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FALL AND WINTER READY-MADE CLOTHING, - - HAGER & THEM offer for sale the largest Mock, at lowest prices, all of their own manu facture, Fine Dress Suits, Business Suits, Boys' Suits, Mvercoatti, From the FINEST ESQUIMAUX BEAVER to good ordinary grade. _ OVERCOATINGS— Black and Colors all grades. FRENCH COATINGS—BIack Brown, Dahlia. SILK MIXED COATIN G S—Foreign and Do mestic. CASsIMERES—New Styles. BOYS , WEAR—In great variety. LANCASTER COL NTV sATTINETS—In all colors, and warranted strong. Just received and for sale, ut lowest prices, at HAGER , & BROTIIEItS. nov 27-M1 JUST OPENED BEAU MONDE HALL! 543 PENN SQUARE, 543 READING, PENNA., CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, BOY'S CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS! n0204f I GEORGE B. COLEMAN, MERCHANT TAILOR, Having leased Erben , s old and well-known stand, Offers to the public an entire new and superior stock of GOODS of every description, whieh will be made up in the very beet and most fash ionable style. GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS Of every description, for salecheaper than they can be had anywhere else in the city. [nov 20-ff Hats, cups, ..rurs, ay. 1868. 1868. SHULTZ & BROTHER, HATT No. 20 NORTH QUEEN STREET, Latest style Fall aad Winter HATS and CAPS in all qualities and colors. LAinESt FANCY FURS, - We are now opening Ike largest and most complete assortment of Ladies' and Children's FANCY FURS ever offered in this market, at very low price'. ROBES! ROBES!! ROBES!!! BMW° Robes, lined and unlined; Hudson Day, Wolf, Prairie Wolf, Fox, Coon, Lo. W. W. 8811 XX BLANKETS AND LAP RUGS Of an qualities, to which we wwald particularly invite the attention of all persons in want of articles in that line. GLOVES, GAUNTLETS and MITTS. OTTER, BEAVER, UTRIA, • SE BUCKSKIN, FLRSHER. Me., Me. Ladies' Fine 114r tts and Trimmed Wove., Gininttets, Mi PULSE WARMERS and ENS WHOLESALE AND RETAfL. no):142) to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds; to Dry Goods. Ft"R , ! 101E1 FOR MEN AND BOYS Clothing. PORTICO ROW, A LAROE LOT OV BEAVERS, VESTINGS, &c., &c., FOR WINTER WEAR MEM MEI GENTLEMEN'S LEVI G. COLEMAN, Cutter BUCH & BRO., PROPIIIETORV NO. 42 NORTH QUEEN-BT., LANCASTER, PENNA ItY• LANCASTER, PA., FRI goettl. "GO IT ALONE." I= There's a game much in fashion, T think its called euchre, Though I never played it for pleasure or lucre, In which, when cards are in certain condi- tions, The players appear to have changed positions, And one of them cries, in a confident tone— " I think I might venture to go it alone." While watching a game, 'tie a whim of the . . bard's, A moral to draw (ran the skirmish in eards, And to fancy he finds in the trivial strife Some excellent hints for the battle of Life, Where, whether the prize be a ribbon or throne, The winner is he who can "go it alone." When great Gallileo proelaimed that the world In a regular orbit was ceasiugly whirled, And got—not a convert for all of his pains, But only derision, and prison, and chains— "lt moves for all that," was his answariug tone, For he knew,- like the earth, he could "go it alone." When Kepler, with intellect piercing afar, ; Discovered the laws of each planet and star, And doctors who ought to have lauded his name Derided his learning and blackened his fame— " I can wait," be replied, "till the truth you shall own," For he felt in his heart be could "go it alone." Alas ! for the player who idly depends In the struggle of life upon kindred and friends, Whatever the value of blessings like these, They can never atone for inglorious ease, Nor comfort the coward who finds, with a groan, That hits crutches have left him to "go it alone." There is something, no doubt, in the hand you may hold— ealth, family, culture, wit, beauty and gold Ls each, in it's way, a most excellent card— Yet the game may be lost, with all these for your own, Unless you've the courage to "go it alone." In battle or business, whatever the game ; In law or in love it is always the same ; In the struggle for power, or scrabble for poll', Let this be your motto: " Rely on yourself :" For whether the prize be ribbon or throne, The victor is he who can "go it alone." piottliattrouis. THE DAUGHTER IN LAW. "I never, never will tbrgive him," said old Mr, Remington, solemnly depositing his great gold spectacles in their green leather ease. ".Nor 1, either," sobbed Mrs. Reining ton, heedless of the unwonted disorder of her cap strings. "To marry that bold, dashing city girl without so much as writ ing our permission." "But you know, my dear," suggested the old gentleman, "we shouldn't have given it to him if he had waited half a century." "Certainly we should not," said Mrs. Remington, most emphatically. "To think of our only child treating us so cavalierly, Abel, the only one we have got iu the world." "He has made his bed, and must lie on it," said the old man, sternly. "I will never receive his gay city bride here, and so I shall write to him immediately. We are scarcely tine enough for a Fifth Aven ue daughter-in-law. As he spoke, the old man picked up a crumpled letter that had been thrown on the door in the first paroxism of his au ger, and smoothed out its folds with a mechanical touch. " Why, only think of it, Abel," said Mrs. Remington, •`biahaia Buckley served for six weeks in this—this girl's cousin's family, and she says Evelyn Sayre could smoke a little paper cigar just like a man, and used to go skating with her dress all tacked up to the top of her boots, and drove a barouche with the groom sitting behind—and— " "Bless my soul !" interrupted the old gentleman, his hreath nearly taken away by the catalogue of enormities, " Bless my soul, yon don't say so. And our Charles married to such an amazon as this." So the couple sat in the roomy porch of the capacious old farm-house, with the Michigan roses tossing little billet don* into their laps in scented showers, and the delicious oilers of the fresh mown hay coming up from the meadow flats by the river, as miserable an old couple as you would want to atm Meanwhile, Mtn. Charles Remington, a bride of three week's standing, was making herself happy at Niagara. She sat on a fallen log among the delicious shade and seclusion of Goat Island that bright June day with the lights and shadows chasing each other across her lovely face, and turning her long chestnut curls to coils of gold. Dressed all in white, she was fast ening a wreathe of wild flowers into the ribbon of her coquettish little hat and sin_ging some old ballads softly to herself. Evelyn Remington was very handsome —neither blonde nor brunette, she con trived to unl !harms of both in her rose-leaf Contiflbsthe, bright hair• and misty-brown eyes,' and the smiles that dimpled heir fresh scarlet lips were mes sengers straight from the heart. .. Presently she was Joined by her husband tall, handsome young felleiv, in a white !risen suit and grateful hat. • :'"7lettere ; Evelyn," he said, lightly; "a -wave in both." " ; news? Oh, Charles !" and the mem sudden ty away ftem the bride's cheeks.• " Weil, not so very bad, and yet not pleasant. Rend." r) A N-. ~: • . , ~. - ti CPI \ ;it . ; r 6 : v 1441110. 're: us care /Or him who shall have Lorne the battle, and Jiir his widon• and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."—A. L. )Al, JANITARY 4, 1869. Ile tossed into her lap a written letter, on on e page of NW. paper. Signed "Abel and Nlary Remington, — a keen ex pression of cheir disapproval of the mar riage he had contracted. and ;in assertion of their determination never to receive his wife as their daughter. Evelyn looked into her husband's thee with her bright eyes full of tears. "Oh, Charles, I am sorry." Ile laughed and quoted to her the old scripture phrase: "A man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife.'' " And now don't you want to see the other letter, Evelyn?" It 'was a summons from the mercantile firm with which Charles Remington was connected, an earnest entreaty that he would visit Central America in their in terest immediately. '' Cool, isn't it, to request a bridegroom to walk off in that sort of a way? for it is too rough a voyage to ask you to share it, dearest. I have it for you to decide-- shall I go or stay?" "(10. by all means. Should I ask you to linger by my side when duty calls you away, a poor wife I should be." Ire kissed her flushed cheeks with ad miring tenderness. And where shall I leave you, my bon nie bride?" " Oh, I will make a brief visit home in the meantime. It cuts our wedding tour short, but then, you know, we have a life time to finish our honevinoon in.,' So the brief Niagara sojourn came to an end, and Mrs. Remington, for the season, was a widowed bride. " He will be back soon," she said to herself, "and in the meanwhile, oh, 1. must do so much." "Yes," said old Mrs. Remington, com placently, " I think that was a splendid idea of yours, Abel, sending tar Lot Chauncey's orphan to adopt. It'll teach Charles and his stuck-rip with that we are in earnest about what We wrote, and Ma ritsa Chauncey won't have no city airs nor graces. I'm dreadfully anxious to see her. Lot was a likely looking fellow, and folks did say his wife was a regular beau ty. I guess likely shell conic by the stage to-night.'' " I guess likely there she is now, - said Abel, who, sitting by the open window, eitught the first I:tit - nose of a slender figure eoming up the pith, and carrying a WVII- packed carpet-bag; and Mrs. Remington ran forward to kiss and welcome the new comer. Marian Chauncey was exceedingly pret ty--Mrs. Remington soon discovered that --a bright little winsome creature, with cold brown hair that would curl in spite Of the restraining net, loving hazel eyes and tremulous red lips. Oh, A ls.} !" quoth the soft hearted old won►an, at the end of two days. " why did'nt Charles wait until he had seen Ma rian Chauncey? Is she not sweet—don't it sera► like a gleam of sunshine in the old house when she is tripping around?" She is very pretty," said Mr. Ren►ing ton. And then,'' pursued the old lady, "she's so handy. She knows just where everything is kept, and how to do every thing, and she does my caps up exquisite ly, and you should have seen how skil fully she drove me to meeting yesterday. Oh, Abel, if Providence had only seen lit to send us a daughter-in-law Like dear little Marian Chauncey." Mrs. Remington's speech was cut pre maturely short by the entrance of the sub ;feet of it, with her apron full of wild flowers. " Mrs. Remington," she began, and then checking herself with abruptness, "Oh, I cannot call you that long, formal name; may I. say mother?" " Of course you may, my darling," said the enthusiastic old lady. " I only wish you were my real daughter." Marian laid down her flowers, and de posittsl her pearly white eggs in a basket on the table, and then came up to Mrs. Remington, kneeling down and nestling her bright head in the old lady's cheek apron. " Mother," she murmured, softly, "you do not know how sweet the word sounds. And will you alwayalove me, and cherish me, let me be a real daughter to you?" " I should be a liard hearted Old cormo rant if I ditllnt, pet," said the old lady, her spectacles dimmed with tears. In short, Marian Chauncey became the light of the farm house; the bright little guardian genius of its coiled rooms and wide, airy halls. She read the paper to farmer Remington; she compounded cake, jelly and syllabubs to the astonishment dud delight of the old lady; she kept the two old china vows on the mantel brim ming.over with a rain of roses; she knew by instinct just when to darken the room tor the old man's afternoon nap on the chintz sofa, and she was better than any one on his bad nervous headaches., I really - don't; see how we ever con trived to live without Marian," said the old gentleman. " - Ilut she shall never leave us," said Mrs. Remington, distidedly. "Marian • little bright eyes, I've got newe j r, ceded the old gentleman one horuing, through the ball ; "leave these oney-suckle thr some one else to tie up, and come here, Charles is coming home "No, rat to eta ve--of course his tine city wife demands his permanent devo tiou"---Mr. . Remington could not help speOing with a mai., "but he will spend the dav here, on his war to New York. likelike you to see Charles—l shaild like Charles to see you—if you're not bet ter than his Fifth Avenue wLFe, she must be 'a paragon awe* women, that's all Pie got to MTV. " • "When wiil he be here, sir ?" Q about an hour I should . judge, from his letter—Charley always did write 7 a scrawl-- m's and n's halt' alike and halt' the time forpets to (Toss his I's. but I suppose that's the style now-a-days." Marian Chauncey crept away to her room to brush out the red gold curls and adjust the blue ribbon at the thought, and wondered slyly to herself what Charley would say when he saw the new element that had contrived so to interweave itself into the old home of his childhood. But I don't lx , lieve he will he angry;" said Marian in a half whisper, as she placed a rose in her breast, and prepared to descend in obedience to) Mrs. Reming ton's call of-- "Marian, Marian, come dovirn and see my boy." Charles Remington stood in the middle of the floor with an arm around his radi ant little mother. while the old gentleman, from his large aria chair, delightedly watched over the tableau as Marian slowly advanced. "Charles,'' said Mr. Remington; "this is our new (laughter who—'' But Charlie had sprung forward and caught the slight, willing figure in his arms, while the golden hair floated in a perfect cascade of curls over his shoulder. " Evelyn ! My !" Mr. Remington stared at his wife. Mrs. Remington stared at her husband. lie's mad," whispered the old man. "('harles," he added. aloud, "you are mistaken; this is Marian Chauncey, our adopted daughter." ••.No, sir, it is not," titltered the young lady in question, '• I am Evelyn your son's wife. I have stolen into your hearts on fidse pretenses --but I did so lone. your love. And when you sent !Or Antrim), who is one of my intimate friends, I per suaded her to remain at home, and allow Mt' to IWNollate her jest, for a ft‘w weeks. Father and mother, you will not tarn Me out of your ath•ctions now'" •• And you knew nothing of this ?" de manded old Mr. Remington of his son. Not a wta•d: it's Evelyn's own idea." And Evelyn, half laughing, halfcrying, stole into her mother-m-law's extended arms. &M . A. possible that she is the Fifth Avenue girl !" said the old :,,vittly- man; come hero anti give me a kiss. Ma— Evelyn, I mean." " - No. she is our mil daughter after all'." said proud Mrs. Remington. Eve , lyn had conquered their prejudices with the enchanted wand of love. BROWN LOW thinks Tennessee should be di vidtql. BL Alit COUNTY pays about $.300 a year for fox scalps. SAN FltANcisco is happy. She can get flour for $6 to S 7 in greenbacks. OINTE million sacks of wheat are stored in the warehouses of San Francisco. MILLIONS of oranges are said to be rotting on the trees in the Bahau►a Islands. FirrEEx CENTS a pound is the price of venison saddles in Laporte, Sullivan county. HON". ODES Bow in entered upon his duties as Governor of Maryland on Wed nesday last. IN Baltimore 127 persons were lined for getting drunk on Christmas Eve, and 147 on Christmas day. THE oldest man in Minnesota, Louis La Boute, died last week at the age of 104, leaving a widow aged 91). WisecssrN, or as it is more properly' and more beautifully spelled, Ooiseousin, means "Gathering of the Waters." TUE weather was cold enough at Charleston, S. C., on Christmas day, to freeze the salt water ponds near the city. Whims°, which was abolished years ago from the schools of Saratoga, has been restored as a necessary adjunct of educa tion. THE celebrated Barbara Freitchie flag is in the possession of a Union officer, in Maryland. It is of silk, about IO inches long. Tim aggregate popular vote for Presi &tit last year is an increase of more than a million upon the highest total ever be fore polled. A WHITE quail has been found in Mex ico, Andrain county, Mo. The bird is a pure white, with the exception of a few brown spots. Tim income of the Prince and Princess of Metternich is $2,90,(XX1 a year, and yet they live far beyond their means and are , deeply in debt. THE Hon. John C. Kunkel, of Harris burg, presented the Orphans' Home at womeisdorf with a check for one thousand dollars, as a Christmas gift. Tux lirst greenback ever issued has been purchased recently by a gentleman in Cincinnati for 4550. It is signed by Salmon I'. Chase—No. I, letter A. Mie.sm. Kelly and %Avner, of Indiana county. spent a week in tile wilds of Clear field county, and succeeded in killing thirteen deer and an American panther. IT is stated on good authority that a corps of the ablest of the Virginia orators and prominent rebels intend canvassing Pennsylvania and other Northern States, to invite farmers, mechanics and capital ists into the Old Dominion. MERE are at present thirteen persons under sentence of death in New York city for murder.• -Ten of these were born in Irehmtk.oue.in Italy, one.is an American Of Irish parentage, and the other is a " Democratic white. men still ahmd. Q •ft: tathrr Abraltant'o trips. CASH RATES OF ADTERTWONG Ten Ituee. of Nonixtreil constitute a Square • • Z : 4 0 TIME. Z C. ) I Q e; •>" 1 week .... $ 75 • 1 $210535056 00 • 11 50 2 weeks... 120 180 2 70- 480 HOO 14 00 3 weeks... 180 220 330 600 10 00 17 00 1 month... 175 260 361) 700 12 00 k 0 00 2 months..' 2 751 4lt 600 10 I1(1 90 00 1 63 00 3 motithe.. 4 001 6 1 111 0 1000' 56 00 ft' months.. ' 700 1 11 00 2900 40 00 70 00 1 year 19 00' 0 00: 00 40 00 60 00 120 00 Exeetitors'Notioe—A— ministrat ors' Notice Assignees' Notice Auditors , Notice • 1 60 SPECIAL NOTICES--Ten cents a line for the first insertion, and Seven cents a line for each subsequent insertion, REAL ESTATE adverliseineuts, Ten cents a line for the first insertion and Five cents n lute for each additional insertion. NO. S. WALL KINDS or JOR PRINTING executed with neatness and despatch. PROVIDENCE, Rhode 'lsland, presents a woman to an admiring world who has had five children in eleven months--triplets at first, and twins net. She ought to vote. Mns. STEIIIIEN A. DouGLAs (Mrs. Major Williams) lives' in Galena, chats with Grant, has two children by her last marriage, and—the Jenkins avers --is happy. ONE of thie most remarkable feats of church debt paying, is that of Dr. Scud der's Presbyterian Church in San Fran cisco. Ile raised ?.46,56 . 0 in a canvass of four days. THE late Thomas Armstrong, of Balti more, Md., in his last will gave about 1,000 each to twenty-seven religious and charitable societies, chiefly of the Method ist Church. VERMONT has no house that is not within half a, mile of a school, and not more than a hundred native born citizens over twenty-one years of age who cannot read and write. A NEW YORK church has exeonununi cated one of its lady members for too gav, demeanor, and her husband has begun tv suit for libel and slander, laying his dam ages at :i25,000. A WAsnnatTON: special reports that a great eflort will he made in the Senate next week to take the nominations of Alex ander Cummings and Marks out of com mittee, and secure action upon them at once. THEY appear tohave Lad a rather rough time of it on Christmas day out in St. Louis, where no less than ten persons were either slabbed, shot, or received broken skulls while engaged in celebrating the day. Tins jury in the ease of George Twitch cll, charged with the murder of Mrs. Hill, tried in Philadelphia, brotedit in a verdict of guilty on Friday night last, intuit to the astonishment of the avenged and his frietuls. A coNvENTtoN of tile oftieers of the Army of the Potomac is caned to meet in _New York, on the 22,4 of February, for the purpose of forming an association similar• to the Societies of the Armies of the Cumberland, Ohio, and Tennessee. MRS. DICKENS, widow of the late Au gustus N. Dickens, and sister-in-law to Charles Dickens, the well-known English novelist, was found dead in her bed on Christmas day, at her residence, in Chi cago—eaused, it is supposed, from taking , an overdose of morphine. A NEw YORK Contemporary preaches a homily against the prevalent fashion of celebrating wedding anniversaries, especi ally "tin weddings," and thinks, rightly enough, that the people who amuse them selves in this way might better devote their surplus time and money to relieving the wants of the poor. iIESP AT( 'll ES, have been received from. General Sheridan to the ith ult. He says the hostile Indians—about 100 warriors— have separated from thefriendly tribes, the latter concentrating around Fort Cobb for safety. General Sherman had given or-, ders to kill or capture Sautanta and Fail Bear, two of the most treacherous and dangerous chiefs upon the Plains, as no lasting peace can be made with them. THE grain trade of Chfcago has gpown from the first shipment of seventipvight bushels of wheat in ISlitl, to more than twenty millions of bushels in the year just closed. Added to this were 25,000,000 bushels of corn, 13,000,000 bushels of oats, and 3,000,0 M bushels of rye and barley. Nearly 2,1)00,000 head of hogs awl cattle were also received in Chicago last year, and one-half orthese were slaughtered In the city. emcaoo has a detective officer who, in order to obtain a reward of ik4500 offe red for the apprehension and conyjction of an incendiary, induced a simple-minded Ger man to plead guilty to the charge, with the promise of one-half the reward. The German was compelled to serve three years in the State prison, while the detec tive pocketed the whole I.5tM, besides con siderable property of the German entrusted to his care. COMPLAINT is frequently made in re gard to the liability of postage stamps to desert their trust and leave a letter in Um lurch. Much of the difficulty is due to wetting_ the stamps only on. the gummed side. This causes the expansion of one side more than the other, hence the stamp adheres imperfbctly, and when dry is Ha ble to peel oft Wet both sides and affix, and a very little gum will cause it to ad here with perfect security. Now that it is settled that there will be a March session of the Forty.first Con gress, the Republican candidates for the i'peakership are forming their combina tions. Blaine and Dawes ant the only two who appear to have anything Rice a chance, and Mr. Blaine" by all probabili ties, has the inside track. Mr. litlePher son will have no opponent for the Milk ship among his party, and It is probable the Democrats will vote for him aiao. Tida will be gratifying news to Mr. M.'s nu merous friends in this localitY. ONE of the most estraordinary cases of robbery and murder that we ever heard of occurnd in broad daylight in NeW Yirk the other day, and within a hundred yards of Broadway. An old gentleman of sixty was engaged in removing the snow front his pavement. Two • 'men approached. One of them took off his overcoat; gay, it to his companion to hold, seized the old gentleman, robbed him of his watch and wallet, and when grappled with iirkOtod his victim's bowels open. The letter died shortly afterwards. The murderer es caped. Not a single individual on the street witnessed the occurrence. IN FATHER ABRAHAM. $2 be 200 2 be
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