(tht • art,?itt/t - ,ittetti4c*.c. VOL. LXIV. PHE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCE R BLIBEID IMEELT TOZEIDAT, AT 30. 8 NORTH D 173.1 1315111 T, BY GEO. SANDERSON. [IEEE 811131301UPTION.—Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad vance. No subscription discontinued until all arrear ages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Anvitansxmasis.—Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-ilve cents for each additional Inser tion. Those of greater length in proportion. Jon Pancmck.—Such as Hand Bills, Posts.,rs, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., &c., executed with accuracy and on the shortest notice. FORBEARANCE. Oh ! living were a bitter thing, A riddle without reasons, If each eat lonely, gathering Within his own hears's narrow ring, The hopes and fears encumbering The eight of earthly seasons. Thank God, that in life's little day, Between our dawn and betting, We have kind deeds to give away, Sad hearts for which our own may prey, And.strength, when we are wronged, to stay, Forgiving and forgetting. Thank God for other feet that be By ours in life's wayfaring ; For blessed Christian charity, Believing good she cannot see, Suffering her friend's infirmity— Enduring and forbearing. We all are travellers, who throng A thorny road together; And if some pilgrim not so strong As I, but foot-sore, does me wrong, I'll make excuse; the road is long, And stormy is the weather. What comfort will it yield the day Whose light shall find us dying, To know that once we had our way Against a child of weaker clay, And brought our triumph in the fray With purchase of his sighing? THE LOVE KNOT Tying her bonnet under the chin, She tied her raven ringlets in; But not alone in the silken snare Did she catch her lovely floating hair, For, tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied a young man's heart within. They were strolling together up the hill, Where the wind comes blowing merry and ohm; And it blew the curls a frolicsome race, All over the happy peach-colored face, Till, scolding and laughing, she tied them in, Under her beautiful dimpled chin. And it blew a color, bright as the bloom Of the pinkiest fuschia's tossing plume, All over the cheeks of the prettiest girl That ever imprisoned a roaming curl, Or, in tying her bonnet under her chin, Tied a young man's heart within. Steeper and steeper grew the hill— Madder, merrier, cherrier still The western wind blew down and played The wildest tricks with the little maid, As, tying, her bonnet under her chin, She tied a young man's heart within. Oh, western wind, do you think it was fair To play such tricks with her floating hair? To gladfully, gleefully do your best To blow her against the young man's breast, Where he has gladly folded her And kissed her mouth and dimpled chin ? Oh, Ellery Vane, you little thought, An hour ago, when you besought This country lass to walk with you, After the sun had dried the dew, What perilous danger you'd be in, As she tied her bonnet under her chin MOLLY MORIARTY Molly Moriarty, Pink of propriety, Molly Moriarty, Molly, my own, Sure 'tis your Tim is sad, How could his heart be glad, Since like an icicle Molly has grown? Och, 'twos your eye so blue Cut my poor heart in two, Each took a half of it, carried it off; Then when I spoke of love, Swore by the stars above, Sure 'twas unkind of you, Molly, to scoff. Oft at my cabin door, When the dull day is o'er, Sadly I sit and send sighs on the gale ; Rain from my weeping eyes Polly a stream supplies, Where drink the cows that grazed in the vale Pigs in the pratie patch, Runnin' a root in' match ; Sow in the buttermilk drinkin' her fill; Cow in the cabbages, Making fast ravages, Everything goes to destruction at will. Soon in the waters deep Tim's weary head shall sleep ; Buekere and shiners shall nibble my nose ; Waves rolling over me, Singing a lullaby, Or a sad requiem when the wind blows. What's that you're eayin' joy? "Tim come and kiss me, boy!" Hera, hold my hat while I skip on the .h.ure ; Come to my arms, my love, Molly, my turtle dove, Whoop! what a jewel you are to be sure. MY RAILWAY COMPANIONS. * * To walk on the railway platform down a line of carriages about to start, with a Bradshaw in your hand, is to re ceive a broadside. of repelling glances.— The truth of this, will, I am sure, be ad mitted by everybody ; my own personal appearance is engaging in a very excep tional degree, and therefore what I have experienced myself must have been under gone in a more aggravated form by some people. For this reason, among others, I prefer to arrive early at a railway station, so that I may establish myself in the post of vantage, as first comer, and survey my fellow-oreatures with the air, I do not say of an enemy well intrenched, but of a su periorotnd with an expression, if not of hautear, of condescension. 1 was there fore annoyed enough to find myself rather late last Saturday at London Bridge, and the train without a single seat. Receiving, therefore, (and 1 flatter myself returning,) looks of hatred and dotiance, I walked hastily along the platform, glancing into all the windows for the least cromded com partment, and presently selected On which had only two passengers, neither of whor e , strange to say, surveyed me with the cus tomary scorn. The one was a young divine, with an expression that would have been eminently I gentleman-like' if it had not been so effeminate as to be almost lady-like ; the other looked like a military man, (as in deed he turned out to be,) but had rather a peculiar air of oppression and melan choly. These two did not seem to be ac quainted, nor, as 1 have said, had,they even made the usual league together against their privacy. Whil I had my self been looking out for a seat, I had ob served another man employed in the same search, who seemed to be less easily satisfied ; not till the bell rang and the train began to move, did this gentle man make up his mind as to what carriage he would travel in, when he evinced a tardy discernment in making choice of ours. Even then'he threw such a suspicious glance around him, as one escaping, from his creditors might cast at three possible bailiffs, and cowered into the corner of the carriage, as though he had only purchased the right of half a seat. My journey did not promise very pleas antly,`• for, like the Great Lexicographer, I am fond of talk, and it did not seem probable that I should get it. The officer was silent 3 the divine was shy, and the last corner gave a terrified start whenever he was addressed. A trifling circum stance, however, gave an impetus to con versation. At the first station we stopped at the officer bought a six-penny newspa per, and luiving no silver, gave the boy half a sovereign, who hurried away to pro cure change. A considerable time elapsed the whistle sounded and we began slowly to move away. Just as we cleared the very end of the platform, however, the lad appeared panting at the window with the nine and sixpence. You are fortunate, sir,' remarked I, smiling ; I had begun to fear you would lose your money. Your patience under the circumstances testified to your better opinion of human nature.' Human nature is much vilified,' re turned the officer gravely ; if we knew it better, we should live more happily with our fellow creatures. As it is, however, we are in reality less suspicious of them than we pretend to be. Not only is Hon esty the rule, and Roguery the exception in the world, but there is a-much greater amount of confidence between man and man than is generally acknowledged.' I have heard the same sentiment cor roborated,' observed I, from the lips of a great philosopher.' 1 have it confirmed in my own person,' replied the officer sighing ; I have ex perienced an act of trustful kindness from a stranger which will embitter my life to my dying day.' ,This curious statement was delivered in a tone of such melancholy depth that even the shy young clergymen ventured to glance with astonishment at the speaker, and the gentleman in the corner protruded his head cautiously from his cloak collar, like a tortoise from its shell, in order to listen for more. Sir,' said I, if the matter to which you allude demands no secrecy, the nar ration—l think I may speak for these two gentlemen—would interest us very much. Pray tell us it.' g It is but a short story,' said the officer, and I will gladly,narrate it, not 'only to oblige you, because the more people who hear it the less improbable is the chance of getting my misfortune remedied. You must know, then, that until the last four years I was by no means the sombre and reserved person I now appear. I was sprightly and vivacious, and even in the company of strangers accustomed to con verse without reserve. A morbid desire to establish myself in the good opinion of everybody impelled me perhaps too much to sociality, and my having given way to this may go far, alas, to convince a certain individual that I am indeed the villian which he would otherwise have only sus pected me to be. If I find my pocket book picked upon leaving a railway carri age,' observed the young officer with energy, my suspleions naturally fix them selves on the stranger who has manifested the greatest desire to be my friend.' The young divine here flushed all over, like western clouds at sunset, and cast down his eyes as though he liad been him self accused of petty lareedy, while the man in the cloak fumbled at the window, with the intention, as it really seemed, of getting at the door handle and jumping out. g I was once traveling on this very line,' resumed the officer more calmly, after a little pause, from the town in which I chanced to be quartered, to London ; and singularly enough the conversation turned, as it has to-day, upon mutual confidence of man and man. It commenced, I think, with some observation of two mercantile gentlemen upon the credit system, but but eventually resolved itself into r What should be done or not done in case of a stranger asking to borrow money of any of us. We laughed a good deal at vari ous circumstances and contingencies which the question suggested, and got to be very friendly. My companions all alighted. at various stations, except myself and the gentleman with whom I Lad been chiefly conversing. As we were near the ter minus, observing me, I suppose, to search my pockets and suddenly change color, he inquired : What was the matter, and if I had lost my railway ticket? No,' said I 1 have got my ticket, nor have I actually lost anything; but I just found that 1 have left my purse locked up in the desk in my quarters, and have therefore come away with only a few shil lings in my pocket.' Can I be of any service to you 7 ' in quired my companion, drawing out his own port mom . Thank you very much,' returned I, laughing, for a proof of that confidence we were speaking about ; but although I am going to a hotel, and it might have been so far very cunvenien t,l.have a bank er in London.' But the Bank will be closed by this time, urged the gentleman, you had better take a sovereign or two ! 4 Nay, said I in that case, I'll take a five pound note at once, which can be more easily transmitted by post. This is, how ever a practical test of your benevolent principles, which yolf could not have anti cipated to occur so soon. A perfect stran ger— My dear sir,' interrupted he ,with warmth, pray do not mention it. There is no credit to me in the matter, for it is easy to see that you are an officer and a gentleman.' Then he purposely changed the conver sation with a delicacy which I have since never ceased to regret ; for what with talk ing and laughing, I forgot all about the loan till the train. stopped, and we went together to look fOr our baggage, and in the crowd we were separated without even wishing each other good-bye, or remember ing to exchange our names and addresses. I didn't know where to send the money, or how I should ever repay him ; while he, I have no doubt, concludes that he has met with a clever scoundrel, who did him out of a five pound note. Since that unfortu nate hour, I have never passed a happy day; and a journey by railway always makes me feel melancholy. I feel that my honor is tarnished, and that in the eyes of an honest man I am become a swindler. I have advertised again and again, to three times the value of the loan, without, result, and while I trust you will make the cir cumstance known to as many people as pos sible, I haVe very little hope that the man I have unwillingly wronged will ever be in possession of the truth.' My dear sir,' exclaimed the clergyman, with unexpected boldness, I feel for you deeply. I remember that in the famous novel Oliver Twist,' there is no situation more painful than when he is carried away by Sikes with Mr. Brownlow's books in his possession, so that benevolent gentleman's faith in him is shaken, and the honest lad lies under the imputation of a thief.' At the same time,' said I, ' your inno cence, sir, should at least protect you from the stings of conscience ; you have nothing to reproach yourself with but forgetfulness in not having revealed your name. The " THAT COUNTRY IS THZ HOST PROSPEROUS WHIRR LABOR 00101 ANDS THE GRZATIST &WASH."- -BUCHANAN. LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1863. philosopher of whom I have already spoken owned more money and comforted himself on slighter grounds ; but then he had phil osophy to console him, for the possession of which he indeed had an European repu tation.' I should very much like hear his opin- I ion on the matter,' observed the officer eagerly. 4 At a certain dinner party then,' said I, at which the philosopher and myself were present, the conversation turned (as it is I very apt to do under his guidance) upon the perfectibility of the human species.— , Human nature, he contended, was not only I capable of perfection, but that it was already much nearer to it than clergymen and others imagined. There was a beau tiful confidence existing in our nature.— Suspicion was only for attorneys and police detectives. He had had the most satis factory experience of this throughout a protracted existence, but more especially in his youth. He then proceeded to com municate to us a particular example. In my early manhood I ran away from my stay at some friends' in Yorkshire, who were ignorant of, and inattentive to, the yearnings of the passionate soul, and dis ported myself as long as my slender purse permitted in the wilds of Devonshire.— When my money was exhausted, I left off the vagabond life, and put up at a respec table hotel. Although I then looked dirty and travel-stained enough, and had only a knapsack for luggage, no question was put as to my solvency, which in itself was charming proof of natural confidence. After passing a week in those very comforable quarters, I sent for the land lord, and expounded to him the circum stances of the case. I told him that I already owed him a considerable sum,, but that was by no means the worst of it, (from my point of view,) for that in addition to this, I had not got a shilling-to take me northwards. This good and trustful per son—who always seemed to me as the in carnation of tender faith—not only credited me for the eight pounds or so for which I was already indebted to him, but furnished me with eight more for the expenses of my journey. Now, considering that the name I have given him might have been assumed or, if genuine, might have been totally worthless, I consider this to have been con vincing proof of that benevolent confidence, which, 1 contend, prevails among a large majority of those whom I am pleased to call my fellow creatures. I was then seven teen, and now I am seventy-one, and the man has never been paid yet.' What an infamous scoundrel,' exclaim ed the officer with indignation. 4 Nay, certainly not,' said I ; ' he would himself have acted precisely as did the hotel-keeper if he had chanced to have been placed in his position. He was one of the most generous and kindly hearted of mankind. Pecuniary obligation was, however, a matter beneath the considera tio'ns of his philosophy, which was stupen dous and far reaching, but not comprehen sive of The inn-keeper, however,' observed the officei, was not aware of that.' True,' said I ; and yet you see how lightly the great man bore the inn-keeper's probable opinion of him. In the wilds of Devonshire he was doubtless taken for little better than a swindler.' It is a dreadful thing to be mistaken for somebody else ;' observed the young clergyman with a sigh. I was wondering whether the speaker could ever have been by possibility mista ken for any body but his sister, when he proceeded as follows : I was once placed in a very uncomfort able position myself, through an error of judgment on the part of a most respectat ble female. When I was a young man a- Cambridge, and even up to the time that 1 took my degree, I had absolutely no whiskers. (Here he fingered a little more on his right cheek, as though he would have said : Nothing of this leonine ap pearance that you now see in me.' I was indeed almost effeminate, and some of my foolish college friends nicknamed me Bella ' and Bellisitua,' which was even more ridiculous still. It was the long vacation, but certain business called me to the university. I took the train thither from town ; at the station I met some Cambridge friends, who were making a shorter journey than mine, but of course got into the same carriage. A rather severe-looking lady, with spectacles, very stout, and not very young, made up our company. She looked a little alarmed at the somewhat fast appearance of my friends when she entered ; but upon their earnest assurance that they would not smoke nor compel her to take a hand at cards,she grew reassured so far as they were concerned. 1 shall never forget, however, the look of intense suspicion with which she regarded my unhappy self. My face bad at first been concealed by a.newspaper I was read ing, but she caught sight of it, and gave a sort of virtuous shudder. What had I done, thought I, to deserve this I had a trick of coloring at that time (the speaker was purple, and had been throughout the narration,) and I dare say I became a little flushed. Now, Bella, don't blush' ex claimed one of my friends, in allusion to this infirmity ; whereupon they both burst out laughing. I never before saw anybody so shock ed, and at the same time so indignant, as the old lady at this. She wore precisely the same expression that the great Scotch reformer would have worn under the cir cumstance imagined by the' poet As though you had taken sour John Knox, To the play-house at Paris, Vienna, or Munich, Fastened him into a front-row box. And danced off the ballet in trousers and tunic. I shall never forget her. My companions, I believe, were not entirely aware of the hideous notion that had taken possession of her mind, but I knew very well. Their calling me Bella' had changed her sus picion into certainty. She thought I was a female in man's attire. When they got out at the station with a' Good-bye, Bel la,' 4By bye, Bellissima, till we meet at the Leger, II used to go to races in those days ') I fell into a cold perspiration at being left alone with that old woman. I pretended, however, to be deeply interested in Bell's Life. I heard some remark which sounded like a pretty paper for a young woman to be reading,' but I affected not to listen. The situation was dreadful. If she began to upbraid me, wh . at measure should I take to convince her of her great error ? Presently, however, she coal menced collecting the baskets and parcels, of which she had an infinite number, and i felt to my great relief that she was going to get out at the next station. When she had all her goods about her, and the train was slacking speed, she took up her umb rella, and shaking it at my terrified counte nance, exclaimed : Oh, aint you ashamed of yourself, you impudent hussy V Madam,' I replied with great gentle ness, I assure you—' Don't speak to ice,' interrupted she ; don't attempt to deceive me, girl ; I knew you from the first moment I saw you.' After getting down from the carriage with some difficulty, she took the trouble to climb up the step again, and put her head into the window with these words : I tell you what it is, Miss Bella ; you're a disgrace to your sex.' That was a more distressing railway adventure than even yours,' observed I to the officer. elt is the most awful incident that ever occurred to anybody on any railway,' said the young clergyman, wiping from his ala baster forehead the perspiration which had been evoked by these distressing details. It is nothing of the kind, sir, observed the man in the corner, emerging suddenly from his retirement; it is but a catspaw of wind to a tornado when compared with the experience that I have met with as a traveler. My nerves are shattered, my spirits are broken, I have become the wreck you now behold, in consequence of a single railway adventure. It you could compose yourself so far as to tell it us,' observed I delicately, it would afford us much gratification.' 1 have a bottle of smelling salts in my carpet-bag, in case you should be over come,' said the young clergyman. _ . And I never travel without this flask of brandy and water,' added the officer, which is at your service.' Under these circumstances, I will en deavor to gratify you, resumed the person addressed, although the recital of the question always unnerves me. You doubt less observed that I looked in at the win dow once or twice before I took my seat in the carriage, and that even when I had done so I regarded you three gentlemen with considerable distrust. Moreover, you may have seen me shudder occasionally at sentiments and actions of yours which may seem innocent. The reason of this is, that I am morbidly apprehensive of finding myself in the company of any person not of sane mind. Once in my life, an occasion I can never forget—l was the fellow traveler in a railway carriage with a maniac. [The narrator here took a prolonged snuff at the vinaigrette.] He was a powerful man, and even if he had not been mad, I should have had no chance with him. We were alone together. It was an express train, and of course there were no means of communicating with the guard. Mr. Edgar Poe himself could hardly have imagined a set of cir cumstances more appalling. Previous to the outbreak, I am bound to say the gen tleman conducted himself with propriety. He refused, but with the utmost courteous ness, my offer - of a Punch and Times, and applied himself harmlessly enough, as it seemed, to the study of Bradshaw. Whether excessive application to the ab struse volume had been the original cause of his unhappy malady, I do not know, but the particular frenzy of which I was the miserable victim was certainly excited by that work. Sir,' observed he, with an air of intel lectual languor, ' can you assist an unhap py scholar to discover the hour at which this train arrives at Madagascar ? I am aware that we change carriages at the Equator at'3:4S, but beyond that I cannot tracetur route.' Then I knew, of course, that the man had lost his senses. There was a cold, malicious glitter in his eye notwithstanding his soft speech which made my hand shake as I took the proffered volume, and pre tended to look out for Madagascar. To humor him, and so gain time, were my only objects. At what a snail's pace we seem to travel ! flow I envied \ the country lads that waved their ragged -Wats in the fields as the train passed by ; how gladly would I have changed places with the milkman in the meadow, or the carter with his team, or the policeman standing by the rail-side, with his . All right' flag up. All right, indeed, and a first-class passenger about to be torn limb from limb, perhaps, by a madman. Have you discovered Madagascar ?' asked the maniac presently, with great ir ritation. I was obliged to confess that I had not as yet been so fortuntate ; I had, however, still to explore the Scotch railways, and perhaps (said I) it may possibly be some where among them. don't think it likely,' observed my companion, drily. Do you not observe those thick black lines out the way bill'— he here drew his fingers with frightul en ergy across his throat—' just as one thinks one is coming to one's journey's end ? That is the North Pole. The late lament ed Dr. Scoresby chopped it into small pieces for greater convenience. We can never be too thankful for its introduction. Let us drink to the health of the North Pole ; let us compese an ode to its Low Thermometership, Come, you begin. At this point, the narrator almost drained the brandy flask in his nervous trepidation. His excitement was commu nicated to-ourselves, and I believe that if the train had been stopped any where dur— ing the enthralling part of the story, each of us would rather have been carried be— yond the mark then missed the denouement. • Come you begin,' repeated the mad man, with a look of extreme ferocity : Roll, roll North Pole, or semething of that kind: but not with your clothes on. How dare you address his Low Thermom atership in that unseemly garbV In a quarter of a minute my oompan— ion had divested himself of every article of raiment except his shirt, and I was doing my best to follow his example. Hasten,' cried he, 'insolent minion, for Mad, Madder, Madagascar is drawing nigh.' No human beings, I suppose, ever pre sented a more astounding spectacle than did we two in our airy garments, kneeling upon the floor of that railroad carriage, and apostrophising the North Pole. I felt my sense were fast deserting me through the excess of terror, and that if the plane which now suggested itself should fail, it would indeed be all over with me.' What !' exclaimed I, cis it possible that you venture to speak to the North Pole without previously putting your head thrcugh the carriage window 1' In an instant he had leaped up and dart ed his head and neck through the pane as though it had not been there. The sharp fragments of the glass retained him, so that he could not draw his bead back with out great difficulty, and in the mean time I had opened the other door, and at the hazard of my life, clambered into the next carriage, where I found a stout gentleman asleep, who was almost frightened into fits by my unexpected appearance. He gave me however, his railway rug to wrap around me, and I was narrating to him the dread ful events which had just happened, when lo ! there was a scrambling at the open window, and then we beheld the maniac bleeding from his wounded throat, his hair streaming like a meteor, his shirt in a thousand ribbons, his whole appearance calculated to strike terror into the strong gest mind. It was evidently his intention to get in. The stout gentleman, speech less with terror, pointed to his umbrella suspended in the cradle above the seat in which I had placed myself. I seized this weapon, and with the assistance of my companion, managed to push the intruder with such violence, that, after a tremen dous struggle, he was obliged to lose his hold of the door handle, and seized the umbrella instead. Then we instantly let go of it, and the wretched man tumbled backward off the train. Here the narrator finished his story and the brandy and water. Then the poor madman must I fear, have met his death V said I. It is impossible to say for certain,' re plied the nervous passenger with a shud der. A skeleton, grasping the wires of an umbrella, was discovered years after ward in a peat bog at the exact spot where the accident happened; but I never feel quite safe from meeting him again.' A BOY THAT WILL NEVER BE A MAN. —ln New York, as elsewhere, it is becom ing quiet customary to send 'tome articles purchased at the stores ; some stuck up' people have even ordered a spool of thread sent home. Happening into a book store lately we saw a lady purchasing home books for her son who was with her—for Christmas presents probably.— When put up the, made a package about ten inches long, five inches high, and six wide. She ordered them sent to her res— idence about 3i miles up town. The bookseller said to her boy : Can't you take them-up in the ears with you, my man ? My porter is sick to-day, and it is quite inconvenient for me to,send them so far home.' 'No ! I kon't carry bundles for a living.' We pitied that from our heart, and could not but feel that his moth er was spoiling him by indulging him in such notions. Here was a boy 13 or 14 years old, who could not, or rather would not,-carry a bundle of books for himself, 'that was not all bulkey, and weighed, per haps, only five or six pounds. He was above 6 carrying bundles'—rather he was below it. He had not dignity or indepen dence enough to be seen with a bundle, though it was for himself. He probably does not read the ✓imerican rlgriculture ist, and so we can not speak to him direct ly, but to other boys we say, that if that boy lives to be forty years old, he will never be a man, in the true sense of that word. His parents may leave him money enough to keep him along awhile, but he will never learn to save much. He is coming up with habits that will unfit him for the real work which all successful men must go through with, no matter what their calling or business. Two good illustrations are given in the life of Girard of Philadelphia, who rose from poverty to great wealth. While in a provision store, a man came in and bought a fish himself; he offered a clerk a shilling to hire some one to carry the fish a few blocks. Girard at once offered to do it, and actually went by his side carrying the fish, and received the shilling. You may guess the man's surprise when he afterwards learned who had carried his fish. Girard owned the entire block in which his man hired a dwelling.—At another time, two young men commenced the sail making business. They bought a lot of canvas from Girard, on credit, a friend having agreed to en dorse their note. They each took up a roll to carry off, when Girard remarked : Had von not better get a cart Oh, no,' they responded. It is not far, and we can carry it ourselves.' ' All right,' said Girard, but you may tell your friend he need not trouble himself to endorse your note. It's good enough without !' He well knew that men not above their business not ashamed to do any honorable act, were the very men to succeed. A SMART WOMAN.—A. nice, respecta ble lady, not a thousand miles away, had long noticed, to her dismay, that her worser half' was growing foolishly sus picious and jeal6us of her. She resolved to teach him a lesson. Some evenings since, as he was leaving, she told him he need not hurry back—she would not be lonely—she wished her &Joky to enjoy himself, etc. Benedict smelt a veritable mice, under that hypocrisy, and resolved to be avenged. About 8 o'clock, an individual,' about his size, might have been seen creeping cautiously along,to the door, and noiselessly Benedict peeped in. Just as he expected, there they were—a pair of boots--a coat on the back of a chair, and a hat on the table. Benedict shivered like an aspen leaf, as he stopped, pulled off his boots, and drew a pistol from his coat pocket. With 6 resolution flashing from his eye,' be made tracks for the bed room. There he was kneeling at the bed side, coat and vest off, and his head on the pillow. Miserable villain—his time had come. ' Say your prayers, villain—your time is short '—and a flash and a report told that the bullet had sped on its fatal mission. Help ! murder ! watch! Oh, is that you 7 ' and Madame popped her little head up from the foot of the bed. Benedict seized the body, and it was—a miscellaneous collection of old coats, vests, pillows, handkerchiefs, and the like, made for the occasion. I say, my dear, what does all this mean exclaimed the husband, with a blank, sheepish look. Well, dear,' replied the wife, I did get lonely after all, and just amused my self by dressing up that puppet, and mak ing believe you were at home. I'm sure, I didn't think you'd suspect.' There, there,' said the chagrined hus band, say no more about it.; I thought it was a robber; dear creature, I'm so glad it didn't hit you.' Benedict repeated, 'Now I lay me,' eta., and went to bed, resolved not to watch any more at present. A. SHORT METRE PRAYER.—We have heard of an old Deacon, who, on - being asked by his pastor to close a meeting with a short prayer, replied, lam very willing to pray, but don't like to be stinted.'— The minister mentionbil below must have belonged to the same family, for he had a similar aversion to be straightened in his communication with God. The story has a good moral.—Christian Watchman. The Rev. Mr. Derwell, a pious and curi ous old Methodist minister, went from Tennessee to Rentucky, in 1812, to visit his relative, the Hon. Wm. Bolton. The man was not a religous man, but was a gentleman, and invited the minister to have family worship every evening. While he was visiting there, Judge Cone and his wife, from Nashville, arrived there to pass the night, and Mr. Bolton, being a little embarrassed, said to the old minister, as he brought out the Bible, that he had bet ter be short, as the Judge was probably not accustomed to such things. Very well, very well,' said he, and reading a single verse, he knelt down and prayed. 0 Lord, we are very poor and needy creatures, and we know that thou art able to supply all our wants ; but Cousin Wil liam says that Judge Cone and his wife, from Nashville, are here, and are not used to family worship, and however needy we are, there is no time to spare in telling thee our wants. Amen.' The Judge was taken all aback, and so was Cousin William. They both pressed the old gentleman to conduct the service in his own way, which he did to their great edification. THE, LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. No. 9 NORTH DUKE STREET, LANCASTER, PA. The Jobbing Department is thoroughly furnished with now and elegant type of every description, and is under the charge of a practical and experienced Job Printer.-- The Proprietors are prepared to PRINT CHECKS, NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS, CARDS AND CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS AND HANDBILLS, PROGRAMMES AND POSTERS, PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, BALL TICKETS AND INVITATIONS, PRINTING IN COLORS AND PLAIN PRINTING, with neatness, accuracy and dispatch, on the most reasonal Me, terms, and in a manner not excelled by any establish. meat in he city. . Orders from a distance, by mail or otherwise, promptly attended to. Address GEO. SANDEIISON & SON, Intelligencer Office, No. 8 North. Duke street, Lancaster, Pa. BIDE PEOPLE'S HAT AND CAP STORE. SUULTZ & BRO., EM WWWI NO. 20 NORTH QU ezx STREET, LANCASTER, PA The subscribers are (1.4,ms to inform their Customers and the Public ,tlerally, that their preparations of a large aseortment of fine SOFT FELT AND SILK HATS, adapted for Spring. and Summer war, , been-com pleted; the same comprises the richest and mostbeautlfial e.hades of color and st) 10, which taste sod long experience could produce. In our assortment will be found all the Newest Styles of SILK, CASSIMF.RE AND SOFT HATS, STR A W HATS, every Style and Quality for Gentlemen's and Boys' Wear A full line of CHILDREN'S STRAW GOODS. SUMMER STYLE CAPS. In conclusion wo would return our sincere thanks for past favors, and trust by uncurled exertions, attention and dispatch to met it its continuance. JOHN A. SHULTZ map 27 USEFUL PRESENTS FOR CHRIST MAS AND NEW YEAR. EIV TZ BR 0 TITERS, Offer unusual intluvements to enable all to make a 'Useful present for the Holidays. _ _ CLOAK. AND SHAWL ROOM. 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The only article that will Curl the Hair IN BEAUTIFUL CUItLS I IN GLOSsI - CURLS! IN SILKEN CURLS! IN FLAXEN CURLS IN FLUWINO CURLS! IN WAVING CURLS ;1N LUXURIANT CURLS - - It makes the Hair soft and &pussy. It iuriorates the Hair. It beautifies the Hair. It cleanses the Bair. It has a roost delightful perfume. It prevents the Hair from Pilling off; it fastens P to the scalp. It is the only article ever yet dricovered that rill sari straight Hair iu beautiful curls, without injmy to the Hair or scalp. The HYPERION does not in any manner interfere with the NATURAL SOFTNESS OF THE lIAIR. It neither scorches nor dries it. The HYPILItioR can bu so applied as to cause the Hair to curl fur one day. or fur one week, or to one month, or any longer period desired. The HYPERION is the only article in the world but what con be counterfeited or imitated by upriucipled per. sons. To prevent this, we to not offer It for sale at any Druggist's in the United States. Therefore, .any Lady or Gentleman who desires to beautify themselves by using the HYPERION. must in close the PRICE, USE DOLLAR, in a letter, and Address, W. CHAPPELL te CO.. 80,. 54, Parkman, Ge.toga And it will be carefully sent be return mail. nes 12 ly 44 VAN INGEN £ SNYHER, DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS ON WOOD, N. E. CORNER bra Ave CHESTNUT STREETS, PHILADELPHIA. Execute all kinds of WOOD ENGRAVING, with beauty, correctness and de,patch—Original Designs furnished for Fine Book Illustrannue—Persons wishing Cuts, by sending a Photograph or Daguerreotype, can have views of COLLEGES, CHURCHES, COTTAGES, STORE FRONTS, PORTRAITS, MACHINES, STOVES, PATENTS, Ac. Engraved as well as on personal application. FANCY ENVELOPES, LABELS, BILL HEADINGS, SHOW BILLS, VISITING, BUSINESS and other CARDS, engraved la the highest style of the Art, and at the lowest prices. For Specimens of Fine Engraving, sea the Illustrated Works of J. B. LIPPINCOTT A Co., E. H. 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Mass Side," " Nemesis," and Mirism," - . who will furnish a story for every number of the Lady's Book for 1863. This alone will place the Lady's Book In a literary point of view far ahead of any other magazine. Marion Harland writes for no other publication. Our other favorite writers will all continue to furnish articles throughout the year. THE BEST LADY'S MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD, AND in of that kind that can be read aloud in the family circle, and the clergy in immense numbers are anbacribers for the Book. is ell original, and would cost •26 tents (tbe price of the Book) in the musk stores; but moat of it is copyrighted, and cannot be obtained except in "Godey." OUR STEEL ENGRAVINGS. • All efforts to rival us In this have ceased, anti we now stand elope in this department, giving,. as we do, many more and infinitely better engravings than are published in any other work. GODEY'S IMMENSE DOUBLE BELEET FASHION PLATES. CONTAINING From five to seven full length Colored Fashions on eagh plate. Other magazines give only two. .. . . FAR AHEAD OF ANY FASHIONS IN EUROPE OR Godey'a is the only work In the world that gives these immense plates, and they are such as to have excited the wonder of publishers and the public. The publication of these plates cost than fashion.platee of the old style, and nothing but our wonderfully large circulation enables 1113,4.0 give them. Other magazines cannot afford It. We never spare money when the public can be benefited. • These fashions may be relied on. Dresses may be mule after them, and the wearer will not subject herself to ridtu cola, us would bo the case if she visited the large cities dressed after the style of the plates given in some of pur so-called magazines. OUR WOOD ENGRAVINGS, of which we give twice or three times as many as any other nuwazine, are often mistaken for steel. They are so far superior to auy others. Beware of them. Remenihar that the Lady's Book is the original publication and t he cheapest. If you take fiodey, you want no other magazine. Everythiug that Is useful or ornamental In a house can be found in (Miley. DRAWING LESSONS. No other m•gazino gives them, and we have enough to fill several large volumes. OUR RECEIPTS are such as can be found nowhere else. Cooking in all its varietv--Confectionery—the Nurserythe Toilet—the Laundry—the Kitchen. Receipts upon all subjects are to be fund iu the pages of the Lady's Book. We originally started this department, and have peculiar facilities for making it most perfect. This department alone Is worth the price of the Book. This department comprises engravings and descriptions of every article that a lady wea'. MODEL COTTAGES. No other maaazine has this department. TERMS: CASH IN ADVANCE - - - One copy one year, $3. Two copies one year, $5. Three copies one year, $6. Four copies one year $7. Five copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, $lO. Eight copies one year, and an extra copy to the person , sending the club, $l5. Eleven copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending Me club, $2O. And rho only magazine that can be introduced into the above clubs iu place of the Lady's Book is Arthur's Home Dlegazino. HPECIAL cunanlyn WITH OTHER MAGAZINES. Godey's Lady's l3ook and Arthur's Home Magazine both one year for $3 50. Godey's Lad,'s Book and Harper's Magazine both one year for $1 50. Goduy, Harper, and Arthur will all three be sent one year, on receipt of $6.30. Treasury Notes and Notes of all solvent banks taken at par. Be careful and pay the postage on your letter. Add t ass, L. A. GODEY, .32.3 Chestnut Street, PhiladelphLa, 6m 41 N ow IS THE TIME T GET UP CtUBSI PETERS 0-:1Y- THE DEBT AND CHEAPEST IN THE WORLD POE LADIES! This popular monthly Magazine contains nearly 1000 pates; frern 25 to 30 steel plates; and about 800 Wood Eugraviugs—and an thla for only two dollars a year. This is more. proportionately, than any magazine ever gave— hence " Peterson" is emphatically - - . The stories in "Peterson" are conceded to be the best pa bliFtied anywhere. The editors aro Mrs. Ann 8. Stephens, author of" Mary Derwent," "Fashion and Famine;". and Charles .I:Peterson, author of " Kate Aylesford," "The Valley Farm," etc., etc., and they are assisted by Mrs. Denison, Frank Lee Benedict, by the author of "Fury L's Diary" by T. S. Arthur, E. L. Chandler Moulton, Malan ble Holyoke, Vircinia F. Townsend, Carry Stanley, Caro line E. Fairfield, Moo Ashton, F. L. Mace, E. Dewese, A. L. Otis. and all the most popular female writers of America. In addition to the usual number of stories, there, will be given iu 1962, Four Original and Copy-righted Novelete, HENRY A. SHULTZ. tf 20 THE JACOBITE'S DAUGHTER; a Tale of the '4l, ' By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. ANN •lINTHROI"S , ENGAGEMENT; a Tale of to-day, By Carry Stanley. TILE MURRAYS OF MURRAY HOUSE; a Tale of '76, By Charles G Peterson. GETTING INTO SOCIETY; a Tale of to day, These, and ether writers. contribute exclusively to . "Peterson." Mrre..ity and virtue are always inculcated. Its COLORNID FASHION PLATES IN ADVANCE It is the, Only 'tl.-ig, , lne whose Fnehion Plates can be relied on. Each number contains a Fashion Plate, engraved on steel, and colored; also, a dozen or more New Styles, en graved on wood; also a Pattern, from which a areas, Man tilla, or Child's Costume can be cut, without the ald of .a mautua.maker--80 that each Number, in this way, will save a year's subscription. The Paris, London, Philadel phia and New York Fashions are described, at length, each month. Patterns of Caps, Bonnets, Head Dresses, &c., given in great profusion. Ito SEVERE MEZZOTINTS ,kNI, OTHER STEEL ENGRAY- Are by the first Artists, and one at least, fa given In every number. Its COLORED EMBROIDERY PATTERNS. The Work-Table-Department of this Magazine is wholly unrivalled. It is edited by Mrs. Jane Weaver, who fur nishes, for each number, beantiful Original Patterns. Every number contains a dozen or an patterns in every variety of Fancy Work : Crochet, Erdbroidery, Knitting, Bead-Work, Shall-Work. Hair-Work, Wax Flowers, Stained Glean, Leather-Work, Painting, Photographs, dm., with full down - lotions. Every Number will contain a SUPERB COLORED PATTTERN for SLIPPER, PURSE, CHAIR— FI AT, HANDKERCHIEF, EMBKOIDERY, COLLAR AND CUFF, or some other useful, or ornamental article; and each of these would cost, at a retail store, fifty cents. Theee wan be bad in no other American Magazine. RECEIPTS FOR THE TABLE, TOILETTE, SICK— ,tOI, Ac,, Arc., will be given every Number. sir- A Pl MOE OF NEW AND FAriIIIONABLE MUSIC WILL APPEAR EACH MONTH. Also. articles 013 the Flower- Garden. and Horticulture generally; and hints on alt mat tera interesting to Ladies. TERMS :—ALWAYS IN ADVANCE One Copy for one year, Three Copies for one year, Five Copies for one year Hight Copies for oue Twelve Copies for one year, Sixteen Cs,pies for one 'year, •••••. PREMIUMS FOR GETTING UP CLUBS I—To every per son getting up a club of 3, and remitting $5, or a club of 5, and remitting $7.50, or a club of 8, and remitting $lO, or a club of 12., and remitting $l5, an extra copy for 1802 will ho sent, gratis. If preferred, however, we will and as a Premium, (Instead of the extra copy,) an illus trated LADY'S ALBUM, band•omely bound lu gilt, or our Magnificent Mezzotint for framing. size 27 inches by 20—• Buoyan's Wife Interceding for his Release from Prison." To every person getting rip a Club of Sixteen, two extra copies of the Magazine, or of either of the other Premiums will be sent. Address, post-paid, CHARLES J. 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