The Bomariee bfSaHngffills.; Some time ago, I had ocoasionto go to Doctoi;’fl Commons to lookat the wll Jefa dead man. The hand that signed ■' it was in the grave long before-dust perhaps ; but the record of the will &hich animated that hand was there among those dusty folioß, engrossed in . am almost undecipherable hand, which tell how nil the real property in the country has been disposed of over and over again. I had no difficulty in find ing it, for I had a note of the precise day the deceased died on. It is unneces sary to say anything about the contents of that will, however, for they have no relation to what I am writing. It is only the date which I have any busi ness with. The will was dated the day before the man died. I, of course, had often heard of men making their wills when they werejjust at death’s door, without any particular thought being excited; but this time I was sur prised, as a single fact very often does surprise us, when we have passed by a host of similar ones unno ticed. Ik new the man who had made that will. He was a shrewd, prudent, sharp lawyer, who had risen from noth ing to be a man of immense wealth. If he was distinguished for any qualities in particular, it was for punctuality and promptitude. None of the clerks of his oflice were ever five minutes too late.— That was an offence not to be forgiven. No one ever knew him to be behind an appointment, or to let business go un done. His house-keeper, who managed his bachelor home for many years, only kept her place by being exact to time. Yet this man had not made his will till a few hours before his death; and, there fore, the possession of his property form ed tlie subject of a ver} flourishing law suit. When I went outiof that dark, dismal catacomb of dead men’s wills, I went ‘ on thinking of all the similar cases of procrastination which I knew or had heard of—and they were not a few—for this is a piece of experience of one who was a law clerk before he quarrelled with a red tape. What a curious cata logue they were! There was an old lady, a toothless dowager, who had a reprobate and discarded son, and a pretty, gentle niece who lived with her. We used to manage all her aflairs, and it was pretty well known in the oflice that the “nice girl with the curls,” was to be the old lady’s heir. Our head clerk, a red-whiskered dandy, who had no mean opinion of himself, built, I could say, certain speculations on that basis. \l’ke old lady never came with out Eliza; and when a visit was expect ed, Catchpole brushed his fiery hair into tlje most killing curls, and changed tlie out-at-the elbows coat for the smart one he wore out of doors, and beautified himself as far as that was practicable. Well,' a message came one day that tlie old lady was ill—very ill —with an ur gent request that some one should go at once aud make her will. Oil’ went our Adonis as fast as a promise of some tiling liberal over the fare could urge the eab- Wheu lie arrived, the old lady was aliVb —just alive enough to tell him that all her property was to be left to Eliza. She told him that in the hissiug whisper which suppliedjliwqilnce of the cracked voice ; but wfTen sliecNffie to the word “ all,” so full was the poor old creature of love for tlie niece, or, perhaps, of de termination—let us hope, not hatred agaiust her sou—that she half rose up in her bed aud clenched out that word agaiu. It must have been a terrible sight—that of life struggling with death for a will ! It was a short matter to write that will down ; and Catchpole’s pen flew oyer tlie paper, and the old eyes that were glazing so fast stared anxiously the while,and tlie thin fingers actually held the pen she had asked for beforehand ready to sign tlie paper. In a few moments all was ready ; but what a difference that few minutes made. The clerk had risen from his seat and approached the couch, wilt u the surgeon who stood on the other side, said, with that coolne.-s which medical practice brings, ”Jt is too late and it was too late. Tlie dead fingers clenched the un used pen so lightly that they had to be unclasped from it. The sou was.lieirof all, and Eliza a beggar ! Death had translated that screamed out “ all” into none. The sequel is soon told. Tlie property was soon wasted by tlie repro bate son, and lias long since passed into other hands, and Eliza, instead of pos sessing some thousands a year, and being wooed by Mr. Catchpole, isa faded daily governess. Every lawyer’s oflice has plenty of such stories as this. One I remember of a miser who bad ruined more tlian one family, and in his last moments wished to make such reparation as bequeathed gold could compass. Poor wretch! when the will was brought, catalepsy had seized him, aud lie lay there a liv ing corpse—dead in all but mind. He could not move his hand ; his tongue refused its oflice; only his eyes were free to move ; and of those eyes I have been told aterrible tale. He was, as mis ers often are, a man of strong mind aud iron nerve. Passive as lie was in every other part, the eyes told all that was passing within. You could have seen in them intelligence when the will was read to him; the powerful volition brought to bear, and persevered in, when tlie written word- which was to make it a testament was required; tlie terror aud horror which came over him when lie found tlie right hand which had so often aided him for evil, would not help him for good; tlie despair which burst tlie unseen bonds around him, and, with a convulsive motion, let out the last of life. It must have been a spectacle of horror, when pun ishment came in the shape of a prohi bition of the one act of mercy which might have made some amends for a whole life-time of wrong. Then there was another legend of a man whose daughter married against iiis will. He lived somewhere in a re tired country-house, far off' from any town. This man was subject to a dis ease of the heart, and one night, feeling the symptoms of an approaching attack, and that strange presentiment which so often comes before death, he roused his household aud sent off a messenger on horseback, not for a BurgeoD, but for a lawyer. He whiffed his will made im mediately. Tlie messenger could not be expected back for at least two hours, aud long before that tlie spasmodic at tack had come on, but stiijTn the inter vals of his paroxisms, that determined man wrote as though against time.— When the lawyer did arrive, all that was left of the living will which had been so active and energetic a few hours before, was that last piece of writing. It expressed the deceased's intentions, in the strongest terms, utterly to disinherit his rebellious child, aud to give his jjroperty to some charitable institution. It was complete, even to the signature; only the flourish usually added to the name was wanting, as though there the hand had failefl. But that writing was not a will; it was not in proper form, or attested. In the eye of the law it wtjs but an invalid piece of paper, and the daughter took that which her birth right entitled her to. Miia. Ullen Judd, residing near In dianapolis, Indiana, walks two miles and outs a cord of wood every day, by which means she supports a large fam ily of children. [From the Now York Observer.] Mottoes. . h BY JENNIE HARRISON. ' : “ I am sorry that Ross could ndtr be with us to-day,” said uncle Henry, as they reached the hill-top, and stood looking at the beautiful prospect around them. “Soam I, uncle; but it’s all his own fault! I told him two or three times lost night that he had better study Instead ofplaying with Rover and teasing El sie ; but he wouldn’t pay any attention: and when you called us for prayers, he had only learned one lesson I” “Poor Ross! how he begged Mr. Ar nolt to excuse him ; but he wouldn’t, even when lie knew that It was the Inst day you were going to spend with us!” “ He’s a cross old man ! and I don’t love him a bit! and I’ll never send my little boys to his school!" exclaimed little Elsie, hugging her” dolly” closely, as if to protect it from such a cruel mas ter. The boys laughed uproariously at her declaration; and uncle Henry was about to tell her of the importance of such strict discipline for “little boys,”— when Arthur suddenly growing sober, said emphatically, “ I never saw such a fellow as Ross! he doesn’t seem to care at all about getting on fast at school: he’ll be lowest in the class for a whole term, and it won’t trouble him any. I’m sure he’ll never make a name in the world! Now, for my part, I want to be learning something every day; adding to my knowledge. I can’t af ford to miss a single lesson. Excelsior.' that’s my motto! I think it’s a splen did one! don’t you, uncle?” “Yes,” answered: uncle Henry, thoughtfully, looking attheboy’s glow ing face and eager eyes. “So you mean to make yourself a name in the world, do you, Arthur?” “ Yes indeed, uncle, if I can ! I want to be foremost! Anything but being a nobody! Higher! higher!” he added, straightening up, and looking quite like an orator. “ You can’t get any higher,” said Elsie, looking wonderiDgly at him, “ you’re on top of the hill now!” “ Little innocent! indeed not; not by a long distance!” “ And what’s your motto, Will? Ex celsior, too?” asked uncle Henry, look ing overwhere Will was leaning against a tree, smiling at bis brother’s enthusi asm. “Oh, mine’s something like Ross’, I •reckon: Take the world easy! I don’t like mottoes that require so much trouble! What’s yours, Elsie?” con tinued Will, seeing a grave look on his uncle’s face. “Oh, I know! it’s— Now Hay me down to sleep " That is a very pretty one, Elsie,” said uncle Henry, checking the boys’ laughter. “Aud what is your motto, my Pet?” Quiet, thoughtful Madge, who had been standing close at his side all tlie while, answered, “ I don’t know, uncle, I’m afraid I haven’t any particular one, but I wish you would give me one, be fore you go away. Give me yours ; I am sure it must be a good one, and I shall like it so much better than if I chose one for myself.” Uncle Henry was silent for a moment, and then, looking around at the little group, lie asked, “ Wouldn’t you like, —all of you—to have the motto of the greatest person who ever lived ; the most powerful person,—que whogained the most victories aud performed tlie most wonderful deeds that were ever done in the world? Don’t you think tlie motto of such a person would be \frorth knowing ?” Arthur began thinking over all the great characters his history told about. “ Well, I don’t see how it could have been a much better motto tlian Excelsior, auyhow ! but I’d like to know it!” “ So would I,” said Will. Madge’s eyes were fixed on her uncle’s face. “I think I know ivho it was,” she said hesitatingly, “but I canuottell the motto.” “And who was it, Pet?” “ Wasn’t it Jesus uncle!” “Yes, —Jesus, the Prince of Peace, the mightiest Conquerer, the worker of the most wonderful deeds that ever' were done; —yet the kind Saviour and friend of such poor weak ones as we?” “ Why, did Jesus have a motto uncle? “Yes, when he came to earth to bear all our sins and all iour temptations, to take upon him our | human nature, —he guided his whole life by this motto: and now he has left it to us, —the beautiful sinless life!” “Please tell us the motto, uncle: I can’t think of it.” “ It is told us by Jesus himself, in the eighth qhapter of St. John, and twenty-ninth verse :— 1 1 do always (hose things that please him. What a beautiful motto to live by! Tell me, Arthur, lived there ever a greater being than the Lord Jesus Christ? were there ever any works done more wonderous and mighty than his? and is not his motto the very best for each of us to take for our own?” Arthur was so long in and seemed to be so busily thinking, that Madge took her turn. “ But, uncle, we can't /” “ Can’t always do just what pleases God, do you mean? No; we are so weak and sinful, that we must fail some times iu keeping any good and noble motto. The best we can ever do, is to try ; and is there anything more worth trying for than this? anything greater or higher to aim at, than pleasing God?' 1 “ Do you think my motto is wrong, uncle ?” asked Arthur in a disappointed tone. “Oh no; it is both right and noble; only I fear that you apply it just to earthly things ; you keep your eye upon some far ofT point, some position of worldly honor which you wish to reach, and so forget to look around you at the little every-day duties of life, which God has put there for our notice and care. For instauce, I saw a boy the other evening, working over a hard problem in Algebra, his face all glowing with eagerness to succeed in what the other boys had declared they “ never could do.” But he was so eager, that when his sick sister, —trying to work out her littlepuzzle in blocks —said ‘Oh, Arthur, just please tell me if that one piece is right,’ he did not lift his eyes to notice, but only exclaimed, “ ‘ Don’t talk to me now; I’m too busy Arthur turned his head, not to meet the calm grave look on his uncle’s face. “ Ah, my boy, it would not have low ered your high mark any, if you had stopped one minute to help your little sister! God meant for us to help each other on our way through life. Look as high as yqu please; only don’t forget to look around you, too! Now, Jesus’ motto includes yours : —if you try to do always what pleases God, —keeping more perfectly each day his command ments,—will not that be going higher and higher? Oh, Arthur, you wish to make yourself “ a name in the world:” but it is better and higher far to have your name written in heaven I —better to gain God’s smile than to win the praise of the greatest people in the world!” 11 J esus’ motto is yours, I know, uncle,” said Madge, softly. “And will you make it yours, too, my pet?—and you. boys? Shall we not all take Jesus’ motto, and begiii— with this beautiful springtime, when everything is opening with fresh new life—to make our lives new, striving dally to do what pleases God ?" Madge said “ yes,” with an earnest, look in her blue eyes: Will sighed and, walked from one tree to another: and Arthur forgot, all through the remain der Of that day, 1 to compare the easy, aimless character of Ross with his own famous purposes. That evening, opening his Journal to write the record of that pleasant holi day, Arthur stopped at the first page, in the centre of which was written, in large letters and with many flourishes, “Excelsior." After thinking a few mo ments, he took his pen and wrote in a circle around the word, “ / do always those things that please Him." “ Bo that I cannot step over any of the little things God puts in my way to do, to reach a point that seems great to my self,” he said, showingittouncle Henry, as he bade him good-bye the next morn ing. “ And Oh, if Arthur, by watchingand prayer, keeps that best motto bright, how higher and higher his life will rise each day, until at last God will say unto him, “ Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!” (Sards. TT M. NORTH, AX TORN F. Y-AT - LAW COLOMBIA, PA. aUE 29 toLsw 1 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No. 44 East King street, (Above Lecbler’s Hotel, LANCASTER, PA. tfw 1 J W. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No. 25 South Queen Street, PENSION, BOUNTY, BACK PAY AND CLAIMS Carefully attended to. U. REYNOLDS ° attorney-at-law, No. 53 East King street, (Opposite Lecbler’s Hotel,) LANCASTER, PA. pisreUatuous. STERN MOTEL WEST ORANGE STREET , LANCASTE t, PA. P. G. MORGART, Proprietor. lydaw First rational dark of mari etta, PA. January 10th, 180(3. CAPITAL 810 1,000. SURPLUS FUND $22,228.70. This Bank will pay 5V< per cent. Interest for Deposits made for oue year. AMOS BOW MAN, Cashier. Jan la 3mw' Rare opportunity for profita ble INVESTMENT ! REVENUE EXTENSION SILVER MINING COMPANY OF NEVADA. CAPITAL STOCK Divided into 50,000 Shares, at $lO Each OFFICERS President—Hon. GEO. P. FISHER. Judge of the Supreme Court, Washington, I). C. Vice President—T. S. EMERY, Philadelphia. Treasurer—E. B. HARPER, of Harper, Burney & Co., Bankers, Philadelphia, Secretary—LOUlS R. McDONOUGH, Phila. Superintendent at the Mines—l>. S. CHILDS, Mining Engineer, Austin, Nevada. OFFICE No. 55 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA SILVER MINING PROFITABLE. That the business of Mining and reducing sil* ver quartz is immensely profitable, is amply attested by the results whi n kaveaccrued from the mines of Mexico, Peru, Germany and other silver bearing countries, and that silver lodes are remarkably rich, as well »s numerous in Nevada, we have the testimony of such emi nent and disinterested meu as Bishop Simpson, Prof. SillimaD, Prof. James, Hon. Horace Greeley, Speaker Colfax and Senator Nye, who personally visited and inspected the mines, besides hundreds of other individuals who are now engaged in the business of mining in that State. Prof. Silliman, whilst in Nevada, deliv ered a lecture in tlie city of Austin, during which he said: “We cannot count upon the time when mining will cease to be profitable in these hills!” Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist church, in a lecture delivered In the City of New York, after his return from Nevada,said : “Were the debt of o ir natiou §20,000 000,000, there is wealth enough there, when our debt is paid off, to give to every soldier who returns from our battle fields muskets of silver instead of iron. * • I do not speak now from idle speculation, but I speak of that wealth from {observation and ac tual calculation. WHAT DIVIDENDS MAY BE EXPECTED. As to the amount of dividends that may be reasonably expected from a Silver Mining Company, operating in Nevada, it may beset down as ranging from 100 to 1000 per cent, per annum, according to the progress made in the mines, and thequantlty of machinery atwork. Harper's Monthly Magazine for August con tainea an article on “ Nevada,” which, with reference to the profits of silver mining, said: “II the mine be or even average value it can scarcely fail to return fromten to twenty pen- cent per month to the investor; and silver mines are unlike gold mines, lu that they are inexhaust able, and may be worked forgenerations'when opened.” A recent issue of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, speaking on tills subject says: “The mining statistics of Nevada show us that when ever worked with proper appliances, and un der judicious these mines have paid from 30U to auu per cent, per annum upon the capital invested.” WHAT OTHER COMPANIES ARE DOING. There isnota single company now in opera tion with their own machinery in Nevada, as far as we have learned, that is not a complete success. All are returning not only large, but enormous Dividends, auu the price of their shares have correspondli gly advanced. For instance, on March 2d, the stocks of the older Companies were quoted in the city papers as follows: “Gould & Curry, §950; Savage, 8915; Chollar Potosl, $305; Imperial, $117; Crown Point, $1,010; Alpha, $200; Yellow Jacket, $130.” Tee original price of these stocks was less than £so_ S ome of them only $lO. And the Compa nies more recently organized are not a whit le*-s prosperous, but as far progressed give every promise of an ultimate success evengreat er than that achieved by the Gould & Curry.— For example, the stock of the Hale & Norcross Company of Nevada, which a few months -,.g0 was worth only $4O, is now quoted at $1 1.50. So, also, the Boston and Reese River Mining Com fiany, which commenced work only last fall; ts shares, though originally sold at $lO, soon went up to SIUS. and on the first of At arch had advanced to $-00. THE NATURAL CONCLUSION. It may therefore be safely asserted ihat no other enterprise, requiring the association of capital, offers so many inducements for invest ments, with so little risk, as Silver Mining. Ev ery Company that, owns a inine arid will honestly go to work, MUST BE A success! It cannot possi bly fail. The only difference betweeu compa nies a/ work will be in the amounts [ot their dividends. THE REVENUE EXTENSION SILVER MIN ING COMPANY Are the owners nf NINETEEN (It) valuable Silver Ledges, amounti -g tu ll.Gou li-.car ieet (the chief of which is the Keveuue Extension Lead, one of the richest, ever discovered in that district,) all oi winch are situated upon the celebrated Lauder Hill, near Austin Nevada. The Hopkins' Tunnel, which commences at the foot of Lander Hill, and will pierce the hill from side to side, running at right angles with the Silver Veins, and will cut in its course up ward of one hundrei and fifty mines (this number being already located), is also the pro perty of this Company. Work upon this tun nel is beiug pushed forward with energy, and has already reuched upward of three hundred feet. The Superintendent telegraphs from Austin, Nevada, under date of February 22, 1806, as fol lows : “At work on Revenue Extension Mine; ore taken out tO'day assays $457.45 to the ton. Work on Hopkins’ Tunnel advanced 70 feet since last dispatch (February 2d).” And again, under date ofMarch sth, as fol lows : “Receipts in bullion $1 900. Tunnel advanced 100 feet. Revenue shaft 20 feet.” WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT IT. The Philadelphia Commercial List of March 3d contains a letter from one of its correspond ents, dated Austin, Nevada, February 5, iB6O, which says: " At the lower extremity of the city of Aus tin—quondam Clifton—where Pony Canon de bouches into Reese River Valley, a project haa been commenced, which, if carried out in ac cordance with the plan of those who conceived the soherae, will prove one of the most mag nificent works ot the day, and which cannot mil to handsome y reward those who push it to completion. I allude to the Hopkins’ Tun nel. The Revenue Extension Mining Compa ny, owning this tunnel, have a series of ledges lying parallel with each other, located upon the bill, at thefootof which this work com mences, and will cut at nearly a right angle each lode with which It comes In contact throughout its entire length, and they can be numbered by the score—the hill being liter ally seamed with them. As this great work progresses, vein after vein of the rock bearing the precious metal will be crossed, at a depth sufficient to render Ihelr working profitable each in succession being at a greater deptli from the surface than the preceding one, ow ing to the rising 01 the hillln whioh they arfe located. Upon these veins, after they are crossed, workmen can be engaged In extract ing the ores upon either side of the tunnel, without 1 n any manner hindering Us progress ’' THE SUCCESS OF THE COMPAQ Y CERTAIN. It is thus apparent that the Revenue Exten sion Silver Mining Company have progressed so far in their operations that success is not only certain, but actually at the door. Be fore the close of the coming summer—perhaps by the middle—it will be ranked amongst the DIVIDEND-PAYING companies, and its stock Will, in all probability, advance to $26, $6O, or perhaps even $lOO per sharp. Therefore, now is Vie time to invest. Only a email portion of the working capital yet remains unsold, und the plreotors are anxious tnat It should be dis posed of Immediately, in order that there may be no delay In the proseoution of the work in hand. Hence this advertisement. Price of shares $lO. free of assessment. Certificates issued as soon as funds are re ceived. Persons wlshlug to invest, whether In large or small amounts, may remit to or address E, b. HARPER, Treasurer, No. 66 Booth Third Street, war 28.4 t 12 r Fftifadelpuk jgftttoflriphia gufejtrtigraatte. gOOP BEIBTS, •HOPK I'N’S "O WN MAKE,” . MANTTEACnjRBD AND SOLD WHOLESALE Alf D RETAIL , No. 628 Arch Street, Philadelphia. The most complete assortment of Ladles’, Mlsseand Chllaren’s HOOP SKIRTS, inthis olty; gotten up expressly to' meet the wants of drst-oms* Trade; embracing the newest and most desirable Styles ana Sizes of “Gore Trails,” of every length—from 2si to 4 yards round,—2o to 66 Springs, at $2 to 85. Plain Skirts, all lengths, from 5% to 3 yaids round the bottom, at $1.40 to $8.15. Oar line of Misses’ and Children’s SKIRTS are proverbially beyond all competition, for variety of styles and sizes—as well as for finish and durability; varying from Bto 38 inches in length, 6-to 45 Springs at 35 cents to $2.25. All skirts of “OUR OWN MAKE” are warranted to give satisfaction; but bay none as such, un less they have, “ Hopkin’s Hoop Skirt Manu factory, No. 628 Arch street,” Stamped on each Tab! Also, constantly on hand, good Skirts, manu factured in New York, and the Eastern States, which we sell at very low Prices. A lot of c eapSkirts—lsSpl $l. WATCHES. tbl, Sets Silver Ware, Diamond Sets and Rings, English Silver Cruet Stands, Butter Coolers, Dinner and Tea Service, Pianos, Sewing Ma chines, Vest Chains, Bracelets, Lockets, Gold Pencils, Sets of Jewelry, Ac., &c. WORTH ONE MILLION DOLLARS, TO BE SOLD AT ONE DOLLAR EACH, WITHOUT REGAKD TO VALUE, AND NOT TO BE PAID FOR UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TO RECEIVE. CATALOGUE. OF RICH AND VALUABLE ARTICLES AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. 300 Fine Gold Chronometer Watches* each..§2oo ;iOO Fine Gold English Lever Watches 150 200 Ladies’ Gojd enameled Bijou Watches... 150 200 Solid Silver Hunting Lever Watches. to 80 200 Silver Dinuer-sets 100 to 150 150 Silver Tea-sets 100 to 150 3,000 English Sliver Cruet-Stands 20 to 30 3,000 Silver Fruit-Urns 15 to 30 ljooo Sliver Ice-Pitchers. 1,000 Silver Castors. 700 Dozen Table-Spoons.. 500 “ Tea-Spoons 100 Diamond Rings.. 200 Gents’ Diamond Pins. All the above list of goods will be sold for ONE DOLLAR each. Certificates of all the various articles, stating what each one can have, are first put Into envelopes, sealed up, and mixed; and when ordered, are taken out without regard to choice, and sent by mail, thus giving all a fair chance. On receipt of the Certificate, you will see what you can have, and then it Is at your option to send ON E DOLLAR and take the article or not. There will be no blanks. One Certificate may obtain you a Gold Watch, Silver Tea-set, or any other valuable article. 6 Certificates for §1; 13 for §2; 30, with Pre mium Gold Pen and Silver Extension holder, for §5; 100, with Premium Solid Silver Hunt lug case Watch, for $l5. AGENTS WANTED.—AII who act as our agents will collect 25 cents for each Certificate, and remit 15 cents each to us. provided not less than six are ordered at one-time. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed In all cases. Goods not ph using the tastes or fancy of our customer will be exchanged free of cost. Ad dress all orders to S. KEIGHTELY & CO., S. E. corner Ann and Nassau streets, Jan 30 3td&3mw | New York Theo. W. llkrr. A. F. Sweigart. 1 HOUSES!! LANDS!!! REALESTATE AND COLLECTION AGENCY. FARMS, HOUSES. AND ALL KINDS OF PROPERTY IN TOWN OR COUNTRY. SOUTHERN AND WESTERN, LANDS, COTTON, COAL AND TIMBER LANDS, Boughtand sold, exchanged or rented. Persons having property to sell will find it greatly to their interest to call at our office and ave them entered on our Register. Properties so entered will be transferred to a conspicuous place in our printed cataiouge, which we Intend to give the greatest possible publicity, by ad vertising, posting, and forwarding in every di rection. we will also advertise each property in the newspapersof the county, and elsewnere, if desired. PERSONS desiring to buy propei ty will do well to examine our private Register, previous to purchasing, as we have constantly on hand a great variety of valuable farms, houses and other property, with full descriptions, and are always prepared to give any information re quired. PUBLIC SALES. SPECIAL ATTENTION will be given to sell ing Heal Estate at public sale, without further trouble to the owners. For Terms, cost of bills, advertising, *tc., In quire at the office. Having a great amoun of advertising and printing lo do. we have con tracted with the printers at much less than usual rates. Parties will therefore find it to their advantage, aud save themselves trouble and expense by calling upon us. RENTS aud Interest Money promptly col lected. TITLES AND RECORDS carefully examined. PARTICULAR attention given to Surveying anti Conveyancing,Stating Accounts oi Execu tors Administrators, Guardians and Trustees, and writing of ;i 11 kinds. THE PATRONAGE of the public is respect fully solicited, HERR & SWEIGART, Officer No. 3 North Duke street, Opposite the Court House, mar 17 Lancaster, Pa. COURT PROCLAMATION.-WHEREAS, the Honorable HENRY G. LONG, Presi dent; Hon. A. L. Hayes and Fekkee Brijtton, Esq., Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Lancaster, and Assistant Justices of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quar ter Sessions of the Peace, in and for the county of Lancaster, have issued their Precept to me directed, requiring me, among other tilings, to make public proclamation throughout the bail iwick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer and a General Jail Delivery, also a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Jail Deliv ery, will commence in the Court House, in the city of Lancaster, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the THIRD MONDAY IN APRIL, (the 16th) ISG6, in pursuance of which precept, Rublic police U Fle. cby Given, to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Lan caster, in the said county, and all the Justices of the Peace, the Coroner and Constables of the said city anu comity of Lancaster, that they be then and there in their own proper persons with their rolls, records and examinations, and inquisitions,and theirotlier remembrances, to do those things which to their offices appertain, in their behalf to lie done: and also all those who will prosecute against the prisoners who are, or then shall be in the Jail of the|sald county of Lancaster, are to be then and there to prose cute against them as shall be Just. Dated at Lancaster, the 14th day of Match A. D., 1866. mar 20 3td«ftwl F. SMITH. Sheriff. 200 000 WATCHES * 4jjhains ' DIAMONDS, BIJOUTERIE, Ac. Worth Nearly One Million Dollars / Allito be'Sold for ONE DOLLAR EACH, Without regard to value!! No Article to be paid lor until you know what it is and its value NO LOTTERY ! NO GIFT ENTERPRISE ! / LIST OF ARTICLES: 600 Solid Silver Tea Sets, complete..sso to $3OO 200 Rosewood and Mahoga' y Musi cal Boxes 50 to 200 250 Gold Hunting Watches;- 75 to 250 220 Ladles’ En’elled Gold Watches, 50 to 200 500 Gents’ Hunting Silver “ 35 to 100 500 Open-face Silver Watches 25 to 50 500 Mother ol Pearl Lor’nettea and Opera Glasses 25 to 100 300 Six Barrel Revolvers 15 to 50 300 Elegant Oil Paintings 50 to 100 250 Marble Statuettes, Busts, Ac 50 to 100 250 Diamond Rings 50 to 100 5,000 Photo. Albums, all sizes and 10,000 Golcfvest and Neck Chains 10,000 Gold Thimbles, Sleeve Buttons, Lockets, Ac 3 to 8 10,000 Signet, Cluster, Chased and Plain Gold Rings 1,000 Sets Ladles’ Jewelry, all the tIAW PBt Bt.vlpß 10,000 Qol I Pens, SUver''&'tioUd Gold Holders 5,000 Silver Goblets and Drinking Cups 8 to 10 3,000 Silver Castors, Fruit and Coke Baskets, Ac 20 to 15 20.000 Other Articles ranging from 1 to 100 The plan is this: Certificates naming every article of oar stock are put into blana enve lopes, sealed,and. mixed; and when ordered are taken out without regard to choice, and forwarded as directed. The holder of any cer tificate Is entitled to whatever article It may name, upon the payment of One Dollar, Whether that article Is a $250 Watch, a $75 Dia mond, or a $3 Bosom Pin, Having purchased five, ten or twenty Certiflcatesyou can take Just as many or Just a* few of the articles they sev erally describe as you please. You must pay One Dollar a piece for all yon send for however. To reimburse us for the cost of printing, mailing and advertising, we charge for certifi cates and the time and trouble of properly at tending to the business as follows: For five 81; elevens 2: eighteen $3; twenty-eight $4; thirty live $5; fifty $7,50; sixty-six 810; one hundred $l5 and two hundred $3O. AN ELEGANT PREMIUM WITH EACH CLUB OF POUR DOLLARS OR v UPWARD. will be forwarded with the Certificates. N. B.—See full lists of Premiums and special tonnß to Ageuts In our circulars . Address T. A H. GAUGHAN A CO. mar 6- lxnd tottett. PRIVATE BAIE.-THEI7SDEIBIGSED . offers at private sale, his Farm, situated in uarroll county*, 1 'Md., one mile from Union about one mile from the Western R. R. The farm contains 105% ACRES of Limestone Land, under good cultivation, and under good fences.. The Improvements are a two-etory BBiOK HOUSE, with Kitchen at tached, basement Arch .CelieiySmake Mouse, and othef necessary out-buildings, a large Bank Bara, Wagon Shed. There Is a never falling .Well of Water near the door, also a Cis tern, and Apple Orchard on the premises. Also choice Fruit Trees, such as Peaches, Cherries, Grapes, : I will pay 1100 Reward for the discovery of any medicinal preparation that can cure a greater variety of complaints than Mishler’s Herb Bitten, r B. MTSTTT.F.R, Proprietor, S. E. Corner of Centre Square, an 24 tfdAw Lancaster. Pa. $5OO REWARn ' I will pay |5OO to the Proprietor of any Medl-' cine that can show a greater number of genuine Certificates of cures effected by it near the place where it is made, than MISHLER’S HERB BITTERS—of Consumption, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Bloody Flux, Diarrhcea, Typhoid, Remittent, Intermittent and BLlious Fevers, Fever and Ague, Cholera Morbus, Yellow Jaundice, Scrofula, Running or Sore Legs, Canoer, Abscess, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Coughs, Colds, Cramp in the Stomach, Chronic Diarrhcea, Piles, Tetter, Scald Head, Ophnema, or falling away-sickness peculiar to children, Leucorrhea, Falling of the Womb, all obstruc tions to the due course of nature in females, all venerial diseases, and ail complaints arising from impure Blood or a weak and disordered state of the Stomach, Liver or Kidneys. Certi ficates of cures of the Yellow Fever in Mexico can also be furnished. Remember if it does not cure, the money will be refunded by the pro prietor. BENJAMIN MISHLER, S. E. Corner of Centre Square. Lancaster, Pa. SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. The ingredients used In compounding Mish ler’s Herb Bitters are not kept secret by the Proprietor. Bend for a Circular and you will learn the medical properties of all the articles used in its preparation ; also in the rnaner in which they operate on the system, and much other valuable information. If you are afflict ed with disease send for one of Mishler’s Herb Bitters Circulars: read it carefully, profit by the hints It contains, and you.will be placed on the sure road of recovery. [Jan 24 tfdAw IJIHE LIGHT OF THE WOBLI>. DR, MA G GTE L' 8 PILLS AND SALVE These Life-giving remedies are now, for the first time, given publicly to the world. For over a quarter of a century of private practice the ingredients in these LIFE-GIVING PILLS! have been used with the greatest success. Their mission is not only to prevent disease, but to cure. They search out toe various mala dies by which the patient is suffering, and re invigorates the tailing system. To the aged and Infirm a few doses of theso valuable Pills will prove to be A VERY FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, for in every case tht'y add new life aud vitality and restore the waning energies to their pris tine state. To the young and middle-aged, they will prove most invaluable, as a ready, specific, aud sterling medicine. Here is a dream realized, that Ponoe-de-Leon sought for three hundred years ago, and never found. He looked for a fountain that would restore the old to vigor and make youth ever AN ETERNAL SPRING! It was left for this day and hour to realize the dream, and show, in one glorious fact, the magic thut mode it fair. THESE FAMOUS REMEDIES cannot stay the flight of years, but they can force back, and hold aloof, disease that might triumph over the aged and the young. Let none hesitate then, but seize the favorable op* portunlty that offers. When taken as pre scribed— FOR BILIOUS DISORDERS nothing can be more productive of euro than these Pills. Their almost magic influence la felt at once; aud the usual concomitants or this most distressing disease are removed. These remedies are made from the purest VEGETABLE COMPOUNDS, They will notharm the mostdellcatefemale, aud can be given with good effect in prescribed doses to the youngest babe. FOR CUTANEOUS DISORDERS And all eruptions of the skin, the SALVE is most invaluable. It does not heal externally alone, but penetrates with the most searching effects to ‘ he very root of the evil! DR. MAGGIEL'S PILLS Invariably cure the following Diseases Asthma, Bowel Complaints, Coughs, Colds, Chest Diseases, Costiveness, Dyspepsia, Diarrhcea, Dropsy, Debility, Fever A Ague, Female Complaints, Headache, Indigestion, Influenza, luilamation. Inward Weakness, Liver Complaint, Lowness of Spirits, Ringworm, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Scalds, Skin Diseases. 49“ Notice. —None genuine without the en graved trade-mark around each pot or box, f igned by DR. J. MAGGIEL, 43 Fulton street, New York, to counterfeit which Is felony. 49“8old by all respectable Dealers in Medi cines throughout the United States aud Cana das at 25 cents per box or pot. [dec 23 lydAW QOUGHS, COLDS AND CONSUMPTION, Thirty years’ experience and the testimony of thousands who have been cured by its use prove that JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT is, withoutexception, the most reliable remedy in the world for COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, CONSUMPriON, PLEURISY. CROUP, WHOOPING COUGH, SPITTING OF BLOOD And all Pulmonary Complaints. Here La som of the evidences: PORTFOLIOS Mr. Lemuel Pluraley. of Gap, Lancaster county, Pa., writes April 20,1804 : “ Part of last winter I was laid up with a severe attack of Bronchitis, but, in justi< e to Jayne’s Expectorant. I must say that after using the second bottle of it the disease entire ly left my throat, and I nave since had no re turn of It.” Rev. Dr. DowliDg, of New York city, writes, May 20,1805: “ My confidence in the great value of Jayne's Expectorant Increases every year. I have long nsed It in my own family, and never fall to recommend It to the families of my congrega tion as the best remedy I know or for Coughs and Colds and Incipient Consumption.” Mr. John Vanworth, of Aurelius, Michigan! writes: After suffering from a hard racking Cough until I was thought past all cure, I tr ed Jayne’s Expectorant, alter using two bottles of which I found myself well, tough and hearty.” Rev. B. F. Hedden, of First Baptist Church Camden, N. J., writes: “ Your Expectorant completely cured me of a severe Cold, and entirely removed the ac companying hoarseness. Dr. D. O. Gasklli, of Milton, Nova Scotia, writes: “The Expectoran* I believe to be about the best medicine In use for the diseases for which it Is recommended.” Mr. Reading Doty, of Warren county, Ohio, says: “ I had recently another attack of Asthma, and fora time was In the greatest, distress. My wife having begged me to try Jayne’s Expec torant, 1 did so, and obtained almost Instant relief, and. continuing to take it. in a short time I found myself in better health lhau for two years past.” Rev. E. D. Fendall, Moorestowu, N. J., writes: ‘‘Some time since, I recommended Dr. I). Jayne’s Expectorant-to a lady who had lost her voice from bronchitis, and who had l>een pro nounced by her physician incurable. An en tire restoration to good health was affected after taking two bottles, and she is now a hearty woman.” All Dr. D. Jayne’s & Son’s Family Medicines are sold In Lancaster by Messrs. Jno. F.Loug