(The lancastcr jhitclUgcnccr. VOL. LX. THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER PUBLISHED EVSEY TUESDAY, AT NO. 8 NORTH DUSE STREET, BY GEO. SANDERSON. TEEMS Subscription.— Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad* ranee. No subscription discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Advertisements.— Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) 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 od the shortest notice. A BEAUTIFUL POEM. The following exquisite Poem is from the pen of John McCurdy, Esq., one of the Representatives from Cumberland county in the last Legislature, and was read by him at the .Fourth of July celebra tion at Shippensburg: Let the heart of each freeman swell high with emotion To-day, o’er the deeds that gave liberty birth, And pledge to defend, with unflagging devotion, That Goddess that rules o’er this gem of the earth. Still cherish the spirit that prompted our fathers Across the broad waters from bondage to flee, And the true hearts around us that liberty gathers, Will ever protect thirTair land of the free. Albion boasts of her power and her glory, And points with delight to her deeds and herfame ; And history chronicles Rome’s brilliant story, That hangs with such magic around her proud name; But far to the westward, Columbia rises, With arms stretch’d across ev’ry ocean and sea, Beokoning hither the patriot who prizes A home in her bosom —a grave ’mongst the free. Her broad rolling rivers, her plains and her moun Now glad with the songs of the brave and the free; Her dells where her cottagers dwell by her fountains, Fair Freedom, forever, are wodded to thee: Nor shall e’er those plains or those dells bo invaded By foot of a despot, while froemon are true, Nor thy star that in glory has risen, be shaded, Till time to this earth bids a final adieu. Lot him who desponds, whon he peers with keen Far into the future, but turn back his eye ; And the deeds of our fathers who ne’er brook’d de- Will teach him that liberty never can die. Awbilo the bright spirit that guard? it may slumber, Awhile may its Altar all desolate be; The tyrant may threaten, but ne'er will encumber Thy march, fair Columbia, for thou wilt be free. Bright are the hopes that now cluster around thee; And green is the laurel that garlands thy brow ; Though galling the chain that in infancy bound thee, Yet, liberty smilingly guards o’er thee now : On'the soil where it sprung, thero aro arms to de fend it, And hearts that will never its Altar profane,— Hearts that In sunshine arid gloom will commend it, And shield it forever from tyranny’s chain. Thy daughters who bloom, as the rose in its beauty, When deck’d in bright spangles of glittering dew, Will train up our youth, at thy Altar, to duty, And build up a nation of patriots true. JVlove on, then, Columbia. —the pathway bofore thee, Is brighter than nation o’er trod io before, And the star of thy destiny now shining o’er thee Illumes with its radiance earth’s farthest shore. AFTER THE BALL. They sat and oombec} their beautiful hair, Their long, bright tresses, one by one, As they laughed and talked in the chamber there, After the revel was done. Idly they talked of waltz and quadrille, Idly they laughed like other girls, Who over the lire, when all is still, Comb out their braids and curls. Robes of satin and Brussels laoo, Knots of flowers and ribbons, too, Scattered about in every place, For the revel is through And Maud and Madge in robos of white, The prettiest night gowns under the sun, Stockingless, elipperless, sit in the night, For the revel is done, — Sit and comb their beautiful hair, Those wonderful wares of brown and gold, Till the fire is out in the chamber there, And the little bare feet are cold. Then out o£ 6ho gathering- Trfnter Chill, 4-11 out of bitter St. Agnes weather, While the fire is out and the hour is still, Maud and Madge together,— Maud and Madge in robes of white, The prettiest night gowns under the sun, Curtained away from the chilly night, After the revel is done, — Float along in a splendid dream, To a golden gittern’s tinkling tune, While a thousand lustres shimmering stream, In a palaco’B grand saloon. Flashing of jewels, and flutter of laces, Tropioal odors sweeter than musk, Men and women with beautiful faces, And eyes of tropical dusk, — And one faco shining out like a star, One faco hunting the dreams of each, And ono voice sweeter than others are, Breaking into silvery speech,— Telling, through lips of boarded bloom, An old, old story over again, As down the royal bannered room, To the golden gittorn’s strain, Two and two, they dreamily walk. While an unsoon spirit walks beside, And, all unheard in the lover’s talk, He claimeth ono for a bride. Ob, Maud and Madge, dream on together, With never a pang ofjpalous fear! For, ere the bitter St. Agnes weather Shall whiten Another year, Robed for the bridal, and ebbed for the tomb, Braided brown hair, and golden tress, There’ll be only ono of you left for the bloom Of tho bearded lips to press, — Qnly one for tho bridal pearls, The robe of satin and Brussels lace, — Only one to blush through her curls th|i sight of her lover's face. Oh, beautiful Madge, in your bridal white, For you the revel has just begun ; But for her who sleeps in your arms to-night > ' The revel of life is done ! Butrobed and crowned with your saintly blis3, Queen of heaven and bride of the sun, Oh, beautiful Maud, you’ll never miss The kisses another hath won ! Extemporaneous Preaching-. Once two ministers of the Gospel were conversing on extemporaneous preaching. “Well,” said the old divine, (waxing warm,) “you are ruining yourself by writ ing your sermons and reading them off.— Your congregation oannot beoome inter, ested in your preaching; dnd if you were called upon to preach unexpectedly, unless you could get hold of an old sermon, you would be completely oonfused.” The young divine used all his eloquence, but in vain, to oouvince the old gentleman that the written sermon expressed hi i own thoughts and feelings, and if called upon could preach extemporaneously. “As we are of the same faith,” said the young minister, “suppose you try me next Sabbath morning. On ascending the pul pit you can hand me a text from any part of the Bible, and I will convince you that I can pr'each without haying looked at the text before I stood up. Likewise, I must be allowed the same privilege with you, and see who will make the beßt of it.” Tho idea seemed to delight the oid gen tleman, and it was immediately agreed upon. The following Sabbath, on mounting the pulpit, his senior brother handed him a slip of paper, on which was written—“ And the ass opened his mouth and spake,” from which he preached a glorious sermon, chaining the attention of his delighted Lexers, and charming his old friend with his eloquence. In the afternoon the young brother, who was sitting below the pulpit, handed his slip to the elder preacher. After rising and opening the Bible the old man looked anxiously around—“Am I not thine ass ?” Pausing a few minutes, he ran his fingers through his hair, straightened his collar, blew his nose like the last trumpet, and re-read aloud—“Am I jiot thine ass ?” Another pause, in which a deadly silence reigned. After reading a third time— “Am I not thine ass ?” he looked over the pulpit at his friend, and in a doleful voioe said —“l think I am, brother!” THE BACHELOR MARRIED; Or Much. More Agreeable to all Parties* When Henry Bordan was upon his death-bed, and had been told by his physi cian that, if he had any unsettled business anywhere he had better attend to it quick ly, he sent for bis friend Tobias Hardgrip, an honest bat eccentric man. Tobias who smelt money in the affair, hastened to the bedside of the dying man, and was about to pour forth his lamenta tions over him, when Bordan oheoked him with a grim smile and said : ‘ Don’t do it, Hardgrip, for you know ’twould be all nonsense. lam dying, and you are glad of it.’ ‘ Glad of it! Why, dearest friend, what can you mean ? Have I not cause to lament when the man whose purse has so often helped the fit m of Hardgrip & Co., is about to depart for— ’ ‘ Precisely,’, said Bordan. ‘ But of late years yours has been the purse that has helped the house of Bordan & Son. Well, the son died last month, and now the father must after him. Your house will enjoy a monopoly, for who can outbid Tobias Hardgrip, when Bordan & Son are grave-dust ? You are glad of it—you know it—don’t say no, for I tell you I would be very glad, if it was I sitting so strong at your death-bed, my friend . Tobias,’said Bordan, writhing in the sheets as death gave him a nip in the vitals as a hint for him to hurry through with all he ■ had to say. 1 1 have not the least doubt of it,’ groan ed Tobias, 1 1 should be much surprised otherwise. No doubt, it is much more agreeable to all parties as it is.’ ; ‘ Precisely,’ groaned Bordan ; and then 1 speaking very slowly, and with muoh diffi-} oulty, he oontinued : ‘ Let us come to business.’ ‘ That’s it—that’s the word—l like business. What is it V said Tobias mov ing closer to Bordan and producing a pen cil and note-book. ‘Go ahead, for your time is short, Bordan.’ ‘ You were ever a stony-natured man, Tobias,’ said Bordan, bitterly. ‘ But you are right—my time is short. Some day you, Tobias, will say the same when you are lying stretched—•’ ‘ Never mind all that, Bordan,’ inter rupted Tobias, quiokly, ‘ that’s all right.’ ‘ Very well. Hardgrip, during the sixtv-nine years that I have lived, I have amassed quite a laige prop erty. Before Dr. Orampill told me my case was hopeless, I thought I was a poor man ; but now that I must leave my riohes, they seem ten times as great,’ ‘Np doubt —no doubt—a very oommon idea,’ said Tobias, flourishing his penoil. ‘ How muoh do you leave V ‘ Very near to two hundred and eighty thousand.’ 1 What, so muoh ! Then why did.you tell me three months ago, that you had not enough to bury yourself with V. exclaimed Tobias, knitting his brows. ‘To keep you from asking my endorse ment,’ said Bordan. • The times wore slippery. Some of our best houses were crumbling, and I think you were a little shaky then.’ ‘Do you ? Well, I was not, but do you know I imagined you were, and was afraid of your paper,’ grinned Tobias, sharpen ing his penoil. ‘ Precisely. We were afraid of each other,’ continued Bordan. ! Now, you know I have a daughter—a little girl of ten years. My wife died three years ago —my second wife—l believe you were present when we were married.’ ‘ Yes, I recollect; I thought what a fool you were to marry a young woman —you nearly sixty, she twenty—foolish, very— go on.’ ‘ She was faithful to me, I'truly believe, Tobias.’ I No doubt; I never said she wasn’t.— It is much more agreeable to all parties to believe so. 1 do. What next ?’ ‘ I have willed all my property to my child, except a few legacies. Among others, one to yourself.’ ‘ One to you ; how much V ‘ Ten thousand dollars.’ ! Very good.. What am Ito do earn it; for I know I have a job on hand.’ 1 1 have appointed yon guardian of my daughter till she shall have attained her twenty-first year. If she is satisfied with your oare of her daring the interval, I have enjoined it upon her to present you with an additional ten thousand.’ ‘ She won’t be satisfied—women never are. Eve had plenty of peaches, but pre ferred apples. Why 1 Because they were forbidden. Besides what shall I do with a little thing like her. lam a crusty old bachelor—l know it. I have no more heart than a half-penny. I must send her oft to a boarding school. When Bhe comes back marry her off. Is that it V ‘No ; do no such thing—rent a house —buy a house—rear the child as if she was your own. Promise—swear that you will raise her as if she were your own flesh and blood,’ exclaimed Bordan. ‘ That’s it. Modern people send their own children to boarding schools. Bat, Henry, my old friend, rest assured that I will perform all you require. Stop—sup pose she marries before she becomes twen ty-one 1 I see before me at least five hundred young ninnies in her train—she will grow up pretty—her mother was— you had good taste—never mind that sup pose she marries V ‘lf she marries without your consent, then the property all falls—save an an nuity of four hundred—to yourself,’ said Bordan. ‘ Is that all set down in yonr will—and is this parchment the will V asked Hard grip, taking up a sealed document. ‘lt is ; and this is my final will and testament.’ ‘ I think you will live long enough to rectify a little mistake you have made in it,’ said Hardgrip, unceremoniously break ing it open. 1 What mistake 1 What do you mean V ‘ Henry Jordan, I have the reputation of being a sordid, avaricious man. Per haps the world is right, for I do love mon ey. Now I am willing to please you. I will take fatherly charge of your daughter, change my mode of life, buy a house, be troubled with servants, worry myself with a housekeeper, fight off the dandies when Laura grows up—and all that. But I shall not make myself miserable by breathing temptation with every breath of my nos trils. Strike out the oondition that she shalL not marry without my consent, and I am your man. Otherwise I am off.’ ‘ No luoh oondition exists,’'said Bordan, with a gratified smile. Examine the will and you will find what I say to be true. “THAT CODNTBY IS THE HOST PBOSPE&OUB WHJSKE liABOB OOHMANDS THE GREATEST EEWABD.”- LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1859. What I said was meant ta try you. You are an eccentric man, but honest and faith ful.’ It is unnecessary tq speak farther of the interview. Four days after its termina tion, Henry Bordan’s remains were con veyed to their last resting place. Tobias Hardgrip was a single gentleman pf thirty five years of age, blunt and matter-of-fact in his address, almost rnde in his man ners, fond of money, yet honest, and had a heart much more gentle than the world believed. He was the only son of a man who had reared him from infancy in the belief that gold was everything ; and it is no fflarvel that the heart of Tobias had, by constant contract with his father’s metalie nature, become somewhat hardened, yet not irretrievably so. His miserly father had died a few months before Bordan’s sec ond marriage and freed from his influence, Tobias had begnn to think there was something else besideß money to live for.— And that something in his eyes, was the smiles of Laura Amar, who afterwards be came the wife of Henry Bordan—a victim of worldlv-minded parents upon the golden altar of Mammon. Had Tobias . declared in season he would have found that Laura loved him ; but a deep-seated self-distrust had deterred him, and his love beoame the wife of a man old enough to have been her grand-father. . After 'this tjie heart of Tobias grew harder and harder, till at the time of Bordan’s death every creviee and corner of it was filled with dollars, or the love of dollars. Bordan being buried, Tobias purchased a neat, residence, hired aa excellent house keeper, and the requisite number of ser vants, and began to lead a different kind of fife from that which he had hitherto 'led. _ It was not long before he found his tender little charge was growing very dear to him; and as years sped by, her sweet and lovely graces dislodged every one of those hard dollars from his heart till tbe smiles and happiness of the beautiful girl were the principal things therein. ‘ Bordan gave me ten thousand dollars to take care of her,’ said Tobias, as he wended his way to his office, the parting kiss of his ward tingling upon his cheek. ‘ Bless, my soul, I believe I would give the same amount now to be allowed the privilege. I think I stand a ehance to get the remaining ten thousand by pleasing her—not that I want it. Bless my soul, how that little Laura, has changed my natqre. Must he hecause 1 loved her mother so muoh—she looks just like her,” Here his attention was attracted to a beggar woman, asking alms for herself and siok 'ilifant, of a young and ricbly dressed man just before him. His blue coat and brass buttons especially caught the eyes of Tobias. ‘Go to the poor-house, 1 was the brutal reply of the young man as he hurried- on from the beseeching, and wo-begone woman. ‘ Just what I used to say, : said Tobias, to himself, as he placed a dollar in the palm of the poverty stricken female, and hurried on from her tearful thanks. 1 Just what I would say now, if my nature had not been softened by that little angel at home. She is wayward though, I must admit that—but then she is only eighteen. Bless me! I never thought of that before. Why, when girls get as far as eighteen in these days, they are generally mothers. Eighteen ! Why it seems as yesterday when she was a timid little girl of ten —fond of cakes and detesting gov ernesses. Ah ! here’s my office,’ Tobias passed through tho outer office into his private room, and found there the gentle man in the blue coat and intensely bright buttons. This gentleman howed, and presented a letter. Tobias Hardgrip read it oarefully, and then looking at the young man sharply, with his keen blaok eyes, said : ‘ So you are Orlando Tompkins—son of my step-sister. Why didn’t she call you John, or James, or Moses, or Jacob? What—bless my soul! I was near swear ing. Whore did she find that name, Orlando 5 It is a miserable name—l don’t like it.’. 1 trust your dislike to the name will not'extend to the owner,’ remarked the youDg gentleman father flippantly, as if it were a mere trifle whether Tobias liked him or not. ‘ Can’t say yet, Mr. Tompkins ; saw you refuse to aid a poor woman awhile ago — sorry to see that. Why did you not help her V asked Tobias, poking the fire. ‘ One sees so many imposters that one is afraid of being imposed upon, sir,’ said Tompkins, very red, nevertheless. 1 But, sir, you have not shaken hands with your sister’s son.’ ‘ How do yon do, sir V said Tobias, giving him a grip of the hand that made Qrlando grin with pain. ‘ But you are not my sister’s son—l never had a sister—your mother was the daughter of your mother’s mother before your grandmother married my father—do you understand V ‘ Perfectly,’ said Orlando, who was butting his brains among all these mothers, seeking for his grandmother. ‘ Your mother asks me to allow you to make my house your home during your stay in the city. How long shall you stay V ‘ A few days only. I’m on my way to California to dig gold,’ said Orlando, lighting a cigar. ‘ Allow me,’ said Tobias, who, among other and lesser failings, could not bear the scent o.f a good cigar, and taking the weed from the mouth of ihe young gentle man he threw it into the fire. • ‘ You see I don’t use tobacco, it makes me siok. So you are gbiog to dig gold. Many go there to dig gold, and dig such deep holes that, bless my soul ! they fall into them and die. That’s your affair. Here’s the address of my house. There’s no one there now, exoept a little girl—a Ward of mine. Wal? about the city. I’m busy. I’ll meet you at my house at five—my dinner hour. There olear out.’ When Tobias was alone again he began to tHink about his step sister’s son. ‘He is very handsome, he is very showy. He has plenty of impudence. Why, bless my sonl ! I believe he’s the finest looking fellow I ever let into my house. I don’t like him. He looks very dissipated. Laura’s too young to fall in love—bless my son!! she’s eighteen. Suppose she should-fanoy some popinjay like Orlando,- and marry him ? What should become’ of me—Tobias Hardgrip ? Nobody shall marry her ! Bat stop—she’s a woman—she’ll marry somebody ; I declare I never thought she was so very tall—so muoh as eighteen—till now. Bless my soul! now I think of it; she’s a full grown woman. That accounts for all the beanx she’s talking about, lately. Bat I know she don’t care a panful of ashes for the best of them. She can’t marry without my consent. Nonsense, if a woman wants to marry she’ll do it— there’s no holding her. Besides I struok that clause of .the will oat. What on earth will become of me when Lanra marries ? I mast begin to think about that. But I hate the idea. She shan’t marry!’ All that day, till five o’olook, Tobias brooded over the thought, and onoe caught himself entering upon the ledger this singular and mystic merchandise. ‘ Suppose Laura should marry Tobias Hardgrip.’ ‘ Bless my soul! I never dreamed of that!’ said Tobias blushing very red, and looking about him in alarm. ‘ If old Bilks, my book-keeper, should see that entry, he would run me to” death—l should never hear the last of it. Oh, no ; that’s foolish. I’m forty-three and she’s eighteen. Twenty-one years is a long jump between man and wife. Besides that would not be treating her like my own flesh and blood. Bless me, yes it would! If I marry her she will be 1 flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone !’ lam getting silly. Say, Mr. Bilks, do I look old V ‘ Not at all,’ said Bilks, who was sixty two, and who considered Tobias a rather young man. On his way home, Tobias laid several wager's with quite a number of his acquaintances, that none of them could guess his real age. ‘ Forty,’said one, ‘thirty-eight,’ said two; < thirty-five,’ said three ; 1 forty-nine,’ said four : ‘ sixty,’ said five ; and Tobias refused to discount five’s note the very next day. When he reaohed his house, Tobias found Orlando Tompkins and Laura Bordan chatting away as if they had known each other for ten years. ‘ Why uncle— ’ said the fasoinating Orlando. ‘ Don’t oall me unole,’ cried Tobias rather snappishly. lam not your unole. You see your mother’s mother had a daughter, which daughter is your mother, when your grandmother married my father —you understand,’ * Oh, perfectly,’ said Orlando, who was completely mystified by this genealogioal information, and who despaired of ever seeing through it. 1 Well Mr. Hardgrip, you told me there was no one at home exoept a little girl. I find here a magnifi eent woman—demmy !’ and Orlando made a crescent of his back, and a love battery of his eyes. ‘ Did you I Bless my soul, I think so too,’ sa d Tobias, who began to hate the son of Mrs. Tompkins, and wished him and his brass buttons in the Red Sea. Laura, who was a very lovely and amiable young lady, and who had boon reared almost isolated from the world, had never known her guardian to be so enthu siastically complimentary as he was that evening. He beat Orlando ‘ all hollow,’ and that cerulean and brazen gentleman retired that night with the impression upon his mind that Tobias Hardgrip oould talk faster and more to the purpose than any two men that he had ever met. ‘ Bemmy !’ said Orlando, as he tumhled into bed and drew the coyer up to his nose. ‘ Hemmy, I helieve the guardy loves the ward ! No wonder ; she is deuced pretty and ravishingly artless. That Tobias Hardgrip is not a had looking fellow either. He don’t look over thirty-three, aDd I know he must be fifty. It’s strange how some of these old fogies preserve their youth and good looks while we youngsters of twenty-three look sixty at thirty. I must quit smoking. Demmy! I must give it up or my face will look like a oyster in five years,’ Yes, Mr. Orlando Tompkins, give up smoking, hard drinking, late hours, gamb ling and several other fashionablo amuse ments, peculiar to that spindle-shanked, dissipated, demon oalled Young Amerioa, and there will be a faint hope left for you to see your fortieth birth-day out of pur gatory. - A week, two weeks, three weeks passed on; and still Orlando lingered at the hos pitable house of Tobias, his presence beginning to haunt that worthy gentleman as the Demon did Eaust. 1 I am afraid she loves him,’ said Tobias to himself. ‘ I know he loves her—for tune. What in (bless my soul, 1 believe I swore mentally) —why didn’t I leave that condition in the will ? or as it wasn’t there, why did I not’-insist upon its insertion ? I am afraid I shall grow savage, apd wish the yonng rasoal in some plaoe the name of which begins with an H Halifax, Hamburg, or Havre de Grace, or bless my.soul! any other place that has H at the hilt.’ Tobias offered Urlando ten thousand dollars to set him up in business in the Sandwich Islands, or Porto Rico, if he would start immediately. But Orlando grinned a decided negative, while Laura seemed to become more infatuated with him every day. ‘ Ten thousand dollars!’ said Mr. Orlan do Tompkins, one night as he tumbled into bed and drew the sheet up to his nose. 1 Ten thousand crab-apples! The girl is worth, they say, nearly half a million.— She is taken after me—l am sure of it. Tobias is sharp, very sharp —but Orlando Tompkins is sharper. Not my uncle, eh ? Before long he shall be glad to call me.— I like this digging for gold in pleasant parlor’s, and in handsome gardens and in lovely damsels’ eyes, better than in the mud and water of California. Bless my soul, as Tobias says, it’s mnch more agree able to all parties.’ While Orlando was soliloquizing in this complacent mood, a dialogue was going on below in the parlor, where Tobias was sitting with his beantifql ward. Tobias would hqve burned daylight before Orlando should outsit him. ‘ Laura, I have something very impor tant to tell yon,’ said Tobias, who had revolving a plan to solve all doubts. What is it papa?’ said Laura, taking a seat on the sofa by his side, and resting her dainty snowy hand upon his stout and handsome shoulder. 1 Bless my soul! don’t call me papa ! 1 am not your papa,’ said Tobias, upon whom this affectionate and filial appellation splashed like a bneket of cold water. ‘ Why, I have called you so for so many years,’ said Laura in astonishment. Not so very many my dear girl; only eight. Call me J?oby.’ ‘Toby! Ha! ha! What a ridioulous ’ —BUOHANAN. name,’ and the little hand and little feet of Miss Lanra danced with merriment. ‘ Toby Hardgrip is not a name to he laughed at. Looks very well when signed to a oheok for a hundred thousand or so— bless my soul! goes well too. . But Laura what do people do when they get married ? Where do they go ?’ ‘ I have heard that they go away some where and live together, never caring for any one except each other. Papa—l mean Toby—l declare 1 oan’t oall yon Toby,’ laughed Laura. ‘Never mind that, call me pudding-head, as that monkey Tompkins oalled me once. I heard him! Bless my soul! lam going to marry.’ ‘You are going to marry!’ exclaimed Laura. 1 Why not? Bless my soul. lam not too old. Only forty-three, and there is more pith in me than in ten such laths as that fellow up stairs. Say, you minx, am I too old ?’ ‘ No, not too old,’ said Laura slowly and mournfully, ‘ but I thought ’ ‘Eh ! what did you think ? Bless my soul,’ cried Tobias, springing up, ‘ I sus pect you thought np one would have me. I know six—six ! I know sixty-six that would jump at me.’ ‘1 do not mean that. I mean—tell me, dear guardian, for you shall always be dear to me, married or single, oan I not love you enough ? Must you go and marry to be loved ?’ said Laura turning the full blase of her brilliant beauty upon him. ‘ Yes ; you call me papa, and love me as a papa. I hate papas ! I want to marry ! I am rich, not old, good-looking, strong, healthy, and—yes, bless my soul, I may venture to say, good natured. I must marry. You’ll be at the same before long, and 1 shall be left alone. Bless my soul! I cannot live alone ! ’ Laura, blushing and trembling like a rose-leaf fluttering in the breeze, rose from the sofa, approaohed the handsome baohelor, plaoed her soft hands on his cheeks, and gazed up into his good-looking face with those bewitohing blue eyes of hers, and said, ‘ Will you marry me, Toby ?’ ‘ Bless my soul! Do you mean it ?’— exclaimed Tobias, who felt, he afterwards said, as if some one had emptied a bowl of live ants between his neck and shirt. ‘I do mean it—as lam a woman. I know you love me. I havo known you so long and known you so well, guardy, and love you so muoh, and loved you so long, do you think that I can live away from you ?’ ‘ But—bless my soul, this is pleasant— but him up stairs—l mean Orlando Tomp kins,’ ‘ I detest him. I never wish to see him again,’ said Laura, almost sinking with the emotion she had grappled. < That’s just my opinion. It will be much more agreeable to both parties.— And so you will marry Toby Hardgrip ! Hurrah ! Did you love me all this time ?’ cried Tobias who was higher in heaven than Mahomet pver soared, and who was now seated upon the sofa with Laura by his side. ‘ Yes ; for years. And isn’t it a shame that I should he forced to ask you to marry me ?’ said Laura, nestling her burning cheeks in Tobias’ bosom. ‘ Bless my soul, no ! I never would have dared to ask you to marry me— besides this is leap year, and makes it muoh more agreeable to all parties.’ ■ The following morning Orlando Tomp kins, on descending to his breakfast, at eleven o’clock, found to his surprise that Tobias and Laura were waiting his tardy approach to the table. ‘ So you both slept late too. Well that’s clever; we can all breakfast together, eh, Mias Bordan ?’ said he seating himself. Why Mr. Hardgrip, you are dressed like a bridegroom.’ ‘ Bless my soul,’ said Tobias, smiling from head to foot, ‘I am one. While you were snoozing up stairs, I went out a bachelor and came home a benedict.’ ‘ Whew! you don’t say so. Why, where’s the bride V ‘ Here at your service, Mr. Tompkins. Will you take tea or coffee, or ohocolate this morning!’ said the blushing Laura, and with eyes much brighter than the silver teapot. ‘ No, 1 thank you,’ said Orlando, rising and very white, ‘ I think I’ll take my departure. Demmiel’ ‘ Bless my soul ! that’s much more agreeable to all parties,’ said Tobias, as Orlando ‘ mizzled.’ Why did Jacob Cry?—Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. — Scripture. If Rachel was only a pretty girl, and kept her face clean, we can’t see that Jacob had muoh to cry about.— New York Globe. Why, he wept tears of joy, Mr. Globe. You never kissed a pretty girl,, or you wouldn’t wonder a bit. We have been in. the same boat with Jacob before now, and we blubbered right out.— Lynn News. How do you know but she slapped his face for him ? *few Orleans Delta. ‘ Gentlemen, the cause of Jacob’s weep ing was the refusal of Rachel to allow him to kiss her again.— Flag. In our opinion, Jacob wept because he hadn’t kissed her before, and regretted the time he had lost.— Age. Green—all of you. The fellow boo booed beoause she did not kiss him.— Manchester Advocate. We venture to say that not one of the above hard-hearted fellows, except the Lynn News man, ever kissed a pretty girl, or they wouldn’t be so muoh troubled about poor Jacob! In kissing a pretty girl for the first time a chap'feels “kind o’ all-overish !” This was Jacob’s feeling— so muoh so, in fact, that he gave vent to itin a copious flood of tears. — [Eds. Intel. An Aspiration.—“ Sally, I’ve got a sweetheart; such a nioe young man ! He’s in a profession.” - “Oh Jemima! Don’t use suoh wicked words !” “ It ain’t a wioked word at all, Sally ; it’s a business.” “ Business, Jemima, what business ?” “ Guess, Sally, what it is; it begins with a ho.” “ I know, Jemima; it’s a hofficer.” “ No, it ain’t though; it’s something muoh better than a hosiffer.” “ Then it’s a horange-merohant. That’s it, Jemima!” “ Oh, yon hateful thing, to think of anything so vulgar! He’s a hootioneer!” CARDS. ALDUS J. NEFF, Attorney at Law.- Office with B. A. Shaffer, Esq., sonth-west corner of Centre Square, Lancaster. may 15, ’55 ly 17 JESSE LANDIS> Attorney at Law.—Of fice one door east of Lechleris Hotel, East King street, Lancaster, Pa. fl®, All kinds of Scrirening—such as writing Wills, Deeids, Mortgages, Accounts, Ac., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. may 15, ’55 tf-17 Abram shank, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with D. G. Eshlejian, Esq., No. 36 Nobth Duke St.. LANCASTER , PA . Edward m*govern, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 3 Sooth Queen street, in Heed, McGrann, Kelly & Co.’s Banking Bailding, Lancaster, Pa. apr 6 tfl2 Newton lightner, attorney AT LAW, haa 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 Ilubley’s Hotel. Lancaster, april 10 Removal.— dr. j. t. barer, hom (EPATHIC PHYSICIAN, has removed his office to No. 69 East King street, next door above King's Grocery. Reference—Professor W. A. Uarflner, Philadelphia Calls from the cooutry 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 WT. McPHAIL, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, mar 31 ly 11 No 11 N. Duse ft.. Lancaster, Pa. EEMOVAL.— H. B. SWARR, Attorney at Law, has removed bis office to No. 13 North Duke street, nearly opposite his former location, and a tew doors north of the Court House. apr 6 3m 12 O AIUEL H. REYNOLDS, Attorney at O Law. Office, No. 14 North Duke street, opposite the Court House. may 6 tf 16 SIMON P. E B Y , ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE: — No. 38 North Duke street, may 11 ly 17] Lancaster, Penna. Frederick s. pyper, ATTO ft N E Y AT LAW. x OFFICE—No. II North Duke street, (west side,) Lan caster, Pa. apr 20 tf 14 Removal.— william s. amweg, Attorney at Law, has removed his office from his former place into South Duke street, noarly opposite the Trinity Lutheran Church. apr 8 tf 12 JOHN P. BRINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Has removed his office to his residence, No. 249 South 6th Street, above Spruce^ Refers by permission to Hon. H. G. Loxo, “ A. L. Hates, “ Ferrrk Brixton, u0v241y*45 • “ Thaddeub Stevens. JAMES BLACK, Attorney at Law.—Of lice in East King street, two doors cast ofLechler’a Hotel, Lancaster, Pa. J3sf“ AH business connected with his profession, and all kinds of writing, such as preparing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Stating Accounts, Ac., promptly attended to. may 15. tf-17 PETER D. 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The publishers are happy to announce the speedy Issue of a volume, which will be found intensely interesting to all American readers. The following slip is cut from the London Hews of June 7 th, which shows his rising fame : “ It is singular that almost every war briDgs to light some military genius. No sooner wero the Allies encamped before Sebastopol than Todleben proved^his abilities as an engineer: and the Indian revolt drew forth men who, till that hour, were never suspected of bdj extraordinary powers. Garibaldi, however, is only continuing the same career for which he has ail his life boon famous. For more than twenty years he has boon distinguished both as a soldier and a sailor. Having thoroughly studied the theory of his profession both iu France and Italy, he took service drat with the Bey of Tunis, and then in Bonth America. Ho has commanded both on sea and land. In 1848, he returned to Nice, and tbok part in the Italian campaign. 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