She gautagittr ffittelligtactr, PUBLISH= EVERY WEDITZSDAY BY H. Q. sniztli a co: A. J. STEINMAN H. G. SMITH TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable all cases In advance. OFFWE-9OUTHWO3T CORNER OF CE:NTRIS SQVAILE. A$•All letters on business should be ad dressed to H. G. Bnirrn & Co. Xiterarg. A Flattering Reminiscence " A BEAUTY ! an heiress! an eccen tric guardian, whose invitation includes any friend you like to take with you for a few days' shooting. Why, my dear Fred, you have bound me to you forever by your selection of my self. I feel quite a new man already ; for I must confess that, when you came in just now, I was suffering from an unusually desperate fit of the blues." " Consequent, in a remote degree, on last night's supper," suggested Fred Clayton, "and a good deal also on the way you remain cooped up in these dis mal quarters." 'Fred glanced contemptuously round my dingy Temple chambers as be spoke —a survey scarcely necessary, consider ing their intimate resemblance to his own adjoining rooms. However, I for bore any remark ; indeed the delight ful prospect just presented to me absor bed all my attention, and I grasped My friend's hand in a fever of gratitude. "Tell me all about It," I said, "and how you came to think of me." "There is nothing to tell," replied Fred, seating !thyself on the corner of the table and swinging his legs back wards and forwards lazily. "'Phis morning I got a letter from an old fel low in the country, rewinding me—as if I t.ould remember it—that he and my father had been friends thirty years ago, and asking Inc down to his place for a few days' shooting, with permission to bring a friend If I liked." "And his niece that you told me of, —the heiress ?" said I. "U, of course he did not mention her," said Fred ; "and I merely tell you because, if you choose to put yourself under my guidance, 1 may be the means Of helping you to u good thing. You know," he added more deliberately, " how disinterested my assistance can bu after the little confidences we ex changed lust night." "True," said 1, eliurmed with the re collection,—" your pretty cousin,—the secret engageinen " Yes," Interrupted Fred; "you know all about it; and we know more about each other than most fellows; so it was natural I should think of you us corm pinion for my holiday, and I'm right glad you're inclined for the trip." So saying, and silencing my renewed protestations of pleasure, Fred left me, appointing a rendezvous at the first train leaving fur our destination, some two or three hours later. Fred Clayton and I had been school fellows in our curly days, and many of his vacations were spent in my father's house. Of late years, however, he had lived exclusively in London; like me, a young aspirant to the uncertain honors of the bar, but, unlike me, pos sessing a large circle of friends and ac quaintances, and never witliout a su perabundance of invitations to dinners, balls and concerts; for Fred was said to be very popular, especially in ladles' society. Except In the lucre fact that we were both younger sons without any expec tations, there was but little resemblance between Fred Clayton and Jack Harris. My residence In London only dated buck a few months, and already the great city possessed no charm for tae; I pined for the country, for freedom, and for the active life of home. I might, indeed, with the assistance of Clay ton, or through letters of intro duct on from members of my own family, have procured fashionable Invitations, and received partial toleration in society; but the prospect of a crush, heated rooms, and strange faces, was a thought of terror to my timid nature, especially with the under lying chance of presentation to a young lady, and the unhappy knowledge that my deficiencies in the art of small talk would make such a chance a per spective martyrdom No; 1 confessed in my own heart that society was not my forte; other talents 1 certainly had, deeper, more intrinsic merits than those that passed for genuine In a bull room, —but they were merits to develop In an atmosphere of peacefulness and repose; qualities to expand in the quiet, of a domestic 'hearth ; and a thrill of Joy shot through me as, cramming every available article of clothing Into a small portmanteau, I took leave of my comfortless chambers, and allowed my fancy to dwell on a brilliant posslbility, that Clayton's words had evoked. An heiress, and a beatity,—a country beau• ty of course; blushes mad n1111'4104, and rich—how rich? Rich enough to live on a grand estate ; to keep it large stud ; to dispense princely hospitality 7 I must ask Fred. 'l'llls, however, was secondary. I would not of course ac nOwledge myself to lie mercenary.— Love 'mist come first; love Independ ent of fortune,— " ',lke Dian'm kl , e, tinselled, unsought, I &we gives linelf, but Is not bought." SO I assured myself; but then, In all candor, I did not HU tielpate any very great difficulty on this score, for I had ever been painfully susceptible of the tender passion. Finally, for success, I must trust smnewhat to my own indi vidual attractions (and were a nervous tremor seized me), and not a little to the co-operation of my friend, for whose pre-engagement I was more gratified than I liked to acknowledge to myself. " Fifty thousand pounds," said Clay ton, In answer to my inquiries, when we had secured a coupe to ourselves, and were preparing It for the comfort of all future travellers by lighting our cigars; "fifty thousand, my boy, and the estate, if you consent to take her name." " Iler name! What is her name?" I asked. " Effiing," ho replied. "And now, if you think the attempt Worth making, I will let you know how the land lies, and give you a sketch of your campaign. The time is short and of course 1 cannot insure you a second invitation if all is not concluded during our present trip. Now then, old fellow, pro or con i" My reply was given with a fervor quite Ivarranted by the occasion. Fred. Clayton threw himself buck in his seat, and after arriving, by much perseverance, at a sufficiently comforta ble position, he began his instructions, interrupted only by au occasional putt' at his cigar, which momentary pause rendered his words all the more im pressive; at least I fancied so. " Our great difficulty," said he, " is the uncle, Mr. Merrick,—his name is Merrick. 1 told you before he was ecceutr4c ; but that is not the word,— ' exacting ' describes him better. He is awfully exacting, and possesses im mense influence over his niece ; nn in. fluence so great that his choice would be hers, even were she not still under age, which I believe she is. My dear fellow, all depends upon the impression you'make in that quarter. I cannot exaggerate the importance of devoting yourself from the very first to Merrick, —studying his tastes, sharing his pleasures, and attaching him firmly to your Interests. The old fellow is so selfish in Insisting on these attentions that I don't think, were I even free, I could stand enough of his society to insure success. But there's no knowing, the , ialze is well worth winning, and perfectly attainable through him, and through Min alone." "And about Miss Filing?" I inquired. "Miss Efling is a charming girl," said Fred l "quite young, and ready to be lieve anything bad of a lover her uncle condemns. Being an heiress and a beauty she has already received several proposals, but all have been rejected in consequence of the suitors having had the egregious folly to pay more atten tion to the niece than to the uncle." So then the uncle was the only real difficulty; not a very grave one I thought. At all events, forewarned was forearmed and I inwardly vowed to tax my patience to the utmost for so great a stake. At the moment it never occurred to me how remarkably well-informed Clayton appeared on all that concerned oar future hosts. I was only too glad to find him. go well able to advise me; and perhaps a little re lieved that the great result did not in volve much courtehip or attendance on a young lady. 14a11,4t/e/t stttettigelt&t VOLUME 68 We were not long in arriving at the station, where a dog-cart was in waiting to receive us ; and after a rather cold drive of a couple of miles we reached our destination. Mr. Merrick's, or Miss Effing's, house, —for I gild not know to whom it actually belonged,—was a large handsome build ing, situated in a fine park, with un dulating lawn and well-planted trees ; so much I was able to perceive in the growing darkness. Our arrival had been heralded by a handsome pointer that we found repos ing on the :ter'race ; and on alighting, we were met by Mr. Merrick, who treat ed me to a long and most unequivocal stare, and after greetings and introduc tions, hurried us off to our several apart ments to prepare for dinner. I shall never forget that dressing. I had heard so much of first impressions, I believed in them so implicitly, that my anxiety to produce the proper ef fect almost amounted to frenzy, and I could have strangled Fred Clayton for his coolness and equanimity, when he good•naturedly came into my room to accompany me down through the ordeal of a first appearance in the drawing room. 111Ws Elting was there; and the mo ment 1 saw her, I understood the failure of ull former suitors ,• I realized the al• most superhuman effort that would be necessary voluntarily to resign such companionship for that of the superan nuated uncle, and resolved to steel my self by the constant recollection of my predecessors' fates. Graceful, witty, and lively to a degree, no wonder the old man dreaded to lose the sunlight of her presence, and the affectionate charmof her manner towards himself'. With exemplary fortitude I dashed at my task, and before the evening was over found myself, to my kreat surprise, established us the chosen companion of Mr. Merrick I listened with admira bly got-up Interest to long, dreary anec,. dotes of his past experiences, comprisl lug minute details of the dates and even', the hours at which people, long since' dead, had been born,—the memories of these old people are always prodigious! —and submitted to an account of his present devotion to the collecting of minerals, which now occupied all his time, except, during the shooting season, for the old gentleman was very proud of still being able to carry a gun. Of course I immediately professed my self an enthusiast on the subject of min eralogy, and was forthwith carried off in triumph to a large cavernous den, to admire what he called his specimens. The examination of these hideous lit- tie bits of tin and stone lasted, what ap peared to me, about two hours; and When, ultimately, we returned to the drawing room, human nature asserted its rights, and unconsciously I stole over to the piano, where Miss Etling's fairy lingers were wandering listlessly over the keys ; while Fred Clayton stood beside her looking through some music. I annediately a warning glance from Fred recalled me to a senseof dan ger, and turning in the direction of Mr. Merrick I perceived an unmistakable scowl upon his lace, as he watched the party. Hastening to his side, I succeed ed partially In removing it, by the pro posal of a game of chess, which absorv ed all his faculties, and agonized all mine, till tile general move was made for retiring. As I approached Miss Filing to wish her good night, I overheard the old ty rant remark, condescendingly, to Fred, " Your friend Is an Intelligent fellow ; we sympathise, and I like him; rather superficial In mineralogy, but we must try and remedy that by making the most of our time, as your stay will not extend beyonda few days. In fact the young man quite interests me; I wish you had his tastes, Frederick. So virtue was rewarded, and I had made a good impression. The next morning we started early, intent on the wholesale slaughter of partridges; and on this occasion Fred hurt his hand so severely as to inca pacitate him from Joining our future expeditions; in fact, every possible combination of circumstances favorable to my advancement in the good graces of Mr. Merrick seemed to surrouud me. To say what an effort In re quired to submit cheerfully to his per petual presence would be Impossible. He appeared, alter a little, to regard my continual compaulonshlp us a matter of course ; and 50 well had I acted my part, that the man actually believed f enjoy ed his society. Presuming, therefore, °luny established popularity, I ventured casually, ou an occasion that appeared favorable, to Introduce the subject of Ills ulecu Into one of our conversations. " said he, and his face grew hard Instantly, " Bella requires to be watched closely. She is so honest and noble minded herself, that she cannot under stand the mercenary designs of the but terilies that flutter about her. But I never lose sight of her; I am always there to ward off artful attentions, and keep would-be suitors nt bay. I am always there, and I shall be always there; but," he added, changing his tone, which had been growlug excited, " it Is well we are free from such intru ders at present. 1 have never seen so little of my niece as during your visit. You have made me forget myself and her ; but then it is only once in a life time that one may meet so congenial a spirit as yours; and, as for Frederick, Bella knows,—and he would not dare now,"—He stopped with a growl. Mr. Merrick was then aware of Clay- ton's secret engagement. This ac counted for what had already somewhat puzzled me,—hls apparent indifference to the young and fascinating lawyer's constant free a•tele with his niece ; but his marked emphasis on the word now solved the incongruity, and also betrayed what would have been his tactics, had he not felt secure; and yetsuch knowledge argued a more intimate association with Fred's affairs than I should have ex pected from a man whose present hospi tality was founded on a thirty-years-ago acquaintanceship with his father; but, on reflection, I detected in it an act of generosity on the part of my friend, who had evidently taken the old man into his confidence, to set his mind at ease, and leave him perfectly free to be won over by me. So time.wore on, and, as the day fix ed for our departure approached, I be gan to feel a trifle qualmish, in spite of the undeniable favor shown me by Mr. Merrick. It was all very well to have secured the uncle,—if I had secured him ; but was I certain of securing the niece? I had scarcely exchanged half a dozen words with her. Old Merrick had remorselessly absorbed every se cond of my time,—the covers all day, mineralogy and chess all the evening, till the very sight of a chess-board gen erated a nausea that I have never since got rid of; and the suspicion that the lady had been too much overlooked in our calculations, suddenly struck me with au uncomfortable sensation of doubt. I determined to speak to Fred, and seized the opportunity that evening, when Miss Elting had retired, to pro pose a cigar on the terrace,—a proposi tion to which Fred consented. The case was speedily represented, and Fred's answer, as usual, concise. "You have been admirable," he as- sorted, "and deserve, I must admit. immense credit for so luny carrying out our plans; and I feel that I cannot congratulate myself or you too heartily, Now, perceive the result; the old fellow swears by you, and I have drawn Miss Effing's attention to the high opinion entertained of, you by her uncle. Of course to altar your line of conduct now would be to destroy everything. You would be accused of a ruse, suspected of intentions, and summarily ejected. Consistency, my dear fellow, believe me, unvarying consistency, is your only course,—unremitting devotion to the ogre; delicate diffidence towards the niece; and on the morning of our departure, when the near prospect of losing his congenial spirit, as he calls you, has unnerved our friend, a solemn interview in the library, a formal pro posal, and you return to town an en gaged man I Is it not as clear as day liglat?--etraightforward and inevitable in every point, because so simple, You retain your pedestal, remain consistent, and the result oomes about quite natu rally, through and in consequence of that very consistency." I looked at Fred with admiration : everything appeared so feasible when detailed by him in a few simple words; his very tones of semi-indifference had a wondrous power of conviction; and, moreover, my own common sense res ponded to the assertion that a change of manner would be fatal. I saw my way now straight before me, plain and easy as an ordinary transaction of life, and the horizon grew bright with hope. Warmly thanking my friend for the invaluable benefit of his shrewd sense and convincing advice, I withdrew to my room, my mind filled with more sanguine projects, more tangible hopes, than I had yet indulged in, since the beginning of my adventure. At length the momentous morning dawned. We had prolonged our few days' stay to a weed, and our host had evidently determined not to renew his invitation, spite of the manifest pleas ure my company gave him ; so, almost before I could realize it the eventful day arrived. I passed a sleepless and disturbed night, several tituesstarting from a con fused, dreamy rehearsal of the interview I intended demanding in the morning, to fancy I heard whispering voices and confused sounds about the house, quite impossible at that late hour. Visions floated before me of the already ap proaching future ; the events of the last few days seemed to spread back over half my life, so great was the importance attached to their issue ; and now the culminating point was reached, I felt already the foreshadowing of my vic tory ; for, had I not fulfilled every con dition ?—had I not accomplished the task in which every other competitor had failed'? And the question of the young lady's possible opposition was merely doubtful enough to give excite ment to the denouement. Dld not all young ladies first oppose, and ultimate ly yield, with very little persuasion, to all parents and guardians'? How much more so then in the present case, where the circumstances were so exceptionally strong in my favor! I had not been long awake, and was debating in my own mind whether or not to start on an early walk, and by a dose of fresh air to brace up my shatter ed nerves and stimulate them for the coming scene, when I was startled from my cogitation by a top at the door, and almost immediately Mr. Merrick's valet stood before me. This was a most un precedented occurrence ; hitherto a ser vant had never entered my room with out being summoned, and this man seldom even then. A vague presentiment • of evil seized me, and I turned uneasily to look at him. One glance sufficed; he was ghastly pale, and seemed half-insane with alarm. Utterly to conjecture the cause, but certain that something terri ble must have happened, I gasped, " What is it ?" " 0, sir ! don't you know?" said ho, —" are you sure you don't know? They're gone, sir,—bolted,—Mr. Fred. and Miss Bella,—the two of them, and the new maid,—off in a post-chaise three good hours ago; and who's to tell the governor I don't know ; I duren't. The man might have gone on speak ing forever,—in fact he did go on ; but beyond those few first words, not a syl lable was intelligible to me. My first Impulse was to bound up and strangle him then and there, but the effort was a miserable failure, and I fell back pow erless, paralyzed. No suspicion of a possible mistake ; no crumb of comfort in a momentary feeling of Incredulity, sustained me ; the man's manner bore the stamp of truth; his terror was too concise to leave room for a doubt. It was by no process of reasoning, by no mental review, by no recapitulation of events that the light broke in on me, but suddenly, in au instant, with the violence of a gal vanic shock, I realized how completely I had been sold, utilized, taken in ! At lust, a movement on the part of the servant attracted my attention ; he was handing me a letter, and had prob ably been describing how it came into his possession, but of this I had not heard a word. My sensations can be neither Imagined nor described when, on looking at it, I recognized the writ ing of my traitorous friend. Had the viper left his sting there? I hesitated to touch the dishonored paper. At that moment a violent ringing of bells an nounced Mr. Merrick's Irree ; and throwing the note on the table, the dis tracted valet rushed from the room, muttering "I cannot tell It,-1 cannot; Thomas must go to him." Alone with my enemy, I screwed up my courage and broke the seal. The note was short, and ran as follows "DEAR JACIC,—Pray accept my best thanks. But for your efficient aid we could never have successfully hood• winked old Argus, You are an apt pupil, and I sincerely wish you equal success in all your future undertakings. "Yours, by all the bonds of gratitude, "FRED CLAYTON." "P. S.—Bella insists on apologizing; so I enclose." There was then another epistle! I looked about; it had fallen on the floor. I opened it mechanically, and read,— "DEAR MR. IiARRIS,—I hope you will forgive Fred. What he did was for my happiness. We have long been attached, and secretly engaged; but my uncle was so obdurate uud so vigi lant, that an elopement was our only refuge, and, but for your assistance, could not have been effected. Trusting soon to receive from your own lips pardon for a harmless stratagem, be lieve me, yours (by the time you re ceive this), "BELLA 'CLAYTON' EFFINO." " Please, sir, Mr. Merrick wishes to speak to you." The door of my room was wide open, and on its threshold stood the old butler grave and severe of aspect. I followed him silently, too full of bitterness for words, but solacing myself with the re flection that in my host 1 should find thorough sympathizer in my over whelming anger and indignation. I was ushered into a small sitting room, where Mr. Merrick, in a flaming red dressing gown, and absolutely pur ple with fury, was pacing up and down like a wild beast in a cage. Before I could open my lips he turned sharply round on me, and roared out, —" So, sir, do you know I have sent for the police? Do you know you can be taken up for this conspiracy? I see it all now,—the infamous plot, and the part you were brought here to play. Fool that I was!" —" But Mr. Merrick," I began. " Silence !" he exclaimed. "Do you dare to taunt me? Have I not forbid Frederick Clayton this house scores of times? and in letting Bella ask him here for a few days, could I refuse her first re quest on coming of age? Could I turn a guest, though uninvited, out of a house that was not my own ? A guest, in deed !—a swindler, a blackguard, pro bably paid to amuse the uncle, and keep him off the scent." - - - His voice rose higher and higher as he proceeded; at the end he actually shrieked. But this was unbearable. My own temper had been severely tried, and endure more I could not. " Mr. Merrick," I said, hotly, " such language, even under the circum stances—" " Can' tyou leave offactlng even now 2" he burst in. "Confound your gaping look of innocence! Do you see this?" he cried, exhibiting acrushed letter, which he kept clenched in his hand. "They are married by this time, and your villany has so far succeeded; but the triumph shall notlast long. I will hunt the scoundrel and his contemptible no. compliee—yes, you—through every law court in Europe ; I will publish his in famy in every newspaper, find proclaim it throughout the civilized world I You shall not escape me,—you shall not!" The madman shook his fist in my face, and glared at me like a tiger, but, staggered as I was by such revelations and accusations, I nevertheless made one more attempt at a protest. " Your nephew—" I began. My nephew!" he yelled, "do you think that reptile is my nephew ? No, my fine keeper, I am no longer your dupe ; can see now through your shal low shamming, and I order you to leave LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10 1867. my house. Do you hear? leave it in stantly, or I will bid my servants kick you out," he cried, pointing to the door as he spoke. I hesitated; Fate seemed too cruel. I felt that the smallest justification or explanation would lessen my misery ; but before a sound could pass my lips, he had raised his hand with the savage menace,—" One word more and I give the order." There was nothing for me but to re treat; and retreat I accordingly did from the room and from the house, leaving s instructions with the servants to send my belongings to the railway station,—that station from which I had driven only a few days before with such pleasurable emotions and ambitious hopes. Mr. Merrick's unexpected reading of the case had indeed brought my wrongs to a climax. It was not enough to have been the tool, the dupe, the catspaw of one I believed my best friend ; I was also to be stigmatized as the confeder ate, the paid agent of a plot of which I was the principal victim. Truly I had reached the summit of human wretch edness. The whole of the scheme which Miss (or Mrs.) Bella so obligingly called a "harmless stratagem," unfolded itself by degrees to my mind's eye; and, struggling as I would, I could not ban ish the thought of how the designing pair must have chuckled over my credulity, and watched with malicious amusement my remitting devotion to the avuncular conquest. The last drop of bitterness had been poured Into my cup; a lifetime of experience had been crowded into the space of a few days, and swallowing my humiliation as best I could, I returned to London,—a wiser, if not a better man. It is scarcely necessary to add that long before the return of the bride and bridegroom, Mr. Merrick had resigned himself to submit peaceably to the in evitable; and nothing more was heard of the terrible vengeance destined to overtake Fred Clayton and his guilty accomplice.. Engine Drivers and Their Ways. [From Cassell's Maguzlne.J Mr. Frith's " Railway Station " Is one of the most popular pictures ever paint ed, and all the officials in it are taken from life. The driver is from a photo graph; and it will interest the reader of these lines, should he go to see the pic ture, to know that this very man made, it is believed, the fastest trip ever known. This was from Loudon to Did cot; he accomplished the journey, just fifty-three miles, in .forty-seven min utes. It happened that a comrade had run the trip in forty-seven and a half, and Mr. Frith's hero resolved to beat him. He did beat him, and another first-rate man openly declared his de termination to do It in still less time ,• but an order was judiciously issued which stopped this rather alarming rivalry. The desire to run excessively fast is, curiously enough, generally traceable to the pride each man has in his engine, which may be compared to the well-known .feeling of the groom toward his horse. The engine-driver has too much riding and tearing along to care for racing on his own account; but that the " Rhinoceros " should be beaten by the " Hippopotamus" is not to be borne. Even good-tempered men become offensive when championing the merits of their engines; it is so diflienit for them to exalt their favorite without depreciating competitors. To what a pitch this feeling goes may be illustrated by a little anecdote. A man who had just come in from a very long trip with a goods train—only those who are fa miliar with railway work can appreci ate the difference between driving a goods train for one hundred and twenty miles and doing the same amount of passenger work—threw his great coat across his arm, and swinging his can and basket in his right hand, walked slowly and heavily up the slope home wards, his fireman slouching behind him. Bed was evidently his immediate destination, and the poor fellow wanted rest badly enough. Great, therefore, was the surprise of his chief—and I may say of myself too—to see, about fifty minutes afterwards, the same driver coming down the slope, followed again by his fireman, carrying great-coat, can, and basket, all as before. " Beg your pardon, sir," said the driver, " hut I hear you are a-going to send ' Kaillr'—this was the name of the engine —out again to-night with Tom Bal w n." " Yes," replied the chief , we are very short of engines " Well, sir," returned the man, " he don't understand her sir; he'll spoil her; and If you'll allow me, sir, me and my mate will run the trip t!o•night." . . "You!" exclaimed the superinten dent; "you can' ou're knocked up." "Not a bit of lt, sir," replied the dri ver. " Anyhow, sir, I can do more with Kaffir' than he can, and I'll never have such an engine drove by him, if I can help IL" And out of devotion to his great, ult. gainly goods engine, the driver, instead of going to bed, choose to pass another night without sleep, and to run over another six or seven score miles of rail. Sometimes the feeling will manifest itse fin a still stranger manner. An ex cellent plan is adopted on railways of taking the pressure off old boilers,— that is, when an engine has run a cer tain number of miles, ..dthough no symptoms of weakness may appear, yet as wear must have been going on, the pressure at which the steam blows off is reduced from, Bay, one hundred and twenty pounds to one hundred or per haps eighty pounds to the square inch, by which, of course, the bursting of the boiler is rendered more improbable. It may be noticed here that so great an improvement in quality of fuel and completeness of combustion has during the last few years been effected, that an engine will run thirty or forty thousand more miles with the same set of tubes than would have worn it out some years back. Of course, when the pressure of steam is reduced, the power of the en gine is reduced In proportion, and I have known a driver, whose favorite engine was in the factory for repairs, wait upon the engineer and beg a%l pray, as the phrase goes, that authority to forego his intention of diminishing the pressure; being quite willing to risk his own life and that of his fireman rather than his Iron steed should:suffer in her reputation for speed and drawing power. Not, be it understood, that any engine has any reputation beyond her driver, and a very select few. It will be easily understood that engine•drivers are intensely profession al ; the ruling spirit, I have no doubt, is strong with them in death, though this, of course, I cannot easily prove. I know of one instance, however, where the engine, at some obstacle, leaped from the line when running at great speed on a high embankment. "It's all up, mate,' exclaimed the driver, "but hold on to the brake." His mate did so, while he held on to the regu lator. The engine and tender turned right over, and pitched with terrific •force into a meadow below. No one could ever account for the escape of the men, but beyond stunning each of them for a short time, and knocking out the whole of the driver's front teeth, no great harm was done. I really think, although I by no means urge the companies to relax the stringency of their rules on the point, and would certainly rather not travel by the train while the experiment was trying,that even a drunken driver would hardly make any mistake in his signals, and in support of this an odd illustra tion may be given. A driver, not on duty, had been drinking, and was, in company with his fireman, walking in the vicinity of the Edgeware Road, when he suddenly started violently, and seizing his mate's arm, shouted— " Hold hard, mate—hold hard I" " What's the matter?" cried the fire man. " Matter l" roared the driver, "why, you're running by the red light ;" and he pointed to the crimson glare which streamed through a glass bottle in a chemist's window. " Come along; that's nothing," said the fireman, trying to drag him on. " What, run by the red light, and go afore Dannel in the morning ?" retorted the driver, and no persuasion could or did get him to pass the shop. He was a Great Western man, and the " Daunel" whom he held in such whole some awe was the celebrated engineer, now Sir Daniel Gooch, and chairman of that line. He was then the locomo tive chief, and renowned above all other things for maintaining discipline among his staff; while they cherished a feeling for him very much akin to what we hear of the clannish enthusiasm of the ancient Scotch. The subject of the red lights reminds me of color-blindness. I have known one or two instances of men being pro nounced unfit for driving because of their inability to distinguish one color from another—in fact, from that singu lar defect of vision known as color blindness. I do not think, however, that this is quite an accurate way of de scribing this peculiarity; the men can see a difference in the colors when side by side, but, do what they will, they cannot remember which is the green and which the red light. Generally, nearly always indeed, this defect is re mediable to the degree needful for the calling by habit, and the gradually ac quired knowledge of the colors. Color blindness in a minor degree Is, I fancy, very common. The writer of these lines while deriving great pleasure from the combination of various hues, cannot, for the life of him, tell brown cloth from green ; and always fancies that grass, with the sun shining on it, is as red as anything he has ever been told is red. Dr. Cooper, the eminent physician and medical superintendent of a large rail way, in one of his elaborate reports states, "color blindness, which is hap pily rare—so much so, that many have doubted its existence—did not pre sent Itself in any of the candidates" —for the year. But partial color-blind ness is common enough, and d friend of mine has authenticated one very strange variety of it, in which the man saw every object by daylight of a uniform brown hue, but by artificial light he could distinguish every tint in its most delicate gradations. He was a skillful flower painter, but by gaslight only. Few things in railway arrangements equal in Importance the signal-lights. At a future day the lime-light, or some such potent illuminator, will be used, perhaps both for stationary and train signals, and then an additional safe guard will be secured. I need hardly say that, at present, science has not supplied us with a practical light of the intense brilliancy which can be shown. Its cost would scarcely be a bar, if it were certain in its permanence ; but, in deed, the cost would probably be less than under the present system. The better the light, the less the expense, if we are to take the experience of the Me tropolitan Railway as our guide. Every one must have admired the brilliancy of the gas-lights in the carriages upon that line, and contrasted it with the dull oil-lamps usually seen on railways; many of us, too, have indulged in a sneer at parsimony which adhered to the latter. But oil costs six times as much as gas. Before leaving this sub ject, I would recall, the name of Boccius to my middle-aged readers ; l i e was the pioneer of the inventors of intensely powerful lights, and I believe, spent a moderate fortune in his experiments. If we ever do use these powerful lights in common, it will be chiefly owing to him. I had supposed that he had made a fortune by his lamp, but inventors are au unfortunate class. I was sorry to find his eldest son, a young man of ex cellent character, a porter at one of our London railway stations, and I have heard him speak very sadly of the Boc tins lamp. As a rule, as is well known, engine drivers are a very hardy race. Indeed, few delicate constitutions can hope to survive the long and severe course by which only the cleaner or laborer can attain the position of driver. I was told some years back—for things are changed a great deal for the better on most lines now—by a man who used to run for a company which was encour aging a mineral traffic—a long way, by the by, from London—that he has several times, while on his journey, woke, and found his fireman asleep. The change lu the sound as the train ran through the station was sufficient to attract his practiced ear ,• but that he should have been knocked up was no miracle, as his down trip averaged sev enteen hours; and without more time to spare than was required to arrange the train, he had to come back the same journey. "you know Someof the men, RH Home of all classes will do, certainly abuse their flue con stitutions. I have known a man never dry or change his clothes, save on Sun days, all through winter; throw Lis soaked and dripping garments on a chair when he came in tired, and went to bed, and put the same articles on when he rose, though they clung to him with dam. Ho stood this, and lives still ; but for one who braves this danger with impunity, a host may sink. Consumption on our railways, as every• where else, claims its full proportion of victims. I have alluded to a driver's coolness and resolution in an accident, but no chronicle ever has or ever will be writ ten which will tell one tithe of the ac cidents which the courage and presence of mind of these men have averted. A railway ran over a, river,—indeed, it might be called an arm of the sea; as it was the inlet to an important harbor, provision was obliged to be made for the shipping, and so the pieqe of line which crossed the water, ate height of seventy feet, was, in fact, a bridge, which swung round when large vessels had to pass. I need hardly say that such a point was carefully guarded, At each end, at a fitting distance, a man was placed speci ally to indicate whether the Bridge was open or shut. One day, as the express was tearing along on its journey, the driver received the usual "all right" signal; but to his horror, on coming in full sight of the bridge, he found it wide open, and a gulf of fatal depth yawning before him. Plesounded his brake-whistle, that deep toned scream which signals the guard, and he and his fireman held on, as before de scribed, to the brake and regulator. The speed of the train was, of course, check ed ; but so short was the interval, so great had been the impetus, that it seemed almost impossible to prevent the whole train from going over into the chasm. Had the rails been in the least degree slippery, any of the brakes out of order, or the driver less deter mined, there would then have occurred the most fearful railroad accident ever known in England; but by dint of quick decision and cool courage, the danger was kaverted ; the train was brought to a stand still, when the buf fers of the engine absolutely and liter-- ally overhung the chasm. Three yards more, and a different result might have had to be chronicled. Some of my readers may remember an incident in railway history which dates back to our first great Exhibition. I mention 'there for its singularity, and for my having known the driver whose coolness.was so marked. In ascending a very long gradient, the hindmost car• riages of the train snapped their coup lings when at the top ; the engine rattled on with the remainder, while these ran down the slope, which was several miles in length, with a velocity which of course increased every moment. To make matters worse, the next train on the same line was comparatively close behind, and, in fact, shortly came in sight. The driver of this second train, a watchful and experienced hand, saw the carriages rushing toward him, and divined that they were on the same line. Ifhe continued steaming on, ofcourse, in a couple of minutes he would come into direct collision with them, while, on the other hand, if he ran back, the car riages would probably gather such way, that they would leap from the bank. So with great presence of mind, and wonderful Judgment of speed, he ran back at a pace not quite as fast as the carriages were approaching, so that eventually they overtook him, and struck his moving engine with a blow that was scarcely more preceptible than the Jar usually communicated by coupling on a fresh carriage. When this was done, all the rest was easy,; resumed his down journey, and pushed the frightened passengers safely before him until they reached their destina tion, where the officials, as may readily be supposed, were in a state of frantic despair at the loss of half the train. These anecdotes could be multiplied to almost any extent, as could the gloomy, yet strangely faScinating records to the men. It is a common saying that steam is a mighty power, yet very few of those who repeat the saying reflect for a moment how mighty it is. It is difficult to understand how tremendous is the force, until you have seen something of the mischief it can do. The best way to appreciate the might of steam is to look at a locomo tive engine after an explosion. The weight of a first-rate locomotive engine, with its tender, is between sixty and seventy tons, wnich simple fact speaks all that is necessary to be said as to its solidity and strength. It is always built of the very best materials; it may not have occured to the reader to observe that, when an inquest is held or any kind of inquiry instituted consequent upon an engine accident, it nevet hap pens that the fault arises from theengi ue having been constructed of bad or even inferior material. Nor, and this is very curious, does an engine ever explode when in motion; I have known many cases of explosion, and they have always been while the engine is at rest. In spite of the censures so often, be cause so easily, launched at railway directors and managers, I do sincerely believe that every exertion and device which ineenuity and experience can suggest, is used to prevent accidents, and to Insure the punctual working of trains. As railway carriages are very expensive things, and the cost of a first rate engine is more than three thous and pounds, it can easily be understood how a slight collision, even with goods trains, for instance, instance, which never even finds its way into print, may entail a really awful expense. This, however, Is going a little beyond my theme, relative to which, should any reader feel any curiosity, I should advise the cultivation of a little intimacy with some one of the many worthy fellows in the class of which I have written. Diamonds. It is an interesting fact to those con templating the purchase of diamonds that the price is steadily advancing; that It has already nearly doubled on that of ten years ago, and is expected to go much higher. This rapid increase iu value has taken place without any reference to paper money, diamonds being always reckoned by a gold stan dard. The reason is to be found partly in the falling off of production. Diamonds do not obey the usual com mercial law of demand and supply ; on the contrary the greater the demand the less grows the supply. No new mines have been discovered and none are likely to be while the old ones are lazily worked by wealthy monopolies and subject to all sorts of government re strictions. It Is not true, however, that the scar- city has caused the introduction of spurious stones into the market, simply because it is impossible. A real diamond cannot be imitated, and a false oue can be detected us fur as it can be seen by a person experienced in the handling of gems. The reputation of the large houses thatsell the majority of diamonds bought, is pledged to the quality of the stones, and a mistake would bedishonor. Moreover, there is nu demand for sham diamonds, so say the most respec table dealers ; they could not sell them at half price, or quarter price, or any price if they had them. When people want to buy such things they go to some " original " Jacobs or California diamond store, and know that they are buying cut quartz notwithstanding the tine names grafted upon it. Twenty-five years ago very few per -80118 wore roil diamonds now nearly everybody wears more or less, and the ambition to own a diamond ring or ear• rings is as common as the old fashioned desire for one good black silk dress. Young girls did not formerly wear diamonds at all, now they display them with all the indifference of dowagers, and anything less than a handsome diamond as an engagement ring would be looked at with contempt. This sing ular freak of fashion in selecting dia monds for engagement rings has alone created an Immense demand, which there is not the slightest prospect will be lessened until we all become Shakers, or what is equally probable, women re• sign their privileges to secure their rights. I'he size of the stones is Of the most Importance In determ i !Wig the relative value of diamonds; a stone weighing one carat, of fine quality, may be pur chased for two hundred and fifty dollars, while a magnificent stone welching ten carats, set as a ring, was valued the other day at nine thousand dollars. The size of such a gem as this makes it un ique. It is probably the largest stone in the United States. The most fash ionable method of setting diamonds now is in silver In quite the old fash ioned style, which is said to be after all the best and most effective for display• log their size and beauty. A large number of valuable diamonds have been lately reset in sliver. The same reasons which have oper ated to enhance the value of diamonds have led also, though, In a less degree to increase the price of emeralds. These are the only gems which, in a fashion. able point of view, rival diamonds. Pearls have greatly advanced in price within a few months, and it is expected will be very scarce and high for some time to come. The cause of this Is to be found in the greed for large pearls, which not only induces pearl fishermen to throw away the small and compare• Lively valuless specimens, but also kill and destroy so many young oysters as . _ to threaten the extinction of the entire traffic as a source of revenue. The government has, therefore, ordered the pearl fisheries to be abandoned for a space of three years, during which time pearls will constantly become more scarce and precious. Another Political Preacher Come to We learn from the Litchfield Sentinel that the Rev. W. H. Green, recently arrested in Utica, charged with poisoning his wife in West Cornwall, is now in jail in Litchfield. The Sentinel gives the following sketch of the fellow's operations. He went to Corn wall sometime last winter, calling himself a Methodist minister and a Union refugee from Texas, and made himself remarkable for loudmouthed patriotism. During the spring's campaign he took the political slump for the Radicals, denounced cop perheads in the most ultra style, and exaalted P. T. Barnum to the " seventh heaven." In short, he set himself up as a sort of chaplain to the "late" political showman. After election, his fond hopes blasted, be set up a small store in West Cornwall. His wife, who was feeble In health, died May 7. His conduct of late having excited suspicion, the body was disinterred by the authorities and the stomach sent to New Haven for anayisis. Green In the meantime had die• appeared, and the examination of the stomach having strengthened the suspicione against him, Deputy Sheriff Chauncy Bald win wax sent after him into New York State with a requisition from Governor English. We understood that Green had on his person, when arrested, a letter of recommendation from P. T. Barnum. He says he Is now married to a woman living in Utica.--New.Haven Register. George Francis Train drives a nail of truth in the following brief biographical sketch of his own liter " When I started out in life, travel was my idol; the world doubted. Then I tried knowledue; I got no praise. Then books; they ridiculed. Then languages; they sneered. Then patri otism ; they cheered first, then knocked me down In Boston, shot me at Dayton, bay oneted me at Davenport, arrested me in St. Louis, and tried to assassinate me in Alton. But in spite of this I have kept my inde pendence and individuality. I asked this world what It wanted; and 'am now de voting my time to that, simply out of con tempt for the opinion of men. No more softening of the brain, but hardening of the heart." Gen. Grant has ordered an investigation of the alleged flogging of n citizen by order of the military commander at Fort Sedg wick, NUMBER 27 glioctilantouo. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. A Declaration by the Representatives of the t lilted States of America, in Con gress Assembled, Adopted July 4,1776.. When In the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separatidE. We hold these truths to be self-evi dent—that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inherent and inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness. That, to se cure these rights, governments are in stituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the govern ed; that, whenever any form of gov ernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation 'on such principles, and organizing its pow ers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dic tate that governments Igng established should not be changecf:for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are moat disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing inva riably the same object,evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the ne cessity which constrains them to alter their lormer system of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be ob tained ; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. for thehas refused to pass other laws for the accotnodation of large districts of people, unless those people would re linquish the right of representation in the legislature—a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bo• dies at places unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative hous es repeatedly for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. Hehas refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elect• ed, whereby the legislative powers, in capable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exer cise : the State remaining exposed to all the dangers of invasions from with out, and convulsions from within. Hs has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that pu r• pose obstructing the laws for the natur alization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither; and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people and eat out their sub stance. lie has kept among us, in time of peace, standing armies, Without the con sent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military ndepeudent of, and superior to, the civil ,ower. Ho has combined with others to sub- Jett us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment forany murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states ; For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world ; For imposing taxes on us without our consent; For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by Jury; For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences ; For abolishing the free system of Eng liHli in the neighboring province establishing therein an arbitrary , gov ernment, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule Into these colonies; For taking away our charters, abolish ing our most valudble laws, and alter ing, fundamentally, the forms of our governments For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, an jewaging war against us. has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and de stroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries, to com plete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circum stances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citi zens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to be come the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and con ditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in our at tention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to ex tend au unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. Wo have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these uiliorpations, which would inevi tably Ihterrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of con sanguinity. We must, therefore, ao. quiesce in the necessity which de nounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the restof mankind—enemies in war—in peace, friends. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in gen eral Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly pub- Jl* ow Atm='ixie. Einfrezes dwisarrnregeneng; en Tear per square of ten lines; /8 per year for each ad ditional square. Rear. ESTATE, Pligusoxi - nPacinterr,and dee- SALL A.DVilerißlarGi, 10 cents a line for the first, and 5 cents for - each subsequent Mier tion. - • Spinner. Earrois inserted in Local Column, 15 cents per line. SPECIAL Noncom preceding marriages and deaths, 10 cents per line for first insertion, and 5 cents for every subsequent insertiond Etratresse Gum" of ten linee or less, . 10 Business Car: one 6,11va lines or less, Ole LlGhti. AND 0 :. 1 7 11r EtNOTICES — Executors' ,otices— ...—.-....-.... 2.60 Administrators' 2.60 Assignees' notices, 150 Auditors' notices, —... 2.00 Other " Notices," ten lines, or leas, three times —... 140 lish and declare that these united cola nies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved, and that as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, con tract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which in dependent States may df right do. And fof the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine. Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our for tunes and our sacred honor. egal 3otirto. EsTATE oir DANIEL 111.1i1M, LATE OF Drumore township, deceased .— Letters of administration on said estate having been granted to the undersigned, all persons Ind bt ed thereto are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims or detna , ds against the Halite will present them (or settle ment to the undersigned, residing In said township. DAVID McKIM, Jo 12 titw• Administrator. AD T R • NOTICE.---ESTATE OF John Sheatrer, tato of the City of Lamm ter, deceased.—The undersigned Auditor pointed to distribute the balance remaining In the handaofJestah H.:Sheaffer and David Hoch stetter, Adtnlnlstratora of said deceased, to and among thugs legally entitled to the same, will attend for that purpose ON SATURDAY, THE TII I RD DAY OF 4% LIU Mil', at le o'clock, A. M., in the Library Room of the Court House, In the City of Lancaster, where all persona In terested In said distribution may attend. H. 13. SWAIhR, Auditor. Ref 21 IUDITOR'N NOTICE.—ENTATEOF Michael Ulrich, late of Ephrata tap., ,o'd.—The undersigned Auditor. app.dnted to distribute the balance remaining in the hands 01 Isaac Truitt, Trustee, appointed by the Or phans' Court to Noll the real estate of said do ceased, to and among those legally entitled to the !IRMO, will attend for that purpose on FRIDAY, the Uth day of AUU UtiT. A. D., 1807, at 2 o'clock, P. M., In the Library Room of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, where all persons Interco ed In said distribution may attend. D. G. DO:ILE:MAN, Auditor. Lancaster, June in, IStr7. (Jy 3 Itw2d ESTATE OF JOHN INODEIMELL, late of Wilmot.° Lwp., deceased,—Letters estamentary on Kalil estate having beau granted to the underslgu. d : All persons In debted thereto are requested to make Immedi ate payment, and those having u Minix or Mi. mantis against the Kum) Neil , present them for settlement to the undersigned, residing in cold township. H. E. RAUH, Jy 3 Utw2ll) Executor. AU D ITO It •Pi NOTICE.—ESTATE OF Elizabeth Kunkel. late of Elan twp., Lancaster county, dec'd —The undersigned Auditors, appointed to distribute the balance remaining In the hands of MILIIIIIOI Hlokum, Aorninist rat or or deceatted, to and atom those legally entitled to the same, will attend or that purpot.e on FRIDAY, A LID UST 11th, at id o'clock, A. M., In the Library Room of the Cour. House, in the City of Lancaster, where all persons Interested In said distribution may attend. 11. ii. s RR, J. W. JOHN,ON, U. W. HENSEL Jy 3 -Itw23) (Expretis copy) Aud'ltorn ADM I N INTRA TOR•M NOTICE.-ES'T'ATE of John Arndt, Into of the Borough of Manhelm, Laue,tster county, dee'd.—Letters of acanlnktratton on multi estate heeling been granted to the undersigned: All persons In debted thereto itre requested to make lintnedl- Me settlement, end those having elation or de [MUMS IIgIIIIIML the FIIIIIO, WII pri , mtillt them Without delay for nil It a•. the under signed, residing ha said beroug.t. tt RYAR UN l', N L% N WORLEY, Ad 111 In Ihtratoris J 3, 3 IILN% a) pwrATE OF JOHN H. OFNILEL, DE. ceased, late of the City of Lancantor. Let, ten of AdministraLlon oil said estate having been grunted to the undersigned, all persons Indebted thereto, are requested to make Immo o late payment, and those having claims ngal eat the same, willpi e.ent them without delay for settlement to the undersigned, residing Junin(' citi. CHARLES K NAPP, Jo 26 lltwo 251 Admlnliarator. Peutistrg. M=INEI 1 ) I: N 'l' I S 1' Graduate of the ITalverelty of Ponucylvanla, and graduate of the Pento.ylvannt College of “ental Burgery. OFFICE UN Till Ito STREET, Third door west of fluteldwon's new Drug Store OXFORD, PENNA Teeth extract oil without pain by Nitrous Oxide Ws, Ether and Local Anesthesia. All dixenxex of the Teeth and Mouth successfully treated—much as Irregularities or children's Teeth ; tilling °readout+ Troth and preserving the natural organs ; Artificial Tooth inserted Irmo one to a full sot; all kinds of Tooth repair ed and remodeled to fit the mouth. Permout4 having difficult tooth and roan to extract are Invited to call. All operiiLlonii In the dental profeloilon per formed In the bunt manner, and warranted to give mall-Motion. Juno 6 ifw 28 D R. J. B. Met:MIKE Y, • HURUEON DENTIHT, Contlnuom tho pi flatlet) of lIIN protowlon 011 lea 111 I.:AIiT KIN() MTRICKT, :war OICNTIII4 1.141/AIM, and OM' LllO F/11/ir NATIONAL 11ANU, Lan. actor. lu In Operative Denthitry ho yloldx the palm to none, in Um particular department or A wricICIA WORK., lie ehallermea tho profeN- Mon—whether for artielle lhtlxlt awl Nutaftan tial exceilunoo of woricltianship natural in pearico of Looth,portect adaptation of pleflo to the mouth, or the xnodurato character of hlx charges. TEETit EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN NI it ROUN OXIDE GAS. Raving Just put up one of BARKER'S GAS OMETERs of largest size, manufactured by Subenearne & Stockton, with all the latest im provements, he invites the attention of all parties Interested, believing It to be the only first-class meter In Lancaster city or vicinity. By the useof thisappuratum the gas is obtained lu absolute purity; and It I. adminhe °red di rectly from the meter, through a flexible tube, a about LllO Intervention of gas bag or any other cumbersome piece of apparatus. The patient sits down, takes the polished mouth piece, breathes deeply end deliberately of the sweet-tested gas, passes rapidly under Its ex hileratiog Influence, end In a few moments Is ready for the painless operatkm. ILK Inhalation Is much more pleasant than that of t , tiler or Chlo , ofOrm, and Its influence passes otralmost Instantaneously. No one need Motor dread the operation of extracting decayed teeth, SetinnuLa OF CHART/EN: Artificial Teeth on Gold plat-, full set, SIQ 0; Full upper set,810.00; Silver plate or Vulcanized Rubber, full set, 840; Full upper set, 5.0. Charges proportionately lower or partial sets on gold or sliver. Gold fillings. $l.OO to ell 00; Silver fillings, rik, to 81.00; Cleansind Teeth, 81.00; Extracting Teeth, oilol2, 20c., or with Nitrous uxide Gas, 81 On for first tooth audit/ti, awls for each additional tooth, which latter charge Is A REDUCTION OF 60 PER CENT. upon the charges heretofore made In this city. A further liberal reduction upon these last named rates when artificial teeth are to be In serted. ohtisfaetlon le guaranteed In all cages, and al/ work (3 warranted. HlB patrons may there fore rely upon obtaining the beat of work at the very lowest rates, Sip - cut thls out, Mardtvare, storeo, G. M. STEINMAN. O.Y. ItENGIELL ISAAC DILLILIC HARDWARE: THE OLDEST AND LARGEST ESTABLISH' MENT IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. GEO. M. STEINMAIV & CO., WEST KING STREET, Having recently enlarged their store and thus greatly increased their business facilities, now offer to the community, AT THE LOWEST PHILADELPHIA RATES, the finest assortment In the market, of II A BD W A RE SADDLERY PAINTS, GLANS kYkOVES IRON AND STEEL, CEDAR WARE su.uoh•BELLS, CCTLLRY, OIL CLOTHS, SKATES, &a PERSONS COMMENCING HOUSEKEEPING will find a full assortment of goods lu thol2 lino. - -• They are also agents for a suporior article NAILS, and for DUPONT'S CELEBRATED GUN AND ROCK POWDER WThe lilgoost emill prico paid for (Mover) Timothy. and old Flax Seed. idea 31 tftlam ganking ougiegi. BANKING HOUSE OF Evans, McEvoy do Co., No, 16 EAST KING ST., LANCASTER, PA. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSIT. Dealers In Government Securities. STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COHMD3- SION. DRAFTS ON ALL TITS PRINCIPAL DITIFAL sir Collections promptly attended to. HENRY CARPENTER. SAM. H. NayNnix4. taw RonT. A. EVANS, PATRICK idoi.vor, feb 18 THE UNDERSIGNED REOIST. MI IN Bankruptcy In and for the Ninth Coogres- Loom District of Pennsylvania, (composed of the county of Lanoester,) Is prepared to attend to the dut ies of that office at hi place of busi ness In South Queen street, on the east side three doors from Centre Square In the oily of Lancaster. A. BLAYMAKER, j • 10 atdAttw &Mita In Hazikruptoy, IJe 6 Omw Z 1
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