T ERAS; .0 F AMt E'•R • I Si NG' • • in 00 rat 'Per each kutitlltietit cT 31e Myer. tisemetits,. "Legil Notice!' „ • Oarite "Dbittikey gl,ti Loa an' Onufmbofc..q - ,c)py •$ , !)1 ,grig..lo matte• son prl- YAW Intoroots coup: , PPr. • Aldi'." ' 'loo.kiftlbttlNo.—Our Job Printing Office Is the l'argelit 'and most 'Complete establishment in the Jou y.. Four good Presses, and a general variety of material suited for plalband Fancy work of every us to do Job Prlntingat the shortest iiiiibe;itfti On the most reasonable terms. Persons Id WantOf gulls, Blanks, or anything in the Jobbing lino, will fled It to their intorestke glee Us a call. gacal ginfotmatioa. 'U.' S. tbirifaii4firiT 4'relident—AnwA33 LINOoLN, , Nice Progidont—AlANNtuso: IfA'efuff, - 13ocrotory of Stato—Wm. tlioortittiry of InOrinr—fx6. - P: Vaunt. f-ocrotary of Treasury—Wlf. P. Vssoo:r000, Rocrotary' of Way—PDWIN M. STANTON, SocroEory of Navy—GiomoN :IV F.1.1.E6, FOAL ,taster GourralloNioomonr BLAIR, A ttornoy s.ionoral—P;OWAlLD BATES, Jugtloe of the United S Rtes—lion En 13 TANEY, ' STATE UOVE[tNMENT ' , 3overnor-10nurw 0. Cf., ItTIN, finern ary of rt.:oo-16d Su Felt liarreyer Osn,ral—.ll . . BARI, ditor Oenural-101AC $13.3 LER, qlret,oruoy 0011er/0— WM. M. EOM:IITR. 40a.1 11 ,ta 0 Onneral—A L te Prertottrer—litfOrr 11 Montle. fjliofJu•tac of Chu Supremo Court—OSO. W. WOOl, WA RD COUNTY OFFICIIItS Won Went Judge—llon: darnea 11.0rnbam. Anso2lz:o Judges—lion. Michael Conklin, lien fltigh Stuart. District Aqornoy—J. W. D. ()Melon. I , ,,,thiw•Ltry—Sa•nuttl Shir.:ounk Clark nn 1 line .rder :ph rat to l'ornman, Itoglgtor—Goo W. North. nitth mhorild—d, Thf,olp.o . County rro.isar,--lienry S. it it; or. Conner —Dtvi I :".11th Count) , Cdm ntAsloodrs—Nliehnol Molt, John hI !oi, itcrho II 31 cObil k o y eLl i n ,, , n eu t t i n a t ij oi 1 1 ' ) , r mr Iv Ido , ve— Da l i l e enry Snyder. Ybygielin to Poor House—Dr. W VV. DAlo. L----. 1) EOROUG II OFFICERS Chief Burg . Andrew B Ziegler. 1134 1.0,11 t, l 111,0 n TitkV ll ~../(1.11, I —l'; In I. 111111, heart Toithu t P lusher .1. •5 U. L 1,1. WiDtt NV., L rr ) I. • t‘r. •... A. 11lit1,- tart, Jut). It ..Pir,oir, .011 U. Council, 1. Ca.lll.,rt. hurl. Jo , High , 1.1-ti nel It ..rl ilonglablo Andra 11, Lia. ..1653..ur • lon .tan Is n tdssessora,J no iblo S. flno tom 13=1 I ‘, “ lolloctor A Itrnd .11.11ititt heart_ Ward Donee tort,— E 11" C 1 ,.. A .. , 11111.1k. W..L Void, 0. , Corniu la, Streut t; ,, t",.nisti.on IPurley 14 Unit,llo4, Jan. alit of up rester, Ils.vid Smith A beta 1):114u1r. 31'1,2.11 llolcomb: Lig4 Lori; —Chas. 13. Uncle, Janica Spnoglur. CHURCHES Vlrst Preebyti.ri...tetitorll.lCortiovost angle ocCen. Ire SLlt'ro. 'tee C way P. Wing Pastor every Sunday Morning at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7 O'CiOCK P. St. Sac;;,, I Vrosbyte ri,,, ur, 1,, corn or of S.utl, ovor and P.aurret Ntratds Kay. Jt/1111 CBl is, Pastor Servd•as coaltnence at 11 o'cl,k, A. M., and 7 n'e,ock I'. M. St..leh Chu] ob. (Prot Eplaeopal) northeast angle of Centre Sq.., ltur. .I I' Clere. tle,Loe SOrViieh • t O'CiOck oil n'elnea. l' NI. 1.1101.1 . .1.1 l;ilur• It. ISedlord, but tv,•on tnd Le.o.itil, .4.r t 1.1., , ot• Fry. Stir vices at 11 ' lark A. . acid t I' 31. 11 , 1ortn,1!'llurc.1. 1. , 1111-r. hr tw I`./ 11/111 Dyer all 1 Pit& stretel, : 1 111111d l'a!itur Sorylo.s.a 1! ..'elo•I‘ A. M.. nti..7 Ii M. arch 0,1 citAr4o I.l.rttor ut \ and Pitt. >tr q.t... Rev 111./1111, IL Sitt•rlDelt, tiotvitses At I I Wyk , k A NI.. 11.1117 o'clitt.k I' NI. 3loth Char. h (se ,. .md chnr_..) fl v S. I Donn In. l'Astor. :irvive, I. Emory M o'clock t. andP. M. - Church of :out 1, WeA. ~nr of \Vest St. and, Chapel Atte). Lev. Lt. 1.. Buck, at 11 a, en., and tit. p.ro t. Patrlck's Oath,' ic Church. Pomfret near East pt. Rev P.t•t.,r Services every other bath. at 10 n'eln,k. V,spelt• at. IP. )1. i4eir:rrtn Lotrber l'n•trill. ei.rner • f Prlrlfret. atnl Bedford sCr.to s. !Lee C. Prltzu, l'astur. :en Ices at linden I'. H. o,S.Whon r , Vin4e, In els ,f 1 are necessary the proper pJriuua are reque,Led L•ILAU) US. =I DICKINSON COLLEGE Rnv liermon . M. Jolittsuo, D. D. Prll4l II and Pro form, ot sciooro. 1.5%11iun U. I. 'll, 1.1,11,50 r otlured Science Ind Juratorn Like da-emu. U 6 7 .411114. A Greek ant ;Ord) to htnanaltia anal D ttlllaLia, A. +I., Prole n tr of M tthninat John K Stays❑ n, A. M., l'r,,fos,o, ot the Latin and ouch I,tnguages. ti. sirs haul. LL. Il . I . rntol.sor of Law. Rev. Henry 0. Cut,,,,u, A. II , Prtnelp.ll the Gram 0100 i. John Hood, Afonstaut in the Grammar School. BOARD OF SCHOOL, DlitEcToits E. (loratwin. Pro.ideut, Janles .laluiltou, II :+ax,o R. C. ).% oetward, Homy N.luun. 1111111.11,711 Sdet'y , 3 W. ;by, Tre.h.th - or. Joh. Me,eibtal Meet on the Iht Alreoley ui each Mouth at a o'clock A at littueAtion CUR l'utt.t NUNS CV11.1.1912 DEP .BT II kNIS. -1'1.4 , 11.1a, Ft M .Honder son, W 71. Itoetem Cahn .1 1' II Ls:de, and U B. r Tellers, W. 11, 11.thler Cleric Ull terwoo Mrt. sen_v• Direetors, st It 11.101-,on, PreAdent %Voo,ivrard. Sidles Woodburn. Moses Brielter, John Zll4, W. W. Dale, John U. tlor„ , „ts, Jo..fpli J. Logan, Jno Stuart, jr. Fisir Nan! )41.1. 11016 —Vrovi.l.mt. SAmuul Hepburn Co bier. Jos. C Under, Feller, Abner C. Brlnd.e, Sirs on ger, Jesse Brown Wm Ku r, .101 n Du map, itieli'd Woods, John C. Dunks, seer Brenneman, John Sterrett, Saint Ilepburn, Inroctors. 0.11.101...IlL.1•1 , nI.I.LY it t I Lilo to C ssr —l . roiddent Frederick I .Vatt, ,e..retnr and TroeSurer. Edwari Id. 111 ',ln, lota .dent, Lull trains thrill, ti.nos a ILly A4,0E111110 a thol K ndar 4rd. lei rem i!irli,h• Sq. nrriving at Car lisle 521 Cur ,il4ll u.lll A 11 and 2 42. I'. 51. l% es %in:a at 1 .1.27, A. 11 , and 2.55 Id. CUU,IiI.G ilw OD Ws; Ell CWIPOIT. - Prel.ill , llC. LI.III - rrwt4tirer, A L. Sp Ill• ler; , 111,11111.4. , . , ...01`, Onorge Oirect. re, F. Wxt.t.l, Wm. Al. iteetett.t E. H. 1111 , 11 P. Ilonry Saxton. L. '. Woodward, J. Si rattou, V. ,nr Lads an I in. 8, (Ina. SOCIETIE:i CumhPrinn Stxt Ln14.5 No. Y moots AI Mpri , pt, Ilnll .on thet 2.2 and 4th Ttu•r.4.,)B e. et month St John's Loire No 211., 1. \lm•tx .31 I•l,ury day of each mow h, nt •Innis 14 11. Carlisle 1,v14, \ VI I evening. st Iront'g 16111,1 in Letort Lo4e No. 63, I. I) ol iI 1' \lents ever Thursd..y avunh g in I be, in's lieu] lEEE FIRE COMPANIES Tho Union Fire Company wn organized In 1780 House In Lonelier between Nit and Hanover The Cumberland Fire t_bnpary was instituted Feb 18,1800. House in Badfurd, between Mein en Penn frat. Tim Good Will Fire Company was instituted In TrfaralL 1855. House In Pomfret. mar Hanover The Empire Hook and Ladder Company was inatitu• tad in 1850. House In Nit. near Main. RATES OF POSTAGE Postage.nn all letters of one half ounce weight or under. 2 conta pro paid. Postagi on the Ul IiAI.D within the County, free, Within tho State 13.conts per 1141111l111). T.' any part orthn United States, jI cents Postage nn all Iran 4,114 ptpers. 2 cents per ounce. Advertised letters to be charged with cost of advertising Ladles , Fancy Furs. A P ,s all my Pura were 4 a much lower pre mium than at preeent, I am enabled tcrdlepone . of them at very;rear erinable prlcoe, ..d.I veld therefore eollclt call from ray Mends of Stemetber the Name, Number and Street • - - JOON 118 Archlit above 7th, Pouth fide. Phila. " I have no partner, per conneetlou with ail otner, store In Philadolphia.•.' September 9, .1804-4 m .•.: tiIIOTOGRAPII.IO' i • " plait 'et;reet,oppiielte the National Bank, In 11,1re..Netra . ,-; : . • , July,24, • . .k., eaR ,..N,... . CO's. well.known MK :0-• -,, .....EONS 11.1)4.1.141.A510N10U5, Introdo.c4lB the 0A oCterdal Lie, on evoryinetruniont, EA.i.1.111k4T.0 A 11L1,11V13 . . .. —, . . .. . • 11.AVEIV& BACON'S eu4 , 11A.LLTIT;ISAVIS &bo., CoietaateatilANOS for each pd. a I tthirai daaaation., ..; -. • .., ~. -. , ,1 . .. , ... ley... Oiof 30,08 Q sold. - - • -, 't M 1 'IVELLAK: BM A g ent, 270881.11fth.ntreut,Get.14Aedi-°n° BhllB o ".'urn, ithitoEol , ATHio. PHYSICIAN Surgeon .and AccO,tohouy; gkEiCE at, ,hia residenca ~ t oitt, .troot; adjoining the Mothoditt March. y 1 p 18e4, 26 00 4 00 7 00 HIS LEAVING IT TILL CALLED FOR. Tits writer of these humble lines be- ing a Waiter, and having come of a fami y of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers who are all Waiters, and likewise only sister who is a Waitress, would wish to•offer a few words respecting his calling ; first having the pleasure of hereby in a friendly manner offering the De(lica.;ion of the sortna unto JOSEPII, MUCh•reApeeLed Plead Waiter nt the Slamjana Coffee house, London, E. C., than which a individual more eminently deserving of the name of man, or a more amenable honor to his own head and heart. whether emsidered in the light of a Waiter, or regarded as a human being, do nut exist. Iu ci,s confusion should arise in the public mind (which is open to confu sion on in toy ',objects) rest- eating what is meant or implied by the term Waiter, the present It ruble lines would wish to offer xu eXplana.ion. It may not be general Iv known tht' the. person as'goes out to wait...is not a Waiter. It may I n be gen erally known that the hand as is called in extra, at the Freemasons' Tavern, r (he London, or the Albion, or otherwise, is not a Waiter. Such hands may be took on fur Public Dioncrs by the bush el (and you may know them by their breathing with difficulty when in attend anc. , , and taking away the, bottle ere yet it is half out), but such areyytWaiters.. For you can not lay down the tailoring, or the shoemaking, or the brokering, or the greemgrocering, or the pictorial pc riodwaling, or the second-hand wardrobe, or the small fancy, businesses—yma can not lay down those lines of life at your will and pleasure by Hi.: half day ir even ing, and take up Waitermg. You may suppose you can, but you can not ; ur you may go so far as to say you du, but you du not Nor yet can you lay down the gentleman s-service when stimulated by prolonged incompatibility on the part ut Cooks (and here it may be - rem iraLd that Cooking . and Ineompatihility will be Incigtiy found united), and take up utt ering. It has been tueertained that what a gentleman will sit week under at. home Ile Mil nut Le-r out ut hunts , at the Siihn- jaw ur ail) tr Professor of the what, tlio ittfortuce to be tit aWii I e:-.l)vel. Ing true 11 atter ttg! luu u.O c be bled to It. Yull Ulthl t c bt,rii Iv It Would 3uu know IluW born to it, Fair Itcader—il tit the u arable leinAle sex! then learn tram the biographical expert enee of 011.1 that is a Waiter in the sixl- tilst }ear ut !its age. You were eonve)Ld, ere yet your dawn tug 1 ewers w, re otherwise tkvelope,l titan to barb ,r vacancy 1,1 your —you wi.re by sump 'duos into a viiitty adjoining the Idindat .Nel s,Jti, Civic and General Dining 'towns, time to rcceivc h that lhaltlitu, susienaoce which is die pride and boast of the British female con.siitui ion. Your ow, bur %nib warned to Jour lath r Oita ,eit a distant Waite') 111 the pi ofoun .uto ~ecieey ; lur a Waltrehti to be War led weld ruin the best of 6118111Cose,+— It is the Same as un tile stage. Ilene • you, beirr„; sinu,igleir Into Lie poetry, ai.d that—iu add to the nitlicoon - by an un willing, grandmother. ruder tire cum blued rutluer.ce of the smells of roast and rimier!, and soup, and ga--, and Inuit by orm, you pit took ot .• ir.test nom , , our un wiiiirr2, grandmother SU wig prepared to caieli you when your inottir:'r miscalled aid dropped you; your grandmother's shawl ever ready to stithi your natural complainings : your inn° cent mind surrounded by unconi:enial cruets, dirty plates, dish-covers, and cold gravy ; your mother calling down the pipe for veals and perks, instead ofsooth frig ru with nursery rhymes. Under these untoward circumstances you were early weaned. Your unwiiing grand mother—ever growing more unwilling as your food assimilated less—then con tracted habits of shaking you till your system curdled, and your food would not assimilate at all. At length she was no longer spared, and could have beenthank fully spared much sooner. When your brothers began to apperir in succession, your mother retired, left off her Smart dressing(she had previously been a stnart dresser) and her dark ringlets '(whieli bud previously been flowing), and • hunted your father late of • nights, lying in wait firr him through all weathers, 'up the shabby court which led to the- birok-dour of the Royal Old Dust-I3inn (said to have been so named .by tieorge the )fourth); when your father , was Head. , But the Dust-Bion was going down then ? ' ,aCtl• your father took but little—e.geepting— from -a liquid point of vier, Your tooth: er's object in those was of a ii 011136: jceeping character,. and you was set on to 'whistie'your father; out SotisOtintes, he came .out, but generally not. Come or not however,,all that . part of 'his ekieteinin,r bleb 'wavunconneoted: with open Waitering waskepf , cIoSO .. scOret, i and Wa9...ticknowleflged by,Yourimother .:e=a_cilese-'seciet, and you and ,oufttnithL =BM 001 IN FAREIRA'S Id Notabllohod F U manufactory No. 718 Aroh Street, ovo 7th, l'hilatiolp to have now in otore of own Impbrtittion id ;I)leittutiteture, one the Largest end most iutitul nr lections of FANCY FURS, Ladles' Children's lar in the city. _Alen, flue assortment of nt.'s Fur Gloves and e:rfiktted ebont the ,conrt, close .aeorehi both of ion, and .would•seareely thavicom , feeeeti in'idetixiituro tbiticin knew your VOL.. 64. RHEEDI & WEAKLEY, Editors & Proprietors A Christmas S ory by Ditkens SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE AI, , , • , • • ' • IL 0 , • _ . fattier, or that your father had any name than Diok (which wasn't his name though he was neVer known by any other), or that he had .kith or kin or chick or child. Perhaps the attraction of this mystery, combined with your father's having a camp compartment to himself, behind a leaky cistern, at, the Dust-llinn—a sort. of a cellar compartment, with a sink in it, and a smell, and a plate-rack, and a bottle rack, and three windows that didn't match each other or any thing else, and daylight—caused your young mind to feel convinced that you must grow up to be a Waiter too; but you did feel con vinced of it, and so did all your brothers, down to your sister. Every one of you ' felt convinced that you was born to the Waitering. At this stage of your earner, what was your feelings one day when your father came home to your mother in open • broad daylight—of itself an net.of Mad bees on the 'part of a Waiter—and took to his bed (leastwise, your mother and family's bed), With the statement that his eyes were deviled kidneys. Physicians being in vain, your father expired, after repeating at intervals for a day and a night, when dreams of reason end old. bminiess fitfully illuminated his being, "'Fivo and two is eve. And three is six pence.'' Interred in the parochial depart ment nt the neighboring churchyard, and accompanied to the grave by as many Waiters 01 long standing as coil il sp.!): the inorniog time from their soiled (namely, one), your bereaved turn was 'attired in a whitentickanltecher, and you was took on from motives of benevolence at The George and Gridiron, -theatrical and supper. Here, soppoiting nature ott what you fount in the plates (which w,,s as it happened, aud but too often thought lessly immersed in mustard), and on what you found in the glasses (which rarely went beyond dribblets and lemon), by night you dropped asleep standing till you was cuffed awake, and by day was set to polishing every individual article in the cuff , e-l'uolli. Your couch SaW4IISt ; your CoUntcrpane being ashes of cigars Here, frequently hiding a heavy heart under the start tie it oti• whiteneckankecher Or correctly speak lower down and More to the left), you picked up the rudiments of knowledge from an extra, by the name of Bishop , arid by ea:ling platewasher, and tzr.ti u fy clevflotg your mind with ellidk (.11 liaek of the co: tier box partiti tin. id such title as pit] used the ink stand WI ti it %%a-, ~tit 4d . liand,attairted d and to be ;lie Wbiter that yuu fi•ld p iirm li I could wish L.re to oflcr a few re speclful words on behalf of Ile calling so long the calling. of myself' and family, and the writhe interest in which is but to. often very limit«l. We ale not 12. ,q,,e a l ly'understood. No we are not. Allow alle. enough is nit made for us. For. say that we aver show a lit It! drooping listlenes.: of spirits, or what might, be termed indifference or apathy. Put it to yourself what world your own state of mind you was one of an enormous family every merrier of which except you was.alvorys greedy and in a hurry. l'ut it to yourself that you was regularly re illete with annual fool at the slack hours of one in the day and again at nine r. an I that the repleter you was the turn. volaeions all your fellow-ereatnres mime in. it to yourself that it was your husiness, when your dipiestion was well or . to take a personal interest and syni pohy in a hundred gentlemen fresh and t' es! k , riy, for the sake of argument, only a hundred), whose imaginations was giv en up to grnase and fat and gravy and we ted butter, and abandoned to tines tioning you about cuts of this, arid dishes of that —each of'em going on as it' Idol and you and the bill-of-fare was alone in the world. Then look what you are ex . petted to know. You are never out, hut they seem to think you regularly attend every where. What's this, Christopher. that I hear about the smashed Excursion Train?" "How are they doing at the Italion Opera, Christopher?" "Christo pher, what are the real particulars of this business at the Yorkshire Ban':?" Sim ilarly a ministry gives me more trouble than it gives the Queen. As to lord Pal merston, the constant and wearing con nection into which I have been brought with his lordship dUring the lust' few years is , deserving of a pension. Then louk at the hypocrites we are made, and 'the lies (white 'I hope) that are forced up on us: Why must a sedentary pursuited 'Waiter be considered to be a judgelof horse fle..h, and to have a• most tremen demi interest in horse-training and rasing?. Yet it wouldbe half our little incomes Out of our pockets if we didn't nate ply to have those sporting tastes. Iris the , saute (inconceivable why!) with Farm ing equtdly.so.. I am ,sure that so regular as. the months of August, ' Beptetaber, and,October come round, I am shamed of myself in nay 'own private bosom forAhe Way io whet;l make be-, lieoe to care 'whether or' not the grouse'! iH strefig on the 'wing (much' their . wiitgi or dium-sticks either• signifies to 111(5,urr poOrti41) and whether:. the partridgeS' plentiful among among the turnips, and whether, ,t o peasants is shy or .r-ttnytiiit4 v else you pleasti,to mention. Yet ycnimaY see me,'or boy other Waiter Of my stand• t • it IL! • ILI I I it, . r. Ifit‘ • . • Eli =I CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, PECEMI3EM ,23,.'1864. =1 Ling,'holdiog on .by the back of the •tamr. and leaning . inyer a gentletrian ,with ; li4i purse out and his bill before him, discus sing these.pointSitLa eonfidontial_ trine of voice, as if my happiness in life'entirely depended on 'em. I have mentioned our little incomes. Look at the most unreasonable point of all, and the point on which the greatest injustice is done us! Whether it is ow ing to our always carrying so much change in our right-hand trowsers pocket, and so many half-pence in our ccint-tails, or RO.ether it is human nature (which I were' loathe to believe), what. is meant by the everlasting table that Head Waiters is rich ? flow did that table get into cis. culation ? Who first put it about, and what are the facts to establish the un blushing statement ? Come forth, thou slanderer, and refer the public to the Waiter's will in Poetess' Commons on porting thy malignant hiss I Yet this is su continunly dwelt, upon—especially by the screws who give Waiters the least— that denial is vain, and we are obliged, fur our credit's sake, to carry our heads as it' we were going into a business, when of the two we arc much more likely to go into it union. 'There was formerly a screw as frequented the Slanijain ere yet the present writer had quitted that estab itshrient on a question of tea-ing his as- . stsiant staff out of hni own pocket, which t3J;ew canted the taunt to its bitterest h iglith Never soaring above threepence, and as often as not groveling on the earth it p, tiny lower, he yet represented the present writer as a hare consul, a lender of money on mortgage, - a Capitalist. He das been overheard to dilate to our cos t ;wets tin the allegation that the present writer put out, thousands of pounds at interest, in Distili,eries and Breweries " Well, Cluistophcr," ho would say (having grovelled his lowest on the earth (tail,' a Liniment before), "looking out for a house 10 open, ell ? Can't find a btisi 'less to be disp,sed of on a scale as is up io your resources, Lutugh ? To such a diz,.y precipice of tills& hood has this nits• reioese,;:ta ion taken wing that, the well knu and highly respected OLD DAliLt,s, lung vulinetit at the West Conn my Mite!, and by some considered the of the Waitering, found himself tinder the obligation to tall into it through .-o tit .ny years that his own wife Cor.lie II id all U(tlicklililV/1 aid hid) iu bills ca I. - p ,ei tewarintim, I.) believed n : was the IVlii lii.. grave tin the >ll .u..lt.i. .1' six pickt,l X thole acting iet lklll bear, ail keeping step in a 'willing shower. without a dry eye visible, and aeoncoutse ad) inferior to Royally, his pantry and ittd,zin g s was equally ransacked and tow for propel ty and none WA, I . wnd flow could it be found, when, buyund hip ~,tit u n n.!hi> eJtect ion of waking •tieks, end"' pecker-handkerchiefs ( hieh happened to have been nut yet osp wed 01, though be had ever been through life punctual in clearing off his collections by the month), there WIIS uu property existing? Suet,, h, wever, is the fat ee of tl is utovcrsal libel that the wid ow of Old Charles, at the present hour an !Innate of the Almshouses of the Cork- Cutters' Co npany, in Blue Anchor Road (identified, sitting at the dour of cue of 'eat,' in a clean cap and a Windsor arm chair, only last Monday,), expects John's hoarded wealth to be found hourly 1 . Nay, ere yet he had succumbed to the grisly fart, and when his portrait was painted. in oils, life-size, by subscription of the frequenters of the IVe:4 Country, tti hang over the coffee-room chimney-piece, there was nut wanting chose who CUD tended that what is tel wed the accessories of such portrait ought to 'be the Bank of Eoglatid out of window, and a strung box on the table. And but for better-regu hoed minds oontending fur a bottle and screw and the attitude of drawing—and carrying weir point—it would have been so handed down to pstetiity. I am now brought,to.i iho . title of the present remarks. Having, I hope with out offense to any qua. ter, offered such observations as I felt it my duty to offer_ in a free country which has ever domina ted the seas, Mn the geberal subject, I will now proceed to wait on the particular question. At a tuoment.unus period of my life, when I was off, 'so far as concerned notice given, with a House that shall be name less—for the question en which I took ray departing stand was a fixed charge for Waiters,..and no. House as commits itself to that eminently 1.144.6g1i5h-tiot of-more than foolishnasa and' baseness shall bead. vertised a repent, at. raomentu - OUR - orisia ,- whenl was off with a House too mean; , : for,"mention, and not yet on .With .that,to. whiuh. L have over sines had the honor of, being..a.ttaehod in the espao-,, was castiogt about - what to do'next: - Then:it. were that proposals Were,made,tp,n,e onbehall'of my present eetablitihnient:, 'Stipulations . twero;rieces, i4lllArt.;:allaandations were.neces saii!on my part'; in the end, ratifications, beetled ' , on: heat sides . , as I. entered en-a• new .career; • • • . ;- ' IVe.hIPN , bipinesi and, .a coffee ioom'business. Wo aro not . a ..:entral dining litifness, *.tti nAnie , liddicia lanicti t l ,"ivitli'itiher fhlt partidulan, efl edlhrlWly etraelr cut. T 7,r eenge'qnetice, when diners drop.in, we 1 kno:Artwitat•to give 'em as will keep 'em away another time • We' are a Private Roomer Family business also; but Cof fee Room principal. 'Me and the 130,i' ..o tory,end the Writing Materials and treribeCupy a place to ourselves: ,a place to oaraelves fended off ttp a step or two at the end of the Coffee Room, in what I eall the good old-fashioned style. . The good, eld-fashioned style is, that whatev er yeti ! Want, down to a wafer, you must be alely .and solely dependent on the. Head Waiter for. You mint put your self a, neW r born Child into his hands.' There is no other way in whicka busi ness tiiitinged With Continental Vice can be conducted (It were bootless to add tha(if languages is required ',to be jab bered and,,Huglish is not good enough, both families and gentlemen had better go sennen - hore else ) When 1 began to settle down in this right-principled and well-conducted House ,I noticed under the bed in No . 24 B (which it is up a angle off the stair case, and usually put off upon the lowly minded) a heap of things in a corner. I asked our Dread Chambermaid in the course of the day: "What are them things in 24 B,?" To which she answered, with a care less . " gomeborly's Luggage." Regarding her with a eye not free from severity, I says : 'Whose Luggage?' Evading my eye, site replied; "Lor! llow should I know ?" —Being, it may be :right to mention a femille of some pertness, though ac quaiiited with her business. A. head Waiter or Tail. Ile must be as uue extremity or other of the social scale. Lie can nut be at the waist of it, or aoy. where else but the extremities. It is for him to decide which of the ex- t I _li.:LieS Ott the eventful occasion under consid eration I maire Mrs Pritchett so distinct lv to understand my deeision that 1 broke her spirit as toward myself, then and there and flu. good. Let nut ineonsist- ency, be suspected on account of my men tioulfig 3lrs Pratehett as '• rS an havii4f;brinerly remarked that a waitress must nut be married. Readers are re speodully requested. to notice that vir-. Va4:ll4,tit. was Dv a waLt S. ' u a;lt.un• liar maid. .\ ,ila.l /,/ 'y marrie if ilea I, cur ty 1- ULU It come, :o li alit Ii ii. a • e sp. essLe z :, what I ea Lomax ) . ( . .N. •;r. all I 11,, altre,s there is • the htu,lt.") Having tout; Jlra Praielict down fly pe;_rs ay was eAmntial to the ruin!. Inipploeb, ut all parties l rtAittek d to islul iii het,eit. For iii-tative." I Hay", to give her lI tie en, oil rav,elent "1 give )0u illy sacred huts r, 111 Christop answers Pratchutt, • that haven't me faintest nution."- But fur the manner in which she tic IV(' her cap strings 1 slmuld have daub, ed dui; but in re4pect of positiveness was hardly to be discriminated from u affidavit. '•Theu you never saw hiui ?' I follow ed her up with. "Nor yet,' said Mrs. Pratehett, shut ting her eyes and making as if she had just Wok a pill of unusual which gave a remarkable force to her denial—"nor yet any servant in this house. All have been changed. Mr. Christopher, within five year, and Soine.hi..dy left his Luggage here before then." Inquiry of Miss Martin yielded (in the language of the Bard of A 1) "confit illa tion strong So it had really and truly happened. Miss Martin is the young lady at the bar as makes out our bills; and though higher than I could wish, con sidering her station, is perfectly well hr. hayed. Further investigations led to the dis closure that there was a bill against this I,ll2,gage to the atuount of two sixteen rix Tho Legg ice had been lying under the bedstead in 21 B over six year. The bedstead is a four poster, with a deal of old banging and vailance, and is, as I once said, probably connected with more than, 24 Bs—which I remember my hear ers was pleased to laugh at the time. , I don't know why—when do we know why 7—but this Luggaga laid heavy on uiy wind I fell a wondering about Stone body, and, what ho had got and been up tu. I couldn't satisfy my thoughts why he should leave - so tnuell buggageuga i fist so swab h bill. - For I had the :Luggage 'out within a duy or two and turned it over s 'and the fhllowing were tne items.: A black portmanteau. a black bag, n desk, a dreksing.oase, a brown-paper parcel, a hat-blut,'aint• an umbrella sttapped"to :walkitigsticir. It was all very 'dusty and iittey. l t had our potter .ep to get under the hod and latch it out; and though he habitually wallows in 'dust—swims in it from tuorniug to night, and wears a close : fitting waistcoat with block ottliiminco eleevat for_ the I purpogt--:it made, him sneeze main, and the throat', was, that hoar with it that it was obligett.to,lie . oooledi with drink of Alltiopp's draft; h u trier - got-.-the-better-of—m: that fastead of having it put , •baek when, it: was well dusted and waahod with a wet ME MEM t i. i MI "wh)i S.lllleb , th 1 , , ' ''• -. 1. •:' .•;•, ~ 1 .;,•...: ;,..i; ~,,- i . : , I • I: ; '‘') :•• • : ii , I • 1 1 1 I . .. . ‘, A ' r . : ' • ' . cloth—previous to 'Which it was so-cover ed with feathers that you might have thotightit was turning poultry,, and would, by-and-by_begin to Lay--I say, in stead of haring it put back I . had it oar ried into one of wy places down stairs. There from time to time I stared at it and stared at it till it . seemed, to grow big and grow little, and come forward at me and retreat again, and go through all manner of perfonnances resembling in toxication. When this had lasted weeks —I may say months, and not be far out orie day' thought of •aslciag Miss Martin far the particulars of the. Two sixteen six total. She was so obliging as to erract it front the books —P. dating before her time-wand here follows a true copy : 1866 No. 4. February 24. Pon and paper 0 Port Negus 2 Ditto 2 Pon and paper 0 Tumbler broken 2 • Broody 2 Pen no I paper 0 Anch or toast 2 Pen and paper 0 Bed February ad. ten and paper 0 Breakfitat 2 Broiled ham gggE , 1 Watercresses 1 Shrimps 1 Pen and paper 0 Blotting paper 0 310550,1 g, to Paternostersrow and hank 1 Again, when No Answer' '" 1 1 randy 25., Deviled l'ork chop 4 Penn and paper 1 Meaacinn-r to Albemarle Street and hark 1 detined), .when No. Answer 1 6 Salteelair broken 3 6 Large Liqueur-glass Orange 1 6 Dinh : Soup. Flab, Inlet, and ird. 7 imttl.,l,l East India Dryer 8 0 Pen and paper 0 6 Mom : January 1, 1557. IL. ',tit out after dinner dlr.rting 1.11,411,nge t be reedy when be called fur it Never eallo.l ..So fur frOmTlifOiving a Tight upon tli-j-Shb ject, this bill appeared to me if I may so ex press my doubts, to involve it in a yet inure lurid hale. Speculating it over with the Mistress, she informed me that the luggage had been advertised in the Masters' time as being to be sold after such and such a day to pay expenses, but no further steps had been tabon. rosy here remark that the Mistress is it widow in her fourth year. The• Master w.ts p , S,CbSed of one of these unfor tunate constitutions in which . Spirits turn to Water, and rises in the ill starred Victims.) My speculating it over, nut then only but repeats diy, sometimes with the Mistress. -ometimes with one, sometiut .• s with anther, led rep tothe Mistress's saying to in • whoth- Vl' at fir-a in jOke ur iu earueSt, or half - joke :and half earnest, it matter• nut : Uhri.t,pher, .1 um going to wake you a hand-ow, tur.r." 1,11 thil; ,11,n1,1 me -t eyo—a lncic LI e. .y -hr taut t k.• it ill ui ii nt that if 1 a I•1,.111 tt•I: 'I 1 W , CI 11 11:I vi. (h) t' ::11 by hi.. . I ts n:11 t r .tit . 1; I' m.• tt , , lru 11.1 L, AL !II 1-( ,, 1,!1 , •r, I am g,,,ng y, h1tti.1,,,r11. , utf,•r l'at a llnnlo to it nia.itin '• Look lien•, Run oe-r th© trticks of Somebody's Luggage. You've it ;di by hevrt I know. ' "A black p•rtniatt °nu. 1111:1 . 11111, a black bag. a a dre. , ,,dir_;.d.nise, a brown-pap,r 1,,n.cc1, a hat-box, and un LIM brCI: a trapped to a walking stick." '• All just eu tiny were left. Noth opened, nothing tampered with." me right, ma'am. All locked but the brown piper parcel, and that sealed." The listress was leaning on Miss Mar tin's des:. at the bar-window, and she taps the open book that lays upon the desk —she has a pretty-made hand, to be shore—and bobs her head over it, and lau,hs. , " Come," says she, "Christopher. Pay ins Sum:hotly•s bill, end you shall have Sumebudf s luggage." 1 rather took to the idea from the first ; but, It mayn't be worth the money," I ob jected, seeming to hold back. That's a Lottery," says the Mistress, folding her arms upon the book—it ain't her bands alone that's pretty made: the ob servation extends right' up her arms— " NVon't you venture two pound sixteen shillings and sixpence in the Lottery? Why there's no blanks!" says the the Mistress, laughing and bobbing her head again, ''you must win. if you lose, yip, must win ! All prizes in this Lottery ! Draw a blank, and remember, Gentleman Sportsman, you'll still be entitled to a black portmanteau, a black hag, a desk, a dressing-case,lsheet of brown paper, a hat-box, and an umbrella strapped to a walking-stick!" To make short of it, Miss Martin come round me, nd Mrs. Pratohott come round me, and the Mistress ,sho was completely round me already, and all the women in the house come round me, and if it hud been Sixteen two instead of Two sixteen, I should have thought myself well out of it. For what can you do when they uo come round you ? So I paid tlio money—down—and such a luughing'ue. there was among 'em . But 1 turned the tables on'ein regularly, when 1 said : My family-name is Bull Beard. I'm going to open Sombody's Luggage all alone IP the Seeret Chamber, and not a female eye catches sight of the contents !" • I.Vhether I thought proper to have the firmness to keep to this don't_ signify, or whether any - &male eye, and if any: how many, was really present w 4 hen the opening of the Luggage caul° off. • Somebody's Lug gage, is the question at ,present: Nobody's .„ .• eyes, nor,yet noses. , , , • What I still loolcat •,niost, in I connection with 'that Luggage;' is the :;eitraorclinary quantity of !Ivt;iiing-paper, .written on!. ,n O A . our, Paper, neither—not the .paper\chargedln .the bill v 'for we know our paper-I-so he Must haye•hem alNsiii,l7,s 'at it.- , L--- And,he had ro3o.?,i,illoikiti'writing,pc `every, where, in every part. and parcel; of, his luggage. • There•waS writingin his dressing..; pass, writing in liis hoota,...Writipg aMeng his altalrlh# l ,sAaJda;:WrAngin'his bat i box, writing folciell away, down amozig the very whalehetitwe; fririsinithreit ' ' Hie olotke~ was4i't bud ; irhaCtfieia Was at 'era. His drereing-caSii eras roar—not a TE*O?-42.00 in Advance, or $2,50 within the year =EI partidle of silver stopper--:-bottle apertures with nothing in .'oni, like empty little dog konnels—and a •most nearching •deScriptiort of tooth-powder-diffusing itself around, sit under a deluded mistake that ell the - plinks in tho fittings was' dlvisioni in teeth. tis clbthes I parted With, well enough, to a sec= end-hand dealer not far from St. Cleinent's Danes, in the Strand—him as the officers in the Army mostly dispose 4 their uniforms to, when hard pressed with debts of honor, if I may - Judge from their coats and epau lettes diversifying the widow, with their backs toward the public. The ,FIRIIIO party bought in one lot the portmanteau, the bag, the desk, the dressing-case, the hat-box, the umbrella, strap, and walking-stick. On my remarking that I should have thought those articles not quite in his line, ho said "No more ith a man'th grandmother, Mithter Obrittitopher ; but if any man will 4 bring hith grandmother here, and offer her at a fair title below what the'th thcoured and turned ! .—l'll buy her I'' These transactions brought me home, and, indeed, more than home, for they left a goodish profit on the original investment. Ana now there remained the writings ; and the writings I particular wish to bring under the candid attention of the reader. I wish to do so without postponement, for this reason. That is to say, namely, viz., i.e., as follows, thus: Before I proceed to re count the mental sufferings of which I be come the prey in consequence of the writings, and before following up that burrowing tato with a statement of the wonderful and im pressive catastrophe, in thrilling in its na ture as unlocked fur in any other col aci,y, which crowned the ole and Il,lcd the cup ut unexp ci.edne-is to overflowing, the writings themselvu6 ought to stand forth to view.— Therefore, it is that they now come next. One word to introduce them, and I My di we illy pen (I hope, my unassuming patio until I tin a it up tj trace thi I,2,l,??ln . ys , quelof on it. Ile woo a sue•ary writer, and wrote dreadful bud hand. Utterly regardless of ink, he lavished in on every, underserving object—on his eletlc s, his desk, hi, hut, the handle of his to, , tli-le umbrella, Ink was found Inccly on the coffee-room cart ct by No. -1 hil , lo, and two blots was on his reAless couch. A reforenca to the document have" given t2111.11%', wilt sh ,, w t ha t on tia• 111011iing, of the thic.l of February, eighteen he pr..cured his nu less than fifth p n and paper. To whateNcr d , •111o1 able act ❑ngucen:al,lc compezition h , • iliac 111:11 , 1'.11I, !1"• , 111 the bay, th, rr Is no diitibt that the fatal deed wu commit t ;mild that it eft its evid-n:es inn too I..rg afterward, upon the pillow- h:ul pat 110 II , •:oling to any of hi, wri t -41,3. . ILL!.likolc to haven 11,44,1 sc. hoot ❑ Ilf•ad. anl whprr, was his llvad cairn Ito took sue!) th,n4 , into it we,t.nB, ore hero by do lit arts; , , u 1 Lugg.l.4t. to W.11C,. Don, i. ,t-, h• NV .11. I apirt,' 1., h i V:I I It 1 I ,•r • I . 11 s I ,•,t,',ly. lilt lit, MEM t I i Vil) it . h Ixrt to 11.11:s . Cl.l'll i.•• b • I, get I•tit d. 1\ i:11 :1 I.)ve g W'III 111 II ‘"• • - h W ". :".• U./ tl • - .lr.b • 111 V --,! lI,L \ i . Wll II ll,xt r •- I I t s r ,ti, .. w.II a nc wlth Ira I, Ilal R' ill lb.' a i illun ur iu tli.! to tin s. it .9 .11,1 n i 9 ft,rit)ll:/1...1 —n , , t 11 - nii that c Yr...rvittion ut dtiblic to 1 fur the prps, , iit etirielude. [To be Continued.] THE SILENT WITNESS mum A LAWYER'S DIAItI I had spent seine years in the West, in the practice of toy profession, and was on a visit to toy friends in New En gland. Anioni„ those who come first on my list of friendship was Fred Elliott, and I arranged to visit him as soon as I could. Fred and I had grown up to gather as boys; we had entered college together and graduated together; and when I commenced the practice of law, he entered his uncle's store in the ca pacity of book-keeper, with a good prom ise ahead. And there was another tie between us—a near and dear one to us, who were both orphans, and who had few relatives living. Fred had married my own cousin, sweet Hattie Keene.-• Ile had married her since I went away, though the event had been upon the docket a long time before. And thus I was to meet two of my dearest friends beneath the same roof It was just' dusk when the carriage loft mo at the house which had been pointed out as the one occupied by MY friend, and which I at once recognized as the former home of old Timothy the uncle of whom I have spoken, My summons was answered by a light, quick step on the hall floor; and when the door was opened I recognized the fair, fond features of my dearly;roniberod cousin, She was five year ,older, than when Laaw her:last, and grown 'to be • a little more sedate: :In Mot, sho put on the oharaoMrs-- , that of a - mother ,ThelMauty,:tho;lifn, -the the'ittdio ,years had not gone; but they - .were 'elevated with, sOftenOd by, ! ,and blended into, that noP •ble character.' i At first she did not-know _me but when , f culled her llatt`lOa'S' used to in old times, she caught-me by the hand,. antrln a,monent more both • hot soft, white - arnits, ,i were arennd my. neck., 'was. a awei ule - ixt heart and -soul,-4124 ,wlth: a sister's. love :she greeted.me.. , , „ , We 'went into the pa'rlor'' where an "an. tial lamp wiaalready,l24rning niign the o%4re-o:ibis:van& Where, fire 'Was ,re- i Slain g a genial NOartath 'from tbe; pc4- ; iShed"grate—for it was autumn, and the' arertiny were Trite cool. Upon a chair, `nt4i'• by - the Cage, oy ore three years, playing •with-therfiChtf-iii namented inlidle of iticieiftig'-ftilrsts; while upert the carpptWas tilglecininiteljthild, -not yet able tolialk with safetyrengaged in tumbling abet& alitige' marten . mut/. And' these . were 'Thitile'S es -bright and beautiful thingsras „ ever madetnusie in an earthly:home. _Sitts*d them .that I was Uncle Ent:it:Ai. • - Shit had neither hrOthei niiesistor, so I ;f4‘d to be aiit tinede r her children. Where •hati I, been?,, What,. hat ,/ been doing?. How ,had I been ? Wait married'? Did I ever Caen to bet and a hundred more - queitionStief,likiti chtracter were ShoWeied fore I kad time to ask any By-and-byFrod came in. Theriiiista - a Cloud upon hiS : fscp when he enteied:titn room.. saw it very:piainti; - : -brit •3iie wife hnitried to his side; and' kissed On andwhispered in his 4r,,and itt a, :tie. merit he brightened up ; and when :he greeted me, and held my hand antliat:tit me upon the shoulder, he, appearpd4he, same warm and genial spirit.4Ctiitittt At tlre tea-table lie,asketi after my fortunes in the distant • home I "liao, sought; and when I tPld him-I. bateite ceeded beyond my most sanguine ekpett--_ , tations, and that material wealth vas fast accumulating for me, he was not only pleased, but intimated that such , Itusi• ness and such prospects would suit hire; I laughed outright at what I censit; ,, ered the absurdity of this last idea.: 'lt ,. would do very well, I told bibs follow, with only his two hands to. help bun, to get off into the Western wilds+ but for one like him, with an indepen dent fortune at his command, to think' of such a thing was simply rididulOVS. lle smiled as I spoke, and turned 'the subject of the conversation. NO. 51. Within an hour after we adjourned to the parlor, I was sure something - had gone wrong with my friend. He tried to be cheerful, to talk of our old pranks, and to laugh and juke as in the days of our youth, and, as a last resort, endeav ored to arouse himself by caressing his sweet children. But it would not do— I had seen to much. Hattie succeeded better than he did, and yet, as the eve ning wore on, I could see there was a heavy load upon her heart as well. At length the children were abed, and the mother soon filluwed them. Iplain- Jy heaid her sub as she left the room, iu . a smothered groan, whi•h could not e,cape me, burst from her husband's umuoi pited up the coals, and took two or three turns across the floor, ancr which he returned and sat down aimmg II," he said, his face all wrapped in gloom, • pi:rhaps you th.uk 1 act very .y.' " 1 t li.nk something i the 'natter with you," 1 returned. "Something must have g.ifle. wrong."- '• You' arc right sorne'Eng has gone wr 1.11 C.,et.," he adile 1, a shud der crept over his frame, a storm has banit upon wu, Ivhieh is U u..n !" lie spoke this t4o nail ,tead:iy that 1 knew there Forno ell weaning to it; and I ask... h:m if o lee h s troab:e. OF ouurset w,u.l ,e,,1 iuc. Lle was ausdous to nut. fdr «•us not only one of, his .•, 11 . .1.'11 1,, but 1 was a lawyer and !snow," said he," that I went w,tli thy uncle Timothy. When was in-trrie , i he made me come and lire in his house; he put the whole 0.-tabii,litnent into our hands, and then Lvurd d with us. I had no money--not' d ; but when I had served him one year a book-keeper, he gave . me good share in the business. Three - years ago he died, leaving me an estate ,of about sixty thousand dollars." "Ay," i replied, as my friend came to pause, "1 heard of all that." , "'1 here was no will' left, or at lee,et, such was supposed to be the case; audit. all came to me, as I was the only blOort relative living. . Uncle Timothy had one brother and ono sister. He Married' when quite young, but hiS wife without issue. His sister married a man. named Isaac Staffer. This Staffer bad one son living by a former wife, but ha never had any children by , my He died at the end of two years ? leavink her no means, and she found a home with her brother, taking her stepson with, her. In time she died, and . the . boy.wo le 1, in my unole's charge until.ho was twouty-ono. So much fur the sister. 4.:.• The brother married, and had ono and the child was myself. You kittinv,6f My parents. My father ,diecl was a mere child, unti, mytxl.44l: 0.94.-1 - before I was graduated. , $o you was the only representative of Uncle, Timothy's blood." • " Certainly," I said, and.of court() the whole proporty.felt to - you!' " Yes,"•he•roplied; - ' and it 7ap`, giy' ‘: • to nio, and I took possession, andolinnO . a flonriShinglMAine&:s. - Upon the qtrength . theropfl have entered nocietynytd sponsible offices have been put upon Inc!' "Nell," said I, as nij ,rriend patpectc-, , again, what has happonezi to disturb all this?" .7 ; • ' : • .ir " toll yon,'•' Ito - Lroturnod - , - ..starth*;-: from • a woody rovorio into whi . oh fallen. 'rQu.r 0 P 1 9 1111) Ff and Undo . Timothy•onoe.had, Oetriova fiilling. out ?" ". Yes," I told. `II 'have some •reel • once tion of it; but that 'was a good Mani; years ago: We :were boys:then. years",' -1" 7 65 PL eiir s aid IFYedirbilt.Tol99Plber it, vffirY4 'for I, rocoiloct how, badly it, , made lAye2l/- mother feel, ;.lia,,estrangetuentibetedi for sOme years.E and duringtharthniethn: l v* titternoss: Vnifetr64 deehired,tint:, l & wow :Babe 0 . 44 1 4" ( '' •1 • more' ido-in 4( 1 tlrius brother; and under_ j antaucla on Fourth ridge.) ,n: p him 4 e ki 4 Ri r- n d 80 =I =EI
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