VOL. LX THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER. rUBUSEXS V7ZET TtTZHDAY, AT 50. 8 50BTH Dtfcl STRUT, BY OEO. SANDERSON. TERMS Sdhscbipxion.—Two Dollars per annum, payable In ad' vance. No subscription discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. AnvzßTisaiczNTs>—Advertisements, not exceeding one square^.(l2 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. Job Pbistznq—Such as Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, 4c., 4c., executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. THE OBU3STZAX XLaZZiB.OaJ>. BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Not a great while ago, passing through the gate of dreams, I visited that regioD of the earth in which lies the famous city of Destruction. It interested me much to learn that, by the publio spirit of some of the inhabitants, a railroad had recently been established between this populous and flourishing town and the Celestial City. Having a little time upon my hands, 1 resolved to gratify a liberal curiosity by making a trip thither. Accordingly, one fine morning, after paying my bill at the hotel, and directing the porter to stow my luggage behind a coach, I took my seat in the vehicle and set out for the station house. It was tny good fortune to enjoy the company of a gentleman —one Mr. Smooth-it-uway—who, though he had never aotually visited the Celestial City, yet seemed as well acquainted with its laws, customs, policy, and statistics, as with those of the city of Destruction, of which he was a native townsman. Being, moreover, a director of the railroad cor poration, and one of its largest stock holders, he had it in his power to give me all desirable information respecting that praiseworthy enterprise. Our coach rattled out of the city, and at a short distance from its outskirts passed over a bridge of elegant construction, but somewhat too light, as I imagined, to sustain any considerable weight. On both sides lay an extensive quagmire, which could not hijve been more disagreeable, either to sight or smell, had all the kennels of the earth emptied their popula tion there. ‘This,’ remarked Mr. Smooth-it-away, ‘is the famous Slough of Despond—a disgrace to all the neighborhood ; and the greater, that it might so easily be converted into firm ground.’ ‘ I have understood,’ said I, ‘that efforts have been made for that purpose from time immemorial.’ ‘Very probably—and what effect could be anticipated from such unsubstantial Btuff V cried Mr. Smooth-it away. ‘ You observe this convenient bridge. We obtained a sufficient foundation for it by throwing into the slough some editions of books of morality, volumes of French philosophy and German rational ism, tracts, sermons, and essays of modern olergymen, extracts from Plato,.Confucius, and various Hindoo sages, together with a few ingenious commentaries upon texts of Scripture ; all of which, by some scientific prooess, have been converted info a mass like granite. The whole bog might be filled up with similar matter.’ It really seemed to me, however, that the bridge vibrated, and heaved up and down in a very formidable manner ; and in spite of Mr. Smooth-it-away’s to the solidity of its foundation, I should be loth to oross it in a orowded omnibus, especially if each passenger were enoumbered with as heavy baggage as that gentleman and my self. Nevertheless, we got over without accident, and soon found ourselves at the station house. This very neat and spacious edifice is erected on the site of the Wioket Gate, which formerly, as all old pilgrims will reoolleot stood directly across the highway, and, by its inconvenient narrow ness, was a great obstruction to the traveler of liberal mind and expansive stomach. A large number of passengers were already at the station house, awaiting the departure of the ears. By the aspect and demeanor of the persons, it was easy to judge that the feelings of the oommunity had undergone a very favorable change, in reference to the oelestial pilgrimage. It would have done Bunyan’s heart good to see it. Instead of a lonely and ragged man with a huge burden on his back, plodding along sorrowfully on foot while the whole city hooted after him, here were parties of the first gentry and most respectable people in the neighborhood setting forth, towards the Celestial City as cheerfully as if the pilgrimage were merely a summer tour. Among the gentlemen were characters of deserved eminence, magistrates, politicians, and men of wealth, by whose example religion could not but be greatly recommended to their meaner brethren. In the ladies’ department, too, I rejoioed to distinguish some of those flowers of fashionable society, who are so well fitted to adorn the most elevated circles of the Celestial City. There was much pleasant conversation about the news of the day, topics of business, politics, or the lighter matters of amusement; while religion, though indubitably the main thing at heart, was thrown tastefully into the background. Even an infidel would have heard little or nothing to shock his sensibility. One' great convenience of the new method of going on pilgrimage I must Dot forget to mention. Ourenormcus burdens, instead of being carried on our shoulders as had been the custom of old, were snugly deposited in the baggage car, and, as I was assured, would be delivered to their respective owners at the journey’s end. Another thing, likewise, the benevolent reader will be delighted to understand. It may be remembered that there was an ancient feud between Prince Belzebub and the keeper of the Wicket Gate, and that the adherents of the former distinguished personage were accustomed to shoot deadly arrows at the honest pilgrims while knock ing at the door. This dispute, muoh to the credit, as well of the illustrious potentate above mentioned, as of the worthy and enlightened directors of the railroad, has been pacifioally arranged on the principle of mutual compromise. The prince’s subjects are now pretty numer ously employed about the station house, some in taking oare of the baggage, others in collecting fuel and feeding the engines, and such congenial occupations; and I can conscientiously affirm that persons more attentive to their business* more willing.to accommodate, or more generally agreeable to-the passengers, are not to be found on any railroad. Every good heart must, surely exult at so satisfactory an arrange-’ ment of an immemorial difficulty. ‘ Where is Mr, Great-heart ?’ - inquired 1. ‘ Beyond a doubt the directors have engaged that famous old champion to be chief eonductor on the railroad.’ ‘Why, no,’ said Mr. Smooth-it-away, with a dry cough. ‘He was offered the situation of brakesman ; bnt to tell the truth, our friend Great-heart has grown preposterously stiff and narrow in his old age. He has so often guided pilgrims over the road on foot that he considers it a sin to travel in another fashion. Besides, the old fellow had entered so heartily into the ancient feud with Prince Belzebnb that he would have been perpetually at blows, or ill language with some of the Prince’s subjects, and thus have embroiled us anew. So, on the whole, we were not sorry when honest went off to the Celestial City in a huff, and left us at liberty to choose a more suitable and accommodating man. Yonder comes the conductor of the train. You will probably reoognize him at once.’ The engine at this moment took its sta tion in advance ofthe ear, looking, I must confess, much more like a sort of mechani cal demon, that would hnrry ns to the in fernal regions, than a laudable contrivance for smoothing our way to the Celestial City. On its top sat a personage, almost envel oped in smoke and flame, which—.{not to startle the reader,) appeared to gush from his own month and stomach as well as from the engine’s brazen abdomen. ‘ Do my eyes deoeive me V oried I.— ‘ What on earth is this ? A living crea ture 1 If so, he is own brother to the engine he rides upon.’ ‘Poh,poh, you are obtuse,’ said Mr. Smooth-it-away, with a laugh.— Don’t you know Apollyon, Christian’s old enemy, with whom he fought so fieroe a battle in the Valley of Humiliation ? He was the very follow to manage the engine, and so we have reconciled him to the cus tom of going on pilgrimage, and engaged hinras ohief conduotor.’ ‘ Bravo—bravo !’ exclaimed I, with irre pressible enthusiasm. 1 This shows the liberality of the age. This proves, if any thing oan, that all musty prejudices »re in a fair way to be obliterated. And how will Christian rejoice to hear of this happy transformation of his old antagonist! .1 promise myself great pleasure in inform ing him of it when we reach the Celestial City.’ The passengers being all comfortably seated, we now rattled away merrily, ac complishing a greater distance in ten min utes than Christian probably trudged over in a day. It was laughable while we glan oed along, as it were, at the tail of a thun derbolt, to observe two dusty foot travel ers in the old pilgrim guise, with cookie shell and staff, and their mystic rolls of; parohment in their hands, and their intol erable burdens on their backs. The pre posterous obstinacy of these honest peo ple in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway, rather than take advantage of modern improvements, excited great mirth among our wiser broth erhood.’- We greeted the two pilgrims with many pleasant gibes and a roar of laughter; whereupon they gazed at us with such woful and absurdly oompassionate visages, that our merriment grew ten-fold more obstreperous. Apollyon, also, entered heartily into the fan, and contrived to flirt the smoke and flame of the engine, or of his own breath, in their faces, and envelope them in an atmosphere of scalding steam. These little praotioal jokes amused us mightily, and doubtless afforded the pil grims the gratification of considering them selves martyrs. At some distanoe from the railroad, Mr. Smooth-it-away pointed to a large, antique edifice, which he observed was a tavern of long standing, and had formerly been a noted stopping plaoe for pilgrims. In Bun yan’s road-book it is mentioned as the In terpreter’s House. ‘ I have long had a onriosity to visit that old mansion,’ remarked I. ‘lt is not one of our stations, as yon perceive,’ said my companion. ‘ The keeper was violently opposed to the railroad ; and well he might be, as the track left his house of entertainment on one side, and thus was pretty oertain to deprive him of all his reputable customers. But the foot path still passes his door, and the old gentle man now and then receives a oall from some simple traveler, and entertains him with fare as old-fashioned as himself.’ Before our talk on this subject came to a conclusion, we were rushing by the place where Christian’s burden fell from his shoulders, at the sight of the cross. This served as a theme for Mr. Smooth-it-away, Mr. Live-for-the-world, Mr. Hide-sin-in the-heart, Mr. Soaly-conscienee, and a knot of gentlemen from the town of Shun-repen tance, to descant upon the inestimable advantages resulting from the safety of our baggage. Myself, and all the passen gers, indeed, joined with great unanimity in this view of the ‘matter; for our burdens were rich in many things esteemed pre cious throughout the world; and especially we each possessed a great variety of favor ite habits, which we trusted would not be out of fashion, even in the polite circles of the Celestial City. It would have been a sad spectacle to see such an assortment of valuable articles tumbled into the sepul chre. Thus pleasantly conversing on the favorable circumstances of our position as compared with those of past pilgrims, and of narrow minded ones at the present day, we soon found ourselves at the foot of the Hill of Difficulty. Through the very heart of this rooky mountain a tunnel has been constructed of most admirable architecture, with a lofty arch and a spacious double track ; so that unless the earth and rocks should chance to crumble down, it will remain an eternal monument ofthe builder’s skill and enterprise. It is a great though incidental advantage that the materials from the heart of Hill Difficulty have been employed in filling up the Yalley of Humiliation ; thus obviating the necessity of descending into the disagreeable and unwholeseme hollow. ‘ This is a wonderful improvement, in deed. Yet I should have been glad of an opportunity to visit the Palace Beautiful, and be introduced to the charming young ladies—Miss Prudence, Miss Piety, Miss Charity, and the rest —who have had the Kindness to entertain travelers there.’ ‘ Young ladies,’ oried Mr. Smooth-it away, as soon as he could speak for laugh ing. ‘ And charming young ladies ! Why, >my dear fellow, they are old maids, every soul of them—prim, starched, dry and an gular—-and not one of them, I will venture .to say, has altered so muoh as the fashion .of her gown since the days of Christian’s .pilgrimage.’-’ ■ . ‘ Ah, well, I am muoh oomforted, then, I «THAT COUNTRY IS THR MOST ‘ PROSPEROUS WHKBJB LABOR OOMMXHBff GREATEST REWARD.’ ’-—BUCHANAN. LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1859. can very well dispense with their acquain tance.’ The respectable Apollyon was now put ting on the steam at a prodigious rate, anxious perhaps to get rid of the unpleas ant reminisoenoes conneotod with the spot where he had so disastrously encountered Christian. Consulting Mr. Banyan's road book I perceived that we must now be within a few miles of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, into whioh doleful region, at our present speed, we should plunge much sooner than seemed at all desirable. In truth,! expeoted nothing better than to find myself in the ditoh on one side, or the quag on the other. But, on communica ting my apprehensions to Mr. Smooth-it away, he assured me that the dtffioulties of this passage, even in its worst condition, had been vastly exaggerated, and that, in its present state of improvement, I might consider myself as safe as on any railroad in Christendom. Even while, we: were speaking,' the -train, shot into the entrance of this dreaded val ley. Though I plead guilty to some foolish palpitations of the heart during our head long rush over the causeway here con structed, yet it were unjust to withhold the highest encomiums on the boldness of its original conception, and the ingenuity of those who executed it. It was gratify ing, likewise, to observe how much care bad been taken to dispel the everlasting gloom and supply the defect of cheer ful sunshine, not a ray of which has ever penetrated these awful shadows. For this purpose, the inflammable gas, whioh exudes plentifully from the soil, iB col lected by means of pipes, and thence com municated to a quadruple row of lamps along the whole extent of the passage.— Thus a radianoe has been oreated, even out of the fiery and sulpherous ourse that rests forever upon the valley ; a radiance hurtful, however, to the eyes, and some what bewildering, as I discovered by the changes whioh it wrought in the visages of my companions. In this respect, as com pared with natural delight, there is the same difference as between truth and false hood ; but if the reader has ever traveled through the dark valley, he will have learned to he thankful for any light that he could get; if not from tlje sky above, then from the blasted soil beneath. Suoh was the red brilliancy of these lamps that they appeared to build walls pi fire on both sides of the track, between whioh we held our course at lightning speed, while a reverberating thunder filled the valley with its echoes. Had the engine run off the track (a catastrophe, it is whispered, by no means unprecedented) the bottomless pit, if there be any such a plaoe, would undoubtedly have received us. Just as some dismal fooleries of this kind had made my heart quake, there came a tre mendous shriek careering along the valley, as if a thousand devils had burst their lungs to utter it, but whioh proved to be merely the whistle of the engine on arriv ing at the stopping plaoe. The spot where we had now paused is the same that o(g friend Bunyan—a truth ful man but infected with many fantastic notions—has designated, in terms plainer than-1 like to repeat, as the month of the infernal region. This, however, must be a mistake, inasmuch as Mr. Smooth-it away, while we remained in the smoky and lurid oavern, took occasion to prove that Tophet has not even a metaphorical existenoe. t The plaoe,. he assured us, is no other than the crater of a half-extinot volcano, in whioh the directors had oansed forges to be set up for the manufacture of railroad iron. Here also is obtained a plentiful supply of fuel for the use of the engines. Whoever had gazed into the dismal obsourity of the broad oavern mouth, whence, ever and anon, darted huge tongues of dusky flame, and has seen the strange half-shaped monsters, and visions of faoes horribly grotesque, into whioh the smoke seemed to wreath itself, and heard the awful murmurs, and shrieks, and deep shuddering whispers of the blast, sometimes forming itself into words most articulate—would have seized upon Mr. Smooth-it-away’s comfortable explanation as greedily as we did. The inhabitants Of the cavern, moreover, were unlovely per sonages, dark, smoke-begrimmed, gener ally deformed, with misshapen feet, and a glow of dusky-redness in their eyes, as if their hearts had caught fire, and were blazing out of the upper windows. It struck me as a peculiarity that the laborers at the forge and those who brought the fuel to the engine, when they began to draw short breath, positively emitted smoke from their mouth and nostrils. . Among the idlers about the train, most of whom were puffing cigars which they had lighted at the flame Of the crater, I was perplexed to notioe several who, to my certain knowledge, had heretofore set forth by railroad for the Celestial City.— They looked dark, wild, and smoky, with a singular resemblance, indeed, to the na tive inhabitants, like whom, also, they had a disagreeable propensity to ill-natured gibes and sneers, the habit of which had wrought a settled contortion of their visa ges. Having been on speaking terms with one of them—an indolent, good-for-noth ing fellow, who went by the name of Take it-easy—l oalled to him, and inquired what was his business there. ‘ Did you not start,’ said I, ‘ for the Ce lestial City?’ ‘ That’s a fact,’ said Mr. Take-it-easy, carelessly puffitng some smoke into my eyes. ‘ But I heard such bad accounts that I never took pains to climb the hill on which the city stands. No business doing, no fun going on, nothing to driuk and no smoking allowed, and a thrumming of Church music from morning till night. I would not stay in such a place, if they offered me house room and living free.’ ‘But, my good Take-it-easy,’ cried I, ‘ why take up your residence here, of all places in the world ?’ ‘ O,’ said the loafer, with a grin, ‘ it is very warm hereabouts, and I meet with plenty of old acquaintances, and altogether the place suits me. I hope to see you back again, Borne day soon. A pleasant journey to you.’ While he was speaking, the bell of the engine rang, and we dashed away after dropping a few passengers, but receiving no new ones. Battling onward through the valley, we were dazzled with the fiercely gleaming gas lamps, as before; and ever and anon grim faces, that bore the aspect and expression of individual sins or evil passions, seemed to thrust themselves through the veil of light, glaring, upon us, and stretohing forth a great dusky hand, as if to. impede our progress. I almost thought that, they were j nay own sins that appalled me there. These I were freaks of imagination. —nothing more, I—mere delusions, which I ought to be ! heartily ashamed of; but all through the : dark valley, I was tormented, and pes tered, and dolefully bewildered with the same kind of walking dreams. The me phitio gases of that region intoxicated the brain. As the light of the natural day however began 1 to struggle with the glow of the lanterns, these vain imaginations lost their vividness, and finally vanished with the first ray of sunshin? that greeted our escape from the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Ere we had gone a mile beyond it, I oould well nigh have taken my oath that this whole gloomy passage was a dream. At the end ofthe valley, as John Ban yan mentions, is a oavern where, in his days, dwelt two ornel giants, who had strewn the ground about their. residence, with the bones of slaughtered; pilgrims. These vile old' trogolytes are no longer there ; bnt into their deserted cave another terrible giant has thrust himself, and makes it his business to seize upon honest travelers; and fat them for his table with plentiful meals of smoke, mist, moonshine, raw potatoes, and saw' dust. He is Teutonic by birth, and is called Giant Transoend entalist; but as to his form, his features, his snbstanoe, and his nature generally, it is the chief peculiarity of this huge mis oreant, that neither he for himself, nor anybody for him, has ever been able to desoribe them. As we rushed by the oavem’s mouth, we oaught a hasty glimpse of him, looking somewhat like an ill-pro portioned figure, but considerably more like a heap of fog and duskiness. He shouted after us, but in so strange a phraseology, that we knew not what he meant, or whether to be encouraged or affrighted. It was late in the day when the train thundered into the ancient oity of Van ity, where Vanity Fair is still at the height of prosperity, and exhibits ad epitome of whatever is brilliant, gay, and fascinating beneath the sun. As I purposed to make a considerable stay here, it gratified me to learn that there is no longer the want of harmony between the town’s people and the pilgrims, whioh impelled the former to suoh lamentable mistaken measures as the persecution of Christian, and the fiery martyrdom of Faithful. On the oontrary, as the new railroad brings with it great trade and a oonstant influx of strangers, the lord of Vanity Fair is its ohief patron, and the capitalists of the oity are among the largest stockholders. Many passengers stop to take their pleasure or make their profit in the Fair, instead of going onward to the Celestial City. Indeed, such are the charms of the place, that the people often affirm it to be the true and only heaven ; stoutly contending that there is no other, and that those who seek further are mere dreamers, and that, if the fabled brightness of the Celestial City lay bnt a bare mile beyond the gates of Vanity, they would not he fools enough to go thither. — Without subscribing to these, perhaps, exaggerated encomiums, 1 can truly say, my abode in the city was mainly agreea ble, and my intercourse with the inhabi tants productive of much amusement and instruction. Being naturally,of a serious turn, my attention was directed to the solid advan tages derivable from a residence here, rather than to effervescent pleasures, which are the grand object with too many visi tants. The Christian reader, if he have no accounts of the city later than Bunyan’s time, will be surprised to hear that almost every street has its ohurch, and that the reverend olergy are nowhere held in high er respect than at Vanity Fair. And well do they deserve such honorable estimation; for the maxims of wisdom and virtue which fall from their lips come from as deep a spiritual source, and to as lofty a religious aim, as those of old. In justification of this high praise, I need only mention the names of the Bev. Mr. Shallow-deep, the Bev. Mr. Stumble-at-truth, that fine old character the Bev. Mr. This-to-day, who expects shortly to resign his pulpit to the Bev. Mr. That-to-morrow; together with the Bev. Mr. Bewilderment, the Bev. Mr. Olog-the-spirit; and, last and greatest, the Bev. Dr. Wind-of-Dootrine. The la bors of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable leoturers, who diffuse such a various profundity in all subjeots of human nature or oelestial soience, that any man may acquire an omnigenious eru dition, without the trouble of even learn ing to read. Thus literature is etherialized by assuming for its medium the human voioe ; and knowledge, depositing all its heavier articles—except, doubtless, its gold—becomes exhaled into a sound,which forthwith steals into the ever open ear of the oommunity. These ingenious methods constitute a sort of machinery, by which thought and study are done to every per son’s hand without his putting himself to the slightest inconvenience in vbe matter. There is another speoies of maohine for the manufacture of individual morality. This excellent result is effected by societies for all manner of virtuous purposes, with which a man has merely to conneot him self, throwing as it were, his quota of vir tue into the common stock, and the pres ident and directors will take care that the aggregate amount be well applied. All these, and other wonderful improvements in ethics, religion, and literature, being made clear to my comprehension by the ingenious Mr. Smooth-it-way, inspir ed me with a vast admiration of Vanity Fair. It would fill a volume, in an age of pam phlets, were I to record all my observa tions in this great capital of human great; ness and pleasure. There was an unlimited range of society—the powerful, the wise, the witty, and the famous in every walk of life—prinoes, presidents, poets, generals, actors, artists, and philanthropists, all making their own market in the Fair, and deeming no price too exhorbitant for snoh commodities as hit their fancy. It is well worth one’s while, even if he had no idea of buying or selling, to loiter through the bazars, and observe the various sorts of traffio that wetg going forward. Some of the purchasers, I thought, made very curi ous bargains. For instance, a young man, having inherited a splendid: fortune, laid out a considerable portion of it in the pur chase of diseases, and finally spent all the rest for a heavy lot of repentance and a suit of rags. There was a sort of stock or sorip called conscience, that seemed in great de mand,and would almost purchase anything. Indeed, few rich-commodities were to be obtained without paying a heavy sum in this particular stock, as a man’s business t was seldom very lucrative, unless he knew precisely when and how to throw this hoard of oonsoienee into the market. Yet, as this stock was the only thing of permanent value, whoever-parted with it was sure to find himself-the loser in the long ran.— Thousands sold their happiness for a whim. Gilded ohains were in great demand, tind purchased with almost any sacrifice. In trnth, those who desired, according to the old adage, to sell anything valuable for a song, might find customers all over the Fair; &nd thbre were innumerable messes of; pottage, piping hot, as such as Choose<to buy them with their ""A few 1 artioles, however, could not be found gen uine at Vanity Fair. If a customer wished to renew his stock of youth, the dealers offered him a set of false teetth and an auburn Wig ; if he demanded peace of mind, they recommended opium, or a brandy bottle. Tracts of land and golden mansions, sit uated in the Celestial City, were exchanged, at very disadvantageous rates,’ for a few years’ lease of small, dismal, inoonvenient tenements in Valley Fair. Day after day, as I walked the streets of Vanity, my manners and deportment became more and more like those of the inhabitants. The place began to look more like home ; the idea of pursuing my travels on to the Celestikl City was almost obliterated from my mind. I was remind ed of it, however, by the sight of the same pair of pilgrims at whom we had laughed so heartily, when Apollyon puffed smoke and steam into their faces at the com mencement of our journey. There they stood amid the densest bustle of Vanity— the dealers offering them their purple, and linen, and jewels ; the men of wit and hu mer gibing at them; a pair of buxom la dies ogling them askance, while the benev olent Mr. Smooth-it-away whispered some of his wisdom at their elbows; and pointing to a newly erected temple,—but they were these worthy simpletons, making the scene look wild and monstrous, merely by their sturdy repudiation of all part in its busi ness on pleasure. One of them—his name was Stick-to-the right—peroeived in my face, I suppose, a species of sympathy and almost admiration, which, to my own great surprise, I oould not help feeling for this pragmatio oouple. It prompted him to address me. ‘ Sir,’ inquired he, with a sad, yet mild and kindly voice, ‘ do you oall yourself a pilgrim V ‘ Yes,’ I replied, ‘ my right to that ap pellation is indubitable. lam merely a sojourner here in Vanity Fair, being bound to the Celestial City by the new railroad. ‘ Alas, friend,’ replied Mr. Stiok-to-the right, ‘ I do assure you, and beseech you, to reeeive the truth of my words, that, that whole concern is a bubble. You may travel on it all your life time, were you to live thousands of years, apd yet never get beyond Vanity Fair! Yea, though you should seem to be entering the gates of the Blessed City, it will be nothing but a miserable delusion.’ ‘ The Lord of the Celestial City,’ began the other pilgrim, whose name was Mr. Go the-old-way, ‘ has refused, and will ever refuse, to grant an act of incorporation for this railroad ; and unless that be obtained, no passenger can ever hope to enter his dominions. Wherefore, every man who buys a ticket, must lay his account with losing the purchase money—which is the value of his own soul t ‘ Pob, nonsense I’ 'said Mr. Smooth-it away, taking my arm and leading me off, “ these fellows ought to be indioted for a libel. If the law stood as it onoe did in Vanity Pair, we should see them grinning through the iron bars of the prison win dow.” This incident made a oonsiderabe im pression on my mind, and contributed with other circumstances to indispose me to a permanent residence in the city of Vanity, although, of course, I was not simple enough to give up my original plan of gliding along easily and oommondiously by railroad. Still I grew anxious to be gone. There was one strange thing that troubled me ; amid the occupations or amusements of the Fair, nothing was more common than for a person-whether at a feast, theatre, or churoh, or trafficking for wealth and honors, or whatever he might be doing, and how ever unseasonable the interruption—sud denly to vanish like a soap bubble, and be never more seen of his fellows, and so ao customed were the latter to such little acoidents, that they went on with their business, as quietly as if nothing had hap pened. But it was otherwise with me. Finally, after a pretty long residence at the Fair, I resumed my journey toward the Celestial City, still with Mr. Smooth it-away at my side. At a short distance from the suburbs of Vanity, we passed the ancient silver mine, of whioh Demas was the first discoverer, and whioh is now wrought to great advantage, supplying nearly all the coined currency of the world. A little further onward was the spot where Lot’s wife had stood for ages, under the semblance of a pillar of salt. Curious travelers have carried it away piecemeal. Had all regrets been punished as rigorously as the poor dame’s were, my yearning for the relinquished delights of Vanity Fair might have produced a similar change in my own oorporeal substance, and left me a warning to future pilgrims. The next remarkable object was a large edifice, constructed of moss-grown stone, but in a modern and airy style of architec ture. The engine came to a pause in its vicinity with the usual tremendous shriek. “ This was formerly the castle of the redoubted giant Despair,’ observed Mr. Smooth-it-away; ‘ but, since his death, Mr. Flimsy-faith has repaired it, and now keeps an excellent'house of entertainment here. It is one of bur stopping places.’ ‘ It seems but slightly put together,’ re marked I, looking at the frail, yet ponder ous walls, ‘ I do not envy Mr. Flimsy-faith his habitation. ■ Some day it will thunder down upon the heads of the occupants.’ ‘We shall escape, at all events,’ said Mr; Smooth-it away, ‘ for Apollyon is putting on the steam again.’ The road now plunged into a gorge of the Deleotable Mountains, and traversed the field where, in former ages, the blind men wahdered and stumbled among the tombs. One of these ancient tomb stones had been thrust across the traok, by some malicious person, and gave the train of ears a terrible jolt. Far up the rugged side of a mountain I perceived a rusty iron door, half overgrown with bushes and creeping plants, but with smoke issuing from its orevices. ‘ Is that,’ inquired 1, ‘ the very door in the hillside, whioh the shepherds assured Christian was a by-way to hell?’ ‘ ‘ That was a joke on tho part of the shepherds,’ said Mr. Smooth-it-away, with a smile. ‘lt is neither more nor less than the door of a cavern, whioh they use as a smoke-house.’ 1 My recollections of the journey are now, for a little sp&oe, dim ‘ and confused,' inas much as a singular drowsiness here over came me,, owing to the foot that we were passing over the enchanted ground, the air of whioh enoourages a : disposition to sleep. ' I awoke; howeviar, as- soon as we orossed the borders of the pleasant land of Beulah. All the passengers were lubhing their eyes,; ocunparing-'watohes,' r ahd con gratulating one another on the prospeot of arriving so seasonably at the journey’s end. The sweet breezes of this happy clime oame refreshifiglyto our nostrils ; we be held the glimmering gush of silver foun tains, overhung by trees of beautiful foli age ancl delicious fruit, whioh: were propa gated by grafts from the oelestial garden: Onoo, as we dashed onward like a'hurri cane, there was a flutter of wings, and the bright appearance of an angel in the air speeding forth on some heavenly mis sion. The engine now announoed the olose vicinity of the final Station House, by one last and horrible soream, in whioh there seemed to be distinguishable > every kind of wailing and wo, and the'fieroeness of wrath, all mixed up with the laughter of a devil or a madman. All through ohr journey, at every stopping place, Apollyon had exercised his ingenuity in screwing the most abominable sounds out of the whistle of the steam engine; bnt in the olosing effort, he outdid himself, and created an infernal uproar, whioh; besides ’dfstdrtmg' the peaoeful inhabitants of Beulah, must have sent its disoord even through the oelestial gates. While 1 the horrid olamor was still ring ing in our ears, we heard an exulting strain, as if a 1 thousand instruments of music, with height, and depth, and sweet ness in their tones at onoe tender and tri umphant, were struck in unison,,to greet the approach oftsome illustrious hero, who had fought the good fight and won a glo rious victory, abd was come to lay aside his battered arms forever. Looking to ascertain what might be the oooasion of this glad harmony, I peroeived on alight ing from the oars, that a multitude of shining ones had assembled on the river, to welcome two poor pilgrims, who were just emerging from its depths. They were the same Apollyon and ourselves had per secuted with taunts and jibes, and scalding steam, at the commencement of our jour ney —the same whose unworldly aspeot and impressive words had stirred my con science amid the wild revelries of Vanity Fair. ‘ How amazingly well those men have gone on,’ cried I to Smooth-it-away. ‘ I wish we were seoure of so. good a reoep tion.’ ‘ Never fear—never fear,’ answered my friend. ‘ Come—make haste; the ferry boat will be off direotly; and in three minutes you will be on the other side of the river. No doubt you will find ooaohes to carry you up to the city gates.’ A steam ferry boat, the latest improve ment on this important route, lay at the river side, puffing, snorting, and emitting all those other disagreeable utteranoes, which betoken the departure to be immediate. I hurried on board with the rest of the passengers, most of whom were in great perturbation; Borne bawling out for their baggage; some tearing their hair and' exolaiming that the boat v would explode or sink; some already pale with the heaving of the stream ; some gazing affrighted at the ugly aspect of the steers man ; and some still dizzy with the slumbering influences of the Enchanted Ground. Looking back to the shore, I was amazed to discern; Mr. Smooth-it-away waving his hand in token of farewell 1 ‘ Don’t you go over to the Celestial City ?’ exclaimed I. ‘O, no!’ he answered with a queer smile, and that same disagreeable contor tion of visage which I had remarked in the inhabitants of the Dark Valley. ‘O, no! I have come thus far only for the sake of your pleasant oompany. Good bye ! We shall meet again.’ And then did my exoellent friend Mr. Smooth-it-away, laugh outright; in the midst of whioh cachination, a smoke wreath issued from his mouth and while & twinkle of livid flame darted out of either eye, proving indubitably that his heart was all of a red blaze. The impu dent fiend! to deny the existence of Tophet when he felt its fiery tortures raging within his breast! I rushed to tfie side of the boat, intending to fling myself on shore; but the wheels as they began their revolutions, threw a dash of spray over me, so cold—so deadly cold with the chill that will never leave those waters until death be drowned in his own river, that, with a shiver and heartquake, J awoke. Thank Heaven, it was a dream! CARDS. TXyIH.IAII WHITESIDE, SURGEON VV DENTIST.—Office in North Queen etreetj directly over Long’s Drag Store. Lancaster, may 27, 1856. ly 16 WT. McPHAIL, • ATTORNEY AT LAW, mar 31 ly 11 S trash urq, Lancaster Co., Pa. Newton lightner, attorney AT LAW, has his Office in North Duke street, nearly opposite the Court House. Lancaster, apr 1 tf 11 REMOVAL.— WILLIAM B. FORDNEY, Attorney at Law, has removed his office from North Queen street to the building-in the south-east corner of Centre Square, formerly known as Hubley’s Hotel, Lancaster, april 10 DR. JOHN M’CALLA, DENTIST.—Office No. 4 East King street, Lancaster, Pa. apr 18 tf 13 ALDUS J. 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