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VOL. LXIV
DIE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER
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A UNION OF HEARTS
The battle had raged from the dawn of the day,
The life blood of thousands was ebbing away.
As oar column moved forward, it rained shot and
shell,
Yet rushed on unheeding who stood or who fell.
The batt'riee were stormed in a tempest of fire,
Mid the blaze of the cannon the foemen retire,
But slow their retreat in their resolute fight,
Till the struggle found rest in the gloom of the night.
The moon as it rose in dark clouds was concealed,
As if biding its face from the bkod on that field ;
A young, dying soldier, the column who led,
On the corpse of his brother had pillowed his head
In the beat of the onset, its fury and strife;
But worse than his death-wound the, heartrending
pain,
To find 'twas his brother his weapon had slain.
As the ambulance corps sought the wounded that
night,
Where a hillock of dead told how fierce was the fight,
They heard the last prayer of a brave soldier's
breath,
Ere his heart ceased to throb in the portals of death ;
, 6 0 Father of Mercy ! forgive me the blow
That caused the heart's blood of a brother to flow,
That rends the fond heart of a mother in twain,
To weep for the slayer, as she weeps for the slain.
When life has no longer a charm to display,
When earth and its visions are passing away,
How weak are the causes, as now understood,
Have led to the thirsting for each other's blood;
Oh, great God of Battles, grant carnage may cease,
Look down on our country and give to it peace.
Let our Union be love! and as Hatred departs
The Union will live in a Union of Hearts."
THE WAR-CHRISTIAN
What say the aisles and chancels
Of old cathedrals dim?
What say the pealing organs
In chant and solemn hymn?
Fervor of adoration
And love in sweet acoorc*
Love for the meanest mortal,
And glory to the Lord!
What saith the great "War-Christian,"
High perched above the crowd,
With his hand so high and dainty,
And his heart so black and_proud?
He draws a little circle,
As narrow as his mind,
And shouts for all beyond it,
God's mercy to mankind.
He rants, be raves, he blusters,
And from his sensual jaws
Pours vulgar slang, mistaking
Men's laughter for applause;
And when the land is deluged
With blood and widow's tears,
Incites redoubled slaughter,
And prates of GUNS and spears
Forgetful or defiant
That He whose cause he shames,
Whose teaching he dishonors,
Whose Gospel he disclaims,
Was full of loving kindness,
And taught that war should cease,
That swords should turn to plowshares,
And nations turn to peace.
I'd rather for my preacher
Have wild winds on the shore,
Or breeze amid the branches,
Or birds that sing and soar,
Or silence high and holy
Than "Christian" such as he,
Who dares to counsel bloodshed
And knows no charity.
THE EVILS OF THE TIME AND
THEIR REMEDY.
BY HON. C. R. BIICKALEW
The capital evils which afflict the nation
are, a broken Union ; civil war ; an im
mense and increasing debt ; great and un
exampled bitterness in the social relations
of men ; and last, but not least, multi
plied and grave errors, usurpations and
abuses of power by men in public authori
ty. How these evils can be most surely
removed, and their recurrence prevented,
is the great, the all-engrossing question
which now confronts us and demands re
ply.
'3lte reply is furnished in declaring the
policy of the Democracy of Pennsylvania
—a policy so simple, so just, so perfectly
conformed to the necessities of the times,
that none can misunderstand it, or sin
cerely question its fitness for the repres
sion of existing evils.
That policy is connected with a sincere
devotion to the laws of the land, and with
is deep conviction of the necessity of
maintaining them intact and unbroken.—
These laws consist of the Constitution
and statutes of the United States, and the
Constitutions and statutes of the several
States, and include much of the common
law of 'England and those legal guaran
tees of liberty which are the boast of
British history. These laws of the land
make up that American system of free
government which has insured our pros
perity and given us a high place of honor
among the nations of the earth. But
those laws have been assailed—that sys
tem of free government has been inter
rupted in its course—the States are broken
asunder, and sounds of violence fill the
land.
It is timely, then, to inquire, Who have
assailed those laws, and who are now the
enemies of reunion and liberty ? Against
whom, against what interests shall the
voice of this great State be spoken and
her power be exerted?
Unquestionably the radical Abolitionists
of the North assailed the laws persistently
and earnestly for years—by incendiary
documents transmitted through the mails,
and to excite insurrection in the South ;
by seducing negro slaves to abscond from
their masters, assisting their escape, se
opting them from pursuit, and by raising
mobs to resist their reclamation. They
also created and kept up agitation in Con
gress by petitions for unconstitutional
laws, and the John Brown raid into Vir
ginia—a mission of rapine and blood—was
assisted by their contributions, and was
followed by the canonization by them of
its leaders as a saint. Instigated by them,
many of the Northern Legislatures enacted
statutes to defeat or impede the reclama
tion of fugitive slaves -under the laws of
the United States, thus giving State sanc
tion to the revolutionary spirit.
At last the Republican party was found
ed, and -7drew most of the Abolitionists
into its, ranks, and along with them ob
tained their passions and their fatal dogma
that there are laws of the nidividnal will
higher in obligation than the laws of the
land, and that the latter, when they con
flict with the former, may be broken with
out guilt and without reproach. It fol
lowed, in due course, that the decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States
upon negro citizenship and the rights of
Southern men in the Territories was de
nounced, and the aoquiesenoe in it refused
by the Aepublioarts, and the validity of
any law establishing slavery was denied
in_ their platform adopted at' Chicago.—
They refused to be bound by the law, and
tlpskplatform was. itself a repudiation of
the laws, tie it denied their obligation.
The Abolitionists and the R'eptibllo'
party, are, therefore, first _in fault, in
breaking away from good faith, duty and
law, and their example, and the apprehen
sion of further acts of aggression upon
Southern rights by them, provoked (al
though they could not justify) the existing
great rebellion.
That rebellion was against the laws of
the United States, and put the whole body
of them at defiance. Although it asserted
for itself a legal ground of justification, it
is most manifest that it was lawless and
unauthorized. The compact of the Union,
being without limitation of time, must be
held, as intended by its authors, to be
perpetual, and the provision contained in
it for its own amendment, provides the
only lawful mode by which its obligation
can be limited or changed. Considering
secession as a breach of the public law,
and in view of - the immense interests put
in peril by it, this State concurred in
measures of hostility against the South.—
But this was done to vindicate the broken
law, and to secure the objects for which
the Government of the United States was
originally founded, and for no purpose of
conquest, of oppression or of fanatical ex
periment. Upon this ground we may
justify our conduct, and submit it, without
apprehension of censure, to the judgment
of future times.
But the war has lasted more than two
years, and its management, and .the
measures of legislative and executive
policy which have accompanied it, have
given occasion for frequent and just com
plaints. It has been so managed that our
armies have been outnumbered where de
cisive battles were to be fought, or have
been rashly thrown upon impregnable po
sitions of the enemy. Our forces, greatly
outnumbering those of the Confederates,
have been so dispersed and so handled that
their superiority has not determined the
issue of campaigns, or concluded the con
test. After contributing one-fifth of a
million of men to the war, our State is in
sulted by raids, and is made dependent
upon the friendship of neighboring States
for her immediate defence.
But it is not the mismanagement of par
ticular military operations, nor other mere
error of policy of our rulers, that has
sunk into the hearts of freemen as matter
of most deep and enduring complaint.—
Mere mismanagement or error may be im
puted to inexperience in war, to accident,
to exceptional or temporary causes, or at
the worst, to incompetency.
But what shall be said of the acts of
Congress and acts of the Executive in
contempt of the Constitution, which, bear
ing upon the war, have protracted it,
united the enemy, divided our own people,
and placed us in a false position before the
nations of the earth ? The Confiscation
Act and the Emancipation Proclamation
are, in the opinion of a large part of our
people, not only unwise and injurious to
our cause, but also wholly unauthorized
by any principle of belligerent or consti
tutional law. We need go but a little
way beyond the doctrine of these measures
before we conclude that the torch may be
applied to entire towns, and a servile,
savage race be let loose to works of rapine
and barbaric war.
But not merely in the policy. of thia war
—in our relations with the enemy—has
illegality, with consequent evil, appeared.
In these Northern States, wholly untouch
ed by revolt, the public sense has been
outraged by repeated and flagrant acts of
arbitrary power. The enumeration of these
would constitute a volume ; and they fur
nish a premonition of evil in the future
which every patriotic mind should view
with deep apprehension. How long can
the law be habitually and offensively
broken by the public authorities, in peace
ful and free communities, before resistance
will be provoked and a reign of social dis
order established?
Thus, upon reviewing our affairs, we
perceive how the spirit of revolution—that
is of disregard and opposition to law—has
worked to our injury, how it presses upon
us with a heavy hand at the present mo
ment, and threatens our future welfare.—
And we discover also the parties or inter
ests who are, in this connection, ohargea
.le with guilt. The picture is dark and
- gloomy enough to create both abhorrence
and fear.
Unfortunately there is no certainty of
the amendment of affairs by parties or ad
ministrations now in possession of power.
The abolitionist stands implacable and inso
lent as of old, and gives perverted direction
to the war. The Republican party, inca
pable
and prone to abuse, has control of
the Federal Government and of most of the
State Governments north and west, and
the Confederate Government inimical to
reunion, holds position a in the South. From
none of these can we expect the firm es
tablisment of the Union, order, liberty and
law. We are not to look to the guilty for
salvation, nor to those who break the laws
for their restoration. The Abolitionist, , .
the Secessionist, and the Republican Ad
ministration and party, have each gone
away from the laws of the land, and it is
because of their unfaithfulness to duty that
wasting war and the other evils before men
tioned afflict the country. It is idle to ex
pect from either the restoration of good
government, and a firm Union based upon
the affections of the people.
But for all the wrong that has been
done, and for all the consequent calamities
that have fallen upon us, the great major
ity of the people of the United States are
not responsible—at least not responsible
in the sense of having intended them.—
And there can be no question that if that
majority could now act directly and fully
upon public affairs, they would decree
im
mediate peace, union and lawful' rule as
they dieted in former times, and would
put down, or put aside, all who would
venture to oppose, or would seek to delay,
the realization of these great objects. The
Abolitionists proper never commanded a
majority, even in the North ; the Republi
oat' party was in a minority of nearly a
million of votes at the Presidential election
of 1860, and it is believed that a majority
of the Southern people were opposed to se
cession even after that election, and aban
doned their unionism reluctantly, under
the pressure of subsequent events.
In point of fact active earnest minorities
North and South, have seized power and
controlled the course of events, and the
great mass of the people have appeared to
be unable to direct their own destinies and
secure their own welfare. They were pre
pared at the outset of the rebellion to have
maintained peace by some settlement of
existing difficulties, and if the Criteenden
Compromise had -:been'sulmsitted to them
it would kiwi biel promptly and gladly'
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LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1863.
accepted. But that occasion was permit
ted to pass by those who could have im
proved it. War came, and for more than
two years a great, intelligent and free peo
ple, most earnestly desiring peace," have
been slaughtering each other, accumulating
enormous_ burdens of debt to press upon
themselves and upon future generations,
and have not yet been able to extricate
themselves from the difficulties that sur
round them.
What then is the remedy for these evils?
One would think that he who runs might
read- it. Sorely our experience should
light up the road of safety, and cause
willing feet to turn away from the paths of
error that tread it. .The remedy is to
call to places of power the men who have
kept the laws, and to eject from power
those who have broken them.. The right
of suffrage yet exists. It has not been
stricken down by military force, and it re
mains to us as the great instrnment of sov
ereign power prepared by the care and
wisdom of our ancestors not only for pros
perous times but also for the days of mis
government and calamity. By wisely ex
ercising it, we may yet redeem our fame
and secure the future.
The Democracy of Pennsylvania stand
upon this necessary and rightful principle
of public morals and national redemption.
The restoration and the support of all the
laws of the land as they were agreed upon
between the States, or have been enacted
by Congress. This excludes all nullifica
tion, secession, proclamation-law, arbitrary
arrests, abolition mobs, and Chicago plat
forms. But it is not inconsistent with the
repeal or amendment of the Constitution.
The power of amendment is itself a funda
mental law, and an invaluable feature of
our system.
With a good cause, and with candidates
worthy of our cause, we stand up once more
in this Commonwealth and invoke the favor
of the people. Our party has not struck
at the Constitution, nor broken the laws,
nor evoked the demon of sectionalism, nor
been in any respect unfaithful to those
vows of union which our fathers pledged
to the people of our sister States. The
words of faith pronounced on behalf of
Pennsylvania by the Clymers, Molieans
and Ingersols of former times, we have
kept, and we intend to keep them in letter
and spirit unto the end.
What is proposed is, that this State
shall, at the coming election, take a front
rank in a general movement of the Central
States for the redemption of the country
from misrule, and wasting war, and im
pending bankruptcy, and from utter dis
grace. New York, New Jersey, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, and the border States
south of these, can stand up with us, and
agree with us in uttering the words which
will save the future from the grasp of ruin.
And let it be said :
The seotional Republican party shall go
down—shall be voted out of power.
All laws shall be kept, and kept as well
by President as by citizen.
No proclamation-made law.
No arbitrary arrests.
No Bastiles.
No suppression of the press or of free
speech.
No confiscation of private property .ex
cept for crime judicially ascertained.
No emancipation by Federal power, or
at the expense of the Federal Treasury.
The laws of war shall be observed.
The Confederate Government must retire
from the scene, and its armies be disbanded
or put down.
The Confederate debt to be the concern
of the States which incurred it.
The Union shall be perpetual, and shall
be declared so.
The recent legislation of Congress shall
be reviewed and corrected.
The public debt of the United States
shall be honestly paid.
No duties or taxes except for revenue.
A convention of all or three-fourths of
the States shall be convened.
The Constitution shall expressly provide
in the very machinery of government, a
power of defence against sectzonal parties.
Reduced to their simplest expression,
these declarations signify that we shall
'stand to law and duty, and provide against
future dangers. And if they, or the sub
stance of them were distinctly endorsed
and held up to public , contemplation by the
States just mentioned, can any doubt that
the effect produced would be immediate
and extensive and salutary ? The end
would then come into view, and its cer
tainty would accelerate events, and give
them proper direction. We would have a
question of weeks or of months, instead of
years or of an indefinite period in reaching
the day of relief. And when reached, the
adjustment of our troubles would be com
plete and permanent, differing in both
these respects from a result achieved by
force alone.
It ought not to be our desire, and it is
not our interest, to make a Hayti or a Po
land of the South.
But it is not here proposed to discuss
generally the question of the war or the
question of the reconstruction of the Union,
but to present the position of parties with
reference to the principle of lawful rule.
And the point insisted upon is, that a party
faithful to law and duty must take posses
sion of public power before we can reason
ably expect a just and honorable peace,
firm reunion and enduring safety. Let
this thought sink deeply into the minds of
the people, and they will restore the Dem
ocratic party to power, and will put down
the guilty and lawless factions who have
abused their confidence and betrayed their
hopes.
FULL OF BUTZER.-‘ Sarah, dear,' said
a waggish husband to his wife, if I were
in your plane I wouldn't keep the babe so
full of butter as yon do.'
Butter, my dear, you mistake, I never
give it any butter.'
No, but you poured about a quart of
milk down it this afternoon, and then
trotted it on your knees for nearly two
hours. If it doesn't contain a quantity of
butter by this time, it isn't for want of
churning.'
A one-legged Welshman named
Jones was pretty suocessful in bantering,
an Irishman, when the latter asked him :
How did you come to lose your leg
Well,' said Jones on examining my
pedigree, and looking up my descent, I
found some Irish blood in me and became
convinced that it was all settled in that
left leg, I had it immediately out off.'
Be the powers,' said Pat, it 'ad av
been a good thing if it had only settled in
your head.
HOW TO LIVE.
He liveth long who liveth well!
All other life is short and vain;
He liveth longest who can tall
Of living most for heavenly gain.
He liveth long who liveth well !
All else is being flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day.
Waste not thy being ; back to him
Who freely gave it, freely give;
Else is that being but a dream !
'Tis but to be, and not to live.
Be what thou seemest ! live thy creed !
Hold up to earth tby torch divine;
Be what thou prayest to be made ;
Let the great Master's steps be thine
Fill up each hour with what wilt last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below.
Sow truth, if thou the truth wonld'st reap;
Who sows the false shall reap the vain ;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep ;
From hollow words and deeds refrain.
Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright ;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find a harvest-home of light.
William Barker---The Young Pa
triot.
BY ARTEiIfIIS WARD
No; William Barker, you cannot have
my daughter's hand in marriage until you
are her equal in wealth and social position.
The speaker was a haughty old man of
some sixty years, and the person whom he
addressed was a fine looking young man
of twenty-five.
With a sad aspect the young man with
drew from the stately mansion.
11.
Six months later the young man stood
in the presence of the haughty old man.
What ! you here again I' angrily cried
the old. man.
Ay, old man,' proudly exclaimed Wil
liam Barker. lam here, your daughter's
equal and yours.'
The old man's lips curled with scorn.—
A derisive smile lit up his cold features ;
when casting violently upon the marble
centre-table an enormous roll of green
backs, William Barker cried—
' See ! Look on this wealth. And I've
tenfold more ! Listen, old man! You spurn
ed me from your door. But I did not de
spair. I secured a contract for furnishing
the Army of the—with beef—'
Yes, yes!' eagerly exclaimed the old
man.
—and I bought up all the disabled
cavalry horses I could find—'
4 I see! I see !' cried the old man.—
And good beef they make too.'
They do ! they do ! and the profits are
immense.'
6 I should say so !'
And now, sir, I claim your daughter's
fair hand !
Boy, she is your's. But hold ! Look
me in the eye. Through all this have you
been loyal 1'
To the core !' cried William Barker.
And,' continued the old man, in a voice
husky with emotion' are you in favor of a
vigorous prosecutfou of the war
'I am, I am !'
Then, boy, take her Maria, mr child,
come hither. Your William claims thee.
Be happy my children ! and whatever our
lot in life may be, let us all support the
Government !
Cousining
A country gentleman lately arrived at
Boston, and immediately repaired to the
house of a relative, a lady who had mar
ried a merchant of that city. The parties
were glad to see him, and invited him to
make their house his home, as he declared
his intention of remaining in that city only
a day or two. The husband of the lady,
anxious to show his attention to a relative
and friend of his-wife, took the gentleman's
horse to a livery stable in Hanover street.
Finally his visit became a visitation, and
the merchant found, after the lapse of
eleven days, besides lodging and boarding
the gentleman, a pretty considerable bill
had run up at the livery stable. Accord
ingly he went to the man who kept the
livery stable and told him when the gen
tleman took his horse he would pay the
bill.
Very well,' said the stable keeper, ' I
understand you.'
Accordingly, in a short time, the country
gentleman went to the stable and ordered
his horse to be got ready. The bill of course
was presented to him.
, o,' said the gentleman, 4 Mr
my relative, will pay this.'
Very good, sir,' said the stable keeper,
please get an order from Mr. it
will be the same as money.'
The horse was put up again, and down
went the country gentleman to Long
Wharf, where the merchant kept.
Well,' said he, lam going now.'
Are you V said the gentleman, well,
good by, sir.'
Well, about my horse ; the man Baia
the bill must be paid for his keeping.'
Well, I suppose that is all right, sir.'
Yea—well, but you know I'm your
wife's cousin.'
g Yes,' said the merchant, g I know you
are, but your horse is not.'
STRONG CHARACTERS.---Strength of
character consists of two things—power of
self-restraint. It requires two things,
therefore, for its existence—strong feel
ings and strong command over them. Now
it is here we make a great mistake ; we
mistake a strong feeling for a strong char
acter. A man who bears all before him,
before whose frown domestics tremble, and
whose bursts of fury make the children of
the household quake, because he has his
will obeyed and hie own way in all things,
we call him a strong man. The truth is,
that is the weak man ; it is his passions
that are strong; he, mastered by them, is
weak. Yon must measure the strength of
the man by the power of the - feelings he
subdues, not by the power of those which
subdue him. And hence composure is very
often the highest result of strength. Did
we never see a man receive a flagrant in
sult, and only grow a little pale, and then
reply quietly 1 That is a man spiritually
strong. Or did we ever see a man in an
guish stand, as if carved out of the solid
rook, mastering himself ?
.Or one bearing
a hopeless daily trial remain silent, and
never tell the world what oankered his
home peace 1 That is strength. He, who,
with strong passions, remains chaste ; he
who, keenly sensitive, with manly powers
of indignation in him, can be provoked and
yet restrain himself, and forgive—those are
the strong Men—the spiritual heroes. •
BIRDS AND TH:FSEt. USES.—The follow
ing facts, derived from correct sources of
information, are'important in the consider
ation of how to get rid of the worms :
A pair of blaabirds destroy in a single
day about 600 worms, and over' 1000 in
sects.
Baron Von Tsohudi, the well known
Swiss Naturalist, says, without birds, suc
cessful agriculture is impossible.' They
annihilate in a few months a greater num
ber of destructive insects than human
hands can accomplish in the same nninber
of years. Among the most useful birds
for this purpose may be classed the Swal
low, Wren, Robin,. Redbreast, Titmouse,
Sparrow, and Finch.
Tschudi tested the Titmouse upon rose
bushes of his neighbor, and rid the same
in a few hours of innumerable lice. A
Robin Redbreast killed in the neighbor
hood of 8000 flies in an hour. A pair of
Night Swallows destroyed in fifteen min
utes an immense swarm of gnats. A pair
of Wrens flew thirty-six times in an hour
with insects in their bills to their nests.--
Re considers the Swallow very important,
a pair of them carrying in a single day 300
worms or caterpillars to their nest—cer
tainly good compensation for the few cher
ries which they pluck from the trees.—
The generality of small birds carry to their
young ones during the feeding period noth
ing but insects, worms, snails, spiders, &o.
Sufficient interest should be manifested by
all to prevent the discharge of fire-arms
in the vicinity of orchards, vineyards and
flower gardens, as thereby the useful birds
beeome frightened.
SmAwr.—The draft draws out slumber
ing genius, and expedients are as thick as
black-berries. Our colored brethren are
placed on an equality with the Caucasian
race, so far as they are concerned in the
draft itself. But the Wilsons and Wades,
in their excess of love for the colored man,
have passed a law that he shall have only
$lO a month and no bounty, when forced
into the army, though the white soldier
gets $l3 a month and $lOO bounty. In
this town, a number of colored men were
drafted. One of them, a hotel waiter,
made up his mind to get an exemption
certificate. Being sound himself, he pro
cured a colored brother with a weak knee,
to go before the surgeon and personate
him, the unsound leg being sufficient, he
supposed, to get him clear. But the,leg
was not quite unsound enough. The sur
geon passed' him, and the Provo' held
him as an able-bodied soldier in Uncle
Abraham's army. This scared the darkey
with a lame leg almost to death. Turning
a little blue in the face, he declared, Lor'
a massa, ear, I ain't him—ain't no Boger
at all ! ' Who are you Oh, ear, I comes
just for de lame leg, to get him clare of
de draaf—dat's all—'tie sartin—l can't
go to de war--can't be killed down Setif,
lor' a mighty bress you, let me go.' With
this explanation, the facts seemed clear
enough, and in 20 minutes both of the col
ored gentlemen were in the look-up. One
will ' go,' probably, and the game-legged
one will get punished for his attempt to
defraud. Lo ! the poor African,' his ab
olition friends have been of no advantage
to him or his race.—„dartford Times.
THE WORKMAN AHEAD.-A good.story
is told of a certain prominent railroad
gentleman of this city, who is equally re
nowned for his ability to make' and take
a joke. A railroad employee, whose home
is in Avon, came one Saturday night to
ask for a pass down to visit his family.
You are in the employ of the railroad ?'
inquired the gentleman alluded to.
Yea.'
You receive your pay regularly 3'
Yee.'
Well. Now, supposiog you were work
ing for a farmer instead of a railroad,
would you expect your employer to hitch
up his team every Saturday night and car
ry you home ?
This seemed a poser, but it wasn't.—
' No,' said the man promptly, I wouldn't
expect that;
but, if the farmer had his
team hitched up, and was going my way,
I should call him a darned mean cuss if
he wouldn't let me ride!
, Mr. Employee came out three minutes
afterwards with a pass in his sock, good
for twelvs(months.—Buffalo Courier.
A MAN WITH Too 31110 H WlFE.—Chap
man, a witty lawyer of Harford, was busy
with a case at which a lady was present,
with whom he had already had something
to do as a witness.
Her husband was present—a diminutive,
meek, forbearing sort of a man—who, in
the language of Mr. Chapman, looked
like a rooster just fished out of a swill bar
rel ;' while the lady was a large portly
woman,
evidently the better horse.'As
on the former occasion, she balked' on
the cross examination. The lawyer was
pressing the question with his urgency,
when she said, with vindictive fire flash
ing from her eyes :
Mr. - Chapman, you needn't think you
can catch me ; you tried that once before !'
Putting on his most quizzical expression,
Mr. Chapman replied :
Madam, I haven't the slightest desire
to catch you ; and your husband looks to
me as if he was sorry he had
The husband faintly smiled assent.
13g" A Kansas editor, in reply to a com
munication received, replies in his own
columns :
A female correspondent sends us an
uninterested piece of poetry, and requests
us to publish it. The moon is called bright;
the stars are flattered with their original
appellation of 'meek eyed ;' -the trees come
in for a full share of glory ; and the fall
ing spring is pronounced silver-plated, or
something to that effect. Besides this, the
poem is equally instructive on other im
portant subjects. If Mary will send us an
affidavit that she has washed her dishes,
mended her hose, and swept the house the
week after she was' struck with the poetic
fire,' we will give in, and startle •the lit
erary world from its lethargy. For the
present we say, darn' your stodkings, and
darn' your, poetry, too.'
An insatiable lover must have been
Cattail's, a Roman poet, who was asked
by Lesbia how many of her kisses would
satisfy him, and replied :
As many as there are' sands in tie
deserts, or stars in, the heavens.' .
1:1* A Oorkonian, on being asked at
breakfast how he eame that blaok. eye,'
said "'he slept on his fist.' "
Sarsurpic PARA_DOMES.—The water
which drown us—a flaent stream—can be
walked upon as ice. The bullet which,
fired from a musket, carries death, will be
harmless if ground to dust before being
fired. A crystalized part of the oil of
roses—so graceful in its fragrance—a solid
ac ordinary temperature, though readily
volatile—is a compound substance, con
taining exactly the same elements, and in
exactly the same proportions, as the gas
with which we light our streets. The tea
which we daily drink, with benefit and
pleasure, produces palpitations, nervous
tremblings, and even iiiralysis, if taken in
excess ; yet the pe(suliar organic agent
called theine, to which tea owes its quali
ties, may be taken by itself (as theine, not
as tea) without any appreciable effect.—
The water which will allay our burning
thirst, augments it, when congealed into
snow; so that Capt. Ross declares the na
tives of the Arctic regions prefer endu
ring the utmost extremity of thirst, rather
than atttompt to remove it by eating snow.'
Yet if the snow be melted, it becomes
drinkable water. Nevertheless, if although,
if melted before entering the mouth it as
suages thirst like other water, when melt
ed in the mouth it has the opposite effect.
To render this paradox more striking, we
have only to remember that ice, which
melts more slowly in the mouth, is very effi
cient in allaying thirst.—Scientific rimer
ican.
PRIVATE VIEWS OF THE WAR.—The
correspondent of a contemporary tells a
story of a Colonel in General Meade's army
who, on a recentxpedition, fell in with a
pretty Pennsylvania girl, attired in a neat
dress, out low in the neck and short In the
sleeves, who was milking a cow. The offi
er having tried in vain to engage her in
lonversation, finally proposed that he
should receive the milk. This was indig
nantly refused. He then 'gallantly re
marked that if all the Pennsylvania girls
were as pretty as the one whom he had the
pleasure of addressing, he had no desire
to conquer the Confederacy. Well, sir,'
replied the damsel, with an ugly toss of
the head, cif all the gentlemen in your army
are as ugly as you are, we ladies have no
desire to conquer them.' The Colonel
wilted on the spot, his looks being a mat
ter of special pride with him.
AN AGREEABLE CIISTOBIER.- , Stranger,
I want to leave my dog in this 'ere office
till the boat starts ; I'm afraid somebody
will steal him.'
c You can't do it,' said the clerk ; ' take
him out.'
'Well, stranger,that is cruel ; but you're
both dispositioned alike, and he's kinder
company for you.'
Take him out,' roared the clerk.
Well, stranger, I don't think you're
honest, and you want watching. Here
Dragon,' he said to the dog, sit down
here, and watch that fellow sharp,' and
turning on his heel he said, ' Put him out,
stranger, if he's troublesome.'
The dog lay there till the boat started,
watching and growling at every move
ment of the clerk, who gave him the half
of the office.
Of the stories preserved of Garth's
social humor, some are exquisitely droll.—
Writing a letter at a coffee house, he found
himself overlooked by a curious Irishman,
who was impudently reading every word of
the epistle. Garth took no notice of the
impertinence until he had finished and sign
ed the body of the letter, when he added
a postscript of unquestionable legibility :
I would write you more by this post, but
there's a tall, impudent Irishman looking
over my shoulder all the time." What
do you mean, sir ?' roared the Irishman,
in a fury. Do you think I looked over
your letter 1' Sir,' replied the physician,
I never once opened my lips to you!—
, Ay, bat you put it down, for all that.'—
''Tis impossible, sir, that you should know
that, for you have never once looked over
my letter.'
A pretty sinner may chance to be
more attractive than an ugly saint, and
persons sometimes find it out. A good
story is told of a Yankee divine of advan
ced age who married his second wife, a
damsel young and handsome. When the
elders of the church came to him to in
quire if the lady was a suitable person to
make a useful figure as a parson's wife, he
answered frankly that he didn't think she
was. ' Bat,' added the irrepressible doc
tor, though I don't pretend she is a saint,
she is a very pretty little sinner, and I
love her.' And the twain became one flesh.
[* A Cockney tourist met a Scottish
lassie going barefoot towards Glasgow.
Lassie,' said he, ' I should like to know
if all the people in these parts go bare=
foot ?
Part on'em do, and the: , rest on'em
mind their own business,' was the rather
settling reply.
THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER
JOB PRINTING ESTABLISIIMPSZ•
No. 8 NORTH DUKE STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
The Jabbing Department is thoroughly furnished with
new and elegant type of every description, and is ander
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 reasons
ble terms, and in a manner not excelled by any establish-
ment In the city.
Orders.. from a distance, by, mall or otherwise
promptly attended to. • Address
GEO. SANDERSON A S i g,
Intelligencer ce,
No. 8 North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa.
SHEAFFERW CHEAP. BOOK STORE.
No. 32 NORTH QUEEN STREET
IS THE PLACE TO PURCHASE
SZHOOL BOOKS & BOHOOL STATIONERY.
OOMPLUSING'ALL RHE veutous
BEADING AND SPELLING BOORS,
ABITHMETICS AND ALGEBRAS,
GRAMMARS AND ETYMOLOGIES,
DICTIONARIES AND HISTORIES,
PHILOSOPHIES, &0., &o.
COPY AND COMPOSITION BOOKS,
•
L ER, ETT OAP AND NOTE PAPER.,
BLANK-BOOKS, SLATES,
LEAD AND SLATE PENCILS,
PENS AND HOLDERS, INK,
INKSTANDS, RULERS,
and the best and most complete assortment of
SCHOOL STATIONERY IN THE CITY.
Aar Liberal amounts, made to Teachers. and Merchant)
at JOHN SHE4PFER'S
Cheap• Cash Book Store,
32 North Queen street, Lancaster.
oct 14 • tf 40
frATTERSA-LL , EI HEAVE PO WDL IL
Powdered :Eosin, Antimony, Rem:agrees; Sulphn
Saltpetre, Assiftelida„Altun, to. For saleat
apr 21 tfl4 . THOMAS ELL,MAXIIIII4
Drug and Obeankal Sttnrs..W•ntAilia
O
A MONTH I--We want Agents at
89
$6O a month, expensed paid, to sell oar ..E.erlast•
ing Oriental Baraers, and thirteen other new,
ended and . cartone artieleti P r ifteen diroularteent free:
• ••
SHAW. CLARK, lifticiefonl,l6iiiie.
Address,
june 2
lAiirE9El l6 :43otl3l,, SILVER. AND
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. ELLND notEs,?to= which the RIGNESZPREIII. ,
"E3l will be paid at thaltiabg Honee of. •
CO.
REED, RENDERBON & u ~4
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A NATIONAL DNDIOORATIO •NBWBPAP-11B L _
To be yabllehed Daily and Weekly In the ckt7 ef. EA*
deloble. by • -
• .A. J:6103213RR1E VIZ di!
A. J. GLOSSIMENNSIt.
FRANCIIB J. GRUND
wmusx wittaml -
Tea Aux. will advocate use principles( and of
the Democratic, party, and will, therefore, n fem.
the restoration of the Union as it wee, and defszid — the
Constitution of the United States, and - that of tlds Clow
It will freely and fairly discuss all legititakteratOttsat
newspaper comment, including, •of conrec - and , toreeinte
nanny at this Mae. all queatione connected - with' the
existing unhappy condition of our country.
It will fearlessly criticise the public sots of public ser
vants, and defend the legal and constitutional rights of in
dividual citizens of sovereign States, agalnet assaults from
any quarter.
It will seek to awaken the minds - of the,peopleto a
proper sense of the actual condition ofthe 'ltepuldlo—to
present - to them, truthfully, the fearful perthritt which - wit
stand as a nation—to exhibit. the magnitude Or ihf, task
that is before them. If they would - check our downwankl •
progress—and to Inspire them wlttittatrlotio determination
to apply Tax EMMY for our national ills. ,
In brief, it will, in all things, aim to be the faithful t en,
portent of Democratic principles, and to render itself
worthy to be an organ of the Democratic party, under -
whose auspices our countryy prospered so long and eo
The restoration of that party—the-party of the Cloaldillk,.•
tion and the Union—to power, in the legislative and lakkokl—:.
tive governmental branches of the States and of the Union,
we believe to be necessary to avert anarchy, and the utter
ruin of the Republic.- To• contribute txl that restoratlea
will be our highest aim. • , -
The News, Literary, Commercial, and other dePtitidents,
will receive due attention, and will he so conducted se to
make "Tue AGE" worthy of the support of the general
reader.
*if - The many difScnitlea now . jitirrounding; gni-luster
prise of the magnitude of that In which. the undersigned
are engaged, require them to • appeal to .the nubile for a
'generous support, and ask for "Tax dos" a liberal patron
age and extended circulation •
The present state of the preparatory arrangements war-
rants the expectation, that the firet number of the Daily
will appear before the Mose of the coming month{ .(ffebne ,
ary, 1863.) The Weekly will be issued soon thereafter.
TERMS:
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Per annum $O.OO Per annum,.
Six Months, 8.00 Six Months,...,
Three Months, 1.601 Three M0nth5 ,.„......
Copies delivered at the Ten Copies to one ad.
counter, and to I dress, • 11.7.60
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dere, 2 Ceuta each. 1 address, 3100'
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Address, A. J. GLOSSBAENNER A 00, .
feb 3 3m 41 430 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
SCHAFFER, SON & CO.,
riCEIAFFER, SON A CO.,
SCHAFFER. SON & 00.,
SCHAFFER, SON A CO,
SCHAFFER, SON A 00.,
SCHAFFER, BON A
IMPORTERS OF WATCHES,
IMPORTERS OF WATCHES,
IMPORTERS OF WATCHES,
IMPORTERS OF WATCHES,
IMPORTERS OF WATCHES,
Nos. 169 and 171 Broadway, N. Y.,
Nos. 169 and 171 Broadway, N. Y.,
Nos. 169 and 171 Broadway, N. Y.,
Nos. 169 and 171 Broadway, N. Y.,
Are receiving by the European Steamers, direct from thsfr
agency in Chaux.de-Vongs, Switzerland, huge Imports,
tione of the Celebrated
MAGIC TIME OBSERVER,
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MAGIC TIME OBSERVER,
MAGIC TIME OBSERVER,
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MAGIC TIME OBSERVER,
MAGIC TIME OBSERVER,
MAGIC TIME OBSERVER,
The Height of Mechanical Ingenuity!
The Height of Herbal:OG.4l Ingenuity!
The Height cf Mechanical Ingenuity!
The Height of Mechanical Ingenuity I
Being a Hunting or Open Face Watch Combined,
Being a Hunting or Open Face Watch Combined,
Being a Hunting or Open Face Watch Combined, •
Or; a LADY'S or GENTLEMAN'S WATCH in ONE!
Or ; a LADY'S or GENTLEMAN'S WATCH in ONE! •, '
Or ; a LADY'S or GENTLEMAN'S WATCH in ONE!
WITH SELF WINDING IMPROVEMENT.
WITH SELF WINDING IMPROVEMENT.
One of the prettiest, most convenient, and decidedly the
beet and cheapest timepiece ever offered. It has within It
and connected with its machinery, Its own winding attach.
meet, rendering a key entirely unnecessary. The oases of
this Watch are coinpoeed of two metals, them:der one being
fine 16 carat gold. It has the Improved ruby action lever
movement, and le
WARRANTED AN ACCURATE TIMEKEEPER:
WARRANTED AN ACCURATE TIMEKEEPER. •
WARRANTED AN ACCURATE TIMEKEEPER.
WARRANTED AN ACCURATE TIMEKEEPER.
Price THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS, sent - by mail In a
beautiful velvet lined morocco case, upon receipt of Its
price. A proMpt and safe delivery guaranteed. Remit..
lances may be made In United States money, or Draft pay=
able to our order in this city.
REGISTERED LETTERS, ONLY, AT OUR RISK.
We have no agents or circulare• ' buyers must deal direct
With us, ordering from this advertisement. Address '
SCHAFFER, BON & CO.,
Importers of Watches,
Nos. 169 and 171 Broadway, New Yory;
E I- 7 EI ZIrYS THE PATENT AND POST-MARt.
PRESERVING ENVELOPE
The preservation on the letter itself of the POST-31ABIL,
and POSTAGE-STAMP, generally destroyed with the del'
tached cover, has long been deemed a matter of the grab
importance. This desideratum In now triumphantly secured'
by this Ingenious Invention. Many obvious advantagek
must arise from the general use of this envelope.
First—lncreased Safety by additional sealing; the . stamp
connecting the envelope and letter securely together • mad
this is never liable to be omitted. though the sticking of
the flap is frequently neglected or imperfectly done.
Second—Security against Impertinent Intrusion; the
letter and envelope being firmly attached by the atmpe,
and inclosure cannot be Inspected even if the Ilan be clan
destinely opened.
Third—Safety against Abstraction of Valuable Inds
sures. If the flap be left unsealed, or opened with feloni
ous intent, it will be impossible to open the letter and take
thence bank notes and drafts without as mutilating the
envelope as to insure detection. . .
foura—Security for the free payment of the Postagel
as the stamp, when once properly plaudit' this window,
cannot be removed without its destruction.
Fifih—Advantage therefore to the Government; by the
effectual destruction of everyaramp in its first use.
Sixth—Facility to the Poet Office Ogstrations; by a uni•
form location of the stamp in the upper tight hand corner,
which is the most convenient position for the Poet Mee
mark. •
Seventh—Verification of the Mailing; by 'enuring on the
letter itself the legal evidence of the time and place of it
being mailed. This has long been esteemed so 'desirable,
that many prudent persons are constrained to - dispense
with the use of envelopes, that they may have the poet
mark on the letter; and others take the precaution to pin
the envelope again on the letter for identification. . -
Eighth—Certainty of the Date and Place on - the Letter,
which are so frequently omitted by writers in 4:lntestines
or hurry. .
Ninth—Ornamentation. which; though someimej think
of small importance, certainly meets the appronl . a all
persons of taste.
Tenth—Cost. Notwithstanding the many and•nndydkd
advantages of the "Stamp eealing Bovetepee," the will
be furnished at a very small advance upon - the prlti
those not having the benefit of this patent.
Can be had at J. H. WEBTHASIBBIS
Cheap Book Store, Corner North Queen and Orange Etta
nov 4
GR EJIC NEW ALD'S
WEST INDIA BITTERR
CURES ALL DISEASES ARISING FROM DISORDERMD
STOMACH AND DYSPEPSIA.
These are elegant Bitten,, pleasant and palatable, timid.
in debilitated states of the digestive organs, and of era
system generally. They give a good appetite - and: Wlll
- the following diseases: -
.
Deprestdon of Spirits, and constant imagining' of+the
various diseases to which our nature is heir, to,
Liver Diseases,
Heart Burn,t
Pals fri the Back and Side r
Disgust for Food,
Difficult Breathing,
Fluttering at - the Heart, ,
Dimness of Vision
Pains thronglk the System,
•
Piles, •• : •
Constipation,
Boor Stomach, _ • •
Bwiniming hefts
Beer and duaßaitt•ln`Halwit
Yellowness re:gie akin,
Dysentery
.Diarrcetuv:
Rising in the morning with a t Bad Taste rd the Mouth.
Hundreds of our gallant soldiers' lilies hare been sated
by these splendid . Bitters, that otheterise Weald hi taw
not only to their country, but to dearlriende at home.
The Bitters are manufactured_and for tale under H.
L. .3c R. J. Tatum? Jewelry Btore, N. W. Cotner (lentre,
Square and North Queen street, Lancaster, ta : : ,
B. GEBEHtiii.LB..
Axplif
Lancaster, June 16,188&
BV I L -113 I L
. INNUEST QUALITIES r 0331' mozA.sr.
The nndersigned, having made arrange:melds Iritit3ftl;
R. JONES, for. all his best quality of PLUM BOTTOM.
SLATE, for this market j'and simllir arrerigentettriEdi
the proprietors of efx of the principal and-best quardliiPlat!
York - county ' be bus just received, a. large Jot thAla_f'
superior qualltitlei of Building Kate; which' will 'Ka — t
on by the square, or sold by the ton, MlA's . Walt
able terms. Also, constantly on hand, an-EI.TIALLIOW,
PEACH BOTTOM SLATE, intended for Blithig - orilliingla"..
As those. qualltisa.oi Este Aie Tao BEST ttii THE
MARKET, Builders and others it to their intend
to rail ina examine samples,at Ats , ..!offfair-tit IWM ‘R;
SPItECHER'B, New Agricultural and Seed Ware•rotons.
• " • • • GEO. D,ITAJODELER,
N 0.28 East King 8t.,2 doorsWo-tioiiftetTourt
ARP This is to earth that r do not sill JO beskqualtr:
of Pasch Bottom Quaged Slate to any other -peunn,4n,
Lancaster, than Geo: D. Orecher, its abortrstitoxLloB,-
•
Manufacturer of Peachitottom p.0014g autuk.
feb 25
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