ADVERTISING RATES. M. 1 mo. 3 moo. 8 moe. 1 T. 1.60 1.75 9.60 0.01 10.00 3.03 3.50 5.50 10.80 10.00 4.60 . 5.00 8.00 15.00 21 80 It 00 15.03 'Z.OO 40.00 IR al 20.13 95. 03 60. 13 15.131772.410 50.00 80.0 U 0000511. 00 DOA) 1.10.00 One Square . two Squares Three Squares Six Squares, . Quarter Column Half Column . One Column Professional Cards 111.12) per lino per year. Administrator's and Auditor's Notibes, City Notices, 20 cents per lino let !exertion, 15 rents per line each subsequent insertion. Ten Ilnee agate constitute a square. ROBERT IREDELL, 7n., Puniasunn, I= Life Tuouraitre THE MOST SUCCESSFUL LIFT INSURANCE COMPANY OP TRH WORLD NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.. MEM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I= CASH CAPITAL, 13R ANCH OFFICE PHILADELPHIA OFFICERS CLARENCE 11. CLARK, Philadelphia, Presid.O. JAY COOKE, Philadelphia, Chairman Pinanee nail EX coolly° Coin. HENRY D. COOKE, Waohingtou, Vlce.Pro.ddont. EMERSON W. I'EET, Plillodelphlo, Secretory .1,1. W. FRANCIS 0. SMITH, M. D., 31t..11.1 11l rector. This Company it , stietl, Itt the 11r•t ItON'PIIS of itn, existence, 5,395 POLICIES, INSURING n 5,142,800. TlllB company ,Iffers to It. Podley•ltotdvrn PERFECT s E U 111 Y by Ibi Canh paid ttr, Capital of clue 11111,1,1 Dollar., awl guarantee. to the lo.ored, by Its Low Rates of Premium. LARGE DIVIDENDS IN ADVANCE, Or a Rovendunnry Dividend of 1W per cent. by RETURN PREMIUM PLAN GENERAL AGENTS E. W. CLAIMS' & Co., Banker, No.:1580ml/ Third Street, Philadelphia, lieneral Anent.. for Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey,. 11. S. Itusstu,t,, Manager. Charles W. Cooper Allenion . o National !Swat, Nelson Weiser, Repoli!leaner Book Store, Agents for Lehigh and adjolulug COllllOO, Jacob A. Blamer riperial agent. seta 15-17. TIIE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY OF PENNA Prluelpul Office, Allentown, ra. OFFICE.: JOHN C. ANEW/LT, Px/me/xT. FY. 11. lIEHII LEIt, tineettrArtr. MARTIN SEIPLE, Board ft( Dirfetorx—Juba C. Anew:lll, W. IL Dealt ler, Martin Hetele, Dr. Z. F. Le. Recite, Dr. A. Oreesetner, George !triple, Ephraim J. Erette,g, ClittrleN K. C. B. M. Sell, Lewitt C. Heller, Wm, ILI. lirosn, Peter J. 11 Rotel/. This Society In virtually a Life Insurance Company on plan by which a person of the smallest menus can procure its protection to bin family In case of his death. It does not accumulate millions of dollars of the mem• hers' money, as do other Life Insurance Compauies, but teach member can retain his money until called fur lu the Cain of the death of tiny member. There Is no possibility of this Society failing as the furtd• are all In the hands of the members themselves, and the Society Is purely mutual. Members have a right to vote at all elections for officers. WHY BECOME A MEMBER ft is no more the moral duly of a man to provide the idly bread for hie faintly while he Melt, than it le to pro• •ide twat:tot their being left pennilese in the event of his death. A POLICY IN Till:, SOCIETY it the CHEAPEST and SAFEST moilo of making a certain prov bawl for ouch caloinity YOVNG HEN tar ns liable to take leave of life no the old. Death Ic uncertain. We axk you, therefore, to COW' Oder the CHEAPNESS and SAFEII7 of ineuring ht this Coupon'' and he assured that in case of death rim will leave behind you a blessing to u whlowkid mother or de pendent elate,. (live the subject your thought, spud to the Secretary tor our circular, consider its cheapness cud WO aro sure you will at once take out a policy. AMERICAN LIFE INNUR A NC E COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, South East Con Fourth and Walnut Streets EIZIMEM THE AMERICAN offers low roles of premium. It offers more lusuraueo for thu *MHO money limo taller cempauy. Pa Ilona, Company. ond.lle d are all non-forfeitable. • • • . It pays lifo.policies at dentin, or nt the age of RI yearii. On the reducleg•promitain plan, the Insured pan his lur vat nonillion the nut year—which Is Ike same Its paid on the mutual-urdluary-Ilfe•plan—und ouch subsequent year It Is leas uud leas; and at the end of twenty becomes paid up and theriafter pernuoiont Insuredon Ebel:o,lm.y. On the return premium I tlan, the uis credited an nually With costs he has pad to the Company. so that Ids Ilu Insurance costs only the Interest on the ern ~u u s pod in. tho lucerne-producing plan, the It ninny receive 10 per cent. on the amount of Ills policy. ili= I=l EEC= WM. J. ROMIG, N. D., Agent, I= IMEM 4 katlik4, ) crBANKERS, NO.-35 0 UTH THIRD STREET, PHI LADELPHIA. DEALERS IN C.OYERNMENT SECURITIES, STOCK,GOLD AND NOTE BROKERS. Aeeoasta of Batiks. Nom. •ud Individual. melted, autjett M OMB at sight. INTEREST ALLO WED ON BALANCES. 'GLEN ERAL P k g, ENTS, FOR o n . PENNSYLVANIA A, ufv 7 , 4.l4l AN Ew 17 5 , ,51 *- kje ...) OF THE (. s\ . p 0 011114 " % i Of ME CEbv. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The NA.norar.• LIPM INIMINANCI COMPANY ill a corporation chartered by special Act of Congress, ap• prayed July IS, NOS, wlth • • CASH CAPITAL, $1,000,000, FULL PAID. Liberal terms offered to A_gonta and Solicitors, wbo are Invited to JOWL.: sp;s:f d onlmls Ilallg i tt l e a reeonisl4 o oresurlX:lstr where Circulars and Pamphlets', fully deeorthlnethe advantages or by the Company, may be had. E. W. CLARE& CO.. No. 35 South ' Third at. I B. S. RUSSELL, Manager, Charles W. Cooper ud Nelson Weteer, Allentown Na tional Bank. Agent. for Lehigh Carbon Counties. Pa. cqdrbt Krbid 11,toitrt. VOL. XXIII BANKING HOUSE OF (.001) & RU 1-1 E FIRST 1/0011 WRST OP THE FIRST NATIONAL DANK, ALLENTOWN, PA In order to afford all persons an opportnully (however small their meank) to deposit money to smeller amounts than what arennow received by the various Depositories or this city, we have concluded to RECEIVE DEPOSITS IN SUMS EltOM ONE DOLLAR UP TO FIVE THOUSAND • and allow interest for the same at the rate of six per cent. per annum. Interest to be calculated from the first and Vie.th days of each mouth, subsequent In such deposit. Interest will ho made up'on all Deposits remaluleg with s, half yearly to wit t On the first days of April and October, and will bo paid to depositors on those days • If not drawn they will go to their credit and be compounded. No inetrest will bo calculated on fractional parts of a dol lar. No loss amount than Five Dollars eau be withdrawn onions it be to clone an account. Every Depositor will ho Welshed with a Deposit Book containing the conditions upon which tho Depoits are received. and 110 money will be received unless that, book be presented and entry made at tho Moo of making tho deposit. timali mum( that arenecessary expenses of Individuals and families that are liable to bo wasted or uoedlessly expended, !nay, If deposited, produce In thud amounts that will sum'''n nay ono who has given no heed to tile subject. A &pooh of 41.110 per week, continued oneyea year will amount to iltl2 911• two yours CIS Alt threeyears filed 92 four years *233 . t lion years fif.G2 tD, and ten years 4666 06. It commends Itself us a safe. convenient and profitable depoottory to Executors, Adminixtrators, AS. slguees, Collectors, Agents, and all Public Officers, whether for themselves or their trust funds, to voluntary Societies or Associations, and Indeed to all classes of our citirens. Knowing shut a perfect .cure of security to Depositors is necessary to the attainment of success In this enterprise, we have In addition to our own Individual responsibility. f which la not the fact lu incorporated Sayings Bunks) ex ecuted and delivered to Charles W. Cooper, Cashier of Al lentown National Bask, and Tilghman 11. Moyer, Cashier of s ec u ri ty) anal Bunk, a of of Indemnity (with approv ed is the Sala of Twenty Fly e ThOUSllnil Dollars, to be held by them in trust for tho special +courtly of our Depositors. This - fact will place us fully equal las re garde to oufety of depositors) to any Depository in this City. We buy. sell and exchange all homes of Government ]fonds, execute orders fur the purchaoo and Kale of all first chum securities, and negotiate Walla on Deal Estate on small minim's... Advances made to our dealers at all times on approved collateral+ at market rates of interest. 11001, Itunk. Augll.6m3 $1,000,00) REMOVAL THE MACUNGIE SAVINGS BANK ilea been removed to their bulldlng recently secured by purchase, on HAMILTON STREET, (North aide), one door above Siegfried & Co'a. Iterate are Store, where the busineen of the Bank will be carried on as heretofore. W INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS:VS DAVID SCIIALL, Pre Ideal VV. C. LICHTUNK•LLNER, Cashier. my 704 m KUTZTOWN SAVINGS BANK, (Organized malor Elate Charter In 18(O. ) MONEY RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT, and Brier cont. In• terest will be allowed. For shorter periods apoelal rates will be Paid. Also, money leaned out on FAVORABLE TERMS. bald Bonk is located Its the Keystone House, in the borough of Kuttlowci. JOIIN 11. YODEL, President. EDWARD llonnsiergis,ll. D., Cashier. Tarergnis: F. J. Slough M. U., J. D. Wanner, Fal., David Fluter. 11. 11. Schwartz, Seq., Vr. B. Fogel, Daniel Clodor, Richard J. Norm Jou. Miller, u1y1 . 2.1( John 11.70ge1, Seq. • ALLENTOWN SAVINGS INSTrrU TION, lOrgnithed under Nlatu Charter Money received on Deposit, nod d per cent. Interest al lowed tor one year. For shorter periods special rates will be paid. MAO, 3iONKT LO/LOOD OCT ox FwonSxnx Banking Houxe—HAMILTON ISTHERT, mld•we7 ba twoon lho Court House .d American Hotel, opposite tide, I=! Clintlet ti Bush. Job]) I) &Iles, " Christi. Prat, Fraud. C Samuels. George Probid, . Samuel 8011, Boni J llngentmch, , Nathan Potor, William II Mary. mar 31 THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILROAD FIRST MORTGAGE 130\ 1)S UNION & CENTRAL PACIFIC =I BOUGHT AND SOLD DEHAVEN & BRO RANKERS AND DEAbEEMJN UOVIIR.VMHYTS 40 SOUTH . THIRD STREET, EMEEM =1 COME Pre Proof Safes HERRING'S EIMMTEEZ! FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF (WITH DRY FILLING.) Awarded the Prise Medal* at World's Fair, Loudon World's nil., New York, Exposition Universelle, Pule VARREL, HERRING* CO • • ILI.AM. CHAS. MATLININS, OHo. W. Atria. w 29 EsTNuT STREET, MERRINO, FARREL k SHERMAN, NEW YORK I HERRING it CO CIIICAOM HERRING, FARREL & CO., NEW ORLEANS atrl4 in an c al WILLIAM 11. AINKY, PreoldPett JACOB S. DILLINGEIL CANYIrr. =I RAILROADS =ID I= SAFES PHILADELPHIA A LLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1869 Clothing THE VERY BEST rnE CHEAPEST, THE 'M l) Si I; E.\ rTIVI'I AND ,MOST DURABLE 1, (1 T 11 IN (.; E ONE HAL I, BA LLIE NAOLF, Have the largest, best and ele..tve , t stork of ChOTlllritt ever got up iu this lity,antl sell Iteetls la thole Ilur, sualt ns COATS, MEE and nil other Ginnis permitting le 1E X ' Alt FOR LESS MONEY', hail you caw buy elst whin hi Eusloro Penuoylvouha No Slop Shop mode G00d.4 *old. cLoTiIiNG MADE ORDER. • We heel, constuutly oh haud it large nod tueiort meta of (MODS, irons which customers m tutu ake their selertlons turd hour tutu, mode up on short wale, Their Cutting thiparttuout In nod, Cl,,' supervision et GEORGE K. lIEEDER, who !inn bad ninny yearn rxp•rinuee la do. tailoring 13110 nests and w•ho wilt be plotooni to ri`VOITC the enllx of bin runner palm.. gifirrAll work warrettletl to bot Ot 1.110 nor> lo,t. Call and see our urn . SPRING STUCK, 11,1.1,11 at the K.EVSTuN E IIALL, So. 24 West Hamilton Street skext door to the Germ. Reformed Church, ALLEN TOWN, PA. A Mil aukortnient Ovuh.' Furni-Lin;Ouud+ ulwaYhon hand. AARON BALLIET muyl.2.-lf =WEiMUI vEJr FIRM! SEW GOODS! CLOTHING! CLOTHING! GRANO SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES T . o s NI I_7 . Simetwrorx to .11 , 1zorr .4 Uxuuio. 11 A I . (i A I -1N AT THE GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM =1 NO. 13 EAST HAMILTON STREET, =I We would Inform the Mir,. of Allentown and the sur rounding couutry Out we ure prepared with u large stock of goods for SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR, and offer them to tho public at IV:V.11011e price.. To there who boy their Clothing ready-mule, they ore prepared to offer BARGAINS. WHOM!. SUITS MADE To ORDER! COATS, PANTS AND VESTS Cut and rondo In the 1at0,4 and by Om boot work to. =9 CLOTHING, CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES, Is larger than It has been before, :Lod tutu 11/tOld 111 sell very BMALI. I'IIOYITS, and alve'uttr customers the bens Mt of our low purchases. I= NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS, And everythiug 111 duu• Hue of GEXP'N FURNISHING GOODS IHEN'S,YOUTHS', BOYS', nod CHILDREN'S READY-MADE CLOT RING =! Don't forget the ploe,, No. 43 East lhunllton.heel, third door above Sixth tareel. JACOB 11. 5 , 1101.1., MARTIN LTNNi 'f 0 muv. mar 244( faccljanics CON SHOHOCK EN BOILER :LND col E \Volt KS JOHN IV 00 I), .1 TUBE, FLUE AND CYLINDER BOILERS, BATH AND SfERM CIRCULATING pornms, All kinds of Wrought Iron Coils, Myers for Blast Fur nace, Gasometers,'Smoke Stack' !Blvd Pipes, Iron Wheel barrows, and everything in the Boiler and Sheet Iron line. Also, all kinds of Iron nod Steel Forgings and Blacksmith work, Miners' Tools of ail kinds...llllo Whom Buckets, Picks, Drills, Mallets, Sliigev, Baying a Steam lilkmmer and set of tools of all kinds, and skilled workmen, 1 flutter myself that I can turn out work with prompiness'aud dispatch, all of which will be warranted to lie first-chess. Patching Boilers, and repairing generally, atrictly al lended to. apr 7.1 y STRATTON'S PORTABLE AIR GAN MACHINE. I=l H.l PR .11o.VV1' 111 314KIRG YOUR oll'S GAS THE CHEAPEST LIGHT IN USE • Stratton's Dan 11.10. for Illuminating hotels, Private Resldencen, Stores, 31111 s, etc., Is 1•110j110 Ili constr.ction, col:mimes all the inuteriul rind In the manufacture of g as, and Is so cheep. to bring It within the reach of all. It In free from ex plindons, can lie managed by airy Person, and Produren a imPerlur light to all others, at otii , lialf the out of ordinary burning gas. do EIRE IS APPLIED TO TOE APPARATUS. It can be iota:bed to ordinary gun ripen and tizture4, the only vilrlatlon being in the enlargement of tint burner jets. All parte of the apparatus lire made In the MOM thorough and work maullkn manner. Superiority over all machluen Is claimed In the following partlcularn Ulna, Cost of Construction. Second, CUP.. hp. Third, Compact.. and Shngdiclty, .d consequent iteposnlbllity of Its getting°. of order. Fourth, Economy In nine uf muterlal• A machine capable of supplying ten burners contsfil i Lehigh county. C. W. STUBEH, WALNUT STREET, CORNER OF PENN (•11OVE MUULENBLIM CULLEOIt,) ALLENTOWN l'A gor tljc Labim --...,,,, .., ~ ~ ei: ::Clit„- - - s. --- '.. i 4 i 2l .: kiT:r,;=,2,o s A 11 1 ' t % .71) TI , ..\ \<___ o_____q .s. h.,;4 A , . TTOWE SEWING MACHINE Always on hand and (or sn!e by EDWARD DESHLER, AGENT, M EAST ITAMILTON STREET. BM/qt./MEC Koury Leh, Jr., Doot and Shoo Manufintorer. John Farr, Heaton & Daukel, Miller, Schreiber & Co.. Iterchaut Tailors. Rhoads & Kelm, Wm. fl. &limy, PresideOt Secoml National Dank., Dr. D. V. Jacoby, Dentist. J. B• Dillingor, Attorney.itt•Law. rhos. D. alai:ger, R. Clay Ilawaraly, " Cataouqua May-241y. - LLADIES'GOODS. The new styles are already received at " MRS. M. A. G. GULDIN'S , • Ladles' Trlmmlni stare. The fashlons art; pretty. Ladles, eau and see them. Hoop Marta are cheaper than In cheap times-30 springs, well made, W springs at $1 73. • mar Yi•t7 T'lLTllltr.VZ,.'",f,'°, 7 llloST RE • • W. J. EVERETT, SO NORTH SEVENTH STREET, TrBLIZ, Mr .. DlcCleoachan'.) I t u e it i . d ..rowast rei . fect adjuatments. lone l 7 , Brg Goobss. DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, AND CARPETS, 1 ES'l S FOS tdt S NDV YORK CITY STORE, ALLEN 'OWN, PA. FICIIEICO= We hare inaugurated a new era in the Dry Goods business in Allentown. " Get as much as you can," has too long been the motto o our merchants here. "SELL AS LOW AS YOU CAN" is the motto we Rail under. lbr the best and latest styles of all kinds of Dry Goods, Fhney Goods and Carpets,V ydu would buy them at reasonable rates, you must come to us. WHITE GOODS. BELOW REO ULAN RATES. PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIPED NAINSOGICS. PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIPED ORGANDIES. VICTORIA AND DISHOP LAWNS. PEKIN FORTES, New titylo, and Choice fur Dr... 14 PIQUES, In all grades, SOFT AND HARD FINISHED CAMERICS. SHIRRED MUSLIZIS: A Choke Stock. FINE NEEDLE WORK ED(IINDS and INSERTINOS iNE-lIALF VALUE. II AM BC RCS, In SWISS and CAMBRIC. A Full Stock. RUFFLINGS )(all kindr, an MAGIC, EMPRESS, Atc. LACES. HEAL aud IMITATION (MITRE, THREAD aud VALENCIA. nomNETs nod WASH BLONDS. RENADI NES FOR VEILS, The New Color, LA DIES', MISSES', and BOYS' CUFFS and COLLARS. LEM A isTRE & ROSS, 12 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, PHILADA. July 7-'LB 66 SUDDEN CHANGE." WILL LOW PRICES INFLUENCE YOU 01,1) TINIES AGAIN MMENSE REDUCTION THE OLD CORN-ER STOCK OF SPRING GOODS, STYLE, I%4RINTT, AND LOWNESS OP PRICE Lull and yunnot lui uurpaused Couipetillots defied with 11,1(/ Other .Establislintent outside of the larger eines...AM SPACE WlLLgooda NOT PERMIT OF NAMING such athen Im nse etoek of Int It to say that we have most COMPLETE aseo l rtletment ofaularn Ladles' Dross goods, Orion lUD:, Pooling, Shawls. Balmoral., Hone° Furnish ing (bode, Ladi - e,l' Cloaking Cloth, Mena Wear In Cloth, Cuesitnerer., At., and everything that . kept In a FIRST CLASS DILI' 00115 STORE In mane., variety. Idu not I' WI'OTE PRICES' ' sone loop.. do, but will guarantee ASTONISII LNG FIGURES. Tho difference In pricen of gads to•day, and • mouth •go, to really painful for those who have been caught with largo stoc k . on hood at high prices, but an that In not the coon with me, I an heretofore make the OLD COR NER THE GREAT PLACE OF INTEREST . • AND HEADQUARTERS for the tuamAeniu get their goodi at the LOWEST MA kET PRICES I fully realize that 110 permanent 'meet,. eau be achieved unless the promises held out by advertisements are found to be fully sustained on a vhdt to the store. - Nor can it be n large success without Ncrupolously reliable and fair dealing at all times and uniform courtesy to every custo mer, and the endeavor to makovery buyer &constant dealer. All I ask Is simply to de e cide by raunt trial whether .or not It Is to your advantage to bec.orne a custo mer. Respectfully Yours, OPPOSITE THE EAGLE HOTEL. Ay HI 14 earprts anb Oil Cloth THE CARPET AND OIL CLOTH EMPORIUM OF E. S. SHINIER & CO., NOS. 5 AND 7 WEST HAMILTON ST, to ott Ito tat rut varlettee, dyke and patients. PRICES REDUCED! ,Ve keep for *ale all the followlad popular makoe BODY BRUSSELS,. • 5 FRANK ENGLISH, 5 FRANK BIGELOR, 5 FRANK HARTFORD, ENGLISH TAPESTRY, CROSSLEY'S TAPESTRY, STODDART TAPESTRY SMITH TAPESTRY, HARTFORD k LOWELL, extra a ply, IMPERIAL, extra S ply, MEDIUM SUPERFINE, :I ply, SMTTII TAPESTRY INGRAIN, PHILA. SUPERFINE do• • • PHILADELPHIA FINE INGRAIN, I'IIILADELPIIIA COMMON INGRAIN, I'IIILADELPIIIA ROIL INGRAIN, do., W INDOW• SHADES • CURTAINS . OY EV SHY DESCRIPTION, STYLE kliD PRIM MANHOOD; HOW LOST, HOW RESTOBED. Just published, a new edition of Dr. ColverwelPs Cele. brated Essay on the radical ears (without medicine) of SPIMMIAMMaIIOCA., or Seminal Wesieness_, Involontary Seminal Losses. IMPOTNNei, Mental and Physical Inca pacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also, Consume. roan, rtkarer. and Pore, IndUced by self-Indulgence or sexual extravagance. e-17.1 'Tf es r author, t;a admirable essay, clearl y demonstrates from a thirty year.' successful practice, that the alarming consequences of self.abune may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife; pointing out mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by mesas of which every sufferer. no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately, and radfeaffy. ifli—Tbis Lecture should be to the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal In a plain envelope, to any address, "postsktfd. on receipt of nix cents, or two post stamps. Also, Dr. Culverweir• "Marriage " prloe ffi eta. Address the Publishen, CHAS. J. C. PLO B A 1721-ly 127 Bowery, New York, Box 4.680. T I S. WATERMAN, • BITTERS. of WATERNAN'S COCKTAIL AND TON. 1000 BITTERS. Wholesale and Retell. No. 1103 Market Bk. Philadelphia. The tonic properties of these Bitter@ have been cortlded to by some of our most eminent practising physicians. as the best tool. now in nee. and the Cocktail - Bitters is the universal favorite smongjudges of a toed gin or Whisk,' cocklalL FOR Go TO I Wlliell AO 11.1 ill for M.. J. KRA.NtEIi, "OLD CORNER," ALLENTOWN l'A ItEP.LENISHED DRAW YOUR CONCLUSIONS Mr. Beloit Buffam was thirty-five, portly, of a comfortable fortun,e, blue-eyed, in excellent health, a bachelor , argumentative to the last degree, and a ci:dirant lawyer. The third year after his admission to the bar he left the profession in disgust, and on strictly logical reasons. The judges had 'a ridiculous fashion of stopping argument by something called a "sentence," just at the moment when Belah liuffum, Esq., was most in the mood of press ing the question to its ultimate bearings. Just as his antagonism was developed to its motor est pitch, down came a crusher on all legit]. mate reasoning, or, that disregarded, punish ment for contempt of court. So, having ar gued several clauses clear up to that jumping off place, that Montauk Point of legal logic, the Court of Appeals—having offered before the whole eight judges to submit the question which they had decided against him to an en lightened public sentiment, and the judges and public sentiment being both perfectly will ing, on the payment of the costs, Mr:Buffum disdainfully leaped from the Montauk alive said, and made his final plunge into the ocean of private life. It may be thought that I should confuse the metaphor and say the peace ful lake of private life. But no 'to Mr. Bur fum the domestic circle was dear only as a maelstrom of seething disputation, and home , sweet home, precious as a place where some one to argue with could always be kept at hand. In spite of this combatant disposition, his natural goodness of heart was such that Behilt Buffalo had friends by the dozen—always ready to oblige him by taking the' other side in every thing, because they knew he loved them the better for it—always ready to pitch into hint on any subject whatever, from trans cendental theology to the new breed of hens. One of theseThends had been a gentleman of the name of Shearsworth; who one day happening to die, prefaced his departure by handing him his will, with the information that he had left him—Buffmn—executor and guardian of his only child, Adolphus, who, on certain conditions, was the solo legatee. At the time tills history opens Adolphus Shearswood was twenty years of age, and had been under the tutilage, as well as at the coun try residence, of Mr. Suffurn for the period of eighteen months. During part of this time he had 11101 a private tutor, and was supposed to be preparing for college. : But the tutor belnd a Scotchman of the most inveterately markeil Calvinistic type, as 0 matter of course made Mr. Bufftun at fiery Arminian ; so that after a month of agony, with burning ears and his wardrobe in a silk pocket-handkerchief, Mr. M'Cracken fled front what he entitled "joast an cenfidel how." After the departure of the tutor Mr. Buffum resolved to take Master Adolphus's education into his own hands. He read Virgil with his ward, managing to pick a quarrel with him 011 the construction of every line. Even the sub ject of algebraic roots and geometric angles, by philosophers hitherto regarded the most certain of all themes, was not closed to dis cussion ; the, although Mr. Buttum could. not deny that the square upon the hypothonuse is equal to the sum of tile squares on the other two sides, he could still wage battle (01 the ground that there was a vastly better Way or proving it than the one in the book. Now this to Mr. Buffunt was a mighty pleas ant way of spending his time, but to Adolphus no stupider manner of life could be imagined. Accordingly, one morning, after having Fought the simplest bread-and-butter questions formn hour and a half, he took courage to tell Mr. Butfum that lie had determined to introduce a change in their routine. "Mr. Buff= I'm confoundedly bored by 1111 this argument, this perpetual jabber of dis. cession from morning till night. I Rill going to abandon it. Henceforth I throw logic to the dogs; I diyertmyself from It in every poembreiif. Among others, I'm about to hal in love." "Fish! you talk like a fool. Are you crazy ?" "Not yet ; though I should he if I endured your logic a little longer. So, on purely emo tional grounds,l ant going to fall in love as soon as possi ble." " Who is the.other goose ?" " Be kind enough to moderate your language in speaking of my beautiful unknown. I should hate to have to fight you before I have found her ; and after that I assure you that my time will he too well occupied." "Do you know that you are talking mad ness ? Are you not aware that there is but one young woman in the world with whom you can commit that folly and still retain pos session of your estate ?" " Do yott know that you are talking mys• tery I' Have you never read your father's will, Adolphus Shearswortit ?" " Don't you know his commands to me ? Didn't he tell you that I was not to read it till I came of age, unless sonic condition or other, confided only to you, was fulfilled before that time ; that until then I was simply to know he had made inc sole legatee upon that condi tion I" " I knew the condition, of course, but not the command. The silly resolution you have avowed compels me to tell you that condition. now. Do you know the Lumleys Y" • "I'm aware there is such a familyin Wor cester, you mean ?" "Yes, Sir, the very same. During your grandfather's lifetime the ShearsworthS pos sessed all the large landed estate now owned by theist. They were his principal creditors. When he died Insolvent two cotton-mills in the height of prosperity and live thousand acres of the best land in this State passed into their hands from his executors. The dream of your father's fife was the restoration of that property to your faintly. Ifs re-purchtisb his•preslominant motive in the accumulation of the fiirtune whose trustee I am. In his lifetime he was never able to effect his pur- • , pose ; but with that calm, logical sagacity which marked all his actions he perceived that Charlotte Lumley—at his demise a girl in boarding-school—would necessarily be heiress to the whole estate. The condition, then, affixed to the bequest of his whole fortime to you was, that ynu should become acquainted with the girl, make love to her, and, if she would have you, »tarry her. it refused you, you were absolved from the condition.; if you refused to make an effort for her, then II the property of your late honored farther was to become mint." "The devil!" ejaculated Adolphus, his black pyes flashing, and his fist clenched tight. "It is intended then to force me into marry ing this girl whom I despise ?" ' Hoity-toity—despise 1 A moment ago you would fall in love with a myth—a woman you had never even heard of ; and now that I mention one that you have simply never seen, you tell me that you despise her I Irrational, I Illogical boy I what do you despise in this stn known 'girl?" "I despise a tool any where—every - where —of whatever sex ! I despise a woman who ilstobe fo ced down my throat ! I despise t , 1 ' her breast. you would defeat my own lawful will by he I Sir I 1 will never speak to her ! I swear it here ; and may I die the day 1 break my oath ! I will nem. marry Charlotte • i Lumley I" " Dare you tell me that, indeed ? Do you remember the penalty entailed upon that oath ?" . "Do you mean, Sir, to say that you will consent to accept my property on such a triv ial, paltry., nefarious condition ?" ' " Why not, Sir ? Undoubtedly, Sir ! Am I not executor of your father's will—bound to see It fulfilled to the last tittle ?" "And do I understand that after the prop; erty escheats to you by such a vilely procured' forfeiture you will have the face not to make' me at once a deed of full surrender 1" "That kind of thing occurs frequently—in novels—young man. 'But rational reflection will show you a muelishortsrAut to your prop erty. You' will recall your rash vow, and propose to Charlotte Lumley; then,'whether she has you or not, the condition will be ful filled, and the estate yours. I can delude you With the hope of no other way, Sir." •• • " Let this be the last time I eve` hear that proposal of dishonor from yodelips I Very well, Mr. BulTum, oppress the orphan ; keep the property, Sir, and much good may it . do you I" "So I will, Sir I So I will—to the last foot of ground—to the last cent of money ! Every rational argument is on my . side." " Aro you a villain, Mr. Buffum ?" "Draw your conclusions, Master /idol For a moment the young man looked at his senior fis if about to .pitch into him bodily ; then his old habit of regard for authority got the better of him, and changing the expression of wrath for one of contempt, he turned his back on Mr. Balfour and left the room. One of his favOrite retreats when harassed with protracted spinning in his guardian's do mestic maelstrom had always been the house of Jetries the coachman—a cottage on the property of Mr. Buffum, nearly a quarter of a mile from the great house, neatly kept by a tidy wife; who also acted as dairy-woman of the estate, and a veritable Lotus Bay to any who might seek repose from premise and con clusion. For not only could Adolphus there solace himself with emollient fresh cream and pot-cheese, but James and his wife, as them selves would say, were both Irishmen; and where could any body get further out of tits atmosphere of logic than In such society as that ? Intending therefore to divert his mind and cool his fever'by an hour's gossip with the two good-natitred Pitddywhacks, and a comfortable pall at his cutty as he sat 'at the 1)00 in their best hichnry bottomed easy chair, Adolphus now threw honself with angry but gradually moderating' strides toward the coachman's cottage. Just as he entered the muse by the front-door he was suro he saw a retty face and figure slip out of the back one. In all the world there is no "such fascinating ntrodnction to a woman as that Ile um, sure she had not gone.far. Ho felt hat exhilarating palpitation of heart, that cate titillation 61' brain, which assures a young maa that his suspicions are correct—that the charming creature is peeping through the blinds or watching in the shrubbery. lie found James nursing a sore finger, tarn on a nail in the cow-house, in muslin swath- lugs ample for the envelope of any reasonably sized baby—" quite kilt" by his wound, as his nation are wont to beat eVeiy affliction, from a death in the family •to corns—but solacing his woe in a manner equally national with something red which his wife had,mixed him in a tumbler, and, for a " kilt" person, begin- ning to feel pretty resigned. After imparting his friendly condolence, not only by words but in the more expressive mode of slipping a dollar into Maggie's hand " to get something to make James comfortable," he feigned to depart, then turned on his heel and made the casual inquiry : "Oh, by-the-way, can yon tell me the name of the old lady who slipped out of the back door just, as I came in ?' " llivin bless yer kind heart, Misther Adol phus !" cried Maggie. "Ay, an' open yer eyes too, if ye can't till the' difference, at your time o' M, God bliss mc, betwane an ould woman, and the prettiest girl in all Cobble Counthy !" "You don't mean to say that the person who went out of this house as I came in wits a pretty young girl?" "Faix an' Ido that. It was Miss Lotty Burrill, and her dither owns the farm next Mr. linlfum's—only he's dead now, poor cowl— sorra for hint !—and she and the mother are lift alone to tind it. Bad work they make of indade ; and no wonder, for it's not soy to image them t'arm•hands when there's a man do it, let alone a pair ot' sorrowthl women l" "Ilas Miss Burrill gone horml ?" Troth and that's more than I eau say, Si. AS soon as James kilt his linger in the cow house 1 ran across the field to get her—for she has a wonderful knowledge o' doctherin', end many's the time she's been good to us alriddy.. But as soon as she beard a gintleman at the dhoor she went out like a young deer—for she's shy of strangers—and she said she'd walk in the garden a bit till you was gone." " Well, Maggie, I want to thank her for taking such good care of you and James, Supposii you just call herd n and introduce me." " Very, well, Misther Adolphus." Maggie openedithe bank-door and calleda .. "Miss Lotty I West ;Lolly ! Darlint, can ye be afther eivin' one. to o l luk at Jamps's linger ber' re you go mica e mouser r From the length of time-which elapsed be fore any answer was returned, It seems un questionable that Miss Lotty must have been at some very distant portion of the premises; where looking in at the blinds was absolutely impossible. At last, however, the young lady came in. Without the slightest idea that any body was present save her Irish proteges, and with cheeks flusher by her late exercise in the gar den, she tripped tip to examine that dolorous bale of unbleached muslin, James's linger ; then, with the prettiest little air of trepidation and surprise, catching sight of Adolphus, made a half step back tow and the door again. "Miss Murrill," said Maggie, with • frank brevity, "tins hOlisther Adolphus that I've tould ye of so often." The young lady bowed modestly, and amended .Veggie's nomenclature by murmur ing. "Mr. Shearsworth." I could not bear to leave the house, Miss BurrilV said Adolphus, " without expressing the gratitude felt by myself (and I am sure I may speak for Mr. Bottum too)' for your re peated acts of kindness to these favorite family servants." " Pray don't mention it, Sir. The little I can do for diem is a great pleasure to me." "ht deed I don't doubt that ; I can easily believe that kindness is your favorite luxury ; but it none the less demands au acknowledg ment. I have been for sometime Intending to make a call upon Mrs. Burrill and yourself for that purpose 7113 wall as 'neighborly courtesy. But you. know that business is the order of the day at Mr. Bulfum's and until now I have beets detained, very much against my wishes, I can assure you. May I have the happiness of walking home with you, and being intro duced to your mother this morning?" The young ladyassented witha blush of in nocent pleasure ; and as the two went out of James Kilpatrick's door together that patient sufferer gave Maggie a knowing wink out of the tail of his eye, and pointed at them with the invalid ringer. An artist of the High Ideal school would have chosen a different repro- Sentative for the linger of Fate—Might probil bly have preferred for his material bronze or marble to enroll of ounbleached muslin ; but Fate is no respecter of: high art schools,. and the linger could not have been more signifi cant, more prophetic.' The young lady" who had accepted Adol phus's. convoy was a clear rosy brunette of eighteen, with those great soft brown eyes which lure a Mall of his temperament as far into good or evil as any human motive can make him' If with those eyes , she had pos sessed ft nose the least bit reiroiase, she would have been the wickedest ,of coquettes ; the most fiery of,Jectlous sweet -hearts that a young man ciiuld'peril his peace with; had that nose been keedly aquillhe. It was neither of these, but our American improvement on the Gre cian, straight as Asimsia's, but with a more spirited, more generous nostril, defined front the brow more clearlk—our Now World fem inine nose of character and common-sense. VII this description (some one may grumble) lavished on the nose of a young country girl 1 But nay; my friend, any nose that is a nose at all is 'worth it ; • fur that feature is a most Won derful index of nature, despite all the posts who have given it such a gingerly go by. Add to these details a beautiful mouth—beautiful though aw far as posSible from those on the outside of French perfume-boxes, or pouted in everlasting silliness throughout the "Beau Monde" and the " Gulerie pour hire." Not BS least loveliness to Adolphus—and the ini pression grew upon Itimwas that it looked as If It never had been, never could be, the gateway of logic. And as they went toward Mrs. Burrill's, and the first timidity of the in terview wore away, he saw plainly that she was a girl who talked front her womanly Iteart ; and, being pure end unselfish, who was always intuitively right in her perception of the regions where slip ventured. Scarcely had they traveled a - •furlong of fresh, green mea dow-land together when Adolphus said, In confidenee With his own -bosom "This is the girl Lodi fall- In love with I". A little path, wandering through the clover without,any logical argument for Its course, brought' the two up to the house and Mrs. Build)]. . . • " Mr: .Shearsworth,: mother, We feraud each otherat James Kilpatrick's, and I invited him over to take breakfast with:us. I know he'll excuse our family arrangements If he's as hungry as I am." ' Adolphus started. In his , altercation with Mr. Buffum hqhad forgotten breakfast entire ly, but his new friends put him at his ease In a moment. " Breakfast dos been waiting an said Mrs. Burrill, as soon as she had welcomed her ROBERT TREDELL, .TR., Vain attb group lob Printer, No. 47 EAST HAMILTON STREET, PRINTING . . .• . . LAMT STY LES Stamped Checks, Cards, Circular., Paper Hooke, Conch' Wien. and It .Laws School Catalogue., 13111 Heads Envelope., Letter !leads Bills or Lading, Way Sill., Tag. and Shipping Card.. Yoder. of arty size, etc., etc., Printed at Short Noticei NO: 35 guest. "Let us sit down directly. Eliza may begin to fry the cakes." Adolphus forthwith took his seat bet Ween the mother and daughter at a cosy little round table covered with spotless linen, and felt as If he was about breakfasting with the gods. There was coffee, with no arguments upon the subject either : of its adulteration or probable effect in producing degeneracy of the fidiban species ; crisp pork fried in batter, and not a sign of any disquisition upon the Levitical stat utes against the pig; rice-cakes, without the seasoning of a debate upon the slave labor which produced their basis. 0, this was hea ven I A clean motherly face in a clean mother ly cap on ono side, and Lotty Burrill's on the other t 41. Was delightful to he asked how Mr. Buf- Alm's stock was doing; if the new Beach cows gave as much milk as the Aldcrneys how the cross between the Berkshire and the Chinese pigs turned out ; and if there was any prospect of the sorghum's succeeding. Mr. Buffum had prize-cattle ; but he had always forgotten their horns when talking with Adol phus in his anxiety to get him on those of a dilemma. He had pigs ; but whether they rooted satisfactorily or not was of far less con sequence with hint than the root of the discus sion. He had planted several acres with the Chinese sugar cane ; but instead of interesting Adolphus in his saccharine projects, he had continually directed his attention to the Attic salt. Now that Adolphus could sit quietly over a good breakfast and enjoy that, amicable con versation without debate, for which he was still hungrier, a profound peace, - as the tier mans say, settled into 'his soul ; and the thought of guardian Baum taming over his lonely coffee without a creature to squabble never once entered his head. Oh ! it Was an ambrosial breakfast ! The meal being over how could he resist Lotty's invitation to the barn, to look at the motherless lamb she was nursing ? And after he had patted the little creature and admired it to her heart's content (or its mistress through it, their fingers meeting accidentally in the soft wool), what logical motive could prevent his beholding her garden—the violets which might be plucked to put in her glossy hair, the heliotropes which she could stick in his button-hole ' blushing when she said, " Don't you know they mean devotion V feigning to pull them out again ; but finally, on his earnest entreaty, granting him permission to keep _ them there. And at last, when he felt that he really must go ; that it was nigh noon, and Mr. Bantu would be wondering what had become of him, why should she not go down to the boundary fence with him, walking slowly as if. there were no Baum in the world to wonder? Why, before they parted, should he nut ven ture to re-arrange the one , violet which had drOpped, as they went, front its place in her silken braids? And Why should she not say that really it seemed to her as if they had been children together? Then he leaped the fence and walked hme. scarce daring to look over his shoulder lest their eyes should meet, yet unwilling to go without one last lingering glance at her, and again repeating to his heart that earlier im parted confidence : " This is the girl whoM gill fall in love with !" " Well, Sir !" was the salutation with which Mr. Butfum met hint ont.he piazza. " What reason have you to .plead for staying away from breakfast ?" "None," replied Adolphus, with especial coldness, "save that for once I have been so fortunate as to breakfast without reasons." For the next few weeks Mr. Baum daily grew more and more desolate ; lie had not been so unhappy since the day when lie found that you cannot argue as mach as you want to even in a lawsuit. For now he could not argue at all. Adolphus Shearsworth never vouchsafed a syllable more to hint than was require(' oy at 'OM Llf uteest‘nyonto s,mui mast of his time out of Use house—Mr. Bunco knew not where—without the slightest pretense of accounting for his absence. How many thou sand times did lie wish front the bottom of his heart that Charlotte Lumley were at Halifax ; that old Shearsworth had had any other topic on earth to think of in that solemn hour when he made his final testament. But he had taken his ground with Adolphus—he could not back down without confessing himself de fendant in error, the mere thought of which made him yellow with chagrin. His pride lot • might have overcome, fin he loved the boy ; but, oh, his idolized log c ! The thing was rational I incontrovertible ! irrefutable ! He must carry out the commatuls of his testa tor ! lle had no option ! There I Ile was right ! Ho knew he was ! Under any other circumstances Adolphus. would have been equally miserable. lie was a youth of warns and generous impulses, and had acquired a sincere affection for his guard ian. Mr. Buffum, when his ward's back was turned, often looked on him wit.k.tt sigh. "Poor boy, how dreadfully this troiMe will prey upon his mind ! afraid he'll go into a consumption." But, as usual, Adolphus defied all the log ical processes, and showed no signs either of consumption or wear. He exhibited ti sus tained frigidity of demeanor which would have made his fortune if any railway company which pays no dividends could have put him inside its office rail to answer the stockholders' questions. Ills cheeks wore a healthier bloom, his eyes a clearer brightness, than Mr. Buffum had seen there'since his ward entered Aristotle Cottage. Thus the guardian's prem ises "fell down and broke their crown," and his conclusions, like Gill, " came tumbling after." Thus. he became still more piqued, still more determined not to bate one tittle of his determination. Thus these two of tln most excellent people in the world made ad mirable progress In the. familiar art of misun derstanding each other. The source front which Adolphus drew his cheerfulness was quite out of sight of Mr. Buf fum. lie knew the Burrills only by name, and had never discovered any rational argn , ment for going to see them. ,lle merely felt that, being women, they were wholly illogical, incapable of fair discussion, and so altogether unprofitable to a man with his serious pur poses In existence. Meanwhile Adolphus wits paying daily, sometimes bi- (or oven fri-) di urnal visits to these unprofitable folks ; and at every interview becoming more convinced that his own end in life was not Logic but Love. As for the Burrills, they saw in Adolphus a young man whose age entitled him to Judge for himself. That less than another year of tutelage intervened between hint and his en trance on his property was but a trivial consid eration to the mind of Mrs. Burin ; and if any body had asked Lotty whether it would not be unprincipled to fall . in love with a young man personally worthy of that distinc tion prior to obtaining the permission of his guardian, she would have looked through the inquirer with those clear-brown eyes of hers, . and blown away the conventional fallacy which constitutes the plot ;of: half the British 'plays and novels with such a healthy laugh as must have taken the logic even out of Mr. Buffum. Fortunately, howeve?, Wilt mother and daughter had acquired such a personal attachment for Adolphus that any question whatever relating to his property wits with them a matter of but small moment and infre quent thought. Accordingly, when the first distinct avowal of his love. to totty, made necessary that he should frankly take them both Into his confidence with reference to his father's will and Mr. Buffum'S determination, the only alloy to the happiness with which each In her proper way welcomed him into the family was the true feminine indignation with which they sympathized against his gtundian's cruelty and baseness. —' The morning after Adolphus's fate was de cided the frigidity which for Me lust few weeks had characterized breakfasts at Aristotle Cot tage, was thawed as abruptly as If Vesuvius had suddenly broken up through the bottom of the cellar. Mr. 13uffum sat reading his paper and sip ping coffee between paragraphs with the most visible Intention of ignoring Adolphus's exiit ence. Adolphus deliberately cracked an egg, salted It, stirred It, and set the glass down— buttered a slice of bread, sweetened and cream ed•his coffee, cut himself a piece of steak, and spread his napkin on his knees. With each of these acts his manner grew more decided, and reached Ms, stern culmination In the first CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE UPSTAIRS, ALLENTOWN, PA =1