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VOL. xxvni. LANGASTEB. pa., WES]^^DA¥r SEPTEftiBER 6, 1854. NEW SERIES, VOL. XVI-NO. 40, PUBLISHED. BY- EDWAKD 0. DABUNGTON, OITICI nr Hoarn qttbot ersxa. The EXAMINER & DEMOGEATIO HERAU) is pnbUahed weekly, at Two doluss a year. Advertibemkkts not excecdiDg one square wBl he inserted three times for ono doUer, and twenty- five cents will ba charged foreach additional Insertion.— A liberal discount allowed to thoEo advertlalng by the year. BARBARA. On the Sabbath day Through the church-yard old and grey, Orer the criEp and yellow leaves, 1 help my lust- ling way j And amid the words of mercy, fulling on tho soul liko balms; 'MoDg tho gorgeous Etorma ofmusic in tho mellow organ-calms; 'MoDg tbo upward-stream ing pmycr.^, and tho rich auii solemn psalms, I stood heedless, LJarbera ' My heart was otherwhere, while the organ fill'd the uir, , ,, . And the priest with out-sprcia bands bless il the people with a prayer. -,¦,¦, But when rising to go homeff.ird. with a mild and saintliko shino, . fileam'dafaceofairy. beauty with itn hcavcDly eyes on mine— GleamMandvauisbM ill fl- moment Oh, the face was like to thine, Ero you pcrUh'd, Karbara ! Oh, that pallid face! Thoso sweet, earnest eyes of grace ! When last I s-aw thom, dearest, it was in another place; You came runniDg.forth to meet mo with my love- gift on your wiist. And a cursed river k iU*d theo, aided by a murder¬ ous mist, Oh, a purple mftfk of agony was on tho mnuth I When last 1 saw theo, Harbara ! Thoeo dreary years, eleven. Have you pined within your heaven, And is this the ouly glimpes orcarth that m tliat timo wa.s given 1 And havo you pasa'd unheeded all the fortunes of your race— Your father's grave, your .'^istor'acliild. yourinoth- er'a quiet face— » To gaze on one who wor^ihipM not within n kncel- . ing placo 1 Are you happy, Barbara I 'Mong angela do you think Oftho precious golden link I hound around your happy ana whilo sitting on yon brink 1 Or when that night of wit and wine, of laughter and guitars. Was emptied of its music, and ivo watch'd Ihrough lattice bars Tbe silent midnight heaven moving o'er ua with ita stars, Till tbo morn broke, Barbara 1 In the years I've changed. Wild and far my heart has ranged, And many sins and errors deep havo been on mo avenged But to youT have been falchful, whatsoever good I've lacked; 1 loved you, and above my life still hangs that love intact, Liko a mild consoling rainbow o'er a eavago cata- , ract; ^ Lovo has saved mo, Barbara I O Love ! i amuublest. With monstrous doubts dpprest Of much that's dark and nether, much that's holi¬ est and best. Could I but win you for an hour from off that star¬ ry shore, Tho huDgorofmy soul wero stiU'd; for Death has told you moro Than tbo melancholy world doth know,—things deeper than all lore. WiU you teach mo, Barbara ! In Vain, in vain, in vain ! You will never came again :— There droops upon tho dreary hills a mournful fringe of rain, Tho gloaming closes slowly round, unblest winds are in tho tree. Hound selfish shores for ever moans the hurt and wounded sea: There is no rest upon the eartb. peace i.'^ with Ueatb and thee.— ¦ 1 am weary, Barbara ! I [From Pctcrson'fl Magazine, for August.1 THEWIFEi"MISSIOir. BV THE AUTHOR OF "THE VALLEY FARM." I. The clock had long since struck midnifihl yet StiU the young wife waited for her husband. It was tho firei time he had ever loft her alone in the evening. They had been married three montbs,—threo happy, blissful months, the young wife had thought til! now ! " I will not bejn till late," he had said on leaving after dinner. "Twn or three of my old bachelor friends are in town, and I have promis¬ ed to take eupper with ihem. Itwould be as well, perhaps,*' he continued, glancing anoiher , way, "not to wait up for me.'' j At first the evening was lonely as she had ex¬ pected. She brought out her husband's slippers, arranged his dressing gown, and drew his favor¬ ite arm chair up before tho fire. " He wiii not be out late, after all," she said, as she did this. "He thinks to surprise me.'* And smiling to herself in the consciousnesa oi having all ready for him, she sat down, took up the last book he had given her, and began quietly to read. Eight, and then nine o'clock, struck, when finding he did not come, she rose with a sigh, and laid aside her volume. "He will be late after all,'' she said- " Bull suppose he has so much to talk about.*' And with this excuse for his delay, she sighed again, and after awhile re¬ sumed her book. The young wife was still full of romance- Idolized by her family, and with no experience of life beyond the loving circle of her early home, -she bad married with the too common dream ihal existence was never to be darkened by a cloud. Her husband was from a distant cily, a man of fortune, finished in his manners, and with a singular handsome person. Willingly she had ieft ali to follow him. But now, sitting thus alone, a feeling gradually arose in her heart, that ho ought not tohave left her. She wai ashamed oi it at first, and strove to conquer it; she had no right to expect bim, she said, till ten o'clock ; it waa natural, perhaps, for husijands to wish Occasionally to spend an evening with their bachelor friends. But it was a weary time till ten o'clock. Shi often found her thoughts wandering. At last the clock fllruck. " Now he will surely come," she exclaimed, throwing down her book ; nnd rising sho went to the window in order to watch for him. It was bright moonlight without, and every one ap¬ proaching could bo distinctly seen. But still hor husband did not come. For nearly half on hour she remained looking out. Gradually her feelings changed. " He does not love mo aa he did," sho said, " or hc wouid'nt neglect me so." Finally, yielding to pride, she closed the ahut-^ ters, and again took up her book. ** When he comes in,'' she said, "he shall find me reading, as ifhis abaence had not concerned me." But ahe could only pretend to read. Her cyo^ followed the characters while her thoughia wero with her husband. Again and again ahe turned back, determined to keep the sense in her mind, yet aa often aho discovered, after a page or two, that sho had utterly failed. The clock Blriking eleven roused her. Her ihoQghts now took a new turn. Something must have happened,ahe eaid, and she reproached heraeU for having heen vexed. Perhaps he had been takon aick on his way home. Perhaps he had been run over. Perhaps, for she had hsard ofsuch things, he had becn knocked down, rob¬ bed, and left senseless and bleeding. These fears having once taken hold of her, she could not rest quietly in the house. Going to the atreet door, sho stood there, unborineted eagerly looking up and down tho street. Had aho known where to go, ahe would have set forth at once; but ahe reflected that, if ahe left the house, her husband might be brought back in her absence. The streets were now almoat desert¬ ed, and the moon had sunk behind the roof-tops, so that silence and comparative darkness filled the long and ghostly thoroughfare. But occa¬ sionally a step would be heard approaching. As It slowly came nearer and nearer her auspenso wouldbe ahnoBt intolerable. Yet when it. ar¬ rived, and the form ofa stranger only was seen, she could have welcomed even suspense again. At last the watchman come along, eyeing her so curiously that. ahe withdrew, but only *to walk up and down the hall almoat frantically.— Every momont she expected to see her hua-.' band brought home a corpse. Her imagination picturedhiminadoxondreadlulways; crushed disfigured, bloody; perhapa,BiiUsensible.though imable to speak; perhaps, cruel, cruel fate epeechlesa forever, and with eyea cloBed in deaih Tears and sobs aUernated as she traversed the hall andparlor, wringing her hands, and praying with wild, imploring words- Thua midnight came. She went again to the door, for she could not keep away. The moon waa now down, and the Btreet entirely dark; the roll of carriages waa heard no more; not even a step echoed on the silence. She passed out, and sumding on the stoop, alrove, by sha¬ ding her eyes, to peer into the gloom- Bt^'taiill there were no signs ol her husband, Hef anxi¬ ety now rose to poaithe iagpny. She could not keep still. Froiti,h"BU^tp;Btp6p, aiid from atdpp to hall/ehe paased CL^i^i^piUfedf finding no:alie-.. Tifition foi bet feais except in action* ' ^ 9if» »\A rubid up itftin » fidt b9r boims( imd^hawl, butrememberinff while she wm put¬ ting them on with trembling hfindfl, how ma4 would be the attempt to find her .husband in that great city, she flung them downwilh a burst ot impotent tears, feeling as if hor heart was breaking from the very impossibility ofher do- ing anything. .. , ;. , • In thiasiateofmind,,more than two additional hours passed. At hat, when three o'clock had nearly came, a atop was -heard*ih* the atreet.— The wife was already at the door, and listened with suspended pulie as the echoing tread ap¬ proached. Was it" hia? Yes, and with thia conviction ahe sprang forward. But what makes her, all at once, recoil?— Why does ahe start back, her face blanched, her figure motioiileea as if turned to stone 7 , She has aeen a maudlin countenance, which is not thst of her husband, and yet is; and, on the instant, the dreadful truth flashes upon her ihat she hasmarried a drunkard. II. "What the deuce isthe matter with you?" said Mr. Herenand K^his young wife, two days afterward. "Can't a man get a civil word, or even a look out of you?" And finding that there was no reply, he continued; "Since.I must speak plainly, you're sulky, I suppose, about the way I came home the other night, But egad! you must have been tied pretty tight¬ ly to your mother's apron strings, if yon have nol learned that such things are small matters." Mr- Herenand was rich, and well educated, and had always moved in what is called "the beat society." But hehad been the furthest possible irom what is characterized as a "domestic" man. His molher had long been dead, and his sisters being gay, fashionable girls, there was nothing lo keep him at home in the evening. Hia time consequently had been spent between the thea¬ tre, billiard-saloon, and club-room. Convivia' in his habits, he not" tmfrequently indulgod to excess in wine; but as all his gay friends did the same, he thought little of it. Of women in the abstract he had no very high opinion. What hehad seen of them had been chiefly among the worst of the sex. He mar ried his wife principally for ber pretty tace, and had thought himself a miracle ol devotion, be¬ cause, forthreo whole montha, he had never gone out in the evening, except with her. It is true that a round of social entertainments, in¬ tended to welcome the young bride to a strange city, had monopolized so many of these evenings, that, on iheir fow disengaged ones, ho was glad to stay at homo in quiet. A iortnight'a cessa¬ tion of ihe parties had innuied him however. The young wife had been educated to believe intemperance the vilest of vices, and, therefore, when sho saw her husband inebriated, horror and disgust seized her by turns. At first ahe felt as if she could never forgive him- But her woman's heart began, at last, to plead in his" fa¬ vor; nnd she rose from her sleepless couch per¬ suaded that it would be cruel not to pardon him, if he showed penitence, especially as it was probably his first offence. Poor thing I She was destined to be bitterly- deceived. She could not avoid a certain con¬ straint in her manner, when her husband de¬ scended to breakfast, at a late hour* This lie noticed, and took offencoat. He sat down sul¬ lenly. The meal passed in silence ; and when he had finished, he rose and_ left the house with¬ out a word. Mrs-Herenand thought, for awhile, she would die from mortification anti rage. In her days of courlship, the slightest shade upon her face had been sufficient to awaken her lover's anxiety.— Was it for this she had left her loving family? Had sho exchanged a mother's care for neglect and insult ? She had a high, proud heart, and she resolved that the criminal should bitterly repent his con¬ duct. Accordingly, when he came home to dinner, she had nothing to say, beyond the ne¬ cessary phrasea of the table. A statute of ice could not have been more repellantthan she, in her cold, angry dignity. " Mr- Herenand looked up with aomo surpriao. Educated as he had been, hc could not compre¬ hend what ho had ddne to merit either the re¬ serve of tho morning, or the present still more chiliins demeanor- In turn he grew angry- Two days had passed, when his rage, as wo have seen, had lound vent in worda. Mrs- Herenand, meantime, was a thousand fold more indignant than at first. " Sir!" she said drawing herself up haughtily "speak respecilully of my mother, al leasl.— Whatever yon say, or do to me, I'll not havo her insulted.'- The husband gave a low, prolonged whistle, " How dure you?" cried his wife, passion¬ ately stamping her foot. ." Didn't I tell you I'd nol have my molher insulted? Nor shall you look at mo in that insolent manner either ?" A.n oath arose lo the husband's lips, and even found expression though he would have consid¬ ered it very ill-bred lo swear at any woman but his wile. He muttered also somfething about termagants, and what sort of a home they made for a man. " Whai'fj that you say ?'' said his wife, now thoroughly aroused. " Someihing about mak¬ ing a man's home a , I won't speak the wicked word. Nice language ior a lady's cars," she continued, contemptuously. "But il ia such, I auppose, as you learn from your boon companions." She paused, but he made no answer. In fact he was cowed for a moment. Ho had thought ho had married a Desdemona. But hc was ask¬ ing himself now if it was not raihera Lady Mac^ beth. " What else ought a man's house to bo," she resumed, passionately, " if thiaia-thewaywivea aro treated ? I wonder there's a quiet home, any where," she continued, her eyes blazing: and she broke off abruptly with a bitter laugh. It was well she did,-for alio waa becoming hysterical. Poor, motherless, inexperienced child, almost frantic with outraged love and shame, wo can scarcely censure her that she ra¬ ved thus. But she had done incalculable harm. Her re¬ proaches had cut to the quick. In his then atate of mind, the culprit was not unwilling to hav.e any excuse for anger. " Well then, madam," ho said, colly button¬ ing up his coat, " if you don't choose to make my home comfortable, I'll go where I can find one-'* And with a brutal oath, he wheeled about,, and left the room-- V She htirst into a paaaion of tears^ FalUrig on her bare kneea,; ahe solemnly :pledged herseH to iecoyerlierhuaband, ifaoTlBngo in her conduct coald do it. : Had the young wife been less truly a woman she would never have come to this conclusion,— She would atill have hardened her heart. But the diviner qualities were large and vital in her character, and thesehad triumphed at laat over the moro atubborii and haughty elements of her nature. " Father in heaven." she cried, "I acknowl¬ edge ray error. Thou hast'set the example ih tjiy dear Son>of measureless forbearance and love. .Shall I, to whom so much haa been for¬ given,not forgive also? ShullI drhre the hus¬ band, I have sworn to love and honor, into cour¬ ses more evil than before, and only because he has wronged ma once ;—when Thou hast died for those who have wronged Thee a thousand times, and who cruelly mock Thee sliU ? Oh ! laee now," she cried, "that itis more Chrisl- hke to act the diviner part, and to win back the erring by the very magnitude of our loye for them- Here then I dedicate myself (o this task," ahe continued, solemnly, lifting her streaming eyes to heaven, " if Thou wilt but sanctify the act nnd give mo atrength I need to persevere to the end." She-rose a changed being. Tho mystery of life had been revealed to her. She knew her mis¬ sion on earth, and prepared, martyr* like logo forward in it. She had recognized the Cross aho was to bear- IV. *"' And it proved a Cross indeed! at first her al¬ tered, demeanor produced no impression upon her husband except contemptous surprise- A lesa selfish, or loss haughty man, would have been easily melted by her meekness, her for¬ bearance, her evident efibrts to please. But his heart, never very gentle, had bocomo like the '* neiher mill-stone." He had expected a slave m a wife, and finding himself disappointed had vowed to break lior heart. So his feelings were those of congratulation, rather than affection, at these signs of what he considered her submis¬ sion. Sardonic as it was, there is no cxaggera- tion in thii. There are such men—brutes, al¬ moat devils. At times his wife almost gavo up. Many were the bitter hours she spent alone in tears m fae^ chamber. Often she arose from a sick bed to dress herself in his favorite eolora and welcome him with a cheerful smile. She selected for the table the delicacies sho knew ho liked best. - She informed herself on the subjects sbo thought would be most apt toplease him. She played his favorite airs. Occasionally he would relent a little, hard and resolute as he was ; but it was only a momentary gleam of sunsihine. Without her Bible sho would havo given up-— But aho found, the moro she studied ita apirit, that if love would not win back her husband an¬ ger would fail more utterly. The whole scheme of redemption roso before her, not only as tho great fact of the Gospel but as the type, to all time, of the means to recover the lost. " Sure¬ ly," she said, " if Christ submitted to be led liko a lamb to the slaughter, and ail to win a degra¬ ded and fallen world back to Him, ought not I sufi'er all for my husband in hopes to touch his heart also." And then aha would add. " Hc is obdurate yet, because I irritated him so long. Had I be¬ gan earlier, he would havo yielded before now." Cruel as Mr- Herenand was, ho would,have been eoftened, if it had not been for the influ¬ ence of one of his wifo'a own sct. This aban¬ doned creature had exercised a controlling influ¬ ence over him previous to his marriage ; but on that event he had shaken off the connexion; on¬ ly however, to resume it on tho first quarrel with his bride. And now this vile wretch sought, by every act, to widen the breach, undoing, day by day, all that the wife had done. " Can you go with me to r—,'* aaid Mrs. Herenand, in her gentlest tones. " I havo re- III. That night Mr. Herenand came home intoxi¬ cated again. .The young wife did not ait up lor him this time; but she paced her chamber till he came, wringing her bands; and when ahe heard him stumble into bed, in the adjoining room, ahe burst into tears of passionate grief and rage Her heart wes torn by confiicting emotions all this whiloi Sho began to fear sho had dono wrong, but her pide would not let her acknowledge it even to herself, much less to him. In tho morning, when ahe woke from a fever¬ ish sleep, she learned that her husband had aU ready gone out. Sho aaw nothing of him that day. Hc came home, aomo time before mid¬ night ; but ae she had already shut herself up in her chamber, there woa no opportunity for ex¬ planation, even if he had wished it. Thus thinga went on for days, weeka and oven months. Oh! what^miserable household it was, Qt least for one,forthe other waa rarely-ot home. The young wife would not yield, for whenev¬ er ahe thought of it, Ihe fact originally he waa in fault reeuned to her, atealmg her heart aa well aa blinding her judgment. Meantime ehe had to keep her sorrow aecret. It wae not a grief that could be told. Yet often her heart almoat broke under it. Thua again her proud apirit rose; " She did not care," she said to herself, "hehad treated her, brutally, yee! bmlally; and he might go where he pleased do what he pteoaed, it was nothings it ehould be nothing to her. Other men might kill their wives by auch conduct. Thank heaven ! aho was made o stouter siuflT. ., But gradually her strength gave way in this struggle. She spent half her time ih'tears. Of¬ ten she waa templed Vo fly to her mother, so much did ahe yearn for sympathy. At laat she remembered her Bible/which, for many yeara, she.had almost neglected.- 'The gentle spirit of that book, particularly of the four gospels, in¬ sensibly melted her.andcha'nged the whole ciir-, rent of her thoughts.' V ' One: night, ae. ehe lay .on her pillow, .an in: ward monitor whispered to her. '.'waa shelwhoUy free from blame 1'»>aia the-voicow " Had ah6 nbt, as a wife; taken'her husband for good or ill t ;^hatdid,tius'iinplyf';WMBhedoing/her'i^^^ by driving hiinaway with her npbraidings l ipidi I^criimnttUtyJMlify wrong on her parU Would tro oilier «S«ik«Hla]^:-<lrt^ter^=1ttaa'^ it Bijia^i' 1 th9 contm/r raodfi tbem worn f" ceived a note saying that my friend Mrs. Ar¬ lington, is dangorouflly illand wishes tosec me." Tho place she mentioned was on tho river, soma twenty miles from tho city. It would take only a day, and for a moment Mr, Herenand was tempted to say yee. For several days he had been touched by his wife's meekness, even almost to changing hia conduct. But just as he was on the point ofagreeing, he remembered that hc had an engagement to play a game o*^ billiards for a bet, that very morning. "^ No, Annie," he said though with evident regret, " I can't go."' It was the first time, for months, that he had used any but hor lost namo in addressing her; and it almost unnerved her- "But if you'll take the cars on returning,*' he added, kindly, "I'il come for you." " Thank you," (altered the wife. She could say no more, for- her heart was full—full of gratitude to God and of visions of a happy fu¬ ture- The inralid, however, was so loath to part with-Mrs. Herenand, keeping hold of her hand and asking her new questions continually, that the cars started before Mrs. Herenand reached the depot. There was a steamboat, which left half an hour later, but the disappointed wifoi though she availed herself of this to return could not keep down the rebellious regrets that her friend had prevented her from meeting he^ husband. "Ho will be angry," she said. "Appearan" ces willbe^ against me, and he will hardly wai* for an explanation. If it had happened when all was well between us, the differance would not have beon so great. But now I fear he will not even come home.'' She was filled with these thoughts, and was restraining her tears with difficulty, whon about halfway to the city, tho boat stopped at a land¬ ing. There was a largo hotel there with spacious grounds about it, celebrated as a resort tor gay partiea from tbe city. Looking up, at hearing boisterous laughter, what was Mrs. Herenand's amazement to behold her husband evidently somewhat flushed with wine, leading onboard a female, whose free demeanor and showy style of dress betokened too well her character. Yea! the husband after playing his game of billiards, during which he had drank freely of champagne, had received a note from this bad woman urging him to accompany her on an ex¬ cursion and dine at the ¦ hotel. He had been persuaded, in an evil hour, to go; and was now more excited with wine than before. Mra. Here¬ nand waa not unknown by sight to this vile creature, who now fixing her bold eyea on the poor, fainting wife, gavo a scornful laugh as ahe swept past, holding the husband tight to her arm. The victim of this inault, the innocent wife, thought, for a moment she would have died.— Indignation and ahamo racked her heart. Then consciousness fled, for nature was too weak tor the struggle, and she sank back fainting. By this time, however, the wanton had carried offi' the husband to the upper deck, so that he heard nothing ofthe incident. In fact not having hap¬ pened to aeo his wife at all) he laughed and jes^ ted with that exuberant mirth which incipient intoxication produces. That night, aa Mrs. Herenand prayed in her deserted chamber, it required all her faith to make her believe in the justice of God. •* I who am, at least, striving todo right,*' ahe aaid bit terly, "to bo thrust aside for this creature—oh! it is too much." But prayer brought relief.— ^Sho thought of the words of the Litany, " By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and passion," and feeling that, with all her woes ahe had suffered nothing like to Christ, she bowed in repenta^ico. V. To do Mr, Herenand justice, he felt acuiest ahame, when heheard tbat his wife had been on board fhe steamboat. But the tempter, who had led him astray, and who had siezed the first fiivorable opportunity to acquaint him ofa fact, which she knew could not be kept from him, and whitifa she sought therefore to turn to her own pui'posas'; this foul enchantress, we say,-was at haiid to destroy any good effect which might have resulted from it. Beaidea/the offender waa really ashamed to go home to his outraged wife. He did liot believe she could iorgive him. Thus, betwixt his own conscience and the artful hints ofhis companion, he was induced toplunge into aaerieaof orgies inwhichhe*Blrove at once to find amusement and to drown hia own r^proachea. And now a great atniggle arosia in'the heart of hia wife. Hitherto, the alienation of.herself and husband, though secretly whisperaA abou^ ba^ never been mado tbe - subject of general gos¬ sip;; but the conduct of Mr^^ fieretiand now niade. -hl^iaelf^ and^ -ifife .tiie' tEmxe, of remark eve^-^ whore.; i'TIiescandal even xeached intime tha> 4i^ant£it>vi7hJer8 Jdra. Herenand's family resi- ¦de^ f-andsatrong Ieti4r'Ws ¦ahould ahe atill wait hoping foc;ihe Erodigara. return? .These were the-queaiioria that passed themselves upon her. Pride, the wishes of her family, and often a feeling of despair; urged the former course. But the Bible told her that the latter was her duly, '' My mission ia to' aave rby husband," she wrote back to her brother, " not lo abandon hinij and God helping me, Twill stay to my post." There have been martyra, who have died at the stake, in whorh heroism and religion were not higher than in her. Bui hor reply did not satisfy herrclaiivee.— Her brother was a man, who, aahe himself said, *' couldn't uiideratand such whimsical conduct.' Religion, in bia estimation, consisted in going statedly to church, in setting a. good example before the world, and in oppropriating a, liberal snm annually to charitable purposes.. He could travel the beaten road of acknowledged duties, but could neither uhdeftako loftier ones nor appreciate those who did. Ho thought bis sister as infatuated as her husband was guilty; and resolving that she should not, in hia own words, " make a fool of herself,*' he siarie'd to bring her home. In this hie molher was the only one who even, attempted to oppose him. To her the conduct of her daughter was not wholly inexplicable.— Sho fell, that, in similar circumstances,-ahe might herself have acted, in the same manner.— But pity and love made her remonatrance with her son weak; and finally she aufiered him lo depart, with a message from herself to her child recdmmending her return Against this new assault, which she had nol expected, Mrs. Herenand knew not scarcely what to do- Her angry and self willed Brother- not only positively insisted on her returning with bim but ao represented theirmother's sentiment's that the poor wife, who had hoped to be appro- ciated in that quarter at least, was led to believe that her surviving parent disapproved of her conduct. Fortunately her brother's position as a church member forbade the idea ofa recontre between him and her husband, else she would have had to fear a hostile meeting between them as an additional ingredient in her cup of misery. "I tell you," said he, vehemently, when he found that hissister still hesitated, " that you are , the general laughing stock. Even the mon say you want spirit; and the women call you a dunce- You can only do one thing worse, and that is to follow yohr husband." " And I am about to do that," was tho mild reply- "I have just recoived sure intelligence thathe is lying dangerously sick, with a conta. , gious disorder, and that—that," sho could not, bring herself to pronounce the name that rose' to her lipa, but added, " in short he has been abandoned. I only waited for you to come in dear brother, to go to him.'' " Now this is madness," exclaimed her bro- ther, when he had partially recovered from hia amazement. " The villain should be left to die, like a rat in a hole ; and even that ia too good for him after what ho haa done to you." The sister burst into tears. " Oh ! brother," she cried " you a Christian, and speaking in that way. To whom much is given, from tbem much will be required. I feel that, but for me, my husband might never have gone so far astray ; and ifby flying to him now, I may recover him to tho paths of virtue, how Willi thank God." As she uttered these words.with clasped hands her streaming eyes directed above, she locked a saint. Her brother was touched. He made no effort to remonstrate furiher with her; but, after a pause said : " Since you are resolved, I will do all I can to avoid scandal- It is my duty to do so. Nay ! no expostnlation, I gave way to you in ono mat¬ ter, and you must and shall give way lo me in , this. I will have Mr. Herenand brought here. He shall be nursed in hisown houso, if his wile ia to nurse him at all. My sister,'' ho added, emphatically, "shall never contaminate herself by following him lo a wanton's home." " Goat once, dear James,'' said the wife, not iruaiiiig herself to aay more. " Every min¬ ute ia critical. Aiiil I «ni blcoa juu, fJ OuU \vill, I know." .: She spokeiheae; iaJsfc^VinordB exnUingly,:trium- pbantly; andwithavoi^s^spqwerful as.if in health. After ahe ceaaed, ahe remained a mo- inent, amiling at her husband ; her face already, he thoiight, shining'likeaii angel's. Suddenly a.shadow, livid and indescribable, but .such as once aeeri, ia ever after remembered, as the shadow of death, fell across her face. She nev¬ er spoke m ore Vn. ft Mr Herenand went forth a changed man. It was no temporary reform thai had been worked in him. Hia wife's death prevented 'all poaai- bility ofsuch a thing. And now it was that thebetler qualitiea of his nature found a .legitimate field tor their eier- cisea. The aame head-strong characteristics; which had made him a leader in vice, rendered him. now that they were enlisted on the side of tho right, a dauntless champion of the latter. *¦ He felt that he had been doubly'"bought with a price,*' and that neither his life,,his time, nor his fortune was his own. -The talents that had b^en neglected, or perverted, were now called into full play; his energies were roused todo good; and, after due preparation he devoted himself lo the work of the ministry. He chose one qf our great cities for hia field. But instead of apeaking to build up a merely fashionable church, he preached the gospel in the lanes and alleys, preached it to ihe poor, to the criminal,to the Pariha- His liberal income enabled him to give largely lo build houses of worship where they were most wanted ; and many a sacred ed¬ ifice now attests his benevolence, as many a congregation recalls hia labors. When he had sown the good seed in one place, he went to an¬ other ; but it was always to the samo neglected classes that he preached. "There ia a Paganism growing up in our midst," he would aay, " among the thousands, who in our great cities, are virtually excluded from our costly churches. I leel this ia my peculiar field, and God helping me, I will have none other." . He, also, reader had found bis mission. Hun¬ dreds, perhaps thousands, are the ''sheaves'* he has garnered. His name is in all the churches.— But not the less' worthy was the work of ihe meek wife, who dying that she might aave him was the true cause, under God, of these blessed labors. In heaven, if not on earth, her services are known- HTien.like her, the fervent preach¬ er has finished his task, he also will be permitted to "go home." VI. It is not our purpose to dwell on tho terrible days, during which Mrs.;Herenand nursed her | husband in the crisis ofhis malignant disorder. At last the peril wtfs over. The patient was pronounced convalescent. The wife's prayers had been heard. The in¬ valid was not only recovering hia health, but was sincerely repentant, and had sought and been forgiven. What a blissful day was that when for the first lime, the physician allowed the husband and wife to converse. Long before the patient had shown, by his altered manner, how deeply remorseful he was ; but when he came to assure his iong-sufiering wife of it in words, her happi. nesa repaid her a thousand fold for all she had suffered. " How can you evor forgive mo ?'* These were his words. " When I was abandoned, wlien I should havo died in that horrid place, you, whom I had deserted came to my rescue, and saved my life. Oh! Annie, you havo made me,not only love and reverence you, but have given me a loftier notion ofall the pure of your sex. I thought women were either vile or flip¬ pant, as thousands think, Uving like I did when a bachelor: and hence my readiness to do injus¬ tice to you and quarrel at your remo&trances * Do not talk in this way, dearest," she inter¬ rupted him to aay, "I was wrong too. I also have to ask forgiveness. But God at last open¬ ed my eyes and gave me strength to amend.— To him, not to me cive thanks.** "I do, I do," fervently aaid Mr. Herenand.— You have taught me, love, by your conduct, that religion is not amere dead formality, as'the behaviour of ao many professors have led me to believe. I see now thatit is a living reality, teaching practical forgiveness, and sending even the wronged to seek out the wrong-doers among publicans and sinners, as in the days of Christ." Much more he said to the same effect. Indeed his wife had to keep out of the room a consider¬ able part ofthe time, leat she should bring back an excess of fever by tho excitement of too much talking. The intervals of forced loneftnesa the convalescent spent in reading tho Bible and in prayer; for the change in hia character waa rad- I ical; and for the first time in his life, hc, who had thought himaelf BO wise, began to acquire true wisdom. The gospel, which hitherto had seemed to him foolishness, as to the Greeks, waa now the power of God to salvation. Suddenly Mrs. Herenand Began to aickcn.—' The causo was not long in doubt. Her disease waa proDOuneed to bo the aame as that of her husband. Thia the convalescent had secretly feared from the first. An inward monitor had whis¬ pered lo him that he did not deserve so great a blessing as to have her spared to him; and he felt, therefore, when the annnouncement of her disorder was made, that she would never recov¬ er. ' He was right. She did not- Her constitution, never strong, had been further weakened by tbe mental anguish ehe had undergone; and she sank rapidly and truly. Oh! how her husband, in his now empty chamber strove with Heaven for her life. "Not that she ia not more fitted for heaven than earth," he cried, " not that I, sinner aa I am, do not deserve to lose her ; but that she may live to be made happy as far as I can make her so ' by my unbounded devotion. Have pity, Father of. Mercies." But the inexorable decree had gone forth.— She had finiBhed her work, aho had fought the. good fight. Perhaps this ia what death meana, and that we are all called when our mission is done. Pray heaven we may not be found to have hurried our talent. A day or two before the closing scene, the re¬ formed husband, resisting every, expostulation, insisted on heing carried into hia wile's room, and having a permanent bed provided for him there, ao placed that he conld see her all the time. _ ' /S- ' . ¦ "Farewell," were almost the last words ofthe Bweet martyr. "We ehall meet in heav¬ en- It is best to go. Ifl had lived, I might, perhaps, have failed, sometimeaV in ray dtity ." Never, never," cried the husband. ," We don*t know. It iahumble to he weak. Only the grace of God can.makoaa strong. ..Oh! be atrong, try to be strongi deuisl,'* she added, with Budden energy. " Iii few "but th'^'begiii^ ;nipg''of oiir spiritual ;^evelopemem^ ^ aad grow in-holinesa : and if sizch thiiiga can iw, I'wiirwatch" oyeVyoti, Mid W wVm af^ce togdiber* Death will not, I feel;'aepoi^ta Emisbation.—It ia interesting to observe the varioua human migratory movements now in progress in varioua quartera of the globe and to speculate ypon the great changes they must in¬ evitably produce. Until -Within a very brief period, emigration had but one-general tenden¬ cy, and that was westward: but now it reaches in all directions. First, we have the exiraordi- nary rush towarda Auatralia from England and the United States, and this, with the powerful incentive ofthe treasures.of the gold mines, and the eecure basis of a previously well founded colony, promises soon to build up an empire in the Southern Ocean. Then we have the curious and remarkable exodus of the Chinese to Cali¬ fornia, Jamaica and other places. This over¬ flowing empire, which so long seemed peculiarly locked up against the emigration of ita teeming milliona.appeara now to have undergone a change of policy, and emigrants aro pouring out of it to any part olthe world whero the luring promise nf work or money is hold out to them. What will bo the effect of this movement" on the desti¬ ny of California, it is difficult to conjecture.— California editors and statesmen, and, indeed tho mass oftho American emigrants, seem especial¬ ly averse to iheae Chinese, deeming them worth- less aa citizens, and entirely an incongruous ele¬ ment in the population of the State. There doea seem to be much ground forthis belief, in the acknowledged turbulence of the Chinese settlers their total inability to appreciate or live up to the maxima of self-government, and tho difficul- ly of making them understand our laws and customs. But, nevertheless, much of the oppo- Buioii ^, .!,-.«, m„Q, he ntiT;t,..t*>rf to the preju¬ dices and selfish inteiests of their eneimeB. Persona r«ceutly from California say that the Chinese there ore a most industrious, thrifty and ingenious people, performing any kind of work for which they are paid, and working for much lower wages than any other kind of Ubor ers in tho State. As for their faction fights and the despotism of their secret orders, they are probably no worse than the. unceasing warfare waged in this region between.''Corkonians" and " Fardownera.*' There is"anoiher emigra¬ tion, and that, too, by no means an insignificant one. It is that of the fugitive slaves from ihe United Statea.to Canada. They go at the raio of 2000 a year; a"H '.ready there are said to be thirty ihousand of them there. These self emancipated serfs aro said to cherish the mos^ biuer enmity towardaihe United Slates, and ihc growth ofsuch a population upon onr borders is in no wise desirablo. Then, too, we havo an emigration to Liberia.inferior in numbers to the above, but of much more importance, as the one has already founded a free and independent na¬ tion, while the other has merely built up an anomalous class. -Producing such au important result as this with such a very limited emigra¬ tion, what might not be expected if the move¬ ment were made more general among tbe free born blacks and the freed slaves? The tendency of both these movements seema to demonatrate that the relief of the United States from the con¬ tinual troubles occasioned by the presence among us of this black race can only be found in its exodus, to some other land- GsMS OF Thought.—It is only great souls that know bow much glory there ia in being good. There are some thai live without any design at all, and only pass in the world liko straws on a river; they do not go but are carried. The footprint ofthe savage traced in the sand issufficieni to attest tho presence of man to the atheist who will not recognise God, whoso hand is impressed upon the entire universe. Honor, liko the shadow, followa those who flee from it, but flees from those who pursue it Honesty obliges ue to make restitution, no[ only of that whicb comes to us by our own faults but of that which comes to us by the miaiake of others. Though we get it by oversight, if we keep it when tho oversight ia discovered, it is kept by deceit. Nothing can excuae a want of charity to a fel low creature in distress. He is poor, perhaps, though his own folly or that of hia ancestors: and we nre rich, perhaps, through our own ro¬ guery, or that of our anceatora; we need not of¬ ten inaiat on the difference of merit aa the reaaon for a difference of condition. There is'something higher in politeness than Christian moralistshaverecogniaed. Initabes^ forms, as a aimple, out-going, all-prevading apirit, none but the truly religious man can show it. For itis the sacrifice of self in the little ha¬ bitual matters of life—always the best lest of our prmciples—together with a respect unaffec¬ ted, ior man, as our brother under the same grand destiny. ¦ From >he ColuAibnB (O.) State Joumal, Aug. 24. Strange CreduUt^Pa $3,000 SwincQe. j About twp weeks ago aa agentfeman farmer, i living in Madison county, was riding towards his home, not far distant, he observed a man and a woman by the road side, engaged in repairing tin-ware. A few'daya afterwards a woman cal¬ led at his; house, and after some* conversation, asked him if he did not recollect her. He re¬ plied that he did not. She then told him that she had aeen him on the road a few days before, andihat his appearance had made snch an im¬ pression upon her mind, that she was compelled to call and see him. Sho told him that ahe was an astrologer, and that she was well acquainted with its mysteriea. She saw at onco that ho waa an extraordinary person, and knew that he had been born under aparticuler planet, and that great things might be expected of nim. She then took from her apron a book which seemed to contain a number ot diogroma, figurea, 5cc., and read from it, in en unknown tongue, a few " hocus pocus " aontences, after which, closing it and putting it back into ita hiding-place, aoe went into the kitchen, bought a few pounds of butter of the wife of the gemleman, for whicb she paid liberally and went on her way. .A day or two afterwarda, the woman called again, reiterating what she had said on her firat visit, the farmer paying but little attention to what" aho aaid, looking upon the whole aflair as an attempt to hUmbag him; Not at all discour¬ aged, the woman called again the next day, and wound up her conversation by saying that she knew .where three hat crowns full of gold had been buried on Hia farm, and that, if he would do ea ahe directed, they could recover, it; bul thatit waa necessary to allay the spirits that stood guard over it; that a large sum of money must be present with them, at the incantation.— She thougiit five thousand dollars would be re¬ quired, but was not sure as lo the amount; and sho pi-oposed, if he would go into it, and furnish the money, that she would give him two-thirds of the treasure, while ahe would reaerve the oth¬ er (me-third aa her share. Up to this time, the farmer appears to have btid no confidence in the woman ; but as she took his hand and traced the mysterious lines therein, telling him the great things in storo for Mm, especially as she had told him some thinga that had occurred in his life that hc supposed had never been known. About this time he sold a large lot of cattle, for which hc received .in cash about $4,000. The next day the woman called again, and said that @3,0Q0 was the amount required to be pres¬ ent to allay the spirits. The farmer then produ¬ ced the package of money received for the cat¬ tle, and the two sat down to table, and coun¬ ted out §3,000 in bank notea, excepting four small gold coina. The money was then folded up, the woman all the lime making, strange mo¬ tions ond talking strange talk. The next day and day after the woman called again, each time counting the money as before, making the samo signs, &c., but leaving the money with the farm¬ er, wrapped up in the handkerchief. At the next visit, ahe required him to take a solemn oath that he was not to [ell to a living aoul the object thoy were in puraiiitof, ihat she; was going away, to be absent lor a short time i he was nol to look at the package of money a any time excepting when ahe was present; and after making an earnest prayer, she took hold of him while she held tho package of money in her hand, and swung him around, so that they came together back to back. Sho then gave him back the handkerchcf, as he aupposed all right, and told him that ahe would return on the 15ih, 16th or 17th of August, and then they would go in company and secure the hidden treasure. On the 15th ho hardly expected to meet her, and waa not disappointed tliat ahe did nol come. On the 16th he sat up late at night, expecting her arrival. After wailing till near midnight, on the 17ih, he began to suspect all was not right, and he feared all this might be a trap to rob him. So strong did this suspicion fasten upon him, that he took up hia gun loaded it, and went out into the shrubbery surrounding the house, where ho could see all who approached withofii beingseen and remained there until 2 o'clock in the morn¬ ing- But no one came. As the time had elapsed that waa set for his fair visitor; he considered himself absolved from hia obligaiion, never doubting in the least hut that hia money was safely deposited in the handkerchief. Unrolling it carefully, what was hia dismay at seeing, not a roll of bank bills and four pieces of gold, as he had left it, but a package of bruwn paper and four cents, in lieu thereof. Even the handkerchief had beenchanaed; instead ol being his own, it was one precisely similar. One of the strangest things in all Una strange irnnsac- tion is, that a counterfeit five-dollar bill that was placed in the roll of money, was taken out ofit and relurned in the package olbrown paper- How this was done is a mystery wc cannot solve The farmer who has been 8» completely bam- baozled but of S3,000, now seeks to find some remedy at law- Strange as this story may appear lo many, we red. We can sympathize wiih our Iriend the farmer in the loss ot his mouey, for he is nol the first of the masculine gender who has been— and, alas ! he is not the laet^who will bu duped by a pretty woman. A man named W. Johnson has been arrested ¦ in Now Orleana, charged with stealing from Miss Kato Smith her bowie knife. What bueioess boa Misa Kate Smith witb a bowie knife. Sir John Germain waa ao ignorant, that he left a legacy to Sir Matthew Decker, aa the au¬ thor of St. Maithew'a Gospel. Liberality and generosity of feeling, ore the aurest tests of agontleman. Superstition ia the poesy of practical life; ! hence,a poet la none ihc worse for being super- ; stitious- ° I An Italian proverb saya, the smiles of beauty are the tears of the perse. Twelve million gallons of whiskey aro sold annually in Cincinnati, and are sent thenco to all pans of the Union. Thus, corn to the value of two million dollara is annually melted into al¬ cohol. An Irish boy, trying hard to get a place, de¬ nied that he waa Irish. "Idon't know what you mean by not being an Irishman," said the gentleman who was about to hire him ; "but this I know, that you were born in Ireland."— " Och, your honor, if that's all,''said the boy, *' small blame that. Suppose your old cat had kittens in the oven, would they be loaves ot bread- The boy got the place. A writer in the London Examiner lately aaw a blind man looking with much appareet interest atthe prints in Colnaghie's. window. "Why, my friend,*' said we, "it aeems you are not blind.'' "Blind! no thank God, your honor." replied tho man, "I have my blessed sight as well as another." "Then why do you go about led by adog withastnng ?" asked we. " Why because I hedicates dogs for blind men." Sour Kbout.—A lato writer, in speaking of sour kroui, aays. " It is the connecting link be¬ tween damaged cabbage and pickled manure.'' There were 581. 781 soldiers engaged in the revolutionary war- Of this number, there are now less than fourteen hundred living. Seventy- three have died during tho past year. A few yeara more, andthe venerable octageuarian, will only be known to the pages of history. UpiHi a recent occasion, a person who was making inquiries respecting one of uur merchants was I old in reply to the query whether he was a reajjeciable man? tiiat hc was probably so,for ** he had never been a railroad director!'' This is almost equal to the testimony produced at a Inie trial t'.T murder, in England. A witness for a prisuncr leatified tiiat he waa a very respectable mail, as " he had kept a gig for aeveral years !"' Thu mU for printing bank notes in London, is made from the calcined leaves and seeds of grapes, and form one of the finest and darkest imprints that can be found. "DUSINESS Cards or Addxeta; printed Ux^.l^n'^l^Z^T^r''^ ^-'"-' ^^ THIS Thename.bnslnaBfloraddreFsofiiny on^ can be printed on any part of tho envelope, BO tb.it In caae of error tu tha direction of a letter, tho cartl Bhowlne whence It came Bnsnrcs Its re-dlrectlon and return to the sender,inateadofbelngaent to tho deadletter offlca 0[^t26 tM7 ]Vot£cc. NOTICE is hereby given that the Gon- ofltoga Tranaportaiion Coaipany was dlasoWed on the 30th of June last, by Ihe dfiath ot G. W. Ab- plnwall, oue ol tho partners of said compaay. All peraons having cUlms on said company will present tht-m for settlement, and all' thoBo Indebted make im¬ mediate payment to GEO. CALDER, Agt., No. 34J North QueenStreet. THE Conestoga Transportation Line will be continued as formerly by GEO. CALDEE, GraetPfi Lauding and No. 3it North Queen Streot, Lancaater. aug 23-3m-37 ROHRER & WELLBR, Clieap Card aud Book Piintoia. N, E. cor. Centre Square, above Brcntiiiaii.i .'V., Store, Lancaster. BOOKS; Pamphlets, CaudS; Cipj-a.- LARS, HA."fO-BlLl,3, CkKCU.S, ri:n..li.v.M.M (.-., -^- dj-c, printed neatly, expeditiou.^ly, antl upon l.lh m ¦¦¦¦ reasonable terms. :iiii,' 'J-;;:ii-;;'i JOB PRIJVTIiyG. HAVING- just put up a new Steam Forwer Press, expressly for Jobbing purpos¬ es, we are now able to execute All kinda of Plain & Pancy Job Printing, upuuns favorable terms, and in as good stylo,ud can be had in Pbiladolphia or elsewhere, and with fargrcator dispatch than heretofore. CrtRDs, HANDnn,i..s, nr.ANKS. Hill Hcau.s, Pi:oar.A.u.ME3, Bajjk Checics, &c., &c. &c., &c, .,^"Hilldfor Ihii ealeof real or personal properly, printed on fruui oue to three hours notico Apply at tho l-:XAMlNICa & HERALD Office, .North Queen strcijt, Lancaator. [ftug-17 REMOVAl. ISAAC E. HIESTEB.—Attorney at Law. Ho8 removed to an oEoo in North Duko ytreat, nearly oppoaito tbe new Oourt House, Lancas ter. Pa. april 5-5m-18 JOHN A, BDre;SXA]VI>, ATTOKNEY AT LAW.—Office in Mast King street, near tho Now Court IIoUEo. way_17 ..¦ _ _tt-U O.-W. PA.rTSB.aON, ATTOKNEY AT LAW.—West King St.,Lancaster. ALSO:—CommiBsionerofDeeas; and to take Depositions for tho StatesofOhio and Delaware. jan 261853tf-8 (Ti EO. F. BRENEMAN—Attorney al VJT Law. Office in Weet King St.. below Coopers UutcI:Lunca3tLT. mar 15-tf-lu W. W, BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW.—Has re- mdyed his olHco from Market Square to Wid- myer'fi Buildins, in South Duke Street, opposite tho Farmers Bank. april-5-tf.l8 BAMXTEL H. PRICB, ATTORNEY AT LAW.—Office with NJiWTO.V LIOHTNER, East King St.,a few doors abovo Swope' tavern, Lancaster, jan 26 1653 tf-s FARHi; & BAKER, Attorneys at Law. SAMUEL Pakke and Daniel G. Bakeb have onterod.into co-partnership in tho practice ot thoir profession. OKl^'lCiC.—South Queon street,we-st side.Gth door '°;itf^'ai"'"'°"""°'"""'' 5100_ AI {Cr The Chineso Secrei Order, called the ¦' Triad/' has been eo frequently mentioned of late years In our accounts from California and the East, that no doubt many of our readers will be glad to know eomething of its character., From a recent essay published in a Paris paper called *' La Patrie," it seems that the Chinese name of this order is Sau-lio-heei, and that the meaning of it is "the Society ol the United Three, or of the Triad, that is to say, of heav- e», earth, and man." There is a distinctive badge to he worn by the members, when they dare do so. It is a blue silk scarf tipped with thread iace, but as they are alwaya opposed to the Tartar government of China, it is rather a dangerous badge to wear. In some provinces, however, they are eufficiently numerous U> brave the government and wear it publicly. Tho Tri¬ ad, like all tho oihcr aecret societies of China, constitutes a great political conspiracy against the Tartar dynasty, and they ore now the active and vigorous propagators of ihe insurrection .— The number three is the mystic one of the Tri¬ ad. Their Supremo Directors are three chiefs, and a Triad member displays the number wher¬ ever hc ean in his actions. Thua he takes his cup of tea with three fingers, bows three limes, require.B three invitations to be seated, elc. The Triad dates from tho usurpation of the foreign emperors, and the Tartar government is more severe towards its members than thoso of any other society, because of the wider ramificatiopa of the order, and their avowed and unconcealed hatred of tho Tartar race. They havo their meetings in California, and wherevereisc Chi¬ nese may be found.- Their atalutes are written upon scrolls of Imen, which at the least alarm of danger arc sunk inthe bottom of deep wells. Tho details of their orsanizaiion aod working are unknown, but the cremonies of initiation have been aacertaitied. JOHN B. LIVINGSTON, TTORNEY AT LAW.—Office -ffith _^3L N'Jitli'inlel EUmaker, Enq.. North Duke street L.ancaater, Vu..^ |feb 0-tf-lO_ A CARD. DK. S. P. ZIEGLER, offers his pro- fcesiona 1 .services in all ita varioua branches to the people of Lancaster andvicinlty. Reaidence and URico.—North rrinceatrnet.between Orange and Chesnut sLreetb, Lancaster. I'a. Laucast(.T-iipril20 [ tf.'IO SURGEON DENTIST. r\FFlCE.-No. U North Queen St. \_J Lancaster. Ta. .\'i\ operations upon tho natural teeth aro perform¬ ed with uare, .ind a rieiT to their preservation and beauty. Artificial teeth iusertej on the most approved prin¬ ciples of the Dental profdaalon. anU for durability and beauty equal tounture Full .satisfaction in regard to bis prices, auu mo m. tegrity of hiB ¦work is warnmtcd to all who may place Lhem.'-elve» under hia treatment. nov 30-11-52 J a. MOORE, Surgeon Dentist, oftho • firm of Ur M.M MOORB fit SOX, offero his t'rofessional Servicea to the oitlzena of Lancaster and riclnity. and hoped to retain a continuance of their patronage by a .strict and cloaa attention to businep.H. Having obtained aid he la prepared to perform his work with more despatch than formerly. Offlce,S.E Cor. North Queen and Orange Stn.— Kntrance 2nd door on Orange St. gov 2 „__^^_^__ tf-48 TBAGHBBS WASTED. , QEVEN TEACHERS wanted, to take KJ charge oi the Public Schools of Fulton Township. TheConnty Superintendent, will meet the Board of School Directors at the Publio Houfle of Wm. J. Hess, in said Township, on TUESDAY tho 29th of Septem- ber, at 10 o'clock, A. M.for the purpose of examining Teachers. - A salary of $70 pot quarter wiU be given, , jra^By order of the Board, I trr ,nu . JEREMAH BROWN. Jr., Scc'y. I West Cheater Re cord copy. [aug 30-31-39 | FIVE TEACHE^WANTEDln EastHempfleld SchoolDiBtrict, Applicaota can apply to any member of the Board of uiiectora for said townahip. EMANUEL KINSCH, Fres't. X^acbiers TTante d. THREE additional teachers will be re. q^uired to take charge of echools In Manor townahip Tbe Directors wiUmeet for the purpoBo of appointing tbem, on Saturday, tho 9th of September, at tho public house of Jacob Mann, in aaid townahip, at 10 o=clock. None but thoae who have a certlflcate from the County Superintendent need apply. Also tbose taacbera who were employed on tho Sipt of Augnst, are reuuested to meet ths Board ol' Directors on the same day, at the eame place, to enter into articles of agreement forthe aeaaion. By order of tho Board, aug 30-21-39 JACOB SEITZ, Sec'y. IO Teacbers Wanted. rilEN teachers qualified to take charge JL oftho achools of Bart townabip. are wanted to teach tho winter term. The County jSuperlntendent willmeet the Board of Directors atthe house of David Fuimer, (Georgetown,) on Thursday, the 28th day of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of examining tho requisite number of teachera apply¬ ing for the same. aug o0-3t-39 ROBtiRT EVANS. Sec'y STOVES! STOVES !_Thc.-^ui;- BeriberBhaveju.'itrt':ceiTeU,dir.:ctly I'wiu n- manufacturcrH,aljirge lototCUOK iiodl'.Vii- LOR STOVES, for coal uc wood, cjmpri.-,in^' ti.-j l.j^i and handsomest patteid now in raarkfrc. all ot whivl. tUey will warrant to give satisf^iction. rhey would oall particular attention lo ib.: i^.-IirLr.t- tedMoa.fiN<jHTAR Cook Stove, for which Uuy li.iv tUuexclusiToagbncy. The Morning'SLac i.-^ lUts l)^;t, ctieaptst, most BUbstantial andmoat p-riL-ct c.o.'iin;,- fltoje in the Union : it has two larj^-j ovi;u.i :.,r luki-- and roasting at theHamo time which give, it ^ .-iuiM-r" ority and advantage ov.t auy other (su.vo now in u-.- They are also agenlH f.;r thi; relebral,:a Wcllivm eSre^SfacUon:"'" ^''^'''=" ''"'' '''"'"¦' "'"''- Persons wLHhing to i.urch;.-,L' will p!,.ase "x-.'uu-.v their Etock before purchasing .,i,^wi.eL-. r.t th.'ir .,-..¦ and cheap Hardware Stor'j..N I,. i,7 Nuiih Ou.-n -¦ I*IXKKKTO.\ « til. .VViAK.^.j;: £ aug 19 ,,.;;,, Frealx Arrivals for the Pall Trade. JUST RECEIVED, the most maguiU- cent PLAID SILKS—nob, r-pUndid c-Dl'jrs-thi: haudsomefet goods ever oflertj. LaJi-rs. cml -.md wii.- ness for youraelvea. Another lotBLACK SILKS, rich una u-iLVi.'-kIv Tj conta per yard. Splendid lOur qurrters Black dilk, dnly :-1. Embroideries! Embrolderity ! : .\o.v ui)-;(ilti-~:Li,- otherinvoioo of Ladiea' Needlc-work f.ill^r-. ;i'. i',. ii:l and 23 cents. 5000 yarda ofthe bestCalicoeaovtr -jold m d^ <¦:- nowopening: call early at V.'I-,..'//: ^. Flannela ! Flannels: Now ia the tm:.- \.n- Ur.;.; Burgaln.-* CaUat \Vr:si"/..-i White Crape ShawlH—.i. lew vtry fine ouv li'.:. which wu ara now aeiling oif to clo=<j th'j iriv. i:--. .;¦. great bargainu. Freah Ooods received ulmo=t daily. THOS. J. V/ENT/i: i. u Cor. f:. King ac Centre Sfiuan;,(.ioId"t. 'Cii.il- aug_3o ^^ 11;;.. ^ STEAM SAW^lia^'lL. ^HE subscriber having leased thu A. steam Saw HiU, at Reig;iir.^ L.-iuUiot.-. r. c-uUy occupied by Adam and John ileii^art, will tt; h"i>py i< receive ordern for sawing lUiilUiL- Timncv.s. Lath-. Pales, Uail8,"i:c. Haviug determined to givu hi-..,n.ir.; nu-:j'i-ju tv hia busineas, ho re9p'.xlIiillyt:oii(;it.Mi ¦-.n .i.; ul -n-.iroi- agc, confident of hia ability to Lina^-r i;V'Ty ;';;io!.i.:- tion to thoae who will favor biiu wkU iln-ir cu '.uui. Orifisrs leftatthesaw miU.cr at liiu liard.,-. . i-.'i'in-rf of Mesars. Steinman, Spr-rc'.ft i-ad ILu^t. i.v.iil r-;- celve prompt attention. ft:bl5tf-tl JACOIl U. GKTZ "VToTiOE TO TuACHEBs—The County .1.1| Superintendent and School Directors of Maries ta School District, will meet on the 10th of September, at 9 o'clock A. -\I., at tho Town Hall School, for the purpo.se of employing Teachera for said Borough, aug 30-2t.31>. C. A. SCHAFFNEB, Sec'y- CONESTOGO STEAJJI imi^I^S. A Special Meeting of the Stockhold¬ ers oftho Conestogo Steam 3Iilhi, wjll bo held at their office on THURSDAY, tho 14th of September next at" o'clock 1'. M.,for the purpose of ratifying a contract, (made by tho Board of .Managera), with an agent for conductinu' the future operations ofthe Milla. F. SURuDER Lascastkk, Aug. 30,1854-2t-39 gec'y WAIVXEI*. A TIN SMITH to take charge of a Tin Shop, or to work by tho week. None need ap¬ ply unless fully competent, and asingle man prefer¬ red. For farther information apply at Jacob Holl's Store, Intercourflo, or .Mechanicaburg, Lancaster co., I'a. The shop is located at tho former place. aug 30 _ 2t-39_ IVOTICE. CHRISTOPHER ELLINGER, of tho city of Lancaster, has filed hia petition for tho benefit ol the inaolrent laws of thia Commonwealth, andthe Court havo appointed the third Monday of Septcmbernext, at 10 o'olock A. M., atthe courtroom in Lancaster city, fcr the hearing of all partiea interes¬ ted in said application. By order of tho Court, JOHN K. REED, ¦Sa-No other paper copy. Protb'y. aug 30 3t-30 Coi'.NTV CoMMiaaio.vKns' OmcK,} Lanciistur, Aug. 9.1854- J NOTICE TOTAX-COLLECTOES.— Tbo Tax-Colk'ctors of the seTeral townships aud boroughs, will eoilect nnd pny oyer to tbe County Treasurer, the oulstandiDR Ta.\e3. without delay- otb. onrise the Collcclor's Bonds will be sued out. CHltlSTI.VN HE?S. JOII.S M. HIESTAND, PHILIP GEIST, aug 30-ot-3'J Commissioners. FOR SALE.—100 Shares of Stoek in the Conestoga Steam .Mills, also !25 Shares Lsn- caster Bank Stock Terms easy. allg2.lf.35] W. OMllPEXTEU. -\gcnt. SABBATH SCHOOL CELEBRA¬ TION.—The :>abbath Schools in the New ProTi- dtnce charge, will bold a Celebration on tbe 9lb of September, at 10 o'<lock.\. M., near Quarryvllle. 0:7*-Addresses wjll be deliToredby theilev. H. Her- baugb.and the Pastor. I TUTU is now under thu cbarge of^r Jr-ul ^llh- dis and Israel -Myers. It is in the most successful op¬ eration and will remain soall Winter Season. Water being used in all temperatures, und remedies selected from tbe rarious systems of medicine- if necessary, wblch facilitates cures T»:k-m3.—Krom 5-7 to i,l2 pfr week, according to rooms occupied- Payable weekly. Address S- -M. LA.N'DIS. .M. D. Physician. Or ISR.AKL .MVBR3-l'roprietpr- ^£..Young Ladies or Gentlemen wbo wish to study the Medical Proles.^ion with its compiicalion wnuld better go to tho Ephrata Hydropathic, or Eclectic In¬ stitution. ' aug30-4t-SQ STRAY BOAR. ^ C(AME to the premisea of the subscri- / her. In West Lampeter towosbip. about tbe 1st inst.. a Wll ITE UOAR. abou' 1 year old. aug 23.3t-38 JOSIAH SWISEIIART. Wemiii ob* gg* ud tltBi ibtaimaUl Or TioMijr ibnragh ou Lord JtniE Cliii)t>' A Flietatiok with a Faik -American.— " What flirts all you men are,'' said she.— " Bdt oh, my Bakes ! air.>t that tree lovely! just one mass of flowers. ¦ Hold me up, please, Mr' Slicli, till I get a branch of that apple-tree. Oh dear! how sweet it smells." Well, I took har in my arms and lifted hemp, bnt she was a long time a choosin' of a wreath, and that one she put round my ha t, and then she gathered some sprigs lor a nosegay. "Don'thdld me so high^ please. There, smell Ihal, sint it beautiful > I hope I aint a showin'of my ankles." ."Lucy, how my hearl-beais,':'saisl.and it did too, i' thundered like a aledgo hammer: I aotilly thought it would have torn my waistcoat buttons 00'. " Don't you hoar it go|)nmp, bomb, bomb Lucyl I wonder if it ever busts like a biler: for holdin' aucha'garas you be,Lucy, in one's arms aint sate, it is as much as one's " •• Don't be silly," said she larfin,' "or I'll get down this minit. No,'' eaid ahe," I don't hear it beat; I don't belioTO you've got any heart at all." " There said I, bringin' her a littlo farther forward, "don't you hear it. now t Listen.''— " No " said she, " it's nothin' but your watch tiokin';" and she larfad like anythin"; "I IhouRhtao." "-Tou hav'n'tgotno heart at all. have you ?" sais I. " It never haa been tried yet,"'said she. "I hardly know-whether I hdve or.not. Oh then you don't, know u is in the right place or not." " Teait is," saidshe a pnlliii.of niy niAUkersj - "yes insjnst in the riehtiilacovinat-whBro it ought to be,?' andahe' Sut my hand on itr " Jfhero els? wpoldyon.hava , dear, but where it ia» But, hush! said she; -" I saw'Euiiilie Snafo^iifflt-'""''! "ho IS a comin' round.thojtnrh there.;-,!?ol-;>ne:,-dawn Miofc; plesje. Aint it jiriivokin'«„thatgal,fairly hamts Some mon can never be made conaciouB of their own value. Ifthoy succeed in lile, thoy aro in their own opinion neither indebled lo circuraalances nor providence, but purely to their own merits. It they fall, they are slraight- way persuaded that the most powerful and cor¬ rupt combinations were formed to produce that result, and that they are conquered in spite of their vast merits. Such are the men of whom the Frenchman said, "If I could buy them Ior what other people think them worth, and sell thera for what they think ihomsBlves worth, it would bo one grand speculation." The Boston Chronicle takes the broom on ihe weather paragraphs i " The weather for tho past tew days has been positively hot, comparalivoly hot, superlatively hot, day and night. Hot, hot¬ ter, hottest, most honest. Hottentot, Holtentot- ter, Hottenlottest, Hottentotisimus, Hottentot- isimus plus one, Hottontolisimus plus one hun¬ dred! Hot as an oven—hot as two ovens—hot as we give it op !" . Some " fast" youngsters wear blue coaii and brass buttons. The blue is indicative of thuir feelings, the brass of their manners. When Prosperity was well mounted, ahe let go the bridle, and aooncame tumbling out ol the saddle. Wo always like to seo gentlemen- and ladies with beautiful and rich gold rings on their fingers, ond long dirty finger naila. It looks so neat and wnt wdrih•while, I don't caro whiit ah's nji'ot mtamsuf ef mj fiogR." Inatruct your son well or others will instruct him ill. No child goes altogether untauoht.— Send him to the school of wisdom, or ho will go of himself to the rival academy, kept by the lady with the cap and bells. Thore is always teaching going on of some sort, juat as in iielda— vsgetation is never idle. Some tima since, a man entorod a store to sell some brooms. The storekeeper said he would take the brooms, if he would take half his pay in money, aud the rest in goods. Tho man com¬ plied, and after receiving his money, told the storekeeper, that ho would tako for his pay in goods half the brooms! The storekeeper thought him a pretty hard case. It was tho opinion, says the Albany Atlas, of a member of Asaembly some years ago, that the capital could never be removed to Syracuse, for the reason that the building could nevsr be taken across the Mohawk on the Schenectady bridge. A man too busy to tako care of his health, ia like a mechanic too busy to lake care of his tools. Hypocrisy is the necesaary burden of villsiny. Afleotation part ofthe chosen trappings of felo¬ ny., Ill-temper puis as many briefs into the law¬ yer's bag aa injustice. Publio sentiraint, ia deacribed as the average prejudices of mankind. Tho empress of Russia has addressed a letier lo her royal brother ol Prussia—tin afiiisiing let- tor. :If he goes lo war with her'husband, ahe 'Willbe unable to go to the.German baths—and Ber health roqnirea them. 'The following is .from a down-east paper. ' " Oh;' there ia not'in the wide world a pleasare ¦ - ^-'sbsweot,' -As to sit tiear. the- window andtilt uti^your feet! tPitU away at the Cuba, whoao fiavorjuat euitSi^ "Andguie at the world 'twixtthe toes ot your boom'' Dr. El-ir PARRT, Dentist, HAVING returned from his duties in the Philadelphia Dental CoUcgo, is prepared to perform all necessary operations for the presoryation or re¬ storations of the teeth at prices as obeap as tbo lowest. Office iVo 36i E. King St-, Lan caster- aprIllP-6m-l!Q ri M. JOHNSON, of Drumore, will \J , be an Independent Candidate for the LEGIS- L.^TUllE, subject to the decision ol tbe people at the ballot-bos on tho 2d Tuesday of October, 1654. _ MR. EDITOR.—I understand" that my namo has boen freely uaed, by eome pur- Eous, aahfiTing rii.signtid : I distinctly beg leave to state, that baviug come before the peoplo as an Inde¬ pendent ':andldate for the ofiice of Sheriff ol thia coun¬ ty ; I have not resigned nor shall I, hut will come un- llinchingly to tho polls, and take the honest TOte of an Independent people. 0. SHENK, aug 9 te-3S BEING- requested by a number of my friends, I announce myself aa an Independent Candidate for the State Leciblatijre, BUbject to tho deci?ion of the American People in October next at tho ballot-box. JOHN KVANS. tiugS te-35 FOR REGISTER. WILLIAM KIRKPATEICK, Ma- chine Maker and Iron Founder, announcea that he will be an independent Candidate for Reglttter at tho next election. June 21-t*e-2U RECOROER. WSj are requested to announce tbe name of ANDREW BEAR, as an Independent Candidate for the offlco of llecordcr, at the next Oc¬ tober election. [juno 2S-to-30 FOR REGISTER, rpHE subscriber offers liiinself to the B TOters of Lancastor county as an independent t^didatc for Register at tbo ensuing election, aod res eotfuUy solicits their support. DANIEL BKOWN. West Earl, May 31 to-20 FOR RECORDER. DANIEL WERNTZ, ofLancaster city, offers himself03 an IndependentCnndidato for Kecordor, at tho ensuing election, andrcBpectfullyflo- Ucits the support oftho independent TOters. July 5. te^l FRANELIN AND UAHSHALL HIGn SCHOOL. Preparatory Department of Franklin Marshall College, Iianoaater, Fa. M'^HIS Scbool waa estabhsbed by. tbe .L Truflteea of Franklin and MarahaU CoUege,and liis designed to pteporestudenta for the Freshman Class In CoUege. Its.couree of instruction includes also a fall and complete ENOLISH C0UR3E, Ueflign- ed to prepare young men for aU the practical and so¬ cial duties of life. Tho next term will oommunce on the 4th day of May next. Por CircolarH, ic, address april 26-tf-21, JOSHUA N. DERR. Rector. CCMMESG^S liAST "WORK. TUST KECEIVED at tbe cheap Book • I store, eaat side, North Queen street, LaBcaster, Lecturea on RomanlBm, being Uluatratlona and re¬ futations of the errorfl of Romanism and Tactarlan- ism : by Rev John Cumminga, D. D. Notea ori the Gospels, Crltloal and Explanatory ; incorporating with the notes, on a new plan, the most approvedTiarmony ofthefonrGospels; byMelancthon FrlBcilla^o^ Trials for tho Truth ; an Hiatorio Tale of tbo puritans and tho Baptlata i by Rer. Jos. Ban- '". journal, kept during the Summer T8ur, for the children of a VlilagB iSchool. Fashion and Famine ; by Mrs. Anna S. Stephens. Moral Refieotlons, Sentences and Maxims of Francis Duo D6l*ailocliefouc»uld—fl.ewly translatedfrom the French.' Masoniy and.Anti'inasonry. as It has existed in Ponnsylvania eince 1703, in which the true prltoiples ofthe institution are f^ydeTeloped, and all misrep- resentatlonfl corrected; containing tho proteatB,speech- es, reports, etc., presented before the Inquisitorial Committee, at Hirrisbarg, Pa.; by Alfired Creigh. The Friends Moral Almanac for 1855. Almanacs for 1855, Wholesale and RetaU. iSubEcriptions for Harper's Gazetteer of the World, with special reference to tho United States and Brit¬ ish America, takeuhere. Sunday School Books to eait any denomination, at the lowest prices. ' School Books, the best assortment in town. 'augSO-tfrSQ . . _ MURRAY&SrOEK. Bj AGS.—To millers, farmera and all otb- I era who are in want of Baga of all. alxes'; can ba supplied atthe Lancaster County Prison, by tho dot., lirtiere there is- manufactured daily, 2 dozen, which trill t)Q warranted'to be made of the hest materials and well sewed. Bags ofany.aiie made toorderat'the shortest nbtico. AJao,forealfe,4000 yards of Carpet, fnm.25'coJ}Q«t^. pezyaxd/-AXbo-SHSetNettiijand 1 dozen Stlfgte Ketts, and Seinea, made-toi,. o^ec.. Cub paid for any quontltT of Cazpet Bags. BOT U-t£» H. 0 LOCH£B, Seepsr. ^'otice to Sportsmen. ALL persons are positively forbid tres- pasFing ou tho premi.ie? of the undersigned, in tllizabelh township, either with dogy or guns, aug:i3^niJ33 A. BOYD.Agent. TWELVE Teachers wanted (one of them a Female) to tako charge of the Common Bcbools n( E.ist Donegal twp, Tha Directors and County Superintendent will meet at the public house of Jacob B. .Miller, Maytown. on Friday, September 15th; at 10 o'clock. A M., for the purpose of esamin- iDR and umplojtng teachers. An increased salary will be given. Schools to commence about the Ist of October. GEORGE SHREINER, Pres. _ SA>iyEL BOOK, Seo'y- _ aug 23-3t.38_ S Teachers Wanted. SEVEN Male Teacbers and One Fc- male Teacher aro wanted for the scbool district ot Conoy town-'-hip. The Board of School DiriiCtors and the County Superintendent will meet In Biiin- bridge, on Monday. St;ptember lltb, to oxaiaiue and (employ Leacliors. Thp schoola open on the lOth of October and remtiin open fl nionthe. aug23.3i*.3g HE>'RV S. ENGLE. Pre-i't. $15,000 wortU ol' i5ooTl.s& hlxocs tSIKECT from Boston and Lyiutj at JL/ CLARK'S New. Ch^-ap .tn.l !v,-.hi:.,i:..i-: Wholesale and Retail Boot and Shot fii'.i--. ;.« ¦;' ;, corner of North Queen and Chesnut btm'i-. u :,:u-..: um building, at the Raih-oad. Lanra^teL- city. V.tf -.f. cr than o7er offered in thid city and ;iC uii-tL-rn t-ulls consisting of 28,855 pairs of every .'-tyle. ciin; .;;:i| Quality of Ladies', Gentlemeu'.-J and (Jiiildrcn'.s v,-.m: tbo marlcet affords. Call and see our large itsriortmcnt ln-l"jre inir';li-i--iL:; tlsewhere, as we give great bariraio.-. Wo also manufacturo to order oti !!:¦: .*;if.rLi.-)t uo ciark'd Wholesale aud UetuilGrt'Ci-ry ii-il I'lLvi^ij Storels also n^i^xt_doorj_ MALL 'Profits and" Lur- OW id the time f'"" J—'.-?"'— -"—' -¦-—-: Bolenius', anotnerlot of thort; linu [).; ij>gi;.-.a: per yard, alao one case o( fiU'. i.'ushui ¦..¦. i- yd- for 37} per ya.rd, together with a ^jrc.-tt v;ir!.-t.y t erdry goods, Shawls and Trlmiuiii;js«iii'-!i wo v,iii^:-lL cheap for caah at BOLEML'S'. isnutii Un-l-u .:ir.-.'i. 2d door below the Odd Eellows" llaU oct5 t.i-if> lot'j-ii"'.!'; Uaiiw.— i K'ld; i'.T::i lii.-. SUrEllINTENDKNT'S OFFICE. j PARKESBURG. Sept. 1st. 18M. J NOTICE.—The following prices . per cord will be paid, after this date, for good OAK WOOD, delivi;rfd at tho following named etitiong. nn the line of the Columbia and rhiladelphia Railroad : Upon Stato wharf in Columbia, $3,15 Cooper's Ware Hou.^e, 3.50 Straight Line eajt of Itird-in-IIand. 3.50 Lemon riace. 3,50 McIWaln'tt Lime Kilu«. 3,50 Kinxer's, 3,50 Eby's curve, 3.00 Gap, 3,50 .Moore's Lime KilcH, 3.-10 L'ennlngtonville, 8,40 Christiana. 3.40 Parkesburg. 3,40 At the regular btations between r.irkoEburg and Downlngton. 3,40 Downlngton. 3,40 Oakland. 3,60 Walkertown, 3,C0 Steamboat. 3,70 On WeBtChPst'T Railroad, 3,50 Paoli. 3,00 Eagle, 4.00 Morgan's Corner, ¦ 4,00 White Hall, 4,25 The above prices are for first quality of Oak Wood. The Wood Inspector willreducetheprices when the wood is not of that quality. Good Chesnut wood wiU bo takon ut 60 cts. por cord lesa than tho price paid for Oak. No now Wood Stations wlU be allowed without tbo approval of the Superintendent, JOS. B.BAKER, .Superintendent Col. and Phila. Railway WOULD respectfully friends and th-) i.ul.lii; II:;;-. ilr-;;,,,¦ .i I —¦ ¦:•.-. ed from New Vork and I'hil.nlrli.n .i THE LATEST SPRING F.\SII1().\S mi 1S>1. and will be pleuS'Jd toiurni-h li;- n;. ^-.: .¦¦.- :.iMul) (-TifcOthtTSwiththem.it the r^hi-r: -I u';,' ^jrvCfe /J? As aU his H.VTd :ire m:.miI:L-uir... i:^" ¦ ."b;-^ «Sa|^bis immediat«MUi)priuti:ij.tfi!i-<-. t r- ;,.. ;, ''^^^Sjl warranted lu payins thnt for ai:r;il.];i:y ;i:m; ;.i.Mi they cannot be Burpasst"! by .Hny--t-.i>::-: ¦:: :;: i;ii'l;;:; or any other city in the irnion. Ui- .-i-.c i; .-..i, .[.•.= i.i UBEAVER. NUTRIA. URL¦SIi.Kl:s^l \.r...-c^,:.;!:i;;-.. MOLESKIN.sil;;..v- . which howilldiFpoFPof atflur '.i.w.-t. price.-. (':i'.i .¦.:>-] examine hi.'< stock before purchafiiii;;'.¦!.----.T;i.-rt^ His assortment of CAl'i i.-< one of tli-- iki,..', <-.\-.-mi- alvo in the city, and he is addin;: to it .hnly. ' u -;. ki- ers may rost assured th.iL tln-y v.iin.^-.-i^-.a. ;i-i:.- carefully selected his stock from tli" I;-:-:;--i :¦. ..r-- ments in New York and rhiladotpliia. 1! v'\-.: ¦¦. ¦ continued the busines.^ at .Now iloil.iii-l.: .1 ¦ , r '. muHt bo directed to Laucas'.tr. i^S-i'. :/t i .- --' :;:¦ etand, DIRKCTLY OPPOSITK MICIiVM.-- Hii!:., NORTH QUEEN -TII.'.KT. Country Merchants vi-^itin^ Lain-:;-; ¦:-,.(. .i;:.:.: ti. Hats or Caps, can be .suppli.-I :>: U'ii..;.--.fi.- ..;¦,,- ., from ono toa dozen, such j-iz--- n^ -iny i-.y.y v,i:i:. Wood Uken in eir:li:iii^-''for h;vt.s. aru! Ill-- t.-.:::.: : price paid (or country ln^^. A !;ir,;.-st.it-k (,; -iiui mer hats on h:ind. from .-^r-'-liu l-nr t- :t V-.uua-.i.. ,-;ii ' ¦OS-Country :\lprrhr.nts =uppli.-.!'.vi;h il:t:-i :•,[ liiii.i- delohia Wbolt-.--alo Prict.'. from a siii;;k- li.i: i.< ;;iry number. U. SIIl.l.T/^ ITopriKcr. marchia iM at-:js A^ NOTICE. Pl^LICATION will be mado to tlie Legislature at ita next aepaiin lor tlio incorpo¬ ration ol a banli ot discount aod J.'po-it: to ho loca¬ ted in tho borough of ColumbU. in Lancaster county, ¦with a capital ol ono huo.lr.-.l Hioufand dollar.-, and lo bo stylcdthc Shawn.... Cank. Qiine 28.Cm-'-I ¦ VTOTICE is Lcreby given that appliea- ^ tion »ill bl- »'"1« '" ""' ''«^' Legislature for tbo Incorporation ofa Uankins Institution, to bo lo¬ cated in the Borouph of Marietta. Lancaster County, with a capital of Two Hl'nuhi:!! Tiious*..(n Dollars, Tvltb the pririlege of extending the samo to three hundred thousand dollar?, and to be called tho Done- '='",S£CUS11.M,VN, INO.K. DiliTl-:.\I!A ;ii. J.r WlCKKlt3il.\M. A. S llOCit. J.NO.STAUri'KU, S. K. K.AGLt:. JAMES DUKl-V, ij.AM'L Ht;i.'^TAND, DAVID HAIIRY, June 28 .I.\0. J. LIBHART. JNQ. U.aUOVK, M.D., J.NO. MILLER, J.E. KRKYBILL, W.M. K.MKHAKFKV. J.ROTU.Jr. J.NO. W. CLARK, LKWIS llODSEAL, f. A, ailAFI'NEll, 0m-3u WHIP PACTOUY. THE Whip Factory in East Orange street, baa been removed to Noith tjuoeen til., a lew doorsahove the Railroad. CHrriage, Hiding and Wagon Whips for salo, Wbolepjtle and Retail. Repair Ing neatly done. This is the place whero Whips is made. aprill2-ly-19 OTWlNINd. auland Safety Mutual iusUrauce Co. CHARTERED APRIL 4th, 1854. CAPITAL $125,000. CHARTER PBRPBTUAL. ¦^OFFICE, North Queen Street, First Square. THIS COMPANY ia now prepared to Insure against Ioes or damage by KlR.t;,on hou- ues, stores aud other buildinsa. perpetual or limited; and goodp, nterchaodlEe ur furnitare, in town orconn- try, at tho most favorable rated. The Company is also authorized to receive money on deposit, lor which, Intcresl vill be allowed by spe¬ cial agreement. niRKCTORS. Dr. H. E. MUHLENBERG. Preaident, FKJRIVSSIIIiVG GOfiBSiy. npHE subscriber is con.^tautly reuoiviug I andhas always in htoro aod ;¦)! f;il'.' l.i::-n ::u..i Cotton Sheetin^js,Shining and rillmv lu;.j ;.ii];i;;,s, ChcclvS,TickIugs,anaburs.-i Uafe-inu-^, l,tri..i:;i;i'j t-ot- tou Table Clothf, Towel.S aud T.i.v.-iin:.:, .Naii!,;!:. ;;:ii! Doyliep, Quilts »nd Blankets, Ltiteu aud Wo-ili-n T;-.- bio ClothF, Covers. ALSO, Curtain aud Curtain Mati-i-i;il-i in r;';.-;y v: i;. ety. Oil Shades of every ,-,tyU-. Dull !;nil.;n i ¦¦ , Blinds. -JOHN fi;;ilj;, No.5 Ea-t Kius Utr.'-l. I,;i.ir-.i-;. r Carpets, Oil Clotlis aud 33ai4iiii^.s. JOHN HKKK invites p:irticul:ir -.luvii- tiou to his vory lar^c itock -il" lm;.tTi'-.l Crn.:. consisting of tho uewusc nlyh-:^ oi 'l\ii..:--.vy, i;rii'-..-l. Inprain aod Venitian, ata:rCrri»:,-, .[¦-. AMEIUCAN CARl'KT:;, e.xlr.i .mij.-r ^i-jlv n:„j L-; prainF, in great variety, aL v.;ry ijw i,r;.'.-.i !¦[-..r Oil Cloths of Edgli^'h aud AiiK-riuMc m;ii;i-.-, in .r-vr variety, o( all widlh.-j and f|u;ilit(-.v, Homc-SIade C:irpets, aliir^'t; varii;iy at i;ll ini-.;.-. Canton and c'ouoa Mattiu;,--* nf all ividili- ;ir.d , vei> style, very low. JuliN ilV.H.K. No. 0 East Kin^ St., L;u:'::l^E¦ r, j'.t. may 31 'i ::i, S£.ATE"'K00FI.\<U. THE undersignedj succe-s^or to Mi:.-.sr.-i. Caldwell,in the manufacLurii.,-ul' !;i.r.:".:.„- .-:;aT.-. is prepared to luriiisii Siiilt; by tii>; : n. it tiu-_ ¦,:'. !iy thi; .'^'luarc. iit Ih-J (^UorLi.'.-t >i„[:,., :iii i ,,:". -.;¦ - mo-i ruaEomible tvrms. :•. Lh :¦!¦.:..i >\i\ riV. Cffuu '.'. t;. I...!;i::i-:.r !'.. Any orders fur i^liiU- >jr ;:iai.;ii.,. aaJ.-.•.-,-_ I i-,, li'.'- undersigned. :ippointed ni-.uE-^. \.i:i 1,; ,.iii;: Lii.iilv attended to. \Y\\. Wlim-.tlit^. 1.;, :,.., .r. ^ i -;i -. _^marrh la ¦" "" "¦'¦ '¦¦"¦ '" '•',:¦., 'i'. Summer TVi'ranscjticai rot- i^-i't-l, ADAMS (t Company :ir-j uow ¦,';.:-_. running thL-ir own Cxpri-s^- .;ir.--. i:.---:.-;-,.'-'-i, coiupauiod by .«pfcialmf.=.-i-u_L;vr.-- i-.v.d Ii-..i! '-^-^— Safes, .•vnd are prejiared to forward ii;.ilv. ^..-^.i-.¦'.¦¦. - ¦ ¦^ cepted.) with tb« Ka~t .Mail T.'ti:,.-. !;,..-;.-. iJui.',:•.-.- Parcels, Specie, etc.. to all jioiut; tm ih-. .¦,¦:,;[•.;; i:.'-i:. road, viz: Lnnckster. Ochnuljia. V-'.-l;. :.,..,iii! -I'^. Middletown.HartisburK'.Nririnirt. .¦.!i:iiii.. !.. -..¦¦.¦¦.•¦\.i: Huntingdon. Spruct* Lri-i:k. Tyrora-. li.-lli.; ¦.-.i-Lir ; Johnstown. BUir.'-viik-. tin t-ii-tiir:; .vi.-l f.i: L-Ji.:-; Cincinnati! Louisville. St. Louir-.r.nil ;tv f.:ii-T prin¬ cipal towns in tho West. BY THE MORNING TKAIS' .!:.:.'- Also.via tho Cumbfrland Valley U.iilii'a-:, : -1 :i:ll-t': Shippenaburg and (..haniberjbar^-. lii.j;-. :¦'.-:> u.i- warded to mcBt ot the poiuts c^:, ;h'- W'f.-^ C-,, ni-li -^f theSusfiuchanna. At all ofthe places abov m-ntic-iv .i. l):--..- .ir¬ regular agentswho will attt-nd jji-i.injiilv ll- i!.!.- I'.'l- lection of Notes, Drafts. Itillp.otc. Ptrsocb residing iu theinterior tcwii.-.'.!1' :;,.¦ ¦'. .r.: Route, can have packai,-jh i.,.rw;'.ri<-a v.-\i], .;¦¦:¦. •,:,.. from Philadelphia and o[li.-r print:;, l.y h ;¦. .i: :"'!;¦ ::i directed tu auy of the atatione ;tiiuvj naiai-.i. Goods for tha Eastern auil SoiiUiTn ( iii--to;v.-,u.: I BYTHEEVENINGTilAINO.M.V, Adams & Co. will give p.irti.-uln.- att.-ii'Ji.n to lilii np orders \frei: of comici:>s;"n cbargc.-i i\-Ti-..-:.d i-i !>•¦ forwarded by Express. Okfick—N0.S4 NORTHCiL'KE.N ^trc-;t L;-.-,;-.\:r;t. r three doors below the Railrcad. J. O.TIiACK.\.ll.A.A.--.:t. ST" All Goods r(.Tl'hi[ai.k-lphi.-. luu.-' l-.-:a tli-i office by 7 o'clock 1'. M.. i;;ly S - n-".:: HATS FOR THE l^KOPS.'ic'i^ " D. SHULTZ, Hatter, No. 19i North Queen aircH, LunCi..:- ¦. COi\CEXTRATEO E.'^SStXCK Of Jamaica Ginger. THIS ESSENCE possesses all the qual- iti'-.'iof the Jamaica Cinger in a highly o-:ir.:p trated form, and is highly rci:omin(-u-J--il Jt.^ :. .S'"i;;r!- chic and Stimulant to thoscrf.uiv..'riii.i-'fr.'in .'•i.-:;:!- - andiu enfeebled and relaxed hiliiis t.fl!;.- ¦¦•j.- \ <1-- ptptlc and rheumatic. It promot.-:-dik;f--iin;. i..; v.- flatulency, spasms of lUi3 stomai-Ii aivl h-.y-:-. i > vents naUHca. giiping. dysmtcry. I,r-.^*I : v.; i r-.: &c. Frepared and sold at CHARLES \ nj:jvri--;rs Medicinal.Drug 4" Clieniieal Stf.ir. \; . 1 ; : ' '.i\.- fltreet, Lancaster. I ' ; '' '^'•¦'¦'•¦^ '-itKtijicr O A. k5. lyi' ) ;. l.'U THOMAS ZliLL. JACOB .M. LONG, 8. W.P. IIOYD. DATID BUNDER, JOHN A HIESTAND. JOHN BXVEIl, HBNRY MJLLES, JOHN "VV. J.\CKSON. I'ETER MARTIN. DAVID HART.MAN. I'HILIPARNDT, D.iNlEL GOOD, RUDOLPH F. RAUCH, Secretary and Treasurer, aug 2 tI-5 JJBflOJV CAR»in!& FACTORY. rpHE undersigned having opened a new i Cotton Carding establiillment. in the building lately occopied by tho Lancairto- Examiner I'rinting offlee, on the property of Ur. Wclchena, (rear of North Quoen street, between Eaat King and Orange) are prepared to Ml aU ordera for the manufactnra of COT¬ TON L.ArS atthe ehorteatnotice, *'','J.,''i„„".™°i, aatWactoiy manner. ' .»..«" to For ftirther partleularfl, apply fiWENK iCO. ta -37 Now ia tlie time for ij.ugaiuii! Cheaper thnn eL.er, lit .Vn. 10.1.'../ ,'i.¦/;:,. .'¦'/ ' A. DVSATIT & lilto., vosi,ic;i\.l. inform th'-irrric!id.-.aiii| ih-vuMi!- i;: :•;:¦. al, that'they haveju.-t n-tuni.-d ti-r,;,i \ ¦. .,.;.. .,._ and I'hllad.-lphin.with ".n .-ntir,-r.-w :.',.! ! ¦ h- <:'.^-\. iouabloftockof WATL-rivs. In-. ,-i.i:*. f.-l T.-.^r.-y ^¦. '--f; articles, at the loUowinR lf>w j .-ii-.-- : Kull Jewelled Gold L.:ver Watt-lif;: |in.: Gold Lepine Watcher, full ji-wi-lii'J ir- e^ilver Lever Watchf3.fnllj..w-1!.'.l. fr-n. ¦.!-'.:> ¦;.!;. SIlv.>rLepinoAVat<:h.s,j.'.v-l!ci!. !.,.n ¦ , f. >l- Gold r*>n.-i In Silver cil-;.-f. ir^-.a f 1 ¦.. <.-2 jm Silver TeaSpoon.t, i"rni'.i i-i '¦0 :-¦ >¦¦ > t> iirr.-ft. Clocks of nil kind.t. troia -¦] f.i> to *:.l'J.l<i ALSo new styli-rt l.^uli--' Ilron.-i ri.,.-. .: ir I'.iTi-., BraccK'to. Gold IVncii.-^. Gold and S^lv.r ^'i..-.:li-f'.- . Gold Keys, Port Monias.ttc. Alarge lot of Accordi?t.ii.--''ntol>.j Kar.-i anJ -ll-: articlrstooiiumeroui'tomi-m-'jnii-na'.ly k.:j.ii:i Wn:. !i ond Jewelry Stori'S. nt lea.'^t *J,'( iKr-.-viil-ntv.-.-r i\-n . ¦ Other Store in the city. \Vl- imil-all or.r ui- ; ¦; . r ¦; the public in K^nL-ral to'^ivL- ns a ciill. ¦(^¦.!..: \ and Small Prolit.i." is our uiotli. JisiF.i l". DvsAnT.] iSv'Ti-' '. -1 ¦ N. B.—S. A.D. having liuishL'd hi.-< tr;..l ¦ -. ¦:.: -;. the be.'^t workmen in the citv ¦.! riiiL.i-; -¦ <-'- !" ¦ prepared to doall kinds of Watt-h.ul' ¦ '. ¦'>'' ¦•¦¦¦' rupairinijat the shurte:^t liotir.-. ;¦!.¦! .-..¦.:¦. ¦ .: ' one yearor no chariic. ; \ , : : '¦, I' JUST KKCEBVe:H>. A LOT of very supcri;!!-!:.:.. -yi^'K- rai;.;D« Laines «i t>i'- !.¦>'¦ ;.r: ¦>¦ ¦ ' I- i'.- groat bargain, to ¦Hhii:!i till! ;<.:-'¦':;¦¦¦¦¦ ' • -'•¦ '~ invited, al i!i--(."h,-apL-li>..-'! :¦ '¦ ' - '¦*;:"¦ CHALLI CEllECiKS A U-.¦.¦.;; meut of Challi Ik-r.-!,'.- ".¦¦-¦^¦¦;-';i.: ¦ -¦¦ at tt.Ttreuiely U'-v iirn-'v •¦¦t l.t- ¦.• ¦¦¦;¦> BLACK AND FAXCV -SILICS - lot of ne^v aud U-auii.ul Silk- ju-1 , ¦ ,-. jy. be sold at a ^¦Ulalt aivani-.- ..n fo-l -;.' -..i. r,5 East King ft. ENGLISH PRINTS nii-.l GlMi nh-iieo Adr'>r:ui'iut<'f.-ui»iitTiiU'.'iiii i'.i: ham.-'-i-f n»wofr«rL-d at .:.\n-.m..ly I —¦ ; with Jl lu^g.^ ai'riorlru^.'nt ot f'ea-.:ii;i'.l.- ^r., fered at decidi:d barj^ain.-- a: lU-.- >r. oay ;U-tf-20 ELLING- off at redumlj.ric :ock'w Cheap Kttr.v BAIIKGK UK L.Vl.NK? !. , V-N--. : tiRENADIM:.sCHM.M-> A, :. "Wo have determiuedto .-. ll. ! :::t. i .:-- mer Dress Good-Of! liaii'.l.It v.T> r.-lii- 'i early to secure a b..rj;:ii SELL" nt'^toi aug 9 S. W. cor. North (iuueaaml U.-i^i,;; iiYtf.nTn4aii^^;ia''^h;ai^i^^ -j:^%'i^::^j^-bj<iixii,sa<S£-fMJii?j&Ji^ iiA.K;ssijiii.A..-^>r.-.H^
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VOL. xxvni.
LANGASTEB. pa., WES]^^DA¥r SEPTEftiBER 6, 1854.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XVI-NO. 40,
PUBLISHED. BY-
EDWAKD 0. DABUNGTON,
OITICI nr Hoarn qttbot ersxa. The EXAMINER & DEMOGEATIO HERAU)
is pnbUahed weekly, at Two doluss a year. Advertibemkkts not excecdiDg one square wBl he inserted three times for ono doUer, and twenty- five cents will ba charged foreach additional Insertion.— A liberal discount allowed to thoEo advertlalng by the year.
BARBARA.
On the Sabbath day
Through the church-yard old and grey,
Orer the criEp and yellow leaves, 1 help my lust-
ling way j And amid the words of mercy, fulling on tho soul
liko balms; 'MoDg tho gorgeous Etorma ofmusic in tho mellow
organ-calms; 'MoDg tbo upward-stream ing pmycr.^, and tho rich
auii solemn psalms,
I stood heedless, LJarbera '
My heart was otherwhere,
while the organ fill'd the uir, , ,, .
And the priest with out-sprcia bands bless il the
people with a prayer. -,¦,¦,
But when rising to go homeff.ird. with a mild and
saintliko shino, . fileam'dafaceofairy. beauty with itn hcavcDly
eyes on mine— GleamMandvauisbM ill fl- moment Oh, the face
was like to thine,
Ero you pcrUh'd, Karbara !
Oh, that pallid face!
Thoso sweet, earnest eyes of grace !
When last I s-aw thom, dearest, it was in another place;
You came runniDg.forth to meet mo with my love- gift on your wiist.
And a cursed river k iU*d theo, aided by a murder¬ ous mist,
Oh, a purple mftfk of agony was on tho mnuth I
When last 1 saw theo, Harbara ! Thoeo dreary years, eleven. Have you pined within your heaven, And is this the ouly glimpes orcarth that m tliat
timo wa.s given 1 And havo you pasa'd unheeded all the fortunes of
your race— Your father's grave, your .'^istor'acliild. yourinoth-
er'a quiet face— »
To gaze on one who wor^ihipM not within n kncel- . ing placo 1
Are you happy, Barbara I
'Mong angela do you think Oftho precious golden link I hound around your happy ana whilo sitting on
yon brink 1 Or when that night of wit and wine, of laughter
and guitars. Was emptied of its music, and ivo watch'd Ihrough
lattice bars Tbe silent midnight heaven moving o'er ua with ita
stars,
Till tbo morn broke, Barbara 1
In the years I've changed.
Wild and far my heart has ranged,
And many sins and errors deep havo been on mo avenged
But to youT have been falchful, whatsoever good I've lacked;
1 loved you, and above my life still hangs that love intact,
Liko a mild consoling rainbow o'er a eavago cata- , ract; ^
Lovo has saved mo, Barbara I
O Love ! i amuublest.
With monstrous doubts dpprest
Of much that's dark and nether, much that's holi¬ est and best.
Could I but win you for an hour from off that star¬ ry shore,
Tho huDgorofmy soul wero stiU'd; for Death has told you moro
Than tbo melancholy world doth know,—things deeper than all lore.
WiU you teach mo, Barbara !
In Vain, in vain, in vain !
You will never came again :—
There droops upon tho dreary hills a mournful fringe of rain,
Tho gloaming closes slowly round, unblest winds are in tho tree.
Hound selfish shores for ever moans the hurt and wounded sea:
There is no rest upon the eartb. peace i.'^ with
Ueatb and thee.— ¦
1 am weary, Barbara ! I
[From Pctcrson'fl Magazine, for August.1
THEWIFEi"MISSIOir.
BV THE AUTHOR OF "THE VALLEY FARM." I.
The clock had long since struck midnifihl yet StiU the young wife waited for her husband.
It was tho firei time he had ever loft her alone in the evening. They had been married three montbs,—threo happy, blissful months, the young wife had thought til! now !
" I will not bejn till late," he had said on leaving after dinner. "Twn or three of my old bachelor friends are in town, and I have promis¬ ed to take eupper with ihem. Itwould be as well, perhaps,*' he continued, glancing anoiher , way, "not to wait up for me.'' j
At first the evening was lonely as she had ex¬ pected. She brought out her husband's slippers, arranged his dressing gown, and drew his favor¬ ite arm chair up before tho fire. " He wiii not be out late, after all," she said, as she did this. "He thinks to surprise me.'* And smiling to herself in the consciousnesa oi having all ready for him, she sat down, took up the last book he had given her, and began quietly to read.
Eight, and then nine o'clock, struck, when finding he did not come, she rose with a sigh, and laid aside her volume. "He will be late after all,'' she said- " Bull suppose he has so much to talk about.*' And with this excuse for his delay, she sighed again, and after awhile re¬ sumed her book.
The young wife was still full of romance- Idolized by her family, and with no experience of life beyond the loving circle of her early home, -she bad married with the too common dream ihal existence was never to be darkened by a cloud. Her husband was from a distant cily, a man of fortune, finished in his manners, and with a singular handsome person. Willingly she had ieft ali to follow him. But now, sitting thus alone, a feeling gradually arose in her heart, that ho ought not tohave left her. She wai ashamed oi it at first, and strove to conquer it; she had no right to expect bim, she said, till ten o'clock ; it waa natural, perhaps, for husijands to wish Occasionally to spend an evening with their bachelor friends.
But it was a weary time till ten o'clock. Shi often found her thoughts wandering. At last the clock fllruck.
" Now he will surely come," she exclaimed, throwing down her book ; nnd rising sho went to the window in order to watch for him. It was bright moonlight without, and every one ap¬ proaching could bo distinctly seen. But still hor husband did not come.
For nearly half on hour she remained looking out. Gradually her feelings changed. " He does not love mo aa he did," sho said, " or hc wouid'nt neglect me so."
Finally, yielding to pride, she closed the ahut-^ ters, and again took up her book. ** When he comes in,'' she said, "he shall find me reading, as ifhis abaence had not concerned me."
But ahe could only pretend to read. Her cyo^ followed the characters while her thoughia wero with her husband. Again and again ahe turned back, determined to keep the sense in her mind, yet aa often aho discovered, after a page or two, that sho had utterly failed.
The clock Blriking eleven roused her. Her ihoQghts now took a new turn. Something must have happened,ahe eaid, and she reproached heraeU for having heen vexed. Perhaps he had been takon aick on his way home. Perhaps he had been run over. Perhaps, for she had hsard ofsuch things, he had becn knocked down, rob¬ bed, and left senseless and bleeding.
These fears having once taken hold of her, she could not rest quietly in the house. Going to the atreet door, sho stood there, unborineted eagerly looking up and down tho street. Had aho known where to go, ahe would have set forth at once; but ahe reflected that, if ahe left the house, her husband might be brought back in her absence. The streets were now almoat desert¬ ed, and the moon had sunk behind the roof-tops, so that silence and comparative darkness filled the long and ghostly thoroughfare. But occa¬ sionally a step would be heard approaching. As It slowly came nearer and nearer her auspenso wouldbe ahnoBt intolerable. Yet when it. ar¬ rived, and the form ofa stranger only was seen, she could have welcomed even suspense again.
At last the watchman come along, eyeing her so curiously that. ahe withdrew, but only *to walk up and down the hall almoat frantically.— Every momont she expected to see her hua-.' band brought home a corpse. Her imagination picturedhiminadoxondreadlulways; crushed disfigured, bloody; perhapa,BiiUsensible.though imable to speak; perhaps, cruel, cruel fate epeechlesa forever, and with eyea cloBed in deaih Tears and sobs aUernated as she traversed the hall andparlor, wringing her hands, and praying with wild, imploring words-
Thua midnight came. She went again to the door, for she could not keep away. The moon waa now down, and the Btreet entirely dark; the roll of carriages waa heard no more; not even a step echoed on the silence. She passed out, and sumding on the stoop, alrove, by sha¬ ding her eyes, to peer into the gloom- Bt^'taiill there were no signs ol her husband, Hef anxi¬ ety now rose to poaithe iagpny. She could not keep still. Froiti,h"BU^tp;Btp6p, aiid from atdpp to hall/ehe paased CL^i^i^piUfedf finding no:alie-.. Tifition foi bet feais except in action* ' ^
9if» »\A rubid up itftin » fidt b9r boims(
imd^hawl, butrememberinff while she wm put¬ ting them on with trembling hfindfl, how ma4 would be the attempt to find her .husband in that great city, she flung them downwilh a burst ot impotent tears, feeling as if hor heart was breaking from the very impossibility ofher do- ing anything. .. , ;. , •
In thiasiateofmind,,more than two additional hours passed. At hat, when three o'clock had nearly came, a atop was -heard*ih* the atreet.— The wife was already at the door, and listened with suspended pulie as the echoing tread ap¬ proached. Was it" hia? Yes, and with thia conviction ahe sprang forward.
But what makes her, all at once, recoil?— Why does ahe start back, her face blanched, her figure motioiileea as if turned to stone 7 , She has aeen a maudlin countenance, which is not thst of her husband, and yet is; and, on the instant, the dreadful truth flashes upon her ihat she hasmarried a drunkard. II. "What the deuce isthe matter with you?" said Mr. Herenand K^his young wife, two days afterward. "Can't a man get a civil word, or even a look out of you?" And finding that there was no reply, he continued; "Since.I must speak plainly, you're sulky, I suppose, about the way I came home the other night, But egad! you must have been tied pretty tight¬ ly to your mother's apron strings, if yon have nol learned that such things are small matters." Mr- Herenand was rich, and well educated, and had always moved in what is called "the beat society." But hehad been the furthest possible irom what is characterized as a "domestic" man. His molher had long been dead, and his sisters being gay, fashionable girls, there was nothing lo keep him at home in the evening. Hia time consequently had been spent between the thea¬ tre, billiard-saloon, and club-room. Convivia' in his habits, he not" tmfrequently indulgod to excess in wine; but as all his gay friends did the same, he thought little of it.
Of women in the abstract he had no very high opinion. What hehad seen of them had been chiefly among the worst of the sex. He mar ried his wife principally for ber pretty tace, and had thought himself a miracle ol devotion, be¬ cause, forthreo whole montha, he had never gone out in the evening, except with her. It is true that a round of social entertainments, in¬ tended to welcome the young bride to a strange city, had monopolized so many of these evenings, that, on iheir fow disengaged ones, ho was glad to stay at homo in quiet. A iortnight'a cessa¬ tion of ihe parties had innuied him however.
The young wife had been educated to believe intemperance the vilest of vices, and, therefore, when sho saw her husband inebriated, horror and disgust seized her by turns. At first ahe felt as if she could never forgive him- But her woman's heart began, at last, to plead in his" fa¬ vor; nnd she rose from her sleepless couch per¬ suaded that it would be cruel not to pardon him, if he showed penitence, especially as it was probably his first offence.
Poor thing I She was destined to be bitterly- deceived. She could not avoid a certain con¬ straint in her manner, when her husband de¬ scended to breakfast, at a late hour* This lie noticed, and took offencoat. He sat down sul¬ lenly. The meal passed in silence ; and when he had finished, he rose and_ left the house with¬ out a word.
Mrs-Herenand thought, for awhile, she would die from mortification anti rage. In her days of courlship, the slightest shade upon her face had been sufficient to awaken her lover's anxiety.— Was it for this she had left her loving family? Had sho exchanged a mother's care for neglect and insult ?
She had a high, proud heart, and she resolved that the criminal should bitterly repent his con¬ duct. Accordingly, when he came home to dinner, she had nothing to say, beyond the ne¬ cessary phrasea of the table. A statute of ice could not have been more repellantthan she, in her cold, angry dignity. "
Mr- Herenand looked up with aomo surpriao. Educated as he had been, hc could not compre¬ hend what ho had ddne to merit either the re¬ serve of tho morning, or the present still more chiliins demeanor- In turn he grew angry-
Two days had passed, when his rage, as wo have seen, had lound vent in worda.
Mrs- Herenand, meantime, was a thousand fold more indignant than at first.
" Sir!" she said drawing herself up haughtily "speak respecilully of my mother, al leasl.— Whatever yon say, or do to me, I'll not havo her insulted.'- The husband gave a low, prolonged whistle, " How dure you?" cried his wife, passion¬ ately stamping her foot. ." Didn't I tell you I'd nol have my molher insulted? Nor shall you look at mo in that insolent manner either ?"
A.n oath arose lo the husband's lips, and even found expression though he would have consid¬ ered it very ill-bred lo swear at any woman but his wile. He muttered also somfething about termagants, and what sort of a home they made for a man.
" Whai'fj that you say ?'' said his wife, now thoroughly aroused. " Someihing about mak¬ ing a man's home a , I won't speak the
wicked word. Nice language ior a lady's cars," she continued, contemptuously. "But il ia such, I auppose, as you learn from your boon companions."
She paused, but he made no answer. In fact he was cowed for a moment. Ho had thought ho had married a Desdemona. But hc was ask¬ ing himself now if it was not raihera Lady Mac^ beth.
" What else ought a man's house to bo," she resumed, passionately, " if thiaia-thewaywivea aro treated ? I wonder there's a quiet home, any where," she continued, her eyes blazing: and she broke off abruptly with a bitter laugh.
It was well she did,-for alio waa becoming hysterical. Poor, motherless, inexperienced child, almost frantic with outraged love and shame, wo can scarcely censure her that she ra¬ ved thus.
But she had done incalculable harm. Her re¬ proaches had cut to the quick. In his then atate of mind, the culprit was not unwilling to hav.e any excuse for anger.
" Well then, madam," ho said, colly button¬ ing up his coat, " if you don't choose to make my home comfortable, I'll go where I can find one-'*
And with a brutal oath, he wheeled about,, and left the room--
V She htirst into a paaaion of tears^ FalUrig on her bare kneea,; ahe solemnly :pledged herseH to iecoyerlierhuaband, ifaoTlBngo in her conduct coald do it.
: Had the young wife been less truly a woman she would never have come to this conclusion,— She would atill have hardened her heart. But the diviner qualities were large and vital in her character, and thesehad triumphed at laat over the moro atubborii and haughty elements of her nature.
" Father in heaven." she cried, "I acknowl¬ edge ray error. Thou hast'set the example ih tjiy dear Son>of measureless forbearance and love. .Shall I, to whom so much haa been for¬ given,not forgive also? ShullI drhre the hus¬ band, I have sworn to love and honor, into cour¬ ses more evil than before, and only because he has wronged ma once ;—when Thou hast died for those who have wronged Thee a thousand times, and who cruelly mock Thee sliU ? Oh ! laee now," she cried, "that itis more Chrisl- hke to act the diviner part, and to win back the erring by the very magnitude of our loye for them- Here then I dedicate myself (o this task," ahe continued, solemnly, lifting her streaming eyes to heaven, " if Thou wilt but sanctify the act nnd give mo atrength I need to persevere to the end."
She-rose a changed being. Tho mystery of life had been revealed to her. She knew her mis¬ sion on earth, and prepared, martyr* like logo forward in it. She had recognized the Cross aho was to bear-
IV. *"' And it proved a Cross indeed! at first her al¬ tered, demeanor produced no impression upon her husband except contemptous surprise- A lesa selfish, or loss haughty man, would have been easily melted by her meekness, her for¬ bearance, her evident efibrts to please. But his heart, never very gentle, had bocomo like the '* neiher mill-stone." He had expected a slave m a wife, and finding himself disappointed had vowed to break lior heart. So his feelings were those of congratulation, rather than affection, at these signs of what he considered her submis¬ sion. Sardonic as it was, there is no cxaggera- tion in thii. There are such men—brutes, al¬ moat devils.
At times his wife almost gavo up. Many were the bitter hours she spent alone in tears m fae^ chamber. Often she arose from a sick bed to dress herself in his favorite eolora and welcome him with a cheerful smile. She selected for the table the delicacies sho knew ho liked best. - She informed herself on the subjects sbo thought would be most apt toplease him. She played his favorite airs. Occasionally he would relent a little, hard and resolute as he was ; but it was only a momentary gleam of sunsihine.
Without her Bible sho would havo given up-— But aho found, the moro she studied ita apirit, that if love would not win back her husband an¬ ger would fail more utterly. The whole scheme of redemption roso before her, not only as tho great fact of the Gospel but as the type, to all time, of the means to recover the lost. " Sure¬ ly," she said, " if Christ submitted to be led liko a lamb to the slaughter, and ail to win a degra¬ ded and fallen world back to Him, ought not I sufi'er all for my husband in hopes to touch his heart also."
And then aha would add. " Hc is obdurate yet, because I irritated him so long. Had I be¬ gan earlier, he would havo yielded before now." Cruel as Mr- Herenand was, ho would,have been eoftened, if it had not been for the influ¬ ence of one of his wifo'a own sct. This aban¬ doned creature had exercised a controlling influ¬ ence over him previous to his marriage ; but on that event he had shaken off the connexion; on¬ ly however, to resume it on tho first quarrel with his bride. And now this vile wretch sought, by every act, to widen the breach, undoing, day by day, all that the wife had done.
" Can you go with me to r—,'* aaid Mrs.
Herenand, in her gentlest tones. " I havo re-
III.
That night Mr. Herenand came home intoxi¬ cated again. .The young wife did not ait up lor him this time; but she paced her chamber till he came, wringing her bands; and when ahe heard him stumble into bed, in the adjoining room, ahe burst into tears of passionate grief and rage Her heart wes torn by confiicting emotions all this whiloi Sho began to fear sho had dono wrong, but her pide would not let her acknowledge it even to herself, much less to him.
In tho morning, when ahe woke from a fever¬ ish sleep, she learned that her husband had aU ready gone out. Sho aaw nothing of him that day. Hc came home, aomo time before mid¬ night ; but ae she had already shut herself up in her chamber, there woa no opportunity for ex¬ planation, even if he had wished it.
Thus thinga went on for days, weeka and oven months. Oh! what^miserable household it was, Qt least for one,forthe other waa rarely-ot home. The young wife would not yield, for whenev¬ er ahe thought of it, Ihe fact originally he waa in fault reeuned to her, atealmg her heart aa well aa blinding her judgment. Meantime ehe had to keep her sorrow aecret. It wae not a grief that could be told. Yet often her heart almoat broke under it. Thua again her proud apirit rose; " She did not care," she said to herself, "hehad treated her, brutally, yee! bmlally; and he might go where he pleased do what he pteoaed, it was nothings it ehould be nothing to her. Other men might kill their wives by auch conduct. Thank heaven ! aho was made o stouter siuflT. .,
But gradually her strength gave way in this struggle. She spent half her time ih'tears. Of¬ ten she waa templed Vo fly to her mother, so much did ahe yearn for sympathy. At laat she remembered her Bible/which, for many yeara, she.had almost neglected.- 'The gentle spirit of that book, particularly of the four gospels, in¬ sensibly melted her.andcha'nged the whole ciir-, rent of her thoughts.' V '
One: night, ae. ehe lay .on her pillow, .an in: ward monitor whispered to her. '.'waa shelwhoUy free from blame 1'»>aia the-voicow " Had ah6 nbt, as a wife; taken'her husband for good or ill t ;^hatdid,tius'iinplyf';WMBhedoing/her'i^^^ by driving hiinaway with her npbraidings l ipidi I^criimnttUtyJMlify wrong on her parU Would tro oilier «S«ik«Hla]^:- |
Month | 09 |
Day | 06 |
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Year | 1854 |
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