(Tlic lanc.uitcr Jintdlujcncn: VOL. LYIII INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN. PUBLISHED BVXBY TUISDAT, AT HO. 8 HOBTH DUKE BTBEET, BY GEO. SANDERSON. TERMS Subscription. —Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad vaucdl No subscription discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Adtehtibementb. —Advertisements, not exceeding one sauare, (12 lines,) will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional inser tion. Those of a greater length in proportion. Jon Minting—Such as Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks Labels. Ac., Ac., executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. For the Intelligencer. WINTER BY JOBIAH F. PASSMORE. The stormy, winter months have come, With ioe, and snow, and hail; The fields are white, the woods are bare, In icy sleep the waters are. Oh ! how unlike the merry May, When flowers spring up from day to day, When gentle winds make young buds shoot, And young birds sing, and farmers sport. All nature sings in merry May, Withjoyancocomes the gentle winds; All praise the month that brings us flowers, All praise it and its cooling showers. Few praise the surly Winter months, With winds and clouds and drifting snow, All fpar that cold and chilly wind, That whistles from the dreary North. Yofc,'though the Winter months are oold, They are the pleasant months to me ; They bring the long and pleasant eves, Wi'h time to farm my mental field. New Providence, 1857. On Banks and Currency. Washington, C. Stheet, Nov. 15, 1857. To the Editors of the National Intelligencer : Gentlemen : Many papers, desirous of the establishment of a National Bank, are quoting what General Jaokson said in fa vor of such an institution at the beginning, of his presidency. I have to remind all such papers that what was so said was said before Gen. Jackson saw a prospect of re atoring the currency of the Constitution, and that, after he saw that prospect, he said nothing more in favor of Banks, Na tional or State, but the contrary, and labored during the remainder of his public life to restore and\>reserve the hard money currency which the founders of our Gov ernment had secured (as they believed) for us. The plan of that restoration and pres ervation consisted of five parts, namely: 1. To revive the gold currency by correct ing the erroneous standard of 1791. 2. To create a demand for hard money by making it the exclusive currency of the Federal Treasury. 3. To make sure of this hard money by keeping it in its own treasuries. 4. To suppress all paper cur rency under twenty dollars by a stamp duty. 5. To wind up all defaulting banks by a bankrupt law against delinquents. The first three of these five parts were ac complished, and to these we are indebted for twenty years exemption—from 1837 to 1857 —from bank suspensions and depreci ated currency; also, for carrying the coun try through a foreign war —the Mexican — without paper money, and with the public securities above par ; also, for having in the country at this time full fifteen times as much hard money as we had in the time of the late Bank -of the United States ; and We are indebted to the want of the two latter parts of the pla% for what we now Bee : nearly two thousand ’ batiks in the oountry, a great part of them frauds from the beginning, and the bad governing the good ; a general suspension in a season of peace and prosperity ; peo ple are forced to use depreciated paper when there is more hard money in the country than its business could employ; men and women begging for work, and un able to obtain it, when the country needs all they can do, and has the means to pay for it; families crying for bread, when a bountiful Providence has given the most exuberant orops that were ever seen ; the business of twenty five millions of people deranged, disordered, and thrown out of joint; and all this the work of the base part of the banks, falling down of them selves for want of foundations, and drag ging the solid ones after them. For it is in this case of bank suspensions as it is with a ship sinking at Bea, where those who cannot swim drag down those who can.— stamp duty on their notes, and a bank rupt prodess against themselves,' would have saved the country from the calamities it now endures ; for many of the base order of banks would have been unable to “make currency ” for want of money to pay fox stamps on their notes, and others would have been proper subjects for the bankrupt prooess in the first few days of their exis- taDOC. #xhe American lawyer seldom looks beyond the The restoration of the gold currency was statute of Elizabeth, which was the first to oonfine effected under General Jackson’s Admin- the bankrupt process to merchants and traders; if . . ~ , , , . p.» k j they would look a little further back—look into the istration ; the establishment ot the hard- re jg n 0 f that Queen’s father —they would find a atat monev currency for the Federal Govern- Ute sufficiently comprehensive to include 6thers be ,J , i • o sides merchants and traders; and the preamble to ment and the keeping of Its own money 1 w bich is an accurate description of many of those its own treasuries, was accomplished tinder w ho in our country, and at this day, follow the pur- Mr Van Buren, both of which Presidents suit of issuing “ourrenoV’ for the American people. ; , r\, ’ ...... c j That preamble says lVhtreat divers and sundry took the full responsibility or recommend- j p ersons craftily obtained into tkeir great ing these three measures, and also the • substance of other men's goods, do suddenly flee , ° . t c ,u „ .• to varU unknown, or keep thetr houses, not mind two Others the two for the imposition ot j . to a y or res tore to any of their creditors their a Stamp duty on all paper money under j deits and duties, but at their own wills\and own twenty dollars, and for a bankrupt act J pleasures amsiimethe credit . J , „ . t,.,, r of other men for their own adournment and dam against detaulting banks. -t>ills were re- ; living , against all reason, equity , and good heatedly brought into Congress for both conscience .” [Anno 34, Henry VIII. purposes, but were always defeated by the ' “V ths S defection of the paper-money Wing of the ( tiona, duly chartered to issue “currency”—the Dpmnprjitif* nartv \ "Granite Bank of Voluntownf Cofineoticut; uemocrauo puny. whereof the Hartford (Connecticut) Times gives The most plausible Ot the open ODjec- this brief and, no doubt, veracious account: tions made against the stamp duty was in [ “The charter was passed, and for four or five ~ ° j • u* ! months it was not heard of again. But ‘suddenlv. the expense, and the extensive machinery j on or a b oU t the first of November instant 1 , the bills for its collection. That was answered by ;of the Granite Bank ofVoluntown appeared in the nrnviriirwr a rhpan and simnle nrnoflss for ; market. The bank commissioners were in this city providing a cneap ana simple process ior , at the time> and though having tbeir haddB full of both purposes—a clerk in the Treasury business in various parts of the State, they repaired Department for a superintendent of the at once to Voluntown. There a very rich!|saene was , c . . , ‘ i , r.l in j i opened to them. They found, we understand, the business, and the clerks of the Federal following state of affairs: f courts to deliver out the stamps which they “The managers of the bank, on or about the Ist rflppivpd frnm thp trMumrv The amount instant, procured (i. e. borrowed for the occasion) a receivea irom tne treasury. me amount paokage of bills or a package of something which of the duty, and whether it should, apply , they called $30,000. This was the paidiriicapital of to all notes or only to those intended to be tbe ba u nk) an, J u P on this they commenced business, j J . , . , • , though on Saturday last they sent this same package suppressed, were questions on there back to New Fork, as they claim, to proto specie was room for some diversity of opinion.— for it. . ,„„ l! mu j • j. , ; | “Thev have issued $17,000 in bills and had circu- The pre-dominant opinion was that there i ated them in various parts of the country!, should be duty Upon all notes issued as a “Five thousand dollars in bills were taken by a currency, (for what more fit to be taxed man who was to circulate them in Ohio, jj-This man . ~ Ji ' , , loft a receipt for them, and verbally promised to than the moneyed power ') the duty being BQnd 0 n a note when he arrived in Ohio. ij the same on all notes, and such as the large “The assets were between three and fouir hundred _ i j „ „„„„„„ _ dollars in coin, a one dollar bill on Windham County ones could easily carry and the small ones B an k, a nd a second-hand iron safe, not yjjt paid for. not. The amount of tho duty was held Also the receipt of the Ohio manfoT ssjooo in the necessary to be large-far greater than.in Ur^° is bi a 11 8 3 a ; ple of a rMenfc chflrterei one Great Britain*, for there no note' is re- of the oldest States. Here is another recent sample issued; no one (toes out of the bank a from ono of the youngest Xerritoriea: ij • P. ~ .... • ot ‘-the Legislature of Kansas at its last winter ses second time, so that the duty in -Gpgiand H j on (i856-’57) chartered a number of banks to issue is paid every time the bank puts out & note, ourrency, one of which at Lecompton wis required Nnt an in tho Sfofno TTprP a nnto bave in specie, before it could tibginwork. iNot so in tne United states. Here, a note In the lat(J ConTentioDi while providing f * r a now IS re-IBSUed until it is worn out; lintll it bank of three millions, the fact came out! in debate has become too ragged to hold together, or that tbo Lecompton bank, without a dollar in hard . . i , . , P,| ■ money, obtained its certificate from thd Governor tOO filthy to De handled, or too defaced to this Bummer past in this wise: It borrowed $2,000, be deciphered. A Bmall duty is, therefore, and > P Qttin B sl,ooo into two bags, andjlwhiie the auffieient in Great Britain, it would require I a very heavy one to be its equivalent! in the 1 until f5Q,000 were counted, and the certificate ob- Umted States; Among the penalties for Gained. j violating the aot, either by receiv ing, or passing the unstamped papeC, should be a disqualification to retain or receive a Federal appointment; for the pursuit of office is so general at this time in our country, and so ardent, that, in arraying a class so large, so influential, and active against the unstamped notes, their circula tion would be effectually oheck-matedl The paper-money wing of the Democracy was still more agamst the bankrupt act against bankrupt banks than againsjj the stamp tax on notes; and, acting wii the habitual opponents of the party to which they professed to belong, easily defeated all the bills. The open objection came from the lawyers, with their professional idea, drawn chiefly from British statutes, that merchants and traders were the proper subjects of the bankrupt law,* although every late British statute on the subject in cludes banks, (the Bank of ex cepted ;) and in a single season of suspen sion (that of 1813—’14—’15) of these banks had been subjected to commis sions of bankruptcy. But this remedy was not of English, but of Roman origin, as its name would show, (“ bancus,”\ and « ruptus,”) and bankers were the orjginal objects of the law, as the same name! also shows. “ Broken Bench ” is the EtjjglUh of the Latin name, and was so callej} be cause the bankers (moneychangers of that time, as now in the east) had their benches in public places, on which they sat at|d did 'business; and when any one becatne de linquent, or criminal, he was driven I ,away and his'beneh was broken. And thijis, in its origin, bankruptcy was aprooess against banks and bankers, and still is in Great Britain ; and hence retains its original name of Broken-Bench —the bench s(| bro ken being the sign and warning tb the public that the banker himself was insol vent, and deprived of his place of doing business. ? Banking in the United States is the most unrestrained and unsafe that there is in the world ; unsafe even for solid and well conducted banks, there being enough of the unsolid and badly condueted to fall down of themselves every few yeark, and to drag down the rest with them. Thp laws put few restraints or penalties upon them ; and these restraints and penalties are reg ularly repealed just as often as the j! com munity needs the bonefit of them. |lt is by name in some places, and by fact in others, a system of “ free banking,” (which the hard-money Democracy was accustomed to call “ free swindling.” Anybody be comes banker that pleases, and issuesjsmall notes and sends them off to a distance to be circulated and lost, and to sink?, upon the heads of the laboring people.f (A fa vorite plan is to issue notes at one 5 place payable at another far off, out of way, and difficult to be got at, so as to?, com pel the holder to submit to a shave. — That mode of doing business was indented by a Scotohman of Aberdeen in 1806 ; but he was in Great Britain, not in the United States ; and the British Ministry and the British Parliament immediately took cogni zance of the inventor and his imitators, and placed them all in the category of swindlers, and so put an end to? their operations. No stamp duty, no bankrupt act, and no requisition to keep any propor tionate amount of hard money on) hand completes the license and unbounded free dom, and the perfect title to perjodical explosions, which belong to Anjerican banking. This last requisition, that of keeping on hand an amount of hard money propor tionate to their liabilities, seems to jbe un known (even in name) in the United States ; yet that requisite is a legal and fundamen tal condition of the Bank of England ; and the proportion of one-third in gold of the total amount of its liabilities id circu lation and deposits is the rate enforced and below that proportion the Bank of England does not deem itself safe. 5 Thus swore Mr. Horsley Palmer, Governor of the Bank of England, before Lord Al thorpe’s committee, in 1832 : “ The aver age proportion, as already observed, of coin and bullion which the bank deems it prudent to keep on hand, is at the rate of a third of the total amount of all her lia bilities, including deposits as well as issues.” And thus swore Mr. [George Ward Norman, a director of the)Bank: “•For a full state of the circulation and deposits, say twenty-one millions of notes and six millions of deposits, making in the whole twenty-seven millions of\liabili ties, the proper sum in com and bullion for the bank to retain is nine millions. 1 ’ And to the same effect swore other directors.— « that country is the most prosperous where labor commands the greatest reward.” i | LANCASTER CITY, PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1857. But in Great Britain it is not sufficient that this proportion of one-third is required to be on hand, but it must be shown, and that continually, that it is there.* This is ac complished by the publication of the quar terly weekly average of the liabilities and assets of the bank, from which the public can always see when the bank has crossed the line of safety. How different this from banking in the United States, where no proportionable rate of specie to the liabili ties is even prescribed; and where five, ten, fifty, an hundred paper dollars for one hard one in the vault, is frequently issued. But one thing was wanting to complete the title of our banking system to utter unworthiness, and that one thing has been discovered—u is dispensation of the specie basis! Throughout the world, so far as paper money is known, a specie basis is deemed necessary to an institution which issues promises to pay specie. Not so m the United States. Paper upon paper has become the vogue with us. Stocks, and the notes of other bauks, are the “ sandy ” foundation upon which a large proportion of our banks are built. 1 do not expatiate upon the evils ol small j paper money ; they are palpable to every observer, and only require enumeration : 1. it drives away all hard money of equal denominations ; for, in a competition be tween two currencies, the meanest is always the conqueror and chases the 1 other out of the field. 2. It is the great source of the crime of counterfeiting ; for the mass of the counterfeits consist of small notes. 3. It demoralizes the community ; for people, not being willing to lose a note for which they have given value, instead of burning it when rejected by a knowing one as coun terfeit, put it back in the pocket and offer it again to an ignorant ( person, who receives it, and who goes through the same process when rejected in his hands. 4. Small notes make the panics and bring on the runs which break down good banks ; for these small notes being in the hands of the masses, when they get alarmed, they as semble by thousands at the doors of the institution which issued the notes, demand the money, break the banks, and propagate the alarm which they themselves feel until it becomes general \ for nothing is more contagious than a monied panic, nor any thing more unmanageable. 5. It pillages the poor and the ignorant j for every base note ; every one that is counterfeit, or on a broken bank, or on a bank that never existed, although it will run for a while, must stop somewhere; and, when it does, is sure to stop in the hands of the poor and uninformed, upon that class least able to bear the loss, who have no advantage from banks while in operation, and who bear the loss when they stop. 6. It excites to swindling; for knaves, with nothing but brass for their capital, and that in their faces instead of their coffers, are induced to set up manufactories of Bmall paper, to be sent abroad and sunk upon the hands of those among whom it is scattered ; all that is so sunk being clear gains to the manu facturer. 7. It induces and even compels people to be wasteful of their money ; for such is the natural, honest and just con tempt and distrust of small notes, that he or she that receives one, hurries off to lay it out for something not needed, while a piece of gold of the same amount would be valued and cherished, and laid by and added to, until enough accumulated to make I a purchase of something needed and useful. 8. It subjects the payer to be cheated or worsted in change ; for, giving paper in payment, he must receive the change in other paper, and for this purpose, the meanest, most ragged, dirty, and worthless will always be picked out and shoved upon him. In short, such are the evils, the crimes, the demoralization, and cheating of Bmall paper money, that all nations, ex cept the United States, place it in the category of a criminal agent, and suppress it accordingly. Twenty-odd years ago, when we were laboring to restore the constitutional cur rency to the G-overnment and the people, the ready objection, repeated by all the friends of paper money, was, that there was not gold and silver in the world to carry on the basiness of the United States • and the ready answer to that objection was, that there was precisely enough! and that exactly enough would come to the United States if we would only create a demand for it by correcting the gold standard, make it the Government currency, and sup pressing small paper. Only a part of these things have been done, and there have flowed into the United States, or been ob tained from our own mines, about four or five times as much gold as the business of the United States could employ. The sup ply has been nearly a thousand millions of dollars, and the business of the United States would only employ about two hun- ! dred millions. This is not guess work, but bottomed upon authentic data ; for the statistics of political economy show that nations can only use certain amounts of money, some more, some less, according to their pursuits. Thus, a highly manufac turing country, where the employer needs money incessantly to carry on his business in the purchase of raw materials, and the payment of operatives, .and in the con struction or repair of buildings and ma chinery, and where the operatives them selves need money daily for the support of their families, the quantity of money re- [ quired is far greater than in an agricul-' tural and planting country, where the j farmer raises his own supplies, and has his crops and produce to pay large demands. And therefore England, the foremost manufacturing country, requires the great est amount of money ; and has it, to wit: , about eleven dollars a bead ; and Russia, so largely agricultural, requires the least amount of money, and can employ but about four dollars a head. So the United States, in small part manufacturing and 1 largely agricultural and planting, would find her maximum demand for money some where half way between the two—say, eight dollars a head 3 whioh, at the present amount of the white population, (say twenty five millions,) would give two hundred millions as the national demand 3 always remembering that the great payments are made with crops and bills of exchange founded on the proceeds of industry. And thus it becomes a proposition demonstrated BY EDGAR A POE. Art is long and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are boating Funeral marches to the grave. — Lojigfetlow. True ! —nervous —very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am; but why will you say that lam mad 1 The disease had sharpened my senses; not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad 1 — Hearken! aDd observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but, onoe conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye—yes, it was this ! He had the eye of a vulture —a pale blue eye with a film over‘it. Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold; and so, by degrees, very gradually—l made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded! with what caution—with what foresight—with what dissimulation I went to work ! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh, so gently ! And then, when I had made an opening, sufficient for my head, I first put in a dark ■ lantern, all closed, so that no light shone I out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, : you would have laughed to see how cun ningly I thrust it in. I moved it slowly, • very slowly—so that I might not disturb : the old man’s sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see the old man as he lay upon his bed.— Ha ! would a madman have been so wise as this ? And then, when my head was : well in the room; I undid the lantern cau tiously ! —for the hinges creaked. I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did, for .seven long nights—every night just at , midnight—but I found the eye always closed ; and bo it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went bold ly into his chamber and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he had passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at 12, I looked in upon him while he slept. . .. . .. Upon the eighth night I was more than • -.*Every three months you may see in the leading ® b . , j a Ikrodon newspapers a notice in about these words : usually cautious in opening tne uoor. il ‘ “ Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and match’s minute hand moves more quiokly assets of the Bank of England, from the 12th day of • » T L n f rtPO nifrht December, 1847, to the sth of March 1848, both in- than did Never, before that night, elusive, published pursuant to the act 3d of William had 1 felt the extent of my powers — of my IV " lLmuties. As.ztts. sagacity. 1 could seareely contam my Circulation £18,000,000 Seourities £22,792,000 feelings of triumph. To thinh tUat there Deposits 11,535,000 Bul’nandcoin 10,015,000 j wa3> opening the door little by little, and £30,807,000 the old man not to dream of my secret £30,185,000 that the United States, since the correc- i tion of the gold standard twenty-three years ago, have received a supply of gold i to four or five times the amount which the : business operations of the-people could < employ. Of that amount the leading banks estimated two hundred and ninety millions , to be remaining in the country at the com- i : mencement of the present panic ; and since ' 1 that time more than twelve millions have j. arrived, and very little gone out; so that : three hundred millions would be the pres- j eut estimate of the amount of gold and | silver in the country ; being one hundred millions more than the business of the coun try would employ. Three hundred mil lions is exactly fifteen times as much as the United States possessed in the time of the late Bank of the United States. — Twenty millions was the whole amount at that time, and that all in silver —not a particle of gold being then in circulation. And it is exactly thirty times as much as the whole Union possessed at the time of the termination of the first National Bank ; the whole supply being then but ten mil lions, and that all silver. Under these circumstances, ($300,000,- UOO in gold in the country, peace and prosperity throughout Europe and Amer ica, great crops and good health,) there was nothing in the state of the country to justify the suspension,or anything to justify its continuance. The only solution of such a catastrophe is the obvious one, to wit, the failure of bad banks and the conse quent run which their failure made upon the good ones. The [insolvent pulled down the solvent; and the Legislatures of sev eral States have put all on an equality •, but the solvent should repulse the associ ation. The living body should not be tied to the dead one. The solvent should re oommenoe their payments, and make visible the broad line between the sound and the rotten, which the Legislatures have covered up ; and public sentiment would then soon dispose of the latter in spite of legislative indulgence. The solvent banks can and will resume, and that will satisfy those who do not look beyond the evil of the day ; but those who look ahead and see new evils in the per spective, and to the legislative power whose duty it is to provide against evils before they happen, something more will be seen to be necessary. A recurrence of such calamities, in the view of all such, should be guarded against, and can effectually be done by two acts of Federal legislation —a stamp-duty on paper currenoy, and a bank rupt law against bankrupt banks. There is not a monarch in Europe who would treat his subjects, or suffer them to be treated, as the people of the United States are treated by the base part of their own banks, and the indulgent Legislatures which legalize their violations of law, prom ises and contracts. The issue of currency and its regulation is an attribute of sover eignty, and everywhere is exercised by the sovereign power, except in the United States. Here, also, it was intended to be an attribute of sovereignty, and was placed in the hands of Congress, and limited to the issue of gold and silver, arid the regu lation of its value. For our present gov ernment was formed by hard-money men, who had seen and felt the disastrous and demoralizing effect of - paper money, and were anxious to save their posterity from such calamities as they had suffered. — They did their part to save us. Shall we be false to ourselves and to them 1 Respectfully, Thomas H. Benton. The Tell-Tale Heart. ’ BUCHANAN. deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuokled at the idea. And perhaps the old man heard me, for he moved in the bed suddenly, as if startled. Now you may think that I drew back—but no. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers,) and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept on pushing it steadily, steadily. I got my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in bed, crying out “who’s there 1” I kept quite still and said nothing ; for an hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear the old man lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening, just as I have done night after night, hearkening- to the death watohes in the wall. . Presently I heard a slight groan and I i knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It 1 was not a groan of pain or grief. Oh, no ! 1 it was the low, stifled sound that rises from i the bottom of the soul when< overcharged i with awe. I knew the sound well. Many < a night, just at midnight, when all the i world slept, it has swelled up from my own , bosom, deepening with itß dreadful eoho the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt and pitied him, although I chuokled at heart. 1 knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him.— He had beon trying to fancy them oause less, but could not. He had been saying to himself, “It is nothing but the wind in the chimney ; it is only a mouse crossing the flooror “it is merely a crioket which has made a single chirp.” Yes, he had been trying to comfort him self with these suppositions, but he had found all in vain. All in vain, because death, in approaching the old man, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and. the shadow had now reached and en veloped the victim. And it was the mourn ful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel —although he, neither saw nor heard me—to feel the pressure of my head within the room. When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing the old man lie down, I resolved to open a little, a very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it—you cannot imagine how stealth ily, stealthily—until at length a single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, Bhot from out of the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye. It was open, wide, wide open, and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness—all a dull blue, with hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones ; but I could see nothing else of the old man’s face or per son, for I had directed the ray, as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot. And now—have I not told you that what you mistaken for madness is but over acuteness of the senses I—now, say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick Bound —much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton, I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. But even yet I refrained and kept still; I scarcely breathed, I held the lantern motionless. I tried how steadily I oould maintain the ray upon the eye. Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and louder every instant. The old man’s terror must have been ex- treme ! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment! Do you mark me well 1 I have told you that I am nervous—so I am. And now, at the dead hour of the night, and amid the dreadful Bilence of that house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable wrath. Yet for some min utes-longer, I refrained and kept still. But the beating grew louder, louder. I thought the heart must burst! And now a new anxiety seized me, that the sound would be heard by a neighbor. His last hour had come ! With a loud yell I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once—only once. In an instant I dragged him to the floor and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then sat upon the bed and smiled gaily to find the deed so far done. But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me ;it would not be heard through the walls. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. The old man was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more. If you still think me mad you will think so no longer when I described the precau tions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head, arms and legs. 1 then took up three planks from the floor ing of the chamber, and deposited all be tween the scautlines. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye—not even his—could have de tected anything wrong. There was noth ing to wash out —no stain of any kind— no blood spots whatever. - I had been too weary for that. A tub had caught all—ha! ha ! When I had made an end of these labors it was four o’clock, still dark as midnight. As the bell sounded the, hour there came a knocking at the street door. I went down to open it with a light heart; for what had I now to fear 1 There entered three men, who introduced themselves with perfect suavity as officers of the police. A shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused ; information had been lodged at the police office, and they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises. I smiled, for what had I to fear. I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own, in a dream. The old man I mentioned was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search, searoh well. At length I led them to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, seoure, undisturbed. In the en thusiasm of my confidence I brought ohairs into the room and desired them here to rest from their fatigues ; while I, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the eorpse of the victim. The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. sj“ . P JS?S^^JIS&Sf- But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale, ronage in tha several departments of my business, I tender j • . j J vt °u „ J my friends and the publie, and beg acceptance of my beat ana wished them gone. My head ached th J ank9 for ttelr generous anpport: and I fancied a ringing in mV ears ; but The business at the Chestmt street Iron Wort* will re ... , . & . , J m , 7 . ceive prompt and immediate attention, together with ;• still they sat and still chatted. Ihe ring- careful effort to render entire satisfaction in the speedy and ing became more distinct; I talked more sk |' f^“S o n n o^ o^™ ne to m , frlendß and in freely tO get rid of the feeling’, but it order to counteract any wrong Impression that may hare continued and gained definiteness, until at (which length I found that the noise was not with- reape«tfnlly solicited) and will only COMO the business 6 i whenever I may bo able either to sell or rent advantage in my ears. ousiy. c. kieffer. No doubt I now grew very pale, but I: : _ aua4 tfM talked more fluently, and with a brighten ed \fcice. Yet the sound and what could 1 do 1 It was a low, dull, quick souud—much suoh a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath, and yet the offioers heard it not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently, but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key, and with violent gesticulations, but the noise steadily increased. Why would they net be gone ? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men : but the noise steadily increased. 0 Grod ! what could I do ? I foamed—l raved—l swore ! I swung the ohair upon which I had sat, and granted it upon the boards, but the noise arose above all and continually increased. It grew louder—louder —louder ! And still the men chatted pleasantly|and smiled. Was it possible they heard not! Almighty Grod ! —no !no ! They heard —they sus pected—they knew. They were making a mockery of my horror. This I thought, and this I think. But any thing better than this agony. Any thing was more tolerable than this derision. I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer. I felt that I must soream or die. And now — again—hark! louder ! louder ! louder ! “ Villains.” I .shrieked, “ dissemble no more ! I admit the deed ; tear up the planks ; here ! here ! —it is the beating of his hidedous heart!” CARDS. DR. JOHN RI’CALLA, DENTIST.—Office No. 4 East King street, Lancaster, Pa. apr 18 tf 13 rjEMOVAL.-WILLUM S. AMWEG, _£i, Attorney at Law, has removed his office from hie former place into South Duke street, nearly opposite the Trinity Lutheran Church. apr 8 tf 12 SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, Attorney at Law. Office, No. 14 North Duke street, opposite the Court House. mu y 5 tf 16 Dr. s. welchens, surgeon den tist.—Office, Kramph’s Buildings, second floor, North East corner of North Queen and Orange streets, Lancas ter, Pa. Jan 20 tf 1 WT. McPHAIL, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, mar 31 ly 11 Strasburo, Lancaster Co., Pa. Newton lightner, attorney AT LAW, has removed hia Office to North Duke street, to the room recently occupied by lion. I. E. Iliestcr. Lancaster, apr 1 tf 11 ALDUS J. NEFF, Attorney at Law- Office with B. A. Shmffer, Esq., south-west corner of Centre Square, Lancaster. may 15, ’55 ly 17 Removal— william b. fordney, Attorney at Law, has removed hia office from North Queen street to the building in the south-east corner of Centre Square, formerly known as Ilubley’s Hotel. Lancaster, april 10 WILLIAM WHITESIDE, SURGEON DENTIST.—Office in North Queen street, 3d door from Orange, and directly over Sprenger A Westhaoffer’s Book Store.- 27, 1856. ly 16 JESSE LANDIS, Attorney at Law—Of fice one door east of Lechler’s Hotel, Ea.-t King street, Lancaster, Pa. All kinds-of Scrivening—such as writing Wills, Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, Ac., will be attended to with correctness aud despatch. may 15, '56 tf-17 DR. J. T. BAKER, Homoeopathic Phy sician, successor to Dr. McAllister. Office 19 E. Orange st., nearly opposite the First Qei man Reformed Church. Lancaster, April 17 JAMES BLACK, Attorney at Law.—Of fice in East King street, two doors east ofLechler's Hotel, Lancaster, Pa. 43P* All business connected with his profession, and all kinds of writing, such as preparing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills. Stating Accounts, Ac., promptly attended to. may 15. tf-17 Alexander Harris, Attorney at LAW. Office South Queen St., West side, near Yine St. References : Governor James Pollock, Harrisburg. Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, do. Hon. Joseph Casey, do. lion. Andrew Parker, Mifflintown. lion. James M. Sellers, do. A. K. McClure. Esq., Cbambersburg. apr 7 ly 12 PETER D. MYERS, REAL ESTATE AGENT, PHILADELPHIA, will attend to the Renting of Houscb, Collecting House and Ground Rents, Ac. Agencies entrusted to his care will be thankfully received, and carefully attended to. — Satisfactory reference given. Office N. E. corner of SEVENTH and SANSOM streets, Socoud Floor, No. 10. fob 17 ly 5 COACH MAKING.—The subscriber re spectfully informs his friends and the public generally, that he still carries on the C 0 A C H MAKING, in all its various branches, at his shop, in the alley ru: ning east from tho Court House, rear of Sprecher’s and Lechler’s Hotels,Lancaster, where ho continues to make to order, ami at the lowest possible prices, CARRIAGES of every description, of the best materials and in the most substantial manner. All new work warranted. Repairing also attended to with dispatch. lie respec fully solicits a share of public patronage. my 5 ly 16 States* union hotel.—no. aoo Market street, above Cth street, Philadelphia, Pa.— The undersigned, late of the American llouso, Columbia, Pcnna., takes pleasure in informing his friends, and the public generally, that he has taken the above well-known and popular HOUSE, (long knowD as the Red Lion Hotel,) which he has filled up with entirely New Furniture and Bedding of a superior quality. The house has also been renovated and impro ved in a manner which will compare favorably with any of the Hotels in the City, and cannot fail to g.re satisfac tion to those who may patronize this establishment. The TABLE will always be supplied with the choicest Provisions the market affords; and the Bar with the PU REST AND BEST LIQUORS. Nothing shall be left undone to make his Quests comfortable, and he flatters himself that by strict attention to business, he will merit and re ceive a liberal share of public patronage. may 22 tf-18 PENNSYLVANIA PATENT AGENCY. J. FRANKLIN KEIGART, of Lancaster city, obtains Letters Patent from tho U. S. Patent Office, on the most reasonable terms. Drawings of all kinds of Machinery, Architecture, or Surveys, correctly executed by him. Like wise Deeds, Bonds and other instruments of writing. Office—No. 3 Fulton Buildings, Prince street, apr 25 E SCHAEFFER AND SON, . No 1 and 2, Corner of East King and Centre Sauare, Lancaster, keep constantly on hand a large assortment of SADDLERY for sale, whole sale aud retail, consisting of Patent Steel Spring Saddles, Shafter and every other style, single ft and double CARRIAGE HARNESS, Steel Spring, Sole Leather TRUNKS, Carriage WHIPS, Velvet, Brossel CAR PET BAGS, and Ladies SATCUELLSand Summer HORSE COVERS. Wo would call the attention of Farmers aud Storekeepers to our assortment of superior Leather WHIPS, and also to our variety of FLY NETS from different manu facturers. N. B.—At the State Agricultural Fair held In Lancaster, October 1852; PREMIUMS were awarded to them for Sad dles and Trunks, and the Harness compared favorably with others. [aug 11 tf3o] E.SA-ON. New fall and winter milline ry GOODS.—The subscriber has received his new FALL AND WINTER GOODS, of the latest styles, which he is selling very low at whole sale or retail, so as to suit all customers. Ilis stock con alsts of Silks, Satins, Modes, Velvets, Crepes, Lawns, Tarl ton. CaDinets; Silk, Satin and Velvet Ribboos; Lawns, Blonds, Quiltings. Plushes, Straw Goods of all kinds fu imp,Straw Blond, French and D omestic Flowers of the latest styles; a large assort- £*TT\ Sent of Feature, ready-made BONNETS trimmed in the latest Paris style; Frames, Chemille, Bon- JP* net and Ribbon Wires, and a great many articles unneces sary to mention—in fact, everything that is needed in that line of business. He Invites his friends and customers to call before purchasing elsewhere, as he Is satisfied that he can exhibit a better and cheaper stock of goods than ever before brought to this city. Call and examine for your- W O, dry GOODS—A good assortment on hand, which he sells at cost. L. BAUM, sepBtf34 No. 62 N. Queen at. Konigiiacher a bauman, tan oen and Carriers Store, back of Robt. Moderwell’s Commission Warehouse, fronting on the Railroad and North Prince Btreet. Cheap for Cash or approved credit.— Constantly on hand a fnll assortment of all kinds Saddler's and Shoemaker’s Leather, of superior quality, including ** Rouzer’s celebrated Sole Leather," also, Leather Bands, well stretched, suitable for all kinds of machinery, of any length and width required, made of a superior quality of Leather, Furnace Bellows, Band and Lacing Leather, Gar den Hose, Tanner’s Oil, Currier’s Tools, Moroccos, Shoo Findings, Ac. Allkinda old Leather bought in the Tough; highest pi Ices given lor Hides and Skins in cash; orders will be prompt ly attended to. feb 5 ly 0 INLAND INSURANCE AND DEPOSIT Company.—Office, corner of Centre Square and Bouth Queen at., Lancaster, Pa. Capital 9135,000. Charter Perpetual. Insure against Loss by Fire, and re ceive money on Deposit, as heretofore, paying 6 pei cent, on Deposits made for SO days or longer. RUDOLPH F. RAUCH, Secretary and Treasurer. dec 4 6m 46 AAM AGENTS WANTED! DUU A HOMESTEAD FOR |lOl THIRD DIVISION. s3lo,iW>o WORTH OF FARMS AND BUILDING LOTS, In the Gold Region ofCulpepper County, Virginia, to bo divided amongst 10,200 subscribers on the 7th of December, 1557. Subscriptions only ten dollars down; or $l6, one half down, the roat On delivery of Deed. Every subscriber will got a Building Lot or a Farm, ranging in value from $lO to $25,000. Those Farms and Lots are sold so cheap to induce settlements, a sufficient number being reserved, the in crease iu the value of which will compensate for the appar ent low price now asked. Upwards of 1350 lots are already sold, aud a company of settlers, called the “ Rappabanhook Pioneer Association,” is now forming and will soon com mence a settlement. Ample security will be given for the faithful performance of contracts and promises. Nearly 45,000 acres of land in different parts of Virginia now at command and will be sold to settlors at from $1 up to $3OO per acre. Unquestionable titles will in all cases be given.— Wood-cutters, coopers, farmers, Ac. are wanted, and 500 Agents to obtain subscribers, to whom the most liberal inducements will be given. Some Agents write that they are making $2OO per month. For full par ticulars. Subscriptions, Agencies, Ac., apply to . aug 11 tim 30 E. BAUDER. Port Royal, Caroline Co., V#r Or to JNO. T. MOODY, Agent, / Pleasant Grove, Lancaster 00., Pa. PATENT AMBROTVPBS—The sub scribers having purchased the exclusive right of Lan caster city, are enabled to offer to the public a new style of Pictures, far exceeding, in beauty and durability, any ever before made. Theso pictures are not reversed, as daguerroo types areand may be seen in'anyllght. They also possess the rare property of being imperishable; . being hermetically sealed between glass plates, which is secured by Letters Patent, in the United States, Great Britain and France, and practised in Lancaster city by T. <6 W. CUMMINGS. only, over Sprecher A Bro.’s New Store, North Queen at., Lancaster. EXPLANATION. The term AMBROTYPE, by which these Pictures are designated; is derived from the Greek word Ambrotos, sig nifying indestructibility, permauency, Ac. The Picture Is taken upon plate glass, to which another plate of corres ponding size is secured with an indestructible cement, by by which the picture will retain its original brilliancy for ages; it will not corrode by acids, nor be injured by water or climate. It is bold in its effect, beautiful in tone, surpasses any thing in the gradations of light and Bbade, and may be seen in any light. The public are cautioned against imitations made on single plates of glass, with the Slack varnish in Immediate contact with the Picture.— buch are not permanent, as the varnish must crack and destroy the Picture. AMBROTYPE STERESCOPES MUST BE SEEN, to be appreciated—the relief being fully as perfect as Ufa. Citizens and Strangers are invited to call at the Ambro type Gallery of the undersigned, and examine specimens before they procure Pictures elsewhere, as they are assured of polite attention. sep 25 tf-36 T. A W. CUMMINGS A CO. QTOVES TIN AND COPPER WARE.— 0 The undersigned respectfully announces to hla old friends and patrons, and to. the pubUc that he continues to keep on hand a large assortment of Cooking Parlor, Of fice and other STOVES, of the latest and most approved patterns. lie also continues to carry on extensively the manufacture of TIN, SHEET-IKON AND COPPER WARE Of all kinds, made in the neatest and most substantial manner. Housekeepers and persons going to housekeeping sup plied with all articles desired at the very lowest prices.— Persons wishing articles in his line are Invited to caU at liis old stand, East King Street, a few doors from Centre Souare CHRISTIAN KIEFFER. janS tf6l Robert w. addis NEW AND MAGNIFICENT AMBROTYPE, DAGUERREOTYPE, MKLAINOTYPE A PHOTOGRAPH NORTHERN SKY-LIGHT GALLERY, Fast King Street, nearly opposite Lane's Store, Having a new and commodious Northerh Sky Light erected for the purpose, possessing strength, brilliancy and softness which makes it unsurpassed by any light In the country. In arranging this gallery, I have paid particular attention in selecting good instruments of approved manufacture, and all .the recent Improvements pertaining to the Ambro type and Daguerreotype. AMBROTYPES. Thiß beantifnl process, which of late has taken such a hold on the picture loving community, i 6 practised in all its varied branches. These pictures are durable, suHceptible of beautiful and life-like coloring, can easily be aeen in any light and when made by experienced operators, combine many beautiful effects. The Ambrotypes made at this Gallery are characterized by strength, depth of tone, bril liancy, positions artistic, natural coloring and beauty of finish, forming a gem possessing rare merit, and which de fies all competition to equal. Persona having children whose likenesses they have heretofore been unable to obtalD, have only to call at my immense Sky Light Gallery, where they can be taken in ONE SECOND, amf a satisfactory picture warranted. , taken on IRON and presenting the same appearance as Ambrotypes, can be inserted in Lockets, Dreaatplnß, Rings or any style of cases known. The great durability of a good Daguerreotype, has been acknowledged by every one, and when made rightly Is the prettiest picture known. Having every facility for practis ing this beautiful art, either in CRAYON OK STEREO SCOPE, the public are requested to oxamino specimens on a new and Improved Btyle. PHOTOGRAPHS OR PICTURES ON PAPER. in every 6tyle, and made with rich dark tones, so much ad mired in doe steel engravings. Persons wanting a number, cau obtain them at reduced prices, and as well executed as the productions of the most noted Photographers In the country. A large and beautiful assortment of fine GILT FRAMER direct from the manufactory, Oval and Square, especially made for Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes Ac. These frames will bo sold filled with good pictures at a little more cost than an ordinary case. of every description suitable for all styles of Pictures.* In corroboration of the above, the public are invitei to call and examine specimens on exhibition at my Gallery In EAST KINO St., over the Camargo Paper Co.'s Store, my 10 tf!B R. W. ADDIS. Reed, mcGRAnn, kellyaco., BANKERS, GRANITE BUILDING, NORTH QUEEN ST., LANCFR, Will receive money on Deposit and pay interest theroon as follows: 5 per cent, for any length of time. m 2 “ for one year. Collections made in all parts of the United States. Money sent to England, Ireland, Germany, France, Ac. Passage certificates for sale from Liverpool to New York, or Lancaster. Land warrants and uncnrrent money bought and sold. Spanish and Mexican dollars, old U. S. gold and sliver coins bought at a premium. Special attention will be paid by G. K. Reed to the Nego tiation of Commercial paper. Stocks, Loans, and all market able securities in New York or Philadelphia. Oar friends may rely upon promptness, and onr personal attention to their interests in the transaction of any busi ness which may bo intrusted to ns, and wo hold ourselves individually liable for all money intrusted to our care. GEO. K. REEL, RICHARD McGRANN, Br., PATRICK KELLY, A. McCONOMY. WILLIAM COX. June 23 ly 23 a ATS FOR THE PEOPLE—SHULTZ & BRO., (successors to David Shultz,) Practical Hat ters, No. 20% NORTH QOEEN STREET, opposite Michael’s Hotel. Lancaster, Pa., Manufacturers and Wholesale and Retail dealers in HATS, CAPS, Ac. We are always prepared to supply the public with all the dilTereot styles of Hats of the best qualities and at such prices as to defy competition. Wo have now on band the largest assortment of FALL AND WINTER HATS AND CAPS, of all the latest styles ever offered in this city, which we will sell at the lowest cash prices. We are still manufac turing the PA TENT FLEXIBLE SILK BA T, G. W. HINKLE, Proprietor. which for beauty and comfort cannot be surpassed. Our assortment of SOFT HATS is the largest in Lancaster, we have them of all qualities, from the commonest wool to the finest French felt. We" direct'es pedal attention to oar extensive variety of AH hats sold at this establishment are made under our own supervision, and we warrant them to be what they are sold for. We respectfully invite the public to give u* a call, as we keep the largest and most complete assort ment of all the articles in oar line in the city of Lancaster. COUNTRY FURS bought, and the highest cash price paid. JOHN A. SHULTZ, HENRY A. SHULTZ, Proprietor. oct" tf4s Gifts: gifts:: gifts::: A PRIZE TO EVERY PURCHASER) At the Quaker City Purchasing House of Duane Bullion, Philadelphia. By buying a book foe $l, or more, you are at once presented with a prise, worth from 25 cents to $lOO, consisting of Pine Gold Jewelry, Watches, 4c. All orders by mail will be promptly filled, and the prize or prizes will accompany the books. Our list contains all of the most popular books of the day, and will be soldat the usu al retail prices, many ol them for less. Persons wishing any particular book can order at once, and it will be foe* warded with a gift. A catalogue giving fall information, with a list of books and gifts, will be sent postpaid, by ad dressing DUANE RULISON; No. 33, 8. Third Street, Phils. sepl 3m 33 Q- Agents wanted. Diking and scouring. PHILIP HUDSON, Famct Dm, No. 95 North Thirteenth street, Philadelphia, Pa., three doors above Cherry Street, respeetfolly informs the eitiiens of Lancaster connty and elsewhere, that all kinds of Silks, Crapes, Merinoes, 4c- are dyed in the most fashionable and permanent colors. Ladies’ cashmere and erape shawls, cloaks, cleansed and pressed equal to new; Bilk dresses watered in superior style. Gentlemen’s apparel scoured and dyed in superior style s In abort, Dye ine in all its various branches done at short notice, and on the lowest terms. Also, Oaipeta Cleansed. A call l» earnestly solicited, as it Is very convenient for those wh o should want anything in the above line. PhJla. mar 17 TEREOSCOPES I—Theie wonderful and universally, admired pictures, which appear as round and solid as sculptured marble are taken daily at round an JOHNSTON’S SKY-LIGHT GALLERY, comer of North Quean and Orange sta« - jg- Daguerreotypes of and styja> taken at the lowest prices. Lanscater, June 19 NO 46. MELAINOTYPES DAGUERREOTYPES. FANCY CA SES WINTER CAPS
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