ait n gatiuttiser
"X" 30 43.
JOB PRINTING OFFICE.
PRINTING:
OF
5....41 , 3.LEZ:130 , a• t-rf.tICEICEI.EII:3 1, 9:r UCt.) S'lt 4 ,
Nealiy and Promptly Executed, at Mc
ADVERTISER OFFICE, LEBANON, PENN'A
Tam establishment is now supplied with an oxtensivo
assortment of JOB TYPE, which gill be increased ns the
pat rfulage demands, it can now turn oat PRINTING, of
~v,ry description, in a neat and expeditious manner—
uol on very reasonable terms. Snob ns
Pamphlets, Checks,
Business Cards, Handbills, •
Circulars, Labels,
Bill Headings, Blanks,
Programmes, Bills of Pare,
Invitations, Tickets, &e, &c.
err Duns of all kinds, Common and JndgMent BONDS.
Mad, Justices', Constables' andother BLANKS, printed
carrially end neatly on the best paper, constantly kept
fur Halo at this o ffi ce, at prices "to suit the times."
Rebte•lii cf .41LciNcrortiomaxxig.
Size. It. St. Sm. 6m. Iy.
1 Sullen., 12 lines, $lO $l,OO $3.00 $6.00 $ 8.00
2 s' 24 lines, 1,00 2.00 6.00 . 8.00 12.00
3 1 . 36 lines, 1.50 3.00 7.00 10,00 16.00
For Executor's and Administrator's Notices, 2.00
For Assignee, Auditor and similar Notices, 1.60
For yearly Cards, not exceeding 6 lines, 3.00
For column advertisement, 1 year, 50.00
For li column " 50.00
<Or ca.__
For 4 column "
For Announcingoacdidates for office, hi advance, 2.00
For Announcing sale, unaccompanied by inlet 1.00
For Local Notices, Society resolutions, As., 8 cis
per Ilno.
For Wallops or Special Notices, 80 cents per line
por year.
Yearly advertisements for Dterebants and Busi
ness men as agreed upou.
•.+ Subscription price of the LEBANON ADVERTISER
One .Dollar and a Ralf a Year.
Address. Wm. 15.1. BRESLIN, Lebanon, Pa.
Dr. GEORGE GLE/1119 Jr .,
Lebanon, Pe., In
P t i°linCu Tt riand t i ;teroomo lately
deceased. [June 28, 1885.
JOHN P. BOWMAN,
Surgeon
•
xaleX t t
SW* ROOMS over Mt : .Ad.
1.. L . 4 . am Rise a Bat Store, Cna
-1 Tr beriond St., Lebanon, Pa.
Lebanon, 81arch 20, 1866.
Dr. S. H. GUILFO:ID,
(Graduate of the Penn% College of Dental Surgery.)
ROOMS—lis C. Henry's new building,
opposite the Engle Hotel, Cumberland
street, Lebanon, Pa.
, 11jj Ether and ehloro form adminis
tared when desired.
Lebanon, June 14,1865.-0.
DENTISTRY.
R. Wagner.
NBBRTB Artificial Teeth on Cold, Sitter, Vulcanite,
I et from $S to $lO. „aeoth filled at 76 cento and up
werd.v. Residence And - Olifoe, Cumberland street, 'Bast,
T.chateu, opposite Benson's Betel. whore be has been
practising the lest eight years.
Lebanon, April 5, 1865.
M. CAMPBELL,
Attdrz.ey at
VFICE, 2d Floor, under Fun& 's MIL Camber
\J land St , Lebanon, Pa.
11 Will also attend promptly to the collection of all
War Claims,
References—Om A G. Chum, Umriaburg, Pa.;
R. I. WRIGHT, State Reporter'
'
Allentown • M'ALLIBTEa
llaavan, Attys., Bellefonte,
Pa ; A DEAN, Attys.
liellidayaburg, Pa.
Lehrman, June 21,1865,-le.
liGHlt BENSON
ATTORNEYAT - LA
11. / FMB with A. B. Boughter, Req., Cumberland
Street, nearly apposite the Court House,
Lebanon, February 8,1805.
T. BIIIG.I - IAUS
ATTORNEY-AT -LAW
IFFION iq Stlabter*lluildingt Cumberland Street
ij nearly opposite the Court House, Lebanon.
Lebanon, June 15, 1884.—tt.
CYRUS I'. MILLER
t
Attorney-a -1.4
aw
Moo in Wnlnntfitreet, neatly opposite the Buck
V Bowl, and two doom eonth frr.o Karrunny's
'Hardware store.
I. Amnon, April 6,1864.4 y,
IitaSSLIER 011 ER,
t t x. eo - 3r al N7cr .
viITICE removed to Cumberland street, ono door
lJ Vast of the Lebanon Valley Bank, opposite the
Buck lintel, Lebanon, Fn. pan. 6,'64.
GRANT WEIDMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OtflolCE , In Curnbberland street, a few doors east of
the Nagle Hotel, In the office late .of his father
Capt. John Weidman, deed.
Lebanon. Sept. 9,1863.
ARMY AIVD NAVY
PENSION, BOUNTY, BACK PAY AND BOUN-
TY LAND AGENCY.
imams anal,
tco z. .s td W
111113 undersigned, having been licensed to prosecute
I. claims, and having been engaged In the Bounty and
Pension bushsess, offers his services to all those who
ethereto entitled, in accordance with the various
ads of Congress. All such shonld call or address at
once, and make their applications through
LABELER BOYEIt, Attorney at-Law,
• Minos removed to Cumberland St., one
door 13net of the Lebanon Valley Bank, opposite
the Buck Botol, Lebanon, Pe. [Jan. 6,'64.
REMOVAL.
S. T. ItIeADAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
HAS REMOVED hie Office to Market Street, one door
South of the American Rouse, better known as
Matthee' Hotel.
Lebanon, April 12,1855.
JOSIAII FUNCK ,
t t c=, -y—a .Asr, t or - vv.
vr i tfc o t it iw a xgy& i to m th e e tia Fi n r:
st N re e e ttnLil e ? i 3 a a n n o k ii ,
$( 1 1 1
s t
kora 29,1865.
J. HOFFMAN.
(Late Czpt. in the 142 d Ftt. At.)
134opitzma.tv, Memois- latisoy-
AND
.pension Agent.
OPFICE IiVINFL HO MANON. J
N, PA. . W.
KILLINOER,
LI
Lebanon, March le, —tf.
__
HENRY - J. LIGHT,
aNauspiticia or the Peace.
TIRE subscriber, having been elected Justice of the
Peace, would respectfully inform the public that
he is now prepared to attend to the duties of hie office,
as well as the writing of Deeds, Donde, Agreements,
rind all business pertaining to a Scrivener, at his resi
dence in North Lebanon Township, about two miles
from Lebanon, near the Tunnel, on the Union Forge
Rona. HENRY J. LIGHT.
N. Lebanon township, May 3, 1806.—.8m.
REMOVAL!.
A. STANLEY ULRICH/
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Tine removed hie Mee to the be Ming, one door ens
of Landermiloh 's Store, opposite the Waehill ton house
Lebanon, Pa.
BOUNTY nod PENBI.ON claims promptly attended
to. !April% '63.-3m.
L. R. DREG'S
LIQUOR STORE,
Market Square, opposite the .11furkel House, Lebanon, Pa.
undersigned renpeettully Informs Cue public
.1 that be has received on extensive stock of the
choicest and purest Liquors of all descriptions. These
Liquors he is invariably disposed to sell at un ,
•• precedentedly low prices.
Druggists, farmers, II otel Keepers, and oth
ers will consult their own Interests by buying or the
Undersigned, L. it. DEED.
A Igo, for sale, MIS ELLER'S lISItII BITTERS-
Lebanon. April 16, 1863.
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
'PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Dleeaaee of the Urinary and Sexual Systems,
new and reliable treatment. Also the BRIDAL
°HAMM, an Essay of Warning and Instruction,
ca nt In espied envelopes, free of charge. Address; Dr.
J. MULLIN BC/WILTON, Howard Association, No.
R. South Ninth Bina, •Phthidelphia,
pas 21,11105,
tcb an rt
VOL. 17---NO, 3.
IMPORTANT
INVALIDS.
IRON IN THE BLOOD•
IT is well known to the medical profusion that
IRON is the Vital Principle or Life Element of the
blood. This is derived chiefly from the food we eat ;
but if the food le not properly digested, or if, from
any cause tokateuer, , the netessary quantity of iron is
not taken into the circulation, or becomes reduced, the
whole system suffers. The bad blood will irritate the
heart, will clog up the lunge, will stupefy the brain,
will obstruct the liver, and will send its disease•pro-
during elements to all parts of the eyetem, and every
one will suffer in whatever organs may be predisposed
to disease.
The great valne of
IRON AS,I int. 7 4OI4DINE
le well known And acknowledged by all medical men.
The difficulty has been to obtain each a preparation of
it as will enter the circulation and assimilate at once
with the blood. This point, says Dr. Hayes, Mastachn
setts State Chemist, has been attained in the Peruvian
Syrup, by combination in a way before unknown.
The Peruvian Syrup
is a protected solution of the PROTOXIDE OF IRON
A NEW DISCOVERY IN MEDICINE, that Strikes at
the Root of the Disease by supplying the blood with
to Vital Principle or Life Element—lron.
On
The Peruvian Syrup
Cures Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Dropsy. Bever and
Ague, Loss of Energy, Low Spirits.
The Peruvian Syrup
Infuses strength, vigor, and new life into the syetem,
and builds np an "Iron Constitution."
The Peruvian Syrup
Cures Cbron lc Diarrhoea, Scrofula, Boils, Scurvy , Lo
of Constitu Honal Vigor.
'rho Peruvian Syrup
Cures Nervous Affections, Female Complaints and all
disarms of the Kidneys and Bladder •
The Peruvian Syrup
lan Specific for Fill Macaws originating in a BAD
STATE OF THE BLOOD, or accompanied by Debility
or a Low State of tbe 3yatem.
Parnplilets containing certificates of cures and recom
mendations from some of the most eminent Physicians
Clergymen, and ethers, will be sent free to any ad
dress.
We select a few of the names to show the che recto
of the testimon lats.
JOHN E. WILLIAMS, ESQ.,
Preatient of the Metropolitan Bank, Now York,
REV. ABEL STEVENS,
Late Editor Christian Advocate and Journal
REV. P. CHURCE,
Editor New York Chronicle ;
Rev. John Plerpont, . Lewis Johnson, M. D.,
Rev. Warren Burton, Roswell Kinney, E. D,„
Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, S. K. Kendall, M. D..
Rev. a urdon Robbins, W. lt. Chisholm, M.A.,
ltev. Sylvantis Cobb, Francis Dana, M. D,
Rev. T. Starr King, J. Antonio Benches, M. D,,
Rev, Ephraim Nute, Jr., Abraham Wendell, M. D.,
11ev. Joseph H. Clinch, A .4. Uayee, M. D.,
Rev, Uenry Upham, J. R. Chilton. M. D.,
11ev. P. C. Headley, U. E. Kinney, U. D.,
ltev. John W. Olmstead, Jerem inh Stone ,M. D.
Prepared by N. L. CLARK di CO., exclusively for
J. P. 1.4.149110RP.,N0. 401 Broadway, Now York.
Sold by all Drugglata
Redding's Russia Salve.
Ileals Old Sores
Redding's Russia Salve
Cures Burns, Scalds, Cute.
Redding's Russia Salve
Cures Wounds, Bruises, Sprains.
Redding's Russia Salve
Cures Boils, Ulcers, Cancers.
_ Salys
-
Cures Sal - us, rysipe
Redding's Russia Salve
Cures Ringworms, Corns, &e., &c.
NO FAMILY SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT
Only 25 con to a box
FOR SALE BY
J. P. DINSMORE. No. 491 Broadway, New York.
S.W. FOWLE & CO. No. 18 Tremont St., Boston,
And by all Druggists and COuntry Storpkeepers.
Juno 29, 1804.—1 y. cow.
The Phoenix Pectoral
WILL CURE YOUR COUGH,
[ 4IP
:ff-. -
TUE PMENIX PECTORAL
• OR
COMPOUND SYRUP OF WILD CHERRY
AND SENEKA SNAKE ROOT,
WILL OHRE THE DISEASES OF THE
THROAT AND LUNGS.
Itch as olds, oughs ' Croup, Asthma,
Bronchitis, - Catarrh, Sore Throat,
Hoarsness, h ooping
Cough, &c.
ITS TIMELY USE WILL PREVENT
Pulmonary Consumption
AND EVEN WHERE THIS FEARFUL DISEASE
has taken bold it will afford greater relief than
any other medicine.
Miss Kate Vanderslice of Pottsville, says, was
benefited more by using the Phoenix Pectoral than
any other medicine I ever used."
Elias Oberheltzer, Lionville, Chester county, was
cured of u. cough of many years' standing by using the
Phoenix Pectoral.
Joseph Lukens, of Hall greet, Phoenixville, certifies
that ho was cured of a cough of two years standing,
when all other medicines had failed, by the use of the
Phoenix Pectoral.
Jacob Powers certifies that he has sold hundreds of
bottles of the Phoenix Pectoral, and that all who used
it bear testimony of its wonderful effects In curing
coughs.
John 11.4yer, editor of the Independent Phoniz, hay
ing used it, has no hesitation in pronouncing it a com
plete remedy for cough, hoarseness and irritation in
the throat.
The West Chester Jeffersonian says :
"We have known Dr. Oberholtzer personally a
number of years, and it gives us the greatest pleasure
to recommend his medicines, inasmuch a 4 the public
rarely have the benefit of family medicines prepared by
a physician of his acquirements and experience.
"Dr. Oberholtzer is a member of the Alumni o the
Medical Department at the University of Pennsylvania,
at which institution he graduated in 1854."
PoresroWN, January 3d, 1885.
. „
This certifies that I have used the Phoenix Pectoral
In my family, and T recommend It to the public as the
very hest remedy for Coughs and Colds that I have
ever tried. One of my children was taken with a cold
accompanied with a Croupy Cough ; so bad indeed that
it could not talk or scarcely breathe. having heard
so much said about the Phoenix Pectoral I procured. a
bottle of it. The first dose relieved the difficulty of
breathing and before the child had taken one•fourth of
the bottle it was entirely well. Every family should
have it in their house.
Signed, D. P. CROSBY.
Mrs. Mary Butler, mother of Hon. Wm. Butler,
President Judge of the Chester and Delaware Districts,
says that she cannot do without the Phoenix Pectoral.
Dr. George B. Wood, Professor of the Practices of
Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital,
and one of the authors: of the United States Dispense.
tory, says of the Senate Snake
, Root : "Its action is
especially directed to thelungs.'
The proprietor of this medicine has so much cone
dunce In its curative powers, from the testimony of
hundreds who have used It, that the money will be re
funded to any purchwer who is not eatieeed with its
effects.
It is so pleasant to take that children cry for it.
It costs only 36 cents—large bottles Otvz
1t Is Intended for only one class of diseases, namely
those of the LUNGS and THROAT.
Prepared only by Levi Oherholtzer, M. D., Phoenix
villa, Pa. Johnston llolloway Cowden, No. 23,
N Sixth et. Philadelphia, and T . C. Wells & o. No. lit
Franklin et., New York, General Wholesale Agents.
Sold wholesale and retail by J. L, Lemberger, Dr.
Gee. Rose and D. 8. Raber, Lebanon, and by nearly
every druggist and storekeeper fn Lebanon county.
N. B.—lf your nearest druggist or storekeeper 'does
not keep this medicine do not let him put yon off with
some other medicine, because km makes more money
on It, but send at once to one of the Agents for it.
March 8,1806.-6 m.
THE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EXIST
ing between C. C. LOWER and 11. W. RANK, JO
he Wholesale Tobacco liminess, under the firm of
OWEK & RANK, ie We day dissolved by mutual
consent. The business of the late firm a ill be settled by
either of the partnere at No. 146 North Third St.
Philadelphia, July 1,1864.
If. W. RANH, of the late firm of Lower & Reinke
will continue the boldness as heretofore, at came
piece. W. RANK.
Philidelplda, July 18,1884 —H.
TO ALL
U. S. 7-30 LOAN.
1 1 4 33.1 - rci.
$230,000,000.
BY authority of the Secretory of the Treasury, the
undersigned, the General Subscription tgent for th
stale of United States Securities, offers to the public
the third series of Treasury Notes, bearing seven and
three-tenths per cent. interest per annum, known as
the
7-30 Loan.
These notes are i issued under dote of July 15, 1865,
and are payable three years from that date in eurren•
ay, or are convertible at the option of the holder into
U. S. 5-20 Six per cent.
Gold Bearing Bonds.
These Bonds are now worth a handsome premium,
and are exempt, as are all the Government 'Sonde from
State, County, and Municipal taxation, which adds
from one to three per cent. per annum to their value,
according to the rate levied upon ether property. The
intermit is payable semi-annually by coupons attached
to each note, which may be cut off and sold to any
bank or banker. The interest a 1740 per cent amounts
to
One Cent per day on each
__,s 50 note.
TWO ants fr - 100 "
Teo " " " 500 "
Twenty < " 1,000 4,
One Dollar 5,000 44
Notes of all thedenominations named will be prompt
ly furnished upon receipt of subscriptions.
The Notes of this Third Series are precisely similar
in form and privileges to the Seven-Thirties already
sold, except that the Government reserves to Itself the
option of paying interest in gold coin at 6 per cent., in
stead of 1.3-10ths in currency up to July 15th. nt the
time when they subscribe.
Tho delivery of the notes of this third series of the
Seven thirties will commence ea the let of June, and
will be made promptly and continuously after that
date.
The slight change made in the conditions of this
THIRD SERIES affects only the matter of interest—
The payment in gold, if made, w ill be equivalent to
the currency interest of the higher rate.
The return to specie payments, in the event of
which only will the option to pay interest in Hold bo
availed of, would so reduce and equalize prices that
purchasers made with six per cent. in gold would be
fully equal to those made with seven and three-tenths
per cent. in currency. This is
The only Loan, in Market
Now offered by the Government, and its superior ad
vantages make it the
GREAT POPULAR LOAN OF THE PEOPLE
Less than $230,000,000 of the Loan authorized by
the last Congress are now on the market. This
amount, at the rate at which it is being absorb
ed. will all be subscribed for within two months
when the notes will undoubtedly command a premium
as has uniformly been the case on closing the sub•
seriptions to other Loans.
In order that citizens of every town and section
the country may be afforded facilities for taking the
loan, the National Banks, State Banks, and Private
Bankers throughout the country have generally
agreed to receive subscriptions at par. Subscribers
will select their own agents, in whom they have con
Hence, and who only are responsible for the del iv ery
of the notes for which they receive orders.
JAY COORB,
SWISCRIPTION Amyx , . Philadelphia.
SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received by the Lebanon Na
tional Bank, the Valley National Bank of Lebanon
and the First Nat lone! Bank of Lebanon.
May 24, 1885.
No. 422 1-2 Broadway,
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y,
GOLD AND SILVER WARE,
Watches, Jewelry, Fancy Articles, Pho
tographs, &c.
IT A uTa i e t lu G „ b . eaTtif s o n r ie ma o r f iy ju ) w •e e r ge y en a g n a di d mp h o t i f t h at e io nl n a t I D - r
Fancy Goode, Photographs, Stereoscopes and foreign
Oil Paintings from the 'oldest and best Artists, nod
im.T.i.Dg Q,jid vaxpicalax_attention to the_wauts of qp in
the United States,—and wishing to extend our
floss, so as to reach all classes of people, we have adopt
ed this method. We have a largo amount of Comic,
Fancy, Plain and Religions Photographs, that we will
dispose of on the following terms :—We will sell 30,00 D
PhoMgraphs, colored In oil, at 31 cents each, or four
ihr $1 ; or plain at 20 cts each, or 8 for $l. We have
30,000 valuable Articles of goods, consisting of Pianos,
Watches, Diamonds, plain and ornamental Jowelry,
and Fancy Goods of every deseript ion, that we will sell
to the purchaser of Photographs, regardless of cost, at
$2 each.
List of Goods.
- -
Pianos, Rosewood, Melodeons, Rosewood, Diamond
Sets, Jewelry, Gold Watches, Silver Watches, Photo
graphic Albums, Stereopticons, 150 Pictures cash,
Toilet Sets, Fancy Articles, very beautiful, and im
ported before the War, Sets of Jewelry, of every de
scription and the latest patterns.
The above list of Goods presents a choice selection
of rich articles, which we offer to persons of taste.
The immense assortment under our control enables us
to present them to the public on those favorable tton
ditions, and we are daily receiving orders from all
parts of the conntry, stating that Goods purchased of
us years ago, and been in constant wear, are now as
good us new, whilst many of their friends and neigh
bors who purchased one dollar Jewelry, from various
firma, turned black as soon as worn, declaring that one
of our two dollar articles was worth more than a car
load of such worthless trash ; and being desirous of
increasing our already large sales, knowing that
wherever our goods are once introduced they will in_
sure large sales, we wish everybody to distinctly un.
derstand. that we warrant all our Goods first quality
and especially our Jewelry, which is G old. We solicit
one sale.
Dow to Order Goods.
First, if you wish a beautiful Photograph, send to
us 80 cents in a letter, on receipt of which we will re
turn to you one Photograph and one numbered notice,
stating the article you can have for $2, and then it is
at your option to send us $2 for the article called for
or not ; and remember, that every article of Coeds we
send to our customers, we warrant as represented.
and to give satisfaction. -
N..—Trade supplied with Photographs at a liberal
discount. Persons sending for Photographswill please
state whether plain, comic, fancy or religious.
Address all orders to A. W. OSBORN dr CO.
42234 Broadway, N. Y.
N. B.—Eo careful and write No. 422 1 ,4 Broadway
plain on the Envelope, and we will answer Promptly
by return of mail. Itlay 17.1865.
FAVORITE SIMMER RESORT,
KNOWN AS
“COLD SPRING,"
TS NOW OPEN FOR TUE RECEPTION AND
accommodation of guests.
Improvements have boon made recently to the
Cold Erprorilag TACcreask),
which; added to the naturally beautiful scenery sur
rounding it, renders one of the pleasantest places in
the country.
Those desiring relief from the oppressive heat inci
dent to cities and towns will profit by a visit to this
resort.
THIS DELIGHTFUL WATERING PLACE
is pleasantly located on the line of the Schuylkill and
Susquehanna railroad, 26 miles northeast of Harris
burg.
The wagon roads leading to the "Spring" are in ex
cellent condition. C. RODCARMEL,
June 7,1865.1m*. Harrisburg, Box 170.
LEBANON TOBACCO FACTORY
rimE undersigns( are about locating in Lebanon,
what is essentially a
Missouri Tobacco Factory,
for the manufacture of Plug Tobacco. Our stook is
Missouri leaf, made up by Missend hands, and our
machinery is of the latest and most efficient character.
We shall determinedly adhere to the policy of making
and selling only it
GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF TOBACCO,
and dealers, merchants and others, while they have
the privilege or buying directly from the manufactur
er, thus saying to themselves the intermediate profits
heretofore paid the Jobber, are saved the risk of get
ting adulterated or poisoned tobaccos as when buying
unknown or irresponsible makes.
We shall be ready to till orders by the 10th of March
next.
We can retell none—can sell to no purchaser
less than 20 pounds.
Circulars and price list sent to any address on appli
cation.
Alkir In a few weeks we shall be prepared to manu
facture fine cut chewing and smoking tobaccos of va
rious grades.
F. 0. STICIITER & CO.
Lebanon, Feb. 22, 1565.-3 m.
Administrator's Notice.
"MOTION is hereby given that letters of Administra
tion have been granted to the undersigned, on
the Estate of MICHAEL DEININGER, late of East
Hanover Twp., Lebanon Co., Vs., deed. All persons
knowing themselves indebted to said Estate will please
call and make payment, and those having claims
against same w ill present them to me, at my residence
within one year from this date.
JOHN H. DEININGER,
Administrator of the Estate of Niabaal Defolager,
E. Il eu m; jAbisuou Got Pa., June 7,11388. [dec'd.
LEBANON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1865.
THE SKELETON I THE WELL.
It was during the year 1861, in the
thriving little town of Argcntiere,
near the foot of the Cevennes Moun
tains, in France. The day wascharrn
ing. Many-of the inhabitants were
traversing the highways, enjoying
the agreeableness of the weather.—
Among the number there was a tall
young man, apparently not more
than twenty-five years of age. In
his right hand ho carried a cane, and
in his left a, small carpet-bag. His
gait was quick, and from his expres
sion he appeared to be bent upon
some important errand. In this
manner he went along, occasionally
glancing around to view the surround
ing objects. .lad hardly, • Bono
more than a-quarQr of a mile when
he came to:a street, which was in the
suburb 3 of the town. He turned and .
proceeded up this. Presently after:
walking but a short distance, he ar
rived at an inn. Here he hesitated;
and after viewing the exterior, -he
muttered to himself the following
words :
"It is very singular that this is the
first inn I have seen throughout my
route. However I will put np here."
So saying he entered the building,
and having registered his name, he
was shown to a room. After order
ing his-dinner he went into his apart
ment to rest himself. His order was
immediately responded to, and after
eating he prepared to retire, intend
ing to partake of a long and hearty
sleep, so that early the next morning
he might visit the various merchants
of the town. He accordingly went
to bed, and was soon wrapt in sleep.
While thus sleeping he had a dream
that made the strongest impression
upon him. We will give it as . from
the lips of the dreamer
"I thought that I had arrived at
the same town, but in the middle of
the evening, which was really the
case; that I had put up at the same
inn, and gone immediately, as an un
acquainted stranger would do, in or
der to ccc whatever was worthy of
observation in the place. I walked
down the main street into another
street apparently leading into the
country. I had gone no great dis
tance when I came to achurch, which
I stopped to examine. After satis
fying my curiosity I advanced to a
by-path which branched off from the,
main street. Obeying an impulse
which I could neither account for nor
it was unfre
quented,
quented, and presently reached a
miserable cottage, in front of which
was a garden covered with weeds. I
had no great difficulty in getting in.
to the garden, for the hedge bad sev
eral wide gaps in it. I approached
an old well that stood solitary and
gloomy in a distantcorner • and look
ing down into it, beheld, without
any possibility of mistake, a corpse
which had been stabbed in several
places. I counted the deep wounds
and wide gashes. There were six."
At this moment he awoke with his
hair on end, trembling in every limb
and cold drops of perspiration bedew
ing his forehead—awoke to find him
self comfortably in bed, his carpet
bag lying near him, and the morning
sun beaming through his curtain.—
What a difference I He sprang from
his bed, dressed himself, and as it
was yet early, Bought an appetite for
breakfast by a morning walk. He
went accordingly into the street, and
strolled along. The farther he went
the stronger became the confused
recollection of the objects that pre
sented themselves to his view.
"It is very strange," said be to
himself; "1 have never been in this
town before, and I could swear that
I've seen this house, and the next,
and that other on the left.'.'
On he went, till he came to a cor
ner of a street crossing-the one down.
which he had come. Before long he
arrived at the church with the archi
tectural features that had attracted
his notice in the dream; and then the
highroad, along which he had pur
sued his way, coming at length to
the same bypath- that had presented
to his imagination a tew hours before
—there was no 'possibility of doubt
or mistake. Every tree and every
turn was familiar to him. He hurried
forward, no longer doubting that the
next moment would bring him to the
cottage; and this was really the case.
In all its exterior appearances it cor
responded with what he had seen in
his dreams. Who, then, could won
der that he determined to ascertain
whether the coincidence would hold
good in every point ? He entered
the garden - and went directly to the'
spot where he had seen the well ; but
here the resemblance tailed ; there
was none. He looked in every direc
tion, examined the whole garden,
and even went round the cottage,
which seemed to be inhabited, but
nowhere could he find any signs of
a well. He then hastened back to
the inn in a state of excitement hard
to describe. He could not make up
his mind to allow such extraordinary
coincidences to pass unnoticed. But
how was be to obtain a clue to the
awful mystery ? He went to the
landlord, and asked him directly to
whom the cottage belonged that was
on the by-road near to him.
"I wonder, sir," sa,id he, "what
causes you to take such particular
notice of that. wretched little hovel ?
It is inhabited by an old man and his
wife who have the character of being
very unsocial. They scarcely ever
leave the house, seo nobody, and no-
eti%EtTiattfolt%.
a:b7oHatisrt.
body goes to see them. Of late their
very existence appears to have been
forgotten, and I believe you are the
first, who, for years, has turned your
steps to the lonely spot."
These details instead of satisfying
his curiosity, only aroused it the
more. Breakfast was served, but he
could eat none ' • and he felt that if
he presented himself to the mer
chants in such a state of excitement
they might think him , mad. He
walked up and down the room and
looked out of the window, endeavor.
ing to interest himself in a quarrel
between two men in the street; but
the garden and cottage pre-occupied
his mind, and, at last snatching up
his bat, be made his way to the
street. Hastening to the nearest
Magistrate, he related the whole cir
cumstance briefly and clearly. .
"It is very strange," said • the offi
cer, "and after what has happened I
don't think.it, would be right to leave
the matter wirtiblitlifftibbrinvestiga
•
tion. I will place two of the 'police
at your command ; you can then go
once more to the. hovel and search
every part of it. You may, per
haps, make some important disco
very."
He allowed but very few minutes
to elapse before be was on his way,
accompanied by two officers. After
knocking at the door, and awaiting
for some time, the old man opened
the door. He received them some
what uncivilly, but showed no mark
of suspicion when they told Min they
wished to search the houge.
"Very well, as fast and as soon as
you please," was the reply.
"wave you a well here ?"
"No sir, we are obliged, to get our
water from a spring a quarter of a
mile distant."
They searched the house, but dis
covered nothing of any consequence.
Meanwhile the old man gazed upon
them with an impenetrable vacancy
of look, as if he could not understand
why they were intruding on his
property. Finally, they forsook the
cottage, without finding anything to
corroborate their suspicions. They,
however, resolVed to inspect the gar
den. By this time a number of per
sons had collected together outside,
having been drawn to the spot by the
sight of a stranger with two police
men. They were asked if they knew
anything of a well in those parts.—
They replied they did not ; the idea
seemed to perplex them. At length
an old woman came forward leaning
on a crutch.
"A well ?" said she. "Is it a well
you are looking for ? That has been
gone these thirty years. I remain
u-gre-tirtiti'itw-Midlelifttl ?LT - ) akSt 3 "`cl,
hear the splash in the water."
"Do you remember where that
well used to be," asked the gentle
man.
"As near as I can recollect," re
plied the woman, "it is on the very
spot where you now stand."
He suddenly started as if he had
trodden upon a serpent. They at
Once commenced digging u p the
ground. At about twenty itches deep,
they came to a layer of bricks, which
being broken up, revealed some rot
ten boards. These were easily re
moved, when they beheld the dark
mouth of the well.
"I was quite certain that was the
spot," said_the old woman. "What
a fool you were tostop it up, and then
have to travel so far for water !"
A sounding line, furnished with
books was cow let down into the
well—the crowd hard pressing around
them, breathlessly bending over the
black and fetid hole, the secrets of
which seemed hidden in impenetra
ble obscurity. This was repeated sev
eral times without - any result. At
length, penetrating below the mud,
the hooks caught something of con
siderable weight ; and after much
time and effort they succeeded in rais
ing it from the obscure hole. It was
an oid chest. The sides and lid were
decayed, and it needed no locksmith
to open it. Within it they found,
what they wore sure they would find,
and which filled the spectators with
horror— the remains at a human body.
The police officers now rushed into
the house and secured the old man.—
As to his wife, she at first could not
be fouud. But aftera fatiguing search,
she was discovered beneath a pile of
wood, being much bruised by the
heavy loge aove her. By this time
nearly the whole population of the
town had collected around the spot.
The old couple were brought before
the proper authorities and separately
examined. The man persisted in his
denial most obstinately ; but his wife
at once coulessed that she and her
husband, a very long time ago, had
murdered a peddler who possessed a
large sum of money. He had passed
the night at their house ; and they,
taking advantage of the heavy sleep
that encompassed him, had strangled
him, after which they placed his body
in a chest. The chest was then
thrown into the weft,' and - the well
stopped up. The two criminals had
reason to believe themsolvei free from
detection, as there were no witnesses
of the crime, and its• trace had been
carefully concealed: Nevertheless
they had not been able to hush the
voice of conscience. They fled from
theii• fellow-men. They wore intimi
dated at the slighted noise, and si
lence thrilled them with fear. They
had often thought of flying to some
distant land ; but some inexplicable
influence kept them near the remains
of their victim. Terrified by the de
position of his wife, the old man at
length made a similar confession ;
and six weeks after the guilty couple
expired on the scaffold.
WHOLE NO. 837
A CHAMBER OF HORRORS.
From an account in an "English
magazine of a trip to a Swiss village
called St. Ging, we extract the fol
lowing description of "A Chamber of
Horrors" :—"Not long after I . took
the chetau, an old servant who has
lived there many years with its for
mer tenant, a German Couilt, direct
ed my attention to a wall of great
thickness extending from the end of
a small bed-room, about forty feet
from the ground. According to him,
the German nobleman had always
slept in that chamber, which he al
lowed no one to - enter, save in his
presence. On himself it appeared to
produce _a strange effect, since, ac
cording to the servants, he always
shuddered.on passing the doorway,
while his countenance assumed a sad
der expression than ordinary.—
Whether, had the opportunity been
offered him, he would, before his
death, haves' lifte4 - the- vaiLfioni_the
chamber's mystery, the old dometitie
could not say, for he died suddenly
of apoplexy, without leaving behind
him, in writing, any clue to what
had so long perplexed his depend
ants. When viewed from the court
below, the ancient wall in a level
with the chamber seemed to be built
with large, loose stones, between the
interstices of which swallows passed
in and out. My curiosity being
strongly excited, I went for a couple
of workmen, and ordered them to
make a preforation in the wall from
the bed chamber; but on taking
down the painted canvass with which
it was covered, this proved to be al
together unnecessary, since behind it
there was a small door which, on be
ing pushed, swung back on its
hinges. Before proceeding any farth
er I dismissed the workmen, and or
dering a candle to be brought, for
the chamber was pitch dark, entered
alone. The air, close and heavy,
was impregnated, as I thought, with
the odor of decayed animal substan
ces, which immediately proved to be
the case. Before me, on an antiqua
ted bed, lay the body of a woman,
shrivelled to a mummy, dressed in
the forgotten fashion of a former age,
'with rings on its fingers, a necklace
about the neck, and long pins of gold
thrust through the hair. All around
the body the bed clothes exhibited
stains of blood. On one side of the
bed I observed a dark coffer, worm
cated, covered with dust, on lifting
the lid of which, I saw the body of a
man with a poignard, which 'had
prol;ably passed through the heart,
still sticking in it. The clenched
hands lay one by the side, the other
_aemssAle_b_r_tas_ . •
face;
the dress was gorgeous, and
the boots, apparently not decayed,
intimated that the corpse was that of
a military man. I called on the but
ler, showed him the contents of the
chamber and then inquired the age
of the German Count. 'He must,'
the man replied,'have been something
Over . 80.' 'ls there no tradition
among the peasants ?' I asked, 'about
the doings of the inmates of this
chateau before your time ?' 'lt is on
ly said', he replied, 'that for some
years there was great feasting and
merriment, with a perpetual succes
sion of guests, who hunted in the
neighborhood, sailed in pleasure
barges on the lake, made excursions
among the Alps, and kept all the ad
jacent towns alive with their mirth
and extravagance. On a sudden this
ceased ; the Count dismissed nearly
ail his domestics, retaining only my
father and two other men, while
thenceforward, no woman was ever
permitted to.
n enter the chateau.—
There were o children, and the la
dy was repOrted to have returned to
her relatives in G-crmany.' 'To these
facts,' I observed, 'we have the key
now before us. There lays the
Count's lady, and here the paramour
for whose sake she 'was
THEY DON'T KNOW THE MAN.
The Radicals—Jacobins is the bet
ter name—are swearing, scolding,
battling, teasing, coaxing, cajoling,
President Johnson—as they did Pres
ident Lincoln. The leading Radical,
or Jacobin paper of Wisconsin, print
ed at Milwaukee, says :
"The government has taken its position against
negro suffrage distinctly and unequivocally, just
as President Lincoln did at first against emanci
pation. But lie had to back down, just as Pros i-.
dent Johnson will be obliged to do in this case.
For his course is now disapproved by the leading
presses and members of the Union party ; and
is approved by the entire Copperhead party.--
People may turn up their noses at the opposi
tion of Wendell Phillips and men of his type.—
But when such men as Prof. Amuse Walker, of
Boston, take public issue with the President,
and the consciences and the hearts, not only of
the religious bodies, but also of thei loyal press
and the loyal masses, are opposed to the Presi
dent, 4in this question, be must change, or be
without a party to support him, or throw himself
into the arms of the Copperheads."
In reference to - this, the Nashville
Dispatch, President Johnson's home
paper, remarks :
"So the radicals think they can make Presi
dent Johnson come to terms. They don't know
the man."
Indeed they do not. No two men,
says the :New York Express could be
more unlike than Lincoln and John
son. The suavitor in modo is Lincoln,
the fortiter in re is Johnson. Edward
Everett was an educated Lincoln ;
Andrew Johnson is an alias for An
drew• Jackson. Bullying and threat
ening and storming, will but invigor
ate his nerves and bring out his
pluck. As he backed down the sc
cession clergy' of Nashville, so he will
back down the Jacobin.clergy of Bos
ton, if they try to bully him as they
bullied Lincoln.
ite., A Somnambulist walked out
of a three-story window initiohmond
and_awoke in another world.
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ORATION
BY
COL CHARLES J. BIDDLE,
AT HARRISBURG,
July 4th, 1865,
Fellow Citizens of Harrisburg : I have come,
with great pleasure, upon the invitation of your
Committee, to take part in this celebration.
I was glad to hear that you intended to revive
the proper observance of this day, which has, of
late years, been too much neglected. We can all
remember when it was the universal custom of
American people to assemble on this anniversa
ry to celebrate the great event that happened on
the 4th of Ju1y,1778, when the old thirteen colo
nies of Great Britain declared that they "were
and of right ought to be free and independent
States."
It was the custom, too, of the speakers ap
pointed for the occasion to strain to the utmost
their powers of language to express the great
ness of that event, and the consequences that
flowed from it; and, indeed, 4th of - July oratory
was sometimes charged with dealing a little too
much in exaggeration. But, while I shall not
try to rival the eloquence of those who have pre
ceded me on former anniversaries,l will say
briefly this—that no 4th of July orator ever ex
ceeded or came up to the truth in _ speaking of
the blessings that the American people enjoyed
,aorteg she.. long lseriod that succeeded the es
tablishment of their Liberty" and T.ntlependenee.
We who have known the evils, and dangers, and
burdens of a great civil war can look back now
and see how prosperous our lot was, how lightly
the troubles incident to human nature fell upon
this nation, from the end of the war of the Revo
lution till the beginning of the late attempt at
Revolution-, which the valor of our armies has,
at last, with God's blessing, utterly defeated.—
And by none was greater valor .shown than by
the gallant solders who crowd your city to-day.
To all who are here, and to all who celebrate
this day elsewhere, we utter the voice of wel
ceme. Welcome, sons of the old Keystone, to
the homes you have well defended ! Welcome
to the State upon which your deeds reflect im
mortal honor !
Eighty-nine years ago, this day, the Ameri
can Colonies cast off the rule of George the
Their loyalty—which means the love a people
have for a king—was exhausted, and the men of
the Revolution drew the sword in the name of
patriotism—which is the love we boar our coun
try.
They drew the sword upon no insufficient
cause. They first tried every peaceful effort to
obtain redress within the government under
which they lived. The Declaration . of Indepen
dence says, "In every stage of these impressions',
we have petitioned for redress in the most hum
ble manner. Oar repeated petitions have been
answered by repeated injuries. A prince whose
character is thus marked by every act which may
define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free
people."
Nor did the leading spirits of that day rashly
plunge their country into war. There were
statesmen then who calmly weighed in the bal.
anee the imposing but distant power of Great
Britain, and saw that the colonies were able to
cope with it. By a Revolution, justly begun
and wisely prosecuted, the people• of the "Old
Thirteen" States freed themselves from the rale
of a king whom they regarded as a tyrant.—
They established a government by the people,
and under it they grew and prospered, till they
reached a heighth of prosperity never surpassed
among the nations of the earth. _
Surely the events of the last four years should
not abate our reverence for the fathers of the Re
public, or for the free government they founded
"for themselves and their posterity." We can
not charge on them our sectional controversies,
ending, at last in civil war. They foresaw the
danger and showed us plainly the way to avoid
it. They wrote it down in the Great Charter of
American Liberty—the Constitution of the Unit
ed States. Enlightened by long experience of
...e,eParate.Wonial governments, they framed a
Interest@ ID common, ann — Mßlly ciIINSLa sepa
rate end distinct. Ana how did the framers of
the Constitution provide for all these interests,
so as to avert the danger which they saw must
flow from any unwise tampering with the inter
est of one State, by other States which did not
share that interest. How did they provide
against this danger, which could not escape their
sagacity ; for it was not a dull, fiat, uniform des
potism they were founding, but a Federal Union
among States of infinite diversity in climate and
soil and institutions and in the habits of their
people. They provided against this danger in a
way so plain and simple that the smallest intel
ligence could understand it; they provided
against it in a way so complete and perfect that
till the corner stone of their building was reject
ed the whole grand edifice stood erect and firm,
defying the storms of political passion and shat
tering all who dwelt within its precints.
THEY RESTED THE CARE OF THE COM
MON INTERESTS IN THE FEDERAL GOV
ERNMENT, AND THEY LEFT THE SEPA
RATE AND PECULIAR INTERESTS TO
THE CARE OF THE STATES.
This was the groat cardinal principle of the
American Constitution. Let no man blush that
he bas maintained it. Let no man who looks
for a happy future for his country, cease to
maintain it still.
I know that some treat this principle as if -it
had been devised solely to protect the institu
tion of slavery, in the Southern States—as if it
were of no concern to us. No, fellow-citizens;
slavery has perished by the sword of war, but
this principle is as vital as ever to free govern.
ment, as vital as ever to each State of the North
and the South, and to the people of every one of
them. Let me illustrate this by an example, that
has no relation to slavery. Many years ago
the good cause of temperance was seized upon
by fanatics, and of course pushed to the most
absurd extreme. In many of the New England
States, a law was passed called "Maine Liquor
Law" which undertook to change, by the stroke
of the pen, the habits of mankind and to com
pel total abstinence from every sort of liquor,
from brandy to Inger beer. Groat efforts were
made to pass this law in Pennsylvania, but our
legislators, having some respect for the will of
their constituents, could only be brought to pass
an act referring the question to the decision of
the people; and at the next election, you re
member it no doubt—it was in 1854—we voted
down the proposition to enact the "Maine Liquor
Law" in Pennsylvania. Time has shown that
we wore right, for the law proved a total failure
where it was first enacted. Yet, I remember
that when I was in Congress three years ago,
and the tax bill was under consideration, there
was some debate as to what tax should be put
upon whiskey. Up jumped the member from
Maine and proposed to tax it ten thousand dollars
a gallon, for, he said, he wished the Federal
Government to put all end to the manufacture
of an article that was very obnoxious to his con
stituents. Now I confess that I opposed that
proposition ; not that I am partial to whiskey,
but because I thought the Federal Government
had no right to "abolish it" in Pennsylvania.
Let me illustrate this further by an ex
ample that has something to do with "the negro
question" which still remains to vex us, though
slavery has fallen by the sword of war. The
convention that framed the present Constitution
of our State decided that negroes should not
vote in Pennsylvania. Oar courts had always
so construed the former constitution of Pennsyl
vania; for the men of the Revolution, while
they mitigated with the most enlightened benev
olence the lot of the slave, yet regarded his race
as a recent offshoot from the barbarous tribes of
Africa, and did not extend to it the political
franchises which they secured "for themselves
and their posterity." But to put the matter be
yond all cavil, the framers of the Constitution of
1818 declared expressly that the elective fran
chise should be exercised only by the "white
freeinan. Now, suppose, when we had thus de
decided, that he
Mr: Van Buren, who was President
then, bad issued a proclamation declaring that,
whereas, the people` of Pennsylvania had deoided
that negroes should not vote, now be, Martin
Van Buren, President of the United States, be
lieving that-the Constitution was no longer bind
ing on, him, because there had been a war with
the Seminole Indians, did declare it to be his
sovereign will and pleasure that negroes Should
"vote in Pennsylvania.
This seems a monstrous supposition ; certain
ly, it would have seemed so then - ; yet at this
day there is a large • and active party claiming
that the President may do this very thing, and
demanding the instant conversion of the field
bands of the South into voters, to wield the po
litical power or one-third of the States of this
Union, Under pretence of establishing univer
sal suffrage, this scheme aims at gte CleStpietlort