_ - ....... - ...... toil ix THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER. a» PUBXISSKP ZTOBT f tJUDAT. AT VO. 8 NORTH DUd STREET, ■ *vaoi/a,« AX av. V nm»»M ««- BY GEO. SASDEKSON. TERMS fiHBSCRiPnON.—Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad vance. No subscription discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, nnten at the option' of the Editor. Advertihevents.—Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 Hoes,) will-be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-fire cents for each additional inser tion. Those of greater length In proportion. Job Printing— Such as Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, Ac., Ac., executed with accuracy and on the shortest notice. THE OLD LIBERTY BELL. BT J. W. BBTCE. It was an anxious, solemn boar; In oonnoil sat the good act} -wise, Wielding a people’s sovereign power To break asunder ancient ties, Defy the doubt and dare the strife, And speak a nation into life! Upon their breath hung mighty fates, The weal or wo of embryo States— Tbe uuoorn millions’ destiny— The hopes of all who would be free! Now flushed with expectations high The eager thousands gather nigb, In acceuts deep, with 'bated breath They talk of ‘‘Liberty or death!” And now in yonder belfry stands The sturdy bellman, old and grey, With throbbing heart and ready hands To ring in Freedom’s natal day! The hours on leaden wings go by, And yet there comes no sign whatever, Until Greybeard was heard to sigh, “No! no! they’ll never do it, never!” But hark! at last tbero oomes a shout, And ories a youthful voice,- ‘ ‘ring out! Grandfather ring! ’Tis done! ’Tie done ! The day of Freedom has began !” With sturdy grasp the iron tongue The old man caught, and furious swung ’Till peal on peal, the joyous sound, Awoke responsive echoes round, Aqd from a thousand throats there oame Tbe wild, the joyous, proud acclaim, “Hurrah! Hurrah! we now are free, Nine times nine cheers for Liberty !” v Then boomed tbe oanoon loud and long; Then blazed the bonfires bright aDd strong; And everywhere, in bower and hall, Young Freedom held her carnival! Yet still above all sounds would swell The silvery tones of that old bell— Over the hills, and over the plains, Echo still prolonged the strain, Until’twos caught up by the air, Which seetaed to carry it everywhere! That old bell hangs in its tower yet, And now makes but discordant jingle, But ne’er can a freeman ere forget How once its tones were wont to mingle With the shouts of the brave and free Who weioomed the birth of Liberty! And o’er this land should discord cgpae, Qr tyrants threaten freedom’s hom'ej Its voice would waken every heart, Would oause each manly pulse to start, And rally to defend our shore, Spirits worthy theirs of yore ! From the London Times, May 11th. THE WAR BY ALFRED TENNYSON. There is a sound of thunder afar, Storm in the South that darkens the day, Storm ; of-battle and thunder of war, Well if it do not roll our way. Form! form! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm ! Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Be not deaf to tbe sound that warns! Be not gull’d by a despot’s plea! Are figs of thistles, or grapes of thorns? How should a despot set men free? . Form! form! Riflemen form! ; Ready, be ready to meet the storm! Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Let yoRT Befonns for a moment go, ; Look to your butte and take good aims ; Better a rotten bdrough or so, Than a-rotten fleet nr.jLoifcjr-.in. flomw!' Form! form! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet the storm! Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Form, be ready to do or die! Form in Freedom’s name and tbe Queens! True, that we have a faithful ally, But only tbe Devil knows what he meais. Form! form! Riflemen form! Ready, be ready to meet tbe storm! Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! The following improvement on the above is poitely dedicated to such of the readers of The Intelligencer as it. may concern: There is-no'sound ofsilver anear! in our pooket to-day! God'of battles! ob thunder! oh dear! That a subscriber would roll our way!' Pay pay!- gentlemen pay! sill and receipt are ready this day V Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen jay! Be -not deaf to the sounds that warn! ' Be-not gull’d by another’s plea! '• Are figs of thistles? Yes, in a horn! Are.promises payment? No sir-ee! Pay ! pay 1 gentlemen pay ! B'ul'and receipt are ready this day \ Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen jay! , Let other debts for a mom ent go! But me no bats, bub settle arrears ; \ Better a grumbling tradesman or so, \ Than a muzzled press or a printer in tears! Pay! pay ! gentlemen pay ! / Bill and reoeipb are ready this day Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen pvy! Pay ! that you he ready to die! ' Pay! that we be able to live! Pay/ or our very faithful ally, The Devil , will get you without reprijve! Sock! sock! gentlemen sook ! Step up to the Captain’s office and seek ! Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen SSCK! DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. July 4th, 1776. \ When, in the course of human e\?nts, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, anc to asume, among the powers of the erth, the separate and equal station to whicl the laws of nature and of nature’s God eipitle them, a decent respect to the opiniois of mankind requires that they should dedare the causes which impel them to the serra tion. We hold these truths to be self-evhent, that all men are created equal; that they are-endowed by their Creator with cctain unalienable rights; that among these,\are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hipphAss. That, to secure these rights, governmjnts axe-instituted among men, deriving their ■ just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any fora- of government beoomes destructive of tlese ends, it is the right rtf' the people to a ter . or to abolish it,"and to institute if Cew government, laying its foundation on siph principles,and organizing its powers in suoh 'j: - form, as to them shall seem most likely t V . effect their safety and happiness. Prudeni e indeed, will dictate that governments lo established, should not be changed for lig and transient causes *, and, according! all experience hath shown, that mankii are more disposed to suffer, while evils a f«“ sufferable, than to right themselves 1 i _ abolishing the forms to whioh they ale aocustomed. But, when a long train if I ' abuses and usurpations, pursuing invari- I , ably the same object, evinoes a design A) I rediioe them under absolute despotism, St I is their right, it is their duty, to throw tfi A~; ; suoh government,and to provide new guaris •J,'“ for their future seourity. Such has be ,: ■ Strains them to alter their former system; of government. The history of the present v “kino of Great Britain is a history ci and usurpations, all haA( t direct object; the establishment o' lolnte tyranny oveir these States. Tt - .this, let-facts, be submitted to i’ JiworUl;/ • . his assent to law/?: th| ; most wholesome and necessary for the publicgood. , He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and, when so suspended, he has utterly negleoted to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws, for 'the accommodation of large districts of people, unless .those people would relin quish the right of representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislativebodies at places nnnsual, unoomfortable, and distant from the depository of their’ public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firm ness, his invasions oh the rights of "the people. He has refused,: for a long time after snch dissolutions, to cause others to be eleoted; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convnlsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the popu lation of these States ; for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judioiary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has ereoted a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of offioers to harass our people, and eat out their substanoe. He has kept among us, in times of peaoe, standing armies, without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power. He has combined, with others, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to.our constitu tion, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among ns: For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment, for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States: For cutting off onr trade with all parts of the world : For imposing taxes on us without our oonsent: For depriving ns, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury : For transporting ns beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences : For abolishing the free system of En glish laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary govern ment, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the Bame abso lute rule into these colonies : For taking away our charters, abolish ing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the powers of our govern ments : For suspending our own legislatures, and deolaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all oases what- He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to oomplete the works of death, desolation, and tyrannyvairgady begun, with oireumstances of cruelty and perfidy scaroely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a oivilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken oaptive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to beoome the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestio insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merceiess Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished de struction, of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose oharaoter is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts made by their legislature to extend an unwarrant able jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the oireumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our eommon kindred, to disavow these psurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justioe and consan guinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces- our separation, and hold them, as wo hold the rest of mankind, enemies in peace, friends J We, therefore, the representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS assembled, appealing to the Snpreme Judge of the World for the reotitnde of oar intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemn ly publish and Jeolare, That these United Colonies are, affd of right ought to be, FREE ANMNDEPENDENT STATES; that they afe absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britian, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as FREE AND IN DEPENDENT STATES, they have full power to levy war, conolude peace, contract allianoes, establish commeroe, and to do all other acts and things whioh INDE PENDENT STATES may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm relianoe on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to eao| otter, our lives, our fortunes, and our jsapred honor, "THAT COUNTRY IS THE XOBT PROBENBOUS WHKM UkBOB OOJOCA] LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1859. SBB G-LOKV OF THB XAOTD OF rninr. , BY GEOBGE MPPABD. Beautiful in her solitary grandeur— fair as a green island in a desert’ waste, prond as a lonely column, reared in the wilderness—rises the land of Penn, in the history of America. Here, beneath the.Elin ofShackamaxon, was first reared the holy .altar of Tolera tion. Here, from the halls of the old State House, was first proclaimed that Bible of the Rights of Man—the "Declaration of Independence. Here, William Penn asserted the mild teachings of a Gospel, whose every word was Love. Here, Franklin drew down the lightnings from the sky, and bent the soience of ages to the good of toiling man. Here, Jefferson stood forth, the conseora ted Prophet of Freedom, proclaiming, from Independence Hall, the destiny of a Continent, the freedom of a People.. Here, that band of men, oompared to whom the Senators Of Rome dwindle into parish demagogues,—the Continental Con gress —held their solemn deliberations, with the halter and the axe before their eyes. 1 ” New England we love for her Adams’, her Hancocks, and her Warrens. Her battle- fields of Bunker Hill and Conoord and Lexington speak to us with a voice that The South, too, ardent in can never die. her fiery blood, luxuriant in flowers and fruits, we love for her Jefferson, her Lees, her immortal Patriok Henry. Not a rood of her soil but is richer for the martyr blood of heroes. But while we love the North or the South for their Revolutionary glories, we must confess that the land of Penn claims a glory higher and holier than either.— The glory of the Revolution is her’s, but the mild light of science irradiates her hills, the pure gospel of William Penn shines forever over the pages of her past. While we point to Maryland for her Cal vert and her Carroll, to Jersey for her Witherspoon, to Delaware for her Kirk- wood and M’Clane—while we bow to the Revolutionary fame of New England and the South, we must confess that the land of Penn has been miserably negleoted by history. It is a singular faot that, while all other States have their eulogists, their historians, and their orators, to speak of their past glory, their present prosperity, and their future fame, yet has Pennsylvania been neglected; she has been slighted by the historian, her triumphs and her glories have been made a matter of sparse and general narrative. Our own fair land of Penn has no orator to celebrate her glories, to point to her past; she has no Pierpont to hymn her illustrious dead; no Jared Sparks to. ohronicle her Revolutionary grandeur. And yet the green field of Germantown, the twilight vale of the Brandywine, the blood-nurtured soil of-paoli, all have their memories of the Past, all are stored with their sacred treasure of whitened bones. From the far North, old Wyoming sends forth her voioe—from her hills of grandeur and her vallies of beauty, she sends her voice, and at the sound” the Mighty Dead of the land of Penn sweep by, a Bolemn pageant of the Past. The character of the Pennsylvanian has been mookingly derided, by adventurers from all parts of the Union. We have been told that our people—the Pennsylvanians—had no en terprise, no energy, no striking and effec tive qualities. Southern chivalry has taunted us with our want of daring ardor in the resentment of insult; Northern speculation has derided our sluggishness in falling into all the mad adventures of these gambling and money-making times. To the North we make no reply. Let our mountains, with their stores of ex hausiless wealth, answer; let the meadows of Philadelphia, the rich plains of old Berks, the green fields of Lancaster an swer ; let dro Susquehanna, with her peo ple of iron nerve, and her mountain-shores of wealth and cultivation, send forth her reply. And to the South—what shall be our answer ? They ask for our illustrious dead! They point to the blood-stained fields of Carolina. They ask, where are your fields of battle? They point to Marion—to Sumpter—to Lee—to all the host of heroes who blaze along the South ern sky —“ Pennsylvanians, where are your heroes of the Revolution ?” They need not ask their question more than onoe. For, at the sound, from his laureled grave in old Chester, springs to life again the hero of Pennsylvania’s olden time, the undaunted General, the man of Paoli and of Stony Point, whose charge was like the march of the hurrioane, whose night-assault scared the British as though a thunderbolt had fallen in their midst. , We need not repeat his name. The aged matron, sitting at the farm-house door of old Chester, in the oalm of sum mer twilight, speaks that name to the list ening group of grand-cbildren, and the old Revolutioner, trembling, on the verge of the grave, his intellect faded, his mind broken, and his memory gone; will start and tremble with a new life at the name, and as he brushes the tear from the quiv ering eye-lid of age, will exclaim —with a feeling of pride that a century oannot destroy—“ I—l, too, was a soldier with— ' with mad Anthony Wayne !” Bunker Hill has ils monument, New England her historians, South Carolina her orators —but the field of Germantown, and the meadows of Brandywine—where are their monumental pillars, their his torians, their orators ? And yet the freemen of our Land of Penn may Btroll over the green lawn of Germantown, mark the cannon-rifts on the walls of Chew’s House, hear the veteran of the Revolution discourse of the blood shed of the 4th of October, 1777—and k count the mounds that mark the resting place of the dead, and feel his heart throb, and his pulse warm, although no monu mental pillar arises from the green lawn, no trophied column consecrates the repose of the slain. And when the taunt falls from the lips of the wanderer and adventurer, when the South sheers and the North derides, then let the Pennsylvanian remembor that though the Land of Penn has no history, yet is her story written on her battle-fields of blood; that though she has no marble pillars, or trophied columns', .yet her monuments are enduring and undeoayihg —they are there—breaking evermore into the; sky-rJier ; monuments : are. 'her: own eternal mountains. ; : . Lot ns goto the battle ofGermantdwn, in : the dread hour‘of the retre&t, and see how the Children of Pehn died with the name of Freedom on their iey . lips,! the fire of heroism banting their glassy eyes! ! ; Let its go there; in the moment when Washington and his Generals! oame back from tbe fight. “ i .- A panse in; the din nf.battle! ; The denizens of' Mount! Airy and Cbesnqt Hill. dame crowding to their! doora and windows, the hilly streets were oeoiipied:by anifons groups of people, who conversed: in low and : whispered tones, ■ with hurried ges tures, and looks of surprise and fear.— Yonder group who stand .'blustered in the roadside! A grey-hairbd’ man,' with his ear inclined intently toward; Germantown, his’bands ontspread, and his trembling form bent with age. ; The maiden, fair cheeked, red-lipped, and blooming, olad in the peasant costume, the tight boddioe, the linsey skirt, the light ’kerchief thrown over her bosom. Her ear islinolined to ward Germantown, .and her email hands are involuntarily crossed oyer her bosom, that heaves and throbs in .view. The matron, calm, self-possessed, and placid; little ohildren dinging to the skirt of her dress, her wifely cap : flung care lessly on her head, with hair slightly tonohed with grey, while the sleeping babe nestles in her bosom. The boy, with the light flaxen hair, the ruddy oheeks, the merry blue; eyes ! He stands silpnt and motionless—he also lis tens ! You stand upon the height of Mount Airy, it is wearing toward noon, yet gaze aronnd yon. Above, the mist is rising.' Here and there an oeoasional sungleam lights the rolling elonds of mist, bnt thei atmosphere wears a dull, leaden hne, and the vast horizon a look of solemnity and gloom. Beneath and around, Bweep hill and plain buckwheat field and sombre woods, luxuriant orohards and fertile valleys, all seen in the intervals of the white columns of the uprising mist. The group olustered along the roadside of Mount Airy are still and silent. Each heart is full, every ear absorbed in the effort of catohing the slightest sound from Germantown. There is a strange silence upon the air. A moment ago, and far off shouts broke on the ear, mingled with the thunder of cannoD, and the shrieks of musquetry ; the earth seemed to tremble, and far aronnd, the wide horizon was agitated by a thousand echoes. Now the scene is still as midnight. Not a sound, not a shout, not a distant hurrah. The anxiety of the group upon the hill beoomes absorbing and painful. Looks of wonder, at the sudden, pause in the battle, flit from face to faee, and then low whispers are heard, and then oomes another moment of fearful suspense. It is followed by a wild, rushing sound to the South, like the Bhrieks of the ocean waves, as they fill the hold of the founder ing ship, while it sinks far in the loneliness of the seas. Then a pause, and again that unknown sound, and then the tramp of ten thousand footsteps mingled with a wild and indis tinct murmur. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the air is filled with the sound; and then dis tinct voices break upon the air, and the olatter is boms upon the breeze. The boy turns to his mother, and asks her who has gained the day ? Every heart feels vividly that the battle is now over, that the account of blood is near its close, that the appeal to the God of battles has been made. The mother turns her fearful eyes to the South ; she cannot answer the question. The old man, awaking from a reverie, turns suddenly to the maiden., and olasps her arm with his trembling hands. His lips move, but his tongue is unable to syllable a sound. His suspense is fear ful. He flings a trembling hand Southward, and speaks his question with the gesture of age. The battle—the battle—how goes the battle ? And as he makes the gesture, the figure of a soldier is seen rushing from the mist in the valley below; he comes speeding round the bend of the road, he asoends the hill,, but his steps totter, and he staggers to and fro like a drunken man. He bears a burden on his shoulders— is it the plunder of the fight, is it the spoil gathered from the ranks of the dead ? No—no! He bears an aged man on his shoulders, he grasps the aged form with his trembling arms, and with an unsteady step nears the group on the hill-top. The old man’s grey hairs are waving in the breeze, and his extended hand grasps a broken bayonet, which he raises on high with a maniac gesture. The soldier, and the veteran he hears upon his shoulders, are clad in the blue hunting shirt, torn and tattered and stain ed with blood, it is true, but still you can recognize the uniform of the Revolution. The tottering soldier nears 'the gronp, he lays the aged veteran down by the road-side, and then looks around with a ghastly face and a rolling eye: There is blood dripping from his his face is hegrimmed with powder, and spotted with crimson drops. He glances wildly around, and then, kneeling on the sod, he takes the hand of the aged man in his own, and raises his head npon his knee. 1 The battle—-the battle—how goes the battle! The group eluster around as they shriek the question. The young Continental makes no reply, but, gazing npon the face of.; the dying veteran, wipes the beaded drops of blood from his forehead. “ Comrade!” shrieks the veteran, “raise me on my feet, and wipe the blood from my eyes. I wonld see him onoe again.” He is raised upon his feet, the blood is wiped from his eyes. “ I see—l see—it is he—it is Washington! Yonder —yon- der I Bee his sword—and Anthony Wayne —raise me higher, oomrade,—all is get ting dark—l would see—Mad Anthony!” Did yon ever see a picture!that made "yonr heart throb and your eyes! grow blind with tears ? Here is one. The roadside, the gronp clustered in' front of Allen’s Honse, which! rises mas sive and solemn in the back ground. The young soldier, all weak andj trembling from the loss of blood, raising the grey haired veteran in his arms, placing his faoe toward Germantown, while the wrink led features light np with a sadder gleam, and waving his broken bayonet before bis eyes, he looks toward the scene of the i late fight. i The bystanders, spectators of this scene. ; The matron, gazing anxionsly upon the i old man’s ftoe, her .eyes swimming in THN «KXATXar BXWABD.”—BUCHANAN. tears,'the ruddy-cheeked boy; holding one hand of the dying veteran,. the;youthful! maiden, all blossom and innocence, stand ing slightly apart, with the-anoient man' in peasant’s attire, gazing: vaeantiy around as he grasps her arm. ; | : “ Lift me, comrade-Mrigher', higher— I see him—l k see Mad Anthony.! , Wipe the blood from my eyes, eomrade, for it darkens my sight; it is dark—it is dark And the yqnng soldier held in his arms a lifeless corse. The old veteran was dead. He hadfonght his last fight, .fired Lis last shot, shouted the name of Mad Anthony for the last time, and yet Lis withered hand elehohed, with the tight ness of death, the broken bayonet. : The battle, the battle, bow goes the battle?- As the thrilling question again rang in bis. ears, the young Continental turned to the group; smiled ghastily, and then flung his wounded arm to the South. “ Lost!” he shrieked, and rashed on his way like one bereft of his senses. He had not gone ten steps, when he bit the dnst of the roadside, and lay extended in the faee of day a lifeless corse. So they died, the young hero and the aged veteran, children of the Land of Penn! So died thousands of their brethren throughout the Continent; —Quebeo and Saratoga, Camden and Bnnker Hill, to this honr, retain their bones ! Nameless and nnhonored, the “ Poor Men Heroes” of Pennsylvania sleep the last slumber on every battle-field of the Revolution. The incident whioh we have pictured is bnt a solitary page among ten thousand. In every spear of grass that grows on our 'battle-fields, in every wild flower that blooms above the dead of the Revolution yon read the quiet heroism of the ohildren of the Land of Penn. Be just to us, People of the North ! Do not seorn our history, Chivalry of the South ! While we gladly admit the brightness of your fame, do not utterly forget the nameless and neglected Heboes op the Land op Penn. A SERMON FOR TBE TIMES. BY A HABD-SHELL BAPTIST, My Beloved Brethering : lam an un larnt hardshell Baptist preacher, of whom you’ve no doubt heern afore, and I now appear here to expound the Soripterg and pint out the narrow way whioh leads from a vain world to Juroosalem, and my text which I shall choose for the occasion is in the leds of the Bible, somewhere between the Second Chronikils and the last ohapter of Timothy Titus. These are the text: ‘ And they shall gnaw a file and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first born ’ Now, my brethering, as I have before told you, 1 am an unedioated man, and know nothing abmt grammer talk and collidge hifaloolin ; bnt I’m a plain nnlarnt preacher of the Gospil what’s been fore ordained, and call'to expound soripter to a dyin’ world, and prepar a perverse gen eration for the day of wrath; for ‘ they shatl gnaw a file and flee to the mountains of Hepsidam,where the lion roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth for its first-born.’ My beloved brethering, the text says they shall ‘ gnaw a file.’ It don’t say they may, they shall. And now there’s a mor’n one kind o’file. There’s the hand-saw file, rat-tail file, double file, and profile; but the kind of file spoken of here isn’t one of them neither, for it’s a figger of speeoh, my brethering, and means goin’ it alone and getting ukered ; for 1 they shall gnaw a file and flee unto the mountains of ELp sidam, where the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first born. And now there be Borne here with fine close on thar backs, brass rings on thar fingers, and lard on their heads, what goes it while they’re young; and thar be others here what, as long as thar con situtions and forty cent whisky last, goes it blind ; and thar be sisters here what, when they get sixteen years old, out thar titler ropes and goes it with a rush ; but I say, my dear brethering, take care you don’t find, when Gabriel blows his trump, that you’ve all went it alone and got ukered; for ‘ they shall gnaw a file and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion roareth and the wang doodle mourneth for its first born.’ And, my bretheririg, there’s more dams besides Hepsidam. There’s Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Haddam, mill-dam, and don’t oare-a-dam —the last of whioh, my dear brethermg,is the worst of all, reminds me of a circumstance I once knew in the. State of Illenoy. Thar was a man what built a mill on the east fork of Agur oreek, and it ground a sight of grain, but the man that bnilt it was a miserable sinner, never give anything to the ohuroh ; and, my brether ing, one night there came a mighty storm of wind and rain, and the fountains of the great deep was broken up, and the waters rnshed down and swept that man’s mill* dam into Kingdom Come, and lo! and be* hold, in the morning, when he got up, he found he was not worth a dam. Now, my dear brethering,when the storms of tempta tion overtake ye, take care you don’t fall from graoe, and become like that man’s mill, not worth a dam; for ‘ they shall gnaw a file, and flee to the mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth for its first born.’ ‘ Whar the lion roareth and the -wang doodle mourneth for its first-born.’ This part of the text, my brethering, is another figger of speech, and isn’t to be taken as it says. It dosen’t mean the how lin’ wilderness, where John the hard-shell Baptist was fed on loousts and wild asses, but it means, my brethering, the city of New Orleans, the mother of harlots, and hardlots—war corn is worth six bits a bushel and nary red the next day; whar niggers are thick as black bugs in a spoiled bacon ham, and gamblers, thieves and piok pockets go skitting about the streets like weasels in a barn-yard—whar they have cream oolored horses, gilded carriages, marble saloons with brandy and sugar on ’em—whar honest men are scarcer than I hen’s teeth, and a strange woman, onoe took in your beloved preacher and'bam boozled him out of two hundred and twenty seven dollab in the twinkle of ’ a sheep’s tail, but she can’t do it again, hallelujah'! for ‘ they, shall gnaw a file and flee to the mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion roareth and the wang-doodle ! mourneth for its first-boni. My; brethering, l am captain of the flat, boat yoa see tied up thar, and I’ve got •board ofher flour, bacon and-oats, ahd>as good Monongehaly whisky as yon ever drank; and-I am.mighty apt to get a big price for it all. Bat what, oh my brether ing would it all bd worth if I haden’ t re ligin ? Thar’s nothing like religin. Thar’s, nothing -like religin', my brethering. It’s better nor silver and gold jimeraoks, and yon can no more get to heaven without it than a jaybird can fly without a tail.—— Thank the Lord Pam an. unedioated man, my brethering, bnt I’ve searched thesdrip ters from Dan' to Bnesheebee, and.found Zion right side up, and the hard-shell re ligin. Bit it’s not like the Methodist what expects to get into -heaven by holler in' hell fire j nor like the Universalist what gits upon-the broad gnage and goes the whole hog.; nor.like the United Breth ren what takes; each other by the seat of their.trowsers and tries to lift each other into heaven; nor like the Catholics what boys thar tickets from their preest—but it may be likened, my brethering, to him that crossed a river, an J when he got thar the ferry-boat was gone ; and he rolled op his breeches and waded over—hallelujah, foi they Bhall gnaw a file and flee nnto the mountains of Hepsidam, where the linn roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth for its first-born.’ Pass the hat, brother Flint, and let every hard shell out. A Good One. —Said a gentleman of am bition tp-rnre-whom he supposed to be weU acquainted with the conditions and pros peots orthe numerous towns of the State: ‘ I wish to settle in some locality where I can be useful and do good ; do you know of a plaoe where one oan praotice law, preach, and nse his surplus means to profit in shaving notes V Reflecting a short time, the other repli ed— < There is but one plaoe that I now re member.’ ‘ Where’s that V asked the interested individual. ‘ Hell! and it is already filled with just such oharaoters.’ Interrogator bowed and retired. CARDS. Wt. hcphail, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, .mar 31 ly 11 No. 11 N. Duke rt., Lancaster, Pa. ALDUS j. NEFF, Attorney at Law.-* Office with B. A. Bh®ffer, Esq., sooth-west corner of Centre Square, Lancaster. may 15, '56 ly 17 JESSE LANDISt Attorney at Law.—Of fice one door east of Lechler’s Hotel, East King street, Lancaster, Pa. *3l, All kinds of Scrivening—such as writing Wills. Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, Ac., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. may 15, ’55 tf-17 Abram shank, ATTOENEY AT LAW, Office with D. G. Eshleman. Esq., No. 36 North Dorr Bt. LANCASTER, PA . Edward m*govern, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 3 Bouth Queen street, in Reed, McGrano, Kelly & Co.’s Banking Building. Lancaster, Pa. apr 6 tfl2 Newton lightner, attorney AT LAW, has his Office In North Dnke street, nearly opposite the Court House. Lancaster, apr 1 tfll •nEMOVAL—WILLIAM B. FORDNEY, IA, Attorney at Lnw, 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, aprll 10 Removal— dr. j. t. baker, hoju (EPATIIIC PUYSICIAN. has removed his office to No. 69 East King street, next door above King’s Grocery. Reference —Professor W. A. Gardner. Philadelphia. Calls fiom tho conutry will be promptly attended to. apr 6 tfl2 Dr. JOHN M’CALLA, DENTIST.--.Office No. 4 East King street, Lancaster, Pa. apr 18 tf 13 REHOVAL—H. B. SWARR, Attorney at Law, has removed bis cfficu to No. 13 North Duke street, nearly opposite his former location, aud a lew doors north of the Coart Hoase. apr 6 3m 12 SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS) Attorney at Law. Office, No. 14 North Dnke street, opposite the Court House. “ay 5 tf 16 SIMON P. EBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE:—No. 38 North Duke street, may 11 ly 17] Lancaster, Pehra. Frederick s. piper, ATTORNEY AT LAW. OFFICE—No. 11 North Dckb street, (west bide.) Law caster, Pa. apr 20 tf 1 4 Removal.— william s. amweg, Attorney at Law, has removed his office from his former place Into Sonth Dnke street, nearly opposite the Trinity Lutheran Church. apr 8 tf 12 JOHN P. BRINTON) ATTORN EY AT LAW, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Has removed his office to his residence, No. 249 Sonth 6th Street, above Sprnce. Refers by permission to Hon. H. Q. Lohg, “ A. L. Hates, “ Ferrre Beintow, n0v241y*45 “ Thaddeob St^ewb. PETER D. MYERS, REAL ESTATE AGENT, PHILADELPHIA, will atcend to the Renting of Houses, Collecting House and Ground Rents, Ac. Agencies entrusted to his care will be thankfully received, and carefully attended to.— Satisfactory reference given. Office N. E. corner of SEVENTH and BANSOM streets, Second Floor, No. 10. feb 17 I y fi JAMES BLACK, Attorney at Law.—Of fice in East King street, two doors east of Lechler’s Hotel, Lancaster, Pa. All business connected with his profession, and all kinds of writing, such as preparing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Btating Accounts, Ac., promptly attended to. may 16. tf-17 OCRIVENING * CONVEYANCING, O The undersigned respectfully announces to the public that he has fgten the office lately occupied by John A. Hiestand, Esq, where he will be pleased to transact all business connected with the above profession that may be placed in his hands. ,03" Office No. 26 North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa. 0. E. HAYES, City Regulator. feb 15 ly 6 REMOVAL .—We Have ttu* day re- UT oar new Banking House, In EAST KING Si., where the Banking Business in all its varied branches will re ceive our best attention. Interest on deposits will be allowed as heretofore. Drafts on New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore con stantly for sale. Stock. Bonds, and other securities bought and sold in Philadelphia and New York— and Information given as to their relative value and prospects. Cncurrent Bank Notes bought and sold, and premium allowed on old American coin. Persons entrusting any business to us, whether money on deposit, or for purchase or sale of Bondß or Stocks, may depend upon prompt and faithful performance of all con tracts. The members of the firm are individually liable for all its obligations. JOHN GYGER, A CO Robt. ClAßKfioft. Cashier mar 2 tf 7 National police: gazktte.—Thu Great Journal of Crime sod Criminals is In its Thlr-, teenth year, and is widely circulated throughout the coun try. It is the first paper of the kind published in the United States, tad is distinctive in its character. It baa lately passed into the hands of Geo. W. Ilatsell I Co., by whom It will hereafter be conducted.. Mr. Uatsell was formerly Chief of Police of New York City, and he will no doubt render it one of the most interesting, papers in the country. Its editorials ***«' forcibly written, and of a char acter should comma id for the paper universal sup- Subscriptions, $2 per annum * r %\ for Six Months, to be remitted by Subscribers, (who should write their names and the town, county and state where they reside plainly,) to G£o. W. MATBKLL & CO, Editors and Proprietors of the National Police Gasette, New York City. oct27tf4l XT K W OROC E R Y J The undersigned has opened ft new Grocery Btors in West King street, next door to the Crow Keys* Hotel, where be offers for sale an entire new stock of GROCERIES. qubenswarb, FISH. BALT AND TRUTt, Wholesale and Be tall, cheap for cash. All kinds ofCouh try Produce bought or taken in exchange fcr goods. JOHN D. BBAH&L ■tf.H- lad carter, April 19, 1869. House aid cattle powder* TATTEESAL’a OOEBK POWDER, HEAVE POWDER, ROSIN, FENNUGREEK SULPHUR, GEUBIAN. 2 cream Tartar, -i COPPERAS, Ao, JoraaIaatTHOMABELLMAKBR’S - Drug* ChanrfdJ Stow, Wert Stag ifceet, I*a£r. lib 9 i ' NO. 26: \ j .aivca : a;'ov_. *> O'BTRBB rl-ga J? conxDriiing IIATa:CAPB.'SCR4L,W,GOOPSaMDIJi^cif^^,;t / ra >-v l haSb, soft tbSvklinshats, v .», .3 BANS, Ac., met** arensuaUy fiHjndln.wflEi&ctel 6ii l * J . Hatting Establishment. 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Aj ,; we have arrangements with the best and most approved of the Peach Bottom, York county. Biate Quarries, we art-;-. : ( enabled to offer a quality of Slate that cannot be excelled. Persons who contemplate building or covering their Old Roofs, will do well to give us a call*. None of even the inferior qualities in the market sold lower. Also a general,assortment of Hardware, Paints, Oils, _ Cedar Ware, Baddlery, Cutlery, Ac. Ae. . GEORGE M. STBINMAN * CO, 1 - ‘ West King st., Lancaster, Pa. .. . feb 15 6m 5] Howard associatxo W , o.: ;; PHILADELPHIA.. . rj. • A Benevolent Institution established by special Bndow-. . .< meat, for the roller of the Sick and Distressed; afflicted with Virulent and Epidemic Diseases. THE HOWARD ASSOCIATI »N. in view of the awfol destrnction of human life caused by Sexual disease#, ana ;j the deceptions practiced upon the unfortunate victims Of such diseases by Quarks.several years ago'directed - their * Consulting Surgeon, as a CHARITABLE ACT worthy of . their names. to open a Dispensary for the treatment ofibla i class of diseases, in all their forms, and to give MBDIOAti ADVICE GRATIS tn all who apply by letter, with a descrip* tlon of their condition, (age, occupation, hablta of life. Ao) . , and in case of extreme poverty, to FURNISH MEDICINES FREE OF CHARGE. It Is needless to add that Ibe Asaocl* atlon commands the highest Medical skill of the age,and will furnish the most approved modem treatment. The Directors of the Association, in their Acuna! Report upon the treatment of Sexual Diseases, express the highest satisfaction with the success which has attended the labors - of their Burgeons io the core if Spermatorrhoea. 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