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erftto YOL. xx^ni. LANCASTER, PA., WEDT^ESDAY, JUKE 15, 1859. NO. 29. J. A. HIESTANB, J. p. HUBBR, F. HECKERT CnSBS THB VtBM OP JNO. A, HIESTAND & CO. 0?nCB IK HOBTH QTIEKK BTEKET. THE EXAMlNKli & HERA1.D is pabllshed weekly, at TWO DOLLAM a year- ADVERTISKMKNTS will be inserted at the rata of $1 00 per eqaare, o^ ten llaes, for threa Inser- loaa or less; and 23 ceats pereqnarefor eacb additional Insertion. Easiness Advertiaementa Inaerted hy the qnarter, half year or year, wlU be charged aa follows: 3 monlhs. € months. 12 monlhs OneSquare $3 00 $r) 00 $ 8 00 Two " fi 00 S 00 12 0. >f colnmn 10 00 18 00 25 00 % " ISOO 26 00 -ir. 00 1 " SO 00 65 00 60 00 BUSINESS KOTICES iaserted before Marriages and Deaths, donble the regnlar rates. 53*AlladverUs>ng acconntaare considered collecta¬ ble at tbe expiraUon of half tho period contracted for. Traosleot advertisemeats, cash. LAUGH OH. Why ehoald nollea clooda of sadoess Frown upon thy yootbtal face T Wby, when Summer's joy and gladcess, Smiles and breathns in every place ? Time eoongb lor i^oba and Klgblni;, Wh^n Uf/a pleaanri>^ nil are gime, Bnl whlln tbiiae r^msin uodying, Natar«*a cry Is, laogh, laugh oo! Wby shoald timid hearts »-iaad hlosbing, Foariug.lingeriug oo tbe plain? While Ihe merry streams are guablng. Dancing lu Ibttlr goal again; Titne enough lo fear Ufe'a troubles, Wheu nulrieuded aud alone: Bot wbeu trial-s ire bm bobbles. Let 'brm paM, and atill laugh on! Wliy tboee down-cast eyes, despairing, Wilberingcare and cbilliog looks? Whilu ihf Iilly blKouiK nnceaxiog. bmilioi: by {h>- Inugbing bn'ok"; Timo enonirh to f.-ar Ibf wriugloK', Stirniw Lrinpf in dreary tonx: Bui whilf) Snniiiier blrJs are f-ioglnf;. All their l.lu^¦,c fay-, luugbou! Why dr-'pond wb<?n songs of gbidnei'!'. Echo ihroupb lbe loreattnes* When OK lueanla:: zepliyi'o aadness. Sighing Ibrongb the verdant leavea; Time eupugh—f.-r life is wahliug. Bid it Dut In hut-ie Wpone; Urge It nol—'tis quickly b.iating. To retain It. laugh, langh oo ! " Look aliift," wnen thcucbla 8*»> "WHlIinit, BnratlDp every beait-f«lt Ue: LiF-teulug t:tiirs your fear* nro Mlitig, Wafting them beyond the ¦'ky; Tex not then ihy hej»rl with borrow, Sigb not thou iu mournful tone; Think nm uf thf coming ranrrcfw. WbUe yon lire I i-ay, taugb on I LOVE'S L ABOU LOST. **He loves ni*4—he lovea me not—he loves me!" Very jiretty is <.he scene where Mar¬ garet consaits the fates by ancli botannmaiicy. Leaf aftrr leaf of the flower fails Fauat bends over the inuocent littlo head, and watches the eager finder.-, and listens wouderini^ly to the scarce altered word:^. Then the last leaf aud the burst of wild delight, '* He loves me I'J "Yes, yea, my lore," says Faust; "he loves thee I He lores ihee !" ,_In thia case, however, Faost waa nol pre¬ sent. Margaret sat on the smooth lawn of a trim garden, under a gre.at elm tree—in the cool shade, while all else qnivered iu heat and light. Margaret pulled her flower to pieces deliberately enough. Her little white hands were methodical aod steady. She beat time with a mouse of a foot as each petal fell. No burst of rapture .a^ she plucked th e lasl from tbe stalk. Perhaps the uouulusiim was negative, uo affirmative ; so she threw the stalk away, too. The answer of the fates she consulted was clearly unsatisfactory— ambiguous, doubtless, a^i snch answers are wont to be—thereforo she took another flower from her lap, aud tried agaiu. Still an am¬ biguous answer. She pulled to pieces another and auother, until the grass round her was covered with the debris. A gust of wind from the hot easl camo and scattered the flower-fragments far and wide, Uke Sibyliue leaves. Ouly tbe stalks remained; and at these the mouse-foot nibbled, giving them little petulant kicks and stamps; drawing them nearer, pushing them away, then de Belting tliem wholly and retiring out of sight. Such sort of botanomanoy, it was manifest, was of little avail. Our Margaret had a hrtrder question wherewith to pose the fates thau " Does he love me F" She could answer that herself, heing wiser in her generation than a lover-sick peasant girl. "When ayoung lady has ascertained, not only that he loves her, hnt that a dozen he^s love her, a much more diffcult question arises, namely—" Whom shall I love ?" or, rather " Whom shall I marry ?" Julia discusses this question with her soubrette Lucetta ; Portia withhersoubretteXerissn. The young lady under the elm tree was more discreet; she confiued the services of her maid to hair- dressing, and revolved such matters in her own Uttle head—a wise and cool btad, not muoh plagued by heart-throbblings. She ceased to pull flowers to pieces, and began to slip a tiny ring up and down a tiny finger, (The ring was "a peck too wide.") Dactylo- mancy might aucceed where botanomancy failed. A young mau camo rapidly across the lawn and stood before her. "Oh, how you have frightened me!" she said, in the calmest manner. " Will you sit down ?" Sho made room beside her. " What a hot day f" He sat down silent for fully a minute. His voice died in his throat, trembled, and strug¬ gled, and choked. His eyes were wild and moift:—a foolish young man. "Margaret," he cried at length, "for God's sake tell me if what I hear is true 1 Is it really true—0 my God!—ia it really true that you are—that you are^ " "What ?'* she interrupted, in innocent sur¬ prise, " What have you heard ?" " That—that—it is a lie, I know it is—^you are engage to be married to Mr. Bowring !" She was silent. Uer eyelids dropped.— The foot nearest to him came out, and began to beat tlie devil's tattoo close to h=s foot One hand glided over the other, and hid the ring with which she had been playing. "Do yon think that is a prop r question for you to ask?" she satd, mildly. "Ought I to answer it ?"' " It is true, then ?" he cried, p?.5sionately. "You hare deceived ti:e ! You hive played wilh me ?" This and much more. Then there was a lull in the storm, aud his moud changed. '*0h, forgive me, Margaret, forgive me! I am mad, and du not know-what I say.— Perhaps it is not true. You said it waa uot ? Tell me—ouly one word—yea or no. Oh, darling, we have known each other so long— we are snch old friends—let me know the worst, audi will go aud never see you ag.iin." She did not lift her eyelids. Iler fool slill beat its regular tap close to his. He could feel the vibration. She neither resented his reproaches nor compassionated bia hnmility. *'Do yon think it ia a proper qnestion for you to ask?"' she repeated in precisely lhe same tone. There was another storm of passion from him; reproaches ungentle and unwise—accu¬ sations, sarcasms and denunciations. He spoke of Mr. Dowring's age ; that he was old enough to he her father ; that it was impossi¬ ble she could love him. "The excess of age would be on the right side," she said, raising her eyea to his for a moment. "You wonld not have the wife older than the husband 1" He (the young man now tearing a passion to tatters) wasyounger than she by two years. " You never referred to my youth beforp," he said, with a bitter langh, " it did uol suit yonr purpose." She smiled faintly. It had not suited her pnrpose. He descanted, much after the fashion of the soliloquizer in " Lockleys-hall," on Mr. Bow- ring's greenness of intell«ct: ••Ib It well to wish thoe happy ?_havlng known me— to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than Tet It ahaU be: tboa Bhalt lower to bis level dav bv day, ¦ ' ' Wbat Is floe wilhln tbee growing coarse to fiymnathlza ¦with clay." "I never pretended to be clever," she re¬ plied, with a shrug of her pretty shoulders. " Yon, who are so clever yoturself, must have despised me long ago." He got up and stood before her. Standing ia the hot son, ho oast a cooler ehade over tl^ lady. Her feet followed his, and BtlU vibra¬ ted oQ tbe grass in closest proximitj. " You cannot love this man," he said ; *' it is impossible. Oh, Margaret, yon oannot mean to sell yourself, for money; your beauty— yonr beauty—Oh, it ^rivea me mad I—to sell your soul; to contaminate yonr purity; to barter your flesh and blood; to put a price upon yonr kisses " " You forget you are speaking to a lady," she interrupted, in a lone more soothing tban angry, " You will thiuk more wisely on theae matters when you are older. Love in a cot¬ tage reads very pretty in yonr poets, but this worhi is sadly practical." Both were ailent. Margaret suppressed a yawn, " How is your father ?" she asked af¬ ter a time, willing lo change >be conversatiou. He had been thinking; recalling all the past—remenihering many a love-passage known only to him and her. "Margaret," he said at last, not noticing her question, "either you have lied to me deliberately for years, oryou love me. Either you have not the seuse of modest sbame, or yon love me. You do love me," hn broke out more passionately, *' you do love me." Again she shrugged her shoulders. " I have always had a great regard for you as a friend—I shall always have a great regard for you. I hops we shall always he frieuds." "Friends!" he cried, langhiug. "You had better sit down," she said. "The eun must be very hot." Love conversations-where they are in the way of billing and coming or of peeking ami claw- iug—are stupid. Robert Seaton (the Faust to our Margaret) continued to riug the same changes as before, love and anger, jealousy and trust, pride and humility alternated.— Now he begged for a definite answer to his firat question ; now he took for granied that the engagemeut was a fact; now that it was not so. He referred to the past—he prophe¬ sied of the future. He exaggerated the past hy reasou of his vivid remembrances, aud tbe fnture hv reason pf his vivid hopes and fears. Meanwhile, Margaret remained calm and im¬ passive. Somelimes we see young ladies of forty wbo bave the hearts and beads of twenty.— Margaret at twenty-two had the heart and head of forty. She was warm blooded, cold hearted. Her cool, clear reason would have had a sinecure if its sole office had beeu to overruM the heart indiuatious. It had other work to do. She was a consnmate coquette, and, as with all coquettes, her temperament was ardent. She had a boundless appeiite for passionate admiration. Like Cleopatra in the mood, she said to every mau, "Come here that I may look ou thee." This instinctive pleasure, primarily natural, was wisely gov¬ erned by her reason. She knew bow far, to what extreme limit, she might indulge this pleasure. She knew how to systematize this natural iuatiuct into au art, and to make it a means towards aivautageoua ends. She had what is called a good temper—a supremely good temper; ao good, in her case, that it ceased to be temper at all. The irascible waa undeveloped iu her disposition. As she had not the power of love, so neither had she that of anger. What rudiments of a heart she possessed were inclined towards Seaton. She took herself to task for acknowledging a vague regret that circumstances prevented her from marrying bim. "If Bowring," she thought, "had not fallen in love with me, the other would not have been so bad a match." And theu, according to the promptings of her conveational religion, she chided herself for being ungrateful to Providence for the bene¬ fits which it threw in her way. Even now, while she listened to the violent, the unmanly reproaches of Seaton, she expe¬ rienced from tbem a sort of pleasure. "How mnch he loves me !" she thought, wondering¬ ly. The storm of bis passion was a mystery to her. She could comprehend a momentary tumult of the hlood when eye met eye or hand pressed hand ; but such anguish of the heart was like a tragic scene spoken before her in an unknown tongue. Her limited im¬ agination tried to realize what it all meant; how such things could be; and she drew what feeble sketch it wjis possible for her to draw. Of a surety, in our owu eyes is wbat we see ; iu our own fancy are the objects which we love or hate. It was not for the man who stood hefore her that Margaret felt her feeble preference ; it waa nol this verititble Margaret whom Beaton loved. Even apart from hia passion, he looked upon this dreaded union as it were au union between a Caliban and a Mirandi—something loathsome and unnatur¬ al, which would people the whole earth with monstrous shapes; whereas Margaret was no Mirandi, nor Bowring a Caliban. Bowring— an honest countryman of good blood, great fortune, had taste, and small wit—deserved a far belter wife than Margaret. He was a man having much more self-command and com¬ mon sense than the would be Ferdinand.— How many a comedy, or tragedy, farce of Er¬ rors enacts itself daily 1 Robert Seaton was by natnre too sensitive ; and he bad not lived loug enongh to discover and to guard against this super-sensitive¬ ness. He was jealous—as all sensitive men are in love-matters. He wonld long ago have wearied out any temper but that of Margaret. He S.1W with the eyes of a Leontes, and detec¬ ted "paddling palms and pinching fingers" where none such were. Iu like manner he over-estimated any trifling love favors grant¬ ed to himself. Margaret, however, it must be confessed, had giveu him safficient cause for both jealouijy and self-deception'. There had never heen any engagement hetween them. Sealon was dependent on his father, and, though an only son, had no great expec¬ tations. Margaret had carefully avoided bringing mattera to a crisis. There was plenty of lime—she was but twenty-two : he was only twenty. She had valued her bean¬ ty at a fair price, and knew tbat it wns worth more than Seaton could *give for it. Even supposing no belter suitor ofl'ered, he was not yet sufficiently settled in the world to marry; and there conld be no nse in bindiug herself to him too soon. She was not afraid ofhia escaping her. The skilful UTjgler plays with his fi.^h with no uncertainty of lauding it at Ust. While Margarel felt herself perfeclly free, Robert felt thai they were bound lo each other by a tacit engagemeut. This view of Roberfa Margar»it knew; hut of course she could not help wbat he cliose lo think. Tuns while she accepted all hia devotion of passionate lore .13 mere gallantry, he believed that by her very acceptance, by the evident pleasnre she had in receiving this devotion, she ac¬ knowledged a love in retnrn. It was in his eyes an honorable compact between them, which he would as aoou have broken himself as have thought that sbe could br<iak. He was waiting ouly until his worldly affairs were in a more certaiu coudition to consum- male his love iu marriage. In a year he wonld become a partner in a mercantilr house which traded to India, in place of his father, wbo retired. Only one year, and be could marry. Snch was the state of things when Mr. Bowring came npon the scene. Margaret could not waver between them. What pru¬ deut young persou could hesitate hetween landed estates, worth ten thonsand a year, and a probable competency arisiug from trade wilh India 1 The one was immediale and certain ; the other was liable to all the acci¬ dents of the future and of fortune. The rank of the country gentleman was preferable to that of lhe merchant. Bowring was his own master; while, as yet, Seaton was totally de¬ pendent on his father. As we have said, Margaret felt at first that vague sort of regret amounting to little more than she could have been satisfied had it been otherwise. This regret occurred to her as she passed from the old lover to the new; there was uo hesitation of choice.— ted, the postbiUty of her ever baving thought of marrying Seaton waa^ dfsosrded from ber mind. Tbls was really virtuous in her. She felt that self-approbation whioh only virtue can bring. The anvAUtages ou the score of age, of intelleot, and of pergonal appearance, whioh Seaton had over Bowring, anfficed to mingle just that sploe of aelf-saorifioe whioh every virtnous aot must possess. Margaret had expeoted a soene with Seat- on, and she prepared for il. She was armed at all points, intrenched on all sides. She had promised notbiug ; she bad never dream¬ ed of Seaton aa anything but a friend. If he had seen reason to gather more than that from ber condnot she waa grieved. Had she known that her conduct would have been so interpreted, she would have been much more carefnl ; bnt any mistakes that had ariaen mnst be imputed to her innocence, and to misconception thereof. Seaton, as a friend, had no right to inquire into her presenter fu¬ ture intentions. This was heriine of defence should ahe be hard-pressed, but her chief tac¬ tics consisted in saying as liltle as possible. To her impassibility Seaton vainly opposed his passion. Yaiuly he begged or demanded a definite answer. Vainly he referred to the past, which Margaret had conscientiously dis¬ carded from her miud. He believed against belief, and clung lo his phantom Margaret in deaperation. It was difficult to conceive the fall of an angel. All his life, past and lo come, must be swept away with ber. There was nol a thought, or sensation, or feeliug, in which she had not a part; there was no bope or expectation ofwhich she was not the es¬ sence ; he could not picture to himself a life apart from her. He flung himself on his knee, and seized her hand, and burst into a passiou of tears over it. She did not take it from him. It was the prettiest hand in the world. Shakes' pere might have lavished all his marveloua epitheta upon it;—"white wonder," " fiower soft,"—what wa.s it not ? Suddeuiy ho espied the ring, wbich ahe had hitherto concealed. She wore other rin^s— mai»y of them, (one pitied the small fingers so burdened) but he knew the others by heart—this was new. " Where did you get thia ring?" he demanded, atarting to bia feet' She hesitated a moment aud theu anawered quietly, "Mr. Bowrinc gave it to me," He threw the hand from bim and went. Poor little haud. It fell heavily on the hack of the garden seat; it was bruised and cut with the ring. The blood mounted toher cbeeks; ahe bit her lips, and stifled a cry ; tears filled her eyes. She could feel physical paiu. She did not resent even this. After a moment she examined the wounded haud, aud saw with concern that it was red aud swollen ; sbe examined the ring and fonud that it was bent. She got up and went to¬ wards the house. Before she reached the open window Bowring met her. " I have hurt my hand," she said. " Pity me!" He tried to take it in his. " No," she said ; " not that oue, the other." She gave him her other hand, aud hid the wounded oue behind her; she was aahamed of the defect in ils beauty. • » • • • ¦ a Soon after this, Robert Seaton went to ludia. He was sick at heart, and longed for change. Margaret was to be married to Bowring : the afl'air waa decided. Ail that he had to do was to forget. He applied to busiuess with ten¬ fold ardor; not with the thought of Margaret as his incentive now, but in the endeavor lo drive away remembrance of her. He set sail full of schemes forthe extensionandimprove- ment of the India branch of the mercantile honse into which he waa to be admitted as a partner. Little as tbe sameness of the long weary voyage waa calculated lo make him forget, he had recovered his heart, or the most part of it, before he reached India.— Violent passions are alwaya the least lasting, they burn themselves ont when the supply of fuel ceases, and leave but a few ashes which, by and by, a chance wiud blows away. Twenty years had passed, and on the same garden seat Margaret sat again. It'was a summer day, as it had been before. There was but little change in the garden. Some few young trees had grown mature; there was a thicker covering of ivy on on the trunk of the old elm, and one of its huge branches had been carried away by a storm, so that Margaret's favorite Seat was less shaded than it nsed lo be. The lawn was coated with soft moss, which had spread among the grass roots year by year. Tweniy years—which make bat little change iu an elm tree—are a third of ordinary human life. Twenty years change the child into the blooming woman, and again deprive the woman of ber bloom. Time, however, had passed lightly over Margaret. At a little distance one could delect no change from the Margaretoftwentytwo. She was pretty still. She had lost her fir.-;t bloom and freshness ; she was a little thinner ; her hair was less luxuriant; there were faint lines upon her forehead. But she retained much of her old charms; her eyes were as fine as ever, her hands and feel as pretty, her shape scarcely less symmetrical, her manner aa fascinating. A critical observer might perceive a greater elaboration of toilette than of old. Art did all that could be done for failing nature. A hat (not too juvenile^shaded her face, and she kept her gloves on scrupulously, even in the shade—gloves with gauutlets, which made her hands looked smaller than they were.— She was careful lo preserve whal yet remain¬ ed to her ofher beauty. To look at her, and lo dream ofthe age of forty, seemed preposterous. Aud yet Mar¬ garet had had her disappointments. She was unmarried still. A quarrel had arisen be¬ tween her and Bowring. There were censori¬ ous tongues in the neighborhood, edged y«j more keenly by the knowledge thatthe tones they nttered were leas sweet than Margaret's. Mamma's who had plaiu daughters, and the plain daughters themselves, called her flirt and prononnced those fascinatious disgrace¬ ful which were impossible for Ihetu. Bowring was a plain man , who, in buying a wife, looked lo hare a warranty with her.— Hh inquired nnpleasanlly abont the past; he demanded more preseut devotiou thau it was possible for her lo give. Margaret had not the power to resist that desire of pleasing which was natural to her. Because Bowring wafl to be her husband, that was no reason why she shoald cease to he attractive to ali other men. The rattlesnake (it is popularly supposed) gaius its daily food by the process of charming. Margaret deprived of her fac¬ ulty of charming would have died of inanition. So the engagement waa gradually broken through—worn away by a series of small dis_ agreements. Margaret, in the midat of her sorrow, had a vague aense of relief, just as she had a vague sense of regret in pasaing over from Seaton to Bowriug. Time passed • Margaret had alwaya plenty of admirera, bu^ no declared lover. The men were faacinaled by her, and feared ber. " The greatest success a woman can achieve," aomebody has said, " is, thai she should not he talked about." Meu di.l talk about Mar¬ garet. Time pasaed on ; her sisters were mar¬ ried oue after the other, and she, the eldest, and by far tbe moat beantifal. remained nin- gle. Her father died ; she and her mother were left.. With tbe father'a death mneh of their income, ariaing from an entailed estate, passed away from them. She and her moth¬ er, who was aged and infirm, were left in straightened circumstances. She nursed her mother diligently, paying her all the outward observances of a good and affectionate daugh¬ ter. What degree of real love ahe had it would be impossible to discover. Theywere so much alike, and so bad a mutual sympa¬ thy at all events. From hermother, Margar- Bowring^a superior olL-jM being onoe admit-' et had inherited her feabU heart, and hy means of her mother^s early leasons this fee¬ ble heart faad been oraefaed more and more. From her she had learned to estimate her beanty aa the price wherewith to purchase a good settlement in life; had learned to pre. aerve this beaaty, to enhanoe it and adorn it 83 her most preolons posaession. Even now, in their narrow oircnmstances, the moat ex- pen.sive item of their honshold economy waa the wages of Margaret's maid. The pretty daughter had always been the mother'a favor¬ ite, as the one who wan to marry the first and to marry the best. All the molher's hopes had heen disappointed ; Margaret had often to jsear querulous complainings and reproach¬ es. That one impulae of her nature, namely, appetite for indiscriminate admiration, to whioh Margaret Lad given rein, had] ruined everything. If ahe bad but heen content to repreaa all the feeling and sensations bom with her—to become wholly a machine I Margaret had had her disappointments, and for some time now her life had been but a weary repetition of itself from day to day. Nevertheless, the change in her was marvel¬ ously small. Her lack of atrong feeling, her lack of th'e irasoible, had kept her forehead smooth and her completion fresh. She had StiU ber amusements, still a small court of admirera, who whiled away the heavy time. Ninon de L'Eucloa, aay the biography books, was the object of a violent attachment at sev¬ enty. At forty Margaret did not find it diffi cult lo retain the allegiance of her court; thongh young girls sneered at her, aud pro¬ nonnced tbat it was time for her lo give place. She had ceased to rival them openly ; she no longer disputed their regality in theball-room; but some men found the quiet garden-seat a very pleasaut spot, and left the rising beaaty to pay homage there. There was the lean dootor, and the fat curate, and a conntry 'squire or two who had been in love with her long ago, and who kept up tht-ir fealty as a remembrance of their youth. There was the vicar's son, when at home from college, wbo was youug enough lo be her own child, and whose houest lunacy reminded her of Seaton. Even officers quartered at the neighboring town discovered that she was a pleasant per¬ son to flirt wilh; and clergymen, of opinions high or low, for miles round, fonnd their am - bliug nags carrying them, they acarce knew why, toward her place of audience. She was not likely to die of inanition yet, though sach a prospect was beginning to force itself on ber as what might be—a dreary proapect 1 The man of lettera, whose fai ling eyeaight warns him to lay aaide his booka ; the musician whoae failiug ear begins lo play him false ; tbe man of deeds, whose failing strength for¬ ces him to quit tbe arena—all have remem¬ brances of worthy auccess accomplished. Margaret had achieved nothing. She felt that her beauty was departing from her, and that it had dooe nothiug. She had no triumphs stored up to hold in remembrance when tri¬ umphs should be no longer posaible—a drea¬ ry prospect 1 She would not meet the evil half-way ; she would enjoy what ahe could at tbe piesent ; and then, let the worat come. Ou thia summer afiernoon when we again introduce jMargaret, a new hope had anes. pectedly dawned upon her—a hope vague aud uncertain, bnt still a hope. We must premise that Mr. Bowring, her huaband that waa to bave beeu, had lately died; his estates had descended ,tn a spendthrift heir, and were now for sale. The fat curate had vaca¬ ted the half of the gardeu-seat just before we withdrew the curtain ; aud the fat curate had relaled the last piece of news current in the neighborhood. Bowring-Hall, with all the demesnes pertaining thereto, was sold ; the purchasers narae was Seaton. He was some Indian merchant, it was reported ; enormous¬ ly rich; related, the curate surmised, to the old Mr. Seaton whom he had buried five years before. Did Margaret know ? "Seaton?" she asked—" Robert Seaton !" ** Yes, Robert Seatou—that is the name." Ob, yes, Margaret knew him—had known him, rather. He had left Eugland twenty, tbat is to say, many years ago. And so be had bought Bowring-hall ? He must be very rich 1 Was he coming to live there ? Was he in England ? The cnrate elated at having such accurate intelligence, proceeded to relate that he was in England ; that orders had been given for tbe fitting up of the honse ; that Mr, Seaton was expected immediately. It was reported that he was unman ieil, and that his benifi- ceuce was princely. He had endowed a church at Bundecund ; aud the curate hoped tbat now they stood a fair chance of getting their own little villnge cbnrch restored. Margared joined in his gratnlaliona on that subject. The fat curate had a hankering af ter mediievalisms. He dressed in a loug coat without collar, and affected disjointed atti¬ tudes ; bnt bis plumpness was a thorn in his flesh, and he looked more' like a parson of the old school thau of the new. He practised confession unkuown to his vicar. Margaret nsed to enumerate a list of little pseudo sins to hitn with the most charming penitential air. It was a good thing she had none of consequence to confess ; for the curate, poor fonl, could not keep his own counsel, far less other people's. He had more than once given her to understand, in the most delicate man¬ ner, that it was only his steru seuse of duty, as touching the priesthood, that prevented him from wishing lo enter into a more tender relation with her. The curate's news had a nearer inierest for Margaret than its posaible inflaence on the village charch ; bat never¬ theless she talked with him on that favorite topic until he left, as if abe had nothing elae upon her mind- She was glad when he was gone. She sat thinking over the news. "Robert Seaton comiug to settle iu the neigh¬ borhood ; Roberl Seaton the proprietor of Bowring-hall; Robert Seaton slill unmarried; How that man did love me!" she thought. She smiled at the recollection of lhe last scene with him. She was not of a sanguine turn of mind; she was accustomed to look at matters reasonably, leaning neither to the dark nor to the light side. There seemed some hope. Supposing bim to be unmarried, as rumor went, there loas some hope. There was the'faintest palpitation about her heart; she felt a vague gladne.-ia at the news—a gladness which did not spring so much from the fresh proapect opened to her, (that was yet too uncertain) as from an involuntary feeling—the counter part of the vague regret she had experienced in giving him up. She eutered the bouse through the open window; she gave her mother her medicina, and rearranged the pillows of her easy chair. As she did so she said ; "Mamma, Mr. Seaton has purchased Bowriug-hall." " Who ?" asked the old lady, quernlously. "Mr. Seaton? Wliy Mr, Seaton haa been dead for ages I" " Robert Seaton, mamma," she said. " He tbat went to India yeara ago." " Ah 1" cried tbe old lady, raising herself, as her eyes brightened—"ah, my dear, you will be mistress of Bowring-hall after all!" " He will change the name of it, " Margaret said, simply. She went up-stairs to her own room, dis- missed her maid from thence, and sat down opposite the glass. With her forefinger she traced the iucipient lines, scarcely percepti¬ ble, on her forehead. Her face looked dark againat the whiteness of her haud. "Forty," she wag thinking to beraelf—" forty, and he is two years younger. But he cannot look younger than I do. Men age sooner than women; and beaidea, thoro is the climate. Surely there ia not so much difference in me since be left! I know my face by heart, and I can aee but lillle change. I am glad mam¬ ma looks on hia purchasing Bowring-hall in that light—pshal thia is very foolish! How do I know that he ia not married ?" Sbe drew off a ring, and, turning her hand narrowly inspected the finger. There waa a little blue mark upon it li^£ a vein. It waa the loar where the bent liiig hod oat into her finger twenty years before. Again she smiled t Poor Margaret aged visibly. She began to as abe remembered that laat aceon. It aeem- j lose belief in her beaaty; even beramall feet misdoubted themselves, and lay hidden and qaiet. She grew grave and taoiturn and sor¬ rowful. • ¦••••• Seaton's daaghter ia about to be married to the vicar's son. Margaret's mother cannot live mnoh longer. I think that in the end Seaton will marry Margaret. However, my friend Mrs. Grundy says, " No, he is not so great a fool as to dream of such a thing."— I do not know, he will want a wife when that Indian girl leaves him. He is a man who, ander his acerb rind, has a heart full of pity; and Margaret's position will be pitiable when ber long and patient watohings and nuraings are over. Further, I think it acaroely possi¬ ble for any man to root out from hia heart utterly all kindness for a woman whom he has once loved. She may play him false; she may become wrinkled and unlovely ; he may know her to be nuworthy of his reapect, he may see that she is unworthy of his ad¬ miration ; but the place tbat ahe once occu¬ pied has remembrance of her atlll. Marga¬ ret's laok of irascibility haa ita pleasant aide as well aa its unpieasaut. I am snre that she loves Seaton as much as it is in her natare to love when she was younger. She had an old head upou her young shoulders ; is it more miraculous that her time of heart juvenility shoald come late in life ? However, my friend Mrs. Grnndy says "No!" and ahe ia generally, omniscient; ao I mnst take my leave of Margaret as of a spinster—as of a coquette superannuated. ed but yeaterday. She felt triumphant— only for a moment, however; then ahe deter¬ mined not to give way to dreams and hopes; to expeot nothing; to fear nothiug. Time wonld prov^. The lean doctor was seated beside her mother when she oame down ; he told her tho aame etory; Bobert Seaton the purchaser of Bowring hall; coming there immediately ; and—no wife 1 She walked with him np and down the lawn before ho left, aa waa her cus¬ tom. She was as calm and amiable as ever. The lean doctor felt as he had often felt be¬ fore—half disposed to make a formal love- declaration 1 Would she have accepted him? I thiuk she wonld. It was too late to throw away a sober certainty for the most brilliant chance. However, the trial was spared her. Had the lean dootor walked the lawn witb her forever, he would never have been more than Aaf/^ disposed to go on hia knees. Aa the time approached for Sealon'a arrival, the maiu point of intereat about him became, unhappily, more uncertain. It waa asserted clearly by aome that he was married. Ser¬ vants—already arrived at Bowring-hall—had been heard to talk of "their mistress!" Un¬ doubtedly some of the rooma were being fur¬ nished for ladies* use. Still, others persisted in the first story—that he was unmarried.— Margaret ceased to hope. With a wise kind¬ ness, however, she kept the after rumors from her mother'a knowledge, aud suffered her to en'joy her first belief. Poor old lady! the expectation of what was to come revivi¬ fied her. She was more thau ever oritical about Margaret's dress, and scolded tbe maid roundly for fancied neglect. Sealon arrived on the Satnrday, and ap¬ peared at church on the Sunday. The mo¬ mentuous questiou was settled at once.— There was a lady with him, young and beau¬ tiful, with a rich, dark beanty that apoke of an Italian climale. Margaret, as she caught a glimpse of the girlish face, thonght of ber own forty years. It was the bitterest pang she had ever known. The painful feeling surprised aud alarmed her. it was what ahe had never experienced before. Her reason had failed her for tbe firat time ; ahe had be¬ loved against belief, aud hopedagainst hope. She sat in ber accustomed corner which faced tbe carate, and did not command a view of Seatou's aeat. Her discomfiture didnot even in the firat moment show itself outwardly, and it soon passed away, aud left her com. paratively at her ease. She felt bumbled.'— Her step was lesa elastic as sbe walked home aod her eyes were hent on the gronnd. She bad no anger agaiust Seaton, no envy of the wife. Her chief sorrow waa at her own want of self-command. She acknowledged her foolishness. Her mother asked eagerly whether Mr. Sealon had been at chnrch. " Yes," she an¬ swered, pouring out the medicine with a steady hand ; " Mr. Seaton was there, and his wife." " His wife!" The old lady burst into fretful tears ;" at her daughter's dissupointment," she said— not at her own. She railed againat Seaton for being married; ahe pitied and railed against Margaret in the same 1 reath. All the old reproaches came up again. If Marga ret had been but commonly prudent; if she she had not wilfully thrown away the good fortune that was at one time iu her hands! There is uothiug more wearisome than to have ancient faults and follies called up again and again from the dead—faults which one has acknowledged and repented of—follies on account of which one has nndergone due meed of shame years ago. Repentance aud shame seem lo be frnitless ; the sins are per¬ ennial. Margaret kept out of her molher's sight ar¬ ranging the pillows at her back. A few tears fell from her eyes silently as the old lady be¬ came raore and more querulous. " Mamma," she aaid at length, " do not scold me to-day. I am not quite myself. Please do not scold me." She went out into the gardeu, and passed over the into a long shaded walk beyond it. There she walked ap and down, and cried as she had not cried since she was a little child. This walk skirted the vicar's garden, from which it was separated by a low wall. Soou a cheery voice shouted, " May I come over !" And without waiting for an answer, the vicar's son vaulted over the wall and landed by Mar¬ garet's side. Margarel liked him ; liked his honeat, half bashful admiration ; liked, while she smiled at, his steadfast trust and belief in her. He always reminded her of Seaton.— She wished he had not come lo-day; but ac¬ cording to her custom, she made the heat of what could not be helped, and wiped her eyes, and began to talk with him. " You—you have heen crying I" the boy blurted out in surprise and horror. Heaven knowa what he would have aaid, in hia foolish, unreasoning sympathy, and what she would have answered, bad not tbey been interrupted by Margaret's maid. Tbere were visitors. "I must go in," she said, "Are my eyes very red ? Come with me." They took one more turn down the lawn. "Yoa are very kind to me," she said, in answer to his protestations of sorrow and sympathy.— " What can you find in me to like ? What doyou care whether I cry or laugh ? Voicea crossed the lawn, 'and tbere came iu aight Mr. Seaton and the dark girl. Seaton claimed Margaret as an old friend and spoke lo her with perfect ease. Then he introduced the Indian beauty not as hia wife, but as his daughter. Margaret was embarrassed, strange¬ ly so for her. She thoaght of her red eyes, and wondered if that tednesa waa very per¬ ceptible. The girl, then, was not his wife - that was au infinite relief. He had been married. Was his wife still liring ? Why had he come to see them so soon after his ar¬ rival ? There seemed hope forher iu that.— All this she thoaght as sbe walked by his eide, answering hia questions rather thau talking. He was much changed ; he looked old and worn, and yellow. His face was wrinkled aod hard; its youthful softness and iudecisiou were completely gone: Hia voice and mauner were different. His voice had a set modula¬ tion, was in no way inflected by feelings loo impnlsivB to be disguised. His manner was ironic, or at least ambiguons. Margaret look¬ ed in hia face to see whether he waa speaking in earnest or in jest, and met eyes more im¬ penetrable than his tongue. They sat down in the old garden seat, just aa they had sat wben they saw each other last. They had, as far as was possible for tbem, changed places. It was Margaret now who was anxious and unquiet, who longed to learu what hope there waa forher. It was he who was impassive. He had taken Margaret at a disadvantage. She waa humbled and sad, aud self-diffident, aa she had never been before. Hd detected her uneasiness and anx¬ iety, and ahe knew that he detected tt. She lacked confidenoe even to bring the little mouse foot into play. • «¦•••• The summer went by, and Margaret's hopes ebbed and fl-'wed. Seaton was a widower; here was no definite obstacle In the way ; still fae made no advance. How ahe had miscalculated when she bad supposed thatin gelling Seaton hack she would get back the Seaton of old days I Her poor faded coquet¬ ries only moved him to a more sarcastic gal- i lanlry. Even she could not be blind to the i contempt with which he viewed heralereoty- , ped fascinations. He liked to ait with her t and to talk of post times, and to laugh light- | ly of youthfnl/olUes and blanders. And this ' was the man of taking whom into captivity sbe had not doabted, if only opportanity of- fered. She had not ttie aligbtest inflnence ; over him; he played witb her as if she were Instead of retailing upon the man who calls & child. She could not understand hisironio 7°'^ * villain, a liar, or a thief, coolly inform utterances; his ambiguous smiles frightened ^^i^ that yoa have not suffioient confidenoe and Bilenoed her. '¦¦ in his Toraoltj to belittre him. I. NEWTON PEIECE, Editor, To whom all communicuttons intended for this de¬ partment may bo addressed. County Superintendenoy in Kew York. WHAT'S THE DIFFEKENCE? A poor man sat at his window—no, I am wrong, it was the window of his hired house. It was a amall mansion, a little tenement, painted white, and surrounded by richer establishments that seemed to look down with contempt upon their humble neighbor. The occupants of those stately homes were very much annoyed by the simple little chil¬ dren that played on the steps, and generally kept the curtains down on tbe aide that look¬ ed toward them. But, as I said before, a poor man sat at one of the wiudows overlooking tho street. He waa a thoroughly noble looking man, too, with handsome Roman features, and an eye like a hawk. Wilh tbe exception of hia coarae clothes, he was muob more gentle¬ manly and dignified in fais appearance tfaan any merchant in that princely row. A pile of bricks had been emptied quite near his doorway ; they were for repaira.— As thia mau looked out, he saw two or tbree little children with bts owu little ones, hum ming and buzzing about the bricks. Tfaeir dainty lillle hands were eager lo fashion houses and bridgea and all sorts of momen tary architecture. Saddenly the poor man bethought him of a pastime of hia owu when he waa a child, and hia heart having retained the pure and sweet emotions of youth through tbe cares and hardships of matnre life, be hastily threw on his hat, und going dowu hH taught them a uew trick. It was this; to place a row of bricks ou end, quite near to each otber, forming a long line ; by touching the last one an impetus is given to each brick by its nest neighbar, aud the row is present; ly swept down iu regalar order. The children clapped their bauds and shouted so loudly that some of tfae rich neighbors, coming to thetr windows, aaw how the little ones were employed, taking lessons in amusement from a poor and almost unknowu man. "What a fool!" said oue, sneeringly—"I should think the man an overgrown baby.— Seo him laugh 1 See him play I Shame on him—grown man—we mnst call our children in." And from all those windows went the laugh and the sneer. Men with gold tasselled caps set on perfumed locks laughed tho old mau to scorn ; women in beautifully embroidered robes turned down tbe corners of their pretty lips, and the cfaildren were speedily called in. Years passed. The poor man had grown rich. Wealth had come to him, not through toil; but it did not corrupt his good heart, his simple tales. Still he loved children aud their sports. He built himself a splendid mansiou, however, and lived iu the style his great revenues permitted. Again, as iu the daya of yore, thero was a great load of bricks left in the vicinity of his home. Again little children gathered to "play house," and again the man sat watch¬ ing tfaem at his window. Yes, it was his window now—a window whose glass was costly plate; and he sat there no longer the tenant ofa hired house, in coars:j olothes, but attired iu the richest of broadcloth.— Again, as he looked at the buay, beautifr]^ gronp below, hia heart kindled with lhe mem¬ ories of old, and he felt compelled to go down and leach the juveniles bis brick game. So, in a moment after he stood lu their midst and stooping picked up the bricka, arranged them, and set them iu motion. How the children laughed, and their brigfat eyes sparkled I Tfae noise brought the aris¬ tocratic neighbors to their windows. " Well, to hosure 1 Tfaere is Mr. B , that wealthy gentleman opposite, playing with the children. Isn't it a very pretty sight, dear?" " Yes ; and what a fiue looking man he is, to be sure. What freshness of heart he must have to enjoy their game with ao much zest 1 I declare it's quite touching!" " So it is ; they say he haa all of two mil¬ lion. Hasn't he a fiue Ggure I" "Splendid! Do see him clap his hands 1 I declare it really brings the tears to my eyes." " Wipe 'em away, wipe 'em away, Mattie ; they're crocodile tears I" cried a young strip¬ ling of seventeen. His sister, a maiden lady of au unutterable age, looked'aroand indignantly. "Fact, sis; they're real crocodile tears, and ru prove it. Wheu I was seven years old, that same gentleman came oat of a little whitehouse and taught ua children that same trick. And, sla, you and mother both called falm au 'old fool !' aa I distinctly remember, and I, for one, received a tremendous injunc¬ tion not speak lo hia children or notice tliem in^any way." "Nonsense, Fred !" aaid hia aister turning red. "I knew it was nonsenae ; bnt yoa did it. You called him all sorts of names—a 'ridicu¬ lous old goose,' a 'grown up baby,' and I don't know what. Now here's the same old fellow up to the same old trick ; aed oh ! gracious i tfaere never was such a beautiful, charming; dellghtfal scene ; really I ought to write a poem ou it—guess I will, and entitle it 'Then and Now ;' or 'The Fool Grows Wiser as he Growa Richer.* Wbich would be the beat, sis ?" "Hold your tongue I" sobbed the lady. Fred's sarcasm waa not misplaced. What is called Jthe poor mau's simplicity is entitled the rich man's'sublimity. It the same noble, lender, loviug, great heart standing by the little ones iu hia coarse coat jeered at and insulted with impunity by the rioh, that now benda his fine broadcloth to tfae dust in order to be on a level with the little ones, hut not to fats neigbbors I Poor all hia nobleness was but dress In their eyes. Rich I and his weakness would be heavenly lustres, sinoe their offset wa« the almighty dollar. ''~~ The deab olu Aoht :—Unhappy the family in which there ia not one relative at leaat of whom the following Is a portrait:— " Ber Booi waa all a aympatby. And gazing la her face, We felt a faith, wa knew not why. In all tfae bamao race; We felt aasared of better Umee, Though how we coald not tell, Wbea all the world woald bo as pnro As kind Aaat Ii<abel." An effort haa bi^eu made in the Legialature of New York, to abolish the office of Coanty Saperintendent, which Is there termed '•School Commissioner;" and re-establishing iu ita place township supervision ; as is now advocated by some in this county ; who are of the opinion that it would be better If the money paid to the County Superiuteudent waa paid to the president or secretary of each Board of Directora, to viait tho schoois, making him a town or towushlp auperiulen- dent. The matter waa given Into tbe banda of a proper committee, who bavo prepared a very able report, and we recommend its perusal to all who feel any interest upon tfais subject. The report ia eqnally applicable to this sec tion of country, only changing the terms " School Commissiouer," to county auperiu- tendent, and " Town Saperluteudeul," to Township trustee or auperiutendeut: " The committee on collegea, academies and common schools, on the points to be considered npou the question of abolishing the oflice of school commissioner and re-es¬ tablishing tho office of town auperinteu'tent, report: 1st. The relative efficiency of the two tuodea of Bupervision. The object ofauy supervision is to become acquainted with the character uf Che various schools ; tfae methods of iustruciiou ; their comparitlve merit; the conditiou of the school houses; the degree of interest mauifes¬ ted by the parents aud patrons ; the efficieu- cy of school officers ; aud perhapa more than all, the standard of qualification of the teach¬ ers, as determined by literary attainments, an enterprising spirit, an intelligeut appro hensiou of the nature aud objects of educa¬ tion, aud the beit methods uf promoting it, aud by skill aud tact as erinced in a success¬ ful experieuce ; aud then, upou tho kuowl edge tbus gaiued, to make such suggestions aud adopt such plans lor improvemeut, as shall bb besl adapted to proiuuie tho object in view. The more extended and general this surrey of the actual condition aud wauts can he tuade, in urder to secure a wider rauge ol uuit'orm iufluences favorable to Improvemeut, thb more eflicient mast be the actiou fuunded ou tfae Informaiion acquired. The prevahug difficulties aud em bar ras:i meuts iu uue town will uul greatly vary from thoso in a dozeu uther towns iu tho same locality ; heuce the best measures lo improve the coudition of things iu ouo towu, will in all prodability hv equal applicable lo all. Thus from these wilier survbys of the working of llie system, a moro compreheUaivb aud iutelligent idea ut the oduL'atluuai needs of the community cau be gained, a deeper aud more thorough knowledge of the principles of educatioual policy will bo derived, aud a more consistent, thorough and geueral plan of means be adopt- ted to correct existing evils. Under a separate towu supervision-the standard of qaaliticatiuua for teachers may vary in each towu. It is scarcely possible, indeed, to promote any uniformity iu this reaptfCi, or any concert of actiou for mutual impruvement under a looal tuwu supdrviaiou. On the other haud a auperrisiou by Assem¬ bly districta, tends greatly to promote unifor¬ mity iu plans aud melhuds. aud concert, henub effiuioney of actiou. The commissioner cau demand aud secure a unifurm standard or gra<le uf quaUticatious fur teachers ; cau aee that tbey are uniformly instructed iu the principles and praciice uf teaching; cau see aud counsel them together iu cuuveutions ajd institutes, and thus iuspire them with the zeal and ethusiasm whicb uuiou and sympathy impart. Again not only doos the supervision of an extended area, give superior facilities fur a general aud comprehensire kuowledgeof the condition of schuols, aud lead to moro thor¬ oughly studied intolligenl and systematic plans of actiun, but this supervision of neces¬ sity must be committed to a class of officers, who will consecrate to il all their time and energies, whu will make the priuciples of ed¬ ucatiou their study aud briug to the survey ofibeir field of labor, a miud disciplined by careful iuvestlgation and laborious study.— It becomes Lis busiuess for tho time being, and if he be prompted hy the common ambi tion of man, he cau bo but extremely solic¬ itous of the highest succeas, whicfa industry will serve to impart lo his administration. He cau thus exert an exteuded Iulluence, uniform, systematic, intelligent and effective, over the minds, feelinga and actiun of the patrons of schools, aud of tfaose upon whom chiefly tfae success and ef&cieucy of the schools mu.m depend, tbe teachers. A concert of action to effect a common pur¬ pose, by a system of uniform means aud a commuuity of feeling and interest, inspiriug all with a laudible desire to excel, will thus bu promoted. Bat what a divided supervision, snch as towns afford, each town Is Isolated from all others in Its feeling, iu its knowledge of ex istiug defects, in its plans and purposes of aotlou. In Its general educatioual policy.— The timo devoted to the examiuatiun of schools, is tfaat which best suits the conveni ence of tbe superintendent, aud his counec¬ tion with thu thoughts concerning school matters, are confined to the brief period in whioh he Is directly employed iu his official duties, if eveu then he bo nol oftenur engaged iu rumiuatiug upou those Interests to which tho chief pari of hla lime is glreu. But atowusupervisiou is more inefficient for the reasou, that however intelligent aud zoaluus the suporlnteudeut of a towu may be, his power to eufurco wholesome and salutary reforms ia greatly restricted. Ho may estab liah scbools, certificates are issned wiih Htile ur no regard tu the qualificatious oftho appll cant. The result Is obviuas ; lhe facilities afforded in tfae surrounding towns draw uU' lo them the applicants for license; tfaoso towus aro overrun wilh candidates wfao com- pulo with each other, not upon the score ol merit but upon that of cheapness, thereby ensuring the engagemeut of the poorest aud cbeapest teachera; whilo the Intelligent, zealous and conscientious superiuteudent, fiudiug ll vain lo atruiigle agaiust the popu¬ lar seutiment all around, him, or to advauce and elevate the standard of teaching without the co-operation of auperlutendenis in other towns, succumbs to tho demand of the high est educatlcnal sentiment he cau enlist or evoke, aud while the schools under hia su¬ pervision may exibit a gratifying contrast wheu compared wilh those iu other towus, they fall far below a just aud rational ataud ard, and servo ratfaer lo exibit tfae deplorable inefficiency whicfa schools may reacfa, tfaan lo give'^iudicatlons of healthfal and progressive coudilious. Nor are tfaese statements hypothetical, but are substantiated by tbe experience of many who bave held the office of towu superinten¬ dent, and by the observation of tbo intelligeut friends of educatiou thronghout the stat**, well as by the practical experieuce uf the De¬ partment of Pablic Instruction. Agaiu, couceruing tho objects to be attain¬ ed by supervision, it is clear that tho visita¬ tion of schools even if it were dono every week, can have no salutary Iufluence of Its¬ elf, without tbo knowledge to discern existing faults, without the ability or skill to arouse trnstees, parents or leachera, witbout the power to enforce auy system of meaua for tho improvement of the coudition of the school: or iu any manner to practically determine their character or conlrol their action. The visitation of the saperintendent is a mere form, the omission of which would produce no unfavorable result. Having shown that an intelligent aud ear¬ nest town superintendent, uan do but little toward improving the character aud elevating the fitandaid of commou school eduttatlou, witfaout consultation with his fellow officers in other towns, witfaout tfaeir faearty co-ope¬ ratiou with^Im In aome uniform system of measures, we need hardly suggest tfao im praoticablllty of saoh consultation and muta al co-operation ; and bence uecesaarially fol lows the conclusion, that in considering the operation ofifae system of towu superinteo- dents, we must regard them as acting in tfaeir Individaal capacity. We have also seen, how in this individnal capaoity, the besl and most zealous oificers can exert hnt a limited Infiuence upou the characterof the schoola for the reason that tfaey can do ao little, comparitively, to determine wbat ahould be the qualifications of teacfaers, upon which more than upon auy thing else tfae cfaaracter of the school mustdepend. Bat tfae greater difficuUy ia, thai it is utter¬ ly useless to faope or expect, except occasion- ally-and we may almost aay accidentally, to fiud the office of town auperiutendent filled by a person, wfao either oau or will make the moat of even its meager advantages. It be¬ comes a partisan office of the loweat grade, for the reaaon that Ita dutiea and responsibilities are regarded by -the popular sentiment as within the ability and integrity of almost any one who can read and write. Its emolu¬ ments are sufficient to gratify tfae insatiate craving for office, whioh oharaterlzea the igno¬ rant and weak-minded, and its pecuniary rewarda, while no objeot to men of substantial worth, are Btill a temptation to thoae who oan devote to th» dlBoharge of ita dutiei, only ao much time as they oan take from other pur¬ snita, with any appreolable loss. Thus does tbe office, in a great majority of inatanoea, become filled or occnpied by tbe merest pre¬ tenders to the first essential qualificatiou for the discharge of ita duties. And in the more inrtanate oases, where men of suffioient abili¬ ty, intelligence and oharacter, are elected to the office, not only are they powerlesa to en¬ force any reformatory measurea, but it is scarcely possible for them to avoid a defer¬ ence to the popular will, that faaa conferred tfae office upon them, and to license as teaofa¬ ers auy wliora tho trustees of the various districts chmise to employ. Besides the ap plicants for license aro not uncommonly their owu personal friends, neighbors and acquaiu tances, ur hnloug to the families of those witb whom they bavo intimate peraunal, sooial or political relations, and whom for any or all these reasons they are unwitting todtaublige. That the character aud efficiency of Che state, can never bo improved under auch a system nfsapervision, ifit be worthy the name, as this we have described, mnst be sufficiently obvioaa to tht^ commonest undor standing it is to the observation of all who bavo beeu cognizant of tbe working of this aystem of exclusive town superrision. On the olfaer band, a moro comprefaunslve and geueral system of supervision, as that by Assembly districts removes tbe school officer f.om these incidental but pernicious Intlucn- ces, which more than auy otfaer oue cauae, serve to paralyze the energies of our school system. The school commissioner, compara- tirely at least, acta independent of those influences of personal favor, whicfa to ao great ou exteut coutrol a local officer. Hta term of office alao givea hitu an advantage in tfais respect, so that while fae ia still faeld in check from an abuse of his perogative, sueh a^ wuuld be repugnaulto the common sentiment of a large commuuity, he is not in fear that the exercise ol his best jadgoieut In opposi¬ tiou to iudividual ioterestd and preference, will briug his official character iuto disrepute. [to be conti.vued.} PHILADELPHIA ADVERTISBMENTS. To the Tax-Payers of the City of LancEiater. THE DUPLICATEH for the Coosoi:- dated City Tar, are la thehaudfi nftb'* aubhcrlber On >tll Tax paid onorbefore theldl of JDL7, 6 percent, abatement will he allowed. Tbe time fur an abntement on tbe WalnrKeotn having expired on tha Firol of Jnue; on liU p^id on or before tbe FiTKt of July, the fall amooat will be exacted; afer ibat time aad on ur before the Flr«t Monday In Septem¬ ber, Uve per ceot. will be ad^sd, and after tbe Fir»i Monday in September tbe water will be btupped off and Haiihrun^ht AgMn»t delinqnenfe agreeably toan ordi¬ nance oflhe CityGonncilit. JOHN W. JACKSON, Lancaster. Jane 3d, l&'iS. Tieabure jsneS tr-: FODDER CUTTER AND GRINDER. FAHMEKS, Stoble-teepers and othera Interested are Invited to call aad exam 09 mm tlie openttloa of thla macblne. CornswDu are cat KmI very flae, aud afterwardu groand to pieces beiweea «^ two Irqa cylladerB, pruvuled wUh teeth, and movlas at dilferent reloclttes. The eiallu are that prepared food in a Tery enperlor manner. Thie m^obias wlU nUo cat bay and wraw with great rapidity. We hare aldo for sale— Wllson'e Patent Qay and Fodder Cntter. BlncIair'B do do do do. Leely's do do do do. SELF-aHAKPfiNlNG YANKEE CUTTEBS. KAW-UlDt! ROLLKK UtmBES. with atraight and spiral kalTes. Commoa Dutch Fodder Catteru. EocheHter Uay and Fodder Catters. D. LANDKETH k SON, Implemeat and Seed Wftreboase, No>i. 21 and Tl soath Sixth Street, between Market and Oheannt streetn, Phil- adelphia. Bltb-tt-l 1 WINCHESTEB, & CO. GBNTLEiHEN'S.FDRNlSULNG STURE, AKD Patent Shonlder Beam Shirt Manu/ootoryi AT THK OLD hTA.HD, Oppositetks Washington Ilouse, No. 70S Cheat' nut Street, PHILADELPHIA. AWINOHESTEU will give, as here- « tofore, bis perHonal 8apervial<ia to the CulllnK aud jlanafactnrlng departmenta. Ordere for bia cele¬ brated t>tyle of Shirts and Collars fllled at tbe ahorteat notice. Persons desiring to order Shirta, ean be supplied with the formala formeaHoremeat.on application by mall. '-Conatantly oa band, a raried and select atock of Qea tiemea'e Famishing Qoode. {CS^Wholesale ordera aapplied on liberal terms. aept $ ly.41 Steam Dying and Sc6uriixg~Estab- lishment. MRS.K. W.SMITH, No. 28 Norih Fifth St. bet. Market and Arch, PHILADELPHIA. PIEOE GOODS of every descriptioa dyed to any color, Ladi-^s Wearing Apparal of evury description, dyed In tbe must faeblonatile and permanent colore, and fininbed Ic a eapgrlnr etyle.— Merino. Caahmere uud Crap« S awlH, Table and Plaao Cuveff* Carpet.H, iiu;t4, kc, kc, Scoared. Pongee and Silk Ure^bea Ae-Dyed all culoia, and watered eqaal to new. N. B.—Oentlemeo'a Clotbes Cleansed, or Dyed on lea- aunahle termn. ocl 6'3-1 y-* E. GEIGER'S Seed and Agricultural Implement ¦Ware-house, East King Street, next door to Lane's Store. FAIIMICKS and others are respectfully invlled tQCAll aad Hea my ntuck, wbich I. eompoBdd ut the moRt Approved articleit. jic, aned by theOnrdener KQd Fartaer. may 4-iy-33 TO HOUSEKEEPERS,—SOMETHING NEW. B. T. BABBITT'S BEST MEDICINAL SALERATUS. I lit manafactared from commoa salt, aod Ih urepared entirely different from other Sale-! />Q{raln-). All the delelerioan matter extracted In'iJQ WO.HUch a manoeras to prodace Bread, Biscuit andi"^ Uu kindH of Cake, wltbont containing a particle Axojof Salemtart when the Bread or Cake la baked ; |t ereby prodnclng wboleitome reanllB. Evry 7n'['arllclo of ^aleratuR la tnrned to gab and paHsea • "ilbronsh the BreadorBiscaltwbUe Baking; con- spqaenily notbing remains but commoa ^alt, 'Walerand Floor. YunwUlreadily percelvehy CAKDS! CAKDS!! CARDS!!! PRINTERS SHEET AND CUT CABDS, BBST AND Ua&KVZ-ft IN THE MAKKET. CAKDS FOR Mounting- Photograph Pictiires, of superior quality and at low prices. Blue ajifl White and tine White Paate-Boarda, Strav-Boards, &c. on hand and for aale by A. M. COIiLINS, PAPEK and CAiil> WdrebuDfu*.''•'lli ^INOB STREET, Pbiiiiddit-bift. ^ Jao 2ti-6ni-9 STBAW and MILLINEEY GOODS. I. S. CUSTJBR HAS NOW IN STOKK a large assort¬ ment of Men'ii and Buy'e STRAW HATS, and Ladien BONNETS, lioth imported and of hie own . MANOFACTUKE, ar'oarallltnoorMILU.VEKrI GOODS of every deeiiriptlan, incindtng LadiesI Siltf, Grape, and Fancy EJunnete, ali of which are ofiered at at vt-ry iow price., and on farorab'e lerma at urn Sortli U Street aliove Grcm, PHILADELPHIA. mar 9 3m-15 70 ^C^the taate oUbici Salerataathat II leentlrely dlf- "Ojfflrent from other Salemtan. ll U packed ia nne ponnd papers, each wrap- ASD [ler branilrtd, '• B. i'. BubbUl'ii Beht Medicinal 'Sal^ratui ;" aloo. Pictnre, twieted loaf of bread,/ 'J'A;*itb a gU<ta of efferTeticing water on tbe top.WA •"jWben yoa parchd^e one p&per yon shoald pre- "^ jservi) the wrapper, and he particalar lo geiibe UHXt pxaoily lUe the fipit—brand a.s above'. /?Qi FnU directiona fur makiag Bread wilh IbiK/JQ '''^j-ialerainHaad ?oar MUk or tlream Tartar, wiil "^ Hcciiin|)iinv each packuge; liUo, dlrectinns furl A.<iDuiHkingall kitide of Paltry ; alno, for maklog;A.vD doda Wniflr ^.ad Seldtilz I'.iw^cre. | 70 MAKE TOUR OWN SOAP, W TII B. T. BABBITT'S PUKK CONCENTEATED POFASU, flQ. Warranted doable tbe ttireagtb of ordinary "^Potash; pot ap In cann—1 lb.,2 lbs., 3 Ibs ,tJj-- Iba. aud "i Ibn.—whb fnUdirectWae for makiog >Iard and Sofi Soap Cnn»iamers will fiod thlii''At^D the cbeaptint Potahh In ranrkot. I 70 Maaafdclured and for dale by 7A '" B.T. BABBITT, 1*" Noa C8 and 70 Washington etreet, New York,' and No 3S Indla-st., Bodton. jaoe S-ly-23_ i LEATHER, Morocco, Shoe Findings, Lasts AND BOOT TREES, At tbe Old ¦'^tand forniprltf occnpied by J. H. LOHIMEB, SIGN OF TUE LAST, opposite SPRECHER & BRO'S. Hardware Slore, N. QUEEN ST., Lancaster, Penn'a, TBE Undersigned respectfully ioforni.s blH old i-a!iti)mer»that he ba>j takea thestaod above uentioned where be will keep a large aeeortment of er¬ erything In lhe Leather line—at ae low prices aa can be boaght dliiewhere In the city. OLD LAbTS repaired at the Mbortent uotlce. It3"SADDLERS' LEATHER of every debcripllon on band. All ordera promptly atteoded to. april 13-tr-2l) M H LOCHER, Agent. J. W. SCOTT, (Late of tlie firm of WincliestPr & Scott,) GENTLEMEN'S FURNlStiING STORE, A.VD SHIEX MANUFACTOBY, 814 Chesinut St., nearly opposite the Girard House, Philadelphia. JW. SCOTT would respectfully call 9 tbe atteaUoa of hia former pdtrons and friends to hta uew etoie, and la prepared to tilt orders for SHIRTii at ehurt notice, A perfeci til guar&nteed. COUiKTHY TRADE (sapplled with FI^'E SU1RT.S and COLLARS, aept 15 lyr-42 Window Shades! Windo-w Shades!! NfclWaud Beautiful Styles, at...37* cts. iiftw aad Beautlfal Styles at 50 " Ntsw and Beaatifal ijtylea at.. 62^ " New and Iteaatlfal Styles at 70 " Fiae Guld Bordered Shades at only 7^ '* Fine G<ild Bordered Shades at only. 67>£ " Fine Gold iJordered Shadea at only $100 Fioe Gold Bordered Sbadea at only* .' hSTt FineGoU Bordered >bKdes at only 1.50 WtiKe, Green aod Batr HuUaDd»<, C-rdri, Tatiyels, Fix- tnrori ke., a complete Stock at the loweat ca.sh pricen. hI the Carmargo Manafactarlag Gompaay, No 20, EAST KIKG St.. Lanca-ter Pa. mar .10-tf- 8 House, Sign, Omamental and Fresco Fainting, THE UNDEKSiaNKD, late of the firm of HEINlT:jQ£ CARTER, respectfaily loformt- blri friendtf uod tbe-puhlic gnuerally, tbal ha conUnneb to carry ou tba above hniilne.-'H, at the old eland in Kmmph'a Row, Eaat Orange riireet, Lancafter Pa. Thankfal for poKl favtira. hf aekn a continaaace of patruna e, pledging himself to do all work enlrnhted lo blri carp in tho heiit manner, with diopntch and nt pricen Id wer than hereti'fure. Parlorsand EntripH China Glossed by a new Process, which will be warratUed not to crack. S^^AU work Ir done nnder the peraonal enpervliion uf the t)ab^c^lher, wbo employe noae bnt flntt-cItttiH m< chanlcH. ED W. CA RTER. mar .SO ly-IS TO FARMERS. JUST RECEIVED. laiESH ENG LlSn R&I'Eor COLE SEED tobe had by the boshel ..r lesa. Afo.LAKGEWHITEFLAT, LARGE OLOBEand RED TO.'TURNIPSEEU,RDTABdGA MaKOLEWUSTZLE and FRENCH SUU AR BBET ^ESDS, for nale hy JOHN F. LONO A CO.. Drnggiele. may ll-tf-34 No. 6 Horth Qaeeu .-itreet. LEATHER STORE. rpIIE SUJiSOKlBEKS, having moved J_ lot'* their new etore frooting on North Prince ¦iireel hetween Cbeelnnl and Walnat atreein, near the liailroud, weat of tbe Paaannger Depot, they are nuw fully prepared to anpply all cnaiomen) with Leather, Belling, Hoae, Uorocco :ikiaH, Shoe Findings, Laata, OU. .tc.. of the beet qaalltiea, and on terms to ault the timea wUI make a liberal dedactloa oa uales for caeb. All urders prnmptly att>-nded to They cootinne lo parcbana HldOR aad Skins, also Leather In the rongb. janl2-ly-6 KONIGMACHER k BADMAN. FLiVE New Wall Paper at Gets. Fine Wall Faper at Seta. Fine Wall Paper at iOcts. Fine Wall Paper at IScts. Fine Wall Paper at IScts. Fine Wall Paper at ISctfl. Fine Gold Pdpers atS'lcts. Fine Gold Papera al 62^^cls. Fine Gold Papera at T/icta. Bordera, Monldlnga, DecoratiuOH kc, at correi>pond>Dg low raten at onr Wholexale and Retail Paper and Shiide WarehoariA, No 20 EAST KING St.. Lancatiter, Pa,. Carmargo AlaDnfacinring Co. 0. U. BRENEUAN. B.FKANK BRENEMAN. mnr 30 tf-lR CARPETS, Floor Oil Cloths, &c., Velvet, Braafiela aad Ingrain Carpete. Venitian, Llat and Rag CarpeU, Caaton and Cocoa aiatUng. Velvet Raga and Door Mats. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS from one to fonr yatda wide purchased at the late New York and PhUadelpbla anc tiooH. Foraalxby HAGEK dc BROTHER.-^, war 2.1 tf-17 WEW FORWARDING AND COMMlSaiOJM HOUSE. THK UiNDEUSlGNED, haviu- leased the STRASBURG KAILROAD, together witb the Warehouije located In the borongb uf Struibnrg.are Di>w prepared to du a general forwarding and commia- •¦lon hnsinai'S. They havemade arrangementa whereby they will alwayri bave on band a large and full anpply of ANTHRACITE AND BITDMINOUS COAL, naitahle for famiUea, macblnlata and tlmeburneta, wblcb will he aold at the loweat market pricea. Alnu, a gen¬ eral ariHortmont of LDMBBR. lbe varluna klnda of FER¬ TILIZERS. SALT, kc, ke. They will alao parchaae fluor, grain, whiakey, kc, at tbe higheat market price, or attend lo the aelling of all kinda of prodnce at a amall commlaslon. By BtrU-l attentioa, and endeavoring to diacharge all baalneaa committed to their care with promptoeaa and on reaeonable terma, tbey reapectfally aak a ahare ol public patroaage. ^ JOHN MUSSELMAN, JONN F. HERR, JOHN E. GIRVIN, trading under tbe firm of may 18 2m-25_ MDSSELMAN, HERR k CO. 'New Hardware Arrangement. A. W, & J. R. RUSSEL, AVING UiNlTED tlieir stocks of Hardware at the Old Stand, NO. S EAST KING TtttiKT, (late Koaaei Je Barr'a,^ reap^cifally call the attention uf iheir frienda and tbe pahlic generaiiy to their Improved atock, aod hope to rwioive a contlnnauca uf their cnatom. Tbeir wbj-jct will be l" keep a good and faU stock aud aell at lbe lowest ratea. They are agonta for Whitenack's Celebrated New Jersey Mower and Reaper, wllb all the lateat improvementa. warranled loglveaat- lafaction or no aale. Alao Agent- for the aale aad paling un of Tork Cuanty Kooflng ^l&le.tbe beat In lbe market, put on by the beat workmen, and warranted lo give en¬ Ure Batlafactloo. , ,„.,, T J _l.l. Witberell, andolhermakeaof White Lead, with every variety of Painto, Oila, Varnlahea, &c ™'^KEo"'bSt quality of nails, 200 BOXES GLASd. ASaORTED SlZE^j, logetber wllb every arUcle tuoally kept ta a Hardware ature. Call and aee aad Jndge for yoaraelvee at tbe Old sund. No. 8 Saat I(ing atreet. aign of tbe big ilTTU. A. W. 4 J. a. EUaSELL. nay 2S aiB0»*3e H'j> .1 YE ANTIQUE BOOKE STORE, No. 27 South Sixth Street, PEILADELPHLA. J SABIN respectfully acijuaiuts the « reading public ibat he bua opened a atore as above, principally for tha SALE OF OLD BOOKS. S3*Gentlemen about lo form a Library will at all timua Bud a large collection of Booka, of a class not naaally kept by ttie : rade at large, aU of which having beea bought al AncUoa will ba SOLD AT VERY LOW PRICES. Catalogues publlrihed every muuih, which wilt ba for warded to any addrefia, on appllcatioa. Jaa6 l-y-6 PHILABELPHIA N, E. Cor. Eightli & Spring CJarden Sts. THORNLEY & CHISIff, ABE DAILY RECEIVING SEW OOODS, BOUGHT CUEAP I'OR CASH! And inorder to maintain their far famed repuUUionfor SELLING VERY CHEAP, tbey are determined to aell for SMALL PROFITSlll Hich faucy SILKa—Now Stylea. Beat Boiled Black SILKS—Imported. Plalo POIL DE SOIS—to every ahade and color. Handaome Bayadere SILK:i—beaatiful goods. Fonlard SILKb.Uarcellneaad Florence SILKS, SHAWLS! MAM-TILIiA-SM DUSTERS!!! Satin Challiea, Gloaay Valeaclaa, Chenne Holatorlaa kc. Baracex. Greaadlaec. India Sllka, Gblntzas. kc.,kc, BEST FRONTING k FAMILY LI.VENa! CLOTHS AND CASSIMERKS! MUJLINS, FLANN. LS, TICKINGS, kc, kc Piano Covera, Table Covera, Table Cloths, Maraellea QnlUd, Allendale Qnllta. kc, kc, THORNLEY k CHISM. N B.—Inthis day of City Railroads, our Counlry, Friends can travel from any part of the city to our store for Five cents. m:irch 2-''m-U JOSEPH E. SMILEY, No. 23 SOUTH FROST-ST., PUILADKLPHIA, COJIJlISSIOiV MEKCHAiNT AKD DRALEK I.V Foreign and Domestic Fruits. HAS iN aTOtvE AND OFFEf.:i FOR bALE, Oraages aad Lemoaa, Freoch I'loiaa, Layer Kalaloe, Cocua Nntd, Dates, Shelled Pea Nuts, Figs lo drams aod boxen. Shelled Almonds, I Valencia Kaiaina, ', Africaa and duntbern Pea I Nute, ; Salad Oil, kc, ke. ly-12 Bordeanx and PaperSbell Almonds, Seedle&a Ralfllns In Caaka, Half Caaka und Mala, feb 16 platfobm: scales, OF EVKiir l^iiriGRIPTiON, SUIT¬ ABLE FOR RAILROADS ic.for weigblDgj& bay. coal, oreand merchaodlae generaUy. i'arcbaa- ll era ruo no rlak, every bcale la guaranteed correcl,'^^ aud if, after trial, not fouad aatiofactory, can be returned wllhoat charge. Olfactory al the old ataad, eatabllsbed for mora thaa tblrty-five yetra. ABBorT k CO., Curner of Nlatb aud JUelun Streeta. maril3-tf-17 Puilauelpuia. Iljghth'ih'g bods. To all who iutenti protectiojj their prop¬ erty from lightninii,afew facte may oot be auwelcome. THE ELEt;TRO MAGNET LluHTNINO ROD hat) been befure (be public tor twenty years j has been tbe meana uf aavlng a vaat deal uf pruperiy aud mnny Uvea, and baa never in a aingle ioatance failed to meet the highest expectaliuna of ita value. Unndred* uf our owo ciiizena can testify froni lbelr own koowl edpeof tlaablUty to protect property In eafety; who bava been eye witneaaea wbore baildlnga, pubUc aod private, cbarcbeti and Gcbool-honaea, bave heea aaved from deatrncUou—the rod receiving and carrying barm- teita to the ground airukea w hlca but tur ibum wuald have caofied the total raiu of the bailding atid all witblu it. The auperiority uf theae roda uver auy othera lu aae, hax been leatlded tu by meo wbo hava o> aaperlorain general science ur In thU deparim«at. Kecumineuda tions 'o the oumber of aix thounaud cau be neen at lhe factory. The United Slates Patent Ojficc U protected by my Roda. having been aeluciadfrum aU uthera lu uae a» ttte bent and moat reliable, l^jneidenug tbn character and poalUnn of the men wbo have cliarge of thai inolua- tioo, nt? higher testimony could ba deairud. Perhons residing at a dtMauce ahoald bo oa their guard againat a class of awiudlera wbo by false reprj- Bfntatloas of every deacripUoa, aeek tu miislead the purchaaer. Where my Ageota are not peraoaally kuown aa such, the only aafe plan la to apply, hy leiter or otherwlee, at tha Factory. XS'Weather Vanet, Cardinal Foinls, Spire Bods, and All KAoasr of Scroll and Fancy Ii on Work, lo ouit aU cbaraclois of Architeciure, gut up iu tbe utateat and muat darable manner, ai tbu lutreat euat prices. TH03IAS AKMITAGE, Uagnettc Lightning Rod and Weather Vane Kactury, No 12U6 VINE Street, abovo TweUth, PUILADELPUIA. march HO 3m-18 New Fancy" Goods Store, and Brnsh Manufactory. H. DIXON, 23 South Eighth gtreet, Philadelphia. HAS on haud autl issulUugatvery low prices, a complete a^!>oriueDiu[ Brnabea,combs, Tuiiet Articles, Pariau, Terre Cola and GbluaUraameala. 'i raveling Bagt>, Puraea, I'urtMunualea.btureubCupeaaod Viewa, Paria, Sitratuga aod other Fancy Fann, Sun Um- brelloH and Paranoia, Uead Ornamenia, Ualr Neu, Beads, kc, kc N. B. PEACOCK FEATHERSbeughtormadelato Fly 'Bruahea ur Fana, al the Factory, 2.11 North tSeuuud at. June 1 3m-27 PROTECTION POR Fruit & Ornamental Trees Irom Worms. Foster's Patent Tree Protector, wtiich has ubtaiued lhe Premium;^ at -Vassacbusetiaand New York AgricalturalFairs. rpUK ATTJiNTlON of all those having I FRUIT or ORNAMENTAL TKEES ie called to thia ariicle, fur tbe prutecllun of Treea from the ravagea of Canker and other worms which have become uo de- stractlve. It ia jimpte, eaaily applied to the ludy of the Tree. durable nod dieap. and the only sure reiaidy against the Canker Worm and other insecta. It ia In fact one of tboae simple, practical thingi, which readily commenda Itaelf tu the cummun ttanae aod jadgment of every ooe; aod the ueed of aumething lo aavo thu fruit is knowa tu all. Ilia now in uau la dlfTorenl sectiona of the country with the most perfect Hucceiia, , , We refer to tbe foUowing genUemen who have ased theae protaclora. R. F. Kaley, Esq.. .No. 42 S. Third St. Obo. H. Bokbb. Eoq., cor. I'Jth and Walnut fit. G H HoBi.N'tirr. Uq., 1619 Arcb Sl. E. A. WoouwABD E-q., 1327 Arch St, Oeo. B. CuLLlEU, Esq , 162A Aich SU Aaa FiTCU, New York, State Etymologist. Tbe anderaigned ara prepared to Iniolab the Protsc- tor» la any quantity. Any one remitting na onedollar wlU receive asample Prui«ctor, with a clrcalar contalrlng fall partlcalars and lastructioa as to Ua appUcation. Addreas W. P. DENSLOW a CO., j-ole Proprietors, No.-1:19 Cheatnut Street, (-^ Floor.) Ph-.ladolphla. Pa. AGENTS WANTED lo every Towa and i;oaat7. to wblch Uberal Inducumeata »re ofi'ered. TOWN AND COUNTY RIGHTS FOB SALB. Jnne l^ 4t-27 JAMES MITTON, TEA DKALEK,. 1U8 South Se-^ss COND Street, below Chestnot. and. 831<i^ KaOB Street, abova Eighth, PHILADSLPBIA,0 keepa a choice eelocUoa of Uie very Aaeet TKAS^j and COFFEES Imported. Having befln engaged for manyyaara Ui tbs T«a basinesa, bia b^tln for par¬ chaalng in tba best markets, prioelpallj Stw York, an- ables him to ^T« tba foUeat tatUfluttoo.
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Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Masthead | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Volume | 33 |
Issue | 29 |
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Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Masthead | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Volume | 33 |
Issue | 29 |
Subject | Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County |
Description | The Lancaster Examiner and Herald was published weekly in Lancaster, Pa., during the middle years of the nineteenth century. By digitizing the years 1834-1872, patrons are provided with a view of politics and events of this tumultuous period from a liberal political slant, providing balance to the more conservative perspective of the Intelligencer-Journal, which was recently digitized by Penn State. |
Publisher | Hamersly & Richards |
Place of Publication | Lancaster, Pa. |
Date | 1859-06-15 |
Location Covered | Lancaster County (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
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YOL. xx^ni.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDT^ESDAY, JUKE 15, 1859.
NO. 29.
J. A. HIESTANB, J. p. HUBBR, F. HECKERT
CnSBS THB VtBM OP
JNO. A, HIESTAND & CO.
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LAUGH OH.
Why ehoald nollea clooda of sadoess
Frown upon thy yootbtal face T Wby, when Summer's joy and gladcess,
Smiles and breathns in every place ? Time eoongb lor i^oba and Klgblni;,
Wh^n Uf/a pleaanri>^ nil are gime, Bnl whlln tbiiae r^msin uodying,
Natar«*a cry Is, laogh, laugh oo!
Wby shoald timid hearts »-iaad hlosbing,
Foariug.lingeriug oo tbe plain? While Ihe merry streams are guablng.
Dancing lu Ibttlr goal again; Titne enough lo fear Ufe'a troubles,
Wheu nulrieuded aud alone: Bot wbeu trial-s ire bm bobbles.
Let 'brm paM, and atill laugh on!
Wliy tboee down-cast eyes, despairing,
Wilberingcare and cbilliog looks? Whilu ihf Iilly blKouiK nnceaxiog.
bmilioi: by {h>- Inugbing bn'ok"; Timo enonirh to f.-ar Ibf wriugloK',
Stirniw Lrinpf in dreary tonx: Bui whilf) Snniiiier blrJs are f-ioglnf;.
All their l.lu^¦,c fay-, luugbou!
Why dr-'pond wb "WHlIinit,
BnratlDp every beait-f«lt Ue: LiF-teulug t:tiirs your fear* nro Mlitig,
Wafting them beyond the ¦'ky; Tex not then ihy hej»rl with borrow,
Sigb not thou iu mournful tone; Think nm uf thf coming ranrrcfw.
WbUe yon lire I i-ay, taugb on I
LOVE'S L ABOU LOST.
**He loves ni*4—he lovea me not—he loves me!" Very jiretty is <.he scene where Mar¬ garet consaits the fates by ancli botannmaiicy. Leaf aftrr leaf of the flower fails Fauat bends over the inuocent littlo head, and watches the eager finder.-, and listens wouderini^ly to the scarce altered word:^. Then the last leaf aud the burst of wild delight, '* He loves me I'J "Yes, yea, my lore," says Faust; "he loves thee I He lores ihee !"
,_In thia case, however, Faost waa nol pre¬ sent. Margaret sat on the smooth lawn of a trim garden, under a gre.at elm tree—in the cool shade, while all else qnivered iu heat and light. Margaret pulled her flower to pieces deliberately enough. Her little white hands were methodical aod steady. She beat time with a mouse of a foot as each petal fell. No burst of rapture .a^ she plucked th e lasl from tbe stalk. Perhaps the uouulusiim was negative, uo affirmative ; so she threw the stalk away, too. The answer of the fates she consulted was clearly unsatisfactory— ambiguous, doubtless, a^i snch answers are wont to be—thereforo she took another flower from her lap, aud tried agaiu. Still an am¬ biguous answer. She pulled to pieces another and auother, until the grass round her was covered with the debris. A gust of wind from the hot easl camo and scattered the flower-fragments far and wide, Uke Sibyliue leaves. Ouly tbe stalks remained; and at these the mouse-foot nibbled, giving them little petulant kicks and stamps; drawing them nearer, pushing them away, then de Belting tliem wholly and retiring out of sight. Such sort of botanomanoy, it was manifest, was of little avail. Our Margaret had a hrtrder question wherewith to pose the fates thau " Does he love me F" She could answer that herself, heing wiser in her generation than a lover-sick peasant girl.
"When ayoung lady has ascertained, not only that he loves her, hnt that a dozen he^s love her, a much more diffcult question arises, namely—" Whom shall I love ?" or, rather " Whom shall I marry ?" Julia discusses this question with her soubrette Lucetta ; Portia withhersoubretteXerissn. The young lady under the elm tree was more discreet; she confiued the services of her maid to hair- dressing, and revolved such matters in her own Uttle head—a wise and cool btad, not muoh plagued by heart-throbblings. She ceased to pull flowers to pieces, and began to slip a tiny ring up and down a tiny finger, (The ring was "a peck too wide.") Dactylo- mancy might aucceed where botanomancy failed.
A young mau camo rapidly across the lawn and stood before her.
"Oh, how you have frightened me!" she said, in the calmest manner. " Will you sit down ?" Sho made room beside her. " What a hot day f"
He sat down silent for fully a minute. His voice died in his throat, trembled, and strug¬ gled, and choked. His eyes were wild and moift:—a foolish young man.
"Margaret," he cried at length, "for God's sake tell me if what I hear is true 1 Is it really true—0 my God!—ia it really true
that you are—that you are^ "
"What ?'* she interrupted, in innocent sur¬ prise, " What have you heard ?"
" That—that—it is a lie, I know it is—^you are engage to be married to Mr. Bowring !"
She was silent. Uer eyelids dropped.— The foot nearest to him came out, and began to beat tlie devil's tattoo close to h=s foot One hand glided over the other, and hid the ring with which she had been playing.
"Do yon think that is a prop r question for you to ask?" she satd, mildly. "Ought I to answer it ?"'
" It is true, then ?" he cried, p?.5sionately. "You hare deceived ti:e ! You hive played wilh me ?"
This and much more. Then there was a lull in the storm, aud his moud changed.
'*0h, forgive me, Margaret, forgive me! I am mad, and du not know-what I say.— Perhaps it is not true. You said it waa uot ? Tell me—ouly one word—yea or no. Oh, darling, we have known each other so long— we are snch old friends—let me know the worst, audi will go aud never see you ag.iin." She did not lift her eyelids. Iler fool slill beat its regular tap close to his. He could feel the vibration. She neither resented his reproaches nor compassionated bia hnmility. *'Do yon think it ia a proper qnestion for you to ask?"' she repeated in precisely lhe same tone.
There was another storm of passion from him; reproaches ungentle and unwise—accu¬ sations, sarcasms and denunciations. He spoke of Mr. Dowring's age ; that he was old enough to he her father ; that it was impossi¬ ble she could love him.
"The excess of age would be on the right side," she said, raising her eyea to his for a moment. "You wonld not have the wife older than the husband 1"
He (the young man now tearing a passion
to tatters) wasyounger than she by two years.
" You never referred to my youth beforp,"
he said, with a bitter langh, " it did uol suit
yonr purpose."
She smiled faintly. It had not suited her pnrpose.
He descanted, much after the fashion of the soliloquizer in " Lockleys-hall," on Mr. Bow- ring's greenness of intell«ct:
••Ib It well to wish thoe happy ?_havlng known me—
to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than
Tet It ahaU be: tboa Bhalt lower to bis level dav bv day, ¦ ' '
Wbat Is floe wilhln tbee growing coarse to fiymnathlza ¦with clay."
"I never pretended to be clever," she re¬ plied, with a shrug of her pretty shoulders. " Yon, who are so clever yoturself, must have despised me long ago."
He got up and stood before her. Standing ia the hot son, ho oast a cooler ehade over tl^
lady. Her feet followed his, and BtlU vibra¬ ted oQ tbe grass in closest proximitj.
" You cannot love this man," he said ; *' it is impossible. Oh, Margaret, yon oannot mean to sell yourself, for money; your beauty— yonr beauty—Oh, it ^rivea me mad I—to sell your soul; to contaminate yonr purity; to barter your flesh and blood; to put a price
upon yonr kisses "
" You forget you are speaking to a lady," she interrupted, in a lone more soothing tban angry, " You will thiuk more wisely on theae matters when you are older. Love in a cot¬ tage reads very pretty in yonr poets, but this worhi is sadly practical."
Both were ailent. Margaret suppressed a yawn, " How is your father ?" she asked af¬ ter a time, willing lo change >be conversatiou. He had been thinking; recalling all the past—remenihering many a love-passage known only to him and her.
"Margaret," he said at last, not noticing her question, "either you have lied to me deliberately for years, oryou love me. Either you have not the seuse of modest sbame, or yon love me. You do love me," hn broke out more passionately, *' you do love me." Again she shrugged her shoulders. " I have always had a great regard for you as a friend—I shall always have a great regard for you. I hops we shall always he frieuds." "Friends!" he cried, langhiug. "You had better sit down," she said. "The eun must be very hot."
Love conversations-where they are in the way of billing and coming or of peeking ami claw- iug—are stupid. Robert Seaton (the Faust to our Margaret) continued to riug the same changes as before, love and anger, jealousy and trust, pride and humility alternated.— Now he begged for a definite answer to his firat question ; now he took for granied that the engagemeut was a fact; now that it was not so. He referred to the past—he prophe¬ sied of the future. He exaggerated the past hy reasou of his vivid remembrances, aud tbe fnture hv reason pf his vivid hopes and fears. Meanwhile, Margaret remained calm and im¬ passive.
Somelimes we see young ladies of forty wbo bave the hearts and beads of twenty.— Margaret at twenty-two had the heart and head of forty. She was warm blooded, cold hearted. Her cool, clear reason would have had a sinecure if its sole office had beeu to overruM the heart indiuatious. It had other work to do. She was a consnmate coquette, and, as with all coquettes, her temperament was ardent. She had a boundless appeiite for passionate admiration. Like Cleopatra in the mood, she said to every mau, "Come here that I may look ou thee." This instinctive pleasure, primarily natural, was wisely gov¬ erned by her reason. She knew bow far, to what extreme limit, she might indulge this pleasure. She knew how to systematize this natural iuatiuct into au art, and to make it a means towards aivautageoua ends. She had what is called a good temper—a supremely good temper; ao good, in her case, that it ceased to be temper at all. The irascible waa undeveloped iu her disposition. As she had not the power of love, so neither had she that of anger. What rudiments of a heart she possessed were inclined towards Seaton. She took herself to task for acknowledging a vague regret that circumstances prevented her from marrying bim. "If Bowring," she thought, "had not fallen in love with me, the other would not have been so bad a match." And theu, according to the promptings of her conveational religion, she chided herself for being ungrateful to Providence for the bene¬ fits which it threw in her way.
Even now, while she listened to the violent, the unmanly reproaches of Seaton, she expe¬ rienced from tbem a sort of pleasure. "How mnch he loves me !" she thought, wondering¬ ly. The storm of bis passion was a mystery to her. She could comprehend a momentary tumult of the hlood when eye met eye or hand pressed hand ; but such anguish of the heart was like a tragic scene spoken before her in an unknown tongue. Her limited im¬ agination tried to realize what it all meant; how such things could be; and she drew what feeble sketch it wjis possible for her to draw.
Of a surety, in our owu eyes is wbat we see ; iu our own fancy are the objects which we love or hate. It was not for the man who stood hefore her that Margaret felt her feeble preference ; it waa nol this verititble Margaret whom Beaton loved. Even apart from hia passion, he looked upon this dreaded union as it were au union between a Caliban and a Mirandi—something loathsome and unnatur¬ al, which would people the whole earth with monstrous shapes; whereas Margaret was no Mirandi, nor Bowring a Caliban. Bowring— an honest countryman of good blood, great fortune, had taste, and small wit—deserved a far belter wife than Margaret. He was a man having much more self-command and com¬ mon sense than the would be Ferdinand.— How many a comedy, or tragedy, farce of Er¬ rors enacts itself daily 1
Robert Seaton was by natnre too sensitive ; and he bad not lived loug enongh to discover and to guard against this super-sensitive¬ ness. He was jealous—as all sensitive men are in love-matters. He wonld long ago have wearied out any temper but that of Margaret. He S.1W with the eyes of a Leontes, and detec¬ ted "paddling palms and pinching fingers" where none such were. Iu like manner he over-estimated any trifling love favors grant¬ ed to himself. Margaret, however, it must be confessed, had giveu him safficient cause for both jealouijy and self-deception'. There had never heen any engagement hetween them. Sealon was dependent on his father, and, though an only son, had no great expec¬ tations. Margaret had carefully avoided bringing mattera to a crisis. There was plenty of lime—she was but twenty-two : he was only twenty. She had valued her bean¬ ty at a fair price, and knew tbat it wns worth more than Seaton could *give for it. Even supposing no belter suitor ofl'ered, he was not yet sufficiently settled in the world to marry; and there conld be no nse in bindiug herself to him too soon. She was not afraid ofhia escaping her.
The skilful UTjgler plays with his fi.^h with no uncertainty of lauding it at Ust. While Margarel felt herself perfeclly free, Robert felt thai they were bound lo each other by a tacit engagemeut. This view of Roberfa Margar»it knew; hut of course she could not help wbat he cliose lo think. Tuns while she accepted all hia devotion of passionate lore .13 mere gallantry, he believed that by her very acceptance, by the evident pleasnre she had in receiving this devotion, she ac¬ knowledged a love in retnrn. It was in his eyes an honorable compact between them, which he would as aoou have broken himself as have thought that sbe could br |
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