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TRIBUTUS OF RESPECT ; RICSOLUTIONS, Se , to be charged 10 cont. per line. COMMUNICATIONS settity4 forth LINO claims of Individuals fur offloe. ece., to be charged 10 cents per line. December 18th, 1863, the above Schedule or Prices was adopted by the undersigned, PubliALsra, in be City or Lancaster. Pa J NO. A lIIN.STA ND & CO, Examiner & Herald. PEAIISO L Dai/y& IYeek/y Exprees JOHN 13AEIt'S SONS, Vau,,.. t fi,un‘t 000 SAN D EItSON k ,ON. Intelligence, S. A NV Y LIE, Daily & Weekly .nquirer. W Nl. It WILLY, Job Printer. O 11. TIIONI AS. Church Advocate. DY S. D. ANDRaDON The birds are singing all around, From every hill and tree, 'Till all this bright and sunny world Seems full of melody, And hearts and voices vibrato with The summer tones of glee. The streamlet dances in the sun. With sparkles on its tide, As bright as beams from beauty's eye When flashing in its pride, (Jr dew-drops glistening in the grass, The forest lake beside. The willow with its drooping form Is hanging o'er the stream ; Each pensic bough upon the wave Is seen with imaged beam, As memory paints each joy and grief Upon the sleeper's dream. The children on the springing turf Are sporting 'mid the flowers, With swigs that fall upon the heart Like spring•time's early showers, Or music heard fur o'er the sea llu eveniug's moonlit hours. The nights, so full of poetry, And soft and dreamy now, And thousand bright and gem-like stars Fall on the watcher's brow, Ur light the lovers as they breathe The oft repeated vow. The mountain top is dimly seen In morning's purple light, As one by one the shadiiws flit Like spectres of the night, And day, unbound by misty robes la beautiful and bright. The valleys with their cottage homes Sleep the a dream of love, And many a happy heart is there, Pure as the trusting dove; Fur woman's smile is tinting all, Like sunlight from above. The will-vine clings around the oak With many a graceful fold, And fleecy blossoms scent the air With wealth of sweets untold, While sunbeams aloker through the leaves Like Hakes of falling gold. 'Tis June, brigh Juno; and every heart Ben s with a wilder thrill, As from each bud of loveliness Our spirit, think their fill, And days and hours go singing on Like to a summer rill. DEDICATION OP THE SITE FOR TILE BATTLE MONUMENT \VLST POINT 011ficriox OP (EN. AIf..CIAP.I.T.A.N AB nations have days sacred to the re membrance of joy and of grief. They have thanksgivings for success ; footings and prayers in the hour of humiliation and defeat ; triumphs and paeons to greet the living, laurel-crowned victor. They have obsequies and eulogies for the war rior slain on the field of battle. Such is the duty we are to perform to-day. The poetry, the histories, the orations of an tiquity, all resound with the clang of arms; they dwell rather upon rough deeds of war than the gentle arts of peace. They have preserved to us the names of heroes, and the memory of their deeds even to this dis tant day. Our own Old Testament teems with the narrations of the brave actions and heroic deaths of Jewish patriots while the New Testament of our meek and suffering Savior often selects the soldier and his weapons to typify and illustrate religious heroism and duty. These stories of the actions of the dead have frequently survived, in the lapse of ages, the names of those whose fall was thus commemorated centuries ago. But, although we know not now the names of all the brave men who fought and fell upon the plains of Marathon, i in the pass of Thermopylin, and on the hill S-of Palestine, we have not lost the memory of their examples. As long as the warm blood courses in the-veins of man ; as long as the human heart beats high and quick at the recital of bravo deeds and patriotic sacrifices, so long will the lesson still invite generous men to emulate the heroism of the past. Among the Greeks it was the custom that the fathers of the most valiant of the slain should pronounce the eulogies of the dead. Sometimes it devolved upon their great statesmen and orators to perform this mournful duty. Would that a Demosthe nes, or a second Pericles could rise and take my place to-day, for 'be would find a theme worthy of his most brilliant powers, of his most touching eloquence. I stand here now, not as an orator, but as the whilom commander, and in the place of the fathers of the most valiant dead ; a their comrade, too, on many a hard fought field against domestic and foreign foes—in early youth and mature manhood —moved by all the love that David felt when he poured forch his lamentation for the mighty father and son who fell on Gilboa. God knows that David's love for Jonathan was no more deep than mine for the tried friends of many long and event ful years, whose names are to be recorded upon the structure that is to rise upon this spot. Would that his more than mortal eloquence could grace my lips, and do justice to the theme ! We have met to-day, my comrades, to do honor to our 'own dead—brothers united to us by the closest and dearest ties—who have freely given their lives for their country in this war—so just and righteous so long as its purpose is to crush rebellion and to save our nation from the infinite evils of dismemberment. Stich an occa sion as this should call forth the deepest -and noblest emotions of our nature—pride, sorrow, and prayer. Pride, that our coun try has possessed such sons; sorrow, that she has lost them ; prayer, that she may have others like them ; that we and our successors may adorn her annals as they have done ; and that when our parting hour arrives, whenever and however it may be, our souls may be prepared for the great change. THE VOLUNTEERS We have assembled to commemorate a oenol aph which shall remind our children's children in the distant future of their fathers' struggles in the days of the great rebellion. This monument is to perpetuate the memory of a portion only of those who have fallen for the nation in this un happy war ; it is dedicated to the officers and soldiers of the regular army. Yet this is done in no class or exclusive spirit, and in the aet we remember with reverence and love our comrades of the volunteers who have so gloriously fought and fallen by our sides. Each State will, no doubt, commemorate in some . fitting way the services of its sons who aoandoned the avooations of peace and shed their blood in the ranks—will receive some memento of a nation's love, a nation's gratitude. With what heroism they have confronted death, have wrested victory from a stubborn foe, and have il lustrated defeat, it well becomes me to say, for it has been my lot to command them on many a sanguinary field. I know that I but echo the feelings of the regulars when 1 award the high credit they deserve to their brave brothers of the volunteers. But we of the regular army have no States to look to for the honors due our dead. We belong to the whole country. We neither expect nor desire the General Government to make, perhaps, an invidi ous distinction in our favor. We are few in numbers, a small baud of comrades, united by peculiar and very binding ties. For, with many of us, our friendships were commenced in boyhood, when we rested beneath the shadow of the granite hills which look down upon us where we stand ; with others the ties of brotherhood were formed in more mature years—while fight ing amid the rugged mountains and fertile valleys of Mexico—within hearing of the eternal waves of the Pacific—or in the lonely grandeur of the great plains of the far %Vest. With all, our love and confi dence has been cemented by common dangers and sufferings—on the toilsome march, in the bivouac, and amid the clash of arms and the presence of death on i-eores of battle-fields. West Point, with her large heart, adopted us all—graduates, and those appointed from civil life—officers and privates. In her eyes we are all chil dren, jealous of her fame, eager to sustain her world-wide reputation. Generals and private soldiers, men who have cheerfully offered their all for our dear country, we stand here before this shrine, ever here after sacred to our dead, equals and brothers in the presence of the common death which awaits us all—perhaps in the same field and at the same hour. Such are the ties which unite us—the most en dearing that exist among men ; such the relations which bind us togetler—the closest of the sacred brotherhood of arms. It has therefore seemed, and it is fitting, that we should erect upon this spot, sacred to us all, an enduring monument to our dear brothers who have preceded us on the path of peril and of honor which it is the destiny of many of us some day to tread. What is this regular army to which we belong ? Who wore the men whose death merits such honors from the living What is the cause for which they have laid down their lives? Our regular or permanent army is the nucleus which in time of peace preserves the military traditions of the nation, as well as the organization, science, and in struction indispensable to modern armies. It may be regarded as coeval with the na tion. It derives its origin from the old Continental and state lines of the Revolu tion, whence with some interruptions and many changes, it has attained its present condition. In fact, we may with propriety go even beyond the Revolution to seek the roots of our genealogical tree in the old French wars ; for the cis-Atlantic cam paigns of the seven years war were not confined to the " red men scalping each other by the great lakes of North Ameri ca," and it was in them that our ancestors first participated as Americans in large operations of civilized armies. American regiments then fought on the banks of the St. Lawrence and the Ohio, on the shores of Ontario and Lake George, in the islands of the Caribbean, and in South America, Louisburg, Quebec, Duquesne, the Moro and Porto Bello attest the valor of the proviikcial troops and in that school were educated such soldiers as Washington, PLltElial, Lee, Montgomery and Gates. These and men like Green, Knox, Wayne and Stenben were the fathers of our per manent army, and under them our troops acquired that discipline and steadiness which enabled them to meet upon equal terms and often to defeat the tried veterans of England. The study of the history .of the Revolution and a perusal of the des patches of Washington, will convince the most skeptical of the value of the perma nent army in achieving our independence, and establishing the civil edifice which we are now fighting to preserve. The war of 1812 found the army on a footing far from adequate to the emergency, but it was rapidly increased, and of the new genera thin of soldiers, many were found equal to the requirements of the occasion. Lundy's Lane, Chil pewa, Queenstown, Plattsburg, New Orleans, all bear witness to the gal lantry of the regulars. Then came an in terval of more than thirty years of external peace, marked by many changes in the or ganization and strength of the regular ar my, and broken at times by tedious and bloody Indian wars. Of these the most remarkable were the Black Hawk war, in which our troops met unflinchingly a foe as relentless and far more destructive than the Indians—that terrible scourge, the cholera—and the tedious Florida war, where, for so many years, the Seminoles eluded in their pestilential swamps our ut most efforts, and in which were displayed such traits of heroism as that commemor ated by yonder monument to Dade and his command, when " all fell save two, with out an attempt to retreat." At last came the Mexican war to replace Indian con tests and the monotony of frontier service, and for the first time in mary years the mass of the regular army was concentrated, and took the principal 'girt in the battles of that remarkable and romantic war. "TIIAT 00UNTRY 18 THA MOST PHOEIPABOUS %MAAS LABOR MOUNDS THE GIAATIET SAWAHD.d'--BUOHANAN. LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1864. Palo Alto, Bence, and Fort Brown were the aohievements of the regulars unaided; and as to the battles of Monterey, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, Cerra Gordo and the final triumphs in the valley, none can truly say that they could have been won without the regulars. When peace crown ed our victories in the capital of the Mon tezumas, the army was at once dispersed over the long frontier, and engaged in harassing and dangerous wars with the Indians of the plains. 'Thus thirteen long years were spent, until the present war broke out, and the mass of the army was drawn in to be employed against a domes tic foe. I cannot proceed to the events of the re cent past and the present without advert ing to the gallant men who were so long of our number, but have now gone to their last home ; for no small portion of the glory of which we boast was expected from such men as Taylor, Worth, Brady, Brooks, Totten and Duncan. rhere is a sad story of Venetian history that has mo wed many a heart, and often employed the poet's pen and painter's pencil. It is of an old man whose long life was gloriously spent in the service of the state as a warrior and a statesman, and who, when his hair was white and his feeble limbs could scarce carry his bent form toward the grave, attained the high est honor that a Venetian citizen could reach. He was Doge of Venice. Convicted of treason against the State, he not only lost his life but suffered besides a penalty which will endure as long as the name of Venice is remembered. The spot where his portrait should have hung in the great ball of the Doge's palace was veiled with black and there still the frame remains with its black mass of canvas ; and this vacant frame is the most conspicuous in the long line of effigies of illustrious Doges ! Oh, that such a pall as that which replaces the portrait of Maurino Faliero could conceal from history the names of those, once our comrades, who are now in arms against the flag under which we fought side by side in years gone by. But no veil, however thick, eon cover the anguish that fills our hearts when we look back upon the sad memory of the past, and recall the affection and respect we en tertained toward men against whom it is now our duty to act in mortal combat. ould that the courage, ability, and steadfastness they display had been em ployed in the defense of the Stars and Stripes against a foreign foe, rather than in this latuitous and unjustifiable rebellion, which could not have been so long main tained but for the skill and energy of these, our former comrades. GENERAL SCOTT Bat we have reason to rejoice that upon this day, so sacred and eventful for us; one grand old mortal monument of the past still lifts high his head among us, and should have graced by his presence the consecration of this tomb by his children. We may well be pond that we are here commanded by the hero who pur chased victory with his blood near the great wi tors of Niagara ; who repeated and eclipsed the achievements of Cortes ; who, although a consummate and confident commander, ever preferred, when duty and honor would permit, the olive branch of peace to the blood-stained laurels of war ; and who stands at the close of a long, glorious and eventful life, a living column of granite, against which have beaten alike the blandishments and storms of treason. His name will ever be one of our proudest boasts and most moving in spirations. In long distant ages, when this incipient monument has become venerable, moss clad, and perhaps ruinous; when the names inscribed upon it shall seem to those who pause to read them indistin it mementoes of an almost mythical past, the name of Winfield Scott will still be clear out upon the memory of all, like the still fresh carving upon the monuments of long-for-gotten Pharoah's. THE REGI7LAR ARMY IN THE PRESENT WAR • But. it is time to approach the present. In the war which now shakes the land to its foundation the regular army has borne a most honorable part. Too few in num bers to sot by themselves, regular regi ments have participated in every great battle in the East, and most of those west of the Alleghenies. Their terrible losses and diminished numbers prove that they have been in the thickest of the fight, and the testimony of their comrades and com manders show with what undaunted hero ism they have upheld their ancient re nown. Their vigorous oharges have often won the day, and in defeat they have more than once saved the army from destruction or terrible losses by the obstinacy with which they resisted overpowering numbers. They can refer with pride to the part they played upon the glorious fields of Mexico, and exult at the recollection of what they did at Manassis, Gaines' Mills, Malvern, Antietam, Shiloh, Stone River, Gettys burg, and the great battles just fought from the Rapidan to the Chiokahommy. hey can point also to the officers who I have risen from among the•ii, and achieved great deeds for their country in this war, to the living .warriors whase names are upon the nation's tongue and heart, tco numerous to be repeated here, yet not one of whom I would willingly omit. Bat perhaps the proudest episode in the history of the regular army is that touching in , stance of fidelity on the part of the non commissioned officers. and privates, who, traitorously made prisoners in Texas, re sisted every temptation to violate their oath-and desert their flag. Offered com missions in the rebel service, money and position freely tendered them, they all scorned the inducements held out to them, submitted to their hardships, and, when at last exchanged, avenged themselves on the field of battle for the unavailing insult offered their integrity. History F ffords no brighter example of honor than that of these brave men, tempted, as I blush to say they were, by some of their former officers, who, having themselves proved false to their flag, endeavored to seduce the men who followed them in combat, and who had regarded them with respect and love. Such is the regular army ; such its his tory and antecedents; such its office' a. and its men. It needs no herald to trumpet forth its praises. It can proudly appeal to the numerous fields-from the tropics to the frozen banks of St. Lawrence ; from the Atlantic to the Pacific, fertilized by the blood, and whitened by the bones, ' of its idoeibers.- tut" I will lititt:pausi , to eulogize , it ; , let • its - deeds " -Speak for it, they are more eloquent than tongue of mine. THE DEAD OF THE REGULAR' ARMY Why are we here to-day i This is not the funeral of one brave warrior, nor even of the harvest of death on a single battle field; but these are the obsequies of the best and bravest children of the land, who have fallen in actions almost numberless, many of them the most sanguinary of which history bears record. The men whose names and deeds we now seek to perpetuate, to render tl em the highest honor in our power, have fallen wherever armed rebellion showed its front, in the far distant New Mexico, the broad Valley of the Mississippi, on the bloody hunting grounds of Kentucky, in the mountains of Tennessee, amid the swamps of Carolina, and on the fertile fields of Maryland, and in the blood-stained thickets of Virginia. They were of all grades, from the general to the private; of all ages from the gray haired veteran of fifty years' servioo to the beardless youth ; and of all degrees of cultivation, from the man of science to the uneducated boy. It is not necessary, n,)r is it possible, to repeat the mournful yet illustrious roll of the dead heroes we have met to honor, nor must 1 name all those who most merit praise ; simply a few who will exemplify the classes to whi3h they belong. Among the last of the slain, and among the first in honor and reputation, was that hero of twenty battles, John Sedgwiok. Gentle and kind as a woman ; brave as a brave man can be; honest, sincere and able; a model that all may strive to imi tate, but whom few can equal. In the terrible battle which just preceded his death he had occasion to display the high- - est qualities of the soldier and. commander. After escaping the stroke ofdeath when men fell around him by thousands, he at last met his fate at a moment of comparative quiet by the ball of a single rifleman.— He died as a soldier would choose to die, with truth at kis heart, and a sweet, tran quil smile upon his lips. Alas ! our groat nation possesses few .sons like true John Sedgwiok. Like him fell, too, at the very head of their corps, the white-haired Mansfield, after a career of usefulness, illustrated by his skill and 000 l courage at Fort Brown, Monterey and Buena Vista ;. John F. Rey nolds and Reno, both in the full vigbr of manhood and intellect, . men who have proved their ability and chivalry in many a field in Mexico and in this civil war, gallant gentlemen, of whom their country had much to hope, had it pleased God to spare their lives. Lyon fell in the prime of life, leading his little army against su perior numbers, his brief career affording a brilliant example of patriotism and abil ity. The impetuous Kearney, and such brave Generals as Richardson, Williams, Terrill, Stevens, Weed, Saunders and Hayes lost their lives while in the midst of a career of usefulness. Young Bayard, so like the most renowned of his name, that " knight above fear and reproach," was out off too early for his country. Sro regiments can spare such gallant, devoted and able commanders as Rossell, Davis, Gore, Simmons, Bailey, Putnam, and Kingsbury, all of whom fell in the thick est of the contest, some of them veterans, others young in the service—all good men and well beloved. Onr batteries have partially paid their terrible debt to fate in the loss of snoh commanders as Grable (the that to fall in the war,) Benson, Hag gard, Swead, Dr. Hart, Hazlett, and those' gallant boys, Kirby, Woodruff, Dimiok, and Cushing ; while the engineers lament the promising and gallant Wagner and Cross. Beneath remote battle-fields rest the corpses of the heroic Moßae, Bascom, Stone, Sweet, and many other company officers. Besides these there are hosts of veteran sergeants, corporals and privates who had fought under Scott in Mexico, or contested with the savages of the far West and Florida ; and mingled with them young soldiers who courageous, steady and true, met death unflinchingly withoUt the hope of personal glory.— These men, in their more humble sphoi es, served their country with as much faith and honor as the most illustrious Generals, and all of them with perfect singleness of heart. Although their names may not live in the page of history, their aotions, loyalty, and courage will. Their memo ries will long be preserved in their regi ments, for there were many of them who merited as proud a distinction as that ao corded to " the first grenadier of France," or to that other Russian soldier who gave his life for his comrades. But there is another class of men who have gone from us since this war commenced, whose fate it was not to die in battle ; but ‘vho are none the less entitled to be mentioned here. There was Sumner, a brave, honest, chivalrous veteran, of more than half a century's service, who had confronted death unflinchingly on scores of battle fields, had shown his gray head, serene and cheerful, where death most revelled, who more than once told me that he be lieved and hoped that his long career would end amid the din of battle. He died at home from effects of the hardships of the leadership of his campaigns.-- That most excellent soldier, the elegant C. F. Smith, whom many of ns remember to have been so often on this very plain, with his superb bearing, escaped the bul let to fall a victim to the disease which has deprived the army of so many of its best soldiers. John Buford, cool and in trepid ; Mitchell, eminent in science, Pal mer and many other officers have lost their lives by sickness contracted in the field. But I cannot ()lose this long list of gloxi one martyrs without paying a sacred debt of official duty and personal friendship.— There is one dead soldier who possessed peculiar claims upon my love and grati tude ; he was an indent patriot, an unsel- fish man, a true soldier, the beau-ideal of a staff officer—he was my ai 1-de-camps Colonel Colburn, There is a lesson to be drawn from the death and services of these glorious men, which we should read for the present and future benefit of the na tion. War in these modern days is a science, and it should now appear to the most pre judiced that the organisation and arming of armies, and the high combination of strategy, perfect familiarity with the theoretical science of war, is requisite.— To count upon success when the plans or execution of, campaigns are intrusted to men who have no knowledge of war, is as idle as to expect the legal wisdom of a Story or a Kent from a skilful physician. THE OAUSE FOE WHICH WE FIGHT. But what is the honorable and holy ;wise for.which these men have laid down their lives, and , for which the nation still demands the sacrifice of the precious blood of so many of her children! Soon after the close of the Revolution ary war, it was found that the Confederacy which h ad grown up during that memora ble contest, was falling to pieces from its own weight. The central power was too weak. It mini 1 recommend to the differ- ant States such measures as seemed best, but it possessed no real power to legislate, because it - lacked executive power to eota- pal obedience to its laws. The national credit and self-respect had disappeared, and it was feared by the friends of liberty throughout the world that ours was bat another added to the long list of fruitless attempts at self-government. The nation was evidently on. the brink of rain and dissolution, - when some eighty years ago many of the wisest and most patriotic of the land met to seek a remedy for the great evils whioh threatened to destroy the great work of the revolution. Their sessions were long and often stormy ' • for a time the most sanguine, doubted the possibility of a successful termination of their labors. Bat from amidst the conflict of sectional interests, of party prejudiae and of personal selfishness, the spirit of wisdom and of conciliation at length evoked the Constitution under which we have lived so long. It was not formed in a day ; but was the result of practical labor, of lofty wisdom, and of the purest patriotism. It was at last adopted by the people of the States—although by some reluctantly—not as being exactly what all desired, but the best possible under the circumstances. It was accepted as giving us a form of government under which the nation might live happily and prosper, so long as the people should continue to be influenced by the same sentiments which actuated those who formed it ; and which would not be liable to destruction from internal causes, so long as the people preserved the recol lection of the miseries and calamities whiob led to its adoption. Under this beneficial Constitution the progress of the nation was unsurpassed in history. The rights and liberties of its citizens were se cured at home and abroad ; vast territor ies were rescued from the control of the savage and the wild beasts, and added to the domain of the Union and civilization.. The arts, the sciences, and commerce grew apace ; our flag floated upon every sea, and we took our place among the great nations of the earth. But under this smooth surface of prosperity upon which we glided swiftly, with all the sails set be fore the common breeze, dangerous reefs were hidden which now and then caused ripples upon the surface, ana made anxious the more careful pilots. Elated by success the ship swept on—the crew, not heeding the warnings they received, forgetful of the dangers escaped at the beginning of the voyage, and blind to the hideous maelstrom which gaped to receive them. The same elements of discord, sec tional prejudices, interests and institutions which had rendered the formation of the Constitution so difficult, threatened more than once to destroy it. But for a long time the nation was so fortunate as to possess a series of political leaders, who to the highest abilities, united the same spirit of conciliation which animated the found ers of this republic, and thus for many years the threatened evils were averted. Time, and , the long continuance of good fortune, obliterated the- recollection of the calamities of years preceding the adoption of the Constitution. They forgot that conciliation, common interests, and mutual charity had been the foundation, and mast be the support of our Government, and all the relations of life. At length men ap peared with abuse, sectional and personal prejudices and interests, outweighing all considerations of the general good. Ex- tremists of one section furnished the occa sion, eagerly seized as a pretext by equally extreme men in the other, for abandoning the pacifi3 remedies afforded by the Constitution. Stripped of all sophistry and side issues, the direct cause of the war as it presented itself to the honest and patriotic citizens of the North was simply this : Certain States, or la ther a portion of the inhabitants of certain States,feared, or pro fessed to fear, that injury would result to their rights and property from theelevation of a particular party to power. Although the Constitution and the actual condition of the Government provided them with a peaceable and sure protection against the apprehended evil, they prepared to seek security in the destruction of the Govern ment which could protect them, and in the use of force against national troops holding a national fortress. To efface the insult offered to our flag, to save ourselves from the fate of the divided republics of Italy and South America, to preserve our Gov ernment from destruction, to enforce its just power and laws, to maintain our very exis tence as a nation—these were the causes which impelled us to draw the sword. Rebellion against a Government like oars, which contains within itself the means of self-adjustment and a pacific remedy for evils, should never be confounded with a revolution against despotic power, whioh refuses redress of wrongs. Such a rebel lion cannot be justified upon ethical ground:4, and the only alternatives for our choice ere its suppression or the destruc tion of our .rationality. CONCLUSION At such a time as this, and in such' a struggle, political partisanship should be merged in a true and brave patriotism, which thinks only of the good of the whole country. It was in this cause and with these motives that so many of our comrades have given thei! lives, and to this we are all personally pledged in all honor and fidelity. Shall sueh devotion as that of our dead comrades be of no avail? Shall it be said in after-ages that we lacked the vigor to complete the work thus begun That after all these noble lives freely given, we hesi tated and failed to keep straight on until our land was saved Forbid it Heaven, and give us firmer, truer hearts than that. Oh spirits of the valiant dead, 'souls of our slain heroes, lend as your own indomi table will, and if it be pemitted you to commune with those still chained by the trammels of mortality, hover around us in the midst of danger and tribulation—cheer the firm, strengthen the weak, that none may doubt the salvation of the Republic and the triumph of our'grand old flag. In the midst of the storms which toss our ship of state, there is'one great beacon light to which we can ever turn with con- fidenoo and hope. It cannot be that this. great natioi . has played it ' s -part in history ; it cannot be that our sus, which. arose with such bright promise-for the future has already set forever. ' It must be.the inten tion of the overruling Deity that this land, so long the asylum of the oppressed, the refuge of civil and religious liberty, shall, again stand forth in bright relief, united, purified, and chastened by our trials, as an , example and encouragement for those who desire the progEqs Ituuthn race: It is not given - to our weakTuteneots to un derstand the ateps of 'Providence as they occur ' • we comprehend thenx- only at; we look back upon them in the far distant past ;so .it is now. We cannot unravel the seemingly tangled skein of the purposes of the Creator theyare too high and far reaching for our limited minds. But all history and His own revealed word teach us that His ways, although inscrutable, are ever righteous. Let us, then, honestly and manfully play our parts, seek to under stand and perform our whole duty, and trust unwaveringly in the beneficent God who led our ancestors across the sea, and sustained them afterward amid danger more appalling even than those encountered by His own ohosen people in _their great exodus. He did not bring us here in vain, nor has He suppported us thus far for naught. If we do our duty and trust in Him, He will not desert us in our need. Firm in our faith that God will save our country, we now dedicate this site to the memory of brave men, to loyalty, patriotism, and honor. [Loud applause.] The band then performed the 4‘ Star Spangled Banner" and 4 , Yankee Doodle," after which the benediction was pronoun oed by Rev. Dr. Sprole. The Wise Man Taught Wisdom. One day in early spring the youth Solo mon sat beneath the palms in his father's garden, and bending his eyes on the ground seemed deep in thought. Nathan, his teaoher, stepped up to him and inquired, Why sittest thou here so thoughtful- Solomon raised his head, and replied, Nathan, I should like to behold a mir The prophet smiled, and.answered, That is a wish I also indulged in, in my youthful days.' And was it fulfilled?' hastily inquired the royal prince. A man of God,' thus Nathan continued, approached me once, holding the seed of a pomegranate in his hand. Behold,' said he, what will become of this seed.' Thereupon he made a small hole in the earth with his finger, laid the seed in it, and covered it up again. When he had withdrawn his hand, the earth divided, and I saw two tiny les:Ves appear. Bat scarce ly had I seen them before they closed together and became a smooth, round stem, enveloped in a rind ; and the stem became visibly higher and thinker. The man of God spake to me, saying, Pay attention.' And whilst I was watch ing, there sprang seven branches from the trunk, like unto the seven arms of the candlestick on the altar. I wondered ; but the man of God made a sign, and bid me be silent and attentive. Behold,' said he, new creations will soon take place.' ' Thereupon he took water in the hollow of his hand from a brook that was flowing past, and sprinkled therewith the branches three different times ; and the branches now hung fall of verdant leaves, spreading re freshing shade around us, mingled with sweet smelling odors. Whence,' I exclaimed, 'arises this per fumerin addition to the 000 ling shade of the leaves ?' Dost thou not see,' answered the man of God, those purple flowers, hanging in clusters, and peeping between the leaves 3 Before I could yet reply, a soft breeze arose, and, rustling through the leaves,oast the flowers to the (mirth, like to flakes of snow floating down from the clouds.— Scarcely had the blossoms fallen, when the beautiful red pomegranates appeared be tween the leaves, like the almonds on Aaron's staff. The man of God then left me, sank in silent wonder.' Nathan ended. Hastily Solomon ex claimed Where is he? What is the name of the holy man Is he still alive 1' Nathan answered, ' Son of David, I have related a dream.' When Solomon heard these words, he became sorry at heart, and sad. How 'must thou thus deceive me he said. Bat Nathan continued : I have not deceived thee, son of David. Behold! in thy father's garden thou oan'st see all that I have related in reality. Is not the same the ease with the pomegranate and with other trees V Yes,' answered Solomon, but gradu ally, within a wide space of time.' Then answered Nathan, 6 Is, then, the miracle the less wonderful or divine because it takes place in quiet and without show 2 I should think it the more wonderful. Study the works of Nature,' he con tinued, then you will learn to believe in the Most High, and not pine and wish for miracles by human hands.' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. Large Assortment—Great Variety—Unsurpassed for Beauty, Style and Finish. f NEW PATTERNS, NEW BINDINGS, NEW CLASPS, PATENT HINGE BACK ALBUM, the latest and beat kind, made only in Philadelphia, ex oellbig all others in strength and durability. OARD PHOTOGRAPHS, PLAIN, 10 and 12 cents—sl.oo and $1.20 per dozen. COLORED, 25 cents—s2.so per dozen. TRAVELING AND SHOPPING SATCHELS, WALLETS, PURSES, POCKET BOOKS, AC. STA TIO ITER P. WRITING PAPERS, ENVELOPES, PENS, AC. STENCIL S. 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The preservation on thelettreltsell of the POBl-MARS and POSTAGE-STAMP, generally desdroyed with the da tached cover, has long been deemed a matter of the first Importance. This deratum Is now triumphantly secured by this Ingenious invention; Many obvious advantages must arise from the general use of Ude envelope. hint—lncreaaed,Bafety by additional sealing; the stamp connecting the envelope and letter eecnrely together; • and this Is never liable to be omitted, though the sticking of the flaps frequently neglected or Imperfectly done.. Sxond—Security against Impertinent Intrusion • the letter and envelope being firmly attached by the stamps, and Mebane cannot be inspected even if the lap be clan destinely opened. Tiord—Saftty against Abetraction of Valuable Lido farm If the flap be left unsealed, or opened with Odor& one Intent, it will be impossible to open the letter and take thence bank notes and drafts without so mutilating the envelope as to insure detection. FirirrM—Security for the free payment of the Postage; as the stamp, when once properly placed in this window, cannot be removed without its destruction. nth—Advantage therefore to the Governmentot by the effectual destruction of every stamp in ite drat use. SintA—Pacility to the Poet OHlee Operations • by a uni form location of the stamp in the upper right Land corner, which is the most convenient position for the Poet Mee mark. Bearnik—Verilleation of the Mailing; by securing on the, letter itself the legal evidence of the time and place of it being mailed. This hue long been esteemed so desirable, that-row prudent persons are constrained to dispense with the use of envelopes, that they may have the poet max 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 carelessness or hurry. Nina—Ornamentation; which, though some may think of small importance, certainly meets the approval of all persons of taste. 21mth--Cost. Notwithstanding the many and unrivalled advantages of the " Stamp dealing Envelopes," they will be furnished at a very small advance upon the prima of those not having the benefit of this patent.. Can be had at J. M. WEBTHAEHIPJB Cheap Book Store, Corner North Queen and Orange Ste. ' not , 4 tf 4t IMPORTANT TO PARBIEIREI GEO. D. SPRECHER'S AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT AND SEED WARE HOUBE, No. 28 EAST ICING STFL2Ba t LANOASTKR, Two doors West of the Court Howie. The undersigned having lately purchased from WM. D: Spreoher hie entire stock and interest to the Agricultural Implement and Beal Ware House, in Lancaster, takes method of inviting the attention of Farmers and 'other* to his large and well selected stock, which consist, in part, of the following articles FODDER CUTTFJ3S--Telegraph Cutters for fodder, hay or straw, 4 sizes; Cummings' Cutters, 4 sises• Rareka Cutters, 3 Iii 101; Harrisburg tar Co. Cutters, 4 elem. CORN SIIIILLEBS from $4 to $2O. Also the large Kin derhook Cannon iihellers. Sausage Cutters and Fillers of all sizes Lard Presses, Farm Milo, Hay Presses, and Steel mould-board Plows. Also on hand the New Jersey SeW Beeping and Mowing Machine. THB CBLEBBATAD COOKLEY PLOUGH, of the genuine patterns and castings,' neanufectured and constantly kept on hand; and great variety of Ploughs and Castings, Bub-soll Ploughs, Machine Belting, Bags, Pulleys, Ropes, Tar and Oils of all kinds for machinery. Also Harrows, Cultivators, Platform, Scales, Farm Bells, Grindstones arid fixtures, alcove's, Forks, Purlieu, Guano, Bone Dust, Fruit and Ornamental Trees, and Seeds on hand of every description. Arg- The highest cash price paid for Seeds, at the Ware. house, No. IS Zest King street, Lancaster, two doors west of the Court House—eame alder . . . . ROOFING BLATE.—A full supply of the beet and see cud quality Lancaster and York County Roofing Slate on hand, which will be put on by the square or Sold by the ton on reasonable terms. Please give ma o call. WM. D. BPitkCHl:lt herewith returns his thanks to Farmers and others for past patronage, and hopes the. same may be continued to his Brother, apr 19 Urn 15] GllO. D. spasm:ix& CARPETS/ OIL ()LOTUS AND WIN DOW SHADES, At tho old established stand, northeast corner of 2d and Brown streets, Philadelphia. A full assortment of styles aro now ufforing at low prime for cash only, consisting of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TAPESTRIES. • THREE PLY, INGRAIN, ENTRY AND STRAW CARPETS. Also, a splendid article of BAG and LIST OAIIPHREI. OIL CLOVIS in great variety. The assortment of WIN— DOW OGAIGIS which I offsr for sale cannot be surpassed to this city, there being over two hundred of the latest and most approved designs and patterns, in all colors, making an assortment very rarely found in any one estab lishment in this line of goods, all of which will be sold at the very lowest prices for cash only. Wholesale dealers supplied ou liberal terms. OHALRLES ORBARMILB, Northeset corner 2d and Brown streets, Philadelphia. may 10 Om 18 ALECTURE FOR YOUNG MEN. Jest published, a new edition of Dr. Culverweins Celebrated Essay on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrbce, or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Seminal Losses, impotency, Mental and Physical Inca pacity, impedimenta to Marriage, etc.; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by sellindtilgence or sexual extravagance. Price, in a sealed envelope, only 6 cents. The celebrated author in this admirable essay clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years euccesetal practice, that the alarming coneoguenceis of selfabtute may be radically cured without the dangerous nee of internal medicine or the application of the knife—pointing out a mode of cure, at once simple, certain and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself, cheaply, privately and radically. Ai- This Lecture should be in the liana of every youth and every man in the land. Bent, under seal, In a plain envelope, to any address, poet-paid, on receipt of six cents, or two poet stamps. Address the publishers, CHAS. J. C. KLINE h CO., 127 Bowery, New York, Post office box 4566. tf 115 LADIES , DRESS GOODS HANDSOME SPRING DRESS GOODS, Of New Designs and Materials. SPRING STYLES CLOTH MANTLES AND SHAWLS CLOTHS FOR MANTLES, Various Shades and Qualities. We are receiving daily additions to our stock of the . stove Goods, and invite the attention of purchaears. apr 12 tf 14] HAGER lk BROTHERS. CLOTHS, CASSIDIERES £ VESTINGS. HAGER & BROTHERS Have now open and invite an examination of a fall and complete stook of READY MADE. CLOTHING Also, a Fall Assortment of Extra Qaallty French Coatings, Fancy scotch Coatings, Black and Colored Cloths, Fancy Cassimeres—for Salta, Black French Doeskins. GOODS ItOR BOYS' WEAR, In Great Variety. Ali -Clothing made to order fn a superior manner. apr 12 tf 113 HAGAR. & BROTHIDIIIOI LADLES' DRESS GOODS. WENTZ' BEOTHERB Are now offering the largest selection of CHOICE DRESS GOODS they ever had in store. The choice of the New York and Philadelphia Markets, at the lowest possible prices. Also, a tremendous stock of SPRING 0 0 0 D S of every description, to which they invite a careful ex amination. A large variety of LADIES' CLOTHS, AND SPRING CLOAKS AND eLpr 26 tf 16) TERRIBLE. DISCLOSURIGB-.IIMCFLECTS FOR THE MILLION I _ ' A moat valuable and wonderful publication. A work of 400 pages, and 80 colored engravings. DR. HUNTER'S VADF, tdiSOIIM., an original and popular treatise on Man and Woman, their Ftlyelology, Functions, and Sexual disorders of every kind, with Never Palling Remedies for their speedy cure. Toe practice of DB. HUNTER, hag long been, and still le, unbounded, but at the earnest solicitation of numerous persons, he has Dean induced to extend his medical usefulness through the medium of his " VANN MECUM." It la a volume that should be in- the hands of every family in the land, u a preventive of secret vices, or as a guide for the alleviation of one of the meet awful and destructive scourges everviiited ituinkindi One copy, securely enveloped, will be forwarded "free of postage to any p.rt of the United States for 60 bents td P. u. stamps. Address, post paid, DB. HllNTfift, No. 0 Division Street, New York. may 24 CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS. Angilsh Brussels, Superfine and Medium Ingrain, Venetian, Hemp and Bag CARPETS. Druggets, Velvet Bugs and Cocoa Door Halite OIL CLOTHS, Prom 1 to 4 yards wide. A complete assortment of HODSS-FURNISHING GOODS apr 12 tf 14] COLEMAN BROTH $ TAIL9Rk AND OLOTHItRB, Hay° removed from No. 41 jf, to N 0.67 North Queen streato (M. W. gbinders old stand,) next door to Buchmuller* Cutlery Store, sign of the Big Gun, where they have-ore hand the largest and best assortment of OLOTLIII.and. BEADY-MADE CLOTHING of any establishment in 'the city. They. respectfully invite the attention el their! ;old, friends and customers to an inspe c tion of the same, and request the - patronage of all who wish ths, hast.Jvf. WOW.; big at the cheapest rates. D. IL. JACKMAN L. A. MAMMY. 9m -14 The undersigned, having retired from briefness, natty:Le, hie sincere thanks to hie old friends and oustomier . • flit ' their TerYnheral . Petrehage , and raelteetfullY i n= • conthluznearof the =me to Mere-Oolemen*& mar dm 81. i., • ' ' AgitatZia, T , ZIL 431- ••.". • *sir m moo ta.ftt NO. 25. CIRCULARS WENTZ BROTHERS, No. 5 Emit King street. HUGER & BROTHIB3.
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