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I fVOL. XXX. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1856. No. 48. PUBLISHED BT EDWAED 0. DABLINGTON, omoB nt KOKTR Qtnow antrar. _ The EXAMINBR & DHMOCKATIC HBRALD tl pa1}tUlt*d WMkly, At TWO DOLtJtu m y*Ar. AsTSBXiHXicBns not exoeeding one aqnare wmb«lMert«dtliTt»tImMforoB»doU»r, and tw"»'y- tn eanU will bo «liHfffd/or««li»ddIBoiiallMertionr- A Ubwaldiseount aUowedto thoM »dTertJ«lii« Dy tae 7«ar. . [From Arthar"* Home MigMlnt.l The Kerohaat and the Hiller. BT VIEOnnA P, TOWKSKSD. Have you ever sat, reader, vben the an- tninn evenings were growing cool and long, by some glowing biroh-wood fire in an old faran kltehen, among the mountains of New Hampshire f Those grand, old dniidical monntaina, about which the summer streams hang their silver necklaces, and over which the winter storms weave their garments of snow! Then, while the fire-flames dashed their yellow light over the great, brown raft¬ ers, and with every break of wind, the with¬ ered leaves rattled against the panes, have you listened to the story of some " old set¬ tler," whose memory reached back to the time when the bear and tbe wolf came down io the fields; and sometimes of an autumn moming the little children would go softly through the woods, io school, almost expect¬ ing to see a pair of wild glaring eyes among the bushes; and whispered how they had heard, the night before, of some neighbor's sheep-cote which had beeu broken into, and the blood-daggled grass bad told the story next day. Well, listening to just such tales, in the autumn ovening.s, we dreamed amoug those gray old mountains, the storvswo are about to tell you. \_--'^ *' I guess we shall liave a raal warm day of it, to-morrow," said tbe widow Pease, as she stood a moment iu tbe kitcben door of tbe old farm-house, at tbe close of an April day, some two score and a half of years ago ; just as the sun was resting on the tops of tbe mountains that bounded the horizon. Sixty years' observation of the winds and clouds had made Mrs. Pease a kind of weather ora¬ cle in the village ; and the good woman pri¬ ded herself no little upon her elemental fore¬ sight. " Well, Letty," sbe continued, as sbe closed the door, and retumed to her knitting and her chair by the fire-place, " I guess it'll be a first-rate day to bile the sap. I'll tell Enoch and Cyrus to pile up the boughs to-night, and hang ou the kettle, sb you oau have it all ready to kindle in the mornin'. You know they said the trees waa runnin' brisk¬ ly to-day, and they'd have two tubs fall afore night." "They didn't though, mother!" said Letty, pausing a moment in her work, for she was setting the supper table. " Goody! I'm so glad, for I do love to have a sap boiHu'." Letitia Pease waa tbe child of her mother's old age, and a daintier bit of nature's handi. work you have seldom looked upon. The next summer would count her twentieth, and her blue eyes were clear and bright as her New Hampshire skies, and the mountain winds had kindled a ruddy glow in her fair cheeks. She was rather short, but straight, with a finely-curved figure, and plump as health snd a hearty appetite could make her- For her character—^he was a right down, good-hearted, little spirited New England girl. That pretty little head of hers had been slightly tumed by the flattery that sundry swains had poured into it; but considering tbat she was tbe handsomest girl in the vil¬ lage, and knew it, too, Letty conducted her¬ self remarkably well. And perhaps, after all, it was not so much her fair face as it was the smilQs that broke up from the warm fountains of her nature and always. dimpled it, that won so many hearts towards her.— Sbe was not so sentimental, or inclined to the blues. Alas \ the damsels of fifty years ago had not so intimate an acquaintance with these matters as their descendants. But now, reader, in order lo do full pen¬ ance for thia last remark, we just admit that for one, we don't believe that oar grandmoth¬ ers were any better tban we are—^not a bit! Nicer pies and puddings they could indis¬ putably make, thrifty housekeepers, faithful wives, and loving mothers they surely were, and for these things blessed be their memo¬ ry I Bttt, after all, spinning wheels alone cannot enlarge one's sympathies, or daily darning stockings enrich one's intellect; and instinct and habit narrowed down to the cir¬ cle of their own families, the views aud feel¬ ings of thc women of the last century. And the true woman of the present time has broader social sympathies and richer life; and although she must acknowledge that her first duties are in her home, she will not think they end there, as her grandmoth¬ er did. Knowledge, that is true to itself, ex pands the moral as well as the intellectual life; and the world hasn't gone backward with tke substitution of botany for butter churns, and mathematics for milking pails .' Bat to return to our heroine. When Enoch and Cyrus, two tall, sunburnt, but fine-looking, young fanners, came in to sup- par, they were full of a story which quite drove out all thoughts of tbe sap boiling from the head of widow Pease andher daugh¬ ter. Some terrible depredations had been com¬ mitted the night before, ou Squtre Hubbard's sheep and lambs—the dog had been devour- «d, and two large bears had been seen prowl¬ ing around Blueberry hill, just in the edge of the previous evening. The young men were greatly excited, for a larga party had been organized to go ont that very evening to Squire Hubbard's who lived in an adjoining town not more tbau ten miles off, for tbe pnrpose of dealroying the wild animals, as it was apprehended their former success would stimulate them to fresh depredations. So, with that belligerent propensity wbicb is so strong an element of Anglo-Saxon character, Cyrus and Enoch de¬ scanted glowingly on the best method of sur¬ prising and dispatching the animals; while the mother and sister listened with the inde. mirror on one Bide of the kltohen, while some pleasant thonght was shyly dimpling round ber ripe lips, and brightening through her bine eyea. " So we have, and tbey havn't piled up any boughs. It's too bad, with such nloe weather for boiling, and it likely to set up and rain a week steady at this time of year. " Snppoain' you run down to the ifoods, and heap up some boughs to-night, Latty 1 The moon shines, so it's as bright as day.— The boys coold hang up the kettle early for you, you know, but they couldn't stay to do anything else, for they've got to be off by sunrise to see abont them calves ; and they won't be home before midnight, I reckon," concluded Mrs, Pease, with an oracular shake of her head. "Bnt I'm expecting company to-night, mother,'* anawered Letty, with the rosj tinge widening and deepening through her cheek; " and it wouldn't be very polite to be off when tbey come." " V/ell, it's likely you'd bave time to gel back afore they do, child. If it's any o' your beaux, I can send 'em out to the ma¬ ples." Now, if tbe truth must be told, Lettj Pease had two admirers, for whom there had often, of late, been a severe straggle between her afiectious and ber pride. Jason Williams was a country merchant, a smart-looking young man, who had reoent¬ ly gone into business for bimself. He was , always dressed in broadcloth, stood behind the counter with the politest bow and smiles imaginable, and wns voted at the Winter sing¬ ing school, tbe "greatest catch" in the town. Then there was Seth Peters, tbe miller— away down in the silence of Letty's heart was a voice that plead for bim as it never did for the merchant. Seth was certainly good-looking and intelligent, while a nobler heart never beat for the woman it loved; but tbeu bis bow wasn't to be compared with Ja¬ son's, and he wore blue gray overalls, whioh were dnsted over with flour from Monday morning till Saturday night, except when he visited Letty. It was certainly a great con¬ trast, and the girl felt it keenly (as any maid¬ en of twenty would) when she rode past tbe old mill and saw its young owner in bis pow¬ dered clothes, lifting up the great bags of wheat by the rope that dangled from tbe front window, or pouring the com into tbe large trough, under which the great wheel plashed aud groaned in the stream all day; —it was, as we said, a great contrast to go on a few rods farther to the new store, with its green shatters and large sign, and see Ja¬ son standing in the store, dressed better than the minister, and receive one of his inimita¬ ble bows. Then it wonld be such a conquest, aud all tbe girls would envy her so. She would be "Mrs. XVilliams, the Tnerchant's wife.'" It sounded exceedingly well, and yet, when she thought of it, that low voice would rise up and speak for tbe miller again. Poor Letty I no wonder it was so severe a struggle between her affections and her pride. Sbe looked out of the window, and the full moon was shining down on the bare earth, and whitening the naked branches of the tall trees. The sweet, pensive light stole softly into the girl's heart, and drew her to¬ wards it. "I guess I'll run dowu to the grove. If anybody comea, yoa can talk to 'era, mother, till I get back, for I won't be gone long," was her sadden conclusion. The girl had not been absent for more than five minutes, when there was a knock at the door, followed by the entrance of Jason Wil¬ liams. He took a seat by the great fire-place, and ohatted a few moments with the old wo¬ man about the new meeting-house, and the prospects of an early spring, when suddenly there was another light tap at the door, and in answer to widow Pease's "come in," the miller made his appearance. It was not so remarkable a coincidence, after all, that the young men should both visit Letty thia evening, for it was bright enough with its balmy air, and large, round nioon, to woo any man to visit the woman of his seeking. Of course, the merchant and the miller conld not have regarded each oth¬ er with peeuliarly complacent feelings; and probably each wished the other a thousand miles ofi, notwithstanding they met quite as cordially as rivals could be expected to do. But somehow the conversation lagged ex¬ ceedingly, and at last Janson proposed to Seth that tbey shonld go down to tbe grove in search of Letty, to which the latter gladly consented. She did look like a picture, as she knelt there, piling up the dead, old tree boughs, while the shadows and the moonbeams danced restlessly over her figure, as restless as they". The yoang men came suddenly upon her, and she sprang up with a little shriek and a bounding of the hlood iuto her cheeks—but ber laugh, oh, that was like all sorts of sweet sounds, as it ran rippling off to the echoes of Blueberry hill! " Well, you've come, aud now I shall set you straight to work, young gentlemen," said the girl, with that dainty, fluttering motion of the head so natural to, and so graceful in some women. " Of course you will. We're ready to obey orders, Letty," was the aimultaneoas re¬ sponse of the youug men; and the dainty merchant and the handsome miller set them¬ selves vigorously to work; aud the voices of the trio mingled loudly and merrily, as they piled up tbe branches of pine, and birch, and hemlock. Letty affirming that the sngar boiling was likely to be the easiest she ever tended, now all the trouble of gathering the fire-wood wonld be over. " Hark! didn't jon hear a strange kind of noise?" aud Letty lifted her head sud¬ denly, and stared eagerly aroand her. " It's nothing, Letty, only the sap dropping into the tubs," answered Jason, as he added a fresh handfal of boughs to the rapidly in¬ creasing pile. " No, it isn't the sap. There, I hear it again. It's a rustling among the branches." They all beard it now ; it was a strange, ly half across the lot, but it was not a large one, and in her blind terror sbe had taken a oirouitons route, which the bears had follow¬ ed, 60 the distance between Seth and them waa only a few rods. He shouted to Letty to turn round into the meadow ; it was strange that she heard him, but she did, and instinc¬ tively obeyed. A run of a few yards, which the yonng man aocomblished quicker than our pen hai written it, brought Seth face to face with the wild animals. It required a stout heart to confront those two raging, ravening animals, but Seth Peters thought only that death was close to the woman that he loved) A moment more and it had reached her.— The hot breath of the beasts drifted almost across her flying feet, as the miller rushed by her; for in turning toward the meadow she had shortened the distauce between him and herself; indeed, at the farthest it had been only a few rods. The foremost animal came up to the young man—the heavy paws were planted on his shoulder—now, Seth Peters, & itout arm and a brave heart will, only avail yon—the axe comes down heavily—it has done its work well I Do you see the bear sink back, with that growl of terror and of pain, while the hot blood gurgles up from its cleft throat! Its mate sees all this, and with a respon¬ sive howl of fright and despair, rushes baok to the woods, and Seth is safe I "Lettyl iettyl theyare gone!" The voice swells loud and triumphant to the ear of the poor girl, who, still imagining the bears are pursuing her, rushes on wildly in the direc¬ tion of her home ! Sbe pauses a moment.— Bat that clear, strong, triumphant voice sends a new tide of hope bounding through her soul. She turns back. A few minutes later, and her white face steals up close to Setb's as he stands tbere watching the last gasps of life heaving tbe huge black frame of tba benr. "Letty! let us thank God for this great de¬ liverance." They kneel down tbere together, and tbe sad moon and the sweet spring stars look on them, as tbe young miller's deep voice sends up its eloquent thank to tha All-Father! But Letty's fair head droops lower aud lower; aud when Seth looks once more in her face, tbe blue eyes do not answer him.— Poor Letty! the terror has beeu too great for her. No wonder she has fainted with tbe great joy of delireraace from death! Suddenly across tbe fields breaks the sound of many voices. There is a quick stamping of feet. Jason has given the alarm, and friends and neighbors are rushing wildly to the rescue. In less tban five minutes they find the miller seated on the damp earth, with Letty lying senseless in his arms, and tbe dead bear at his feet [ Oh E but there were smiles and rejoicings that night at widow Peaae'a, where, but for tbe brave heart of Seth Peters, there had been wailing, despair, and death! It was long paat midnight when Gyrus and Enoch returned ; and somehow their faces did not look so brigbt as when they left, and they settled themselves down wearily by the fire, saying," What, mother, up watching for us all this time! Well, we havn't killed tbe bear, after all!" " No, but we have here, yoa see!" was the old woman's triumphant response; and then, to their ejaculations of doubt and surprise, the old lady detailed tbe whole story—indeed, she had seut ofl" Letty to bed half an hour be¬ fore, for the exclusive enjoyment of this pleasure. Cyrus and Enoch listened in amazed silence, and at the conclusion thus briefly and charasteristically expressed their opinion of tbe miller's heroism: "Waal now, if tbat don't beat everything all hollow !¦' Tbree days had pasaed ! It was a wild, sobbing night, with one of tbope storms that furrow the sweet face of April with wind, and drench it witb tears. This time the miller and Letty Pease sat alone together, in the ruddy birch fire-light of the old kitchen, while the storm moaned aud battled witbout. " Well, Letty, bow did you get on with the sugar-boiling ?" asked the young man, drawing his chair a little nearer the girl's. " Ob, nicely, I assure you, though I couldn't help starting and looking round every time the wind stirred the branches I" and Letty shuddered, for even in the dancing fire-light, sbe seemed to see again those wild eyes glar¬ ing upon her. " Oh, Seth ! how can I ever be grateful enoagb to you for taking care of me then ?" The miller drew his chair still closer to hers, and his voice trembled in its deep ten¬ derness as it answered, " I should like to take care of you always, Letty." The girl mnst have forgotten at that mo¬ ment how very nicely Mrt. Williams, the merckanVs wife, sounded, for she laid her hand in that of Seth Peters, and the birch fiames were not mddier than her cheek, aa she whispered, " Vou may, Seth." And through all her happy after life, we are very certain Letty Pease never regretted marrying the miller instead of the m.erchanl. how beautiful waa the little creature coming toward us. She was very unlike her sister Kate. Kate was a brunette, but the little white-robed figure tripping across the me&dow had a pale, spiritual faoe, and long curls of golden hair falling to her tiny waist. There wa.s a flush on her oheek, and a look of eager, beseeching interest in her large, blue eyes ; and abe stretched her dimpled arms toward ug, and kept crying In her earaest- neds; " P'eaae, girls, wait for Rose." A look of vexation crossed Kate's face, and shu called out in a tone of extreme irrita¬ bility : "Go baok. Rose, you're too little to come ! Go back I go baok !" Kate always had a way of being minded, and tbe little one put her fingers to her eyea, and silently turned toward the hotiae. We hurried on in the direction of tbe wood, withoat giving a single glance backward. I think Kate's conacience reproached her for her selfishness, and I know that my own pleasure was spoiled for the afternoon. We found plenty of strawberries red and ripe, among their beds of leaves. There were little blue-eyed blossoms, too, that kept re¬ minding me of Roaie, and I was not sorry when the sunset shadows lengthened, andwa turned to go home. We had gone down the hiU out of tha wood, and crossed several rods of the mead¬ ow-land, when Kate said, in a hoarse whis¬ per :—" See there, girls, what is that white thing by the brook ? Do yon see it 1" We saw it, and hurried toward it. It waa Rose. At firat we thought ahe was dead.— Scarcely seemed the faiuteat breath to steal from her parted lips, and the pulsations of her heart were ao weak you could scarcely feel them. She was in a kind of trance-tike sleep. It was some time before we succeeded in waking her, and then her limbs seemed chilled and stiffened by the subtle dampness of the meadow-land atmosphere. She could not stand. How mauy times that afternoon the little darling had begged us to "make a chair" for her, with our hands, and we had answered that we couldn't stop. We made one now. She twined ber dimpled armi about our necks, and held on very tight, but sbe didn't speak, except ouce, and then she only said. " Ain't I most big enough, siater Kate ?" Mrs. Harrington met us at the door with a wild look of alarm. " Good heavens, Kate! ahe exclaimed ; " what's the matter with Rose ?" And taking her from our arms, she discovered that her clothes were almost sat¬ urated with moisture. " Kate, child, why don't you speak? Has Rose been in tbe water ?" " No, ma'ma; but she went into tha mea¬ dow and got to sleep, and we found her there Bleeping." Ob, there were anxious hearts in Deacon Harrington's brown house that night. Very tenderly was the suflering little Rose cradled ou her mother'a breast, but not once did she speak coherently. Her cheeks burned, and her eyes sparkled with fever; her dimpled arms were tossed above her head, and every little while, between her moans, she would stretch ont her hands toward aome imagina¬ ry object aud aay: " P'ease, sister Kate, isn't Rose most big enough?" Three days paased—days of incesaant watching and weariness, and toward evening the Uttle Rose opened her blue eyes, after & restless slumber. She seemed mueh better, and the mother glanced bopefally up to the kind physician bending over her. "I cannot say she's better, madam. God knowa I wiah 1 could; but Rose must die be fore midnight!" aud the tears stood in glit¬ tering drops on tho good man's cheeka. The mother's great grief was not noiay.— She quietly lifted her darling from the bed, and sat down with ber iu bur arms. Kate stood by, sobbing, as if already the brand of Cain were upon her brow. Please, mamma," said the little one at length—"am I big enough to go to Heaven ?" " Yes, darling," was the tearful answer.— "Jesus loves little children." " And, mamma, do you s'pose he'll forgive me for sitting down iu the meadows to watcli Kate, when you told me I musn't ever stay there ?" " Yes, Tny pet, the good Saviour will for¬ give you for any thing, if you are only sorry; but Roaie doesn't want to go to Heaven, and leave mother, doea she ?" " I heard somebody say I must go, when I was asleep, mother; a beautiful lady, with oh! such white, shining wings, and she stretched out her arms to take me, but I didn't go. I woke np juat to kiss you and sister once more. Please kiss me, Katie, 'ittle Rose won't be naughty up in Heaven aud I'll grow big before yoa come, Katy, so I can play with you up there!" Thers were tears, sighs, a funeral, and a little coffin. The rosebud opened its petals on the bosom of Jesus. The littla earth-flow¬ er was *'big enough for Heaven 1" THE "I CAHT'S." The "I oant's" are numeroas and ubiqui¬ tous. Their numbers are astonishing. A ourious statistician estimates that about one half of the children born Into tbe world are furnidbed by Nature with a remarkable lingu¬ al facility for the utterance of this brief and cowardly sentanoe. Neither time nor experi- lence enables them to abolish from their vo¬ cabulary these fatal words, and from the cra¬ dle to the grave they drag a slip-shod life spent In accomplishing nothing,from the fact tbat they lack tbe energy and will necessary to accomplish. These human dogs are recognizable any¬ where, under auy circumstances, and in what¬ ever garb: in the palaoe, bnt more often in the prison, especially In suoh enlightened Statea ae ours, where priaons aerve as a wel¬ come refuge to many, who are too utterly worthless to get their own living, and there¬ fore force their creditors to get it for them. And with this exception we oan aee no other humane purpose in a debtor's prison Of the legal aud ducal " I cant's," history fumiahes too many examples to need illuatratlon at our handa. Of titled membera of the order, of lower degree, the world is cursed with & leas number than formerly, for the reaaon that the race ia dying of mere insanity; but In the great world, among the masses, it is astonishing what a host of drones share the honey of the bees' gathering 1 Regarding ev¬ ery thing they do as hardship' looking upon labor as an evil, it seems to be a sort of mor¬ al dnty with auch men to do as little aa pos¬ sible, and get all they can for It. '•! can't*' ia their ahibboleth and shield. Propose to them the aocompliahment of whatever new work, any thing out of the beaten track, any little addition to what they have done, and see! how, like trained jackdaws, their beaks fly open—without a moment's consideration ofthe poasibility or desirability of the doing —and out it comea, like the *' pretty Polly i" ofa pet parrot—"I oan't." We have said yon may know them every¬ where: in the legialative halla, on the battle¬ field, in the council-chamber, at the bar, in the counting-house, in the studio, at the bench, or in tha furrows; for they are spawned everywhere, and among all clasaea of induatriala, merchants or mechanics. You may know " I can't" as well by what he does aa hy what he will uot try to do ; and a mis¬ erable—mnmhling—mealy-mouthed—moun¬ tain-raising, and mole-hill moving mummy of a man will you find him in any of these pursuits. He is always fordelay. Hehaan't time, or be hasn't tools; he lacks means; or he must have more help ; you " had better wait," or he knows "it is impossible;" any thing rather thau do it. " I'll -try 1" never comes into his head aa it did into Colonel Miller's ; to try being just what he wishes to escape from, while to say "I oan't," ia the easiest as well aa the meanest method of ac- comptohing hia desires. " I cant," is a humbug and a nuisance, aud society ought to make him sensible of the fact by kicking him without its pale. All tbinga are possible to God; aud of the count¬ less things possible to man, through the right use of the gifts He haa bestowed upon him, not one in a hundred have yet baen accom¬ plished; myriads of failures resulting from the soulless efforts and combined blunderings of tbe inanimatelhost of " Icant'a." A boy of sound body aud mind ought to be puniahed every time he uses the phrase, by the adop¬ tion of which salutary corrective the number of the men who will use it can materially be dimtniahed. " Can't" is the most contemptible combi¬ nation of letters known to the English schol¬ ar ; and it may be safely assumed that neith¬ er Alfred nor Arkwright, Milton nor Maury Washington nor Whitney, Girard nor Astor nor any other among the glorious galaxy of determinate industrial stai s, ever yet recog- nized the canting use to which the phrase is put by such as we describe. CHrRCHTOWHT AGADEMT. J'HTS Institution is located in the vii- villaga of Charchtown, Lancaster Connty Pa., in tba midflt of one nf ttie most healtby abd heaotifal dle- trlcttt of oar eoanty. There are threo departmeula, tIx: ENGLISH, MATHEMATICAL AND LINGUAL. ThsiastraciioB ia thorotifrh and pnictlcBl;BQd a dem- onntratloa a«compaaiei every reoitation. Pareats and ^ardlAQB woald do well to enqQlre Into the meritH of this laatitatB. {^"ClrcalBrsfaraliihed uo application to the prin¬ cipal. J. E. GiyFIN. oct 16 -I't-lS VIVIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. THE Forty-ninth Session will begin OB THORSDAT, Ihe 9th of October, 18.16, and end on the let of Marcb, 1857. FAOtTDTY: NATHAK H. SMITH. M. D., ProfeflBor of the PrtaclplaB and Practice of Sargary. JW. E. A. AlKIN, M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. SAMDEL CHEW, M. D., Professor of the Priaeiples and Practice of Medeclne. JOSKPH ROBT, M. D., ProfesBor of Anatomy and Fhynlology. BICQABD B. THOMAS. M. D., ProfesBor of Obatetrics. G. W. MILTENBEBaBE, M. D., ProfeBHor of Materia MedIea.TberapeatlC8 and Pathology. B. B. SMITH, M. D.. Damonstrator of Anatomy. Clinical instruction In Medicine and Sargery la given at tha Baltimore Infirmary, an lasUtaUon of morB than tblrty yeara atanding, belonging to tbe tTnlTarslty, allu- atod la Its Immediate nelgbhorbood, nnder tbe »oIe ebarga of, and attended by, tbe Realty, and open to all matnenlatefi of tha School throaghoat the year, withoat charge. PEBS:—For the fnll coarse, $60; PracUcal Aofttomy, «I0; Uatrlcatattou, $S; Oradoatloo $20. For farther infonuation, address GEO. W. MILTENBERGER, M. D.. Dean of ihe Faculty, No. 17 SoTith Liberty Street, Baltimoio. aep 10 2m-41 TREEMOITIVT SEMIIVARY. SIXTEKN miles north-west from Pbila¬ delphla, near NosaiBTOWV, Pa., will be open for T0I75O MES and BOTH above 14 years of age, from Octo¬ ber 1,1856. till Jnne l, 1857. Tie alto Is healthral. the surroaadlng prospect exceedingly beantlful, tbe accom¬ modations anSciant for 140 boarders and 300 ritndents, and tbe terms not exorbitant. Tbe range of stadias is ex¬ tensive, the teachera ezperfeneed and able, and evory reaaonable eSbrt Va made to promote the pbyKical, intel¬ lectual and moral welfare of tbe ecbolars. A Circular ¦will be Bent toorder, with partlcalars and refercnccH if deBlred. SAMDEL AARON, Principal, ang 20-3m-se Norristown, Pa. Paradise Female Seminary \\rILL re-open for ita Fourth Session T y of 5 mos., on the first day of November next. A distinguished professor aad composer from Philadel¬ phia, will hare charge of the department of vocal and Inetramental music. No pains will be spared to suBtalo tbe reputation thin Inatitution has already acquired.— For termB, which are very moderate, please addreiui Rev. Dr. KILLIKELLY. Paradise, Lan. Co. Pa oct 8 it-id |pl)Uabelpbia '^smvWstmmts. PbUabdpliia "^bncvtmimnis. PAVID H. SOLIS, l.nPURTBR OF FirRS, 174 Arck street, near Eighth, PHILAD'A. FURS! FURS!! FURS!!! _. „_ . -\V:n H SOUS has removed his Marlcel and Cheanut Sts., PHILADELPHIA, 150 cases I i. / Flffi H-^ORE to No. 174 Arch Hlreot, near 8tb, and nno awd* receive^d^by ^he last Packets, making the I ban ramie nii u clmlce aSHorhnent of Furw ofall klntlH.to «.,.t„„t 1— » « «__, !_..._ . . ^(.(jI^Ii 1,., ill Titer* the attention of the Indian. His style ABd RiAk*i Itn- well kuiiwn. JCl^AII goiids bought, from him ur« w:trrnii|pd.au'l hiMfni'llltiesr<ir procuring goods from Eurupi! t;aj(Me« lilm to xdl nl undi prices aa will ifultall. filiiro'tlwayM cluM^J on iliu&'tironth Day. _J:^ep_24_ ^^^ 3m-4;i *' Eilenborougfli TmTOH."" nj^TlE mo.st effective cure for every kind lie. Tannery Tor Reut. SITUATE m Paradise towuship, Lan- caster conaty, one mile south of Kinzer's Station oo the railroad, 5 mlloB eaat of Straahnrg, and 2 miles vest of t^e Oap, formerly carried oo by Thos. H. Lin- TlUe. This Is a complete eatabliahment, calculated to doa.large boslDeBn, having ovar-head water. Carrying Shop, Benches, Tableei, and all tbe noceauary tools. It will be rented either for one or five years. There Is a DWELLING HODSE near the yard which can be rented: alaoas much groond aa will be wanted. To any one dealroaa of carrying on the Tanning buainess, a flrat-rate opportunity is bare ofi'arod. PosBcBBlon of the yard can be bad at any time. For farther partitnlarfl apply to the subBcriber, near the premlBeR—if bymall to Einzer's P. 0. oct l-«owtf-l4 JACOB MUSSER. Toys, Fancy Goods, Baaketa, kc. &o. Tke largest assortment and lowest prices. W^.Tll^CEH, Importer, HAS jast opened at His new STORE, ! ._^ No. 18. SODTH PODBTH STBEET, hotwean ¦ I I Market aad Cheanut Sts., PHILADELPHIA, 150 cases I I. / ono Good* received by the last Packets, making " ' " ' greatest variety of Fancy Qooda ever before offered. Toya, DoUcr, Paney Baskets, CHINA AND ALABASTER GOODS, CONFECTIONERS' PAPERS, Fancy Boxes, Segar Casea, Tobacco Boxes, Pjpes. Teeth Brushes and DmgglstB Artlclea. with every variety of FRENCH and GERMAN GOODS, which he offers at the very low¬ est rates. 53-Call early. Casea of Toys, welloaBorted, at $6, 10, and 20 per. caae. M*2«_ 2-m-47 ^ LADIES' FANCYyURS! ^ VC/^HEN visiting the City, our frieuds TT inlhoCoaatry ahonld not fH 11 to call at the FDR Store of M. GETZ, No. 7J South Second St. Dalng the direct Importer and giving hts whole at¬ tention to the manufacture of Fara, he cannot fall of pleafiing all who will give bim a call. His atock la the larfreslaadmoat eoiapletela the cily; hia prices will be round aslow as any aBtabliabment in thia country — Every etyle of Cardinala, Talmas, Capea. Vlctorlnes, 4c. mado of the foUowing Pnrs: HoMsian Sable.Uadson Bay Sable, Siberia Sfinlrrel, Fitch. Baom Martin. Stone Mar¬ tin, Freach Martin, BUv"r Martin, Sic, ic. JC|~ Furs altered and repaired. M. GETZ, Ko. 7>i South Secoud St.. (baiow Mnrket,) FBIIiA. _ort_22 _ 3m-t7 R. DECOU & CO. Clothiers, No. 141 Chestnut St., above FooRti^ Philadelphja, Keep conftantly on hand a Iplendid aObrtmeal of Ready-made Clothing. Goods made to Order and Warranted TO FIT oct 22 tM7 LeatUei-! Leather!! Leather !! • HEHTRY W. OVERMAN, Importer of FBKNCH CALF SKINS, AND QENBRAL LEATHER DEALER, No. 6 South Third Street, Philadelphia. GENERAL aasortment of all kinds af LEATHER, MOROCCOS, 4-c. RED AND OAK SOLE LEATHER. Kugsr flm.39 PENNSYLVANIA WIRE WORKS No. 56 Aroh St. bet. Second & Third, (Opposite Bread Street), PHILASELPHIJl. SIEVES, RIDDLES, SCREENS, WOVEN WIRE, OF ALL MESHES AHD WIDTHS. WITif ALL KrffD3 OP PLAIIT AKD FANCI WIKK WOBK. HEAVY Twilled Wiro for Spark Catchers: Cual, Sand and Qravel Screens; Paper Maker's Wire; Cylinder and Dandy Bolls, covered In the heft manner; Wire and Wire Fencing. A very snperior article of HEAVY FOUNDERS SIEVES. AU kindM of Iron Ore Wire and Sieves. BAITLISS, DAKBY & LYNN, aag 20 3 m-3? A GI J\ oil of Hiiro nn I JOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS, Prom the Largeat Poster tothe Smallest Card, "TVONK AT THIS OFFICE, in the T>H"°Jt^"®,^^^^ ^'"' '''*' ""^^ **f «=*'• ''^ PBB8OKAL w^Ptm^*^^' rrialed on from ONE to THREE HOUHS "-.¦'*^^- _„ novl5-tf-60 finable mixture of wonder, admiration, and terror, which woman alwaya awards to manly I stealthy, mysterious sound, that, heard ooarage and skill, " Bat, dear me," said Letty, as she poured Cyrus' third glass of milk, " what if a hear should come round here some of these daysl Tou know Elder Smith said he saw oue on his farm last autumn. Oh, my ! I helieve it would take the breath straight out of my body to come across one of the creatures." And the rosy cheeks grew pale at the thought. " Nonsense, sis I" said the hearty voice of Enoch, as he spread a double stratum of hut¬ ter on his fourth slice of rye bread, " there's no sort a danger around here. Nobody in these parts was ever touched by one of them 'ere chaps. I reckon they're smart enough not to venture their heads far into tkis town. They wouldn't stay on long, if they did, that's sartin." Kow whether there was much philosophy in thia speech or not, it had the effect of greatly quieting Letty's fears; though if Enoch had been called on to give his reason for exempting Berrygale from bear incnr- aions, he could probably have found no bet-' ter one than that the propensity indigenous to human nature of supposing ourselves less li&ble to ill fortune than our neighbors. Well, after supper the boys started off, in high spirits, duly equipped with rifles and long knives, reoeiviog many solemn injuuo- tiouB &om their inother to look out that them critters didnH get hold of their skins, zxiatom&I warnings, which hare a remarkable faculty of going in at one ear, and oat at the other. " I declare, Letty, we'd forgot all about that sap boiling 1" suddenly remarked the widow to her daughter, who, having washed np the tea dishea, waa bosily smoothing down the wftTy folds of hex U^, at thelittlo the woods, and at night, is perhaps more startling than any other. A faint shriek suddenly broke from Letty, which drew the gaze of both the young men to her. She was standing a few paces from them, her face white and rigid, as thongh death had struck suddenly at her heart.— There was something in that stoney face that chilled both the young men, and they sprang eagerly towards her, crying, " Letty ! whatia the matter i" They saw what it was, then, and the faces of those two strong men grew white as the girl's; for there, peering out with their wild, glaring, hunger-lighted eyes, from the low underbrush, were two large bears, crouched down ready to spring upon them. The yonng men's question broke the spell of horror which had transfixed Letty Pease. With a low shriek she sprang past her com¬ panions, and with a ory, fearful in its rage and hunger, the animals rushed out. Jason Williams followed her, for the men had no weapons—thoae beasts were wild, savage, hunger-mad, and the love of life was atrong within him—no wonder that he soon outstripped the girl, whose trembling limbs were a poor match against her pursuers. It was a fearful race. They gained upon her iuthe first few rods. "(Jod of Heaven, help her!'» groaned the white lips of Seth Petera. And God heard that prayer, moaned out in that terrible agony. There gleamed out suddenly upon him, among the gray tan¬ gled grasa of the laat year, a large axe, which Enoch had ground sharply, three days before, to make an incision in the maple trunks, and thrown down there in haste or forgetfulness. Seth caught it up eagerly, and with a loud ihout he bonnded forward. Letty w&s near- Go back, Eose; you're too little to come! BY ELLES LOUISE CSASDLER. There were three of us—Kate, Annette, and myself—and we were going into the old wood to hunt for strawberries. Oh I it was such a delicious day in June. The birds sang till the air was fairly vocal with their melody, and all the green trees nodded their heads in approbation. The very brook seemed to have caught the general inspiration, and danced along the meadows, as if keeping time to a quickstep of the fairies. Annette Somers and I had been invited to spend the half-holiday with our schoolmate Kate Harrington. Deacon Harrington's old- fashioned, brown house fronted toward the South. Behind it stretched a broad, green meadow, and still farther back was a densely I wooded acclivity^ famous for flowers and I berries in the geography of every child in Eyefield. I used to love to look at Deacon Harrington's old brown house, even iu those early days, when I had not a single well- defined notion of artistic taste iu my curly head. I know now that it combined to an eminent degree the elements of the pictur¬ esque. The low roof, which sloped back¬ ward nearly to the ground, was gray with moss. Ivy crept about the windows, and over the rustic porch had twined climbing roses, along with heavy clusters of trumpet creeper. There was a rude aeat at the doorway, made of the lithe boughs of the white birch, twisted together in fantastic fashion, and here grandmother Harrington was wont to sit, with her gray wooleu knitting work.— Oh! what a treat we used to think it to spend a half-holiday with Kate Harrington. "I wish I were you, Kate," exclaimed An¬ nette, after we had spent half the long sum¬ mer aftemoou chasing butterflies, and arran¬ ging a vegetable baby-house with hollyhocks, for our ladies' parasols, and tea-pots manu¬ factured out of veritable poppy-pods, "I wish I were you, and then I could be happy all day long, with nothing to trouble me." "You could, could you?" and Kate's cheeks flushed, as ahe put away from them her heavy bands of black hair—" you think so, and that's all you know about it. I have a thousand things to vex me. There's Rose, for instance. Mother expects me to be con¬ stantly taking care of her, and she's the greatest little torment you ever saw. By the way, girls, let's start after those strawberries in the wood, now she's out of sight for a minute, so she won't tease to go with us 1" We were just about half-way across the meadow, when we heard a sweet voice cry¬ ing: " P'ease, sister B^te; Rose wants to go too." I tumed round, I remember, and thought IVotlcc lo Huatersaitd Otbers. ALL persons are forbid trespassing up- on the Eliiabath Furnace estate for tbo pnrpose of hanting or ganning, aa the law will be enforced against all so found. „ ,. AUGUSTUS BOYD, _oct^2iM«t-J6 Agent for Q. P. Coleman. A Teacber fVanted TO take charge of a school of twenty to thirty yonng men and boys in Fnlton town¬ ship, Lancaster CO. Agood salary will be given to com¬ petent person. One who has a diploma from the conn¬ ty Snperintendant preferred. iFor farther particulars aadreas ANDREW LEWIS, Pleasant Grore P. 0.. Lan. co. Pa .o-^.tSS 2V.47 BuiLDiSG WITH Wet Beick.—We notice, in an exchange paper, a paragraph upou this subject, which we think of considerable im¬ portance to builders. It is stated, on what is considered good authority, that of experience that a wall twelvH inches thiek, built of good mortar with bricks well soaked, is stronger in every respect than one sixteen inchea thick built dry. The reason of tbis is, that if the bricks are saturated with water, they will not abstract from the mortar tbe moisture which is necessary to Its crystallization, but on the contrary tbey will chemically unite with the mortar, and become as solid as a rock. On the other hand, if the bricks are put up dry, they immediately take all the moisture from the mortar, leaving it too dry to harden, aud the consequence is, that when a building of this description is taken or tumbles down of its own accord, the mortar from it is like so much sand. There is, no doubt, much truth in this assertion. The great absorbent power of baktd clay natural- Turnpike Election. THE Annual Election for President, Traasaror. and 7 Managers of the Lancaster and Lltli Turnpike Boad Company, will be held at the Lltlz Hotol, on MONDAY, Noveniber 3d, next,lbBtween the hoars of 2 and4o'clock,p. .M. Byorderof the Board. _ „, J. B. TSHUDY, oct ga-gt-J7 Secretary. TVRnfPlKG El^ECTIOAT. AN Election will be held at the pub¬ lic honse of John Kendig, oo the first HONDAY of November, between the hoars of 12 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, to elect one President, seven Managers and a Secretary and Treasorer to serve as officers for the Lancaster and Marietta Turnpike Boad Company for th6 coming year. By order of the BoArd, HENRY MUSSELMAN, Pres't. At tbe same time and place will be offered to the Stock¬ holders, tba halancQ of the Stock ansold, heing abont Two Hnndred Shares. Farvalae, $25,00. Oct 23 td-47 notice:. '¦^HE Stockholders of tho Lancaater .¦- and Ephrata Turnpike and Plauk Koad Gompaay, are requested to mtet at tbe Hotel of Uenry S. Shenk, in the city of Lancister, on MONDAY, tha .Id day of Movember next, at2 o'clock, P. M., for the purpoae nf electing one Preflldoit, five Managers, and one Troa^ii rer of said Companr, for tbe ensuing y«ar. JNO. K. REED, Lanc'r, Oct., Hth tf-46 Secretary. IVOTICE. ''PHE Mount Joy Gar ManufacturiDg I. Company have leased thair entire works to Sam'l Kohr, their lato Sapt. Persons baring claims agalnat, or Indebted to the Company, will please call for sallle- ment ob S. A. Patterson, at their olflce, aa thg Company are desirous of settling up their busineas as speedily as possible. J- E. CASSEL, Sec. Thankful for paat favora I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public, as I am fully prepared to luan- uf&ctaro all kinds of work entrusted to my care, SAMUEL KOHR. ocU5^ flt-^6 Horrible Accidents to I'ersons, ^A'D IMMENSE DESTRUCTION TO PROPERTV, IS the daily information furniahed by the newspapers throaghout tha United Stales, from the Burning of Fluid. Now all the danger and the cansB «,f these accidents are entirely removed If yon use the Patekt LtDiA Rhbbee Safett Fluid Lamp, which can not be Broken, Bursted, or Esploded, neither can tbey ba fllled while the llgbt is Burning. Tbey are Ihe most Economical and Cheapest Lamp ever offered to an intoiligfiut people. The appearance of our Lamp will do no discredit to the best furnished drawing room. Inclose by mail to oar address $1, $1 12, $1 23, or $1 50, and we will forward you securely, by express, a Lamp corresponding to money received, aud it may save a Tftlaable Life. Liberal discount to dealers. Addrefle, HAWXHORST & MOTT, Eicluslve Btanu- factnrera In tba U. 8., 09 rmcoo'it., Jrc*r Tork CUy. oct 15 3m>4S Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. NOTICE is hereby given to the mem¬ bers of tbe Farmers' Mutnal Insurance Company, that a tax of 5 per cent, on every hundred dollars of valnatiOQ of the property Insnred, has been assesBed by tbe Directors of said compauy. for the purpone of recom¬ pensing tbe loss BustAlned by £. C. Reigart, Esq., of Lan¬ caster city, in the destruction of a barn by flre on the I4th of September last, and a small barn belonging to Jacob Eablem&n. Fall dupUcatei of tha tax will be kept by the follow¬ ing persons, to dther of whom tbo tax may be paid, within 30 days ftom this date, viz: Joseph Clarkson, at the Banking Houte of Jobn Oyger & Co., No.6 East King street, Lancaster city; John Robrer, Treasnrer, West Lampeter townaUp; John Strohm, Secretary, Provi¬ dence townablp. Partial dnplicatss wlU be kept by the following per¬ sons, to whom payment may be made by persons rasi¬ ding in the towastklps indicated, viz: for the townsbipa of East and 'West Donegal, Conoy, Rapho and Monnt Joy, by Christian M. Martin, Esq., in Mt. Joy borongb; for tha townshipB of EastEarl, Earl. Brecknock, Carnar¬ von, Ephrata and Clay, by David Witmer, at his resi¬ dence near tbe Blie Bill, tn East Earl township. Those who do cot pay their t^uota hefore the 30 days expire, will be charged 10 per cont additional to pay tbe expenae of rolloctioD, agreeably to the By-laws of tha Contpaoy. oct S-4t-46] JOHN BOHKER, Treaanrer. Carolina YeSioYv Fine Flooring^ Boards. ^A CifiCi FEET Carolina Yellow tJxJaUU\/ Pine Dressed Flooring Boards. 30,OOD Feet do., Undressed. 5O,0O0 Cypress Shingles, No. 1 and 2. 5O,O09 Bangor Plastering taths. Jost recslvou and for sale at GraelTa Landing, on the Conestoga. Ajply to GEO. CALDER i CO., OificB—East Orange et., near N. Qnoen ot., Lancaster, oct 8 tf.45 Country Merchants and Physicians DESIROUS OP EtjyiNa PUEB AND CHEAP DRUGS, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISH. G-lasa, Putty, Dye "Woods, &c., &c., WILL find it to their interest to pur¬ chase at the Wholesale Dmg Warehouse, S. W. Cor. 4tb and Tine Sts., where a fnll enpply Js kept constantly oa hand, and sold at tbe very lowest cash prices. SAVIDOE St MAYO, Druggists. South Weat Cor. 4ih St Vine sts., Philadelphia. N. B.—ParUcnlar attention paid to Phyalclena' or¬ ders, selecting the purest drugs, and not (as most do) taking advantage on acconnt of onscquaintaDca with thulr value, but invariably selling at lowest cash prices, may7-ly-2:i S. & M. ly acta injuriously on mortar, and the conse¬ quence is inaeoure and dangerous walls- In our opinion, no building should be erected in the city, the walls of which would not stand firmly if deprived of the aupport of the joists and n hat will do this if the adhesive proper¬ ty of the mortar is destroyed by the absorp¬ tion of moisture from it by the brick, before it has time to harden ? Onr builders wonld do well to give this subject their serious con¬ sideration. Tnrnplbe ElecUon. AN election for a President, Five Managers and a Treasurer of the "CosssroooSi Bbavbr Vallet Tubspike Road Compakt," will be held on MONDAY, the 3d day of November next, at the pnbllc boaeo of Lewis Sprecher, in the city of Laoeaeter between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clocfc in the afternoon of BaXd day. R. F. RAUCH, Treasurer. _oct_2^_ _^ . td-17 Turnpike Election. A General meeting of the stockbolders of the willow Street Turnpike Boad Company wlll be held at tbe public house of Frederick Cooper in the city of Lancaster, oa MONDAY, November the 3rd, A. D. 1856, between the houra ofl and 3 o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of electing one Piresldent, five Hanagcrs and one Trea>>orer. for the easnJng year LEVI HUBER, Esq., oct S-St-45 Secretary. SUPER PHOSPHATE Of LIME. DIPLOMAS have beeu awarded to the Snb!jcrM)»?rtt for th« ahove article, by the PBSSStLTANIA STATB AORICCLTCRAL EoCIETV. New JeasEr " " " {JCCES CoC.VTT " " ^¦CHDYLKILL CoL'STV Berks Coustt " New CaoTle Col'.vtv, Dei,., " " The quality and high character of our preparation Is well known, it is considered tbe Best and moBt Koliable Manure for Corn, Oata, Wheat, Potatoes and Grass. Not only producing larqb crops, but permanenUy IMPROVING THE SOIL. Price $4-') per 2000 lbs. CZi^ceats por Ih.) Owing to the high priceof articles u^ed iu manufae- turing tbefthovtf, wa havo been ^compelled to advance onr pricato S4fl. CAUTION.—Obriorve that every Barrel of our Article ha.4 oi'B NAME and that of PoTTrt & Klett stamped on the head. Pamphlets describing Its qualities aud mode of Uwlng cau he had at our store, or by Mail, when desired. A liberal deduction made lo Dealers. AGKNTS WANTED. We have for nalo tha ceiohrated Pacific Ocean Guano, similar to that fiotd by us last season, and which gu.ve KUcb great satisfaction. CANCERINK, OR FISH MANURE. A full supply of this new and valuable artiole, to which we call the attention of farmers.' No. 1 Government Peruvian Guano coustantlv on hund and for salo at the lowest ratcH. ALLEN & NEEDLES, No 23 S. Wharves and 33 S. Water st. First store above Chestnut st., Phi^t- J[;^ Farmers can load at the Water st. front, aiUi avoid the crowded wharf, jiily 30 ^ 3m-35 Tbennhscrlbers having removed to their IVEW 4IVD SPACIOI7S STORE, No. 278 Ckesnut Street, FOUltTII DOOR ABOVE TENTH. RK UOW prepared to offer a large nd well dRlected stock ofthe following fresb and desirable goods, principally of their own importa¬ tion, or bonght at anction, which they are ahle to sell at the Importerii' prices, and to which thay cordially in¬ vite the attention of Cunntry Merchants, Hotel Keepers, and families geaerally. Bnff, Qreeo, and Venetian Window Shading. (l:irnsley and Irish Linen Sheeting, 7-4, 8-4, S-4, 10-4, 11-1, 12-1 wide. Bolster and pillow Linens of several choice bleachers, and all widthe from 33 lo 54 Inches. Bed Blankets of all sizes and qualities. Crib and Cradle Blankets. Bed QtiilLiDf thofollowlDgvarIetie.4, viz:—MartoUIea, Welting, Knotted, Register, Alhamhra, Allendale and Lancaster, of all the desirable sizes. Bureau Covers, Table Covers; Window Curtain Mni¬ lin, Toweli and Towelling of every variety ; Damask Tablo Cloths and Napkins; Shirting Llnons and MnsUn ; Cambric Handkercblefij, Embri^Ideries, Hodlery, iic, tic. Brocatel, Damasks, Mureon», Embroidered Lace and Muslin Curtains; OlltCornicee, Bands, Gimps, Cord, ac, kc. SHEPPARD St VAN HARLINGBN, ImporterH and Dealers InLlnenand HouHa ForalBhlng Goods, No. 27S Chestnut st., ahove Tentb, Philad'a. april 23 6m-21 lanorbeartt ever offered to the pub. The subscriber bas been Indncod to act an mannfac- turor's agent for tbe above iuvaluiible remedy, ouly from a knowlndge of Stfi intriuRtc meritji. The owner gives his written pl«fdge to pay jT/ty (to/. lars for any rforo on man or hoa->tt it will not cure. Put ap in boxes of I doz. at $l.r>Oand $3,00. tj^Bealarw are requested to wood their ordorw to iho subscriber, WILLIAM G. MASON Engraver and Sutioner, 204 CheHtuui .''t. Vhira. oct 8 lm-15 JAMR^i MlTTOi\'S WHOLESALE AND RETAIL No. 65 North Sth St., above Arch, East Side, PHIliADELPHlA. DEAtEB liV TEA AND COPPEE MCmmiY Famlllttu nro n-if-cifiillj' luvltiid to give hlni a call. raarSfi Iy-17 P. H. SMITH. PORT MONNAIE, POCKET BOOK, AND Drc.xiNiii;? CaNe Slaniiracturcr, N. W. cor. of Fourth and Chesnut Streets, ^ PHILADELPHIA, ALWAYS on hand a large and varied assortment of Port Monaies. Work Boxe.^, Pocket Book", Cahax, Bankers Case.--. Traveliug Bag-, Note HolderH, Backgammon'Boarda, PortFolioi*, Chess Men, Portable OeHfCH, Pocket Memnraadum Bookn, Drcff ing Cat.es, Cigar Caseu, Stc. BC^Also, a general assortment of E.v(n,ian, Frkxch and OERMA.f pA.vct Goods. Fine Pocket Cutlery, Razorx, Kaiar Strops aud P-'d Pena. Wholesale Second and Third Floorr. F H.SMITH. N. W. corner Fourth and Chesnnt stp., I'hilad., N, B.—On the receipt of $1, ASnpurior Ould Pan wui bo sent to any part of the United SlHtes, by mall ;—da- scrihlngpeu thus: medium,hard, or foft. april 4 ly-18 LEAF TOBACCO AND CIGAUS. UEIVSLOW & CO., 21 SOUTH FRONT STEEET, PUILADELPlil.l. COMMISSION MEUCHANTS, A>(D WHOLESAI.B DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OP MAWCFACTUllfcD TOBACCO C I G A It .S . HAVE constantly on hand uud tor wale low, all kindsof AMERICAN uuil SPAN¬ ISH LEAF TORACCO.^.H^lvctad with special reference to manufacturers' uiie. All article.-! sold, warranted to he a.s rt^prei-anliid nud every opportunity aSorded for<:Xit»iIaatiun. Purchaseni at a distance can eeed their urderc, »a<i rely upon being a.i faithfully j-^rved as if tho {roods H-en? selected in person. .»ct lO-.;ni-4C JOHN WM.^SufilEY~&~ C07 BANKERS, BEMOVBD to 04 auutn Foux-tn au, CHILiAUELfHIA. Draw upon. Remit to, and Collect upon everij point in the UWITED STATES fc CAWADAS. COLI.KCTIONS suttliid with prompt- neas, at current rates cf EiCtliaugc, wii/iou/cAaryr. Foreign and American Coin furnished for i'lilppiug and Cutitom Ilonpo purposes. Draw upon thc Koi/a/ifanJc<i//j-Wonrf, (hy authority,) London, ^'c.,e.\xd furnish Excttaage araiiable iu uuy part of the British Eiugdum, iu fumsuf XI upwards. SEVEN pei: CEN'T. (New York r.ite.) paid Depositors on Cnrrent AclviioI and the highy.-t r;u« <m Timo .\t;- count. Slockd Boughi aud sold at tliw Broker-.' IJoard- iu this city, Boston, New York and Balliiuore. Business Paper aud Loans negotialod, IE3^he latest i[uota.iioaa of Stocks aud Securities thronghout llie U. S., can be seen ut Ihe oClce. dee 19 ly.;j pi)Uabc(pl)ia ^tnDerti0em£iits. A ImjLL :ts<ortmen6 of Gooda for thc ..i*-,''"^",'/^<'''.'-'"nslstinir ofLimo and Gnano -.— ip readers, Ilay I'r ,. PIowm of varioua patteroa ^i^ aod MMs, Portable Ornln Mii|„. hoth large and -^^ small, il.iru door rollers, l!,.r„a Powers and Threaher=. Grain Fau-^ Corn .Sbnllers for l.snd anj horso power c«paI,I<^of s(i.!l!inp 1.100 husht-Is «r corn in a day — P.!uui)ck's (ir-iin Drills, Doublo MlRlilgaQ Plows Er- pitmliog niirrowa,alnw ' No- 1 Peruvian Guaiio, Superplioa- phate of Lime, auil olii.;r f.'rlili/er>'. PA-SCIIAI.L MORKIS U CO. hiipIeiJi.'Li nuil S.'cd Stonr, Seventh U. Market Streets, I'tm-ADEU'IIIA. s^p2J.tf-43 KRAUSER'S »* *'pHKSK superior Cider Mills caa atill S. I»i riirnishe'l, of iinprovfid construction and finish. Tlieir(s'rinrliiJKnppiirfitus is [incuMar, andgiven them an ailvauliiL'eov.-r nil .jtht'r mill.=. By tho action of two reciprocatiuf,' jii^inu-. tijo npplos nra force*! agaln'^t tha i--ih .>f a. r;ipi,lly i<,roIi-iDp cylinder, and rtjlained till Eri>iiu.l i.jii Jiur;i.«lti,«-hirh of course yIeld.H mora J nice wiif!u sulije.cip,! to iir.^-'siire ihiin if lha pomace was c.nr.-'B. Tl.ft .<cr*>w \•x>¦.^s )i;i, hi-^-ri pre.ttly Ptreuglbened and Unproved .tue. ,a.t y-«r, and tho whol^ frame U tighleoed hy strong j„iat l,„itK. h Is adapted either to h»nd or hnrso-power and c;vn l,^ xrorked by haod 10 the extent of six t« *^lght harrti^ p.;r .i^y I'A.-:t;iIAt.L Mop.Ri.S U CO Iniplt'iuput Mud S^sd Store, Serei-tb i: .Market hixtnti PIIILADtCM'KlA. H-'p 24.tf~13 TRUSSES! TRUSSES! TRUSSES! C. H. NEEDLES, TRUSS AM) BKACE ESTABLISimENT, S. W. Cor. of Twelfth and Pace streets, 1' UIL AD ELI' 111 A. f^i^ORTEli of iioc FitLwcu Trusses, -M. coHibiniDg extreme lightness, ease aod durability with corruci t.ja^truciion. HtTUlftl or ruptured patl-mis c:io bo nulti^d by remit¬ ting amounts, as b-ilow :~i^,udiug number of Inches round tho hips, aud bUttlun cidw aUectfd t-'os^ »[^'''i'J« Tnis^, Sl', sa, $ i, !^r,. iJoubI.j—$s, $a, Inatriictionntfs to vrndr, and how t.<-tii;ct acur'",whqa j)us.-iblL-,s'jijl with tho Tru.-,-*, ALSO, for sale in greal varietv. Dr. BA-N'.MA'G'S ISI- PKOVfcU I'ATii.vr liuUi' Bli.^CE, forlheciiroof Pro lapsus Ltcri; .-jpinal i'fiiii and--iuiipuri.t, J'ai»ntiJhoul.' , <Jhi.-st Ei;ii;tudi;rs aod Kr^-cnir Bracks, adapt th tjt.iop.-iiiotildiirfaud Weak Lungs ; Bug- " ' ' " '" au-']iensorie», Syringeit der Bra. edt^all lish Elastic AW' lualo aud female. JCJ'Udi--;.' Uuyiuh Witb Lady niten- ^'""~ _ augl-Iy-34 A^ BANK EL.ECTIOiV COLUVBIA BA5U, } October 7, 1S56. J AN election for thirteen directora of the Columbia Bank will be held at tbe Banking Hotiee, in Columbia, Lancaster county, on tha second ¦WEDNESDAY, the 12tb day of Movember next, b tween ten and four o'clock of said day. SAMUBL SHOCK, ottl5-5MS Cashier. Use of Cats' WmsKEHa.—Every one haa observed tlie whiskers of a cat; hat few, per¬ haps, dream that thej serve any valuable end. The following passage will prove the contrary: Every one mnst have observed what are usnally called "the whiskers of the cat's upper lip. The use of theae in a state of nature is very important. They are organs of tonch. They are attached to a bed of oloae glands under the skin, and each of these long hairs is connected with the nerves ofthe lip. The slightest contact of these whiskers with any aurrounding object is thus felt most dis¬ tinctly hy the animal, although the hairs of themselves are insensible. They stand out on each side of the lion as well as in the common cat; so that from point to point they are eqnal to the width of the animal's hody. If we imagine, therefore, a lion atealing throngh a c >vert of wood in an imperfect light, we shall at once see the use of these long hairs. They indicate to him, throngh the nicest feeling, any obstacle which may present itself to the passage of the body; they prevent the rustle of bonghs and leaves, wbich wonld give warning to his prey, if he were to attempt to pass through too close a bnsh; and thus, in conjunction with the soft cushions of his feet, and the fur upon which he treads (the retractile claws never coming in contact with the groand) they enable him to move toward hia victim with a stillness even greater than that of the snake that creeps along the grass, and is not seen until it is ooiled aronnd its prey. Fabmer's Bask op La-tcaptek. ) October Uth, 1S66. { AN elestion for thirteen directors of the Fanner's Bank of Lancaster, to serve for the ensuing year, will be held at the Banking house, on MONDAY, the 17th day of November, 186P, between the hours of 10 and 3 o'clock. Tha annual meeting of tbe stockholder's will be held at tbo Banking Honae on TDESDAY, tbe 4th day of No¬ vember. IS66, at 2 o'clock, P. M. H. R.KEED, Oct 16-3t-46 Cashier. Lancaster County Bank^) OCTOBEE 11) 1856. f AN Election for Thirteen Directors of this InatitnUon, to serve during the ensuing year will beheld at the Banking House, os -MONDAY, the nihdar of November, 18&6, between the hours of 10 and S o'clock. A general meeting of tha Stockboldera wilt bo held at the Banking Houaa on TUESDAY, the 4tb of Novem¬ ber, 1856, at 10 o'clock, agreeably to the charter. W. L. PEIPER, oct 15-td-46 Cashier. Commonwealth Insnrance Comp'y, VNION BUILDINGS. Tkird Street, HARRISBURG, PENN'A. SIMON CAMERON, Preset S. B. CAMBR. Sec'ry. CHAHTEiED CAPITAL, $300,000. INSURANCE effected on Buildings and other Projerty against LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE. Also, igalnst all perils of tho Sea. inland Nav¬ igation and Tnasportation, at the lowest ratea. JACOB L BAKER, Ag't for Lan. City and Co., ang 20-3m-3S No. 6 Centre Square. To OouseUceperH. JUST iECEIVED—Five Cases of KETSTOJTE STATE SAPONIFIEB or CONCEN¬ TRATED LYE. for sale wholesale and retail at JOHN F. LONG * Co. Dmg St Ciemical Store No. 5. North Qneen st. sep n tf-42 "ErvTCARPENTER'S Vegetable Family medicines, WILL ©ntinue to be kept for sale, AS heraofore,by tba undersigned, bis widow. "With the comp«itlon ftud preparation of tbese medi¬ cines the subBcrber Is familiar; and tbey may be relied upon aa being Icall respects tba eame is before. PKESCRIPTHNS in particular cases wilt ha atiended to by ft compfltait and skilful person, who is well ac¬ quainted with Us aystem of medicine. The mediclDei need no recommendation to those per¬ sona who have tried them. A continuance of the favor and patronago of the friends of the family and the pub¬ lic la general it loliclled. ep34-tf-43 S. S. CARPENTER. TTBWBiT AOT CAP STOEE. MESSBS. BAHSTLEK & JOHN- SONtalatblaopportunlty of annonncing to tbeir riends and thecltizens of Lancaster generaUy, thatthey hava commencid the manufacture and sale of HATS r;^ofeveryiiyl&—plain and fashionable. Thennder- /JuiStted fill? ballsTe that another HAT AND CAP •i^ESTABIJSHMEHT will be handsomely supported. If condneted Ii a manner to suit the wants of the peo¬ ple. The newflrm aro fully determined to makea good hat at a reatooable living profit. Thay understand their bniinesa ihorongbly.and thereforemake their own Hats in tha bei and most workmanlike manner—thus feeling assured that those who patronize them will re- ceive a full eqilvalent for tbeir money. Their Store-wom is directly opposite to Sprecher's hardware stori. and a few doors south of the Examiner & Herald Priniing Offlce, where tbey will be pleased to see tbeir frienlB from town and country. ¦WILLIAM BARSTLER.] [SAM'L. JOHNSON nov 28 tf-52 LAUIES FAIVCY FURS. JOHN PABKIHA. No. IU Market Street, above 8lh., PHILADELPHIA IMPORTER, Manufacturer and Deal erin all kind and qnalltiaa of Fancy Furx, forLi.. dies and Children. J. F., would calt the atteutioDof the Ladies and others to his immense asRortment, heiug tho direct Imporlorand Manufacturer ofall my Fura. I feel confldent in saying that I can offer the greiteit Inducements to thoae in want and at the same time will have one of the largest assortment to select from. Storekeepers and tba trade will please give me acall before purchaelug, ns my wholesale department Is well supplied to meal tbe demau for every article in tbe Fur line, and at the lowost posalble Manufacturers prices. JOHN FARBIKA, eep llAm-iZ 281 Market Slreet. JOSEPH 3. PKttOT, ELLISTlLS L. rKrtt>T, J. S. &. tf^. L. I'EUUT, PRODUCE AND CJEXKRAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS Xo, IS Wortli Wliarvcs, PHILADELPHIA. il^^.Ml cuuslgmufluls tl) imr aUdro"?- will ivcvive our prompt and personal attentiou. Wo refer to Philadelphia niercliaiitri geueraUy. sep 24 'Hm-U CURWfiN, STODBAKT & BROTHi R Rospeclfully Invite Buyers to au inspection of the immense and varied Stock of FRENCH, BRITISH, & AMERICAN AT THEIlt SPACtUQS -AKD WELI, I.IUIITED STOHE-S, Nds. 278, 2S0 and 2S2 Norlh Second Slreel, Move Willow, PHILADELPHIA. ^i'^Hii assortment comprises FANCY 1- DKESS SILKS, of all ^t)-|-;^,^uU:ilile for fall aud WlDler Salen.^from 515,V cenw ti> S^flO [lur yiml, BLACK SILKS, of tivnty grade :iikl inMth, of saperior mako't and colors. SATIN du CHENES, SATIN NATIONAL, l,c. MOUS. DE LAINES, Plain .ind Figured, at all prices. MADONNA CLOTH, MOUS DE BEGE, ki: RICH STYLE CASHMERE I'LAIDS. FRENCH MERINOES, of .ill Ctradu-.i .ind Colors, PARAMATTA CLOTHS, at all prices. LONG AND SQUARE BROCHE SHAWLS. Au extensive trado ouables us to exhibit u much larger stock than is usually fouud in thc:ie goods, which we sell at less than oidiuary prolltx. STELLA BORDER AND PRINTED CASH¬ MERE SHAWLS. BLANKET SHAWLS, Long aud Square, ia all the most popular makes, frum common to tiuperllue. CLOAKS, AND MANTILLAS, of tlie most desirable styles audBnihb. MANTILLA VELVETS, Coloreil aud Black. CLOAKING CLOTHS, ia great raricty. EMBROIDERIES, Lineu Cambric Haiidker- cbiefs, Lace VellH, Glovts, Ho.siery, Ac, FAMILY MOURNING GOODS of the most approved Fabrics and Shades. FURNISHING GOODS—Blankets, Counter¬ panes, Coverlet", Damask Table Cluth.*, I.iueu-.Xaiikiu-', Towelings, Uc. MENS' AND BOYS' WEAR—Cloth.s, Ca.ssi- merflH, SatlnetH aud Ve>^tings. DOMESTIC GOODS, hy the piece or yard. at abont package cost. 53"Our purchasei are all made from thebest suurcea at Auction, Commission Houses, and Importers, and sxld at a small advance. WholAfiain snd Rftx'i. CUUWEN STODDART it BUOTHEll. Nos. 2TS, 250 and 2S2 Xyrth Second Street, above Wil¬ low, Philadelphia, uct l-3m-4J Iiancaster Bank, ) October 14, 1856. | AK Klection for Thirteen Directors of this Bank, to serve tbe eneulng year, will be held at tbe Banking House, on MONDAY, November 17, l^tik, between the boura of 10 and 3 o'clocic. H. RATHVON, Cashier. The annual meeUng of the Stockholders will be held at the Banking Homie, on TDESDAY, November 4tb, 18.56, at 10 o'clock, A. M,, agreeably to tbe Charter. oct 15 3t-16 1856. SHtl'TZ &. BROTHER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN ffATS AND CAPS. Spriug pashiouB for Gentleint;n»a Uats. WE afe now prepared to supply Gen- tleoen witb all the NEWEST STYLES OF HATS, of tbi best qualities and at such prices a» to de¬ fy competUioa. All Bats sdi at thia establUbment are made under onr own Bupwvlaion, and we warrant them to be what theyar .oldfor. We respectfully invite thepublic to give ns a call, as we keep tbe largestand mostcomplete ansortment of Hats and Caps of all descriptionii in tbis city. JOHN A. SHULTZ. HENRY A. BHULTZ, mar 26-tf-lT No. 20K ^ortb Queen st., Lancaster. ENCilKB FOR SAJLE. THE subscriber has for sale a STA¬ TIONERY ENGINE of FITE HORSE POWER, Boiler and everything complete and In exceUent order. Tbe Engine la nearly new and will be sold low. En- qnire of AM03 "WEAVER, Weat Lampeter twp., or HENRT DXFFENBAnaH, oct &-tf-45 EaatLampetertowoshlp. CANCER CURED. ""ro the surprise of many, another indi- 1 vldua.1 readily cured of Schlrrua or Cancer, by Dri S. S. WEIST, Jr., of Schceneck, Lancaater connty. In this case, about ono-balf of tbe lower lip was affected with Scblrmi or Cancer, extandlog to the btM of the Jaw. Tha caaurooB or Mblmu parts were nlcalr taken onl withoat mnch pain, uid h»al«d U t«ii day* tlmtL MTlac MOTMly tay itiormUj [o«t 8l-tf*48 make your ovrn Soap. CASK FIRST SOBTS POTASH. _ fi CASES KEYSTONE STATE SAPONIFIER, for making Hard und Soft Soap. For sale at CHARLES A. HBINITSH'S, Drug and Chemical Store, No. 13 Eatit King Street, Lancaster. eep 2i-tfi3 1 1856. Fall Mock, IVelv GoodM. 1856. French Merinoes, all colors. Fashionable Cloak Cloths, FaU SUks, the new styles, Magnificent New De Laines, Best Styles Fall Calicoes, Very large Stock of New Shawls, Flannels, Welsh, Englisli and Amerioan, Cloths, Vestings and all kinds Meua' Wear, Sheetings, Table Linens, Towelings, kc. EYRE & LANDELL, 4th, and Aucn Streets, Streeta, Fhiladelplxia. StorekeejKfH aro invited to examine our New Goods. Families can be suited In every kiud of Dry Goods. We make Black Silks and Shawk leading articles for Whole- saleing. P.B. Jobs received daily from tin, Auttloun of New York and Philadelphia, 53-TEBM8 Nett Cash. aept 3 3ra-40 "^pbemittm: improved StrPER-PHOSPHATE OF UME. Tlie only Silver Aledal YET awarded by Agricultural Socie ties, wau given to this superior article, at tho laut Fennsylvauta State Fair, at Ilairlsbnrg, an a Fertilizer of the beat quaUty for WHEAT, CORN, OATS, CRASS, AKD POTATOES, raitfing heavy cropn, aad greatly improving the soil.— The subH.-iiber reripcctfutly Informs Farmers aod deaU ent that he isprepared to supply the Fall d-maud with this superior and well tested article. iCl-AGENTS WANTED.—Allberaldiscount allowed. ALSO,—No. 1 PERUVIAN & MEXICAN GUANO, Poudrette and Land Piaster. OILS, CANDIiEb, SOAP, &c.. Of the beat quality, at lowest market ratCN, JOHN I.. PO.MliKoY, 9 ^ 10 Soutk Wkarves, below Market St., PHILADELPHIA. B3-Fatmers can load on two I'KIVATE ALLEYS, and avoid the crowded Wharf. aug SO _ 3m-;!3 JOSEPH A. NEEDLES, MA-XUPACTCaBR OF Wire, Silk and Halr-Cloth Sieves, Coarse, medium aud floe In mefh; large, middle-slie snd small tn diameter. inetallic ClothH or Woven Wire, Of thebest qualUlea, rarioun sl^es of mesh, fiom Nos. I to 60 inclusive, aud from one tu aix feet la width. They are numbered so many spaces to a lineal Inch, and cnt to tmit. The subscrlher alHO keeps coustantly on hand SCREENS, For Coal, Sand, Ore, Lime, Grain, Gravel, Guano, Sumac, Sugar, Salt, Bone, Coffee, Spiee, Drugs, Dye-Stuffs, SfC.,togetker with an assortment of BRIGHT & ANNEALED IRON WIRE. All Ol the above sold whoIeMRlo or retail, by J. A. NEEDLES, juue 4-Iy-27 S4 N. Front St., Pbllad'a. TUE COx>lI\€i UOL.IDAV.S! GREAT PREPARATIONS! WM. T. FKY, in ruturuiug thaiik.s to hiK nnmeroufi friends and re-iid^nCit of Lan¬ caater and vicinity for their very libcnvl patronage, and anticipating au Increaaed demaud for articles of hltiuwn manufacture and importation,ha^i ittadvexten.xii'e prep¬ arations lo HUpply the same. In hU flock (surpassed by none in thc city, and ta which lie i"i comtaiillij receiv¬ ing additions from Europe, of the nruvst atijks,) can alwaya be found a choke Belectlou of articlt':- ^uUuble for Bridal, Birthday and Holiday PrescntM, of the ment recherche and unijjuc description, compri.-'inir in pun Rich Dressing Cases, Writing Desks, Cabas, yans,l>ro/}ZC, Bisque and Rarian Figures, Musical Uoxes, Opera C/«.v- tes, and a rich rarlety of the Ufcful and urnameuial iu Ormolu, Bronze, Shell, Slosalc, Papier Mache, SiC- Al.-o Combs, Brushe.-* aud Toilet Aniclei- WM. T. FRY, 128 Arch ^-irofil, (opposite the Theatre) Phlladolrhla. JOHN MARSH, i>i A s o X 1 c r K M r r, E , (J/iesnut^ iitrecl, ubovn Hcvcnth, Philadelphia iT'KEPrf cou.siiiu.ly uu haud the lar- _i.X_ getit aM,-;ortuieut of i'l A NO M'U BTmS in ttie city, maJu hy | ""^ Boardman, Uray i Co., Jacub Chicker-{ iug, iteiuway i Sourt, A. W. Ladd iSf Co., I _ VVju .Wtlle.-, F.y. Htiras, H.;auo[li Co.,aud J. JUrah'— AUu, au eKtuuaiv-e stock of PKJtMitliVl JUEl-ODKONS, made by C. W. finlr i Co., varyiug in jirice.-, from $16 iLj-All kiua.t of 3Iu3ical Merchanduo for sale cheap iJlltiHT JiUSlC received .'.liJy from all th'! puhlisherd In the couutry, fyruting with our own exteonive catalogue. uue iif Ihn largrt^t --t-.i-l;., iu ihe Union, april :lu-ly-*i2 UAXfiJV it .HOKKliS, MA.St-K.lLTL'f;ERs OF Cumberland Wrought Iron Tubea, FOR GAS Ai\D STEAM. UKi\EllAL IRON & COMiMlSSION lEVt i;; JFt o lEX ^a_ KT-i-S , iua THK fiALK uF Uar, V'l^ atul i-crap hou. Old RaUroad Iron, Kaihoacl ;ri.ikf.s and Chaii-.^, Boat Bpikea, Boiler Kivetft, Ca=t Iron i'ipe, Tuyer« and Tymp (,'oil lor Blarit Furnace.-'. &c. Lr-A lull :.ii:>i.ly ..t f.-Is ¦i'i-liy< .^sil FITTING:* twuM.iully oa huiiU, to ivlnch Ihey inviiu tlie >tpocU laieutiou o("tK*al<'rT luid (in-, couipaaic-i 0FFICK^4:o\ Nurlh Waler Streei, FHIL- ".IDKLPHIA. i:nAi;i,i-:s ha.mjv.j nuAia.t.-i w. .mouui^. ^^'1' I" b-t-41 WHAT CAiN WOMAN DO'? IHlicj lung ux|jui;(ed Luuk b^* T. »S. AllTilL-i:, I.-, uoir i^-i.ly for .x-^.tain aud C.iu vaMr-. It in liaviug au iiiiiij.-ii->: riiL'.', nod i-i cousidi-red one uf hj^ bn-t etlori^..—lu it "iii l.o luiiud Mi. Arihur'.s viewi ou thfi vuscd 'jiic-liou ul And whnt ^li-ran .I...1- .^IrrrEi;. WJI-K and iIi>TIIEK. tSliecimfU <'ii[ili!- .--^m hy iu:iii uu rccuipt of the prlc*. AI.UO. J. W. BilAHLEV, I'uhJl.sbBr, li N-nli -nil ^i. I'iuladelplita, l'a. ^^ B. Wc iiubli-h v.W. Jlr. Aiihur's X-sw Uoofee— coud for our MrI, ami ii-iui.- tn Ag-.-ui.-. oct 15 31.41; l^=>t'UEAI'EU TllAiS' EVER." TYiNDALE ^ MiTOKELL, 2;9 Chestnut Sireet, ?hiiadelpMa, 4\v now r-,.riiiy Willi iji.'ir u-.-.v .¦U'l.-;.-L;,iiit.l-.orlmtiDtur China, Glass and Q\ieensware, iiiii.ing.l wliifl; wilj ll.. :. llll.l ..r.Tv rnri'-ty of maplo iirlitlo— BRuAKPjiBi, a.WNKR, DESSERT, TBA, AN-' TOILET SETS ; TUM- BLBliS, GOBLiEIS, CHAM¬ PAGNES, DECANTERS, WINE , <SC., T.iprillior Willi 11 Iitiy ili.oruiieul uf I^a-xxcs-y- C3-oocaug, Mantel Ornaments, Card Baskets, Pa rian Figures. Colognes, Inkstands, Fancy Cups and £Jaueers,Tere- a-Teto Sets, &c, .Vil..r wliii-li will li.j ..„IJ :„ Ull- l-Allllllll lin.J l.-iTMllN- 1.. lillT.Ml. CllL.M'KKiHii.V EVKi:. .lOji 1(1 3m.4l ',v ,-.:., = _, FUSNITURE Q ' f^^^ W i U i^ It 0 0 M S. jhfl ''S'UK uuJer.'iigiiud rcspectfuily informs JL hN cu-'omci'. aud I ll'-' puhlk", th;ii ha h.v* conttant¬ ly on Jiaiid il tiiri;^ n-.-<.'i!im.'Ui u! of all Iilnd>, iu;tiiii:';ic:in>-J ^^•.;h c^p'-'i-ial care, hy his own wurkinvu aud uu'Kt 1i:p I'vru ::uin;rvisiou. 11.; nL-o ^ec.llllIUt¦Ull^ l-i '.h-' imlilic lim uewljiBreattJ and improved bofa. Bedstead aud Lounges, wliich for coufeuK'UfG aud ca.-:esurp3>;es uuy thing oTer u>eJ bef'ir-'. lli-pric-:-111-'rfJ»n;'ti76/y/D(t*.aud he uo- lici^^ ;i fchftt.; .'1 ji'.iliiic ii.i;rDu.ik;';. JOIIX A. BAUEK. l.'iT bouth 'Jd nt., above Spruce, Hpril 30-ly-'J-J I'hiloJyJphift. .VLIW W'Hul.C-iALE W. SPENCER THOMi). No. 2-; Soutli -Id .St., Philadelphiu, IMPOllTKil. JIA.M KA.rnUIIi .'.: HUAI.KIl I^ Chemicals, A.cids, Dye Stufls, Paints, OILS, COLOKri, WHITK LEAD, FKEXCa m 1-iliRICAN WHITE ZINC, WINDOW GLASS, GLASS WARE, VARNISHES. IIRISHES, • xasria&a^xi-iuaA^iBKrTS, UROU-VD SPlCKri, WHOLE SPICKS, Aud;iJli>th<TnrIlr!i'su.-ii.Ulyk^]'thydrage!,-(.-)ac:udlu^- GLUE, SHELLAC, POTASH, &o. ICr*AU -irdui^ i>y luAit m* i.iLtTwl>..', promptly atteu WM. B. TAYLOR'S JIEN'S AND BOYS' ClUTllI.NG STORE, South IVeU corner of Second and Dock Sis. PUIIiADELl'UIA. OTHE U'lTlZJKiNa UF JjAi>CAS- T CASTElt:—You are rej-pectfnlly invited to oXRin- JO exiuuniru nnd varied urttiortiuent of Men's and Boys' Clolhing, at tha utoro of the hubscrlher, tvIuto may alwayn be fuund a full HUpply uf Ready-Made Clo¬ thing, of allttizoK, made hy ospi'ricucod n'urkmen ;iud of tba very heMi material, the unite, di, uud appearaucp anrpaRMed by no estahllHhnvcut lu the city. PIuukg pri^- 8erve thlH notice, and give me acall, and Dt onl yuui- BtflTeo and souh iu a maunerworthy uf you and them.— Rememhur the Suuth Westcorner of Socoad and Uock Btreeta. Wli. B. TAYLOR aprll 11 ly" EVANS' FIRE MfiD THIEF PKOOF SAFES ! FOK Merchants, Lnwytirs, i>\irmevs and otheru, having Buok.-j, Papers or wther valun- blea, to preserve from t'lKE or UUKGLAItS. bay & Newell's (Hobb's) Bank Locks. A CAKD.—The "Firk PaooK MAyK," limt j)ro>ervi-il our Booka, PaperH, Jic, during the "(jroatFiro ai llart'i Uuildlngt,' WHS iiurcha.--ed of Oi.ivku EvAXd, Gl S. 'iml St.. rhiiadelphia. UBTZ & HL'CK. " RkFIIHJERATOE.4 A.VI) W.\.TRK FlLTlilL-'."—EvilO'*' I'ro luiuiu VBUlilated Kefrigeraiora for Looling ;ind i>rf.-<;rv. ing 'McatK, Hutter, 31111:, Water aud all urticles for culi¬ nary purposed. Water t"fi,TKK:<, for purifyint; hhackwu urMi'ui'y wa¬ ter, whether elfected by raluM, Uuiebluue, marl or oih<T cauaea ; can ha had separate or attached to the Kefri^er- ators—a Hmall iiuantity of ice cooling the whole, iu the ¦warment weather. PoHTAUm Shower Batiij!, for the use of warm ur cold water. Water Coolrm, for Iloteln. Storen and Dwelliug.-. StobbTrdcks, for moving IJoxeu, Bales, Sic. fiSil. PHE33&J, CoPYlMi do., DBClKtl.ST do. OLtVKK EVA.V:?, No. 61 South 2d St., 2 doors helow Chesnut, Phila. S3-&itabIlshed lu ItvW. feb 6-ly-lO d.-d to. E!3"t^"uurry .M..-t'i:b:iiit'. are iuvited toeall and exam Ine our stock before piircb;i>iui5 I'l-ewLiTC. Go-il^ :*.;ul to any of the WhiirvfJ or K.iil Koaa .Siali^jus. Prlo.' low ii'ud g.'.i.ls Wiirrrtiii.-J. lu.Lr .'cly-U PERUVIAX UUANO. ] ""M'KlillO.N'c'l'; ii.-is timt'ht the Farm- Ijj Itr llllll lli-i "Illy r-iliiiliid Fertilizer in the PKULiVLi-N (JOVEI{iN'.yEST GUiNO. Th.' suh-erihcr, .Sol-! Ag.?nt in I'hiladelphia f-r tha f-ab'of it.has u-iw ou hauda lurgo =toctiof which he will ^.-11 ut the low-t Ca'-h prlc^. in l..i„ 1., suit either tb'-lci- orfunuer-*. ;-. .1. IIIKISTIAN, Sole Ag-'iit wr Philadelphia, Au. ¦!> North ll'/jcno, <:Ji(/''7 North H'ater Strut. aug 20 3m a* iiiipi'oveiiient Ui DciillNtry- DKS. LUKKNS k J.UOMiy, iSirU- OEoS l>i;.N-TISTS aud Manufac- -~SS^ l.'etli.t''r'''h'-r ""lib t li.r gnm nud roof of themouth h«- iui,' o'u.'f^jlid I'ii-C"; tlm wbi,l.'h<'itic beauiifully ouam- fli'd ivitb lh.;ir appropii.il.' cil-.r-. Tbe teelh are woru with t're;it coiui-Tt. iIi'Tl' b.-iuw in.' caviii.>Ji fur tho loili;iiieul "I i>:iitii'li--"i' f.^iul.-i:-iIuti' mu-t alway* 1>-- in tbe old nielli'id l.i" K-Il pbit---¦ttiui:, howev.-i well it uiuy 1"* <'X-'Ciii.il. Anii'Ut; lb-; mauy .i.U.i:il;i>;i-^ iir.' i-iii;a|.u.;Bs, Juruhll'- Iv, aud cli'auliue-:- aud utU'.iv iu nuv-'ticatiu^. fip^'ci- U),.n^ iiiav 1..; exu!uia.-.i.:iuil ref-i.-ui-i^- Kiveu ut Dr.. L1TKEN.S ii I.''0.1ll.--"t'i;ii.-. .V... -i'-C AK-U STUKKr.uh.ir^ ¦>tli.Pbilaa.;li-bia. J^^All yp.;raii..ii> j"Ti.iriu-,l 111 a skilful ui.iursor. iau.lO ir-» FREE OF CHARGE ! ! • Tiro Splendid Far/or Engravings, * liultun Abbi;y in thu -pi.-uilt.i !-ifif\ i-ufTrnving. from ¦ by I,aud^¦-r; nud lh«"Dcpart- .jf tbe I.-ra.-lil—I tr"Ui 11l-v|.|," a i.itK'-' sad ln'auiiful raviiiK fr.'iH .^ [..limiu:.- l.y I'. K.ehi-it>. The retail ¦,) of lb.! i;b..i- .'u;; r.l l-l 11^- :^ $:i pur copy, l)Ut WlU -Ul /¦'¦,-,,¦ I,/•¦li,ir,ir .,. U,\lo%r. : """•"^¦'¦' -mts. ROTU & BBOvrnr, C O Jl L , PRODUCE, Forwarding & Commission Merchants, lIABIETa?A, PA. mar 12 MS FOB SALE. OFL SHAKES LANCASTER BANK ^/O STOCK. 4 Shares Farmers' Bank Stock, 10 do Lanisaster and Ephrata Tnrnpike Etock. HP I7.tf-12 JOEN E. BESS & CO. GUnr NOTICE. ANDRB"W •WURPFLBIN, IMPOKTEa MHO HJUrCFACtUKER OF GUNS, RIFLES, PISTOLS,,&c No. 122 North Sid St., Philadelpkia, WHERE he keeps constantly on b&nd, a general assortment of fine double and single barrel Shot Guns, Large Duck Guns, R\flesand Pistols of all kinds. Aleo, the celebrated CAST SXfiBL RiFL.ES, with Increased twists, to shoot the pointed hall of hU own make; Rifle Barrels, Shot Bags, Puuchet), &c Ue InTitespervons wishing to purchaae goods in bis Hue, to call aud examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere, aa he it determined to sell on the moBtreuosable terms. K3-Fartlctilar attentiou p&ld to Bepaxuvq in all ita I bruchM. <^°g ar-lm-SS ENTiTLKl) b.b..l.-;i.lu,..au,l will /^§ liul.:.i,Mr:..u;aib.'r-t-ifcir: ItlU iK At; fc:x<;v iui'l,! furuish aoy Iuil lu-io-. iri'.' "I j,„-i.i--'. Any i».-r^-m\^Btaiataff' by forwariliu.i: tbo >ubM-n[iti.:ii piR-.! of any ofthe §3 MuL-it/.iu^--, ^uch u.-. Ihiri'L-r'-, i.:oJ.-yV, I'utuam'o, Gru- huriiV, Frauk l.i'-lii:'- l-^.i-hinu-, 4:i;, will rrclro Ih^ mii^ajEiuf> for vim y.';iruud acopy of .'itbt'r..f tha uhuvo "I'ul L'Uirruviut:-*, live^if i-hurL'.., ..r If .•.iibtcrlblng DENSLOW & CO., COAIMISSIOIV DIEKCHANTS, AND WHOLESALE DEALEE3 IS ALL KINDS UF Foreign and Domestic Leaf TobaccOj MANUFACTURED TOBACCO, AND FOREIGN and DOMESTIC SEGARS. 21 SOUTH FRONT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. IMPORTERS of Fi^E HAVANA SEGARS of the choicest growth; ' " ¦" '¦ Abajo—a larga aHsoriment of which which of the Vuella- ^_ keiit constantly oiThVud, and''for sale al a »mall advance un co-^t of im¬ portation. S^Kkiaaignmenta rt-spectfully egllcUed, liberal advancea will be made when desired, N. B.—Special attention given Io orders for pu^cha^e on commission, of TOBACCU, aa also every dencrlpllou of MerchandLse, for account of parties living at a dl.-*; tancs from this market, Il3~cole agency for F. A. Ooctza'n Celebrated Germau Smoicing Tobacco, comprising thirty different varietiea. april 9 ly-19 CHEAP WALIi PAt-CR. FINE WALL PAPER, unglazed, at 10 cts., and extra glazed at ISj^ cts. and upwards. Borders, "Window CuitctlDs, &c, at the lowest prices. £:3-HoaseB Papered at the shortest uotlce, by ^ OTHMIE B. EVAJfS, Ko. 82 Morth Sth at., below Charrr »t., nog 27-3m-39 FhUftdelpbla, S'i.au.lu Sl iluK.i'-in. Cballriu'-s Ladit'^" Chr:>i!Au both in:ti,'aiiu'.'^ uu-l ;i '¦¦'I-y graviuKi-. Everv d.-i-ririi"" ¦'' ^u^' Wilh Uc;l!u.-'-i'li'Ml-l''"»'''; l;.'i' ' ' A.juu;,!. .;¦ -ub,T - I>1.-; :b(-v 1 .if tby rill and \,i, I.«,U-Hl-uriilic;it ,k.r> ..'Mit by iiiiUl i'im: iuK vl''w-.jf ih^-ii- bu r:niui,' ou U'oud executed \'i.\vs uf UulMlDg..-. XewM. .M;.i--biu.'ry, Book lUustra- ¦.iio'-^r. i.nntr,, iic. All or. Ltttfud.;.! to. I'err-ous wlsb- .;i;^'r.tvc'l ctu t-eud a. Da, biiiiiiiui; by mttil or e«- I'cr.-'ius ut ;t di'lauci; baviui.' i-al.-abb; arilclci woul liuil if lo tti.-ir ttdvautiii'.-' i<} A'Mri'-i ih-' ftih^cribers. wo would uct a.- airuut- f.^r lb" r-.tlo <jf the wame. BV|'.A.M i: I'lEKCE, .•-¦'.-oulb Thiid su. Philadelphia, Pa. T. MAY PIERCE. febl3-!y-U AT thu '4 Jewelry ti . !L BVItASI. ttl.rii 16-20 ST.AirFFt:K S, UAKLEY, Cheap "Watcliea and Jewelry, \V 11 0 L E S A L li AND R !•: T A I L , '^Phihidelphia Watch add^jjj. tilore," So. fl*). Xorih :iocoad tt-.AlSl coruerof Quarry, l'hiladelphi,i. Oold LeverWalche.sfull Jfifi-jr'J.I^caratcases, $08 00 Gold Lepine, IS carat 24 00 Silver Lever, full jcw.'>-i 12 00 Silver Leplae ^ 00 Superioryuarti^rs ^ ^0 Gold Spectacle" ( ^^ FineSilver Sr.ctr.ile-. 1 M Gold Bracelet-' f <W Ladiea'CoId Pencils 1 SilverTea.-r'J'^"'. *"-'^ "" Gold l4n^ WUh Pencil and Silver Il.ildor 1 00 Gold Fiugor PuuK-, T.^i cjuld to SSO; Watch Glft*,Bea, nlain lliKceuU; I'atent, 1S,V ; Luuet,25; other articles fo vroportlou. All goods warranted to^l« what they ar. sold for. S FAUFF ¦'X^'S^trl' Onhand, some Goldand Silver in ¦n&«H^|Hh alilUQwerthan th«above*»*i»' ¦¦•.¦.¦ lu^^-.ni *
Object Description
Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Masthead | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 48 |
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Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Masthead | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 48 |
Subject | Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County |
Description | The Lancaster Examiner and Herald was published weekly in Lancaster, Pa., during the middle years of the nineteenth century. By digitizing the years 1834-1872, patrons are provided with a view of politics and events of this tumultuous period from a liberal political slant, providing balance to the more conservative perspective of the Intelligencer-Journal, which was recently digitized by Penn State. |
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I fVOL. XXX.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1856.
No. 48.
PUBLISHED BT
EDWAED 0. DABLINGTON,
omoB nt KOKTR Qtnow antrar. _
The EXAMINBR & DHMOCKATIC HBRALD
tl pa1}tUlt*d WMkly, At TWO DOLtJtu m y*Ar.
AsTSBXiHXicBns not exoeeding one aqnare
wmb«lMert«dtliTt»tImMforoB»doU»r, and tw"»'y- tn eanU will bo «liHfffd/or««li»ddIBoiiallMertionr- A Ubwaldiseount aUowedto thoM »dTertJ«lii« Dy tae 7«ar. .
[From Arthar"* Home MigMlnt.l
The Kerohaat and the Hiller.
BT VIEOnnA P, TOWKSKSD.
Have you ever sat, reader, vben the an- tninn evenings were growing cool and long, by some glowing biroh-wood fire in an old faran kltehen, among the mountains of New Hampshire f Those grand, old dniidical monntaina, about which the summer streams hang their silver necklaces, and over which the winter storms weave their garments of snow! Then, while the fire-flames dashed their yellow light over the great, brown raft¬ ers, and with every break of wind, the with¬ ered leaves rattled against the panes, have you listened to the story of some " old set¬ tler," whose memory reached back to the time when the bear and tbe wolf came down io the fields; and sometimes of an autumn moming the little children would go softly through the woods, io school, almost expect¬ ing to see a pair of wild glaring eyes among the bushes; and whispered how they had heard, the night before, of some neighbor's sheep-cote which had beeu broken into, and the blood-daggled grass bad told the story next day.
Well, listening to just such tales, in the autumn ovening.s, we dreamed amoug those gray old mountains, the storvswo are about to tell you. \_--'^
*' I guess we shall liave a raal warm day of it, to-morrow," said tbe widow Pease, as she stood a moment iu tbe kitcben door of tbe old farm-house, at tbe close of an April day, some two score and a half of years ago ; just as the sun was resting on the tops of tbe mountains that bounded the horizon. Sixty years' observation of the winds and clouds had made Mrs. Pease a kind of weather ora¬ cle in the village ; and the good woman pri¬ ded herself no little upon her elemental fore¬ sight.
" Well, Letty," sbe continued, as sbe closed the door, and retumed to her knitting and her chair by the fire-place, " I guess it'll be a first-rate day to bile the sap. I'll tell Enoch and Cyrus to pile up the boughs to-night, and hang ou the kettle, sb you oau have it all ready to kindle in the mornin'. You know they said the trees waa runnin' brisk¬ ly to-day, and they'd have two tubs fall afore night."
"They didn't though, mother!" said Letty, pausing a moment in her work, for she was setting the supper table. " Goody! I'm so glad, for I do love to have a sap boiHu'."
Letitia Pease waa tbe child of her mother's old age, and a daintier bit of nature's handi. work you have seldom looked upon. The next summer would count her twentieth, and her blue eyes were clear and bright as her New Hampshire skies, and the mountain winds had kindled a ruddy glow in her fair cheeks. She was rather short, but straight, with a finely-curved figure, and plump as health snd a hearty appetite could make her- For her character—^he was a right down, good-hearted, little spirited New England girl. That pretty little head of hers had been slightly tumed by the flattery that sundry swains had poured into it; but considering tbat she was tbe handsomest girl in the vil¬ lage, and knew it, too, Letty conducted her¬ self remarkably well. And perhaps, after all, it was not so much her fair face as it was the smilQs that broke up from the warm fountains of her nature and always. dimpled it, that won so many hearts towards her.— Sbe was not so sentimental, or inclined to the blues. Alas \ the damsels of fifty years ago had not so intimate an acquaintance with these matters as their descendants.
But now, reader, in order lo do full pen¬ ance for thia last remark, we just admit that for one, we don't believe that oar grandmoth¬ ers were any better tban we are—^not a bit! Nicer pies and puddings they could indis¬ putably make, thrifty housekeepers, faithful wives, and loving mothers they surely were, and for these things blessed be their memo¬ ry I Bttt, after all, spinning wheels alone cannot enlarge one's sympathies, or daily darning stockings enrich one's intellect; and instinct and habit narrowed down to the cir¬ cle of their own families, the views aud feel¬ ings of thc women of the last century.
And the true woman of the present time has broader social sympathies and richer life; and although she must acknowledge that her first duties are in her home, she will not think they end there, as her grandmoth¬ er did. Knowledge, that is true to itself, ex pands the moral as well as the intellectual life; and the world hasn't gone backward with tke substitution of botany for butter churns, and mathematics for milking pails .'
Bat to return to our heroine. When Enoch and Cyrus, two tall, sunburnt, but fine-looking, young fanners, came in to sup- par, they were full of a story which quite drove out all thoughts of tbe sap boiling from the head of widow Pease andher daugh¬ ter.
Some terrible depredations had been com¬ mitted the night before, ou Squtre Hubbard's sheep and lambs—the dog had been devour- «d, and two large bears had been seen prowl¬ ing around Blueberry hill, just in the edge of the previous evening.
The young men were greatly excited, for a larga party had been organized to go ont that very evening to Squire Hubbard's who lived in an adjoining town not more tbau ten miles off, for tbe pnrpose of dealroying the wild animals, as it was apprehended their former success would stimulate them to fresh depredations. So, with that belligerent propensity wbicb is so strong an element of Anglo-Saxon character, Cyrus and Enoch de¬ scanted glowingly on the best method of sur¬ prising and dispatching the animals; while the mother and sister listened with the inde.
mirror on one Bide of the kltohen, while some pleasant thonght was shyly dimpling round ber ripe lips, and brightening through her bine eyea.
" So we have, and tbey havn't piled up any boughs. It's too bad, with such nloe weather for boiling, and it likely to set up and rain a week steady at this time of year. " Snppoain' you run down to the ifoods, and heap up some boughs to-night, Latty 1 The moon shines, so it's as bright as day.— The boys coold hang up the kettle early for you, you know, but they couldn't stay to do anything else, for they've got to be off by sunrise to see abont them calves ; and they won't be home before midnight, I reckon," concluded Mrs, Pease, with an oracular shake of her head.
"Bnt I'm expecting company to-night, mother,'* anawered Letty, with the rosj tinge widening and deepening through her cheek; " and it wouldn't be very polite to be off when tbey come."
" V/ell, it's likely you'd bave time to gel back afore they do, child. If it's any o' your beaux, I can send 'em out to the ma¬ ples."
Now, if tbe truth must be told, Lettj Pease had two admirers, for whom there had often, of late, been a severe straggle between her afiectious and ber pride.
Jason Williams was a country merchant, a smart-looking young man, who had reoent¬ ly gone into business for bimself. He was , always dressed in broadcloth, stood behind the counter with the politest bow and smiles imaginable, and wns voted at the Winter sing¬ ing school, tbe "greatest catch" in the town. Then there was Seth Peters, tbe miller— away down in the silence of Letty's heart was a voice that plead for bim as it never did for the merchant. Seth was certainly good-looking and intelligent, while a nobler heart never beat for the woman it loved; but tbeu bis bow wasn't to be compared with Ja¬ son's, and he wore blue gray overalls, whioh were dnsted over with flour from Monday morning till Saturday night, except when he visited Letty. It was certainly a great con¬ trast, and the girl felt it keenly (as any maid¬ en of twenty would) when she rode past tbe old mill and saw its young owner in bis pow¬ dered clothes, lifting up the great bags of wheat by the rope that dangled from tbe front window, or pouring the com into tbe large trough, under which the great wheel plashed aud groaned in the stream all day; —it was, as we said, a great contrast to go on a few rods farther to the new store, with its green shatters and large sign, and see Ja¬ son standing in the store, dressed better than the minister, and receive one of his inimita¬ ble bows.
Then it wonld be such a conquest, aud all tbe girls would envy her so. She would be "Mrs. XVilliams, the Tnerchant's wife.'" It sounded exceedingly well, and yet, when she thought of it, that low voice would rise up and speak for tbe miller again. Poor Letty I no wonder it was so severe a struggle between her affections and her pride.
Sbe looked out of the window, and the full moon was shining down on the bare earth, and whitening the naked branches of the tall trees. The sweet, pensive light stole softly into the girl's heart, and drew her to¬ wards it.
"I guess I'll run dowu to the grove. If anybody comea, yoa can talk to 'era, mother, till I get back, for I won't be gone long," was her sadden conclusion.
The girl had not been absent for more than five minutes, when there was a knock at the door, followed by the entrance of Jason Wil¬ liams. He took a seat by the great fire-place, and ohatted a few moments with the old wo¬ man about the new meeting-house, and the prospects of an early spring, when suddenly there was another light tap at the door, and in answer to widow Pease's "come in," the miller made his appearance.
It was not so remarkable a coincidence, after all, that the young men should both visit Letty thia evening, for it was bright enough with its balmy air, and large, round nioon, to woo any man to visit the woman of his seeking. Of course, the merchant and the miller conld not have regarded each oth¬ er with peeuliarly complacent feelings; and probably each wished the other a thousand miles ofi, notwithstanding they met quite as cordially as rivals could be expected to do.
But somehow the conversation lagged ex¬ ceedingly, and at last Janson proposed to Seth that tbey shonld go down to tbe grove in search of Letty, to which the latter gladly consented.
She did look like a picture, as she knelt there, piling up the dead, old tree boughs, while the shadows and the moonbeams danced restlessly over her figure, as restless as they".
The yoang men came suddenly upon her, and she sprang up with a little shriek and a bounding of the hlood iuto her cheeks—but ber laugh, oh, that was like all sorts of sweet sounds, as it ran rippling off to the echoes of Blueberry hill!
" Well, you've come, aud now I shall set you straight to work, young gentlemen," said the girl, with that dainty, fluttering motion of the head so natural to, and so graceful in some women.
" Of course you will. We're ready to obey orders, Letty," was the aimultaneoas re¬ sponse of the youug men; and the dainty merchant and the handsome miller set them¬ selves vigorously to work; aud the voices of the trio mingled loudly and merrily, as they piled up tbe branches of pine, and birch, and hemlock. Letty affirming that the sngar boiling was likely to be the easiest she ever tended, now all the trouble of gathering the fire-wood wonld be over.
" Hark! didn't jon hear a strange kind of noise?" aud Letty lifted her head sud¬ denly, and stared eagerly aroand her.
" It's nothing, Letty, only the sap dropping into the tubs," answered Jason, as he added a fresh handfal of boughs to the rapidly in¬ creasing pile.
" No, it isn't the sap. There, I hear it
again. It's a rustling among the branches."
They all beard it now ; it was a strange,
ly half across the lot, but it was not a large one, and in her blind terror sbe had taken a oirouitons route, which the bears had follow¬ ed, 60 the distance between Seth and them waa only a few rods. He shouted to Letty to turn round into the meadow ; it was strange that she heard him, but she did, and instinc¬ tively obeyed.
A run of a few yards, which the yonng man aocomblished quicker than our pen hai written it, brought Seth face to face with the wild animals. It required a stout heart to confront those two raging, ravening animals, but Seth Peters thought only that death was close to the woman that he loved)
A moment more and it had reached her.— The hot breath of the beasts drifted almost across her flying feet, as the miller rushed by her; for in turning toward the meadow she had shortened the distauce between him and herself; indeed, at the farthest it had been only a few rods. The foremost animal came up to the young man—the heavy paws were planted on his shoulder—now, Seth Peters, & itout arm and a brave heart will, only avail yon—the axe comes down heavily—it has done its work well I Do you see the bear sink back, with that growl of terror and of pain, while the hot blood gurgles up from its cleft throat!
Its mate sees all this, and with a respon¬ sive howl of fright and despair, rushes baok to the woods, and Seth is safe I
"Lettyl iettyl theyare gone!" The voice swells loud and triumphant to the ear of the poor girl, who, still imagining the bears are pursuing her, rushes on wildly in the direc¬ tion of her home ! Sbe pauses a moment.— Bat that clear, strong, triumphant voice sends a new tide of hope bounding through her soul. She turns back. A few minutes later, and her white face steals up close to Setb's as he stands tbere watching the last gasps of life heaving tbe huge black frame of tba benr.
"Letty! let us thank God for this great de¬ liverance."
They kneel down tbere together, and tbe sad moon and the sweet spring stars look on them, as tbe young miller's deep voice sends up its eloquent thank to tha All-Father!
But Letty's fair head droops lower aud lower; aud when Seth looks once more in her face, tbe blue eyes do not answer him.— Poor Letty! the terror has beeu too great for her. No wonder she has fainted with tbe great joy of delireraace from death!
Suddenly across tbe fields breaks the sound of many voices. There is a quick stamping of feet. Jason has given the alarm, and friends and neighbors are rushing wildly to the rescue. In less tban five minutes they find the miller seated on the damp earth, with Letty lying senseless in his arms, and tbe dead bear at his feet [
Oh E but there were smiles and rejoicings that night at widow Peaae'a, where, but for tbe brave heart of Seth Peters, there had been wailing, despair, and death! It was long paat midnight when Gyrus and Enoch returned ; and somehow their faces did not look so brigbt as when they left, and they settled themselves down wearily by the fire, saying," What, mother, up watching for us all this time! Well, we havn't killed tbe bear, after all!"
" No, but we have here, yoa see!" was the old woman's triumphant response; and then, to their ejaculations of doubt and surprise, the old lady detailed tbe whole story—indeed, she had seut ofl" Letty to bed half an hour be¬ fore, for the exclusive enjoyment of this pleasure. Cyrus and Enoch listened in amazed silence, and at the conclusion thus briefly and charasteristically expressed their opinion of tbe miller's heroism: "Waal now, if tbat don't beat everything all hollow !¦'
Tbree days had pasaed ! It was a wild, sobbing night, with one of tbope storms that furrow the sweet face of April with wind, and drench it witb tears.
This time the miller and Letty Pease sat alone together, in the ruddy birch fire-light of the old kitchen, while the storm moaned aud battled witbout.
" Well, Letty, bow did you get on with the sugar-boiling ?" asked the young man, drawing his chair a little nearer the girl's.
" Ob, nicely, I assure you, though I couldn't help starting and looking round every time the wind stirred the branches I" and Letty shuddered, for even in the dancing fire-light, sbe seemed to see again those wild eyes glar¬ ing upon her. " Oh, Seth ! how can I ever be grateful enoagb to you for taking care of me then ?"
The miller drew his chair still closer to hers, and his voice trembled in its deep ten¬ derness as it answered, " I should like to take care of you always, Letty."
The girl mnst have forgotten at that mo¬ ment how very nicely Mrt. Williams, the merckanVs wife, sounded, for she laid her hand in that of Seth Peters, and the birch fiames were not mddier than her cheek, aa she whispered, " Vou may, Seth."
And through all her happy after life, we are very certain Letty Pease never regretted marrying the miller instead of the m.erchanl.
how beautiful waa the little creature coming toward us. She was very unlike her sister Kate. Kate was a brunette, but the little white-robed figure tripping across the me&dow had a pale, spiritual faoe, and long curls of golden hair falling to her tiny waist. There wa.s a flush on her oheek, and a look of eager, beseeching interest in her large, blue eyes ; and abe stretched her dimpled arms toward ug, and kept crying In her earaest- neds;
" P'eaae, girls, wait for Rose." A look of vexation crossed Kate's face, and shu called out in a tone of extreme irrita¬ bility :
"Go baok. Rose, you're too little to come ! Go back I go baok !"
Kate always had a way of being minded, and tbe little one put her fingers to her eyea, and silently turned toward the hotiae. We hurried on in the direction of tbe wood, withoat giving a single glance backward. I think Kate's conacience reproached her for her selfishness, and I know that my own pleasure was spoiled for the afternoon. We found plenty of strawberries red and ripe, among their beds of leaves. There were little blue-eyed blossoms, too, that kept re¬ minding me of Roaie, and I was not sorry when the sunset shadows lengthened, andwa turned to go home.
We had gone down the hiU out of tha wood, and crossed several rods of the mead¬ ow-land, when Kate said, in a hoarse whis¬ per :—" See there, girls, what is that white thing by the brook ? Do yon see it 1"
We saw it, and hurried toward it. It waa Rose. At firat we thought ahe was dead.— Scarcely seemed the faiuteat breath to steal from her parted lips, and the pulsations of her heart were ao weak you could scarcely feel them. She was in a kind of trance-tike sleep. It was some time before we succeeded in waking her, and then her limbs seemed chilled and stiffened by the subtle dampness of the meadow-land atmosphere. She could not stand. How mauy times that afternoon the little darling had begged us to "make a chair" for her, with our hands, and we had answered that we couldn't stop. We made one now. She twined ber dimpled armi about our necks, and held on very tight, but sbe didn't speak, except ouce, and then she only said. " Ain't I most big enough, siater Kate ?"
Mrs. Harrington met us at the door with a wild look of alarm. " Good heavens, Kate! ahe exclaimed ; " what's the matter with Rose ?" And taking her from our arms, she discovered that her clothes were almost sat¬ urated with moisture. " Kate, child, why don't you speak? Has Rose been in tbe water ?"
" No, ma'ma; but she went into tha mea¬ dow and got to sleep, and we found her there Bleeping."
Ob, there were anxious hearts in Deacon Harrington's brown house that night. Very tenderly was the suflering little Rose cradled ou her mother'a breast, but not once did she speak coherently. Her cheeks burned, and her eyes sparkled with fever; her dimpled arms were tossed above her head, and every little while, between her moans, she would stretch ont her hands toward aome imagina¬ ry object aud aay: " P'ease, sister Kate, isn't Rose most big enough?"
Three days paased—days of incesaant watching and weariness, and toward evening the Uttle Rose opened her blue eyes, after & restless slumber. She seemed mueh better, and the mother glanced bopefally up to the kind physician bending over her.
"I cannot say she's better, madam. God knowa I wiah 1 could; but Rose must die be fore midnight!" aud the tears stood in glit¬ tering drops on tho good man's cheeka.
The mother's great grief was not noiay.— She quietly lifted her darling from the bed, and sat down with ber iu bur arms. Kate stood by, sobbing, as if already the brand of Cain were upon her brow.
Please, mamma," said the little one at length—"am I big enough to go to Heaven ?" " Yes, darling," was the tearful answer.— "Jesus loves little children."
" And, mamma, do you s'pose he'll forgive me for sitting down iu the meadows to watcli Kate, when you told me I musn't ever stay there ?"
" Yes, Tny pet, the good Saviour will for¬ give you for any thing, if you are only sorry; but Roaie doesn't want to go to Heaven, and leave mother, doea she ?"
" I heard somebody say I must go, when I was asleep, mother; a beautiful lady, with oh! such white, shining wings, and she stretched out her arms to take me, but I didn't go. I woke np juat to kiss you and sister once more. Please kiss me, Katie, 'ittle Rose won't be naughty up in Heaven aud I'll grow big before yoa come, Katy, so I can play with you up there!"
Thers were tears, sighs, a funeral, and a little coffin. The rosebud opened its petals on the bosom of Jesus. The littla earth-flow¬ er was *'big enough for Heaven 1"
THE "I CAHT'S." The "I oant's" are numeroas and ubiqui¬ tous. Their numbers are astonishing. A ourious statistician estimates that about one half of the children born Into tbe world are furnidbed by Nature with a remarkable lingu¬ al facility for the utterance of this brief and cowardly sentanoe. Neither time nor experi- lence enables them to abolish from their vo¬ cabulary these fatal words, and from the cra¬ dle to the grave they drag a slip-shod life spent In accomplishing nothing,from the fact tbat they lack tbe energy and will necessary to accomplish.
These human dogs are recognizable any¬ where, under auy circumstances, and in what¬ ever garb: in the palaoe, bnt more often in the prison, especially In suoh enlightened Statea ae ours, where priaons aerve as a wel¬ come refuge to many, who are too utterly worthless to get their own living, and there¬ fore force their creditors to get it for them. And with this exception we oan aee no other humane purpose in a debtor's prison Of the legal aud ducal " I cant's," history fumiahes too many examples to need illuatratlon at our handa. Of titled membera of the order, of lower degree, the world is cursed with & leas number than formerly, for the reaaon that the race ia dying of mere insanity; but In the great world, among the masses, it is astonishing what a host of drones share the honey of the bees' gathering 1 Regarding ev¬ ery thing they do as hardship' looking upon labor as an evil, it seems to be a sort of mor¬ al dnty with auch men to do as little aa pos¬ sible, and get all they can for It. '•! can't*' ia their ahibboleth and shield. Propose to them the aocompliahment of whatever new work, any thing out of the beaten track, any little addition to what they have done, and see! how, like trained jackdaws, their beaks fly open—without a moment's consideration ofthe poasibility or desirability of the doing —and out it comea, like the *' pretty Polly i" ofa pet parrot—"I oan't."
We have said yon may know them every¬ where: in the legialative halla, on the battle¬ field, in the council-chamber, at the bar, in the counting-house, in the studio, at the bench, or in tha furrows; for they are spawned everywhere, and among all clasaea of induatriala, merchants or mechanics. You may know " I can't" as well by what he does aa hy what he will uot try to do ; and a mis¬ erable—mnmhling—mealy-mouthed—moun¬ tain-raising, and mole-hill moving mummy of a man will you find him in any of these pursuits. He is always fordelay. Hehaan't time, or be hasn't tools; he lacks means; or he must have more help ; you " had better wait," or he knows "it is impossible;" any thing rather thau do it. " I'll -try 1" never comes into his head aa it did into Colonel Miller's ; to try being just what he wishes to escape from, while to say "I oan't," ia the easiest as well aa the meanest method of ac- comptohing hia desires.
" I cant," is a humbug and a nuisance, aud society ought to make him sensible of the fact by kicking him without its pale. All tbinga are possible to God; aud of the count¬ less things possible to man, through the right use of the gifts He haa bestowed upon him, not one in a hundred have yet baen accom¬ plished; myriads of failures resulting from the soulless efforts and combined blunderings of tbe inanimatelhost of " Icant'a." A boy of sound body aud mind ought to be puniahed every time he uses the phrase, by the adop¬ tion of which salutary corrective the number of the men who will use it can materially be dimtniahed.
" Can't" is the most contemptible combi¬ nation of letters known to the English schol¬ ar ; and it may be safely assumed that neith¬ er Alfred nor Arkwright, Milton nor Maury Washington nor Whitney, Girard nor Astor nor any other among the glorious galaxy of determinate industrial stai s, ever yet recog- nized the canting use to which the phrase is put by such as we describe.
CHrRCHTOWHT AGADEMT.
J'HTS Institution is located in the vii-
villaga of Charchtown, Lancaster Connty Pa., in tba midflt of one nf ttie most healtby abd heaotifal dle- trlcttt of oar eoanty. There are threo departmeula, tIx: ENGLISH,
MATHEMATICAL
AND LINGUAL. ThsiastraciioB ia thorotifrh and pnictlcBl;BQd a dem- onntratloa a«compaaiei every reoitation. Pareats and ^ardlAQB woald do well to enqQlre Into the meritH of this laatitatB.
{^"ClrcalBrsfaraliihed uo application to the prin¬ cipal.
J. E. GiyFIN. oct 16 -I't-lS
VIVIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.
THE Forty-ninth Session will begin OB THORSDAT, Ihe 9th of October, 18.16, and end on the let of Marcb, 1857.
FAOtTDTY:
NATHAK H. SMITH. M. D.,
ProfeflBor of the PrtaclplaB and Practice of Sargary.
JW. E. A. AlKIN, M. D.,
Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
SAMDEL CHEW, M. D.,
Professor of the Priaeiples and Practice of Medeclne.
JOSKPH ROBT, M. D.,
ProfesBor of Anatomy and Fhynlology.
BICQABD B. THOMAS. M. D.,
ProfesBor of Obatetrics.
G. W. MILTENBEBaBE, M. D.,
ProfeBHor of Materia MedIea.TberapeatlC8 and Pathology.
B. B. SMITH, M. D..
Damonstrator of Anatomy.
Clinical instruction In Medicine and Sargery la given
at tha Baltimore Infirmary, an lasUtaUon of morB than
tblrty yeara atanding, belonging to tbe tTnlTarslty, allu-
atod la Its Immediate nelgbhorbood, nnder tbe »oIe
ebarga of, and attended by, tbe Realty, and open to all
matnenlatefi of tha School throaghoat the year, withoat
charge.
PEBS:—For the fnll coarse, $60; PracUcal Aofttomy, «I0; Uatrlcatattou, $S; Oradoatloo $20. For farther infonuation, address
GEO. W. MILTENBERGER, M. D..
Dean of ihe Faculty, No. 17 SoTith Liberty Street, Baltimoio. aep 10 2m-41
TREEMOITIVT SEMIIVARY.
SIXTEKN miles north-west from Pbila¬ delphla, near NosaiBTOWV, Pa., will be open for T0I75O MES and BOTH above 14 years of age, from Octo¬ ber 1,1856. till Jnne l, 1857. Tie alto Is healthral. the surroaadlng prospect exceedingly beantlful, tbe accom¬ modations anSciant for 140 boarders and 300 ritndents, and tbe terms not exorbitant. Tbe range of stadias is ex¬ tensive, the teachera ezperfeneed and able, and evory reaaonable eSbrt Va made to promote the pbyKical, intel¬ lectual and moral welfare of tbe ecbolars. A Circular ¦will be Bent toorder, with partlcalars and refercnccH if deBlred.
SAMDEL AARON, Principal, ang 20-3m-se Norristown, Pa.
Paradise Female Seminary
\\rILL re-open for ita Fourth Session
T y of 5 mos., on the first day of November next. A distinguished professor aad composer from Philadel¬ phia, will hare charge of the department of vocal and Inetramental music. No pains will be spared to suBtalo tbe reputation thin Inatitution has already acquired.— For termB, which are very moderate, please addreiui Rev. Dr. KILLIKELLY. Paradise, Lan. Co. Pa oct 8 it-id
|pl)Uabelpbia '^smvWstmmts.
PbUabdpliia "^bncvtmimnis.
PAVID H. SOLIS, l.nPURTBR OF FirRS,
174 Arck street, near Eighth, PHILAD'A.
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