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THE SONG OF THE SHIRT A clergyman of this city, in a few remarks on the last Thanksgiving proclamation of the President, spoke of " women in this city, the wives of soldiers, being compelled to make shirts for six and a guar ter , cents each '" To the intensely "loyal" con tractor, who compels a woman to work for such a miserable pittance, we commend the perusal of the following lines of Thomas liood's famous " Song of the Shirt," which, although written many years ago, aro very applicable now. HoW truly they con vey the sufferings of thousands upon thousands of women all over our once happy country. - Hose must have had just such a time as the present in his mind's eye when he wrote his song: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! Stitch! Stich! in poverty, hunger and dirt ; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the Soug of the Shirt!" Work! Work! Work! While the cocks are crowing aloof! And work—work—work Till the slats shine through the roof! It's oh! to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has ridi!or a soul to save, If TRIO is Christiilfa work ! " Work—work—work ! Till the brain begins to swim, Work—work—work ! Till the eyes grow heavy and dim ! seam, and gusset, and baud— Band, and gusset, and seam— Till over the button,' I fall asleep, And sew them on in my dream ! Oh! men with sisters dear! Oh! men with mothers and wives ' It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch—stitch—stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A stilton', as well as a shirt! "But why do you talk of death— That phantom of grizzly bone I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own! It seems so like my own, Because of the fast. I keep; Ph, lied ! that brow,/ should be so dear, And . fissir and If He'd so cheap Work—work—work My labor never flags; And what are its ivages ! A bed of straw, A crust of bread—and rags; A shattered roof—and this naked floor— A table—a broken chair— And a wall so blank, lay shadow 1 thank For sometimes falling ihero Work—work—work ! From weary chime to chime; Work—work—work ! As prisoners work—for crime! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. " Work—work—work ! In the dull December light; And work—work—work When the weather is warm and bright While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose swot With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my foot For only one short hour To feel as 1 used to feel, Before 1 knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal " Oh! but for one short hour! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart-- But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop finders needle and thread!" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and rod, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, , Plying her needle and thread— Stitch—stitch—stitch In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch— Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sung the "Song of the Shirt!" The Persevering Bachelor Mr. Peter Robinson was a bachelor, stout, and almost forty. Peter had never loved but ouoe, and the adoration of his heart had been bestowed upon Miss Lucy Poppleton ; but alas ! Peter had failed to express his passion at the proper moment ; or, in other words, had failed to come to time, and one day his heart was lacerated by receiving an envelope of cards, announc ing that the delightful Luoy was about to become Mrs. Jimmersini Crooks. It was a terrible blow to Peter, but he staggered up from it and still loved the object of his early passions—at a distanoe. Mrs. Jimmerson Crooks revelled in the delights of matrimony, leading Fashion, ' her husband, and Peter—at a distance—by the nose for five years, at the end of which time Mr. Jimmerson Crooks chose to depart for another sphere, leaving Mrs. Jimmer- ' son alone to mourn her duty. Once more Peter's heart spr ng up from dust and ashes, and looked forward to the time when the alloted period of mourning should be ovor, and he could pour forth the pent up agonies of five years, and nsk compensation in the hand of the fair widow. One year, thought Peter, is surely enough of time. I will give her ono year. Month and month rolled away until he could stand it no longer. A sickish misgiving of the evils of delay drove him to precipitate the asking. When the tenth month came he sought the widow at her home, and with all the ardor of a long pent up love poured forth his tale. The widow heard him— heard him calmly unto the very end, and then, with her delicately perfumed hand kerchief pressed to her blushing cheeks told Peter that she had only the week be fore promised her hand to Dr. Stickelback and oh ! why did not her dear friend speak before ? A second 'time was Peter's heart torn into minute fragments ; a second time was he sent into the world to admire—at a distance. Time sped on, and once more Peter be gan to encourage hope. Perhaps Stickel back might die ; he certainly had an ap pleotic look ; and sure enough Peter's perhaps turned out a certainty, and Mrs. Doctor Thedosius Stickleback was once more a mourner. Peter had learned too bitterly the dangers of delay to suffer any such cause to stand this time between himself and success. He would not give the widow a year, nor yet ten months—nay, not even six ; but the third month he would go to her with his tale of love defer red ; and so he did. We must transcribe the widow's own words when the question was popped : Oh ! Mr. Robinson, why did you not oome before You know my esteem for you! You know that I would have set aside all other offers for you ; but oh ! how oan I tell you—that only last evening I promised Captain Hawkins. Poor, dear, sweet Hawkins ! he's your intimate friend, 1 1 know ; I've heard him speak so highly of you! Oh, why did yon not speak before ?' And so Mrs. Doctor Theodosius Stickle back was transformed into Mrs. Jonathan Hawkins ; and Peter was once more left to admire—at a distance. Still Peter waited and hoped. Some thing might turn up, he argued, and then he would not allow himself to be too late and something did turn up, the something being nothing more or less than the re doubtable Captain, who turned up missing, having fallen overboard from the steamboat while out on a target excursion with his company, and sunk like a stone, owing undoubtedly, to the ponderous nature of his re-ponsibilities. The suddenness of this exit, as Peter argued, must certainly act with depressing force on the widow, and though he would not give her again time to recover and be admired, still etiquette demanded a little time to intervene. Accordingly when, upon the tenth day after the melancholy bereavement, Peter knocked at the widow's door, bent upon his errand of love, he rather chuckled to himself that he was taking time by the forelock. The business on which he came was quietly told, and once more the widow was in a torrent of tears. Oh, Mr. Robinson,' she - exclaimed, hid ing her face in her cambric, why are you so unfortunate, and why am I 'You know my esteem for you, but you are too late. lam already engaged. You know Counselor Ketcham?—my poor,.dear, dead and gone Hawkins' most intimate friend. He was with him, you know, when he was called r way, and was the first to communi cate to me the awful intelligence. He was such a comforter, and I have promised to have him this day two months.' This time Peter was crushed. He had no words to express his broken heartedness, but to rush from the house and go on as before, admiring at a distance. It was months before Peter even offered to encourage hope, and even then it flick ered. One day he was walking in despon dent mood through one of the up; er avenues, when he heard a sudden shout, and started. From a half-finished build ing just in front of him, he saw, as he raised his eyes, a stout Milesian making gyrations in the air, from a height of three stories, in company with a coping stone weighin. b somewhat less than half a ton the two having slipped together from a scaffolding at that height. Ile saw both Milesian and stone strike full upon the heads of two gentlemen passing, and the whole four ware in an instant mixed in an inextricable heap. Like all the ,other spectators, Peter rushed to the rescue, only to behold, between horror and joy, the last gasps of Counselor Ketcham and the gentleman who was walking with him, and the perfect safety of the Milesian and sto 13. This time Peter would trust to no pass ing of time. Without an instant's delay, more than to satisfy himself that life was extinct, he hailed a passing hack, and then sped to the mansion of the widowed Mrs. Counselor Ketcham. In words of the most delicate and endearing nature Peter communicated his intelligence to the widow, and waited the result, and then, between her sobs and teats, claimed her hand for the next set. Oh, Mr. Robinson,' sobbed the widow, how can you ask me such a thing I How could I know that you would be the first to bring me the news of my dear Ketcham's decease ? You know how I esteem and respect you, but-1 am already engaged !' Engaged !' shrieked Peter, towhoui I promised,' responded the widow, be tween her sobs, I promised a month ago —that if anything happened—l would marry Col. Snapper.' You did !' shouted Peter, his whole appearance changing in an instant from that of a fiend to a look of unbridled joy, and is ho are you engaged to after that 1' No one,' sighed the widow. Will you swear this?' said Peter. 6 I swear it,' responded the widow, sol emnly. And will you marry me after Snapper is gone ?' I will,' said the widow. Do you swear it ?' asked Peter, fiercely. I swear it,' said the widow, earnestly. Then you are mine, charming Lucy, for the stone that ushered the Counselor into the next world also took the Colonel. I saw it with my own eyes.' The next moment the widow was in Pe ter's arms, and they were married in a Webster's Reply to Hayne The Taunton (Mass.) Gazette publishes ! the following interesting reminiscence in connection with a notice of Webster's re- ! ply to Hayne : It will be seen from this interesting narrative that there was a time when Jos eph Gales stood alone among Congression al reporters ; and to still further illustrate his position in that line we call to mind what we once heard an intimate friend of Mr. Webster say he owed to him and his wife, with rogard to the celebrated reply to Bayne. Meeting the Massachusetts Senator as he was going to the Capitol on I that morning, Mr. Gales inquired of him how long he intended to speak. About! half an hour, was the reply. rhe editor's duties at that time were pressing ; but he ventured to take so much time from them. Mr. Webster, however, directly after met''. Judge Story, who said that he thought the ! time had come to give to tha country his views on the Constitution. To this pro position he assented. Mr. Gales took up his ! pencil, unaware of this new arrangement, and alike unconscious of•the lapse of time under the enchantment of the orator, and ! consequently ho wrote on until the close of the spell. Some days passing away, and the 'proof' of the speech not appearing, Mr. Webster called on the reporter; and made inquiry. I have the notes,' said Mr. Gales, and they are at your service, as I shall never find time to write them out.' This led to some remonstrances and persua sion, but the over tasked editor stood firm. Then Mrs. Gales came to his rescue by saying that she thought she could decipher her husband's short hand, as she had for merly occasionally done so. Mr. Gales doubted, seeing that it was fifteen years since she had tried it. But she had heard the speeoh, and as the resistless sweep of its argument, and the gorgeous and mas sive magnificence of its imagery, were yet vivid in her mind, she persisted in under taking the difficult work. In due time thereafter the fair manuscript came to Mr. Webster's hands for final correction. "THAT COUNTRY IB THZ MOST PROSPIROUS WHIRZ LABOR MOUNDS TEI GRIATIST RINVARD.' LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1863. Scarcely a word needed to be changed ; and soon 'I set of diamonds, costing a thousand dollars, accompanied the rich thanks of the eloquent statesman Thus was saved to literature the most memora ble oration of the American Senate' From the Chicago Times. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1863. A REVIEW. Everything indicates that the campaign of 181;3 has reached its end, and that, for the next four or five months, active opera tions will not be resumed upbn a scale of any great magnitude. Meade has desisted from the pursuit of Lee and fallen back to the hither bank of the friendly Rappa hannock; Grant, owing to the necessity of accumulating supplies, and the execrable character of the mountain roads over which his advance must necessarily be made, wilt not be likely to leave Chatta nooga at present. Longstreet, by the de feat of Bragg, has been compelled to raise the siege of Knoxville and abandon the project of recapturing East Tennessee ; by which quiet prevails at all the promi nent points along the line of Federal oper- ations. On the first day of January of the present year, the Federal army, under General Ro. , ecrans, was burying its dead which had fallen the day previous in the tremendous battle of Murfreesboro, or, as generally termed, Stone River. That same night Bragg, under cover of dark ness, withdrew his disheartened forces, and took up a new line of occupation upon the south side of Duck River. Thus, at the opening of 1863, the rebels held, west of the Mississippi, all the country south of the Arkansas River, and on the east of the Father of Waters, nearly, or all, south of a line which com menced on the river at Vicksburg, ran up the Yazoo River to Yazoo City, then ran off irregularly to the northeast till it reached Bragg in Tennessee, on Duck River. From this point it continued east ward, including East Tennessee, until it reached its terminus in the East some where not far from Fredericksburg, on the Potomac River. The States held by the rebels were about one-half of Arkansas, nearly all of Louisiana, Texas, and Missis sippi, all of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, with trifling exceptions ; and the west part of Tennes see and Virginia. The Federal forces held two hostile Southern States—Mis souri and Kentucky ; held half of Arkan sas, half of Tennessee, one-third of Vir ginia, and had effected lodgments on the coasts of all the others. How much have we gained during the present year? Nothing in Virginia; the remaining half of Tennessee ; of Missis sippi about one-third, or, practically, the country lying west of the railroad that runs from .Memphis to Mobile ; and the navigation of the Mississippi, In Arkan sas, the chief difference between the be ginning and end of the year is, that then the rebels occupied the Arkansas River, which is now occupied by us. From this it will be seen that the gain in territory on the part of the Federal government is very small. One half of Tennessee, and the country immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River from Vicksburg to Port Hudson ; on the coast, but little—al ending in front of Charles ton, and a foothold at the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas. We practically summand the State of Arkansas ; but its capture to us is as barren as was its,pos session to the rebels ; therefore, in sum ming up, we do not regard its subjugation as a material benefit to the national gov- ingly slow and .difficult, and, in a little while, from the complete wearing out of cars and trucks, impossible. But while the rebels will lose many con ditions of great value, in being forced upon their sole remaining line of defence, they will gain one immense advantage. Every foot that they yield enables them to concentrate upon the shorter inner line of defence, while it correspondingly weakens us by lengthening our communication as we advance Our armies are now so far from their basis of supply that a very slight interruption would be fatal ; hence it is necessary to guard absolutely against any such contingency by leaving a small army at every point as we leave it, This weakens enormously our capacities for of fence, and is one of the main reasons why the North is obliged to call for men inces santly, iu order to preserve its advances, and at the same time render its movements effective. The battles of the present war have, in magnitude, exceeded those of any previ ous campaign. Among those which stand out in bold relief as first-class contests, arc : Fredericksburg, Chaucellorville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga. In addition to these, we have had a myriad of smaller affairs, whose title is legion, and whose name can scarce ly be remembered save by one with an encyoloptedian memory. Among them may be mentioned: Arkansas Post, Prairie Grove, Jackson, Thomson's Hills, Port Hudson, Sabine Pass, Morris Island, Mil liken's Bend, Little Rock, Helena, Knox ville, and the thousand skirmishes and ; contests that have occurred between Wash ington and Richmond. Of all these battles, and lesser affairs that have occurred, we can regard but three as decisive : that at Champion Hills, before Vicksburg ; Gottyburg ; and the last battle of Chattanooga. Even this scant number may be reduced one-third, for the battle of Gettysburg, although grand in its proportions, was not decisive in scarcely any sense of the word. It is ernment. 1 of the same character as Antietam, and The loss of territory to the rebels, then,' fought for precisely tha same purposes, has been most insignificant—one useless viz.: to check the rebels in a movement State (Arkansas,) half of another, and ' whic`i had no particular strategic impor small portions of Texas, Louisiana, and tanee, and which amounted to simply a Mississippi. In consequence, if we esti- foraging party on a larger than common mate the net profit to the Federal cause 1 scale, In neither case was the enemy by the amount of territory that we have more than checked—in both oases he drew conquered during the past year, it will be oft his army without demoralization, and found to be contemptibly small—almost retired at his leisure, and in good order, an unappreciable quantity ; one which, 1 and unmolested. considered simply as so much eonntry esp- Chickamauga was a greater contest than tured, would not compensate for one-i enth Chattanooga, but was not decisive ; it of the blood and money which have been effected no important results, and left the expended. respective armies not materially different As our territorial gains have been so f ro „h at , they were before the engage small, it will be necessary, in order to ment. know that we are really making progress, to find other sources of affirmative assur ance. Strategically, we have made greater progress than in territory. At the be- Texas from the Confederacy. Chattanooga was also decisive, for it gave us East ginning of the year the rebels held Vicks burg and Port Hudson, through which Tennessee, and has thrown the rebels back upon their last line of defence. So far as they were able to avail themselves of the the remaining hundred battles and skir enormous productions of Texas and West- , mishes are concerned, seventy-five of them ern Louisiana. At Duck River they need never have been fought ; and iu guarded Chattanooga, the door which every one of such cases, the blood shed, opened into the very heart of the Con- and the time and material used, have been federacy, and also secured to themselves a useless and wanton expenditure. It is the possession of East Tennessee, the sad, but nevertheless a truthful reflection, granary of the Confederacy. From Texas that three-fourths of those gallant men they obtained immense supplies cf cattle, who have given up their lives have done and from East Tennessee, hogs, grain and so, not for their country, but through the saltpetre without limit. criminal incompetency of official manage- In capturing Vicksburg and Port Ilud- ment. Notwithstanding that to-day Vir son, we cut them off from the liv,3 stock ginia is one vast graveyard, and that rivers of Texas, and in getting East Tennessee, of blood have deluged her soil, neither the we: deprived them of an inexhaustible North nor South has gained since the war source of cereals and a vital cobstituent commenced a single advantage of impor in the manufacture of gunpowder. In tance. Both armies, at - the close of the these two positions they have sustained an campaign of 1863, stand very nearly irreparable loss. The plenty which where they did at the beginning in 1861. reigned in the South during the years,pre- A beautiful country reduced to desolation; ceding this has departed, and in its place a soil clogged with graves, and full to re comes the grim monarch Famine. This pletion with blood ; and thousands of be is no mere rhetorical imagery, but an reaved and mourning firesides in the actual fact, as every paper which we see North and South, are the only results ob from the South, and every deserter and tained by these years of sanguinary any every refugee, will substantiate. desperate conflict. If the responsibilits From this it will be seen that while we for all this useless. waste of blood attached have gained little in territory, we have itself more to one party than the other, been more fortunate in obtaining positions it is to the Federal authorities. - The whose possessions to the South is of vital rebels, in the main, have stood upon the importance. Simplified, the gains of the defensive.; when battles have been fought, campaign of 7863 are the capture and they have generally been projected by us, permanent possession of two of the rebels and their failure is attributable to our in mlin sources of supply—their cattle-yard,i' efficiency. When we march upon Rich granary and laboratory ; Texas and East mend, the rebels, as belligerents, have a Tennessee. perfect right to oppose our progress, and In other respects, we have inflicted every time that such a movement fails the slight damage upon the Confederacy,' ones who are responsible for the failure without having ourselves acquired a nor- and the life wasted are those who directed responding gain. The siege of Charles- , the operation. ton has, as yet, done nothing more than The necrology of the campaign is sum close that port against vessels running the • prisingly small in general officers, but blockade ; but or every dollar that wei voluminous with relation to lesser officers have cost the South at this point, we have 1 and the rank and file. All our great bat expended a thousand. Whether this pro- 1 tles have been desperately contested, and cess will pay is a question about which 1 bloody beyond comparison with those of there may be an honest difference of opin- 1 other years and other nations. Probably ion. At Wilmington, we have, by a large I not less than from one hundred to one and expensive addition to our squadron, ! hundred and fifty thousand men have, succeeded in stopping much of the con traband trade, while the same is the case at Brownsville, in Texas. The victories at Vicksburg and Chatta nooga, especially the latter, give as other advantages, which, however, are rather prospective than present. The next rebel line of defence, owing to the situation of streams and railroads in the South, must be formed with its left on Mobile, its right covering Richmond, and its centre front ing Grant, at Atlanta. It is only by thus reforming their lines that they will be able to preserve communication between the wings—a condition absolutely essential to the strength and integrity of this cordon of defence. Small bodies may for awhile dispute the possession of such points as Jackson, Meridian, and Dalt m, while it is certain that guerrillas will infest the whole country north of the new rebel line ; but all such operations are irregular and valueless beyond the temporary annoyance they may cause an advancing enemy, as they do not at all affect the vital issues which must be met and settled at Mobile, Atlanta and Richmond. This new line upon which the rebel armies are thus forced is their last, and, by far, the most indefensible one which they have at any time occupied. Its air line length is much shorter than any of the others, but its actual length, owing to the tortuosity of the railroads which con nect it, is much greater. The condition of preserving their communication from wing to wing will be greatly enhanced in difficulty, from the fact that the Confeder acy lacks for rolling stock and means of repairing its railroads. The result will be that communication at first will be exceed- Champion Hills was decisive, for it de : cid.4l the fate of Vicksburg, and gave us 1 material advantages in the cutting off of during the campaign just ended, been slain outright, or died from wounds or dis ease—a most fearful aggregate of human life to be sacrificed in one year, and is one whose proportions will appal the stoutest heart. Probably, there has never, in modern times, been a war in which men were used up as rapidly as in this. But little over two years have elapsed since its beginning, and yet nearly twelve hundred thousand men have already been sent into the field by the North. Of these there remain perhaps one-half, possibly two thirds alive—the remainder are on the thousand battle-fields whose width extends from the Atlantic to the Territories. When to this monstrous number are added those whom the South has lost, the aggregate assumes dimensions so vast and repelling that humanity shudders and recoils in the attempt to comprehend it. THE LAWYER AND THE IRISHMAN.- While a number of lawyers and gentlemen wore dining at Wiscasset recently a jolly soul from the Emerald Isle appeared and called for dinner. The landlord told him he should dino when the gentlemen were d one. Let him crowd in among us,' whispered a limb of the law, and we will have some fun with him.' The Irishman took his seat at the table. You were born in this country, were you, mi friend ?' No, sir. I was born in Ireland.' Is your father living''' 'No, sir, he is dead.' hat is your occupation ?' A horse-jockey, sir.' ' What was your father's occupation ? Trading horses, sir.' Did your father cheat any perspn while he was here V suppose he did cheat many, sir.' Where do you suppose he went to I' To Heaven, sir.' What do you suppose he is doing in Heaven Trading horses, sir.' Has he cheated any one there V Ile cheated one, I believe, sir.' Why did they not prosecute him ?' Because they searched the whole kingdom of Heaven and couldn't find a lawyer.' Scrooched a Little Miss Fitznancy; elderly maiden, charged Mr. Cleaver, the gay young man ac customed to carry home her marketing, with having forcibly kissed her in the entry of 'her own house. Mr. Cleaver, though proud of his personal appearance, was short, considering his whiskers ; his height, even in French boots, is only four feet eleven. Fitznancy, on the contrary, ran up a foot higher, and stayed there, being of a remarkably rigid deportment. She swore the abbreviated yet amorous butcher kissed her by' assault, and hauled him up for it. Butcher, with some • ex pression of disgust, more emphatic than necessary, denied the charge. Butcher was fat ; lady wasn't. Cleaver had an antipathy to scraggy ' women, and vowed he hadn't kissed her and wouldn't. Money couldn't hire him to. Cross-examined.--Lawyer inquires of the lady the circumstances—when, where, how Lady replies with peculiarity. On Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, in the entry ; resisted all she could, but he per severed and triumphed. Lawyer asked : Did he stand on anything but the floor 6 No, he stood on the floor ; no chair, no stool, or anything else.' 6 But, madam, this is impossible—you are twelve inches taller. liow could he r. ach your lips ?' Lady hadn't thought of that. But she was not to be tripped up by the glibbest lawyer of them ; so she replies : 6 Oh, ha—well 1 know !—yes, to be sure ! But then, you know, / Bc/we/I'd a hide!' Exactly ! thank you, madam. That will do. Nothing further, your honor.' Verdict for the short defendant. AN ITEM WHICH EVERY MAN SHOULD READ. —We have probably all of us met with instances, in which a word heedlessly spoken against the reputation of a female has been magnified by malicious minds until the cloud has become dark enough to overshadow her whole existence. To those who aro accustomed—not necessarily from bad motives, but from thoughtlessness—to speak lightly of females, we recommend the as worthy of consideration : Never use a lady's name in an improper place, at an improper time, or in mixed company. Never make assertions abont her that you think are untrue, or allusions that you feel she herself would blush to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to make use of a woman's name in a reckless and unprincipled manner, shun them, for they are the very worst members of society, lost to every sentiment of honor—every feeling of humanity. Many a good and worthy woman's character has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie, manufactured by some villain, and repeated where it should not have been, and in the presence of those whose little judgment could not deter them from circulating the foul and brag ging report. A slander is soon propagated and the smallest thing derogatory to a woman's character will fly on the wings of the wind, and magnify as it circulates until its monstrous weight crushes the poor un conscious victim. Respect the name of woman, for your mothers and sisters aro women ; and as you would have their fair names untarnished, and their lives unem bittered by the slanderer's biting tongue, heed the ill that your own words may bring upon the mother, the sister, or the wife of some follow crearure. ALL EQUAL HERE.-It is related of the Duke of Wellington, that once when he re mained, to take the sacrament at his parish church, a very poor old man had gone up the opposite aisle, and reaching the com munion table, kneeled down close by the side of the Duke. Some one—a pew owner, probably, came and touched the poor man on the shoulder, whispered to him to move further away, or to rise and wait till the Duke had received the bread and wine. But the eagle eye and the quick ear of the great commander caught the moaning of that touch and that whisper. He clasped the old man's hand, and held him, to provent his rising, and in a reverential undertone, but most distinctly, said, Do not move—we are all equal here.' BUOHA.NAN DIE Fmr,ft.r E HEART.—Pure and un sullied as a young girl's first love, has be come an adage. Aye, pure indeed is it, and unsullied as the snow flakes that fall in the gloaming. The most felicitous moment of man's life is when ho is blessed with the timid avowal of love from the worshipped idol of his heart. Nothing is purer than a woman's love—nothing so devoted as her affections. Be it for a lover, a husband, a child or a parent, it is the same pure flame kindled by the coals from the altar on high. Give her an as surance of love in return—a token of deathless affection, even if it be amid the gloom of poverty, or the darkness of death —and the feelings of her heart will gush forth pure as the crystal wavelets that spring from the mountain rook, despite the bonds and mercenary ties of fashion and pride. Her worshipped idol is love, and she makes it the secret Mecca towards which she bends all her energies, faithful pilgrim, for life. This principle shapes all her actions, and it is the great incentive of her life—a faculty that absorbs her being, and concentrates her soul. 'Tis better to be the favorite idol of one unsul lied heart, th'an to sway the gilded sceptre over`empires and kingdoms. The impas sioned devotion of one high souled and noble woman is a more peerless gem.than the sycophantic fawning of millions. Who Lath this gem, let him preserve it with a jealous care. BEAT 'EM ALL.—The Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, bad a black boy in his employ, who was, like the most of black boys, full of fun and mischief and up to a joke, no matter at whose expense. Ile went with the parson's -horse every morning to drive the cows to pasture. It was on a pieoe of table land some, little distance from the village ; and here, oat of sight, the neighbors' boys were wont to meet him and race horses' on Sunday morning. Parson Stoddard heard of it, and resolved to catch them at it, and put an end to the sport. Next Sunday morning he told Bill ho would ride the mare to pasture with the ° l ows, and he (Bill) might stay at home. Bill know what was in the wind, and taking a short out across the lots, was up in_ithe pasture away ahead of the parson. The boys were there with their horses, only waiting for Bill and his master's mare. He told the boys to be ready, and as the old gentleman arrived to give the word, !' Bill hid himself at the other end of the field where the race always ended. The parson came jogging along up, and the boys sat demurely on their steeds, as if waiting for service to 4 begirt.' But as the good old man rode into line they cried Go !' and away went the mare with the reverend rider sticking : i fast, like John Gilpin, but there was no stop to her or to him. Away, ahead of all the rest, he went like the wind ; and at the other end of the field Bill jumped up from under the fence, and sung out. 1 know'd you' beat, massa! I know'd you'd beat!' rrIE LANCAST Ea INTELLIGENCit i IIt JOH PP NTI NU ESTABLISHMENT, Notcrit DUKE STREET, LANCASTER, PA. 'l'll, Tubbing Department is thoroughly furnished with r.,.V anti elegant typo of every description, and is under tb charge of /1 practical and experienced Job Printer: — The Proptietors are prepared to PRINT CHECKS, NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS, CARDS AND CIRCULARS, BILL HEADtti AND HANDBH.Le, PROGRAMMES AND POSTERS, PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, BALL TICKETS AND INVITATIONS. PRINTING IN COLORS AND PLAIN PRINTING, with ueittuess, accuracy and dispatch. on the most reasons hi' I,ms, and in a manner not excelled by rosy o , taltli,h men tln t h e city. :44 Order:, from a distance, by ;nail promptly attondol to. Address GEO. SANDERSON k SON, Intelligencer OthCe. No.; North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa REATEST VARIETY OF PHOTO GRATH ALBUMS. Wo would cm II tha attention of persona to oo Igzsa W, have the I.trgo,t nu 1 hest stock over brought to the city. nl I 1,0 DIFFERENT STYLES, VARYING IN PRICE FR0..11 75 CENTS TO 20,00 DOLL &RS. Call MO St, for yourself at 32 North Queen etroet, Lancaster. ec.l 14 Examiner, Union and Inquirer ropy.] tf 40 1 4 1ANCY FURS I FANCY 'OURS I I JOHN PAHEIRA, 71S ARCLI STRKET (bel,r nth south sidu,) I nlp. , rt,, Maonfuctur and I),sder in ull kinds FANCY FURS! fcr I,li ,s' and Children I wish to return to (hunks to my friends c Lancaster and the sir rounding counties, for thei very liberal patronage us tended to No during tin Lie; fot: s,mrs, and wouh say to , thesis that I not LIUVO in rtore, of my ow. Importatieu and Manufacture a very extensive assort• meat of ail tau different kinds and qualities of Fano Furs, for Ladiw3 and Children, that will he worn during the Fall and Winter seasons. Being the direct Importer of all my Furs from Europe, and having' theta sal Manufactured under my own super vision--enables me to offer my customers and the public T.. much handsomer set of Furs for the same money. Lail, please give me 4; call before purchasing! Please eil the came., uumher and street. JOHN FAREIRA, I/0.71..8 Arch Street, Philadelphia. sna Sb DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE RANI MENT. THE OR T _EXTERNAL REMEDY. FOR RHEUMATISM, GOUT. NEURALGIA, LUMBAGO, STIFF NECK AND JOINTS, SPRAINS, BRUISES, CUTS AND WOUNDS, PILES, HEADACHE, AND ALL RFLEUMATIC AND NER VOUS DISORDERS. DII. STEPHEN SWEET, OF CONNECTICUT, The Great Natural Bone Setter. DR. ST EPILEN SWEET, OF CONNECTICUT. Is known all over the United States. DR. STEPHEN SWEET, OF CONNECTICUT, Is the author of "Dr. Sweet's Infallible Llniment."... Dlt. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT , ' Cures Rimumatisru and never fails. DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Is a .`crtain remedy for Neuralgia. DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Cures Burns and Scalds immediately. DB- SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Is the host known Remedy for Sprains and Bruises. DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Cures Headache immediately and was neve:known to fail. DR. SWEET'S LNFALLIBLE LINIMENT Affords immediate relief for Piles. and seldom tails to cure. DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Cares Toothache in one Minute. DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Cures Cots and Wounds immediately and leaves no scar. DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Is the best remedy for Sores in the known world. DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Has been used by more than a million people, and al" praise i UR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Is truly n " friend in need," and every family ehould have it %t hand DR. SWEET'S INFALLIBLE LINIMENT Is fcr sale by :di Druggists. l'rico 25 and 50 cents. RICHARDSON & CO., Sole Proprietors, Norwich, Ct. all Dealers. [June 23 ly 24 "I'IONNEIL I N A BENJAMIN P. ROWE respectfully informs the pub. lie that he will attend to Crying Sales of Real and Personal property in any part of the county. Those w:shing his services are requested to apply to kierardna Clarkson, Esq., at the Prothonetary's Office, who will promptly attend to the matter. Letters addressed to me at Smithville P. 0., Lancaster ounty, will be promptly attended to. I fob 17 tf IARDLE:ICW DI U T UAL COMPANY. li As election for officers of the "Farmers' Mutual Irian ance Company" will be held at the public house of John Ditlow, (Exchange Hotel,) to the City of Lancaster, on SATURDAY, the 26th day of DECEMBER. next, between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock, P. fir 'Members of the corn. -pony ore hereby notified to attend. By order of the Board of Directors. JOHN STROHM, Secretary. November 30th, 1863. [deo 8 2t 48 PHOTO f;RAPH ALBU.M.i JOHN EA FFER'S Cheap Cash Book Store, 4illf For sale by pROSPEOTAYS FOR1S811• THE WORLD. An Independent Democratic Daily, Semi-Weekly Dad Weekly Newspaper. ONION OP THE WORLD AND mums. The World, to which the New York Weekly Argue has berm united. has to-day five times the aggregate circula tion of any Democratic or conservative newspaper. It ad. dreases weekly more than 100,000 subiwflbers and con stant •pcirchasers. and reaches at Assiut HASP A KILLMN readers. With the steady increase In circulation which It now enjoy.. these numbers will be douliLid i the Ist of January, 1864. Nothing leas than this should satify those who believe that the only hope of restoring the Anion and the authority of the Constitution over a now dial:meted and divided country, lies in wresting power "from the hands of those whose fanaticism has helped toyr_ossikes invite, and prolong the war; and that to acoompilah this end, no means is so effective as the difthslon, through able and enterprising newspapers, of sound political knowledge among the working men, the thinking men, and the vot ing nun of the North. Enterprise, industry and money will be liberally ex tended to make Tex Wont, TELE BEST NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA. lie news from every part of the world will be early and authentic. - Wherever the telegraph ex tends, or railroads run, or steamboats ply, it will gather the latest, intelligence. It has a large staff of accomplished correspondents with all the federal armies, who will tele graph and write to us the latest news from the various seats of war. It has correspondents and reporters In every political and commercial centre in America and Europe, whose letters and dispatches will leave nothing worthy of note unknown to Its readers. Special eiertions will be used to make Its reports of the Crops, of the Cattle, Produce, and Mosey markets, own prehenslve and accurate. Realizing that the bone and sinew of the country are to be found upon its farms and In workshops, THE WORLD will gather from every quarter in forms Hon and news concerning Agriculture and manufae tures, and will endeavor to make its issues peculiar, valu able to the Farmers and Mechanics of the country.. The war in which the nation is engaged against armed and infatuated rebels and the radical policy of the ad ministration which prolongs it, have conspired to bring together upon one platform all conservative, Union-loving and Constitution loving men, of whatever former name and creed. Many of those who, within the limits of the Constitution, fought the battles of the ballot-box under the leadership of those patriotic statesmen of other and better days, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, together with the masses whose principles were those of such patriots as Andrew Jackson, and William L. Marcy, Slim Wright end Stephen A. Douglas, now stand shoulder to shoulder upon the same platform and under the same banner. The plat form Is a plain one. It is to azszozx rim UNION, MAINTAIN TOE CONSTITUTION, AND ZNPORON THE LAWS. Whatever makes for this end, the exercise of force or the polloy of conciliation, The World will advocate; whatever makes against It, The World will oppose. It will oppose every enemy to THIC UNION, whether armed In rebellion at the South or lneldfonaly planting the seeds of disunion and essential disloyalty at the North. It will oppose every violation of THE CONSTITUTION, which is the only hope and bond of Union, and our only authority for exhorting Or compelling the allegiance of the South. will oppose every infraction of THE LAWS, in high places or in low, by rootless and misguided partt sans, or by tho administration which has been their ex am pie. It will fearless") , exercise the Freed ma of the Prue; It will constantly uphold and defend Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the Ballot. To the lawless acts of the Administration, Its arbitrary and unjust arrests and expatriation!, its denial of the right to the writ of habeas corpus, its illegal proclamation", Its abrogation of State and federal laws, Ito despotic accumu lations of ungranted power, and its subversions of the safe-guards of CIVIL AND PZILSONto mammy, It will constant- ly oppose the letter and spirit of our supreme law and the advocacy of sound doctrine, until American freemen shall be roused to the recovery of their rights, their liberties, their Isws, and their limited and well-balanced govern moot, hy the robistlese decision of the ballot. Profoundly impressed with the desire to contribute all that it may to the groat work of this generation—namely, to restore our national unity, and to place the United States again foremost among the nations of the earth, and first in the peace, prosperity and happiness of Its people— The World seeks from those who desire such things their s} nipathy and support, aud, above all, the favor of Slim who crowns every good work. TERMS: DAILY WORLD Ycarly hubscribors by mail . . . SEMI-WEEKLY WORLD gle subscribers per annum e copies to one address...... WEEKLY WORLD. Single subscribers per annum Three copies (address on each paper) copies Ten copies " " " ............. ...._... 16.00 Twenty copies (all to one address 25.00 Clubs of 10 and over can have the address put on each paper for au additional charge of" I 0 cents each. For every club of twenty an extra copy will be added for the gutter up of the club. 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T ITE L ADP'S FRIHND A MONTHLY MAGAZINE LITERATURE AND PASIIION The subscribers would beg leave to call the attention of their friends and the public to the NEW MAGAZINE which they are about to issue, and the January number of which is nearly ready. The name will be THE LADY'S FRIEND, and it will be devoted to choice Literature and the Illus tration of the Fashions. It will also contain the latest patterns of Cloaks, Cape, Bonnets, Head Dresses, Fancy Work, Embroidery, Ac., kc.; with Receipts, Maine, and other matters interesting to ladles generally. THE LADY'S FRIEND will be edited by Mrs. HENRY PETERSON, who will rely upon the services in the Liter ary Department, of the following UNRIVALLED CORPS OF WRITERS: Mrs. Henry Wood, Mrs. M. F. Tucker, Author of " East Fanny M. Raymond, Lynne," Ac Frac's H. Sheffield, Mary liowitt, Mrs. L. D. Shears, Marion Harland, Caroline A. Bell, Author of " Alone," Annie F. Kent, Mrs. E. S. Randolph, Sophie May, C. Donnelly, Harris Bryan, C. M. 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