PUBLISHED EVERY 'FRIDAY, RAUCH & COCHRAN, No. 13, South Queen Street, Lancaster. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION copy, one year,.... copies, (each name addressed,) tO copies " 44 15 copies " 4C 20 copies " it 22.00 And $l.lO for each additional subscriber. FOR CLUBS, IN PACKAGES 5 copies, (to one address,) $ 6.50 10 copies " n 12.00 15 copies ~ ,‘ 16.50 20 coptes " " 40.00 And 61.00 for each additional subscriber. AffirAll subscriptions limn invariably be paid in advance. JOB PRINTING- Of every de , neatly and p tly exe entedidOr iesiei , Rail roads. pENNSYIVANIA CENTRAL R. R The time of the arrival and departure of the trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Lan caster, has been changed, as follows : EASTWARD. Ex....12:07 a. in Phila.Empress 4:02 " Fa,t Line 0:35 " LanefTrain.. 4:53 " Dav Express. 1:40 Ac.. :5l •' Southern Ex..4:00 " READING RAILROAD SUMMER ARRAIcGEMENT, MONDAY, APRIL 26, G rent Trunk Linefroth .2.1 - orth on,l Ntwth ?l:est for Philadelphia, _Yew York, „Wad- Tarnitqua, Ash lawl, ,sh a okin , Lebanon, Allentown, Easton, Eph rata, Litiz, Lancaster, Columbia, ay. Trains leave Harrisburg for New York as fol lows: At 2.35, 5.20, 8.10 a. in., 12.25 noon 2.00 and 10.55 p. m., connecting with similar trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and arriving at Now York at 9.45 a. m.,11.45 a. in., 3.60, 5.45, 9.30 p. and 0.00 a. m. respectively. Sleeping Cars ac company the 2.35,5.20 a. m. and 10.55 p, m. trains without change. Leave Harrisburg for Reading, Pottsville, Tamaqua, Minersville, Ashland Shamokin, Pine Grove. Allentown and Philadelphia, at SAO a m .opL. 3.00 and 4,5 We sa,Artappiris .st. Lebo. nos anWineipal ay Stations; the 4.10 p. m. train making connections for Philadelphia, Pottsville and Columbia only. For Pottsville, Schuylkill Haven and Auburn, via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad, leave Harrisburg at 3.30 p. m. Returning: Leave New York at 9.00 a. m., 12.00 noon, 5.05 and 8.00 p. in., Philadelphia at 8.15 a. In. and 3,30 p. sleeping cars accompany the 9.00 a. m., 5.05 and 8.00 p. un. trains from New York, without change. Way Passenger Train leaves Philadelphia at 7.30 a. In., connecting with similar train on East Penna. Railroad, returning from Reading at 6.30 p. in., stopping at all stations; leave Potts vine at 7.30, 8 45 a. m., and 2.45 p. Shamokin at 5.25 and 10.35 a.m. ; Ashland at 7.00 a.m., and 12.30 noon, Tamaqua at 8.30 a. In.; and 2.20 p. m., for Philadelphia and New York. Leave Pottsville, via Schuylkill and Susque hanna Railroad at 7.0)a. tn. for Harrisburg, and 11.30 a. m. for Pine Grove anti Tremont. Reading Accommodation Train : Leaves Reading ut 7:30 a. in., returning leaves Phila delphia at 5:15 p. in. Pottstown Accommodation Train: Leaves Pottstown at 6.25 a. in.; returning, leaves Phila. delphm at 4.30 p. Columbia Railroad Trains leave Reading at 7.00 a. in. and 6.15 p. m. for Ephrata, Lit iz, Lan caster, Columbia, &c. Perkiomen Railroad Train» leave Perkiomen Junction at 9.00 a. in. and 6.00 p. m.; returning, leave Skippack at 8.15 a. in. and 1.00 p. in., con necting with similar trains on Reading Rail road. On Sundays: Leave New York at 8.00 p. m., Philadelphia at 8.00 a. tn. and 3.15 p. m., the 8.00 a. in. train running only to Reading; Potts ville 8.00 a. ni.; Harrisburg 5.20 a. in., 4.10 and 10.55 p. in., and Reading at 12.55, midnight, 2.54 and 7.15 a. m. For Harrisburg, at 12.55 midnight, and 7.05 a. m. for New York; and at 9.40 a. in. and 4.25 p. m. for Philadelphia. Commutation, Mileage, Season, School and Excursion Tickets, to and from all points, at educed rates. Baggage checked through; 100 pounds allowed each Passenger G. A. NICOLLS, General Superintendent. RiCADING, PA., April EB, ls6B. [april 30-lttlaw READING AND COLUMBIA 11. R. ON AND AFTER THURSDAY, APRIL 15th, 1869, PASSENGER TRAINS WILL BE RUN ON THIS ROAD, AS FOLLOWS LEAVE. ARMY'S. Lancaator S•O5 a. m. Reading .....10:20 a. 44 3.10 p. in. " 5:30 p. m Columbia .....8:00 a. in. 10:20 a. m .....3:00 p. m. l 4 5:30 p. RETURNING: LICAVZ. A Rill Vt. Reading 7100 a. m. Lancaster .....9:15 a. m .... 6:15 p. m. 8'25 p.m " ..... 7:00 a. m. Columbia .....9:25 a. m " ..... 9:15 p. in. ....A:3O p. in Trains leaving Lancaster and Columbia as above, make close connection at Reading with Trains North and South; on Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and West on Lebanon Valley Road. Train leaving Lancaster at 8:05 A. M. and Columbia at 8 A. M. connects closely at Reading with Train tor New York. Tickets can be obtained at the °tikes of the New Jersey Central Railroad, foot of Liberty st reef, New York ; and Philad elpb fa and Reading Railroad, 13th and Eallowhill streets, Phila. Through tickets to New York and Philadel phia sold at all the Principal Stations, and Bag gage Checked Through. -Mileage Ticket Books for 300 or 1000 miles, Season and - E.acursioa Tickets, to and from all points, at reduced rates. Trains nre run by Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Time, which is 10 minutes faster than Pennsylvania Railroad Time. apl 16-09-tf] GEO. F. GAGE. Su::i. NORT II ERN CENTRAL RA-. WAY. Trains leave York for Wrightsville an I lumbia, at 6:20 and 11:40 a. m., and 3:30 p. in Leave 'Wrightsville for York, at 8:00 a. in. 1:00 and 6:50 p. Leave York for Baltimore, at 5:00 and 7 tu., 1:05 p. in.; and 12 midnight. • Leave York for Harrisburg, at 1:39, 6:25 an a. m.. and 2:39 and 10:16 p. m. TRAINS LEAVE HARRISBURG. GOING NORTH. At 3:26 a. in., and 1:20 and 4:20 p. POING SOUTH. At 3:45 and 5:26 a. na., and 12:30 and 10:43 p deell-tfd Photographs, &c. GOLDEN GIFTS. Parents to Fundlice, Father to Daughter, Mother to Son. CiENTLEMEN TO LADIES When the light has left the house, memoria such as these compound their interest. GILL'S SUPERB PHOTO Miniature or Opal Pictures, admitted to be the best in:the city and no superior in the State Constantly increasing demand and great expe rience in this style of miniature give us greater facilities and better results than any establish ment outside of large cities. STEREOGRAPHS OF HOME VIEWS for the Centre Table. Also, prismatic instruments. Large Colored Work by some of the best Ar tists in Philadelphia and elsewhere in the high, est style of the art. India Ink, Pastille, Crayon and colors, at GILL'S CITY GALLERY, Jan I-Iyr] No. East King-st. Hotels. - tj - . S. HOTEL, OPPOSITE PENNA. R. R. DEPOT, HARRISBURG, PA. W. H. E26I.IIINGER & CO., mhl2-1y) Proprietors $ 1.50 7.00 18.00 18.00 tit'ESTWARD. Pittsburg. 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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. no2o-tfj Banking. DAVID BAHL BAIR & SHENK, BANKERS, NORTHEAST ANGLE OP CENTRE SQUARE, LANCASTER, PENNA. no2o.ly] MECHANICS? BANK, NO. as NORTH. QUEEN STREET, (INQUIRER BUILDING,) Deals la UNITED STATES BONDS, STOCKS, GOLD, SILVER, AND COUPONS Drafts given on all the principal Cities. t Collections made promptly. Interest paid on Deposits JOHN 11t. STERNAN, SAMUEL SLOKOK, JOSEPH CLARKSON. Bankers as STEILMAN, CLARKSON & CO mhtlikan Periodicals. THE DAILY EVENING EXPRESS, FURNISHES ITS READERS REGULARLY EX9 THE LATEST NEWS BY MAIL AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH, And all Important Local and General In telligence. Talus: 0.00 A YEAR; OM FOR 3 MONTHS. THE WEEKLY EXPRESS, A SATURDAY PAPER OF THE FIRST CLASS, Contains all the news of the week up to Friday night, and gives more fresh reading than 01111 be had elsewhere for the same amount of money. Timms: $2.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Address PEARSOL & GElSTPublishers Lancaster, , Pa dec 1936m] UI IMI=E MIM It was a splendid room. Itich curtains swept to the floor in graceful folds, half excluding the light, and shedding its soft hues over the fine old paintings on the walls, and over the broad mirrors that reflect all that taste can accomplish by the hand of wealth. Books, the rarest and most costly, were around, in every form of gorgeous binding and gilding, and among them, glittering_ in ornament, lay a magnificent Bible—a Bible too beautiful in its appointments, too showy, too orna mental, ever to have been meant to be read—a Bible which every visitor should take up and exclaim, "What a beautiful edition! what superb bindings!" and then lay it down again. And the master of the house was loung ing on a sofa, looking over a late review —for he was a man of leisure, taste and reading—but then, as to reading the Bible! —that forms, we suppose, uo part of the pretentions of a man of letters. The Bible—certainly he considered it a very respectable book—a fine specimen of an cient literature—an admirable book of moral precepts—but then, as to its divine origin, he had not exactly made up his mind, some parts seemed strange and in consistent to his reason—others were very revolting to his taste—true, he had never studied it very attentively, yet such was his yeneral impression about it—but on the whole, he thought it well enough to keep an elegant copy on his drawing room table. So much for one picture—now for an other: Come with us into the little dark alley, and up a flight of ruinous stairs. It is a bitter cold night, and the wind and snow might drive through the crevices of the poor room, were it not that careful hands had stopped them with paper or cloth. But for all this little carefulness, the room is bitter cold; cold even with those decay ing brands on the hearth, which that sorrowful woman is trying to kindle with her breath. Do you see that pale little thin girl, with large bright eyes, who is crouching so near her mother—harkl how she coughs—now listen: "Mary, my dear child," says the mother, "do keep that shawl close about you; you are cold, I know," and the woman shivers as she speaks. "No mother, not very," replied the child, again relapsing into that hollow, ominous cough—"l wish you wouldn't make me always wear your shawl when it is cold, mother." "Dear child, you need it most—how you cough to-night," replies the mother —"lt really don't seem right for me to send you up that long, cold street, now your shoes have grown so poor, too; I must go myself, after this." "0 mother! you must stay with the baby —what if he would have one of those dreadful fits while you are gone? No, I can go very well; I have got used to the cold now." E=3! "But mother, I'm cold," says a little voice from the scanty bed in the corner, "mayn't I get up and eome to the tire?" "Lear child, it would not warm you; it is very cold here, and I can't make any more tire to-night." "Why can't you, mother? there are four whole sticks of wood in the box, do put one in and let's get warm once." "No, my dear little Henry," says the mother, soothingly, that is all the wood mother has, and I haven't any money to get more." And now wakens the sick baby in the little cradle, and mother and daughter are for some time busy in attempting to sup ply its little wants and lulling it again to sleep. And now, look you well at that mother. Six months ago, she had a husband, whose earnings procured for her the necessities and comtbrts of life—her children were clothed, fed and schooled, without a thought of hers. But husbandless and alone, in the heart of a great busy city, with feeble health, and only the precarious resources of her needle, she has rapidly gone down from comfort to extreme pov- D' tA .1 .. - ,,.,.. i. -.) 1 a I I - - -= 41 ..-7 2. -- --= ifi,s lkapi. S, , ily for iyes us , ,_ "vir ,;..-►~~.,m.. fottrp. HE CANE TOO LATE. He came too late! the toast had dried Before the fire too long; The cakes were scorched upon the side, And everything was wrong! She scorned to wait all night for one Who lingered on his way, And so she took her tea alone, And cleared the things away. Ile came too late! at once he felt The supper hour was o'er; Indifference in her calm smile dwelt, She closed the pantry door. The table cloth had passed away, No dishes could he see; She met him, and her words were gay— She never spoke of tea. He came too late! the subtle chords Of patience were unbound— Not by offense of spoken words, But by the slights that wound. She knew he would say nothing now That could the past repay; She bade him go and milk the cow, And coldly turned away. He came too late! the fragrant steam Of tea had long since flown; The flies had fallen in the cream, The bread was cold as stone. And when, with w • • I His hungry state to prove, She nerved her heart with woman's . And never deigned to move. Pisetilantouo. I 14,y., JUNE 2,), 1869. erty. Look at her now as she is to-night. She knows full well that the pale, bright eyed girl whose hollow cough constantly rings in her cars, is far from well. :She knows that cold, and hunger, and expo sure of every kind are surely wasting away her life—and yet what can she do? Poor soul, how many times she has calcu lated her little resources, to see if she could pay a doctor. met medicine for Mary, yet, all in vain. She knows that timely medicine, case, the fresh air and warmth might save her—but she knows all these thinp.s are out of the question fir her. She feels, too, as a mother would feel when she sees her once rosy, happy little boy, becoming pale, and anxious and fretful—and even when he teases her most, she only stops a moment and strokes his poor little thin cheeks and thinks what a happy little fellow he once was, till she has not a heart to reprove him. And all this day she has toiled with a sick and fretful baby in her lap, and her little shiv ering, hungry boy at her side, whom poor Mary , s patient artifices can not always keep quiet; she has toiled over the last piece of work which she can procure from the shop, for the man has told her that after this he can furnish no more, and the little money that is to come from this is alvady portioned out in her own mind, and after that she has uo human prospects of more. But yet that woman's face is quiet, patient. Nay, you may even see in her suffering eye something like peace, and whence comes it? I will tell you. There is a Bible iu that room, as well as in the rich man's apartment. Not :pleudidly bound, to be sure, but faithfully read—a plain. homely, much-worn book. Harken now while she says to her chil dren, "Listen to me, dear children, and I will read you something out of this book. 'Let not your hearts be troubled; in my Father's house are many mansions.' So you see, my children. we shall not always live in this little, cold, dark room. Jesus Christ has promised to take us to a better home." "Shall we be warm there all day," says the little boy earnestly, "and shall we have enough to eat?" "Yes, dear child," says the mother; "listen to what the Bible says: They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; for the Lamb which is in the midst of them shall feed them; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.' " "I am glad of that," said little Mary; -'for mother, I never can bear to see you cry." "But mother," says little Henry, "won't God send us something to cat, to-morrow?" "See," says the mother, "what the Bible says: 'Seek ye not what ye shall eat s nor what ye shall drink, neither be of anxious mind; for your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.'" "But, mother," says little Mary, "if God is our Father, and loves us, what does he let us be so poor for?" "Nay," says the mother, "our dear Lord Jesus Christ was as poor as we are, and God certainly loved him." "Was he, mother?" "Yes, children, do you remember he said, 'The Son of Man bath not where to lay his head.' And it tells us more than , once that Jesus was hungry when there ' was none to give him food." "O mother! what would you do without the Bible?" says Mary. Now if the rich man who had not yet made up his mind what to think of the Bible should visit this poor woman, and ask her on what she grounded her belief of its truth, what could she answer? Could she give the argument from mira cles and prophecy? Can she account for all the changes which might have taken place in it through translators and copy ists, and prove that we have a genuine and uncorrupted version? Not she! But how then does she know that it is true? How, say you? How does she know that she has warm life-blood in her heart? How does she know that there is such a thing as sunshine? She does not believe these things, she knows them; and in like manner, with a deep heart-consciousness, she is certain that the words of her Bible are truth and life. Is it by reasoning that the frightened child, bewildered in the dark, knows its mother's voice? No! Nor is it by reasoning that the forlorn and distressed human heart knows the voice of its Saviour and is still. Go, when the child is lying in its mother's arms, and looking up trustfully in her face, and see if you can puzzle him with metaphysical difficulties about per- sonal identity until you can make him think that it is not his mother. Your reasonings may be conclusive, your argu ments unanswerable; but, after all, the I , child secs his mother there, and feels her arms around him, and is quiet. I.Tnrea- soning belief on the subject is preciiely the same kind which the little child of Christianity feels in the existence of its Saviour, and the reality of those blessed truths which he has told in his word. A CATALOGUE of the officers, alumn i and students in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., for the Collegiate year IS6B-69, embraces 16 Seniors, 24 Juniors, 29 Sophomores, and 34 Freshmen, making a total of IU3 in the College Department proper. Besides these there are 75 under- ' raduates. The College Libraries contain 17,300 volumes. The necessary expenses of each student for the Collegiate year, are about $4 per week, The College is now under the Presidency of Rev. M. Valen- ; tine, D. D., a gentleman of learning and high character, under whose able adminis tration it is prospering with great satisfac- ! tion to the friends of the institution. care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with ixll nations."-4. L. [I kl BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE. The next morninv (the 25t1t) broke bright and cold, and the November sun shone over the mountains and the plain. Grant had ordered a general assault on Mission ary Hide. Befort• him rose the tall moun tain range, on which could he seen. -lit- teriw , in the sunlight, the bayonets of nearly fifty thousand practical soldiers, trained in mountain warfare. In the cen tre was Bragg's head-quarters: along the crest of the hills ran lines of earth-works and fi_dled trees: and the open mouths of thirty heavy cannon, besides lesser artil lery, threatened death to the bold assailant who should attempt to climb the height. The Union army, the rebel works no long er hid in mist, came out in hold distinct ness on that fair November day, and the two commanders watched each other's motions from their elevated stations, pre pared for the Sinai shock. Meantime at dawn Sherman's guns were heard on the northern side of the Ridge, and from day light until noon that active leader was slowly pressing on along the mountains to cut Bragg off from his base of supplies at Chickamauga. He was as yet lighting the battle alone; for Hooker had not ar rived to attack on the right, delayed by the rough roads, and the centre under Thomas had not stirred. Bragg about three o'clock weakened his centre by send ing a large force to cat off Sherman. Grant saw the opportunity. Hooker was now coming up, and the commander, swift to seize his moment of attack, ordered a -, eneral charge up the hill. Never was there such a charge. The Army of the Cumberland, which had all day been chained behind its entrenchments like a dangerous mastiff; and had heard with impatience the bold advance of Sherman, now broke into a run up the steep declivi ty, swept over entrenchment and rifle-pits, drove the frightened enemy out of their defenses, and with a wild shout followed them so closely that they had no time to pause. Sheridan, who led the way, looked back and saw a huge times of bayonets glittering in the sunlight, and swelling like a wave up the mountain side. Even he describes the spectacle as terriffic. But to the enemy the charge was fatal. In vain they poured down a plunging tire from thirty cannon into the glittering sea of steel; in vain their musketry flashed from every side. The thick line of the Army of the Cumberland never wavered or paused; where they could not run they climbed or crept; they refused to stop even at the command of their officers, and, moved by the instinct of victory, drove the enemy in wild flight before them to the very crest of the Ridge. Here they swept over the powerful intrenchments, shot down the gunners at their cannon, cap tured whole regiments of panic-stricken soldiers, and broke in six places those lines hich had so long frowned upon them in the valley of the Eagle's Nest. There was now victory all along the line. Hooker, Sherman, Thomas, had been suc cessful. Bragg tied, leaving six thousand prisoners and all his guns, and was closely pursued by Sheridan and Sherman. The news of the great victory was flashed over the country; again the name of Grant was uttered with gratitude by every loyal tongue; thanksgiving was ()tiered in the churches; and once more peace seemed near. Again Grant urged an immediate advance ou Mobile, and again was rebuked for his imprOdence. But the people now acknowledged their leader; they began to reflect upon Belmont, Paducah, Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and they felt that a military genius had arisen who saw what other men could not see, and who possessed the intellect, force, and in genuity necessary to carry out his own conceptions. The President sent Grant his honest congratulations; Congress voted him thanks; Burnside was saved; the cot ton States lay open to the Union forces; and at length nothing remained of the re bellion but that central power which had so long ruled at Richmond, sustained by the military skill of Lee.—EUGENE LAW BILNCE, in Harper's Migraine for July. A TRAVELER in Arkansas found the following notice stuck on th e ferryman's door at Cache River: "Noath s—Ef enny body cams hear arter licker or to git akross the river, they can ges blow this hoar horn, and of I don't cum when my Betsy up at the Rous hears the horn blowin, shele cum down and sell them the licker, or set them akross the river, ime away from hoam John wilson. N. B.—them that can't rode will have to go to the lions arter Betsy, taint but haff a mile thar." THERE never was a party in existence in this country which redeemed its pledges as faithfully as has the Republican. When it was organized it pledged itself to maintain the national life. The crushed slaveholder's rebellion is the evidence of the fulfillment of this covenant. During that struggle the Republican party agreed to pay the national debt and take care of the survivors of the war for the Union. It is doing this every day. THE Church of England is a curious , affair. Being connected with the State, '! " there is money in it." A late trans action there illustrates one of its features. A rectory and vicarage were to be filled, and the preferment was put up at auction. The auctioneer stated the inducements: Two churches to serve, a mile and a half apart; the rector's income, $3,540; society was good and hunting veryfair; one hun ; dred pounds would pay for a curate to visit the sick, bury tke dead, ste., leaving I a balance of 0,000. The highest bid was ! $:24,000, which was not deemed sufficient, and the sale was postponed. CASH RATES OF ADIERTISING Ton lilies of Nonpareil (.011.4 itute a Square. 5 0 .4 ! 69233 1 week .... $ 75 $1405216 $ 3 54 6 (X/ $ll 2 weeks... 120 ISO 270 4500 00 1 3 weeks... 1 fr 6 220 COQ, 'lO 00 1 I month... 175 260 390 7 001 12 00, SXI 00 inonths..! 275 400! 600 10 001 20 00! 33 50 3 mouths.. ' 400 6 00' 900 15 00! 3,0 00 55 00 4) months.. 700 11 001 14 50 25 00 40 00 70 00 1 year..... 12 00 20 00 30 00 40 00 (A) 00 120 00 M Exc. , utors , Notic e A‘lininiNt rat 4,rs , Not iv( Itulitors , Notice. SPECIAL NOTICES—Ten cents a line for the lirst insertion, and Seven cents* line for each subsequent insertion. REAL ESTATE advertisements, Ten cents a line for the first hisertion, and Five cents a lung for each additional insertion. N 0.32. r LT, RINDS or JOB PRINTING executed with neatness and despatch. It cannot be disguised that marriage . is au alarming episode in a man's life. Many a brave fellow who would face a battery without flinching, and smile amidst the deaillioq hail of musketry, finds his heart forsaking him in that magic mfunent when he changes front a !ray- young bachelor in t') a sober benediet. A friend of the re porter has just passed through the ordeal, and this is what befell hint. The ceremony was over, and the music and dancing d, Me. Tie company had re tired and the bride had sought her cham ber. The young, man had been a model boy from his youth upward. He had learned a great many things, but, having no sisters, had never learned the mysteries of a lady's toilet. Ascending the stairs to the chamber, he opened the door and peeped cautiously in, gas burned dimly, and weird shadows played around the room ; he entered and closed the door. On his left the bed was shrouded in many a fold of lace, but thro' the bar he perceived on the far side, out lined beneath the covering, a form beauti ful in its symmetry. On his right rose a huge pyramid of skirts and snowy linen, crowned by a throng of slender bars fash ioned like a bell, and, to the uninitiated observer, resembling the old wire cage set every evening in the pantry as a snare for vermin. What the mischief', that ?" he thought ; but he said nothing, restraining curiosity and proceeding to disrobe. It must be confessed, however, that his fears were the least bit excited, and the perspi ration began to bead his forehead. Ap proaching the toilet table to 1 iy down his cravat, his hand struck ;upon the lower half of a human jaw—a semi-circle of oTinning teeth staring him in the face. Ile started back in terror, but said noth ing—only the simple ejaculation " the devil !" But it wasn't only false teeth ; nevertheless the cold chills ran over him, and he was steadying his hand to unpin his collar, when his eyes encountered two half globes of some white linen substance, resting on a toilet table, and a great braid of hair, flanked by a huge coil of hair be hind them. lie started back surprised, bewildered ; but, as he did so, his feet struck against a pair of flesh-colored tights suspended from a chair, and, with their patent calves and padding, looking like veritable legs. Astonishment held him spell-bound. If all these were mertlyAdjanets,,,,what in d the name of heaven — hTid he marrie He was turning to the bed to inquire, when he stumbled over the hump of a Grecian Bend, and falling, struck a little stand, knocking from it a tumbler of water, out of which rolled a glass eye. "Gracious heavens !" he frantically ejaculated, " is there nothing left of her ?" and, springing to his feet, bounded thro' the door, calling for the briclenictitis to came and put his wife together again. His cries for help soon brought the household around him, to whom he detailed his grie vances. The assurance that everything was right finally pacified him, and after much persuasion he went back to the mys terious chamber, and by this time has probably become familiar with a fashion able toilet.—Nete Orleans Picayune. Not long since, a green looking Ver monter, walking into the office of Dr. C. T. Jackson, the chemist, Boston: "Dr. Jackson, I presume," said he. "Yes sir." "May I close the door?" and he did so, and having looked behind the sofa and satisfied himself no one else was in the room, lie placed a large bundle, done up in a yellow bandana, ou the table and opened it. "There doctor, look at that." "Well," said the doctor, "I see it." "What do you call that, doctor." "I call it iron pyrites;" "What!" said the man, "isn't that stuff gold?" "No," said the doctor, "it's good for nothing; it's pyrites;" and putting some over the fire on a shovel it evaporated up the chimney. "Wall," said the poor fellow, with a woe-begone look, "there's a widder woman up town has a whole hill full of that, and I've been and married her!" Is a Late address by Brigham Young, in his Tabernacle, he said: "A great many ask me how many wives I have; but, to tell the honest truth, I never thought enough about it to stop and think. But I will get up the facts in the case and tell everybody, so that they may stop asking me these questions. I sup pose I have a dozen or fifteen that I am taking care of; perhaps a few more, I do not know, and I care nothing about it. I try to do good, and I try to save the peo ple: and I say, do not let a lady come to destruction." INFOIDIATION has been received at Washington that the Fifteenth Amend ment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified by both Houses of the Florida Legislature on Tuesday last. The vote in the Assembly was 26 against 13, and in the Senate 13 against S. This makes the twenty-fifth State that has rat ified, including Indiana. GETTYSBURG seems destined to take a high place among the permanent summer resorts of the 'Middle States. The natural beauty of its scenery; the memorials of its great battle; the graves of the heroic dead; the health-giving properties of its waters, form a combination of attractions; while its new and spacieui hotel will be opened next week. I\ FATHER ABRAHAM. AN ALARMED BRIDEGROOM SOLD. 2 50 1 60
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