. ■ _ . ~ - .','■.* ''-. VOL. LXIIL HE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER. bUSHXD KTIBT TIJISDAT, AT SO. 8 HOSTS CITSK'STBUT, BY GKO. SANDERSON. TEBUS StJBSCMPTCoH.—Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad vance. No subscription discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. ‘APVXBnsxuznrs.—Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) wQI be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional inser tion. Those of greater IdDgth in proportion. JQ? Prihtiho—Such as Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, Ac., Ac., executed with accuracy and on the shortest notice. - A MYSTERY. [We give the following wonderfully fine poem, with its introduction, as we received ifc.J—iV. Y. Hopic Journal. “ Travelling in Maine, a year or two ago, an old olergyman read to me the following lines, lie knew nothing of their authorship, except that they were written as a school exercise, in one evening in 1820, bjy a boy fifteen years of age, named Miltos Wabd. Evincing as they do uncommon talent, is it not strange that the summer of such a spring should have passed unnoticed? Perhaps some of the read ers of the Home Journal can tell whether their author still lives, or may point out other productions of the same pen THE LYRE. There was a lyre, ’tis said, which hung High waving o'er tbe summer air; An angel hand its chords had strung, And left to breathe its musio there. Each wandering breeze that o’er it flew, Awoke a wilder, sweeter strain, . Than ever shell of mermaid blew In coral grottos of the main. When, springing from the rose’s bell, Where all nigbt be had sweetly slept, The zephyr left the flowery dell, Bright with the tears which morning wept; He rose, and o’er the trembling lyre Waved lightly his soft azure wing; What touch such music could inspire! What harp suoh lays of joy could sing ! The murmurs of the shaded rills, ' The birds that sweetly warbled by, And the soft echoes from the hills, Were heard not where that harp was nigh. When the last light of fadiDg day Along the bosom of the west, In colors softly mingled lay, While night had darkened all the rest — Then, softer than that fading light, And sweeter than that lay that rung Wild through tbe silence,of the night, As solemn Philomela sung, * That harp its plaintive murmur*sighed Along the dewy breeze of even, So dear and soft they swelled and died, They seemed the echoed songs of heaven. Sometimes, when all tbe air was still, And not the poplar’s foliage trembled, That'harp was nightly heard to thrill With tones no earthly tones resembled. And then, upon the moon’s pale beams, Unearthly forms were seen to stray, Whose starry pinion’s trembling gleams Would oft around the wild harp play. But soon the bloom of summer fled— In earth and air it shone no more; Each flower and leaf fell pale and dead, While skies their wintry sternness wore. One day loud blew the northern blast— The tempest’s fury raged along— Oh ! for some angel as he passed, To shield the harp of heavenly song. It shrieked—how could it bear the touch— The cold, rude touch of such a storm— When e’en the zephyr seemed too much Sometimes, though always light and warm ; It loudly shrieked—but ah ! in vain— The savage wind more fiercely blew; Odco more—it never shrieked again, Bor every chord was torn in two. It never thrilled with anguish more, Though beaten by the wildest blast : The pang that thus its bosom tore, • Was dreadful—but it was the last. And though the smiles of summer played Gently upen its shattered form, And the light zephyrs o’er it strayed, That lyre they could not wake or warm. THE WAR IN VIRGINIA. (THE GREAT BATTLE OF FEEDER. ICKSBURG. Full and Interesting Particulars, fCorrespondence of the N. Y. Tribune.] Fredericksburg, Saturday, Decembor 13,1862 —11 P. M.—The third aot of the grand martial drama opened on Thursday last is over. Another battle has been ad ded to the bloody record of the Army of the Potomac. Night now covers onee more with her benign mantle scenes of carnage, strife and destruction. Under her guiding in fluence, let me attempt to forget the ex citement and overcome the fatigues of the day,and desoribe in conoise, though compre hensive terms, the fearful events of which I was an eye witness during the last twelve hours. Last evening, a General Council of War, attended by all the grand division, corps and division commanders, was held at a late hour at Gen. Sumner’s head quarters, at which General Burnside sub mitted and explained his plan for the general attack he proposed to make to-day upon the position of the enemy. The plan comprised a simultaneous ad vance of our whole line upon the enemy’s strong positions on the hills in front of the left and right grand divisions, whioh were to be carried by sudden assaults upon the stronghold of select bodies of troops. It was in keeping with the well-known boldness and dash of its author, but some doubts were expressed in the Council of its practicability by a number of those in attendance. All, however, expressed their readiness to undertake anything ordered by the Commander-in-Chief, and the necessary instructions were given to com mence a general movement upon the enemy with daylight. The fog that kept the valley of the river and the edj ic(!nt 'heights from view every day this week, again prevented the com mencement of operations at the stated time. Fortunately, however, it cleared away early in the day, and about 10 o’clock orders were directed to the Generals com manding the right and left grand divisions to prepare to charge immediately the works respectively assigned to them. THE BATTLE ON THE RIGHT. Gen. Sumner and staff left their head quarters about 11 o’clock, and repaired to the Lacey House, from which a full view of the scene of the impeding action on the right grand division could be obtained. Gen. Sumner had selected French’s Divis ion of Gen. Couch’s corps for the advanoe of the attacking oolumn. Orders to move from its position in the streets of Fredericksburg next to the river to the outskirts of the town, form a line of battle by brigades and preceded by a elqnd of skirmishers, move at a double quiok upon the first line of the enemy’s works: Gen. French was necessarily obliged to march his troops in solid columns in paral lel streets. As soon as the head of the columns had emerged from the lower into the higher portions of. the streets, the enemy’s batteries opened upon them from several points. Upon reaching the out skirts of the town, the order was given to deploy, but stone and other fences pre vented its ready execution. During the delay thus caused, the troops were exposed to the enfilading fire which taxed the advanoe of the troops most severely. .7 ■ The line being formed at last,..about noon.the order; to advanoewas given,, The lineinoved up and over a low.range of 1 elevationB, and “down 'toward' the f»at of-:: the hills, on which the enemy’s breastworks were situated from houses, rifle-pits, bar ricades, across the roads and other shelter. The rebel sharpshooters now opened from all sides with fearful effect. The rigor of the fire of the rebel artillery also steadily increased, and when the line reaohed the foot of the second range of hills, a perfect, hail of lead fell upon it. The advance, however, was continued until within a few hundred yards of the crest of the hills, when a rapid succession of ter rific volleys from long lines, of rebel in fantry, suddenly rising in front of their works, ohecked it. From the position they had gained our troops now exchangedround after round with the enemy until their ammunition be came exhausted, and the line fell back some distance, leaving nearly one-half of its number on the field, to make room for Gen. Hancock’s division. This division advanced, likewise formed in parallel lines of brigades. It moved forward steadfastly up to the point where Frenoh’s had received its check, when it was also stopped by the murderous fire of the rebel infantry and artillery. For two hours it alternately replied to the enemy’s musketry, and attempted to make its way up the second range of hills. Although unable to advance, and continu ally losing numbers, it fought until its ammunition gave out, when it was relieved by Howard’s division, and retired nearer to town. Howard’s command wenf into action about 3 o’clock. One after the other of its brigades was advanced to the front; but, like those of French and Hancock’s, did not suooeed in reaching the enemy’s works. The last of it, under Gen. Sully, was ordered to oharge up the hill with the bayonet, and moved forward in most gal lant style, but was ohecked, as all the other troops had been. Shortly after Frenoh’s Division had moved to the attack, Sturgis’ Division of Wilcox’s Corps advanced over a parallel road on the left of onr right upon the works and batteries covering the enemy’s right flank. It experienced the same diffi culties in forming, in consequence of ob structions on tho ground, as Frenoh’s, but pushed forward with the utmost determina tion, halting only at times to open its way by musketry. It reached within eighty yards of the crest of the hill it aimed to take, but hav ing been fearfully weakened in numbers during its advance, had to halt. It held the point, gained for three hours. Notwithstanding it was confronted by vastly superior numbers of infantry, and enfiladed by batteries on each flank—even after its ammunition had all been spent, it did not give way, but firmly held its ground until properly relieved shortly before sun set. Whpn Howard’s Division moved to the front, the last of the available force of Couch’s corps, forming our extreme right, was employed. Of Wiloox's Corps, Getty’s Division, whioh had been held in reserve during the day, was all that were at com mand after Sturgis had become exhausted by the severity of its protracted struggle, Burns having been sent early in the morn ing to establish connection between the left and right, and not being within ready march. Fortunately, however,Butterfield’s corps of'Hooker’s Grand Division, which was acting as a reserve to the right, as Stone man’s was to the left, came to the rescue when the energies of Wilcox’s and Couch’s corps had been nearly spent.. It had com menced moving across the river, over the upper and middle bridges, as soon as the advance of Conch’s and Wilcox’s troops furnished room for it in the lower part of the town. It had all moved across between four and five o’clock. Shortly before dark Humphrey’s and Griffin’s Divisions were ordered to advance, to the front and relieve the-troops of Gen. Couch on the right and Gen. Wilcox on- the left. They reaohed the front and formed in line just before sunset, and at once charged upon the enemy’s works. . Humphrey’s division came within a short distance of them, and Griffin’s reaohed the point held by Sturgis, which respective positions they have sinoe occupied. During their advance the firing from the rebel artillery reaohed the highest intensity of the whole day, but ceased shortly after nightfall. Simultaneous with the advance of Griffin and Humphrey, Getty’s Division moved from its position up the valley of a little stream skirting the town and advanced to the base of the hill occupied by the rebel batteries on the extreme right, driving the rebel infantry from behind a stune wall from which they had greatly troubled our troops during the day. Here it lay during the night. Sykes’ division of Butterfield’s corps followed between Griffin and Humphrey to the front but arrived too late for action. Thus ended the conflict between our right and the rebel left. THE BATTLE ON THE LEFT. The lines of Gen. Franklin, as formed for the attack, represented an obtuse angle one line of which—Gen. Reynold’s Corps extended diagonally from the river bank. Smith’s corps in a line para'lei with the river and formed on the right of Wilcox’s corps. The extreme left was three miles below Fredericksburg, and the right of the left Grand Division was less than two miles from the town. The extent of Gen. Franklin’s lines then was more than a mile from right to left. The position of the different divisions was as follows, commencing on the right. First, Brooks’s Division, which laj upon the ground along the road to Fredericks burg, running parallel with the river, and half way between it and the rebel batte ries. - Howe’s Division formed on the left; on his right joined Reynold’s corps, the Ist Division.of which, General Gibbon com manding, took position in advanoe beyond the road. Meade* Division formed an an gle with Gibbon’s and extended toward the river- Doubleday was next to Meade, and rested on the river. This in general was the position of the left Grand Division when the aotion commenced. The first fire was made by the skirmish ers of the Thirteenth Massachusetts in our front.. They had moved cautiously in ad vance of opr lines for half a mile, when discovering - the enemy’s,piokets they fired ppon them. .Cannonading soon commenced .in.earnest. The hazy atmosphere of the flirty, pirfcofi thesday having, oleared away -•aoaiavtftgiveito each of thebonfendihg par / “THAT OODHTBT IS TH* JHOBT TKOBHBOOB WHXU LABOS COMMANDS THS QMATSBT REWARD.’ LANCASTER CITY, PA,. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23- 1562. ties, a view of the position taken by the other. Hall’s Battery, the Seoond Maine, discovered a battery of the enemy in close proximity and opened a rapid and vigorous fire upon it. In a few moments the artillery fire ex , tended along the entire line. The Seoond United States Artillery, Captain Banson ; Cooper’s Battery of Pennsylvania Reserves and others, made and received a severe at tack. The skirmishing was kept up as our lines advanced, and the position of the enemy in the woods was almost reaohed. A scattering musketry fire continued from the first advance, about nine o’olook, till noon, and with occasional lulls. The can nonading was heavy and severe. Daring the advance of the left grand di vision upon the enemy’s position, Major- General Stoneman’s corps of the Second Grand Division, Hooker’s which had moved to the vioinity of the river the evening pre vious, moved over the bridges. General Birney’s division, on the advance, • moved towards the left to the support of that por tion of the line. Great enthusiasm was excited among the troops as the battle flag of General Birney, of Stoneman’s oorps, was seen moving aoross the plain, in ad vance of the flag, in deep column, winding onward from the river. General Birney had received orders to place himself in position to support the right of Gen. Reynold’s oorps in an attaok whioh was momentarily expected to be made. Orders to advanoe having been re ceived, Gen. Gibbon’s and Gen. Meade’s division were directed to advanoe upon the enemy in the- woods and upon the hill, holding the position if support should come to them, abandoning it in case they should be too severely pressed. Now oame the most successful and de termined effort on this part of our line. The attaok was made from the point of intersection of the angle formed by our lines already referred to. This point was nearest to the woods, and the enemy’s shells were falling thickly abont it. Gibbon’s Division and the Pennsylvania Reserves advanced boldly towards the works of the enemy. They pushed de terminedly through the brushwood and bushes on to a grove of cedars, and through these up the hills towards the breastworks of the enemy. The works were carried, many prisoners captured, and the crest of the hill gained, not, how ever, without a heavy loss. General Gibbon has fallen, wounded in the arm, while leading his command to at tack. The works of the enemy at this ■point -with gained, but not held. The enemy, unfortunately, possessed the strength to concentrate overwhelming num bers of fresh troops upon the threatened point, and for all the valor of those who survived, and all the sacrifices of those who fell, the position had to be abandoned and our troops were compelled to fall back to the plain. They had penetrated beyond the railroad and the Bowling Green turnpike, through the woods and across the outer work of the enemy to the top of the hill, and were then foroed back to this side of the railroad, where they maintained their stand in ad vance of that they had originally occupied. In the meantime Gen. Doubleday had been constantly pushing the enemy upon the left. A most determined resistance was made by the enemy as skirmishers and with reserves and artillery. . The fire whioh during the forenoon was kept up on the left told of the most severe fighting.— For full a mile the enemy was pressed baok, contesting the ground inoh by inoh, receiving and inflicting heavy, loss. The enemy fell back upon his defences and the advantage gained was indeoisive. During these successive advanoes and checks along tho oentre and Left Grand Division, uninterrupted shelling was kept up by the Rebel batteries upon the bodies of troops at different points of the plain. At a large stone mansion near the centre of our line, used as a field hospital during the day, an incessant fire was directed. Toward the middle of the afternoon the firing along the lines of the left grand di vision grew weaker, and gradually settled into a comparative lull. Shortly before sunset, however, the fir ing on the extreme left was again renewed with increased vigor, and kept up until after dark. At 54 o’clock it gradually died away, and at 6 o’clock it had entirely ceased. On the left as well as on the right the battle oame short of our expectations.— We gain some ground, but failed to rea lize the main object of the day’s work— namely, the dislodgement of the enemy from their intrenched position on the heights overlooking the plain, held by the Left, and the town, ocoupied by the Right Division. New efforts, new sacrifices of life, will be required to aooomplish it. By far the severest fighting occurred on the right. All the Generals that have participated in the battle of Antietam say that to-day’s contest on this portion of the line exceeded it in intensity. The rebels had our troops at a disadvantage. Their infantry fought principally under cover, while their artillery had it almost all their own way from its elevated position. On the right it was found impossible to bring any of our artillery into action, for want of proper positions in the early part of the day, until late in the afternoon, when a single battery, Phillips’, was em ployed in sections from high points of the streets of town. At least sixty pieces played upon our right from the enemy’s batteries during the greater portion of the day. I found it.impossible to obtain anything like a reliable estimate of our losses up to the moment of dosing. I have questioned nearly all the oorps and division com manders, but they were unable to give even approximative figures. The right suffered most severely—probably two thirds more than the left. French’s division lost most. The rebel loss is much smaller than ourß. Orders were issued this evening for a renewal of the attack along the whole line at 9 A. M., but when the hard usage nearly the whole of our right has experienced will become fully known to Gen. Burnside, the order will undoubtedly be counter manded. That portion of the army is certainly not fit to go again into aotion to-morrow. From prisoners taken on the left it was ascertained that Longstreet and Jaekson’s Grand. Divisions were on the rebel left in the early part of the fight, and Hill on the right, but in the course of the day Hill fihdifig himself hardly pressed by Frank lin, .was supported by a part of Jackson’s farces.'. Provision and ammunition trains are now moving aeross the ‘ bridge to supply our troops. The fatigue and exposure of the last three days has greatly told on their effectiveness. Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Bulletin Letter from Washington. Horrors of the Convalescent Camp. Washington, Saturday Eve, Deo. 13. I have just returned from the so called Convalescent Camp at Alexandria, having spent the day in search of sick Pennsylvania soldiers. More than ever do I realize something of * man’s inhu manity to man.’ You may have heard a good deal about the abuses in that camp ; but the half has not been told you. The treatment and oondition of some of its in mates—some of its victims—is positively shocking. Going out from Alexandria, I passed the notorious slave pen of ‘ Price, Birch & Co., dealers in Slaves.’ I oonjured up all sorts of horrors inside of those high briok walls in days gone by. I imagined, or tried to, something of the orushed spirits and bleeding hearts and the physi cal torture of the thousands of human beings, old and young, knocked off to the highest bidder in the qouls and bodies of men, women and ohildren in that dark, dirty prison place. But coming baok by it after one day’s visit to that camp in the mud, after looking into the wan, spiritless, pitiful faces of the thousands there, who have hoped against hope, till all courage is lost, and seeing where they eat, and eletfp, and live, or rather die by inohes, in the filth, and vermin, and mire of that plaoe provokingly nioknamed a * Conval escent Camp,’ I concluded that the old slave pen of so many actual and imaginary horrors, would be a coveted luxury to many of the brave, good-hearted fellows on the hill. And so it would. In the first place, the whole bleak, bar-. ren hill on which the oamp is looated is this day covered in many places with sticky mud, when we have had no rain for a week. In stormy times one can’t fail to go in ankle deep at every step. The Sibley tents are huddled together without floors or straw. Ditoh the soil as you will and it is damp If not soaking wet. This is the convalescent’s bed. If he has a blanket, which isn’t always the case, that is his covering. His fuel he brings on his back two or three miles, having to take the limbs cut last winter at that point. I saw at least a dozen carrying their bundles of sticks thus to-day, like the old man in the child story, who was met by death on the way. And yot I saw at least twenty cords of good dry wood piled up in oamp ! I asked one in oharge why they did this, and he thought they didn’t—said it wasn’t necessary—yet I saw it, and it is done every day. The papers have said that several men froze to death in one cold night while thus engaged. He said but one had died by his pile of sticks, and they thought he was murdered ; one was found in the privy, but they didn’t think he froze to death ! Heavenly consolation to his friends that will be, won’t it 1 I asked the boys wby they had- to back wood when there was wood in oamp ? They said they got part of a stiok from some under officer to cook their food sometimes, and some times they didn’t—never half enough for cold weather. I asked why they didn’t cut a clump of timber standing half a mile or -more from oamp. They said that was guarded, and the guards had orders to fire on a trespasser —that a few of them got some rails one cold night and a guard of soldiers cooked their guns and compelled them to abandon them. I saw two men washing their Bhirts in a oreek two miles away—the nearest good washing place. I asked them if they be longed to the convalescent oamp. One replied ‘no ; we belong to the Death Oamp’ —and I believe him ! I heard an assis tant surgeon say that a young soldier of his ward was then lying in his tent on the ground, with a raging fever, and had been for 24 hours, because he had no vacant bed in the hospital. I remarked that suoh a state of things onght to be exposed.— He replied, ‘ you can’t say too muoh against the abuses here, or make them as bad as they are. But wo (the Assistants) are not to blame ; we do all we can ; we have no power.’ I tried to have passes issued to a few friends who have been there since July, to be examined. He couldn’t do it—said more passes were out then than could be examined in three days. He and other Assistants had been pro hibited from examining, and a special board of three had been appointed. On their door was written, ‘ No business done to-day’—nor till Monday—by whioh time a dozen oases or more will have passed for examination into the other world ! They were probably off to Washington having a good time ; they never work but three or four hours a day. I heard a gentleman telling a member of Congress from Ohio who was there, that he had just found two men from that State who were never mus tered in! They enlisted, but were re jected on examination and went home.— Subsequently they were arrested as de serters, put in there and oan’t get out. Col. Belknap, who was in command, seemed willing and anxious to mend mat ters. He said he would shrink from no responsibility or duty, but he had not full control; he was interfered with jhe could not compel the surgeons to act; and two of them were at loggerheads, eaoh claiming to be ohief. His requisitions >were not promptly filled, and if he sent to the Quartermaster-General for teams, he was told they had suoh a number, and they were enough ; while the faot was, many of those charged to him had been captured by the rebels some time ago. , The trouble, I think, begins with the doctors. Nothing can be done without an official examination, and they don’t exam ine a quarter fast enough. There should be half a dozen examining boards. Yet slow as they are, the papers will be gone .two or three weeks to Washington for ap proval. They shonld examine every man at once; if he is down sick, send him to a hospital; if well, to his regiment •, if incu rable, discharge him. Send them off somewhere, anywhere, but for God’s sake, don’t keep them there to die,.by inches.— Hundreds of lives, I doubt not, have been uselessly, recklessly, sacrificed there already, and hundreds more will be, uhless Congress applies the remedy, for the Med ioal Department won’t, or it. opuld have done so long ago. . Then, I mistrust, there are, a set of thieving, shiftless middle-men and under officials, who oppress the soldier by their petty power and filch his food. If he wants to sell some articles for others his sickly appetite will relish, whioh is accord ing to army regulations, the ration is stop ped. The presumption is that when sol diers are short, in snoh a plaoe as Alexan dria, there is a gross neglect of official duty or thieving officials somewhere, for the Government is not at fault. No soldiers were ever so boubtifhlly furnished as ours are now. And there is not one pVrticle of necessity of excuse for suffering, by even hard fare in this or any other camp so easy of acoess, if officials do their duty_as the men will do theirs. It is pitiful enough to see So many poor, broken-spirited, orippled fellows gather around a man who comes in to look up a friend, and plead with tears and offers of all their four, or six, or eight months’ baok pay, for many of them haven’t had a cent in six months, if he will only help them out. They vhave asked, and looked and waited, month after month, to be examined. They think if they have some member of Congress or influential friend to give in -their names, they will receive attention ; and so they will. But alone and unaided they look upon all effort as useless. If they make complaint of abuses, they say they are gruffly repulsed and told to mind their own business. This for men living perhaps in luxury at home, and quite su perior in position and worth to many of their petty tyrants, comes a little tough on true, free born American citizens. And thus the brave, high-spirited, enthu siastic young men who patriotically left friends and luxuries, and all the heart oalls a home with a glowing enthusiasm to oarry the old flag bravely through the battle storm, or die beneath its starry folds, becomes the spiritless, dejeoted, ruined objects of pity, caring little whether he lives or dies. Sir, it is one of the sad dest sights of my life. And the remedy is with the press and the people. Let, them set their Congressmen at work, for they can reform these abuses if they will. Be Truthful Always. [This little story] copied from an ex change paper, is excellent. Read it, boys, and take its lesson well to heart.] Two country lads came at an early hour to a market town, and, arranging their lit tle stands, sat down to wait for customers. One was furnished with fruits and vege tables of the boy’s own raising, and the other supplied with clams and fish. The market hours passed along, and eaoh little merchant saw with pleasure his store steadily decreasing, and an equivalent in silver bits shining in his money oup. The last melon lay on Harry’s stand when a gentleman came by, and placing his hand upon it, said : ‘ What a large melon ; I think I must have this for my dinner. What do you ask for it, my boy ?’ < The melon is the last I have, sir ; and though it looks very fair, there is an un sound spot on the other side,’ said the boy, turning it over. ‘So there is,’ said the man ; ‘.l think I will not take it.’ ‘ But,’ he added, look ing into the boy’s fine countenance, ‘ is it very business like to point out the defeots of your fruit to customers V ' ‘ it is better than being dishonest, sir,’ said the boy,.modestly. 1 You are right, my little fellow ; always remember that principle and you will find favor with God, and man also. You have nothing else I wish for this morning, but I shall remember your little stand in future.’ ‘ Are these clams fresh?’ he continued, ;urning to Ben Wilson’s stand. ‘ Yes, sir ; fresh this morning, I caught them myself, was the reply ; and a pur chase being made, the gentleman went away. ‘ Henry, what a fool you were to show the gentleman that spot on the melon. Now, you oan take it home for your pains, or throw it away. How much wiser i 3 he about those clams that I oaught yesterday? Sold them for the same price I c did the fresh ones. He would never have looked at the melon until he had gone away.’ ‘ Ben, I would not tell a lie, or aot one either, for twice what I have earned this morning.. Besides, I shall'be better off in the end, for I have gained a customer, and you have lost one.’ And so it proved, for the next day the gentleman bought nearly all his fruits and vegetables of Harry, but never invested another penny ,at the Btand of his neigh bor. Thus the season passed; the gentle man finding he could always get a good artiole of Harry, continually patronized him, and sometimes talked with him a few moments about his future hopes and pros pects. To become a merchant was his ambition, and when the winter came on, the gentleman wanted a boy, a boy that he could trust for his store, deoided on giving Harry the plaoe. Steadily and surely he advaneed[in the confidence of his employer, until, having passed through the various gradations of clerkship, he became at length an honored partner in the firm. OF* A pretty sinner may chance to be more attractive than an ugly saint, and persons some times find it out. A good storyis told of a Yankee divine of advanoed age who married, for his second wife, a damsel young and handsome. When the elders of the church came to him to enquire if the lady was a suitable person to make a useful figure as a person’s wife, he answer ed frankly that he didn’t think she was. ‘But,’ added the irrepressible doctor, ‘ thought I don’t pretend she is a saint, she is very pretty little sinner, and I love her.’ And the twain became one flesh. The Coubting of a Sharp Man of Business. —Potts is a sharp man a man i f business tact, and when he goes into a store to trade, he always goes the lowest cash prioe; and he says:— ‘ Well, I’ll look about, and if I don’t find anything that suits me better, I’ll call and take this.’ Potts, like all men, is partial to women and young ones in particular. Now, quite lately Potts said to himself‘ lam get ting rather long in years and guess I’ll get married.’. His business qualities wouldn’t let him wait, so off he travels, and palling upon a lady friend, opened the conversation by remarking that he would like to know what she thought about his getting married. ‘ Oh, Mr. Potts, that is an affair in whioh I am not so greatly interested, and I pre fer to leave it with yourself,’ ‘ But >’ sa ? B Potts, 4 you aris intereste/l, and, my dear girl, will you marry ine V „ ' The' yoiong lady ! brMhed/hesitated, and BUOHARAK. finally, as'Potts w*b very well to do in tlie world, and morally, financially and po litically of standing in sooiety, she accepted him. Whereupon the matter-of-faot Potto responded: ‘ Well, well. I’ll look about ,and if I don’t find anybody that suits vie better than you, Fll come back ’ His Last Words.; —It has been observed by medical writers that death is frequently preceded by insanity. This reminds us of a case which occurred several years sinoe in a Philadelphia court where a pretty young widow was in l danger of losing two thirds of her husband’s estate. Her hus band’s relations grounded their olaims on the alleged insanity of the defnnot. It may be well to premise that the presiding judge was not only convivial, but also gallant. ‘ What were your husband’s last words?’ asked the attorney. The pretty young widow blushed, and looking down, replied— ‘ I’d rather not tell.’ , - ‘But, indeed, you must, ma’am. Your claim may be deoided by it.’ Still the widow deolined to tell. At last, a direct appeal from the benoh elioited the information. ‘ He said, kiss me, Polly, and open that other bottle of ohampagne.’ We do not know whether it was admira tion for the deceased husband or living wife that inspired the judge at that instant, but at once he cried, with all the enthusi asm of conviotion : ‘ Sensible to the last!’ and gave a decis ion in her favpr at onoe. 0F“ Albert was a great rogue in sohool; feet, hands and tongue wen* always busy, oftentimes to the detriment of that quiet so much -desired there. One day, being more troublesome that usual, his teacher beoame displeased with him and pointing to a seat in the corner, she sternly commanded him to take it. Albert obeyed, with a comical air, and with a flourish of infantile triumph, said : ‘ Been wanting to sit there all the morning’, but dnrsn’t ask you.’ T HB LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER JL JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. No. 8 NORTH DOSE STREET, LANCASTER, PA. The Jobbing Department 1b thoroughly furnished with now and elegant typo of every description, and is under tho charge of a practical and experienced Job Printer.— The Proprietors are prepared to PRINT CHECKS, NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS, __ _ _ , CARDS AND CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS AND HANDBILLS, PROGRAMMES AND POSTERS, PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, ' BALL TICKETS AND INVITATIONS. v PRINTING IN COLORS AND PLAIN PRINTING, with neatness. accuracy and dispatch, on the most reasona? ble termß, and in a manner not excelled by any establish ment in tho city. Orders from a distance, by mail or otherwise, promptly attended to. GEO. SANDERSON A SON, Intelligencer Office, No. 8 North Dnke street, Lancaster, Pa. FARMER’S UNION HOTEL, No. 929 MARKET STREET, Between 9 th and 10th, PHIL AD B-LPHIA. J. 0. EWING and J. H. KURTZ, Proprietors. BOARDERS accommodated on reasonable terms, and transient customers at $l,OO per day. •6®-Stabling for Seventy Five Horses. *®Ji july!s ;1 More new and interesting BOOKS. TnE EARL’S HEIRS: A Tale op Domestic Life. By the Authorof “ East Lynne; or, The Earl’s Daughter,” “ The Mystery,” &?., Ac. Paper price, 60 cents. MORGAN; OR, THE KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK FLAG: A Stbano% Stout os Bygone Times. Paper price, 25 cts. For sale at J. M. WESTHAEFPER’S, apr 1 tf 12] Cor. North Queen ond Orange Sts UNITED STATES STAMP TAXES IM POSED BY THE AOT OP 1862. Published for the convenience of STORE-KEEPERS MERCHANTS, BROKERS, LAWYERS, CONVEYANCERS and the public generally, on a largo neat card showing at a glance, the amount of duty on tax to be paid. Price 10 cents For sale by J. M. WESTHAKFFKR, No. 44, Corner of North Qneen and Orange streets, oct 7 tf 3 Photograpa y IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. Executed in the best style known in the ait, at 0 . G . CRAN E' S GALL ER 7 632 Arch Street, East os Sixth, Philadelphia. LIFE SIZE IN OIL AND PASTIL. , STEREOSCOPIC PORTRAITS , Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Ac., for Cases, Medallions ina. Rinse, Ac. fmar 19 21y POTT ON LAPS, TIE YARN AND \J CANDLE WICK. To the Merchants of Lancaster county. We have on h&Dd a ROoi assortment of COTTON LAPS, AND CANDLE WICK, which wo offer for Bale at tho lowest cash prices. F. SHRODEB, Agent, Cooestogo Steam Mill No. I, oct 7 3m 39] THE PEOPLE’S hat Akdcap 8 TORE . HA T T E R 8 No. 20 North Quebs Street, Lancaster, Pa. The subscribers are desirous to inform their Customers and the Public generally, that their preparations of a large assortment of fine SOFT FELT AND SILK HATS, adapted for Spring and Summer wear,.have been com* pleted; the same comprises the richest and most beautiful shades of color and style, which taste and long experience could produce. In our assortment will be found all the Newest Styles of SILK, CASSIMERE AND SOFT HATS, STRAW HATS, every Style and Quality for Gentlemen’s and Boys* Wear A full line of CHILDREN’S STRAW GOODS. SUMMER STYLE CAPS. Id conclusion we would return our sincere thanks for past favors, and trust by unvaried exertions, attention and dispatch to meiit its continuance. JOHN A. SHULTZ, may 27 . Cukl Your hai h. : BEAUTIFY YOURSELF, B T U 8 I N O CHAPPELL’S HYPERION FOR CURLING THE HAIR. The Ladies and Gentlemen throughout the world will be pleased to learn that I have recently discovered an article that will Curl the Hair. By using CHAPPELL’S HYPERION, Ladies and Gentle men can beautify themselves a thousand fold. CHAPPELL’B HYPERION is the only article in the world that will Ourl straight Hair. The only article that will Curl the Hair IN BEAUTIFUL CURLS! * IN GLOS9Y CURLSI IN BILKEN CURLS I IN FLAXEN CURLS IN FLOWING CURLS 1 IN WAVING CURLS ."IN LUXURIANT CURLS It makes the Hair soft and glossy. It invigorates the Hair. It beautifies the Hair. It eleanses the Hair. It has a most delightful perfume. ' It prevents the Hair from falling off; it fastens it to the scalp. It is Ihe only article ever yet discovered that will curl straight Hair in beautiful curls, without injury to the Hair or scalp. The HYPERION does not in anymauner interfere with the NATURAL SOFTNESS OP THE HAIR. It neither scorches nor dries it. The HYPERION can he so applied as to eause the Hair to carl for one day, or for one week, or for one month, or any- longer period desired. The HYPERION is the only article in the world hot what can be counterfeited or Imitated by uprincipled per sona. To prevent this, we do not offer it for sale at any Druggist’s in the United States. Therefore, any Lady or Gentleman who desires to beautify themselves by usiog the HYPERION, must In close the PRICE, ONE DOLLAR, in a letter, and Address, W. CHAPPELL 4 CO., Box 64. Parkman, Geauga Co., Ohio, And it will be carefully Bent bv return mall. nov!2 1y44 SOMETHING FOR THE TIMES I 1 l A NECESSITY IN EVERMOUSEHOLDJ l 1 JOHNS <£ CROSLEYB AMERICAN CEMENT GLUE, THE STBONOEST OUTS U? TOE WORLD FOR CEMENTING WOOD, LEATHER, GLASS, IVORY CHINA, MARBLE, PORCELAIN, ALABASTER. BONE, CORAL, 4c., 4c., 4c. The only article of the‘kind ever produced which wBI withstand Water. “ Every housekeeper should hkve a supply of Johns 4 rosley’s American Cement Glue.”—JVew York Time*. “It Is so convenient to have in the house.”— New York “It is always ready; this commends ft to everybody.”— N. Y. Independent* . ” We have tried it, and find it as useful in our house as water.”— W’.tZkw’ Spirit of the. Time*. PRIOR TWENTY-FIVE GENTS PER BOTTLE. Very liberal Redactions to Wholesale Dealers.' . 'TERMBGASH. - Kt" For sale by all Druggists and Storekeepers generally, throughout the country. •••■■' • friV* i . JOHNS : (Sole Manufacturer*) 78WILLlAM:BZ,ers have paid for their paper being on the eve of.expirlng, we take toe liberty of issuing this notice, reminding them of the same, in order that they may • . RENE W THEIR CLUBS. We shall also take it as an especial favor if onr present sobecribers.will urge apon their neighbors the fsoirthat the PaTaiot and Union ie the only Democratic paper printed in Harrisburg, end considering the large' amonut ofread lng matter, embracing all the current news of the day* and telegraphic dispatches 7 from everywhere up to the moment the paper goes to press, political, miscellaneous, general and local news market r* ports, is decidedly the CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THB STATE I There is scarcely a village or town in the State in which a club canpot be raisod if the proper exertion be made, and sorely there are few places in which one or more energetlo men cannot be found who are in favor of the diesemtaatlon of sound Democratic doctrines, who would be willing to make the effort to raise a clnb. „ ° DEMOCRATS OP THE INTERIOR! let us hear from you. The existing war, and the approach ing session of the Congress and State Legislature, are in vested with unusual interest, and every man should have the news. TERMS DAILY PATRIOT AND UNION. Single copy for odo year, in advance „ *5 op Single copy during the sossion of the Legislature 2 00 City subscribers ten cents per week. Copies supplied to agents at the rate of $1 per hundred. WEEKLY PATRIOT AND UNION. Published every Thursday. Single copy for one year, in advance „....$2.00 Ten copies to one address ...16 00 Subscriptions may commence at any time! PA YAL WAYS IN ADVANCE. We are obliged to make this im* perativo In every instance cash must accompany subscrip £wn. Any person sending us a clnb of twenty susoribera to the Weekly will bo entitled to. a copy for bis services. Tho price, even at the advance rate, ie so low that we can not offer greater inducements than this. Additions may be made at any time to a clnb of subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty cents for each additional name. It Is not necessary to send us the names of those constituting a club, as wo cannot undertake to address each paper to clnb subscribers separately. Specimen copies of the Weekly will be sent to all who desire it. . nov 4 5t43] THE HORACE WATERS MODERN IMPROVED OVERBTRUNG BABB FULL IRON FRAME PIANOS are Justly pronounced by the Press and Murie Masters to be superior Instrum ants. They are built of the best and most thoroughly seasoned materials, and will etand 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 tub Pr^bs.— “ The Horace Waters Pianos are known as among too very best. We are enabled to speak of these instruments with some degreo of confidence, from personal knowledge or their excellent tone and durable quality.” —Christian Intelligencer. $ 1 5 0 .—NEW 7-OCTAVE PIANOS in Bosewood cases, iron frames, and over-strung baas, of different makers, for $lo0; do., with mouldings, $160; do., with carved legs and inlaid nameboard, $175, $lB6, and $200; do., with pearl keys, $226, $250 and $300; new 6^octave, $136; doJ:6%. octave, $l4O. The above Pianos are fully warranted, and are the greatest bargains that can be found' in the city- Please call and see them. Second-hand Pianos at $26. $4O $5O, $6O, $76, and $lOO. THE HORACE WATERS MELODEONS. .'*• Rosewood Cases, TuDed the Equal Temperament, with the Patent Divided Swell and 8010 Stop. Prices from $35 to $2OO. Orgffu Harmoniums with Pedal Bass, $250, $276 and $3OO. School Harmoniums, $4O, $6O, $BO and $lOO. Also Melodeons and Harmoneums of the following makers, Prince & Co’s, Carbart t Needhim, Mason * Hamlin, and 8. D. k H. W. Smith, all of which will be sold at extremely low prices. These Melodeons remain in tone a long time. Each Melodeon warranted for three years. A liberal discount to Clergymen, Churches, Sabbath Schools, Lodges, Seminaries and Teachers. The trade supplied on the most liberal terms. THE DAT SC HO O L BELL 35,000 COPIES ISSUED. A new Singing Book for Day Schools, called the Day School Bell, is now ready. It contiins about 200 choice songs, rounds, catches, duetts, trioe, qoartetts and chor uses, mauy of them written expressly for this work, be sides 32 pages of the Elements of Music. The Elements are so e*sy and progressive, that ordinary teachers will find themselves entirely successful in instructing even young scholars to sing correctly and scientifically while the tunes and words embrace such a variety of lively, at tractive, and soul-stirring music and aentiments, 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 simplify of its elements, in variety and adaptation of music, and in excellence and number of its songs, original, selected; and adapted/it claims by much to excel all competitors. It will be found the best ever issued for seminaries, acade mies and publie schools. A few sample, pages of the ele ments, tunes and songs, are given In a circular; send and get one. It is compiled by Horace 'Waters, author of “ Sabbath Bchool Bell,” Nos. I and 2, which have the enormous sale of 735,000 copies. Prices—paper cover, 20 cents, $l6 per 100; bound, 30 cents, $22- per 100; cloth bound, embossed gilt, 40 cents, $3O per-100. 25 copies fur nished at the 100 price. Mailed at the.retail price. HORACE WATERS, Publisher, 481 Broadway, New York. SABBATH SCHOOL BELL No. 2. 85,000 COPIES, ISBUED. . It is an entire new work of nearly 200 pages. Many of 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 ion up to the enormous number of 660,- 000 copies—outstripping any Sunday school book of its size ever Issued in this country. Also, both volumes are bound in one to accommodate schools wishing them in that form. Prices of Bell No. 2, paper covers, 15 cents, $l2 per 100; bound, 26 conts, $lB per 100; cloth bound; em bossed gilt, 30 cents, $23 per 100. Bell No. 1, paper covers. 13 cents, $lO per 100; bound, 20cents, $lB per 100; cloth bound, embossed gilt, 25 cents, $2O per hundred. Bells Nos. 1 and 2 bound together, 40 cent*. $3O per 100, cloth bound, embossed gilt, 60 cents, $4O per IWX 25 copies fur nished at the 100 price. Mailed at the retail priceT HORACE WATERS, Publisher, 481 Broadway, New York. NEW INSTRUMENTAL JdUglO. President Lincoln’s Grand March, with the best Yignetto of his Excellency that has yet been-published; muirfe by Heimsmuller, leader of tbo 22d Regiment Band, price 50 cents. Our Generals’ Quick-Step, wUh- vlgnette of 85-of our generals; music by Grafulla, leader of the 7th Regiment Baud, 60 cents. The Seven' Sons’ Gallop, and Laura Keene Waltz, 35 cents each. Comet Sehottische, 26 centsjiall by Baker. Music Box Gallop, by Herring, 35 cents. /Union Waltz, La Grassa, 25 centi. Tolunteer Polka, Goldbeck, 25 ceuts. Spirit Polka; General Scott's Farewell Grand March, 25 ; Airy Castles, 30 cents, all by : A. B. Parkbnrst. Freedom, Troth and JUgbt Grand ''March, with splendid vignette; music by Carl Helhenun, 60 ets All of which are fine productions. N E W VOCAL MUSIC: 1 will be true to thee; A penny for your 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; Wasmy. Brother-fn the Battle, and Why have my loved ones gone,,by Stephen O. Foster. Shall we know each other'there? by the Rev. B. Lowry. Pleasant words for all, by J. Roberts. • There is a beautiful world, by I M. Holmes/ Price ‘25 'cents' each Freedom,-Trutlr and-fitgbt, a national aong and grand chorus; music by Carl HeJoematimwilb Enriiah and Ger man wordSr 30 cents. Where liberty-dwell* is my country, Plumley. Forget if you canujbut forgive; I hear sweet voices singing; and Home is -home, by 3. B; Thomas, 80 cents each. These songs are very popular. Mailed free at retail price; - • Foreign Sheet Music at 2 dents per page.' All kinds o Made merchandise at war prices/' HORACE WATERS; Publisher,. . - 481 Broadway, Naif York , NEW 3TUBIO FOR -THE, BULLION, . cr COUP res*, ABB&2TOH) AS QTJABKTTXfI AKD CHOBUSXB VO - . JCOSICAXi 80CKTUS, dSOIBS, SPSDAT SCHOOL* : * EUBLIO. SCHOOLS, SXKIHABIZSi XTG. •Shall we know each other there ; ShalLwa meet the river? Be in.time; There ia a beautlfpl wprld* Don’t you hear tbe Angela coming Where liberty dwelUJis my country; Freedom, Truth and Right, (national songs.) ig there a laud of love ?-Sorrow shall dome -agam'hu more. Price S cents, 25 centspeTdos., s2per IIXL- cent. In sheet form, with'Plano'' 25 cents. Published by HOKAQE WAXEBB, 48l BroaiEW, New •York, and for sale by N. P. Kemp, Boston; -Chas. 8* Luther, Philadelphia; G.Crctosby;CiDctaiiatl;'Toa]lihsod4Bros~ Chicago,and St. laA A © BAB. TO B-”<4h f * © Jf ( f <->t WHOLESALE GRQCERSfAND DEALERS OLOOUE TRY PRODUCERWINES;ANDUQUORA-IT Nos. 165,and 167 North Second street/" ' deoil’6o t«8V : ,' i M ' *Oi2a©*LPHXA DI lig~CutaT oC «r - Itng * dunrtril Stan i **Amßti££Zua. fcbS .a;; ivv:t NO! SO. 0. BARRETT A 00., Harrisburg, Pa. V TZiiß *