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The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. - Heap’d in the hollows of the grove, The withered leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gait, And to the rabbit’s tread. The robin and tbfe wren are flown, And from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the orow, Through all the gloomy day. Where are tho flowers, the fair young flowers That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteouftcisterhood ? Alas! they are all in their graves; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, Bat the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, They perished long ago, And brier rose and the orchis died, Amid the summer glow; Bnt on the hill the golden rod, And the aster in the wood, And yellow sunflower by the brook In autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven, As falls the plague on men, -And the brightness of their smile was gone, / From upland, glade and glen. ; And now, when oomes the calm, mild day, And still suoh days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee From out tneir winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, Though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light The waters of the rill; <* The south wind searches for the flpwers Whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to And them in the wood ' And by the streams no more. And when I think of one wbo in Her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up And faded by my side; In the cold moist earth we laid her, When the forest oast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief; , Yet not unmeet it was that one, i Like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers. “LET ME.” I ne’er on that lip for a moment have gazed, But a thousand temptations beset me ; And I’ve thought, as the dear little rubies you raised, J How delightful ’twould be if you’d—let me. Then be not so angry for what I have done, Nor say that you’ve sworn to forget me; They were buds of temptation too pouting to shun, And I thought you could not but—let me. When your lips with a quiver came close to my cheek, J ' Oh, think how bewitching it met me; And plain as the eye of a Venus could speak, Your eyes seemed to say you would—let me. Then forgive the transgression, and bid me remain ; For, in truth, if I go you’ll regret me ; Then, oh, let me try the transgression again, And I’ll do all you wish if you—let me. ANSWER—“ I’LL LEX YOU.” If a kiss be delightful, so tempting my lips That a thousand soft wishes beset you, I vow, by the nectar that Jupiter sips, On certain conditions—l’il let you. If you swear by my charms that you’ll ever be true, And that no other damsel shall get you, By the stars that roll round that summit of blue, Perhaps, sir—perhaps, sir—l’ll lot you. If not urged by a passion as fleeting, as wild, That makeß all the virtues forget you, But affeotion unsullied, soft, fervent and mild, You ask for a kiss, then, indeed, love—l'll let you, THE SILVER ARROW. A TALE OP SAVOT. Upon the summit of a lofty cliff in mountainous Savoy stood the Castle of Count Rudolin, frowning grimly in the sunshine upon the peaceful cottages be low. Stern, rough, and half inaccessible, it was a fair type of its lord, the last Count of his line. And the sunny brightness, so lavishinglv poured upon it, was truly like the sweet influences of his young and gentle daughter. Father and child had the same name, hut nothing more in com mon. Where sympathy is wanting there is but little intercourse, so that while he regarded his daughter solely as an heiress, his repelling roughness caused her to look upon him merely as her guardian and natural protector. - In. the deep narrow valley at the foot of the hill Jay an humble cottage, buried in the shadow of its lofty neighbor. The old cottager, Melchoir, was the minstrel and wise man of the entire barony. In those days, the offices were oommonly united, and the harper who delighted high-born lords and dames with his minstrelsy, was the repository, of peasants’ unwritten lore, the story-teller whom they always wel comed, the seer whom they revered.— Melchoir pretended to little of the latter character, except when it was forced upon him, or could be made advantageous to his interest. Albert, his adopted son, was a manly youth, deeply versed in the gay science, and yet the master of a spirit well fitted to lead in the front ranks of strife. The hand that ran so lightly over the gentle guitar, was the hardest in the oontest, surest in the blow. Well worthy was he to have been a pupil of Scott’s warrior minstrel, £ the jovial harper who died at Jedwood Air,’ “He brooked, not he, that scoffing tongue Should tax his minstrelsy with wrong Or oall his song untrue; ’ ■For this, whon they the goblet plied, And such rude taunts had obafed his pride, The bard of Keuil he 6lew, On Teviot’s side, in fight they stood, And tuneful hands were stained with blood ; Where still the thorn’s white branches wave Memorial o’er his rival’s grave.” Of such mould were the minstrels of fomer days, equally ready to exalt their science with sweetness of voioe or strength of arm. 6 The adopted mother of Albert ter-mother to the Countess Lilien, and thus from earliest ohildhood notwithstand ing the disparity of their conditions an in timaoy bad grown up with their growth between the peasant’s son and the daugh ter of Count Kudolin. She, the gentlest and loveliest of all maidens, was not the one to think of rank, and his strange wild heart burning with poetic fire, knew it would disgrace the friendship of none, even the loftiest. And no dreams of love had yet entered into the thoughts of either. Their ages were the same, bnt the matured soul of Albert naturally, found itself sus taining her frailer and womanly spirit. - This difference compensated for the equal ity in years, and placed him in the rela tion whioh man instinotively bears to the other sex. Their meetings had always been .frequent, almost daily, neither of thetb dreamed of the inevitable result.— Though the peasant’s son and noble’s 'daughter might be'freely together as fos ter brother and sister, who could suppose they would dare ,to form a stronger tie * They were now sixteen, and just arrived at a knowledge of the truth.- . The woman’s - nature of Lilien first perceived it, and her reserve, her absence from their usual place of meeting, and above all her tone as she uttered the words, ‘ We are sixteen,’ con voyed it, also to Albert’s mind. Though yet unworn in the world’s ways, and trembling with the delicious consciousness of a first love, she had Buffioient pride of ancestonal birth to feel that they must meet no more. But Albert was more hopeful. He too saw the barrier between them, but he also knew the power i f an invincible energy, and resolved never to yield his faith. It was several days since they had last seen eaoh other, and both looked eagerly forward to a grand fete which the Count was preparing to give his dependents.— Suoh had been an immemorial custom in the barony, and one that he had hardly dared to interrupt, though his taste was not in merry makings for the poor. Per haps he endured it less unwillingly, be cause the jovial unthinking tenantry would endure a year of oppression more readily, after a single day of pleasure.— Upon these occasions, feats of wrestling and arohery throughout the day, succeed ed by dancing in the great hall of the oastle,-amused the people, and delighted not unfrequently the surly Count himself. The morning of the festival dawned, and neither the Countess Lilien or the young minstrel peasant imagined that their re spective fates were crowded together within that single day. The great court of the oastle was early thrown open for the vassals as they as sembled from every part of the barony. It was the only plaoe near by that was adapted for suoh occasions. From the walls of the oastle itself, a long smooth plat of ground stretched even to the verge of one of those tremulous gorges so com mon in that broken country. It was a fissure between two portions of the same hill, running sheer down for a hundred feet, until where a mountain torrent dashed fiercely along over its rook floor. The width of this fearful chasm was not more than thirty feet, and the two edges were connected by a light movable bridge.— This was the only defence of the oastle on that side, and there, at least, made it al most impregnable. The sport commenced, but Albert took no part, and looked carelessly on the scene. Almost his entire attention was directed towards the young Countess, in watohing for a stray look, in receiving a chance smile, and more than once her shy inno cent glance, resting on him for a moment, sent the blood thrilling swiftly through his veins. He busied himself for some time, until a strange scene called his at tention elsewhere. There was a singular unskilfulness in the archers, and one that might have pro voked a milder man than Count Rudolin. He himself was a fine marksman, and felt the disappointment as keenly as oould the unlucky competitors. At last, as each seemed shootiog worse than tho one before him, he rose from his seat and starting hastily forward seized a bow from a peas ant’s hand. But even his skill was not exempt from the general disgrace. The arrow struck the target nearer than any before it, but yet at a most provoking dis tance from the centre. The Count shook with rage and shame. ‘Bring hither my own cross bow,’ he shouted, < and the silver arrow. I can do nothing with these awkward things ; they, at least, will not fail.’ ‘ Beware, Count Rudolin,’ said Mel choir, ‘ the silver arrow is not to be used on light occasions.’ ‘ And why not, meddler V He stamped with fnry as he spoke. ‘ Remember, noble Count, that your anoestor received that arrow from a dealer in magic, for a particular mystio purpose, aud the time for that has long sinoe passed. Think, too, of the fatal caution which ac companied the gift— to use it only where life, or death to the House of Rudolin was eonoerned, for when the shaft should miss its mark, the unskilful archer should find it in his own heart.’ ‘ I am not the unskilful marksman whose arrow can miss,’ said the Count sternly, as he reoeived the shaft and bow. This arrow, which had descended through many generations to the heirs of Rudolin, was delicately moulded of virgin metal. The shaft was hollow and skilful ly ornamented with strange characters, and aßide from the magic power oommonly at tributed to it, was indeed a sure weapon in the hands of a good marksman. The Count examined it reverently, placed it in the bow and turned to take aim. In his agi tation he did not oarefully draw the bow string, and as he abruptly wheeled about, caught in his doublet, and of course dis charged the shaft. It whizzed swiftly through the air and lodged in a tree, whioh projected right over the fearful fissure already mentioned. All hurried to the spot. The trunk of the tree was only a few feet from the narrow bridge, bnt where it pushed its boughs broadly out, there was nothing beneath them except the torrent which roared under the oliff. The tree itself could be easily olimbed' by a hardy mountaineer, but, unfortunately, the arrow had lodged in a dead branch, whioh seemed unable to bear the weight of a man. Any attempts from the land to loosen it, would inevitably-'cause it to drop into the torrent. At one glance the Count saw all the hazard at an attempt to regain the arrow. Yet as a work of magio, whose loss would be followed by a curse, he could not bear to lose it. Rather his castle, anything than that on whioh his life depended. ‘ Five hundred crowns,’ cried he, * to the man who will place the silver arrow in my hands!’ There was a wistful buzzing among his retainers, but no one stirred. The Count marked this and knew what must be the price of such fearful danger! VjU grant,’ he said slowly arid loudly, ‘ any boon in my power and consistent with my honor, whioh he may demand.’ At these words he saw a youth at the baok of the orowd striving to break loose from those who would restrain him. The Count continued, ‘ the reward will be given by the hands of the Countess Lilien.’ Albert broke desperately from the grasp of his friends, v r .. (f success was in the power of man, his light agile form seemed most likely to ob tain it.‘: ; It was easy to asoend the tree up to tnq point where the. dead limb shot off “THAT OOUHTBY 18 TOT HOST BKOSHKOtTS WHJUI XABOB OOHKANDS TOT OUATIBT aiwnn,". LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MCVRNJNG, NOYEMBER 25. 1862, from the trunk. Here he stopped a moment and ooolly formed his plan. There was no other oourse than to advance bold ly upon the rotten brsnob, without any support over head, and to return in the same manner. He stepped lightly and nervously forward. His eye was fixed upon the silver arrow, as it glittered before him, loosely hanging to the branch with nothing between it and the torrent but an hundred feet of'air. It was reached and in the youth’s hand. Had he moved on without stopping, the decayed wopd might have borne its burthen a little longer, but the unavoidable pause in grasping fche 'ehaft brought his whole weight for an instant upon a particular point.. The branch oraoked. He threw the arrow at the Count’s feet just as the bough broke from the tree with a crashing noise and fell down the abyss. A cry of terror burst from the crowd. In that dreadful moment, when his solid support gave way, the youth’s daring cool ness did not fail him. With a nervous effort, that snapped tbe.rotten bough clear from the tree, he sprang forward as far as possible into the air. His only hope was to catoh the bridge a few feet on one side in his desoent, and he barely succeeded. His fingers just closed upon the rail, and though the sudden shock in falling nearly swuDg him away, life depended upon his grasp, and he steadily maintained it for a second. Then he lightly leaped upon the bridge, crossed it, and picking the arrow from the ground, whence no one had thought of removing it, plaoed it in the Count’s hands. The peasants broke into shouts of tri umph. Even the Count’s harsh features wore a smile of admiration as ho said : ‘ Now, gallant boy, ask the boon.’ Albert looked steadily at the young Countess until she shivered under his gazeT He stepped forward and offered to take her hand within his own. Trembling with recent excitement,and conscious of nothing but the movements of one, so miraculously preserved to her love, she yielded to the only impulse of her heart and kneeled with him at her father’s 3 feet. Count Rudolin whitened with rage at this presumptuous act. A storm of pas sion swept into his heart, and almost burst the frame that was unable to contain it. For a few moments his retainers looked to see him go into convulsions, as had often happened when anything roused his un governable fury. At last he spoke a few words in a hoarse, stammering hiss. ‘ Bind and dqngeon the madman i On with your sports, simple fools !’ Without noticing Lilien he walked hur riedly to the castle, the silver arrow yet in his hands. In his joy at its recovery he had vowed not to part with it throughout the day. The only reward of its restorer was a dungeon. In the evening the great hall of the oastle was brilliantly illuminated and thrown open for dancing. Count Rudolin was there somewhat more composed than he had shown himself a few hours before, but with a darker expression than common upon his countenance. The talisman of his house was yet grasped in his hands, as if he feared to lose it. Perhaps he thought of what young Albert had gained in exchange for losing his life. Lilien too was thore, no longer quietly beautiful, but discomposed and each mo ment oasting around vague glanoes, whioh seemed to implore assistance. Melohoir received one and obeyed the mate sign to approach her. ‘ Can you save him, father Melchoir V ‘No harm of life or limb must come to Albert. I know that whioh oan set him free, and if it comes to the worst I will speak.’ ‘ Save him, then, as he is. Can you talk so coolly of the danger to the son whom you have adopted as your own V ‘ Countess Lilien, he oan be relieved only by your own fall. Do you eonsent to the sacrifice 1 Bethink you before you speak.’ ‘ I need no thought. Say what you know—no matter what happens to me. I cannot be more wretohed than I am now.’ ‘ Then I will do it,’ exolaimed the old man. ‘lt is time, high time, that the whole truth was known.’ He struck his harp ; the dancing ceased, and all gathered aronnd the minstrel for his accustomed song and tale. But when their attention was secured, he com menced with the recital of his story, ad dressing himself particularly to Count Rudolin. ‘There once lived a baron whose life was obarmed by a beautiful and kind lady. She died and left him bnt one pledge of their happiness. Years passed by, and the yonng Countess arrived just upon the verge of womanhood, lovely as her mother before her, and blessed by all. Bat un fortunately she loved a peasant, and this awakened the baron’s wrath. The Count Rudolin discovering she was not his child, — ‘ Stop !’ shouted a load voioe. The Count placed himself in front of the old minstrel and eyed him sternly.— ‘ Melchoir, it was of .Count Rudolin that you spoke. Speak on now what yon have to. say.’ ‘ I spoke,’ said" Melohoir, oalmly, ‘ of the noble Count Rudolin and my daughter Lilien. The nurse who attended upon the Countess at her death was my wife. She had been angered by her lady, and had vowed a deep revenge, whioh should strike into the very Honse of Rndolin. This was done by palming off another child as the daughter of the Countess. Her mis tress soon died, and who was there sus pected or knew more than the confidential nurse !’ ‘ What proof is there that you do not lie!’ said the Count, without manifesting belief or disbelief in the story. ‘ My own oath and the attested confes sion of my own wife, just before her own death, are sufficient. But there is another kind of testimony to #hichyou would give ea n r ore^ence - The silver arrow of the House of Rudolin was given to yonr ancestor just before the birth of an heir. The child brought with him into tboworld an arrow distinctly marked upon h» arm, and this.has distinguished all his descen dants. You bear srioh a mark upon your own person, and you have heard that your ohiid also oarried this seal of its- descent. Look here !’ ‘ He bared the fine swelling arm of Lilien up to her snowy shoclder, hut there was no traoe upon that soft, fresh skin. ‘ This should snffioe for you. I demand my daughter Lilien.’ < ! ‘lt is enough!—take her. By heaven,' false man, I might have known that no blood of mine could have sought to mingle itself with a peasant race. Aye! bring forward young Albert. He shallhave the very boon he asked this morning. Stop! he is not your son ; I have been told that you adopted him.’ ‘He is not my son. I adopted him many years since,’ Melchoir replied. ‘ Then in the Fiend’s name let them wed. Summon the ohaplain hither.’ In a few minutes they were duly married. ‘ Melchoir, I have interrupted your story —I will finish it for you. Count Rudolin found she was not his daughter, and mar ried to a ohanoe-born, who felt it no dis honor to mingle his poor blood with that of a traitor’s daughter. And the betrayed man soon worthily punished the traitor.— Mark that part of the story, false Melohoir. New let this merry making oease. Away ! all of you.’ r ‘ ‘ My Lord Connt has not quite finished the story. When the nurse gave her own child to the lady, she took another child in exchange. And that child is Albert, whom you, noble Count, unthinking of Providenoe, in your haste have married to my daughter. See ! upon his arm is the arrow which belongs to the House of Rndolin.’ There was indeed a faint, straight mark whioh bore some similitude to an arrow. The whole frame of Count Rudolin seemed torn with silent yet terrible emotion. There was no joy at recovering his lost son manifested in bis working features, but shame at the degradation of his race in that marriage, and rage against him who had eaused it. He tottered up to Melohoir and raised his arm, while his white lips whispered, ‘My blood is joined to yours, traitor!’ The blood suddenly shed to his face with apoplectic fulness, he dropped his arm and wavered a moment, then fell heavily to the ground. The shaft whioh he had hold loosely in his hand, was pointed upwards, and transfixed his body as its whole weight pressed suddenly upon it. He stirred once and died. Melohoir solemnly waved back the peasants as they orowded around the body. ‘ It is true, then, that this fatal arrow, when it has missed the target, should find its mark in the aroher’s heart. Let the body be removed. Yet why do I command in this hall ? Albert of Rudolin, thou art Lord here, and you, Lilien, are mistress as before.’ irr- In an interior town in old Connec ticut, lives an odd character named .Ben Hayden. Bun has some good points, but he will run his face when and where ho can, and never pay. In the same town lives Mr* Jacob Bond who keeps the store at the corner. Ben had a score there, but to get his pay was more than Mr. B. was equal to. One day Ben made his ap pearance with a bag and a wheelbarrow. 6 Mr. Bond, I want to buy two bushels of corn, and I want to pay you the cash for it.’ ‘Very well,*, says B. And so they both go up stairs, and B. puts up the corn, and Ben takes it down, while Mr. B. stops to close np his windows. When he got down he saw old Ben some distance from the door, making for home. ‘ Halloo, Ben ! You said you wanted to pay the cash for that corn.’ Old Ben sat down on one handle of his barrow, and cocking his head on one side, said— ‘ That’s all true, Mr. B , I do want to pay yon the cash for the corn, but I can’t.’ As a minister of Dumblane hap pened to be one day visiting his flook, along with one of his elders, they felt ex tremely hungry, and on arriving at the honse of Janet , they asked for some refreshments. Janet set before them everything of an eatable kind she pos sessed, whioh consisted of oat cakes and butter. This was all the poor woman had to serve her for some time to come, aud she naturally felt some anxiety for its rapid disappearance. The minister began conversing pretty freely with Janet, and asked if she had been to church the pre vious Sunday, and, if so, whether she reoolleoted the sermon. She replied in the affirmative, and on the minister’s in quiring what the text was, she said it was the text of ‘ The Loaves and the Fishes,’ and added, still notioing the rapid disap pearance of the cakes and the butter, ‘ Deed, sir, if the multitude had been as hungry as you and the elder, I think there would have been fewer fragments left.’ I’ll tell Pa when He comes Home. —A friend of ours, who had taken pride for several years in cultivating a full crop of hair on his faoe, was called away from home on business some time siube. While absent, an inexperienoed barber spoiled his whiskers in trimming them, whioh so ohagrined him that he direoted the barber to make a clean job of it by shaving whisk ers and mustache both off. The barber obeyed, and onr friend’s face was as smooth and as delicate as when in his teens. He returned home in the night. Next morn ing his little girl did not recognize him on waking up. Looking over hhr mother, and seeing, as she supposed a stranger in the bed, she remarked in her childish sim plicity, ‘ Mister, get out of here ; I’ll tell my IPa when he comes home.' SF* Sidney Smith tells of a maid who used to boil the eggs very well by her master’s watch, but one day he could not lend it to her beeanse it was under repairs ; so she took the time from the kitohen clock, and the eggs came up nearly raw. ‘ Why didn’t you take three minutes from the ■olook, as you do from the watoh, Mary ?’ * Well, sir, I supposed that would be too imnch, as the hands on the olock are so much larger ?’ A olergyman, in one of his sermons, exolaimed to his hearers : ‘ Eternity 1 why, don’t yon know the meaning of that word ? Nor I either, hardly. It is forever and over, and five or .six everlastings atop of that. You might place a row of figuies from here to sunset, and it wonlden’t ; begin to tell Low many ages loDg eternity is. Why, my friends,.after millions and trillions of years had rolled away in eternity, it would be a. -hundred years to breakfast time.’ A newspaper j in noticing the pre— ■ sentation of a silver enp to a ootemporary aay : ‘He needs no cup. He can drink from'any vessel that .contains liquor, 'whether the neok of a bottle, the month of a demijohn, the Bpile of a keg, or the bung i, 1010 of a bajcreli’. ; ~ THE ABRAHAM LAUDAMUS. That there is considerable human nature in the following, says the New York Sunday Mercury, ™ one oan deny. It comes to ns from a devotee in one of the eity churches, and we publish it without com ment : We praise thee, 0 Abe! We acknowledge thee to be sound on the goose. All Yankee-lasd doth worship thee, everlasting old joker. , . To thee all office-seekers cry aloud, “Flunkey dom, and all the powers thereiir. To thee Stanton and Welles continually do cry* “Bully, bully, bully boy with a glass eye.*' Washington and Illinois are rail of thy majesty and thy praise.. . • The glorious company of Political Generals praise thee. r The goodly fellowship of Postmasters praise thee. The noble army of Contractors praise thee. The mighty Republican institutions throughout all Columbia do acknowledge thee. The father of infinite proclamations, thine admir able. tree and only policy. Also Brevet Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, the comforter. , Thou art the Ring ot Rail Splitters, 0 Abel Thou art the everlasting son of the late Mr. Lin coln. When thou lookert upon theelo run for the Pres idency and deliver the Union, thou didst humble thyself to stand upon the “ Chicago Platform?” When thou didst overcome the sharpness of elec tion, thou didst open the White House kitchen to all believers. > Thou sitteat at the right hand of “ Uncle Ram i n the glory of the Capital.' 7 Wo believe that thou shalt not come to be,re elected. Nevertheless we. pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast kept from “Jeff. Davis” and “ Foreign Intervention.” Make ns to be remem bered with thy favorites in office everlasting. 0 Abe! Save thy people and bless tby parasites ! Govern them and increase their salaries forever! Day by day w'd puff thee. And we exalt thy name forever in the daily pa pers. Vouchsafe, 0 Abe! to keep us this day without a ohange of Generals. 0 Ahe! have meroy upon the army of the Po tomac ! 0 Abe! let thy meroy be upon us, as our trust is not in Wadsworth. 0 Abe! for thee have X voted, let me never be drafted! How the French Economize. There are few American families who know exactly the expenses of a year; they all know probably that it costs about so many hundred or thousand dollars on the whole. But every European family, knows the expense of every year, of every month, day or hour—the exaot cost of every dinner, supper or breakfast, of every morsel they eat, of every drop they drink. Every German and Frenoh housewife knows not only how much the meat, pota toes and bread of any meal have cost, bnt also the water in which she has cooked them, and the coal or wood she has burned to boil the water. It is infinitely amusing to an American to observe such a menage. In Paris there is no aqueduct, the foun tains of the city belong to the government, and the water is sold by barrels and pails full to water carriers, who supply families at so much a gallon. In a house of five stories there are two families on each floor, making ten who ascend the same staircase, up which all articles for family use must be oairied. It is a rule that water, coal and all heavy artioles must be taken up before noon, as übout that time the con cierge cleans the hall and stairs, and they must be kept clean for oallers in the after noon. In every kitchen is a receptacle for water, consisting of an oblong box, con taining two or more pailsfull, according to tho means of the family or their, ideas of oleaoliness. In one oorner of the box is a small portion of porous stone, whioh serves as a filter, and to whioh is a separate faucet. The porteur brings two large pailß full of water for three cents, and comes every morning. It is therefore very .easy to know how mnoh the water costs in whioh the dinner is boiled. In the same kitchen is a box for coal, which contains the quantity for which they pay forty cents, and they know exactly how many meals can be cooked with this quantity. If they have guests to dinner, they use an extra quantity of water and coal, and know how many cents worth are devoted to each guest, and then of course they know if they can afford to invite any body agaih! They know exactly how much of every, article is used every day. The. streets of Paris are lined with small grooeries, where everything is purchased by the cent’s worth, and are certainly very convenient for people who earn only a few oents per day. If a family oomes into the neighbor hood who does not patronize these small shop-keepers, it is considered a great in justice, and we have known them to com mence a regular persecution of 'such a family, annoying them in every possible way. They keep coffee, burnt and ground, sugar, powdered and in lumps, tobacco, liquors, and every household article in infinitely small quantities. The morning meal in every French family is bread and coffee, what they call cafe au lait, and is made of equal portions of coffee and ohiokory plaoed in a biggin, upon whioh hot water is ponred so long as it runs through black. Of this they take two spoonsful to a half pint of boiiing milk. Three or five cents worth of ooffee is purchased every day, and the milkman and baker of course come every morning. The second meal is at noon, though it is oalled breakfast, and is merely a lunch eon, cold, or tho remnants of yesterday’s dinner. For these two no cloth is put upon the table, and all ceremony is un necessary. The dinner is at six, and consists of meat and one vegetable, and sometimes a salad. I have seen a piece of meat, cooked with-:, out onions and garlic, and swimming in gravy. The salad is dressed with oil and vinegar, the rule being a spoonful of vinegar to three of oil, with pepper, salt, and mustard, and also a little onion and garlic. The commencement of dinner is of course soup, as this is invaluable in every continental family. There are also soup shops, where a pin t or a quart can be purchased every day, between four and six. But as often as once or twice a week they have a boiled dinner, what they call pot au feu. In America the liquor in which meat and vegetables are boiled for such a dinner are thrown away. It must certainly contain the best juice of the meat, and be very good and nourishing. In Europe it is every drop saved and eaten. They .fill an earthen pot with meat and vegetables, never omitting the onions, and let it boil away one-half. For the soup, they seaspn. it with pepper, and sometimes with sqrrel, parsley, .and other herbs and spices, and thicken it with vermicelli or crumbs or bread. Whether it is delioious or not, it certainly seems too good to throw away. American house-wives, who maybe obliged' to practioe economy, oan at least try it,- — Children may be taught to like it, and must not be told it is an institution-of eoonomy merely. ■ - : The dessert is almost invariably: bread and oheese in winter, with a little pomfiture. I do not mean to say that every family lives BUdHAHAH. in this way, but I have been in many, and seen little difference.' One is expected'to take a bit of cheese about an inoh square, anda teaspoonfol of oomfitnre. The little shop windows are also lined with jars of preserves, .whioh are sold in quantities of two or three cents worth, like anything else. Cheese in the same way, a lnt a few i inches sqnare for dinner. The pepper and salt are no exceptions to the three cent : rule, little three-cornered papers being the | only receptables for them. Cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and similar spices have no looation in a continental family, where they never make a pudding or pie of oake of ,any description, and where they wonld consider it the greatest extravagance to eat snob things. Wo are talking of families who have a regular income of §6OO or |BOO, §lOOO or §l5OO .a year.— Suoh a family does not allow'the whole expense of the table to he more than §8 or §lO a month eaoh person, and we know those who limit it to §5 or §6, and yet who live very comfortably. —Paris Cor. JV. F. Com. Adv. A promising boy was reading the Bible very attentively; when his father oame in the room and asked him what 'he had found that was so interesting. The boy, looking np eagerly, exclaimed : 4 1 have found a place in the Bible where they were all Methodists.’ ‘ How so ?’ inquired the father. ‘ Becanse, ‘ all the people said Amen.’ ’ Conscript Cotton. —‘ Cotton is going to be drafted, I see,’ remarked Valentine languidly, as he dallied with the last 1 English Items.’ ‘ Drafted !’ exclaimed Orson, ‘ Cotton drafted V ‘ Yes,’ replied Valentine, ‘ they are try ing to find a Substitute for it in England.’ —Vanity Fair. ‘ If a oivil word or two will render a man happy,’ said aFrenobman, ‘he must be a wretch indeed who will not give it.— It is like lighting another man’s oandle with your own, whioh loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.’ THE LANCASTER. INTELLIGENCER JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT, No. 8 NORTH DUKK STREET, LANCASTER, PA. Tho Jobbing Department 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 aro 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, accaracy 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 North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa. D KESSLER’S HAIR JEWELRY STORE. No. 209 North Bth Street above-Lacs, PHILADELPHIA. On hand and for eale, a choice assortment ot superior patterns, and will plait to order BRACELETS, EAR RINGS, FINGER RINGS, BREAST PINS, CROSSE3, NECKLACES, GUARD AND VEST CHAINS. Ay* Orders enclosing the hair to'be plaited may be sent by mail. Give a drawing as near as you can on paper, and enclose such amount as you may choose to pay. Costs as follows: Ear Rings $2 to s6— Breast Pins $3 io vs 7— Finger Rings 75 cents to s3.so— Vest Chains $6 to s 7— Necklaces $2 to $lO. '&3T Hair put into ModaHonx, Box Breast Pins, Rings, Ac. OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT AT FAIR RATES, apr 16 ly H SALES I TIIAUE SALES ! I The subscriber, having just returned from the Philadel phia Trade Sales, offers at the lowest prices nil kinds of Books, embracing LAW, FICTION, MEDICAL, RE LIGIOUS, BIOGRAPHY, MECHANICAL and other kinds. There boobs will be sold at the lowest prices, as we had the advantage aud were the only Bookseller from Lancas ter at the Trade ’Sules, and, os a consequence, we -can sell lower than any other Store. A few of the Books are here mentioned V WEBSTER’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY, WuRCESTEK’3 UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY, SOLDIERS’.TEXT BQOKS; REVISED ARMY REGULATIONS, McClelland bayonet exercises, U. S. INFANTRY TACTICS, ZOUAVE DRILL BOOK, GIFT BOOKS OF ALL KINDS, PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS, For tho Pocket or Centre Table, in great variety. The GIFT BOOK for the season. SOIIOOL MAPS, CHARTS AND CARDS, PELTON'S OUTLINE MAPS, SANDERS’ ELOCUTIONARY CHART, SANDERS’ SCHOOL CARDS, SERGEANT’S SCHOOL CARDS, WEBB’S SCHOOL CARDS. * BIBLES In great variety, from twenty-five cents to twenty-five dollars, some of thorn having the finest bind ings and illustrations ever received in town. SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOKS—Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, American Tract Society, Ameri can Sunday School Union. SCHOOL BOOKS—Danders’, Towers’, Sergeant’s, Wil son’s, Parker A Watson’s Readers ; Monteith’s, Mitchel’s, Warren’s, Smith’s Geographies. Also, Algebras, Arithme tics, Grammars, Histories, Dictionaries, Ac. Stationery, Copy and Composition Books, Cap, Note and Letter Paper Blank Books, Slates, Lead and Slate Pencils. Pens and Holders, Ink and Ink Stands, Rulers, Envelopes. The best Inks In the market are sold here, viz: Maynard k Noye’s, Arnold’s, Hoover’s, Laughlings k Busbfield’s, Blackwood’s, etc. At the Cheap Book Store of JOHN SHEAPFER, nov 12 tf 441 No. 32 North Qneen St;, Lancaster, Pa POSTAGE CURRENCY, LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES For the accommodation of our customers we haTe secured The largest lot ever opened in Lancaster. Latest styles and lowest prices. sep 2 td 34] THE AMERICAN ANNUAL CYCLO PEDIA AND REGISTER OF IMPORTANi EVENTS OF THE'YEAR 1861. Embracing Political, Civil, Military and Social Affairs; Public Documents; JSlrgrapby, Statistics, Com- ' merco, Finance, Literature, Science, Agri- . culture and Mechanical Industry. The volume will be in-the' style' of- tho New American' Cyclopsdia, having nct less than 760 pages* royal Bvo. The work will be'published exclusively by subscription ; and its exterior appearaheewill be at once elegant and aub-, stantial. D. APPLETON A CO., New York: ELIAS BARRA CO-,; :: ,-j No. B East Ring Street, apr 15 tf 11 ] Agt’s for Lancaster City and Off • SOMETHIIfGPOR Tttß TllttESni A NECESSITY IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD IU Johns & crosleps -* =' '• AM B 810 A. N 0 : E Mfß N;I GL V ?5,~ THE STRONGEST GLUX IS THE WORLD FOB CEMENTING- WOOD, LEATHER; GLASS* JYORY, CHINA. MARBLE, PORCELAIN,, ALABASTER. - ’ BONB/COBAL, ' > : The only.article of.the kJod esei: pi£d:jced which will. * withstand Watch " '' •- - - EX T R'aVt-8 : ' ‘ “ Every housekeeper shonTd haVe asupply of Johns A Crosley’s American Gem dht Work Timet. “It is so convenient tohave io the. house.”—iYirw- York Erpresif -n ~. J - *'v;->v Mt ia always ready? this commends It to everybody.”—? It. T.lndependent' , • .- ~ “We have tried Ifc-and-fiadlt as-usefulitt’onr hjouse as water.” — wakes’-Spirit of tiit Tima. . ' ‘ PRIOBTWBNTY-PIVE CENTS PER BOTTLE. Very LibcreUtodnriiQns to WbaLejalff Dealer** salary generally, throughout the country. •“ " raz * 78 WILLIAM NEW YORK, OIL OiL,j? .SPIKE,STONE,aENEKgSSOTAKW - ’ • w ilatorsaUifrTHOMAflßMUKEßSpn^ jiooanior.l ,51 srfoTt,cr■*>Tj WENTZ BROTHERS Are opening a now lot of FALL GOOD S, Which they will sell at the some of the beautifol NEW POSTAGE CURRENCY, Which we will give out in change. HOOP SKIRTS , WENTZ BROTHERS, No. 5 East King St., Bee Hive Store. qiHB '-c js; o , “PATRIOT 4 ninOß,” THE CHEAPEST PAPER PCBLIIBHED IN ■ PENNSYLVANIA I ■ . r^AHa THE only democratic paper published ax THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT! FORTY-FOUR COLUMNS. OF READING MATTER EAGttWKEKK. AT THE LOW PRICE OF ONE DOLLAR AND =-FIFTY GENTS 1 WHEN_£UBBOMBHD FOR NOT t.bh^ SHAN TEN COPIES TO ONB ADDBBSSI Wehave been compelled to raise the club subscription price to one.doHar and and fifty centsin order to save oar* selves from actual lon.. Paper haa risen, including taxes, abouttwentyfire percent,, and stUlrising; and when wo teU out Democratic friends, candidly, that w* eau no longer afford to sell the Weekly Patriot AHnUmbNat one dollar a year, and, most add fifty cents oratop-the-publica* tlon, we traat they Fill appreciate onr position, and,'in* stead of withdrawing their subscriptions., go to work with a will to increase oorllat in every connty in the -State. We have .endeavored,-and shall continue our efforts, to make the: paper useful as a party organ, and welcome as a newa messenger to ‘every family.. We. flatter ourselves that it has notbeen without some influence In producing the glorious revolution in the politics of the State achieved at the ikte election?,and if fe&eTessnesa in the discharge of dnty, fidelity.fo“the principle* of the party, and anxious desire to promote its interests, with some experience ar.d a moderate degree of ability, can be made serviceable here* after, thq Weekly Patriot and Union will not be less use* ful to the party or less welcome to the family circle in the future than it has been in the past. We confidently look for increased encouragement in this great enterprise, and appeal to evary-inflaential Democrat In the State to lend ns bis aid in running onr subscription list up to twenty.or thirty thousand. The expense to each indlviduat la trifling, the benefit to the party may be great. Balievlfig.that -the Democracy of the state feel the necessity of sustaining a fearless central organ, we make this appeal to them for as* siatauce with the fullest confidence of success. - The eame reasona.which indace us to. raise the price the Weekly, operate ih regard to the Daily paper, the price of which is also-Increased. The additional cost to each subscriber will be but trifling; and, while we cannot per suade ourselves that Ih&'change-necessarUy made will re* suit iu any diminution of our daily circulation, yet, were we certain that soch would lie the consequence, we would still be compelled to make it, or suffer a ruinous loss. Under there circumstances we must throw ourselves upon the generosity, or, rather, the justico of the public, and abide their verdict, whatever it may be. ! . The period for which many of our subscribers have paid for their paper beiog on the eve. of expiring, we take the liberty o* issuing this notice, reminding them of the same, in order that tboy may RENEW THEIR CLUBS. We shall also take it as an’especial favor if onr present subscribers will urge apon their neighbors- the iaot the Patriot and Union is the only Democratic paper printed in Harrisburg, end considering the large amount of read* log matter, embracing all the current news of the day,and TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES. from everywhere up to the moment the paper goes to press, political, miscellaneous, general and local news market re* ports, is decidedly the CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE STATE! ‘ . . • « There la scarcely a village or town in the State in which a club cannot be raised if the proper exertion be made, and sorely there are few places in which one or more energetic men cannot be fonnd who are iu favor of the dissemination of sound Democratic doctrines, would be willing tQ make the effort to raise a club. DEMOCRATS OF THE INTERIOR! let us hoar from yoa. The existing war, and the approach* ing station of the Congress aud State Legislature, are fa* vested with unusual interest, and every man should have the news. TERMS. daily Patriot and union. Single copy for odo year, in advance tingle copy during the session of the Legislature City subscribers ten cents per week. Copies supplied to agents at the rate of slper hundred, WEEKLY PATRIOT AND UNION. PUBLISHED ZYZRY THURSDAY. Single copy for one year, In advance. Ten copies to one address Subscriptions may commence at any time. PAY AL WAYS IN ADVANCE. We are obliged to make this Im perative In every instance cash must accompany subscript tion. Any person sendiug us a club of tweuly suecribers to tho W'eafcly will bo entitled io a copy for his services. Tho price, even at the advance rate, is so low that we can not offer greater inducements than this. Additions may bo made at auy time to a club-of subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty touts for each additional name'." It is nut necessary to send us the names of thoao constituting a club, as we cannot undertake to address each paper to club subscribers separately. Specimen copies of the Weekly will be Beut to all who desire it. nov 4 5t 43] THE HORACE WATERS UIOUERK A improved overstrung bass full ikon- frame PIANOS are justly pronounced by the Press and Music Masters to be superior lustrumjnts. They are built of the bast and most thoroughly seasoned materials, and will stand any climate. The tone Is very deep, round, full and mellow;' the touch elastic. Each Piano warranted for three years. Prices from $175 to {7OO. - Opinions op the Press.— “ Tho Horace Waters Pianos are knowu as among the very best. We are enabled to speak of these instruments wjih some degree of confidence, from persouni knowledge of their excellent tono and durable quality.”— Christian Intelligencer. $l5 0 .—NEW 7-OCTAVE PIANOS in Rosewood casos, iron frames, and over-strung has*, of different makers, for $150; do., with monldings, $160; do, with carved legs and iolaid nameboard, $175, $lB5, and S2CO; do., with pearl keys, $225, $250 and $300; new octave, $135; do., 6%- octave, $l4O. Tho above i’iaoos are fully warranted, and are the greatest bargains that can be found In the city. Please call and see them. Second-hand Pianos at $25, $4O, $5O, $6O, $75, and slod. THE HORACE WATERS MEL'ODEONS, Rosewood Cages, Tuned tho Equal Temperament, with'the Patent Divided dwell and Solo Stop. X’dces from $36 to-’. $2OO. Orgau Harmoniums with Pedal Bass, $250, $275 and $3OO. School Htrmoniums, $4O, $OO, $BO and $lOO. Also, - Melodeons and Harmoneucns of the following makers,., Prince & Co’s, Carbart & Needham, Mason ’& Hamlin, and S. D. & U. W. Smith, all of which will be sold at extremely low prices. These Melodeoue remain in tone a long time. Each Melodeon warranted for three years. A litoral discount to Clergymen, Churches, Sabbath Schools, Lodges, Sominarles aud Teachers. ' The trade supplied on the meat liberal terms. •' THE DAT SCHOOL BELL 35,000 CODIES ISSUED. Anew Sieging Book for Day Schools, called the Day.: School Bell, Is now ready. It contains about 200 choice, songs, rounds, catches, duetts, trios, quartetts and-chdf uses, many of thorn written expresaly for this work.- be- • sides 32 pages of the Elements of Music.' The Elements* are so e,sy and progressive, that ordinary teacher* WiU. find themselves entirely successful lu instructing even youog scholars to sing correctly and scientifically; while the tunes and words embrace such a variety of lively, at tractive, and soul-stirring music and sentiments, that no trouble will be experienced in Inducing all beginners to go on with zeal in acquiring skill in one of the most health-giving, beauty-improving, happiness-yielding, and order-producing exercises of school life. In .slmplicty of Us elements, in variety and adaptation of music, and. in, excellence and number of its soDga, original, selected, and r adapted, it claims by much to excel all competitors. It will be found the beat-ever issued for seminaries, acade mies and public schools. A few sample pages of the ele-'. monte, tunes and songs, are given in a circular; send and gee one. It is compiled by Horace Waters, author •of • “Sabbath School Bell,” Nos. land 2, which have the enormous sale of 735,000 copies. Prices—paper cover, 20 cents, $l6 per 100; bound, 30 dents, $22 per 100; cloth bound, embossed gilt, 40 cents, $3O per 100. 25 copiesfur nished at tho IUO price. Mailed at the retail price. HORACE WATERS, Publisher, 481 Broadway, New York.' ‘' SABBATH SCHOOL BELL No. 2. 86,000 COPIES ISSUED. It is an entire new work of nearly 200 pages. Many ot the tunes and hymns were written expressly-for this -vol ume. It will soon be as popular as its predecessor, (Bell No. 1) which has i un up to the enormous number of 650,- 000 copies—outstripping any Sunday school book of its size ever i-sned iu this country. Also, both volumes are bouud In one to accommodate schools wishing them la that form. Prices of Bell No. 2, paper covers, 15 cents, $l2 per 100; bound, 25conts, -$lB per 100; cloth bound, etxi bossed gilt, 30 cents, $23 perJOO. Bell No. 1, paper covers, 13 cents, $lO per 100; bound, 20 cents, $lB per 100; cloth bound, embossed gilt, 25 cents, $2O per hundred. Bells Noe. 1 and 2 bound together, 4Q cents, $3O, per 100, cloth bound, embossed gilt, 60 cents, $4O par 100. 26 copies fur nished at the 100 price. Mailed at the retail price. HORACE WATERS, Publisher, 481 Broadway, New York. NEW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. President Liucoln’s Grand March, with the best Vignette of his Excellency that bas-yet been published; music by ’ Helmsmuller, leader of the 22d Regiment Banff, .price 60 cents. Our Generals* QaicliJBtep,*wlth vignette of 85 of our' 1 generals; music by Grafulla, leader ofYhe 7th Regiment r Band, f 0 cents. The Seven Sons’ Gallop, and Laura Keene■ Waliz, 35 cents each. Comet Schotliscbe, 25 cents; all by Baker. M uric Box Gallop, by Herring, 86 cents. Union Waltz, La Urasas, 26 cents.' Volunteer Polka, Goldbrtk, 25 cents. Spirit Polka; General Scott’s Farewell'Grand March, 25 cents each ; Airy Castles; 30 cents, all by A. -Jfc! - P&rkliurst. Freedom, Troth and Bight Grand wiih eplendld vignette; music by Carl Hbinetoan, 60 ets.T AU of. which are fine productions. ~ ... v f NEWVOC A L M V S lU, ; v j ; I will be true to thee; A penny for yonr thoughts; Lit tle Jenny Dow; Better times are- coming; 1 dream'of r&y ’ mother and my home; Merry little birds are we, (a song r for children;) Slumber; my darling,' Lizzie dlek ’ to-nighr, - Jen Dy’s coming o’er the green;-Was-my Brother in the Battle, and,Why Imve my.loved ones gaudily Stephen C. Foster. Shall we know each other there? by the Rev. Jl. Lowry. Pleasant words for all, by J. Robertt. 'ThereU a beautiful world, by I,M; .Holmes. Price. ,25 ceats, Freedom, Truth and Right, a * national song' grader chorus; musie by Carl Heinemann,Whh EpgjlshatKl Geivr man words, 30 cents. Where liberty dwells is my country, Plumtey. Forget if you can, but forgive; l- voices t-ioglng. and Home isJxome, by J. R. Thomas, 30 cents each. These songs are Yery popular. .rMailed free at retail priQe.’ " Foreign Sheet Music at 2 cents 'pir pagel AULklndilof at war prices, • ■ . . . HORACB-WATB^S,FuUither,' ;l l I. ; ,v- , . . f4Btßroadway t m . ,; : : ; MILLION,’ w*:} is. cheap roaja, abbasged as quabtsttis ahd chobusxs to I- ' - iroHiCAi/socitnza, choies, sotreAt school*,--- v>. \u the river? Be in le a -beautlfuLwqrlff; you hoar the Angels comiogj Where liberty tfwefls Is my country; Freedom, Troth »oog*-) u there a land of ioTeT EorToar ehSU'-come 'agaln no more. Price,3-cents, s2 I; <^sl. In sheet form, with Piano accompaniment; 26 cent*. . Published ,by HORACE WATERS; York,.and.for sale by N. P. Kemp, Boeton; Chas. 8. Luiber« Phllftielphia jOiCroesby; Qoriunati r T Powdered Rosin, Antimony," Baltpetre, Assafoetlda, Alum, Ac. Tor salaAfiinTt:m 7ilK ap»2ltflA -TTinMAB ur.r.arawwff w Ud Chemical Stor&'Waat Kre« 1 . • ' mhi'i isid ci V ■t'-i-X NCM6. 0. BABRETT & CO., Harrisburg, Pa.
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