vot,. r,x. tiflE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER PCDLISEXD rVZET TtJSBDAT, AT SO. 8 NORTH DUXEBTRXXT, BY GEO. SANDERSON. ( DBBCEiPTioif.—Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad ''ranee. No subscription dlßContinaed until alt arrearages ! -j are_paJd, unless at the option of the Editor. ApT*BTiHEiiEHTH.--rAdTertisementB, not exceeding one square, (12 lines.) will be inserted three times for one ' iollar, and twonty*flve cents for each additional inner tion. Those of a greater length in proportion. •'od PBnniito—-Such as Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, .. Blanks. Labels. Ac.. Ac., executed with accuracy and at £e.shortest notice. For the Intelligencer. RETROSPECTION. Time’s rapid stream has rolled along, And borne me onward with Us tide ; Submerged, foro'er, Hope’s brightest song, With every joy that song supplied. Food, but illusive phautom scones, They’ve all, in bitter mockery, fled, And left for me a mourner's part, To sorrow, vainly, o’er —the dead ! The Past has taken with its flight The most of joy that o’er I knew; Each rapturous hope, each visioD bright, And Childhood's pleasures, fond and true, — Ail now are faded, as. the flowers That decked, in joy, my pathway then, Lay crushed when Autumn’s chilling form Revisited each glade and glen ! 'Tis well, in retrospect, to view The shadow of departed years ; Those happy days, when life was new,— Those blissful hours, when fancy cheers Onr early vision, strODg and bright, With golden day-dreams, full of love, And hope soars high, on pinions light, And life and earth an Eden prove! Time may the joys of past alloy, And to the heart a sadness bring; Life's bitter moments may intrude, And every shape of bliss tuke wing. Yot. Retrospection’s sacred hour Unto my heart a balm shall prove; To know it once, at least, was blest With golden smiles of hope and love \ Hickory Grove, February, 1859. PRESIDENT’S VETO MESSAGE. To the House of Representatives of the United States : 1 return, with my objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled “ An act do nating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agrioulture and the me chanic arts,” presented to me on the 18th inst. This bill makes a donation to the several States of twenty thousand acres of the public lands for each seoator and repre sentative in the present Congress; and also an additional donation of twenty thousand acres tor each additional repre sentative to which any State may be en titled under the census of 1860. According to a report from the Interior Department, based upon the present num ber of senators and representatives, the lands given to the States amount to six millions and sixty thousand acres, and their value, at the minimum government price of one dollar and twenty-five oents per acre, to seven million five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. The object of this gift, as stated by the bill, is «the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college [in each State] where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific or classical studies, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.” As there does not appear from the bill to be any beneficiaries in existence to which this endowment can be applied, each Slate is required «to provide, within five years at least, not less than one college, or the grant to said State shall cease.’— In that event the “said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.” The grant in land itself is confined to ijlch States as have public lands within their limits worth one d.ollar and twenty five cents.per acre, in the opinion of the Governor. For the remaining States, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to issue « land tcrip to the amount of their distributive shares in acres under the pro visions of this act; said scrip to be sold by said Stat'es, and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.” The lands are granted and the scrip is to be issued in sections or subdivisions of sections not less than one quarter of a section.” According to an estimate from the In terior Department, the number of acres .which will probably be accepted by States having public lands within their own limits, will not exceed five hundred and eighty thousand acres, and it may be much less; leaving a balance of five million four hun dred and eighty thousand acres to be pro vided for by scrip. These grants of land and land scrip to each of the thirty-three States are made upon certain conditions, the principal of which is, that if the fund shall be lost or diminished on account of unfortunate in vestments, or otherwise, the deficiency shall be replaced and made good by the respective States. £ shall now proceed to state my objec tions to this bill. I deem it to be both inexpedient and unconstitutional. 1. This bill has been passed at a period when we can with great difficulty raise sufficient revenue to sustain the expenses of the government. Should it become a law, the treasury will bo deprived of the whole, or nearly the whole, of our income from the sale of public lands, which, for the next fiscal year, lias been estimated at five millions of dollars. A bare statement of the case will make this evident. The minimum price at which we dispose of our lands is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. At the pres ent moment, however, the price has been reduced to those who purchase the bounty land warrants of the old soldiers to eighty five oents per acre; and of these warrants there are still outstanding and unlocated, -as appears by a report (12th February, 1859,) from the General Land Office, the junount of eleven millions nine hundred And ninety thousand three hundred and nipety-one acres. This has already greatly reduced the current sales by the govern ment, and diminished the revenue from Source. If, in addition, States shall enter the market with their land;SQrjp| the; price - must bogreatlyrc duced below oven eighty-five cents per. acre, as milch to the prejudice of the old soldiers Who have not already parted with their land warrants as to government. It is easy td peroeive that with this glut of the market government can sell little t or no lands at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, when the price of bounty land warrants and scrip shall be reduced to half this sum. This source of revenue will be almost entirely dried up. Under the bill the States may sell their land scrip at any price it may bring. There is no limitation whatever in this respect. In deed, they mu9t sell for what the scrip will bring, for without this fund they cannot proceed to establish their colleges within the five years to which they are limited.— It is manifest, therefore, that to the extent to which this bill will prevent the sale of the public lands at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, to that amount it will have precisely the same effect upon the treasury as if we should impose a tax or ereat a loan to endow these State colleges. Surely the present is the most unpropi tious moment which could have been selected for the passage of this bill. 2. Waiving for the present the question of constitutional power, what effect will this bill have on the relations established between the federal and State governments? The constitution is a grant to Congress of a few enumerated but most important powers relating chiefly to war, peace, for eign and domestic commerce, negotiation, and other subjects which can be best or alone exercised beneficially by the common government. All other powers are reser ved to the States and to the people. For the efficient and harmonious working of both it is necessary that their several spheres of aotion should be kept distinct froip each other. This alone can prevent conflict and mutual injury. Should the time ever arrive when the State govern ments shall look to the federal treasury for the means of supporting themselves and maintaining their systems of education and internal policy, the oharaoter of both governments will be greatly deteriorated. The representatives of the States and of the people, feeling a more immediate in terest in obtaining money to lighten the burdens of their constituents than for the promotion of the more distant objects in trusted to the federal government, will naturally incline to obtain means from the federal government for State purposes.— If a question shall arise between an ap propriation of land or money to carry into effeot the objects of the federal government and those of the States, their feelings will be enlisted in favor of the latter. This is human nature ; and hence the ne cessity of keeping the two governments entirely distinct. The preponderance of this home feeling has been manifested by the passage of the present bill. The es tablishment of these colleges has prevailed over the pressing wants of the common treasury. No nation ever had such an inheritance as we possess in the public lands. These ought to be managed with the utmost care, but at the same time with a liberal spirit towards actual settlers. In the first year of a war with a power ful naval nation the revenue from customs must in a great degree cease. A resort to loans will then become necessary, and these can always be obtained as our fathers obtained them, on advantageous terms, by pledging the public lands as security. In this view of the subject, it would be wiser to grant money to the States for domestic purposes than to squander away the pub lic lands, and transfer them in large bodies into the hands of speculators. A successful struggle on the part of the State governments with the general govern ment for the public lands would deprive the latter of the means of performing its high duties, especially at critical and dan gerous Besides, it would operate with equal detriment to the best interests of tbe States. It would remove the most wholesome of all restraints on legislative bodies—that of being obliged to raise money by taxation from their constituents —and would lead to extravagance, if not to corruption. What is obtained eaily and without responsibility will be lavishly expended. 3. This bill, should it become a law, will operate greatly to ihe injury of the new States. The progress of settlements and the increase of an industrious popula tion owing an interest in the soil they cul tivate, are the causes which will build them up into great and flourishing Common wealths. Nothing could be more preju dicial to their interests than for wealthy individuals to acquire large tracts of the public land and hold them for speculative purposes. The low price to which this land scrip will probably be reduced will tempt speculators to buy it in large amounts and locate it on the best lands belonging to the government. The eventual conse quence must be that the men who desire to cultivate the soil will be compelled to purchase these very lands at rates much higher than the price at which they could be obtained from the government. 4. It is extremely doubtful, to say the least, whether this bill would contribute to the advancement of agriculture and the mechanio, arts—objects, the dignity and value of which cannot be too highly appre ciated. The federal government, which makes the donation, has confessedly no constitu tional powei to follow it into the States and enforce the application of the fund to the intended objects. As donors, we shall possess no control over our own gift after it shall have passed from our hands. It is true that the State legislature* are requi red to stipulate that they will faithfully execute the trust in the manner prescribed by the bill. But should they fail to do this, what would be the consequence' l The federal government has no power, and ought to have no power, to compel the exe cution of the trust. It would be in as helpless a condition as if even in this, the time of great need, we were to demand any portion of the many millions of surplus revenue deposited with the States for safe keeping under the act of 1836. . 5. This bill will injuriously interfere with existing colleges in the different States, in many of which agriculture is taught as a science, and in all of which it ought to be so taught. These institutions of learning have grown up with the coun try uncer the fostering care of the States and the munificence of individuals to meet the advancing demands for education.— They have proved great blessings to the people. Many—indeed, most of them— are poor, and sustain themselves with diffi oulty. What the effect will be on these 1 institutions of creating an indefinite, num «THAX COUNTRY IB THR MOST PROSPEROUS'WmotX LABOR COMMANDS THE GRKATRST REWARD.”—BUCHANAN. LANCASTER OITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1859. her of rival colleges, sustained by the en dowment of the federal government, it is not difficult td determine. Under this bill, it is provided that scientific and classical studies, shall not be excluded from them. Indeed, it would be almost impossible to sustain them without such a provision; for no father would incur the exponse of sending a son to one of these institutions for the sole purpose of making him a scientific farmer or mechanic. The bill itself negatives this idea, and deolares that their object is “ to pr< mote the liberal and practical education of the industrial olasses in the several pursuits and profess ions of life.” This certainly ought to be the ease. In this view of the subject, it would be far be tter, if such an appropria tion of laud must be made to institutions of learning in tho several States, to apply it directly to the establishment of professor ships of agriculture and the mechanic arts in existing colleges without the interven tion of the State legislatures. It would be difficult to foresee how these legislatures will manage this fund. Each representa tive in Congress, for whose district the proportion of twenty thousand acres has been granted, will probably insist that the proceeds shall be expended within its iirnits. There will undoubtedly be a struggle between different localities in each State concerning the division of the gift, which may end in disappointing the hopes of the true friends of agrioulture. For this state of things we are without remedy. Not so in regard to State colleges. We might grant land to these corporations to establish agricultural and mechanical professorships ; and, should they fail to comply with the conditions on which they accepted the grant, we might enforce specific performance of these before the ordinary courts of justice. 6. But does Congress possess the potfer, under the constitution, to make a donation of public lands to the different States of the Union to provide collegia for the purpose of educating their own people 1 I presume the general propositioa is undeniable that Congress does not possess the power to appropriate money in the treasury raised by taxes on the people of the United States for the purposo of educating the people of the respective States. It will not be pretended that any such power is to be found among the speicfic powers granted to Congress, nor that it “ is necessary and proper lor carrying into execution” any one of these powers. Should Congress exercise such a power this would be to break down the barriers which have been so carefully constructed in the consti tution to separate federal from State authority. We should then not only “lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises” for federal purposes, but for every State purpose which Congress might deem expedient or useful. This • would be an actual consolidation of the federal and State governments, so far as the great taxing and money power is concerned, and constitute a sort of partnership between the two in the treasury of the United States equally ruinous to both. But it is contended that the public lands are placed upon a different fooling from raon;-y raised by taxation, and that the proceeds arising from their sale are not subject to the limitations of the constitu tion, but may be appropriated or given away by Congress, at its own discretion, to States, corporations, or individuals, for any purpose they may deem expedient. The advocates of this bill attempt to sustain their position upon the language of the secood clause of the third section of the fourth article of the constitution, which declares that “ the Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory, or other property belonging to the United States.” They contend that, by a fair interpretation of the words u dispose of” in this clause, Congress possesses the power to make this gift of public lands to the State for purposes of education. It would require clear and strong evi dence to induce the belief that the framers of the constitution, after having limited the powers of Congress to certain, precise, and specific objects, intended, by employ ing the words “ dispose of,” to give that body unlimited power over the vast public domain. It would be a strange anomaly, indeed, to have created two funds, the one by taxation confined to the execution of the enumerated powers delegated to Con gress, and the other from the public lands, applicable to all subjects, foreign and domestic, which Congress might designate. That this fund should be t£ disposed of,” not to pay the debts of the United States, nor is to raise and support armies,” nor “ to provide and maintain a navy,” nor to accomplish any one of the other great objects enumerated in the constitution; but he diverted from them to pay the debts of the States, to educate their people, and to carry into effect any other measure of their domestic policy. This would be to confer upon Congress a vast and irrespon sible authority, utterly at war with the well-known jealousy of federal power which prevailed at the formation of the constitu tion. The natural intendment would be that, as the constitution confined Congress to well-defined specific powers, the funds placed at their command, whether in land or money, should be appropriated to the performance of the duties corresponding with these powers. If not, a government has been created with all its other powers carefully limited, but without any limita tion in respect to the public lands. But I cannot so read the wordsdispose of” as to make them embrace the idea of “ giving away.” The true meaning of words is always to be ascertained by the subject to which they are applied, and the known general intent of the lawgiver.— Congress is a trustee under the constitu tion for the people of the United States to “ dispose of ” their public lands, and I think I may venture to assert with confi dence, that no case can be found in which a trustee in the position of Congress has been authorized to “ dispose of” property by its owner, where it has ever been held that these words authorized such trustee to give away the fund entrusted to his care. No trustee, when called upon to account for the disposition of the property placed under his management before aDy judicial tribunal, would venture to present such a plea in his defence. The true meaniog of these words is clearly Btated by Chief Justice Taney in delivering the opinion of the court, (19 Howard, p. 436.) He says, in reference to this clause of the constitu tion, “ It begins its enumeration of powers by that of disposing; in other words, making sale of the lands, or raising money from them, which, as we have already said, | was the main object of the cession, (from the States,) and which is the first thing provided for in the article.” It is unnec essary to refer to the history of the times to establish the known fact that this statement of the Chief Justice is perfect ly well founded. That it never was in tended by the framers of the constitution that these lands should be given away by Congress is manifest from the concluding portion of the same clause. By it, Con gress has power not only “ to dispose of ” the territory, but of the “ other property of the United States.” In the language of the chief Justice, (p. 437 :) “ And the same power of making needful rules res pecting the territory is in precisely the same language applied to the other prop erty of the United States, assooiating the power over the territory, in this respect, with the power over moveable„or personal property—that is, the ships, arms, or munitions of war which then belonged in common to the State sovereignties.” The question is still clearer in regard to the public lands in the States and Ter ritories within the Louisiana and Florida purchases. These lands were paid for out of the public treasury from money raised by taxation. Now, if Congress had no power to appropriate the money with whioh these lands wero purchased, is it not clear that the power over the lands is equally limited? The mere conversion of this money into land could not confer upon Congress new power over the disposition of land which they had not possessed over money. If it could, then a trustee, by changing the character of the fund entrusted to his care for special objects from money into land, might give the land away or devote it to any purpose he thought proper, however foreign from the trust.— The inference is irresistible that this land partakes of the very Same character with the money paid for it, and can be devoted to no objects different from those to which the money could have been devoted. If this were not the case, then, by the purohase of a new territory froth a foreign govern ment out of the public treasury, Congress could enlarge their own powers and ap propriate the proceeds of the sales of the land thus purchased, at their own discre tion, to other and far different objects from what they could have applied the purchase money which had been raised by taxation. It has been asserted truly that Congress, in numerous instances, have granted lands for purposes of education. These grants have been chiefly, if not exclusively, made to the new States, as they successively, entered the Union, and consisted at the first of one section, and afterwards of two sections of the public lands in each town ship for the use of schools, as well as of additional sections for a State university. Such grants are not, in my opinion, a violation of the constitution. The United States is a great landed proprietor, and from the very nature of this relation it is both the right and the duty of Congress, as their trustee, to manage these lands as any other prudent proprietor would uiauage them for his own best advantage. Now, no consideration could be presented of a stronger character to induce the American people to brave the difficulties and hard ships of frontier life, and to settle upon these lands and purchase them at a fair price, than to give to them and to their children an assurance of the means of education. If any prudent individual had held these lands he could not have adopted a wiser course to bring them into market and enhance their value than to give a portion of them for the purposes of educa tion. As a mere speculation, he would pursue this course. No p rson will con tend that donations of land to all the States of the Union for the erection of colleges within the limits of each can be embraced by this principle. It oannot be pretended that an Agricultural College in New York or Virginia would aid the settlement or facilitate the salo of public lands in Minnesota or California. This cannot posibly be embraced within the authority which a prudent proprietor of land would exercise over his own posses sions. I purposely avoid any attempt to define what portions of land may be grant ed, and for what purposes, to improve the value and promote the settlement and sale of the remainder without violating the constitution. In this case I adopt the rule that “ sufficient untmthe day is the evil thereof.” JAMES BUCHANAN. Washington City, Feb. 24, 1859. Daring Feat at Niagara. —The Chicago Press has an account of a Yankee adventurer, named Andrew Greenleaf, crossing N agara river between Goat Inland and the Falla on stilts, on the 12th ult,, for a bet of $lOOO, made with a Southerner. Greenleaf (or Morulli, as he calls himself, for he passes for an Italian, and is a "showman,”) had with him a pair of stilts about twelve feet long, made of wrought iron, flat, sharp edged and pointed—shaped in fact almost precisely like a double edged dagger. These were firmly lashed to his legs, and he walked towards the terrible river with a confident smile. The morning was clear and cold, but he was attired very lightly, in a dress not unlike that usually worn by professional gymnasts. At ten minutes past seven, he stepped into the water, which in another moment was boiling, gurgling, aD NEFF, Attorney at Law.— Office with B. A. Shaeffer, Esq., south-west corner of Centre Square, Lancaster. may 16, ’66 ly 17 Edward bpgovern. ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 5 North Dors btrket —near thk Court House, LANCASTER. PA. Removal— dr. j. t. baker, hoqi. (EPATHIC PHYSICIAN, has removed his office to Lime rtreet, between Orange sod East King streets, west side. Rf>far°ticA—Professor W. A. Gardner, Philadelphia. Calls fmm the cotiutry will be promptly attended to. nprfi tfl2 DR. JOHN M’CALLA, DENTIST.—Office N". 4 Kn«t Kins: s'rcot. Luncister. Pa. apr 18 if 13 SAMUEL 11. REYNOLDS, Attorney nt Lh'v. 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All interviews are strictly private and confidential. jan 18 6m* PLATED-WARE, FROOI THE BEST factories in the United States,.sold at manufacturer’s rates by 11. L. A E. J. Z A n M , Corner North Queen street and Centre. Square. TEA SETTS, COMMUNION SETTS. GOBLETS, BPOONB, FORKS, ICE PITCHERS, KNIVES, Ac. july fl iu variety. f>m 25 T'HE HAPPY IIO9IE AND PARLOIt MAGAZINE, AND TUB MOTIIKK’S ASSISTANT.— Tbe publisher of theta popular monthlies would call the attention of parents, and youug men and yoang women, to their object find character. The Happy Home contains seventy-two pages of reading matter in each Number, making with the plates two volumes of four hundred and fifty pages each.-in a year.. Illmtrated by s .fine Engrav- ing. (for tbe present of Scriptural family scenes.) a litho graph of flowers or fruit, hi color*; also there will be in serted occasional cots of such styles of dress and embroid ery as may be useful in the Christian family, and other illustrations. For reading thereare furnished articles upon therein* tions of P.ireut. Husband. Wife, Child, Brother, Sister, to gether with articles especially designed for yuung men and young women. There 1s also a Boys’ nud Girls’ Corner.— In addition to this there is a variety of miscellaneous mat ter, consisting of Historical aud Biographical Sketches, with such subjects in the range of Science, Literature. Morals and Religion, as would appropriately fill up a Magazine of higher literary ana religious character. Price $2 per year, in advance. Tbe Mother’s Assistant contains thirty-two paged, of the ratne size as tbe Uappy Home, with the same Steel En graving that adorns the latter periodical. The design of this is more particularly to assist parents in tbe training of their children, and furnish them with snch other matter sb may be profitable for them, and other members of the family to read. It contains a Boys’ and Girls’ Corner. All the matter in this monthly Is embraced in The Happy Home. Price $1 per year in advance. The publisher will spare no pains to render these Mapa* zines tbe best for the family in the land. They will be nsefat, not only for present reading, bnt will make hand some volumes, when bound, for tbe family library. Tbe plates which they contain, are instructive and entertain ing, render them appropriate and beautiful volumes, when handsomely bound, for tbe parlor table. 43“ The eight volumes already published can be bad at our Office, at the following redact'd prices, viz:—Neatly bound In cloth, gilt back and lettered, at $1 per vol., or $7 per set Elegantly bound in morocco, full gilt, 2 vols. in 1, at $2 50 per vol., or $8 per set. Caih. C. STONE, Publisher, 11 Cornhlll. Boston, December 1, 1858. Knickerbocker magazine •FIFTY-SECOND VOLUME, BEGINNING WITS TBS JULY NUMBER. LOCJIB GAYLORD CLARK,) . Dr. JAM K 8 0. NOT Eg, f jautor9 ' JOHN A GRAY, Publisher. Arrangements have been made with the following popu lar authors for contributions to the succeeding volumes of the Knickerbocker, comprising, we believe, a greater amount and variety of talent than have ever been enlisted for any magazine in the country: FITZ GREEN HALLECK, Dr. J. W. FRANCIS, Dr. OLIVER W. HOLMES, GULIAN C. VERPLANOK, DONALD G. MITCUELL, 11. T. TUCKRRMAN, GEORGE W. CURTIS, JOHN G. BAXE, lloiT. G. P. R. JAMES, PARK BENJAMIN, Rev. F. W. SHELTON, ALFRED B. STREET, Dr. J. W. PALMER, Prof. EDWARD NORTH, E. L. GoDKIN, MANTON M MARBLE. R. U. STODDARD, FITZ JAMES O’BRIEN, JOHN PHCBNIX, T. B. ALDRICH, A. WILDER, JAMES W. MORRIS, Mbs. K. KEY BLUNT, Miss C. CHESBHRO. As heretofore, its pages will be devoted V> the cultivation of Literature, Art, and llomor. Leaving to others the dis cussion of vexed political and polemical questions, it will yet be the atm of the editors to procure for the body of the Magazine the most brilliant articles upon the tnp'cs of the day; and the large resources at their command will enable them to malte the pages of the Knickerbocker unsurpassed in excellence and variety of matter. Mr. Clark's time be ing now bestowed mainly upon the “ Editor'g Table. the Inimitable feature of the Knickerbocker, he wilt lalior to make it (he most delightful repository of wit, humor, and of literary gems. In the English language. Everv Number of the succeeding volume will contain a steel-plate engraving, and illustrated articles will frequent ly grace the pages of the Magazine All communications connected with the Business Depart ment of the Knickerbocker should be addressed to John A. Gray, 16 and 18 Jacob street. AU Articles designed for publication—*ll Literary Inquiries—*W New Books and Publications should be addressed to either of the Editors. TERMS: Single copies, one year, $3 00 Two copies 6 00 Three copies, .-.V. 0 00 ' ...An extracopyxeuttoanyon* who will make up.aelab rfttt*at*eribwi,tf ; aus9ltfB3 THE PHILADELPHIA EVENING BIJL LCTI.V, AN INDKI-KNOISNr OArcV NKWBBAPBK, cGrnteaiftpa-ialty to tbMntrmt, of PonnirlrnnU.., Cbn taming Important Te’»*grtpbic New*, sixteen bouht lo ad tan« of tha Morning Paper*. Original. Foreign and' D» mertlc Corre»poodt*DCs. Editorials on nil SaM-cts. and full lUport* of all the ne«s of th« da/. The CommercWiand Financial Departments are full, «tul are carefully attended to. Aa as Adtotxoso .Munnc there la no better paper in the State, the circulation helot; next tothelnrimt In the city, and among the moet Intelligent and Inflnen* lial of the population. TERMS, SIX DOLLARS PER TSAR, TN ADVANCE. CUMUINUd APKACOTK, Proprietor*. No. 112 South Third atreet, Philadelphia. THE PIJU.ADI?I,PnM SATURDAY BULLETIN* a h*nd«>mA. vell-QiUtl. Fouur Wkmit Newspapu. U pub jtah*d by the Proprietors At the followlug unprecedentedly 1 Copy, one year, 6 Copies, “ 13 “ « 21 “ « 30 « « 100 “ “ FURTHER INDUCEMENTS ) THE LARGEST CLUB (orer 100) will be wnt foe three yews TUB NEXT LARGEST CLUB, (over 100) will be sent for t*o years. Address CUMMINGS * PEACOCK, Proprietors, Bulletin Building, No. 112 South Third street, Philadelphia. if 46 Dkuqanq chemical, store* The subscriber haring removed bis store to (be new building nearly opposite his old stand, and directly npposie the Cross Keys Uotel, has now on baod a well selected stock of articles belonging to the Drug business consisting in part of Oils, A ■'lda, tjplccs, Seed 1 ', Alcohol. Powdered Articles. Sarsaparilla*, 4c., 4c., to wblch the attention of coontry merchants, physicians and consumers In general is invited. TUQ.UA3 KLUMAKhR. feb 9 tf 4 West King street, Lanc’r. Howard association, PHILADELPHIA . ‘ A Benevolent Institution established by special Endow* ment, for the relief of the Sick and Distressed, afflicted with Virulent and Epidemic Diseases. TUB HOWARD AS3OCIATI ;N, in view of the awful destruction of liamm life earned by Sexual diseases, ana the de;*eptloos practiced upon the unfortunate victims of such diseases by Qaacks, several years ag-i directed their Consulting Surgeon, as a CUARITAULB ACT worthy of their name*, to open a Dispensary for the treatment o/ihls class of di ease*.ln all their forms.and to give MKDIOAL ADVICK GRATIS to all who "pp'y by letter, with a descrip tion of tbelr condition, (age, occupitinn. habits of life 4c) and in case nf extrema poverty, to FURNISH MEDICINES FIIHK OF CIIAKGK. It is needless to add that the Associ ation commands the highest Medical skill of the ag*,and ttlll fumi»h the most approved modern treatment. The Directors of the Association, in their Annn-tl Report upon the treatment of Sexual Diseases, express the highest satisfaction with the success which has attended the tabors of their Burgeons in the cure of Spermatorrhoea. Seminal Weakness,Gonorrhoea. Gleet. SvphilU, the vice of Onanism ar Self Abuse, Diseases of the Kiduevs and Bladder,4a., and order a continuance of the same p'lan for the eusulng year. The Directors, on a review of the past, feel assured that their labors in this sphere of benevolent efforts ba,ve been of great benefit to the afflicted, especially to the young, and they hare resolved to devote themselves, with renewed zeal, to this very Imporlaut anil much despised cause. An admirable Report on Spermatorrhoea, or Seminal Weakness, the vice of Oaanism, Masturbation, or Self- Abuse, and other diseases of the Sexual organs, by the Con sulting Surgeon, will be sent by mail (In a waled envelope) FRISK OF CHARG K, on receipt of TWO STAMPS fur post age. Oilier Reports and Tracts on the nature and treat ment of Sexual disease*, diet, 4c.. are constantly being published for gratuitous distribution, and will be sent to the afflicted. Some of the uew remedies and methods of treatment discovered during the last year, are oi great value. Address, for Report or treatment, DR. J. BKILLIN HOUGHTON, Acting Surgeon. Unward Association,No. 2 South Niuth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. lly order ot the Diiector*. K7.RA D HKARTWBLL, President. Eo. Fairchild; Secratary. j*o 18 ly l National police gazette...thh Great Journal of Crime aud Criminals is in Its Thir teenth year,and is widely circulated throughout tbecoun try. It is the Brat paper of ibe kind published In the Uulted States, and is distinctive In its charqcter. H has lately passed Into the hauds of Geo. W. 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ABOVE THIRD, PHILADELPHIA. < r "™ I SIDES k CARMANY. omv ii tr 17 I )ATENT ADI UROTYPES.—TIic eub -1 li tving purrlm-nd the exclusive > iglit of Lan caster city, are nr-abled t> uflVr to the public a n-w stvle of I‘UM uteri, far exceeding. in l»*:«n»y and durability any ever before made Tli-se lectures an* i»«-t reversed, as dau-rreo typesareand may lw* awn in anyllght. They also possess the rare property of being imperishable being hermetirally ■mnled ltetwe*-n glass plates, which is secured by Letters Patent, in the United States, Oreat Britain and Prnore, and practised In Lancaster city by T. <£ IP. CUMMiNOS. ouly. over Sprecher A Bro.’s New Store, North Queen st., Lancaster. EXPLANATION. The term AMBROTYPK, by which these Picture* 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 indestrui-tible cement, by by which the picture will retain Its original brilliancy for ages; it will not corrode by acids, Dor be Injured by water or climate. It ts bold In Its effect, beautiful In tone, surpasses auy thing in the gradations of light and shade, and may be seen in any light. The public are cautioned against imitations made on single plates of glass, with the Mack varnißh In Immediate contact with the Picture.— Such are not permanent, as the varnish most crack and destroy the Picture. AMBROTYPE STERESCOPES 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, aod examine specimens before they procure Pictures elsewhere, as they are insured of polite attention, sep 26 tf-W T. A W. CUMMINGS k CO Agriculttral publications. FOR FA RMERS. Fit HIT GROW BUS GARDENERS, 4c. FUBSCRIPTIONS TAKEN AT CLUB RA PUS. AH thos* in want of a good Agricultural and Hnrtlcul fund Journal, at a low price, have now an opportunity to “uhseribe f>r the beat, and nn the same terms at they caa procured a», diiect from the publisher. W«* will add the names of a few with the prices. 4c. TUB AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. published month ly, fa a thorough relitble and practical journal, devoted to t.he different d partmenta «-f Soil Culture. *ra«-b as growing Field Oop*, Orchard and Garden Fruits, Garden Vegeta bles and Flowers. Trees, Plants and Flowers for the I-awn <>r Yard, in-door and out-door Work around the Duelling. Care of Domestic Animals. Ac. Ac. Also a Calender of Operations for the seasons is given every nvutb. TERMS—One copy, one year, $1 00) Cash Six copies “ “ 600 V la Ten . M “ 8 00), Advance. The price of the Genpan Edition of the American Agri culturist is the same as the English Edition TLIE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN; A Weekly Jonrnal of the Farm, the Garden and ihe Fireside. Contains (ally twice the amount of reading on rural su'J-cts, and has a larger list of practical correspondents than any other paper of its kiod. Its publishers are practical men in Agricultural matters and have been engaged as editors for the last 20 years, being the original publishers of the Genetsee Far mer. TEEMS or THE COUTTBT QENTLEMAS One copy, one year, $i 01) Three copier, “ “ 500 VCash In Advance. Five “ “ « 8 00J THE CULTIVATOR is published monthly at the office of the Country Gentleman, being tbe choice matter of the Country Gentleman, and forming an annual volume of nearly 400 pager. It is raid to stand amoogthehest Agri cultural monthlies. We will take subscriptions at the rate of 50 cents a year. THE HORTICULTURIST AND JOURNAL OF RURAL ART. established by A. G. Dowkixo in 1840. and edited by J. Jat Smith, of Geroiantowo, Pa., Isa Journal which needs no commendation. It is just the Journal for the Frnlt Grower, Gardener and Rnrnl Architect. terms: One copy, one year, , $2 00 Two copies, '• “ 860 Ten “ “ “ 15 00 . TOE GARDENER’S MONTOLY, edited by TOWTAI Meehax, a new JuamalJust started in Philadelphia. Price, $l,OO a year. This will be especially useful to the Gardener of our State and Climate, TIIB ILI.UaTRATKITAJfNUAL REGISTER OP RU RAL AKPAIHB, containing' 144 pagan, embplfiibed with about 160 engroriog*. coonUtufe* a eomnjfte miniature Kncylopcdia for the Farm, Orchard and Garden. Price. 25 cents. f We will take nnbecrlpti'>nn for any of thaabore on the abore term*. and will enpply any of the Agricultu ral book* pub.iihed io the country at the lowest rates. SIIKAKPr.U, SacceMor to Murray, Young. A Co. jan 19 tf 1 New map of Lancaster county. The ondersiicned Is preparing to publish a nevand complete MAP OF LANCASTKK COUNTY, on an improved filaa, (provided sufficient encouragement is given.) mark* ag the location* of all the principal buildings fnihe conn* ty, all Schools, Churches, P. at Offices. Mills.: Hotels. Ac., with the names and locations of all subtcriberttothe MAP, and locations <•( firm hoildlßgs, so a* to make it a complete COUNTY. DIttJJCTOBY. .... To be ornamented -with prospective views of the principal Colleges. Schools and other buildings lu the oonnty. 1 En larged plans of the principal Boroughs and Towns.wlll be given on the side of the COUNTY MAI*, where sufficient subscription is obtained. To be handsomely colored, show* ingall the new townships, matting a most complete and beautiful work, superceding all former MAPS. JAMES D. SCOTT, Publisher, Lancaster .City. Jaly 21 tf 27 PENNSYLVANIA PATE3JT AGENCY. J. FRANKLIN nBIOAUT.of Lanca«>er city, obtains Letters Patent frum tbe U. 9. Patent Office, on tbe most rnanouable terms. Drawings of all kind* of'Machinery, Architecture, or Surreys. correctly - executed by him. Like wise Deed*, Bond* and other Instrument* of writing Office— Agricultural am)- SCHOOL MAPS,(Outline.), . j -,. frr-.(T SCHOOL CHARTS, (Sandora* Elocutionary.) BOHOOLGfciOBte*, (Pranklin ) At greatly reduced prices at tbe People's Book fitoi* of BPKERQKR A i; >aofOltf44. r Ho.»-iiottliQi»to“siiek)l NO 8. .$ 1 00 . 600 . 10 00 , 16 00 . 20 00 , 60 00