlissr. A FAMILY PAFEII FORTOWN AND aclunZieL IS PRINTED AND PUBT,DALVD wviitirLY By WM, 11T. 2d Story of Funok'a New Buildiny. Cumberland St _ . At One Dollar and Fifty Ow:LW a Year, ded-Anvenersstrey;re hteerted ut ties rr , oal rates. -ea The friends of t 10.: establishment., and tbelouldis gedtte any aro tespectfully gGii3ited to send in their orders. OZASANDEIII.43 Printed at an hours WOW. RATES 4t POST/U. • . In Le biMOD County, peatage free. fn Pfrilthvivakdo, out of Lebanon county, .P.. 34. cents per quartor, or 18 route, a yoar. anisiegze...ia-oFFm:caFalinagEsffle ty renotlettion th. name made him at one a tut 22nd. ‘viLL his well known obl:d and sting, he was soon striding ofter the. 'Add, who trotted thrOugl; tha now tkni'taii street into the can in.=ll(vate. By the thee he got to the OiLi.Pkyhollae close. Hugh had reviewed ids ntcrnory of Mary Duff. a lively girl who had been bred up beside him in Cromarty The last tittle he had seen her was at a broth er mason's marriage, where Mary was 'beat ms.id,' and he tbest, Ile -tmmed still to sue her bright young. eareiens fime, her tidy short gown, and her dark eyes, and to bear her bantering merry tongue. Down theclos'e went the ragged little woman, and up an out side stair. Ilugh keeping near her with difficulty in the passage she bald out her hand; and touch ed,L im; taking it in his great palip, he felt she wanted a thumb Finding . her way like a eat throngbi the darkness, She opened a door, and saying. 'That's Ler,' vanished. By the light of a dying fire 'ue saw lying in the corner of the large empty room something like a woman's clothes; and on drawing nearer becam e aware of a thin pale face, and two dark eyed (oohing ,keenly but helplessly lip to hith. The eyes wore plainly Mary Duff's, though he could recognize tin other feature. She wept silently; gazing steadily at hiw. 'Are you Ma ry Duff !"It's a' that's o' me, liugh. ; She then tried to speak to him, isome thing plainly of great urgency, but she couldn't and seeing that she Was very ill, and was making herself worse ho put half a crown into her hand; and said be would call in the morn ing. He could get no more informa tion from the neighbors; they were either very surly or asleep. When he returned the next morn.: ing, the little girl met him at the stair head, and 'she's death' He went in; and found it was true. She lay near the fire, her face placid, and the like. ness of her maiden self restored.--: Hugh thought ho would have known her now, even with those black - eyes closed as they were in aternum. Seek. ing out a neighbor, he said he would like to bury Mary Duff, and arranged for the funeral with an undertaker in the close. Little seemed to be known of the poor outcast, except that she was a lieht,' or as Solomon would have said a strange,woman: 'Did she drink 7' 'Whilos. On the day of thetunoral one of the" residents of the 0050 accompanied him to the Cannongate church yard; He observed a decent looking old wo man watching them, and and follow ing at a distance, though the day was wet and bitter. After the grave was filled ; and he had taken off his hat, as the men finished their business by putting on and slapping the sod, he saw this old woman remaining. She came up and, courtseying 'Ye wad ken that lass, sir ?"leB, 1 knew her when she was young.' The wo man then burst into tears. and told Hugh that she keepit a bit shop at the Closemouth, and Mary deft with me and aye paid regular, and i was feared she was dead, for she had awin' me half a. crown and then, with a look and voice ()Lime shetold him on the night be was sent for, and imme, diately aft , r he had leit,she had been awakened by some onein her room; and by her, brip:ht fire [for she was a bein well to-do Kim had seen the wasted dyi ll er f7reature who c'ame forward and said,' 'Wasn't it a half a crown r .Yes. There it is,' and put ting it under the bolster, vanished ! Alas! for Mary Duff! Her career had hotel a sad one from the day when she had stuod side by side with Hugh a t th e wedding of their friends. Her father died net loo;; after, and her mother supplanted her iu the affec tions of the man to whom she had given hor heart. This shock was overwhelnuuo, and made home in tob: orable. Miry fled from it blighted and embittered, and after rife of shame and sorrow, crept into a cor ner of her wretched garret to die de: serted and alone—giving evidence iti . her latest act that honesty had sur; vived amid the wreck of nearly every other • Cheap Food Advices from all sections of our coun-• try indicate that the husbaudman has been amply rewarded for his industry, and that the forthcoming crops of cereals will by largely it , excess of those of a former sea son. The breads hof wheat planted was . finfnense, and the' samples of the new crop which have already made their appearance, indicate that the yield is not only larger, but of superior quality. The crops of rye and oats are also large,- and the present condition of the growing corn is most encouraging. The importance and necessity fur cheap food; particularly in the present aspect of our national affairs, must be evident to every one. The pOorer classes arc comparatively bare of employ: - meat, and to them cheap bread is u vital' necessity. Flour has been gradually re-" ceding in value for weeks past, aud wheat, corn and rye are lowet. The following are the average prices oe flour in the market, in July, for sixty-six years past.: 1551 1550 1859 $l7 5.3 ~ 3 ,••• si;lS, 1858 1, 7 1858 1555 1854 18:3 4:37 6 ‘ , 7 IS - 2t d 5118 031'1 00'1 ta) 41x;1&10... 4'La,7538.. s f o" -.1. 5 FI 1311„ :5#;1313.. .51. 1350. 1840 IQ 47 ls 1845 4 4,..q151 ' 855' 1844 ' 41x '1811 , ..... . . ........- ....... ...1.0 5W 1843 , aii gr......:.. -.. . ... . ....... -.10 iiKi -ISt ' 6 43:1800 . 656 1841 5 37.1808 5 87 1840 • 5.2x11807 ' 575, 1V,9 ...- 8 0 1.8.38 • :6'781181 4 6..... ...... .....-.. ...... 9. n , * . 18379173.1804- ......... . ...... ..,...... 7.75 1836 ' i. 7'00,1818 7 00' 18'6.... ' 6 81=180' 1831 - 6 !.7011. . . 11 26 ' 18."3 • _613,180 10 •.!6' 1832 .. ... ...... ..... . . ... .:..- 660 ilgg • • ' g 76 11 , 31 1830........- ...... ~...... 4 5711757.. 8 10 - 8 5 fW06...... ...... . t ,.... - ...., 11 '4' ....#153 .. 5 (10 TOO . i 0 425 4 62 . 600 .. . . 900 .. - 7 12
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