pt punter pteutgattr, EITELISIE6 EVERY WEDNESDAY DT G. SMITU Co 11. G. SMITE A. J. STEINMAN TERMS—Tiro Dalian per annum, payable in all CAWS In advance. TIIC LANCASTER DAILY INTELIJONSCER. IS published every evening, Sunday excepted, at $5 per Annum in advance. OFFICIE-SOUTIINVEST CORNER or CENTRE AQUABE. glioteliantotto. The Jenlone Father. " liatonah," shouted the brakeman, opening the car door as the train passed before a splendid little station on the llarlem Railroad. I do not know as I should have par ticularly noticed that we stopped at all, for I had been napping for some miles ; but just as I was casting an inquiring, sleepy look out of the window, and set ting myself for another siesta, my at• tendon was attracted by the entrance of a young lady, a way passenger, who perceiving the car was well filled, paus ed before me in evident embarrass ment. I scarcely wish the render to Infer from this that there were no vacant seats; on the contrary, the chair I oc, copied was selfishly monopolized by my shawl and valise, which had excluded many an occupant, and so the moment I observed the car door open I mental ly resolved not to budge an inch ; but one glance at the new corner changed my mind. She was a young lady of exceeding beauty, dressed in the rich and tasty style of the present fashion. Whether it was the genteel aspect or the soft melancholy of her dark Impressive eyes I cannot say, b t when she ventured almost timid) to inquire if the half scat at my 'Ae was engaged, I gal lantly ro and proffered it to her at once. I Must acknowledge I felt some what flattered by her preference, for, though a young man, and tolerably good looking, I had the sense to per ceive that there were far better looking 10011 around, who like me, might have shared their chair with the handsome lady stranger. I fancied they envied me too, as the fair girl sat plump down and her dainty form nestled close by my side. " f fear I have disturbed you," said my companion in a low sweet voice that thrilled me with its soft cadence. "Not all Miss," I rejoined with stereotyped politeness. "1 am happy to oblige you ?" She bowed and smiled in reply, and a short pause ensued, as is usual upon such sudden acquaintanceship. in the mean time the train has started, and we rattled swiftly through the ileitis and woods, now decked in the lively tint of spring. The conductor came in and went through his customary routine of ex amining the tickets. I perceived hers was marked for New York and after some hesitation I . said : " You go to the city " Yes," she replied with a smile of winning candor; " that I presume you have already found." " I shall keep you company then," I observed pleasantly. " Thank you, sir " There was a slight dignity, I thought, in hid• tone which repelled further fa miliarity; so, as I art a very modest mart, I drew back and said no.thing further. Ou rushed the steam horse upon its iron railway. One more sta tion has been passed, and I was fast re lapsing into my former apathy when my lady friend to my surprise, leaned toward me and whispered, " I run very timid on the cars." " Indeed," said I quite charmed with her abruptness. " You surely are well accustomed to travelling " Perfectly," she replied with some nonchalance; "but that is not It ex actly. There are so many dreadful ac cidents on the railroad." " Dreadful indeed!" echoed I. "And," added my companion with naivete, " IL is unpleasant to travel un attended. I usually have my brother Charlie with me. lie is a splendid escort." "If you will allow me," said I quite gallantly, "I will gladly occupy that position." "i am much obliged to you, sir," re plied the young lady, with a grateful glance from her dark orbs, "yet I am half frightened to think I am accepting the escort-of a stranger; not that I. fear you, sir-, but, alas! I have a jealous father." "A jeal,s fa ter!" I repeated, some what puzzle nd surprised. "Alt yes " sighed the young lady. "ft is n misfortune while having wealth, 1 .alth and almost everything that the heart can wish, to be under the control of a tyrannical old step-father ,who treats nie oft' mes in the most cruel manner, debars me from the society of our sex, shuts me up in the gloom of my chamber, and treats the with piti less rigor if I do as much he to speak to or look at a man." "What a monster !" I ejaculated with t face of melodramatic sympathy. " That is the reason," she continued, looking around her half-fearfully as she spoke, " that is toe reason why I am so diffident about entrusting myself to your (!are, but' l l did iL on the one condi tion." " Name it," I re,j , dn,O, charmed and delighted with the sitange confidence the young lady was reposing in me. " That you leave me the Instant the cars reach New York." I was so bewitched by the beauty and charming insouciance of my quon dam friend that I readily gave the re quired pledge. Apparently quits re lieved the young lady threw aside all reserve, and talked and chatted with me in the most pleasant manner possible. It is needless to say that iu an hour's time I had so far advauwd in her good graces as to venture to press her hand, and the sweet half coquettish smile that played around the cornersof her cherry lips did not seem to disapprove of the liberty I had taken. "Do you know," said she, as we sat chatting confidently together, "that 1 liked your face the first-time I saw it.' "It was sympathetic on both sides, then," I wnispered, drawing her so near that I could feel her hot breath an my cheek. " Yes, she murmured gently with drawing herself from my glowing em brace, for we hail passed through the tunnel, and I had taken a lover's ad vantage snatched a hasty kiss. • " You are a naughty man—the naughtiest man I ever saw," she said in a low and tremulous tone. "If pa should be on the train, what would he say to such proceedings?" ' Never, sweet creature," I rejoined earnestly, "your cross old father is miles away, and so let us improve the present opportunity." "Are you aware," she observed half mischieviously, " that there is another tunnel beyond, a great deal darker too than the one we have left?" " I know it," said I, with a tender glance at my fair enslaver. "We are drawing near it very fast." Once more I placed my arm around the waist of the lady, and wrapped up in the gloo.n of the tunnel, took sweet pledges from her lips. It was very gratifying tp my vanity. All good looking men are vain you know. I perceived that my lovely companion clung more anctiollately . to me than before; indeed I bad scarcely time to tear myself from her arms when we emerged once more into broad daylight. She had let her veil drop over her face, but 1 could detect the crimson flush through the fine net work of lace.— Her voice betrayed much agitation as she whispered: "I have gone too far with you, sir; alas! you have ceased to respect me." " My sweet charmer," I replied, " let us ever be friends. Give me your name and address." "My name and address," she respond ed " you must never kuow. I already feel frightened to think how far I have permitted myself to venture with a stranger. Forgive and forget me." • "A flirt—a coquette!" "No, no," she returned hurriedly, pressing my hand ; " I am not a flirt, but I dare not—as much as I think of you—let the acquaintance proceed fur ther. Have pity on me—have pity l" She looked so pleadingly, so entreat ingly, with those dark, soft eyes gleam ink through the silken meshes of her veil, that I could not persuade myself to be offended with her. , At•last she reluctantly consented to give her name, and handing me a prettily embossed card, I read, "Kate Darrel, No. University Place." The train had reached Thirty-second St., and I could see that My fair inamo rata grew every moment more restless and disturbed. First her head peered out of the window, and then she would half rise and Cast hurried and fearful glances behind. ,Already I was beginriing to share tlie uncomfortable feeling of my companion as visions of angry papa flourishing a cane over my head rose vividly before - 7 --7---. - ' . .. . . '.. . . . .. . ' .. ~ ... . - .. ' .. :.. • , .. i) e : . . . .:,i : , .-: . 1 :. ,j t ' . .; I: ~ :. le . f•• ' ) I I, I - , . . ~J ' ' . . ... . . , . i • , '..ft . . .. , , .. , . . VOLUME 69 my mind's eye, when suddenly Miss Darrel uttered an exclamation, rose from her seat, and unceremoniously darts l A , from the car. I w ndered at the ease and dexterity with hich she descended, though the car as propelled quite rapidly by horse power, but my wonder and surprise was destined to be considerably Increased, when, a few minutes afterward, a thick set, stern looking gentleman entered from the side, his eye inquisitively scanning the faceof each lady passenger. "Halloo!" said he rather gruffly pausing before me, "has a 'young lady been occupying that seat?" "Yes, sir," I replied somewhat dis concerted and c&te abashed. "Light jockey, maroon-colorid silk and gray travelling cloak ?" pursued he interrogatively. "I believe that was her costume," I replied sulkily. By God, she's given me the slip again," cried the gentleman, slapping his breeches pocket with much em phasis. "Given yOu the Blip," I repeated, a sudden and awful light breaking upon me. "Yes, the jade is as sharp as a noble." "Pray, sir," said I, with a slight sen sation of suffocation, "may I be so bold as to inquire if you are the father of that young lady?" "Father, the devil! No, sir, I am a detective," "Then," said I with desperate calm• nese, " who is this young lady?" " Bless my soul, she is Nancy Dacors, the fashionable pickpocket. By gad, sir, has she been s laying her points on you?" The detective grinned, and the pas sengers, gradually comprehendlug the "situation," smiled provokingly. I did not reply; the intelligence was stun• [ling and mortifying iu the highest de gree. So my beautiful companion was nothing more than a member of the "swell mob," and I, while flattering myself upon having made a conquest, In reality had been the victim of a cun ning and designing deceiver; and well had she duped me, for even while I was snatching those dear-bought kisses she had dexterously relieved me of my watch and purse, and it may be readily believed that my adventure was not without Its moral, or that I was there after quite as eager for a Ilmi.,RoAh FLIRTATION. John Wesley Painted. Blackwood's Magazine, which repre sents political and ecclesiastical Tory ism, is sending out some admirably written and even brilliant sketches of men, women, social life and manners, as they appeared in England during the reign of George 11. The writer is as familiar with his topics as Parton with his, and his style is more finished and not less taking,—perhaps his esti mates are just about as fair. Here are a few extracts from his paper chiefly devoted to Wesley and Methodism : It is scarcely necessary to our purpose to trace the after details of a life which was no life at all in the ordinary sense of the word, but only a mere string of preachings, journeys, narratives of in teresting cases, and awakening meet ings. His journals bear a good deal of - resmblance to the note-book of a phy siclah- wild records of agitation and excitementsubdued, if not by the laying on of his hands, at least by the prayers poured forth over the writhing patient: sometimes broken by gleams of miracle —actual diseases healed and devils put to flight—sermons preached in the field and churchyard, on his father's tomb by Epworth Church, where he was refused admittance to the communion—everywhere—where men could be got together to listen—fill up the curious, monotonous, wonderful narrative. He rode all over the country —in the course of his life, it is said, "above a hundred thousand miles"—for the most part leaving the reins on his horse's neck and reading whilst he rode, blocking out the too ready en trance of thought in a way which it is perhaps good for a man to do when he has found his work in the world and has no more time left in which to assail and defend his own purpose or being. "In seventy years I never lost one night's sleep," he was able to say at the close of his life. After the troublous morn ing, with all its delusive storms and lights, a severe much-occupied exist ence, full of a great work, and of that power which was the passion of his soul, fell to his share. Outside, trouble surrounded him by times ; more than once he was seized upon by a mob, whom he confronted with the cool cour age which seldom fails in such an emergency, and which naturally, after a short interval, changed his pursuers into champions and protectors. He had the care of the Church upon his head, out no personal cares to speak' of. He married in middle age, for no par ticular reason, it would appear.— Charles Wesley had married, and Whitelield had married, and tue Re former seems to have thought it was in consistentwith his dignitythat he should appear incapable of forming the same tie. His wife was a thorn in his flesh, persecuting him with (of all things in the world) her jealousy of the female correspondents, who are the invariable solace of such a man. He had bargained with her that he was not to preach a sermon or travel a mile the less for their union; and probably Mrs. Wesley did not see much. good of a husband who was always abroad in the world, jogging all over England and oven Scotland, no companion or help to her. The foolish woman did what she could to make his life a burden to him for twenty years, and then withdrew finally, for no better reason than had dictated her former vagaries. No doubt his placid life was ruffled by this disturbance, but there is no appearance 'that any profound love existed in him to give a sting to the irritation. He would seem to have had no passions to wear him out; his deepest emotions could be brought before the brethren to be talked over and settled. His natural heat of temper softened down as soon as he came to have things his own way —a pleasant manner of subduing that weakness. His intolerance was only shown towards those who troubled him with their difference of opinion. In short he was not a man of dogmatic genius, or commissioned to impress new opinions on his race. His busi ness was to convince the country It had a soul, and to drive it with violence, if necessary, by any means that man may use, to save that soul alive. He was trained for this work by the trouble he had about his own, "making" it, as the Irish say, in the first half of his exist ence, and with natural heat insisting that everybody around him should join in the operation. His own spiritual his tory Is the chart by which he guided the great ship of which he was made pilot. In the early part of his life heinsisted that every man should be an ascetic; in the latter, that every man should be con verted by a conscious movement of Heaven, illumination from the Holy Ghost. His determination and tenacity prevailed when a lighter purpose would have come to nothing. To have brought together and constituted such a com munity as that of the Methodists, is almost as great a work, taken in a merely external and political point of view, as that of founding a kingdom, and in right royal guise he organized and leg islated for his spiritual empire. A Clerical Anecdote. The Rev. Samuel Clawson a Metho dist preacher of eccentric manners, sometimes called the wild man, was very popular in Western Virginia, some twenty years ago. He was cross-eyed and wiry made, and very dark-skinned for a white man. At times he was sur prisingly _eloquent, always excitable, and occasionally extravagant. He once accompanied a brother minister, Rev. Mr. R., a prominent pastor, in a visit to a colored church. Mr. R., gave the colored preacher the hint, and of course Clawson was invited to preach. He did so, and during the sermon set the im pulsive Africans to shouting all over the house. This, in turn, set Clawson to extravagant words and actions, and he leaped out of the pulpit like a deer, and began to take the hands of the col ot edbrethren,and .1311. X in quite happily. He wept forjoy. Then, pressing through the crowd, he found brother R., and, sitting down beside him, he.threw his aim around his neck, and with tears streaming down his cheeks, he said: "Brother R., I almost wish I had been born a negro. These - folks have more religion than we have." "Well, well," said brother R. "you come so near it that you needn't cry about it l" An old gentleman in Nashville, pitched hie son out of the 'window the other night, while suffering from nightmare. Isabella 11. of Spain BY JAMES YARTCqi Unhappy Spain! It had been cursed for nearly two centuries by a royalfain ily which has united the pride and lan guor of all Spaniards, with the obstinacy and ignorance of theßourbons: Isabella 11., the tawdry, idle, sensual woman just driven from the throne of Spain, fitly ends a dynasty which has never contributed to the throne a respectable individual. Her full name was . lifarie Louise Isa bel, and she was born in 1840. Her father was that absurd, incompetent Ferdinand VII.; whom Napoleon de• prived of his orown in order to place It upon the head of Joseph Bonaparte.— This Ferdinand, as the reader may re member, was so infatuated by Napoleon that he sent from his French prison, " his sincere compliments to the Em peror upon the installation of his well belovea brother upon the throne of Spain." Nay, more' the dethroned monarch wrote to Joselph soliciting the " honor of his friendship," and asking to be decorated with the grand cordon of his order. At the same, ime, he sent him proclamations, signed by his own hand, calling upon his late subjects to submit to their new sovereign. At the chatteau assigned him by Napoleon, he celebrated the victories of that conquer er by fireworks and illuminations, and especially did he thus celebrate the vic tories gained by Napoleon over the Spanish. Having asked in vain the hand of an Imperial Princes in mar riage, hestooped to write to one of Na poleon's Senators words like these: " That which occupies me at present is the ardent and cherished desire of my heart to become the adopted son ochis majesty the Emperor, our august sov ereign." After degrading himself and his coun try thus, he was allowed, upon the set tlement of European affairs, to return to Spain, and reascend the throne.— Then, with his usual weakness, he fell into the hands of bad advisers who caused him to revive the Inquisition, and return to the system of absolute government. There never was a worse king. He would have ruined Spain, if Spain had not existed in a state of ruin for a hundred years. He was one of those bad, weak monarchs who are as ungrateful to their friends as they are to their enemies. One day, loyal volun teers came to salute him, he said to the attendant court:ers : "These are the same dogs, with dif ere nt collars." Three times this royal fool had been married: but each of his wives in suc cession had died, without leaving an heir to the throne. In 1820, he married a daughter of the Icing of Naples, who a year after gave birth to Isabella, the subject of this article. She came of bad blood on both sides ; for it is difficult to say which royal family was the more detestable, that of Naples or of Spain. Ruled by his new wife (for it was a necessity of his nature to be ruled by somebody) the king now promulgated an edict which was the cause of lasting calamities. For a hundred and fifty years the Salle law had been in force in Spain, which excludes females from the throne. According to this law, and ac• cording to public expectation, Dun Car los, the king's brother, was the heir presumptive, and the new born infant was excluded. Ferdinand's young wife, however, three days after the birth of Isabella, prevailed upon him to issue a decree which annulled the Salic law, and reestablished the right of females to inherit the crown. Soon after to appease the anger of his brother Carlos, he rescinded the decree. A little later,overcome by the reproaches of his wife and his wife'sTamily, he reestablished it. Soon after this second promulgation, the poor weak king died, leaving to his daughter, aged two years and eleven mouths, a disputed succes sion, and to Spain a civil war. The queen mother was appointed Regent of the kingdom. To ingratiate herself with the people, she granted a liberal constitution. The Cortes, soon after, formerly accepted her daughter as Queen of Spain, and, as formally, rejected the claim of Don Car los. That prince, however, at the head of a formidable party, maintained the contest for seven years, during which some of the fairest provinces of Spain were devastated by fire and sword. In August, 1830, the forces of Don' Carlos were finally defeated by Espartero, and the Prince himself sought refuge in France. He subsequently retired to Austria, where he lived for many years, and where, I think, he is living still, a quiet harmless old man of eighty. During the minority of Isabella, the history of Spain consists only of the struggles of rival politiciane,and partial, fruitless revolts. In Spain, as every when else on earth, there was a liberal party and a conservative party, both contending for the possession of the government. Sometimes the tories tri umphed. Then an insurrection would give a brief ascendency to the liberal party. Ministries were formed, only to be dissolved. The mother of the young Queen became, at length, so odious, that she was compelled to seek safety in France, and on her return shegave her self up completely to the conservatives, and placed the whole of Spain under military law. Meanwhile, the Cortes declared the young Queen, when she was not yet fourteen years of age, to have attained her majority. At sixteen, Isabella 11. was a robust, rosy and handsome girl, distinguished for nothing, except, perhaps, an unusual love of pleasure and decoration. The question of her marriage agitated Europe. England offered Prince Leop old of Coburg; Russia recommended a son of that Don Carlos who had fought seven years for her throne ; Louis Phil- Ilpe of France was in favor of her cousin, Francis, Duke of Cadiz, the son of her father's brother; and other powers favored the pretensions of a Prince of Sicily. The crafty politics of Louis Phillips carried the day, and she mar ried her cousin when she was not quite seventeen. At the same time the Due de Montpensier, a eon of the king of the French, married the Queen's sister. Her reign has been a continuous scandal. Indolent, luxurious, and vain, she has not even had the grace to set an example of common decency to her sub jects. Lover has succeeded lover ; so that, although she has had several chil dren, two of whom are living, the Span lards do not believe that she has pre sented them with a legitimate heir to the throne. Absorbed in pleasure, it was only with the greatest reluctance that she attended to the most necessary business of the kingdom. She rose about ten, and passing to her boudoir, occupied herself with gossip, games and the toilet until dinner time, which in Spain is earlier than with us. After dinner it was her custom to repair to the garden where she frequently spent some hours in dancing and other amusements. In the evening, assuming an attire more magnificent, she went to the theatre; and on her return, proceeded to her music room, where she occupied herself with music until two in the morning, when she took a supper and wentto bed. If ministers came to the palace on pub lic business, she almost always kept them waiting a considerable time, and frequently sent them away without having seen them. Every decent human being in Spain looked upon the scandals of the palace with disgust, contempt and shame; remembering that there was once upon the throne an Isabella of more than spotless fame. The Spaniards, with all their faults, have great pride of character and country. The men, as a rule, are honorable, the women as a rule, are chaste. The spectacle of a fat and sen sual woman, loaded with the hereditary jewels of the Spanish crown, living such a life as Catharine of Russia lived, but without possessing *a spark of Catha rine's talent or patriotism, became at length intolerable. Seldom has a revolution taken plade with so little violence. Thespirit of re volt appears tolhave pervaded the whole kngdom, and to have animated every breast. When a party of dragoons ap-• peared to clear the public square of Madrid, the people hung around their horses' necks, and begged the soldiers to take sides with their country. When the troops hesitated the' people sur rounded.them and kept them from ad- Ivancint by their weight and number. In a few minutes the • officer in com mand waved his capln •token that the soldiers had joined the people. The animosity of the multitude appeared to be directed against the persons. and character of the odious Queen and her I contemptible husband. The busts, and inscriptions, bearing the name of the Queen, or the Royai Arms, were taken down everywhere, and trodden in the LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 9 1868 dust! but, with the exception of such harmless violence as this, the behavior of the people was excellent. Spain then, has shaken off the incu bus which condemned her as the by word of Europe, the bulwark of bigotry add reaction. It remains to be seen whether there is wisdom and virtue enough in the country to form and sup port a constitutional government and bring up laggard Spain nearer the van of progressive nations. As to the de throned Queen, she took care, it is said, to accumulate enormous private wealth, a small portion of which will suffice to maintain her, in her exile, in a style superior to that enjoyed by most women of htek class. The Prophet's Tomb. Mohammed the Prophet of Allah, lies burled In the city of El Medinah, and all the world of Islam goes up to his tomb. About this tomb there hangs a great deal of mystery. The vulgar story of the suspended coffin, has long •been exploded, and the question now seems to be, whether there is any tomb at all? Lieut. Burton, who recently made a pilgrimage to the holy cities, in the disguise of an Afghan Dervish, fur nishes the most reliable information upon this point. We learn from his narrative that, although thousands go yearly to El Medinah to see the tomb of the Prophet, yet no one ever saw it. In one corner of the grand mosque of that city is a chamber supposed to be entirely walled up with stone or plank ing, inside of which the pilgrim is told, are the tombs of Mohammed and the first two calips, Abubeker and Omar. But this walled chamber is surrounded, outside, with a curtain, somewhat like a four•post bed. No one is permitted to look behind the curtain, except the eunuchs who at times replace it with a new one, and they say that a supernatu rallightsurrounds the tombs that would strike with blindness any one that would have the temerity to approach it. This story is now universally believed among Moslems. Outside of the curtain, leaving a nar row space between, is an iron filagree railing, which serves to keep the crowd from close contact with the tomb. After many prayers and prostrations the pilgrim is made to approach a small window in the railing through which he catches a glimpseof the curtain. The exact place of Mohammed's tomb is dis tinguished by a large pearl rosary, and a peculiar ornament suspended to the curtain, which the vulgar believe to be a " jewel of the jewels of Paradise." Lieut. Burton, however, says, to his eyes it resembledithe ground stoppers of glass, used for the humbler sort of de canters! Through the window in the railing the pilgrims are expected to throw their contributions, and the treas ures of place are kept in the narrow passage between the railing cur tain. The amount is said to be enor mous, which Lieutenant Burton doubts. No one Is permitted to enter this pas• sage except upon the payment of an extraordinary sum. What there really is behind the cur tain seems to be a matter of great doubt. The Moslem authorities are divided in opinion. Some say there is no wall be hind the curtain : others that it covers a square building of black stones in the interior of which is the tomb, while others say there are three deep graves, but no traces of tombs; and lastly, Lieut. Burton strongly suspects that the burial place of the Prophet is entirely unknown. Certainly the eunuch's story of the blinding light that surrounds the Prophet's tomb, looks like a priestly gloss to hide defects. Yet all the world of Islam goes up to pray at the Prophet's tomb, and mil lions believe that he now lies there with blooming face and bright eyes, and that blood would issue from his body if wounded, for no one dares to assert that the holy one Is suffered to undergo cor ruption.—Porllund Transcript. On Presidents and Religion. A New York correspondent of the Bostonpaper writes: The fact that Gen. Grant passed a Sabbath at West Point and did not at tend church, though the Post Chaplain officiated near' him, has been com mented on by the press generally. It is somewhat a singular fact that as far as it is known no President of the United States since the days of Washington has been a communicant in a chiirch. John Adams was the representative of the liberal community of his day. Jef ferson was styled a freethinker. An attempt was made when Jefferson was a young man to make the Episcopal Church the established religion of Vir ginia. John Leland, a traveling Bap• List minister, preached a sermon in the presence of Jefferson on what he called the " incestuous connection of the Church and State." This sermon con verted Jefferson to that doctrine. His persistent opposition to a State religion caused him to be stigmatized as an infi del. Mrs. Madison was a communicant at the Episcopal Church. Her husband was not. Monroe was a member of an Episcopal parish, but not a communi cant. John Quincy Adams, though a member of a Unitarian parish in Massa chusetts, held a pew in the Second Presbyterian Church in Washington, of which he was a trustee, and there he worshiped until his death. In a violent snow-storm I saw him wadingto church, one Sunday. with the snow up to his loins, and he was one of the seven per sons who composed the congregation that morning. He never communed in the church. General Jackson was a regular attendant on Sunday morning He worshiped in the Second Presbyter lan Church until his quarrel with the pastor about Mrs. Eaton. He then left for the 4 street Church, and took his Cabinet with him. He always came early and entered his pew, which was on the right side of the church as he entered. Earnest and devout attention he gave to the sermon. It was his cus tom, at the close of the sermon, to rise in his pew and make a very courteous bow to the minister, and then walkout , the audience waiting in their pews till he reached the vestibule. Van Buren's home church at Kinderhook was Re formed Dutch. At Washington, when he went to church, he attended St. John's (Episcopal) In the morning. Mrs. Polk was a devout and earnest Christian woman, belonging to the Presbyterian Oa urch. Mr. Polk accompanied his family everytiunday morning to the Four-and a-half•street Church. Mrs. Polk usually attended the Second Presbyterian Church in the afternoon, where she held a pew. The President seldom ac companied her at the second service.— General Taylor was not a professor of religion. When he attended church he sat in the President's pew at St. John's t President Pierce was a member of the Congregational Society in Concord, New Hampshire, but notof the church. He was very regular in his attendance at the Presbyterian church in Wash ington on the morning of each Sab bath. Buchanan attended the small Presbytdian Church on F street, near the White House. This was his rail gi us home during his long Senatorial life. He was no member. He came to worship usually on foot and unattened. His pew was on the side, about two thirds of the way from the door. He usually walked up•the aisle with a cat like step, went to the extreme end of the pew, curled himself up in the corner, and seldom moved till the service closed. He rarely spoke to any one, and hast ened from the church to the White House. Mrs. Lincoln was a communi cant at the New York avenue Presbyte rian church. Mr. Lincoln was not. But he was a regular attendant at worship. Johnson seems to have no religious home, but rather inclined to the Lu therans. General Grant is not a profes• sor of religion. He is a trustee of the National Methodist church at Washing ton, and is a frequent attendant on the preaching of that chuch. Stock Fowls Autumn is the time for selecting a stock for keeping over, as well aq,choice breed ing fowls of whatever variety we intend to try n)xt season. A correspondent of the Oluo Farmer says all old and need less fowls should be cleared out, to give the choicer, flock a better chance. It will prove a failure if too many are kept; better err on the other extreme. A small number always pays handsomely. Forty to sixty of a good kind in one 1. , will shorten the face and lengthen th pocket of the owner, if he does his part. Feed and fit them well in the fall, and prepare quarters for winter laying, for it is good pulley and much more satis factory to have hens lay bountifully when eggs bring the highest prices, returning their cost many fold, than to be a bill of expense, returning nothing in the common method among a major ity of farmers. Hester Taeighn-1 Plea roe7-11—er—er • , The case of Hester Vaughn, • the young woman now lying in MoYemen sing prison, at Philadelphia; under sentence of death for infanticidele ex citing much public attention. Onlast Thursday night a large aniinfluenitial meeting of ladies and ge lemen was held in the Hall of the Coop r Institute, convened under the auspices of the Workingwomen's Association to take such steps as may be deemed necessary to obtain the liberation of the unhappy young woman, Hester Vaughn, at present under sentence of death for in fanticide, in Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia. Among the audience were large num hers of young workingwomen, who doubtless felt the deepest sympathy for the young creature over whom so awful a fate impends. The platform was prin cipally occupied by ladies who have been conspicuous in the Woman's- Rights movement. Horace Greeley was appointed to pre side over the meeting and made a brief speech cautioning those present against any form of action which might seem Improper, or calculated to complicate the case of ft feeble and probably inno cent woman with the general course of legal justice. Mrs. Susan B. Anthony read a me morial to Governor Geary, praying that Hester Vaughn be granted a new trial, or in case that could not be had that she be unconditionally pardoned. She also rend a series of resolutions - - In opposition to Capital punishment, and demanding that women be tried by their peers—a jury of women. After which Mrs. Kirk stepped for ward and spoke as follows ; MRS. KIRK'S REPORT When, one week ago last evening, the motion was carried by the Work ingwomen's Association in regard to petitioning Gov. Geary for the pardon and release of thd unfortunate English girl now under sentence of death for in- fanticide, it was certainly with the ex pectation of arousing a large amount of public feeling in her behalf; but we were entirely unprepared for so sponta peons and enthusiastic a demonstration. Was there ever such a place as New York to do a good work in ? Is there a spot on earth where a popular heart can be reached as here To me there was always something strangely electrical in the moral atmosphere of New York City. Let injustice and abuse be once proven, and the electric current thrills and vibrates until with one grand out burst, as in the case of this friendless girl, justice is demanded. The par ticulars of this story, as first publicly stated on this platform not long ago by Miss Dickinson, touched many a heart; and when it was decided to send a com mittee to Philadelphia to learn from the girl's own lips the sad par ticulars, not only did the associa tion of workingworuen offer their means and time towards the fur- therance of the grand object, but the women of the whole country—excuse me, with the exception of Pennsylva nia, demanded an investigation of the case. On Thursday morning last Mrs. Dr. Lozier and myself, accompanied by Mr. Seward, knocked at the prison door of Moyamensing. The Hon. Mr. Chandler, former Minister to Italy, and now acting as Prison Inspector, in formed us that no visitors were admit ted on this day. " Sir," said we, "we have come from New York on purpose to see and converse with Hester Vaugh an." And then gave him our pass ports, which acted as a soporific upon his lordship Thank God, for great names ! They unlock the gates of trade to the deserving, unearth infamy nlni double-dealing, and waft, like a bre..ze from Araby the blest, joy and eni_ifurt to the poor prisoner. ' Now, I warn you to be careful," said Mr. Chandler, as he walked by our side, " this is the long corridor, Hester's mind has been very much agitated lately by the visits of a certain woman who has very foolishly and wickedly held out hopes of a pardon which can never be realized." We found afterwards that he referred to a Dr. Smith, a very suc cessful female practitioner in Philadel phia, and one of the noblest women I have ever met. For the last rive months she has been visitis.ll, Hester, and is the only woman in Philadelphia, during the long period of her incarceration, who has interested herself in the prisoner's behalf. Dr. Smith has been constant in season and out of season ; has laid the " facts" which she has from time to time gathered before the Gover nor, and kept the poor child from sink• log into utter despondency. Do not, I beseech, you, my friends, forget that there is one woman, at least, in Phila delphia, who loves her sex, and that one Dr. Smith. Imagine, if you please, a girlish figure ; a sweet, intelligent face ;. soft, brown eyes ; broad forehead ; warm, earnest mouth, and you have a slight idea of Hester Vaughn. Her story is quickly told. She was born in Glostershire, England ; well reared by respectable parents; married a man, a native of W ales, and came to this coun try full of hope and enthusiasm for the future. A few weeks, and Hester was deserted. Some other woman had a prior claim, it is supposed, and the scamp has never since been heard of. Then came the tug of war for Hester Vaughn, as for every other woman who, from what cause soever, finds herself compelled to fight the battle of life alone. Think of this young girl, a stranger in a strange land, with neither frjend nor relative to advise or comfort. For several weeks she lived out as ser vant in a family at Jenkintown ; was then recommended as dairy maid to another family, and here misfortune betel her. Overcome, not in a moment of weakness and passion, but by supe rior strength—brute force—Hester Vaughn fell a victim to lust and the gallows. That man also went his way. Three months after this terrible occur rence Hester removed to Philadelphia and hired a room there. She support ed herself by little odd jobs of work from different families, always giving the most perfect satisfaction. During one of the fiercest storms of last winter she was without food or fire or comfor table apparel. She had been ill and par tially unconscious for three days before her confinement, and a child was born to Hester Vaughn. Hours passed be fore she could drag herself to the door and cry out for assistance, and when she did it was to be dragged to prison where she now lies with the near pros pect of a halter. Is it not terrible that this victim of a man's craven lust should be thus foully dealt with while her seducer walks the earth free and unmolested? In this conviction let me say that no amount of coaxing or en treaty will induce Hester Vaughn to name the man who thus cruelly Wrcing ed her. Since that time he has married. "If he were alone," said Hester," I would ring his name through the whole country, but nothing will induce me to send terror and disgrace into the heart of an innocent trusting woman." Glo rious Hester Vaughn! True as steel to her own sex,r-"Dr. Lozier has informed you how shiecame to be accused of in fanticide. :This comes under the head of medical testimony, and as I am en tirely at sea on that subject I can only give as my belief from all that I saw and heard at Philadelphia, that Hester Vaughn is no more guilty of infanticide than I am, and I am right sure that I never killed a baby in my life. There is a quiet womanly dignity about Hes ter Vaughn which immediately enlisted our sympathies. As we entered the cell she stood a little one side, as if shrink ing from curiosity seekers, but notwith standing the advice of Mr. Chandler we managed in two minutes' time to make Hester feel that we were her friends, ready to assist her to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness if it 'could possibly be accomplished. The cell gave evidence of the most exquisite neatness and good taste, There was no evasion or circumlocution in her replies to our varied questionings. Truth beamed from every feature of her ex pressive face. She pointed to several hymns which gave hera great deal of comfort. Never shall I forget the expression of her beautiful eyes, heavy with their weight of unshed tears, as she repeated. 'While the billows o'er me roll and the tem pest still le high, Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly." and then, as if brought to new hope by the glorious sentiments, said—and here is another which I learned at home , at Sabbath School: ..God moves In a mysterious way HI: wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps In the , sea and rides upon the storm. We were with her nearly two hours, and were every moment more im pressed by her innocence and truthal ness. When we bade her good-by she said : "Lailles;l know you will do all .for me,tbat lies in your power, but my trust Must-be in God." It is said by Philadelphians that Hester Vaughn -was not. properly defended. Let me tell you about it, She had managed to save, by the strictest economy, $3O ; a grasping, avaricious lawyer, of Phila delphia, offered his services, and took from the poor child her last penny. During the long five months before her trial, this man never came to her cell, and the only conversation she ever bad with him was in open court. His name, my friends, Is Goforth, and..l propose that all such wretches go forth and return no more. (Applause.) I had a very pleasant interview with Judge Ludlow, the man vybo pronounced the sentence of death upon poor Hester. "I do not think her a bad woman naturally," said the Judge; "she has exc'ellent face, but there was no other course ,open for me but the broad course of condemnation ; she was, in the opin ion of the jury, guilty of the murder of her child, Miss Kirk," he continued, quite earnestly, "you have no idea how rapidly the crime of "infanticide" is increasing. Some woman must be made an example of. It is for the establish ment of a principle, ma'ma." Estab lishment of a principle indeed." I, sug gested to the Judge that he inaugu rated the good work by hanging few men, but strange to relate he, has not been able to see in that light. The very day that poor Hester was sen-, tensed to be hung by her neck until she was dead, Orford Alexander, a colored' man, was also sentenced for the murder of his wife. Hester, imprisoned for a man's diabolical lust, is so heinously guilty that she may not walk out on to the corridor near by the side of her cell, while Orford Alexander can work in the prison-yard, have the benefit of out-door air, and exercise, and more than this, 20,000 of the most respectable citizens of Pennsylvania have petition ed Governor Geary for the man's par don; and not one woman in Philadel phia, with the exception of Doctor Smith, has said a good word for Hester Vaughn. Mrs. Doctor Lozier said: "I freely corroborate all that has been said by Mrs. Kirke; as a physician I was cor dially invited to accompany her to Philadelphia, and had authority not only to question this poor woman in regard to her own condition, but also in regard to all that occurred. I judged for myself, from her ()sin honest and ingenious answers to the questions; but I also consulted with Mrs. Doctor Smith, who has been a practising physician for fifteen years, a woman of large in fluence and aneighbor of the judge who condemned Hester Vaughn. Doctor Smith had not heard of the case till she read of the sentence the next morning, and she concluded to call on Judge ; Ludlow and ask him the particulars.— ; He gave her a permit to visit Hester Vaughn at her pleasure. She has done so, once or twice a week, fur five months. She told me she had ques tioned and cross-questioned the girl ; had taken her by surprise; and had come to the conclusion that she was innocent of the crime of infanticide.— It appears that the plea of puerperal flow and puerperal blindness was never used on her behalf. Her lawyer, after visiting her once, never came near her again. He paid her a visit and took her money, and promised to defend her; but he never saw her again until she was brought into court. He never inquired into any bf the particulars of her former history, or of her present condition. When Mrs. Dr. Smith went to see him, he said. "Oh, yes; it is now too late; she has been condemned, and is to be bung." For over five months not one benevolent person has condescended to visit her in her sickness—for she has been very sick. '' Well," said Mrs. Smith, " you took her last thirty dollars, and prom ised to defend her; and have you called on her?" He replied, "Is that so? Was that all the money she had ?" Well, then he remembered that he had not called on her; consequently when her case came up he was unprepared to give her any defence. Dr. Smith, by the kindrisss of Judge Ludlow, has been permitted to visit her, and to report to him and to Governor Geary In regard to the poor girl's condition, and she has sent to Governor Geary ten letters, praying for hie immediate pardon on the ground of her innocence, as she thinks her entirely innocent. For three months she thinks that she was irre sponsible for her acts—the victim of puerperal mania, When she is spoken to about her condition at the time, she innocently says: "It was so dark,"— she seems hardly conscious to have recognized a ray of light—and she adds : " I never saw my child," I have had a large experience in obstetrical practice; my record shows over two thdusand cases ; and I have had several cases of puerperal blindness—in one case lasting over four days and nights; for four days and nights the patient.did not see. And I believe what this poor girl says "I did not see." I asked her how the skull could have been injured, for it seems the skull was indented, and she said, " I must have lain on it: when I waked up, the child lay under me." She might have swooned or fainted in her agony. I have no doubt that she suffered from puerperal mania for at least three months. Her sight is still very weak. But there is another point. The child was never examined. No one can prove that .1 t ever lived. The lungs should have been examined. If the child had lived the lungs would float; but if the air has never permeated those vessels, the lungs would sink. So I repeat it was never proved that the child was alive. Now, it was a premature birth ; it was an eight months' child, and the children of that period very seldom live. The foramen- between the auricles of the heart remain so open that the natu• ural circulation is very difficult to es tablish' and such children very seldom live. It has been said in some of our papers . to-day that the marks on the head Yilkwe that the child was destroyed. Ido not see that it is proved. That poor woman, in her agony, alone, with out fire, without light, may have in We child, but not wilfully. I said to her: "Hester, you love chil dren?" She replied: "No one ever' loved children more than I do—no one. I dearly love them. I wish I had mypoor little babe. It would be some comfort to me. She is here among strangers; but her friends write to her and beg her to come home. Her poor father does not know of her sad fate, and she is fearful that he may know of it. It appears that the namb of the man she married was Harris, and her father gave his consent to the marriage. It was not a runaway match. It was not as a disobedient, wilful child that the came to this country. I could see y the tone of her father's letter, and by the kisses sent to her from her yminger sister, that it was a very af fectionate letter. She longs to go home. I had the opportunity of conferring with some of the most influential ladles of Philadelphia, and it appeared that the story was all new to them. They are not lacking in sympathy. Some very dear friends of mine, in the very highest position, melted into tears when I told them of the matter; and one young lady, who was deeply interested, said, " Oh, pa will soon be home to dinner ; but I can't wait; he won't be home time enough ; let us jump into the cars." So I went down with her, and there I had an opportunity of conversing with Jay Cook and Mr. Sherwood upon the merits of the case. They -said it must be investigated; they took down the data. The gentleman said, I will send it all to the Governor." In conclusion Mrs. Lozier read some comments of the Revolution upon the case. A Great Curiosity. George B. Warren, of Troy N. York has a pair of deer's heads, the antlers interlocked in such a manner as to defy the power of any man to separate them. Mr.' Warren is indebted for them to a merchant of St. Paul, who while hunting, came upon two bucks with their horns locked togetherin the manner in which they now appear. One of the animals was dead, and the other was unable to disengage Itself from its cumbersome burthen. It must in evitably have remained in that position until it met a lingering death by starva tion, had not the hunter put an end 'to its sufferings by dispatching it on the spot. The only explanation of this strange conjunction of the animals is found in the supposition that they were engaged in a fierce combat, and rushing upon each other with great force the prongs of the horns bent under the force of the collission just sufficent to allow the antlers to slip into one another, and springing back held the bucks together— eye to eye, face to face—and defying all efforts to separate them. A TRIP to TILE SOUTH. EDITORIAL tORIIIMPONDRAten • JAILES RIVER CANAL, Nov. Zd, 186.3. I left Lancaster on the night of the 18th inst., to kiln the party of some forty gen tlemen and several ladies which, under the guidance of Col. Daniel Deckert, of the Hagerstown Mail, had leftnagerstown that morning on a tour through Virginia and the Carolinas,.for thelpurpose of viewing the country and purchasing some of the many estates which are offered for sale in these States,. should they find any which would pleasq them. I was compelled to lay over In Washington until Thursday eve ning. The Capitol deserves celebrity only because of its Public Buildings and per- haps I may add the excellence of its steamed oyi4ters. r dropped into Harvey's for the purpose of trying this dish, and soon becathe alarnied at the number of bivalves which the colored boy flung on my plate and the rapidity with which he extricated them from their steamed shells ; I began,to apprehend that he was following the custom which prevails in Lancaster of opening for you "Oysters on the Shell" until you say " Enough," and as soob as I could I suggested to him that a peck would be as many as I would want: He then quit and I paid him u " quarter." Steamed oya- era are good ; try them. I left Washington In the evening and had a very comfortable ride on a steamboat for some 10 miles down the Potomac to Acqula creek, and then took the care, which are arranged with unproved reclining chairs on which one can sleep with great comfort; would that our Northern Railways would introduce them, and save us from our hor rible so•called sleeping cars, I reached Richmond at 4 o'clock in the morning and found my party at the Exchange Hotel, ono of the very best Hotels at which it has ever been my good fortune to atop. Richmond is a beautiful city, situated they say upon seven hills; I did not count them. Its citizens have shown great energy and pluck in rebuilding in u very handsome way, the large portion of the business quar ter of the town which was destroyed by tire at its occupation by our forces. Its most striking feature to me was the great size and elegance of Its private residences ; they did not have the gaudy and gingerbread decor ation of many houses at the North, but came up to my idea of what the home of wealth should be. The State Capital stands upon the summit of one of the hills in the centre of the town, and is an ancient building not of maraud beauty and in very dilapidated condition. The Confederate Senate and House of Representatives sat in it during the war, the Senate occupying a small room , n the second floor now used ai a Court room, and the Representatives, the chamber of the Virginia House of Deputies on the first tleor ; both very plain rooms in no way ornamented, and the furniture, desks and chairs in them, of the most modest, cheap and unpretending style which can possibly be imagined. We had a magnificent view of the City and surrounding country from the top of the building. Richmond though itself built upon hills stands in the centre of a level or gently undulating count' surrounded at the distance of several miles by an amphitheatre of hills; outside of these our forces wero kept. The James River flows by the city in a devious course and is hid from sight by " Mt. I:wry's Bluff." A mile or so from the city we see a villago of no mean magnitude which we are told has been built by the United Stales and Is maintained by It for the use of the Freedmen. Thus our money goes. We visited Libby Prison, which is now a warehouse. It is a large, common look ing brick building, the first atnry white washed on the out aide ; it is tour•stories in height, each story conyisting of but one large room ; a partition wall of brick runs up to the roof through the centre of the building and meperates the structure Into two ware houses or prisons. A more un comfortable and desolate place in which to be confined for any length of time, can scarcely be imagined. There is a wiel for hoisting freight in each division of the building, running up to the fourth story ; one of them has been used since the war as a drop for hanging criminals. The last one hung, a darkey, fell down a story or two when the trap was sprung, because of the breaking of the rope, but was Immediately ready to be rehung, as be only complained Of his neck "feeling a little still:" We saw the small Episcopal Church on the summit, of one of the hills, in which Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty or give me Death" ,speech ; likewise the spot on which Pocahontas saved the life of Captain Smith. A one-story stone house in the city, was pointed out to us as the old_ est building in it, which had been used as a hotel in the early times, and had ofteen been honored with the custom of Washington, Madison, Monroe and othets. The residence of Jefferson:Davis during his Presidency, is a largo three-story double brick house, with five windows in front and a spacious and pleasant yard in the rear; it Is now occupied by the United States and a sentry constantly stands guard at the front. • We left Richmond with regret on 'Friday evening, at 5 o'clock, on one of the packets plying upon the James river and Kanawha canal, which we purposed following to Lynchburg, a distance of 145 miles. It may be Imagined that our party added to the regular custom of the boat, crowded the packet greatly, and in consequence, no births were put up, but we proceeded to make ourselves as comfortable and agreea ble as possible until three o'clock in the morning, when we would leave the packet and stop at the plantation of Judge Breathed of Maryland, one of our party—the estate was purchased by him and two others, In September last for $32,000. It 'consists of 1500 acres, and was considered a remarka bly cheap purchase. Not a little excitement was created about midnight, by the discov• ery that we hadpiakpockets on board. They wereobserved mo.vingabout among thedos ing passengers fumbling about their breasts for their pocket books. Unfortunately they were accused before the had'commltted the "overt act" and taken any money; and after a trial held before an improvised Court consisting of the captain, the passen gers and a U. S. Marshall, who happened to be on board, it was finally determined that they should not be ducked in the river in accordance with the first suggestion, but that - they should Ile allowed to remain on board under surveillance. I have neglected to mention that the party on leaving Richmond was accompanied by Gen. John D. Imbodep, of Confederate cavalry fame, but now conducting a Real Estate Agency, under whose guidance we mainly placed ourselves. The General is a first-class gentlemp, and has endeared himself to the whole party by his kind ness, urbanity and unwearied exertions for its comfort, he Is a noble man, whose peer we may seldom hope to meet in our travels. At the time designated we arrived at "8011. log Hall," the plantation of Judge Breathed, and were comfortably quartered for the balance of the night. This place was long the family seat of the Bollings, who are de scended from Pocahontas, and was cele brated in former times for its extensive hos pitality. The house is a large frame struc ture, finished in a very plain manner, and now In very bad repair ; but the plantation is a very fine one, having over 300 acres of bottom land, 400 acres of agricultural up land and 800 acres of woodland. The James River, from Richmond to Lynchburg, is bordered by a low flat alluvial soil of from a half mile to a mile and a half in width, which it sometimes overflows. Froze this flat, the land rises abruptly perhaps to }he height of 60 feet or more. This bottom land Is the best and most fertile, and its fertility is maintained by the occasional overflow of the river, which gradually subsiding leaves a residnm cf rich fertilizing material. All these data are, however, ditched, so that the water may be readily drawn off. The back or bluff country is broken and rolling but yet fertile. The system of farming pursued in this conntry would however strike a Lancaster county farmer with dismay.; .you do not see any fences, rarely even a line fence between ad- NUMBER 49 Joining plantations; and notwithstand ing of timber, which seems to he only for fire wood in the big, old fashioned, glorious fire places. Then you do not see any fields In grass, for none is raised. These bottoms 'which would make tho most splendid timothy land in the world, are devoted only to wheat, corn and tobacco, the three products of this region ; hay in Richmond is bought from the farmers of the North to a very largo ex tent. You do not see any cattle upon these farms notwithstanding that they aro admi rably adapted to stock raising. You see no barns In this whole country. They have small stables for their:horses, sheds fur their tobacco, innumerable shanties for their negroes scattered higgledy piggiedy, here, there and everywhere. This Bolling Hall place hue some 40 or 50 buildings on It, scattered in every direction, very low of which our farmers would consent to have on their lands. It Is by no means however a model place In respect to buildings, which we expect to tied much liner as we go farther up the river. The dwelling at Bol ling Hall as well as on most of these river plantations is situated on top of the bind and overlooks the wide valley of the river. The canal ruu.s along the northern bank of the James, on which side plinctrially is also the bottom laud of the river. Tho l canal as a rule starts at the northern bluff and seperates the bottom land from the remain der of the farm on the north side, with which It is connected by bridges. More anon. Noßv ELL LI ousE, LI" NCH "win, Nov. 25th, Dias. Having secured an open canal boat with s small cabin at one end, we left Bolling Hall about noon of Saturday, the '2lst inst., and got to Columbia late In the night. As the boat was propelled by a one mule pow• er, it was fashionable en:route to beat the packet from lock to lock in pedestrian ex ercise, and it took no great feat to do it.— Mine were great enough and I accomplish ed the task with great ease. This James River Canal is very well and substantially built. The fall in the river at times is very great and requires double locks and locks at frequent intervals to overcome it; at other parts of the river wo rut> for a long stretch with out meeting a lock, and on several occasions in our passage to Lynch. burg we passed out into the river, dispens ing with it canal altogether. The canal cannot pay now as the freight boats W—. 0.1 we met were exceedingly few and very far between. They would not average. more than three or four a day. During the war however the canal was very important to the Confederacy, and the premature:eva.m ation of Richmond was mainly clue to the breaking of it by Sheridan in his fatuous raid down its banks ; as Lee was thus de prived of his main reliance for a supply o r provisions he had not intended to evacuate Richmond until the condition of the roads would enable his army to 111,,V0 with filen ity, and the lack of food supply only com pelled him to move when he did. Columbia is a dilapidated little village and when our party moved up to its one small Inn, the prospect for one nights lodg ing looked gloomy In the extreme. Our landlady, looking out from the attic win dow, for a long time denied UN admission, apparently alarmed at our numbers ; and it was only the magic name and persuasive eloquence of Gen. Imboden that finally gained us admission; but John, a preco cious youth of fourteen and man of all work about the establishment, did tiredly open unto us the doors, and wo thirty had a rousing lire made and by patient indus try persuaded " mine hostess " to get us down a substantial supper. A half dozen of our party foraging on their own account, waked up one of the merchants of the vil lage and were entertained very hospitably till morning. Others occupied the eight or ten bunks upon the boat, and the rest of us, after a few had been tucked into the two beds of the Hotel, prepared to pass the night on chairs around the lire. But mean while we had groat fun with " John."— John pronounced us all to beYankees and declared that he derived hie knowledge physiogom teeny. He specially included Gett. Inaboden among the rest of us as a Yankee. When asked whether he hail ever heard of the General before, ho declared that ho had notl / but the General soon had no cause to feel Inortified as when questioned. John declared that he hail never henrd of Seymour and Blair. He was informed that those gentlemen had lately gone up the river, but he declared that if they had ascended the James, they had not stopped at Columbia. Salt River he had never heard of. The landlady was better posted, and treated Imboden and us, on his account, with distinguished consideration. In the morning by apecial request, she gave us for breakfast the natural dish of Virginia in all its forms. We had corn meal served up to us, us ash cake, hoe coke, pone, pan cakes, and other varieties too numerous to mention. Ash cake is corn meal mixedL with water and salt, and baked on hickory leaves in the ashes of a wood fire, and is an excellent bread. Wood by the way, is all they burn in this county. We have open fire places everywhere. Our corn meal In Pennsylvania, ground as It Is, will not make that bread. They use hers differently cut stones from those which they use for grinding wheat. The former are cut much sharper so as to share the corn grain, After • breakfast wo left Columbia for Scottsville In our chartered boat. The James still runs its course along through rich wide flats, which again are bordered with continuous bluffs that excludes from our view, as we pass up the canal, all of the back country, and are sparsely studded with the large residences of the planters, We know pretty well the nature of this back :country, as we occa sionally land and mount the bluffs to sur vey it. 11 is a broken, strr-•ngly rolling country, heavily wooded. 'rho land is by nu means so rich as the bottoms of the river, but yet Is said to bo good. These James River farms fire worth now from s.igl to per acre, taking the uplands with the bot toms. The plantations above Col umbia are looking in better order and the buildings • liner. We all stood out on the deck and admired the plantation formerly belonging to the late General Cooke, (who committed suicide a few years ago) but which now Is in the hands of his son, Dr. Cooke. The house is a large square brick building but one story and an attic in height, yet is au imposing looking mansion. The outbuild ings ore tine ; the stable would do well for a church, and is surmounted by a clock and a hell. There are some fences on the place, for a wonder; hitherto we have seen none, except at very long intervals, perhaps a line fen2e. The General was a fanatic on the temperance question, and exchanged with his son this place for one owned by the latter lower down the James, on condition that his son would not grow tobacco. On the upper end of this place he had previous ly erected on the bank of the canal, a beau tiful modelled mat iron pitcher 4 feet in height,Out of the mouth of width constantly flows a stream of water. Some 30 yards in the rear of it . he hits built over the spring whence the water Is derived, an elegant temple of marble, being a recess four feet In depth with a wall in the rear, and the roof supported in front on four handsome marble pillars. A stairway In the rear leads to the top. In the middle of the recess or temple Is the spring, and above it on the wall is a tablet with this Inscription : Drink., weary Pilgrim If athirst thou bo. Know that the !dream fa guahlng for thee Urink. to Christ's name, life's painful way who trod Man gives the cup; the living water, God. On the wall is cut, " Dedicated to the Sons of Temperance, Sept. 19, 1849." We reached Scottsville early in. the eve n* and though we were unexpected, 3ve were all soon quartered among the hospita ble citizens of the village and the planters of the adjacent country. General Imboden, myself and two others fell into the kind bands of Captain Schultz and walked out to his residence on the bluff, a mile from the town, whore we were soon made comforta ble. In the morning we found that we had a !magnificent View of tbe surrounding country and away off for many miles over rugged mountains to the great chain of the Blue Ridge capped with snow. The , Cap tain bad discovered an alum deposit on dm lower face of the bluff on which stood his RATE OF ADVEILTIAIXO. BOBINiBIS ADVIRTIBIUMIIII,II.2 a Tar per quire of ten lines; Se ,per. year ,fer each ad ditional ecituuro. , , ,• „ , • REAL Enure Awl=linito,lo nuts.* liner the drat, and 5 cents Tor each subsequent n serticm. • GENERAL ADVERTISING I cent/ a line for the and 4 cents for each anbseqaent Inser tion. . SPECIAL NOTICES inserted in Loin' *damn 15 cents per tine. • Besantn Nonass preceding marriage) deaths, 10 cents per line for nrst. and 5 cents for every subsequent Inseruoni LEGAL Ann cerium /Parini:s • ' Executors' ...otices... --.---- :dm' • Administrators' ' Assignees' 2 . 60 Auditors' notices Other ' 4 Notices;' ten, lines , -C - or three times.-- ........ .......... 1.50 residence, and at the peril of our necksand the Imminent risk of getting a cold plunge bath from a perpendicular height of a hun dred feet into the canal flowing beneath us, We 'descended to examine It. Before I reached the Alunt Springs however, my courage gave way and f concluded to await developments where 1 Mid a Wish to hold on to and a half Inch of ground to stand upon, especially as I was not partleularly totem - ested in alum. The Captain and the Gen eral persevered aud shortly returned, with a supply of Winn and some speedwells of quartz, apparently veined with gold. This was too much for my composure, and after securing mallets, we all started down the precipice again on a gold hunt. Having filled our pockets with the quartz, we re turned to the Winne and securing a pestle and mortar proceeded to mine() the rock to powder and wash the product in a frying pan. We found plenty of sulphate or iron, but our process was too rough to enable nit to detect the gold which we felt confident was Were. After this failure we went downio town aud found that the party had concluded to lay over in Scottsville until the hollowing day, meanwhile surveying the country. Scottsville before the railroads were built was a very thriving place, being the depot of a largo extent of country, but the Iron horse has killed it. In the after noon I borrowed a gun and went shooting, but having no dog, I got but one shot cud missed that. We mot, however, Col. china, a gallant Confederate soldier, whose Invi tation we accepted to [wend the night at his honey. We had a most delightful time and drunk quite us much as we ought of most exquisite apple toddy. The hospitality of these Southern gentlemen is truly wonderful. They talk nothing of politics and SPOIL to care nothing for It; their solo thought anti every energy Is con fined In the tillage of their lands, brought down from affluence to poverty, many of them still rich in land, bat without a cent to improve and cultivate it, they ntrugglo on with a pluck energy and equanimity. which should exeite the wonder of the world. All their property except their-land ed estate, has been swept away. A South ern planter's wealth used to be counted. by the number of his slaves, not by that Whin acres, and all his surplus means wee in vested in slave property. When he wanted tin raise money Ire had au ever ready re source in the selling of a slave. By the abolition of slavery $2110,000.000 of capital, the accumlated wealth of years, have been annihilated in V irginia nloue. Capital turd white labor are wanted in-re; and these Southern gentlemen are On X LOLLS LO Weir surplus land and cultivate the remain der with the caoital thus raised. This ac counts for the fact that half of the Valley of the James is for sale. Farming pays here Col. Gantt who does not want to sell tells me that he farms 3: 1 ,0 aerosol' his farm of Mel at res; his crops last year were worth $5300; his expenses were $lOOO for fertilizers and and $5OO for labor ; estimated value of farm $15,000. The negro hero Is paid $lO a month, has house rent free, and rations of ii les pork and (if I recollect aright) 3 pecks of corn meal per week. I will return to this subject egain. on Tuesday 1110111 lute see left SeOWIVILILI in IL special boat fir Mount Warren, the residence of John S. Coles, 1.11 q., where we intended taking the regular packet when It should come Wong in the afternoon. We . nr w numerous fin e p:antations on the way, tied were much more favorably st rucic with the muntry the higher we got up the river. The buildings became much handnower, and fencing more general. Will geese were very plenty on the river all the way up; I tried to shoot them on ono or two occasions, but found them very Wild. At the Mount Warren Landing, \lr. Coles met um with carriages and drove tin to his reel donee and over his plantation, which is an exceedingly lino one, end not for sale, for a wonder. The house to frame, as aro 111- mos/ all original houses, and very (.0111MO dIMILL. It stands in IL magnificent grove of iuumm~un ales, 1111,0 IS a split where one could live with pleasure and die with great reluctance. Alter discusning the tiniest of rye whiskey and an elegant dinner, we wok the packet itt 2 I'. M., and speeded to wards Lynchburg at diff rate of nye tulles per hour, drawn by three horses, which were changed frequently. We passed many ningniticent plawations—thone of the Ca bell's, among others, which extend In u nearly unbroken line for to miles along both sides of the river—and after a beauti ful moonlit night ride, and in short occu. parley of a table as a bed, we landed al in Lynchburg at 7 A. 111. un Wednesday rilorning, and at mien repaired to that mag. nditfently inept hotel, the Norvell House, or hilt & Brother. - - araware, litorto, Btr. MMMINI — The Pennlylvnula Dining Room Stove, Iron Cylholer—the bent :novo 01 the kind lu thin market at • ItUSSIL'a Hardware Store.. North queen ntreet. GKEAT VARIETY OF PARLORNTOVEN ,Cook lug hitovoi: Raugeti and Dining Ilmni Stovew. lor Hale at =l2 CALL AT RUNNEUN AND NEE THE best aiosortmeut of , tovom Lanciolter. fiREA'T EAST RN COOLifflill sT V E admitt..l by nII who tole them to bn the best cook IJ Move they e'er uscd . hor sale aL RUHMEL'S. U S ! rn E. 3I A very ornantenial, requires Lo La) fired but an during the Macon, lug a regular beat all tile time, requ:rtng little fuel (or amount of heat, produced, and warranted to give entire satisfaction. For sale at RUSSEL'S Hard wart, hture TINE GEN EINE RA 1;r111.011E riRE PLAI: M. ST( )VE for 0010 nL mep2l.l-Iwcl.olnw RUSS El,'M. litrutos, T IIIE WillTE POL , A N IC. liErtn'tt IKEA D, M. lIAREKISUI.II'H WINDOW, IN CENTRE s4,UARE, has attracted the attention el thonnarola of people. lie would also inthrm the pnblle that he Inc a la. ge and liner let of Buffalo Itobex than ally ether house In Lancaster. Alto, Lined Minh!" Rohe., Leopard Skin Hennes—Hl inlT't.d Head. HIIIII,IIII !lay Wolf Rohe, A est rallla ()punish on Hobe, Fon Hkln Robeti.' liter ,Okla ittibes. Coon hkln Itehem. (mulct Hob. a. Different Slylex or Lap ill ketn. A largo lot old Ifferen LH ryleif of fierce Cover,. Also, (told ;Lad Silver Moniited liarnefia. Wagon Harnef , of every description, liaddler and Bridles. Trunks. Carpet flags and Vallaea. A full and large assorimeni of L.4,110. , ' and Genta"fraveling Satehela,and all a tiler artlelf , “ belonging to tae randntse sold it the lowent prima. X If Centre Square, I.l4nemrer, Pa. I=l QUEEN OF ENO.AND SOAP. QTT6E:q (rF ENGLAND ro.A.P. QUEEN UN ENGLAND HOA I For d•deg a 11.1111 V W.1.1411.11:4 In the best an d cheapest manner. (Him an teed equal to any In the world! Ham all the strength of old rueln soap with the rull•I an•l lathering qualltlea genuine Croatle. Try this splendid Hoop. bold by 1110 ALDEN CHEMICAL WORKS, 48 Norltt Front treat, Philadelphia. aeplArodetaladyw RooFING r4LAT.E—PItICES REDUCED The undernigned ban constantly on hand a full unpply of Rooting tilate for ;tale at.. Red need Prices. Also, an extra LIGHT ROOFING SLATE, Intended for ;dating ot,iihingle mold Employing the very bent slatern all work Is warranted lobe executed In the bent manner. Bnildern and others will dud It to their oter est to examine the ;tampion at ble Ag t rlcultnral and Bead Warerooms, No. dl Emit king street Lancaster, Pa., 2 down west of the Hone We have oleo the Aebento'e Roofing for flat roof, or where elate and atundlea cannot he timed. It to tar superior to Plootic or Gravel Roofing. deol2 Lightly 010. U. RPRECREP. MiNMBEgiN BEDSTEAD AND MATTRESS FOR IN VA LIDS. The Bedstead Is constructed of wrought lion, and Is made In three segments, on is al.() the Mattress, hinged and comlilued In snob a manner as to be readily adjusted to suit for reclining nI any desired angle, or for sitting upright, providing either chair, lounge, or bed. IL imt only enables the patient to repose or rest In a comfortable position, but la equally convenient for tbo surgeon and attendant In all surgical, obstetrical and chronic cases. . _ . . The manner In will. lr the Mattress Wormed, and the ves+el drawn under or removed, Is ao neatly contrived that the Moat, helpless patient can be relieved of the 'necessities of nature without moving, or Inconvenience, IL la mounted on castors and requires but the aid of one person to move it now place to place, or change Its formation to BUIL the re. qultements or neceseltles of the patient. Title Invention has received the hearty en doraement of all medical men who have ex amined It, Including Dre. Atte°, tir. r and Gar. pester, ?t this city. It le ado recommended by the stawardip of tile hospitals of Lancaster and Berke comities, For farther Information respe6ting HOB val uable Invention, send for a descriptlVe Oren lor, or call on the patentee and matioNotemer. ANTHONY iss.r., • No. 22 North Prinoe street nov 18 BmW 481 Lancaster, ra.
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