LJiV -2 X . ‘ '■ ; . 1.; ■ ■ ,. J . ti ... T ; V:.: V ■ ' c ’ CT.'.i ■ r ■: ‘ WL. LYIII. “UNCLE BEN’S RAM.” Undo Ben was a queer old man, And a queer old man was he ; * In faot' his batting "'propensities prompted' him to butt everything batt&ble he ooold see. , flis fat old wife never used a stool, To milk she would ne’er sit down; ' * And though old Ben called her a fool* Yet she would never hearken to his advice ; but to xeoiprooate the favor, and said he was a down. * Bat one sad morn, as Brindle stood Beneath the stately pear, Old Ben’s wife in a merry mood, 'Was milking her—occupying her usual posi tion, with but little oare. The ram and Ben the fact espied, And loudly Ben did shout; « Squat down —squat down !” he sternly cried ‘ But she did’nt bear him, and before he could Interfere the ram had turned his fat old wife all about. Now Uncle Ben was very wroth, Ah, very wroth was he; He took the grindstone from his trough, And tying a rope to it, hung it on a limb.of the old pear tree. Then like a heavy pendulum, He swung the mighty rock ; Whioh seemed to say “ I am up for fun, Mr. Ram, so just come I .in, will you, and take an affectionate knock !” -Right briskly then the fight begun ; The stone would not “give in,” • And Ben’s old Ram would yield to none, So he butted all day. And when Uncle Ben went to bed he was still butting like all sin. But when old Ben oame next day, And wont into the lawn, The ram had butted himself away, And everything under Heaven, but about twoinohes of his tail, used up—completely gone. "THE WHITE HORSE, A TRUE TALE OP THE ALLEGHENY MOUN- In the year 1812, tho western portion of the great State of Pennsylvania, embra cing the mountainous region between Ohambersburg and Pittsburg, presented little more than an unsubdued and unbro ken wilderness, through which the great road from Philadelphia to the head waters of the Ohio passed ; and at that period it was a lonely and dangerous path-way to all way-farers. between the eastern cities and the great western wilderness of Ohio and Kentucky. To the best of my recollection, this road passed over five distihot and lofty ridges of mountains, with here and there a sparse settlement of hardy mountaineers and hun ters, and with occasionally, between theße infant settlements, some solitary and re mote booths of the wandering hunters deserted, ruinous, and forlorn, except du ring the hunting season of the year. Of all the solitudes in the universe, those seem the most deserted—chilling and awfully alone, which bear the marks of hu man habitation ; and having been deserted by their former inmates forever. Of the five ridges over which the road just men tioned, passed to the westward, the middle ridge was by far the highest, and was called by the wagoners the ‘ back-bone ’ by way of pre-eminence, and because the word ‘ Allegheny’ in the Indian language means the parent or father of Mountains. Prom the eastern brow of this lofty middle ridge where resided, at the period I speak of, an honest, wealthy, Pennsylvania Dutchman, whose name was Stottler, who kept a pub lic inn—in viewing the rugged, precipitous 1 landscape to the eastward, the eye was lost in a bed of inferior ridges, which seemed to extend to the very verge of the horizon like the waves of some vast ocean, beheld from a head-land or towering mountain peak. In faot, to make use of a poetical figure, the whole surface of the eastern horizon, seen from the eastern brow of the main ' Allegheny ridge, seemed like the billows of a tumultuous ocean in a storm, suddenly arrested by the fiat of omnipo tence, and fixed forever in their 1 various positions and attitudes ! The whole scene was indeed sublime, beyond any power of language I can command. The house in which Stottler resided was emphatically a Dutch house, one story high, framed and painted, with a porch along the whole front, and dormer windows in the roof. During the winter of 1812-13, on a journey between Philadelphia and Pitts burg, I stopped at this orderly and well regulated tavern, to remain all night.— There was much company there, in addi tion to those who arrived at the time I did, but it was of an ordinary travelling char acter, composed chiefly of western mer chants, and we were not much in the way of each other. » Among the guests who surrounded the fire after supper, was a gentleman of ap parently superior information, and who seemed to be much of a literary character; and the conversation happening to turn on the dangers encountered by travellers, he voluntarily related to the company the following narrative, with the assurance that it was .true, and we all listened with attention: “ About a year ago,” said he, “a gentle man well armed, from the direction of Pittsburg, and its adjacent rich stock country, stopped at this house with a large drove of fattened bullocks for the Balti more and Philadelphia markets, who said it was his intention to bring back the pro ceeds in money, to pay up the contracts— and that he would probably return in such a length of time. His name and dress, and also the place of his residence I have for gotten ; but he rode a white horse of very superior power—and I mention the .pecu liar color of his horse, because it was that which afterwards saved his life. Some weeks after he had been gone, and about the time of his expected return, two Canadian Frenchmen, on foot, well dressed and well armed, one carrying a brace of pistols, and the other a rifle, came from the direction of Pittsburg, and stopped at this house for breakfast. They told Mr. Stottler that they had no money; that they were travel ing to Philadelphia; and a variety of other matters, arid that they had lost their horses. He immediately ordered breakfast for them, and they ate heartily—conversing at the a same time in the French language, in an under tone. One of them was a large stout man, and the other was a person of less size; they both had the air of gentle men. i After they hadbreakfasted, they started eastward in the direction of Philadelphia; there was a light soft snow ion the ground; and the walking was somewhat difficult.—? They had not proceeded more than two miles when, m the distanoei from a rising piece -of ground, they discovered a traveler advancing toward them on a white horse. The wayfaTer and his white steed, they imagined, were the objects of their long and anxious pursuit; and no sooner was this fancied discovery made, than they turned their faces to the westward and ap peared to be travelling in that .direction. The solitary traveller on the white horse soon overtook and accosted them in the most friendly manner. On being ques tioned, they told him they were on their way to Pittsburg, and were destitute of the means of defraying their expenses, and desired him to assist them onward. — His reply was what might have been ex pected—it was precisely what always may 'be expected by any destitute wayfarer, travelling in .the great west. He told l them he was a poor man himself, and burdened with the heavy charge of a large family of helpless ohildren ; that his name was Pollook, a laboring man by profession, and that he lived on rented land, not far from the residence of Gen Arthur St. Clair, in Ligonier Yalley, that he had but a very small sum of money with him, but that he would share it with them, in bear ing their expenses, to the last cent. Con versation on this and other themes brought the two vagabond Frenchman, and their generous and noble comrade, Pollock, back to Stottler’s house of entertainment. — Here poor Pollock ordered refreshments for Bis stranger companions and himself, and paid for them out of a leathern purse, tut very poorly and meagerly supplied ; and the travellers started on their way westward in company. During the two visits the strangers had made at Stottler’s house, their appearance, conduct and character had been narrowly and closely scrutinized by a brother-in-law of Stottler’s, whose name was John Lam bert, a blacksmith by trade, and with whom I afterwards took occasion to become ac quainted. * * * * After the departure of the two armed footpads, with Mr. Pollock in company, Lambert remarked to his brother-in-law, that he did not like the appearance of these two Frenchmen—that he distrusted their intentions respecting Pollock —that their countenances and character seemed dark and sinister—that he had come to the de termination of following them a few miles. Stottler dissuaded him from this resolu tion, as being futile and not well founded —told him that no harm would result to Pollock from traveling in their company, and desired him to dismiss his suspicions, as he was convinced they were innocent and worthy men. While Lambert and his brother-in-law were discussing these points on the front porch, Pollock’s horse sud denly turned the corner of the road, and • advanced to them at full speed, without his rider. When the horse came up to the porch, the whole tragedy was fully explain ed—the horse’s neck and shoulders, as well as the saddle and saddlecloth, were stained with blood, and no doubt could existas to Pollock’s murder. The servants and young men of the house were imme diately mounted on horseback, and sent to summon the neighbors to assist in recover ing poor Pollock’s body, and assist, if pos sible, in capturing the offenders. Neigh bors in such a country as this was, at that time, included all who resided within ten or twelve miles of the place designated. A little after the middle of the day, ten or twelve of (he hardy dwellers of the mountains had collected themselves on Stottler’s porch.. * * * * With Lambert as their chosen leader, who made a solemn vow to capture or de stroy the murderers, the company started on foot and well armed, in pursuit of the blood-stained fugitives; horses, however active and powerful, could be of no use to the pursuers among the rocks and preci pices of the mountains, covered as they were with snow. When the company came to the scene of the murder, no doubt could exist as to the facts; the snow was much trampled and greatly discolored with blood, and disclosed traces of a deadly struggle of life and death; from all appearances the struggle must have been long and dreadful, and evinced the obstinacy with which the poor victim of assassination must have contend ed hopelessly for life. But what must have been-the reflections whioh rushed on the mind of the lonely and deserted vic tim of perfidy when overcome and sinking under the hands and savage hearts of these monsters of iniquity and blood ! His wife, his children, his poverty, the cold charities of a merciless world, must have filled his mind with horror and dismay— the physical agonies of death, with all their excruoiating pangs, can be as nothing to such mental sufferings. It was evident to Lambert and his com pany, that the body of the deceased would not be far removed from the scene of death, and in a few minute’s search, the corpse was discovered. It was wedged in between two large rotten logs, which had been roll ed out of the road and covered with the rubbish of leaves and brushwood, and bore marks of a most sanguinary butchery.— Two ’balls had passed through the body, and in the breast and sides were found the marks of several vital stabs, given appar ently with a large hunter’s knife. ’ One of the hands of the deceased was horribly disfigured ; it seemed as if in tbe oonflict, Pollock had grasped the blade of a large knife, which had been drawn forci bly through his hand, and nearly severed the joints of his fingers. His clothing was much rent and torn in the combat, and his countenance exhibited the indications of great agony in his last moments. A coun cil was now held by the company, as to what was to be done ; and after having sent the dead body back to Stottler’s house, Lambert proposed an instant and vigorous pursuit of the murderers, before their foot tracks would be effaced from the soft snow. l The proposition was assented to by the whole company, and in a short time, the trail of the murderers was dis covered, being a little west of north ; the snow was light and unpacked, and exhibit ed their foot-prints with great clearness and certainty. When the oompany started on the trail, it was late in the evening, the sun not be ing more than two hours from the horizon, and the whole country over which the trail of the fugitives passed, known only to hunters, was a wild and trackless wilder ness, tangled with an undergrowth of laurel and brushwood. The pursuers kept the track with industry, perseverance and resolution, until sunßet, and the approach of darkness. The mountain now began to assume a more bleak and dreary aspect ; the sound of the wind through the leafless boughs and branohes of the trees, seemed to be fraught with the loud howl of the wolf and the shrill scream of the panther, « THAI : COtJHTBr IS THIS HOST MtOSPBBOUS WHEBE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST BBWASD.”—BUCHANAN. LANCASTER CITY. PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1857. and the distant 7 and sullen roar of the ] mountain torrents seemed ominous of soli- j tary.and unknown dangers. To ignorant! and uncultivated minds, the sublime and inscrutable mysteries of nature, are always the cause of superstition and terror, and more particularly so during the hours of night and darkness.. Lambert now discovered, as the night began to set in, that the courage and reso lution of his companions were fast ebbing, and that they .would soon be brought to a dead stand still, and he called a halt for further The result of this deliberation was, thateach individual found or formed some excuse for returning home, and Lambert was left alone to pursue his' dangerous and lonely enterprise. He was, however, doubly armed, first with the justice of his cause and conscious ness of rectitude, and second with! a good rifle, tomahawk and hunter’s knife, and with these he pursued his precarious jour ney —not regardless of oonsequences, but prepared- to'meet all events that might ocour. With the assistance of starlight, reflected from a bright surface of snow, he was enabled to trace the footsteps of the murderers, and when the moon arose in full splendor, a little before midnight, he found no further difficulty in pursuing his way. After traveling in a north-western di rection twelve or fourteen miles he came to an old and nearly disused road, run ning nearly parallel with the one he had left; this was called the Old Pennsylvania trace, between Philadelphia and Bed Stone Old Fort, situated on the waters of the Monongahela river; it was the first road opened between Eastern Pennsylva nia and the head waters of the Ohio river, and the ancient landmarks, “three chops and a blaze,” were still visible by daylight on the old trees. These ancient roads and landmarks, I have been informed, were adopted by the old surveyors and openers of roads in the West, to propitiate Heaven in favor of the first settlers of the great Western wilderness ; and hence the first was for the Father, the second for the Son, and the third for the Holy Ghost, and the blaze was merely designed to at tract the attention beholder. When struck the old trace road, he dis covered an ancient or ruinous hut or log cabin, nearly opposite to him, on the north side of this dilapidated and solitary road. The moon had now nearly gained her meridian, and beamed with full and un clouded splendor on the snowy peaks of the distant mountains, and on the cold and solitary landscape just before him. — There stood, iUsolemn silence and seeming desertion, the hut which contained, prob ably, the objects of his long and laborious pursuit; and to satisfy the anxiety of his mind respecting the actual presence of the murderers, who would be on the alert and prepared for a defence of a most desper ate character, he had to make a silent and cautious circle around the hut, at some little distance from the cabin in any di rection. These circumstances put at rest all doubts and uncertainties, and Lambert had nothing now to do, but to act in the last scene of this sanguinary drama—to capture the murderers or to lose his life. He had just seen through the shattered clap boards, of which the door was made, a feeble light, in the only fire-place the house could boast. The house consisted of but two apartments, whioh were without any partition between: —and only distin guished from each other by a step or two down from the west to the east room. The poor woman who had resided for years on this deserted road, and lived by selling cakes and beer to casual wayfarers,'slept in the west room into which the pnly door in the house opened from the road, and the east room containing one bed, as it afterwards appeared, was ocoupied by the ;wo villains of whom. Lambert was in pursuit. After stepping a few paces back from the door, Lambert gave a loud cough or two, to awaken the old woman —and boldly advancing' to the step, and stamping the snow from his feet, desired admittance in a feigned? voice—and telling her at the same time that he was a stranger who had lost his way—that he was nearly frozen to death in wandering about—and that he wished her to re-light the fire to warm himself. She immediately obeyed, and soon re plenished and re-lighted the fire, whilst he remained outside the door, under the pre tence of disrobing his feet of the snow— his real object being to await the light of the fire, that he might fairly enoounter the villains, whom he had just heard talking, in an alarmed and startled tone of voice, in the lower room. When he stepped over the door into the bright light of the fire,, i his first salutation was the loud report of ! a musket from the lower room, the two 1 balls from which struck the door post an 1 inch or two from his head. No time was . now to be lost. Reserving his fire, he sprang down to the lower room, yet reek- , ing with the smoke of burning powder, and using his tomahawk with dexterity and effect, knocked the villain senseless who had just fired upon him, and whom he believed he had killed* In the interim, while these events were passing, the smaller villain of the two, had crept- thro’ a small unglazed window, immediately above the side of the bed, and was running off, in the bright moonlight, ; directly towards the north. Lambert soon discov ered him, and mounting on the bed, as the fellow was running directly from the window, in a straight line, clothing in hand, brought him down on his face, with two halls from his own rifle, planted pre cisely between the shoulders of the horri ble miscreant. The seizing, witji a giant’s grasp, the sturdy villain whom he had felled on the floor, and who. seemed to be reviving for further . combat, Lambert placed his knee on the fellow’s breast, and asked the old woman for a rope. This she furnished by cutting a bodcord from one of the bedsteads. With this Lambert bound the fellow, and dragged him to the fireplace in the upper room. Then absenting himself for a few moments only, he brought in the dead man on his shoulders, and placed the corpse side by side with the living murderer. When the day dawned, the worfc of death being finished, Lambert prepared to return home, having accomplished in a few hours, what would have immortalized any heroe of the age of chivalry. When deserted by his faint hearted companions, this man of . iron resolution, and strong energies, never faltered or betrayed the least hesitation of purpose. * Lambert now aooepted a loan of a horse from his aged and venerable friend, the old woman of the mountains. He next placed his living captive on the animal, after hav ing pinioned his arms behind him and se cured his feet below thehorse. And then fastening the dead body of the miscreant he had killed across the shoulders of the horse, and firmly lashing it' to his compan ion in iniquity, he gravely led the horse, with its burthen of murder and carnage to the house of his brother-in-law. Here he found many persons assembled from all sections of the country, among them the chopfailen deserters of his heroic and suc cessful adventure—-who met in the con? temptuous countenances of the assembly, the disdainful reward of timidity and cow ardice. The captive murderer was soon sent to jail under a strong guard, and in the course of time expiated his crime on the gallows. This was the last robbery and murder ever committed on this wild and lonely road. Instead of the rich plunder the murderers had expected from the rich dro ver on the white horse, they found but three or four dollars in the pocket of poor Pollook, whom they had mistaken for the venerable rich drover, who arrived at the place directly after the tragedy,* with his money safely deposited in his portman teau. When he had been informed of the particulars relating to the murder of the deceased—and that he had left a widow and a large family of children steeped to the lips in poverty and destitution—com passion arose proudfully in his bosom.— Being wealthy, and having no family of his own, he constituted himself the guar dian protector, and faithful friend of Ilol lock’s bereaved and destitute family, and made them his heirs at his decease which happened soon afterwards. “ I regret,” said the speaker in conclu sion “that I cannot give you the name of this generous and noble spirited individual, but he no doubt received his great reward beyond the grave.” After a short pause, I asked the speaker whether Mr. Lambert, the hero of this in teresting narrative was still living ? He replied—“ Yes sir ;he is sitting on the chair next to your own”—and I took occasion to observe his appearance with much attention, that it might be deeply impressed on my memory. National Laws. We publish below a list of the public acts passed by the late Congress, up to the evening ot the 3d. There may have been some more rushed through by midnight legislation—a fact which it will take a few days to discover: An act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be procured, by pur chase or otherwise, a suitable steamer as a revenue cutter. An act authorizing the establishment of a Navy Depot on Blyth Island, at Brunswick, on the coaßt of Georgia, and for other purposes; An act to divide the State of Texas into two judicial districts. An act to extend the time for selling the lands granted to the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb. An net making appropriations for the sup port of tho Military Academy for the year ending Jnne 30, 1858. An act making appropriations for the pay ment of invalid and other pensions of the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1858. J An aot making appropriations for the con sular and diplomatic expenses of the govern ment, for the year ending June 30, 1858. An act for the construction of a wagon road from the south pass of the Rocky Mountains, in Nebraska Territory, via, Great Salt Lake Valley, to Honey Lake Valley, in the eastern portion of the State of California, and for the establishment of military posts thereupon. An act more effectually to enforce the at tendance of witnesses on the summons of either house of Congress, and to compel them to discover testimony. An act to increase the pay. of the Officers of the Army. Joint resolution provides for the furnishing of a complete set of weights and measures to the State of Vermont. An act to amend an act, entitled “ An act to promote tbe efficiency of the Navy. An act for regulating the terms of the Cir cuit Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. An act relating to foreign coins, and to the coinage ot cents at the Mint of the United States. An act providing for the compulsory pre payment of postage on transient printed mat ter. An act supplementary to an act to organize an institution for the insane of the Army and Navy, and of the District of Columbia in the said district, approved March 3d, 1855. A resolution respecting the distribution of certain public documents. A resolution granting further time to the creditors of Texas to present their claims, and for other purposes. A resolution for the appointment of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. An act to authorize the people of the Terri tory of Minnesota, to form a Constitution and State government, preparatory to their admis sion into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States. An act making appropriations for the com pletion of military roads in Oregon Territory. An act to amend the 28th section of the act of Congress approved the 30th of August, 1842, entitled, “An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify ex isting laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes,” prohibiting the importa tion of obscene and indecent articles, so as more effectually to accomplish the purposes for which that provision was enacted. An act to establish Augusta, in the State of Georgia, a port of delivery. The ‘ Old Gal’s ’ Story. —l was once Captain of a packet schooner plying be tween Boston and Baltimore, and was blessed with a first mate of the ‘ rale old Yankee kind.’ Going up the Chesapeake one dark and stormy night, the wind blow ing a steady gale, my mate being a little nervous, and not being acquainted with the ground, supposed the old girl was going it a few knots too strong. I had turned in, but had not gone to sleep. Tramp—tramp —tramp—on deck—it was my mate. ‘ Captain, had’nt we better shorten sail ? It’s blowing like thunder.’ ‘No—keep her going.’ A few minutes after, tramp —tramp- tramp—on deck. ‘ Captain,’ said my mate again, ‘ it fresh ens, and already blows big guns. Hadn-’ t we better shorten sail V ‘ Not a shorten,’ I replied, confident in my oraft and knowledge of my where abouts ; ‘ not a shorten, keep her to it.’ ‘ Well,’ said the mate, dosing the door of the companion way with an amiable slam, ‘ so be it! —let her rip!—we’re all bound to go to h—ll before morning, and I’ve got as many friends there as you have.’ I took a glass of grog, and concluded to lowor the foresail, take a reef in mainsail, and ask the mate if he had a. desire to be ( come acquainted with one Bourbon, whose surname is Whiskey. Uncbnstltutfton&lity of the Missouri Com* promise. 1 Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case. Washington, March 6. The opinion of the Supreme Court in the Dred’Scott case was delivered to-day by Chief .Justice/Taney. It was a full and elaborate statement of the views of the Court. They havs. deeided the following all important, points:—First—That negroes, whether slaves or, free, are not citizens of the United States . by { the Constitution. Second—That the ordi nance of 1-787 had no independent constitu tional .force or legal effect subsequently to the adoption, of-the Constitution, and coaid not .operate of itself to confer freedoin or citizen- i ship within the Northwest Territory, on ne groes not citizens by the Constitution. Third —TJhat the provision of the act of 1820, com-. monly called the Missouri Compromise, in so , far.as it undertook to exclude negro slavery from, and communicate freedom and citizen-, ship to, negroes in the northern part of the j Louisiana cession, was a legislative act ex-! ceeding the powers of Congress, and “ void/' I an<l of no legal effect to that end. In deciding-j these main points, the Supreme Court deter mined the fullowiiig incidental points:—. First—The expression “ Territory and other property” of the Union, in the Constitution, applies, “ in terms” only, to such territory as the Union possessed at the time of the adop tion of the Constitution. Second—The rights of citizens of the United States, emigrating into any federal territory, and the power of the federal government there, depend on the general provisions of the Constitution which define in this, as in all other respects, the powers of Congress. Third—As Congress does not possess power itself to make enact ments relative to the persons or property of citizens of the United Stateß in federal terri tory, other than such as the Constitution con fers, suit cannot constitutionally delegate any such power to a territorial government organ ized by it under the Constitution. Fourth-The legal condition of a slave in the State of Mis souri is not affected by the temporary sojourn of such slave in any other State,- but on his return his condition still depends on the lawd of Missouri. As the plaintiff was not a citizen of Missouri, and therefore could not sue in the Courts of the United States, the suit must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. The delivery of this opinion occupied about three hours, and it was listened to with pro found attention by a crowded court room.— AmoDg the auditors were many gentlemen of eminent legal ability, and a due proportion of ladies. Justice Nelson stated the merits of the case, the question being whether or hot the removal of Scott from Missouri, with his master, to Illinois, with a view of temporary residence, worked his emancipation. He maintained that the question depended solely on the law of Missouri, and for that reason the judgment of the Court below should be affirmed. Justice Catron believed the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to decide the merits of the case. lie argued that Congress could not do directly what it could not do indirectly. If it could exclude one species of property it could another. With regard to the Territories ceded, Congress could govern them only with the restrictions of the States which ceded them, and the Missouri Act of 1820 violated the leading features of the Constitution, and was therefore void. He concurred with his broth er Judges that Scott is a slave, and was so when the suit was brought. Several other of the Judges are to deliver their views to-morrow. Justices McLean and Curtis dissent from the opinion of the majority of the Court. An Affecting Story.— Thrilling ac counts are given in the Marysville papers of the ohase of two lovyers by an enraged third party, (the parient } ) who, as we take up the story, was ; following them across the Yuba river: “Augustus saw the fury depicted in the old man’s face, and deeming discretion the better part of valor, made a dead halt in the road and concluded to surrender. — Maria was frantic* Leaping suddenly from her horse, and walking through mud three feet deep, she gathered her husband by the legs and dragged him to the ground. Then grasping him tightly around the neck, she shouted to her father, who was now in shouting distance : “You shan’t part us. Eight here, up to our knees in mud, we will love and die together!” The old man started back in amazement. “Yes,” muttered the half used up Augustus, “we’ll die right here in the mud.” “But, Maria, my child,” groaned the old man, “are you my daughter still?” “Yes,” was the reply, “and I’m his wife, too.” “And are you married V’ “We are,” exclaimed both. The old man looked daggers for a mo ment, closely scrutinized the couple as they clung to each other in the mud, and turning his horse’s head toward the city, he started off, saying : “That’s all I wanted to know. You can get out of the mud and come home.” The New Tariff. —Under the provisions of the act which has just passed, the following leading articles will be admitted as stated : All wool, costing 20 cents or under, per pound, at the place of exportation, will be admitted duty free; all other descriptions of wool will pay 24 per cent. Iron and sugar will pay 24 per cent. Dyestuffs generally, ‘will be admitted free. Wines and liquors will pay 30 per cent. Alkalis will pay 4 per cent. Woolen fabrics, generally, will pay 24 per cent. Woolen blankets will pay 15 per cent. Dyed, printed, stained, or bleached cotton fabrics will pay 24 per cent. Brown or unbleached cotton goods will pay 19 per cent. Linen fabrics, of all descriptions, will pay 15 per cent. Spices will be admitted free. There is, besides, a- long list of articles of less importance added to the Free list, which have heretofore paid from 10 to 30 per cent. By this bill the one hundred per cent, sche dule, and so much of the old forty per cent, j schedule as was not reduced down to the low i schedules or free lists, were cut down to thirty | per cent. All the forty per cent, schedule, 1 including all the spices and articles not pro duced in this country, but which enter into the general consumption, were either put on the free list or on the four per cent, schedule. Many articles were brought from the thirty per cent, schedule down to the lower schedules. The same was the case with the intermediate schedules between C and J. The House com mittee yielded to the amendment of the Sen ate, whioh proposed a reduction of the higher schedules to thirty per cent., and in the com promise of the matter have produced sub" stantially their free list, yielding some imma terial points in that respect. The other c schedules were reduced about twenty per cent. The remainder of the old thirty per cent, schedule was brought down to twenty four per cent. The twenty-five per cent, schedule was brought down to nineteen per cent.; the twenty per cent, to fifteen ; the fifteen to twelve; the ten to eight; and that part of the old five per cent, sohedule which had not been included in the free list was put upon the foni per cent schedule,--iScpw. CHRIST NOT A WRITER, One of ibe most remarkable faotA in the history of ChristYs, thathe left no writings, behind him, Bnd.the only, record there is of his writing anything is in the case where “he stooped down and with'his finger wrote npon the ground.”—-What he wrote then and there no oHe knows perhaps the 'most plausible conjecture is that he wrote the answer to the question, -Whether the .woman taken in the aot of adultery should be stoned? “He 'thatt.is without sin among you, let him oast a stone at her.”— Hearer, did this strange faot ever reonr to you ; that the greatest reformer that ever lived—professedly the divine teacher sent of God to reveal his truth to the world— whose teaobings have survived the wreck of ages, and now command the oredenoe, the respect and the most profound admira tion of the enlightened world; and who is claimed as the “author and finisher” of a great system of faith and praotice, has left behind him no sentence of his those nnknown characters written with his finger in the sand constitute the sum total of all his writings of whioh there is any ac count ? Is there, or has there ever been, sinoe the invention of letters, or even rude hier oglyphics any such thing as a system of re ligion, whose founder did not take special pains, to reduce his teachings to writing, and thus give them the most exaot and permanent form ? The Brahmins have their Vedas, their Pouranas, their Ramayan, and their Laws and Institutes of Menu, and these are all written and preserved with the utmost care. The Chinese have their books of Fohi, their founder, as opened and ex pounded by their great Confucius. The Persians haye their Zendevesta attributed to their leader Zoroaster, containing the doctrine and laws of their religion. The Jews had their sacred books, and Moses and the prophets, and David, and Solomon, put their teachings in writing, that they might be preserved. Plato and Pythagoras, and Cicero, and Demosthenes, wrote much. Mahomet wrote the Koran and gave it to the faith ful as their guide. The writings of Swe denborg are voluminous; and in our days, even the Mormon impostor wrote his book of Mormon. But here comes one jvho claims precedence even to Moses and Abra ham, and especially claims that a greater than Solomon is in his own person, and announcing himself as a herald of a njyv dispensation from God, .which is to "Oast Moses and the prophets in tho shade, and prevails over all other systems, and subdue our entire race, and yet this great teacher wrote never a word save only the charac ters in the sand which the next breath of wind might obliterate. Who oan account for this strange procedure ? Will it com port at all with the idea that he was an im postor ? Did ever an impostor pursue a course like this ? Never. And it seems to us that in the simple fact to which we have alluded, there is the impress of truth, and proof that his mission is all divine.— He stands out before us as one who knows that his mission is from God, and that it can stand upon its merits. So confident is he of its power, that he is content to breathe it out in God’s air, and leave it to live by its own inherent and self-perpetua ting immortality, or not live at all. And so he .goes about doing good, now teaching in the synagogue and temple, now talking to his disciples as he sits on Olivet, or by the sea of Galilee, and now dropping a word as he walks by the way. And there is not manifested the slightest apprehension that what he says will he lost. He writes it not on stone or parchment. Nay, he writes it not at all. He seeks only to give it a lodgment in the hearts of the few dis ciples that followed him—to make them comprehend it and feel its power, and love it; and is willing to leave it there to pro duce its fruits, and to be written at all.— And on these hearts he did impress him self ; and they, for the love they bore him, wrote the meagre sketeh we have of his life and teachings. The Queen op England’s Head- Dress.—This pretty affair has 20 diamonds in a circle, worth §>7,500 each, two large ones worth §>lo,ooo each, four diamond crosses, in the same, worth $60,000, four large diamonds on the tops of the crosses, worth $200,000, twelve others in jleurs delis, worth $50,000, eighteen small ones, also worth $lO,OOO, pearls and diamonds upon the crosses and arches, worth $15,000, 141 small diamonds, $2,- 500, twenty-six diamonds in the upper cross worth $1,500. All these stones are set in gold and .cost, aside of the precious metal, $559,500. Within the limited shores of England, whose government supports a woman who wears this bauble on her head on state oc casions, there are at least one hundred subjects per day who die of actual starva tion. “I’ll Call Around and Pat.”— What a world of woe is contained in these few words to the poor artizan and mechan ic ! “ I’ll call around and pay,” says the rich man, to avoid the trouble of going to his desk to get the necessary funds, and the poor mechanic is obliged to go home to disappoint his workmen, and all who de pend on him for their due. It is an easy matter to work; the only real glory in this life is an independent idea of being able to sustain yourself by the labor of your own hands, and it may be easily im agined what crushing force there is in “ I’ll call round and pay,” to the laboring man, who depends upon that pay for sub sistence. If those who oould pay would only pay at once, it would place hundreds and thousands in a condition to do like wise, and would prevent much misery and distress. Genuine Fools.—He who wipes his nose with a nutmeg grater, and pioks his teeth with a razor. She who says “no” to the proposals of a gentleman when she has Teached the age of thirty years. He who gets so drunk every night that he puts his clothes to bed and hangs him self on the back of a chair. She who rubs her cheeks with brickbats in order to give them color. He who puts on his hat and takes his oano and starts out in pursuit of an honest and disinterested politician. . She who pinches and slaps a child to make it quit bawling. s®“ A'oolored pre<ichergn,Ye,. his appoint ment: “I shall speakiin die place a Fortnight from to-day, de lord; -willing; free weeks whuddei os no." CARDS. Dr. John. M’Calla, DENTlBT — Ofib'e-No 4 Sait, King street, Lancaster, "Pa. 1 fipl IS tf-18' “' TVTiIVS B. KACPMAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, IF has removed his office to his residence. In Thifa* street, first door south of the Farmers’ Bank’ near the Court Houle, ap 1 ly 11 Removal.— william s'. amweq, attorney AT LAW, has removed bis Office from his former place, into North Duke street opposite the pew Court House. tfprS tf 13 . Dr. s. welchexs, surgeon der- TISTv —Office, Knuuph's Buildings, second Spot, North. - East corner of North Queen and Orange streets, 'Lanca*-' ter, Pa. jko3o .ttV t Newton lightner, attorney-; AT LAW, has removed bis Office to North Duke street* • to the room recently occupied by lion. I. E. Hlester." '• Lancaster, apr 1 tf 11.., . Removal.— ISAAC K. HI ESTER—Attorney at LaV- Has removed to an Office in North Duke street, nearly ppositethe uew Court House, Lancaster, Pa, a pi Aldus J. Nefff Attorney at li«w.—Oiflc« <Tlth B. A. ShmfTer, Esq., south-west corner ofCentre Square, uext door to Wager’s Wine Store, Lancaster, Pa. . may 15,1855 Jesse Landis, —Attorney at Law. Office one docs east of Lechler’s Hotel, E. King St., Lancaster Pa‘. tSB»AU kinds of ScriTenlng—such aa writing Wilis, Deeds. Mortgages, Accounts, Ac., will be attended.to with correctness and despatch. may 15, '56 tf-17 WILLIAM WHITESIDE, SURGEON DENTIST.—QfIIco in. North Queen streot,-3d door from Orange, and directly over Sprooger & Westhaeff’er’i Bonk Store. Lancaster, may 27,1850. Removal. —WILLAM B. FOIIDNJSY, Attorney at Law has remowd his office from Pf. Queen st. to the building in the South East corner of Centre Square* for* merly known as Hubley’s Hotel. • Lancaster, aprll 10 • ,• • Dr. «J. T. Baker, Homepathlc Physiolan, successor to Dr. M’AlUster. j Office In E. Orange St., nearly opposite the First Ger* man Iteformed Church. Lancaster, April 17 T>allroad House, European style Hotel JtLtnd Restaurant, No. 48 Commercial and No. 8 7 Cliy Streets, SAN ERANCISCO, HALEY A THOMPSON, Proprietor*. 1 Jan 2 tf-SO James Black. —Attorney at Law. Office In fl. King street, two doors east of Lochior’s Hotel, ( caster, Pa. 1 All business connected wltli bis profession, and ; all kinds of writing, such as preparing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Stating Accounts, Ac., promptly attended to. may 15. ; t tf-17 SAMUEL U. REYNOLDS, Attorney aft Law, Ite-al Estate Agent and Conveyancer. Office, No, 4 North Duke street, opposite the .Court House. - KEKEIIS TO Ex-Got. W,F. Johnston, Pittsburg, “ William Bigler, Philadelphia. Hon. G. W. Woodward, u “ Alex. Jordan, Smbury. Peter McCall, Esq.. r —— Joshua W. Comly, Esq., Danville. Hon. James T. Ilale, Bellfonte. Henry Brockerhoff, “ LANCASTER, COUNTY EXCHANGE AND DEPOSIT OFFICE. Corner of East King and Duko Streets, BET. THE COURT HOUSE AND SPRECHEK’S HOTEX, Lancaster City. JOHN K. REED A CO. pay interest on deposits at thefW lowing rates: per cent for one year and longer. 5 do. “ 30 days “ do. £3-Also, buy and sell Real Estate and Stocks on com* mission, negotiate loans, collect claims, Ac.. Ac. 45-The undersigned are individually liable to the extent of their estates, foV all the deposits and other obligations of John K. Reed A Co. JOHN K. RUED, AMOS S. HENDERSON, DAVID SHULTZ, ISAAC E HIESTER, dec 25 tf« THE Office of the Lancaster Savings In stitution la open daily from 0 o’clock, A. M-, until 4 * o’lock, P. M. Those depositors who hare not exchanged certificates are requested to call at the Office with aa little delay as possible and receive the now certificates now being Is sued in exchange for those issued prior to June 6th, 1865, iu order that the Institution may proceed in the.regular transaction of business. By Order of the Board of Trustees. iL SCHKAPPKK, President. oct SOtf 41 A. E. RonraTS, Sec’y. J MARTIN.] BTRASDURQ. [J. tJNEEAD, Dentistry.— martin & ktnkead. having associated together in the practice of DENTISTRY, win endeavor to render entire satisfaction lu all opera tions entrusted to their care. Being prepared for the Main ufacture of TEETII, wo will be eDubled to suit all cases, with Blockv Single Gum or Elate Tooth, either on Gold, Silver or Gutta I’ercha. ,&g'-Offlce—Main Street, 3 door* East of Echtcrn&cht'i Hotel, Strasburg, Lancaster county. N. B.—l take thin method of tendering thanks for the liberal patronage heretofore received, and hope by the present arrangement to be enabled at all times to attend to those requiring our services, jnly 22 ly 27 JOSEPH A. NEEDLES, MANUFACTU RER OF WIRE, SILK AND HAIR-CLOTH SIEVES, Coarse, medium and fins.in mesh; largo, middlrsiie and small in diameter. ♦ . ' METALLIC CLOTHS OK "WOVEN WIRE, of the best qualities, various sizes of raesht from Nos. 1 to 80 inclnsiva, and from one to six feet In width. They ore numbered so many spaces to & lineal inch, and cut to suit. The subscriber also keeps constantly on hand, SCREENS, for Coal, Sand. Ora, Lime, Grain, Gravel, Sumac. Sugar, Salt, Bone, Coffee, Spice. Drugs, Dye-Stuffs, 4c. Together with an assortment of BRIGHT AND ANNEALED IRON WARE. All of the above Bold wholesale or retail, by , • J A. NEEDLES, 64 N. Front et., Philadelphia. june 3 ly 20 Great bargains in furniture, at the HOUSE KEEPER’S EMPORIUM, North Queen Street, oear Orange, Lancaster. The undersigned hare on band & very extensive assort* ■ ment of Parlor, Chamber, Dining Room and-Kitchen Fur niture, of a quality equal to any. that can be procured In Lancaster or Philadelphia, which they will sell (po&readt cash) at prices far below the usual rates. Window Shades of every variety for almost nothing. “A word to the wise is sufficient,” come and sae. N. B.—Splendid Cottago Chamber Setts Jnst received, dec 9 tf 47 KETCHUM k VICKERY. Blinds 1 Blinds JJ— VENETIAN BLTND MANN FACTORY. The subscriber takes this method of in forming the citizens of Lancaster county, that ho'still continues to manufacture Blinds of the most beautiful and fashionable styles, at the shortest possible notice, at his new establishment in East German Street, (one door below the Public Schools.) _ k Any person desiring to look at his different patterns, can - do so by calling as above, where be will at all times be . pleased to wait upon them. He has received some beaotl* " fal patterns from Philadelphia. Also, -Walnut Blind* .[ made to order, of which specimens can be seen at his dwelling; these blinds are warranted not to fade or draw. Window Shades hung. Hair, Husk, Straw And ! Cotton Mattrasses made to order and taste. Also, Cush ions, Curtains and all kinds of Upholstery made And re paired. Carpets cut, sewed and laid. All kinds of Furni ture made in the latest fashion and style. Old Furniture repaired and varnished to look as good as new. O-iers can he left at the Ben Franklin Printing Office,. North Queen 'street, next door to Shober’s Hotel, Jacob King’s Grocery store; WUmeyer St Barnes’ Furniture • Warehouse; D. Bair’s Dry Good Store; Erben’s Dry Good store; T. J. Weotx’6 Dry Good store; at the Red Lion Hotel, West King street; Heinitsh St Carter, Painters, Orange it., D. Herr, Columbia; and T. Gould, Safe Harbor. CONRAD ANNE, ' Agent. june 19 6m-22 JOHN L, KEFFER, SION FAINTER, Will always be found at hi* residence, in North Prfnee street, opposite the Moravian Cemetery. fob 3 tf 3 OUPER-PHOSPHATE OP LIME.—Th© O subscribe.-s present to the notice of Farmers and oth ers interested, the above article. The excellency of our preparation bos been so well known for maoy years past, that wo deem it unnecessary to say much ia respect to its merits, but merely remark that during a long series of years, its purity and Tolue as a stimulant for the growing crop, BDd as a Permanent Manure. . haTe been thoroughly established. - s Our Super Phosphate of Lime is not changed in Its char acter every season, but is what it purports to be, uniform in its chemical constituents, and is relied upon as the beat Fertilizer in use fur CORN, OATS, WHEAT, POTATOES, GRASS and other crops requiring a vigorous and lasting manure. Pamphlets describing it, and the mode of applying, can bo hod gratuitously at our stores, or by moil when de sired. . . , CAUTION.—Be particular to observe that every barrel of our article lias out name and that of PotU t£ KUtt branded on the head. This Caution is reudered uecessary, as there are so many articles of doubtful value sold under the name of Super Phoxpbate of Lime, as to mislead those, who are unacquainted with the value of a OJSNUINE ARTICLE. PRICE $45 Pi® 2UOO lbs. (2% CE*tr9 m LB.) A liberal deduction made to Dealers. Since last tali there has beon imported but 05* OXI4O of the Celebrated Pacific Oceun Gnano, which we offer for sale In small lots. FISH MANURE. A supply of this vaiuabto article for sale. .... , ■ PRICE $3O p*tt 2000 lbs. crifT Pr* tB.) No. 1 Government Peruvian -For sale at the lowest rates. The leading Agricultural JoumaU and ITtwrpaptn art regularlyJUaiataur effice/br ' NeJ23 South Wharves, and 35 South Water St., first store above Chestnut St., Phllada. : t/ • t Goods can be loaded at either front of our Ware houses. Farmers are recommended- to drive to Water Street and avoid the crowded wharf. Ample facilities are afforded in loading Wagons and attending to the Bones- - mar 3 • ‘ BRGAD TOP CO AL.-Offlce for tW sole of this celebrated WHITE ASH SJ3MX-BITUMINOU&. COAL, No. 24, Walnut Street, between Front “and •Seriond' J Streets, Philadelphia, for Steam Generating, Blacksmith- Ing Lime and Brick Burning and for Rolling Mill purpoe* es, this Coal qannot be excelled. It:yieUU a .very • aperipr * Coke, and as it can be furnished fine or coarse, makes It. very defilrabiefbr Orates, Bteam Engines and genenumatt* l * ufacturlng uses. « Analysis by Hr. Charles Wetherill, Philadelphia. j Volatile at 115° water, 0 861 Coke, < TJ JJi‘ Volatile at red heat, ,16 11 1 A»h, «Jf f Owning the land, ralniogthe Coal, sales, saves commlssfons, and enables the .buyer to duiv , ,owW .oCKSEC (tf-13) J. MARTIN.
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