PAINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
GEORGE BERGNER.
VOL. IX.--NO. 39.1
NOTICE
TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.
,SEALED proposals will be received by
the Commissioners of Adams County,
at the house of 111iss llapkee's, in Nlenallen
'l(w/nship, on Saturday the sth day of Jan
4.4ary next, between the hours of 9 o'clock
'A M. and 2 o'clock P. M. tar the erection
~,of a gaud and substantial,
-"WOODEN BRIDGE,
„Across great Cenewago Creek, where the
road leading from Gettysburg to Newville
crosses the same, and about five miles from
-4.1.0 former place, of the following dimen
.sions, to wit:—To contain in length from one
.pobui went to the other ?0 feet span, and of
jangle arch, and It , feet wide in the clear,
the abutments to be 8 Met thick each, and 21
wide, and 6 feet 6 inches high from the
'Jed of the creek, where the Bridge is to
cross the stream: Wulff walls on the South
East side to be 30 feet long each, exclusive
of the abutments, on the North %Vest side 20
feet long each, exclusive of the abutments,
the wing walls to'be 34 . feet thick at the bot
tom and 2 feet on the top, wing walls to be
• a Iliet higher than the filling up; the wing
''walls to be undei a good parapet covering,
,Ayith white pine boards of at least 1 inch
.:hick, and well painted with red paint; the
-Abutments and wing walls to be built on rocks
or otherwise on good foundations; the Bridge
- abe 16 feet wide in the clear; 12 feet ti
inches high from the-our to the square: the
sides and part of the: ds, to be weatber•
boarded with white ph e boards, planed and
1
well painted, the sides a good venetian rcd,
and the gables a good white; the arch to be
planked with white nine plank,2 inches thick
and on top with 2 inch oak plunk, to extend
the full breadth of the Bridge; lower plank
to' be pinned, and the whole to be' covered
with white pine shingles;_ the wood work to
be built of good and substantial timber; the
stone work of large and good stone, lime
' and sand molter, and well pointed; the roof
., ing of the Bridge to extend over both abut
meios, the Bridge to be built on the same
plan as Cie Bridge over great Conowago
creek (near Henry Myers Mill) on the road
lording from Oxford to Carlisle; tho space
between the Wing walls and abutments to be
well filled up, so as to haven gradual ascent
rising on to said Bridge, nut exceeding five
degrees elevation from the road to said
r~3ridg the Bridgein the insicloActlia weath
,.terboarded 2i feet high from the floor of the
'Bridge, with boards 1 inch thick.
The party contracting for building said
r Bridge to give security to double the amount
of the contract, for the faithful performance
of the workmanship and permanency ofsaid
Bridge
By order of the Commie , ionors,
KING, Clerk.
td-37
December 11, 1^3.9
VALUABLE PROPERTY
'FOR. SALE.
ITIEIE Subscriber will sell, at private sale,
the
FARM,
on which he now resides, containing 330
~•
Acres.
'rho improvements, on this farm, arc a
large arid connimiieus
• BRICK DWELLING ,
r 4 .1;" - ' 4 •-•
HOUSE,
log Barn and stables, smoke - -
house, a stone Spring-house and other ne
cessary out-buildings, an excellent and
never failing spring of pure water within a
few rods of the house, and running water in
almost every field.
The above Eirin is fertile and in good or
der, the meadows on the same are excellent,
and a lair proportion of the land
is vrooded i (about 80 acres;) there
are also on the said farm two ap
ple ORCHARDS, a peach ORCHARD and
other fruit. This form is situated in Fred
erick County, Md., on the road leading from
Frederick -to Ernmittsburg, about 6 miles
from the latter place, and 4 miles from Mt.
St. Mary's College. The situation is eli
gible in every point of view.
10 The above farm was originally in
two tracts; the one containing 143 . acres,
the other 187 acres; on the latter are the
Buildings, dr.c.; the termer is without build
ings. Thia property will be sold together
or separately, as will best suit the conve
nience of any one desirous of purchasing.
K 7 -11 the above property is riot sold at
private sale, before the lst day if January
next, it will on that day be ofiered nt public
sale, on the premises, at 12 o'clock, M.
For Terms, apply to the subscriber on the
premises, or JAMES COOPER, in Gettysburg,
Perinly I r ante.
JAMES COOPER, Sea
luvvortout to Atly extis s
,PERSONS wishing to advertise Proper
ty-••• in a paper out of Adams county,
would do well to send them to the Lancaster
Ex..l3luvEn HERALD." It has a week•
ly circulation of about FIFTEEN HUN-
I,":ED, and is read 4 by the business men of
all parties.
Tim undersigned would also be pleased to
send the "Examiner 4. Herald" to those of
his o1:1 friends in Adams county and else.
where who &sire to subscribe fora Lancets.
ter piper. The terms aro $2 per annum.
RORER %V. AHDDLETON.
Laleaster, 183t.4. . St-39
GETV.VSBI3 . 44N- :STAII
—"With sweetest flowers enrich%
Frain various gardens with care "
WILL YE REMEMBER ME.
Will ye remember me,
11y old familiar friends, when shall be hush'il
Then once glad voice, and the bruised spirit free
That bath so loft been crush'd
Will ye at evening hour,
When gather'd round the old domestic hearth
Think of her love, who like n broken flower
Sleeps in the cold, cold earth !
And when ye bend the ear
To some old melody that floats along
Will ye not shed one sad, ono silent. tear,
Waked by its plaintive song
It mny he come soft strain
We've sung together at the fireside sent,
Till echoe's airy tongue gave back again
ILA numbers low and swcct
Oh ! if it such should be,
As its low murmurs linger loath to die,
"Chick that amid its postings minstrelsy,
18 breathed my farewell sigh.
Well do you know my friends,
How I have loved sweet music's magic spells,
E'en as tha Swan, whose very being ends
In its melodious swells.
Yes. ye will think of me,
When the long buried things we used to prize,
Before the walking spoils of memory,
Once more shall dimly rise.
Perchance the lone night wind
When whispering dirge-like music ti:ro' the leaves
Sh ill seem with old remembrances ciitwin'il,
'With fancy fondly weaves.
I've been with ye so oft,
Have followed the same footsteps, sad or gay,
Have watch'il with ye the dawn, and the cairn soft
Decline of Summer's day.
And in the angry storm
We've track'd pathway thro' the Winter snow,
Together bent o'er many a thAvret's !Urn),
Crush') whoro It uacil to blow
Noted the early breath
Of the first Spring wind, when it softly crept
To the voung blossern's bed, and when in the death
Upon the blast is swept.
Will ye not think of mo
When gathering round the hearth in prayer,
Will not only sigh be breath'd on tended knee,
For her who is not there I
VU.IM Q/EI2,I)CJIIVOI22Co
From Frientlehips Offrring for 1839.
THE OLD GENTLED:Mit
IVe were studded in the calm waters of
the Baltic. Not a speck of land was in sight;
and the sun, by this time almost level with
the sea, rolled a tide of mellowed light along
its bosom, from horizon to horizon. The
idea of loneliness was complete. We were
nut in the midst of an expanse limited inure
ly by the powers of vision; beyond which the
imagination may seek, and find, a thousand
objects of relief. The edges of the circle,
on the contrary,were even and•crtsp. There
was no getting beyond them. The sensa
tion at first was delicious; because new; but
this gradually melted away into languor; the
soft tones of the few remarks we interchang
ed became down-right sleepy; and at length
the young lady —(the other passengers, a n d
all the crew had gone below)—starting sud-
denly, let her parasol fall, with malice prt.
pease, against my face.
'Caine,' said she, laughing at the jump
with which I returned to consciousness,
'what are we about? I shall fancy in anoth
er minuie that you and I are enchanted,and
that we shall continue motionless on this
crystal sea till doomsday!'
'That is just what 1 was thinking,' said !,
soberly.
'Really! I should not have guessed that
You were thinking at all. Come, let us tell
stories to pass the time, and you shall tell
the first. Begin.'
1 never could refuse a young lady in all
my life. 'The first time I nay.the old gen
tleman,' said I, commencing---"
, What old gentleman?'
'What old gentleman! Why, the old gen.
tleman 1 am going to tell you about, to be
sure. And the first time 1 saw him was on
,an occasion which 1 considered of no small
importance 1 was then twelve years of
ago, and yet had never been in the nearest
town, althoughthat was only eighteen miles
from my father's house. My father, you
must know, was a lord.'
'A lord!'
'Yes: in Scotland we call it laird—but the
•pronunciation of a word is no great matter.
Luis estate was very extensive; comprehend•
tog nn entire mountain, covered with stones
enough to build all the cities in Europe,had
they been of the proper kind;•pesides two
• lakes,and a morass.. 1 was carefully educa.
tad under the superintendence of a maiden
aunt, (my mother being dend) assisted after.
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ANID REPUBLICAA BANNER.
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wards by the eon of a neighbouring cotter.
Had it not been fur the necessity of preach;
ing, this gentleman would have been a strik
ing ornament ‘,I the profession fur which he
was intended,t he church; but when the thing
came to be tried, it was found thatadtbough
on ever% other occasion u very intelhgent
person, ho could not speak two words of
common sense in the pulpit.'
'Poor man!' said the young lady. 'ls that
very uncommon in Scotland?'
'O, very! But at any rate the individual
in question came back upon his father's
hands a •stickit minister;' and showing speed
ily that he was in the same degree a ‘stickit
ploughman,' he was obliged to be satisfied
with such jobs ofeducation as lie couldget j
in the neighbourhood. Poor Willie! I think
I see his lack a-daisicul face at this moment!' )
1 he young lady jerked away her head, to
let the look at the image beyond without in
terruption, and 1 pursued my story.
'For many years the town of Auldclatters
had been the Mecca of my imagination. It
was the mart from which we drew our sup
plies of grocery atAl haberdashery, and was
associated, in my mind, with the cities of
bazaars I read of in the Arabian Nights'
Entertainments. I looked upon Saunders
the packmau with interest,and almost rever
ence, merely on account of his frequent jour
neys to and from this distinguished spot; and
I ut last began to think that there was some
mystery connected with the extinguisher my
father invariably put upon my request to ac
company him to the annual fair. Still yout.g
er boys, thought (,have visited Auldclatters,
and why should I be condemned all my life
to slumber, like Prince Bateman, on the
mountain ofetones? You may conceive what
were my feelings when, in the midst of this
rebellious discontent, I was one day inform
ed by my father that I was to go with him
the following week to the annual fair at Auld
clutters! Imagine the interval of expecta
tion!—but ut length the day came, and we
sat out. My futher,mounted on a stout nag'—
'Was your father the old gentleman?' in
terrupted the young lady, suppressing a
yawn.
'Not at all; we were just coming to him.
My father rode before, with one or two far
mers of the neighbourhood; and Willie and
I followed, both of us careering on ragged
shelties, so low that my preceptor's legs, if
not held up by the stirrups, would have trail
ed on the ground. After a hard ride of near
ly eighteen miles, the town of Auldelatters
came in sight.
"T h e river Lora, n dark and rapid stream,
was in front,sweeping round it like the ditch
of a fortress. Beyond,t he building rose one
over the other, till their heads seemed to
pierce the sky. Those vast piles of archi•
lecture in their aspect, which chilled my
blood, and yet, at the same time, piqued me
to the adventure. The approach to the
town was by a bridge of only a single arch;
but whose prodigious span, bestriding the!
black torrent far below, presented a fitting
avenue into what might have appeared a city
of giants,'
`Hey-day!' cried the young lady, opening
her eyes, 'where ore we now, in the name
of goodness? In the capital of the king of
the Indies, or in a dirty, little, Scottish coup•
try town?'
•In the town of Auldclatters,' replied I qui
etly, `as it appeared to the a quarter of a cen
tury ago. A description, I admit, founded
upon my present percept ionsovuuld be some
what de:trent.. flowever,as we passed over
the bridge, I . saw the old gentleman for the
first time.'
Wein'
'He was an old gentleman well on to seven
ty years of age. Ile was dressed in a brown
coat of an old gentlemanly cut, and wore a
wig very handsomely powdered, and sur•
mounted by a three•cornered hat, such as I
had seen my grandfather wear on great oc•
casions. His small•cloihes end stockings
were of black silk, and his shoes were coy-
cred, rather than lagtened, by an enormous
pair of silver buckles• He was mounted on
a horse of that colour,rather pale than white,
by which you can tell that the animal in its
youth was grey.
'When I saw this figure coming gradually
into sight, as it rode slowly upone side of the
steep arch of the bridge, while I was walk
ing my sheltie up the other, it occurred to
me, all on a sudden, that the old gentleman
was the baillie of the town coming forth to
meet us. This threw me ihto a flutter, for
I had never seen so great a man as a baillie
in my life; and so I edged my sheltie away
to give the Old gentleman the crown of the
causeway, keeiiing as near as possible to the
long, ragged tail of my tutor's steed.
'lt was a grand sight to see ihe'old gentle.
man come deism the steep arch, turning ,
neither to the right nor left, but walking his
stately old horse straight on. He looked,in
truth,like the master of the whole town; and
had it not been for an expression of good
humour and bonhomie in his face, my respect ;
would have deepened into awe. When at
length, as we were just passing each other,
be turned his head suddenly and fixed his
.eye on me, 1 thought, in my confusion,. I
should have fallen from the saddle. He
Smiled, however; nodded graciously—with .
a kind of significance, too, as if we had been
old acqtiaintances—and rode on. My eyes
dazzled, my cheeks tingled; and I followed
the tail of my tutor's sheltie, in a strange
cPnfusion of mind, in:which surprise, vanity,
and self.gratulation mingled with the shame
and awkwardness of a hotne•brcd. scottish
boy.
Icrreaßl;ESS .111.4-70
W ha's you?' said I inn whisper to Willie,
when the arch of the bridge was fairly be
tween us and the object of my curiosity.
'You?' repeated he vacantly. Theduited
!creature had not oven seen the old gentle•
man! An application to my father was e
qually unsuccessful; although the time that
elapsed before 1 had an opportunity of speak
' mg to him rendered it somewhat less surpris
ing that he had received no impression from
so remarkable a figure. 1 questioned two
• or three limners with whom 1 was acquain•
ted; and ono answered that it was probably
the minister—although, indeed, it could on
no account be he without his black coat; and
another, that he was quite sure it was Laird
j Sheepshanks—at least lie swathl have said
it was,lfilie I orse had been a brown gene.
i way, the powdered wig his own grey hair,
and the.cocked•hat a round beaver, in short
I could obtain no information whatever res
pecting the old gentleman. 1 went through
the fair like a person inn dream; receiving
only vague impressions of interest and gran
deur, from the surrounding objects, and
starting every now and then as 1 fancied that
caught a glimpse of the three.cornered hat
among the crowd.
'A II this, however,was nothing more than
imagination., Had 1 been told that the old
gentleman was actually Laird Sheepshanks,
and that I had seen him on his way home,
the thing would have been at an end. As
was,he haunted ern, for months after—nay,
for years, for nfter I returned borne from
college, the mere sight of the bridge recall
ed suddenly the images which seemed to
have been buried for ever under the wreck
of time, and the fair of Auldclatters swept
like an enchanted pageant before my mind's
eye--with the old gentleman in the midst.'
'And is that all?' asked the young lady
sharply,as I paused to take breath —'is your
story at an end?'
'So tar,' answered I, 'but the sequel is to
'Did 3'ou ever see the old gentleman again?
Who did he turn out to be?'
'Why, lam just going to tell you. We
do not relate stories in question and answer,
like interrogatory lessons for,youth.'
'How then do you relate stories? Good
ness gracious! will it never have an end? You
have taken an hour to toll the that you once
met an old gentleman, and could not learn
his name.'
'lt was at your own option to listen or not,'
said I, in some dudgeon: can tell you 1
nm thA a..very good hand at short stories;
and, moreover, few persons suppose me to
be capable of telling a long One, were I to
try ever so such. However, if your opin
ion be different—'
W ill you tell me at once who the old gen
tleman was?'
'lt is impossible.'
'Good evening,then,'—and the young holy
flounced away, and decended to the cabin.
CHAPTER 11.
,There is nothing so like enchantment as
the gradual, yet surprising transformation
of a calm evening into a calm night at sea.
The last rave of the sun melt slowly away
upon the bosom attie expanse, and leave a
Putmisty shadow brooding over the deep.
Put harcpy have we time to mark the
change, when the comparative darkness
around us becomes transparent. It is light •
ed up with 'a more delicate and beautiful il•
himination than that which has steeped the
dying daylight in crimson and gold. Star
after star comes forth from the profound of
heaven ; and the hitherto veiled moon,
throwing away fold after fold from her lus
trous face, looks joyously around, in the sol
itude of the sky—with the virgin freedom
(as the poets have so often remarked,) of
Dinn, in her own lonely haunts, surrounded
by her attendant nymphs.
On the present occasion, an interesting
but very common variety took place in this
charming scene. Although there was
hardly a breath of wind below, the spirits
of nature began to stir in upper air. A
few light, fleecy clouds, stealing above the
horizon, hurried glidingly across the sky ;
and these were followed more slowly by
some darker masses. The latter passed
occasionally over the face of the moon; and
the instsntaneons shadow, which swept
down upon the world, was startling from the
suddenness both of its approach and disap
pearance. While watching these alters-
Lions, my thoughts strayed on other locali
ties, and other years, and 1 repeated in a
low voice a stanza of poor Wilfred's ad
dress to the pale pilgrim of the troubled
, 'Tait queen! I will not blame thee now,
As onco by Lora's fairy side,
Each littlo cloud that dimmed thy brow
Did then an anitel's beauty hide ;
And of the'slade's I then could chide,
Still are the thoughts to memory dear,
For, while a•softer strain I tried,
They hid my blush, end calmed my fear."
.At this moment, a hand was laid gently
upon my shoulder e and a Voice addressed
tne, in tones 'as soft as lovers' lutes by
• Did you aay Lora? Goodness grncibus!
I thought there had been nothing there but
an old gentleman 1'
Would you have all at once?' said I
somewhat sternly.
But could you not have said that a young
lady was to f011ow? Did you fall' in love
with the old gentleman's daughter?',
'Heaven forbid I'
Well, don't be alarmed- If you will
promise not to be so tedious, I shall give
you ten minutes more. Come, begin!'
MIEN
At Edinburgh,' said 1, 'while pursuing
my studies, I made acquaintance with a
youth whose family lived beyond Au!Mat
ters, on the other side of the Lora. 1 Was
at that time of life when acquaintiii.ce
friend, and confidant, are convertible terms;
and Hugh Montgomery and 1 were soon in
separable. The intimacy continued till
we were seventeen (for we were nearly of
an age,) and at that epoch Hugh signalized
his friendship by a proposal—which I can•
nut smile at even now. He who treats it
with ridicule is incapable of comprehending
the feelings of generous, trusting, high
hearted youth.
' Your father is comparatively poor,' said
he. 'Granted: but then mine is rich.
Why should you go to the West Indies, to
toil and broil away the best years of your
Ito in pursuit of fortune, and when you
have attained it, come home as yellow and
lusionless as a withered leaf?• What you
must do, my dearest friend, is this. I have
a little sister at home, 'nearly your own age,
and us bonny a lassie as ever grew on the
bank of the Lora. You are made for each
other; she is exactly of that turn of mind
which will enable her to appreciate you;
and, ►n short, you will hardly have become
acquainted before you both will fall deeper.
ately in love. She has a fortune of a thou.
sand pounds at her own disposal; you will
marry her—lay out the money on a farm in
the neighborhood—and we shall alt live
happy together for the rest of our lives!'
' The dear, sensible creature I' exclaimed
die young lady in delight. 'And you of
course assented I'
'Of course.'
'That is something like a story!' and,
gliding round, she seated herself so near
me, that I was glad that there was nobody
at hand tocriticise our position.,
''Through the influence of my friend,' I
continued, 'l. was invited to spend the next
vacation at Gowanbrae ; and being now a
groat, tall, gawky, shapeless follow, like
other lads of seventeen, I was no longer set
to straddle on a sheltie, but mounted in
prodigious pomp upon my father's nag. I
set forth upon my visit with a beating heart.
The enterprise was an important—nay, an
awful one; and to me, afflicted as 1 was
with a constitutional bashfulness, it increas
ed in terrors every step I rode. Often 1
was on the point of turning back ; but as
often 1 was goaded on by—what do you
think I'
'Pride 7'
'No—love.'
'And you had never seen the lady 1'
'A thousand times—in my. mind's eye.
'Cho features which I had drawn, one by
one, from my friend's memory, had been
moulded in my imagination into a portrait
of surpassing loveliness. This was the
compassion of my waking hours, and the
inspirer of my dreams. Do you call it a
shadow—a phantom of the mind? When
do we love any thing else? Is our mistress
a mere piece of mortality, composed of
bones and viscera, flesh and blood—subject
to error and passion, to disease and death ?
Is she not rather the spirit with which our
idolatrous fancy endues the statue, and
which melts away from our corporeal touch,
leaving only lifeless stone in our arms? It
was the idea of Miss Montgomery I loved.
The love of her identical self ie quite anoth•
er thing.'
TO DE CONTINUED.
A BRIDR AND Gnoon.—The N. Y. Her
aid of Monday sayst—"A very interesting
event took place on Saturday morning last
before the culd set in. A highly respecta
ble and venerable financier. of Wall street,
an ex• Bank President tit boot, only over
sixty•seven years, led to the
. holy alter a
beautifill c..eature of sweet seventeen. As
soon as the clergyman 'finished the busi
ness, the happy pair set out for the south
in order to enjoy the honey moon in Phila
delphia, Baltimore or Washington. Thr•
young bride is about as old as a grand
daughter of her happy husband."
LIAPPINESS —An eminent modern writer
beautifully says :—The foundation of do
mestic happiness ) ie a !Mill in the virtue of
woman ; the foundation of political happi
nees, a confidence of ull happiness, tempo•
ral and external, reliance on the goodness
of God.'
Wo find the following truisms in one of
our exchange papers:
An economical man, is one who files a
way a newspaper for future references.
A parsimonious man, is one that stop
his paper, to keep from paying a small pit
tance lOr it.
SMALL MISTAKES.—As a minister and a
lawyer were riding together, says the min
biter to the lawyer, ",sir, do you ever make
mistakes in pkading." "I do," said the
lawyer. "And what dck you do with mis
takes'?" inquired the . minister . "Why,
.sir, if large ones, 1 mend them; if small
ones, I let them go," said the lawyer.
"And pray, onr," continued he, "do you
ever make mistakes in preaching?" "Yes,
-sir, I have." "And what do you do with
mistakes ?" "Why, sir, I dispense with
them in the same manner as you"do—recti
fy' the large and neglect the mai: ones."
'Not long siqce," continued ho. "as I Wilt ,
preaching, I ineant to observe that the devil
was the father of all liars; but made a
mistake, and said "the father of lawyers."
Mlitnko Was .50 strut th'il j WI If ';'7"•"
COOPER, 811 Y SER . & C0., - Editors
and Proprietors.
r A
On Saturday last Mr. John AyrenstrAn,
a very reepeetahl.t gentleman. a sti : zar
rrfi
ner, in this city, lad to the hymeninl altar
hiss Rho 'a Grayson, after a continued
cour!Shin of rittarr NINR YE.1129 The
parties are both over ,-eventv yearn of ago
....Mr. A. seventy five ! Nliss Ithr:da about
two years his junior. • They have been.ac. ,
quainter' from childhood. and when the
gentlemen was in his twenty-fifth year. he
essayed to woo his fair one. and was lent a
patient liearinu fir some loar three years,
when a country lass of some seventeen or
eighteen years, a village coquette, crossed
his path, and led Inm a merry dance for
few months, And then—left him for n newer
face. After a lapse oftt few years, like the
prodigal petiitent, and in sorrow, he return
ed to his Not love, and a more attentive,
faithful swain.
Ne'cr cro- Iced the pliant hinges of the knee.
Were thrift did follow fawning—
Having visited her upon no average more
than five evenings of every week during 'the
entire thirtynine venrs. Some disagree•
meat upon a point oft rifling consequence in
their future domestic arrnogements, was
the cause of the long deterred nupiials. In
o. pectininry point of view, he was made a
handsome speculatinn—she possessing solid
charms to the amount of $40,000. The
point in disagreement he was compelled to
yield—the fair ono vowing she would die
first.
We learn that an active agent of ono of
the Cars. running on the Colunibia and
Philadelphia Rail• Road, on Monday last, in
Broad Street, Philadelphia, had one of hia
feet very badly injured in conaeqtience of
some little imprudence whilst getting upon
the Car.
On the same day, as the train or Cars
weroon the point of leaving the Water•tatk
near Leman Place, and were in motion, an
Agent, in assisting a woman into one of the
Care, was thrown down and the wheels
passing over his thigh cut it completely wr
On Tuesday the afternoon train on the
Lancaster and Harrisburg Rail-road was
thrown off the track ne•nr Big Chiques
Creek—the Engine upset—and the Fire
man and Engineer dreadfully scalded. The
Fireman, Mr. Yeager, died, and was buried
on Wednesdav—the Engineer, Mr. Reif-
Schneider, still lives, but his situation is
considered very critical. The injury SUS
tained by these men did not emanate to
much from the fall, as from the position in
which it placer) them—being immediately
under the "Water Chest," as we are infor
med, and receiving the full bath from the
scalding water without the power of mov,
ing. We know not the immediate cause of
this terrible affair, but have been told• it
proceeded from some defect in the road.
O n Wednesday the train of Cars from
Harrisburg ran off the track at about twen.
ty yards from the place at which the above•
mentioned train ran off—fortunately, how.
' ever, without causing injury to any.
Here, then, are four dreadful accidents
occurring in one week. There may be
some discrepancies in our statement of them
but we think they are but slight.- Some of
these accidents occurred in consequence of •
carelessness in intlividualsothers from the
had condition of the road% Congresi in its
wisdom, and after much petitioning and so
licitation, has prisl.ed a humane law lOr the
regulation of Steamboat navigation - and tho
security of steamboat pyssengers,—could
not.—should•not Goegress, also, pass a law
for the regulation of Rail• Roads, rail road
Cars, and the security from danger of
Passengers upon Rail roads? We think it.
should; and we think. too, that every Stale
.i►ould second the exertions of Congress,by
respectively passing and enforcing laws tif
protection and security on this important
4abject. If the sentiment which we ex..
press is just and proper, will some of our
able brethren of the press mice it up and
enlarge upon it ? We trust they will. '
[Co.. Spy.]
A trr•.w PATENT RIFLE,—We have seen
a Rifle invented by Mr. Bevley of Portl.intl
(Me.) which when loaded, Infinite of 15
hisiinct discharges. The loading takes
place in the breech of the gun through
eilindrical conducting tube, passing into a
receiving chamber, and in the tube are 16
sliding chambers loaded with powder and
ball. In the receiving chamber the lock
acts upon the eliding chambers. striking
through with thu gientest precision and
perfect safety. The lock is of very simple
construction on the guard of the gun more
simple and not more cumbersome than to a
common gun. The rifle we have seen is a
beautiful one:—and though not much versed
in these matters, vet we feel at liberty to
Say that whoever omits io do killing by the
platoon, or gunning by the flock, cannot
find, at least as• we thinic,nny instrument so
wonderfully adapted to their purpose.
A noon REAsoa.—A yolang Amoroso, et 4 po.
litieel festive), gave the following toast: -
Tint LADIES....—We' ilththe ifitm t ht..
cause of their beauty-- resperi them,. be.
come of tLeir virtue—adorn thaw, bscauso
rf their intelligenee--and love them became
we can't help IL—Bolton Times.
MOBILE AND TEXAB...—A' Ifiteel, hoe el
steam packets is nhcut to beeltiblieloxt
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Don't despair Girls.
slccidents.