(Tl)c Katuastcr JntcUioima'U VOL. LVIII. * INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN PUBLISHED EVER? TUESDAY, AT NO. 8 NOBTH DUIIE STB EET, BY GEO. SANDERSON. TERMS Subscription.—Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad* Tance. No subscription discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the optioo of the E'ditor. Advertisements.— Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 linsß.) will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each' additional inser tion. Those of a greater length in proportion. Job Printing —Such as Band Bills. Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels. <fcc., <tc., executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. j THE BACHELOR’S SOLILOQUY. To marry, or not to marry? that*! the question, Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to buffer The sullen silence of these cobweb rooms, Or seek in festive halls some cheerful lass, And, by uniting, end it? To live alone No more ! and by marrying, say wd end The heart-ache, and those ills and makeshifts Bachelors are heirs to: ’Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished \ To marry—to live in peace— Perchance in ; aye, there's tht for in the marriage state, what When we have shuffled off onr libei Must give us pause. There’s the r« That makes us dread the bonds of \ For who could bear the noise of scoj The fits of spleen, tho extravagancy The thirst for plays, for concerts ai The insolence of servants, and the That patient husbands from their Whon he himself might his quietu By living single. Who could wish to bear The odious name of Bachelor, But that the dread of something (Ah ! the vast expenditure of inci The tongue can scarcely tell) puzjzles the will, And makes ub rather choose the iingle life Than go to jail for debts we know not off ! jEconomy thus makes bach’lors <Jf us all ! And thus our melancholy resolution Is still increased upon more varibus thoughts. A LECTURE ON INDOLENCE AND ITS PENALTY; INDUSTRY AND IT6 REWARD. ' DELIVERED BEFORE THE STRASBURG LYCEUM, ON MARCH 12TH, 1857, BV REV. J. V. ECKERT. Ladies and G-entlejien N —lt is with no small degree of satisfaotion that I have the privilege of appearing before you this evening. Not that I have any vain confi dence in my abilities to entertain you profitably,—for from that my nature would shrink, —but my gratification arises from the opportunity afforded me to give my humble aid in the cause of mental and moral improvement. ■ 'Before entering upon the consideration of the subject I have chosen, I desire to make a remark of apology. It is not un common, on such occasions, for audiences to look for something learned, profound and eloquent. However just it might be in reference to such as travel the country as regular public lecturers, I feel that in my case such expectations would be alto gether unfair. I have been obliged to prepare this lecture, almost in paragraphic intervals, snatched from the onerous duties of my profession. And besides this, I ■have never known the advantages of a Collegiate training. I am a stranger to all those refining associations that cluster around such institutions. I have never, from the force of circumstances, been priv ileged to drink at their scientific fountains, nor to luxuriate upon the intellectual and moral food that is there dispensed. What ever inelegance or barrenness then, that may be observed, I hope will not, on this aooount, meet the severe judgment of lit erary criticism. I am willing at all times, and as far as I can, to do as much as my abilities will admit, to promote and encourage the im provement of the mind, body and heart.— And I trust that this is the desire of every individual present. There can be no nobler object.than this. It is worthy the aid of every friend of order, peace and prosperity. In my range of thought, for a theme, I have been somewhat puzzled in making a choice. ■ The variety of topics, that might have been made interesting to a public audience, were so numerous that my diffi culty lay altogether in the selection. Upon a little reflection, however, I- have chosen one that while it may appear on the one hand as novel, it is, I think, on the other hand, of the utmost practical importance. My subject is this : Indolence and its Penalty ; Industry and its Reward. Indolence and industry are like two opposite poles, they point in different di rections, and terminate in regions far from each other. Upon the path of the one are strewed the cheering flowers of peace and plenty, while along that of the other lurks the hidden thorns of sorrow and want. •The enlivening countenance of a be nignant Creator ever smiles upon the way of the industrious, while His frowns and displeasure appear to ehill the very atmos phere arotthd the idler. Even earth has no blessings for the latter, while it lav ishes them profusely upon the former. A reward is as naturally and as closely con nected with industry, and. a penalty as inseparable from 'indolence, as ever cause and effect can be. Had man retained his pure primitive ■nature, industry, in its present form, would, no doubt, have been a curse ; but it is far otherwise in our present state.— Our Supreme Lawgiver did nothing de rogatory to our peace, when He enunci ated the unalterable decree, “In the sweat of thy face shah thou eat bread.” The health of both body and mind de mand its most rigid observance. Man can not be happy, and altogether disregard it. Whosoever will attempt to annul it by dragging out his life in inactivity, will be as foolish as the dangerously diseased patient that would refuse medical assistance at the crisis of his sickness. Nature’s laws are fixed and unckanga ble—man cannot alter them. He must either pass down the ourrent of time legit imately, or suffer the fearful calamity of being wrecked upon the breakers of hi? own imprudence and folly. True happi ness and prosperity are found only in the course which has been established by Na ture’s God—as interwoven in the constitu tion of humanity and as expressed in His word. If any man will not pay the price which nature has attaohed to her blessings, he will inevitably have to suffer her severest penalties-'' ' ■ There is always death in the pot of the sluggard. .And while he may suppose himself to be enjoying the full measure of life’s happiness, -he is notwithstanding treating both his body and mind with the most suicidal indiscretion. If man was like a mere machine, dependent on neither sunlight or exercise for his. existence, we could net affirm of him the neoessi|y of these. But being as he is, created for activity, both physically and mentally, as the condition of happiness, his only alter native to enjoy life, is to meet these consti tutional wants. Industry supplies these. Idleness is an evil that never exists alone. It is always followed by a train of mischief increasing in the proportion that we persist in its indulgence. Like all other ruinous habits, it holds the rela tion of parent to a numerous posterity.— In fact it has been charged with the parentage of .the greater portion of evil. Hence it is, without qualification defined to be the “ parent of vice.” And “to be idle,” says one, “ is to be vicious.” As nature has protected herself by at taching penalties to any transgression of her laws, both of body and mind, no violater of them can hope to escape with impunity. Activity being one of her most powerful means for liberating herself of all extraneous matter, to deny her this, through some honorable and lawful calling, is depriving her of her natural remedy for equalizing the action of the system. “ Indolence,” says an eminent medical writer “ not only occasions disease and renders men useless to society, but pro motes all manner of vice. To say a man is idle, is little better than to call him vicious. The mind, if not engaged in some useful pursuit, is constantly in quest of ideal pleasures or impressed with the apprehension of some imaginary evil.— From these sources proceed most of the miseries of mankind. Certainly man was never intended to be idle.' Inactivity frustrates the very design of his creation ; whereas an active life is the best guardian of virtue and the greatest preservative of health. may come «]tyi jspect wedlock; ding wives, of dress; id for balls ; spurns jonsorts take, gain fter marriage >me “ It is evident,” he continues “ that the love of motion as well as the love of food, so observable in every living creature from the moment of its birth, are wisely design ed by nature as a means of its preserva tion. The indolent man ,is therefore a rebel to her laws and will certainly pro voke her severest punishment. In vain does ho hope for enjoyment in the lap of sloth;. its chilling influence poisons the source of every pleasure and not only in vites disease, but renders it almost in curable.” Again he says, “ Those whom poverty obliges to labor for daily bread, are not only the most healthy, but generally the most happy part of mankind. Industry seldom fails to place them aboveywa®t, and activity- serves them instead of jffiysic.” Idleness has not been unaptly termed the “ devil’s worship,”—the tare-garden where he rears and trains plants for sor row and perdition; where the complete ruin of body and mind are wrought out with equal success. “ Sloth, like rust,” says Franklin, “consumes faster than labor wears.” And the Rev. Matthew Henry says, “ whatever you do take heed of idle ness. That is the devil’s anvil on which he hammers out many temptations.” The learned Dr. Rauch, in his work on Anthropology and Psycology says, “ our body is not a machine but an organism.” “Its members are not merely parts but organs, for they are alive, and their life is that of the body, as the life of the body exists only in them. All the organs together constitute organism ; the former do not precede the latter but grow forth simultaneously from one point that con tains them, as the seed the plant.”— “ Every nerve is connected with all the nerves. The body may be said to be well only when all its organs are harmoniously active.’’’’ Again he says, “ certain diseases of the body are accompanied by weakening emo tions ef the mind, as anxiety, despondency, melancholy, fear, a tendency to commit suicide, &c. Suoh diseases are those of the liver and obdurations of the intes tines.” And these are diseases common to inactivity. Among whom do we see anxieties, despondencies, melancholy and kindred complaints, but the inactive. In vain will many endeavor to be relieved of the penalties of inaction until they break off the fetters of indolence. Industry, therefore, has a two-fold bles sing,—it produces contentment of mind and health of body. There is a blessing even in the effort "to useful industry as well as a reward iu the • actual work. And as the Rev. Dr. Doddridge has said, “ doing nothing is the greatest fatigue; that one good work is the best relaxation from another, and therefore we should not allow any chasm between the several kinds and branches of business we have to transact.” He was a noble specimen of industry himself. His biographer says, “ from a paper in which he kept an account of what he read, that besides attending and study ing the academical lectures, and reading the particular parts of books, to which his tutor referred his pupils for the illustra ?of his lectures, he had, in one half year, read sixty books, some of them large volumes, and about as many more in the same proportion of time afterwards. Nor did he read these books in a hasty, care less manner, but with great care and close study. Some of them he abridged ; from others he made extracts in his common place book ; and when he found in any of them a remarkable interpretation or illus tration of Scripture, he inserted it in his interleaved Testament or Bible.” The celebrated Divine and practical commentator, Thomas Scott, says of him self, “ In the winters when not seduced from home, and at other times when I had any leisure, I read whatever books I could This he did too, when young, and at the same time that he was doing, as he says, “ the most laborious and dirty work of a grazier.” After having procured a title to a small curacy, he continues, “ I with great labor, walked above fifty miles for the purpose, got my testimonials signed, and other things in order,” all in a few weeks. He then presented himself to the Bishop for ordi nation, was rejected for the present, and after “ visiting some relations in rather a superior station ; and having received from them some inappropriate counsel, “ and undeserved r rebukes,” he set out for home. “ At length,” he says, “ I reached Bray toft, after walking 20 miles in the fore noon ; and having dined, I put off my olerioal clothes, resumed my shepherd’s dress, and sheared eleven large sheep in the afternogn.” The biographer of the pious and learned expositor, the Rev. Matthew Henry, says, “ Like his Divine Master, he often rose ‘a great while before day.’ He was com monly in his study at five,, and sometimes at four o’clock. After family worship, and some slight refreshment, he returned till noon; and oftentimes again after din Cl rpj, 4-p COUNTRY IS THE HOST PROSPEROUS vy it üBE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST RE WARD. LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1857. ner, till four in the afternoon. He then visited the sick or his friends, and attend ed to other business. In the evening, after his family were dismissed, and before he yielded himself to sleep, he again re tired to his study.” One year he preached two hundred and eleven times, besides, his expoundings and family repetitions ; in some years probably many more. ‘ How frequently ’ says Dr. Daniel Williams, ‘ did he preach seven times a week.” The Rev. Dr. Jonathan Edwards, the i elder, by persevering industry graduated at the age of seventeen, and was accustom ed to spend fourteen hours a day in study, and literally labored for the improvement of his mind day and night. He was in the constant habit, we are told, during his whol'jjlife, of studying with his pen in his hand, .to npte down such thoughts that suggested themselves to him, as seemed to be of any importance, and pushed the hints and inquiries that rose in his mind to their utmost length. Thus he fixed his attention, and may be said to have invited ideas. No wonder that under such a sys tem, he should have amassed knowledge, and grown in power, at a most rapid rate. The Rev. Andrew Fuller, by the most active and laborous habits of study, without the advantages of early education, rose to high distinction among the religious wri ters of his day, and left monuments of his piety and industry which will survive, to distant posterity. And during one year of his literary and theological course, the Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D., read twenty three volumes. And besides all the studies and exercises of the three year’s course, he read about two hundred volumes. The Rev. Dr.-George Campbell, even in the latter part of his life, rose generally at 5 o’clock in the morning and continued with a few short intervals, at study till 12 o’clock at night. Dr. Adam Clarke pur sued his classical studies while laboring, also, a greater part of the time on ; his father’s farm. Dr. John Bernard De Rossi, by indomitable zeal and persevering industry, in the midst of classical studies, mastered in seven years, the Hebrew, Rab binic, Chaldea, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, French, Spanish, English German and Rus sian languages. The celebrated “ learned slave,” made himself master of the Latin and Greek grammars while working at the blacksmith fire. “ I learned grammar,” says William Cobbett, “ when I was a pri vate soldier on sixpence a day.” These are only a few of the many exam ples that might be gathered as testimonies of the importance and reward of industry. Time and space would fail to allow us to speak of the industry of the Websters, Franklins, Dicks, and hundreds of others. ■ Look at your libraries and then read their names. Names that diligence and men tal activity have immortalized. While these live in the hearts and memories of succeeding generations, their contemporary idlers have been forgotten and their names sunk in oblivion. While the boquet of honor and praise is east into their tombs, that of the indolent is passed by unnoticed. And while lofty monuments are erected to their scarcely an obscure hillock marks the dust of the idler. Such honor is worth laboring for—such rewards are worth striving for. We should all be in dustrious to be worthy of them. But it appears the prevailing mania of modern American society, is indolence and extravagance, ostentation and luxury, sel fishness and vanity. To appear before the world undisguised, and free from dishonest and vain display, is no longer to be re garded as a virtue. Many young men of the present day, glory not in sobriety, in dustry and wisdom, but rather in intem perance, indolence, ingorance and lust.—- Instead of adorning their faces with the modesty of intelligence, and their eyes sparkling the pure rays of reason and re ligion, they are covered and shaded with mustache and rum, and their eyes glare the fiery vapor of hell. They act as though man was destined only for liquor, licen tiousness and idleness. These are the gods they worship. At their shrines they sac rifice their time and talents. Law, indus try and religion they despise. They never seem to have known, as Solomon says, that “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.” They can boast of in dustrious and worthy ancestors, but live in open shame to such honor. The hones ty and diligence of their parents have placed them in the circle of respectable society, but they are prostituting that blessing to unrighteous and dishonorable purposes through idleness and reckless ness. “Do you know that lam a decen dant of the great reformer Knox,” said a young puff of idle vanity once. “ What a pity that a part of his brains and his piety did not also descend to you,” was the sen sible and cutting reply. The same boast is still made by many who deserve the same reply. The industry and goodness of ancestors, will not exhonerate descen dants from them, and allow them to revel in indolence and vanity, without suffering the penalties of disgrace and want. “ I am the son of a Judge,” said a young drunken rowdy, as they were leading him toward the lock up. “So much greater the shame !” said the officer, pushing him on still faster. Some young ladies too, in the language of Pope, “Break all their nerves, and fritter all their sense,” in much the same way. Dancing, idle street promenading, and fashionable folly, are substituted by many of them, for plain modesty, and kitchen exercise. They are permitted by their kind indulgent mothers, to lounge upon the sofa' in the calm close parlor during the light of day, and when the invigorating rays of the sun, and the balmy air of the morning, has ceased to bless the earth, they are encouraged to link the arm of some young lord of crea tion, and spend the dark, dreary hours of night in what they call recreation for health. Poor creatureshow their health improves under such unnatural treatment. How refreshing! to retire in the small hours of the night, and rise in the long hours of.the day. Surely, if it is possible at all, even at the risk of bankruptcy, do mestics ought to be kept in the cook-room, that daughters may enjoy such soul-de stroying luxuries. God have mercy upon America’s maidens who are trained in such habits of activity. Little wonder, that while the kitohen maiden is elastic, bloom ing and healthy, many of .these fair daugh ters of folly and fashion are pining away with consumption and hysterical affections. It is not the industry of baochanaiian revelry, thespian exercises, or harlequin buffoonery, that we advocate ; but the user ful diligence of a righfeQus Bunyan, a be- nevolent Howard, and an enterprising Fulton and Morse. But for such aB they, many a heart would be cold as death—ma ny a mortal languishing in distress—and steam and electricity as things only known, but of no practical use. Arouse, ye slug gards, and behold what laurels and joys industry and the future has in store for you. Who will lightly say that fame like this “Is nothing but an empty name!” There is a charm about the names of the noble, enterprising and good, that braces the nerves, and warms the heart. And if there is a spark of true fire in our hearts, and a drop of pure blood in our veins, the very mention of the names of the industri ous we have presented, should stir us in|o life and diligence. True worth and learning are the rewards alone of industry. Wealth cannot purchase them—titles cannot confer them. They must be acquired by personal acts —they are the result of individual diligence and excellence of character. They are not ap pendages outwardly hung upon us or as sumed—they grow forth from the substance of the soul. They are based upon inward excellence —they are the halo, the light, the radiance of a noble spirit—they are the bloom and fruit of a well spent life.— Thy are that eternal substance and power which remains when wealth and vain pleas ures are contemptible—when the line of ancestry, is broken—-when, titles have dropped away—when urn, and bust, and monuments have mingled with the dust they cover—they are that which time, and death, and the still more fearful ordeal of the last judgment cannot sever from the spirit which they clothe, and honor, and crown, and bless forever. Such enduring excellencies are to be gathered by the hands of industry. They will never lavish their garlands of praise upon the sluggard, the idle puppy of fashion, nor the miserable debauchee. We must bend our energies upward, and not allow them to die in the dust, or the world will at last frown upon us. We must not crawl along upon the earth, like a despicable snail, leaving nothing in.our path but the slime of sin and ruin. Whose names are wrought into our orations ? whose words are counseled bylste learned 1 —whose characters are set up as examples of imitation ?—whose memories are re vered and perpetuated I—whose pens have enriched our literature and filled our libra ries I—whose tongues have proclaimed the gospel and plead our country’s cause in Legislative halls'?—those of the buffoon, bacchanalian, or sluggard ? No, but those of the industrious, wise and good. Who has hewed down our forests ? who has broken up our soil, filled our garners, built our houses, mills, factories, railroads, churches, halls, k 0.% who makes our shoes, coats, hats and dresses ? Not the idler, but the industrious. But some may think they have not the muscle and genius to do such things. In this you are mistaken. Are you sane 1 have you common sense ? have you a body? —then you are naturally prepared for la bor and study. That is the only basis necessary for an education in science, art and trade. The difference of persons in intellectual abilities and success in life, is caused more by their difference in indus try than natural endowments. Show me an idle and careless individual, and I care not how superior his talents, he will never come to much until a change takes place in his habits. Tell me of a man’s habits of study, and I will judge better of his qualifications, than by hearing a phrenolog ical description of the faculties of his mind. There is nothing, we believe, that deceives persons more in this respect, than the notion, that unless they have a big' head, they can never become learned. If any one desires to become a scholar, or an artist, or a tradesman, or succeed in any good thing let him go to work. Leave the Measurement of brains to others, young men and ladies, and work ! work ! work ! That is the secret of learning, prosperity and happiness. “Richard Burke being found, in a rev ery, shortly after an extraordinary display of powers in Parliament by his brother, Edmund Burke, and questioned as to the cause, replied, ‘I have been wondering how Edmund has contrived to monopolize all the talents of the family 1 , but then, again, I remember when we were at play, he was always at work.’ The force of this adecdote is increased by the fact that Richard Burke was considered not inferior in natural talents to his brother. . Yet the one rose to greatness, while the other died comparatively obscure.” Is this not the prevailing cause of a similar difference among many brothers, and in many fami lies ? While some, by industry and in tegrity, are making rapid success in knowl edge, skill, prosperity and happiness, oth ers are languishing in ignorance, sorrow and want. They lament, but will not act. If any of you are smothering, by indolence, a spark of honest desire in your hearts, give it vent by industry and perseverance. In the language of the Poet: “Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt, Nothing so hard butTsearch will find it out.” If any man wishes to be poor all his days, just let him remain idle and doubt the possibility of getting rich. If he wishes to remain ignorant and die in ob scurity, just let him stand careless, and doubt his ability to become learned and eminent. If he wishes to become feeble and morbid, just let him imagine that through exertion and business he cannot become healthy and strong. If a young lady wishes to fit herself, only for the fol lies of the night, just let her deny herself the activity of day, and doubt that she was created for something better. If she wishes to paralyze her nerves and weaken her mind, just let her live idle, and doat and weep over novels.- If she wishes to get a light-minded, foppish husband, just let her never be seen in the kitchen, but always visiting, and suppose that honest young men have no brains. In a word, if we desire to be useful, wise, healthy, pros perous and good, we must be industrious —must be active. Idleness has damped the ardor of many a promising genius,— cast a gloom of despair over the brow of many a hopeful youth, and consigned thousands to a state of disgrace and want. We conclude ■in the poetio language of Wordsworth : “There is no remedy for time misspent, No healing for the waste of idleness .... Whose very languor is a punishment, Heavier than ao6ive souiH can feel or guess. 0 ! hours of indolence and discontent, Not now to be redeemed! ye sting not less, Because I know this Bpan of life was lent For lofty duties, not for selfishness; Not to be whiled.away in aimless dreams, But to improve ourselves and serve mankind, Life and its cho cdst faculties were given. Man should be ever better than he seems : And shape his acts and discipline his mind, To walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven!” ’ —BUOfIANAN. “THE WORLD OWES ME A LIVING.” That’s false, sir 1 It doesn’t owe you a farthing. You owe the world for the light of its days, the warmth of its sun shine, the beauty of its earth and sky, and for its love, affections and friendships, clustered around and clung to your worth less trunk. For all these, and other bles sings of countless numbers, you are a debtor. You have never even thanked God for health and life. You never made the world better for your living. You owe for the breath you breathe and the strength you enjoy. You have nothing to your credit on the day book or ledger of life— not a cent. You have never taken a dol lar’s stock in Heaven. You are a misera ble, aimless, indolent bankrupt. You float down the stream of your lazy ’ existence like flood-wood on water. Were you to sink to-day to oblivion, you would not leave a bubble. . The world owes you a living ! Where is there a manly thought uttered, or a noble deed, performed ? Where are there evi dences of your labor? Nowhere. You are lounging through life with your hands in your pockets, an indolent loafer, swear ing and slavering nonsense. You drink, gamble and chew tobacco, but never earn ed your board. A pile of lumber would be of more account, for that could be worked into forms of usefulness and beauty; but you will not make anything of yourself, or allow society to do it. A world of such as you would be the place to live in, indeed! You have degraded our common manhood, instead of ennobling and elevating it, and in nothing but the form and vulgar speech, are you above the brutes that perish. And because you are too lazy to work, you claim that the world owes you a living ! Don’t tell that lie again, you sluggard ! The world or society would not suffer loss were lightning to strike you, or the cholera to take you off. There are too many of such. Were you treated as drones are treated in the hives, you would have been kicked out of creation years ago. You are a sponge, swollen with what you have ab sorbed from society. You dwarfed the in tellect given you, and neglected the endow ment it would have brought you. So effectually have you wasted the boon of life, that unless your bones shall go to the dissecting room, and your picked carcass as a fertilizer upon some God forsaken spot, you have passed through life to no purpose. The tobacco you have chewed, has only defiled everything around you, and the liquor you have drank has only been adul terated by your miserable, and vile nature turned into rowdyism and profanity. Yon contaminate everything you touch, and even those like you, will keep their chil dren from the leprosy of your teaching and example. No, sir, you owe the world a better life. You never can pay all the debt, but you can do better and commute for twenty-five cents on the dollar. Do and say some thing noble and manly! hon orable purpose, and not inhale God’s pure air for nothing, and grunt through exis tanee like a hog, having only two aims In life—to reach the bar and dinner table: and only two attributes—to eat to gluttony and drink to drunkenness. The world ows no such a man a living. ELDER BLUNT AND SISTER SCRUB. In one of the Eastern States there is a settlement which has long been celebrated as a stronghold of Methodism. A few rods up the road from the school house lived Squire Scrub. You could 'tell, at first sight, that the “Squire” was “well to do” in this world. His house was the itiner ant’s home; and a right sweet pleasant home it wauld have been, but for a certain unfortunate weakness of the every other way excellent Sister Scrub. The weak ness I allude to was, or at least it was suspected to be, the love of praise. Now the good sister was really worthy of praise, and she often received it; but she had a way of disparaging herself and her per formances, which, some people thought, was intended to invite praise. No house wife kept her floor looking so clean and her walls so well white-washed as she.— Every 'board was scrubbed and scoured till further scrubbing and scouring would have been labor wasted. No one could look on her white ash floor, and not ad mire the polish her industry gave it. The “Squire” was a good provider, and Sister Scrub was an excellent cook; and so their table groaned under a burden of good things on all occasions when good cheer was demanded. And yet you could never the house, and sit half an hour, without being reminded that “Husband held Court yesterday, and she couldn’t keep the house decent.” If you sat down with them, she was sorry she “hadn’t anything fit to eat.” She had been scrubbing, or washing, or ironing, or she had been half sick, and she hadn’t got such and such things that she ought to have. Nor did it matter how bountiful,.or how well prepared the repast really was, there was always something deficient, the want of which furnished a text for a. disparaging discourse on the occasion. Elder Blunt, the circuit preacher, was a good man. His religion was of the most genuine experimental kind. He was a very plain man. He, like Mr. Wesley, would no-more preach a fine sermon than wear a fine coat. He was celebrated for his common-sense way of exhibiting the prin ciples of religion. He would speak just what he thought, and as he felt. He somehow got the name of being an eeoen tric preacher, as every man, I believe, does, who never prevaricates, and always acts and speaks as he thinks. Somehow or other, Elder Blunt had heard of Sister Scrub, and . of that infirmity of her’s, and he resolved to cure her.— On his first round, he stopped at “ Squire Scrub’s,” as all other itinerants had done before him. John, the young man, took the elder’s horse and put him in the stable, and the preacher entered the house. He was shown into the best room, and soon felt very much at home. He expected to hear something in due time disparaging the domestic arrangements, but heard it sooner than expected. This time, if Sister Scrub could be credited, her house was all upside down ; it wasn’t fit to stay in, and she was sadly mortified to be caught in such a plight. The elder looked around the room, as if to observe the terrible dis order, but said not a word. By and by the dinner "was ready, and the elder sat down with the family to a well spread ta ble. Here, again, Sister Scrub found everything faulty, the coffee wasn’t fit to drink, and she hadn’t anything fit to eat. The elder lifted his dark eye to her face ; for a moment he seemed to penetrate her very soul with his austere gaze; then slowly rising from the table,” he said, “ I want my horse immediately: 1 must leave.” “ Why, Brother Blunt, what is the mat ter ?” “Matter? Why, sir, your house isn’t fit to stay in, and you havn’t anything fit to eat or drink, and I won’t stay.” Both the “ Squire” and his lady were confounded. This was a piece of eccen tricity entirely unlooked for. They were stupified. But the elder was gone. He would’nt stay in a house not fit to stay in, and where there wasn’t anything fit to eat or drink. Poor Sister Sorub! She wept like a child at her folly. She “knew it would be all over town,” she said, “and every body would be laughing at her.” And then, how should she meet the blunt, hon est elder again ! “ She hadn’t meant any thing by what she had said. Ah! she never thought how wicked it was to say so much that did’nt mean anything.” The upshot of the whole matter was, that Sister Scrub, “saw herßelf as others saw her.” She ceased making apologies, and be came a wiser and better Christian. Elder Blunt always puts up there, always finds everything as it should be, and with all his eccentricities, is thought by the family the most agreeable, as he is acknowledged by everybody to be the most consistent of men. —Tales and Talkings, by Rev. J. T. Watson. Hard Traveling.— A man traveling by stage in Michigan was unfortunate enough to bo on a poor road where he was obliged to go on foot and carry a rail to help pry the stage out of mud holes, and becoming exhausted and impatient he ad dressed the driver : “ Look a’here, old fel low, I’ve no objection to paying ten cents a mile for my fare, and no objection in going a foot, but I’ll be if I carry this rail another rod.' CARDS. Dr. John. M’Calla, DENTIST—OQU's-No -1 Knst King street, Lancaster. Pa. [apl 18 tf-13 Removal.— william s. amweg, attorney AT LAW, has removed his Office from his formor place, into North Duke street opposite tho new Court House. •••■iprB tf 12 Dr. s. ivelchens, surgeon den tist.—Office, Kmmph’s Buildings, second lloor. North Kant corner uf North Queen aud Orange streets, Lancas ter, Pa. jan ’JO tf 1 WT. McPHAIL, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, mar 31 ly 11 Stiiasbcro, Lancaster Co., l'a. AJEWTON LIGHTNER, ATTORNEY IN AT LAW, has removed his Office to North Duke street, to the room recently occupied by Hon. I. E. Iliester. Lancaster, apr 1 tfll Removal.— ISAAC E. lllE3TKR—Attorney at Law Has removed to an Office in North Duke street, nearly pposite the now Court House. Lancaster, Pa. aid 6m-12 Aldus J. Neff, Attorney at Law.— Office with R. A. ShiefTer, Esq., south-west cornerofCentre Square, next door to Wager’s Wine Store, Lancaster. Pa. may 15,1855 _ ly-17 Jesse Landis, —Attorney at Law. Office .one dooi east of Lechler’s Hotel, E. King St., Lancaster Pa. tplL, All kinds of Scrivening—such as writing Wills. Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, &<\, will lie attended to with oorrectness and despatch. may 15. ’55 tf-17 WILLIAM WHITESIDE, SURGEON DENTIST.—Office in North Queen street. 3d door from Orange, and directly over Spreuger A Westhaeffer’s Book Store. Lancaster, may 27, 1856. ly 1C Removal. —WILLAM B. FOKDNEY, Attorney at Law has removed his office from N. Queeu st. to the building iu the South East corner of Ceutre Square, for merly knowu as Hubley’s Hotel. Lancaster, april 10 Dr. J. T. Baker, Homepathic Physician, successor to Dr. M’Allister. Office in E. Orange St., nearly opposite the First Utir man Reformed Church. Lancaster, April 17 (tf-13) 'pallroad House, European style Hotel Xl/ind Restaurant, No. 4-8 Commercial and No. 87 Clay Streets, SAN FRANCISCO. lIALEY £ THOMPSON. Proprietors. jan 2 tf-5o James Black. —Attorney at Law. Office in K. King street, two doors east of Lechler’s .Hotel, Jein caster, Pa. Gif All business connected with his profession, and all kind* of writing, such as preparing Deeds, Mortgugrs, Wills, Stating Accounts, &c., promptly attended to. may 15. tf-17 Alexander Harris, Attorney at LAW. Office South Qaeeu St., West ‘side, near Tine St. Referenoks : Governor James Pollock, llarrisburg lion. Andrew G. Curtin, do. Hon. Joseph Casey, do. Hon. Andrew Parker, Miffiintowu. g lion. James M. Sellers. do. t A. K. McClure, Esq., Cbnmberaburg. apr 7 ly 12 SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, Attorney at Law, Real Estate Agent and Conveyancer. Office. No. 4 North Duke street, opposite tho Court House. REFERS TO Ex-Gov. W. F. Johnston, Pittsburg, “ William Bigler, Philadelphia. Hon. G. W. Woodward, l “ Alex. Jordan, Snibury. Peter McCall, Esq., Joshua W. Comly, Esq., Dauvilie. Hon. James T. Hale, Bellfonte. Henf-y Brockerhoff, “ PETER D. MYERS, REAL ESTATE* AGENT, PHILADELPHIA, will attend to tho Renting of House*. Collecting House and-Ground Rents, &c. Agencies entrusted to his eare will be thankfully received, and carofully attended to. — Satisfactpry reference given. Office N. E. corner of SEVENTH and SANSOM streets, Second Floor, No. K). feb 17 ly 5 SAMUEL M. MECUTCHEN, MILL WRIGHT AND BURR MILL STONE MANUFAC TURER.—SoIe Proprietor of Johnson’s highly approved and much improved SMUT AND SCREENING MACHINE; Improved Iron Coocave Bran Duster, tho Premium Ma chine for Millers. Residence : NO. 64 QUEEN Street, (18th Ward,) address Kensington Post Office. Shop: HAYDOCK Street, below Front, PHTLAD’A. Cocalico Mill Stones, Mill Irons, Smut Machines, Patent Mill Bush, Portablo Mills, Stretched Belting, Cement and Screen Wire, SQUARE MESHED BOLTING CLOTHS, feb 24 3m G Files and rasps, re-cut and made equal to new, at No. 61 NEW Street above Sec ond, between Race and Vine, Philadelphia. PRICE OF RE-CUTTING PER DOZEN In. Flat Bast’d. Half Ro’d <fc Saw- In. Three Square mill Flies. Saw Files. 10 $1.50 $1,02 5U so,oo' 11 MO 1,02 4 0,63 12 2,00 2,26 . 4 U 0.60 13 2.40 2.64 5 0,72 14 2.75 3,00 0,79 15 3,30 3,60 6 0,00 16 4,20 4,50 7 1,20 Horse Rasps one inch more than half round Files. All work warranted satisfactory. A good assortment of New Files constantly on hand. J. B. SMITII. mar 17 3 m 0 HA. Rockafleld <fc Co., Next to Kramph’s .Clothing Store. East Orange street, Lancaster Pa. Dealers in all the new and popular FAMILY MFDI- Cl NES, PERFUMERY, Ac., Wholesale and Retail. They have j ust received a fresh supply of Wolfe’s Celebrated Aromatic Scbeidam Schnapps and will sell to retailers at Proprietor’s prices. ' june 26 tf-23 OPRING STYLES.—L. BAUM’S CHEAP O Wholesale and Retail Bonnet and Millinery Store. — He is now opening his new stock of SPRING MILLINERY GOODS, consisting of Ribbons, Silkß of all kinds, Crapes, Modes, Tarleton, Laces, Edging, Rashes, Quillings, Lawns, Straw Bonnets, Straw Gimp and Lace, French and Domestic Flowers, S\ BONNETS OF ALL KINDS, Qari ready trimmed, and fhuriea to snitovery teste. He \sc» invites his friends and customers to call and examine his goods before purchasing elsewhere, as be feels confident in b«ing able to exhibit a better selected and cheaper assort ment than has ever been in this city before. He therefore Invites all to come and take a look for themselves. N. B. DRY GOODS selling off at cost. mar 17 tf 0 T O BOVSBESBPBaS WHO VISIT PHILADELPHIA for their Supplies, The Subscribers offer the largest and best assortment of CHINA, GLASS AND QUEENSWARE, In any quantities to suit the wants of Consumers-, AT THE LOWEST WHOLESALE PRICES. _ Their assortment embraces Every Variety of Wares, from the very Commonest to the finest ever imported, every article being of the newest shapes and most beautiful styles. N. B. It will cost nothing to examine their stock. TXJSDALE *, MITCHELL, feb24Bm6 7Of Chestnut Serehth. FALL and WINTER CLOTHING—ELE GANT NEW STYLES OF fall and winter clothing. We are now selling at prices that offer unusual Indus*- ments to purchnsers. Every article of Clothing purchased at this establishment will be found to be the 9ame aa rep resenTed. Dress and Frock Coats,OverCcnta,Bu.HiueBflCoat3 t Jaaglan Salma and Sack Coats. Pants, Vests, Ac., of the uewost Styles, and of every variety, which has been manufactured with great care, from the best English, French and Ameri can fabrics, and will be sold at remarkably low prices. DAVID RAY, £ SON, No. 350. Market Street, hotweon 10th and llth South West side, Philadelphia. novlB6m<U Rising sun nurseries and gar- EES', Germantown Hoad, half- an hour’s .gflflt ride from the Exchnoge'by Omnibus. SHADE. iTOI FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, *®Sp PLANTS, ROSES, ifcc.. cultivated and for sale In sUff l quantities to suit dealers aud other. Including au exten sive and varied aasortuieut of all the desirable varieties of the above, for sale wholesale and retail. Catalogues can be had on application, gratis S. MAUPAY * CO. N. B—When a.blressod by maih'direct to Rising Sun P. O. Philadelphia. Our Stands are la the Market, Mar ket St., !>el“w Sixth, where orders are also received, mar 24 0t 10 Dyeing and Scouring— Philip Hudson, Fancy Dj-it. No 95 North Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia, three doors al-ove Cherry Street, respectfully informs the citizens of Lancaster county and elsewhere, that all kinds or Silks, Crapes, Meriuoes, Ac., are dyed in the most fashionable aud peruiaueut colors. Ladies’ cashmere and crape shawls, cloaks, Ac., cleansed* aud preasod equal to new; Silk dresses watered in superior style. Gentlemen’s apparel scoured and dyed in superior style ; lit short, Dye ing iu all its various branches done at short notice, and on the lowest terms. Also. Carpets Cleansed. A call is earnestly solicited, as it is very convenient for those who should want anything in the above line. Phila. mar 17 ly.Q / A RETIRED PHYSICIAN" / M bo.-f sands of Life have nearly run »ut, discovered I while in the Esst Indies, ireertain cure for Consumption, f Asthma. Bronchitus, Coughs, Colds and General Debili j ty. The remedy was discovered by him when his only « child, a daughter, was up to die. Wishing to do as much good aa possible, he will send to such of blaaflllct ed fellow-beings as request it, this recipe, with full and explicit directions for making it up and successfully a using it. Ik* requires each apif)jcaut to inclose him one I shilling—three cents to be returned as postage on the I ivcipc. and the remainder to be applied to the payment I of this advertisement. -- Address, / Dr. 11. JAMES, No. l‘J Grand street, Jersey City, N. J. / aprT lm 12 YfURSERY TREES.—AppIe, Pencil, i.l Pear. Plum, Cherry, Nectarine and Apricot Trees. Strawberry and Raspberry Plants of choice varieties ond tlirifty growth; also a large lot of Silver Leaf Maple Trees of largo and gmwth, for sale at the Concordvillo Nursery. Those Trees will he sold for cash at a reduced price for the purpose of settling the estate of .James S. Peters, dec'd., packed atid shipped in good order. All orders directed to the tioder sigued will receive prompt attention. mar 10 lm S Bonnet, Ribbon and Millinery Store. AS (lie Season Is now approaching for general SPRING MILLINERY ANDBTRAW GOODS, Ac , JOHN ROUGH, North Quecu street, opposite Howell’s Marble Yard, lias suppliod himself with a largo and froah stock of the same, and now invites the Ladies of this city and vicinity to inspect his stock. An entire new purchase of Ladleg* Uur-n Fashionable Straw Bonnets, with kfivi] a large supply of white and colored Ribbons, Flowers, Wreaths, Quillings, Ruches, Head Dresses, die. EMBROIDERIES, viz: Swiss, Jaconet, and Nainsook Flouncings; Sleeves, Collars, Kerchieft, Infants’ Bodies, Edgings and Insortings. LACES—comprising Black, White and Colored Silk Laces, French do.', Thread do., Lioen Bobbin do., Cottou do. Black nn<l White English Crapes; colored do. Black Silk Veils, with Veil Tissues and Beregos, Ac. ■S2r* J. K. has bought his goods .this season on the most favorable terms, and hopes to bo able to sell the same as cheap as usual. juar 31 2m* 11 Dental co-partnership.—the undersigned having entered into co-partnership, aro prepared to practice the various branches of r* t, 'i'P'"“n OPERATIVE AND MECHANICAL DKNTIS TRY, at their ofilce. In ICrnmph’ft Buildings, N’. K. corner of. North Queen and Orango streets, where-* they would be pleased to wait upon their friends and the public generally, assuring them that all operations In trusted to their care will be performed in the most complete mauner. S. WELCIIENS, 1 would respectfully announce to my friends, throughout the City and County of Lancaster, that 1 have this day taken into co-partnership, in my Dental practice, Pr. S. T. PRIGG, recently of Baltimore, Md., and who has, wilhiu the last throe or four months, becorno a resident Dentist of this city. The gentlemanly and accommodating character of Dr. Prigg. his thorough and scientific knowl edge of the various branches of the profession, his superior skill iu all its most delicate manipulations, together with tiie high reeonmieudatioiiK he brings with him from the Professors of the Baltimore College of Dental Science, will guarantee perfect satisfaction to all ray former patrons and nil others who may plgoe themselves under our treat ment. By this arrangement we will have greater facilities tor a more prompt atUnLiun to all our patients, which the want of assistance has heretofore deprived uie of the ability to liestow. Persons partial to tbo manipulations and advice of the undersigned, and who may feel a delicacy iu calling for his services at the Dental office, In the event of his not being present, will please call at his Drug Store, No. 27 North Queen street, in the National House Buildiug. Mnrch 10. 1857. SW. TAYLOR’S PAINTING EMPORI . UM, WEST ORANGE St., near NORTH QUEEN, Lancaster. HOUSE PAINTING iu all its various branches. The undersigned, thankful for the liberal patronage he has heretofore received, takes this occasion to inform his friends and the public that he has which greatly increase his facilities for doing all kinds of work iu his line, and in a fjtyle which for beauty and dura bility cannot be surpassed by any other establishment. He has engaged the services of Mr. MICHAEL McCTJL LOM, whose experience and reputation as a House Painter, and especially in Graining, Kalsominlng aod China-Gloss ing. is the best guarantee that all work entrusted' to this establishment will bo done in the best and most satisfac tory manner. iJS* COUNTRY PAINTERS wishing to have Graining, etc. doue in the best manner, can secure the serricesof Mr. McCULLOM, as heretofore, by making application to S. W. TAYLOR, Painter, West Orange St., Lancaster, Pa. mb 24 3m 19 I IST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN j the Post Offlco at Safe Harbor, for the quarter ending March 31, 1557. Brady, Frederick Byrne, Patrick Copland, Eliza Coleman, Lewis Carlo, Patrick Dasard. Vetor Duke, Jacob Finegan, Patrick Finegan. Ann Foust. Christian Fry, H. N. Garber, Elizabeth Garbor, Bartholomew Ilamman, Kewben ITock, Jacob Hasson, James Herman, Henry M. Runs, Benjamin Kline, Elias 3 Knowles, Patrick X. B.—Persous calling for letters will please say they are advertised. JOHN KOLP, P. M. apr 7 3tJ2 New democratic paper at WASHINGTON, D. C. Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly.— The undersigned will commence the publication of an Independent National Democratic paper. In the City ol Washington, on tho Ist of April, to be called It will represent tho sound constitutional principles which have ever been upheld by the National Democracy, but it will not be so entirely political that its columns will interest the politician exclusively, nor so subservient os to betray principle at the command of power, or disguise its convictions at the suggestions of expediency. In addition to the discussion of important political ques tions, its columns will bo devoted to the proceedings of Congress, the current trrnsactlons of the Government, to general news, and matters of interest appertaining to liter ature, agriculture and commerce. '•* The Daily will -be mailed to snbscribcrs at $4 por annum. Two copies will bo forwarded for 7 “ The TH-Weekly, embracing all the reading matter which appears in the Daily, will bo furnished to subscribers at 3 “■ Two copies will be mailed for 6 lC THE WEEKLY—The Cheapest Paper l\ the Bourn, The Weekly will be issued in a large Double Sheet form, and printed on superior paper, with handsome bold tj'pe, at the following rates Single copies Two copies. Flv&coplea. Ten copies, to oue address, and any larger number at the rate of $1 per year Ten copies, to the address of each subscriber, and any larger number at $1,20 each 12 “ Aoy Postmaster, clerk, or other' person, who may -send five subscribers, with $7 enclosed, will receive an extra copy. .63“ Payment in all is required Invariably in ad* vancc; and no paper shall be forwarded until the receipt of the money. The Weekly will contain all the Important matter- pub lished daring the week in the daily. • The undersigned was one of the original proprietor or the Washington Union, and his long newspaper experience before and since the establishment of that paper,juatMea him in promising the public a paper well worthy .ofit&rir patronage. The States will not be the organ of any clique or faction, and with no partial purpose to serve, tbe_paper will address itself to the honest judgment of the people, and for support will roly upon their appreciation, o Address J.-P. HEBs* Exchanges. —The Tri 'Weekly States will be forwaqfed to all country papers which will' give the above a few,ln* sertions. eprTStti L. BAUM, (No. 62. N. Queen street. PROPOSALS FOR LOAN,—In pursuance of tiie provisions of an-crdiuance passed by the l Belect and Common Connells of the olty of/Lancaster, on the,nib day of August, T 866, proposals for loaning to tola tttir the sum of $20,000, as a permanent loan, in sums of dpt' w* than $lOO, wfll be received at the Mayors Office, for. which coupon bonds and certificates of City. Loan, will beuaioed. gaid loan to be appropriated.to the payment _ol damages accruing Com opening .tr«U within ~W'. ISO 13. MARY D. PETERS, Adm’x. CHARLES P. PETERS. Agont, Concordvillo P. 0. Del. Co., Pa. Ij a L) 1 E.s 1 S. T. PRIGG. S. WKLCHiINS.. mar 17 tf9 GRAINING, KALSOMINING, CIIINA-GI.OSSINO, GLAZING, Ac. K. Kuhns, Barbara Lauton, Mr. Loyer, Henry Martin, Jno. 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