c fniJ trinting: Got. carersinever uctommreoacperocanze Neatly aid Prompay Executed, at Vie ADVERTISER OBEICE, LEBANON, PENNA Ten establishment Is now supplied with an extensive assortment or JOB TYPE, which will be incroand as the patronage demands. It can now turn out Pnntruco, of •flry description, In a neat and expeditious manner— and on v ery reasonable terms. Such as Pamphlets, Chocks, Business Cards, Handbills, Circulars, Labels, Bill Headings, Blanks, Programmes, Bills of Fare, Invitations, Tickets, dm., &c. .11Eir Duns of all kinds, Common and:lodgment Boma. Sawa, Justices', Constables' and other Massa, printed correctly and neatly on the boat paper, constant ly kept for sale at this office, at prices "to suit the times. , 's*,* Subscription price of the LEBANON ADVERTISER Oue Dollar and a Ilalf a Year. Address, AL Barstrs, Lebanon, Pa. • - -- TAK c NOTICE. --- I3MIMS will do well by calling on J. H. Buenas Agent, as he Is prepared to do all kinds of TIN ROOM% SPOUTING and JOB WORK generally, at the very lowest prices. Ile also hes on hand a large and good assortment of all kinds of TIN WARN, and 4 all of the most Improved Gas Burning 00011 STOVES and PARLOR STOYNS. Also, all the dlfferent,and latest Improved RANGES AND HEATERS, of all kinds. He also heaps ern stoutly on hand a large stook of all kinds of ROOFING, SLATE, which he offers at less price than they can be bought of any other elatemen in the county. WARE.R.OO6II3—One door South of the "Book il9tel," Walnut Street, Lebanon, Ps. Lebanon, December 26, MR. 'WALTER'S MILL. 11 R subscriber respectfully informs the public that 1 he has entirely rebuilt the Mill on the little S WR. tare, formerly known as "Straw's" and later as "Wen peat'," about onetonrth of a mile from Jonestown, Lebanon county, Pa.; that be hoe it now In complete running order, and is prepared to furnish customers regularly with a very superior article of 310 " 91E4101110111LIMIL. :no ObeaP as It can be obtained from any other source.— He keeps also on baud and for sole at the lowest cash :prices 01.10 P, BRAN, SHORTS, &c. Its is also pro moted to do all kinds of Cummins' Won., for Farmers and others, at the very shortest possible notice and in vitee all to give him a trice. The machinery of the Mill Is entirely new and of the latest and most im proved kind. By strict attention to business and fait dealing be hopes to merit a share of publio patronage. WHEAT, RYE, CORN, OATS, dm, bought, for which the highest Lebanon Market prices Will be paid, FRANKLIN WALTER. May 7, 1862. Wood, Coal, Posts, Rails, &c glum Under Signed have purchased the Coal and Wood I Yard or Daniel Light, (Merchant,) In Walnut street, North Lebanon borough, near the Union Canal, where , they Will constantly keep on hand, a large ! supply of ALL KINDS OF COAL, wh lob they will sell WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, 'hy the Boatload or by the Ton. Also OOltD WOOD, :Hickory, Oak, &o. Also Chostout Posts and Bails— which will be sold In large or small quantities, at the most REABONABI,E MMES. Coal or Wood will be punctually delivered by the undersigned. to any place In town or-vlclnity. The public are invited to call,and entlefantor and punctual attendance will be given. GRAIN I GRAIN I I GRAIN ! H WANTED. Any quantity of Grain—Wheut, Rye, Oats, Corn, Clo• ter and Timothy Seed, wfil be purchased by the finder Waned, at the highest market prices, for CASH, or in or.ohr nge for Coal, Wood, &o, • JONATHAN GIBESAMAN, COWMAN 0. MEILY. April 24, 1802. .Arr GAMER.MEW. / IN4 of the beet and cheapest assortments of Lemma offered to the public, fe now for sale at the new and extenelve LUMBER end COAL YARD of PHILIP BRECHBILL, n the Borough of North lebanon, on the bank of the Union Canal, at the head of Walnut street, a few soiree North of the Bonuses !Reim Mills, and one quire east of Bergner's Hotel. Their assortment consists of the beat well.seasoned White, Yellow, Norway t Pine and Hemlock Boardig— *Cherry, Poplar and Pine Boards; 114 and 2 inch Panne' and Common Plank; White Pine and Bemlook Scantling , and Joists; White Oak Boards, Plank and Scantling; and lush Poplar Boards, Plank and Scantling. SHINGLES 1 SHINGLES ! The best Pine and Hemlock Shingles; Alse, Roofing and Plastering Laths; Chestnut Rails and Posts, and railings fer fences and fencing Boards; FLOORING BOARDS of all sins and descriptions. COAL! COAL !I COAL! ! A large - stock of Broken,Stove, Llineburners and Hollidaysburg South Coal, at the lowest prices. lit3=Contklent that they have the largest and best us. 'torment of Loma of all deurriptionaandsizes.lts as the largest stock of the different kinds of Con, over offered to the altluens of Lebanon county, they venture to say that they can accommodate all purchasere antis. faetorily, and would therefore Invite ail who want,any thing in their line, to examine their etock before pur chasing. elsewhere. PHILIP • BR SOH DI N. Lebanon, July 3,11181. Private Sale. Fr= Subseriber offers at private sale all that certain farm or tract or land, situate partly in Pinegrore townehip, Sehuylkill county, and partly In Bethel town. ship, Lebanon county, bounded by indent Eck. art and Guilford, Benjamin Arvin, Daniel Donbert eod others, containing one hundred and 11 II forty...eight acres and a quarter, with the appal , Minces, eonslatlng of a two story log dwelling-house, (weather boarded) al l story log dwelling home, a new bank barn, other outbnilding,s, and a new water power saw mill, 'For terms, dm., which wilt. be easy, Apply to 0. W. DIATC/111+4 Agent. Plnegrove, April 20, 1859.-tr. Vist.loots at Private'Sale: v ita, be sold at Private Sale, 8 ACHES OP LAND, situated In Long ,Mr borough Hu in orte. wall township. ItLane adjoins she the land of Widow e, Fu lmer, en the North, Wm. Atkins and John Krause on the Rest, There is & one story LOO HOUSE, weather beerderd, erected on the land, and a good WELL In the garden.— The land has fine stones for quarries. Thle tract will Make a nice home for a anion family. in: It Is free from Ground Rent. Good title will be given. ADAM RITOki.ER. N. D.—This tract is now covered with fine grass, half of which i will be given to the purchaser. Lebanon Juno 13, 1860. 1562 NEW STYLES. 10362 ADAM RISE, In Cumberland Street, between - Market and the Court House, north side, has now on a splendid assortment of the New Style of HATS AND CAPS, for men and bop, for 1858, to which the attention of the public is respectfully invi ted. Mate of all price!, from the °hoopoe. to the most codify, always on hand. 'fiches alsoJustopened a !plan did 08801040ot of MIMES HATS, embracing such na STRAW, PANAMA, PEDAL., PSIAKI,, 110 EN, EEG 11011N, SENATE, 011DIA'N, soden others. stall He will also Wholesale all kinds of Hats, Caps, As, to Country Merchants on advaatagevue terms. Lebanon, April 80,1882. Itintual Fire Insuraneel pang of Annville, LBBANON COUNTY, PENN'A. 11l irne COMPANY WM incorporated, March, 1851), and le now in full operation and ready to make fuser- Allen on Dwelling'', and other Buildings, on . Furniture, and Merehatallee generally, Ally on Barrie, Contents, 'ook, Farm I mplement& &e„ On o.3lutual Principle. MANAGERS. -- Tbriotinn Bachman, 111111 nEarly, Jn floors* 8. lloingordnor, 1. 0. A. a %Irmo, •7eorge Ong's, John D. Delver, I,Aniel O. Duly, JOHN ALLIVEIN, Preeident, EtIDOLPIT UM, Treastaer. JOSEPH L MKra,Seeretary. Samuel Seabold, Traveling Agent. Jacob &Metterly, Agent, Frederlekeburg. Annville, March 5,1552.—1 y. Azarket Street Hotel” itip ,r3ti Corner Market anstnnt Streets, anon. JOHN MA.TTHES, Proprietor. 1101 NO taken the aboVe. Stand, long oecupled by Mr. LZONAnn Ztnruaartut, I will spare no palm to matte the Traveling Pahl lo who Stop at it, perfectly comfortable, and invite all to glee me a trial. - The Ileum is large and well arranged. Tho Table supplied with the best seasonable edibles ; the Bar stocked with the choicest Liquors, mid the Stabling. large and com modious, JOHN MATTIIES. Lebanon, April 9, 1862. aF YOU WANT GOOD PICTURES GO TO BRENNEws miff (hum, over D. S. Haber'', Drug Store, on Cumberland street, Lebanon, Pa. Amar orr ymis, 111.100118801 FAaVTYtL9, PAITIOTTPte and PHOTO. Mktlns, taken daily, (Sunday excepted.) Primo reasona ble and to aceetdanea with the size, style and quality of the cagey Rooms opened from 8 A. Bf., to 4 o'clock, P. I. i r ebanon, June 20868. iTrT u TT4I WOOLEN CLOTICINGI of all colors, dyed •let MOIL or Blue Bleck, pressed, tbe color warranted and food( tamed Out equal to new, by LYON LEMBERGER, sir- Articles to be dyed can be left at As. L. Leather - ser'e Drug Store wbero all orders for the above wUI be attended to. [Feb. 8, 1880. Wor Rent, ri TORE ROOM No. 2. " Eagle Building," me. occupied oby It sisenstsla Bro., Li 010 thing Store. For terms apply to Mrs. BABAU LINBAWEAVER, Or Mrs. ELIZABETH O. WEIDMAN. Lob/moo, Jen. lb, 1868. Notice. T - roprts 014 , 124• Justice of the P6lOO, ottede. to e Ocrivening bradawls— such as wrltitrDeeds, Mortgages, Balinese, Bondi,Agreoepti, *e, hie aloe, in Mulberry stree t, ro , two doors south of the Moravian Chuck in the Borough of Pelb.Pon! kebason, January 29, 1862. VOL. 18---NO. 50. How much we _lose by not making the acquaintance of our cousins the brutes! . I say we courteously, ,for 1 am not included in the class of per sons who are contumacious to dogs, horses, and other quadrupedal inhab itants of our planet. The fact is, I am more interested in a beaver* than a bean. ' and a chained bear, who trav els all. his waking hours in a circle, and always turning a somersault at a particular point, is much moreln'ter eating to me than a fashionable young fellow -doing very much the same thing. I was always very -odd, and I cannot tell whether I 'first: liked William Cumming for* his ,horse forhitriself. was a won derful felltiw, and' bad cost a fabulous priefifine ho, had a bad- name.— No o ridden him but William Cumming, and yet the first five min utes of our acquaintance made us friends. Selim arched his proud neck to kiss me; and I patted his glossy coat, and smoothed his mane, and put my side saddle on him with my own hands. 'You must not ridAria,' said Wil liam. 'What would be my portion if any accident should befall yo in your mother's absencti? If she here to give her consent—' 'Nonsense I cried; 'my mother is used to my ways, and she is not a coward. Selim and I are friends, you can see.' • 'But be will try to be master, and your bands are .not iron, my little friend.' 'Never you fear,' said I, 'I will turn him three ways at once, if he insists on running way,. Skill is better than bard work in most affairs, and espe cially in managing d horse.' 'Who taught you skill in managing a horse?' said he. 'Common sense,' I replied. 'Now let. me go.' 'Common sense, at thirteen 1' said William, laughing ;- and he took off the sidesaddle, and replaced it with his own, and then rode away. I went up to my room and cried bitterly. Girls and babies don't weep —they cry. When my eyes were red, and my curls in a tangle, I looked in the glass. I was at a trying age; my collar bailee were prominent, and had 'salt cellars,' with dreadful shadows, and my arms were skin and bones.— A weaver would have said I was all warp, and no William Cum ming was thirty yearaold....and b a it_ • farm adjoining My father's. Ife was a scholar and a gentleman, and culti vated his own land, and had the hand. somest horses in the country. I had a great respect fbr him, though I am afraid he was indebted to his four footed friend for a portion of it. I have said that I was odd. Ify sense had a sort of preternatural acuteness that seemed miraculous to others, and I am not quite sure but I had a sense more than belonged to my acquaintance. William Cumming used to call me 'a little witch,' because I could tell him what he was quite sure I knew nothing abont, and could not find out by any natural means— but he meant usual, I think when he said natural. My ways of acquiring information' were very, simple and naturalnatural to me;' still, as I had estab lished a character for extraordinary 'knowingness,' I got credit when I • did not .deserve it. For instance,' when I said to my little brother : 'How came you to. go into the china closet, and take mane• ma's oranges r he answered, redolent of the purloined fruit, '0 sister, how could you see me through the door, when it was locked? and he went away convinced that I was so mething very much like a witch. Older .per sons, In a similar manner, cheated themselves into the belief that my gifts were much more wonderful than they were. 'Are'you quite sure that you are not a little witch?' said William Cum ming. 'Salim - kissed you and laid his nose on your shoulder, the first five minutes of your acquaintance.' I answered him with some impa tience : 'I wish people had as much sense as horses. They know who mean well by them, while people are always suspectingone.' They suspect poor little me of- witching, or the black art. EvEm you, Uncle William, are afraid I will cheat you.' OM.- Samuel Seabold, John 11. Rinports, George Bigler, John AUweln, Rudolph Herr, Joseph Man, I was grieved, perhaps a little an gry that 1 had not been trusted to rido him; and now William had re turned, I wished to punish him. But ho took no notice of my ill-humor, and said very pleasantly : 'Tell mo, by your black•art, where have I been the last half hour,' He was standing by the door, and I was at the opposite side of the room, but I was in the draught of air, and I answered : 'You, have been whisk ing the flies nil Selim with a bunoh of pennyroyal, and you have beon over to the bank where the wild thyme grows, and you have - been among the wild roses on Ginger Hill. I know this, though I have been here the whole time.' Ile walked over to where I was standing, and said 'bow do you know all this ?' Ma East lienover. As be came beside mo, I said„gAnd you saw Mary Stacy, and shook bands with her; and you have soMething in you pocket from Lake Stacy.' 'Ho, do you know all this?' said he, wonder-struck, as he had been balta-dozen times before. 'No spy glass could tell you this, for Mary was at home at ber father's house be yond the hill; and thyme bank is be yond eat, and hidden from every • . . . ~.5 . ,- ......._ . . -. • • . , . • . . . . .. , ...., ... , 7111 . • Ar, . . ...... .. - , ..,., ./._-_-• .. _ . . - - . • „ . • . - .• . . , .... . . . .. . . . ~.!`:-., .., - • . ;.. ..„-- . . .. - . - ) 1 1 .. .., . _ 4; ',,'``.., , ~.. = ' = - TA .. ' '''. . '.•-.4-, ' 1,,, , 0, 1,T47.,•.i.. :-.' , , , c- ',=, .I , = - .' . .... ,- ,:. ... L .,_.,.,.....,. VIRTUE L.. GERI)" 1.1 I NDEPE"INDEO. 7 Biorettannuo, A LITTLE WITCH. LEBANON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1862. body; and the roses and penny-royal are beyond the hill ; and the whole is three miles from here. You could not have followed me, unless you had been on the back of another Selim ; and, besides you say that you have been here all the time. How do you know that I have something in my pocket from Luke Stacy—and what is it ?' 'lt is a letter,' said I, 'that he has brought you from some one.' 'Even so. What you say is all true; but how do you know it ?' 'Simply and only,' I replied, 'be cause I have a nose. When you came in I smelt Selim and the penny-royal. The mingled odors told me that you had been brushing the flies off the horse with some sprigs of the herb. The next odor I smelt was4he thyme and the-wild roses. Whviiyou-came to-this side of the roam, I smelt the _verbena—the only perfume Mary Sta cy uses. When you ir a little near er,.l smelt Turkish acco and the seizing of paper; and then I was sure lou had some paper from Luke Stacy nd the most probable idea was that it was a letter. Why, I can smell Luke at -the lower end of our lane, when I stand in the door. - Now then you can see that I have fairly ac counted for everything.' 'Except for Me' fast that you are all nose,' said - William. 'You are a cross between a vulture and a dove. But I must attend to Selim. - I dare say he thinks he is hungry.' He went out to see - the horse, but he was gone. He looked all around, but did not find him. 'He is stolen,' said William, much alarmed. saw an illlooking fellow watching me as I rode along. The gate is shut, and "there was no way for him to disappear; unless some one has taken him.' 'The gate is shut,' said I, 'but it is not fastened.' The gate was fastened by a pin, which was put in a hole bored in the gate post. When this pin was taken out the gate swung open, and if the wind were right, It might be closed again. I examined the pin; Selim's breath was, warm on it. This was perfectly perceptible to me, but not to William. 'Mini don't know enough to take out that pin and then replace it,' said he. 'He has more sense than a great many men,' I said, as I passed into the orchard, when the crushed clover blossoms gave me notice that the horse had passed but a few minutes previous. 'lf. Ifind him over the hill, a_ykijao jo i p LW. li - 'You Will'net find him,' he answered. I ran to the top of the hill. On the other side, Selim was trying to eat with his bit between his teeth.— I went to him and tried to unbuckle the bridle on the wrong side. He quietly turned the other side of his head to my awkward hands, putting the right buckle pertinaciously before me, till I unfastened it. Win. Cum ming came along, greatly pleased, but said that Selim should do the gate trick again, that ho might see him. So he led him back, and let him to himself in the yard again. He drew out the gate-pin with his teeth, and when the gate was swung open, he put the pin again in the hole, and went . his way again to feast upon the sweet grass. 'Leave him to me,' said. I; 'I will take care of him.' When_ William was gone, and Selim was satisfied with the grass, I called him by a low whistle that his master used. He trotted up to me, and laid his nose upon my shoulder. 1 led him to the door, and saddled him with my own side-saddle, and then, with very little preparation; I started for a contra. band ride. Soli m cantered away seem• ingly proettl of his burden, and I was rocked in the cradle of an eestaticde light. There is, in my opinion, no terrestrial ecstasy to be compared with a canter, provided your horse be of the right kind, and the atmosphere and scenery equally desirable. For myself, I want no better company than my horse. I do not want to put my foot into the hand of any cav alier; but I want to spring into- my atrial cradle, and skim over hill and dale, like a creature with wings: Once only Selim tried, my metal ; but, when he found that I-understood his game, and swayed him first to one side and then to the other, and final ly turned him completely round, he made up his mind to go swiftly for ward, and give me no more trouble. I patted his neck to let him know that I appreciate his good manners ; and after a canter of ten minutes, I turned him homeward. On the way, I saw the same ill looking fellow watching the horse that William had observed. Wo corn nared descriptions and found that he was the same person. William was delighted to know that I had ridden Selim without accident or ill-behaviOr on the part of the horse. His partial. ity for the orchard caused him to be left there in the clover, and the next day he was stolen. The hill separat ed him from our sight, and a breach was made in the fence,' and he was taken away about mid.day. My father bad been to the village, three miles distant, and was return ing.-=.just as he left the village, he came into a piece of woody, ground. Recents rains had filled puddles into the road that were miniature ponds. As he entered the wood, be saw Selim approaching, backed by a strange rider, even the ill-looking i fellow, who had just succeeded. in- stealing him.— In the middle of one of „the largest pools of, water,,Seltm.verrdeliberate ly lay down, and rolled so. RS to `4O. tad) his rider; he then rose suddenly; and galloped away at the top of his speed. The fellow got up. He was 'the knight of the rueful countenance' and rueful coat, and all other "habili ments, when my father met him.. 'My horse has thrown me,'said he, using some Electives to Seim's die. credited. 'Where diet lion get tbat horse ?' said my fathertt 'I bought him.on a farm about three miles from herel l ' . . . 'HOW much' did YOU give?' asked my father. ‘Twenty-five.pounds; and - 111 have back my money,; I will' never keep such a brute! -. - . - -- William Ca 433 . tug had paid one Mildred and twvity ! five and he val. ued the 'horse at double that sum. - 'That story 41't impose tipon'mef said my faiber f j 'Only two perlions were ever onllaitt horse's back before; and when Von •--steal another . horse, you will do well to find out before hand whether yoU can ride him. It is not nide to be spilt in .a- mud pud dle ; but you may congratulate your., self that you deserve it. He drove on, leaving the cres•fallen villain 'dripping witfr dirty wafer, Not long after this we heard of the arrest and conviction of a horse thief, and on inquiry' ! we learn that he was the same person" mho had been treated so uncerimoniously to -a mud bath by Selim. Hu was sentenced to the State prison for four years. Du ring this time I felt very secure about Selim; and Williani used to tell me that I thought there was only one rascal in the world. The days flew by, for my youth 'was happy. Four years fled, and I was in my eighteenth year. William Cumming had been my instructor in !many things and my friend in all, during this time. I al ways called him Uncle William ; and it never occurred \to me that our re lations could be changed. People asked why he did not marry. Ho said that his old Ibachelorisin was a chronic complaint, - and would propa• bly never be cured. I remember one night as! lay in bed, the thought oc curred to tfie : What if William Cum ming should marry ? It is surely no harm to speak Of it now, for he has been married several years , and I But I will not anticipate. The pretty Widow, Mrs. Jameson, had been staying a month with a friend in our neighborhood, and Wit- Ham had often been very polite to her and what . was worse .than all, he had promised that she' should ride Selim. The next day was appointed for her to ride, and by a not very strange . co incidence, I this night asked myself the cLuelo-ii.....--:. , NYhy cannot I be mar. ewer was, ho is old enough to be your father. . The beautiful Mrs. 'Jamieson was still young, but nearer William's age than I was. My puled beat fast, and the long vista of my future life look. ed gloomy and terrible. After tor menting myself till I thought I want ed to die, I fell asleep. I awoke in a kind of shuddering horror. I had heard sounds tbe like of whichl had never heard before; they seemedeoin pounded of the kneels of a horse, and the groans and cries ofa human being. I was sure that I-had heard these sounds, that it vi.its nota sleeping fan• ey ; but when 11 was fully awako beard them no mere, It was a warm night in the latter, part of June, .and my windows Were raised: I slept on the second floor;and two large win dows of my room faced the south.— Half a mile in a directlinefrom these windows, was a post road. I was sure that thesoiinds I had heard came froni the road, cir . its - near vicinity.— I listened earnestly, hilt all was Suddenly there floated in the room, filling it, as it were, an odor, that 1 was perfectly sure was from human blood. I shrank down into my bed, and shook with horror; then with an effort of my will, I arose, threw on a dressing gown, and hurried to my father's room. 'Father, father !' I cried 'come with me' 'What is it, Agnes, dear ?' said my mother, 'what has frightened you ?' thought I heard someone ' said I evasively. I waited for my father to dress, and itseemed an hour's time, though only a few minnteS, that ,he was patting on his clothes. When we Were out of hearing of my mother, I told him of the sounds and of the smell of blood. He always believed me when ,. ? told him of any thing that seemed increditable, for lie had much experience of the truth of tho testimony of senses. 'Father,' said 1, 'half a mile from here, close to the post road, .a human being is ly ing, bleeding to death, I am sure of it.' My father took a lantern, and went to William Cumming; I dressed and when they came. I led the way to the spot, where I was convin ced we should find some one dead ..or dying. The bowling of the dog that proceeded us struck us all with a sad solemnity. As we drew near the edge of our field; which was bounded by the road, we saw a horse standing and as we came nearer, we saw it was Salim. Lying beside him was a man. My father stooped to examine, and said: believe_ he is. dead.' The halter was buckled to his arm, and he was bitten horribly in his arms= and legs, and had bled to death. They raised him, and laid him on the back of the now docile Selim, thinking, that perhaps he had only fainted.-- TheTtook him .to our house; but he was quite dead. Re proved to be the thief who had stolen Salim before, and who bad been only three days out of prison. After - necessary formalities, the poor wretch *as bur(ed—Selim never passed 'the place where. he had killed him without being seized with, a severe fit of shuddering. I was very iirfrom the shock of this drendful Seene. I believe I wake. out of thy senses'„and, had a Bort of brain fever ' which ? ,was very much aggravated rhckp.the widow Jame- son called to see 'Mi. When Iltrasteedvail ng, when I was veryWell-blit very weak, I - was one day elope With William Cumming; I was looking at him - , and thinking how noble and hadsome he was, and then I thought oftlie widow Is:meson, and of her - beauty, and I said: 'Uncle William', has "Ere. Jameson rode Selim yet:? ' 'Ago es, - dear,' - lirsaid. almost impa. tiently; wish yoit'neier would tall Inn•g11 - we1e William,' again-;".and his. forehead WOfiti t ir , ,ise4wil :on ,it s ,, Athigh, -gKefttly , marred tits exceeding' beauty.. •• I blushed scarlet, but said nothing. ''Please, pro'mise never to'call me uuele`again,' he said beseechingly. A sweet of happiness stole into my heart, and:l said blushing and smiling: 'Why should I not call, you uncle, and Mrs. Jameson. aunt,... when she is your wife.' 'My wife said he vehemently; shall never marry unless my little Agnes will be my wife. 'You would not marry a- little witch!' I said. 'And you would not marry an old bachelor, almost as old as your father?' said he. I wanted to say : 'Who said I would not ?' but I did say, 'I am so strange and unlike everybody else, that you could never be willing to take me for your wife.' 'Willing; said William : 'I would give the wealth of the world to call you my ,wife, little witch as you are. Will you leave off ,calling me Uncle William, and be my little wife, Agnes, rdy heart's pet my darling l' I was sitting beside him in my weakness ; his arm stole round my waist, my head sunk upon my bosom, he clasped 'me in fervent embrace, and said 'Mine forever;' and I answered : 'Mine forever.' Selira is eighteen years old to-day, and my eldest daughter is ten. She is a lovely girl, and is more like her father than like me, and to my great joy, she is no way peculiar; unless be ing a great romp, and very brilliant and healthy in her complexion. may be considered unusual in this day of prim schools and pale girls. One thing is certain, and it is a great comfort to me., that though ehe is a child of good sense, and good ca pacity for moral and intellectual at witch.' HOW THE RICHEST MAN IN N. Y. SPENDS HIS TINE. A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat sketches the richest man in New York in this manner:-- Mr. Astor's office is in Prince street near Broadway, where he may be found daily between the tio - urs of `"nine and three." He is afarge stout built man, with course features, stiff, rough, sandy"-colored hair and a cast of eountenace of a very ordinary type. He dresses plainly but neatly, has a somewhat careworn look, and appears to be fifty or sixtyyears of age. His private office is of, moderate size and of plain furniture. On astable are a few books, and on opening that one Which appears most thumbed, you perceive that it is a volume of maps of city property, carefully and ele gantly executed, and, as a whole, em bracing the sundries of an enormous estate, estimated at over $25,000,000. Mr. Astor resides in Lafayette Place, , in one of a row dwellings which twen ty five years ago were the grandest in the city, though now they are dis tanced by -the palaces of the Fifth avenue. - Near by is the magnificent library founded by his father, to which be has added a fund nearly equal, An the original endowment. Here he spends a small part of his time, the remainder being occupied by, his du ties iii the Prince street office, where, Sundays excepted, he does a full day's workevery day in the week. Thus the whole routine of life of the richest man in America is a walk to and from hothe of a half mile and close atten tion to busily:Sae. ' The *care tollsfr. Astdes estate is a vast burden. He has several hundred tenants of all grades, from the $BOO cottage to the.s3o,ooo store. To re lieve himself of this vexatious duty, he, has committed it for, years to, an agent who does the work well. He collects rents and makes quarterly returns, and thus pays over a sum which would be almost incredible, and which we may roughly eatimte at 6300,000 per annum.. This man' em ployes a small army of painters, and other mechanics, in order to keep up repairs, and superintends the. whole, of this department. As a large park of Mr. Astor's pro,erty consists of vacant lots which are in continual de mand, and which he will not -sell, he is much employed with architects and masters builders, and generally has one or two large blocks in course 'of erection at a time. This is a very se rious harden. His son. John Jacobis quite a business man, and bears his share of the load. In addition to these labors, the attention to the, col lection of interest in bond dividends, &c., is a heavy item, since in the little brick office (which is of course, fire proof,) there are several millions of Government and State securities.— His daily income is computed at $6,- 000. It is said that a certain person felicitated Mr. Astor on bis wealth.—= Pointing to his piles ofbonds, ,maps, &c., the. papitalist ,rsplied : "Row would you like to manage all these matters for your hoard and clothes ?" WHOLE NO. 676. Tbe.man.detnurred to the idea. "Sir," Said the &her, "it is all I get" Mr. Astor, it said, gives but little away. % .PASAGE OF TILE CONFISCATION Bait BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. On Monday r amidst - the echos of the guns of the enemy on the Upper Potomac the 40pse of Represents. tivo Oa idly' passed a confiscation o bill by a ' to of eighty-two against, i t sfity: Vied. "tie' like Nero ;fiddling while - Rome .wite.burning. It is the disemsionvaflsuch, bilis in 'Congress, and Vle , foldigh 4 prpcle,ntatioas ofgen eraletiliat la, revived 'the. sinking cause trfifih re e• ." OA and biought them back'Aele" *Witty of Vraghington :- nti Mitipiandi The course of Congress since Abe opening or the ses sion has been worth more than two .hundred thousand iiien,to the insur gent leaders. But for 7the• proceed. ings of the Abolitionists in Congress and out of it the rebellion would have long since died a natural death.— Their business appears to be to heap fresh fuel on the expiring flame. The best recruiting sergeants of the rebels are the Abolition demagogues in the halls of Congress. A short time ago Senator Wilson proposed to stop en• listment and reduce the army by two hundred thousand men. He now wants to add two hundred thousand men to the seven hundred thousand already raised, making in all close up on a milli= of men organized for the war. Had it not-beer, for the disloy al course of the Abolitionists inplay ing into the hands of the rebels, fifty thousand men would have sufficed to restore the Union and peace. If they continue in their present course, and are not put down by an indignant people, he must be a very far-seeing and profound philosopher who can predict the end of the war, or meas ure the disastrous consequpees to the American Republic and the human race. Only two things were necessary to be done—one was to whip the rebels in the field, and the other was to sup ply our army with the sinews of war. The first is not in the line of the brawling fanatics in Congress. They would prefer that the honest, hard fisted democracy should fight the reb els, and be so killed off as to diminish their numbers at the ballot box, while the 'Abolitionists should enjoy the spoils of office and revolutionize the government. But if the fanatics and fools in Congress are very reluctant to fight, they-havLi at least the pow ,-.-fin ..v.-,..__ „....,_ otic army read g y and willing topr out its blood.like water for tire Union. Here again Congress is at fault. It will not pass bills essential to the fi nancial credit of the country and the ultimate success of our arms; while it wastes its time in discussing foolish bills for confiscating the prop erty of rebels of .which we have not possessio), which is about equal in wisdom t ,the project of emancipat ing the SI es before we are in occu pation of the territory where the a dtt slaves are be found: The proverb of counting he chickens before they are hatched' is prudence, compared with.the acti n of Congress. Itis not only reckoningwithout its host, but doing its wor t to defeat the calcula tions'of our g nerals and their armies. Let the rebels he first subdued, and the authority- Of the Federal Govern ment established in the insurgent States, and then the question of pre venting a recurrence of rebellion is in order. Most certainly to hold out befdre hand a sweeping measure of confiscation, making no distinction be tween leaders and :their deluded—fol lowers, is not the way to put -down the rebellion, for there is no induce , merit left to the rebels to yield ; on the contrary, every temptation is of fered to them to resist to the last, and , this, no•doubt, is the secret of the bill now. passed. The design is to prevent , the restoration of the Union. Bat the spirit of the people is suddenly a roused by recent events. Let disloy , al members of Congress beware.-- Even such donkeys as Andrew, of Massachusetts, already perceive the rising storm. It was but a-day or two ago that he threw cold water on the call of the Government for additional troops. Now he is ready to sent it more than it Wants. Let Congreas take the hint. Let the Senate post pone the confiscation bill to a more convenient season; anctlet it prompt ly pass the tax bill, eontaining,a few articles of universal consumption, and not a long list intended to beget a host of collectors as destructive to the people's substance as an army of lo cust& Let Congress do this ald go home. The'people-4e sick °feta fol ly and its treason tolliekeause of the Nation'. ' There is a reckoning in store for every man of th e present Congress, as there is for every member of the Cabinet. Let the Administration be purged, and let the unsound part be cut away,`lefit it`taint and a:irrupt the whole. NEGROES IN THE NAVY.--ThO See. rotary of the . Navy )aas ordered our Naval commanders to enlist . raaaway slaves in the Navy, "rating, them as boys, at $B, $9, or $lO per month, and one ration." Mr. :Ny'eileta ought to be put in command Of a-fleet thlis man ned and sent to capture the. Forts at Charleston. He would doubtless make brilliant work of it. se-'A Printer's apprentice who• at tempted to do the agreeable to a Wet.; gyman's datighter',lwits itiooked whin' her father annewic4 the text--" 1 'y: daughter is :grArßottely tbrmentedi with a devil." Ittlaura 511V$rti5 . A FAMILY PAPER FORTOWN AND OOUNTRT, IS PRINTED AND PUBLISHED wEINICI., By WM. M. BRESLIN, 2d Story of Fureck's New Building, Chuldperland At One DOWV and Fifty Conte a Year. ASP•Anc...xwenttem Inserted at the usual rates. - 61.' The ftleade of the etteldlehmenw,nnd the public genet . ally are re3f -ctfally solicited to send in their orders. sar-HA'SJAIILLIS Printed at an hours notice. • HATES OF POSTAGE. In Lebanon County, postage free. In Pennsylvania, out of Lebanon county .93( cents pa quarter, or 13 cents a year. Out of this State, 6 cta. per quarter, or 20 ow.* yew If the postage is not paid in advance, rates are doubled LO, THE POOR NEGRO. The New York Atlas of Saturday has the following pointed remarks The partiality of the Republfean politicians for the colored race is tru ly wonderful, and their benevolenoe towards old darkies and nigger babies is extremely marvellous, when we consider how many poor white fami lies are suffering from penury and neglect, while those upon whom they depend are fighting the battles of the Union. "Contrabands"—runaway ne groes—from all parts of Virginia And Maryland, continue to pour into the city of Washington at the rate of 200 a day—most of them old and decrepit, • sick, lame and Wad, all of whom are welcomed, fed and clothed by the gorernment, drawing—without work ti rations as many a -pooe-eol dier's family would be glad to receive. If negroes are thus fed from thepub lie crib, while leading a life of idle ness, the people naturally inquire why poor white people cannot receive like favors. If government rations are supplied to runaway negroes and vag abond negro women and children, why n6t in like manner feed the women and children of those white soldiers who are starving in New York ? There are now upwards of3ooo worth less negroes in Washington drawing rations which cost the government 8.1 cents each per day, and it is calcula ted that the number will be swelled to 20,000 within three months. To feed this army of black vagrants at the rate of 31 cents a day will cost over two and a half millions of dollars a year, to say nothing of rent for lodgings, bedding, medicines, attend ance, clothing, etc. For all this, the Northern laborers and mechanics are to be taxed, while the wives and chil dren of New York soldiers are left to suffer and starve! A Washington correspondent sug- gests that the poor women who have been vainly clamoring around the City Hall for money to toy bread, shovtld paint themselves and their babies black, and go to Washington, where, under the present arrangements of the gov ernment, they would be entitled to draw daily rations worth thirty-one cents. It will be of no use, however, for them to go, unless they present a black face to the dispensing commissa ry, who has no authority to feed white people, however much they may be suffering. Isn't this a strange freak for a white man's government ? It is demonstrated that the cost of the ra tions dispensed to idle negroes at For tress Monroe, Port 'Royal and Wash ington city, would soon rtsto. air our soldiers, and supply their families with bread for months. Why not stop this feeding of lazy negroes, and devote the mon ey now expended upon them, to the feeding of poor soldiers' wives and, children ? Why is it that a lazy no. gro can be fed and clothed from the public treasury, while white sufferers are left to starve ? BAD House ix PARIS.—The Farb sians have started a new style of dis sipation. Soirees now commence long after ten, private concerts at a bout eleven, and balls at. eleven.— Dinners are ordered half an hour ear lier than they are mutiny 1501 . 9 , 411 an d, instead of being furnished at tali" past•seven or eight, are Over at seven• and half past seven so that perSonsof quality can go to bed and have a long sleep before they dress to go out at midnight. They had better carry the fashion to a little greater extreme and not go out till next day, when they •can make an early start. NERVOUSNESS . Barons RISING TO SPEALE• —sir E. B. Lytton, in a, late article irr Blackwood's Magazine, says ;.—Mr, Pitt was nervous before rising to speek ; hence,. perhaps, his recourse to stimnlants. A surgeon, eminent in Brighton some years ago, told me that when he was a shopboy in London, he used to bringto Mr. Pitt the the dose of laudanum and sal-volatile which the great statesman.habitually. took before speaking. The laudanum perhaps hurt his constitution more than the port wine, which he drank by the bottle. The wine might be necessary to sustain the physical spirits lowered by the laudanum. Mr. Fox was nervous before speaking; Sit, I hive heard, was Lord Plunkett. .A disfinguised member of the Whig payl., now no more, and who was himself one of the most sensitive men and one of the most attractive orators, told me that once ' in the House of Commons he had crossed over to speak to Mr. Canning on some question of public business, a little time before the latter delivered one of his most remarkable speeches ; and, on taking the hand Mr. Canning extended to him, he exclaimed, "I fear you are ill, your hand is so cold and damp." "Is it?" answered Canning, smiling: "so much the better, that shows how nervous I am ; I shall ,speak well to-night." THE LEVELING PROCESS The Washington correspondent of the - Boston Jourital asserts that 50,000 mus kets and gay Znua.ve uniforms'are being prepared for as many neboroes, - who are to , be drilled, equipped, and , mustered' into. , the service of the United States. Secre tary Welles has issued an order requiring flag officers to enlist those "penions known as contrabands" * * * - freely - In the, , Navy," and recommends their *nip ment "in every departmentohuihip. So it appears the levalhas,* - : 'As commenced in earnest,44and' with theltddiers. But the di and the. .nro!firdlifalile,isileithtijOilf&e negrow arepot - **Yetnakt:*if erous:' 0,110 whirithiPmay i beVitett:they are to man tho'forts evacuatedhy the enemy ;, to'have all the UoMfortp of a well ordered garrison, while'r,tll*,; ess valued white - brothers -in. erinit'' *sure the dan gers and suffer them ie. - bans of the field.,
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