(Hie S'ancaster IntdUijeiu'a;
VOL. LXITI.
THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER, i gun from Browning, saying, ‘ What does
all this mean, and what this reception ?
Explain yonrself, Mr. Browning, while I
keep this weapon as a pledge of my safety.’
‘ Explain ! How dare yon cross my
threshold ? Have you come to gloat upon
the ruin you have wrought? The snake
that stung me in my heart of heart, comes
he back to coil and hiss around his victim ?
Ha ha! ha ! but you have missed it.
Look in the highways and hedges for her.
Go ! the world is wide enough for us both,
and beware hereafter how you cross my
path !’
‘ Mr. Browning,’ said the young man,
whoso name was Frederick Carson, ‘ I do
not comprehend all this. Of whom, or
what do you speak ? I have come here after
long absence to see your daughter Susan.
Is she here V
‘ Here 1 Ask the winds where she is.
Ask the ravens that feed her. What! you
a royal bird of prey, stooping to such
garbage!’
‘ Good God ! what does all this signify ?
Susan is my wife ’
‘Thank Heaven'!’ shrieked Mrs.
Browning, staggering forward. ‘Thank
Heaven for that, Fred Carson. I knew
she could not lie. I knew we wronged
her husband.’
‘ And here I am come to make her pub
licly my wife, and to keep the happy New-
Year, and you tell me she has gone in
sname and dishonor. Has she become a
mother, and concealed our marriage ? or
has she told you, and you have not be
lieved ? Alas ! we must all suffer enough
without suffering*innocently !’
‘ You say she is your wife,’ said Brown
ing ; ‘ what evidence is there save her off
spring ?’
‘My own avowal. If you need more,
the certificate and witnesses.’
‘ May Hi aven forgive me for the wrong
I hive done her !’ said the father, with a
choked utterancej ‘but she persisted In
naming no one, and turned away from all
entreaties.’
‘ ’Twas my fault,’ said Carson, ‘ ’twas
mine. A few days before I left for the
South, we were privately married ; for I
feared my parents, and she feared you.
We promised never to name each other as
husband and wife, till we met again; until
1 might claim her without fear, and she me
without reproach. And here I am now,
and she, noble girl—tell me where she is,
old man. I demand her at your hands.’
‘lam a bruised reed now, Fred. De
mand her of the winds.’
There was a pause, and Saunders, who
had let go of the subdued Browning, saw
again in his mind that same wild phantom
beckoning to him over the glittering snow,
through the the keen moon-beams.
Can you not tell me where I may find
her ? Where did she go from here V
Mrs. Browning replied : ‘ She has been
here to-night. So cold, and pale, and,
pitiful, with her sweet baby! But she
dare not stay, for her father’s return. Oh !
if she has died this cold night, we are her
murderers ■’
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' WASTED TIME.
Alone in the dark and silent night,
With the heavy thought of a vanished year,
When evil deeds come back to sight,
And good deeds riee with welcome cheer;
Alone with the spectres of the past,
That come with the old year’s dying chime,
There glooms one shadow, dark and vast,
The shadow of Wasted Time.
The chances of happiness cast away,
The opportunities never sought,
The good resolves that every day
Have died in the impotence of thought;
The slow advance and the backward step
In the rugged path we have striven to climb ;
How they furrow the brow and pale the lip,
When we talk of Wasted Time.
What are we now? what had we been
Had wo hoarded time as the miser’s gold,
Striving our meed to win.
Through the summer’s heat and the winter’s cold ;
Shrinking from nought that the world could do;
Fearing nought but the touch of crime ;
Laboring, struggling, all seasons through,
And knowing no Wasted Time?
Who Bhall Tecall the vanished years ?
Who shall hold back this ebbing tide
That leaves U 3 remorse, and shame, and tears,
And washes away all things beside?
Who shall give us the strength, e’en now,
To leave forever this holiday rime,
To shake off this sloth from heart and brow,
And battle with Wasted Time?
The years that pass come not again,
The things that die no life renew;
But e’en from the rust of his cankering chain
A golden truth is glimmering through :
That to him who learns from errors past,
And turns away with strength sublime,
And makes each year outdo the last,
There is no Wasted Time.
DEATH-SONG OF A GOVERNMENT DORSE,
.{Vide Speech of Hon. Mr. Dewcs , of Massachu-
on Contract Frauds.)
I’m one among a thousand—a skeleton herd
Of quadrupeds riDg-boned, glandered and blind,
Bought up by rogues; and to rogues transferred,
Whose mutual pockets the fraud has lined.
Yes, spavined, wind-galled, and lame at the knee,
Twelve golden eagles were paid for me.
A fourth of the snm, where good faith is law,
Would purchase a likelier beast than I:
A Government draft-horse that cannot draw,
Transfixed by iho shaft of death 1 lie.
But though crows’ meat soon my carcass will be,
Twelve golden'eagles were paid for me.
They drag mo miles from the town away,
Here to starve in the grim “old fields;”
Horse-flesh dinners for Blanch and Tray,
Daily this horse Gehenna yields.
Surely, Satan’s own must the agents be,
Who take twelve eagles for such as me.
The Empiro State and the Keystone too,
The thieves have ransacked for “screws” alone;
High blood was nought to the plundering crew—
They all went in for the high in bone.
Ten golden eagles they smouched, you see,
Of the twelve that the nation paid for mo.
Equine brethren, around mo tied,
I see ahead, through death's gathering gloom,
A day of vengeance, when, far and wide.
The horse marauders shall meet their doom :
BrOped, perchance, like us, to a tree,
Say in eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
‘ f Vanity Fair.
FOOT-PRINTS IN THE SNOW.
A NEW-YEAR’S STORY
[CONCLUDED.]
Saunders sat there looking into the fire
which roared up the huge chimney, and
brushed away a tear. His position was
novel and painful; and he rose and went
to the window and looked out. Far and
wide lay the white snow, dreary and deso
late as the death it typified, glistening
under the descending moon, pale as a
mourner over the pall, surrounded by the
sympathizing stars, their eyes glimmering
under her, as it were, through tears. And
as he stood there regarding the scene, and
listening to the moaning mother, he caught
sight of those small foot-prints leading
from the fields ; and he thought, ‘Oh 1
what misery had come with them : a broken
heart, broken hopes, shame, sorrow, and
despair.’ Then he saw in the distance a
white figure bending beneath a burden,
struggling slowly and wearily through the
snow. As it drew near, the features of a
woman of death-like beauty were revealed,
and he knew by the manner she pressed
the burden to her heart that it was a child
she bore. She approached so near that
hep' blue lips were visible, and stood look
ing longingly toward the house. Suddenly
her dark eyes fell upon him glaring in
tensely—intensely but imploringly. The
ghastliness of the vision, and the vividness
of the appiration, riveted him to the spot.
She beckoned to him with a wild gesture.
He thought she spoke. : Twas the voice
of Browning dispelling the illusion. He
called to Saunders to-be seated, who, glad
.to find it a matter of fancy, complied.
Browning then continued:
‘ The rest you may have gathered. She
refused to name the author of her disgrace,
nor could threats or entreaties force or in
duce her. She claimed she was a wife ;
but said she had promised not to declare
hef husband. Oh! she was the true
woman in her suffering ; my own sweet
daughter Susy, spoiled and dishonored as
Bhe was ; and my father’s heart was wrung
and strained to the utmost. I told her of
it; she saw it and knew it. But to all my
prayers she turned a deaf ear. So when
her strength had been perfectly restored,
and ’twas but this afternoon, I led her to
the door and showed her the wide, wide
world. Heaven has dealt sorely with me
and my wife, Harry; but I will not fall to
cursing.’
Here a knodk at the door startled the
inmates. ‘ ’Tis she !’ said Browning, in a
whisper ; and Saunders shuddered as ho
thought of the figure he had beheld
beckoning to him. There was no
answer to the summons. In a moment a
hand tried the door. It opened. None of
them’ looked around, as a man closely
muffled up entered. The new comer, in
his over-shoes, made no noise as he entered;
and they all thought it was the poor for
.saken girl.
‘Good evening!’ said a deep-toned,
musical voice.
Had a serpent stiing . him, Browning
wduld not have started more spasmodical
ly. He sprang from his ohair, and with
one bound reached the rifle hanging from
the joists, and before any one was aware of
his purpose pulled the trigger. Its harm
less cliok, however, announced his inten
tion, and as he advanced upon the stranger
with the clubbed gun, Saunders rushed up
behind and seized him.
* Unhand me, Saunders,’ cried Brown-
Hug, ,‘;as you value your eternal peace ; for
I>Bhall hold that man my foe who shall
dare to stand between me and my revenue!’
Saunder 3 replied, without relaxing :
‘ You are rash, George; ■ Would you add
murder to your misery V. :
: ‘The Htranger, a young man, then came
up, iffld after a little struggle wrestfed : the
‘ Heaven and earth !’ exolaimed Carson;
1 can you not guess whither she has gone V
‘ No,’said the mother ; ‘she went out
the back-door, through the fields. Her
heart was breaking!’
‘ Let us search for her,’ said Browning,
‘ and bring her back, and ask her forgive
ness. Though she has not been filial, she
has been loyal ; and I have done her a
grievous wrong. Let us go about it this
moment. We shall doubtless find her at
some of the neighbors. Let us disperse at
the forks of the road, and inquire at the
houses till we find her.’
1 Yes, I shall little deserve her love,’
said Carson ; ‘ little requite her faithful
ness, if I waited till morning. Come on,
my friends, we shall celebrate the haopy
New-Year yet.’
They were about departing through the
front-door, when Saunders again saw in his
mind that weird phantom beckoning to him
through the moon-light, over the snow.
He checked them, saying :
‘ There is something which tells me we
shall find her in no house to-night. She
went forth, to my idea, in desperation; and
if we do not follow hard upon her, some
thing terrible will befal. There has been
rashness on all hands.’
‘ Sir,’ said Carson, 1 it is too late to
blame now. Had we dared to correspond,
or had not sickness detained me, this had
been averted. She has been too faithful to
our secret. But how shall we follow her,
except from neighbor to neighbor V
‘ By her foot-prints in the snow. We
can trace them by the moon-light.’
‘ You are right, Saunders, you are right.
Through the fields, then. Come on !’
said Browning.
So saying, he turned to the back-door,
followed by the other two. They could
distinguish with ease her foot-prints in the
light snow. It was a small, delicate foot
that had gone that unusual way, and, by
the unequal distances between the prints,
they saw it had borne a weary frame.
And they saw, too, where at short inter
vals, she must, with a breaking heart,
have turned and stood looking at the
home she was leaving. No red-man of
the forest oould have watched more nar
rowly or judged more correctly of those
tracks than the father and husband ; and
a groan escaped them as, one after another,
the evidences of the wanderer’s agony
were revealed to them. They kept on,
saying nothing; for a dreadful suspense
began to harrow up and ohill their spirits.
They kept on in silence. The keen air
smote their cheeks, the snow chirruped
under their feet, and over them rolled on
the descending moon. Let them make,
haste, for the pale orb will not much
longer pour her light for them ; and if
Susy, poor, sweet, and faithful Susy, has
sunk in her journeying, the terrible Frost-
King will lay his icy hand upon her heart
and still its beatings for ever ; or if des
peration has seized upon her, a single
moment, nay a second, may lose her to
them, and home, and Heaven ! Ay, let
them speed, and be wary lest they miss
those foot-prints in the snow. But what
is it Saunders sees ? There is a broad
river yonder, and through the centre of
the enshrouding ice he can see the glitter
of the dashing waters ; and those steps, he
can see them faltering down the slope,
straight onward to the stream. And
Browning saw it, and stopped, and laid
one hand upon Carson’s shoulder, gazing
with a maniac-glare, and pointing to the
foot-prints and the gleaming waters be
yond. Carson comprehended the signifi
cance father’s manner in an instant,
and breaking away, he ran down the de
clivity, pursued by his companions. It
became neoessary, however, immediately
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LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1862.
to Blacken his pace, from the occasional
indistinctness of the prints, and. the two
soon overtook him. In a few moments
they reached the river. The tracks led
on to the ice. They followed them toward
the opening, where the rapidity of the cur
rent had been to great for congealment.
Along the edges of the ice for the width
of from four to six feet, the water had
overflowed in a very thin sheet, so as to
melt the little snow of the evening, and
frozen again, leaving a long border of
pearl-like glare. They had beheld the
foot-steps terminate. The dreadful truth
fell upon their minds as an avalanche : the
shriek, the splash of the dosing stream,
the rising of the white face twioe to the
surface, the final disappearance and the
death-gurgle, the subsidence of the waves :
all these passed before them. Oh 1 the
agony of that husband. Oh 1 the depth
of that father’s despair. Oh 1 what a
scene, as they stood gazing upon the van
quished foot-steps, with olasped hands;
as they stood there on the ice by the glit
tering waters, in that winter night, under
the descending moon. This was the JV ew-
Year’s Eve. Would the Miw Year’s
Day be more cheerful to those two men 1
Would their hopes and joys kindle with its
rising beam i Would their faith and char
ities plume their soiled and wearied wings,
and soar away to newer and nobler flights,
with its full-orbed splendor ? Alas ! alas 1
The scene was too solemn and aflfepting
for Saunders, and he walked down the
river, leaving the two standing there. He,
however, kept a look-out upon them, as
well as upon the stream, to notice any
traces of the suicide’s death-struggle,
whioh might be visible. He had proceed
ed but a short distance, when he again dis
covered that same small foot-step leading
from the water, with the current, and ap
parently to the shore. Like an arrow he
sped to his companions, shouting : ‘ The
track ! the track ! I have found it again !
She is not drowned ! The track 1 this
way, this way : come !’
The twain started up, and rays of hope
flashed over their pallid countenances like
lightning. They joined him, crying:
‘ Thank God ! wo shall find, we shall save
her yet! ’ They arrived at the place where
the foot-prints came out from the glare of
ice, and knew them, and followed them,
hor a short distance the traoks diverged
to the shore, and then they turned and led
to the water again. What 1 had she re
pented of her last resolve, and indeed
sought refuge from her woes in the cold
and glittering element! No, she had but
hesitated there for a short while. In a
little ways the direction of her path
changed to the shore. But what, if in that
bitter night, instead of drowning she had
frozen ! How the terrible alternative ob
truded itself upon their minds ; for if she
had sunk, her fate was already sealed.
And now the moon was dipping behind
the western hills, and they would lose the
foot-prints ere long. They hurried on,
shouting her name. She had taken her
way to a long line of chestnut and oak that
skirted the high bank of the river. They
reached the shore, and tracked her along
under the shelving banks ; and there, as
the rim of the moon trembled a moment on
the horizon ere it disappeared, beneath the
tangled roots of a huge oak, and superin
cumbent thorn-bushes, where the snow had
not penetrated, they discovered her. A
cry of joy issued from the lips of the three :
but she heard it not, for that fearful stupor
and warmth consequent upon intense cold
was creeping over her. A little later, and
they had found her a stiffened corse!—
les, there she sat on that cold winter
night, pressing her child to her breast.—
Oh 1 deep, enchanting, and abiding mother
love ! What was the keen air to her, but
that she might keep it from her babe ?
what all the world to her, in comparison
wi;h that little life I—what were all the
pangs she had suffered, the agony she had
undergone, the dishonor that had fallen
upon her, and the scorn that would point
its slowly-moving finger at her as she
should weep through the garish world ?
Nothing, nay, less than nothing, .while the
smile of her little one should gladden her ;
nothing, while in its eyes she could behold
the coming glory of the spirit she had lit
for eternity ; nothing, nothing ; for despite
all the pitiless peltings of the mortal storm,
those cherub-hands would pour oil upon
the troubled waters of her soul. True,
there would be times when her vexed
heart would fret, when reproach would lift
up the waves of hate, but mother-love, like
the Master awakened, would say, ‘Peace,
be still!’
‘ Poor, poor girl!’ said Saunders, for
he was the first to discover her.
Carson saw and sprang to her, calling
her name. She heeded him not. He
bent over, clasped her in his arms, and
imprinted a kiss upon her pallid lips.—
Still she heeded him not. A deep sleep
was falling upon her, and they must rouse
her from that lethargy, or a deeper slum
ber, one in which there are no dreams,
would fall upon her. They carefully un
wound her arms, which were convulsively
yet cautiously hugged about her babe, and
took it from her. The little one was warm,
and as the cold air struck its cheek, it
opened its eyes and commenced orying.
Saunders covered it and stilled its com
plaining ; for he held it. The father and
husband then drew the girl from her hi
ding-place, and shook her very roughly.
Finally she opened hefr eyes, and their wild
and wondrous light met the gaze of Saun
ders. Then he knew who it was that had
beckoned to him through the moon-light,
over the snow. True, she was clothed in
black; but the same pallid face, the same
lurid lips confronted him ; that same dark
and soul-thrilling eye was upon him ; he
shuddered, spoke to her, but she under
stood him not. She was, however alive and
awakened; and supporting her on each
side they compelled her to walk. The in
fluence of the exercise was magnetic;
slowly her muscles relaxed, and her wan
dering senses returned. Faster and faster
they urged her on toward the house, Saun
ders following with the babe. They had
more than half-acoomplished the way,
when Carson, who narrowly watohed her
countenance, saw returning consciousness;
and in another moment, and ere they were
aware of it, she broke from her father’s
hold, and shrieking, ‘Fred!’ threw her
arms about him.
‘ Fred, you have come at last!’ Carson,
with a flood of tears, strained her to his
bosom.
‘ Thank Heaven Snsy, you are yet
alive!’ 1
Suddenly recollecting, she disengaged
herself,-and inquired; for her child.
‘ ’Tis safe, dear Susy,’ said her father.
! ‘ Father, is it yon speaking % 0 father !
I am a poor, sinful girl, and have not loved
you as 1 ought 1’
I ‘ Yon have loved me better than I de
served,’ said Browning, winding his arm
; about her neok, and kissing her. < I have
J wronged,.deeply wronged you.”
| ‘ Say not so, say not so, father. I was
' at fault.’
Here Saunders, who, unaccustomed to
the transportation of ohildren, had trudged
along slowly and carefully, fearing lest he
should fall, approached, shouting : ‘Go
on, go on as fast as you can. I’ll bring
the baby safely. Go on, and keep the
blood stirring.’ So they proceeded.
‘ Fred,’ said Susan, ‘ I am so glad you
have come. I dreamed as I grew warm
and sleepy, under the tree by the river,
that you had come back, that our parents
had sanctioned our union, and that we
were living happily together. ’Twas a
wildj strange dream for me, for one so des
pairing. Father had oast me off, and I
had begun to mistrust you. Forgive me,
Fred ; but my brain was a little turned !’
‘ Heaven be praised, dear Susan, the
dream shall soon prove true. I should
have been home two months since ; but I
have been sick, very sick, even to the point
of death. I dared not inform you of it.
It has wrought a change. I shall lead a
better life, hereafter ; and we will live to
gether joyful and contented, and in ohari
ty with all—will we not V
What more they said on their way home
it matters not. It was a happy, happy
walk. How Saunders, sensible of the
great responsibility resting npon him, glo
ried in his journey; stepping along so
oarefully that he did not onoo awaken the
sleeping infant.
Mrs. Browning, when the men left for
the search, laid her babe upon the bed,
and stood in the door watching their re
treating figures. When they had disap
peared, she, scarcely aware of it, heaped
the wood upon the fire till it roared and
crackled like a huge furnace. She then
sat down at a distauoe from the blaze, and
awaited the return. She had, however lit
tle hope of seeing her daughter again that
night, and she feared the worst. How her
thoughts went out into the night seeking
for her girl; how many prayers she sent
up for her safety ! What length of time
she sat there she knew not. She was
roused by the opening of the door. Her
daughter stood before her. Their olasp
ing of one another, their weeping upon one
another, the ineffable rapture and over
flowing of the fullness of joy—who shall
tell ? Not they who beheld it, for their
eyes were blinded with tears; not they
who saw it not, for language, with all the
glory that imagination ever gave, could
not depict it; but there was joy m the
house that night, or rather that morning,
for now the Meui-Year had begun. In a
moment Saunders entered with the babe.
Susan received it from his hands, looked
at it, saw that it was well, kissed it, and
handed it to Fred, who gazed upon it,
kissed it, and gave it to her again. The
excitement beginning to die away, Susan
sank rapidly. Restoratives were applied,
and in an hour she was sleeping calmly
and quietly with her baby by her side.—
The old Dutch clock in the corner struck
four, when Browning, gathering the other
three about the fire-side, rendered thanks
to Heaven for the sovereign meroies bes
towed upon him and his family ; and, in a
few moments after, the whole house was
hushed in slumber.
Clear, cloudless and beautiful came the
day. How the sun poured upon the house
of Browning its golden shower and glad
ness ! How it clasped the old weather
stained walls in its great arms of light;
how it crept into every nook and cranny,
and fell in glory through the windows, on
the floor, filling the silent room, even up
to the great hearth-stone, with a flood of
warmth and exultation ! The light in the
window of the old blaoksmith was relumed,
and the fire on his hearth rekindled. Yea,
and the all-bounteous and life-giving orb
smote with his swift beams that thin, light
snow, and it melted ; so that when the
sleepers arose to the musio of a caged rob
in hanging in the window, those small and
delicate foot-prints, coming, going, and
returning, had vanished, were obliterated
for ever. So, beneath the sunshine of
love, charity, forgiveness, from the meuio
of the inmates of that house, were all
wrongs, all rashnoss, all blame, all bitter
ness, all harshness, and all hardship blot
ted out for ever. They thanked Heaven
for it.
Susan still slept; but her sleep was free
from all care and pain, and they knew
when she awoke she would be fresh, and
fair, and hale as ever ; save in respect of
fatigue, and the effect of mental suffering.
The children, who had seen her depart the
night before, glad to learn that she had
returned, would just open the door and
peep through to see sister Susy as she
slept, and then come away on tip-toe clap
ping their hands, but so softly that they
made no noise. Mrs. Browning bustled
about with the greatest importance, for
there was to be a New Year’s dinner in
the house ere night-fall; and there was
the best room to be swept, and set in order
for company. There were ohickens and
turkeys to roast. Then Mr. and Mrs. Car
son (so Fred, who had been to the village
for various articles, and purchased pres
ents for the children, said) were to be there
in the afternoon—and they were the riohest
people in town.
Susan awoke about noon, quite well, and
dressed herself. There were traces of her
sorrow that with her utmost oare she conld
not effaoe. She wished, noble girl, that not
a single trait or lineament should remind
her loved-ones of what had passed; and so
she felt stronger than she was, and went
about the house singing snatches of her
old songs, and filling the ohildren with
merriment by her pleasant and funny ways.
But strong as she thought and said she
was, by two o’clock it was necessary for
her to keep her ohair. At about three
o’clock, Mr. and Mrs. Carson made their
appearance. They were very grand and
formal people, and the ohildren were very
shy; but Fred was with them, and a right
royal fellow they said he was, and so they
were not afraid. He had told his parents
of his marriage to Susan, of her faithful
ness, and her patient suffering, and of his
own love and reformation; and they em
braced her, and kindly kissed her, and
called her daughter. And old bachelor
Saunders was there, laughing and talking,
rubbing his hands with glee, and blessing
his stars that he had fallen on suoh happy
times. Then, in the great kitohen, where
great logs were piled and blazing in the
’ —BTJOHANAN.
great chimney, the table was spread with
all things good of rural cheer. At five
o’clock they lit the oandles and sat down
to the New-Year’s dinner. Yes, all—the
blacksmith, the children, mother, those
grand and formal people, Fred, and Susan
in the large rocking-chair—all sat down
together. Did Browning always say grace
so fervently ? And while the fire roared
and crackled, the knives and forks olicked
and rattled ; and they eat, and talked, and
laughed, and wept together; blaoksmiths,
ohildren. those grand and formal people,
mother, Fred, and Susan—all together.
So when they rose from the table, old
things had passed away ; all was forgiven,
forgotten, and confirmed. Thus they kept
the Happy Mew-Year’s Day.
And Fred, as he laid his head upon his
pillow by the side of his wife that night,
felt, as he pressed her to his bosom, that
without a fond and faithful heart, wherein
all the affeotions may be garnered up, this
world is nothing worth ; and that pure and
fervent love, the one thing GoD-like whioh
our first parents brought out of Paradise,
is far more, and ‘exceeding all its pomp,
power, and magnificence. And as she told
him of her hopes and fears, the alternating
trust and despair that he oame not ; how
she had
* Strained her inner eyes till dim,
To see the coming glory swim
Through the rich mist of happy tears
of her pangs ; of the entreaties and threat
enings, the shame and sorrow of her
parents ; of her short but terrible wander
ings in the winter’s night; of her woes and
sufferings, her desperation and suicidal
resolutions ; her walk upon the ioe ; her
lingering by the glittering water ; the final
triumph of her faith in him, her husband,
and in Heaven ; her shelter beneath the
roots of the tree ; her drowsiness, and the
fearful comfort of the benumbing cold, and
her dream, so timely broken and so happily
fulfilled; he thanked God who had made
her his—so good, so beautiful, and so true,
and wept like a child. Mingling their
tears they fell asleep.
So closed the Happy Mew-Year’s Day.
Illusions from: Delirium Tremens.—
That disorder called delirium tremens, or
vulgarly blue devils, is commonly induced
by continued excess in the use of intoxica
ting liquors, or poisonous drugs. It is a
disorder intimately connected with a de
rangement of the digestive functions. So
long as a person can take food, he is com
paratively secure against the disease, but
when his stomach rejects common nourish
ment, and he persists in taking stimulants,-
the effects are for the most part speedily
visible. The first symptom is commonly a
slight derangement of the healthy powers
of the senses of seeing and hearing. A
ringing in the ears takes plaoe, then any
common noise, such as the rattle of a
carriage on the street, assumes to the
hearing, a particular sound, and arranges
itself into a particular tune perhaps, or
certain words, which haunt the sufferer,
and are by-and-by rung into his ears on
the occurrence of every noise. The pro
verb, ‘ As the fool thinks so the bell tinks,’
becomes applicable in his case. His sense
of seeing, in the meantime, begins to show
equal disorder, and figures float before him
perpetually when his eyes are closed at
night. By day, also, objects seem to
move before him that are really stationary.
The sense of touch, taste and smell, are
also involved in confusion. In this way
the disturbance of the senses goes on in
creasing always with the disorder of the
alimentary functions, until the unhappy
victim is at last visited, most probably in
the twilight, by visionary figures as dis
tinct in outline as living beings, and which
seems to speak to him with a voice of life.
At first he mistakes them for realities ;
but soon discovers his error and is thrown
into the deepest alarm. If he has the
courage to approach and examine any one
of the illusory figures, he probably finds
that some fold of drapery, or some shadow,
has been the object converted by his dis
eased sense into the apparition, and he
may also find that the voice was only some
simple household sound, converted into the
strange speech by his disordered ear ; for
the senses, at least in the early stages of
this disease, rather convert than create,
though the imaginary may differ widely
from the real substanoe. If remedies aro
not applied, the patient will grow worse,
till at length the spectral figures and voices
will become entirely the creation of his
own fancy, and seem to do or say anything
that may be uppermost in the faney at the
moment, encouraging him to self-murder
on every passible motive. The whole con
sists merely of his own fancies, bodied
forth to him visibly and audibly in seeing
and hearing organs. His own poor head
is the seat of all ; there is nothing apart
from him—nothing but vaoanoy.
iEP" 1 1 say, Pete Johnsing, is Bwords
’bolished in de army V ‘Ov course dey
isn’t, Snowball, what makes you ax sieh a
stupid question, you ignorant niggah V—
‘ Oh, nuffin, only 1 heered de oder day
dat tree tousand sogers was a going to take
de field wid Sickles !
l EP* M. Oliver, Bishop of Bvreux, was
conversing, one day, with Monseigneur
Afire, Archbishop of Paris, upon the in
consistency and imperfection of the law in
the matter of dueling : 1 But,’ said the
Bishop to Monseigneur Afire, ‘ if any one
was to slap your face, what would you do?’
‘ Monsieur,’ replied the Archbishop, < I
know what I ought to do, but I do not
know what I shonld do.’
A little girl went to camp meeting, and
when she got home she said the sisters in
the various tents told her a good many
things, and asked her questions about the
bible. On being pressed to state what they
told her, she said one thing they told her
about Peter ‘ who swore three times before
he crowed.’
Success. —lndustry and economy are
indispensable requisites to success ; but
they are not the only ones. A man may
be active, and even over economical, but
he must possess good judgment, or his
industry and economy will be of no avail.
A young medical student, who had been
screwed very hard at his examination for
admission to the faonlty, ( on a very warm
day, was nearly overcome by the numerous
questions put to him, when the following
‘query was added : * What course would
you adopt to produce a copious perspira
tion V After a long breath, he observed,
wiping his forehead : ‘I would have, the
patient examined before the Medical Soci
ety !’
OF A certain witness in an assault and
battery suit we once heard, mixed things
up in giving his account of
the affair. After relating how Dennis
came to him and struck him, he proceed
ed:
‘ So, yer honor, I just hauled off and
wiped his jaw. Just then his dog cum
along, and I hit him again.
‘ Hit the dog V
‘ No, yer honor, hit Dennis. And then
I up wid a stun and throwed it at him, and
rolled him over and over.’
‘ Threw a stone at Dennis V
‘At the dog, yer honor. And he got
up and hit me again.’
‘ The dog V
‘ No, Dennis. And with that he stuok
his tail betwixt his legs and run off.’
‘ Dennis V
‘ No, the dog. And when he came
baok at me he got me down and pounded
me, yer honor.’
1 The dog oame baok at you V
‘No, Dennis, yer honor, and he isn’t
hurt any at all.’
‘ Who V
‘ The dog, yer honor.’
OF* ‘ I have always been astonished,’
said Mrs. Smith, ‘ at the anxiety of young
ladies for beaux, but I never pitied a
female more than when Miss Nountflathers
left my sohool. Seeing her ‘ rapt’ and
gazing toward the sky, I asked her what
she was looking for V
‘ That beau,’ said she, ‘ whioh is told of
in Genesis, as being ‘ set in the cloud,’ I
wish he’d come down.’
ICFA distinguished divine, on a certain
ocoasion, while preaching with his usual elo
quence and power, said, ‘ Brethren, I
sometimes illustrate my subject in this
manner ;’ and putting his handkerchief to
his nose, blew a blast loud enough to wake
the seven sleepers. That was not the in
tended illustration, but some of his hear
ers thought it was.
An enraged parent had jerked his pro
voking son aoross his knee, and was oper
ating on the exposed portion of the urchin’s
person with great vehemenoe, when the
young one dng into the parental legs with
his venomous little teeth. ‘ Hell’s blazes !
what’re ye biten’ me for ?’ ‘ Well, dad,
who beginned this ’ere war V
QF’Lady Yarmouth asked Garrick one
day why Love was always represented as a
child ? He replied : ‘ Because Love never
reaches the age of wisdom and experience.’
OF’ ‘ Tell your mistress that I’ve torn
the curtain,’ said a lodger to the servant.
‘ Very well, sir, mistress will put it down
as extra rent.’
rpHE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER
JL JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT
No. 8 NORTH DUKIi STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
The Jobbing Dopartment is thoroughly furnished with
new and elegant type of every description, and is under
the charge of a practical and experienced Job Printer.—
The Proprietors are prepared to
PRINT CHECKS,
NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS,
CARDS AND CIRCULARS,
BILL HEADS AND HANDBILLS, ’
_ , PROGRAMMES AND POSTERS,
PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS,
BALL TICKETS AND INVITATIONS.
PRINTING IN COLORS AND PLAIN PRINTING
with neatness, accuracy and dispatch, on the most reasona
ble terms, and in a manner not excelled by any establish
ment in the city.
Orders from a distance, by mail or otherwise,
promptly attended to. Address
GEO. SANDERSON A SON,
Intelligencer Office,
No. 8 Ntirth Duke street, Lancaster, Pa.
HOLI D A Y — GIFT S !
SILVER WARE! SILVER WAR E U
PIE, CAKE AND BOTTER KNIVES.
SUGAR, CREAM AND OYSTER SPOONS
SOUP AND OYSTER LADLES,
SPOONS, PORKS, Ac, Ac.
Latest Styles and Best Workmanship.
SILVER-PLATED WARE 1 SILVER-PLATED WARE I!
BASKETS. CASTORS, PITCHERS, MUGS,
SPOONS, PORKS, Ac.. Ac.,
Just prom the Factories.
WATCHES! WATCUES!! WATCHES!!!
WARRANTED TIME-KEEPERS.
CHEAP! CHEAP!! CHEAP!!!
CLOCKS! CLOCKS!! CLOCK Sill
GILT, COLUMN AND PLAIN FRONTS.
JEWELRY! JEWELRY!! JEWELRY!!!
LATEST STYLES AND BEST QUALITY.
RHOADS A GILLESPIE,
2 2 }4 West King Street,
Between Cooper’s Hotel and J. G. Getz’s Dry Goods Store,
dec 17 tf 49
VAN INGEN 4b SNYDER,
DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS ON WOOD,
N. E. Corner sth and Chestnut Streets.
PHILADELPHIA.
Execute all kinds of WOOD ENGRAVING, with beauty,
correctness and despatch—Original Designs furnished for
Pine Book Illustrations— Pctsoub wishing Outs, by sending
a Photograph or Daguerreotype, cau have views of
COLLEGES, CHURCHES,
COTTAGES, STORE FRONTS,
PORTRAITS, MACHINES,
STOVES, PATENTS, Ac.
Engraved as well as on personal application.
PANCY ENVELOPES, LABELS, BILL HEADINGS.
SHOW BILLS, VISITING, BUSINESS and other CARDS
engraved in the highest atylo of the Art, and at the lowest
prices.
For Specimens of FiDe,Engraving, see the Illustrated
Works of J. B. LIPPINCdTT A Co., E. U. BUTLER A Co.,
Ac -» &c • * foct 23 ly 41
Stoves: stoves:: ac.
The undersigned determined to maintain the reputa
tion they have so IODg enjoyed of keeping far in advance
of all competitors, have added largely to their stock of
STOVES, and everything belonging to a
FIRST-CLASS HARDWARE STORE,
and offer at very reduced prices, the BEST AND MOST
VARIED ASSORTMENT OF STOVES EVER SHOWN IN
THIS CITY.'
COOKING BTOVES, suitable for either wood or coal, of
© T «ry new and desirable pattern, at prices ranging from
$3.75 each and upwards.
GAS BURNING AND PLAIN COAL STOVES for heat
ing churches, school-houses, halls, parlors, stores, shops,
Ac , in gn-at variety, at prices that must suit every taste.
oVl£N >. w OOD, AIR-TIGHT and RANGE
STOVES of every desirable pattern, are offered to merchants
and consumers on such terms as will make it their inter
est to give us a call. \
GEORGE M. STEINMAN A CO.,
nov 26 6m 46] West King Street.
BROTHERS
Call the attention of the Ladies to their large stock of
DRESS GOODS,
Which they are now selling off at
REDUCED PRICES.
POPLINS, REPPS. VALENCIAS,
OTTAMANS, MERINOS,
DELAINES, Ac
CLOAK AND SHAWL ROO
CLOAKS AND SHAWLS—Great Reduction in price to
to close them out with the Season.
From the New York Sales.
FRENCH EMBROIDERIES!
We have purchased Great Bargains at Auction in
COLLARS, SETTS, SLEEVES, Ac.,
and Belling them at one-half the cost of importation.
Also, a large lot of
HOSIERY AND GLOVES.
For Ladles, Gents and Children.
WENTZ BROS.,
janUtfl] No. 6, East King Bt.
WANTED.—In pursuance of
an Ordinance of Select and Common Councils of the
City of Lancaster, passed the Gth day of August, 1861, the
undersigned, is authorized to borrow a sum of money snffi*
dent to liquidate City loans now due and demanded. This
is, therefore, to give notice that proposals for loans to an
amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, will berecelred
at the Mayor s office, for which. Coupons or certificates of
loan will be issued bearing 6 per cent, interest, and re
deemable in ten years from date.
' . GEO. SANDERSON,
Mayor’s Oman, Lancaster, Aug. 13. Mayor,
aog 13 St 81
g. 2. GO T T WALB)
PRODUCE CO M MISSION HER CHANT,
No. 812 Sfrdtq Gakpkr Siam,
dec 24J PHILADELPHIA. . PyflQ
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Is the only article of the kind ever prodnoed which
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Mend your Harness, Btraps, Belts, Boots, Ac.
IT WILL MEND CLASS.
Save the pieces of that expensive Oat Glass Bottle.
IT WILL MEND IVORY,
Don’t throw away that broken Ivory Fan, It is easily re
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Your broken China Cups and Saucers can be made as good
IT WILL MEND MARBLE,
That piece knocked oat of your Marble Mantle can be pa
on as strong as ever.
IT WILL MEND PORCELAIN, _
No matter if that broken Pitcher did not cost bnt a shU
ling, a shillingsaved is a shilling earned.
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That coetly Alabaster Vase 1b broken and yon can’t match
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$lO.OO per year saved in every family by One Bottle of
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Price 25 Cents per Bottle,
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(Sole Manufacturers,)
78 WILLIAM STREET, -NEW YORK,
Corner of Liberty Street.
Important to House Owners.
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The Cheapest and most durable Roofing in use.
IT IS FIRE AND WATER PROOF.
It can be applied to now and old Roofs of all kinds, steep
or flat, and to Shlnge Roofs without removing the
Shingles.
THE COST IS ONLY ABOUT ONE-THIRD THAT OF
TIN, AND IT IS TWICE AS DURABLE.
This article has been thoroughly tested in New York
city aud all parts of the United States, Canada, West Indie#
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This is the only material manufactured In the United
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NO HEAT IS REQUIRED IN MAKING APPLICATION.
The expense of applying it is trifling, as an ordinary Roo
can be covered and finished the same day.
IT CAN BE APPLIED BY ANY ONE,
and when finished forms a perfectly Fire Proof surface,
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forming a body equal to three coats of ordinary paint
costs much less, and will last three times as long; ana
from its elasticity is not injured by the contraction and
expansion of Tin and other Metal Roofs, consequent upon
sodden changes of the weather. 0 -
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will not wash oft
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with GUTTA PERCH A CEMENT, and prevented from
further corrosion and leaking, thereby ensuring a perfect
ly water tight roof for many years.
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Iron Railings, Stoves, Ranges, Safes, Agricultural Imple
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GUTTA PEROHA OEMENT
for preserving and repairing Tin and other Metal Roofs of
every description, from its great elasticity, is not injured
by the contraction and expansion of Metals, and n ot
crack in cold or run in warm weather.
These materials are adapted to all climates, and we are
prepared to supply orders from any part of the country, at
short notice, for GUTTA PERCHA ROOFING in rolls,
ready prepared for use, and GUTTA PERCHA CEMENT
in barrels, with foil printed directions for application.
AGENTS WANTED
£ We will make liberal and satisfactory arrangements
with responsible parties who would like to establish them
selves in a lucrative and permanent business.
OUR TERMS ARE CASH
We can give abundant proof of all we claim in favor of
oar Improved Roofing Materials, having applied them to
several thousand Roofs in New York eity and vicinity.
JOHNS A CROSLBY,
Sole Manufacturers,
Wholssalb Warehouse, 78 William Stbxktv
Corner of Liberty Street,
Full descriptive Circulars and Prices will be furnished on
application.
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HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO THE LADIES,
DOWNER’S PATENT HEMMEB AND SHIELD, JOE
HAND SEWING.
Is prononneed by all who hare used it “Just the thing ”
for those using the needle, as it completely protects the
finger, and makes a neat and uniform hem while the opera
tor is sewing.
One-half the labor of sewing is saved by nslng this
REMARKABLY SIMPLE AND NOVEL INVENTION*
No lady should be without it. It is also “just the
thing” for girls to use learning to sew.
Its remarkable cheapness brings it within reach of .the
million. Sample sent by mall on receipt of the price,
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Descriptive Circulars furnished on application.
A LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE.
Enterprising Agents (wanted in every town and eounty
throughout the United States and Canada,) Will find'most
profitable employment in selling this usefnl article, aa It
meets with ready sales wherever offered —has no competi
tion—and profits are very large.
$l6O PER MONTH CAN BE REALIZED. ,
Address, A. H. DOWNER, *
442 Broadway, New York, .;
Patentee and Sole Proprietor. "
N. B.—General and exclusive Agencies will be granted
on the most liberal terms. [dee 24 8m 50
DRS. WAYLAN «fe SWESTZEL CON-
Untie to practice Dentistry at their' Office, 60J$ North
Queen street, half aouare from the ?. R. R. DepoVlsm
eutor.P*. £«prl7tfM •
Emporium of riSTB.-'.__
SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING ANI) BHAHPOONINB,
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NEW YORK.