Lancaster Examiner and Herald

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VOLXLIY.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1870.
NO. 46.
£XAinilirER A:  HERATiO.
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TERIM-83.00 A TEAR IN ADVANCE.
JOHN A. HIESTAND & E. M. KLINE, -Editors tmtl-ProprletOTSo      '   '
tWritten for the Examiner & Herald. SONGS OF FIFTT YEAES AGO.
NO. Ill-—THE OOLDEN   WILLOW TIIKl-:.
"Fond memory brings the light of other doys around me."
There was a ship in tho Norlh country. Sing O, the low lands low down low, Thero waa n ship in tlie North country, That went by tho name of lho Oolden ]\ U- lon- free, ,     ,   ,
Asshosniletlintlielow hniris low, low,
As sho soiled in tho low lantls low down low. And another ship in the South counlry, Sing O, the low lands low down low, And another ship inthe Soulh conntrj-, That went by the nimo of tho Turkish O'o- Icc, As .sho sailea in tho low hinds low, low,
low, .tVs sho sailed in tho low lands low down low.
Then spolce tho captain of tho "Uoldon Willow Tree,'' Sing t>, the low lands low down low. Then spoko tho captain   c)f  the   tJolden
Willow Tree, " Ts any seamen hero, who will .sink tbe Go-Ice? As she's puilins in Ihc low lands low,
low, low. As .she's sjiilinjr in tho low lands low- down low."
Upsteppcd the c;ibin-hoy ; *'»>, Captain," suid be. Sine O, the low lands low down low. Up stepped Ilie cabin-boy; "i\ Caplain,
.said he, What, wiil you '^livo to n Htllo hoy like mo If I .sink her in liie h»w Iiinds low, low,
low, Tt" T sink her in Ihe low lands Uvr down low?" Then replies the ruptuin to the cubin-bo\',
Sing O, the low hinds low down low, TlH'n'replied the caplain lo lho enbin-boy. " If you sink her, you yonr frci'dnm shall enjov, .¦\s siie'.s sriiliiig in  the l.»w hmd.s low,
low, low. As she's .siiiMui: in the low lands low down low." Tlds hoy tookan auirpr and -iwuy swum
Sing O, the low hinds low down low, Tliis hov took IMi anger und nway swiun
"he. And into hor botlom ho bored holes tliree, And lie sunk hor in tho low landa low,
low, low. And he sunk her in tho low lands low down low..
Awav swam this bravo boy, awa^' .swam
*^    he.
Sing O, the low lands low down low,
Awav swum Ihis bravo bov, away swain
~    he, ¦ '
'TJU hi' I'uine agniti (t> the Colden Willow
WYBEOWE'S WHL.
As she soiled 1
low. As she sailed i
low.
I Ihe low lands lovr, low, lho low hinds low down
'• O, captain, (J, t.'apluiu, coiiie U\\ni me
on board. .Sing O, the low hinds Inw down low, a, C:>|»lain, O, C:iptuin, eomo take mo on
board, Or else. I am sun', ynn'U forfeit your word, For I've Slink her in tho low lumls low,
low, low. For Tve sunk her in Ihe low lands low, down low," " O, no," .said the Caploin, "1*11 noi tnko vou on board. Sing O, the low lands low down low, "O, no,'* snid Ihe Cuptiun,'* i'H not lako
von on board, Since yon are "sure*' I'll forfeit my word ! r.ut'rn sink you in tho low hinds low,
low, low;'' And ho sunk him in l!io low lands low- down low.
We never ean forget our youthful sympatbies/OJ-this imagiuary " Cabin- boy," nor our boyish indignation against tbe jeaIou.sy and treachery of this im.iginary captain. Indeed, wc thought the whole thing, was real, no matter how improbable or impossi¬ ble it may have appeared to others. We are, perhaps, too much—too much af¬ fected by such unsubstantialities, eveu now, for often when we read a tale, we find it diincult, for the time beiug, to separate fiction from fact. Indeed, our experience has convinced .us on mauy occasious, tbat much in this life, wbicli passes current for fact, is, after all, tbe merest fid ion. How much of the out¬ ward piety, honesty, decency aud friendship of this world is only a su¬ perficial yicf?OH, will, perhaps, never be kuown, until the seal is broken, and the " books are opeued," in . another world.
This song fifty years ago, was very popular among the boys, for the plastic mind of boyhood is peculiarly suscepti¬ ble to the influeuces which such com¬ positions convey, uo matter how simp¬ ly the tale is tohl. True, there is not much substance in the song itself, anri tbat little is enveloped in a mullitude of choral repetitions, but this w.is tbe fashion of the day, aud much of the popular singing of tlie present time, partake.=5 largely of this character, and especially the "Ethiopian minstrelsy." It i.s much like some of the rhapsodical erabellisbmeuls executed on tbe piano¬ forte—amid a seeming confusion of sounds, we can still detect the beautiful evolutions of a simiile and familiar air. Tbrough all theso rejietitions we can .see, tluit one sea captain, jealous of the rivalry of anotlier, inferentlally oflered n bribe to havo that otber destoycd; and after his desire was accomplished— aud jealous of tbe instrument tlirough which itwas afieeted—he treacherously and penuriously '* went back" on his plighted word,'for all tbe world like many meu and women in the sphere of rcalifieji now.
It would be dinicult for us to .say pre¬ cisely, of whom, and when, or where, we learued the song. Ijiko " Topsey," ¦who "spected datshe ueverwar born," HO, itseems to us, that we never learned but always knnr .'I. It was one of those songs too, tli.it every onefeltprivileged In alter or trauspoi-e lo .*^uit himself. We aro by no moans ceriain Ibat we Jiave «//of the song here, or havo it exactly in the words of the original. V/e no doiibt have enough of it hnw- <*vor, to illustrate tbe "drift of it." ;Morcover, it coinos up lo the standard we have erecl(,'d iu tbis series of papers, nnd by which .^^ong.^ nro voted in or out, namely: thatwhich hasnot been print¬ ed, to'our kuowledge, before, and of which wo know and still retain theair. A word as to the i3o&'s/7y/7/7/Vs- of the lead¬ ing features of the song, and especially the idea of a little boy .swimming loa ship under sail, and lioring three auger holes in her bottom and lhu.g sinking her; but this is not as improbable as tbat the "cow" should "jump over the moon," or a "table run afieradisb, aud a dish after a spoon." Notwilh- staudiug, in modern times, it. isab.so- lutely asserted as u fad, that tables do occasionally "cut up pranks" of that kind. Perhaps there are few, who were conversant with the songsof fifty years ago, who could uot listen to tbem with .some of tho "old-time delight," and to whom the air would not be a pleasure. AVe are sometimes surprised to Iind the exceedingly local knowledge of these old songs. We have often " hum¬ med "this old song to persons whom we were sure had a knowledge ofit, nud yet we fouud them eutirely igno¬ rant of anything relating to it, but in turu, they would repeat parts of songs of their owu knowing, which we had never heard before. Cau it be possible that these songs may have originated in the localities where we first learned them, and we be ignorant of their au¬ thors? Slany of these old sougs were doubtless brought <jver by emigrants from Eugland and Ireland.'or Scotland, aud as they were very local there, this characteristic would likely be contin¬ ued, and confiued to the districta in which tho-se emigrants settled iu tbis couutry. K they were illiterate, these songs would likely bo transmitted to their posterity orally, and from this cause, the Golden ]yilloiv Tree, may never have been written before.
GHA^¦Tl:I.n:.s.
He that can only be useful ou great occasions may die without exerting his abilities, and stand a helpless spectator of a thousaud vexatious which fret away happiness, and which nothing is required to remove but a little dexterity of conduct aud readiness of expedients.
The fireside is a school of infinite importance; itis important because it is universal, and because tho education it bestows, being woven in with the ¦woof of childhood, gives form and color to the whole texture of life.
On my way down to a garden party at Fulham one fine afternoon, with my friend Charley Twlstleton.Iheardthe following story of a lady concerning whom everybody Avas just then talk¬ ing, :   I '  L---   •    .   wi;;; •     :  »  ¦
•¦ -Wybn>we,Brssilian mU lionai re, se tat, seventy or thereabouts, marries Helen Chetwynd, impecunious belle.ffitatnine- teen, daughter of a British diplomat in those parts; and, after two'years of connubial felicity, considerately dies. Wybrowe is as jealous as a Spaniard. and his jealousy looks beyond his own life. This cunningly contrived docu¬ ment provides tbat tbis widow, then just twenty-one, shall receive and en¬ joy an income of £15,000 per annum so long—and only so long—as she shall remain unmarried. That if she does marry again, she shall receive abso¬ lutely nothing—the entire estate ofthe deceased passing to two distant rela- i tives, believed to be living iu obscure property in London.
Now comes tbe most curious part of thestory-
A good manj' men besides old Wy¬ browe went mad about la belle Helen out in Brazil; notably a man who was thought to be uearly as rich as Cra-sus —a half Spaniard, a half Englishman, hy name Alvarez Smith. This hybrid was said to have the temper of a fiend, the face of a baboon, aud the complex¬ ion of a Jaundice patieut. Tbo frantic vehemence with whieh, when at last he did speak, Smith pleaded his case to her, uearly frightened Miss Cbetwyud iuto hysterics; the malignant black scowl tbat twisted his ugly face till it grew absolutely awful iu its hideous- ue.ss wiien she unconditionally declin¬ ed his proposals, aud shrank away from him, haunted her sleep for many a uight afterward.
Alvarez Smith went away and thought out his vengeance. This is how he took it, after waiting patientlj' for three years.
JOuring Wybiowe\s lifetime be kept quiet, and mado no sign. When the old man was dead, Smith broke in up¬ on the widow and with full knowledge of the provisions of Wybrowe's will, renewetl bis former propositions. They were rejected again—this time with fhe addition of certain words that Helen Wybrowe would have been moro pru¬ dent not to have spoken to such a mau.
The same steamer that brought the widow home to England bad among its passengers Alvarez Smitli. He nev¬ er ouce spoke to her, or molested her iu auy way during the voyage; but his hungry black eyes would rest upon her iu a way tbat frightened her in sjiite of herself.
Those eyes watched her iuto the rail¬ way carriage at Southampton; met ber .13 she got out on the jilatform at "Waterloo; and again, as the doors of her sister's house iu Park lane closed upou her. Every timesbowentabroad she met them; sleeping aud wakiug, Alvarez Smith haunted her. It was intolerable; but what eould .she do'? She left town; lie followed her. She -shut her,seir up iu the house for days; aud tbotiist person she met wbou,"b3' day or night, she came out again was— —Smith ; always Alvarez Smith. Mrs. Wybrowe grew nervous and ill under this implacable persecution, which it WJUS impos-sible to pnt an end to. And the worst of it was that she felt lier I)ersecutor was gaining a certain power over her; that those terrible eyes of his fascinated herlikeabasilisk's. She ever avoided mentioning this feeling to Lady Oswestry, her sister, but she couldn't help confessing it to herself.
A few weeks after her arrival in London, old Wybrowe's lawyer com- mnuicated the following startling in¬ telligence. A person had bought up the reversionary interest of her hus¬ band's two distant relatives iu the in¬ come that bad been left her, subject to her remaining unmarried. Wybrowe's kinsmen, too poor to be troubled with many scruples, and considering that it was barely lihely a womau would give up lifteen thousand poundsayear when she could keep it on such ea-sy terms, had greedily accepted theofFerthat had beeu made thera ; had accordingly exe- ecuted tbe necessary legal documents; had reeeived a stipulated sum down, and bad emigrated to Australia.
The persou who had bought them out was, consequently, the person who would claim the heavy forfeit from Helen Wybrowe In tbe event of her marrying agisiii. And it was hardly needful to tell her that jierson's name. She guessed it instinctively-Alvarez Smith.
This, then, was ber postilion, she must either, at one and twenty, con¬ demn herself to a life long widowhood, or relinquish a magnilicent iucome to the man she detested. True, a court of law might, as her lawyer told her, set tbe win aside, and how could a woman petition such a court? Her woman's delicacy, at all events, rendered tbat outof the question in ber case. Again, there might be men wbo would think (and wbo would aflbrd to think) lightly of marrying a beggar, and among tbem tbero might be one whom .she could Jove. But, wise in her generation. jSIrs. Wybrowe built no castles in the air of this sort. She accepted the situ¬ alion telle qu'elle etait; shut lierself up no longer; ;\eut among her kind; encountered her basilisk with an im¬ passable visage, and tortured her tor¬ mentor by au ingeniously arranged consequence of flirtation with passed masters of the art.
If. I know it, in that moment when our eyes met. I knew tliat I, Francis Drasdyl, world worn, case hardened, poccoeur.tntic cynic of seven-and- twenty, was to love thia woman ; that I did love ber already.
Rather tall, gracefiil as Diaua in her statuesque summer draperies, a " Helen of the low arc'li brow. And amber Imlr, uud a dewy violet eye." a woman with a child's fiico stamped beforo its time with the mark of passion orof pain, a little thin anda little pa¬ ler than it should have been perhaps, but  withal   Iho stronger, .subtler,  at¬ traction for me that it was -so-this was iMrs.  AVybrowo's,  as  I saw  her that day.
1 don't remember what she and I t.ilked ahout when we were left alone, or how long we .sat under tho big beech.
I know sho epokc, and that every now and thon the great violet oyes turued slowly upon me; and, when sho was sileut.
" Filled wilh light Tbe Iniurvul of sound."
I was iu Elysium, and last tbe couut of tirae. A step, soft and cat-like, that neither of us heard, came down tbe walk. A dry branch crack under tbe cautious tread, ond then we botb look¬ ed up. A mau passed ns. I knew him instinctively. Tbe fleree black eyes, contracted in their wrath, which met mine in one brief, vindictive glare, could only beloug to one man.
That little, dark personage with the feeling tread, and the ugly, yellow pyb.siognomy, must needs be tbe horo of Charles Twislleton's-story, theman who had bought up the arbi'trameut of Helen AVybrowe's fate—Alvaraez Smith.
He never looked at her this time, only at me. I" wonder whether tbe m.in*s instinct told him, oven then that I loved her.
Afrs. Wybrowe rose, a liltle pale; the dark circle under her eyes more plainly visible, a sort of haunted look upon lier face that raade my pulse throb angrily. " Amy seems to have forgotten me," she .said ; " let us go and look fur her." We walked acrosa tho croquet lawn for a while silentlj'.
Theu she said, " Vou know that mau who passed just now?"
" I kuow him now," I answered ; "T never saw him before, and I only heard of his exiatence two hours ago." Her pale cheeks Hushed painfully. "Then you bavebeard?"— "Everything," I answered,stopping her.   " There is Lady Oswestry yond- der,"
JMrs, Wybrowe quickened her pace, and said nothing more lill she was safo uuder Amy Oswestry's wing agaiu. III. The season was over; London emp¬ tying fast, duns pressing, the heat in¬ tolerable, Howbeit I abode still in tbe Sahara of Burton street. Aunt Me¬ dusa has gonedown into Kentwith the Boodles, having extracted from me a
promise I only intended to keep If	
The " if " was in Park lane, Lady Oswetsry had not yet made ber move, hesitatinc betweeu Buxton and Lind- enbad; aud I was watehing the turn of the scale. For with Lady Owestry would po Helen Wybrowe. And where Helen Wybrowe went I meant to fol¬ low, I bad not spoken yet, though nearly a month had passed elnce that
day at Fulham, I bad marked with a white rose. She had hardly glveu me a chance. And yet she knew, who knew moas X was, that I loved her— had loved her from the very moment our eyes met for the first time. And I knew my strange, willful passionate darling—my Helen,Who was like no other—I knew she loved me with the one love of her Ilfe. Only between ber loving me and rae winniug her, there was much. Nevertheless, the mask we both wore, before each other as before otbers, was getting to htiiling to be worn much longer. It feil from both of us at last.
I had been sitting wMth her in Lady Oswestry's moruing room, under the shelter of the sunshades, among the flowers, one day for uearly an hour.— My Lady was. Heaven knows where; and we had been alone all the lime. Commonplace had languished and died. There had beeu a silence, which those heavy, violet eyes filled divinely enough, but which both of us knew inu.st be broken ; and only iu oue way.
I looked up iuto her face in its pas¬ sionate pallor, in her trembling lips I read what made me take her swiftly in my arms; and then the silence was broken by the sweet sound of her own name—" Helen!"
She shivered, as she had shivered in tbat valse, only, this time not with fear. And her head, with its diadem of am¬ ber hair, sauk down upon my breast; and I bent mine until my lips touched hers, and clung to them. I had won her! jS'ot yet.
The next momeut she had freed her¬ self.
" Ob, why have you done tbis?" she sobbed, wailed almost.
" Why? Because I love you, Hel^pu. Because you love me. And because you and I know this is so."
" Yes," she murmuretl; "yes; you love me. I knew that. I knew it tbat day at Fulham, As uo oue ever has loved—ever will love me.   I know that.
"And you love me, Helen. You know that, too."
" Yes, I loveyou!" she cried, passion- ately^,   "Iknow tbat, too."
*'And yetyou ask me—" Ibegan, .so far oil* my head aa to bo going to argue with her,
"Because this .should never have beeu. All between us must end here and now,"
"In Heaven's name, why?" I broke in rather mad with this piece of femi¬ nine cruelty.   " AVhy must it?"
"Frank," she said, coolly now; "Frank, this is folly. Y'ou know my story. You cannot marry a beggar asl shall he,"
"!Xoryou, a ce du'il parait."
"Selflsh and cruel!'*
Even at that moment I couldn't but admire tbat truly feminine retort.
She wenton.
"I? Am I thinkiugof nivseif? And yet this is my fault. J knew what has hajipened must happen. Yes, it Is I wbo have been selfish. I knew it; and I ought— But—oh! Frank, I kuew you lovod me; and my loveless life seemed so bitter—so bitter!   And-"
And here she broke down sobbing.
My willful, pa.ssionate darling. She was trying to persuade herself that she was acting nobly ami di.siuterestedlv ; and being nowa^'s fitted for such self- martyrdom, was failing signally. She ought to have nipped this love of mine sharply iu tbe "bud, but lacked the will. Aud uow she was tryiug to sacrilice it and her own love oil the shrine of duty —now wheu she was my own, wheii she bad rested her head upou my breast, when she had given her lips lo mine,
I didn't repeat the folly of attempt¬ ing to argue with her. lier hand was strongenough a:>aiustineasitwaswith- out such strengthening. I didn't take her in my arms' agaiu and stifle her feeble special pleadiug with kisses.
I let her say ber say. And then, wheu she had suuk backjinlo the low, deep fauteuil, weak and trembling and defenseless again, I knelt beside her; aud. holding fast in mine tbe little soft while band I never meant to let go, I told how it must needs fare with me if she had her way. Aud I Was conquering what 1 knew all along- was my rights ; tbe words I looked to hear already trembling ou tbe lull lips that had growu meek tigaiu, when there was a rustle of woman's draperies; aud through the chiii-oscuro of the room, Lady Oswestry bore down upon ns.
Aud Helen rose, and before I could stay her, had fied awny swiftly upon ber feet, leaving me to face My Lady alone. The which I did as host I might.
For a while Lady Oaweslry looked grave antl judicial; then, by degrees, benignant, but mildly reproachful; when I took my leave, items arriinn-ed betweeu us that I sbould come to Park- laue tbe next day.
At a frightfully undue hour I drove the;e. A hansom had just pulled up at the door, the late occupant was speaking to tbe groom of the chambers iu the hall, I was just in time to hear tbe functionary's answer to the ques¬ tion put to him.
"Xo, air. My Lady and Mrs, Wy¬ browe left town for the coutineut last evening."
The otber swung rouud on his heel with a fierce cara.jo and again I stood faco to face with Alvarez Smith, the man with the evil face.
•      IV.
That night, some tweuty minutes past eight by the clock, my hansom, turning the Burton street corner ata sharp trot, was nearly cut over by another charging furiously down Bond street.
Thtj two drivers exchanged a broad¬ side of double-shotted blasphemies flogged tbeir horses clear of each other and started agaiu, the ufiending Jehii leadiug.
I was bound to Charing Cross, en route to Dover, Paris and Liudenbad, in the track of Lady Oswestry aud Helen AVybrowe, and, lu consequence of this dela3% only saved the SiV mail by about two seconds. Auother man however, ran it cIo.ser still. A man in a four line traveling robe, and apeuked cap pulled over his eyes, took a through ticket to Liudenbad after me, and fol¬ lowed me on to the plalform, balf a dozen yards behind.
I heard him burr.ving on after me justas the guard had opened the door of the empty carriage he caugbt me up and got in too. Tho door was slam¬ med, the whistle .'shrieked, and the Do¬ ver mail slarted.
I had dropped into oue corner- my companion rolled himself in the oppo¬ site one. I lit a cigar; eo did he* and we cleared Loudon, and had run a dozen miles dowu the line before I looked again at bim. I was thinking what Helen's sudden departure boded me; whether I was sure of winnin"- her, aflerall, and deep iu speculations of this sort, I had no eyes or though for anything else. "
Besides, thatshapeless travel iug robe, and tbat peaked cap th.it kept bis face iu au impeutrahle .shadow, would have puzzled me, eveu if I had a .suspicion as to who the man in the opposite cor¬ ner was. And in the preparations for my sudden departure I had forgotten all ahout him.
Sotbatit was not till he tore oflThis cap aud flung aside bis wrapper tbat I knew that Alvarez Smith and I were aJone together in that carriage of tbe Dover mail train; and thaF he was glaring at me with all the furious hate he felt for rae in his evil eyes T }^ }°?^f^.^i **''" tranquilly enough, I think, but I couldu'thelp feelingthat therecontre was by no means an l-ree- ablo one; that tbe express stopped nowhere between Londou and Dover and that Alvarez Smith was proba¬ bly as mad as any inmate of Hanwell
However, I am not easily put ofl' head, aud as I say, returned his glare with a tranquil starte, and went ou smokin-
Whether he had expected his melo¬ drama to produce more efi'ect, and was disappointed; whether my calmness irrauited him afresh, I don't know Certain as itis that he arose and came toward me with an oath.
It struck me forcibly that he M-as dangerous, and gradually slipped my baud into the inner breast pocket of my travelingjacket, and uufastend the loop which kept ft useful little revolver dc poche steady there.
There seemed likely to be a necessity, disagreeable but inij)erative for sboo't- mg Ihis mau before we got to Dover. And so happened tbat I felt in uo hu¬ mor to run any risk by the exercise of an unwise forbearance toward a mad brute like this, if it carae to fight.
It appeared, though, lliat he had something tosay before he began, for he seated himself exactly opposite to my and muttered hoarsely:
"So we are alone atlast; youaudl,"
"So it seems," I returned. I saw that, if he meant to have a row, he didn't feel quite up  to th© mark yet.
and wanted to talk himself into the necessary fury; so I thought I might venture to light another cigar, which I did, loosing my grip on tbe pistol but for a moment, but keeping my eye on my mau the while.
He actually gnashed his yellow teelh at me,. He looked so unuUerably bid* eons, and at the same time so intensely ludrlcious while he was doing it, tbat I laughed.
"Take care!" hescreamed,shivering with wrath. "You laugh now; let bim laugh that AVinsI CarctmOa, you have not won yet."
"No?" I Inquired, insolently.
"No!   curse you! you never .shall."
" Bah 1 you say so, my good mau?"
"You?" 1 sueeretl, rather eujoying his fury, and with no mind to spare him any stab I could give him, " You ! " You are madder thau I thought you were."
" Yen sliall uever bave her! Madre dc Diosl never."
" You're wrong.   I shall.
Hesmiled in a ghastly fashion with his while dry lips.
" No," he said, aud if his toue was calmer, it was twice as " dangerous " aud threatening now. "No! I shall keepmy oatb—beaureof that. Listen!" he wenton, afterapause, and with that same forced calmness; "frora the day I saw her first and each day more and more, I have loved her—this woman, who"—
"Who, from that same day, and each day more aud more, has loathed aud hated you," I struck in. " Well?"
By the light of the lamp above us I could see his yellow face turu the ashen hue of a dead man'a as that cruel taunt of mine hit home.
He covered his face with his hands, and muttered a faint dull moan, as though he bad in very deed got his death hurt.
The crisis was evidently approach¬ iug; the madman could hardly contain himself much longer. luauothermin- ute he might be at my throat; aud then, disagreeable as it might be, I sbould inevitably have to shoot him. Alvarez Smith was by no means the sort of person to stand on much ceremony with when the instincts he inherited from the Spanish creole of a mother of his were iu the ;\scendaut; and it was his life or mine, I be^an to think. I drew tho revolver quietly out of my pocket, and covereil bim from mykuee in anticipation of his rush.
"Now," he hisseil, " will you prom¬ ise never to marry this woman ?"
"I'll see you in Gehenna first!"
" You will uot?"
"Confouudyou. uo! Butl'llpromise you this," I added, as I saw him crouching like a jaguar for a spring at my throat, "that, madman or uo mad¬ man, if you lay a finger on me, I will shoot you in your tracka without furth¬ er warning."
Kaising iny right hand quickly, I covered Iiim fairly uow. My amiable companion dropped back into his seat with a hideous Spanish hlasphemy^, most unexpectedly luifiled and beaten.
"That's right," I said, considerably relieved to find tbat he wiis not so mad as to have lost all fear for himself, and put me under the painful necessity of winging him ; "of cour.ae you didu't expect me to be so well able to take care of myself; and I suppose you've only a knife; I dou't much think you will kill me to-night, after all, though we are alone, etc., as you were good enough to remind me just now."
" Oh !" he snarled, " I .shall kill you yet!"
"Idifler with you there. My own impression is that'you'U bein Hanwell or Cbarentou before loug. Meanwhile let me ndvi.se you not to try this again. Ifyou do, remember I've warned you."
He flung a curse at me, and turned away, rolled himself up in his cloak, and never moved ag.ain till the mail : ran iuto the Dover station. Then he rose suddenly, opeued tbe door aud sprang ou the platform, and disap- l)eared.
" And so he ran awav fi*oiii "^-^t ^1^1- en?"
It was some three or four hours afler my arrival iu Liudenbad. I had forced the consignee, carried Lady Oswestry's rooms iu the Bussia by slorra, utterly discomfitting the garrison by the sud¬ denness aud vigor of ray assault, inas¬ much that after a lirief, hopeless strug¬ gle, it surrendered at discretion. My darling had spoken the wortis that bound her life to mine forever.
Under tbe summer stars, in the hush ofthe summer uight, she and I were sitting 00 the balcony of tbeir room that overlooked the river and the pur¬ ple woods beyond; at lier feet, :is I loved best to sit, and watch the great violet eyes turn slowly ou rae, at her feet, with her band in mine again.
" And so you ran away from me, Helen ?"
"What elso could I do? I was so weak wilh you, Frauk, so weak against my love. Aud for your aake I felt it ought not be. So I rlin away. It was terrible work to get Amy to start that iiight, though ! She was horribly cruel to me; she fought for yon. How I loved her when she did! But I would go; and so wewent." .
"Aiid then you thought you were snfi'?''
"Safer. Away fromyoulwasstrong."
"Aud did you think yon would be out of my reach long ?"
She gave me a smile, delicious as a caress, then she said,:
" <2«i saitf I thought you would come, but uot so soon. Not till I should have lime to harden my heart. I know I was doing right, Frank. But I thought, too, that I might uever see you again. And then"—her face told me tbe rest.
"Eufante! What had you to do with it, right or wrong, if you loved me ? Y'ou were mine. How could yoii ever thiuk I should let you go? Let you go who havegiven me a new faith, new hope, new life—made life precious to me, now—how could I? Helen, my Helen, nothing can tako you from me now. Y'ou cannot take yourself from me."
From my anus, whereshe had nes¬ tled, ou a sudden sho started.
"There?" she whispered, pointing to the deserted ¦ river walk; "there! Did you not see him ?'
On her face, yet wot with happy tears, had come the haunted look once more; in her voice was the old fear, my arms and my love wero a'.tonL her. I knew what ba*d doue this; the aight of a man whom I Wa.<» begining to feel something of the hate tbat kills.
" I saw no one, you kuow. And if Alvarvz Smith wauts to do mo a mis¬ chief, why ou earth should be turu out nnd do melodrama iu the moonlight, threaten me with imagiuary dagger.s, nud that sort of thing, to pnt me on my guard?''
"J saw him stand there," and she poiuled again straight befor her.
" .-Vud bow was she dressed ?"
" 1 u a short cloak, it seemed. I saw him throw il back when he lifted his arm."
" And then lie disappeared—where?"
" Into the shadow of the trees."
That was perfectly possible. A couple of stride.4 wouhl lake oue out of sight, who had stood even in the center of the bread allee.
If Helen bad really seen Alvarez Smilh, he might be bidden in that sbadow even now. watching us. My blood begau to stir at this.
¦^      *      ft      «      *       ¦&       *
I bad been just a week in tbe Bad when this deuounemeut of this slory came out.
We bad gone up the river oue morn¬ ing in a " hen-coop," bad landed some three miles orso above Lindeubad, aiid strolled away, out of sight of the boat¬ man aloug the bank, down to which extended the low scrub aud brushwood of tho forest.
We sat down on a sort of litlle crag which overliung the river, aud from which Helen had tliscovered a view which she was doing her best to sketch under an orgauized series of interrup¬ tions from me. Lying thereat ber feet, watching her eyes, and drinking iu her voice, thinking of that new life she had given me, and that was precious lo me for ber sake, I waa terribly uear my death.
There was hardly a breath of air astir; aod yet, all at once, my pot hat. that was lilted ovor my eyes to keep ofl' the sun glare, rolled away lazily across the turf, dipped .so neatly and lightly that I hardly felt it off my hoad.
A sharp crack and a little puff of white smoke rising above a clump of brushwooii, explained this pheuome- non,
I saw at once what it meant. J was on my feet, and half way across to the cover which sheltered my would be as¬ sassin in a couple of bounds. Another bullet whizzed by my ear, and then I had sprung into the thicket, struck by one lucky blow a  smoking  revolver
from the ahaklnfif hands, and jflown at the throat of—Alvarez Smitu.
It was well I had lost DO time; he got no chance to tise his knife,
I heard Helen scream, arid then saw her fall lifeless on the turf where wo had b^en sitting; and then I was wrest- liug for dear life-with ajgaadman. He had no science, but he held me like a fiend. I cut him bflhls legs again and again ; hut he clung so desperately to me that I couldn't drop him. Each freah struggle brought me nearer and nearer the edge of the little crag. I guessed what he wanted to do, and put all my remaining strength into one fierce, desperate effort to fling him.
This time he went dowu, but my foot had slipped on the dry, short turf, aud he managed to pull me down npon him.
I felt his arms close around rae In a grip of steel as he twisted and writhed toward tbe edge, I heard hisyell of dia¬ bolical triumph iu my ears; I knew we must roll over; felt the earth slip away from me; felt the mad rush of air by me; felt a shock that seemed to stun me, aud then, locked in each other's arms, the water closed over us like a thick darkness.
He raust have atruck against some¬ lhing in the fall, and have heen stunn¬ ed or dead, when he reached the wa¬ ter.
Ina second I had wrenched myself free from that deadly grip, had risen to tho surface and was striking out for the bank. Ten minutes more aud I was kneeling beside Helen, slowly re¬ covering her cousciousness under the sympathizing care of a forestkeeper's wife.
The body of Alvarez Smith was pick¬ ed up next day. He had disguised himself so well whilo waiting his op¬ portunity to settle matters wilh me, as to have eluded detection by the Polizei- Aml, bnt I was able to swear unhesi¬ tatingly, to his identity, and did, with some pardonable satisfaction.
He is believed to have left no one to exact tbo forfeit from Helen Wybrowe when she marries me; and, sux)poso his bargain with the original claimants to bave been a lawful one, there is an end, you see.of " Wybrowe's Will. —London Society.
LEGAL   NOTICES.
EXECUTOU^S NOTICE.
Estate of Louisa Weidman, late ofEph¬ rala township, deceased. LETTERS testamentary on said eatate hav¬ ing heen granted to tbe nnder-slifued, all fiersons Indebted theretoaro reiinosted to make mmedlaie setllement, and iho.se having claims or demands iigaliifit the same, will pre¬ sent tbem forsetllement to the undoi'sl^ued, residing in said lownHhln,
DAVID MELLINGER, Executor. r. MARTtx HErrLKR, Atl'y.      ruugaiO'tlS
EXECITTORS> KOTICE.
Estate of Shaw Frew, late of Leacock lown.ship, deceased.
IETTER-gTestamenlnryon said est.itebav- jlng Iieen granted to tho undersigned, nil rier.sons Indebted I berel 11 aroretiuesled to niako mme<ilate payment, and tbose baving ebilms or deniaiuls against lbe .¦^ame will present tbem forsettlement to tho undenslgucd, r* siding In .said towuship.
.TACOB KREIDER. Exrrutor. J. R. T.iVTxr.STo.v, Atl'y. |sep 10<»*t 1:1
SHERIFF'S PROCLAMATION. SHERIFF'S PROCLAMATION.
ADMIXISTRATOR'S   NOTICE.
Estate of Jacoh Fritz, late of Eiust Don-
  egal township, deceased.
r ETTERH of adminl.sirallon on said e.state huving beeu granti.'dto lho undersigned,
all persons Indebted theretoaro requested to niafce Immediate payment, and tbose havlug claims or demands against tbesaine will pr«- senl thum without delay for selllenient lo tho undersigned, residing lu said townsbip. GEORGE LONG. Admiuistnitor. sep 17 <;*iii
AU.niNi.s-rRATOKs* not«;e.
Estate of Tbomas G. Henderson, late of Salisbury township, dec'd.
LETTEItS of administration ou said estate having been grauted to tbo undensigned, all person:* Indebted lo said donpdent aro re¬ quested to malco immediate setlleuient, and tliose baving claims or demauds agaiust tho same will presentthem for settlement lolho nndersigned, residing In .said township. SAMUEL J. HKNDERSON,
Salisbury* township, W. COLKMAN HENDERSON, IVquea 1*. O., Laueaster co., Adininislrulors. .sepl I lit -11
AI>mNISritATOR*N NOTICE.
Estate of Alary Leib, late of Manbeim township (widow), deceased.
LETTERS of admlulstration on said estate havingbeen ^ranted to the uudersigned, all persims Indebted thureto are requrstud to make Immedlato payment, and those having calms or demands against tbe smne will pre¬ sent Ibem for scttlemL'Ut to tbe undui'sigued, residing In Wjirwit-lc lownshlp;
JACOB L. STEHMAN, sepll GL 44 Admluistralor.
AOTIIN E.STRATORS* NOIICE.
Estate of John Becker, late  of West Cocalico twp., dec'd.
I'ETTEUS of administration on said csUte J having been granted lo tbe undersigned, all person*! indebted thereto are-requesled to make immediate paymeut, and those having claims or demandsagalnst thesame wiilpre> seut lhem for selllement to tno undersigned. HENKY BECKER, E. Cocalico, MARTIN DECKER, W. Coealico. sep 21 liH 45
AD:tEINISTRATOR'f« N<^TI<^E.
Estate of Amos Brooks, lateofOouoy towuship, deceased.
LETTKRS of admlulstration on said estntp havingbeen sranted to tho uudersigned. All persons luilcbtcd thereto, are requested to make settlemeut, and those having claims or demands ngninst the same, will present theni wliliouL delay for settlemeut to tbe under¬ signed, residlug In East Donegal township. JOHN ZIGLKR, Administrator. Kep 7 a*t-is
AOMINISTItATORS' NOTICE.
Estate of John NudiuR, late of Manor township, dec'd.
LETTERS of adniinlsiratiou,on said estate, havingbeen grauted tolbeundersigned.all persons indebted lliereto aro requested to make iinmediate settleinent,and thoso hav¬ ing claims or deni.andsagaln.st the sumo will preseut tbem for setilemt>nt to tho undersign¬ ed, residing In Miilersville.
ELIZABETH NUDING. CHRISTIAN II. KILLHEFKER, sepi;Jfi*t4^ Admlnlstntiors.
AD.HINlSTKATOR\S NOTICE.
Estate of Frederick  Carstons, lato of
West Hemptleld, townsbip,
dec'd.
LETTERSof ftdmiulslration on nald eslato baviug been grauU^tlto the undersigned, all ftersouHiudebtcuLheretoare requested to make mmediate payment, and tiiose baving claims ordeinauds against thesame will nresent thom for setllonieiitto tlio undersigned, residing in said towu:iblp.
ANN.Y C.\RSTONS. aug3_t0t421 Admlnlstratny.
¦ A»7IINmTRATOR.S' NOTICE.
Estate of Abraham Groff, late of Stras¬ burg township, deceased.
TETTKRS of administratiou on said estate i Having beeu granted lo the undersigned, all persous indebted thereto aro requested to make Immediate payment, aud those having claims or deniaudsaiiainst the same will pre- seuMbera without debiy for aolllement to tho uuilersigneil.                 EMANUEL GROFK, Stiasburg township, JACOB WITMER. aug"! lit-12 West L;iinpeter twp.
AOniNISTRVrORS* NOTK^E.
Estate of Maria Flowers, lato of Eplira¬ ta township, deceased,
r ETTEUS or admlul.stratlon ousald estate J having been granted totlie undersigned, all pcrsonsindftbtwl thereto nrerequested to make immedialescttlcmcnt, and tbose having claims or demandn against the .same, wl 11 pre- Rciitihem ivlihnntdolayforsettlement tothe undersigned residing In .said lownshlp.
A\'1LLIAM BKCilTKL. AclmiulhtratorofsulJ deceased. P. Maiitin Heitlku, Attorney. «u-i;i CM 11
TN   THE MATTER OF  THE   E.STATE   OF GKORGK GENSEMER, LATE OF LAN¬ CASTEK COUNTY, DECEAS»ED:
NOTICK Is hereby giveu, tbat Henry H.aller bas petitioned the Orphans* Court of Lancas¬ ter couuty for leave to pay S2rO.S2 (less expen¬ ses), the shares of two oftho boirs.  In lhc widow's third charged on pelltlouer's lands, into Courtand bavo his lnndsdlseharged from the lien, wblcb prayer the Courl gninted, and money ordered to be paid :i3 pi-ayed for. By the Court. Allrst:                           S. Ii. KAUPFJIAN, scp3J*t i-2) Dep. Clerk. O. C.
Lktitia Snisrp    1 br lier next friend "
DANIEL LeFEVK
:    vs. I
Isaac L. Suimp.   j
NOTICE.—ISAAC L. SHIMP:    You are hereby nollllerl and cummauded to be ami appear In your proper pehson, before our Jud¬ ges at Lancnslor,-at our Court of Common Plena, to bo held on MONDAY, the I7th day of OCTOBER, A. D. 1B70, at 10 o'clock, a. m., to show cuuse. If any vou have, why the said Letlibi Kbiiiip Khonld noc he divorced from the bonds of matrimony contracted with you. F. MYEtt^, Sherin: RborlfTs omcc, Lancaster, Sep. 13, IhTO. .sepU 4144
lend I'   allna Sub. for Divorce -¦Kit }•       orSep._Term, 1870.
No. 25.
ESTRAY WOTICE.
CAME t<i the premises of tho subscriber. In tho vilhige of BarevIIIe, Upper Leacock township, on Sunday. August 2Stb, ISTO, a RKDSTEER, wllb a white spot on bjKrtKWftW belly, nod a silt In his right ear. Tbej^Sf/* owner Is requi-sted lo cume forward^^I-j*>^ prove property, pay charges nnd take aim MWJiy; otherwise he will be disposed of au- conltng tolaw.
SAMUEL S. MYER-S, Darovillel', O. fiep21 _____^^__^     '^*t 45
REEU, HcGRAXN Oc CO., B.4.XIiXlCS,
EXECUTE orders promptly Ior the purchnse uud sulo of Government, Slate and Rail¬ road Bonds nnd Stock, of every description. AlHo, for Gold and Silver. .Sell drafta on Eug- lang, Ireland nnd the Conilnent. Receive deposits aubject to check and allow Intereat us frillows: For 1 month .4   per cent
" "   "    iW ::
" 12       " march 30 ,
...^K
Oal£-Tttniic«i liCalUcr Belting.
CALL or aend for Price List. JOS. K. BAUMAN, Cheslnut street. Near the Pennsylvania R. R. Depot. Jnly203mS8J LANCASTER, pX,
r-10D BATE   THE   COKTHOTB WEAKTII.
SHERIFF'S PROCLAMATION.
I, Frederick Myers, High SberllTof Lancas¬ ter county. Commonwealth of Pennsylvanla.do hereby make known and give uotice to the KLECTOR3 of the county aforesaid, that an elec¬ Uon will be heldln the said county of Lancas¬ ter, on
TUESDAY, THE llth day of OCTOBER. 1S70,
lor tbo purpose of electing tho several persons
hereinafter named, viz :
ONE PERSON duly qualified for Member of Congress.
FOUR PERSONS duly quaUQed for Members of Assemhly.
ONE PERSOr^ duly qualified for Recorder.
ONE PERSON duly q uallllcd for Couuly Com¬ missioner.
TWO PERSONS duly quallflod for Directors of tbe Poor.
TWO PERSONS duly (luulifled for Prison In¬ spectors.
ONE PERSON duly quallfled for County So¬ licitor.
TWO PERSONS duly quallfled for Jnry Com¬ missioners.
ONE PERSON duly quallfled for Auditor.
I also hereby malce known nnd give notice tlmt the place of holding the aforesaid election In tho several wards, boroughs, districts and townships wllhln thecouuty of Lancimter, are IUi follows, to wit;
1st DLstrlet—Composed ol tho Nine Wards of Lancaster City. The <iuulllled voters of the First Ward will hold their olection at tbe pub¬ lic house of Joseph Elder, In Wesl Orange st.; Second Ward, at the public house of Shirk & Korlng, In East King sireet; Third Ward, at the public bouse of G. W. ^[yers, iu East King Hi.; Fourth Ward, at the public houso ol Martin Krelder, In WcstlClngsU; Fifth Ward, at the public bouse ofJohu Dissinger,, West King st.; Hixth Ward, at the public iiouse of George Spong, In North Cincen street; Seventh Ward, at the public bouse of Jobu Wltlinger, lu Rockland .street; Eighlh Wurd, at tlio pub¬ lic houso of Samuel Erisman, in Strawberry street; Ninth Ward, at tho public houseof s. G. Gensemer, in North Q,ueen street.
•^dDlstrlct—Drumore lown-shlp, at tbe No. 2 scliool house In tho village of Chestnnt Level.
;id District—Borough of Elizabethtowii, atthe
fiubllc liousenowoccupicd by George W. Boyer, u said borough.
41h District—Earl townshlp.at the public ball Jn the villngeofNewHoIialHl.lilsaiiUownshlp.
5tli Districl—Elizabeth lowuship, atthe pub¬ lic, bouse now occupied by John Eugle, lu Brlckervllle, in sabl lownsbip.
Olh District-Borough of .sir.isbnrp, at the public house now occupied by Fred'k Myers, In said borough.
Tth District—Riipho township, including tho borough, of Mauheim, at the Washinglon House, ih said borough.
Sth District—Salisbury township, at the pub¬ lic house now occupied by John Mason, AV hite Horse tavern, in said township.
9th District—East Cocalico townsbip, at the public house now occupied by Henrj- Rboads, in tho village of Reamstown, in said townsbip.
IDth District—Being part of tbo township of East Donegal, at the public scbool house in tho village of JIavtown, in said lownship.
lltb District—Caernarvon townsbip, at tho public honse now occupied by H. M. sweigart, iu tho vilhigo of Chnrch town, In snld township.
l^tbDistrict^Mavtlc townshlp.at tho house nowoccupicd by D.M.Moore, in said town¬ ship.
llttliDlstrlct—Bart townslilp, at the public house lately occupied by John HoUis, in said towmshlp.
Utb District—Colerain townshiii, at the pub¬ lio house now occupied by Sam'l SV. Eckman, In said lowusblp,
151h Distrlctr-Fulton lownshlp, nt the public bouse now occupied by Martin Rohrer, in said lownship.
Itlth District—War\vlck township, at tbe pub¬ lic house now hccupled by Geo. T. Greider, lu thovlllairoof Lltlz, in said township.
17th District—Composed of tin.- Borough of Marietla and partof East Donegnl towiisbiii.aL llie public school hnuse In thobovough llI¦,^flirl- ctta. In said lownshlp.
ISth District—Columbia Borough: Ist Ward, at the publit: boose ol Joseph Ulairu; '2d Ward, atthe public houseof Mary Wngncr;od Ward, at the reslauruut of Valeuliuo Mack.
19th District—Sadsburj- townsbip, at thepub¬ lic house nowoccupicd by ls,aac AUirlgtit, In suid township.
20th District-Leacock townshiii, nt the public bouse now occupied by \Y. Dlair, In said townshiii.
21st District—Brecknock township, at the public hou.se now occupied by J. (.'. liShleman, lu suld township.
2Jd District—.MounI. .Toy-norougb. In the Council Ciiumber in lhc burougb of Mount Joy.
2:W DlsUict—Being part of East IIcmpdcM township, at the public house now occupied by H.S. Landis, in the village of Petersburg, in said township.
:jlth District—West Lampeler townsbip. at thepublic bouse nowoecupied byHeuryMlI- ler, lu the village of Lampeter .Square, lu said townslilp.
a^tb District—-Conestoga township, nt tbe public hnuse now occupied by John G.Prcls, in said towuship.
'2iiih District—Washlugtou Borough, at the upper .school bouse in the borougii oi Wasli-
IlliltOU.
27lh Districl—Ephrata township, at tbe pub¬ lic bonse now occupied by S. Slyer, in .said townsbip.
KtbDistrict—Coiioy township.nt thepublic scliool hou.soiii the village of Bainbrldge, iu said township.
iSItb District—Manhelm townsbip,atthc pub¬ lic hou.se nowoccupicd by A. H. Bomberger, in lho village of Nellsvllie, In .said township.
;tOth District—Being part of Manor townsbip, at the public bouse now occupied by lsa:ic B. .Miner, in Millerstown, in said town.ship.
:Jlstl)istrict—Wesl EarUownship, atthe pub¬ liu house now occupietl by GrabiU 0. Forney, in Earlvllle, In said townslilp.
32d Distriet—Being purl of West Hempfield township, known as Silver Spiing District, at the public houseof James Montguinery.insald towuship.
;iod District—Strjisburg township, at Ihe pub¬ lic house now occupied by James Curran, Inthe borougii ofStrasburg.
attb District—IJeiug part of Manor township, commonly called Jndiantown district, at the public house of Bernard Stoner, In said town¬ slilp.
."(oth District—West Cocillco township, at the pulilic housenow occupied by Daniel iVllsbler, In tbe village of Shoeneck, In .said township.
36tli District-East Eurl townsbip, at the pub¬ lic hnuSe now occupied byPbiliii Foreman, ut Blue Ball, Iu .said towuslup,
87lh District—Paradise township, at the pub¬ lic house now occuided by Henry Keneagy, iu .said township.
astli Districl—Bein-j a part of East Hempfield township, at the public school bouse In tbe vil¬ hige of liempftcld, iu said townslilp.
yyth District—Lancaster township, at thepub¬ lic bouse now occupied by Wm. T. Youart, In said townsbip.
40lh District—East Lampeter t^^wnship, iit tlio public bouse uow occupied by Elliis Buckwul¬ ter, In said townsbip.
41st District-Llttlo Britain township, at tho liouse of Jobn Harbison, in .said lownsiiip.
4:;d District—Upper Leiic»ck lownshlp, at the public houso of Jacob Bard, in snid lownsbip.
43rd District—Penn townshlp.at the public house of Jaeob Buscr, In said tounisblp,
44lh District—Borough of Adamsiown, at the schoolhouse insaid borough.
45lh District—Cla.v township, at the public houso of Aaron Kiimir, in said townsbip.
4Uth District—Pequeatowuship, at tlm public housoof iimos Groll', in said townsbip.
47lh District-Providence townshiii, at the house uow occupied by Jobn siij"der, in said townahip.
4Stb District—Eden townsliip, at lbe public house of Abnibnm Mycr.s, in said lownsbip.
4)lth District—Being that part of Jlouut .Toy township horetofore included in theild district, at Lehloan's scliool house, in said township.
SOth Dlstrictr-West Donegnl townsbip, bero- toforo included in lho :Jd electbm district, at Rutt's school house, in said township.
Slst District—That partof Mount Joy town¬ ship heretofore Included In tbo '22d district, at Benjamin Brenneman's school bouse, in said township.
52d District-That part of Rnpho township horetofore included In tho ±!nd district, at Strlckler's school house. In said lownship.
aid Dlstrict^That part of East Douegal town¬ ship heretofore Included In the 22d district, at the brick school honse In tho village of Spring¬ vllle. in said lowuship.
54tli DLstrlet—That part of R.apbo township heretofore Included iu tho ."i2d district, at the public school house In tho vlllugu of Newtown, in H.ald lownsbip.
o-ith District-That part of Mauor township horetofore Included In tlie '2(iih tlistrlcl, at tbo public houso of Jacob M. Brennenuin.
iJUth Distrlel—.Mountvillo Diatricl, heing part of Wesl Hemptleld lowuship, Iieretoftu'o in¬ cluded In the ;J2iid disirict, ut tho Mountvillo Graded .School House, In snld tou-nshlp.
STth District—Norwood Districl. being p.irl of West Hemptleld towuship, ueret<iforo iii- cluded In the ;iJnd district, at the Nurwnod Gr.adcd Scbool House, lu said lownship.
58th DLstrlet—Northwestern Dlslrlel. being partof Wesf. Hempdeld towuship, bereltif.iro Included In the '<i2od district, at lbe .Siind Hole .School House, Insald lownship.
r:vorypor.son,excepciiig Just Ices of the Peace, whosball hold auy ollice or uppululmeut of nrollc or trust under tho Government <if tbo united States, or oflhis State, or of uny city or Incorporated district, whelher a commlssbmcd ollicer or otherwise, a subordlnute olUcor or iigcut, wh* ia or shall bo employed uuder tbe Legislative, Executive or .Judiciary depari¬ menls oftlie State nr the United Stales, or ol any city or incorporated district, and nlsn evorj' member of Congress, or of t be Slule Li^g- Islature, and of tbe .Select and Common Ciain- ells of any city, or Commbtsioner of any liicnr- ijoratcd tllstrlct. Is, by law, Im-apable of bold- lug or exercising at tlie same time lbe ofliee or appolntmeut of judge, Inspector ot clerk ofany olection of this Commonwealth, and no Inspec¬ tor, Judge, or other oUicer of any sach eleeliun shafl be eligiblo there to be voted for.
Tliolnspeclornnd Judgeof the elections .«ihnll meet at tbe respeclive places appointed for holding tbe eleclion in the district, lo which they respectively belong, before nlno o'clock In the morning, and each uf said Inspectors shall appoint one Clerk, wbu shall be u qualified voter ofsucb district.
In case the person who shall have received the second highest nuinber of votes for Inspec¬ tor shall not attend on the day of any election, then the persou wiio shall have received the second highest number of votes forjudge utthe next preceding election shall act us Inspector In his place. And In case the peraon whosball haverecelved the highest nuniber of votes for Inspector shall not aitend, the per.son elected Judge shall appoint an Inspector in his place— and in ease the person elected Judge sball not attend, then tbo inspector who received the highest number of votes shall appoint a Judge in his place—or if any vacancy .sIuiIl continue- in the board for tbe space of ono hour after tbo time rt.'ced by law for the opening of the elec¬ lion, thequallfied votersof tho township, ward, or district for which such ofHeora shall bave been elected, preseut at sucii election shall elect oue of their number to fill such vacancy.
It sball be tue duty ofthe severul assessors of each distriet to aitend at the place of holding every general, speciul or lownshlp election, during lbe whole limo said election Is Icepl otien,for the purposeof giving informalion to tbo Inspectors and judges, when called on. In relation to the rigbt of uny nor.soii assessed by them to voto at sucli election, or such other matters Iu relution tothoassessineuts of voters .specto timer . ^o person shull bo permitted to voto at any electlou, as aforesaid, otber thun a frco- mau of the age of twetity-one years or more, who shall bave resided In Ihe State ut least one year, and In tbe election district where he OtTers bis vole at least ten days immediately preceding such election, and witbin two years
gIlid a Slide or county tax, wblch shall have een assessed »t least ten days before the elec¬ tion. Buta clllzeu of the United States wlio has previously been a qualified voter of this Slate and removeil therefrom and returned, .ind wbo shnll have resided In the election dis¬ trict and paid tuxes as aforesaid, sball be enti¬ tled to vote after residing In tbis State six montbs: Provided, that the freemen, citizeus ofthe United States, between twcniv-one and twenty-two years, who liave resided In an election district as nforesnid, sbnll be entitled to vote all hougb t hey shall nol have paid taxes. No person shall bepermltti>d to vole whose name is not roui4ilned In the list of taxable in¬ habitants lumlahed by the Com ml sai on ers, un¬ less First, he produces .arecelpifur the payment wlthdn two years of a State or eounty tax as- Be«B«d agreeably to the ConBtltutlon. and give sallsfoctory evldencs either on his oath or affir-
as tho said Inspectors or either of tbem shall from time to time require.
mation, or tho oath or affirmation of another, tlmt he has paid such a tax, or on failure to pro¬ duce a receipt sball raake oath to tho payment thereof, .Second, if he claim the right to voto by being an elector between the ago of twenty- ono and twenty-two years, be shall depose on oath or alllrmatiou that ho has resided In this State at least ono year next before his applica¬ tion, and make such proof of residence in the district as is required by this net, and tbat ho does verily believe from the account given him, tbat lie is of age aforesaid, and such otber evi¬ dence ns Is required by this act. whereupon the name of the person thus admitted to voto shall be Inserted In tlie alphabetical list bj-the In¬ spectors, and a note made opposite thereto by wriliug the word "tax," if hesball beadmitted to vote by reason of having paid tax; or the word "age," If bo shall beadmitted to vote by reason of such age, shall be called out to the clerks, whosball make tbe Uke notes on tho list of voters keut by tbem.
In all cases where the name of the person claiming to vote Ls found on the list furnished by the Commissioners and assessor, or his right to voto, whether found ihereon or not. Is ob¬ jected to by any quallfled citizen, Itshall be the duty of the inspectors to examine sucb pcrsim on oalh as to bis qualifications, and If he claims to Iiave resided within thoStato forone year or more his oalh shall be sulHcIenl proof tiiereof, butshall make proof by at least one competent witness, wlio shall be a qualilied elector, that he bus resided in tho dlstrictfor more than ten days next Immediately preceding sueh elec¬ tlou, and shall ulso hlmselfswear Inal bis bona lido residence. In pursuance of bis lawful cull¬ ing, Is In said district, aud that he did not re¬ move in tosuiddistrlct for tbepurposo of voting tlierein.
Every person qualiflcd as aforesaid, and wbo shall make due proof, if reiiuired, of tbe resi¬ dence and payment of taxes as aforesaid, shall be admitted to vole in tbo lownshlp, ward or district in which he shall reside.
If any person thull prevent orattempt to pre¬ vent any ulllcer of any election under this act from liolding .such election, or uae or threaten auy violence to uny such ollicer, or shall Inter¬ rupt or Improperly Interfere with bim 111 tho execution of his duty, or shall blocic up the wiudow, or avenuo to any window whero the same muy be holdlng.or shall riotously disturb the peace at sucb election, orshall use any lu- timldullnfjlbreabj, force or violence, with de¬ sign to Inlluence unduly or overuwo any elec¬ tor, or to provoutblmfrom votlngorto restrain tile freedom of choice, such persons on convic¬ tion shall be lined In any sum uot exceeding live humlred dollars, and imprisoned lor any time not less ihun three nor nioro than twelve monlbs,aiid If itshall be shown to Court, where the trial of sucb olTcnce sball be bad, that the porson so oil'endlug was nol a resiihaii ofthe city, ward, district or township where the oirence was couiiultted, and not entiiled to vote therein, tlion on conviction lio shall be sentenced to jiaya line of not less than one huudrednor more than one thousand dollars, and bo Imprisoned not lens thau six mouths nor mtirc than two years.
If any jierson, not by law qualified, shall fraudulently vote at any election of this Com- mouwoallh, or being otherwise miallfieil shall voto out of bis proper district. If any person knowiug the want of .such qualiflcatiun, shall aidoriirocure sucli porson to vote, the person oircudiiig, shall, on conviction, bo flned in any sum not e.xceeding two hundred dollars, and be imprisoned In any term not oxeeodingtlireo nionths.
ifauy person shall vole at moro than one election district, or otherwiscfraudulontly vote more Ihan onco ou the sumeday, orsbalUraud- ulcntlvfold and deliver to the Inspectortwo lickeLs togeiher, with tho intent illegally to vote, or shall procure another to do so, he or Lheyoireiidlng.shallon conviction be flned in any sum not less than flfty nor moro than flve hundred dollars, and I'o imprisoned fora term notless than three nor morethan l:Imoiiths.
If any person not quallfled lo voto in this CommouweaUb ugreeublj* to law, (except the sons ofquallfled citizens,) shall appear ut any place of eleclion for the imrpose of infiuenciug lho citizeus qualified to vote, lie shall on (>on- vlction forfeii and puy any sum not exceeding oue liundred dolhirs for every such ofiemieund boimprlsoiii-d forany term uol cvccediug lliree montbs.
nEorsTKV r.AW. I alsoglvoofilciiil notice lo the electors of Lanciisler county ihut, by an act entitled "An Actfuriiier supplumnutul to the act relallve to the eb-ctlnns of this Commniiwealtb," ap¬ proved April I7tb, A. D. HilW, it Is provided us follows:
HEfrrioN I, Re it enacted by the Seuate and Jiouse of Representatives of the Commonwealth of J'cnnsylr.anai In t'ieneral A.i.tentbly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority oflhe same. Thai It shull be the duty of eucb of theusaossors wllbln this commonwealth, on thu first Mon¬ day in June ofeaeh year, to take up lho iran- scrlptbohus received from the county coiii- Dilssiouers uiidt^r the etgbtli seclion of tbo act of iliiecnth April, eighleen hundred and tblrlv four, und proceed to au Iminediate re¬ vision of thesame. bystriking therefrom the name of every persou who Is known by bim to buve died or removed since the lust previ¬ ous assessment from the district of which he is tbo assessor, or whoso deeth or removal from the same shall be made known to him, iind loadd to thosnine the nameof any quali¬ fied voter who shall iie known by him to have moved Into the district slncelbe last previous assessment, or whose removal iuto the same shall be or .shall bave been made known to him, and also the names of all whosball make claim to him to be ituallllcd voters iherein. As soon US tbis revision Is completed he shall visit, every ilwelling houso in his district and make careful in<iiiiry If any person whose name isou his list has died or removed from tbedistrb-i.auil if so, to take tlie .sume there¬ from, or wbelber any qualifie<l voter resides tiierelu whose name is not on Ills list, and if so, to add the.sanie thereto; und In all cases wherea nnme is added to the list a tux sliail foniiwUh he ussi-ssed ngainst lbe person; und tlieu.ssessorsh-iII in all cases asceriuiii, by In¬ quiry, UIIOU what ground the person suussess- ed cbiinis to lie a voter. Upon thecompletlon of this work, itshall bo the duty of each ns- sessor as aforesaid to nrocL-ed to make out a list, in aipbabelbtul order, of the white free¬ men above tweuiy-oiieyeursof awe, cluiui ing to bfc(iualifled voters in tho wnrd, borough, town¬ ship or distriet of whicii he is the assessor, aud opposlteeuch ofsaid iiume.sstatewheihers.'iid freemau is or is nota housekeeper; and if he is, tlie numlH'r ot his residence, in towns wliere tho .same are numbered, with Ibestreet, alley or court in which situated; jind if in a lown where there are no numbers, the name of the street, ulley or eourt ou which said house fronts; also, the oceupullon cf theper¬ son; and where he is not a housekeeper, the occnpntlon. pluce of bonrdlng uud witii whom, and II working for umither, ihe name of the employer, aud write opposite euch of said nnmes the word "voter;" wiiere any person claims to vote i;y renson of naiuraliziitlon, he shall exhibit bis cerlilicate thereof lo tbe as¬ sessor, unless he lius been for five consecutive years next prect'ding a voter in said district; and 111 ull cases where the person has been nnturallzed, Ihe nameshall be marked with tbe tetu-r"N.;" where the person has merely tiechircit his intenllons to become a cillzeu and designs to be nuturuli7.ed before tbe next eleellou. lbt>. name shall be marked "D.L;" wbero the claim Is to volo by reason of being boiwceu the aues of i.wenty-one and lwent.\- two, as provided by law, the word "age" shall bo entered; ami If the penson has moved Into the election di!.irict to reside since the hist genoral election,tlie letter " R." shall be placed opposite thn namo. It shall be the furlher duty of each assessor as aforesaid, upou the complcMonof the duties herein Imposed, to make out a separate list of all new assess- ments made by hlni. and tlieamouuts assessed npon each,and furnish tlie.sunieluimediately to the couuty commissioners, wbo sbull liu- medlulely add ilie minit-s to the ta.v duplicate of the ward, borough, towuship or district lu whicb lhe.v buve beeu assessed.
SEC.-. Oil the list being completed and Mic assessments made as aforesaid, the same .sbull (ortbwilh be returned lo the county comnils- sloucrs. whfi shall cause duplicate copies of suid lists, with the observations and explana¬ tions required Ut be noted us aforesaid, to be made out us soon as practicable and placed In tlie bauds of the asse.s,sor, who shall prior lo tbe flrstof Augustln each year, put one copy thereof on the door of or on the houso where tlie electlou of the respective dlstrictls requir¬ ed to be held, and retain tho other In his po.s¬ session, lor lbe luspection, freo of charge, of any person resident in the said eli'ctlou dis¬ trict whosball desiro to see the same; and It sbnll be tbo duty of the.said assessor to add, from time to time, on thepersoualnppllcation of uuy one chii m ing the right to vole,the name ofsucb clalmaut.antl markopposliothename "C. v.," and inimediately assess him with a tax, noting, as ill all other cases, his occupa¬ tion, residence, whether ii boarder or bouso- kecper; if a boarder, with whom ho boards; and whether naturalized or designing to lio. marking in all such cuseai the letters opposite the name. "N." or"l>. I." os tho caso mnv be; If the pel-son claiming to be assessed he imtu- mlizod, he shall exhibit to the assessor hlscer- liflciiie (.-f nuturuUzutlon; and if beclaimstlmt he designs to be naturalized before tbo next iMisuiiigelcction.be shall exhibit the certlfi- cjiteof bis declaration of Intention; in all cases where nnv w-urd. borongh, township or elec¬ tion dlslriotls divideil Into iwo or morn pro- ciuts. the assessor shall iiotein all ills lussess- ments the election precinct In which each elector resides, and shall make a separate return foreach to the eounty commissioners, in nil enHcn in which a return Is requln!d from him bythe provisions of this act; und the county commissioiis, ia making dupUcuio copies of all sucb returns. Rball make dupli- ciite copies oflhe names of the votern In eneh precinrl., sepnratcly, aud shall furnish Ibe same to tho assessor; and Ihp copies rrqulred by Ihls act to hu phict*d on the door.s of or on eleclion places on or before tbe first of Augu»it in each j-eur, shall be plnced on tlie door of or on the election pluce in each of said preclnts. Six. " Afler the assessments huvpbeen com¬ pleted on the lentil dny preceding the second Tuesday In Ociober of e:ich yenr, the assessor shull, ou the Monday Immediately followinir, makea return toiliecouutycomml.s.slniii>rs<if the names ofall persons assessed by him since tlie return required lo bo matlo bj- him by tbe second section of ibls net, notlligoppositceach name tho observations and explunutions re¬ quired tobe notedasnforesaid; and thecouuty commlssionerssliull tbcreupnncausctbesanui to be added to tho return required hy the sec¬ ond sectiou of this act. aud u full and correct copy thereorto be made,contalnlngtbJ^names of all persons so relurned as resident luxubles In said wnrd. borough, towuship or preidncl, and furnish llie .same, logelher with the ne¬ cessary election bhiuks to the ollicers iif the election In said ward, borough, townsbip or
fireclnct, ou cir beforo .six o'clock In the moru- lig of thfisecoiid Tucsduy of Ociober; and no man shall be perinittctl lovote ut the elect Inn ouih.itdav whoso name is not <in said list, unless be shnll make proof of his right to vote, as lierelnaftur required.
.Sec. 4. On the day of election any person whose name is not on thesald list, and claim¬ ing the right to vote ut.said eleclion, shall pro¬ duce at least onequulilied voter ot tbo district asa witness lo the residence of the claimant In ihedistrict In whlcii hetdulmstoben voter, forthe period of at least teu days next preced¬ ing said election, wiilch witness sbaU tuke and subscribe a written, or partly wrilten aud partly jirlntefl. allldavit to tho facts stated by liiin, wliieh aflldavit shall deflneclearly where the residence Is of the porson so claiming to be a voter; and lbe person so claiming the right lovote shall also take and subscribe a wrliton.orpnrtly written and partly printed aflldavit. sbLilng to the best of bis knowledge and belief, where and wheu he was born: thut he Isftcltizen of the commonwealth of Penn¬ sylvanlanud of the United States; tbatheha<i resided in tho eonimonwealth ono year, or If formerly a citizen Iberein, and bas moved therelrom, tliut ho bus resided therein six. months next preceding said election; ibat he hns not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein; tbat he baa pnld a state or county tax wltblu two years, whieh wan as- sesseii atleast ten days beiore said election; nnd, if a naturalized cilizen, sball also statu when, where and by what court be was nutU' ralized. and Hhail also produce ills ccrtllleiiie of naturalization for e.Taminatlou; the snld ulfldavit shall nlso state when and where tho tux claimed to be paid by the uUlant was us- sessed. and ¦when, where and to whom paid, and tlie lux receipt therefor shall bo produced for examination, unless tbealQant shall state In his aflldavit that It has been lostordestroy- ed,oribat be never received any, but If tho per.son so claiming the right to vote shall tako and subscribe an aflidavlt, Ibut he is a native born citizen of the united States, (or If born elsewhere, shall state thatfact In his affidavit, and shall produce evidence thathe bus been naturalized, or that he is entitled to citizen¬ ship by reason of his father's naturalization;) and shall fiurther state In his a£Hdavlt that he
SHERIFF'S PROCLAMATION.
Is, at tbo tlmo of taking the afBdavlt, betweon the ages of twenty-one ond iweuiy-two years- thai he has resided In iho Stnte one venr and In the election district ten days next preceding such election, he sbnll bo entitled to vote although hesball nol have paid laxes; the said aihdavlts of nil persons making socli claims, and the nffldavlbj of tho wliuesses to tbelr residenue, shall bo preserved by the elcc- t on boaT.i,and nl the closeof the election Ihey sIuUl be enclosed witb the list of voters, tally ilstand other papers required by luw b> be Hied by the return Juilge with the proibonoln- ry,andsbaUrciiiulnon lile therewith In fbn prothonoi.-irj-'s olflce, subject to exnrnlnntlnu us other election papers arc. If ihe electhm offlcers shall flnd thai the iipplienit or unpli- canLs possess all the lecuf quHllflcutions of voters, be or tbey .shnll bo peiinitted to vole and the name or names shall be nilded to the list of taxables by the eleution ollicers, the word "lux" being added whero ihe claimant cl.alms to vote on tax, and the word "nge" where ho claims lo voto on nRc; the same words being added by the clerks in each case respecliveiy on tbo lists of persons voting at such election, ^
Seo. 6. It slmll be lawful for any quaUIIeil citizen of tbo district, notwltbsiunuhig the name oftboproposed voter iH contained on lbe list of resident tJixatdes. to chulienge the vote ol such persou: whereupon the sume proof of the rightof sutrrage as Ls now required by law HliulI be publicly made and ucl»;d oa by tlie election board,uud the voio admitted or re¬ jected accordiugto Iheevhbfnce: overv person ciulnilag tobeu nalnrulized citizen shall be required to produce bis unturalizallou cerlll- cate utthc election before votlug, except where be has been for ten years, eousecuti vely, a vo¬ ter in the district In wblcli be oilers his vote- and on the vote ofsucb person being received! It shall be the duty of the election ofiieers lo write or stamp ou such certUlcute tbe word "voted," with the mouth and year; and if any olection ofilcer or oflicers shull receive n sec¬ ond vote on the sumo day, by virtue oftlie same ccrtlHcate, excepting where sons nre en¬ titled to vote by virtue of lho naturallzutlon oftheir fathers, Ihey and Ihepersnu whosbull ofler sucb second vote upon so o(Iendln« shall be guilty ot uhlKli mls.leiiieanor. und on con¬ viction thereof, be fined oriiiiprlsonfed,orbnib. ut lbe discretion of the court; but tbe flne shall nol. exceed one hundred dollars in each case.northeimpilsoninent one year; the like punisliiiieut shull bo liillicU-d, ou cotivictitm on Ibe ollicers urrrlectioii Miio shall ncgleei or refuse to make.orcunso to ho made, lln-in- ilursemcnt required as aforesaid on said milu- rabzulion certilleate.
SEC. «. Jf any election olficer shall refuse or neglect to require such proof of the rightof sufiniKC as is prescribed by ihLs law, or ihe laws to which this Is a suppJenieiM, from nuy person olloring to vote whose name Is not on the list of assessed voters, or whosu riyliL to vote Is challenged byuny cjunlliietl voiei- prts- ent, and shall admit such person lovote witii¬ ont requiring such proof, everv person ho oflendlng,shall upon cinivicllon.be guiltv (»f a high misdemeanor, und .shall be sentenced, for every such otTem.-e, to paya line not ex¬ ceeding one hundred dollars, or lo iiudi^rgo iin imprisonment not more than one yenr, or eltber or both, at tbo dlscreiion of lbe eonn.
Sec. 7, Ten days preceding eveiyelection for electors ofPresidentaiid Vice President of the Uuiled Stales, it Khali be the iluty oflhe As¬ sessor lo ntiend at the place fixed bv law for holding tho election in eiu-b eiectlon diKtrjct. undtlicuand Iberehear all ajipliculions of persous wliose nnmes have beeu onili ted from tbellstof ii.sscssed Voleis. and who claim the riKlilto vote or whose ri-^bts have oiiginuled aiucc the .same was mado out, aud shall adil the names of .sueh persons thereto as .shall show that they are entitled to the right of sullragc In sucb dlstrlct,on t he iiensonul upjili- cation of the claimant onlv, and forthwith »s- sess them with theproiior tax. Aftercomplet- lugtbolLst,a copy liiereof shall bo pluced on tbe door ol or oil the house wberoIbeeleciioii is to be held,ul Jeusl elyhl davs before the election; nml ut the elecfioii the snme enorse shall bti pursued. In all re>pects, us is requited by tiiis uet and the acts to which It isa supple¬ ment, al ihe general eleclions fn Ociober. The Assessor stiall also make thesame returns to Ihecounly commissioners of all as.«essnieiitK made by virl ue of this seciiou ; nnd thecouuty roiumissloners shall furnlsb copies thereof lo lbe eleclion ofiieers in eueh districl. iu like manner. In ull respccLs, us Ls reqiiirt:d ut tbe generul elections in iieiober.
Sf:c. ti. The shuict rules and regulations shall npply atevory special tiheiioa.und ul every separate eliy, burougb or ward ebetion. In all respecLsusal tlie general electionsiii October, Si:c. S. Tbe resijeeiivo assessors, Inspeclnrs nud Judges ol the elections sliatl eueh liiive the power to administer oaths t-uiuy perstjiis cLiiming theright to be assessed or ibi- rit-ht of sullruge. or lu regard loany other matter or thing required lobe done or Inquired into by any of said oincers under llilsaet; nnd auy wilful false swearing hy unv peisou In rela¬ tion IO any matter or thing concerning which they shall be lawfully li-terri)gnied by any of said otllcers shall be j>uul>hed us perjury.
Sec, iu, Tbe assessors shall each receive the same compensation lor thetime necessarily spcutln perforinlngiheduiies hereby enjoin¬ ed as is provided by law for the perlormauee of their olber duties, lo be paid by the conniy coramLssiouersiis in other eases; nnd il shall uot be lawful fur auy assessia* to assess a tux against any person whatever witbin ten days uext preceding the election to bo held ou tbe second Tuesday of October, in anv year, or wltblu ten days next bef<>re any election for electm-sof I'resi».'eiitaml Viee President of the United Stales; any violation of tbis provision shall be a luLsdemcantir, and subject the of¬ ficers so oflcndingio a line, on conviclion, not exceeding one hundred Uollnrs.orto impris- onmeut not exceeding three months, or botii at tiie discretion of the eourt.
.Sec. II, On the petition of five or moro citi¬ zeus of the couniy, staling under oath Ihat they verily believe that frauds will be pr.ac- ticetl uMlie election about ti> be held In any distriet, Itsliall belbe duty of the court ul commou pleas ol said etiuniy, if in si>s.siou, or iiuolu Judge thereof in vueatmn, touiipoint two Judicious, sober and inlt.'lligenl citizens of tlie county to net as overseers at said elee¬ Uon; said ovenseers .shall be selected from dif- ferentiiollticul parties, where lbe inspectors be¬ long to dillerent pan ies,and wliere both of suid Inspectors belong to tbe same poIKical partv, botb of the overseers shull be lukcii frum the opposite polilical party; suld overseers sliulI have tlie rightto be present with (he ofiicers of the election, during the wliole time the same Isheld, the voH'strounlcd uikI thdreturus mude out und signed by the election ofiieers; to keep a list of voters. If they see proper; to challenge oiij persou oflering to vote, und In- teriogaio him and his witness under oath, in regard H» his right of sufi'rage at suld eleclion, and to examine lus papers produced; und the otllcers of said election are rc(iulred to ullbrd to said overseers so selfelcd nnd appointed every coiiveiileiico and biciiity for tbo dis¬ charge of tbelr duties; and It said eleclion olficers shall retu>o to permit snld overseers lo beprescntund perform Iheir duties as afore¬ said,or If they shall bedriveli away from the polls by vlnl^uceur iiHiiiildatioii.an ihevou-s P'llled at such election district mnv be reject¬ ed byanyiribunul tryiuga contestuuder suid eleclion: /Voriffc<f, Tbat no person signing ilio pelllioii shull bo appointed an overseer.
Sec.1l'. Ifany proihonoini-\-,elerk,orthedep- utyof cither, or nuy Olher person, shall afiix lbe seal of olllce lo any iialiirulization paper, or permit the samo to be nllixed,or give oui. tir cause or ]»eriulttho same to be given out, in blank, whereby it mnv be fruuduleully nsed, or lurnlsb a mituralizntionci.'riifleato u> uuy person who shull not have been duly ex¬ amined untl sworn in i>i)en eourt. In the presence of some of Ihe Judges thereof, according lo the uet of Congress, or shall am in, connive at.or In any way permit lho issue of any fraudulent imtiirallzation certificate, besbull beguillyofabigh mlsiienieanor; or if any one shall fraudulently useiinv such certiflcato of naturalization, Icnowing that it was irauduleiitly Issued, or shall vote, or at¬ tempt lo vote thereon, or If auy one shall vole, or attempt to vote, on anv' certlfieate of nalii- raliz:ition not issued iuliim.be shall be guiltv of a liigh misdemeanor; ami either oraiiy of tho persous. their aitlers or abettors,giilliyi>f eitherof the misdemeanors aforesaid,shall, on conviclion, be fined inu sum ]n>t exceed¬ ing tme thousand dollars, and imprisoned In the proper peiiitenllury forai'erlod not ex¬ ceeding three yeurs.
Sec Vl. Any perstin who on oath tir ufiirmu- tinn.Inor before anv court in this State, or oflicer authorizcil lo administer o:itlis, shall, to procuroa certiflcateof naliuulizalinii. ior himself or any other person, willfully depn>e, deelureorafiirm any mailer to bo fact, know¬ iug the same to be false tn-shall iu liko man¬ nor deny any matter to be f.iet knowing ihe sumo to bo true, shall be deemed guiliy of per¬ jury; and any cerlilicate of iiulnrullzalion Issued In pursuanceof uny such tlcpoMtion, declaralioit ta-afllnnatiun, shall be null and void; and Itshall be the tluiv of Ihecourt is¬ suing thesamc, upon proof belm; made before it that 11. was iruutluleiitly obiuineil, lti lake immedlute menmircs for recalling the s;ini<* Itir eunccilutioii, untl any peison who .shall vtile, or utteiiipt to vote, (Ul Hiiy paper su tih- laliied. or wlio shall lu uuy way aid In, con¬ nive ut. or have any auency whalt;ver lit ihe Issue.circulallull orustMif any Iiiiiniuleut luit- nruUzalioii certlflcaie. shall bedeeiiietl guilty of u misdemeanor, ami upon eoiivlctlou th. r-;- nf,.shall undergo an iiii])rls<iumentlii tli(>p*-'>i- Ueiitiaiy for not mon- thau lwo > i-aisund pay a flue, not moie than t-ii" thimsiinil dolh.is, ftir every siu:h ofieiice, t-r sillier tir bulb,al the diseiciitiu fif Ihe t:tiurl.
si:i:. 14. .Auy assessor, olceiitin oiiiceror per son appoinled asan overM-er. who sball iie- gletit or refuse to iicrform any diilv enjoined hy Ihlsiicl. without reasoinible or ief-ul cause, shall be siibjeel to a penalty i»f i»ne hundred dullar.s, niitl if uny as>essor shall assess anv person as a vulerv.iiu Ls nut qualilied. or shall refuse lOMSs.'Ss anyone whois (iu:tllfi.d. Iip shall be guillv OI a misdemeanor in ullltv.aiul uu conviction be iMinlshed by flnu or inipris- oiiment.uiid also bo suhjeci li> an nettoii fur tbimngea by lbe party ngf;iieved: ami if any porsun shall frauduleully alter, add li>. ttefaee tir tlestroy uuy llsl of voters madeoutas dl¬ recteil by lliis net. or tear down or remove tbe saiiio from Ihe place wiiere it has been fixed, with iratiduleiii or mischievous intent, or lor any inipniper purpose, ihepersoii suolVeii- diligshallhe guilty t>f a bl^li mlsilemeanor, and ou conviction shall be punished tiy u lliii; uot exct;eding five Immlred dollars, or lui- prsonineai not exceetlinirtwo yoar»,or bulb, at the tllscreliiMi of the court.
Sec. l.'i, Allelrctltiiis forclty,ward, borough township and electitm ulliirers shull bereufter be belt! oil tbo second Tuesday of October, subject to all tho provisions of the laws regu- hitlug the electiuu of such uflb-ers not Incon¬ sistent with this net; the persons elected to such otlices at Ibut timo shnll tnke t heir places ¦at the expirulion tif theternisof tlio perstins holding I be sumo at tho time tif sutdi elt'ction: bul no electlou for tbo ofiice uf ussesstir or as¬ sistant asselsorsbnil be held, under ihisuct. until thoy ear one ibousaiul eight huudred antl .^evouty.
Sec. 10, Atall elections borenfier held uu¬ der tlm lawsof tbis commonweallh, thepolls shall be opened between the hours of six untl seven o'clocU.am.,and clused ut seven o'clock p. m.
SEC, 17, Itshall bo the dutv of llie Secretary of tbocommonweallb to prepnro lorms t'orull tbe blunks made riet:es.sary by tbls uct, und furnish copies <ir the sume lo theciiiinty ct»m- mlssltinersof tbe sevciul counties of the com- monwe»llh; and tiiectiiiiity commissioners of eucb county shall, as soon us may in; necessary after receipt of the Kumc.aliho prtipcr expense of thecouuty, procurcoud furuisli lo all tho election ofllcers of tho ttlection tUstricts of their respective ctaiutles copies ofsucb blanks. In such <iuaiitltlcs as may be reiutercd utties- sury fur lho discharge of their duties under this act.
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Sec. Ifl. Tliat citizens of this Stato tempora¬ rily in theservlceof theStateorof theUuIted Slates governments, on clerical or other dutv, anil who do uot vote where lhusQmpb>yed,shnll not be thereby deprived ofthe right to vote in Ibelr aeveral election districts if otherwise duly qualified.
CHANOE TS TKE StOnE OF VOTTNO.
A?.- Act regulating the mtide of votiug at nil elections lu the several counties of tbls Commnnwenlth, approved March .'lOtb, ISliU: SEcrniN 1, Re it e meted tnj the Senate and Jiouse of Jicyrtsentatives ofthe Onnmonteealth of J'ennsylvaniain Gcneial Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of thesame Tbnt the qualified voters of tbo several coun¬ ties of this Commonwealth, at nil general, township, borough and special elections, aro hereby, hereafter, authorized and required to vote, by ticketa. printed, or written, or partlj' prinled and partly written, severally claasiaed j as follows: One llcket shall embrace the ! namesofaUjudgeaofconrisvoted for,and to
SHERIFF'S PROCLAMATION.
bo labelled outside, "Judiciary;" ono ticket shall embrace the names of uii Stale oHUeis voted for.and be labelled "iitjite;" one ticket sbnll embraco the names ofall couutv ollicers voted for,Including oflice of senatQr'member, nnd members ol assembly, if voletl fur, nnd be labelled "county:" one ticket shall em¬ brnce tbe names of all township fdllcers voi»il for.and be labelled, "township;" i*neiiti,-ei shall embrace tbe names of all bomu-h t.iil- cers voted for.and be labelled. " bomugli •" and each class Kbnll be deposited In separaic ballot-boxes.
XV AMENDME>T CONrfTJTCTrO.V ir, S.
"KErrrioN 1. The rlghtol citizens oflhe Uni- le'I .States to vote shall nut be denied or ubiidged bythe Ubited Statt.'s,or bv anv Stale, on uecouut of race, color, or previous t;t>inli- tlon of si-rvitndn.
".Sec. 2. Tho Congress .shall have power to
enforco this .'trticle by approprlale legtslutlou.
FiiwT ANn Rpxoxn section of act of CO.N'-
lillEi^ fiF .MArfCir .1!   IftTlt.
"SEcrrroN l. He it enaetrd. liy the .*<ennte aud House fif J£eprc.xentfdives of fhe Ifnitcd States nf America in iMngrcss as.ienibleil,1'hian\l e'tlizi-n^ Ol lbe United States, wiiu ure, orshall be oth¬ erwise qualified by law to vote ut any eleeilon by the people, in any sure, Terrlturv, districl, county, clly, parish, township, .sebool disirict, munieipallty or other terrlloiinl sub divisltm. shall be entitled and allowed to vote ut all such eleclions, without dislhielion uf race, lulor, fir previous ctmditloii t»f servitude- unv Constitiitloii.law, custom, usage or rcgiibiMon ofany Slate or Tcrritoiv, or bv,ur umler l;s uuihorlty, to tho conlrnry, nol wilhstantllm;."
"SEC.:* And bn if further innrtf (I. Tbal If bv orunder the:iuiinnity ..f the t'tmslilnlltni trV lawsof any .State, or thobiwsof tiiiyTerritorv. any act is or shull berequlr«;d lo he dune as'u prerequisite orijualificullon lor vullng. ami by such Conslllutiuii or law persons or ofiieer-^ areor shall be chnrgetl wllli ihn performunet. of dutlesin Uirnishing to eilizens au opporiu¬ nity to perftirm such preretpilslb-or lo becfiiiio qualifictl bl vote, Itshall be the ilutv of everv such pt-rson nnd ollicer lo give lu all eli.l-/.eiis of the United Stales the same and equal oji- tiortiinily to perform such prercqnlsile urnl iu bectniie quulilietl lo vriie withont dlstincllou ol ruc(\ color, or previuns cundition of servi¬ tude; ami if unv ^itcb porson or tillicer sba'I reliiseorknowiniily umiL to givu fnll ellect !«• this seetlon, be shull. lur everv snidi ulleiise, ibileit antl puy the sum <tf live luni'lretl ilf>l- lars lo tht; person iij-firieved iberebv, H» be re¬ covered by an ueiloii tm Ihe ease, wllh lull costs anrl siieh aliowan.-e fur eouiisel fees as iheconrtsbiill deem jnsl, and si.all also, '.-r every .such ortence, be ueenied milltv of a mi>- ilemeuor. nnd shall, on etmviction Ihereot. l.-e lined uot less lhan live liundred doHais, .>r be Imprisoned uot less than one m ulll and uut mure Ihnn one yenr, «ir holh, nt the tllseretion of ihecourt.
Sec, id. of an Acr ofthe i'e:.-nsvi.van-ia i.k.;-
ISl.ATfKK OF APKir. (iTII, A. D,, Ls70.
Section Hi. Thnt .so nnirh uf f'vei-v act uf Assembly as provides Ihut onlv white freemen areentllletl to vtiteor he rcgi.sltrretl as voters. or us (ialmlng tu vote nl any general or.sprci:i 1 elecliun tif this Ctininionweallh, be uud llie snme Is bereby repenled; and that liereafler. all freem''n, wilhoul tlisiinctinu of eolor. shail be enrolled ami registered aeconling to il-e piovisbms of tlio first seclion ofth.> nel ,...- proved ITIb April. ISlBl.entilletl.'An act furtSit-i- supplemental lo the act relating lo the elec- tionsof this (.'ommonweallh.'itnd when Olher¬ wiso qualified under lbe existing laws, b" en¬ titled to votont all general ami special ei< e- lions in this Commonweulth."
Pursuant lothe provisions cnnlahied In Uie Tfilh seel loll uf the net flrst aitirtsaid, titejuil::- t suf Ihe aiures:dii distrh-ls shall resjteciivi Iv lake t:liargeof the cerlifiealesof rejurii of i!ie eleirtion of tbelr respcctivir districts, and pio- tbice thom at a nieerlng of one jiiit^e fioi:i each tlislritaat the Ctmrt Iiouse. in thei ily n^ Lancaster, on tin? thirtl dnv after tbe duvnl Ibe election, belug OX FUIDAY. TIIK "l jMi DAV OF OCTOaiilt. I:*TO,ut lU o'clock, n i:i . then and Ihere t'l ilonnd perftnm the duties rtjfpiired   by law of saidjutiges.
Also.tbut wherea Jiitlue, bvsickncf-s oruii- avoidubleactrident. Is unnble in nttend sueli meetingof Judges, tiien the ceriifieati* or r.- lurn shall he t.iken chnrceof bv oneof :)ie inspectors or clerks oftnt.'cleei ion t^if tl)e*ii- trict, who shall do nnd npiform Hip tJuiivs required of said Judirc unable lo ate^nd.
Given under my bund, at mv oiiict'. In Lan¬ eoster, this 2d day of septemtier. In ti.e vi:,r ofour Lord one thousand eight buniired'.Mid fievonty, and In the niuely-fuuiib vear nl the Iridepcndt'uce nf the Uniled states."
FREDERICK .MYFHS, Shrrill. SnEniFF's Office, Lancaster,Sepi.:;, ihTu.
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FIRE  & LIFE  INSURAiNGK.
THE AM2':KSf:A:s
Ufe lTisuranc*e Company
OF PHILADKLPHIA,
ALKX. WHILLDIN,
President.
J. S. WILSO.N.
SFCTt'lnry.
GROWTH OF TIIK A.MEiaCv\.N,
Dn:e. No. Policies.
ISGO, Dec. 31, 91)1
ISCl, " 1,1:^0
1SG7, " T.GoG
186S, " 10,i;S2
Amt. Insured.
S l,UHi),-lot) on
1,200,(100 on
lS,:n2,47S Oo
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THE AMEKTCAN
Issues Policies on all dcsirablo plans, at luv.- rales, ami for security and prompiness in meet ill-: losses Is unsurpassed by any eompauy iu the Uulted .States.
BO.\UD OF TRU.STEES.
IIO.v. JAMES POLLOCIC, Ex-Gtiv. of IVun-H, DireettirU. S. Mint.
J. EIlGAlt THOMSON, PresIdenlPenu'a R. II., 2:iSSuulli Third St.
GEORGK NUGENT, Gentleman, residence, Germantowu.
ALBERT C. KOBERTS.President Fourth Na¬ tional Bank.
PHILIP B, MINGLE, Seed Merehaut. h« .Mar¬ ket slreel,
Hon. ALEX. G. CATTELL, U. S, Senator, Mer¬ ehaut, 27 Ntirlb Water sr.
ISAAC HAZLEHURST, Attorney-at-Law, ."VJS Walnut St.
L.M. WIirLLDIN", Merchant, CO and 22 .^mitU I'"rnnt.st.
HENKY Iv. BENNETT, Merchant, 715 Soulh Fourib St.
GEOUGE W. HILL, President Seventh Nu- tlunul Bank.
JAMES L. CL.\GHORN, President Commer¬ cial National Hank.
JOIIN WANA.MAKER, Oak Hnll riulhing House. S, E. eorner .-Ixlh and niarket. sis., and .SlSund S::o Cbe»tiiut.st.
auglS-Usep20tf
H. S. GAUA, Agent, tiVA E. King St.. Luiie-ister.
XOTICE TO l^VIlSiKSl.'^.
THE attention offarmers is calletl to ilie k>!- lowliiK low rates cbariied bv ihe L.\NC,\S- TERCITY AND COUNTV FIRE INSUKANCK COMPANY on Farm Uarns and couteiils:
I yr. r)yr.s. Brick orStoneBaniK. Si) ft. or more
from house, per SIOO i'lC       "'k'
Frame Darns, .Si) feel or int»re irum House, lier cKX) .^.c    Si t->}
Coutcuts al same rales. l>welllngs and cou- lents also Insured.
Tbo nbove .system will pnn-o in tht:- ml* to bo cheaper than an insuranre in nm- innl companies. NO ASSESSMENT.^ AI'.K .MADE, antl ample secnritv is gun rant ted In a well Invested capital ofS2ud.i«M), wiilch. lOfjcfli- er with a large surplus, is !n-id for ihe prolec¬ tion ofthose Insuring Iu Ihecmipjiny. I.u«s. •^ ure seltletl as siion hs iidju.slcd—ut*» uecd lu wall iinitl the money, is collected bv jis>:es:i- iiietits.  Ample fuuds on hand.
Iiirecto::k: Thos. E, Frankllu,       B, .•¦•. ShnnL,
I'reshlcnt. Ti'iv-vui f-r
John L. Atlt!t»,M. 1).,    H.Carpenl.-r, .M. L»., Jacob Buusiiiuu. J, .M. FniHiz,
tienrge K. Roed, A. K. Kob.-rts,
F.,Shrnder, .It.hn C HaiiiT,
E. BROU'N.Sm-rebTV. Jnl 21 ti!i If Lv.nc,i:^'ier.
piur  i.^suiiAKcr tc.iiiM.^Y,
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TN.SITRKS BUILDING-*, .MEIilil.ANniSl I nnd other prupt-rtya'<:tinsi lossand dannt' tiy Firii. Ull tlie .Sttiek "r .MuiUal ph-ii on / UEAsoN-Aiii.i: TKicMrt A3 oYtiKK ;:Esru>>m:i
ItlMPANIHS.
Lo.-iscs Paid since ISfit), S32.'>,ni.i,L
OFFICERS:
Presid-td-H. S. DETWILni,    Vie- p.-r,uden' 11. WILSON. .Scrrctary-.l F. FKITKA Ii i-K. Treasurer—nVAW.VAtT THOMAS,
DIRECTORS:
S.S. Detwiler, Robert Crane, Iltrrhcrl Tbtunas, A. Bruner, |r., II. Wilson, William I'atton,
Robert Uvnn, J.S. sirlne, J. It. I.uchman, M. .M .'^Intrkbr, •las, ."^chroedtr, J. F. Frueaufi'.
For Insurance or AgencTies appIv b\- mail or in person to J. K. FltUEAUFK, sec'y
July27 :iiu ;i7 Cilumtilu. l\\.
A.  B.  KAUFMAN,
AGENT FOR
The   Oia   ConncclR'ul 3?i:ntn! tife Insnrance Comjiuny.
Surplus over    -    -    -    Sil.OOO.OOO 00.
ALL the nrofilg are divljati among tbe poli¬ cy holders.
The dividends aro the largestof  any Lifo Insurance Company.
OFFICE, NO, 1 EAST ORANGE STREFT maria 'tiU tf 17 Lincaster, I'a!
NAZARETH HALL.
MORAVIAN KOARDING RCHOOI, I'Oll BOYS.
Send for Cutuloguca to
UE\-. ECOESE i.EinEnr,r>h>ci|iai.
JNuaurelli, Nanhuiuiititn eoumy, !¦«. ReferiinccK ftt Tjuncftstcr:
^!- ?,';''• ^i"'"' BlBler,    Oeo. K. niicil, isn. Julalyr'TOa;! '
Vnionville Institute,
.¦in Enylish, Mathematical, Commercial
nntl Classical He/tool fnr
Ybunff Ladies and Gentlemen,
NEXT SE.SSION commences OCTOBER 101 h  i^.'J.     Accnmnioilations  Cor Sl-JVENTV
PUPIL«. FIVE Teachers. THREE Leciii- rer.s. Twenty Premiums awnrdeil. Sludenls ;'.1?'''?J'.5'i'"""'"'¦"'" "'<• Itailroad FREE Ol.' V.A^S^^' *'® procure Schools for our aTU- DENTs. wheu well qualilied to tench.
iKEJla:—Ladles, Sl.Oil; Gentlemen. &I 50 per week. SatisfacUou guaranleed. For Oita- logoe address JACOB W. HARVEY,
scptll5"t« UnlonTlfiel'rS? '