BY FRED'K L BAKER. -' — PUBLISHEDWEEKLY HOME AND FRIENDS. . . AR D A HALF AYE ONE Da b- ! there's a power to make each hour PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. As sweet as heaven designed it; Nor need we roam, to bring it home, Though few there be that find it. We seek too high for things close , by, And lose what nature gave as ; For lire bath - here no chaime so dear, As home and friends around us. • °pc " LINDSAY'S BUILDING," second floor, on Elbow Lane, between the Poet gee Corner and Front-St., Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Aor6RTlsitio RATEs : One equAre 00 ince, or 101)75 cents for the first insertion and One Dollar and-a-half for 3 insertions. Pro (Mimi and Busincei cards, of sixiincs or less et S 5 per annum. Noncom in the reading, col umns, ten cents a-line. Marriages and Deaths, [ be simple anTioucerfient , raze ; but for any tiditional lines, ten cents* line. . A liberal deduction made to yearly a nd half yearly advertisers. Having just added a gi N2WBVRT Mouw tore JoDBEn Paris," together with a large uscatment of new Job and Card type, Cute, Hu d ak &e., dm, to the Job Office of "THE SIASICTTIAti," which will Infirm the fne and ipeedy execution of all kinds of Jon CARD psi r ;re a, from the smallut Card to the LARGEST POSTER, at reasonable, prices. d j. .%tribtutr ant sr onbtaanul Wotan most respectfully take this Means of informing his friends and the public generally that he has commenced the.drawing of DEEDS, MORTCSAGES. JUDO-MENTS, toad in fact everything in the Coro v.r.v.selcrico hoe , 'laving gratuitous intercourse with ,a member of the Lancaster Bar, he will Be ens- Ned to execute legal instruments of writing tri:h accuracy. l; He can be found at the office of " TEE %MUT Aft ;"—" Lindsay's Building," (sec cod floor) near the Post Office corner, or at wit residence on Market street, half a square not of the " Donegal house," Marietta. i -Blank Deeds, Mortgages, Judgments and Lena always on hand and for sale. first National Bank of Marietta =I TS BANKING ASSOCIATION HAV,INCI COMPLETED ITS ORGANIZATION ;s now prepared to transact all kinds of BANKING BUSINESS: The Board of Directors sleet weekly, on V•ekesday, for discount and other business. Q-Barik Hours : From 9A.into 3 2. lt. JOHN HOLLINGER, PRESIDENT. AMOS .11 la WAL4 N., Cashier. • OWARD 4SSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA, amen of the Urinary and Sexual Systems, new and reliable treatment. Also, the tams. CHAMBER, an Dopy of warning and Instruction, sent in sealed envelopes, free of charge. Addreae, Da. J. Sits MAN kfoIiOHTON, Howard Association, No. 2 South Ninth-at., Ptidadelphia, Pa. f jan.l,'6s-Iy. DR. J. Z. HOFFER, DENTIST, OF THE BALTIMORE COLLEGE Wtai.: OF DENTAL SURGERY, LATE OF HAtRISBURG. OOFFICE:—Front street, next door to It Williams' Drug Store, between Locus. mtl Walnut streets, Columbia. DANIEL G. BAKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LANCASTER.. PA. (via :—No. 24 NORTH DUKE STREET opposite the Court House, where he will at tend to the practice of his profession in all its %Mous branchee. DR. WM. 8.. FAHNESTOCIC, OFFICE:—MAIX-BT., NEARLY OPYOUTE Spangler & Pattereonis Store. WILT t FRON 7 TO 8 A. M. HOURS. • " I TO 2. ,1 6TO , 7 Y. N. Ipu MASON Ss BAKLIN • Cabinet Organs, - - - - Fury dif f erent Etylegi adapted to sacred and lathy MUSIC, for $BO to $6OO each. FIFTY Gold or Stivar Medals, or other first pre mium marded them: Illustrated Catalogues rent free. Address, Mums & ROILINj Boa toe, or MASON BROTHERS, New-York. Bepteres)er 9, 1863-Ir.) A TTENTION-I SPORT: I 4IW Eley's Gun Caps, Filay's GUI] Wadds, uupost's Sportio and Glazed Duck Powder, Skillings Shot ; S hot Pouches, Powder Flasks, "14 at JOHN B.P.ANGL,ER'S. COLGATE'S TOILET SOARS. --r— -oneY, Glycerine Palm, Almet Batballi d Shaving SOAPS.' Equal to arty Imported.-- Jen received and for male, ver_tcrseaP. at THE HOLDEN MORrAlt. - • Q.llning Shawls Ralmorino w.""dsHannker ljfielte and Filleting, Embr014.1%.31,1,8 and chief' and Collets, -IdouVriim'l'ngs. Veils, Head Nets and Men A full Ripply at & SPANGLER CHOICE L ot of BoeiarOf otikidrs._ ‘ n ca /.,„-- le A d Indntructable Pleasareßooks i-ma l29 • , "" kacpegrtllooks, Stationar7, peee i , pen holders LANDIS& TROUT. ST. cROIX AND NEW ENGLAND RUS for culinary pupates, warranted gen ulZ t M. D. Itenfornin. tioll PRI - of veiy oeseriex p4ined With NT ne ING atness a and dispatch iit r at the ' of The Matiettisa. 0 110 10 E BANANA gts Rs, and the b elt Chewing attirSitokineTobaeco at WOLFE'S- o4 L ARGE LOT OF ftillif WINDOW SHADES at retnarkably-lew prices JOE SPAYSLER. ' 414 °8 Celeariefl Pearl Cteinetst and Oil Paste Slacking at "THE GOLDEN MORTAR. 18 BcRIPTIONI Tecatial far alltrui later erialk4lsaf. the day. .1; 4 .12 T•l4 Goirki Mortar. . ` ,' ... kind& allutrirqe)st:at •"P, t'osrt puts'. OW ilts i ts .415410. tb ; . . . itii.t. 1-,l[l.ari-ti..4,1L We oft destroy the present joy, And future hopes, nor praise them, While flowers as sweet bloom at oar feet, If we'd%ut stoop to raise . them. For things so fair still greater are When youth's bright spell hath bound us; But soon we're taught that earth has naught Like home and friends around us. The friends that speed in•time of need, When hope's last reed is shaken, Do show us still that, come what will, We are not quite forsaken. Though all were night, if but the light From friendship's altar crowned us, 'Twould prove the bliss of earth was this - Our home andirientis around us. A ItIRLANCHOLY TRUTH.-- When a rak ish youth goes astray, friends gather round him in order to restore him to the paths of virtue. Gentleness and kind ness is lavished upon him, to win him back again to innocence and peace. No one would suspect that he had ever sinned. But when the poor COnfiding girl is betrayed, she receives the brand of society, and is thenceforth driven from the ways of virtue. The betrayer is honored, respected, esteemed ; but there is no• peace for her this eide of the grave. Society has but few loving, helping hands for her ; no smile of peace no voice of forgiveness. These are earthly moralities unknown to heaven. There is a deep wrong in them, and fear ful are the consequences. A LOST BRIDE.—The Patrie publishes rather a queer notice to the .public. On the 16th of November last a young married lady, only in the first half of the honeymoon, left her home at 6 P. M. to take a warm bath. She has not yet re turned, and all efforts of her husband and friends to find her whereabouts have proved fruitless. Conjugal desertions of this kind are not viewed in their pro pel light in Paris. The story of the Patrie reminds us of a smart thing in a French paper some time ago, A gen: tleman calls on a lady, and inquiys for her husband. "He has gone out to fetch a cigar." " Has he been gone long r " Twenty years ago." "Ah, he was right—he wanted to find a good one.' BOy's COMPOSITION ON Moomorr. —The following is said to have been read in a. city school : 'Twee a calm, stilt night ; the moon's pale light shone soft o'er hill and dale. Not a breeze stirred ; not a leaf stirred ; not a dog stirred ; not a horse stirred ; not a man stirred ; not an owl stirred ; not a bog stirred ; not a oow stirred; not a sheep stirred ; not a cat stirred ; not a mouse stirred.; not a hen stirred ; not even a goose stirred. Here the teacher interrupted, observing that the composition related more to agriculture than moonlight. lir A young lady advertised in the Cleveland Plaindealer for a young gen tleman to act as amanuensis. He must be able to write and cipher, and when not engaged he will be expected to read poetry with feeling, and converse with ease, and be able to play cribbage and backgammon. He must expect to be kissed when she is pleased, and cuffed when she is not; but as her temper is acknowledged to be good, there will probably be more kissing than cuffing. There's a good chance for somebody. A. drunken lawyer, going into church, was observed by the minister, who said to him : "Sir, I will bear wit ness against you at the day ofjudgetnent." The • awyer, shaking his bead with drunk en gravity, replied : "I have practiced law twenty five years at the bar, and al ways found the greatest rascal the first to turn State's evidence." A countryman Bowing his ground. two smart fellows * riding that way, one of them called to him with an insolent air, " Well, honest; fellow," said be "'tie your business to sow, but we reap the fruits of your labor." To whidb the countryman replied, "'Tie very likely you may, for I am sowing henp." . „ . Good,oewo for husbands-11414m woof theft- *Ow irdwr than they '6eptithut pnusgthania flitrttal fur the Nome girth. MARIETIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1866. A. correspondent of the American Lit erayy Gazette, writing from Paris, says 'Tie ill playing with edged tools, To day I will tell yon the history of an ill starred pair who set out in life with the belt, the most laudable intentions, to end their career with weeping and wail ing, andgnashing of teeth. They play with edged tools. Who'cannot call to mind a-dozen instances where nnhappi . nese was the fate of people who thought they might play with intellectual gifts and inspiration descend at the crook of their finger, and lure fame as easily as the falconer does his tassel? The child of genius, persuades himself that if he had but money, he could soar to the masters' pride of flight. He meets a woman who would gladly share her dow ry to be borne on' such pinions. They marry. Wrinkles come, Gray hairS appear, He is a child of genius all the days of his life. Genius will not wear fetters Besides, children of genius too often shut their eyes to the great truth that experience of life is absolutely ne cessary to give maturity to genius. She might as well expect to use hemp before it has rotted as to see the loftier talents bloom into genius until they have gone through the feimentation of life called experience. Tears must he shed, blood must be spilled, the cheek must burn with blushes, the heart must be wrung, the brain fevered, the soul de pressed to the gates of death, and all this time and again before the genius blooms. As the nightingale singsssveet est after its eyes have been torn oat, as the aromatic herbs have no odor until they have been bruised, so genius must ba bowed down to earth before it can dream of scaling heaven. Therefore is it that wealth hath stifled more genius than poverty;, therefore is it* that the road to immortality does not lie through an heiress' bridal chamber, but' rather , ihrough the cheerless garret, bereaved of fire, whose calendar contains more facts than feasts, whose wardrobe (a row of nails behind the door) has nothing bat rags. A hundred demons, armed with wea pons more formidable than smithy ever forged, to wit : the world's jeers, the world's contempt, the world's scorn, the world's rebuffs, the world's cruelty, Must stand at every avenue leading to the ,world, and drive one back time and again, until oat of sheer despair he shrinks into himself and explores his very fold, his every recess, his every plate and crease. Then knowing him. self he knoweth all things. Heaven and earth have no secrets hidden from him. To expect this initiation from wealth's partner 'would, be as idle as to ask the hlolian harp, packed in bran, to rival the instrument exposed in the window to the current 'of winter's air: Forgive me this long preface; but the story I proceed to teliyou threw me into so many and bitter reflections, Thave hith erto been unable to recover my self command. Happening to be at St. hi—, a small town in the south of France, I visited the lunatic asylum. 1 have al ways been fond of lunatics ; I have nev er met among them a stupid or bad man. I was shown into a tidy cell, occupied by a little old man, bent over a desk, and writin; with his finger on the board with inexpressible rapidity. He rose timidly, twirling hie fingers. He was at least sixty years old, but occasionally did not seem to be above fifteen.. His white, almost blonde, hair fell in child like curls, and his sweet face, smiling and uneasy, wore the expression of in fants when they both weep and laugh at the same time. Neverthelees, one could detect profound grief, trembling agony, in his dilated eyes, which wore the fixed expression'bf madness and despair. My attendant made a gesture, and the poor old man resumed his seat with extrava gant delight, and began to write as fast as ever . he could. . Then, seated in a corner of the cell in front of this infantine old man, my. tendant told me the unhappy creature's history. Somelofty or more years, ago there lived in a small town named St. R —, a young orphan. She was intel lectual, wealthy, beautiful. Every un married man in the province was at her feet, his eyes fixed on ter fortune. She was so fluttered, so adulated,.so compli cated, her gorge would rise at night when upon going to bed she would think of the suitor:forced upon ..her during the day. Atlast anoh7as the nausea she expaTieimod, she peolvel to. give `her hand, and all it aontainektoii•kfpros& . tOg ?'Br !1n seatiort 101$ rftrtrligtow. A Sad Story, exehange for the beauty and estate she gave him. There was at that time in her town a prodigy of eighteen, who had rhymed from infancy, had "lisped in numbers." He had already written many a fable, tragedy, sonnet, and epic, and the whole province had firm belief that he would blea t into a greet genius. She married thinrodigy that no ma terial obstruction might delay his pro gress on the road to fame. She brought him up to Paris, and so planted him in wealth's hot-house to force him to bear fruit. Strange and inexplicable fatali ty I unheard of catastrophe I The poet bore no fruit. He had a charming study; it was nothing but bronze and black marble. HO lived in most favorable quiet. He knew nothing of the thorns of life. And after all he rhymed as he rhymed when he was fifteen, mere dog gerel ; fit at best for a confectioner's kiss. Be was the best little husband that eves was seen, gentle and timid, amiable and laborious. She was the best little wife that ever was seen, con ciliating and encouraging, extremely tolerant, and of an invariable good hu mor. Nevertheless, by degrees, she be came irritable. Be became ashamed of himself. Every morning he would lock himself up in his study, write madly, blot quire after quire of paper, read it over, and in despair confess t'was not worth the ink it was written with. . ,Every evening she would come, her heart throbbing with anxiety, to see if some good lines had at last made their appearance. She would question the poet, who everyday hung his head still lower. At last impatience and disdain appeared ; she could not tong check their ontbreali; and she upbraided her husband for defrauding her, because in return for her beauty and her money he had not giverrher genius. After this scene matters went from bad to worse. The husband became a child scolded by his wife. He lived. in a state of constant uneasiness, eternal shame. He lived blushing and tremb ling ; his heart was wrung by all the tortures of the impotent artist and the insolvent man. He suffered the tor merits of the damned by the Bide of the woman head robbed (as she said,) and whose only sentiment for him now was disdainful pity. So long as that woman, had not abandoned all hope of seeing her husband bloom into a geoiris. she chained him to his writing-desk, and made him write a given number of lines every day before dinner. The unhappy man addressed himself to the task, and daily wrote worse. 'T was an hourly battle between them of contempt and and pain, She laughed disdainfully. He shivered with fear and anguish. He had spent $2,500 of her money in attempting to become a great poet. This was his galled withers. One morn ing he refused to do his daily task, set him every morning by his wife. He had found in the office of some feint stock company a copying clerk's place, with -a salary of $l5O, and henceforward he be gan to pay his debt to his wife. He lived under the same roof with her, but be paid rent for his• room ; he took his solitary meal in restaurants whose price was fourteen sous ; he dressed himself with his own money, and nevertheless managed to pay his wife a considerable amount of money annually in payment of his debt to her. He lived in this way above thirty years, "silent and - uneasy, sliunnibg every eye, and blushing Bud. denly when no one was looking. Hie sole . pleastire was to consult a little bank book wherein he recorded the money he had paid to• his wife in ex tinguishment of hia debt. -His wife, seized by pity, by love perhaps, for this great baby,.,so pure and so young, de spite hie years, tried to refuse his money and win back to herself the poor heart she had shattered to pieces.. Her weak, will less.hasband refused will energy. He would-listen to nothing. Work he would to pay off his wife. He copied letters. He made out bills. Wheirhis employer suggested an increase of pay he would blush arid beseech them not to jeer his want of intellect. He was crazy -one of those harmless insanities akin to mania for collecting old pipes, old snuff bozes,.and the lihe. The day when he saw from his blank book that he owed his wife nothing, he became __furiously , . insane. He turned i'dmmeriaults, he danced, he walked on his head, he irrote a sonnet' and id euld gy. It became necessary to -leak him up is an pone asyletn., His insanity is intermitast. -He remains, who l e weeks together, writing.with his finger on-ibe board otitis desk, aild? occeeiettAir ad!. 4.o.oPte z ttigr:ificiP 3r tv -Yrim er iS Then, on tVe day e ob . tained the desired sum total, he gives way to unbounded joy, which he exhib its by howling and leaping like Boise wild beast. . If you can raid that poor wretch's tale without feeling your blood and mar row freeze, you are made of sterner 'stuff than I am. Frazer's Magazine tells the fol lowing story, which seems to be iatend ed for a part of the biography of Sena tor J.B. Lane. Whether it is tree or not, is more than we knOw A distinguished politician of radians, becoming interested is the movement fur making Kansas's free state, left hie wife and repaired to the territory, in tending to return 8t;01). Becoming, however, identified with the struggles of Kansas, the Senator stayed away very long. His wife, at length demanded hie, return. He wrote back that it was im possilile. His wife waited a little, and then wrote, declaring that unless he re turned by a stated time, sbe would sue for a divorce. The Senator made no re ply, but gave her . a glowing account of the patriotic movements in which ha bore an important part. The next let ter he received was from the clerk of a court in Indiana, informing him that his wife had filed a bill, with another from a lawyer, offering to defend him. The Senator wrote,back to the lawyer as follows " Dear Sir—Yours to hand. My wife , says she will not stand my long absence. If I were she I would not stand it either. I shall offer no oppo sition to her snit. Yours, etc.,—' Two years later, when the divorce, had long been granted, this Senator return ed to Washington as the Senator of , the free State of Kansas, visited his old home in Indiana, and found his wife still blooming and handsome and surrounded by adtuirere. With the rest he visited her from time to time, became presently the accepted lover,,and was - re-married to her. - A Nice Fix .FOll A GENTLtmAIi.-A very nice ;young gentlbman, whose name we do not deem iicice r eiriett recently invested a smnll sum in chick ens, which he undertook to take home on the street cars. After proceeding a short distance the attention of all the passengers, a large 'Proportion or whom were ladies, was called to him by one'of his purchases raising a loud and contin ued cackle. In vain he' tried to quiet h, the bird ; the ladies " tittered . " and pulled down their veils ; the 'gentlemen on board " iraw-bawed " and our young friend, in his lgooranoe of "the situa tion," blushed. Growingsc;thewhe,trest less at being the' cynosure of all eyes, he cast a look into hie lap, and beheld— there was an egg. He immediately quit. ted the car and pursued his way home ward on foot. Imagine his "pheelinks." TLIP.BE Toms.— Tliree thing* to love —courage, gentleness and anation. Three things to admire—intellectual power, dignity and gracefulness. Three things to bate—ernelty, ignorance 'and ingratitude: Three things to delight in —beauty, frankness and freedom. Three things to wish for—health, friends and cheerful spirit. Three things to pray for—faith, peace and purity of heart. Three to like—cordiality, good humor, and mirthfulness. yliree ttiipgs to avoid —idleness, loquacity and flippant jesting. Three things to cultivate—good- books, good friends, , and good humor. • "Will you take this woman to be your, wife 4" " Well, squire," was the reply, "you MUSt be a green 'un, fb as me such a question as that ar. Do you thiuli that I'd be such a plaguy fool as to go to the bar hunt and take this gal to the quilting frolic if I warn't couscriptuous ly sartin and determined to ,have her. Drive on with pour business." ar An:lrish dr umm er, who n o w and then indulged in a noggin of right :good poteen, was accosted by the reviewing General : "What makes your note so red r.l. t.Plase per Honer." related Pat. "I alWays blush when I spoke to a 'general officer2.': : gig,' A man stopping his paper, - wrote to - the editor : i think fences, ottent spend ther mtinny far paper my lady didnt an ever boddY NZ he wan the most intellyginestman is ibetentry and got the smarterest lamely nv bole aver that tipped Vaters:ll--- ---111 - A person; wits boasting' tbat bi WatimilifromalligToramiWalreland). IreVidt:tibZ4l; :*t i — hve souk Pm, , P1402 1 .44,PV e kr e e t cotibli not okmea ' • 1 -- v. , VOL. XII.-NO. 29. Stuff far sSztilez A. Richmond paper records the des perate threat of a man there who de clared he would have money—if he had to work for it I "Well, Charley," said a friendly gent to an urchin of three years on Christ mas Day, " what - did you find in your stocking this morning ?" " Find," re plied the young hopeful, " why I found a big hole." The questioner gave" the boy one cent. The last nets thing about the wedding celebrations is the Sugar Wedding, It is the sweetest thing oat, and is celebra. ted at the - end of the honeymoon—thirty days after the marriage. Some say the quickest way to destroy "weeds" is to marry a widow. It is no doubt a delightful species of hue . bandry. Many a poor woman thinks she can do obthing without a husband, and when she gets one, finds she can do nothing with him, A friend of ours, wbo left the editorial fraternity,a year ago. is now engaged in raising pigs. 130 he has again taken the pen in hand. A young lady says' the reason she carries a parasol is that the ens le of the masculine gender, and she cannot with stand his ardent glances. It was a starving corset maker who thus vented her complaint: "Shame, that I should be without bread—l have stayed the stomachs of thousands. Woman is like ivy—tits more you Bye ruined the closer she clings to you. A. vile old bachelor adds : Ivy is like a woman—the more it clings to you, the more you are ruined." Poor rule that won't work both ways. /" I hate doctors' bills," as the man said when he caught the family physi• cian kissing his wife. Why is a warlike incursion like a lady in full dress ? Because it is a. raid ( ar rayed ) for conquest. •drTaoismAbawjust.dNtW its :to swim in hot water with such success that they lay boiled eggs. A French newspaper says only three of #. subscribers are bald, and they are • arrears for subscription. • The first cane ever ont--Cain, the son of Adam. Everybody "Cut" him after h. d killed his brother ®" How long did Adam remain in Par adise after he sinned 7" said an amiable epouse to her husband. " Till he got a Wife," was the calm reply. "Caught in her own net," as a man said when he saw ono of the fair sex hitched in her crinoline. A gentleman complaining of the vari ous imposts and taxee, says he cannot put on his boots in the morning without a stamp. . The Character of an upright man is like a pair of boots. The more you blt,it, the more it shines. See here, my friend4on ore drunk." "Drank, to be sure I am, and have been for the last three years. You see my biother and I are on tie temperance mission. He lectures while I set frightful example." A young lady out West who lately collided with an ice-bound sidit=whlk, re. marked, as she assumed a perpendicular position, " I'll have a man to hang on to before another winter." Every man should keep the wolf from hie door, and hie motherin•law too, if be ear. The fellow who took offence hse not yet returned it. ifir Some individual who had nothing else to do has ascertained that there are 550,000 grains in a bushel of wheat ; 520,000 in barley,; 260,000 in oats, and 37,000 in .horse beans. fir A :lector recently, gave the fol lowing prescription for a lady : A new bonnet, a cashmere ebawl, and a new pair of gaiter boots. The lady, it is needless to say, has entirely recovered. sir An. invlolable fidelity, good hum or, and complacency of temper in a wife, outlive all the charms of a floe face, and make the &Mum of it invisible. sir. Why are- hoops ;Ike obstinate men f Ans.—Decease the, often stand oat about trifles. --" 4111PBeettilleluady awbettle, and 'Mir .bottba.masy,e, bier. _, ig& VetifiliVthictaiett letter ffi tb. *WWI iliwiwrirehosy. hi. 41.
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