1t.)....,e.-: . . - '1.'744,1:./4:oHt.t:.'•-.... - : . •: . 't4'..4':;::... VOL. LIV. LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER Sr, JU tatign YUII.L6BED ;VERY TtrEIDA.T 26081111 W RY GEO. SANDERSON. TERMS AUBSCHLYTION.—Two Dollars per annum,. puyable in advance; two hienty-five, if not paid within six months; and two if not paid within the year. No suuscription discontinued until all arrearagee are paid unless at the option of the Editor. AnvEavisnatarixs—fiecompanied by the Casa ' and not exceeding one square, will be inserted three tunes for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion. Those of a greater length id proportion. los-PhittriNa —Sueh as Hand Bills, Posting Bill!, Pain giti.eta Hanks, Labels &c., &c., executed with ac Macy and at the shortest notice. • School Commenceftlent. The first commencement of the Public Schools of this city took place in Fulton Hall, on Saturday. The pupils and Teachers of the Male and Female High Schools only, with a number of spectators, were present in the forenoon. The Philharmonic Society of this city, under • the direction of Washington H. Keffer,.were in attendance and enlivened the proceedings with choice music throughout the day. The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. N. A. Keyes. George M. Kline, Esq., read the following statement of the Common Schools of this city. The duty has been assigned me to give a statement of the Common Schools of the city, and of the studies pursued in each grade. Tn the performance of this duty it will be n ecessary to glance, succinctly, :it the state of education, beginning at the year 1822. lit that time an Act of Assembly Was passed " to provide for the education of children at the public expense, within the city and incor porated boroughs of the county of Lancaster." The necessity of this legislation was explained by the preamble; which declaiied that "experi ence had proved that the existing legal provis ions relative to the gratuitous education of the poor, within the city and county of Lancaster, had been attended with a heavy expense, while they failed to confer correspondingadvantages." The Act provided for the adoption and pur suit of Lancaster's system of education, in its most improved state, and was the first legisla tive command, so far as this city and county were concerned, that required the erection of suitable school houses, at the public expense, and the procurement of all the appliances for the proper p conduct and maintenance of the schools. The sth section explained for whom this le gislation was primarily intended. It enacted that "the directors may admit into any public school or schools, aii such indigent orphan chil dren and the cl•.ildren of indigent parents to he supported at the public expense, as they shall deem expedient and proper." It also provided for the admission of those children ' , whose pa rents or guardians were in circumstances to pay for their tuition in whole or in part." This system had withiu.itself a distinction of classes, which Clashed with the popular feel ings. It neither commended itself to those who-se means permitted them to send their children to the ordinary pay schools, nor to those whose poverty denied them this privilege. To- the latter, the system was soon viewed as a pauper system, and became particularly odious. Some, however, availed themselves of its pro visions. The consequences of this odium, thwl thrown upon the law, was easily foretold. The large majority of those upon whom it was to confer greater advantages than they possesseid before, refused to avail themselves of its provisions.— Thus the Lancasterian school had for a number of years, a sickly existence, and the youth of the city. permitted to spend their hours in idle ness, in daily contact with the worst passions and vices of a populous town, were acquiring and forming habits, which totally unfittedthem for the performance of the duties and responsi bilities of maturer life. Happily this state of things was not destined to remain' without an effort to remove it. In the year 1838, through the instrumentality of a few public spirited citizens, (most or : whom, evor since, have been connected with the direc tory of your schools,) a law was passed, sub mitting to a vote of the people, the adoption or rejection of a general system of education by Cotamon Schools. The system was adopted; and from tbis standpoint dates the first era of popular schools in our city. Schools were speedily opened—plans of or ganization and government adopted—teachers supplied, and all the requirements to make the system effective diligently pursued. From year to year, our schools profiting by all the lights and advantages which time and experience produce, increased in numbers and the profi ciency of instruction. The year 1848 witnessed the establishment of the male and female high Schools, with their present. plan of organization and govern ment.. This period marks the second era in the histo ry of our schools. ' The successful and effective operation of the High Schools, during a period of four years, turned the attention of the board of directors to the improvement of the Secondary and Pri mary Schools. The Secondary were organized on the plan Of the High Schools ; while the number of Pri _fury was increased and the admission of pupils therein limited to fifty. This was in 1852, and marks the third era in the history of our schools. From the changes and improvements which have been made, we now safely assert, that the system of Common Schools in the city of Lan caster, is no longer in a transition state.— The plan of organization is thorough, and if faithfully carried out, will accomplish all that the most ardent friends of the system could hope for. True, there still are some defects; but, these do not mar the system of the structure or ins.; pair its usefulness. They will disappear, us the system in its own quiet way and self pro ducing means steadily progreses to perfectibn. One, of the greatest obstacles, however,' to this result, is their regular attendance of pupils —an evil long felt and acknowledged, and al though of late, less frequent, in the higher grades of schools, yet, sufficiently so in all, as at times to interfere with the proper regulation of the schools and the harmony'of their govern ment. This defect is not in the school or the system. It springs from parental indifference, to say the least, if not from criminal neglect of duty. The efforts of teachers and directors will ac complish hut little, if unsustained by parental authority and influence. And it matters not, how well regulated a school may be—active its board of directors or how efficient its corps of teachers, if parents remain indifferent to the regular attendance of their sons and daughters, the result must be a general injury to the schools and a most lasting injury to their off spring. Let parents see to this—the evil is to he remedied by them—they can do it. They should do it, if they would be true to them selves and just to their household. Believing that it is the solemn duty of the State, if in no other, point of view, than as a healthful police regulation, to educate the children of the State, we do not hesitate to proclaim the doctrine, that the wilful truancy of pupils, confirmed in its character, incorrigi ble and beyond parental or tutorial control, should be declared vagrancy by law and sub ject to punishment, for the purpose of reforma tion. Negleoted youthie educated vice There are at present, in the city of L 111101.9- ter, 29 Common Schools, with 41 Teachers.— During the winter, or for six months, there are two. Night schools with six teachers, mak ing an aggregate of 81 sohools and 47 teachers, with 1866 day scholars and 200 night scholars, forming a total of 2086. The day school' are divided into 'Primary Secondary and High; and one Ifrican p e ,There are 22 Primary schools-11 male and 11 female; 4 Secondary schools-2 male and 2 female; 2 High S'chools-1 male and 1 femalo. In part of the city, the primary schools of each sex, are divided into 3 grades through each of which the pupil passes, beginning et the lowest and then is transferred into the Sec ondary school of the proper sex and ward. In part of the city, there are yet only 2 grades; but, the plan of the schools, contemplates three grades of Primary schools, in the whole city, which will be perfected as soon as the number of pupils require it. .21 Into the lowest primary school, the pupil is admitted at six year's of age, and continues in one or other grade of this department, till cap able of spelling and reading with fluency, re peating the tables, well versed in the funda mental rules of arithmetic and writing, well exercised in definitions and in the first princi ples of geography. The number of pupils is now limited to 50, in each primary school, and hereafter this regula tion will be rigidly adhered to. It has thus far produced the best results. There is only one secondary school for each sex in the east and one in the west ward of the city ; but, as each of these schools has three teachers, and contains 3.divisions of pu pils, each may be regarded as composed of three separate schools. To each of these schools 2 large recitation rooms are attached, in which two of the teachers are constantly engaged, hearing lessons and giving instruc tion to classes, while the third maintains order and aids study in the large hall, which contains a separate seat for each pupil; the whole num hey of seats in each school being 132—divided into three divisions of 44 each, and each divi sion into two classeS of 22 each. The pupils pass regularly according to proficiency, from class to class, and from division to division, till they reach the highest, when they are transfer red to their proper High Schools. The branches of study are, Spelling, Read ing, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Gram mar, and the History of the United States, in each of which they are expected to be well 'grounded before transfer to the High School. In each High School there are three Teach ers—one Principal and two Assistants, and seats for 120 pupils, with oboist 100 generally on the list. In the male High School the Principal gives instruction in Latin, Greek, German and French. The Mathematical Teacher in Arith metic, Algebra, the higher Mathematics, Book keeping, Surveying and Mathematical Drawing. The English Instructor in Grammar and-Geog raphy in their higher departments, General History, Reading, Elocution and Rhetoric. In the female High School, the Principal gives instruction in Latin and French to such pupils as require it, and to the higher classes in Mathematics and English, in their proper branches. Ono assistant taking general charge of the Arithmetical and Mathematical classes and tha other in Biography, Grammar and His tory. One lecture each week is alio delivered to the more advanced classes of each High School, together, on each of the following sci ences, by the male teachers of the school, viz: Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Geology, As tronomy and Physiology. Each student is re quired to take full notes of these lectures for inspection by the lecturer, and to be examined orally, on the subject of each lecture, before the delivery of the next, in the same course. Such is the course of instruction occcupying to a youth of ordinary capacity and attention, about nine years of life, or from 6 to 15 years of age, viz - :—three in the primary, three. in secondary and three in the high schools, and leading from the alphabet to a degree of know ledge, equal to all the wants of ordinary life, or to a creditable entrance intd the highest college in the land. In support of this system, need we appeal to the Fathers and Mothers of the land. Its un ity and universality—its massive strength and grand equality will give the impress to our na tional character. Here, in these schools, the youth in the most impressible period of life, undergo that intellectual training—imbibe those ideas and form those habits which follow them in after years, in the stern conflicts of life and its duties. Let the State educate the intellect—the home altar and the Church, with their holy teach ings the heart—each in its appropriate sphere, yet no one daring to invade the sanctuary of tho other—both having their high purposes in human destiny to a,eompu.ii_ and in the same end and aim, harmonizing withouttne clashing of separate sects and creeds. Then, with Common Schools dotted through out the land, knowledge brought home to every man's dopr without money and without price, and the bible in every house, where, under God's bright and joyous Sun could he found a more happy or more favored land. Thomas 11. Burrowes, Esq., then read the following report of the examination of the Su perintending Committee : Mu. PRESIDENT :—The Superintending Com mittee of the Board report the following as the result of the annual examination of the Male and Female High Schools, and of the pupils of the Secondary Schools who were offered as candidates for admission into the High Schools. On the roll of the Male High School there are, at the present time, the names of 78 stu dents. Previous to the Ist of April, the num ber was about 100, but removal from the city, or entry upon the active duties of life, about the date just named, annually withdraws a con siderable portion of the students. The students of this school are divided into three Departments : the English, the Mathe a matical, and that of Languages. In the English, there are 2 classes in Reading. .1 " Geography. English Grammar. Rhetorick. History. In the Mathematical, there are 3 classes in Arithmetic. 4 " Algebra. " Geometry. 1 " Trigonometry. 1 " Geometrical Drawing. 2 " Book Keeping. In the department of Languages there are, _ _ In Latin 4 Classes, viz : fin Fables and Ho man History; 1 in Virgil; 1 in Horace, and 1 Tacitus and Cicero. In Greek 2, viz : 1 in Fables and Anecdotes, and 1 in Lucian and Zenophon's Anabasis. In French 1 Class, in Grammar and Telemaque. In German there was one class during the past year, but it has been discontinued for ;want of time. In the Female High School, the number now on the roll is 87. It was considerably over 100 before the Ist of April; but was then and since reduced by the same causes which affected the Aisle School. The departments are 7, divided somewhat in the same manner as in the Male High School . ; the Principal giving instruction in the Langua ges and in the higher branches of English. In the English department there are, 3 Classes in Geography. 3 0 " English Grammar. 2 " " History. 2 " Etymology. " " Botany. 1 " Writing, including nearly the entire School. In the Arithmetical there are, 4 Classes in Arithmetic. 2 " " Algebra. • In the Principal's Department, there are In Reading 3 Classes. ?' Rhetoric and Composition, 1. " History of England, 1. " French, 4. " Latin, 1. " German, 1. The Committee could only devote one day to the examination of each of these interesting schools. The mode pursued tree ' to hear one of the usual reoitations of each 'class, in the course of which such queitions Were also put as "MT COUNTRY 18 1118 1108 T PROSPRBOUB, WHORE: LIBOR CBlllllllBB HS OUTER REWARD."--Bualtanan. CITY OF LANCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1853. seemed calculated to elicit the pupil's knowledge of the branch under review. This mode has the advantage of exhibiting the actual condi tion of the school, while it, avoids, the loss of time often incurred in preparation for what is supposed to be a more general examination.— It also affords a pretty full view Of the condi tion and whole operations of the schools in the shortest time and most orderly way. From the knowledge of the schools, thus ob tained and previously possessed, the Committee feel abundantly justified in reporting both schools to he in a highly flourishing and satis factory condition. They mainly regret that their time will not admit of a more thorough examination, in as much as they are thereby deprived of its power of designating, publicly, the names of such students as have distinguish ed themselves in point of scholarship. Many such they know there are in both schools; but it would require a very close scrutiny to enable and justify the committee to rank them strictly according to merit. It is deemed bet ter, therefore, to omit the discrimination on the present occasion ; though it is believed that if faithfully performed hereafter, the ef fect will be very salutary. Among the branches of study in both schools, are the Natural Sciences of Chemistry, Nat ural Philosophy, Geology, Physiology and As tronomy. The lecture books .submitted to the inspec tion of the committee are generally very, and in some cases very highly creditable. It is proper to announce that the following students of the male high school, neither at, tended during the recent examination, nor fur nished a sufficient excuse for their absence viz :—S. Wiley, D. Wiley, C. Merchant, R. Thomas. It is the opinion of the committee that none of these ought to be re-admitted with out proper explanation. The task of examining pupils of the second ary schools for transfer into the high schools, was also attended to during the week, and has been performed pretty thoroughly; a full half day having been devoted to each class. The following are named as best qualified for transfer from the four secondary schools; those marked as No. 3, being best qualified ; those marked No. 2, next; and those marked No. 1, next : From the East Ward Male Secondary school: No. 3.—George F. Rote, Jno. Fitzpatrick, Dav id St. John, Jacob Gable, William Cox, Jere miah Bowman, Martin Dunn, Samuel G. Carr, Joseph .Amer. No. 2.—Philip Dorwart, David P. Thomson, John Gusley, Samuel Holbrook, William Ihl ing, David Sehner, John Rooney. None are marked No. 1, or of the lowest grade of qualification in this class. From the West Ward Male Secondary School, No. 3.—Jomes Downey, Henry Hartley, Ed win Bohring, Albert Brimmer, Jaoob W. She rer, John Albright, William Cooper. No. 2.—John Beck, Bernard Huber, George Erisman, George Briederly Samuel Baer, Wil liam Gumpf. No. 3.—George Fairer, Albert Sehner. The following members of the highest divi sion of this school would have been examined for transfer had they presented themselves, viz. Joseph Bowman, Francis Waters, John H. Sheaff, Christopher Hinkle, and James Garvin. None of these can be transferred un til they have been regularly examined. With these additions, the Male High School, after the vacation, will stand thus : Present No. of Students, - 78 Do. from E. Ward Secondary, 18 Do. from W. Ward Secondary, 14 From the West Ward Female Secondary School, the pupils found best qualified for trans fer, are : No. 3.—Fanny Kautz, Ellen Myers, Mary Johnson, Eliza Mulhattan, Emma Snyder, Mar garet Lowrey, Emma Hambright, Sarah Bundel. No. 2.—Ezneline Keller, Rose Nauman, Sa rah Foist, Emma Ranninger, Sarah Long, Kate Weidler, Salome Metzgar, Emma Gundaker, Kate Harmany. None of No. 1, or the lowest grade. From the East Ward Female Secondary School, the following are named for transfer: No. 3.—Jane Davis, Elizabeth Moore ? Mary Crawford, Julia Bendig, Selina Steigerwalt, Mary , Martin, Annie Gundaker, Elizabeth Brenner, Emma Weitzel, Elizabeth Haynes, Sarah Weidel. No: 2—Ellen Widmyer, Annie Swentzel. No. 1. Augusta Gable, Josephine Lechler. With these additions, the Female High School, at the beginning of the next term, will stand tall. sis.to numbers : Present numuc, on the From W. Ward Secondary, 17 From E. Ward Secondary, 15 The branches upon which the transferred classes were examined, are Orthography, Reading, Writing; Geography, English Gram mar and the History of the United States: in all of which the pupils had made considerable and in some very creditable progress. In discharge of their duty to the Board and the public, the Committee deem it proper to present the names of a number of students whose conduct, during the year, is reported by their respective teachers to have been praise worthy : Male High School—List of students to whom not a single reproof was administered, William Breneman, Robert Price, Cyrus Car many, A. Kauffman. 'List of those whose moral conduct has been unexceptionable, but who are only excluded from the foregoing list by slight violations of order in school: Samuel Reigart, Samuel Walker, Jac. Stoek, Thaddeus Stevens, jr., George Franklin, Thos. Dunlevy, Thomas B. Burrowes, E. Breneman, Wm. Montgomery, Amos Bowman, H. Gustley, Sam'l Moore, C. Rine, T. Titus, J. Danner, A. Kirk, J. Broome, G. Kendrick, John Shober, W. McVey, J. Boyd, E. McGoniglo, J. Weaver, George Shaum, J. Downey, W. Nauman, M. Brooke, N. Hartley, S. Heitshu, E. Weaver, John Long, John Heitshu,'John Donnelly. In the Female High School, the conduct of all the young ladies is reported to be exemplary, with perhaps half a dozen exceptions, and they nearly confined to the younger members. In the east ward Male Secondary School, the conduct of the following transfered pupils, is rated highest :—Geo. F. Rote, John Fitzpat rick, David St. John. Jacob Gable, Win. Cox, Martin Dunn, John Gustley, Samuel Holbrook and David Lehner. In the north west ward Male Secondary, the conduct of the following pupils is reported to have been unexceptionable, viz :—Joseph Bow man, and Henry Hartley; and that of the fol lowing to have been praiseworthy :—James Downey, Edwin Bohring, Albert Brimmer, Jac. W. Sherer, John Albright, William Cooper, James Garvin,Samuel Bear. Of the transferred pupils from the West Ward Female Secondary School, the conduct of the following is commended :—Fanny Kautz, Ma ry Johnson, Emma Snyder, Emma Hambright, Ellen Myers, Eliza Mulhattan,Margaret Lowry. And from the East Ward Female Secondary the following:—Jane Davis, Mary Crawford, Selina Steigerwalt, Sarah Weidle. It must not, however, be supposed that it is the design either of the teachers or of the committee to intimate that the conduct of an or even a large portion of the pupils whose names are not found in these lists, is deserving of severe reprobation. The object is simply to name the most deserving, in order to incite the rest to imitate their example more closely. In closing this report, the committee cannot forbear adverting to some facts which are Ob vious in the condition of the High Schools which are and always will be the indices of the condition of the Whole series. They are these: Each year exhibits a larger number of stu dents remaining over in the schools. The same gratifying increase is perceptible in the number pursuing the higher branches. And the qualifications of the classes annu ally transferred from the secondary Schools are gradually but perceptibly rising in grade. - These are sure proofs not only of the value, but of the appreciation of that value by our citizens at large, of those institutions; and should stimulate the Board to renewed efforts for the improvement of a system of which they are the life and head. Orations were delivered by the following stu dents of the Male .High School, under Rev. J. S. Crumbaugh: W. A. Breneman, on the Declaration of Independence,i W. H. Carson, Slander ; W. A. Keller, Flogging in the Navy ; John A. Shober, Sound • (Original); Jackson Sanderson, Washington's Sword and Franklin's Staff ; Cyrus W. Carmany, Union of the States ; Thomas B. Burnwes, Death of *Henry Clay ; Samuel Walker, Homestead Bill ; Amos Bow man, America. Mr. K. Coates read the following Essays from the students of the Female High School : Miss J. Segin, Biography of Queen Elizabeth ; MisS Clara S. Reigart, Power of Kindness; Miss Kate S. Long,AdvAntages of Cultivating a Disposition to be Pleased - ; Miss 111. S. Hager, Politeness and Good Breeding ; Miss Sallio M. Steinman, Biography of Columbus. Gen..esorge Ford then delivered an addresS to thu Fruratß, giving them a few words of adT vice and encouragement, after wtnen zn 0(f -journment for the forenoon took place. At three o'clock the scholars of allthepublic schools in the city, accompanied by their Teach ers and Directors, met at Fulton Hall to partic ipate in the afternoon's . exercises. The Hall was densely crowded, and many of our citizens were not able to obtain admittance. After the singing of a National Hymn by the scholars, and the delivery of an address by A: H. Hood, Esq., George M. Steinman, Esq., an nounced that the vacation of the schools would continue five weeks, to the Bth of August next. The following additional orations were then delivered by the students of the Male High School: Samuel Reigart, on Public School Ed: ucation ; John Heitshu, Fourth of July (humor ous) ; Jacob Stoek, Kossuth's Speech at Bunker Hill ; Aaron L. Kirk, Vindication •of Northern Laborers. A hymn was then sung by the pupils, and the exercises concluded by benediction. WH&TVER the grief that dime my eye, Whate'er the cause of sorrow, We turn us weeping to the sky And say, 6 4 well smile to-morrow." And when from those we love to part, From hope we comfort borrow, And whisper to our aching heart, 64 Well meet again to morrow." But when to-morrow comes, 'tie still An image of to-day, Still tears our heavy eyelids fill, Still mourn we those away. And when to-morrow too is past, (A yesterday of sorrow ;) Hope, smiling, cheats us to the last, With visions of to morrow. From Scott's Weekly Paper 4 Turnpike and a.Divorce. A certain Captain M---, a hale good humor ed man, beloved by all who knew him, and a cer tain Dr. R--, one of the handsomest men alive, and a gentleman all over, met a few years since in Trenton. It was during the session of the Legis lature, which as everybody knows, is, whenever it happens, a great feature in Trenton life, and a preg nint . item in the history of New Jersey. `Both the Captain and Doctor were borers—lobby members—not for the benefit of their own pockets, but of the public, and that portion of the public, cons, rised within the limits of Camden, which as you know, is a great city, located opposite to the retired hamlet of Philadelphia. The Captain was 'lloring" for Camden as the seat of government, court house and jail, for the great county of Cam• den; the Doctor was boring for Long-a-Coming be ing a large city, composed of a blacksmith ohgp and two frame houses, and located somewhere be tween the extreme limits of Camden county and the Atlantic actin. In a word, the site of the county Court house was a disputed question,—the citizens of Camden want ed it in Camden—the voters of Camden county, just to spite the Camden people, wanted it in Long-a-Coming. Well, the Captain with his hearty honest face, and the Doctor with his honest very handsome face, came to Trenton, as `•lobby" members, to press the respective merits of Camden and Long-a-Coming, upon the notice of the great Legislature of New Jersey. A week, two weeks, three weeks, a month passed, and yet the Legisla ture took no action, and Camden county was still without a seat of government, court house or jail. The Doctor grew impatient; meeting the Captain one day, in one of the passages of the singularly pe culiar Capitol of New Jersey, he said to his friend —"You are here for Camden,l for Long-h. Coming; and here we have been for a month. Allow me to ask, in the most delicate manner, why in the devil don't this legislature take some action in the mat ter, and let us go home? Your business is suffer ing, and my patients are dying, and yet here we are, dancing attendance on the cursed Legislature. Why don't they—the assembled sand and wisdom of Jersey,—say Camden! or Long-a-Coming! and let us go home ?" The Captain drew his young friend into the re cess of a corridor, and looked at him queerly, with one eye half shut, hnd his mouth fixed on a decided "pucker." "The fact is, R," said he, "you - are green. Are you not aware that this is a great country, that New Jersey is a great State, a New Jersey legislation the tallest kind out of jail?" The Doctor confessed that he was aware of some of these points, but dark as to others; he had some conception . of how the Ichthy osauras, (a big animal, with a hard name, known to geologists, which had the whole world to itself, a few million years before Adam) how the khihy osauras looked, when he was about, but Jersey leg. islation was an animal which he had looked at on all sides, but could not understand. Whereupon the Captain took the Doctor good humoredly by the arm, and led him into' a retired place, where a lighted candle shone upon the honest countenance of a bottle of real champagne—made in Newark, but labelled "France." Total. 119 Over this bottle, the Captaid proceeded to give the Doctor some idea of Jersey legislation. If you could have seen the fine Roman features of the Doc, tor, and the good face of the Captain, a little ruddy, and topped by hair which was partly gray, you would have much enjoyed the startling narrative which fell from his lips. "Albany is a great place„' so the Captain began, "Harrisburg is another great place,—legislators can be had there, in great quantities, at reasonable Prices, but Trenton is the place." "Expound!" said the Doctor. Upon which the Captain illustrated his text by the following narra tive. , 'One winter, there came to Trenton, two men, named Smith and Jones, who had, both of them, designs upon the legislature. Jones had a bad wife, and was in love with a pretty woman—he wished to be divorced from the bad wife, so that he might marry the pretty woman, who, bye the bye, was a widow, with black eyes, and such a bust! There fore, Jones came to Trenton for a divorce. Smith had a good wife, plump as a robin, good as an an gel, and the mother of ten children, and Smith did not want to be divorced, but did want to get a char ter for a turnpike, or plank road, to extend from Pig's Run to Terrapin Hollow. Well they,iwi.h these different errands came to Trenton,•and ad dressed the assembled wisdom with the usual argil meets. let suppers, mainly composed of oysters, with a rich back ground of steak and venison, 2nd: liquids in great plenty,' from "Jersey, lightning," (which is a kind of locomotive at full speed, re• TO-MORROW BY TILE HON. MRS. NORTON AY GEORGE LIPPARD duced to liquid shape) to Newark champagne. To speak iri plain prose, Jones, the divorce man, gave a champagne supper, and Smith, the turnpike man, followed with a champagne breakfast. Un der the mollifying influence of which, the assembled wisdom passed both divorce and turnpike bills, and Jones and Smith (a copy of each bill in parchment in their pockets) went rejoicing home, over miles of sand, and through the tribulation of many stage coaches. Smith arrived at home in the evening, and as he 'sat down in his parlor, his pretty wife beside him—how pretty she did look! and five of his children asleep overhead, the other five studying their school lessons in a corner of the room, Smith was induced to expatiate upon the good result of his mission to T;enton. "A turnpike, my dear, I am one 01 the directors, and will be president, it will set us up, love, we can send the children to boarding school and live in style, out of the toll. Here is the charter, honey." "Let Tilt see it," said the pretty wife, who was one of the nicest wives, with plumpness and good ness, dimpling all over her face, "let me see it," and she leaned over Smith's shoulder, pressing her arm upon his own, as she looked at the parchment.— But all at once Smith's visage grew long. Smith's wife's visage grew black. Smith was not profane, but now he ripped out an awful oath : "D—n it wife, these infernal scoundrels at Trenton have gone and divorced us!" It was too true, the parchment which he held was a bill of divorce, in which the name vt f3mith and Smith's wife appeased in frightfully legible let teis. Mrs. Smtth wiped her eye with the corner of her apron,."Here's a turnpike!" she said sadly, 'and with the whole ten of our children, staring me in the face, I aint your wife? Here's a turnpike!" "D—n the 'pike, and the legislature, and--." Well, the fact is, that Smith reduced to single bless edness, and "enacted" into a stranger to his own wife, swore awfully. Although the night w4s dark, and most of the denizens of Smith's village had gone to bed, Smith bid his late wife put on her bon net, and arm in arm they proceeded to the house of the Clergyman of their church. "Goodness bless me!" exclaimed the mild good man, as he saw them enter, Smith looking like the very last of June shad, and Smith's wife wiping her eyes with the corner of her apron—" Goodness bless me! what's the matter?" "The matter is, I want you to marry us two, right off!" replied Smith. "Marry you t' ejaculated the clergyman, with expanded fingers, and awful eyes, "are you drunk or crazy ?" "I aint crazy, and I wish I was drunk," said Smith, desperately; •the fact is, Brother Goodwin, that some scoundrels at Trenton, unbeknown to me, and at dead of night, have gone and divorced me froth my own wife, she the mother of—of--nine children?' "Ten," suggested Mrs. Smith, who was crying, "Here's a turnpike!" Well the good minister seeing the state of the case, (the Trenton parchment was duly produced from the pockets of the lugubrious Smith) married them over straight way, and would not take a fee the fact is, grave as he was, he was dying to be alone, so that he could give vent to the suppressed laugh, which was shaking him all over; and Smith and Smith's wile went joyfully home, and kissed every one of their ten children. The little Smith's never lcnew that their father and mother had been made foreigners to each other, by legislative enact ment. , Meanwhile, and on the sell-same night, Jones returned - to his town—Burlington, I believe —and sought at once that fine pair of black eyes, which he hoped shortly. to call his own. The pret ty widow sat him on the sofa, a white 'kerchief tied carelessly about her round white throat, her black hair laid in silky waves, against each rosy cheek. "Divorce is the word," cried Jones, playfully pat ting her double chin. "The faet is, Eliza, I'm rid of that cursed woman, and you and I'll be married to-night. I know how to manage those scoundrels at Trenton. A champagne supper, (or was it a breakfast'?) did the business with them. Put on your bonnet and things, and let us go to the Preach er's at once, dearest " "The widow,°(who was among widows, as peach- es are among apples,)put on her bointet and took Jones arm, and— " Just look how handsome it is put on parchment!" cried Jones, pulling the document from his pocket, and with much rustling spreading the document out before her. "Here's the law, which says that Jacob Jones and Anna Caroline Jones are tvi o 1 — Look at it r Putting her plump gloved hand on his shoulder, she did look at it. "04 dear!" she said, with her rose-bud lips, and sank back, half fainting, on the sofa. "Oh blazes!" cried Jones, and sank beside her,, rustling the fatal,parchment in his band . "Here's lots of happiness and champagne gone to ruin!" .1, .... a hard case. Instead of being divorced and at liberty to marry the widow, Jacob Jones was simply, by the legislature of New Jersey, incorpor ated into a turnpike company, and which made it worse, authorized (with his brother directors) to construct a turnpike from Burlington to Bristol.— When you reflect, that Burlington and Bristol are located just a mile apart, on opposite sides of the Delaware river, you will perceive the extreme hope lessness of Jone?' case. "It's all the fault of that tl—n ttirnpike man, who gavr 'ern the champagne supper, or was it.break fast r cried Jones in his agony. "If they'd a char tered me to be a turnpike from Pig's Run to Ter rapin Hollow, I might have'-borne it, but the very idea of budding a pike from Burlington to Bristol, bears an absurdity on the face of it" So it did. "And you aint divorced'" said Eliza, a tear roll ing down each cheek. "No!" thundered Jones, crushing his hat between his knees, and pounding his hat with his clenched fists, "I aint divorced, but I am incorporated into a turnpike I and what is worse, the legislature is ad journed, and gone 'home drunk, and wont be back to Trenton, until next year I" It was a hard case. The mistake had occurred in the last day of the session, when legislators and transcribing clerks, were laboring under the effects of a champagne sup per, followed by a champagne breakfast. Smith's name had been put where Jones' ought to have been, and "wisey wersey," as the Latin poet has it. This is in sub once, if not , in words, was the Captain's story "Do you re. .n to say that that is a fact ?" asked the Doctoe .moothing his black whiskers, and gaz ing around the restaurant "box" in which they were seated, and finally at the three quarters emptied bot tle of Maderia. !ghat is a sample of Jersey legislature," calmly replied the Captain. The Doctor sat a long time in deep thought, ab sently playing with the cork of the three-fourths extinguished bottle, and at last said in a calm de cided way : "Captain ! Long-a-Coming and Camden may go to blazes! This very night I will repose in the bosom of my family, Captain. The next train starts at five o'clock, and I will take it I" Whether this story be true or not, we cannot say, but both the Captain and the Doctor are men of truth, and the latter, one bleak autumn night, when we were both belated amid the pines, at the very Jerseyiest of Jersey taverns, told the story to me, by is bright wood fire, and a sincere earnest face. A Goon Sroar.—John Bunyan, while in Bedford, jail, was c ailed upon .by a Quaker, desirous of mak ing a convert of him. "Friend John, I have come to thee with a mes• sage from the Lord, and,; after having searched for thee in all the prisons in Eiigland, I am glad I have found thee out at last." "It the Lord had sent you," returned Bunyan, ' , you need not have •taken'po much pains to find me out, for the Lord Icnovi.s I have been here 12 years. GOOD Nawa!—Printers with nine children are exempt from taxation in the StatQof New York. W. P. STEELE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, SIIR.VEYOR AND CON VEYP.NCER, LANCASTER, PA. AU kinds of Scrivining : Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Accounts, &c., executed with promptness and despatch. • ,Will give special attention to the collection of PEN . stone, and the prosecution of Military and other claims against the General - and State Governments. • OtEce'in North Queen Street, opposite the National Hotel_ [may 26 ly4B •JNO. S. WALKER, • . zitetestavatz 1L,11.1t. OFFICE—Four doors above . Swope's. Pawns, East Ong Street, , LANCASTER, PA. Sept?, 1852 6m-33 L ANDIS & BLACK, ATTORNIES AT LAW: Office—Three doors below the Lancaster Bank, South Queen Street, Lancaster, Penn's. irjr All kinds of Scrivening, such as writing Wills, Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, &c., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. January 16, 1849 51 GEORGE W. M'ELROY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in N. Queen street, opposite Ziegler's " Na tional House," Lancaster, Pa. Also, Surveying—and all kinds of Conveyancing, writing Deeds, Mortgagee, Willa, &c., and stating Administrators' and Excutors , Accounts, will be attended to with correctness and despatch. april 19, 1863. ' tf-13 Dr. J. Mairs McAllister, HOME , - OPTIIIC PRACTITIONER.—Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster; a few doors below Ches nut. Office hours, from 6 to 9 A. M., and from 5 to 10 P. M, Dec 14-Iy-47 A Card.—Dr. S. P. ZIEGLER, offers his rroreaeleaet eerrices in all its various branch es to the people of Lancaster sod vicinity. Residence and Office North Prince - at., between Orange and Chenut streets, where he- can be con sulted at all hours, unless professionally engaged. Calls promptly attended to, and charges moderate. april 25. tf-14 . . Removal.—Dr. John McCann, Dentist, would 'respectfully announce to his numerous friends and patrons that he has removed his Office from No. 8, to No. 4 East King et., Lan caster, second house from Centre Square, where he is prepared to perform' all oper ations coming within the province of 1. 4 - Dental Surgery on the mostapproved ' 4eisna a principles. [march. 22 Bm-9 Removal.—J. G. MOORE, Surgeon Dentist of the firm of Dr. M. M. Moore & Son, will remove his office from the old stand, to the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Thomas Evans, Dentist, in the building situated on the South East Corner of North Queen and Orange streets, the lower rooms of which are occupied by Erben's Clothing Store and G. Metzger's Shoe Store, where he will have great conveniences for waiting upon those who may favor him with a call. J. G. M. having had considerable experience in the Dental Art as sures those who are desirous of having anything done pertaining to Dentistry, that he is prepared to give that care and ,attention which the case de mands. N. B.—Entrance to Office, 2d door on Orange St march 29 tf-10 2000 dollars New ;Myer Coin.— The old Coin bought at 2 per cent. pre mium, payable in the new coin. may 10 tf-I6' S. F. SHRODER ¢ CO. Mass Meetings S AGREAT Mass Meeting of the friends of good Daguerreotype Likenesses ,will be held at JOHN S lON'S SKY-LIGHT GALLERY, corner of North Queen and Oiange streets, every day until further notice: tKrNo postponement on account of the weather Lancaster, Juno 22, 1862. 22-tf SURE CURE. 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Married persons, or those contemplattug toor• riagre being aware of physical weakness, should immediately consult Dr. J. and be restored to per fect health. - OFFICE.. N. 7, South FREDERICK :Street, tiALTIMORE, Md., on the left hand side, going from Baltimore street, 7 doors froth the corner.— Be particular in observing the name and number or you will mistake the place. • DR. JOHNSTON, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon don, Graduate from one of the most eminent Col leges of the United States and the greater part of whose life has been spent in the Hospitals of Lon don, Paris, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, has affect ed some of the most astonishing cures that were ever known. Many troubled with ringing in the ears and head when asleep,great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds, and bashfulness, with frequent blushing, attended, sometimes, wish de rangement of mind, were cured immediately. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE Dr. J. addresses all those who have injures themselves by private and improper indulgencies, that secret and solitary habits, which ruin both body and mind, unfitting them for either busineS or society. These are some of the sad and melancholy ebl facts produced by early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the back and limbs, Pains in the bead, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Muscular Power, Pal pitation of the flew, Dyspepsia, Nervous Irrita bility, Derangement of the Digestive Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Consumption, &c Mentally.—The fearful effects on the mind are much to be dreaded: Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, ,Depression of Spirits, Evil of Forebo ding, Aversion of Society, Self Distrust, Love of Solitude, Thilidity, &c. are some of the evils pro duced• NERVOUS DEBILITY Weakness of the system, Nervous Debility and premature decay generally arises from the destruct ive habit of youth, that solitary practice so fatal to the healthful existence of man, and it is the young who are the most apt to become its Victims from an ignorance of the dangers to which they subject themselves. Parents and Guardians are often mis led with respect to the cause or source of disease in their sons and wards. Alas! how often do they ascribe to other causes the wasting of the frame, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Derangement of the Nervous System, Cough and Symptoms of Consumption, also those serious Mental effeets, such as loss of Memory, Depres eion of Spirits or peculiar fits of Melancholy, when the truth is they have been caused by indulging Pernicious but alluring practices, destructive te both Body and Mind. Thus a're swept from ex istence thousands who might have been of use to their country, a pleasure to their friends, an orna ment to society.. WEAKNESS OF THE ORGANS immediately cured and full vigor restored. Oh, how happy. have , hundreds of misguided youths been made, who have been suddenly resto red to health from the devastations of those terrific maladies which result from indiscretion. Such persons, before contemplating MARRIAGE, should reflect that a sound mind and body are the moat necessary requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, without this, the journey thro' life becomes a weary pilgrimage ; the prospect hourly darkens to the view ; the mind becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with the melan choly reflection that the happiness of another be comes blighted with our own. Let no false delica cy prevent you, but apply immediately. He who places himself under the care of Dr JOHNSTON, may religiously confide in his hon or as a Gentleman, and confidently rely upon his skill as a Physician TO STRANGERS. The many thousands cured at this institutlon within the last ten years, and the numerous im portant Surgical Operations performed by Dr. J., witnessed by the Reporters of the papers and ma. ny other persons, notices of which have appeared again and again before the public, is a sufficient guarantee that the afflicted will find it skilful and honorable physician. N. B.—Shttp the' numerous pretenders who call themselves Physicians, and apply to DR. JOHN S ON. Be not enticed from this office. ALL LETTERS POST-PAID—REME DIES SENT BY MAIL. jtllli 7,1833; 'ly-20 Entered accordin g to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by J. S.HOCWITON, M. D., In the clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern Die trict of Pennsylvania. Another Scientific Wonder: GREAT CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA ! S. 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Dr. Combe, in his valuable writings on the " Physiology of Digestion," observes that "a dim inution of the due quantity of the Gastric Juice is a prominent and all prevailing cause of D yspepsiat" and he states that "a distinguished professor of medicine in London, who was severely afflicted with this complaint, finding everything else to fail, had recourse to the Gastric Juice, obtained from the stomach of living animals, which proved•rem pletely successfull." Dr. Graham, author of the famous works on "Vegetable Diet," says: "It is a remarkable fact in phgsiology, that the stomachs of animals, mace rated in water, impart to the fluid the property of dissolving vs.rous articles of food, and of effecting a. kind of artificial digestion of them in nowise diffrfeent mro the natural digestitu. process." AS A DYSPEPSIA CURER, Dr. HOUGHTON'S PEPSIN has produced ilia most marvellous effects, in curing cases of Debility, Emaciation, Nervons Decline, and Dyspeptic Consumption. It is impossible to give the details of cases in the limits of this advertisement ; but authenticated certificates have been given of more than Two Hundred Remarkable Cures, in Pnila delphia, New York and Boston alone. These were nearly all desperate cases, and the cures were not only rapid and wonderful, but permanent. It is a great Nervous Antidote, and particularly useful for tendency to Billions disorder, Liver Complaint, Fever or.. Ague, or badly treated Fever , ana Ague, and the evil effects of Quinine,Mee cury and other arugs upon the Digestive rgans, after a lor.g sickness. Also, for excess in eating, and the too free use of ardent spirits. It almost reconciles health with intemprance.- OLD STOMACFI GOA/PLAINTS There is no form of Old Stomach Complaints which it does not seem to reach and remove at once. No matter how bad they may be, it gives instant relief! 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As it is not a secret remedy" no Objection can be raisers against its use by Phy sicians in respectable standing and regular practice. Price Our. Dotter, per bottle. i23 - OBSERVE THlS!—Every, bottle of the genuine PEPSIN bears the written signature of J. S. fl OUGHT ON, M. D., solo proprietor, Phil adelphia, Pa. Copyright and Trade Mark secured. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicines_ For sale in Lancaster by LONG & SCIIOENFELD, No. 1, Kramph's Arcade, N. E.cor. North Qpeeir and Orange sts., one door east of Kramph's Clo thing Store, Lancaster. sep 16.34-1 y) A CARD. subscribes beg leave thus to acquaint their friends and!the public, that they've made inch arrangementa with a house in the city of pldladel phia, as will enable them to execute orders for the purchase and sale of BANK STOCK, RAIL ROAD STOCK, STATE _ _ AND UNITED STATES LOANS, &c. &c., At the Board of Brokers, with promptness and fidelity and on as favorable terms in every respect, as can be done in Philadelphia. The faithful and confidential execution of all business entrusted to them may be relied on. • Money safely invested for individuals on Estates, in Bonds and Mortgages, State and United States securities, &c. &c. Personal attention will be given to the proper transfer, &c., of Stock, Loads, &c., and such general supervision as will obtain for those intrusting business to them the safest and most de sirable securities. Also, the collection of Notes, Checks, Bills, &c., on Philadelphia, New. York, Baltimore, and the towns &c. in this vicinity. Also, persons desirous of buying or selling any stock of the Lancaster Banks, Conestoga Steam Mills, Gas or Turnpike Stocks by leaving the order in our nande will meet with prompt attention. JOHN F. SHRODER, GEORGE S. REED, One door trout the corner of Notlh Queen and Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa. Feb. 12, 1850. 3.1 y Sign Painting. WILLIAM E. 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