(Tl)c Lancaster iintclUcu'nftT. VOL. LX. THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, AT NO. 8 NORTH DUKE STREET, BY OEO, SANDERSON TERMS Subscription.—Two Dollars por annum, payable in ad vance. No subscription discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Advertiesments. —Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) will bo inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional inser tion. Those of greater length in proportion. Job Printino —Such hh Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., Ac., executed with accuracy and on the shortest notice. A POETICAL WAIF. In vigorous sweep of utterance and passionate glow of imagination the following lines are compar able to Tennyson’s Locksley’s Hall. They are in cluded in a correspondence of the New York Journal of Commerce, and published as original, though without a signature. As they are thus cast forth a waif, wo catch them as they go floating by: THE DOCTOR’S DAUGHTER. Sit down yonder, Philip; listen Wbilo I tell my sad story. Shut the window, draw the curtain, I cnw’t see the moon’s soft glory, Coming thus across the sea, Without utmost agony. Shn I IovocL»-sbe was radiant, Young and with life overflowing ! She had dark eyes—shining shoulders — Lips of blood. If you were going Heavenward—yea, at Eden’s bourn, And they called, you would return. Proudest loan in all the county Was tbo Doctor, Ida’s father. I was but a poor school-teacher, Tutor, to her brother, rather. Put in spite the father’s pride I must love her or had died. And she loved me —yoa, I say it With a woman’s pure devotion, ’J hough the difference between us She was laught to think an ocean ; Yet her lovo bridged o’er the sea — Nay, forbade such sea to be! Pure and perfect love, and glorious! In its sunlight wc live basking. TVere the Eden gardens near us W'c’d riot think that fruit worth asking! Life's fruit grew before us— why Should we look beyond the sky? Carnc a day of bitter purling When the old man hoard the story— Me he drove out. of the doorwuy, Cursed me—he was old and hoary, Arnl her father, or I could 111 have brooked those accents rude. I went forth to seek my fortune, Her devotion with me bearing, \ ca, her lovo dung to mo ulway, And her father’s anger daring; What to her wns falsehood's breath? Sho would love mo unto death ! I returned —hut. long years after Young and loving her as over— Rich beyond my utmost, fancy. When was dream of love true? Never! They had told her I was dead ; >die believed thorn, and was wed. Wed to ono Iter soul detested; Like her father, base and sordid. Wljo her worth in ingots counted Wiih the bonds of stocks he hoarded, Miser, heartless, old and cold, Weighing Ida against gold. "Well, he had the shining inotal, That was all his baseness wanted ; What tu him to those dreams angelic That had my wanderings haunted ' What those cheeks of radiant vuuth "V\ hat those lips of woman truth ? Having then the gold, I reasoned, He had all his nature needed— Reasoned, said I—it was. passion Many a specious pretext pleaded. I cared naught for reason : 1 Must possess juy love or die! Sho was willing, Gml nf.Mercy Dost thou not. regnni with pity, One of thine appointed angels, Citizens of thy white city, Tempted, falling, fainting, lost From among thy white-winged host So we tied. You've traveled, I’hilip— Do you recollect at Florence, Looking nut on the Cuseine, An old villa, Villa Iti •rrantz * How its latticed window shines Brightly through the clustering vines? There we lived ; thoro life grew golden There we dreamed all dreams of glory ; There whispered to her listening, All day long the same glad story. There she loved me—listen, boy ! There God crushed our sinful joy ! How sho clasped mo ! On my shoulder, White as snow, her cheek was lying. How sho held me ! flow she shuddered ! Philip, sho was dying—dying ! How she wailed l That wail of woo Sounds along the pith I go. Then sho kissed me. In Joy’s ncoan That kiss weighed down woe and sank it. All the wine oflifo we pressed out In that cup of bliss and drank it! Dashed the cup down—empty gold ! Loosed the clasp—her lips were cold ! “ THE POWER OE WOMAH.” I well remember the first time that I ventured liome,in a state of intoxication. I knew my situation, and dreaded that my wife should discover it. I affected to be witty, affectionate, and social, but it was a total failuro. I felt the fatal poison momentarily increasing. I saw the inquir ing eye of my wife fixed upon me with a look of unutterable grief. It was only with her aid that 1 was able to reach my pillow. All restraint was soon swept away, and I came home night after night in a state most revolting to the feelings of a delicate, affectionate wife. In vain my amiable companion wept and expostulated. I was too much entangled and corrupted to break away either from my vices, or associates. They neither feared God nor regarded man. 1 was led a captive by their devices. 1 became, 1 will not say an infidel, for I was too Ignorant of the theory of scepticism to be one. I became a mocker. ‘ Fools make a mock at sin,’ and such a fool was I. I knew just enough of the Bible to make it. a jest-book. I saw that this part, of my conduct was extremely painful to my pious wife, and tried to restrain myself from trifling with the Bible in her presence ; but, I loved to raise loud laughter among my boisterous com panions and the indulgence served so to strengthen the pernicious habit., that I was often detected in the use of this offensive language. It was not till I became a father that her touching appeals on this subject reached my conscience. ‘ Must this child,’ she would say with tears, ‘ be traiued up under these baneful influences ? Must he be taught by parental example to despise and ridicule the Scriptures with his lisping tongue before he is able to read their contents, or realise their heavenly origin V Our son had now become an interesting little prattler, imitating whatever he heard or saw. I perceived with a diabolical pleasure that the first effort of his infant tongue was to imitate my profane language, the recollection of which now sends a thrill of grief and horror through my bosom. In vain did his sorrowing mother endeavor to counteract the influence of my most wicked example. I continued to swear, and he to imitate my profanity, unconscious of its turpitude. On a certain occasion I returned from one of my gambling excursions, and found my wife and child absent. On inquiry, I ascertained that she had gone to her accustomed plaoe of retirement in a grove Borne distance from the house. I knew that she had gone there for demotion. I had been aooustomed to see 'hSr retire thither at the evening twilight, and though I thought her piety unnecessary, I had do objection to it as a source of enjojy ment to her, but that she should take her child with her, excited my surprise. I felt a curiosity to follow her. I did so, and took a position unseen by her, but where I had a full view of her attitude and features. She was kneeling before a rock, on which lay her Bible before her. One hand was placed on its open pages ; the other held the hand of her fair boy, who was kneeling beside, his eyes intently fixed on her faoe. She was pale andeare worn. Her eyes were closed, but the tears were chasing each.other down her cheeks, as ; she poured forth her burdened soul in | prayer—first for her husband, that he might be reclaimed and saved; but espeoialy did she plead with God that her son, whom she unreservedly dedicated to Him, might be saved from those sins which were taught him by his father’s example. ‘ Save him,’ she cried with agony, ‘ save him from taking thy great and holy name in vain; and give his anxious mother wisdom, fortitude, and grace, effectually to correct and break up the habit of profaneness.’ i I crept silently from my hiding-place, and returned home with a conscience harrowed up by the keenest self-reproaches. I knew that her feelings were not the fitful ebullitions of passion or excitement. I had long been convinced that her conduct was regulated by firm and virtuous princi ples, and that tho Bible, which I so lightly esteemed, was the rule of her life. On her return to the house she was solemn, but the law of kindness still ruled her tongue. She did not reproach me ; but from that day she firmly and faithfully oorroeted our little son for tho use of profane language, even in my presence, and when perhaps he had just oaught it from my lips. She succedcd in conquering the habit in her child ; and when she had cured him, I resolved to abandon forevolOhe use of language which had cost her so much pain. I did abandon it from that time. I was now effectually reclaimed from this vice. But my habits of intemperance were daily becoming like brass bands. My morning and noon and evening dram, my loss of appetite and trembling nerves proved the strong grasp it had upon my constitution. My wife was in the habit of sitting up at night till my return, however late it might be; She had, no doubt, in this way saved me from perishing, as I was often too much intoxicated to find my way to the door without her assistance. One cold night I had been out to a late hour, but returned free from intoxication. On criming silently to the house, I saw my wretched wife through the window, sitting over a handful of embers, with her babe and her Bible in her lap, and the big tears gushing from her eyes. In attempting to enter the house, with a-fresh resolution on my tongue,! fainted, and fell on the floor. Upon the return to eonsciousnss, I found my wife had drawn mo to the lire, and was preparing me a bed, supposing my swoon to be the usual effects of ardent spirits. I sprang to her side, fell on my knee, and before her and heaven vowed never to taste another drop of anything intoxicating. Years have since passed over mo, and my vow is still unbroken.— American Messenger. A SQUINTING JURY. The Washington Jfews records the fol lowing amusing reminiscence : Once upon a time, or, to be a little more particular, nearly half a century ago, there dwelt in the town of , in Old Eng land, a remarkable oddity, in the person of an attorney-at-law, who although not fair j to look upon, (for he was, in truth, one of [ the homeliest specimens of huiuauity ever | beheld by mortal man,) was withal a per son of sound j’udgment, great benevolence, varied Icarniug, a poet, a painter, and a wit of no mean order. It so happened that the aforesaid gentlemen, G G , Esq., was appointed High Sheriff of the town of ■. He was a man of fortune, and had a kind heart, as many a poor prisoner could testify who partook of The good cheer with which the prisoners were liberally supplied at Christmas and other well-known festivals, from the private purse of the High Sheriff. U was, of course, the duty of the High Sheriff to summon a Grand and Petit Jury, to attend at the Quarter Sessions, of which the Recorder, Mayor and Alderman of tho Borough composed the Court. In the per formance of his official duty in summoning the Petit Jury, our High Sheriff indulged in some of the strangest and drollest freaks that have probably ever been heard of in any other town or country. In (ho first place, ho summoned for the Oeiober Court a jury consisting of twelve of the fattest men he could find in the Borough, and when they came to the'hook to be sworn, it appears that only - nine jurors could sit comfortably in the box!— After a good deal of sweating, squeezing and scolding, the pannel was literally jammed into the box ! aiid, when seated, they presented to the eye of the Court, the barristers and audience, tho “ tightest fit ” of a jury that was ever seen in a court room. Literally, they became, much to the amusement of the Court., and its robed advocates, “ a packed jury,” and no mistake. For the January term, our facetious High Sheriff (in consequence, it was said, of some hint from the Recorder that there should be no more fat pannels summoned to his Court,! went to the opposite extreme. He summoned twelve of the leanest and tallest men he could find in the Borough; and, when they took their seats in the box, it appeared comparatively empty there was indeed room enough for twelve more of the same sort and dimensions. For the April term of the Court, our humerous functionary summoned a jury consisting of twelve barbers! Now, it happened that arnoDg the latter were the very perruquiers who dressed the Recor der’s and barristers’ wigs, and, some of the latter, arriving late at the bar, had to appear that morning in Court with their wigs undressed, so as to cut a very ridicu lous figure, amid the smiles and half-sup pressed laughter of the bystanders. The High Sheriff enjoyed the fun amazingly, but looked “grave as a Judge,” while he tried to keep silence iu the court room. But the crowning joke of this waggish functionary occurred at the summoning of his fourth and last jury at the summer session in July. For that term of the Court, the High Sheriff not having the fear of the Recorder, the Mayor and the Al dermen before his eyes, actually summon ed a squinting jury, twelve as queer look “THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD.” BUCHANAN. LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOYEMBER 15, 1859. mg bipeds as ever took their seats in a jury box—a jury that was probably more looked at and laughed at than any of the appointed twelve that ever was sworn to “ well and truly try, and true deliveianoe make, between their Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the, bar.” But tho scene was so irresistibly droll that the learned Recorder could not main tain his gravity. The Mayor and Aider men followed suit. The barristers laughed, while their wigs became bald, powderless ; nay, even the poor prisoners in the dock, who were to be put upon their trial, and some of them to undergo transportation, could not refrain from joining in the gen eral caehination. And when the Recor der commanded tho High Sheriff to bring the court room to order, and intimated, with a half-suppressed laugh, that the lat ter ought to be ashamed of himself for summoning such a jury, the drollery of the Court scene was eqnsiderably height ened by the quick, ready and sonorous response of the High Sheriff, who, looking at the same time at the squinting jury, ex claimed—“ All good'andlawful men, your honor.” r But our humorous functionary has long since ec shuffled off this mortal coil.” A First Rate Story for Lawyers, It is probable that every lawyer of any note has heard and read of the celebrated Luther Martin of Maryland. His great effort in the ease of Aaron Burr, as well as his display in the Senate of the United States, will not be forgotten. Trifles in the history of genius are important, as we hope to show in the story. Mr. Martin was on his way to Annapolis to attend the Supreme Court of the State. A solitary passenger was in the stage with him, and, as the weather was extremely cold, the passengers soon resorted to con versation to divert themselves from too much sensibility to the inclement air.— The young man knew Martin by sight, and as he was also a lawyer, the thread of talk soon began to spin itself out of legal matters. ‘ Mr. Martin,’ said the young man, ‘ I am just entering on my career as a lawyer ; can you tell roe the secret of your great success? If, sir, you-will give mo from your experience the key to distinction at the Bar, I will—’ ‘ Will what ?’ exclaimed Martin. ‘Why, sir, I will pay your expenses while you are at Annapolis.’ ‘ Done. Stand to your bargain, now, and I’ll furnish you with the great secret of my success as a lawyer.’ The young man assented. 1 Very well,’ said Mr. Martin. ‘ The whole secret of my success is contained in one little maxim, which I early laid down to guide me. If you follow it you cannot fail to succeed. It is this-: ‘Always be sure of your evidence.’ ’ The listener was very attentive—smiled —threw himself back in a philosophical posture, and gave his brain to the analysis with true lawyer patience, of always be sure of your evidence. It was too cold a night for anything to he made pecuniarily out of the old man’s wisdom, and so the promising adept in maxim learning gave himself to stage dreams, in which he was knocking and pushing his way through the world by the all-powerful words, of ‘ Always be sure of your evidence.’ The morning came, and Mr. Martin with his practical student, took rooms at the host hotel in the city. The only thing peculiar to tho hotel, in the eyes of the young man, was that the wine bottles and the et ceieras of fine living seemed to re call very vividly that maxim about the evidence. The young man watched Mr. Martin.— Wherever eating and drinking were con cerned, he was indeed a man to be watched, especially, as he was immoderately fond of the after dinner, after supper, after every thing luxury of wine. A few days were sufficient to show the incipient legalist that he would have to pay dearly for his knowledge, as Mr. Martin seemed resolved to make the most of his part of tho con tract. Lawyers, whether young or old, have legal rights, and so the young man began to think of tho study of self-protection.— It was certainly a solemn duty. It ran through all creation. Common to animals and men, it was noble instinct not to be disobeyed, particularly where the hotel bills of a lawyer were coneerned. The subject daily grew on the young man. It was all absorbing to the mind and pocket,. A week elapsed, and Mr. Martin was ready to return to Baltimore. So was the young man, but not in tho same stage with his illustrious teacher. Mr. Martin approached the counter in the bar-room. The young man was an anxious spectator near him. ‘ Mr. Clerk,’ said Mr. Martin, ‘my young friend, Mr. wilt settle my bill, agreeably to the engagement.’ The young man said nothing but looked everything. ‘ He will attend to it Mr. Clerk, as we have already had a definite understanding on the subject. He is pledged, profession ally pledged to pay my bill,’ he hurriedly repeated. ■Where's your evidenceV asked the young man. ‘ Evidence ?’ sneered Mr. Martin, ‘ Yes, sir,’ said the young man, demure ly, ‘ always be sure of your evidence, Mr. Martin. Can you prove the bargain?’ Mr. Martin saw the snare, and pulling out his pocket-book paid the bill, and with great good humor assured the young man, ‘ You will do, sir, and get through the world with your profession without advice from me.’ Many years ago, the only inn at the Irish town of Keswick was called the “ Cook,” and was much frequented by visitors to the lake districts. But the late excellent Bishop of Landaif, Hr. Richard Matson, happening to reside in the neigh borhood, and being universally esteemed and loved, the landlord out of compliment to his lordship, changed his sign to the Bishop’s head. Another inn was shortly opened in the village, and the proprietor selected the “ Cook ” as his sign. The landlord of the old inn, finding that the rival establishment, owing to its name, threatened to deprive, him of many of his customers, in consequence of the guide books recommending the “ Cook ” as the best inn, wrote under the bishop’s head at his door; “This is the original old Cock,” to the great amusement of the bishop, who used to relate the story with much glee. Siah Flake has lost his Mariar and Tells of it. “ Ah,” said Siah, “ thar haint none on you knows the troubles a man with feelin in his heart and furniture in his house agoin to ruin and dust, and kivered with cobwebs, endoores when .he loses the partner of his bosom. His grief, in sieh instances will outlast ten yards of hat crape. A man might as well take the road to High Bridge fur a near out to Whitehall, as to travel single arter he’s throw’d his legs in doubld*harness. 1 Taiot no juce. Besides, when a man becomes a widderer, he can’t travel on his shape; married men don’t have no shape. Arter a man gets into the mattermonial-noose he loses the hang of himself. I never knowd a married man that ever had a suit of clothes that fit him. Some how, at fust the feller shrinks er else the clothes stretches—one or tother. He gets kinder loose all over, and if he’s got a particularly earless wife, he looks a kinder wilted— onsartain, as if he were stuffed with straw, and were afeared the ends would stick out. Well, as 1 was goin’ to say, wen a man’s wife slips off the handle and haint seen no more, she is missed—that’s so. ’Taint no difference whare a young and interestin’ gal steps out, oos her innocent prospects in life ar’n’t, as yet, connected with loose shirt buttons, busted suspenders, and the holes in a great he fellers breeches. But, when a wife puts her spermacetti under the bushel, or suffers it to be snuffed out by a yaller cholera, then thar is a loss. Specially to her mournin’ partner. When my Mariar dewclloped the last internal resources of her lungs, and drew her final breth—(she were spunky a drawin’ that breth. She’d a draw’d that breth ef forty horses had been pullin’ aginst her.) The world seemed so gin out with her. The women in the room kinder swum me from her side, in a ocean of tears. “ Poor man, he’s gone out to sob his dear heart away,” and one of ’em follerod me into the woodshed. The old hypererit, she know’d I was going into the wood-house to sob down a few draps of “ Old Rye,” a sort of stuff that her nose hed turned red a smellin’. Well, Mariar, hed to “ go under,” and when she was “ planted,” her bereaved Bob—that’s me—went to his desolate home. When I went in at the door, thar lay the oat a mewing for her milk. She had got so thin that her hide hung across her back bone like a dishcloth over a tele graph wire. The poor critter had been in a starvin’ condition three or four days. Next, thar were the dorg. Sometimes I thought he was his shadder, and then agin I thought his shadder were him. He were so weak that wen I wistled to him his shadder run up to me afore he could lift himself onto his legs. You could a used him lengthways for a spy-glass, he were so holler. He were so weak that wen he opened his mouth he had to drap his tail, audtutsa wersey. 1-Jf he’d a shuk his head his teeth would a flew out like bees out of a barn. He looked up at me, and then at that eat. lie hated that cat, and the oat warnt no way baek’aru in hatin’ him. She tried to histe her spinal marrer and crook her tail, but it wouldn’t work. The bar riz a little—that’s all. The dorg drapped onto his hunkers and looked beef at me. Beef were his favorite feed wtien he could git it. I throw’d a chunk at him. Whar that beef went I don’t know. It’s a mystery. The dorg didn’t seem to hev stirred a peg. There he sot, a looking beef at me stronger, than ever. But, after a while, he kinder revived. The next inornin’ he come up to my bedside, and the poor feller had tied a piece of crape to his left hind leg. That dorg and that cat wore never lackin for meat and drink while Mariar were about. How I miss that woman. — She were a woman sieh as don’t eomo often to sinners. If she only know’d how 1 mourn for her. Sieh pies as she made, and sieh crust ! and her baked beans ! Oh ! she were a wife as knew how to tech the finest cords of the hewman heart.— She won my first love by fried doughnuts. I’ve sot watching them creations of her’s swimmin and sizzen in the bilin fat and gradooly turnin from their native yaller to a crispy brown. Oh ! and then she had sieh a high art way of fishin them out with a fork, harpoonin them as if they were young whales. Sieh geuises as her’s couldn’t last long. Them doughnuts won me, and a couple of her apple dumplins sealed the bargain. I tuk her for wiis and found her a great deal better.. She’s gone now, the blessed critter. I don’t bleve she’s a angel. Angels haint in her line. Angels is highfalutin females as has wings cos they’re too weke to walk, All the angels I've ever heerd on in print ’er hev seen knowd nothing of pork and beans ’er fryin doughnuts. Mariar warnt a pianer player, she couldn’t write, were never ’dieted with laziness) and didn’t take to reeding yaller kivered litteratoor, and ther’fore I speet she wont be very good company for the angels I’ve seed, afore they departed from this vial of tears. Mariar 1 How I miss her; here’s my suspender button gone and I hev to use a shiugle nail crosswise instead. Shirts ripped and tored. That thar bed haint been sot to rights in two weeks. This yere floor is. gone to dust and grease.— How I did.love that woman. The more 1 misses her the more I feels the needees sity of gittin suthin er somebody in her place. I loved her as no tung kin tell.— I hevn’t hed a fried doughnut since more’n ! a week afore she resigned the spectre. — ( There’s Sal Swipes. She’s on the anxious sete for marridgeble'pupposes, but I’m afeared she’s lookin more arter Mariar’s old dresses and Suuday fixins than she is after my comfort. There's them boots of mine want blacking. 1 cant black ’em.— Sieh exercise gives me a rush of blood to the head. Mariar, dear, darling Mariar, ' when she tuk hold and polished ’em I could see the universe in ’em. j Oh, Mariar! Your Siah morneth for yew, and like Satehell will not be com forted. Thar aint a mite of cold ham in house. Cuss that dorg. —JYew York Jillas. Senselessly Ceeyil.—A case has been reported of a country girl who thought it possible that there might be an excess in such scrupulous regard to appear ances. On her marriage day the youth to whom she was about to be united said to her in a triumphant tone, “ Weel, Jenny, haven’t I been uneoo eeevill” alluding to the fact that during their whole courtship he had never even given her a kiss. Her quiet reply was, “ Ou ay, man, senselessly oeevil.” Serenading a Young Lady. —A friend i tells the following : In my young days I was extravagantly fond of attending parties, and somewhat celebrated for playing on the Ante. Hence it was generally expected that when an invitation was extendedymy flute would accompany me. I visited a splendid party one evening, and was called upon to favor the oompany with a tune on the flute. I, of course, immediately oomplied with the request. The company appeared delighted; but more particularly so was a young lady, who raised her hands, and exclaimed it was beautiful, delightful, &c. I, of course, was highly delighted, and immediately formed a resolution to serenade the young lady on the following night. 1 started the next night in company with several young friends, and arrived, as I supposed, at the young lady’s residence, but made a glorious mistake by getting under the window of an old Quaker. ‘ Now, boys,’ said I, ‘ behold the senti mentality of this young lady’ the moment I strike up the Last Rose of Summer.’ I struck up, but the window remained closed, and the boys began to smile. ‘ Oh,’ said I, ‘ that’s nothing ; it would not be in good taste to raise the window on the first air.’ 1 next struck up ‘ Old Robin Gray.’ Still the window remained olosed. The boys snickered, and I felt somewhat flat. ‘ Once more, boys,’ said I, ‘ and she must come.’ I struck up again— ‘ My love is like the red,'red rose.’ Still there was no demonstration. ‘ Boys,’ said I, ‘ she’s a humbug. Let us sing ‘ Home, Sweet Home,’ and if that don’t bring her,l’ll give up.’ We struck up, and as we finished the last line, the window was raised. ‘ That’s the ticket, boys, I kpew we could fetch her.’ But instead of the beautiful young lady, it turned out to be the old Quaker, in his nigkt-cap and dressing-gown. ‘ Friend,’ said he, ‘ thee was sioging of thy home —and, if I recollect right, thee said there was no place like home ; and if that is true, why don’t thee go to thy home ? Thee is not, wanted here, thee nor thy company. Farewell!’ We, and our hats went home ! Achievements of Y ounu Men in Dif ferent Countries.— Edmund About, in his book < The Roman Question,’ makes the following comparison of young men of twenty-five in different countries. After describing the education of young Roman nobles, he says, in his flashy way ; “ One fine day they attain their twenty fifth year. At this age an American has already tried his hand at a dozen different trades, made four fortunes, and at least one bankruptcy, has goDe through a couple of campaigns, had a lawsuit, established a new religious sect, killed half a dozen men with his revolver, freed a Degress, and conquered an island. An English man has passed some stiff examinations, been attached to ail embassy, founded a factory, converted a Catholic, gone round the world, and road the complete works of Scott. A Frenchman has rhymed a tragedy, written for two newspapers, been wounded in three duels, twice at tempted suicide, vexed fourteen husbands, and changed his politics nineteen times. A German has slashed fifteen of his dear est friends, swallowed sixty hogsheads of beer, and the philosophy of Hegal, swung eleven thousand couplets, compromised a tavern waiting maid, smoked a million of pipes, and been mixed up with at least two revolutions. The Roman Prince has done nothing, loved nothing, suffered nothing. His pa rents or guardians open a cloister gate, take out a young girl as inexperienced as himself, and the pair of innocents are then bidden to kneel before a priest, who gives them permission to become parents of an other generation of innocents like them selves.” A Funny Incident.— Not long since one of our most popular ministers was in formed while in his study, that a party was in the parlor waitiug to engago his services. The reverend gentleman laid down his pen, while visions of a fee floated before liis eyes, as he donned hi.s biaek coat, and thought of a few words of advice that lie would give the couple anxious to be made one. Upon entering the parlor he encountered an old lady and a youug lady, and her beau. The old lady spoke as follows : ‘ I wish you to marry my daughter and her feller,’ displaying much more agitation and excitement than the paities most in terested. 1 Certainly—l am happy to see you.— Allow me to look at your certificate.’ the young couple complied with the request. The reverend gentleman glanced over the document, and a look of disappoint ment appeared upon his face. ‘ Hallo !’the would-be bridegroom ex claimed. 1 Nothing burst I hope !’ ‘ 1 am sorry to inform you that your certificate is informal, and consequently I can’t marry you until another is obtained.’ 1 But Mister,’ cried the old lady oan’t you half marry um for to night, and to-morrow we’ll get a new certifikit and make it all right. It will be a dreadful disappoint ment to the young folks !’ At a meeting of a church session, not a thousand miles away, a minister desiring a dissolution of the pastoral rela tion, to accept a call to a more influential church, in justification of his course, un fortunately stumbled on a scripture quota tion, which, with a slight miscontruction, plaoed the reverend brother in an embar rassing position. ‘ My brethren,’ said he, 1 we are not our own, we are bought with a price.’ At this point he came to a stand, whereupon an impertinent member moved forthwith for a grant of the request—as he did not think the church could afford to give him any more than the present salary. Tragedy la a Sickles. Sickles tragedies are quite common now. An affecting scene of this kind took place not a thousand miles from La Crescent, Md., in which the following dialogue took place : Indignant husband to his wife’s lover.— “ Scoundrel, you have dishonored me, and must die!” Makes a rush at him with a dagger. Wife se'zes the dagger—“ Hold, wretch ed and imprudent man ! What would you do ? Would you murder the father of your ohildren 1” CARDS. ALDUS j. NEFF, Attorney at Law.- Office with B. A. Shaffer, Esq., sonth-weat corner of Centre Square, Lancaster. may 15, ’65 ly 17 WILBER. FORCE NEVIN, ATTORNET AT LAW, Office with Wn. B. Fordney, Esq., south-east corner of Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa. [oct 25 ly« 41 WT. McPHAIL, • ATTORNEY AT LAW, mar 31 ly 11 No. 11 N. Dus s st., Lancaster, Pa. Removal —William b. fordnev, Attorney at Law, has remoYed hts office from North Queen street to the building In the south-east corner of Centre Square, formerly known as Qubley’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. Gardner, Philadelphia. Calls fiom the country will be promptly attended to. apr 6 tfl2 REMOVAL... H. B. SWARR, Attorney XX at Law, has removed bis office to No. 13 North Duke street, nearly opposite his former location, and a tow doors north of tho Court House. apr 5 3m 12 DR. JOHN M’CALLA, DENTIST.—Office No. 4 East King street. Residence Walnut street, second door West of Duke, Lancaster, Pa. [apr 18 tf 13 SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, Attorney at Law. Office, No. 14 North Dnke street, opposite the Court House. may 5 tf 16 Abram shank, ATTORNEY AT LAW, office with D. G. Eselrman. Esq., No. 36 Nortu Duke St., LANCAST E R , PA . Edward m’govern, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 3 South Quean street, in Reed, McGrann, Kelly A Co.’s Banking Building, Lancaster, Pa. apr6 _ tfl2 Newton lightner, attorney AT LAW, has his Office in North Duke street, nearly opposite tho Court House. Lancaster, apr 1 tfll JESSE LANDIS, Attorney at Law.--Of fice one door east of Lechler’s Hotel, East King street, Lancaster, Pa. kinds of Scrivening—such as writing Wills, Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, Ac., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. may 15, ’55 tf-17 SIMON P. EBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE: — No. 38 North Duke street, # may 11 ly 17] Lancaster, Penna. Frederick s. pyfer, ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICE—No. 11 North Duke street, (west side,) Lan caster, Pa. apr 20 tf 14 pEMOVAL WILLIAM S. AMWEG, XX Attorney at Law, has removod his office from hi.s former place into South Duke street, nearly opposite tho Trinity Lutheran Church. apr 8 tf 12 JOHN F. BRINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., llhh removed Ills office to his residence, No. 249 South 6th Stroet, above Spruce. Refers by permission to Hon. 11. G. Lono, “ A. L. Haves, “ Ferp.rk Brinton, nov24 ly*4s “ Tijaddrus Stevens. JAMES BLACK, Attorney at Law.—Of fice in East Kiug street, two doors east ofLechler's Hotel, Lancaster, Pa. «BT All business connected with his profession, and all Kinds of writing, such as preparing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills. Stating Accounts, Ac., promptly attended to. m H v tf-17 I)ETER D. MYERS, REAL EST ATE AGENT, PHILADELPHIA, will Attend to tho Renting of Houses, Collating House Hud Ground Rents, Ac. Agencies entrusted to his care wiil be thankfully received, ami carefully attended to. — Satisfactory reference given. Office N. K. corner of SEVENTH and SA.NSOJI streets, Second Floor, No. 10. f«h 17 ly 5 I>R<> O ;t K & PL’ G II , JL> FORWARDISG r£* COMMISSION MERCHANTS* No. 17. T! Maukkt ?Tii£Er, I'im.UJKU'MiA, Exclusively C<• m in is s inn FLOUR, GRAIN, WHISKKV ‘ OK _______ , SHEDS AND TTTunTkV PROD U V E £sr* Forwarders of Freight, per A. K. WI I’M KR’s Cars to Paradise, Lancaster county. MUSSULMAN, IIERR 4 CCS, Cars to Sfrasburg, do. July 5 1 y *25 /-IAROLIXA YKLLO a PINK FLOOR- V_y ING HOARDS. 50,0U0 Feet Caruiiua Yellow Pino Divssed Flooring lirards. 30,000 Feet Do. Uudressed. 50,0 0 0 CYPRESS SHINGLES. N'o.l and 2. 50,000 lIANQOR PLASTERING LATHS, Just received and tor sale at UraeiF’s Landing, on the Conestoga. Apply to GKO GALDHR A <’o., GiTW East Orange st., near N. Queou 6t., Lancaster *3O * .f,7 8 Drug and chemical stoke. The subscriber having removed liis stoic to the uew building nearly opposite his old ntand, and directly oppnsie the Gross Keys Hofei, has now on hand a wol! selected slock of articles belonging to the Drug businrsa consisting in part of Oils, Acids, Apices. Seed-', Aicoiioi, Powdered Articles. Sarsaparilla?, Ac., Ac., to which the attention of countrv merchants, physicians and cousutuers in general 1b invited. THOMAS ELLMAKER, Jeb 9 tf4 West King street, Lan. rpilE GREAT REPUBLIC MONTIILY JL SBCO N f) V 0 L UME. 0 0 if M E N C 1 N (. This popular periodical has now attained a em ulation second to but one in lb- country. It is rapidly gaining in public favor, aud the publishers are determined, in point of interest and attraction, to place it at the head of American Magazines. It has already the bent corps of writers to be obtained, and its illustrations are ackuowleduodiy.Hupt-rior. Each number contains from 4d to t>o fine wood engrav ings, an original piece of Music, tho Fashions, and illus ti ated comi •aiities. Subscriptions may eotnmooco at any time. TERMS:—Single copies 25 cents. Subscriptions; one copy, $2 p.-r annum ; two copies, •£.;: three copies, or over, to one addre-H, $2 each. 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ENGLISHMEN IRISHMEN SCOTCHMEN WELfIHM KN, support your own family paper, and welcome the NEWS FROM HOME, which is published every THURSDAY and forwarded postage free for Two Dollars for one year, Ono Dollar for six montliß. Fifty ceuts for three months. I%rties getting up clubs are allowed 25 porceut. for their trouble. Postmasters and established News Dealers are authorized to act as Agents. TOWNDRON A DAY. Editors and Proprietors, Now York lv 11 SPECIAL ANSOUNCEMKNT FROM TUB QUAKER CITY PUBLISHING HOUSE! IOU.OOO Oitaltyues, New. Enlarged anil Revised—now Heady fo in Gifts hare been dis tributed to my patrons within the pa*t t>ix mouths— slso,bOt) to bo distributed during tho next six months Ihe inducements offered Agents are more liberal than those of any other house in tb^huaioeas. Having li-eo in the Publishing aud Bookselling business for the last eight years, my experience enables me to con duct tbo Gift Enterprise with tho greatest satisfaction to all. .o®** AGENTS WANTED in every Town and County. For full particulars address DUANE RULISON, Quaker City Publishing House, 33 South Third street, Philadelphia, Pa. isep 20 4m36 \\J ILL I A M PATTERSON’S YY LEATHER AND FINDING STORE, No. 1802 Market Street, above 18th, South Side, Philadelphia Constantly kept on hand, a general assortment of Red and Spanish Slaughter and Skirting Sole Leutlier ; French, City and Country Kips and Calf-Skins, Wax Leather, Moroccos, Linings, Bindings, and a general assortment of Shoo Findings, all of which will be sold at the Lowest Cash Prices. BLASTINGS AND GALOONB.-H* oct 4 Cm 38 VrOTWITHSTASDOiG OUR LARGE J.l opening of SHAWLS and DRKBS GOODS last week, we baTe now open another lot of IJRUCUA SHAWLS, LONG AND SQUARE, WOOL. BLANK KTP. Ac , “ “ MORE OF THOSE RE VERSA BL E SIT A WLS, MISSES SHAWLS. LONG AND SQUARE. Our stock of shawls la extremely large, find includes many New Styles, purchaaiieii ut late galea. Wo are deter mined to Bull them at low prices- MACK AND FANCY 81LK0, FKRBNCH MBRINOE3, POPLIN'S, aud tho latest styles of DKES§ GOODS, lu every variety. WENTZ BROS., nor 1 tf 42] Corner East King aud Centre Square. Ct ARPETINGS.—I would respectfully / invite the public to ca'l aud examiue my new Fall Stocks of CARPETS of Forelgu and Domestlu manufac tures; ENGLISU TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, from 75 to $1,25; TWO-PLY INGRAIN, suitable for parlors, setting rooms and chambers, from 31 to 87>£c; ENTRY and STAIR CARPETS. Ac. Also, large stocks of FLOOR and TABLE OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, GREEN GUM CLOTH. % and C-t FLOOR DRUGGET, MATTS, RUGS. Ac. PHINEAS HOUGH, Jr., Late Shoemaker A Hough, 60S North Second Street, above Noble, west side. Branch Store, 802 Spring Garden Street! 2d door above Bth, south side, Philadelphia, aug 80 8m S 3 175,000 175,T00 DOLLARS" R 8 175,000 DOLLARS 175,000 DOLLARS 175,000 DOLLARS 176,000 DOLLARS OF LANCASTER BANK MONEY OP LANCASTER BANK MONEY OP LANCASTER BANK MONEY OP LANCASTER BANK MONEY OF LANCASTER BANK MONEY OF LANCASTER BANK MONEY IN CIRCULATION IN CIRCULATION IN CIRCULATION IN CIRCULATION IN CIRCULATION IN CIRCULATION WHICH CAN BE COLLECTED WHICH CAN BE COLLECTED WHICH CAN BE COLLECTED WHICH CAN BE COLLECTED WHICH CAN BE COLLECTED WHICH CAN BE COLLECTED BUT 18 WORTHLESS BUT IS WORTHLESS BUT IS WORTHLESS BUT IS WORTHLESS BUT IS WORTHLESS BUT IS WORTHLESS IF NOT ATTENDED TO IP NOT ATTENDED TO IF NOT ATTENDED TO IF NOT ATTENDED TO IP NOT ATTENDED TO IF NOT ATTENDED TO IMMEDIATELY. . IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY. IMMEDIATELY. *A CARD The subscriber having several hundred dollars of bills of the Lnucaster Bank, is desirous of collecting them uIT the stockholders, as the Bank refuses payment. Now, aa it is hard for one man to fight a thousand, I take this inolbod of equalizing the expense, and hope all who havo Lancaster Bank bills will immediately send thorn to tne for collection, for soon they will be worthless for the want of attouding to. It will cost from Five to Ten Thousand Dollars to posh the matter through the Courts. I want parties to send me at the rate of Five Dollars to the hun dred to pay Court charges, in good monoy, otherwise no one can afford to enforce collection, anil the poor bill holder will lose all. The Bank failed November, 1856, a'ud at this date, August, 1559, it owes depositors S'S3,UOU —owes out standing bills $175,000 —has several hundred stockholders who are mostly wealthy, and can bo nmdo to pay, first the bill holders and then the depositors. I also find the Bnuk has about $50,000 owing it, which is good, but they are purchasing the bills at 10 cents to 15 ceDts on the dollar to pay their notes with, and whon they are all paid, there will bo no value to the bills, without it Is attended to as l propose. ‘'FIRST CGMK, FIRST SERVED”—send on your money immediately. Address or call at the EXCHANGE HOTEL, on tho sub scriber. J. F. SMITU. Lancaster, Ausrnst, 1850. N. B.—Persona sending money by mall, will please write their Names, Post Otlice, County and Statu, in a plain hand, so in to have uo mistake made by sending receipt and from lime to time a circular of liuw mutters progress. Letters of Enquiry must have a letter stamp en closed to iusttro an answer. No money will be received for collection alter the 15th of October. J. F. SMITH. N ft —Newspapers within a hundred tntlos around Lan caster county will please publish this in your paper until the 10th of October, and Send mo your bill, which will be [laid out of the 5 per ceut. fund which I am collecting to pay expenses with. ang 23 3m 32 /""I HOVER r many months. It has always been ready for duty, requiring no adjustment, and is easily adapted to every variety of family sewing, by simply changing tlio spools of thread.”— Mrs. Elizabeth Strickland, wife of Rev. Dr. Strickland, EtliloT yew York Chrixtian Advocate. “Aftt-r trying several diflcrentgood machines, I preferred yours, on account of its simplicity, and the perfect ease with which it h managrd. ms wdl ns the strength arid du rability o’ 'he MM.MUi. After long experience, I feel compe tent to -peak in this manner, ami to confidently rocommoud it for cvt»ry variety nt fan ily n«>.viuc." — Mrs. E. B. Spanner, wife, nf the. E-litor of BmoUi/n Star. •‘1 have used a Grover A Baker Sewing Machine for two years, and have found it adapted to all kinds of family sewing, from Cambric to Broad* loth. Givruieote have he«n worn out without the giving way of a stitch. The Machine is oaHily kept in order, and easily used."— Mrs. A. B. Whip ple. wife of R,v. Gen. Whipple. New JorL. •Your Sewing Machine has been in use in myfnmUythe past two years, and the ladies reqncat me to giro you their testimonials to its perfect adaptednosa, as well as labor saving qualities it) tho performance of family and house holti sewing.'' —Robert Btxrrmaiu New York. “For several months we have used Grovor A Bakor’u Sewing Machine, and have erne to the conclusion that every lady who desires her sewing beautifully and quickly done, would he-most fortunate in possessing one of these reliable and induiatigable 'iron needle women.’ whose com bined qualities at l>eauty, strength, and simplicity, are In valuable."—J W. Morris, daughter of Gen. Geo. P. Morris, Editor of the Home Journal. Extract of a letter from Thou. R. Leavitt, Esq., an Amer ican gout Inman, now resident in Now South Wales, dated January 12, LS. r .S: “I hail a tent made in Meltxnirne, in 1853, In which there were over three thousand yards of sewing done with one of Grover k Maker’s Machines, aud a single sosm of that has nut.stoi d all thu double seams sewed by sailors with a needle vnd twine.” “If Ilorucr could be called up from his murky hades, he would sing tho advent of Grov«ir A Baker aa a more benig nant miracle of urt than was ever Vulcan’s smithy. He would denounce midnight shirt-making as *the direful spring of woes unnumbered.'”— Prof. North. “I take pleasure in saying that tho Grover A Baker Sow ing Machines have moro than sustained my expectation.— After trying and returning others, I have three of them in operation in my di tie rent places, and, after four years’trial, have no fault to liud.”— J. If. Hammond, Senator of South Carolina. “My wife has had oneofGrovor A Biker’s Family Sewing Ma-hiues for some time, aud I am satisfied it is ouo of the best labor-saving machines that has been Invented. I take much pleasure in recommending it to tho public.”— l. G- If'lrrix. Governor of Tennessee. ••It is a beautiful thing, and puts everybody Into an ex citoment of good humor. Wore I a Catholic, I should insist upon Saints Grover and Baker having au oternul holiday in commemoratiou of their good deeds for humaulty.”— Omn/-t M. Clay. “I think it by far thn boat pateut in use. This Machine can be adapted from the finest cambric to tho heaviest caa sitnore. It sews stronger, faster.and more beautifully than one can imagine. If mine could not be replaced, money could not buy it.”— Mrs. J. G. Drown , Nashville, Tenn . Fond for a Circular. 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THE PHILADP.LPUIA SATURDAY BULLETIN, a handsome, widl-fllled, Family Weekly Newspaper, Is pub lished by the Proprietors at the following unprecedented!? low rates : 1 Copy, one year,. 6 Copies, “ IS “ “ FURTHER INDUCEMENTS! THE LARGEST CLUB (over 100) wiil be sent for three year- THE NEXT LARGEST CLUB, (orer 100) will be sent for two years. Address CUMMINGS A PEACOCK, Proprietors, Bulletin Bulldlnf?, No. 112 South Third street, Philadelphia. tf 46 AJ ATIOXAL POLICE GAZETTE.—ThU Grt-at Journal of Crime and Criminals is In Its Thlr* tceoth J»ar,nnd is widely circulated throughout tlie coun try. It is the first paper of the kind published in the United States, and Is distinctive in its character. It has lately passed into the hands of Geo. W. Matsetl k Co., by whom it will hereafter be conducted. Mr. Matsell was formerly Chief of Police of New York City, and he will no doubt reoder it one of the most interesting papers in the country. Its editorials s»-e forcibly written, and of a char acter that should command for the paper universal sup port. «?■ Subscriptions, $2 per annum; $1 for Six Month*, to be remitted by Subscribers, (who should write tholr names aud the town, county and slate where they reside plainly,) to (JEO. W. MATSELL & CO., Editors and Proprietors of tho National Police Gaxette, New York City. oct27 tf4l Nkw auction goods* UAUEIi