®lw 1 OttOPBB, sajtdEbsoh * CO. J.M. COOPBB, ■H. G SUITH, ~WU. A. UOSTOF, ALVEED fIAkDEESON TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable all eases in advance. OFFICE—SOUTHWEST CORKER OF CBNTBE S^UABE. 49*A.U letters on business should be ad dressed to GOOPBB, SAHDXBSOX A CO. ftotoij. Over the Btver. This beautiful poem, by an American writer, Miss Priest, has commanded the admiration of all readers during the many rounds it bos made of the newspaper and magazine press, the last ten years. To those who have lost intimate friends—and who has not?—some of the allusions are inexpressibly affecting. Many a mois tened eye will fallow the lines: Over the Tlver they Reckon to rae, Ifoved ones who r ve passed to the other side, The glcum of their snowy robes 1 see, But their voices are lost iu the dashing tide. Thore’s one with ringlets of sunny go7d, And eyes the reflection of Heaven's own blue; He crossed in the twilight gray and cold, And the pale mlslhid him irom mortal view. We saw not the angels who met him there, The gates of The City we could not see; Over tno River, over the River, My brother stands ready to welcome me. Over the River the Boatman pole, Curried another—the household pet; Her bright curls waved in the gcntld gale— Darllug Minnie, i see her yet I She crossed on her bosom her dimpled bands. And fearb ssly entered the phantom bark; We watched It glide from the silver sands, And all our sunshine grew strangely dark. Wo know she Is safe on the other sldo, WhereaU the ransomed and angels bo; Over the River, the mystic River, My childhood’s Idols ure waiting for me. For nono roturn from those quiet shores Who cross with the Boatman cold and blue; Wehear the dip of the golden oars, Wo catch u gleam of the snowy sail, And 10, they have passed from our hourt— They, cross the stream und are gone for aye I Wo can not sunder Iho veil apart, That lades from our vision tho gates of day; We only know limt their barks no more Shull sail will) ours on life’s stormy sea, Yet somehow I hone on the unseen shore, i hey wulou and beckon and wait for me. And 1 sit and think when the sunset’s gold Is Hushing rlvor and hill and shoro. I shall one day stand by tho water cold, And list to tho sound of tho Boatman’s oar; I shull watch for the gleam of the Happing sail, I Ahull hour the boat us it gal ns the strand, I shall pass from sight with the Boutmitii pale To tho better shorn of the .Spirit band I I shall know the lovbd who navo gone before, And Joyfully sweet will tno mooting bo, When over tho River, tho peaceful Rlvor, The Angel of Death shall carry mol ptttwy. Homauce of Royalty Tho Now C hapter in tlic Story of the Koyal House of IhigJaml. [From iho London Star.] The “ Romance of the Peerage," has been written for ourinstructian in more forms than one, and we have got oertaln enticing though unsatisfactory glimpses at the skeletons which have -their dread abode in the closets of our aristocracy. The "Romance of Royalty,” however, is, we believe, as yet a field untllled, and in all kindness we commend it to some of the industrious book-makers of the day. We need not go back to an other dynasty, nor abroad to another country for our material. Common place as tile political history of the Guelph family has been, their domestic' history lias not wanted in "many In stances the painful interest and the perplexed intrigue ofa modern sensa tional story. Nothing hitherto known or suspected approaches, however, In strange incident and involved plot, a chapter—we can scarcely call it a new chapter—in the history of the Royal House, which, though it lias at differ ent times aud in various forms attracted some public attention, has never up to the present been put forward in a sim ple and taugible Hliape. We allude to the extraordinary claim to the position of a Royal Princess advanced by a pri vate individual, Mrs. Lavina Ryveß, a claim which It is probable will' be brought to a legal issue, in the course of next month, and which will then be supported by documents that establish, if they are genuine, it must be admitted, a most astonishing series of facts. Since the details of the case, whether in the claimant's statement or in the attempts made to impugn it, all bear a certain aspect of confusion, it may be well to select in brief the important points relied upon by both sides, and to weave them, as far tis we may, into a clear and connected tale. This is not easy, for so much value of both claims and answer depends upon the genuine ness of an immense mass of documenta ry evidence, that we cau only argue the question pendente litc, in a very super ficial way. It has always been known that the immediate cause of the passing of the Royal Marriage Act was the openly manifest displeasure of George 111. at the union of hisbrother, Henry Freder ick, Duke of Cumberland, with Lady Anne Horton—a displeusure which re mained unchanged until the Duke's death. This feeling in the King has usually been attributed to the German pride of birth, by which his family had always been distinguished. If, how ever, the documents produced in the case above mentioned be genuine, it will he proved that George 111, was not offended with his brother because lie had married an inferior, hut because he had committed deliberately a most serious offense against morality and law—the of fense of bigamy. Papers are set fortli which demonstrate thatwhen the Duke of Cumberland married Lady Aune Horton, his wife, OlP’e Wilmot, to whom he had been privately but legal ly married four years previously, was still alive. As a legitimate descendant of this last mentioned marriage, the petitioner iu the pending cause claims the style and honors of a Princess of the blood royal. The fact of this marriage is supported by two remarkable certificates, signed by Dr. Wilmot (the lady's father) as the officiating clergyman, and by the King himself, by Lord Chatham, Lord War wick and Lord Archer, as witnesses. The plea put forward by the Crown on all former occasions, and which will probably be again restarted to at the ap proaching trial, is that these certificates, aB well as the various other documents bearing on the case, are forgeries, and on this point we anticipate the decision will turn. The Duke’s second marriage having been made public, the King, partly influenced by a wish to hush the matter up, and partly by another more personal reason, prevailed upon Dr, Wilmot,_it is asserted to keep his daugh ter’s marriage secret. i n the meant time, a child, Olive, was born to the hapless, deserted wife, and the birth certificate, signed by Lord Chatham and Mr. Dunning, Solicitor General at the time, also forms a portion of the evi dence in the case. The infant was duly baptized in private by Dr. Wil mot as the Duke’s daughter, in the presence of Lord Warwick; but at the King’s request, means were taken to pass her off - as the daughter of one of her uncles. For this purpose she was baptized as Olive Wilmot, merely. Of all these transactions, certificates, pur porting to be signed by the King, Lord Chatham, and others of high position, are in existence. They may be proved to be forgeries, hut, ifso, they display fa skill and audacity utterly unparalleled in our criminal "fecords. Though the King desired, for peculiar reasons, to ,keep,the child Olive’s legitimacy a se cret, he was not disposed to act un kindly toward her, ■ - Besides numerous private acknowledgments of Jiet kue ■.' .:.. j , i'ill r:, ‘ ■' . - ■■ 1 , , , .■ V i Ini. -l—i -ill • •:, .I 1 '..1! VOLUME 67. position;And grants of money for her use, he proceeded, when she was less than a year old, to confer upon her the title of Ducheßs of Lancaster. The pat ent, which is also to be produced, was deposited with Lord Warwick, who de livered it, in the presence of the late Duke of Kent, to the owner, then Mrs Serres. It is needless to follow "her the addi tional documentary evidence which ip put forward by thepetitioner,lnoluding an alleged will ofGeo. lll.,bequeathing to the infant Olive a sum of £15,000 and a long series of letters and papera from the Duke of Kent acknowledging his cousin’s claim. We may briefly Indi cate the steps that were taken legally and otherwise by Mre. Serres, and after ward by her daughter Mrs. Eyves, the present petitioner to obtain rights. Pro ceedings were first taken in the Prerog ative Court to obtain Probate of the King’s will, but Ehe application was re fused upon the technical ground that the Court was hot competent to deal with a royal testament. Foiled in her resort to law, Mrs. Serres resolved to submit her claim to Parliament. She found a champion, unluckily for herself, in Sir Gerard Noel, achivalrousbutsomewhat craoked-bralned member, who after in troducing the lady’s cause with much frothy fervor, succumbed meekly enough to a little argument and a great deal of banter from Mr. Peel. Both during Mrs. Serres' life and after her death, many attempts were made to move the royal family by petitions, but naturully enough, these were for the most part fruitless. In the year 1845 after some difficulty arising from laok of funds, a chancery suit agalnßt the Duke of Wellington, George lll.’s sur viving executor, was undertaken, but failed on the ground that the will had not been proved. As we have Been, this necessary step had been found im possible, and for a long time the matter remained at a dead look. The Legiti macy Declaration Act, passed in 1858, offered an opportuuity of opening up the question anew, and after a consider able delay, Bought by the Crown, the trial has been definitely fixed for May, 1806. Besides the deeply interesting details which we have briefly noticed, another and yet more extraordinary question, will, it is gravely affirmed, be brought iuto discussion in connection with the case. It is only vaguely indicated iu the statement published on behalf of the petitioner, and its improbable character Is, we feel bound to say, calculated to throw grave suspicion upon the whole claim. We shall therefore only say that this collateral question raised by Mrs. Byves touches the ’ legitimacy of ail George lll.’s children. Her statement is briefly this : that George lll.’s mar riage with Queen Charlotte was an act of bigamy, his former and lawful wife, Hannah Lightfoot, being still alive. Upon this astounding assertion we need not comment; but from the circum stances of the case, we anticipate that the trial will prove an interesting and curious addition to our collection of causes cclcbrcs. A Romance—How an Esquimaux Woman Became the Wire or an English Hoblc man. fFrom a Paris Paper.] Amid these specimens of feminine archieology, grouped, as we have said, before the windows of the shops, you can not fail to remark a pale young woman, of small Btature, and expressing herself in English with a silent accent, which gives to this language a charm hitherto unknown. A lady of a certain age and a gentleman who accompanies her, do not cease to regard herj and, according to a popular expression, “to drink her words."' This young woman, who' has borne, for six months only, one of the most aristocratic names of the three king doms, was called, but a short time ago, Tookoolita. Three years ago she in habited with the Esquimaux, her coun trymen, the Bay of Ookovlear, called by the English Grinnell’s Bay, and which is situated about the sixtieth de gree of north latitude. In the place of the elegant costume which she now wears with such ease and grace, her at tire in her native land consisted of a vest of seal skin, embroidered on the seams with red and white ■ worsted in arabesque; a pantaloon, made of the same thick materia], confined hersmall waist and descended to the knee, leav ing to be seen, in all their exquisite pro portions, her legs and diminutive feet, cased in boots of pliant red leather. Finally, her abundant head of hair, of a jet black, was tied at the top of the head by a broad blue band, made of the skin of the Isatis, and colored by the unctuousjuiceofacertainkind oflichen, An adopted orphan of one of the women of her tribe, she passed the short summer under a tufu, or tent, made of the skins of the reindeer, and nine months of the year in an igloe, that is to say, in ahousebuiltof blocks of snow, soldered toge ther by the cold, and capped by a dome of the same material. In the center of this strange dwelling, a stone lamp, supplied with the fat of the seal, burned uninterruptedly during nine months of the year—a long and dreary night. The light, among other things, served in lieu of a fireplace for drying her clothes, penetrated by the humid at mosphere, and for warming her hands, benumbed by sewing in a cold twenty degrees below zero, with needles made of bone, and thread composed of the sinews of animals. The Esquimaux have no other means of combatting the rigors of a winter,, compared to which ours is but a sum mer. The debris cast upon these shores by the too frequent shipwrecks ofEuro peau vessels, are never burned by the natives for the purpose of warming themselves, but are employed by them in making sleighs. In fact they leave unmolested the numerous heaps of coal which Lady Franklin has caused to be placed at different points, in the hope that they might be of service to her hus band, whom she long believed lost and wandering in these frozen regions. Three years ago, Lord Frederick Fitz —made, as ensign, one of the crew of the George Henry, sent in search of Sir John Franklin, This- ship wss built expressly for this voyage, and was con structed after the manner of the whale ships; for a ship with high sides can not navigate these seas without great danger. t On the approaefe of winter the George Henry was suddenly frozen uj i in the ice. This mis fortune produced t he most seriotxs inquietude, the more S’ >, as the stores of the ship were gettin g short being now reduced to tainted a alt. meat and the uncertain' chances of th e chase. Ope day, or rather one night—for in winter the night reigns for nine months in the Bay of jroung girl, on thedee alongside the George Henry, climbed with uncommon agility to the defik of the ship, and commenced ex amining, with the greatest curiosity, “ the great wooden house ” o(thestran gers. After having visited every cor ner, she perceived Sir Frederick stretched upon the Captain's bed. Tears came to her eyes at the sight of the poor young man, about to die without hope of relief. She immediately proposed by gesture to take the youDg man with her and to nurse him at her own house. Theofflcers eagerly accepted this chance of relief for their companion, lmproba ble as his cure seemed to be, aiding Tookoolita (thiswas hei name) to re move Frederick to the sleigh of the kind-hearted girl. She gave the signal for starting to the dogs by a peculiar slapping of the tongue against the roof of the mouth, and drove rapidly away with the en sign. Having arrived at her home after a two hours’ ride, she. entered a few minutes sfter-vvith a wooden vase filled with the blood of the seacalf. To her great surprise Frederick refused this singular drink. However, he soon overcame his repugnance, and "found it excellent.” This is his own ex pression in the volume he has pub lished of his voyage. He partook every day, not only wlthoutdistaste, but even with uvldlty, of this medicament, and he felt Ills strength return so fast that, in tlireo months after, dressed in the cosutme of the natives, he rivaled them in daring and address, in driving a sleigh, chasing the sea-calves, scaling the rocks, and carrying away birds’ nests across shoals and broken ice, not to mention that he managed in the most Intrepid manner, with a single oar, Ills long narrow bark made of skins, and called a Kias. Tookoolita accompanied him in all these excursions and did not quit him for a moment. Endowed with the marvelous facility of thepeople of the North in acquiring foreign languages, she not only spoke English purely, but thanks to the lessons of Frederick, she read and wrote it. About the month of April following, the George Henry was disengaged from the Ice which en vironed her, and began to prepare for weighing anchor and returning to Eng land. When Tookoolitta learned this news,sheretiredtoher tupio of reindeer skins, pitched on the seashore. Freder ick came to her and found her bathed in tears. "Bister,” said he, for he called her habitually by this name, "Sister, my mother expects you in England come.” Tookoolitta dried her tears, gave him her hand, and accompanied him with-, out hesitation, on board the George Henry, which arrived unexpectedly three months after iu England. Some time after that, Lady Fitz , who did not quit the young stranger for a moment, still prettier with the European than in her nativecostume, presented her to Queen Victoria as her future daughter-in-law. The Queen declared that she would sign with her own hand the marriage contract between the officer of marines and Tookoolita. “In the meantime,” added she, smiling, "os this name is alittle strange, I ask of my young friend to renounce it and take that of Victoria.” Tookoolita, now Lady Fitz , may may be seen every day promenading in the Palais Royal, offering the singular spectacle of an Esquimaux, becoming an English ladv of distinction. An Ecclesiastical Protest Against the Tilting Hoop. The tilting hoops have at last aroused the indignation of the clergy. Last Sunday one of the Jesuit fathers, con nected with the church of St. Francis Xavier, in Sixteenth street, spoke Ills mind pretty freely on the subject. He admonished the female portion of his congregation that they must give up the abomination altogether, or cease to come to the confessional. Nothing half so immodest or immoral had ever been witnessed in New York before. A stranger might be forgiven the suspi cion that our wives and daughters were all turning courtesans. He did not know what the fashions were at the theatre or the opera, because he did not go to such places; but he could not shut his eyes to the nuisance, as it ex isted before his eyes, in front of God’s holy altar. He was determined to abate it so far as the church of St. Xavier was concerned; other clergymen could ■do as they liked. As you may infer, this clerical blast against the garment in question has created an immense sensatiou. A party who manufac tures them, iu order to protect his business, has hired a Protestant preacher to deliver a lecture to morrow evening in favor of it. He proposes to show that the tilting hoop Is conducive to health, comfort and cleanliness, and as "cleanliness is next akin to godliness,” he will be prepared to demonstrate that the allegations as to immorality is all moonshine. So, you see, there are two sides to the ques tion. It's a delicate one, at least, and perhaps it is better that the parsons should deal with it than the newspa pers or newspaper correspondents. Sot Bad. A short distance from the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, •on one of the stage routes running from that city, lived a jolly landloid by the name of Ford. In fair weather or in foul, in hard times or soft, Ford would have his joke. It was a bitter stormy night, or rather morning, about two hours before daylight, that he was aroused from his slumbers by loud shouting and knock at his door. He turned out, sorely against his will, and demanded what was the matter. It was dark as tar, and seeing no one he cried: "Who are you there ?” “Burder, Yancey and Elmore, from Montgomery,” was the answer, “on our way to attend court. We are benighted and want to stay all night.” “Very sorry I can’t accommodate you ! so far; do anything to oblige you, but i that’s impossible.” The lawyers, for they were three of the smartest in the State, and all ready 1 to drop down with fatigue, held a brief consultation, andastheyeoulddonobet : ter, and were tootiredtogoanotherstep, 1 ’-they asked: ! “Well, can’t you stable our horsesand | give usohairsandagoodfireuntilmorn ' ang?” “Oh yes gentlemen, I can do that.” i Our learned and legal friends were j Eton drying their clothes by a bright I Are, as they composed themselves for ■ the few remaining hours in their chairs, dazing and nodding, and now and then | swearing a word or two of impatience, I as they waited till daylight did appear, i The longest night has a morning, and I at last it came along, and then in due j time a good breakfast made its appear j ance; and to thesurpriseofthelawyers, 1 whothought the house was full of guests, . none but themselves sat down to par- I take. “ Whyj Ford, I thought your house was so full you couldn’t give us a bed last night ?’’ said Burder. “I didn’t say spJ’replied Ford. “You didn’t? Whatinthe name of thunder did yoii say ?” “’You asked me to iet you stay here all -night, and I said it would be impos sible, for njgbtwasaighunto two-thirds gone .when you came. If you only wanted beds, Why on earth didn’t you sfiy'So?’' 1 • The lawyers had to give ithp.. Three' •ofthem on one side, and the. landlord i alone had beat them. a^1....... LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 30,1866. Fillipo Palms. [Translated from the German of Waldbrneta. The rlch old miser and pawnbroker. Griffo, was about to close his store and retire to his solitary sleeping apartment. He threw a quick, searching glance about Mm—pianos, guitars, household furniture of every kind and description, which the necessities of the poor, or the extravagance of thq rich, had gathered there, strewed the room in strange con fusion. After cautiously surveying the whole, and satisfying himself that no thief was concealed within, who could despoil him of his hoarded treasures, he turned to close the door, when a young man stepped upon the threshold. His ele gant mantl? only partially concealed the richness of his dress and the sym metry of his form; he might have been about, twenty-five years of age, and withal looked so gay and glad, and life loving, that the old miser drew back amazed, Gracefully raising his hat, he disclosed a profusion of glossy, raven curls, and a face thatmlghthave served apainter for an Adonis or Endymlon. His eyes fell upon the grave, parch ment-like features of the old usurer, and’ though he could not restrain a smile, yet he failed to banish the traces of care which saddened his brow. "Bravo, my young lord,” exclaimed Griffo. "I call you a man of your word. I have always said that the noble lords of Rome, and Indeed of all Italy, might safely take for their model Signor Fll llpo Palma—none know so well os he how to live—how to circulate money, and none bo punctual to return a bor rowed loan.” "It grieves me much, Signor Griffo, that this time I so ill deserve the praise with whiohyouoverwhelm me. Ikuow that to-day lshould have paid the small sum!” "Small sum ! small! you owe me a hundred ducats, and to-day I counted uponlt. I lent it, too, withouta pledge, bethink you, upon your honest face; but certainly you have brought it with interest, and you wish to joke me.” "Would to God it were so,” rejoined Fillipo, "but believe me, we singers carry empty pockets while the Carnival lasts; our opera-managers cannot pay us until Shrovetideisover. Meanwhile we must live ; therefore I have come to beg you to double that loan, and let me have another hundred ducats upon my honest faoe.” "The d 1 take me 1 if that is not a rare joke,” said the astonished Griffo. "Do you think I have found my money or stolen it, that I can throw it after you as you scatter your light songs among the silly crowd ? No, no, I will teach you better, I have yourbond, and if I cannot J ingle both money and in terest in my purse this day, you shall go the debtor’s prison and there celebrate your carnival, unless, indeed, your man ager, or the foolish song-loving rabble redeem you.” "Pray listen to reason Signor Griffo. If you should stand me upon my head, not a single ducat would fall out of my pocket; wait only until the carnival is over, and you shall see ; the manager will then pay me my arrears, and per haps, also, I shall be the bridegroom of a rich lady, whose love I seek now to woo. Ido entreat you, good Griffo, let me have the money, draw up the bond, and I will sign.tt.” "A wife,” said Griffo, thoughtfully, "a widow, perhaps an heiress, who is she, and how far has the matter gone?” "Not so far as you think, neither do I know who she is. I have seen her only twice, but more is not necessary to fall desperately in love—the thing is soon finished, for she seems to be un married, and to all appearance is bless ed with eyery earthly good.” “I will listen to you no longer, you. young madcap ; you shall go to prison to-day if you cannot give me full satis faction or furnish me responsible secu rity ;” and hereupon the old niggard flew into a paroxysm of rage, and pour ed forth a perfect torrent of curses, all of which Fillippo received with the most,imperturbable gravity. Resolved upon obtaining the loan, and hoping to gain his point as soon as the storm had passed by, Fillipo meanwhile stepped to an open piano and began to play a favorite aria which had lately gained him much applause. Seeing, however, that Griff'o’s wrath was rather in the flow than in the ebb, he seated himself aud began to sing the aria, which he supported with a vigorous accompani ment. He had at first no other inten tion than to show his firm resolution and to appear as unembarrassed and as much at his ease as possible, but when he perceived that the old man listened with delighted astonishment, he began to sing in a style worthy of Fillipo Palma, the most celebrated singer of his time. A mirror Paging opposite reflected the face of the miser, andFillipo watch ed the anxious interest the various emotions which passed through his soul and warmed into life his stern, rigid features. At first the muscles ofhis face relaxed and expanded as the full, deep tones trembled through the hall; then, as the swelling waves of rich melody rose and sank in the wild sport and play, the angular features gradual ly formed themselves into a sweetsmlle, and the man of gain, who had until now listened only to the Bound of gold, stood spell-bound; a light was in bis leaden, soulless eyes, and his lips trem bled. It was as though an angel of beauty had touched him with his magic wand, so complete was the transforma tion ; the clear, rich tones of melody fell upon his soul as the warm, bright rays of the sun upon the earth after a long rainy season. As Palma at last with a lively emotion and brilliant passages drew toward the close, Griffo could no longer remain quiet in his corner; he strove to express by the motion of his limbs the spirit of music; noiselessly he moved that he might not by an unlucky step interrupt the sweet toned stream of enchanting melody. As the aria was concluded, and Griffo stood panting, wiping the perspiration from his forehead, the singer stepped up to him with a smile and said: “ How is it, Signor Griffo ? will you loan me the ducats now ; or will you at least listen to my explanations, and not interrupt me with your curses t" “ Curse, I curse ?—no, Heaven forbid —the money I will count out directly, my son. You are a magician, and have bewitched me. Upon your honest face or your golden voice, I loan it without interest, if it must be so.” " No, no, that is more than I ask, my worthy sir. Be assured you do me a great favor, which I shall not forget after the carnival, when I am a happy bridegroom and a rich man.” Fillipo quickly gathered up the money and vanished through the street door, and Griffo awoke as if from a heavy dream to a consciousness of what he had done. At first he seemed to repent his gener osity, then, shaking his grey locks, in voluntarily exclaimed, “ He hasa voice! he can sing and bewitch with songs. Ha shall teach mv Elisetta.” The carnival was brilliant and mag nificent, but passed far too quickly for Fiilipo. He had not, as formerly, cele brated It with his gay companions. He was seeking his unknown loved one amid the crowd of masks, and too often found himself sadly disappointed. His gold at last engaged an old woman to bring information of her, and also de ceived all watching eyes which guarded the beautiful unknown; through her he received a few lines from the lady, containing, however, nothing but a promise to meet him on the coming Sunday. True, hehad seen and spoken with her on the evening of the last day of the carnival, and confessed his love; but while he listened to hear the sweet Words of life that trembled unexpressed upon her lips, thedensecrowdseparated him from the fair one; and instead, the bravos of a hundred mocking voices greeted as they looked on and boister ously applauded the'farce. Flllipo sat In his lonely room In Borrow and silence, when the door suddenly opened and Griffo stood before him, the sight of whose face, recalled his uncan celled obligation, and ptruck new terror to the unhappy lover. ! The object of his vislv however, 1 was by no means such as Flllipo had anticipated ; 'he came to assure his young friend that the sweet strains of his golden song were yet float- ing through his brain, and to request that he would give his daughter lessons, with which she might gladden and solace his old age. Palma was not more surprised at this request than at' the news that he had a daughter, whom he had never seen or beard of, though he had been a long time a regular customer of the old man. Then Griffo told him how, long years ago, the persuasions of his friends had Induced him to marry, and how in a year’s time his young wife died, leaving him a daughter, whonf the tender care of a prudent aunt had reared. “ I have had notice," he added, “ that many flatterers and idlers, attracted by her beauty, seek to ensnare the girl; so that it is doubly necessary that she be suitably employed, that evil may not take root in the soil of her heart." Thenextmornlng.lncompliance with Grifl'o’s request, Fillippo was on the spot at the appointed hour, and followed him with no little curiosity into the upper apartments ofhis lodgings. Who shall describe his astonishment, when, from a side door entered the long sought,unknown object of his love. Forgetting all else, he threw himself at her feet, kissing her beautiful hand, and covered it with kisses, which she very graciously received, believing the approbation and consent of her father had been gained. But it was far otherwise. While the young pair abandoned themselves to joy and delight, the old man foamed with anger and rage, and a storm of im precations soon convinced the lovers of the true state of the case. All seemed lost. Griffo seized the girl and led herintotheadjolningroom, and was about to kick Fillippo out of the door, when suddenly the remem brance came to him, how, on a former occasion he had, by the mysterious might of music, subdued aud conquered the terrible auger of the old churl. He quickly seated hlinselfattheopen piano, and if before he had been singing in joke, tkiß time he suug witn the earn estness of desperation, and not in vain. Orphesus wrung from the miser his Edrydice, and became bis son-in-law. No Bon ofsougßlnce Fillippo Palma, has eveivwon from a miser gold far less El settu. From Dicken’s Once a Week, The Three Wishes. There was once a wise Emperor who made a law that to eveiy stranger who came to his court a fried fish should bo served. The servants were directed to take notice if, when the stranger had eaten the fish to the bone on one side, he turned it over and began on the other side. If he did, he was to be immedi ately seized, and on the third day there after he was to be put to death. by a great stretch of imperial clemency, the culprit was permitted to utter one wish each day, which the Emperor pledged himself to grant, provided It was not to spare his life. Many had al ready perished in consequence of this edict, when, one day, a count and his youngson preseuted themselves atcourt The fish was served as usual, and when the count had removed all the fish from one side, he turned it over, and was about to commence on the other, when he was suddenly seized and thrown into prison, and was told of his approaching dobm. Sorrow-stricken, the count’s young son besought the Emperor to al low him to die in the room of his father, a favor which the monarch was pleased to accord him. The count was accord ingly released from prison and his son thrown iuto his cell in his stead. As soon as this had been done, the young man said to his gaolers—" You know I have the right to make three demands before I die; go tell the em peror to send me his daughter and a priest to marry us.” The first demand was not much to the emperor’s taste ; nevertheless he felt bound to keep bis word, and he therefore complied with the request, to which the princess had no kind of objection. This occurred in the times when kings kept their trea sures in a cave, or in a tower set apart for the purpose, and on the second day of his imprisonment the young man demanded the king’s treasures. If his hrst demand was a bold one, the second was not less so; still an emperor's word is sacred, and,havingmadethepromise, he was forced to keep it; and the trea sures of gold and silver and jewels were placed at the prisoner's disposal. On getting possession of them he dis tributed them profusely among the courtiers, and soon he made a host of friends by ills liberality. The emperor began now to feel ex ceedingly uncomfortably. Unable to sleep, he rose early the third morning and went, with fear in his heart, to the prison to hear what the third wish was to be. “Now,” said he, to the prisoner, “tell me what your third demand is, that it may be granted at once, and you may be hung out of hand : for I am tired of your demands.” “Sire,” answered his prisoner, "I have but one moie favor to request of your majesty, which when you have granted, I shall die content. It is mere ly that you will cause the eyes of those who saw my father turn the fish over to be put-out.” "Very good,” replied the Emperor, "your demand is but natural, andsprings from a good heart. Let the chamber lain be seized,” be continued, turning to his guards. "I sire?” cried the chamberlain, “ I did not see anything—it was the stew ard.” "Let the steward beseizedthen,” said the king. But the steward protested with tears in his eyes that he had not witnessed anything of what had been reported, and said it was the butler. The butler declared that he had seen nothing of the matter, and that it must have been one of the valets. But they protested that they were utterly ignorant of what had been eharged against the count; in short, it turned out that nobody could be found who had seen the count com mittheoffense; upon which the princess said: \ "I appeal to yolq, my father, as to another Solomon. If nobody saw the offense committed, the count cannot be guilty, and my husband is innocent.” The emperor frowned, and forthwith the courtiers began to murmur; and then he smiled, and immediately their visages became radiant. “ Let it be po,” said his majesty, " let him live, though I have put many to death for a lighter offence than his. But if he is not hung, he is married. Justice has been done.” The heaviest shipment of gold eve r recorded from the portof New York was made last week. The total by the steamers of Saturday was $0,280,096, and for the entire week, $8,703,296. If this were kept up for fi year, we should lose over $500,000,000; that is to say, a good deal more than we ever had in use and circulation. In view of this enormous export, wbuld it not be wise for the Treasury authorities to reconsider their action in endeavoring 1 to artificially cheapen gold by free sales of their sur plus of the preolous metals? It certain ly is not a healthy state of affairs to be importlng flour from Prance and wheat from England, while sending abroad gold. , ~ Cromwell*! Sword. It appears that at the capture of Columbia, S. C., by Sherman’s army, there was lost an article of great an tiquity and highly treasured by South Carolina Masons, as a relic of a great man and of the past. A South Carolina paper says: This was the famous Sword of State, called among our Masons “ The Crom well Sword,” and commonly believed among them to have been oneepossessed by the Lord Protector of England. We draw attention to the fact of the loss, and to the descriptive particulars which follow, in the hope that, public atten- Vn being draw to its history, it may be recovered, drawn from some obscure hiding-place, and restored to the Grand Lodge ot'South Carolina, to which it be longed. Tills antique weapon was a subject of peculiar interest as a relic rather than for its Use and beauty. Its history is given by Dalcho in bis Masonlo reader. It was a large, once elegant, and curi ous two-edged weapon, in a rich, velvet scabbard, highly ornamented with Ma sonic emblems, and with the arms of the Grand Master. It had been pre sented to the Grand Lodge by the Pro vincial Grand Master, after the instal lation of the grand officer; was given os a consecrated sword, and received with reverent assurances to keep it safely, so far as human effort could ac cord safety. The weapon had been long in tlie possession of the Grand Master’s family, and was said to have once belonged to Oliver Cromwell, a legend to which some degree of proba bility may be given, from the fact that the Provincial Grand Master was a de scendant of Sir Edward Leigh, who was a member of the Long Parliament and a Parliamentary general iu the time of the Protector, irom whom perhaps he received it. “The further history of this sword may as well be given here, From the time of the presentation it continued in the possession of the Grund Lodge, and was borne by the Grand Sword Bearer, or in later times the Grand Pursuivant, in all public processions. At length, in the conflagration, which in the year 1838 destroyed so large a portion of the city of Charleston, and with other buildings the Masonic hall, the sword was with great difficulty saved by brother Samuel Seyle, the Grand Ty ler, with the loss of the hilt, the Beab bard, and a small part of the extremity of the blade. In the confusion conse quently by the fire, the sword thus mutilated was mislaid, aud for a long time was supposed to be lost. In 1852, a committee was appoint ed by the Grand Lodge to make every exertion forits recovery, and at length, in the beginning of the year 18-54, it was accidentally found by the GrandTylerin an outhouse on his prem ises, and was by him restored to the Grand Lodge in its mutilated condition. The lost piece of the blade was ingeni ously replaced by a cutler in the city of Charleston, and being sent to New York was returned with new lillt and velvet scabbard, and was used in its appropri ate place during the eentenial ceremonies of thatyear. “With such a history, aud blended with such a tradition of its origin, we need not feel Surprised at the universal and keen feeling occasioned by its loss.” ppl Uatirw. Estate of James buses, i.atk of Manor town-hip, I.ancastor county, dec'd. —Letters of Administration on tho estate o! said dec'd, Laving been granted to the sub scribers residing in Conestoga township, all persons Indebted to suid estato are hereby re quested to make immediate payment, and those having claims will present them, without delay, properly authenticated for settlement. WILLIAM W. RONES, SAMUEL W. WRIGHi, apr 16 Otw* lo Administrators. Estate of pavl suekick, dk€*d. —Letters Te'ta'irentary on tho estate of Raul Sberick, late or Washington Borough, Lancaster couuty, dec’d., having been granted to the subscriber residing tn said borough : All persons Indebted to said estate are requested to m ke immediate payment, and those hav ing claims will present them, without delay, properly authenticated for settlement. JOHN EVANS, Executor. may I) Gtw*lBj Ai ditoii n notice.—estate of Esther Bartholomew, late of Strasburg township, Lancaster county, dec'd.—Tho un dersigded Auditor appointed to distribute the balance remaining In the hands of John Smith, Administrator of said dec’d, to and among those legally entitled to the same, will attend for that purpose,(on TUESDAY, the 29th day of MAY, 1860, at 2 oxlock, P. M., in tho Library Room of the Court House, in the City of Lan caster. where all persons Interested in said dis tribution may attend. BENJ. HERR, Auditor. 4lw IS Estate of human shkaffek, (Widow,) late of the City of Lancaster, deceased.—Letters testamentary on sakl estate having been granted to the under signed, all persons indebted thereto are re quested to make immediate settlement, and those having claims or demands ugalnst the same will present them without delay for set tlement to the undersigned, residing In the township of Penn, said county. DAVID HOCKSTETTER, may 3 6twl7] Executor. A' VO HUB’S NOTICE.—ESTATE OF George Weldler, late of East Earl town ship, Lancaster county, deceased.—The under signed Auditor, appoint’d to distribute the balunce n malnlog In the hands of B. F. Kin der and W. W. Kluzer, Executors of tho lust Will of said dec’d, to and ainoug those legally entitled to the same, will sit for that purpose on FRIDAY, JUNE Bth, 1806, al‘2 o'clock, P. M., in the Library Room of the Court House, In the City of Lancaster, where all persons inter ested in said d.Mtrlbuilou may attend. MARTIN E. STAUFFER, may 16 4lw 10] Auditor, Estate of william dcgan, dec'd. —Letters of Administration on the estate or William Dugan, late of Conoy township, Lancaster county, dec’d, hav.ng been granteil to the subscriber residing In said township : All persons indebted to said estate are request ed to make Immediate payment, and those having claims will present them, without de lay, properly authenlcated for settlement. JOHN KOB, may 18 6tw* 10] Administrator. Mary M. Miller, by ] her next friend, ; Of Nov. T. 1885, No. 14, vs. f Summons in Divorce. Godfrey Miller, j ' Notice .—the defendant will take notice that Depositions will be taken on the part of thePlaiuuff, beforeC. M. Brown, Esq., Commissioner at his oflice In the village of Maytown, on FRIDAY, the 22nd day of JUNE, 1886, between the hours of 10 o’clock, A. M.. and 4 o’clock,!P. M., of said day. D. W. PATTERSON, rnay23 stw2o Attorney for Plalntlir. Accounts of trust estates, «&c. The accounts of the following named Es tates will be presented for confirmation on MONDAY, JUNE 18th, 1860. • John Krelder-s Estate, Thomas Robinson, Trustee. Samuel Good’s Estate, Henry B. Graybill, Trustee. Gideon Kaufftnan’s Estate, John Quigley and John Kanffman, Assignees. Fanny Kendlg’s Estate, George Kendlg, Trustee. David Landis’ Estate, ,'A. S. Landis and Martin Rohrer, Trustees. David Mellinger’s Estate, Daniel Danner, Trustee. Joseph L. Wright’s Estate, Joseph Ballanco Assignee. John 6toek’s Estate, Martin C. Weave Trustee. Samuel Huber’s Estate, Henry Burkhart, Committee. JOHN SELDOMRIDGE, Prothouotaiy. Prothy’s Office, Lancaster, May 21, 1860, may 22 4tW AND SCHAUH, DEA-LBBS IS STOVES, HEATERS, A full aud complete assortment of every pat tern and design constantly on hand, at greatly reduced prices, at their Old Stand. DEANER A SCHAUM No. 7 East King street. QAS FITTING AND PLUMBING, The subscribers having secured the services of superior mechanics respectfully solicit a share bf public patronage. They are prepared to execute all orders that they may be entrusted with in a superior manner, and at very moder ate prices. HYDRAULIC RAMS, WATER WHEELS, HYDRANTS, LIFT & FORCE PUMPS, BATHING TUBS, WASH BASINS and all other in the trade. : PLUMBING AND GAS AND STEAM FIT TING promptly attended to in the most ap proved style. County work promptly attended to. S3.AU work guaranteed. DEAHEE'A BCHAUM, No. 7 East King street, Lancaster, apr W . tfd4w immfttog, *« • •• 1 - Of UK) foot of 200 feet. or 200 feet. oi 2ou feet. of 100 foot. .of 200 foot .of 100 foot. .of 200 feet, .of 200 feet. Old lawd<*w