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From the Southern Monitor.
RORY’S KISSING
BV MAC.
’Bout a kiss do ye ask ? It’s me that can tell;
For, ould as I’m now, I am minding it well,
When a spalpeen of three, with how much delight
My mither kissed Kory and bade him good night.
But my mither she died and left Kory behind,
And the lasses I met brought her so to my mind.
That at kissing I went, first one and anither,
Because they wore bonnets and looked like my mither.
At last, would you think it. swate Bridget O’Flinn
Had scarcely boon kissed when she kissed me agin,
And tould me a praest, away down iu the city,
Would say, if we’d ask him, a bit of a ditty.
“A ditty, swate Bridget, and what might it be?”
“Ne’er mind, my dear Kory, butcom'e justwid me !”
We trudged to (he city, and sure as my life,
He said a short ditty and called her me wife.
We got a wee cottage, a pig and a spade ;
Bridget sickened ; we hired her sister for maid ;
The muid I was kissing, when, true as ye’r there,
I felt the ould divil a pulling my hair.
“Begone, ye ould varmint 1” I yelled in aifrigbt,
And sort o’ turned round to be getting a sight;
What did I diskiver? Instead of an elf,
Swate Bridget O'Flarherty there jist herself.
“0 Kory !” she blubbered, still pulling away,
“But sick is my heart wid yer conduct to-day;
A kissing my sister while I’m in my bed,
Nor able to raise from tho pillow my head !”
“Troth! my Bridget,” says I, “perhaps ye can mind
When ye to tho kissing were greatly inclined.
Ye kissed mo and kissed me at Donnybrook Fair,
And now by the jabers ye’re pulling my hair.
Begone! ye ould fool, wid a rumpus like this,
I’m only a laming yer sister to kiss /”
A SCENE IN A JURY ROOM.
A THRILLING STORY.
I once had the extreme felicity of leav
ing my business to serve upon “the Jury .”
I plead in all manner of ways for release,
but to do effect.
I could not swear that I was deaf, nor
blind nor yet non compos : but did tell
them 1 had already formed an opinion.
They asked me if my opinion would pre
vent me from receiving the testimony ins
good faith, and rendering a verdict accord
ing to it. I replied that of course I should
weigh the evidence carefully and be gov
erned by it. I was then informed that I
‘would do.’
The case to be tried waa one of arson—
then a capital offence—and the prisoner at
the bar was a young man, named Charles
Ambold, whom I had known from boyhood,
and who was naturally one of the town
where he resided. He had a widowed
mother who depended upon him for sup
port ; and his circle of friends was large
and choice. I was morally certain that he
did not commit the crime ; and hence, I
am sure, those who were friendly to him
got me on the panel, and had me restrained.
The trial oommenced and we twelve
men took our seats in the jury box. I had
a very respectable set with me—only there
was one man whom I didn’t like to see
there. This was Moulton Warren. He
was a dark faced sinister looking fellow—
at least to me. I know that young Am
bold had one fault. He had recently been
addicted to drink, and had been known to
visit disreputable houses. It was one of
those houses that had been burned, for set
ting fire to which he had been apprehended.
Now I had often tried to presuade
Charles Ambold from the course he was
pursuing. He had repeatedly, promised
me that he would reform, and as repeatedly
had broken away. I had often talked to
him of his poor mother, until he had wept
like a child ; but the effect was not lasting.
There was a power of temptation more ef
fective than any influence I could wield.—
He would fall away into this companion
ship, and for a while his manhood was gone.
One or two abandoned women had gained
groat power over him, and upon them he
wasted much of his substance.
And I knew that this very man who
was now upon the jury—this Moulton
.Warren —was the one who had done more
than all others to lead the poor youth away.
It was Warren who had drank with him,
and who had led him away to those abomi
nable haunts of sin and pollution. Why
was he upon the jury ? 1 could only ac
count for it upon the ground that Charley
still supposed him to be his friend. The
poor scorched insect was still ignorant of
the flame that scorched him. He readily
believed that Moulton Warren was his
friend.
The trial commenced. The indictment
set forth that Charles Ambold had ‘malice
aforethought,’ and with all sorts of wicked
and felonious intent, set fire to a certain
dwelling house, thereby endangering hu
man life. This dwelling, as I have already
intimated, was a low sink of iniquity,
where the abandoned of both sexes were
wont to congregate, and where the youth
ful prisoner had spent much of his time.
The evidence for the prosecution came
on, arid I was startled. One after another
gave in their testimony, some of them very
reluctantly, and I was.frightened when I
saw how plainly it alf pointed to the pris
oner as the guilty party. Several oredita
ble witnesses swore that they had heard
him threaten to burn the house down, and
others had heard him say repeatedly that he
wished it was burned down ! Then came
several witnesses—three of the prominent
citizens—who saw him lurking about the
premises on the night of the fire.
With regard to the provocation on the
prisoner’s part for such a deed, it was
proved upon his own admission that he had
been ill-treated there, and he had sworn to
have revenge. And furthermore, it was
proved that he had.been heard to say that
his salvation of soul and body depended
upon the destruction of that house. Next
came more testimony stronger still.
The fire had been set in a back base
ment room, where shavings and other stuff
for kindling were kept. Entrance had been
gained through a back window, which had
been partly pried open with a stout knife.
This basement wall was of brick, and be
neath the sash was found the blade of a
knife which had been broken off in trying
to raise it, (the sash.) It was recognized
as belonging to the prisoner’s knife. ' A
maker of cutlery had made a knife to order
for Ambold only a month previous, and he
knew the blade at once, and swore to it.
But this was not all. The fire had been
evidently set first to Jthe which
lay upon the stone floor, but piled up
against 4 wooden partition. This floor was
damp, and some of the outer shavings even
were notj burned up. But just at tfie edge,
where the fire commenced lay a piece of
paper, rolled up, and about half burned,
and from the manner in which itj lay, it
was very evident that the fire had been set
with it. | This piece of rolled papier had
been ignited by a match, a number cif which
were scattered around, and as soon as it
was on fire it had been laid upon tpe floor
with the | burning end just in the’ shavings.
Of course, those shavings were in a blaze
instantlyj; but the paper torch being upon
the damp stones, had not burned i wholly
u p- !
And this paper was found to bqi a part
of a letter belonging to the prisoner A
letter hel had received from a friend of his
(and a friend of mine) only a week before !
That friend had to come forward anji swear
that piece of charred paper was a part of a
letter hei had written to the prisoner! The
friend’s (name was Stephen Grant. He
was a young merchant, and the letter had
been written for the purpose of inducing
Ambold jto reform. Stephen tried ]|iard to
avoid testifying, for he knew, as didlpthers,
that thelfire must have been set with that
identical paper ;he was summoned,! and he
could not deny his own ohirography.
The case looked dark. Many witnesses
were willing to testify to the prisoners good
qualities ; but none could swear thaijjhe was
dissipated and degraded. That house had
been to him indeed a region inferndl. Its
destruction cried out his bodily life; and
its existence had long been eating away
his soul.) Poor Charley ! I had before been
sure of his innocence ; but now I could
only shake my head and pity him. ji
Finally he was allowed to speak for him
self. He said he was innocent (of the
crime imputed to him. He said he had
threatened to burn that house down’—that
he had said about all that had been sworn
to. And, furthermore, he was around the
house on the night of the fire, fie was
not ten rods off the house when thel flames
burst forth, and was one of the first to give
the alarm. He had uttered one cry of fire,
when he noticed where the flamesl must
have originated, and the thought came to
him if he were found there, he might be sus
pected of having set the fire so he ran! away.
He also said that three nights before the
conflagration, he had been robbed in that
house. His pockets had been robbed of
everything in them, and his pocket book,
containing forty dollars in money, and
some valuable papers had been taken. —•
He had gone there on the night of &e fire
to try and persuade them to give him back
his money and papers—or at leastjjto get
back what he could. When he gotj| there
he saw a man go in whom he did not wish
to see, so he hung around waiting for him
to depart. He was around by the back of
the building onee—and that was ah hour
before the fire broke out. He knew noth
ing—nothing. He clasped his hands, and
with his tearless eyes raised towards! heav
en, he called on God to witness that he was
innocent! !'■
I have told you that I knew hini well.
I knew him so well, that from thatn|oment
I knew jhim to be innocent. I knew his
very soul, I knew how free and open he
was—ah, how sinfully so ! I knew;! there
was no falsehood in the story he had told
us. f
“My boy is innocent! My boy iij iuno-
I heard the cry—and I saw an old wo
man sink into the arms of a male compan
ion. It! was his old mother ! Herr heart
was well nigh broken ! Yet I sajy that
all this had but little effect upon the mass
of spectators. The prisoner’s course of
dissipation; his many threats against the
house—and the very fact of his having
been robbed and abused there, werejjheavy
against him. (
The counsel for the prisoner made his
speech, which was labored and harcjl He
was foolish enough to intimate that If his
client was around at the back part fif the
house more than once he must have;; been
intoxicated. In short, his plea had better
been left out. The evidence he oould not
stake : and he did all he could to suppose
evidence, some of it most absurd and ri
diculous. I afterwards learned that'jMoul
ton Warren engaged that lawyer ffir the
youthful prisoner! The government attor
ney made his plea. It was plain, straight
forward and very conclusive. 1
The judge finally gave his charge); He
was fair and candid. He reviewed the
evidence carefully, and pointed out such
as bore heavily upon the case. He fold us
that if their was a lingering doubt'in our
minds we must give the prisoner theibene-
fit of it 1 . But I could plainly see * there
=was no doubt in his mind. -J
We—the jury—were conducted jo our
own room,by an officer, and there looked
up. A silence of some minutes epsued.
Moulton Warren was the first to speak.
“ Well,” he said, “I ’spose there’s no
need of our bein’ here a great whiled Of
course we all know that tbe prisoner must
have set fire to the house.” j!
There was something in the mapper of
that man as he said this that excited my
curiosity—l won’t say it 'was suspicion
then—pnly curiosity. 1 He spoke with a
forced effort at calmness which I ajt once
perceived. The more 1 looked at hitn the
more I became strangely nervous and un
easy, wondered why he should be so atoxious
to be rid of the case, and have Ambold
oonvicted. I knew that he had frequented
that evil house, and that he had;! done
much toward tempting Charley (toward
dissipation. I knew he'was in thatjjhouse
on the Jnight on which. the prisoner was
robbed—for Charley told me so v)hen I
visited him in his cell.'*' I had thenjiasked
the unfortunate youth if he was sure)! War
ren was his friend. 0, —he was sure of it.
He should have hunted him up dn the
night of his robbery, only they had told
him Warren was gone. J,
By and by, the foreman proposed that
we should each take up a piece of 1 paper
and write down our opinion, and then
compare notes. I went to my hat,j!which
I had placed upon a table with a n'pmber
of - others, and took out a sheet of paper.
I had got half way back to the tabid when
1 found‘that I had made a mistake. ![I had
got part of a letter from another il man’s
hat. I jWas about to turn back whbn the
name of the writer of the letter arrested
my attention. I looked more closely and
read “Stephen Grant.” Next I jjaught
this sentence—■ 1
“ And now, dear Charles, if not for
your own yet for yonr mother’s sake, let
me hope you will do better.” !j
“THAT COUNTRY 18 THE HOST PROSPEROUS WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD.”—BUCHANAN.
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1857.
I started as though a shot had struck
me. I held in my hand the other half of
the sheet which had been used to fire the
burned house ! I went to the table and
found that I had taken it from Moulton
Warren’s hat! I looked to see if I had
been observed—and I had not. I put the
paper baok, and then took one from my
own hat, whioh was of the same pattern as
the other, and placed by its side.
I returned to the table and sat down.—
Warren was by my side. He had written
his opinion, and took a knife from his
pocket to cut it from the large sheet.
“ Let me take your knife a moment if
you please,” said I to him.
Without hesitation he did so. I took it
—it was Charles Ambold’s knife —the
large blade was gone! With all the
power I possessed I restrained my deep
emotions, and having cut my paper, handed
back the knife.
Why should he have the knife so boldly
about him. I afterwards learned. He
had not worn those pantaloons before since
the night of the fire ; and now he used the
knife, probably without the least remem
brance of the loss it had sustained, during
a very peouliar piece of work, to the exe
cution of whioh it was made subservient.
We talked' some ten minutes, and I
found that eleven of the jury were bent on
rendering a verdict of guilty ; though most
of them were in favor of recommending
the prisoner to mercy Moulton Warren
was decided. He had no mercy at all.
Presently I started up and pretended to
be faint. I said I must go out a few min
utes. I kicked at the door and the deputy
sheriff came. He heard my plea and let
me out. As soon as we had gained a safe
distance I told him all. He was aston
ished. He went away, and when he came
back, he brought the district judge and the
sheriff. 1 told again what I had seen—
that it was no mere suspicion. And I ex
plained, too, Warren’s manner in the jury
room, his former connection with the pris
oner, and his known character.
The officers went away, and at the end
of ten minutes, they returned with a con
stable added to their number, and this con
stable had a freshly written instrument in
his hand. The sheriff bade me point out
the hat to them as soon as we entered the
room.
The door of the room was opened, and I
pointed them to the hat. The sheriff took
it, and asked whose hat it was. Warren
leaped to lii-s feet and seized it, but was
held back.
Word was instantly sent to the judge
that the jury could not agree. They were
discharged, and then Moulton Warren was
searched. The knife was found upon him,
and his behaviour at once exposed his
guilt. The presence of the letter was ac
counted for by him in a dozen different
ways within an hour.
A new jury was impannelled, and
Charles Ambold was acquitted. Shortly
afterwards Warren was tried, and it was
plainly proved that he had set fire to the
house, and that the woman who kept it was
to have been burned up in it, as he had
contrived to lock her into her room shortly
after setting the fire. She had l incurred
his displeasure in various ways, and this
was his revenge. Not only she, but two
of her girls had suspected him from the
■first, but they dare not complain, for fear
he would not be convicted, and would then
be sure to murder them. *
The hardened villain confessed his guilt
after he had been condemned, and then it
was that he told how he happened to be so
careless in regard to the knife. It was he
who had robbed Ambold, and when he took
the old letter from his hat to use for a
torch in setting the fire, he did not notioe
what it was, and even when that partly
burned half had been exhibited in court,
ho had entirely forgotten that he had torn
off the other half, and put it back in his
hat, that he must have done. The letter
had been found in Ambold’s pocket book,
and he had kept it because in it the youth
was warned against his influence. He
confessed that he had a slight idea of call
ing the writer to an account when it
should become convenient. With regard
to the knife, it was as I before stated. He
took that from Ambold’s pocket, and put
it into his own, and on the night of the fire
he used it to pry up tho sash, and when he
had broken it he put it back into his pocket
and forgot it.
Thus was Charley saved—and saved
from more ignominious death, too.
He was saved to be a noble, virtuous man,
and his mother once more took ample de
light and joy in the love and tender care
of her only child.
When Charles Ambold knew that Moul
ton Warren had expiated his crime upon
the gallows, he sat down and pondered
upon his past life. The thought of his
old companion being hanged, sent a strange
thrill through his frame. But he was able
to trace out, clearly and logically, this
terrible result from the oourse of life the
ill-fated man had pursued. He shuddered
as ho remembered how far he had gone
in the same course himself; and he was
able to see the only safe path for any
youth.
Not only must he shun temptation—not
only keep clear of even appearance of
vice, but above all, must shun evil com
panionship. A youth may make all the
good resolutions thought can afford, but if
he continues one evil companionship, he is
not safe!
For the Intelligencer.
FRIENDSHIP
TO .
By CHARLES F. EVANS.
Friend of my youth, how often do I gaze,
In fond delight, my early days;^
When sunny prospeots bounded all my view,
And hear’n bestow’d a tender friend in you !
Thy bosom glow’d with feelings warmly kind,
That shed a halo round thy youthful mind
As rich perfume, emitted from the rose,
Scents the mild brVeze which o’er its beauty blows.
But thou art one whose lore fades not away,
Like the frail beauty of a summer’s day ;
In weal or wo thou ever art the same,
Prompt at eaoh moment to proteot the name
Of Friendship, whioh the idle world would deem,
Tho shadowy phantom of an airy dream.
But, oh ! beliere not what the world may say,
For Friendship sheds its bright, undying ray
E’en o’er the deep, dark mansion of the tomb,
Where the cold relics of our friends consume;
Nor stops e’en here, but lifts its tearful eye,
While faith transports it to the distant sky,
Where tears are wip’d from ev’ry eye away,
And Friendship brightens in unclouded day.
Mobgajntown, December, 185 T.
We do not despise all those who
have vices, butCthose who have not one
redeeming virtue.
Going Home with a GirL
“ Jeems,” the local editor of the Bald
winsville Gazette, is something of a wag.
In a recent number of that paper he gives
an account of “ the first time he ever went
home with a girl,” which is certainly the
richest thing we have ever seen. As he
thought proper to chronicle it for the edi
fication of the public, we give it the benefit
of onr cirulation :
We were between sixteen and seventeen
years of age when the event about to be
related transpired and as a description of
our personal appearance at that time is
absolutely essential to the .point of our
story, we will give it as concisely as
the subject will allow. In reference,
then to that period, to say that we were
green in the usual accep* ation of that term,
would give the reader but a poor idea of
the figure we displayed. Rather imagine
a tall, lean, cadaverous, swarthy looking
ohap, with legs like a pair of tongs, a coun
tenance about as expressive as a plate of
Dutch cheese, a mouth that came very
near making an island of all .the head above
it, a face, covered with a furze that looked
very much like the down on a newly hatch
ed goslin, with a gait that would lead the
beholder to conclude that we designed to
travel down both sides of the street at the
same time, and you have a correct daguer
reotype of “ Jeems” in the seventeenth
year of his age.
One dark gloomy night in the month of
December, we chanced to be at a “spelling
school,” not a thousand miles from Bald
wins ville, where our eyes fell on a “ fairy
form” that immediately set our susceptible
heart in a blaze. She was sixteen, or there
abouts, with bright eyes, red cheeks and
cherry lips, while the auburn ringlets clus
tered in a wealth of profusion around her
beautiful head, and her person to our rav
ished imagination, was more perfect in
form and outline, than the most faultless
statue ever chiseled by the sculptor’s art.
As we gazed, our feelings, which never be
fore had aspired girlward, were fully arous
ed, and we determined to go home with
her that night or perish in the attempt.
As soon, therefore, as school was dismissed,
and our “ lady love” suitably bonnetted
and cloaked, we approached to offer our
services as contemplated, and we then learn
ed an important lesson, viz : the difference
between resolving and doing. As we near
ed her we were seized with a partial blind
ness—red, green, blue, and yellow lights
flashed upon our vision and appeared and
disappeared like witches in phantasmagoria
—our knees smote together like Belahaz
zer’s when he discovered' the handwriting
on the wall, while our heart thumped with
apparently as much force as if it were driv
ing ten-penny nails into our ribs. We in
the mean time, managed to mumble over
something which is perhaps known to the
Recording Angel, but certainly is not to
us, at the same time polking out our elbow
as nearly at right angels with our body as
our physioal conformation would admit.
The night air blew keenly which served
in some sort to revive us, and as our senses
returned, what were our emotions on find
ing the cherished object of our first love,
clinging to our arm with all the tenacity a
drowning man is said to clutch at a straw !
Talk of elysian, or sliding down greased
rainbows, or feeding on German flutes,
what are sich ‘ phelinks’ in comparison to
those mighty ones that swelled our bosom
nigh unto the bursting of our waiscoat but
tons. Our happiness was sublime, sub
limity, sublimely, sublimated, and every
person who has ever felt the divine throb
bing of a fledged love principle, fully un
derstands the world of bliss couched in the
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh words at
the commencement of this sentence.
Well, we passed on pleasantly towards
our Sally’s home, talking of ‘ love and dove,
and dart and part,’ until, so courageous
had we become, that actually proposed ‘ to
go in and sit awhile,’ to which our Dulcinae
very graciously assented. Alas, for us !
how soon were we to be reminded that the
‘ course of true love never did run smooth.’
Sally had a brother of some ten sum
mers, who accompanied us" along the way,
and who was in wonderful high spirits at
the idea of his. sister’s having a beau, and
he would walk around us frequently, gig
gling in the height of his glee, and eyeing
us as closely as if ourself and Sally were
the world renowned Siamese twins, and he
was taking his first look. Bill, by the way,
was a stubborn, chuckle-headed boy, whose
habiliments would have made the fortune
of any two dealers in mop-rags.
At length we reached the bars, and
while we were letting them down, Bill
shot past us, and tore for the house as if
pursued by a thousand bulls of Basham.—
He flung open the door with a bang, and
exclaimed at the tep of his voice—
“ Mother ! Mother ! Jim Clark is cum
in hum with Sal!”
“Is he V' screamed the old woman in
reply, “wal I declare ! 1 didn't think the
sap-head knew enough /”
“ Keep to the Right.” —What a text
for a sermon ! I wonder if the painter of
those few words upon that rough board
knew that he was going to be a street
preacher ; and to the wandering, wayward
soul point the way. “ All men are
preachers,” says a german proverb, “for
ever pointing to others the way, but never
walking therein themselves.” Everyman
who paints upon a board, “keep to the
right!” is. a preacher, whatever his life
may be. If this one command stood alone
in the book called holy, it would be suffi
cient to guide to Heaven.
Keep to the right in the highway. No
matter whether poverty, in rags, or wealth
in ermine, meet you, if you move steadily
on to the right, there will be no collision
or jostling. Keep to the right in life’s
highway. Never ask what saith law or
custom; ask which is the right way,.and
zealously walk therein. Keep to the right,
young man! Your happy home is on the
right. Your beautiful sister is pressing
her face to the window pane watching for
your coming. She loves you with all the
ardor of her poor young soul; go to her,
and learn wisdom and purity. Your
mother awaits you. She has whispered
your name in her sweet prayer —has asked
good angels to lead you away from sin and
temptatien. Your good father, weary and
worn, has gone to his dreams, saying, as
he went —“ Would to Heaven my child
would keep to the right!”
V Keep to the right, daughters of fashion.
Avoid the path marked out for you by
soulless men and weak-minded women ; it
leads through thorny ways, to an early
grave. Do not barter your glorious inher
itance for glitter and gold. Do not waste
the wealth of your large soul in the whirl-
pool of folly. To the right you will find
true, brave hearts to welcome you into the
field of earnest labor. There will you learn
life’s great lesson—its holy mission.
Keep to the right, faltering sister ! 'Let
not the syren song of the seducer lure
you into the crowded path on the left—it
leads to degradation. Robbers are in the
way, who will steal your peace of soul,
your angelic - beauty, and your priceless
purity.
True, the path at the right has few trav
elers ; but the few are glorious souls.—
They have not bowed down to the golden
gods of man’s making ; they have not bor
rowed the flimsy garb of virtue of the Lord,
nor masks from sham Christianity to serve
his majesty the devil in. They have asked
the nearest way to heaven, and are clear
ing a road that way.
Winter Feed for Milch Cows.
Messrs. Editors—l wrote to you some
time ago for information in relation to Sav
age’s steam boiler, and mentioned to you
that I was sending milk to New York by
the Harlam railroad, and wanted to find
the best way to heat water in sufficient
quantities to scald feed for about thirty
cows daily, through the winter.
In your reply you requested me to write
for publication in your paper, my mode of
preparing cow feed in winter, and how I
feed my cows in summer ; and now, after
some delay I will endeavor to comply with
your request. ,
In summer, I turn them to pasture, hav
ing plenty of rough land that is good for
little else.
In winter their feed consists of corn,
oats and hay. I bring in a portion of my
corn in the stout, without husking, when
sufficiently dry, and mow it away for win
ter use. I then cut the corn, together
with oats in the sheaf, and tread the mix
ture down in a large feed tub, or a hogs
head with one head, and turn on fifty or
sixty gallons of boiling water, which soft
ens the corn that the cows can eat it
without making their teeth sore, and the
oats will be perfectly cooked through, so
that they will all digest.
I have one of Daniel’s patent feed cut
ters, which I purchased about three years
ago at a cost of twenty-five dollars. It is
calculated to go by horse-power, but is the
best hand-power cutter I have ever seen,
and when in good order, two men will cut
feed enough in one hour for my thirty oows
one day or two feedings.
One hogshead full of feed, well trod
down, will make about thirty pailfuls, or
one feeding for my cows. I feed them
twice a day with this feed, and they have
what hay they want besides.
The advantage that I find in preparing
my feed in this way, over that of thresh
ing and grinding, is :
Ist. It is cheaper to out my oats and
corn than to thresh and husk the same.
2d. I save the trouble of carrying my
corn and oats two miles to mill, and bring
ing it home again.
3d. I save the toll, which is something of
an item.
4th. The whole of the oats, straw, chaff,
&c., and the whole of the com, stalks,
husks, cobs, silk and all, is eaten, except
some of the largest butt ends of the stalks,
are left, which I consider no loss, as they
are not fit for any animal to eat.
sth. I get more milk than I can make
out of dry feed, and although I have tried
no definite experiments, I am satisfied that
the same quantity of corn and oats pre
pared in this way, will go about as far
again as to thresh and grind them, and
throw away the chaff, which, fed dry, (in
case a cow can be coaxed to eat it,) will
only have the effect to dry up her milk.
My cows eat their feed greedily, and
with two heaping pailfuls a day to each
cow, it requires less hay to fill them up,
and as each cow gets three or four gallons
of water in her scalded feed, night and
morning, while standing in her stall, she
will not crave so large a quantity of cold
water when let out in the morning, as she
would if fed on dry provender and hay ;
and the chilling effect of cold water taken
in large quantities, cannot be favorable to
the making of milk.
Corn, to be fed in this way, should be
planted not over three feet apart each way,
so that the stalks will not be very oourse
and more leafy, and although the ears will
not be very large, yet they will probably
yield as much weight by the acre as when
planted three and a half or four feet apart,
and particular care should be taken to have
it secured and brought in in good order.
The objection to this mode of preparing
food, is the trouble and expense of heating
water, which I think might be greatly ob
viated by bringing into use some of the
newly improved boilers that are advertised
for heating houses, &c., with very little
time and fuel, and have them So construct
ed as to adopt them to onr use.
I believe this to be the true way to feed
oats to milking oows, but com prepared in
this way does not perfectly digest, and
ought to be pat into a large boiler, and by
standing a few hours over the same fire
that it requires simply to boil the water,
the kernels will crack open and become
perfectly digestible. I have practised the
latter course for two winters past with
good success, by using a wooden box with
a sheet-iron bottom, but it takes rather
too much wood, and the box gets dried up
and out of order every summer.
The object of my former inquiry was to
find some kind of a boiler to meet my par
ticular wants, and any information in rela
tion to the subject through the columns of
the Cultivator, will be thankfully received
by a subscriber.— Country Gentleman.
The Pistol. —An Irishman driven to
desperation,' by the stringency of the
money market, and the high price of pro
visions, procured a pistol and took the road.
Meeting a traveller he stopped him, with
“your money or your life.”
Seeing that Pat was green, he said :
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll give you
all my money for the pistol.”
“Agreed.”
Pat received the money, and handed
over th# pistol.
“Now,” said the traveller, “hand back
that money, or I’ll blow your brains out.”
“Blizzard away me hearty,” said Pat,
“devil the dhrop of powther there’s ia it
sure.”
HF” An English writer says, in his ad
vice to young married women, that their
mother, Eve ‘married a gardner,’ It might
be added that the gardner in consequence
of his match, lost his situation.
A Long Time About It.
Sam Sliok tells a good story about an
overgrown hnlk of a Yankee boy who was
sent to the wood pile by his father one cold
winter evening, for a “ back log ” for the
kitchen fire. The youth went out, but in
stead of bringing in a good, substantial
log, only brought a thin little stick—or
“ brail,” as the Pennsylvania Germans
say. His father immediately gave him a
good whipping, and sent him after another
log. But the youth having his “ dander
’roused,” left the house, went to Boston,;
and shipped on a vessel whioh made a voy- .
age of several years.
In course of time the youth came baok !
and started home on foot. It was winter, 1
and just such an evening as the one on
which he left home. So remembering his
father’s order, the young man picked up a
huge log, and staggering into the house,
threw it down on the hearth before his 1
astonished father and mother, and quietly 1
said: i
“ Father, here’s that back log you sent
me for.”
The old gentleman, not to be outdone
in coldness, replied, with a touch of sever
ity :
“ Well you’ve been a darned long time
about it /”
We were reminded of this story by the
following, whioh we find floating about
uncredited :
A certain distinguished citizen of Mil
waukie, Wis., who had filled the highest
office in the State, was once in the employ
of a farmer in Western New York. Among
other things it was his duty to “ bring in
the cows.” One evening the oows and
boy came home missing. . Some years
after, the farmer was passing down East
Water Street, Milwaukie, and saw the
name of his cow-boy over the door of one
of the largest warehouses in the West.—
He walked in and found his boy in the
counting room. He stared a moment at
the truant, and then broke out with,
“Hello, Len, have you found them cows
yet ?” One can imagine what followed—a
mutual recognition. It is said the old
farmer was pacified without a breach of the
peace. s
CARDS.
DR. JOHN M’CALLA, DENTIST.—Office
No. 4 East King street, Lancaster, Pa. apr 18 tf 13
Removal-william s. abiweg,
Attorney at Law, has removed his office from his
former place into South Duke street, nearly opposite the
Trinity Lutheran Church. apr S tf 12
SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, Attorney at
Law. Office, No. 14 North Duke street, opposite the
Court House. may 5 tf 16
Dr. s. welchens, surgeon den-
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 Strasborg, Lancaster Co., Pa.
Newton lightner, attorney
AT LAW, has removed his Office to North Duke street,
to the room recently occupied by lion. I. K. Iliester.
Lancaster, apr 1 tfll
ALDUS J. NEFF, Attorney at Law.—
Office with B. A. ShietTer, Esq., south-west corner of
Centre Squaro, Lancaster. may 15, ’65 ly 17
Removal.— william b. pordney,
Attorney at Law, has removed his office from North
Queen street to the building in the southeast corner of
Centre Square, formerly known as Ilublev’s Hotel.
Lancaster, april 10
WILLIAM WHITESIDE, SURGEON
DENTIST.—Office in North Queen street. 3d door
from Orange, and directly over Sprengor A Wosthaeffer’s
Book Storo.
Lancaster, may 27, 1856.
JESSE LANDIS, Attorney at Law.--Of
fice one door east of Lechler’s Hotel. East King street,
Lancaster, Pa.
t®»AU kinds of Scrivoning—such as writing Wilis,
Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, Ac., will be attended to with
correctness and despatch. may 15, ’55 tf-17
DR. J. T. BAKER, Homoeopathic Phy
sician, successor to Dr. McAllister.
Office 19 E. Orange st., nearly opposite the First Ger
man Reformed Church.
Lancaster, April 17 (tf-13)
JAMES BLACK, Attorney at Law.—Of
fice in East King street, two doors oast of Lechler’s
Hotel, Lancaster, Pa.
■655”* 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 Vine
St. References :
Governor James Pollock, Harrisburg.
Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, do.
Uou. Joseph Casey, do.
lion. Andrew Parker, Mlfflintown.
Hon. James M. Sellers, do.
A. K. McClure, Esq., Chambersburg. apr7 lyl2
PETER D. MYERS,
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
PHILADELPHIA,
will attend to the Rentiug of Houses, Collecting House
and Groand Rents, Ac. Agencies entrusted to his care
will be thankfully received, and carefully attended to.—
Satisfactory reference given. Office N. E. corner ot
SEVENTH and SANSOM streets, Second Floor, No. 10.
feb 17 ly 5
COACH MAKING.—The subscriber re
spectfully informs his friends and the public generally,
that he still carries on the rvMLJKf B .
COACH MAKING,
in all its various branches, at his shop, in the alley run
ning east from the Court House, rear of Sprecher’s and
Lechler’s Hotels,Lancaster, where be continues to make to
order, and 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. He respect
lully solicits a share of public patronage.
my 5 ly 16
STATES’ UNION HOTEL.—NO. 200
Market street, above 6th street, Philadelphia, Pa.—
The undersigned, late of the American House,
Columbia, Penna., takes pleasure in informing his
friends, and the public generally, that he has taken the
above well-known and popular HOUSE, (long known
as the Red Lion Hotel,) which he has tilled up with
eutlrely New Furniture and Bedding of a superior
quality. The house has also been renovated and itnpro
ved in a manner which will compare favorably with any
of the Hotels in the City, and cannot fail to give 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 Guests comfortable, and he hatters himself
that by strict attention to business, he will merit and re
ceive a liberal share of public patronage.
G. W. HINKLE,
may 22 tf-18 Proprietor.
E SCHAEFFER AND SON,
# No 1 and 2, Corner of East King and Centre
Square, Lancaster, keep constantly on hand a
large assortment of SADDLERY for sale, whole
sale and retail, consisting of Patent Steel Spriug
Saddles, Bhafter and every other style, single ft
and double CARRIAGE HARNESS, Steel Spring, Sole
Leather TRUNKS, Carriage WHIPS, Velvet, Brussel CAR
PET BAGS, and Ladies SATCHELLSand Summer HORSE
COVERS. We would call the attention of Farmers and
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. [auglltf3o] E. P A SON.
New fall and wintermilline-
RY GOODS.—The subscriber has received bia 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. His stock con
sists of Silks, Satins, Modes, Velvets, Crapes, Lawns, Tarl
ton, Capinets; Silk, Satin and Velvet Ribbons; Lawn*,
Edgings, Blonds, Qniltings, Plushes, Straw Goods of all
kinds ; Gimp, Straw Cord, French Blond, French and Do
mestic Flower* of the latest style*; a large assort- /-fr-h
ment of Feathers, ready-made BONNETS, trimmed Ma d
in the latest Paris style; Frames, Chemille, Bon- /|w
net aud Ribbon Wires, and a great man; articles unneces
sary to mention—in fact, everything that is needed in that
line of business. He invites his friends and customer* to
call before purchasing elsewhere, as he is satisfied that he
can exhibit a better and cheaper Btock of goods than ever
before brought to this city. Call and examine for your
selves.
N. B. DRY GOODS—A good assortment on hand, which
he sells at-cost. L. BAUM,
KONIGMACHER & BAUMAN, TAN
ners and Curriers Store, back of Robt. Moderwell’a
Commission Warehouse, fronting on the Railroad aud
North Prince street. Cheap for Cash or approved credit.—
Constantly on band a full assortment of all kinds Saddler’s
and Shoemaker’s Leather, of superior quality, including
“ Rouzeris 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, Shoe
Findings, Ac;
All kinds old Leatherboughtinthe rough; highest prices
given lor Hides and Skins In cash; order* will be prompt
ly attended to. feb 6 ly 0
CARD TO THE PUBLlC.—Haring for
several years enjoyed a very extensive and liberal pat
ronage In the several departments of my business, I tender
my friends and the public, and beg acceptance of my beat
thanks for their generous support.
The business at the Ohesnut street Iron Works will re
ceive prompt and immediate attention, together with a
careful effort to render entiro satisfaction iu the speedy and
skilful execution of orders.
I deem this notice bat due to my friends and myself, in
order to counteract any wrong impression that may have
been caused by my card to sell or rent my works.
My purpose is to receive and execute all orders, (which
are respeetfully solicited) and will only cease the business
whenever I may be able either to sell or rent advantage* _
ously. C. KIEFFER. ft
_aug4 tf29
INLAND INSURANCE AND DEPOSIT
Company.—Office, corner of Centre Square and South
Queen st.. Lancaster, Pa.
Charter Perpetual. Insure against Loss by Fire, and re
ceive money on Deposit, as heretofore, payings per cent, on
Deposits made for 30 days or longer.
RUDOLPH F. RAUCH,
Secretary and Treasurer.
dec 4 6m 46
X n A AGENTS WANTED!
OU U A HOMESTEAD FOR $10!
THIRD DIVISION.
S3IO,IKK) WORTH OF FARMS AND BUILDING LOTS,
In tho Gold Region of Culpepper County, Virginia, to be
divided amongst 10,200 subscribers on the 7th of December,
1557. Subscriptions only ten dollars down ; or $l5, one half
down, the rest on delivery of Deed. Every subscriber will
get a Building Lot or a Farm, ranging in value from $lO to
$25,000. These Farms and Lota are sold'eo cheap to indues
settlements, a sufficient number being reserved, the in*
crease in the value of which will compensate for thb appar
ent low price now asked. Upwards of 1350 lots aro already
sold, and a company of settlers, called tho “ Rappahannock
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 settlers at from $1 up to $3OO
per acre. Unquestionable titles will in all casts 6c given.—
Wood-cutters, coopers, farmers, Ac. are wanted, and
49~500 Agents to obtain subscribers, to whom the
most liberal inducements will be given. Some Agents
write that they are making $2OO per month. For tail par
ticulars, Subscriptions, Agencies, Ac., apply to
aug H 'lm 30
PATENT AMBROTYPES.—The mb
ficribers 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. These pictures are not reversed, os daguerreo
types areand may be seen in ; anyllght. They alsoposaesf 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. <& W. CUMMINQ3.
only, over Sprecher A Bro.’s New Store, North Queen sL,
Lancaster.
The term AMBROTYPE, by which these Pictures are
designated; is derived from the Greek word Ambrotos, sig
nifying indestructibility, permanency, 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 shade,
and may be seen in any light. The public are cautioned
against imitations modi on single plates of glass, with (ha
Slack varnish in immediate contact with the Picture.—
buch are not permanent, as the varnish must crack and
destroy the Picture.
AMBROTYPE BTERESCOPES MUST BE SEEN,
to be appreciated—the relief being fully as perfect as life.
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 . CUMMINGS A CO,
Stoves tin and copper ware—
The undersigned respectfully announces to his old
friends and patrons, and to the public that he continues
to keep on band a large assortment of Cooking Parlor, Of
fice and other STOVES, of the latest and most approved
patterns. He also continues to carry on extensively the
manufacture of
TIN, SHEET-IRON A 9 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*—
Pereons wishing articles in his line are invited to call at
his old stand, East King Street, a few doors from Centre
Square. CHRISTIAN KIEFFER.
Robert w. addis
NEW AND MAGNIFICENT
AMBROTYPE, DAGUERREOTYPE, MELAINOTYPE A
PHOTOGRAPH
NORTHERN BS7-LIOQT OALLIRY,
East King Street, nearly opposite LanJt Store,
Having a new and commodious Nortberh 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,
aud all the recent improvements pertaining to the Ambro
type aud Daguerreotype.
This beautifnl process, which of late has taken such a
hold on the picture loving community, is practised in ail its
varied branches. These pictures are durable, susceptible of
beautiful and life-like coloring, can easily be sees 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.
Persons huviDg children whose likenesses thoy have
heretofore been unable to obtain, have only to call at my
immense Sky Light Gallery, where they can be taken in
ONE SECOND, and a satisfactory picture warranted.
MELAINOTYPES —,
taken on IRON and presenting the same appearance a*
Ambrotypes, can be inserted in Lockets, Breastpins, v Rings
or any style of cases known.
The great durability of a good Daguerreotype, ha* been
acknowledged by every one, and when made rightly 1* the
prettiest pictnre known. Having every facility fbrpractis
ing this beautiful art, either in CRAYON OR STEREO
SCOPE, the public are requested to examino specimens on
a new and improved style.
PHOTOGRAPHS OR PICTURES ON PAPER.
in every style, and made with rich dark tones, so much ad
mired in fine steel engravings. Persona wanting a number,
cau obtain them at reduced prices, and as well executed a*
the productions of the most noted Photographers In the
country.
A large and beautiful assortment of fine
GILT FRAMES
direct from the manufactory, Oval and Square, especially
made for Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes Ac. These frames
will be sold filled with good pictures at a little more cost
than au ordinary case.
of every description suitable for all styles of Pictures.^
In corroboration oT the above, the pubilo are invited to
call and examine specimens on exhibition at my Gallery la
EAST KING St., over the Camargo Paper Co.’s Store,
my 19 tflB R. W. ADDIS.
Reed, mcgrann, kelly & co.,
BANK EUi S ,
GRANITE BUILDING, NORTH QUEEN ST., LANCTR,
Will receive money on Deposit and pay interest thereon as
follows:
5 per cent, for any longth of time.
b% “ for one year.
Collections made in all parts of the United State*.
Money sent to England, Ireland, Qerm&ny, France, Ac.
Passage certificates for sale from Liverpool to Mew York,
or Lancaster.
Land warrants and uncurrent money bought and sold.
Spanish and Mexican dollars, old U. S. gold and silver
coins bought at a premium.
Special attention will be paid by Q. K. Reed to the Nego
tiation of Commercial paper, Stocks, Loaos, and all market
able securities In New York or Philadelphia.
Our friends may rely upon promptness, and our personal
attention to their interests in the transaction of any busi
ness which may be intrusted to us, and we hold onrselves
individually liable for all money intrusted to our care.
GEO. K. REED,
RICHARD MCGRANN, Br.,
PATRICK KELLY,
A. McCONOMY.
WILLIAM COX.
jane 28 ly 23
Hats for the people.—shtjltz
A BRO., (successors to David Sholtz,) Practical Hat
ters, No. NORTH QUEEN STREET, opposite Michael’s
Hotel, Lancaster, Pa., Mannfacturers and Wholesale and
Retail dealers in HATS, CAPS, Ac.
We are always prepared to supply the public with all
tbe different styles of Hats of the best qualities and at
sucti prices os to defy competition.
Wo have now on band tbe largest assortment of JH
FALL AND WINTER HATS AND CAPS,
of all tbe 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 HA T,
which for beauty and comfort cannot bj surpassed. Our
assortment of SOFT HATS is the largest In Lancaster, we
have them of all qualities, from tbe cd&monest wool to
tbe finest French felt.
We direct especial attention to our extensive variety of
WINTER CAPS.
All hats sold at this establishment are made under oar
own supervision, and we warrant them to be what they
are sold for. We respectfully invite the public to give ua
a call, as we keep the largest and most complete assort*
meet of all the articles in our line in the city of Lancaster.
43** COUNTRY FURS bought, and the highestcasß price
paid. JOHN A. BHULTZ,
HENRY A. SHULTZ,
Proprietor.
GIFTS! GIFTS!!OIFTBMI
A PRIZE TO EVERY PURCHASER,
At the Quaker City Purchasing House of Duane Bullion,
Philadelphia. By baying a book for $l, or more, you are
at once presented with a prize, worth from 26 cents tosloo,
consisting of Fine Gold Jewelry, Watches, Ac. All orders
by mail will be promptly filled, and the prise or prizes
will accompany the books.,, Onr 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
aoy particular book can order at once, and it will be for
warded with a gift. A catalogue giving full information,
with a list of books and gifts, will be sent postpaid, by ad
dressing , DUANE RULIBON, :
No. 33, B. Third Street, Phila.
sep 1 8m 88
SS~ Agents wanted.
Diking and scouring.
PHILIP HUDSON, FaitCt Dtm,
No. 95 North Thirteenth street, Philadelphia, Pa.,
three doors above Cherry Street, respectfully informs the
citizens of Lancaster county and elsewhere, that all
kinds of Bilks, Crapes, Merinoes, Ac., are dyed in the most
fashionable and permanent colors. Ladies’ cashmere and
crape shawls, cloaks, Ac., cleansed and pressed equal to
new; Silk dresses watered In superior style. Gentlemen ■
apparel scoured and dyed in superior style; in short, Dy*
inz in all Its various branches done at short notice, and
on the lowest terms! Also, Carpets Cleansed. A.call I*
earnestly solicited, as It is very convenient for those who
should want anything in the above line. C . n
Phila. mar 17 I T’ q
No. 62 N. Queen st.
STEREOSCOPES X—Tli e■ e wonderful
and universally admired pictures, which: appear as
ound and solid as sculptured marble, are taken daily at
JOHNSTON’S SKY-LIGHT GALLKBY,
corner of North Queen and Orange st*.
4®* Daguerreotypes of every else and style* taken at
the lowest prices.
Lanacater, June 19 1
NO 47,
Capital 91^5,000.
E. BAUDER.
Port Royal. Caroline Co., Va.
Or to JNO. T. MOODY, Agent,
Pleasant Grove, Lancaster co., Pa.
EXPLANATION.
AMBROTYPES.
DAGUERREOTYPES.
FANCY CA SES