Lancaster Examiner and Herald

              VOL. XXX.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1856.
No. 28.
PUBLISHED B?
EDWARD C. DARLINGTON,
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OJSLY ONCE.
BT -nKGlSIA T.  TOWNSESD.
sician, as lie ro-foiaeA the lelter he h.id hmn reading.
It was late in March, and the day hadheon bland and golden, as though God had sent it, an early apostle, to teli its loving story of the Bummer in a pause of that lioarse " re- Teille" which March strikes along the mouu- j tains and valleys. Large purple clouds blank- I'm sure there cau | eted the sky, and the rioh, purple light show¬ ered through the de-'p office window that fronted the  west; and as the young man
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.   "Well, now, Minnie.   I shonld like to know if you can't go just this once, and say noth¬ ing about it afterward ? be no earthly harm in your doing so, and Mr. Leonard Steele need nevorhe the wiserfor it.
One would think, to hear you talk, you were   looked off oil. it, his eyes brightened, aud he obliged to keep that gentleman (for whom   drew a long sigh of relief, by the by, I have the most profound respect,) :    "How gorgeous those clouds are," contin- appriaed of all your movements." uiug his monologue—"how I wish Minnie's
"But it is a self-imposed obligation, at all I Wwe eyes were here to look on them—poor events, Josephine; and then, knowing as I : child, shut  in by rows  of brick  houses as do, Leonard's objection to dani;iug partie.^, it | they have been all winter, would not be honorable for mo to attend one i     " Thank Heaven, (I say it reverently,) ahe without his knowledge." : is coming back to us next week.    I wonder
The speakers were two'youug ladies, and ; if this experience of fashionable life andfollj cousins : and they sat together beforo the' \ has not beuu a .sadness, aud a weariness to grate-fire of a small, hut elegantly furnished j her. Her first letters said as much, certainly; alcove, curtained off the magnificent parlors ! but I loug to hear it from her own sweet lip.a. by embroidered lace hangings that swept i Well, I must ho patient, aud yet I don't be- down from tho gilded cornices like a fall of ; lieve I .im quite so, for this clause in cousm white miat, to the velvet carpet. John's last eertlanly  annoys me ; though I
Marj', or Jlinniu Hart, as those who loved , know there must be a discrepancy some- her best usually calle.l her, was making her j where."' He opened the letter which ha had fir.?t visit to her mother's cousin, the wife of ; tossed on the table, and read aloud :
' / hear the lady tf whom you hnre sev- etftl cimes spoken hi i/oiir late letters, is now in the city, and really, Leon, nn the strength nf our mutual acquaititam-e, I should have : called on her, were I not expecting to leave di?.simihir. tlio intercourse between them liad ¦ ^;^,v if.^^j. j-^^j. Haltimore. I fearn, howevtr, never been vntirely .suspended. she created quite a sensation al the yrundest
Amid all the metropolitan gaiety aud luxu¬ ry whioh surrounded and absorbed Mrs. Gard- nor, her lieart .-^till kept green  aud fragraut
a retired city merchant.
Mr.^. Hart and Mrs. Gardner had been warm friends in their youth ; and though iu later years the tone and aim of their lives were so ;
.condemn or exculpate the conduct of my       "Certainly, certainly, sir,"  was  the  half; j heorine; while I, in this instance, do neither,   smiling response, though the owner secretly
wished he had returned the picture to the \ drawer from  which  hu had taken  it that morning.
The golden clasps flew hack. The centle- man started as the fair,girli.=ih features met j his gaze. "Why, Iknow th.at lady," he nf- | firmed, drawing the picture nearer to him. j " You do V Where iu the world did you ! ever see hor?" was tho dontor'a eager inter- i rogation. !
"I met herla.st winter at Mrs. Hill's party, aud daucad with her twice, too; and a fre.'ih- er, more charming little creature I never be¬ held. She ijuite bore off tlie laurels from some of our first belles. This picture is per-' feet. I congratulate you, doctor, on its pos¬ session."
Leonard Steele's face could uot he whiter wheu the grave-sods should he heaped over it, but a strange, fiery light seemed l)urning up from his soul into his eyes. He bounded up, and then with a ."strong effort controlled himself.
"Will you look again at that picture, sir, and tiieu pledge me your word, as a man of honor, that you met its original, aud danced with her last winter.'" he sternly demanded. " Certaiuly, I will, sir"—Mr. (iraham spoke with a flushed cheek—" though I believe my aiiuple affirmation of the fact would satisfy mo.st individuals of it.-; truth. .The young lady was accompanied by iier anut ai'd cons- | hi, Mrs and Miss Gardner, whom she was, I ' think, visiting at the time." I
"You  are correct, sir.    Parditu me, if 1, spoke hastily.    I had very good reasons for wishing not to be mistaken iu this matter. We will change the subject to a more agree¬ able one, if you please.'"
"But neither the host or his guests could
till) memory of her early friendsliip, and to Mrs. Hart It was liko a pleasant song, which, heard in the mornJug, reaches down iu faint, sweet strains through all the after day.
The frieuds did not meet often—indeed several years sometimes intervened between Iheir visits. But the previous summer Mrs. Gardner aud her daughter made a sudden ad- ; vent at Meadow-brook, and Josephine and 5Iinnie looked on each others' faces for the I first time  since they were children.   Mrs,
too, are correct transcripts of i "^le sat there, looking  iuto  the   dark eyes, the characters  of their respective owners.— t a°d listening to the  deep voice  of Leonard
' Steele,
For two hours Lponard Steele sat alone in i his room, his head buried in the arms that i lay on his table. His character was one that ; seemed to combine all the depth and tender-
pariy of the'senson, which came off recently ^UoUv overcome tho constraint which thia at Mr. JliW.., a retired merchant and a ,„„^;^^ti^„ had superinduced, and no one milhonatre, icilh a t/ount/. and cer// beautiful \       .,¦..,.
wife. Uis said she was the most graceful of them was sorry when the striking of the dancer on the floor.' depot clock warned him it was time to titart
'¦ Uf course, thia could uot have been Min- f<»" tbo cars, nie Hart. Certain am 1 that her fashionable " Hang if, .Tohn :" said Mr. Graham, as soou relations would not have inveigled her into . a.^ they were out of the doctor's hearing— au act so directly opposed to my wishes. In , '" what a terrible malapropos speech of mine a few days she will be here ; then, doubtless, ' that was abont the picture. It just throw the discrepancy can be explained, and I will cold water on all the rest of our visit.^' bother my wits no more about the thing, till " My dear* fellow, dont give yourself any I see her." -uneasiuess on the .subject," was John's cou-
Aud the young man .strolled  back to  the ; soling rejoinder.    " I suspect, by what I saw ! window, humming fragments of au old song, j to-day, Leon is really interested iu the young Gardner then obtained a  promise that the ; ^ud looking off on the heaps of sunset cloud. | lady, but doubtless  it will turn out right in
latter should visit her the ensuing winter, ;   (jio end, and you know
and it is in the parlor alcove of her elegant |     -^ ^eek later, and Doctor Steele and Min- j -Whore remedUh are past
home that we have first introduced our hero- ¦ "^^ Hart sat together  ou the old-fashioned -. "^''^ J"'^ "" '""^*"^- ^
i^e to vou ¦ sofa, in the cosy littl.- parlor of the latter's * «^ ^^'^ elegantly, but no less pertmently-
Josephlne aud Minnie  hare ju.st crossed ; home.    Very small and plain   it looked to ^'^^'^^'^ "'^ '"«  crying for spilled  milk.'- their twentieth birthday.    Ono is a brunette, i M"'"fe. ^l^o^e eyes  had grown  accustomed ; Come, hurry up, or we 11 be too late for the the other a blonde.    Neither are beautiful, ! to the spacious magnificence   of her cousin's ; t^am. but the haughty features,  with  the dark' i drawing rooms.
brilliant eyes nf the one, contrast effectively '' '^^^ she was very happy that eveuing, and with the fair, delicate face, and rich brown ; would not have exchanged that old room for hair of the other- ' the most luxurious one on Fifth Avenue, as
Those face?, too, are correct transcripts of I — •""¦ »•->-, w^x-i^t^   .uio  wn=   w.u*. crca. ' ^gss of a  wpmau with the stroug will and
calm judgment of a man : and, with his well regulated mind, his emotional nature never subjugated his reason. When he lifted hia head his resolution was taken, and with lilm to resolve was to act. The next day Minnie received a letter from Sho tore it open, with shaking hands, and read—
''Minnie—W}ien this reaches you I shall centball, girenbyaMrs. HiU,thewifeofar« , ^g o„ the road to Europe; antl, of course, tired merchant and millionaire, aud that you j you will understand the rest. J have loved were the most graceful dancer on the fioor. Of' yon, and I love you still, tenderly, deeply course, there must have been some misappre- | ^f:ly:.flV.^,'r,l'i"'."r'X 't'„ Xn Lr
ch as you
allude, for
The astral lamp on the table, in the oppo- | I liavc litis morning leariiid Ihat you K-ere nt
site corner, threw ..i warm, dim glow  over I -^^"¦J^''I'f. V".'''!!- .
., ,   .   ., ., Oh, Minnie, mi/ once embodiment oj wo-
the room ;   but  the joui.g   mau   s.%w the | ,„„„., „.„,j^ „„^ ^„„^ „„,; j^^^^. /^.^y/rf
while hJs droop, and the red  blood quiver    t]^at IJiad died hefore the ceil had heen lift- up the pale cheek-of his  betrothed, and his j ed from yonr soul!
voice   gained   unconscious    pmpliasis    and ¦     " .^ a"i procinij your power, an'd my tceak- Btomneiis as he concladbd:     " ¦ i •ies.^,,:c. thus leicing !i,m,.fur my ajfectiou
-No-of course I couldn't,'- gasped,  rath- ! "-"".'" ":""5'.'' .'"'": "'." ':'«">." "'^"--^'" ':"=-- er tlian articulated,  Minnie,   while  a  cold ahudder struck through her frame, at  her almost involuntary (it seemed to her) utter¬ ance of this falsehood.
But Leonard Steele was satisfied. Minnie still stood in tho high place of his soul, true, serene, radiant, the beautiful embodiment of his wo man-ideal.
detailing, for that gentleman's amusement some of her novel experiences of city life.
It was late in tho evening  when, in some pause of the conversation, the j'oung doc¬ tor spoke suddenly, "Ohl Minnie, I 4uite i ^^q doctor, hardly recovered from the first dazzle and [ forgot to tell you that my cousin and class- bewilderment of her sudden " entree" into j mate wrote me that you were at a magnifi- fashionable metropolitan life. But that moming conversation   will give
Josephine's nature is haughty, self-reliant, exacting; Minnie's, gentle, loving, receptive; yet it is not without depth and earnestness which an intimate aciiuaintance will alone reveal to you.
She has  beeu two weeks in  the city, aud
you a better key to the characters of both the young ladies, than any elaborate por¬ traiture of my own.
" Your notions of honor are altogether too nice, my little coz;" and Josephine leans hor head, with graceful indolence, into the carved back of her luxurious easy chair. " Yousee, mamma and I are especially auxious you should attend this party, for it will bo one of the most recherche of the season. We want you to seo all you cail of upper-tendom, too, while you are with us.-'
" But you know, dear, it will do me very little good to see that which neither my tastes nor oiroumstances will everpermit me to emu¬ late. Beside that it does not seem quite right to attend this ball, wheu I know Leonard's objection to everything of the kind."
A slight, bnt very significant smile, dawned over the proud lips of .Josephine, and Minnie felt it, thongh she did not lift her blue eyes from the grate-flame. " Of course." she con¬ tinued, with a little heightening of color, " I neither condemn or defend liis opinions in thiswise, but I respect them, because they are those of the man whose wife I am to be¬ come.'* She said this last very earnestly, but with a little tremor of*lendemess run¬ ning through the otherwise tiuiet tones.
course, there must have been some misappre- i 5"" '^-   -""' ^ "'"""' """7 "'
' \ do not respect—tne woman iclio ca:
hensionof names or persons, for 3/o«,il/(H;i/e   ^,oul, and her life, with a lie, su
Hart, would not have done this thing .?". j^^ve tlone.    You kn.oiv to what Tc
And he spoko with more than his old ten¬ derness, because he remembered the late se-
mam. I feel it, foal that I am, that vnth neither confidence or faith in yov. T yet shonld marry you.
"T conld readily hare forgotten yonr at¬ tending this ball, opposed, as yon 'j:neic it would he, to my principles; but I cannot for¬ get the falsehood tcith which yon, my be¬ trothed wife, sought to deceive me!
'^ And now, Minnie, loved with all Ihe ! strength of my heart and my manhood, fare-
veil, and for ci-cr ;     " May God yet show you the greater icrong
you have done io Him than to me, and lead verity of hia tones.    " Forgive me, Minnie, if   j^our life  through green paths fn Himself, I seemed irritable.    I know you too well to   most fervently prays doubt you, or to believe for an instant you ! Your always friend,
would regard my wishes or my feelings so ' Leo.nakd Steemc
little as to practically oppose them." |     ^"^   ^*'"'^*^^ t'^'-^t,  for many  weeks  after
reading this letter, Minnie Steele lay on her
Minnie did not reply, for just then ther^
"Of course,! understand all that, Minnie.'' ! ^¦''^ the low knock of visitors atTthe parlor Josephine felt that diplomacy would .succeed I '^^or.    Tho doctor and she did uot see each
better than ridicule. " But really, Leonard's ; objections seem to us city people so singular^ i so unfounded in reason. It would be very differeut, too, if you were at home, you see for we will take all responsibility iu the mat¬ ter. Mamma has ordered your dre.=:s, and has quite set her heart on your accompany¬ ing us ; and it will be such a disappointment to her. 1 wish you would go. just for our Bakes, Minnie, this once—you know you ..-an obey Leonard all the rest of your life."
This reasoning seemed plausible, .and there was a world of indecision in the sweet face of Minnie Hart, as it leaned toward the grate.
"If I could only go, and uot joiu in the dancing," she murmured, half to herself,— "Still, it would be countenancing the thing by my presence.¦'
" Certainly it would, you dear little morsel of conscientiousness. Come, now, say you'll consent, just this once, and if the mind or morals of the future Mrs. Doctor Leonard Steele are in any wise injured by attending this party of Mrs. Hill's, (how that lady would bridle her pretty head at the idea!) ril pay penance all the rest of my life."
Josephine threw herself dowu on the rng at Minnie's feet, and looked up with Iialf coaxing, half humorous audacity, into her cousin's face.
" You're a real teaze, Josephine. And I begin to suspect I haven't any moral courage at all, it's so hard to refuse yon. I more than half believe Leonard's right with regard to the perverting effects of fashionable amuse¬ ments aud dissipation on the character ; and then he is so noble, eo generous, so good, it don't seem right to do anything of which he disapproves ; but as you say, it can't do ma much hurt to go this once."
" And I can't see, for the life of me, why he need know anything about it," persisted Josephine, whose fashionable education had not rendered her moral perceptions anymor* acute. " Come, now, say you'll go, and have it finally settled."
" Well, yes; I s'poso so ;" hut the consent was given under a mental protest.
"Goody! Pm eo glad, you darling little girl!"' And with on^ of those explosions of impulsive, rather than persistent feeling which are indlgenious to such natures, she rained down kisses on Minnie's forehead.
1 do not think Josephine could, at that moment, have analysed tho motives which mad« her so especially desirous that her cousin should attend this ball; neither do 1 like to insist that these were entirely selfish ones. But the young lady was very fond of patronizing others, and her little country cousin's naivete and sweetness had created quite a sensation in the ou-clea to which she had been introduced, and there was uo dan¬ ger of her becoming a rivaL
Then, opposition always enlisted all Jose¬ phine's feelings. Spoiled cliild, and heiress ns she was, she could never endure to be contravented in the simplest matter. So Minnie's first refusal to attend the ball, had determined her oousin that she should go. The first steps in wrong-doing, reader, are generally very smooth ones. In acoordanci with your charaotere, your educational and looful oonriotioni and' pr»judle«8, triU you
other alone again that evening.
"And .so, I have stained my soul—I have told a lie, and God and the angels know It,'' murmured the wretched girl, as she threw herself across the foot of her bed that night, while great sobs of remorse shook her slen- derliame. "Oh! if I had uever gone to that ball—if that falsehood did not lie, burning and blackening:, upon my soul! How can I ever look iuto Leonard's true, loviug eyes again!—how cau I go through life, feeling that God—the God to whom I can come uo more in my joy or my sorrow—is looking in¬ to my heart, and re.ading the uf, that is writ¬ ten there. If I should tell Leonard—bnt how can 1—he is so noble, so lofty-minded, so honorable. 1 could never liave the moral courage now to tell the truth—he would de¬ spise and hate me forever. 1 know he would."
Ah, Minnie! Minnie! through deeper wa¬ ters of remorse must you come to the truth. ! not for mortal love, but for its own blessed, : immortal sake ! |
And she did it at last. Two days did Min- i nio carry that falsehood in her heart, whose memory struck the roses from her cheek, and the brightness from her blue eyes, while her friends concluded she was silently loug ing to return again to the city and the gor¬ geous house she had left. At last she could endure it no longer. Sho sat dow n and wrote a confession of the whole matter to Leonard Steele. She wrote earnestly, honestly, hold¬ ing nothing back, and in uo wise endeavoring to- exculpate herself; and thus she conclu¬ ded:
" Precious as your love is to me, Leonard— terrible as is the thought of your contempt—/ would rather this tnomtnt resign the one, and become the object of the other, than suffer th". great mental agony ofthe last two days. But with ihe writing of this the weight has been lifted up from my heart, and J am compara¬ tively happy. I know und love you better for your high ideal of character and of life. I know,too, I must come down from the shining place where your affection had plated mc, iitat you will despise me for my weakness, for my being in ihe hour of trial found 'wanting.' And yet, remember that charity is greater than justice; and, oh, Leonord! in the depths of of the heart that once loved me, let there be some voice that shall plead softly for your MI^¦^•IF.."
It was late in the afternoon when Minnie dispatched her note to the office. But on that day a circumstance had occurred which darkened somo of tbe brightest years of the young girl's lifo.
Doctor Steele was playing the liost that morning to two unexpected, but very wel¬ come guests, in his rooms at the village ho¬ tel. One of these waa hifl cousm John; the other an intimate friend and traveling com¬ panion of the yonng man's, whom the doctor now met for the first time. They were chat¬ ting animatedly, walking up and down the room with their hands behind them, or con- Toluting themselves on the sofas and in the arm chairs, (as gentlemen are very apt to do when alone togothe,) in all sorts of nonde¬ script attitudes and positions, when Mr. Gra¬ ham suddenly laid his hand on the velvet case of a daguerreotype whiclj lay on the table.
"Have I your permission?'* bowing to the dootor.
bed, vibrating betweeu life and death, with the brain-fevor that Itad smitten her.
She recovered at last, .and took up the broken threads of her life again, a wi.ser and a butter woman.
As Doctor Steele was packing his trunk, the afternoon of the day that he left the village, several lettei-s were bronght him.— He tore them open hastily, and, in his ex¬ cited mood, rather looked at than read them. Then he hastily tossed them into a large en¬ velope, unconscioas there was oue letter, bearing a delicate, feminine chirography, whose seal he had not broken.
H that letter Imd heen opened, how great¬ ly would it have modified his after life !
But Minnie Hart never suspected this, and always believed that Leonard's first know¬ ledge of her attending the ball was obtained through herself.
Three years had pa.=sed sinco Doctor Steele left America. One afternoon, ahont' six mouths after he had takegu^cfTiis beautiful suburban homo a fair English bride, he was rummaging among some old letters in a cor¬ ner of his trunk. He shook out of a pletho¬ ric envelope a dozen of these, when one attracted his attention, the chirography of whose address had power still to stir hia heart. He opened aud read it. Then his proud head bowed down on the trunk.— What emotions shook his heart in tbat hour was knowu only to him aud his God.— In one thing, at least, did he rejoice exceed¬ ingly. Minnie had at last been true to her¬ self. His idol was uot ail clay. And when his fair-haired English wife put her bright face in at the door, and eagerly called- him. to go out with her on the veranda, and see the May suuset, he rose up, and drawing her to his heart, said, with a solemnity whioh shook up the tears into her soft eyes, " What the May is to the year, you are to ay life, darling. To its end I .shall love you very tenderly."
And he kept his word.
Minnie, too, was married some five years after Leonard Steele left America. Hor hus¬ band was a good and noble man. She loved him, and was happy—1 cannot tell whether as much so as if her heart had sung all the days of her life the song of its youth. But I do know that the.lesson she had learned so dearly, was never forgotten,—that through the deep waters of remorse she came into the great peaco of the All-Father, and that her life war* (alas! of Iiow many shall.the angels write it!) a trvp ea/nest sclfiacrif. cing one.
Idle VisiTi».—The idle are a very heavy tax upon the industrious, when by frivolous visitation they rob them of their time. Such parsons beg their daily bappine.^s from door to door as beggars their daily bread, and, like them, .sometimes meet with a rebuff. A mere gossip ought not to wonder if we evince signs tbat wo are tired of him, seeing that we are indebted for the honor of his visit solely to the circumstance of hiajbeing tired of himself. He sits at home until he has accnmaUted an iusupportablo load of ennui, and then sallies forth to distrihute it among his acquaintance.
[We intend to publish the portraits of sev¬ eral who inflict themselves upon editors, printers, and others. They must be, pub¬ licly exhibited " shown up"—aee them¬ selves as others see them. This fault is par- tionUrly appHoable to the masculine gender. Women nerQr do no—never.]
[From HiiQt'.i .Arercliimi*.'; Magazine.]
Oar Gold Mine- and How it Paid.
nv   UOS.   THOMAS a.   CAIIEY.
About thirty years .-igo Ihert' wa.s eou.-'iil- ej-ahle excitement on the subjeot of gold discovered in North Carolina, and that State was said to be found, after all, to be as rich in gold as the first coloni.sts there imagined that it was, I had myself seen, among otlier flpecimens, one lump, found near the surface of the gronud, whicli was worth about $3,- 000; aud after some time-I becamo convinced that gold mining was likely to become au imjjortant businws in the country. Mining comjianies wero formed, and after a few yeara, some of my friends having become in- terustod In one, I took a few shares in order to aee practically what would ha the result. In an epidemic which prevailed iu 1832, the president and treasurer of the compauy both suddenly died; and looking iuto the office one day to learn how our affairs were to be
accident—mines so rich that, like prizes In lotteries, if it were not for tbe blanks, they would draw people oft' from the Industry neee.ssary for producing food and dotliinn in thi! regular way.
Tln'tt! itt another ;-'i«s oi" cases in which the disappointnienc arisys"from sheer fraud. A moraorable inst.ance occurred, which may .eerve as a caution tu thdni: who have any di.tipositiou to try their fortune in mining, uot only to make previous examination, but to make it thoroughly, aud with sufficient intelligence ou the subject to discern the truth.
About tho timo that I speak of, a company wa.=t formeii in New York for the purchase of a mine in Virginia that waa said to be very productive. The accounts from the agent were highly encouraging, but as he was not generally known, confirmation was wanteil from some person entitled to the fullest confidence, in order to make tho stock salable at an advance. At length one of the directors, a man of unquestionable integrity, managed, I was told that I had jost been : ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ orthodox church, consented to chosfln ir^n^nvt^r Aiti>rn„„i, .r.^ R..* -» go to Virginia to make personal examina¬ tion, and those who were in treaty for shares waited for hia return, perfectly ready to abide by his report,-and take shares if that
chosen treasnrer. AUhrough my first im¬ pulse was to decline an office connected with an enterprise of rather fanciful character, as it seemed. I concluded, on the whole, to ac¬
cept   it,   for tho  purpose  of. seeing  exactly
lid  become  of all the  mouey that
was raised for the purchase of the mines and
,   .. ,,   . ..   ,,   , i report .should bo favorable,
what would   become   of all the   mouey that
the outfit of machluery.    When all prepara- j ^ tions had been completed, and the machine-
On his arrival at the mine he told the agent
that although he wanted no confirmation to
satisfy himself, yet, as he  had come for the"
satisfaction of others, lie did not propose to
ry was  actually  m operation, I resolved to   t„,i „„„ „„  ,.;, „t„rn what had been .a«
go to Nortl> Carohua and inspect tho process   ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^,^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^j^^j_
mvself.    On   the   way there.   I stopped  at   ,   ¦ i .i   . i   '.   i -in.     e
•^ ^* Ily seen; and that he had uo wish, therefore,
Washington to gain  Infonnatiou from mem-'
ber.s of Congress from that quarter, and hav¬ ing previously gathered somo particulars,! remarked Xo one of them that a« nearly'm I could learn, tho people who had made money were those who had collected wlfat they could fiud on the surface or a little be¬ low, and with some rongh contrivance, hard ly deserving the name of machinery, bavin gained something considerable for a small business, when they found that tho invest¬ ment of capital became ngcessary, had stop ped and sold thoir rights, leaving the further prosecution to others, who iu general had been unsuccesful. Ho told rae that it was very much so, and that in going the cir¬ cuit as a lawyer with the courts, lie had usually fouud on arriving at auy place whpre he had previously heard that thero had been great success in mining, tixat the success there had been greatly overrated, and that it was at some place further on that he was to inquire for the great results.
As I traveled onward toward our mine, I found that our company had a great reputa¬ tion iu the country as having captital from Boston, but that our agent was supposed to have made great mistakes, indicating that although he had been engaged at minlug In Peru, he was not skillful. Before arriving at the mine that I went to visit, I had an op¬ portunity of examining one which had been worked for some years by another company, and saw something of the process.
Having descended the shaft about 150 feet in a tub, I was conducted through the nar¬ row passages, opened below, toward the va¬ rious veins that had beeu discovered ; those passages, except for width and height, re sembling lanes in a city, and being lighted by bit:! of tallow candles stuck in the sides by the miners who were at work here and there, chiefly negroes. The rough footing, the stooping posture necessary for getting on, and the confined air were so disagreeable that I could not but remark to my conduc¬ tor that I had never known, before getting down there, how to .sympathize fully with thoso who in some countries are condemned to the mines for punishment. His answer was : " If you mean to express concern for those whom yon see here, you may depend upon it that your sympathy is all thrown away. Theae men enjoy their work; thoy are interested and excited by the uncertainty and the occasional success to such a degree that they become, in a great measure, unfit¬ ted for work In the opeu air on tho planta¬ tions."
On arriviug at our mine, I fouud all our machinery in operation, and our agent ap¬ peared confident of success, though he want ed more money. The process was, after crushing the ore by stamps iu a mill to a pulverized atate, to pass it into iron pans, whore it was kept revolving in contact with quicksilver, with which the particles of gold became amalgamated, all other portions from tho ore pas.^ing ofl" in running water. Thia process had been going on for about ten days, but it required a week or two more for completion. I desired him, however, to take down one of the pans that I might see how much gold had been obtained at that time. He did so, and pouring the contents into a buckskin, the corners of which he gathered In his hands, twisted it, aud most of the quicksilver, passing directly through the skiu, fell In doops like rain, aud left a sort of snow-ball of amalgam nearly as large as one's fist. By a further process the gold was extracted from this in my presence, and was handed to me, being in bulk something less than one of our three-cent piece.s. My hopes were not raised by this result.
Our agent liad incurred considerable debts, forwhicli he ^wanted a supply of money. But having furnished him about 1,000 pouuds of quicksilver, 1 referred him to his own pans for the gold which they were so soon to yield, only making arrangements with a rich trader near there to pay him at once the net value of any bars of gold that were ex¬ pected, and which were to be sent on to the mint at Philadelphia for coinage.
On my return, our stockholders woro anx¬ ious for a report, and I told them that gold miningwas this: To raise a bushel of rocks from a depth of SO to 150 feet bolow the sur¬ face of the earth, contending all the way down with water, which was to bo raised at considerable expense ; to cart the rocks one to five miles to water-power ; there to pul¬ verized them as fine and free from grit as the flour from which we make . bread; then to keep the ore.running for one to threo weeks in contact with quicksilver; and if we had done what was called agood business to find that we had obtained about 85 cents in gold from the bushel of rocks, while a bushel of corn was worth at the mouth of the mine about 75 cents, and they might judge wheth¬ er it was best to raise the rocks or to culti¬ vate the corn ; that gold was so common there that a traveler might be told with truth that the very road over which he passed wa.s a gold mine, and suppose, there¬ fore, that he might get out of his vehicle and secure a fortune, but he would find on examination that a bushel of what ho could gather up would yield only about 20 cents in gold, and-that it would cost him three times that to extract it.
We received two or three Httle bars only from all the preparation that I had seen. After suoh a personal Inspection, there was no room for self-deception on either side, add we understood our position too clearly to send good money after bad, which we should have been very likely to do if noUg of us had gone to look. Onr work.=i were stopped ; the agent resigned ; the mines and land, mills, machinery, aud quicksilver were all soldfor the most they would bring; the debts were paid, and each .stockholder .who had paid $100 received 70 cents an his first and last dividend.
In estimating the oostof gold, unfortunate results like this are to be taken into view. They arise sometimes fvnm waut of skill, sometimes from mismanagement, and often from what may be considered as Ul-Uick, since the utmost sagacity that can be exerjj oised as to what is to bo found below the surfaceof the earth may be disappointed In mining, as it often ia in digging wells for water. They oflBet the good fortune with which rich minei are gometimes hit upon by |
to make inquiries, but to go into the mine ; and take specimens for himself. The agent | said that he had been for some time desirous j to. seo just such a person, and in order that j rthey might proceed at once, ho provided his ; janitor with a suitable dress for the work^ aad, descending t^he shaft, conducted him to Several veins which had been discovered, and on which miuers were at work. The veins usually vary in width from six inches to two feet or more, just as we sometimes see in ledges of rock on the surface of the earth, what is a different kind of stoue from the mass, injected, as it were, iuto what may have been a fissure. Giviug- him a hammer and an assistant, he desired him to strike just where he chose, and make his own se¬ lections. This being done with considerable labor, the stockholder ascended with his col¬ lection of specimeus, telling the agent that he should have them carefully tested; that If they were found, iu conformity with pre vious reports, to contain gold at the rate dt §2 per bushel, all parties would be entirely satisfied ; but that if they ahould be found to contain materially less, the result would be taken still as so decisive of the character of the mine altogether that no future repre¬ sentations oonld alter the decision against it. The agent expressed his readiness to submit to that condition, and gave his assurances that, whatever should be the result, the specimens thus taken might be considered as a fair sample of ill tlie veins opened, and of large heaps of ore which he pointed to at the mouth of tho mine. On returning to New Y'ork the deacon submitted his .sped' mens to a goldsmith, with such precautions that there should be no deception there, and awaited the result. It was, that the value of the ore was not $2, but about S4 per bush¬ el. The excitement that followed equaled what we have sometimes seen in regard to Calfomia. The stock rose from tbe par value of $100 to $1,000 for each share, and people could not get what they wanted even at that price. Exaggerated reports were .Qpread, and the excitement increased, ti 1 one piorning a gentleman, going into Wall street, inquired what was tho news of the day of a broker whom he met, and who, beiug some¬ what of a cynical temper, gave vent to it oc¬ casionally iu a Munchausen story. The an¬ swer was that there was nothing new except the astonishing account from the Virginia mine, surpassing all that had come from thero before. " And what was that ?" in¬ quired the man. "It is," said the broker, " that a miuer, having stuck a crowbar in the ground to leave it there while he attend ed to something in a field near the shaft, fouud, ou withdrawing it, that it was follow¬ ed by a stream of liquid gold, which contin¬ ued to flow until two acres of gronnd were cov¬ ered with a golden sheet an inch or two thick.' The ridicule that ensued caused everybjdy concerned to pause, and seek further infor¬ mation. The story soon reached Virginia. It was found that most of the shares that had beeu sold belonged to the agent, who was himself so large a stockholder that he must have received a profit of about §150,- 000. It was theu found that he had left the mine, aud sent in hia resignation ; and that the worthy man who weut to examine had been deceived after all, having been artfully conducted to just such spots as occasionally appear even in poor mines, where he might exercise his sagacity at his own cost, for all which the agent had been well prepared, having supposed it probably that an inves¬ tigation of somo kind must be near at hand. I never know the exact details of the final issue, but have reason to believe that, like the case in North Carolina, 70 cents for SlOO invested was quite as much as was ever found to bo divided.
The collection of gold in California hith¬ erto, which are a marvelous exception in the history of gold-mining, appears to have been made chiefly in the simplest mauner, by gathering what was fonnd in the beds of rivers, and en or near the surface of the ground, and washing it from the earth, which is easily done, as the gold, from Its greater weight, as soon as disengaged, fouud at the bottom of the pan or other vessel used. But of late wo hear of crushing the quartz rock in which the gold is found em¬ bedded, and of proceeding with it in the manner that I have mentioned as in use in North Carolina; and there is said to be an abundant supply of quicksilver in the coun¬ try for that purpose. We do not hear yet, howevoj, of great success in that way. In¬ deed, it must be obvious that unless the oro be remarkable rich, the gold can not be extracted from tho rock with profit by any such process, where labor is so high as it is even In the Atlantic States, although in some countries, where labor of the natives oan be had for little more than the cost of the sim¬ plest food and clothing for their subsistence the veins of gold mines may be followed to a great depth with advantage, even for a very small return, like that which can gener- allv be had in our Southern States.
1^" Au anecdote is told of Finney the re¬ vivalist, and acanaler, to the following efiect: Ho was " holding forth" in Rochester, aud in walking along the canal one day, came across a boatman who was swearing furiously. Going up he confronted him, and abruptly asked,
" Sir, do you kuow where you are going ? "
The unsuspecting boatman innocently re¬ plied that he was going up the canal on tho boat " Jonny Sands."
" No, sir, you are not," continued Finney " you are going to hell faster than a canal boat can convey you."
The boatman looked at him in astonish¬ ment for a minute, aud thon returned tho question—
" Sir, do yon know where you are going F
" E expect to go to heaven."
"No, sir, you are g-oizig- in ihc canal!"— And suiting the action to the word, he took Finney iu his arms and tossed him in the murky waters, where ho would have drown¬ ed had not the boatman relented and firfhed him out.
GIVE   SMILES.
(jlre ernllea to clieer the lltle cliild, A stranger oa this thorny wild; It bringeth love, its gmrd to be¬ lt, helpleai, oQlceth. love from thee. Howo'er by ftirtnne'i gUlB nnbleat, OlTt tmU« to fihUdhoQ^'f fvUtlAU breut.
THE NEW MOTHER.
" Well, uow, dear, which will you have— the white or the pink camelias ? Yoii know you can take your choice, Alice?" and Aunt Maggie lifted the large blossoms, aud laid them against the little girl's rich, yellow curls, as she spoke.
The blue eyes of Alice Field wandered doubtfully from one to the other. It was very hard to decide, for the flowers seemed equally beautiful, as they lay among the long, green leaves, one white as the anow on the mountain tops, the other wearing that deep, rich flu-ih which the little country ohil¬ dren see in the June sun-riaea.
At last a new thought brightened into Al¬ ice's face. " I'll take one of each kind ; you know, Aunt Maggie, I am to wear them on either side of my hair, and it will hp juat the thing."
"So it will, dear child. Just pull the bell wire, while I pay the man;" and Aunt Mag¬ gie drew her pearl port monnaie from her pocket
While Mrs. Field was counting the silver, another-littie girl put her headjn at the door, whom.thSlady ordered to bring a glass vase, half filled with water, for the camelias.
As the flower-man departed, the little girl returned; she was about'Alice's age, and yet, what a contrast was there in the two!
Lucy Hunt had lived with Mrs. Field but a short time. She was an orphan, without any friends in the world. This waa the most the family knew of her.
She had a pale, wistful faca, with large, sad eyes, and her thick, brown hair was cropped short in her neck, arouitcpfehich loving fin_ gers had once twined cur s bright as Alice Field's.-       #-
"Th^^C-trfy! just see what you've done, Jfinriy^nYhl&t-a careless child you, are!— You're nearly spoiled Alice's new akirt!" said M]fa. Field, as she almost rudely brushed Jie child had stumbled aa vase of water, and several over, and fallen on the pkirt 'imming.
m to, ma'am,"_ stammered the somehow my head felt dizzy."
" Well, do look out, and be more careful next time;" rejoined Mrs. Field, who, though frequently hasty, was not a hard-hearted woman.
Alice looked up as the cliild left the room- She .saw the tears washing stilly out of Lu¬ cy's eyes,' and creeping down her cheeks. Her heart waa touched with pity, and though Aunt Maggie continued to talk about the new dress, and the birth-night party, the child answered in dreamy monosyllables, for she hardly heard her, because of the little, pale, wistful face, with the tears flowing down it, which seemed standing right before her.
At last ahe noiselessly slid ont of the room, and went down to the kitchen door, and peeped softly in, but Lucy was not there.
"I guess she's up stairs in her own room. Maybe she's gone there to cry, poor 'lit¬ tle girl! I'll try and find her, and comfort her, anyhow." And she went up four pair of stairs, and through the narrow, dark pas¬ sage that led to Lucy's room, at the back of the house.
The door stood a little ajar, and Alice dis tinctly heard a sob creeping out of it.
She went iu bravely, then. " Lucy," she said, in her sweet, low tones, " I came to find you, and to tell you not to cry because you spilled the water on my dress. I don't care anything at all about it, yon see."
Lucy aat on the low bedstead, and the set¬ ting sunlight, as it pushed through the half open blinds, struck rich and golden into the child's brown hair.
Alice went softly, and put her arms round her. Lucy looked up, and tried to smile^ but tho tears came instead, aud great eohs shook her frame, though she clung to,AlIcf* all the time^Alice, who-e bright eyea brim¬ med with sympathy.
" Oh ! it seems po good to have you here, if I do cry," at last wispered Lucy.
" Does it? I'm real glad ! Bat youtoustn't feel bad any more. You're lonesome, I guess, because you don't have anybody to play with you."
"No, it isn't that," shaking her head mournfully. It's because mamma is dead, and I haven't anybody to love me."
" Poor Lucy ! is your mamma dea'J, too?" her voice and face were very full of touching pathos aa she drew still nearer to the child, for Alice could just remember lier own beautiful mother, as she lay in the coffin with the white roses strewn about ier cold cheeks.
God had uever giveu any children to Mr. and Mra. l^ield, so Alice had lived with them ever since ; and they loved her quite as ten¬ derly as if ahe were their own daughter.
" Yes," Lucy anawered, in a broken .voice. " Oh, ahe was auch a sweet, gentle, loving mother! We lived out in the couutry, too, where the sunshine used to lie bright on the meadow-grass, aud the golden dandoliona grew like stars along the road-aide. But mamma grew sick, and"—^Lucy's voice failed her here, and when she dared to ti-ust it again ahe only added: " The next waek they buried her by the old, mossy waU, where they laid papa when I was a baby."
" I am very, very aorry for you, Lucy," whispered '.he tremulous voice of Alice.
"Dont call me Lucy, please, but Lilly.— It waa what my mamma called me. 'My darling Lilly!' she used to say it so sweetly."
"Well, Lilly, wasn't there anyboiy to take care of you after your mamma died ?"
"No, nobody. They brought me to the city,' and placed me in that washcrvoman's family, where your aunt found me. Mamma ' told me she was going home to. tha angels, and that sometime ahe would com* for me. Every week I call to her to come, for her little. Lilly wants to put her arais round her neck again. Oh! 1 wish she would make haste 1"
" Well, Lilly, don't say again nobody loves you, because I do, dearly," sa.'d Alice, fltro- king the short, brown hair.
"Do you ? Do you really.'" What a tide of light flowed over Lucy's face as she clasped her arms around Alice; And far above them, where the winds murmured softly through a lea of white blossoms, the angels laid by for a moment the crown.they were wearing, looked down on the two children as thoy sat there in the little room on the low bed and smiled.
Tw~o days had passed. Alice had attended the birth-night party of her friend, taken a severe cold, which had settled into a fever, and now the family stood in the darkened chiraber, by the little couch with ita pink looplngs and lace hangings, on which the child lay dying.
Heavy sobs broke the silence. The death coldness was on Alice's soft cheeks, the death dimness in her blue eyea.
Suddenly they opened, aud the laat life- light gathered into them.
" Oh, Alice, my darling, how can I let you go !" wept out the child's aunt, as ahe clasped the little, cold hands. Alice's eyea wandered to the foot of the bed, where Lilly stood, almost convulsed with grief.
She beckoned her faintly to her side, and Lilly came, and Alice feebly placed the child's hand in that of her aunt.
"I give her to you," she said. " It is my dying gift, Aunt Mattie. Promise me you will take her to your heart, aud ahe shall he all to you and Uncle Charlie that I have been, when lam up there!"
Mrs. Field looked at Lilly a moment, aud then drew her to her heart.
" I promiae yon, Alice. She shall be to me another daughter."
"There, Lilly, you have a mother uow," cried Alice, with joyXul triumph. And then, the light went out from her food, and theHds dropped gtaUj over her «y«9.
THE CAMELS-- t
A correapondent of the New Orleana Delta gives the following account of the; ojmela recently imported by the United States'Gov- ernment: .i^ ;..
" The United Statea ship Supply left the port of Smyrna on the 15th of February, having thirty-three oamels in all on board, nine of thom being dromedaries, or riding camels. Most persona on this aide of the At¬ lantic are undertho impression that a drome¬ dary only dilTers from an ordinary camel by having but one hump on ita back; but I must tell them that such is not so, as the only difference is that the dromedary is much better made, more symmetrical, and, there¬ fore, much fleeter. Two of them are Bac- trian,. or two-humped camels, which were brought over for breeding. Twenty-one are beasts of burden. Of this original stook one only died, and that by accident in bringing Six calves were boiH on the passage.
forth.
Three of these died from accidents, one of them from "fits," leavintt two, which -ire alive and thriving, and making in all thirty- four, being one more than was started with. The ship arrived off Matagorda on the 29tb April, having had eighty-ais days' sea voyage. One of theae oamels was on board ship nine months, he being a present to ua from tbe Regent of Tunis. Six of the drome- dariea were presented to us (" Uncle Sam") hy the Viceroy of Egypt. Most of them have Bhed their hair, and they are more or less perfectly naked.
The cross of the Bactriau or two-hump6<i with the one'humped female produces a powerful one humped animal called a " Boog- dhu" or"Tinlu," which resembles a mulo in its inability tu continue its race; or if it does procreate, the issue is a puny, worthless crea¬ ture, called a " koukonrs." A " Boogdhu," or " Tinlu," will carry for short distances from twelve to tifteen hundred pounds, but its average load on a long journey is about seven hundred pounds, whioh he can carry with ease from thirty to thirty-five mllea per day. The Tinlu was brought over merely to show its usefulness.
One of the male camels ia a " Pehlavan," or fighting camel. Contests between these camel-warriors or gladiators aff"ord one ofthe favorite amusements in the East. Being trained for combat, when thoy are pitted against each other the fight is carried on with great skill as woll as ferocity, and not unfrequently ends in the death of one or both champions. It is like the bull-fight in Spain, and Is much delighted in by the " Oriental Grandse."
The earners hair is very useful, and uo doubt our enterprising manufacturing men could make many valuable stuffs out of it.— But I am sorry to inform my female friends that the shawls usually called camel's hair shawls are not made from the article, but from the hair of the Thibet goat, which is mueh finer. I cannot tell-why they are cal¬ led camel's hair shawls, but will leave the question to some zoological amateur, or to the ladies, who, no doubt, aro much intereated in tlie matter.
We used the milk of the camal on our way out to Texas. It is in no way dlstinguisha- hU from cow's milk, and we do not wonder at the fondness which the wandering Be- doiilns have for it, and the value they set npon the camel.
Major Wayne brought over with him oue Armenian as Interpreter, (for the camels ?) two Turks and threo Arabs, one of whom is a Bedouin, or desert Arab. One of the Turks was a Bachibazourk, or Turkish volunteer^ aud was wounded at the battle of Silistra where he carried the standard of his column. On Tuesday the 13lh inat. we landed the camels at Powderhorn wharf, Indianola — Tbe whole town was turned out to witness the debarkation of the Oriental beasts. In about an hour after they were on shore, the men saddled them, aud off they went Iu In dian file for their stable, which is situate 1 just back of Indianola. Had a person drop ped down from the clouds at tbat moinent he would have imagined himself in the Ea.st —for there was the caravan, with nn hii-k of Oriental costume and Arabic nibberish.
Major Wavne had been some time per auading the government to introduce these animals into the land service as transports, and he certainly deserves much credit fo.'- the project, I believe it is the intention of the Government to send the supply for an other shipment.
Aunt Lizzie's Codetship.—Why, you see, when my man came a courtin'me, I hadn't the least thought of what he waa after—not I. , ,Iobie came to our house one night, after d^k, and rapped at the door. I opened it, and sure enough there he was. i
" Come in," says I; " take a cheer."
" No, Lizzie," says he, "I've come on an arraut, an' I always do my arrants fust." I
"Bat you had better come in and take a; cheer, Mr. W ."
" No, I cant't. The fact is, Lizzie, I've come on this 'ere courtin business. My wife'.nbeen dead these three weeks, an' every thing'.n goin' to rack an' ruiu right^'long. Nr.w Liz- zie, if you're a mind to have me, an' t.ik" ' care of my house an' mv children, an' niv things, tell me, an' I'll come in an' take a cheer, if not Til (^et some oiieet>B lu."
Why, I was skeered, and aaid:
"If you come on thl.-i courtin' bu-'ine.-irt come in.    I must think on't a little."
"No, I can't till I kuow. That*:! my -ar rant, aild I can't aet dow until my arrant in dons."
" 1 ahould like to think on it a day or two.'
" N.» you ueedn' t, Lizzie."
"Well, Joble, if I must, I mnst; ao here's tu ye, then."
So Mr. W came in. Then he went af¬ ter the Squire, and he married me and Jobie right off, and I went home with Joble that very night.
I tell ye what it ia, these long courtin's don't amount to nothin' at all. Just aa well do it in a hurry.
To Measure Hay in Mows,—The editor of the New Jersey 'Farmer saya that he haa proved the following rule for finding tbe num¬ ber of tons of hay in a given bulk : " Take a mow of 12 or 15 feet in depth, and which haa been filled with hay, as it was drawn from the field, and haa leen lying till spring, and measure the length, breadth, and height in foet—multiply thera to.get the cubical contents. For instance—the length is 20 feet, breadth 40 feet, aud height IG feet—20 times 40 makes SOO, multiply by ItJ, equal to 13,800 cubic feet, which being divided by 700, the number of feet that mako a ton of 2,000 lbs., will give IS tons 200 lbs. The top of a mow, say about one-third, we rate at 800 feet to the ton, the middle 700 feet, and tho bottom of the mow at (iOO- -so the whole bulk wo'uld average 700 feet. If the mow is 12 or 15 feet deep, but if only 5 or G feet deep, count SOO foet for a tou, and so ac¬ cordingly with other bulks."
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Mr. Stephens, in his Incidents of Travel, mentions that tomb-stones in the Turkish burying grounds are all Hat, and contain lit¬ tle hollows which hold the water after a rain, and attract the birds, who resort thith¬ er to .slake their thir-jt and sing amongst the trees.
An English paper says that the following re¬ markable entry occurs in the register of Ashover Church, in the year lOtjO : " Doro¬ thy Matly, supposed wife of Johu Flint, of this parish, foreswore himself, whereupon the ground opened, she sunk over head, March 23d, and being found dead, she was buried March 25."
We paint onr lives in fresco. The soft and fusile plaater of the moment hardens under every stroke of the brush, into eter¬ nal rock.
The more sides a man has to his mind, the more certain he is of receiving blows on all of them from one party or other.
"No man," said a wealthy, but weak- headed barrister, " should be admitted to th» bar who had not an independent landed property." " May I ask, air," said Mr. Cur- ran, "ho.7 many acres make a wiseacre i"'
Plutarch evinced a deficiency in taste, and a shallow judgment, when he said of angling that it was, a filthy, base, Illiberal employ¬ ment, having neither wit nor perspicacity in it not worth the labor.
Dr. Cousin having heard tho famou-^ T. Fuler repeat verses on a scolding wife, was so delighted with them as to request a copy : but Fuller told him " a copy was needless as he had the original."
It was asserted at a court of sessions in England, a short time since, that the aot rendering a scolding woman subjest to three dips in the river on a ducking stool, has uever been repealed.
" Zounds, fellow I" exclaimed a choleric old gentleman to a verv phlegmatic matter of-fact person, "I shall go out of my wits.*' "WeU you won't ^ave/or to go,-' said the phlegmatic man.
Eliot Smith wa3» and may be is, a celebra¬ ted upholsterer, and good-natured auctioneer at Cambridge, Eug., whn.-'e body exc^'eded in dimensions the proper corporation standard; on him a Trinity wag wrote the following lines :
Itjiesh be grots', as name folks nay, Then EUot timiih's it loadof hay!
Codfish Aristocracy.—Tying a mackerel to yourcoat-tail, and iniaginicig yourself a whale.
Can a w.itch fitted with, a second hand be called a second-hand watch ?
The beat thing to give ourenemy is forgive¬ ness; to your opponent, tolerance ; to a friend your heart; to your child, a. good example ; to your father, deference ; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you ; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, anda scarred or crooked oak will tell of the a«t for cenlurlea to come. So it is with tho teachings of youth, which make impression.s on t£e mind and heart that are to last forever.
Jones, Jr., says that his neighbor has a very nervous, eccentrio dog, that displays a fondness for midnight vocal exercise, and de- airea to know a remedy. For quieting the nerves of a dog, we know nothing equal to itryolmt&e.
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WMC. K AMER,
SVOCESSOR TO JOHH G. MOORE,
M iu;k4».\* D*.ivrivi,
Office—Cor. of North Queen ^ Orange sts., LANCASTEB CITY, PEWN»A.
HAV1l\'1> du aircouur ..1 ill h.-alth, been compelled to rfliDquijili the dati«B ot my profciBlon, and havine thereforfl dlaponed of my entire offlce right, fttoct.flxtnrea. Ac, lo Dr. Wm, N, Ahsr, Xwoatd state that Dr. A., baviag had BomeHQ7Qa years experience ia DENTISTRY, {Hvo . years under the InEtniction and io ths J employ gt I>e. Waylan, of thl« city, audi] for two yeara on aaal^tant In my own oF- -—_
flee.) I feel no hasiUlioa In cnnitneoding him to mv old patrons, and all otiiors who may desire his aerrlceii   a a pernon folly qnallfled to p'raotieJs Il[«'profeaiI(in In  a its variouii branehes. .   JOHX G. UOORE.
Havixg takeu the office of Dr. Moose, aa above stated, I feel no besitation, after an experience of Beven yeara In my profesmon, in offering my wrrtceB to the citizens of Lancaater and vicinity, and aaooro thera that no effort .shall be spared npon my part to pleiaea who may favor me with acall.
Lanc'r. May l.-6m.21 WM. K. AMER.
ARTirrCff4I« TEETH.
A iraW 3!ffATEEIAL FOB PLATE,
The Latest and Best Invention of the Jge. "iSr. S. WELGHENS would respecfc-
I ,/ folly annonace to his patrons and the pablic, that having pnrchaaed the right of tbis city and ¦connty lo asfl Dr. Slayton's Patent Colored Gotta Peroha, he Is prepared to fornt.sh Seta of Teeth with this material in a manner far eoperior i to anything now in o-^e. The advanta- ( gcs are tbe ability of making a more perfect fit, and a more natural and beantifnl Job; and tbe material i.'i va.stly mors coDgenial and more pleasant to bd worn in tliemooth than metal. All who have ever hud it applied will bave nothiog else. Il Is Impsrvicas and perfectly indestructible by acidu or alkalies, and cannot be in tlm Icahl affected by the saliva of, or by anytlilDf; taken into the month. 1 have tested this by potting it into llie hlrongest anna fortis, ¦with no mors elTect upon it tban tronid be from wator.
AH who wish to try the Oatta Percba Teeth can have a fiot pot in and if tbey do not rttnder perfect hatlsfac- lion. tbey need not tnke tbem. Or if tbey are found not to f-titnd the le-t of lime, a gold set, of the very best character, will ba inserted In exchange, or the mont^y will be refonded. C.ill at the offlce of Dr. S. WELCH- E.VS, in his D K U 0 STORE. S.irth Queen etreet, fur furtherinformittioo upon this Huhjeet, and see speoi. men.iof thlb truly beaoiiful invention.
I[j~Denli.sts wLshiug to purclta.-e Office Rights for the use of tbid Patent, iu tbfl tity or ciuuty nf Linca^>t>-r, can Ijeaccomm.idatedby callingadttbova. In'liuciioa- will be given in the ui-e of it. nov 2a-il-ft2
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NOTICE.
THK Cnmmissioiiors of the Washing¬ ton ASD Mabvi.a.vi> Line Railboau Company are requested lo meet at ilia imblic lioQ^e of Frederick Coojier, in the city of Litncasier. ou SATURDAY, ll,e 21sl d«y of Jnue. iS.',G, at 11 oclock, A. M. Punctual atleailauce Is rc,iuo„ted. aa Im^ine.-'S of importauca iriil be laid before tbe meetinc. ^^Hu Order of Coiiuiiissioni'rs. [luiiy 2Mt-:i5
SBA  BATHING—ATLANTIC   CIiY.
THE nWITED STATES HOTEL,
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Tt ofvUitors on ^ATrUDAV, tbo 3l-t of May inat., for tbe SeuBOn. Tbt; faciiifv for rpachlne thi« fine batbii.g gnmud, being oniy two aud a half hours' ride iin niilroad from PhiladelphU, opens the oppnrtuBily to tho-e who may bave hot a f^hort litiit> ti> Hpare. to enjoy tho lieuefU of bciiUby reiroiition, wllli.mt much.if nny, interrnption to businoss. TNie Huf^l in now in the best htate of preparation for tho rpc.'ption ami iicc<iinmoda- tionof RUMtx. .lOlI.X a. -MlTCllEXEi:,
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MEDICINE STORE. U. A. Rocbafllcld &, Co.,
Next to KramphfS Clolhing Store, East Orange St. Lancaster City, Pa.
DEALERS in all the New and   Popu¬ lar FAMILY   MEDICINES,  PEUFUMEUV, &c, whole.'Jale and retail.
ICj-Driiggifits and Merch.ints iu thn connty ara invilfd toe.Kamiue thelrstock. ii&ii t.mbraco.s nil Ibo principal article> o prepared ami lui-nt tiicdk-iii.',- iii the market, which they are enabio.1 t.r sell .it tb.' iiuninfaclurcr.-i' wholesalfl'prices. H. A. KOCKAFIELD. A. H. KADFFMAN
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OFFICE OF TIIE )
CoiHmissionor of Lollcrics. f
Baltimoue, April IS, 1^31).
TH l^i under.si^nud, CnniiuifcsinuLT of l-oltL-rip-H of the folate of .M.iryland. beln>: iu re¬ ceipt daily at loiiersfnim varLius portions of Iha coun¬ lry, makiog io'iuiry a:i to Lottery Scheme- witii which Ihu couutry is ll..oJe.l, aud which purpurf to be "dkci- DED BT THE DBAWf.HliS OF TIIE MARTI.A.ND CON.^nLIDATET' Lottehie?." takes ibis melhud to au>weri^Ilt^uchl^•Ilpr^ of iBiuiry, and inform th^ public that Al.r. Lotteripo PL-RPOBTiSOTO HE LlECiDF.D OV THE AKYLA.Ml DkaW l.su-* AliE (iBO-^s FRACn.S ; that certain panie- wbo ..rylM IhemMclvea Morrix A Co., and preiend to bt* .M^uagfi- or Sola AneotB for Ibe Graml Charier Luiteii-*-'* hU'Ipch Unii. Ohio, are impti-lorj-. nnd "aid L.tliTV a tr.iinl. hnv Ingucilbor legal or prffurnpUvo exi^ttiice; m,.! il..it another fictitious Urni. Myl.d .Muny .\ O. . i-l.-v.-i,,!,.! Ohio, are al-. impoi-torN aud all i..ii..iie- win. 1. [l.,-v profehs to be liiJiuacer> i-r agoul= tur. Mrt al— Inni.i-
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tT|OM.4S SCNERlSis,
UMBRELLA iMMUFACTURER,
West  Orange street,   near   Shober's    Tavern and Fahnestock's Store, Lancaster.
IF you are in want of good and   dura¬ ble DMRRELLAa, and aay thing in my tine, please gf vt) me a call, sa «U my arildea aro good and cheap.
N. B.—Dmbrellaa and ParasolBcovered and repaired with neatEwa and dosp&tch.and at very' low pri c*iB. noT-lB-l
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on A LBS. Prime White Gum Arab-
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' JOHN F. LONG i CO.,
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Thr.Mi;:h llie PHiu«st i-'.!'Oitat:.iU' .n-i a-.-'^J.icc-i-.f 111.' h..ii.a;..;iatr»tc pllJ^iclaLs of tlm city. 1 li>v^ b-.u imluC'ri lo pr..ciire a lull aud cpoeral siij.|.!y .>i the pu- r^!.i and l!--! liuiiiEcopatbic uicdii-iue'*. aud'will l..- i,re- |.Hr.-ii I'f li) .Td-r-, or pre^cripiiou". witb a-" much ¦safety, aiiij a= ^'ood uicdiciii« B> can b« procurcii .it ^uy ilmf iu th« larger ciiie-, H..ll..way'> Aruica PIa-'.?i-: Arniira Court I'la-t-r, Adhc>lve Pla.-K'r and Adliefiva fitraps. Aii-o. a superior article of Uoince >patbic Am'ca Tincture alway> un hand. Per-on*- wUhing to have tiielr medicine che-lrt filled, cau be accommodaied Wuh tba Hame mediciues ih I they liarf" herct-ifore h.ien at tbe oxpouhe of twOnding to tha city of Philadelphia for. Prescriptions.
Il.iving procured tlu.-ervicfs of a ihoroogbly eduei- tpd druggist, wlio ba--put up from ten to fifteen thou¬ sand IVocripiion-^ iu a ye.ir, I re«J bold In saying to Physicians and otbors, that that branch of the bu-tinoT^g which all agreo to he tht moKt dangerous and re.-ipoasi- ble, will ho atlPnded to witb great car* and iu a eclen- tilic mauner.
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april 9 _  tf-19
EXCBIAIVRE IbAIVK
J    F.   SH'rODER  &   CO   .
THIS company beg leave to acquaint tbeir friends and the public thatlhey areoow ful¬ ly prepared to do a gfiueral ISanking, Exchange, Collec¬ tion and Stock llu,tincss with promplnesa and fidelity.
Money received on deposit and paid hack on demand, without noticfl. with tbaintere.it dne.    Interest paid on all feuras deposited at tho mle of ."i to .'5>i per cent. ' NoteK, Checks, Billc, &c., collected in any part of ths Dnited Slate.f or Canadas.
Uncurrent Kank Soles and Land Warraata bought and sold.
A I'reminia paid torolii Vuiicl SUiU-^ Cold rtndSilver Coin, alrto on Spanish and Mexican noIlarM. Bemlllan- ce.-i uiado to England, Ireland or the Continent. Partlc- ularattention paid to the buying and selling of Stocks and Loans of every da-icription.in tbe Sew York, Phil- adelphia or Baltiniure markets.
Il3>The faitbfal and confldential ezecntlon of all or¬ ders eutrnsted lu them may be relied npon. Tb-sy will be pleas.jd lo giva any information desired In regard Io Stock, Loan and mouey inaiterrt in general
Bankiug IIoiiso opeu from S A, M. Io 6 o'clock. P. M ______^ dec 13-lf_
"LANCASTER COUNTY
EXCHANGE & DEPOSIT OFFICE.
Cor. of East Kin^ and Duke Streets,
BET. THE CIlfKT HOCoE .V.Nll EPKECHElfo HOTEL.
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TOHN K. IIKKI) & CO.  [.aj  iiirm,~t
fj    on doro^i'-* ft Iho followiiif; raien :—
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Cor. of Centre Stjuare wtd Suutli  i^ueen sl LANCASTEK, PE]SN'A.
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i.N'SliRK iigaiiisi    Lu>s   03    FiiL-.   and receive m.iney on D-ipo.-.!!, a» hureiofjra,  prty:ug fl percent, on DcpoBilo luadft (or :iO day^ •jrloo^.r
KUDOLJ-H F   HJLXH. nov 28-6m-'''3 Socretitry aud TrertT>urer.
Collection of Povreia of Attorney and Forwarding of Emigranta. JACOB UKBZOG,
TEE well-kuown  Merchant, No. 61} North Qneen Btreet Lancaater, attends to
1. The Forwarding of Persona from every part of En- rop« to the principal Porta and also to the interior of America, on Ibo moal reanOnabla terma, wblch can ba aflcertained by applying to him.
2. He makea Paymeata »nd CoUectiona in all parts of Enropo and America, and negotiatoa Bills of Exohaaga for deolred amoant« and time on tha principal commer¬ cial places of Europe and America.
Power* of Attorney for any county In Eoropa 6X»ca- ted and coUectad fay him in tha most qirefol manner.
Letton In the Gorman Laoynage, written hy th* •rtljnta with proaptneii and d«ipateh.„ r
i^ril 8-tf-lS ^ J400B B£atoa.