■■■ V-J’HAzO ■ VOL. LXTH. We "LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER. VUSHBp VVBRTVOISBAT, ATNO.BWOETB. DTCX BTXXSV> BY GEO. SANOfiBSOI. TERMS Subscription.—Two Dollars per anonm* payable in ad •: vance. '■ No subscription diseonttaned until all amor' ages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Aiyißtiawoe srrs.—Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for «ach additional Inser •'' tlon. "Those of greater length in proportion. Job Printing—Sneh as Hand Bills, Pewters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, Ac., Ac., executed with accuracy and on '' the shortest notice. PHILOSOPHY FOR THE TIMES. Let those who will repine at fate, And drop their heads with sorrow, I laugh when cares npon me -wait— I know they’ll leave to-morrow. My pnrse is light, bat what of that? , My heart is light to match it; - And if I tear my only coat, I laugh the while I patoh it. I’ve seen some elves who called themselves My friends in summer weather, Blown far away in sorrow’s day, As winds would blow a feather— I-never grieved to see them go, (The rasoals, who would heed ’em?) For what’s the use of having friends, If false when most you need ’em ? I’ve seen some rich in worldly gear . Eternally repining, Their hearts a prey to every fear — With gladness never shining. I would not change a .lightsome heart For all their gold and sorrow; For that’s a thing that all their wealth Gan neither-buy nor borrow. And still os sorrow come to me, (As sorrow sometimes will come,) I find the way to make them flee, Is bidding them right weloome; They cannot brook a cheerful look— They’re used to sobs and sighing ; And he that meets them with a smile Is sure to set them flying. A WAR SERMON. Relic of the Olden Time. We have been furnished by our friend Col. James R. Snowden, of Philadelphia, with an interesting relie of our glorious Revolution, being a sermon delivered at Lanoaster, Pa.,. June, 1775, by the Rev. John Carhichal, to Capt. Ross’ Com pany of uniformed militia. It was found among the papers of the late Peter Grubb, Esq. At this time, when we are engaged in a gigantic civil rebellion, the re-publication of the patriotic sentiments oontained in this sermon, possesses, pecu liar interest. A SERMOIf, 4c. Luke 3 : 14: “And the eoldiers likewise demanded of him saying, and what shall we do? and he said unto them, do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.” At a time when the unjust storm of ministerial wrath is discharging itself in a cruel and ignominious manner on the noble, patriotic, brave people of the an oient, loyal, important colony of the Mas sachusetts Bay in New England; at a time when all other oolonies in North America, like the true children of a freeborn family, are roused to some jnst resentment of such insults, on their natural and legal rights, taking each other as by the hand and uniting by the invincible ohains of love, friendship and interest, are determined to Bupport this their elder sister colony, now suffering so gloriously in the common cause, or sink together ; at a time when the the alarm is sounding from east to west over this continent of North America, to arms! to arms!—ln short, at a time when the minds of all are in such a ferment, that they can be scarce composed to hear any subject, but what may have some reference to the present times, it is but reasonable to suppose that even the minister of the Prinoe of Peace, whose business for ordinary is neither war nor politics, in such a situation, being a member of civil society, and interested like other men, would improve the times by adopting their' public instructions to the best service of the people, and not of fensive or displeasing to God, whose holy word is a blessed direotory in every con tingency. It is also but reasonable to suppose that every judicious, sober American being now reduced to the dreadful alternative, either to take up arms apparently against that very government which he was wont to revere, and under which he expected pro tection for both life and property, or sub mit tamely to the galling yoke of perpetu al slavery; I say, it is supposable, that every Buoh Christian-American soldier will be all ear to wholesome instructions rela tive to his present duty. We own it is rare for soldiers to ask counsel of gospel ministers, and the more pity—for they are men and sinners, as well as others ; but I am not called to ad dress red coats, but Christian provincials j yet, blessed be God, it is not a case wholly unprecedented for even regulars to apply to a gospel preacher for direction ; we have an instance in the words of our text, “ And the soldiers demanded of him say ing, and what shall we do ? And he said unto them, dc violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.’ ‘ We here find a very important question proposed to a person, every way qualified to solve it; for the mouth of truth itself tells us that of all who were then born of a woman there was not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; also, the angel who predioted his birth said, that he should be filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. He was therefore deserv edly very popular—was raised for the great purpose of introducing the Jewish Church to the Saviour of the world, and hence much true gospel light shone round this groat preacher. The answers he gave the question may be depended on to be sufficient and conclusive. But let us hear what does John say ? Does he tell them to lay down their arms and throw them by, as there can be no sort of war lawful ? as some would have us be lieve. No, no, this is not his answer.— John knew -better; he knew the present state of our depraved world would render war in many oases unavoidable, and even necessary; so that a soldier might serve the end of his being in his plaoe and call ing, as well as a ploughman or preaoher in theirs. But then it must be a just war, oonduot-' ed in a lawful, righteous manner; for the ; legality of the action will never justify the I illegality of the manner of prosecution. The soldier must do violence to no man —must not accuse any falsely—and must bq content with his wages; leading vices these, for ordinary, among regular troops ; but the Christian soldier must guard against them, from the genuine principles of true religion in the heart, and then may hope for Heaven, as well from a field of battle, as expiring' on his oouoh in' the midst of peace and tranquility. - ■ I now dednoe ibis dootrinei from the text thus explained: Doctrine— That although war is in itself a very great evil, and one of those sore judgments by which a holy God punishes the world for sin, therefore to be deprecated and avoided, as touch as possible, yet Is at times, by reason of oertain circumstances, so un avoidable that it is our duty to enter iutoit. The method I design to pursue in opening up the doctrine for improve ment is the following: 1. Humbly attempt to shew (with sub mission to better .judgment) when a war is so unavoidable and necessary that it is our duty to enter into it. 2. Shew how we should enter into and proseoute even a just war. 3. Improve the subject by the deduction of a few natural inferences from the whole. You are sensible, my hearers,, that there are some Christian people in the world, and some of them in these parts, who merit the regard of the public by their general character of industry, inoffensiveness and sobriety, yet do maintain it, as a sacred conscientioos tenet, not to be dispensed with, not to go to war, or take up arms on any oooasion whatsoever; and charity, the leading grace of the Christian system, will lead us to deal tenderly with such .as far as we have grounds to believe they are sincere in their profession; we ought to pity suoh for their mistake, and, if possi ble, to oonvinoe them, but not by any means to urge -them against their avowed sentiments, lest we oome under the odious appellation of persecutors. As far as these sober people make ÜBe of the Bible to found their principles on, they rely on suoh passages as these, Gen. 9:6,“ He that sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shedand Exo. 20 : 13, “ Thou shalt not killand in the New Testament, “But I say unto you, love your enemies ; if any one smite thee on the one cheek turn the other also ; for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword,” Matth, 5 : 39,44, and 26 : 52 ; ahd henoe conclude, though 1 think falsely, that all war is unlawful, except the spiritual, with our own corruptions ; by the sword of thlTsphit in Christ’s spiritual kingdom, which is not of this world, .else would his children fight. But if 1 mistake not, these people re gard only suoh passages of Holy Sorip ture as seem to favor their favorite opin ion, let the language of other passages be what they will; and henoe their own imagination! is substituted, instead of Di vine revelation, so that when people are determined to keep by a sentiment, be it right or wrong, there is an end of all dis putation. We readily allow, that it would be happy for us all, if there was no moral of natural evil in the world : but how plausible soever such opinions may appear, to the weal of society, they are rather calculated to the condition of innocent than depraved nature, which now is, and ever has been such since the fall of our first parents, that there is need of some remedy to ourb its evil tendencies, or mankind would scarce be able to subsist in the world ; and this our indulgent, righteous Creator knows, and has therefore set up oivil government to keep men from destroying each other. But oivil government has no power, if it has not the sword, to be a ter ror to evil doers—and a praise to them that do well, hence it will follow, that men are under a necessity to part with some of their natural rights, to seoure the rest; they must give part of their earnings to such as are chosen by themselves, to rule the whole ; and then again, they must help the rulers to execute the good and whole some laws of government against their violators. Suppose, for instanoe, a great banditti rise to rescue murderers : if these are not quelled, government is overthrown, if the people do not assist good govern - ment, and here then arises a necessity to go to war. And suppose again, on the other hand, which is very supposable, that the rulers of the people should give way to the many temptations their high stations will lead them to, to indulge evil, the inclinations of a lust for absolute dominion, indepen dent of the people, so that all the barrier of oaths and covenants are broke through, to effect the plan ; and the people have no security for either life or property, but the mere sovereign pleasure of the abso lute rulers ; then the people are under a disagreeable but pressing necessity, rather than be crushed by an iron rod, to re-as oertain their own just rights, and stand forth all of them to oppose such tyranny. Here, then, is another instanoe of self-de fenoe—in which a war is both unavoidable and necessary, and therefore lawful, if self-preservation is lawful, which is the point I shall next in order endeavor to prove indisputably, both from the light of nature and divine revalation; and first from the light of nature. It is oertainly evident, wherever we turn our eyes on -any part of the whole creation of God, that the principle of self-love or self-preservation, or the desire of existanoe is deeply engraved on the nature of every creature. And when this great first principle is observed, it is, and must be agreeable to God, as he will love his own work ; and so also, the neglect of the ex i eroise of this principle, can not but dis please him, as it is unnatural and mons trous. Thus the generous vine will extend her arms, to lay hold on the first neighbor ing prop ; and with her little tender .ten dants twine around it, v to preserve her clusters from perishing on the cold ground. The ox has his horns, and the horse his teeth and hoofs—the little industrious bee is furnished by her Creator with a sting, to preserve her sweet honey, the fruit of her toil and industry—the deer her feet for flight, and the fowls their wings to es cape danger, and preserve themselves. And shall man, the noblest creature in the world, be destitute of this neoessary principle, which we see engraved by in stinct on the irrational creation ? Man is blest with reason to direot his enquirers in searoh of happiness. His maker, God, allows him to seek to- be as happy as he possibly oan, both in this life and the life to come. But sinoe man is a falling, sin ful oreatute, he has lost his true road to happiness, and can never find it, until his Maker points it out to him in the Holy Bible. Here we are taught how to oon duot, both in theoivil and religious life. — ; certain the Scriptures allow us to i defend ourselves in the best manner'we can against an enemy. Therefore such passages as would Beem : to speak, a different language, such as “TEAT tJOnHTBT 18 IHI KOflT LANCASTER CITY. PA.. TCESfIAV those already quoted, most be understood in a consistency with this great law of na-. tore, as well as consistent with other.parts of Scripture. For Christ same not to make void or destroy the law, but to fulfil —when, therefore, we are forbid'' to shed blood, or to kill,' it is innocent blood is meant—but this doth not forbid to exe cute ; a murderer should be executed, and forcids to take a ransom for his life. ■' Also, when a bodjt of wicked, people join together, or a nation unite, to call upon and destroy without any just cause an innocent people. The insnlted or : in vaded people, are then to unite! together, .to oppose, expel and punish the guilty in vaders—as in Judges 5:23: “ Curse ye Meroz, (said the angel of the Lord) ourse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof: because they came not to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” And Jeremiah 48: 10 : “ Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.” And Luke 22: 36: “ Jesus Christ told his disciples to arm themselves against approaching danger, and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.” _ And since’ our Lord did not allow the disciples then to defend themselves by their weapons, for when Peter out off Malous’ ear, he immediately healed it, and bid Peter put up his sword, to let them know, and the enemy also know, that he was Lord of life and death—and that the disoiples were safe with suoh a person as Jesus, while the age of miraoles continued. I say, sinoe this was the case then, we must understand the passage to intend that it is both lawfnl and a duty for the followers of J esus Christ, in a time and age when we are not to expeot miraoles, to arm our selves and use our arms for our preserva tion against any invading enemy. Also, it most of course follow that where our blessed Lord enjoins us when ■ smote on the one oheek, to turn the other also, he does not mean to forbid us to use lawful and proper means of self-preserva tion. But the meaning must be, as the phrase is proverbial, that we should at no time disoover a revengeful or unforgiving disposition; but should be ready to put up with a good deal of ijl-usage, before we would oreate disturbance—yea, that we should'do anything consistent with our safety. Again, where our Lord enjoins us to love our enemies—he oannot possibly mean that we should love them better than ourselves—that we should put it in the enemy’s power to kill us, when we had it in our power to favor our own life, by killing the enemy. I say, this oannot be the meaning; for that exposition will thwart the original first great law of self preservation. The meaning, therefore, must be, that we do not cherish a spirit of hatred toward our enemies, and would be willing to be reoonoiled again—and would be desirous, if the enemy would be con vinced of his evil sentiment against us, that we oan be sinoere in our prayer to God, and that we might be again on friend ly terms—and to bring suoh a desirable event to pass again. That a self-defensive war is lawful, I will prove from the oonduot of Jesus Christ himself. If civil government is necessary to self-preservation, and war is necessary at all times in government, ub has been already proved, then it will follow that those who support oivil government do support war. But Jesus Christ did pay his tribute money to the Emperor Ti berius, Matthew 17: 27 ; and those who are acquainted with the life of Tiherius Caesar know that he had frequent wars.— Our Lord did here, as in several other places, draw a distinction between ohurch and state; the church was his own king dom, and spiritual in its nature and gov ernment, and was not of this world; but the state was a distinct constitution, was of this world, was purely oivil, and it was not essential to the being of an Emperor of what sort of religion he was, or whether of any, as was the case of Tiberius ; but as the Jews were tributaries to the Ro mans, and our Lord was a Jew by birth, he paid his tax as a paaoeable member of the commonwealth; but had our Lord been a Menonist, he would have refused to pay tribute to . support war, which shows the absurdity of these people’s oonduot. Had our Lord been a covenanter of the church of Sootland he would refuse to pay tribute, because the Emperor was not a covenanter. I own, it is not essential to the very being of a King to be a Christian; and certainly the more pious and truly Godly any ohristian ruler is, if he is not a bigot to a party, or oertain denomination, but equally regardful of all, the regular, sober and well behaving in all his domin ions, the happier for the people. In Rom. 13, from the beginning to the 7th verse, we are instructed at large the duty we owe to civil government; but if it was unlaw ful and anti-ohristian, or anti-sonptural to support war, it would be unlawful to pay taxes; if it is unlawful to go to war, it is unlawful to pay another to do it, or to go to do it. What a foolish triok those peo ple put on their consoienoes, who for the reasons already mentioned will not pay their taxes, and yet let others oome and take their money where they oan find it, and be sure they will leave it where they will be sure to find it handily. I think I have now proved, from the light of nature, from the reason of things, from the Old and New Testament, as well as from the example of Christ and his Apostles, that a seif-defensive war is law ful. Now those who deny this dootrine, ought, if they would be ingenuous, candid .and honest, to plaoe their argument on this footing. Suppose themselves, all on some part of our globe, and none else but them selves ; and suppose also, none else ever to oome to them, and without any connec tion with any people but themselves, they had all the neoessaries of life; in suoh a 'situation, if they oarry with them the dom mon nature of the human speoies, as it has discovered itself in the world in every age since the fall of Adam, these good peaoe able, inoffensive people would soon find evil dispositions and practices break out among themselves ; if they would then make no resistance at all to those evils, but on their avowed principles, when smote on the one cheek turn the' other, there would soon he an end of their society— the evil would soon destroy the peaceable and good out of the-world; then' the judgments of the Almighty would un doubtedly overtake and out off the wioked, when there would be none else in the world, the wioked destroyed the righteous, till there was none left- but Noah;’the Almighty saved tnin by * miraole, and eut whh» lAwm oomujn* sh* i : off the rest entirely from the:globe. And - though Noah was as good a man as auy of those people with whom I am now dispa. ■ ting, his. posterity; degenerated, ahd the world needed government to keep it in being to this day. It is also equally un fair to say, let os stand still And see the salvation Of God, for if this proves any thing it proves too muoh, it proves that' we are to use no means at all, for why to nse lawful means in their power one 1 time and not another? We most therefore neither' plough nor sow, build; raise stock,- or do any thing in the use of means; but stand still and see the salvation of God. But our reason is given us to use it in a proper manner, to preserve out own lives and the lives of others,- as God’s servants, in a state of proba. tion . in this world; and' God will reward every one finally, aooording to bis works. When we' have no means in our power we honor God to trust him, as Israel at the Red Sea, and in the wilder ness ; but when means are in our power and we do hot ÜBe them, we then tempt God, and rebel against his government, which he exercises over the world in the way of free and moral agency. - Therefore, for these people, to argue as they do now, when they are among other societies, that they know will preserve the State from slaughter or slavery, in the use of lawful means, as has been now proved, is vastly disingenuous, and will undoubted ly subject their opinions to this oensure, that it is a sanctuary of sloth—for greed, ■ oowardiee, &0., for it is easy to stay at ; home and earn money, to what it is to spend i money and expose life, to proteot and de- i fend, the worldling ooward; it is easy to pay money to what it is to be shot, &a. But i after all that has been said, I am myself ! so warm an advooate fpr the sacred right i of oonsoienoe, that if these people will not ] be convinced of their duty ; can not get i ■their eyes open, they are to be pitied, but i not perseouted. I beg of all, for. God’s i and oonsoienoe sake, to let them alone, if 1 they will not in these terrible times draw 'the sword for Liberty and their .country, i surely they will not against Liberty and ] their country; and if we oan do i we oan without them. Oh then let there i be no disturbance on that head. I now ] prooeed to the seoond thing proposed, in i this discourse, to show how a lawful war is ; to be carried on. i Ist. Every one that draws the sword, should be satisfied, in his oonsoienoe, and courage, that he is ealled of God to do so; that with a good oonsoienoe and cour age, he may rely on God for strength and protection. Then it is drawn for these reasons, or else it cannot be lawful; either to oppose a foreign enemy or to assist the magistrates to suppress a riot, or wioked faction, and rebellion that may have broke out, by a lawless set of ruffians, that will be under no restraint of law—or to oppose the unjust, usurped, anti-constitutional claims of. mere tyranny —or the essential and unalienable right of the people. 2nd. Every soldier should see to it, above all things, that his peace is made with God, by believing in his Son Jesus Christ for salvation, and have some com fortable* evidences of the truth of his faith, by his love to Jesus Christ, in keeping his oommandments ; also how oan he expeot a blessing or sucoess, even in a just oause, if he is himself in a state of enmity and re belion against that God in whose hands his life is, and whose are all his ways ; for no soldier is so undaunted and truly cour ageous, as him that on the principles of true religion is above the fear of death.— To rush forward on death, thoughtless of, and unprepared for, a future eternity, is rather a speoies of mere madness, than true heroism. 3d. As the Christian soldier must set out in the fear of God, so he must perse vere, fully confiding in, and relying on, the justice and righteousness of the superin tendency of Jehovah, over all the fates, and to us, unforseen occurrences, that may or can happen in time; and thus, with be coming boldness and Christian serenity, aeoompanied with true oourage, put his life in God’s hands. 4th. The soldier must observe striotly those directions in our text; he must do violence to no man; as soldiers oarry with them the instruments of death, they are too prone to oonduot themselves toward the defenceless with pride and insolence ; something of this temper discovered itself, it the time that these regulars asked John in the manner of their asking the question; others treated John with respeot and man ners ; the very Fublioans oalled him Mas ter ; but the red-coats oame and demanded of him, as if they were his superiors, and he must obey them. As standing armies are too frequently made up of the scour ings of jails, and the refuse and filth of the people, that make the last shift for a liv ing—they are but too often found destitute ofeither good principles or education, and sunk into every speoies of dissolute ness and debauchery. We could wish the king’s troops at Boston, had not by their cruelty and inhumanity of oonduot, given the world too lively and striking a proof of the truth of this observation; henoe the very name of a red-coat (pardon the expression) stinks in our nostrils. But blessed be the God of heaven, that the gentlemen who now form our militia, in Amerioa, are the Americans themselves, whose characters are known to be not suoh as but just now described ; and who we hope under God, will save this oonntry, and of consequence, the Brstish empire, from apparent ruin. sth. Soldiers must not accuse any false ly ; this is a certain speoies of wickedness too common to soldiers; those of them that watohed the sepulchre of our Lord; falsely aocused his disoiples, that they oame and stole his body while they slept; they were hired to tell this lie by govern ment, and what will not poor, ignorant, sottish, selfish, low lived, ill-bred, graoe less creatures, that have no fear of God at all, do for money 1 And I wish we may not find that the soldiers at Boston, have sent no lies home or false accusations of the brave provincials; when they gave them suoh n severe drnbbing in the notion at Lexington. Lastly under this head, as the design of raising armies is the defence of the peo ple, as soon as this is bravely ascertained, the Christian soldier should lay by the sword and disband the army, lest their ex istence, when not necessary, should occa sion the very miseries they were raised to avert. A very-few inferences shall now oonolude this discourse.' Ist. ,Qnr subject teaches us deeply to bewail mo universal depravity of human nature. Oh Adatwi inWhata deplorable thou done I—rhoW many evil p&sshms and naaliae,dissicoulation,covetbushesa,pride, brutal lusts, &0., whence arisethose crush ing woes and calamitiesof. wara, murder, rapine, slaughter, and desolations among mankind. How just it is for !a holy God, as the moral Governor of the world, to punish suoh sinful, guilty creatures. 2nd. We learn lienee the exceeding in nate evil of sin, if the punishment" is not inadequate to the offence, which we are not to suppose j -then the offence is very great, because of the great punishment in flicted^ 3d; We also learn from onr subject, to admire the oare of divine providence over the human raoe, to continue men on the earth amidst’ suoh deluges of miseries or destruction oh every hand. And as civil government, in the hand of divine provi dence, is subservient here too, we ought to bless God for the institution, and sup port it while government continues to ob serve its original design, viz : the protec tion of the lives and properties of the people. 4th. We may also acknowledge the goodness of God, in abridging! the life of man to TO years, for that is long enough for the wioked to rage, and the righteous to suffer, and be absent from that rest that God has prepared for tiia people.— How amazing that the church of Christ has not been swallowed up, by the' united combinations of all the evil spirits of dark ness, and the wioked in this world in every age! This is jihe mighty power of God, indeed. sth. We learn from this subject the Bpeoial need our worid stands in of a Saviour, that by the grade of His holy cove nant, aooording to the great rioh divine plan He has revealed in the holy Bible, sneh sinful oreatures as we are may be sanctified and pardoned, and made fit for usefulness in this life and the enjoyment of God in heaven. 6th. Our subject teaohes us to be reoon oiled to the thoughts of death on the tren principles of gospel- holiness whenever it shall please God to oali ns henoe, *as all in thi&jfinning, teasing, mortifying, disap pointing world .as Solomop justly expresses it, u vanity and vexation of spirit;” and yet, on the other hand, we must not repine at the hand of God, if we are continued long even in a state of affliction; but should say with that old Testament saint “ all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my ohange come.” It is our great wisdom and interest to take heed that we have not with Dives, our good things here, bnt wonld make the best of this present life, as a wilderness passage, through which we would journey to the best country, the heavenly. 7th. We henoe learn how muoh it is our duty to be be both frequent and very fer vent in prayer to God for the spiritual kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, which consists so.much in peace and love to come with divine power and energy to oheok and stop those evils that now rage in the world, as it is well known by long experience that it is the holy spirit accompanying a preached gospel that is the only sovereign remedy to cure the evils that are in the hearts of men, to qualify them to be real blessings to eaoh other, as members of society in this life, and to put them in a capacity for communion with the holy Trinity, and saints, and angels in heaven. Bth. And lastly oar subjects teaohes us how muoh we should appreciate the calami ties of war, especially those of oivil war, the most awful of any, if it could be avoid ed. And, O ! what an awful black cloud, pregnant with ail the horrors of civil war, hangs over the whole of British America ; and this terrifying thought leads me to dose this discourse in two addresses. Ist. To all my hearers in general—you are in this town now at ease, in the lap of peaoe and far from any scene of either blood or slaughter—in the heart of a rioh province, situated in the centre of the whole Amerioan Continent, you hear of distress, but you do not yet feel it, and God forbid you ever should, as some of your worthy brethren now do in Boston. But know, my dear hearers, that if; you abuse these rioh, temporal good things with whiohthe God of heaven has distinguished you in luxury, profaneness, sabbath-break ing, swearing, unoleanness, drunkenness, worldliness, pride and contempt of the saored and divine instructions of his holy word and ordinances, your sins will find you out, and God will .visit you with his chas tising rod for your iniquities. Let all then be exhorted by a sincere, unfeigned repent anoe for past sins and reformation of life and manners, to fly to the-Lord Jesus Christ by faith, as a hiding plaoe from the storm and a oovert from the tempest—be much in prayer to God,.to overrule .these unhappy disturbances for his own glory and the best weal of Zion—pray that they may be. brought to a speedy and happy is sue on the genuine principles of liberty and true religion ; pray that the just at tempts of all Amerioa for these great ends may prove successful, and guard against everything that has the'leaßt or remotest tendenoy to jar the blessed unison of the whole American harpisohord as now set to the tune of liberty, by the honorable great artists, the' Continental Congress. Let every denomination of Christians treat eaoh other with love and respect, as breth ren engaged in, and struggling for the one and same common cause—treat all the officers of civil government in this province with beooming honor and respect—sympa thize with your distressed suffering breth ren in Boston, both with your prayers and pnrses. Finally, dread nothing that can befall you, so ruinous to yourselves and posterity in this life, as slavery. Therefore use every lawful means to avert it; see then that you most heartily accord with whatever may be the final determination of all Amerioa agreed to in the Continental Congress. I now turn myself to the gentlemen of the militia, officers and soldiers, that ap pear before me in ohurch in their uniform. By your present appearance you deolaro to the world, that you are nobly willing to to risk yonr lives., and fortunes to save your country from slavery; you are accom panied with; the sinoere wishes of all good people, for God .Almighty to bless you; protect and suooeod in your brave under takings. , We have all the true friends of virtue, of liberty and righteous ness on earth on our side—we have all the angels; of heaven on our side—for we have truth "and justice on our side—although for wise purposes of Divine Providence, a good cause is per mitted to be for a time tinder a cloud—to try the patienoe and ffci& of Ged’s people, thuit thp deliverance, may finally appear, as it will ever God’s own work. V God will never forsake his own side of fcjto question. Courage, jthehV oourkgev my brave American soldiers; if God "be for, who ban be against you ? Equip your selves, and to be equipt for this warfare, put on, - gentlemen, the gospel armor have your feet shod with, its preparation— for yonr helmet,salvation—for your shield, faith—and be girt with truth—this, sirs, is a gospel uniform, that well becomes the ohristian soldier; and thus go forth in the name of the Lord of Hosts.; anvmay he proteot you, bless you, and. succeed your very laudable and grand undertaking, in connection with all the militia of North America. THB LANCASTER. ISTBLLIGESCIiR JOB POINTING ESTABLISHMENT* No. 8 2JOKTH DUES STREET, LANCASTER, PA. The Jobbing Department is thoroughly furnished with new ahd elegant type of every description; and la under the charge of a practical and experienced Job The Proprietors are prepared to PRINT CHECKS. N NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS, ** CARDS AND CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS AND HANDBILLS, PROGRAMMES AND POSTERS, PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLBTB, . BALL TICKETS AND INVITATIONS, PRINTING IN COLORS AND PLAIN PRINTING* with neatness, accuracy and dispatch, on the moat reasons 1 ble terms, and in a manner not exceUed by any establish ment in the city. •05*“ Orders from a distance, by mall or otherwise, promptly attended to. Address GEO. SANDERSON A SON, Intelligencer Office, No. 8 North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa. House and cattle powder. TATTERSAL’B HORSE POWDER, HEAVE POWDER, • * ROSIN, * PENNUGRBEK SULPHUR, GETJBIAN, CREAM TARTAR, COPPERAS, Ao. For sale at THOMAS ELLMAKBR'S Drug A Chemical Store, West King street, Lanc*r feb 9 tf4 D KESSLER’S HATH JEWELRY STORE," No. 206 North Bth Strut above Race,' PHILADELPHIA. On hand and for sale, a choice assortment ot superior patterns,' and wiU plait to order BRACELETS, EAR RINGS, FINGER RINGS, BREAST PINS,* CROSSES, NECKLACES, „ GUARD AND ' VEBT CHAINS. As*“ Orders enclosing the hair to be plaited may be sent by mail. Give a drawing a i near as you can on paper, and enclose such amount as yon may choose to pay.- Costs as follows: Ear Rings $2 to s6—Breast Pins $8 to s7—Finger Rings 76 cents to sB.6o—Vest Ohatnß $0 to s 7— Necklaces $2 to $lO. 45* Hair pat into Medallons, Box Breast Pins, Rings, Ac. OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT AT PAIR RATES, apr 10 ly 14 Banking house of reed, Hen derson A CO.—On the 26th of MARCH, instant, the undersigned, under the firm of REED, HENDERSON A CO., wiU commence the Bankng Business, in its usual branches at the office hitherto occupied by John K. Reed A Co., at the corner of East King and Dake streets,‘bo tween the Court House and Sprecheris Hotel, Lancaster, Pa: They will pay interest on deposits at the following rates. per cent, for 6 months and longer. 5 “ “ 30 days and longer. They will Day and sell Stocks and Real Estate on com* mission, negotiate Loans for others, purchase and sell Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Drafts, Ac., Ac., Ac. The undersigned will be individually liable to theextent of their means, for all deposits and other obligations of Reed, Henderson A Co. JOHN K. REED, mar 20 tf lp) SOMETHING FOR THE TIDIES Ml A NECESSITY IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD M ! JOHNS £ CTtOSLEY’S AMERICAN CEMENT GLUE, the strongest glue m the world FOR CEMENTING WOOD, LEATHER, GLASS, IVORY, CHINA, MARBLE, PORCELAIN, ALABASTER, BONE, CORAL, Ac., Ac., Ac. : The only article of the kind ever produced which will withstand Water. EXTRACTS M Every housekeeper should have a supply of Johns A Croaley’s American Cement Glue.” —New York Times. “It is so convenient to have in the house."— Nero York Express. “It is always ready; this commends it to everybody."— N. Y. Independent. “ We have tried it, and find it as useful in onr house as water.”— Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times. , PRIOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER BOTTLE. Very Liberal Reductions to Wholesale Dealers. TERMS CASH. 4S- For sale by all Druggists and Storekeepers generally throughout the country. ■ JOHNS A OROSLEY, (Bole Manufacturers,) 78 WILLIAM ST., (Corner of Liberty St.,) NEW YORK juiv 9 ly 20 1000 DO,jIjARS PREMIUM. WENTZ BROTHERS Have still on exhibition that LARGE HOOP SKIRT, For which a Premium of ONE THOUSDAND DOLLARS will be given to any lady tall enough to wear it. Ladies •re invited to call and see it, and contend for the premium; at least, secure one of the THREE THOUBAND HOOP SKIRTS, which Wentz Brothers are offering at Old Prices, notwith standing the advance by the manufactures in consequence of the new-tax bill. Au extra large purchase direct from the Manufacturer prior to the advance, enables us to offer Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Hoop Skirts AT OLD PRICES Large Purchases of DOMESTIC GOODS, before the ad vance In prices, enables us to offer our customers GREAT BAR GAINS WENTZ BROTHERS, aug 12 tf 31] Bee Hive Store, No. 6 East King St. Building slath THE BEST QUALITIES IN THE MARKET. The undersigned, having made arrangements with Mr. R. JONES, for all his best quality of PEACH BOTTOM SLATE, for this market; and & similar arrangement with the proprietors of six of the principal and best quarries in York county, he has just received a large , lot of these superior quantities of Building Blate, Which will be put on by the square, or.sold by the ton, bn the most reason able terms. Also, constantly on hand, an EXTRA LIGHT PEAOH BOTTOM SLATE, intended for Slating on Shingle Roofs. As these qualities of Slate are THE BEST IN THE MARKET, Builders and others will find it to their interest to call and examine samples, at my office.in WM. D. SPREOHER’S, New Agricultural and Seed Ware-rooms. - GEO.D. BPBEOHER, No. 28 East King St., 2 doors West uf the Court House. . 45* This is to certify that I do not sell my best quality of Peach Bottom Guaged Slate to any other person in Lancaster, than Geo. D. Sprecher, as above stated. R. JONES, Manufacturer of Peach Bottom Boofing Slate. feb.2s ly 7 Dentistry. THB AMBER BASE, A NEW AND SUPERIOR METHOD OP MOUNTING ARTIFICIAL TEBTH.sZtnffW - I would announce to my patrons and others requiring the services of the Dentist, that I am about introducing the AMBER BABJB Into my practice. The advantages of this method of mounting teeth over the metalic base have been fully established la the five yean In which it has been subject to the severest tests, with the mast satisfactory results. It is folly as strong and durable as either silver or gold —more easily kept clean, more natural to the touch of the tongue and Ups; and it is firmer and more serviceable in the month, in consequence of oar being able to obtain a more perfect fit to tbe gum. This "work is not so expensive as gold, bat a little higher In price than silver. It trill he warranted to give satinac* tion, or be exchaoged for gold or silver work as the patient may prefer. 4a-OFFICE: No. 28 Wist Obamgx St., Lakcastzb. •. joly 29 3m 29] 8. WKLCHENS, D. D, 8. DRs j. t. baksb, HOMffiOPATHIO PHYSICIAN, ~ Or Lahohub Cm, may he consulted professionally, at his Office, at Henry Bear’s Hotel, in the Borough or Strasburg, on Thursday of' each week, from 10 o’clock in'the morning to.three in. the afternoon. . An opportunity la Urns’ afforded to resident? of Struburg and vicinity to avail themselves of Homoeopathic treatment, and females suffering from chronic diseases may enjoy the advice of one who has made thfk class of diseases « speciality. - J.T. BAKER, M.D., - Homoeopathic Physician, oct 22 tf 41J East King street, above Lime, Lancaster Remo va j, it. amer, DENTIST, for fire years a student and ** " 11 assistant of Dr.. WAYLAN, formerly of this /M3SS& city, bas removed his office to the rooms lately. tsLi f,i i r oocupied by Dr. McCalla, in East King street, two doors from Centre Bquare, where he is -prepared to meet those who may favor him with their confidence, and serve them In the most skillfnl manner, warranting satisfcetloh in every reasonable ease, both as to operations performed and charges for the same. ... WM. N. amtcr. aprl » Iyl2 Ei^hing tackle* ' Rods. Limerick and Kirby. Hooks, NetrTwine,’ Bea Grass, Cotton and Linen Lines, Floats, Snoods, £o, • ' For saleat THOMAS HLLMAKER’g ' Drag A Chemical-Store, opposite. Cross Keys Hotel, W • King street, Lancaster. • '(may ITtf >lB ISAAC BAKTOS * SON, r WHOLESALE 6EOURBB,_ AND DBALKRSINOOBN* TRY PRODpCk WESES AND. r ■ Nos. 166kndieT North Bettond .. TB* Horace: w&Txag RODmnjf X IMPEOYBB jr» Ju*Uy pronooncod b, the Pros and Undo Hufere to be loperior lartramante. Ihs, in bant of the tmt*sA mort thoroegU, enueeed mMarta!., ud will <tul *n, roan ' l - fo ll mellow; the touch PttM wijrraetod tor three ,eere. Prioes from $176t0470(f.' —> • Opxmoxa Of thiPebS;-.** TheHoraee Waters Ptanoe an known as amon g the wy beet We ertembled to .peek of the— iostnhnente with eom» den—of oonftdenoe, from person! knowledge of their excelteot'ttDe end dnrahle quality.”— Christian Sit^hgamr, $l6 0 NXW7-OCTATBPlANoBinEo«woodceeee, Iron fr*mee,*nd oTerehrtmg base, of different inkers, tor $150; do., with mouldings,- $160; do., with csrred lags snd toleid nameboard. s]T:fslBVand do. wlthp—rl kejs,s22s,s2soand S3M; iuW'SXqctoTe, IPS; 4k; % octare, SMO. The aboro Pianos are faUy warnnted,.andl era the greatest bargain that can be found In the city. •“ wmm- Second-hand Pianos et $5O, $6O, $76, end $lOO. -■ TWB HORACE WATERS UEZODEOITS, Melodeons and Harmonsums of the Prince-*. <£«, Cwbarf* Needham; Uatim * B.D. kH. WvSmith,aUofwhich wmbe low prices, xheae Melodeohs remjdnln tune a long Each Melodeon Warranted for throe years. 4 A liberal disoountto Clergymen, Churchee; Sabbath Schools, Lodges, Seminaries and Teacher*. The trade supplied on the most liberal terms. DAY SCHOOL BELL. V 86,000 COPIES TBSUBD-' ' Anew Singing Book for Day called the Diy School Bell, is now ready. If contains about 200 choice songs, round*; catches, duetts, trioej quartette and chor* üß6s>many of them written expresslyr for this sides 82 pages of the Elements of Moslb: - The Elements are so edsy .&nd piugreedvni'that?ordinary.teachers will find themselvee entirely successful ..in instructing even young scholars to sing correctly .and scientifically; while the tones and words embrace such a variety of lively, at tractive, and soul-stirring music and sentiments, that no trouble will be;experienced in Inducing'«U beginnen to go. on with zeaf In Acquiring skill ln one of the most health-giving, beauty-improving, happiness-yielding, and order-producing exercises of school life. In simpllcty of its elements, in variety and adaptation of madc,.and in excellence and number its songs,.origioal, selected, and adapted, it claims by vnuch to excel all competitors. It will be found the best ever issued for. seminaries, acade mies and public schools.. A few sample of tbd tie ments, tunes apd songs, are giveu in a circular; send and get one: It is oomplled by' Horaoe Waters,: author 'of “Sabbath School Bell,” Nos. l and 2, which have had the enormous sale 0f:735,000 copies: Prices—paper cents, $l6 per 100; bound, 80 : cente, $22 per 100; cloth bound, embossed gilt; 40 cents,' s3o'per 100.' 25 copies fur nished at the 100 price.: Mailed at the retell nrloe. HORACE WATERS, Publisher, . 481 Broadway, New 7ork« SABBATH BOHOOL BELL No. 2. 85,000 COPIES ISSUED. . It is an entire new' work of nearly 200 pages. Many of the tunes and hymns were writtpn.exprasslyfor this vol ume. It will eoou be as popular as its predecessor, (Bell No. 1) which has run up to the enormous Dumber of 660,- 000 copies—outstripping any Sunday school book of its aizeGver issued in this country. - Also, both volumes are bound in one to aooommod&to schools wishing them in that form. Prices of Bali No. 2, paper covers, 15cents, $l2 per 100; bound* 25 cents, $lB per 100; cloth bonnd, em bossed gilt, 30 cents, $23 per 100. Bell No. 1, paper covers, 13 <?entß,slo per l 00; bound, 20 cents, $lB per 100; doth bonnd, embossed gilt, 25 cents, $2O per hnndred. BeUs Noe. land 2 bonnd together* 40 cents, $BO per 100; cloth bound, embossed gilt, 60 cents, $4O per-100.;' 26 copies fur nished at-the 100 price. Mailed at the retail price. HORACE WATERS, Publisher, * 481 Broadway, New York. President Lincoln’s Grand March, with the best Vignette of his Excellency that has yet been published; music by Helrnsmuller, leader of the 22d Regiment Band, price 60 cents; Our Generals’ Quick-Step, with vignette of 86 of our generals; mnsic by Grafulia, leader of the 7th Regiment Band. 60 cents. The Seven Sons’ Gallop, and Laura Keene Waltz, 35 cents each. Comet Scbottische, 26 cents; all by Baker. Mario Box Gallop,'by Herring, 85 cents. Union Waltz, La Grassa, 25 cents. Volunteer Polka, Goldbeck, 26 cents. Spirit Polka; General Scott’s Farewell' Grand March, 26 cents each; Airy Castles, 30 cents, all by A. B. Parkharst. Freedom,, Trath and Bight Grand March, with splendid Vignette; music by Carl Helneman, 60cts. . All of which are fine productions. I will be true to thee; A penny for yonr thoughts; Lit tle Jenny Dow; Better times are coming; I dream of my mother and my home; Merry little birds are we, (a song for children;) Slumber, my darling, Lizzie dies to-night, Jenny’s coming o’er the green; Was my Brother in the Battle, and Why have my loved ones gone, by Stephen 0. Foster. Shall we know each other there? by the Rev. R. Lowry. Pleasant words for all, by J. Roberts. There is a beautiful world, by I M. Holmes. Price 25 cents each. Freedom, Truth and Right, a national song and grand chorus; music by Carl Heinemann, with English and Ger man words, 30 cents. Where liberty dwells la my country, Plumley. Forget if you can, but forgive; I hear sweet voices ringing, and Home is home, by J. R. Thomas, 30 cents each. These Bongs are very popular. Mailed free at retail price. AMOS 8. HENDERSON ISAAO E. HIESTER. Foreign Sheet Music at 2 cents per page. All kinds of Mnsic merchandise at war prices, HORACE WATERS, Publisher, < '4Bl Broadway, New York. nr CHEAP POEM, ARRANGED AS QUARTETTES AND CHORUSES TOR MUSICAL SOOIXTiaS, CHUJRS, SUNDAY SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BKMINARIES, XTC. Bhall we know each other there; Shall we meet beyond the river? Be in time; There is a beautiful world; Don’t yon bear the Angels coming; Where liberty dwells Is my country; Freedom, Truth and Bight, (national songs.) u there a land of love? Sorrow shall oome again no more. Price 3 cents, 26 cents per doz., $2 per 100. Postage 1 cant. In sheet form, with Piano accompaniment, 25 cents. Published by HORACE WATERS, 481 Broadway, New York, and for sale by N. P. Kemp, Boston; Chas. B, Luther, Philadelphia; G. Crossby, Cincinnati; Tomlinson A Bros., Chicago, and J. W. Mclntyre, St. Louis. July. 29 6m 29 Excelsior burr stoke hills, • aw JFOEPABSIBRB AND MILLERS.) Took Ten First Premiums at Western State Fairs last year, and are justly considered superior to all others.' The Mill may be driven by horse,water or steam power, does its work as-well as the flat stone mills In milling establish* ments, and requires but one-half the power to drive ’ the largest sizes. They are very-compact, perfectly simply and for farm use will last Thirty Years, and cost nothing for repairs. PRIOEg—SIOO, $l4O and $l7O. - Flour Bolt for smallest Mill $5O extra. THE H 0 R 8v E POWER has proved itself to be the beet ever Invented. The friction is redoced by IRON BALLS, so arranged In all the bear ings, that the whole weight of the castings.runsupon them. THREE POUNDS DRAUGHT, at the end of a tea feet lever, will keep the power in motion I thus permitting the entire strength of the horses to be used on the machine to be driven. One horse will do as much'work on this power as two on the endless Chain Power. It is port able and may be nsed in the field as.well as in the house. More than Twenty-Fire Per Cent, of horse, flesh is - saved over any other power in use. It is simple In construction, and not liable to get ont of order. Price of power for 1 to 4 horses ~.~.;....5125 Price of power for 1 to 8 horses ......$176 THE $125 POWER WILL DRIVE ANY THRESHING MACHINE. EVERY MACHINE IS GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATIS FACTION, OR THE MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED. REFERENCES. Wh. Leaf, R. R. Supt. Philadelphia, Penna. J. P. Post, Patterson, N.'J. E. F. Cord it, Chatham, “ N. H. Hoosstklxb, Shanesville, Ohio. Geo. Smith, Walntit Creek. Obasge Judd, Editor Am. Agriculturist, N. Y.Ofty. Philadelphia, Pa. Gzrts : With two horses on your Anti-Friction Power, we drive yonr No. 1 Mill, grinding 16 bushels of corn per hour, and eat a large quantity of hay at' the same time. I have never seen a power, that runs with so little friction, and consequently with so little strain upon the horses. f W.P. COOPER, . Supt. 18th and 15th St. Pass. rTb. Go. Closteb, N. J., Jan. 29,1862. Messrs. Bkhret Brothers, Gxhts: I am very much pleas edwlth the Power.. It runs easier than any other Power in this vicinity, and with the same horses will do nearly, or quite twice as much work. I run my Thrasher at 1,500 revolutions per minute, and a 24. Inch Cross-cut Saw, at 1,200 revolutions. Yours truly, PETER J; WHITE. ON ALL ORDERS RECEIVED BEFORE OCT. In, 1862. THE FREIGHT WILL BE PREPAID TO PHILA DELPHIA. Liberal discount to dealers. Agents wanted. State, County and Shop Bights for sale. For farther information send stamp for Illustrated Circulars to BENNBtf BROTHERS, July 29 The gsba't isdian herbal tea x FOR FEMALES. D B . E N Q L 1 SB’S INDIAN VEGETABLE RMMENAGOGUEI This Celebrated Feniale Medicine possesses virtues tin* known of anything elseof.tbe kind, and proving effectual after all others have &iled; it Is prepared .from an “Indian Herb ” peculiar to Northern Mexico and Texas, and is used by the Natives in producing the xohthlt oozasss. It is designed for both married and single ladles, and is the very best thing known for the purpose, as it will remove ail obstructions after other remedies have been Med in vain. It is a pleaaant tea, containing nothing Injurious to health, and a cure can be relied upon in ail cases.. Prolapsus Uteri, or felling of tbe Womb; Fionas Albus, or 'Whitest Chronio Inflammation, or Uleeration of the Womb; Incidental Hemoragb or Flooding; and diseases of the Spine. ' 49- Ladies in the early stage of pregnancy are cautioned against the use of this tea, as it will produce miscarriage. FSJEPA&XD AB2> BOLD "BT- : ' DB. G. W. ENGLISH, No. 216 South Ssoohd-Bwet, Philadxiphia, Pa. Price SLOO per package, (with frill directions for use) sent by Express or Man to any address. ’ Dr.E. can be consulted la all obstinate Female Com’ plaints, in person or by letter, and will furnish the Gutta> percha Female Syringe—highly recommended : by * the Faculty to married ladles for special purpose*. ’ Also Radical Cure and other Trusses ImprOved Rotaiy and Spine Abdominal gupportera-p-Sbouldsr Braces-Elsstfe and lAce Stockings—Bpinal for Weak and Curved- Spine—and Instruments for all Defarmlties. A large Stock of the above articles constantly on hand,. and will be furnished at lowest rates by order with measurement and full particulars. 49TAU communications strictly eonA mtlaL For fcrth« partied V' • • ' BBSouth Saoan> Sum, bilot Doot, - PHXLADKIPHIA, PA. A»*i havbhoaohits [norsiyts 00 4 1 OU! COIS OI 1.1,1 a 00, " c! i Wholesale Dealers in an prepared to .apply to the trade extra refined non-tiptaaiY. Ooal Oila, posseeaed of unequalled bnrning and lllnmtoa- Ung propertjae, at the Terr lowest market rates. ‘ , Also, papa “4IIOOA” OIL, raltaUa ftr All ktoda of Utdy»«£ll 'mtSMm NEW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. VOCAL MUSIC NEW MUSIC FOR THE MILLION, and]_antl-friction 'horse powers. 42 and 44 Greene street, Neir York, , 8m 29 hi', r'.V_
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