By FRED'K L. BAKER. JACOB LIBHART, JR., CABINET MAKER 10 UNDERTAKER, MARIP.TTA, PA 117 OULD most respectfully take this meth od of informing the citizens of Marietta and the public in general, that, having laid in a lot of seasoned Lumber, is now prepared to manufacture all kinds of CABINET FURNITURE, i n e very style and variety, sat short notice De has on baud a ch lot for fine of Furniture of his own manufacture,h i workmanship, will rival any City make. 13- Especial attention paid to repairing. • Be is also now prepared to attend,. in all its Winches, the UNDERTAKING business, Idsmall supplied with an excellent Horse, large IA small Biers, Cooling Fox, &c. ri-COFFINS Anished iu any style—plain or only. Ware Room and Manufactory, near. Mr. OulTy's new building, near the " Upper-Ste- Sri," Marietta, Pa. [Oct. 22. Strishict altb Coubtmanitt. 'ono most respectfully take this means of informing los friends and the public generally that he has commenced the drawing ,of DEEDS, MORTGAGES, JUDGMENTS, and in fact everything in the CONVEYANCING li ne , 'laving gratuitous intercourse with a member of the Lancaster Bar, he will be ena lltd Ca execute legal instruments of writing frith uccuracy, Be can be found at the office of " THE MARIETT lAN ,"—“Lindsay's Building," (sec ond floor) near the Post Office corner, or at fir ruridence on Market street, half a square out of the tt Donegal House," Marietta. ,7tllank Deeds, Mortgages, Judgments and Leans always on hand and for sale. 1866, IltileEbe LADY'S OA . F Al R o l o l tgi D e devo ttd to LITERAI URE and FASHION. $2.- ,!s a year. We give WHEELER & IL- W 6 Celebrated $55 Sewing Machines on toe following terms:— Tunly copies mid the Sewing Machine, $7O. Thirty copies and the Sewing Machine, $B5, Forty eopies and the sewing Machine, $lOO. Send 15 cents for a sample copy to DE4.- CoX & PETERSON, 3111 Walnut street, P:11;0 Mph's. First National Bank of Marietta puts BANKING ASSOCIATION HAVING CO)tPLETED ITS ORGANIZATION in now prepared to transact all kinds of BANKING Lit ISINESS. The Board of Directors meet weekly, oat Wednesday, for discount and other business relitink flours : From 9A.Xto3 P. M. JOHN BOLLINGER, PRESIDENT. DIOS HO iVillA N, Cashier. ROW A 11D ASCI T PHILADELPHIA, I laseases of the Urinary and Sexual Systems -al new and reliable treatment. Also, the BRIDAL CHAMBER, an Essay of warning and last:action, seat in sealed envelopes, free of forge. Address, Da...T. Sit z L LIN HORGHTOM, Banta Association, No. 2 South Ninth-at., Pailuietuttia, Pa. [ Jan. 1015-Iy. - ------- - DR. J. Z. 171 OFFER, DENTIST, I ,L=. OF TIIE BALTIMORE COLLEGE glum OF DENTAC SURGERY, I,ATE OF HARRISBURG. • OFF I CE:— Front street, next door to R: Williams' Drug , Store, between Locust and Walnut streets, Columbia. DANIEL G. BAKER, ATTOILNKY AT LAW, LANCASTER. PA. OFFICE :—No. 24 Noaxsi DUKE STREET °PPIIite the Court House, where he will &t -hid to the practice of his profession in all its 1 11110113 branches. DR. WM. B. FAIINESTOCK, OFFICE NEARLY :OPP:MITE Spangler & Pattereon's Store. FROM 7 To 8 A. Dr. OFFICE HOURS. ), ITO 2. , I 6TO7r. x. • ril: MASON & HAMLIN Cabinet Organs, different styles, adapted to sacred and Etfl4 Ott music, for $BO to $6OO each. FIFTY °NE Gold or &lvor itledods t or other first pre .l.lolli awarded them. Illustrated Catalogues live. Address, MASON & HAMLIN, BOS ton., or MASON BROTHERS, New-York. zuldern)er 9, 1863-IY.] 1 1 .1 A TTENTION ! SPORTSMEN Eler's Gun Caps, Eley'a Gun Watitles r i ,P,9 4 t's Spotting and Glared Duck Powder, do lij ".n at "e Sit ° 1 Shot Pouches, Vowder Flasks, JOHN SPANGL.ER'a CIOLGATE'S TOILET SOAPS. Ho ) nry, glycerine, palm, Almond s Sathand Slaving SOAPS. Equal to any imported.— hat received and for - sale, very cheap at THE GOLDEN MORTAR. AcHOIA CE Lot of BoOks for children called „ indistructable Pleasure Books ; School and &rNt,Books, Stationary, Pens, Pen holders LA N DIS & TROUT. T. CRIX AND NZ ENGLAND BUS (Or culinary purposes, W warranted gen uiA H. D. Benjamin. t}..(nlllte P AINTING of every description es o th d With M n a eatness n and dispatch at the ‘ e °I The riettia. • C R°lo t HAVANA SEG AILS, end the 'best Chewing and Smoking Taboo* at ALARGE LOT OF KW WINDOW 0009 e, gat DER at remarkably low prices elm JOHN SkilifOLEl. 1t ° 2 .13, 1 Celeoratco Pearl C l ement and Paste Blacking at "THE GOLDEN MORT4R. ANEIV Toy. _,4,g5 a ll' Ber - pect(freeh v.,.. 11 1.81. Quality of Wines and Liquor* for di put Po see, at Zonal 4 Trout' y..t -37,)c.(t .- V'al&/i.r.t.t:.-__ : . ll+ PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF A YEAR PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Ojice LINDSAY'S BUILDING' second floor, on Elbow Lane, between the Post . oifice Corner and Front-St., Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. ADVERTISING RATES: One Squire (10 lines, or leas) - 7b cents for the first insertion and One Dollar and-a-half for 3 insertions. Pro fessions) and Business cards, of six - lines orless at tp . Qer annum. Notices iu the reading col umns, ten cents a-line. Marriages and Deaths, the simple announcement, FREE; but bur any additional lines, ten cents a line. A liberal deduction made to yearly a nd half yearly advertisers. Having just added a" Nnwau MOUN TAIN JOBBER PRESS," together with a large assortment of new Job and Card type, Cuts, Borders, &c., to th% Job Office of " TUE MARIETTIAN,," which will insure the f ne and speedy execution of all kinds of JOB & CARD Parirran, from the smallest Card to , the LA RGEST POSTER, at reasonable prices. • ' SMILE AND BE CONTENTED. The world grows old, and men grow cad, 'l'o each while seeking treasure ; And what with want, and care and toil, We scarce have time for pleasure. But never mind—that is a loss Not much to be lamented ;. Life rolls on gaily if we will But smile and be contented. If we are poor, and would be rich, It will not be by pining; No I steady heart hod hopeful minds Are life's bright silver lining. There's tnier a man that dared to hve Bath of his choice repented: The happiest souls on earth are those Who scone and are contented. When grief doth come to rack the heart And fortune bids us sorrow, From hope we may a blessing - reap And ciamolation borrow. If thorns will rise where roses bloom, It cannot be prevented ; So make the best of life you can, And smile and be contented. Do everything in its proper time. Keep everything in its place. Always mend clothes before washing. Alum or vinegar is good to set colors of red, green or yellow. Sal soda will bleach very white ; one spoOnful is enough fora kettle of clothes. Save your suds for garden plants, or to harden yards when sandy. Stir. Poland starch with a common candle, and it will not stick to the iron, and will be much nicer. Count your clothes-pins, knives and forks, towels, handkerchiefs, &c., at least once a week. Wash your tea-trays with cold suds, polish with a little flour, and rub with a dry clpth. Frozen potatoes make more starch than fresh ones; . they also make nice• cake. Save all your pieces of bread for pud dings dry, or they will mould. Examine your pickles, sweetmeats, and everything put away. Buy small quantities of cheese, at a time. A.hot shovel held over varnished fur niture, will take out white spots. A bit of glue dissolved in - skim milk t and water, will restore old crape. Ribbons of any kind should be washed in cold soap-suds, and sot rinsed. If your flat-irons are rough, rub' them well with fine salt, and it will make them smooth. Oat straw is the best for filling beds ; it should be changed once a year. If yon are buying a'carpet for durabil ity, chose small figures. A hit of emit) rubbed on the hinges of doors will prevent their creaking. Scotch snuff put on holes where crick ets come out will destroy them: Wood ashes and common salt, wet with water, will stop the' cracks of a stove, and prevent the smoke 'from es- A gallon of strong lye put is a barrel of bard water, will make it as soft as rain water. Half a cranberry bound on a corn will soon kill it. In winter set the handle of your pump as high as possible at nigh - t, or throw a blanket over it, or straw it up. WOLFE'S " I don't miss my church so much as you suppose,'' said a lady to bar min ister, who had called upon her during her illness, "for I make Betsy sit at the window as soon as the bell begins to chime, and tell`me who are going to Church, and whether they - have got :any= thing new." alOrpMat pratqlbania Pune for IV Nome -Cult MARIETTA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1866. Excellent Hinter The `Runaway's Return Well, here am I, after my night's walk once more in the village where I was born. The sun is up now, - and - shining brightly. Things appear the same, and yet different. 'How is it? There was a big tree used to stand at the 'corner; and where is-Craver's cottage I Three days ago I landed at Ports mouth. It was on my birthday. For ten long years have I been sailing about on the sea, and wandering about on the land. How thing's come over me 1 lam a man now; but : for all that could sit down and cry like a child. It seems but as yesterday since I ran away from:home. It was the worst day's work that,' ever did. I got up in the morning at sunrise, while my'father and mothei were asleep. Many 'and many a time I had been unkind to my dear mother, and undutiful to my father, and the day before he had told -me how wrong it was. He spoke kindly, and in sorrow, but my pride would not - bear it. I thought I would leave home. What is it that makes me tremble to now My father coughed as I crept along by his door ;. and I thought I heard my mother speak to him _ ; so I stood 'a mo ment with my bundle in my hand, - hold ing mf breath. He coughed again:' A bove seemed to hear that cough in every quarter of the world.- When I had unlocked the door, my heart failed me ; for my sister had kiss ed me over night, and told me she had something to tell me in the morning. I knew what it was ; she had been- knit ting me a pair of garters, to give me on my birthday. I turned back, opened the door of her little room, and looked at her; but my -tears fell on the bed clothes,and I was afraid it would wake her. Half blinded, I groped downstairs. Just as 'I had gently closed the door, the casement rattled above my head. I looked up and there was my -mother. She spoke to me, and when I did not, answer, die cried out loud to me. That cry has rung in . my ears ever silica; ay, in myivery dreams I As I hurried away I felt, I suppose, as Cain felt when he had murdered his brother. My father, my motheiand my sister had been kind to me ; but I had been unkind to• them, and in leaving them thus, I felt as if I were murdering them all. . Had I been a robber, could not have felt more guilty. But what do I say that for? I was robbing 'them of their peace. I was stealing that from them that the whole world could not make.up to"them, hint on I went. Oh, that I could bring back that hour ! The hills look as' purple as they did when I used to climb them. The.crows are cawing among the high elm trees by the church. I wonder whether they are the.same rocks 1 There's a shiver-comes over me as I:get nearer home. Horne I feel there is no home for me. Here is the corner of the hedge, and the old seat ; but father is not sitting there. There is a patch of ground that my sister called her garden, but .she is not walking in it. And yonder is the bedroom window, my mother is not look• ing out of it now. "That cry ! that cry! I see how it is. . There are none of them here, or . things,would not . , look as they do: Father would not let the weeds grow in this fashion, nor the.thateh fall io, and my mother and my. Meter never stuffed that straw through , the broken panes. I'll rap at the door, anyhow. How hollow it sounds I Nobody stirs. All is as silent as the grave. I'll peep in •at the window. It's an empty house, that's clear. Ten long years I How could I expect it to be otherwise ? I can bear hard work, and hunger and thirst ! but I can't bear this ! The elderberry is in blossom, as it was when I ran, away, and the woodbine is as fresh as ever, running up to the window that my mother opened to-call after me. I could call after her now, loud enough to be beard a mile, if I thought she would hear me. It's no use st )pping here ! I will cross the church yard, and see if, the clerk lives where he did ; but he not know nit. My cheek was like the rose when I went away; but the sun, has made it of.another color. -How-nar row the path is between the grass ! it I used to be wirer—at least I thought sol; no matter. The old gun dial, I gee, is standing there yet. The last time I was that :Chtirbk, my father was-with ; and the..-taxt was '` )14 sou, hear, 'the instruction: of thy fetid, and (make not .ttio- faw,,of thyincitttei.' - Oh; what a curse da' we bring upon us when we despise God's Holy Word ! My uncle lies under the yew-tree there, and he had a grave stone. Here it is. It is written all over now, quite to the bottom": In itemory of Humphrey Haycroft. But w. s the name under? Walter Haycroft u y father! my fath er ! And Mary, his wife. Oh ! my mother! an 3 are you both gone ? God's hand is heavy on ma I I do feel it in my heart and soul 1 And there*another name yet, and it is freshly cut : _ Esther Haycroft, their daughter ; aged 24. My father ! my mother and my. sister! Why did not the sea swallow me np when." was wreck ed ? I deserved it I What is the world to me now? I feel, bitterly feel, the sin of disobedisnce ; the words come home to me now : The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.--Prov. xxx. 17. But-yet I`recollect how my dear fath er and mother used to point . us to the Limb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. There is no refuge beside, said my mother ; Christ is able and willing to save. I paid but little at tention to these words once ; oh, may I never forget thdm now I PATERNAL Dovv.—The father who plunges into business so deeply that he has no leisure for domestic duties and pleasures, and whose intercourse with his children consists in a brief word of authority, or a surly lamentation over their intolerable expensiveness, is equal ly to be pitied and,to be blamed. W hat right has he to devote . to other pursuits the time which God has allotted to his children Nor is it any excuse to say that he canna support his family in their-present style of living, without this effort. I ask by what right can his fam ily demand to live in a manner which requires him to neglect his most solemn and important duties ? it an ex c.-Ilse to say that he wishes to leave them a competence. Is he under. obligation to leave them that competence which he desires ? Is it an advantage to them to be relieved from the necessity of labor? Besides, is money the only desirable be• quest which tt father can leave to his children.? Surely, well cultivated intel lects ; hearts sensible to dornestic affec tion ; the love of.parents, and brethren, and sisters ; a taste for home pleasures ; habits of order and regularity, and in dustry ; hatred of vice and vicious men ; and a lively sensibility to the excellence of virtue—are as valuable a.legicy as an inheritance of property—simple proper ty purchased by the loss of every habit which could render that property a blessing, STRANGE BRIDAL Brorry-.—A strange story as told of -two sisters at Berlin. About three years ago one of these yonng,ladies was engaged to be married, but on the bridal morning became so ill that she could not possibly go to the church. The bridegroom was a desir-_ able one, and was a' fish who, it seems, had not been easily hboked. There was, therfore, great dfteger in' delay, so in stead of postponing the marriage the second , sister, covering_ herself with. a long yap, personated the first, and:clnly Went through the ceremony. The mo ment it was over she transferred the bridal dress and ornaments to her sister who, in her innocence, was thus consid-, ered to have all proper claim to this husband she had married by proxy. It is only recently that - a discovery has been made of the -real facts, and pro ceedings are to be taken rioConly in the civil, but in the criminal courts - of Ber lin. A GOOD RULE.-At Sydney, in Aus tralia, among otter advertisements on the first floor of• the printing office, is a tablet informing visitors that the editor cannot be seen unless paid for his Valu able time. Accordingly everybody with out exception is advised to buy a ticket of-admission-at the door of the waiting room—one hour costs 10s., half an hour 65., fifteen, minutes as. . iir.A married lady who was in the habit of spending most of her time in the society °Cher neighbors, happened one day to,be ,suddenly taken. ill, and ; sent her. husband in great haste for a physician. The husband ran a short die-, tanoe, bat soon returned, a,u4ipeekly ,ea-; claiming My dear, where ,shall 'I find you when return ?" ' ' er A dog lying on the heirth-rng with. his nose tO his tell is the emblem of Economy. He makes both ends meet. Farmer's Sons When a farmer s eon leaves home to become a clerk in some Village or city store, orto engage in some other busi ness, in three cases in four he takes the first step towards his pecuniary ruin. Occasionally, a young man thus gets in to- a business irf - athich lie becomes a partner or owner, and makes mile ; but such cases are rare. Let ns sup4ose a case. A young man hears`of the high salaries clerks get in New York, fiftein hundred dollars a year in some cases, and he gets the NeW York fever, and taking fifty 'dollars in hie pocket, he bide his parents farewell, and leaves home in high spirits. When - he gets to the city, he inquires for a boarding house ; he applies to'''sev= oral, and finds the price of board from six to ten dollars a weeit—the cheapest with fare he would not be satisfied with at home, being about six dollars. "•He' takes board at this rate, and begins to look for wsituation—sees advertisements in the papers for clerks, but 'a hundred get the start of him, some of whom - write splendid hands=and, of course, - they get the situations. In a few weeks his money is all gene, and he writes home for more ; and the result generally is, that after spending from one hundaed to two hundred dol lars, and "seeing the elephant, he comes home disgusted with city life, and is willing to stick to the farm, or awaits a new outfit for a second trial for sue- MD Bush an aspirant for money-making has his ardor somewhat cooled when he learns of city merchants that they pay green hands' only about enough to board them ; say from three hundred to five hundred dollars for smart, active clerks; from eighteen to twenty-five years old. The rule is to increase salaries - from fifty to one, hundrad dollars aryear; : till clerks become fully acquainted with the busi ness, when some few—the most efficient -perhaps one in a hundred—get a sal ary that enables theirao up.a little . ; money if they are economical. If however, we should turn to the histories of most young men who' leave good homes to obtain Situations in cities we should find that:ninety-nine in a hunered failed to realize their anticipa tions, and have died poor, or are Soar living on less.meaus yearly than a good farm affords, while their livei are a con tinued current of cares that render life . anything but happy. -In our yoinger days we had practical experience in this matter, and hilt New York with a shattered - consiitution, brought-oh by'close application tobusi ness, without. a Compensatory reward for the lose of health ; and to' escape ' a premature grave we fled to the country ;hereto' get a new lease of life - by tilling :he soil. • Here are a few femarks on the' fore going subject, which we 'clip from- the Rural World : • The eons of farmers commonly think their lot is a hard. one. Unlike most city youths, they • are compelled to per form daily toil. Their life is not one of constant amusement. They cannot see and bear a'imuch 'as Mei . r city cousins. They do not dress in as fine clothes— cannot treat and be treated at the pop ular saloons, or visit the costly gambling resorts which abbund in every city. They feel that their lot is indeed a hard one,`nd the , highest ambition of many •of them is, to arrive at that age When they can go to the city and' 'see all the sights.' But let us talk to our farmer boys. Yon are in the right place. You are learning habits of industry and frugality. By your daily toil you are acquiring a gonad constitution—n . most' important matter. And this is one ,or the reasons that our great men hive all come from farmers sons. They have grolin up :id bust, with constitutions that could 'en dure • a great nmdunt of mental labor, which youths from the city, with weak and feeble frames, could not stand. Ifyoui cannot see as much as city youths, neither are you expoSed to the vices and temptations of the city, life, which prove the destrnetion of nearly'all raised in the city. You rite then on the right track=go ahead. itesolve to form no bad habiti. in no intoxica ting &Hoke; If yon form a love ter them it:18'41111mA impossible to subdue it ; Do net'ectittiie'tlie habit cheWinif oininp tkidg ifibribbiii, pita books ' -let no . oPpiiitiiniti for im provement pass um—and lon' will ,grow up useful, intelligent men.—Rural Adtericitn. ar When ,ip,atixed manlike a thin When he tee 4 arresting. VOL. XII.--NO. 28. .%tuit for Zmaris A judge, trying a case out in the Vest, had proceeded about two hours when he observed, '• Here are only elev en jurymen present; where is the twelfth ?" "Please yor honor," said 'one of the eleven, " he has gone away about some other business, but he has left his verdict with me 1" A gentleman who was about complet ing the sale of a horse, which he was very anxious to dispose of, when a little urchin appeared and innocently inquired, `Grandpa, which horse you goin' to sell —that one you built the fire under yes- terday to make him draw ?' The bar gain was at an end, An edito - r reading in another paper that there is tobacco, which, if a man smokes or chews, will make him forget that he owes a shilling in the world, in nocently concludes that many of his sib scribers have been furnished with the same article. ' You like plenty of nice things, don't yon Johnny ? Bow many cakes did you have at the pastry-cooks yesterday 1' 'Five ; first a sponge-cake, then an alm ond-cake, then -a currant-cake, then a sweet-cake, and then a stoma cake l' A minister who bad received a num ber of calls, and could hardly decide which was the best, asked the advice of his faithful African servant, who thus .replied: "Massa, go where de most deb- 'MY dear; said a gentleman to a young lady whom he hoped to marry, 'do - you intend to make a fool of me ?' • No,' replied the lady, ' Nature has saved me the trouble.' Different sounds travel with different degrees of velocity. A call to dinner will run over a' ten acre Held in a min ute and a half, while a pummons to work will take from five to ten minutes. . "Well, Mr. Tree, if you are about to leave I shall detain your trunk," exclaim ed an incensed landlady to her lodger who was slightly in arrears. " Where shall I get a panel?" said the sheriff to the judge. " Why, I sup pose, sir, that you can get enough panels out of doors." The reason why the gamecock keeps his feathers so smooth is that he never goes an where without taking his comb wit. lim. An editor tells of an acquaintance of his, 'Who, when he laughs, "shakes the room so that even the spiders peep out of their cracks to see what is going Why are , naughty children at school like postage , stamps ? Because . you must lick their backs to make them stick to their letters. A. lady told her haiband she road the "Art of Love," on purpose to be agree able to him. " I would rather have love without art," replied he. Red noses are light -houses to warn vongers on the sea of life off the coast of-Malaga, Jamaica, Santa Crnz, and Holland. Why ahould we never sleep in a rail. way carriage ? Because the train paee. ea over sleepers. Why is a crazy oil speculator like th 4 Secretary of the Navy ? IE6 is Giddy on Wells. Teamsters may dog a brisk business, but wheelbarrow men carry all before them. A bachelor's face is often the worse or wear—a married man's for wear and En WV do white sheep eat more than black ones ? Because there are more of them. Why is the jams river like a keg of ager-beer ? Because they both flow ia o the Patch Gap. A blind man went out to sea, when there how did he contrive to see ? He took a cup and saw, sir, ( saucer). The brewers and beer-sellers of Now York are at lager-heads. The lady who fell back on her dignity came near breaking it. What is the best thing to prevent a maid from despairing ? A tea never indulged in by gossip 2,Ciharity. In what cords; should a secret be kept ? _ In violet. Many wear dignity se they de clothes .=alb outside. All lawyers may be said to belong to the 'Fie-nian brotherhood. why is ice in a thaw like philanthro• phi '7 ---Because it gives in all directions. A moded ti —the eeal►ic Wax.