Lancaster Examiner and Herald

              VOL. XXXI.
LANCASTER, PA., WIJDJSESDAY, APRIL 22, 1857.
No. 21.
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[From tbe Mercersbnrg Review.] BETHLEHEM AHD GOLGOTHA.
FBOM TBE OKKMA-f OP KUECKHET.
In Bethlehem, the Lord of gloiT,
Who bronght ns life, first drew hU breath. On Golgotha, 0 bloody story 1 By euffering broVo the power of death. From 'Western shores, all danger Bcornlng, I travelf^d through the landa of mourning; And greater spota I nowhere Kaw, Than Bethlehem and Golgotha.
¦\Vbcre are the seven worka of wonder The ancieut world beheld witfa pride f They all have fallen, slnklnc under Tbe hplendor of tho Crnclfled I I (taw Ihem. hh I wandered spying, Amid tbeir ruins crumbled lying; 2fone fctand In quiet gloria Like Bethlebsmand Golgotha.
Away ye pyramids, whose bases Lie shrouded in Egyptian gloom! Eternal graves 1 no reating-placoii. Whero hopn immortal gUdh tba tomb, Te fipbinxefl, vuln waa your end>*aror To KOlre llfe'e rlddl*", dark forever. Until tbe au?wer came wiib awe From Detblebem and Golgotha.
Fair Rocknabad, whereevtir blowing Tbe ro.'ieB of Schlrai expsnd : Y» ftatoly paJm.* of lodla, j?rowing Along ber Mented oceau-f^traud ! I Kpo. amid yuur lovelift-t bowen.. Dealh stalking in ilie sunnle^I hours. I-ook up!    To yi>u life c.im-''' from far, From Bethlehem aud Golgotha.
Tboo fa'aba, half the world, b-nlgbted, Is stumbling oVr tht^a, kh of old; Kow. by tliy cro-iceut faintly lighted. The coming* day of duom b«hold; Tho m.ion boruro the Sitn decrna«e«, A ''ign i^ball shiver thee lo pltces, Thc Hero's sign!—" Victoria!" ¦ Shout Bethlehem and Golgotha.
O Thiin, wbo In a mHuger lying, Wert willing to be born a child, Jtnd on the cro-ti In angul»b dying. The world to God ha^t reconciled I To prld*, bow mean tby lowly maiigor ! Uow Infamous thy cross! yet titniuger! HomlHly became the law - At Bethlebem and Golgolba.
Prond kingn, to wonblp One descended From humble 'bepherds, thitber came, And nations to tbe crotts bave wended. A« pilgrimH, to Adnre bi>? oame. By war's fierce tpmpest rudely battered. The world, bu' not i!ie cro-sn, was Hbaltered, Wben East nud We^t it Hirupgling aaw Kound Bethlehem aud Golgolba.
O let un not wllb mulled legicns.
But with the iiplrlt take the field. To win Hcain those holy regloutt, As Ohrinl compalled the world to yield'. L't rayu of light oq all aides nlreaming, Dart onward, like apo-'^tlen, gleaming. Till all mankiud tbeir light shall draw From Bethlehem aud Golgolba.
With staff and hat. tbe i^callop wearing, Tbe faros' East I journeyed through. And bomewurd, now, a pilgrim bearing Tbla message, I have come to you: Go not with bat and ataif to waudttr Beaide Gild's grave and cradle yonder! Look inward, and bt>liold witb awe Hia Bethlebem and Golgotha.
O heart: vbal profits all thy kneeling. Where once He laid His infant head ? To view with an euraplurad feeling Ills grave, long empty of il-s dead? To have him boru in thee witb power, To die to earib and fln each bour, Aod Jive to Hi»—(Iii-i ouiy, ah : i» Bethlebem and Golgotha. L.1XCASTEH, ['a. T. C. V
THE SISXEHS. BY MARY E, WILCOX,
PART  I.
Far over'tho hills lay spread the uoiselesa hush and golden haze of Indian summer. The old year seemed to be lying calmly asleep, breathing its life away in silent peace ; while the westem sun smiled warmly through the smoky air, mellowing the distant mountains ntodreamyindistinctnesSjburnishiug the west windows of the village, touching the church spire with gold, and throwing long shadows from the gravestones in the quiet church yard. Everything breathed of silence, and peace, and rest. But suddenly from the belfry of the little church a signal toll rang fortb, quivering upon the startled air, then slowly floating away and dying in the distance. Another, and another pealed forth aud died away—slow, solemn, soft—thrilling through the slumbrous quiet of the aftemoon; for j they spote of death—death, the inevitable, the mighty, the conquerors! who had been walking in that quiet valley in the cool of the day. Every voice and foot within sound of the bell was arrested and held silent while the age of the deceased was rang forth; every one paused aud listened, and counted. "Twenty-seven," said they, as the last vi¬ bration died on the still air: "It must be Mrs. Harland. Poor Mrs. Harland! she is gone to rest at last."
Yes, she was at rest. She lay upon her white couch by her chamber window, with her hands folded; and upon her wasted fea¬ tures was an expression of calmness which "spoke not of deatli, but of taking rest in sleep; yet it was no early rest—it was that long, long sleep, which "Hegiveth to his be¬ loved." She was at rest in the paradise of God; and the tears, of which she had shed many in her brief life, were wiped from her eyea forever.
" AU the yearg tincc fihe was wed, "Wept ibe woman lying dead; With her grief and God alaoe. Secret prayer and secret moan. That tho darling t^pwUbe and mother. Loving ber, Ebould hate each other."
She had married eight years before, against the wishes of ber parents; since which time there hadbeen a settled and growing animosity between her husband and mother, who was now her only surviving parent. This con¬ tinual strife between those whom she loved j better than life, Lad at Jast broken her gen- . tie heart. Her mother has never visited her since ber marriage, till, hearing that she was upon her death-bed, struck with remorse, she hastened to ber; but it .was too late— the mother was too late—the daughter was at rest where no feuds of loved ones could rack her innocent heart again.
ToUl toll! toll! while the solemn vibra¬ tions were yet filling the air, the husband and the inother entered the chamber ofdeath. He carried in his arms a child of three years old, and led by the hand a dark-eyed girl of sis. The mother had just arrived ; she was attired inan elegant traveling dress, her face was pale and agoni2ed with the "late re¬ morse of love," as she advauced and lifted the drapery from the face of the dead. Who shall tell what thoughts of bitter anguish, of heavy self-condemnation, were in her mind as she gazed on those wasted features, so changed siuce the time she last had seen them, in their freshness and bloom ?
The golden-headed baby was the first to break the silence:
"Mamma, mamma!" she cried, reaching forth her dimpled arms, "wake up and take May! Mamma's pet is tired, and wants to sleep with mamma!"
Ferhaps it was the touching, wailing tone in which these words were spoken, which so struck the heart of the strong man, and made his frame quiver like a reed shaken by the winds. It was so like a prophecy.— Might there not be manya time, in the years to come, when that fair child so early de¬ prived of a mother's guiding love, should yearn with iutenser desire than now, to share that mothers undreaming sleep 1
Mrs. Home, the mother ot the deceased, was startled and frightened, as women al¬ ways are, at the sight of a man's mighty and Tincontrollable grief, and her heart was soften¬ ed, as it never had been fcefore, toward the husband of her dead child.
" Herbert' said she, laying her hand upon his arm, "do not grieve so, I implore you.— We have done wrong and may God forgive as both I"
Half an hour afterwards, with noiseless and reverent footsteps, they left the chamber, and the silence andthe evening dusk settled soft¬ ly into it; the white drapery of the couch gleamed dimmer and dimmer through the .gloom, till twilight deepened into darkness.
** Herbert, said Mrs. Home, the day after ¦the funeral, " of course yon will have no ob¬ jection to my adopting one of the children. I viU tAke either; bat ehould prefer little 3Ia7; she ia so like w2iat her mother was at
my death will all be hers. Of courae I can¬ not take her withont your consent; but I give you till moming to decide."
Long after every other eye in the village was closed in sleep, the father walked his chamber with unquiet steps. How could he give np the little one whose bright curls and innocent eyes were her mother's own ? And should he give up little Blizabeth, the eldest? No ; that would never do; the child's black eyes, dark locks, and strong will, were too much like his own ever to find favor in the eyes of Mrs. Home. So, aftei a long and painful straggle, it was decided that May ahould go; that the unopened woodland blossom should be transplanted to a city home. God keep its white petals untainted, " Don't ory so, Elizabeth," said Mrs. Home, as she seated herself in the carriage which was to co.ivey them to the city ; "don't cry 'SO, May shall come back next summer and stay a month with you. Do go into the liouse; you will spoil your complexion— which is dirk enongh now, mercy knows— by standing out here in this wind," mentally adding, as the carriage rolled away, "That child, by the time sha is eighteen, will look like an Oneida equaw ! Thank Heaven that he gave me May instead of her! although, of course I pity the child" and "layingthis flattering unction to her soul," she settled herself among the cushions. It waa evident that her heart had only been softened, not changed by grief ; it was still of the earth, earthy.
Poor little Lizzie! this double bereavement was almost too much for her young heart to bear.    She watched the retreating carriage till it disappeared, then flew to the chamber, threw herself upon May's little empty crib, and wept; not with the usual noisy grief of childhood, but with dreadful, siient sobs, as thongh some mighty agony were ringing her little frame.    Here   she was   found,  some hours later, by her father, completely exhaust¬ ed, aud lying quite pale  and still.    He was alarmed by her looks, and taking her tender¬ ly in his arms, carried her up   aud   down the room, soothing her with endearing words and caresses, till she fell into a quiet slum¬ ber; then he sat for some time by. her bed¬ side ; but as she seemed to sleep well, he left her, and sought his own couch.    Next morning she rose with so bright a face that he hoped she would soou forget her sorrow. Bat when were ever man's  perceptions like woman's ?   Had the child's mother been liv¬ ing, she would have noticed that  the  little face grew daily thin and wistful in its ex¬ pression ; that the simple breakfast was of¬ ten pushed aside untasted ; she would have stolen to her bedside, in the  still midnight, to see if she slept well; and she would have found her sitting upright, shivering 'in her night-dress,  aud rocking herself backward and forward in sleepless, tearless agony; while the housekeeper was  snoring by her side.   Night after night the great and ex¬ ceeding bitter cry of her wrung heart  was, " 0 mamma! 0 mamma!"   Yet swiftly suc¬ ceeding, and scarcely less bitter, came the mournful wail, " 0 May! 0 darling little sis¬ ter May I"   It seemed to the desolate child that there was " no eye to pity, and no arm , to save."   Then she thought of that Eye that never slumbers nor sleeps, whioh, her mam¬ ma had told her sees in the thick darkness as well as in the bright day; and she thonght, likewise, of that gentle arm which once en¬ folded little, children in its holy embrace, and forbade them not.   Then came the wish—0 how intense I—that the dear Christ would take May and her, both together in His arms I up to that heaven where she was sure her mamma was.   Bnt as she grew calmer, she sighed more for May than for mamma.   Mam¬ ma was at rest in heaven ; she could not come back; but May—how could they, how dare they take her sister awayfrom her!    At last her resolve was taken; and with  her, young as she was, to will was to do; she would go and see May.   She would go all the way across the iields, too, for fear some one would see her and make her come back.   To be sure, there were brooks, and fences, and woods ; and ahe   was  afraid of cows ; but there should be no fences so high, no brooks so deep, no cow so fierce and savage as to keep her any longer from her own dear little sister.   The God who loved little children would take care of her and show her the way. When the housekeeper arose in the morn¬ ing, and Elizabeth was left alone in her room, she dressed herself rapidly, put on her little bonnet and stole down the front stairs and out of the door in  the grey light  ol morniug. She ran down the road a little way in the di¬ rection her grandmamma's carriage had ta¬ ken ; tben seeing, as she thought a man com¬ ing toward ber in the   distance, she crept through the board fence and disappeared in the woods.   Poor little Li2zie! the sister for whom your heart is pining, is fast forgetting you!
" Elizabeth is not yet up," said the house, keeper at breakfast: "shall I call her ?"
" No," said Mr. Harland, with a sigh, " let the poor child sleep as long as she will."
So the breakfast hour passed, and the din¬ ner hour came but Mr. Harland was not at home to dinner; so the child's absence was unnoticed. In the afternoon, however, he came home with some toy for her; and then the housekeeper remembered with dismay that she had not seen her since moming. Tben the house, the garden, the well, the vii" Iage were searched in vain ; and before sun¬ set a hundred anxious hearts, in sympathy with the bereaved father, were scouring tbe fields, and dragging the creek iu search of the lost one-
A few days before, Mr. Sutherland, a gen¬ tlemau from a distant southern city, with his son, a lad of twelve, stopped at the little hotel iu the village, for a few day's gunning ; allured by the magnificent forests iu the vi¬ cinity. They were on their way home from Niagraa Falls. The boy had tbe most frank and ingenuous countenance iu the world. You might look into the very depths of his clear, grey eyes,and see that there was nothing in his young mind but what conld bear the light of day: nothing that need be hidden. On the day in question, he had been ram¬ bling with his father on the hills all day; aud now, as the sun was setting, they were somewhat in doubt what direotion to take through the woods to return to the village. The boy's face waa rosy with exercise, and with the wind which blew his rich masses of curls back from his broad forehead. He was fancifully dressed in a blue hunting shirt, em¬ broidered with white and belted round the waist.
" Father," said he, stooping and picking up something from the yellow leaves, " do see what I have found ; a child's shoe as I live. What child conld ever have strayed here ? Now I believe we are to meet an ad¬ venture. Lost in the woods—find a child's shoe—next probably stumble upon some un¬ fortunate innocent abandoned to the wild beasts, by its unnatural parents, etc. Fancy yourself and me, father, figuring in the news¬ papers thus, heading in large capitals: " TKtilUng Adventure t—Miraculous Rescue of a Child 1 'On Saturday znoming last, a brave, intrepid, and heroic youth, [meaning me,3 andan aged and highly respectable in¬ dividual, [meaning you,] went forth into the woods in quest of .game, became bewildered and loat their way 1"—
"Mercy, Frank," intermpted his father, ''howjcan you ran on so? If you were as tired and hungry as I axuj y^oa could not be in buoIl eoBtatio epirlts."
"Good spirits are an indication of a clear conscience," grarely replied the young sage, "besides, I wish to set au example of unmur¬ muring fortitude and resignation. But seri¬ ously, papa, I am sorry yon are so tired. Sit down here, a few moments, while I go a little further up the hill, to see if I can discover the village. You know I am never fatigued;" and with fleet feet he sprang up the rooks, and through the rustly leaves. Suddenly his feet were arrested, and a cry of wonder sprang to his lips, but was checked before it beoame audible. For kneeling on the dry leaves before him was a little child, with her hands clasped, and her faoe tmsttngly, rever¬ ently raised toward the red Western sky.—- One of her little feet was bare, proclaiming her the owner of the shoe; her dark hair hung in tangled masses of curls ; her dress was reut by briers; her cheeks wet with tears; her little bonnet adroop with cold heavy dew, which later in the night would become a frost. The shadows of dusk were fast gathering in the hollows of the lonely woodland; hot the ohild's faith was strong. Raising her folded bands, she slowly repeat¬ ed the hymn her dead mother had taught her, commencing—
"JOTOB gentle Shepherd, bear ma;
Bless thy little lamb to-nlgfat; Tbroogh the darkneaa t>e thon near me.
Keep me aafe Ull moming llgbt."
"EUzabeth, yoa.had better let yonr aister wear that new hat of yours; it would be a pity for her to spoil her heautifal complex¬ iou in thia hot sunshine; but you are already so dark, that it does not signify whetber you wear anything on yonr head or not.   Beside,
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were all changed from what they had been "0o on," said Llzxle, in a steady and cheer- in her childhood.   Yon oonld not recognize fai rolce,sammonIng all her strength.   "Go
FIESr THDTGS,
A French paper has an amuaing article, de¬ scribing minutely the; succeasive first things that happen to a man in the coarse of his life—^bis first honra as a new bom baby, bis first trousers, his first day at college,' his first scholastic prize, his first cigar, his first love- letter, his first sweethearts And then, com¬ ing to his various experiments in the way of profession, it describes hi& first oause as a lawyer, his " oase" as a doctor, his first battle as a soldier. It then proceeds to his first wed¬ ding-night, his first child, his flrat grey hair, his first wrinkle, hia first rejection as an ad-
you are too old to take such sinful pride in   in the gracefal maiden of twenty, the awk-   on ; whom shonld you tell, if not your only dress ; -I do grieve to see you so attaohed to ^ ward child of twelve.   She is sitting in her   sister V
the pomps and vanities of the world; It be- ' father's little parlor, watching the light of      "Lizzie, I am engaged to be married." tokens adepraved heart!" ' sunset, as it slowly waves away.   Uay is      "God bless you, my sisterl  may you be
Elizabeth made no reply; but the words   spending her acoustomed summer months at   happy!"   said Lfzzle, kissing her forehead roused many rebellious feelings; for, though , her father's; bat she has gone out, and Eliz-   and abmptly leaving the room.   Bhe passed it is easy to make a sacrifice for those we | abeth is  alone, indulging in one of those   from the house, and into the fresh, pure air. love, it is bitter, very bitter, to have it un- j dreamy reveries, when the soul is so near   Away on the hills she could see the white- appreciated.    Nevertheless,   sbe   tied   the   the snrface aa to appear undisguised, and   gleaming headstones of the graveyard where strings of her blue san-bonnet, and set out; when we do not like to be interrupted, even   her mother waa sleeping,  and thither she   ^'^'t ^*» ^"t pair of spectacles, his first for ahooL     Their path   was   very lovely, ^ by onr dearest friends.   She sat with her   bent her steps.     She went to her mother's/^^^'^^^'^f*.* *°^~"^*^^"* Sf'*^® ' leading  for the  most   part  through the j hands folded, and a softened, sad expression   grave, and kneeling there, pressed her bum-i    The Pansian view of the approach of old woods; which were now all fragrant with the | upon her face.   She was dressed in a simple   ing forehead against the cold marble, as if to ' *^^ *^ '^^ ™°^* amuaing part of aU this, and sweet odors, and vocal with the music of j and delicate musliu, with a single white flow-   eaae ita pain.   By one of those strange coin- midsummer.   In the overhanging branohes . er lighting the shining darkness of her hair,   eidenoea which sometimes happen,   Frank squirrels were leaping and chattering, robins   Aa the red "West grew paler, her eyes filled | Sutherland entered the graveyard soon after, chirping,  and golden sunshine glimmering   with tears, and half unconsciously sh^ re-j    Proceeding-onward he soon saw, to his great down through the shade.   The sweet, soft   peated the words of a favorite poet: | dismay and consternation, the subject of his
air which gently touched her forehead, and "jsTove eaatward, happy earth, and leave meditations,kneeIingby a grave with her head
till
Then ahe lay down upon the fallen leaves, and closed her eyes wearily. Frank hesita¬ ted for fear of alarming the little creature; but as he slowly advanced, she opened her eyes; aud at the first glimpse of his bright, frank face, she sprang to him with the true, unerring instinct of childhood, feeling that her troubles were over.
"Will you please to show me the way to grandmamma's house," said she, "I bave looked for it all day, and can not find it; and I must see May, indeed I must."
Then, with the most touching artleasness, she told how thoy had taken away her aiater; how she had longed lo see her; how she had stolen away from home, and crept through fences and briers, and walked all day in the woods ; how she had seen three large cows, but they had not oSered to hart her; aud she ended by imploring him to take her to May.
" I must first take you to your papa," said he ; "have you not thought how he will cry and grieve, when he thinks his little girl ia lost, and perhaps devoured by cow or aheep?" This was an idea which had not before en¬ tered the child's miud; she seemed con¬ science-stricken, for having left her father; and begau to sob.
" I would go to papa; but I am so tired, so tired, I cannot."
"Let me carry you," aaid Frank, taking her up.
There was something :n the perfect trust and confidence with which she clung to him, and the helpless weariness with which she lay in his arms, that moved him mightily.— Before he reached his astoniahed father, she had fallen asleep. Tiiey carried her by turns through the forest; and at last found the path which reached the village, and restored the child to her alarmed father. But we must waste no words on this part of the sto¬ ry. Daring the few remaining daya of his stay in the village, Frank, with a boyish pride in his adventure, frequently called to see the child he had rescued; and the ten¬ drils of her earnest nature, so rudely tom from her sister, seemed to twine themselves arouud him. Uut the excitement and expo¬ sure ultimately threw her into a fever, from which she was long in recovering. Misa Bachei Maria Gamp, a pious maiden lady, of the sect of the Pharisees, often came to see her, for was not Mr. Harland yet in the prime oflife? mor&vQr, was he not a widower?
"It is greatly to be hoped," said Rachel, that the child may be spared, and that the natural depravity of her heart may be sub¬ dued, and that ahe may be brought to the paths of virtue and rectitude. But should she be taken away in her present state of sin and unregeneration, may we profit by the solemn admonition, and have our lamps trimmed and buming!"
Ahl Rachel Maria! the same all-merciful One whose blood can easily wash away the few earthly stains on the soul of that little child, has said, "Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kiugdom of heaven."
the combination of fair sights and Inlling sounds charmed away £liza1>eth's angry feel¬ ings towards her step-mother: and also the swift sharp pang of jealousy with which, for the first time in her life, she had regarded her sister. They had not gone far when they were overtaken and paased by two strangers ;
"fifove eaatward, happy earth, and leave YoQ orange ennsat waning slow,
From fringea of the faded eve; 0 bappy planet, eastward go I" Here she stopped.
"Tili o'er thy dark shooMer glow T^y Bllver Blater-TTorld,"
said a atrange voice from the dimness behind her, continuing the verse. She sprang to her feet, and a gushing fiood of orimaon
one a gentleman aomewhat advancedin years , swept over her temples. She was mortified the other a youth of eighteen or thereabout,' ^t having been observed, and indignant at with an unnaualiy erect and graceful gale, beholding a stranger in'the parlor. Atthis who turned toward them, in passing, a fresh, ' instant May's silver laugh rang at her elbow, frank face anda pair of dark grey eyea. j "Exonae me, aister," said she, "there was Something in his aspect touched a hidden j something so tragical in your wrapt expres- spring in Lizzie's memory. It waa aa if ahe | gion aa we entered the room, that we were had aeen that face before, in aome pleasant, ; gtruck speechless with awe, and in aolemn long-forgotten dream. Again he turnedjand | g^enc0 awaited the breaking of the oharmi looked back; and then the trnth flashed up- ) ^^^.^ ^^^^^ tj^g^g ^^y linger with the air of ou her like sunshine. It waa the aame one j ^^ ofi-ended qneen; but aUow me to present who, yeara before, had found her in the | ^^ ^j^^ j^^^ ^^ ^^^^ j^^^g^ty my friend, Mr. woods.   She aeemed to know him by an in  '
PART ir.
Six years had passed, aud the child of aix was now a child of twelve. She was tall and slender; with a springing, elastic atep, a pair of large dark eyes, a quantity of carelessly kept dark hair, and a dark complexion, which betokened "careless exposure to wind and suu. It was difficult to tell what she would become, children change so in passing from childhood to maidenhood—she might ripen into sparkling beauty; but certainly she was.no beauty now. Rachel Maria, who was now her step-mother, called her a per¬ verse and obstinate child, and despaired, as she said, "of ever awakening her to a sense of propriety ;" and left her much to herself. There was a heighth and depth in her young nature that Rachel never could fathom ; and a will that Rachel never could subdue.
Every Summer little May oame and  apent two months at her father's.   She was now nine years old, and was a child of rare  and perfect loveliness, with a complexion as deli¬ cate iu texture aa the petals of an apple blos¬ som, soft violet eyes, and hair of rippling gold.   A prond and happy child was Lizzie, when she could lead,May by her side to the little brick school-house, seat her upon -the bench, and watch the admiring glances of the scholars directed towarda May's pretty dreas and embroidered pantalets.     And happier still was she when passers-by would atop to gaze in admiration upon her iittle slater's beantiful face, set iu the shining gold of her hair.    No young mother was ever prouder of her first-born than Lizzie was of May.— No jealous or envioua thoughts fonnd place in her mind, though her own apparel waa coarse and awkward, while her slater's was always  tasteful and elegant;   though her complexion  ^eemed still   darker, and her want of beauty more apparent, when con¬ trasted with her sister.   May was gentle and yielding in her disposition, too, and found favor in the eyes of Rachel, wbioh Blizabeth was far from doing.
On the moming iu question, the ohildren were preparing for school. Their dinner was packed in a little willow basket; their books were in the satchel; and Elizabeth atood sur¬ veying a pretty and somewhat simple straw hat, with a w ide brim, which her father had given her the day before, on observing the unbecoming aspect of the blue sun-bonnet with which ^her step-mother had.inveated her. It was seldom that she had any taste¬ ful articles of dreas to take pride in; but this hat waa really pretty, and gave a pictur¬ esque and uot unpleasing efiect to her dark hair and eyes. She had not yet worn it, and she stood turning it round on her hand, and surveying it with childish delight.
" What a lovely hat," said May, who had arrived from New York the day before ; " it is just theihing to wear around in the coun¬ try. " How I wish I had one to wear to school to day, for this drawn silk bonnet don't keep I the sun out of my eyea one bit! Do let me try it on, Li:^zie. I must send to grandmam¬ ma to have her get me one just like it."
And she placed the hat on the sunny rip¬ ples of her hair, and looked np with- such a beaming smile as few could have resisted.
"Wear it. May," said Lizzie, from the depth of her generous heart; " I cayx wear my aun bonnet aa well as not. I had rather you would wear the hat than to wear It my¬ self."
Just at this moment the harsh voice' o£ Kachel Bforia waa heard from the top of the aUirs, ezolaiming,—>
tuitive perception, for surely she was too : young to have remembered him. Yet how little had he ohanged! those wavy, chestnut locka, though darker, were still the aame ; and those clear, truthful eyes, there could not be another snch a pair in the wide world How she wished he woold speak to her, though of courae he would not recognize her ; he had doubtless forgotten the circumstances long ago. Her eagerness had carried her conaiderably in advance of her aister, who was slowly walking, twisting aome honey¬ suckles into a wreath as she went. And when the youth addresaed hia father, the crael morning wind wafted every word dis¬ tinctly to the quick ears of Elizabeth, and ^verywotd. inflicted a stab upon her heart.
" Father," said he, " did you observe the perfect, the angelic loveliness of the child we have just passed ?"
"No," was the answer, "my eyes are nei¬ ther as young nor aa good as yours; you have a marvellous power of discerning latent beau¬ ty ; you have found somethiug to admire in every old stump and dry mullen stalk that we have pasaed, but more particularly in ev¬ ery human face divine."
" No, father,.keen assare my perceptions, I should fail to discover any loveliness in the face of that dark gipsy looking girl be¬ hind us with her bonnet drawn tightly round er staring eyes. The dazzling beauty of her lit¬ tle companionseemastillbrighter bycontrast. If I were au artist I would worship the little fairy. One meets with few auch faces in a life-time. Do look back, father, yoa can see from this distance the gold folds of her hair. It was somewhere in this viciuity, you re¬ member, that I rescued a cbild from the dark and the musketoes, years ago. Possi¬ bly I may find her grown into such au angel as that yonder."
Thus did the thoughtless boy chatter on; little dreaming tbat his light words were in¬ flicting wonnds, 0 how cruelly deep! in a sensitive little heart, that had treasured hia image for years with the pure and measure¬ less gratitude of childhood. As he passed on and disappeared in a turn of the shaded road, what a heavy, terrible paiu was in that quivering heart 1
" Why was I ever bora ?" she thought " siuce no one cau ever care for me. 0 moth¬ er ! mother I if I were only s leeping by your side! Why did you not take me with you, instead of leaving me in this cruel world, where none but the beautiful are beloved ?" Her tempted soul was ready to question the justice of God in making her sister so beantifnl, so beloved, so tenderly cared for ,* while she, nobody cared for, nobody conld look at her with pleasure.
By this time they had neared the achool- houae.   May had finished her honeysuckle wreath and twisted it carelessly among her curls ; and now she paused by the clear cold spring, to look at her reflection in the water.   Lizzie atole up like a guilty creature aud looked over her shoulder.   There the two images were defined, clear and perfect. May, in the perfection of her innocent, child¬ ish beauty,  and Lizzie sad and dark,  she thought, as the shadow that follows the sun¬ shine.   They entered the school-room' and took their seats.   Lizzie  saw the admiring glances of teacher and  pupila directed to¬ ward May, and for the first time  in her life, instead of giving her pleasure, it filled her with savage bitterness.   She leaned her head upon the desk to weep; but the  fire within dried up all her tears.   In an instant May's soft, dimpled arms wero around her neck, and,  "Are you sick, sisterf" was gently whispered in her ear; and looking up, she aaw her siater'a innocent eyes all moist with tears, and her aweet mouth quiveringin pity¬ ing sympathy.   The sight maddened her; she   rudely   pushed her away   aud bade her sludy'her lesson.    The astonished child obeyed; it was the first harsh word  her sis¬ ter had ever spoken ; she took her book, but her teara dropped slowly upon ita pages, and her sorrowful, grieved   glances frequently aought Lizzie's face.
" Let her cry," said Lizzie to heraelf, " it will not hurt her. There ia no danger of her ever shedding too many tears, for she ia beautiful, and every one will love her."
But her befter nature aoon triumphed at 'the sight of May's grief, and turning to her she remorsefully kissed her wet cheek, mur¬ muring, "Forgive mel I did not mean it."
When the shadows of tbe maple trees lengthened far across the meadows in the aftemoon, the welcome "school's dismissed' fell upon their ears, and they started for home. On arriving and entering the yard, Elizabeth glanced in at the parlor window saw Mr. Sutherland and Frank in oonveraa¬ tion with her father. So they had called to see her; but they shonld not do it, she thought; they ahonld have no opportunity to ridicule her want of beauty, and compare her with her sister; no, nol So giving May the dinner basket, and bidding her carry it in, she flew to what seemed her only asylum this side the grave—the wooda. When she retamed, the stars were brightening iu the twilight, and the visitors were gone. Her face bore traces of a aevere conflict, but it waa all past. She had fought a hard battle with her angry and jealous feelinga, and had Qame off" victorious. There was a meek amile upon her face which tranafignred it, making it, aa it were, the face of an augel. The Sa¬ viour had looked with pity upon her trouble, and the holy comforter had not disdained to lay the balm of his healing npon the wounded heart of the child. Neither the scoldings of Rachel, nor the reproofs of her father, "for hiding away from visitors," awakened one angry emotion in her mind, for the peace of God, which passeth all un¬ derstanding, rested upon and abode with her.
Mr. Sutherland,
Sutherland, of Charleston, my aiater, Elizabeth."
The customary greetings were exchanged, and lights were bronght into the parlor.
"I truat Miss Harland will forgive my In- truaion; for when I entered the room with Misa May, I was not aware that any one waa in it; uor did I know why she enjoined ai¬ lence."
" There is no necessity for any apology," was the reply, "although there is an old proverb about listeners whioh I would strong¬ ly recommend to my sister, the next time she enters a room by stealth." -
"Don't scold me, Lizzie, I beg of you," in¬ terrupted May; only think of my good for¬ tune in encountering Mr. Sutherland in this village, the. laat place I should ever have thought o'f meeting a city acquaintance."
"It is certainly a great pleasure io me, Miss Harland," said the gentleman, "to en¬ counter your sister so unexpectedly; and no less so to meet with you, for X must claim you as an acquaintance, although yon have doubtless forgotten me. I have visited this neighborhood before, in company with a be¬ loved parent, now in his grave ; and some painfully pleasing reminiscences are con¬ nected with this locality. Have you forgot¬ ten being lost in the woods when in pursuit of a sister 'under difficulties' a long time ago?"
"I have some recollection of the circum¬ stance," replied Elizabeth, coldly.
"Then you were too young to remember it," said he ; "to me it seems but yesterday.— The whole scene is in my memory now with vividness; the leafless woods, the dying light, the lost child kneeling on the leaves, and the astoniahed face of my father."
"Doubtless, then, you are the individaal who discovered and brought me home," aaid Elizabeth; "and as I was then too young to tender my grateful acknowledgements, allow me to present them now."
"You wrong me^by thinking that I require any," replied he; for there was 'something very bitter in Elizabeth's tone, more than in her words, which pained hiin ; and he imme¬ diately tumed to May, and directed his con¬ versation—which was intelligent and fasci¬ nating—mostly to her during the evening.—• Elizabeth observed the superior elegance and refinement of his peraonal appearance, and once she encountered a aad and serious glance oi hia dark grey eyes, which heightened her color in spite of herself. When he rose to depart, he received a warm invitation from May, which waa somewhat haughtily sec- onded by Liszie, to visit them frequently while he remained in the village
As the sisters were preparing for bed, May thus addressed Elizabeth :
"Why were you so rude and haughty to Mr. Sutherland thia evening ? I should think yoa might have condescended to treat him at leaat with oommon courtesy."
"And why did you bring him in, nnan- nounced, while I was in that ridiculous fit of abstraction 1—And how happens it that you have never mentioned him to me, when, it appeara, you have known him so long and well ? and who ia that Mr. Carlton I beard you inquiring about with auolx emprease- ment?"
"Is it anything remarkable if I fail to men¬ tion the name of every person I happen to know in New York?" said May with ablush, and a pretty, childish pout. "Mr. Suther¬ land and hia cousin, Quy Carlton, spent the Winter at New York, and I frequently met them, and they sometimes called on me; and grandmamma, having heard that they were rich, was much pleased with them. Bnt I waa greatly surprised at meeting him in the street to-night;" and May laid her head up¬ on the pillow, and was soon asleep.
Elizabeth lay down by her sister's aide, but her thoughts were busy. "He once de¬ rided my plainness," said ahe to herself; "probably he dislikes me now. He once worshipped beauty; my sister is beautiful and gentle; he cannot fail, to love her; let her have him. AU the wayside blossoms of life are for her to pluck, not for me. God bless tbem both I I will not allow myaelf to become interested in him. Bnt what is there on earth worth living for ?" And after a long pause, she murmared, "Noble, ^nd beautiful, and good! bnt not mine I not mine 1 I will not think of him!" and shutting her lips most reso¬ lntely, ahe turned away to steep.
Next day, and for many sncoeeding days, Frank waa an almoat constant visitor. Mr. Harland was vastly pleased with him, but Raohel Maria pronounoed him too vain and trifiing. The light laughs, which frequently rang from the little parlnr, filled her mind with awful visions of final retribution. "A sanctified and regenerated heart," ahe said, "should live soberly, righteously, godly, not addicted to profane babbling." 'Tis even thus
, agalnat the atone, and her form shaking with 1 sobs, thongh she was not weeping. Invol- ! untarily, impulsively, he kneeled beaide her, I and gently took her hand, and when ahe wonld have aprung away, detained her.
"Miss Harland," aaid he, "I am grieved and distressed beyond measure to find you 80 full of sorrow. Why do you alwaya avoid me 7 I would so willingly, so gladly be your, friend, If you would only permit me.— Is there nothing I cau do for you ?"
"Nothing but to leave me," was the vehe¬ ment reply.
"Elizabeth," said he, I have something to say to you, which I have long wished to say, and X will not leave yon till X have aaid it." "I know wbat you would tell me," inter¬ rupted she; "May haa told me all! You have my best wiahes and most earnest pray¬ ers for your happinesa."
"Impossible I" aaid hein surprise, "nei¬ ther May nor any other haman beiug can know what I am about to tell you, it is this: you have all the happinesa of my life in your keeping I I have no hope, no wish, no plan forthe future,unconnected with you.— I honor and esteem yon above all women, and love you no less!"
She sprang to her feet with flashing eyes and buming cheeks. " You are cruel! wick¬ ed !" said she. "How dare you address me with words like these f you the affianced husband of my sister!"
"I do not comprehend you," said he; "can itbe posaible that youdo notknow that your aiater is betrothed to my cousin, Guy Carlton f lhat I have frequently been intrusted with messages and letters from him to her ? and that, if the conaent of all par¬ ties be obtained the marriage is to take place next winter ? Is it possible that May, with her transparent nature, has kept this from you so long ?"
"I knew nothing of it," replied she; "I was led to believe, from what she told me to-day, that sbe—that you—that—in abort—" She could aay no more; but ahe trembled eSceedingly, and covered her face with her handa. The whole truth dawned npon his mind like a sudden stroke of sunshine.
"Do you still bid me leave yon ?" - No answer; her face was still covered with her hands; but ahe felt herself gently en¬ circled and snpported hy the strong arm which was henceforth to be her guide through life. " Shall I go ?" repeated he, gently. " Never I never 1" she aaid, turning to him with a audden, trusting movement, the same as when a little child, ahe first saw his face in the lonely forest.
we omit the long list of firstliugs, come to the
First Grey Hair—Adolphe carefully plucks it out. He bas ne sooner done it than anoth¬ er appears at its side. A pest on them I It ia jnat like a barrel ot applea—aa soon as one is rotten the wbole lot is spoiled. Oh, thou dressing-glass, in which Adolpbe has for ao long, aeen reflected a youthful and freah face every moming, aay, do you recog¬ nize him now 1 It is iudeed the once band¬ aome man—that old fellow with thetiare- wom countenance, the bluish hollow under the eye, the dulled complexion, and
The First Wrinkle .'—It starts from the left eyebrow and coils over the right eyebrow with a serpentine inevitableness. Ab, tbat trifling furrow! Of how many illusions is it tho grave—of how many pleasures—of how many hopea! But, cheer upl After all, itis but a wrinkle I And a wrinkle does not pre¬ vent you from drinking, nor from laughing, nor from loviug—ay, and there have been inataneea of it not preventing a mau from being loved! Yet, a little wbile, and Adolpbe gets beyond eveu thia possibility, and meets with
The First Repulse of his Admiration.— Alas! he is no longer agreeable to woman! But he can luxuriate in the past. He cau lock hia door and stealthily re-color his faded illnaions hy reading over again the love-letters of former days I But soon again thia occu¬ pation of hia solitude fiags in interest, and, instead of letters to read, he has another companion to attend to—
Sis First Rheumatism.—^This enemy steals on, with its slow and snre approaches toward the citadel. And with it come sleeplessness, loaa of appetite, cough, deafness, blindness, gout in the stomach—invisible sappera and miners who graduaUy and certainly make tbeir fatal advances, till, finaly, thegreat foe. Death, haa bnt to look around the rnins of the place.    He is  gone to "
His First Graves and his heira place a handsome and heavy atone over it, to be sure thst he will not return. And so, drop tbe curtain I   The farce is over!
0 beautiful sunshine t 0 lovely Summer day I 0 qniet church-yard, where the dead rest 80 peacefully! 0 pleasant hills, and pleasant clouds'and sky smiling benignantly down upon two happy human hearts !
When Eachel, Maria heard of the betroth¬ als, she exclaimed against the folly aud per¬ versity of youth, and the sinfulness of inor¬ dinate creature affection which she said was the same aa idolatry.
The tale is told. Its characters and inci¬ dents are drawn from real life. The artistic blending of them is our own. The lessons they teach are those of natare, .and trutb, and God. The simplicity of hearts confiding in God; the triumph over self in fhe midst of great temptations; and above all, the care of onr heavenly Father for the orphaned ones, are lesaons ,that spring up out of the incidents scattered along the pathway of life. We may see only the rough husks; but the precious, life-bearing kemel is within. We may see only the sands scattered along the banks of life's atream ; but amid that aand glitters many a grain of precious ore. So, also, along that pathway the brier and the thom spring up—unsightly to the eye, and all the more repulsive when their sickly les¬ sons give promise of thorns and briers ever¬ more.
We hope for our tale that it will do some¬ thing more than interest for a few pasaing moments^that it will deposit in some youth¬ ful hearts the precioua aeed that shall give birth to noble impulses, heroic virtuea, and heavenly aims.
We can write no longer; our fingers are weary, and our .eye-lida adroop. It is near midnight; there is a storm abroad upon tbe hills; the chill wind waila and shrieks as it dashes the rain against the window. There Is a grave, too, far up the hill-aide, where the cold rain is soaking aud beating into the turf, and dashing against the marble head-stone I No time now to write of the happiness of this world.   Reader, good-night.
False   Edocatios.—The   early   breaking down into invalidism of our Americau wo¬ men ia the subject of frequ^t remark.    Our young maidens are, as a class, beautifnl but delicate, and hardly do hosts of them get out of their teens before they become more or lesa the victima of disease.    Several of our con¬ temporaries, we perceive are calling atten¬ tion to one cause of this evil, viz : the over¬ working of girlsat school.   Where the blamo of thia ia to be laid we are not prepared to aay.   We doabt, bowever, whether it ia all to be put at the doors of teachers, for we have heard many of them lament it, especi¬ ally those having charge of public schools. The docility, love of approbation and emula¬ tion, qaite characteristic of the sex,  taken in connexion with the early age at which tbey are seated at the desk,  and the early age at which they are called from their atu¬ dies may account for much of the error. Not only the acquisition ofthe common branches of edacation, bat likewise the aquisition of accomplishment, is crowded into afew years ; and thia, too, with a premature entrance, of¬ tentimes, iuto  the excitement  of  society. Natural consequences of this  are  headacbes crooked spines, disordered nerves, weak eyes debility, chronio complainta, that occasion more mischief, moral as well as physical, than many may  imagine.    What must fol¬ low where the  wife and mother istbe victim of ill health, cau  easily be  fancied.    And how mauy inatances there are of this ill health traceable to the grievous miatakes of parental vanity or thoughtlessness, in sub¬ jecting mere childreu to the inevitable dele¬ terious efiects of overtasking the brain, keep¬ ing to sedentary pursuits, involving confine¬ ment, unnatural positions, unrelieved by vig¬ orous, open air exercise?   This is not a subject ou which itia our province, were we competent to speak  in   detail.    But   it is   u subject which demands very serious consideration. It concerns the   prosperity  and happiness of   thousands.   It   concerns   the    comfort aud joy of numberless homes.    It concems the cause of humanity, inaamuch as  tbe abusea alluded to, threaten to bring on,   in some reapects an alarming   degeneracy iu posterity—and that posterity only a genera¬ tion or two behind us.    The hosts of physi¬ cians, the statistics of the death of infants daily occurring, facts within the obaervation of every oue,   are all indicative of a great wrong, which threatens  to produce  bitter fruits, to disappoint many of the hopes of a progressive aud   prosperous   civilization.— Bosion Courier.
'¦ DowEsnc ToiJ5T;-^Bfay your coffee and slanders against you be ever alike—witbont grounds.
The bachelor wl^o undertook to mend hia breeches with the,«thread oflife," gave it up as a bad job, and sent them to a tailor.
Soft soap, in some shape, pleases na aU, aud, generally^ the more "ly& " you put into it the better.
In order to live juatly, and be respected, we mnst abstain from doing that which we blame in othera.
The young lady who caught a gentleman's eye, haa returned it because it had a " wee drop "in it.
"Marriage resembles a pair of sheaps," says Sydney Smith, " ao joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in oppo¬ site directions, yet alwaya punishing any one who comes betweeu them."
A late San Francisco paper saya that the churches there have determined to sing no more long metre tunes—they being too slow for the country and tbe people.
Dick told hia .wife, when he saw her out walking in her new silk dress that he never before fully realized the force of the novelist's remark of his heroine—" that she swept gracefully along."
A woman in New Hampshire, who had been ill-used by her huaband, on finding him sound asleep, one day, quietly sewed liim up In the bed-clothes, and then gave him a tre¬ mendous thrashing!
Wincbell telle a story of a dog which un¬ dertook to jump across a well in two jumps. There are a great many people just like that dog—folks who think they can jump across a well in two jumps. They that undertake it usually " bring up down in the water."
He who is passionate and hasty is gener¬ ally honest. ' It is your old dissembling hypocrite of whom you shonld beware.— There's no deception in a bull-dog; it is only the cur that sneaks up and bites you when your back is turned.
A grocery firm of Philadelphia recently purchaaed largely in that city, wherever they had credit, A few dsys afterwards their store was closed, and remained so several daya, with the following notice tacked upon the door: " Closed, on account of death in the family." As it remained closed, tbe credi¬ tors began to think that the whole " family" might have paid the debt of nature in order to get rid of other liabilities, and ao had the store opened, which was found to contain nothing but an old stove and a few other worthless articles. The creditors were the chief mourners on this sad occasion.
" No one would take you for what yon are," said an old-fashioned gentleman a day or two ago to a young would-be dandy, who had more hair than braina. " Why ?" asked Joe, immediately. "Because they can't see your eara!"
A husband advertises thus:—"My wife, Annie Maria, has strayed or been stolen.— Whoever returns her will get his head broke. As to trusting her, anybody oan do as they ahe fit; for, as I never pay my own debts, it'a not likely I'll pay her'n."
" John," aaid a careful father, " don't give cousin Simeon's horses too many oats. They have hay, you know. " Yes, thur," said John, moving toward the barn. "And hark ye, John, don't give them too much hay— you know they have oata."
A Yankee thus advertises hia truant wife, in rhyme : Ou the 16th of August, on the night ot Monday, eloped from her husljand the wife of John Grundy ; his grief for her absence each day growing deeper, should any one find her he begs them to keep her, "My son, what did you bite your brother for f Now I shall have to whip you. Dou't yon remember the Golden Rnle X taught you? If you wouldn't like to have your brother bite you, you shouldn't bile your brother.— " Ho, mother, get out with your whipping. Remember the Golden Rule yourself. If yoa wouldn't like me to whip yon, 'taiut right of yoa to whip me."
We have lately heard of a minister, named Craig, who purchased a whistle, and when his hearers went to sleep, he emitted from it a very shrill sound. All were awake snd stood up to hear bim. " Well," he said, "you are smart specimens of humanity," as he slowly gazed at his wondering people.— "When I preach the Gospel you go to sleep; wheu I play the fool you are awake."
"Look here Jim," said a young fellow, the other evening, to an old soaker, who had evi¬ dently taken too deep an interest in spiritual matters, and wss atill, with the peculiar ob¬ stinaoy of those in his condition, vociferating for another "amile." "Look a here, old fel¬ low t yoa will apoil your constitution by thia style of things—better hold npl" "Constita¬ tion be blowed!" said the old fellow. "I broke that long ago ! Been living on the by- lawa this sis months!"
Eari-y RtsiXG.—I would inscribe on the curtains of your bed aud the walls of your chamber, "If you do not rise eariy you can make progress in nothing. If you do not set apart your hours of reading, if you suITer yourself or any one else to break in npon them, your days will alip through your hands unprofitable and frivolous, and unen- joyed by yourself."—Lord Chatham.
S    Notice to Bridge Builders. BALED Proposals for re-bullding the .«« 1^? °'. "Woodwork of a Bridg© acroM the Conea- ™!l»-!?.'wi"J'"^S«''J»™litSnaveIy'a Mill, will be
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•WM. C. WOETH,
DANIEL BSAUDT,
JACOB F. TRET.
 CommUatoadrs.
WANTED.
Afirst-mte Coaoh Smith will find con- Jtsat «mployiiient at good wagen, by appljloK immodial.ly lo tho nndonlgied. SS" Ono who S/d°r. Btanda honja^ihoeljjg wm be preforred.
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NOTICE.
THE Stockholders of the Lancasterand SaBqnehanno Slack Water Navigation Company are hereby notified, that an election wtll be held at the* Company'a office, in the city of Lancaster, on MONDATe the 4th day of HAT next, at 10.o'clock A. 31., for th. choice of Five Managers, ae reqnired hy their charter GEO. CALDEK. mar 25-6t-17       _ Secretary.
'COLTTMBIA BANK.
INTEREST ON DEPOSITS. The Co- lnmbl& B&nk continnes to pay interest on DepoBlLa at tbe follDwing rates, Tlz: 4 per cant for 3 months. | 5 per dent for 9 montha. 4jf per cent for 6 monlha. iiK per cent for 12 montha. march 18.tr.l6 ^ SAMUEL saoCH, Caahlor.
Cedar Hill Female Seminary, NEAR BIOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO., PA.
THE 40th Semi-annual Session will close on tbe 26th Innt. It will be preceded by a six days examination, to which, the cIomIdr exercIaeB of the 26lh, parenta and friends are respectfnHy invited.
The 41at nosalon will commeace the lat WEDNESDAY of May next. In accordance with intimation given at tha commencement of iba 40th aoitaloa, the present Principal has asaOdated with himBelf and lady. Mr. Albert Jackson, lata of lilancbeiiter, and Hrh. Helen D. Jackaon, well known to tbo former patrons of tha Inatl- tntion aa an accomplisbed and sQccesefnl teacher; and willbe farther aided In the nec-oral dopartmentrt by competent teachers; wblle he will remain at bli pom as Gonlor Principal and Lectnrer.
With this reinforcement It Is to be hoped that tbo fntnra career of tha Cedar HlU Seminary may be as nsafal and Bncceaafnl aa Its past. Parents or gnar. dlana wishing to place dangbtera or warda in this luiitl- tation,will obtain information by addrensinff
ThkM3.—iSiitlonln the English Branches, $70. Mualc. Painting, and the Langusgea, extra.
CircatarK containing fnll particniars can be obtalnM by addreaslag.
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ALBEKT JACKSOi^, Asaociate Principal.
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PUBLIC NOTICK.~The Stockhold¬ ers of the "MODNT JOY CAR MaSDFACTU- KING COMPANr' ara bereby nollfled to meet at the Offlce of the Company, on MOKDAY, tba 27th day of April, 1857, at 1 o'clock, P. M. of said day, for tha pnr¬ poae of taking meaanrea to dlmlnlBb tbo amonnt of tha capltal stock, and for tbe sale of thepropertyof said Company, real and perional,
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Valuable Store Stand for Reut.
THE subscriber offers for rent the well known STORESTAND, Kitnate in tbe sontb- J went corner of Centre Sqnare, in the boroOj^h of 1
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latterly by McCloy tt Black.   It laavery way caJcuiaied for doing a good baainesa, and Is one of tbe beat stands In the connty.   Tbero la a commodiona warehonse at¬ tached, and two rooms and an attic &bo7e tbe store. 53" For fnrther particulara apply to
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FOB SALE.
THiVT new two and a half-scory BRICK DWELLING  HODSE on "College  Placo" JffA north Lime Street,  Laocaster city.    This Is one Hila oftbe maat completely flniahed honaea of ItMctaas. _pi''fl_ with water and gas fixtnrea of approved style—larRo flbade treed before thedoor, and all necessary canveni- ences for a faahionable and comfortable reaidence.— PoKsesalon given immediately, feb 25-tf-!3. JOHN WISE.
NOTICE.
Totbe Bchool Directors ofLancaster Co'y;
GENTLEMEN: In pursuance of the 43d aection of the Act of Slh May, 1854, you are bereby notified to meet lu Convention at tha Conrt Honne in Lancaster CUy, onthe FlBSt' MONDAY in ili.Y,h,:D. ISSI, being thefourthday of Ike month, at 1 o'clock In tb e afternoon, aod aelect. viva voce, by a ma¬ jority of the wbola nnmber of Directors preaent, one person of literary and scientific attainments, and of skill and experien.a in the art of Teaching, aaCOUNTY SDPKRI.VTENDENT. for the three ancceetling years; determine tbe amonnt of compent^ation for the sama, aud certify the re^ntt to Iho Slate Snperiotendenc at Harrisbnrg ; aa reqnired by the 30[h and 40tli i^ecLionti of said act. JNO. S. CRDMBACaH. County Snperintendent of Lancaster County, april S I    3t-iy^
Book and Job Printmg.
EEMOVAJj.—The undersigned re¬ spectfaily Informs his friends and tba pnblic, tuat ho has removed bis JOB PRINTING OFFICE from bis old stand. No. 20 North Queen street, to the new and commodious balldinK, No. 10 NORTH DDKE STREET, OPPOSITE THE NEW COURT HOUSE, where, with additional advantagea, he will cxeit bimxclf tu render satiafaetion to all who may favor him wlih tbeir patronage. WM. B. WILEY,
aprll S-3m-I9 No. 10 North Duke ntreet.
A EETIEED PHYSICIAIfl', HOSE sands of lifc have nearly
rnn out,discovered wbile inthe West In-
    . certain cure for CO.XSUMPTIO.N. ASTHMA.
imONCHITIS, COUGHS, COLDS, aad GENERAL DE¬ BILITY. Tha remedy was discovered by blm when hia only child, a danghter, was given up to dia. Wiiih¬ ing to do as much good as possible, he will uand to anch of his atliicted fellow.beinga aa renuest it, this recipe, with foil and explicit directions for making it np and successfnlly using it.. Ho requires each applicant to i inclose htm one sbiltlng—three cente tober ' aa postage on the rocipa, and the remainder t< plied to tbe payment of ibis advertisement.
Address, Dr. H. JAMES,
No. 19 Grand etreet, Jcney City,;
april 8  lm-1!>
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XTJL band
MXGIiINERY.
LANCASTER, April 13, 1S51. E. 31. ICIXtl   hiis   Opened
 bandsomo assortroent of SPRING MILLI¬ NERY, at ber rooms in Eaat King atrjet. formerly rf Marina tt King, a fow doora east of Lecblat's Ho-v tei. wbera sbo win he pie used to aee ber friends' ami cnstomers from city and county, ftprll 16   61-20
FART m.
Eight inore years have paased with their olumoeB ftnd changes.. Ko one who liad sot lee^ -Elizabeth ainoe her i^hUdhood would- reooguizfl lier now.   The eieot vid gtateljr
"With Scriptore texta to chill and ban the heart's freah.
morning honrs, Tbe heary-footed Puritan goes trampling down (bo
flowera."
NererthelesSf thej rode, drove, song, went on fiahicg exoorsions, sailing ezoarBions, and walking excursions. Lizzie always treated him with quiet reserve, May with innocent gaiety. Bat in spite of all Lizzie's resoln¬ tions to the contrary, ber thoaghts were con¬ stantly with. She had mentally resigned him to her sister; bat it cost her many a pang, nnseen and nnpitied save by the All- Seeing. She saw him daily regarding May with looks of admic&tion; she had seen them oonreralng apart is low tones, and she had marked a vivid blush rise np and cover May's &ir forehead while they talked; she had seen them more than once' exchanging let¬ ters ; she knew, too, by May's excited anea- sineas, that she had something ^apon her transparent mind whioh she wi8hed]to- con¬ fide to her. Doabtless she would soon tell her of her love,..and ask her sympathy and blessing., .This would be a very hard trial; bat site trusted that-strength from on high would be gtvut her.' At lut the trial oame. ''^iBter,' there Ib eomethisg i vaat tbl^ yoa," b^gsntfay. In txemnlout tonei, aod in
Thb "Wsosa Legs.—A gentleman of this oity, who has the bad fortane to be troubled with rheumatism in the legs, and the good fortane to have an excellent wife, who is ever prompt in applying the usual remedies to arrest the vexatious pains of this treacher¬ ous complaint,, went home one evening last week saffering greatly from his old "misery." His zealous wife immediately rushed to the sideboard, and taking out the bottle pf what she sapposed to he Dalley's Pain Extractor, proceeded to mh the afflicted huaband's lega and feet with the magical elixir. "With a grateful smile the affectionate husband sig¬ nified hia great relief, remarking, also, that a good wife was really an inestimable blessing. *'And, by-the-by, my dear," oontinaed the affectionate sponse, " I see you have heen varnishing the legs of tbis old furniture ; they have needed it for aloug time."
"What put that into your head? asked the good wife.
" Why, can't I smell ? I must certainly have a bad cold if I could escape tbat ratber strong odor of copal varnish which pervades the room."
" Tou are mistaken ; I have not opened the varnish hottle to-day."
At this the husband, happening to cast his eyes down to his kneeling wife, wbo was still rubbing his extremities, was astonished and horrified at the spectacle they presented. They were of a beautiful mahogany color, so brigbtly polished tbat he could see his own startled conntenance as distinctly in tbem as in a looking-glass. Seizing the bottle of magical elixir, what waa his horror to discover that it was labeled " copal varniah I"
This explained the odor, and established au importaut faot in medical practice, that the best cure.for rheomatism is a thick coat¬ ing of copal I varniah. We had heard the same remedy) employed in cases of oholera, to arrest perspiration, but this is tbe firat oaae we have ever known of its being found as effective in restoring the damaged legs of men as thoae of tablea andside*boarda.—Cin.
Enquirer,     i
—p «i^»afc>—¦ 1-
fieware of jjudglng hastilj;;. it is better to iuBpend in opinion than, to retnut an asaer*
Do IT YoDflSBLVEs, BoYs.—Why ask the teaoher or some class-mate to solve that prob¬ lem ? Do it yonrselvea. Yoa might as well let them eat your dinner as " do yoar sums for you." It is in studying as in eating; be that does it gets the benefit, and not be that sees it done. In almoat every school I wonld give more for what the teacher learns ; sim¬ ply beoause the teacber is compelled to solve all the hard problems for tbem, and answer the questions of the lazy boys. Do not ask him to parse all the diffioult words or aasist yoa in the performanceof any of your duties. Do it youraelvea.. Never mind though tbey look dark as Egypt. I)oD't a3k even a hint from any body. Try agnin. Every trial in¬ creases your ahility, and you will flnally suc¬ ceed by the very diut of wisdom and atrength gained in thia effort, even though at Srst the problem was beyond your skill. It is ibe study and not the answer that realh rewards your pains. Look at that boy who has suc¬ ceeded after aix hours ofhard study, perhaps. How his eye ia lit up with a proud joy as he marches to hia olasa. He reads like a con¬ queror, and well he may. His poor weak Bohool-mate, who gave up that same problem after tbe first faint trial, now looks up to him with something of wonder as a superior. The problem Ilea there, a great gulf between those boys who stood yeaterday side by aide. They will never stand togetber as equals again. The boy that did it for himself bas taken a stride upwards, and what is better still, gained strength for greater ones. The one who waited to see otbera do it haa loat both streugtb and courage, and is already looking for some excuse to give up school and study forever.
A friend retuming from a depot a few morninga sinoe, with a bottle of freshly im¬ ported "Maine Law," saw a youug lady, whom he must inevitably join. So putting the bottle ander hia arm, ha walked along' aide. "Well," said the young lady, after diapoaingof "healtb," and the " weather," " what ia that bundle you are carrying so mysteriously under your arm f" (from wbich shediacovefedadarkfluiddropping.) "Oh I nothing but a ooat which the tailor h^ been mending for me." Oh (it'a a coat, ia it ? Well, you'd better carry it back, and get him to aew up one more hole, it Uakt."
Some desceudant of ^ Solomon has wisely renuurkad that those who go to law for dunsj- ges an) Bare to gat thf m.
JOB PBINTHTG OF ALI. KINDS,
Prom the largestPoater to theamalleat Card
DONE AT THIS  OFFICK, in the BEST STYLE, with great despatch, and at the lowest prices.
!Cj»HANDBILLS for the aalo of Real or PehsoHal Pr.oPERTT, printed on from ONE to THREE HOURS no; ICE. nov 15-tf-60
Kew and Fashionable Millinery.
MRS. H. 0. MOHLEK, MILLINKK, No.SOj^, NOKTH QUEEA' Street, North ^^^ Bide, nearthe rail road, bas just returned from^^ga Philadelpliia. with a l&ipa amorlmeat nf Ihe^j^Sr LATEST STYLES OF GOODS in her Iin-;, *^^^ ¦where Bbe will be pleased to have her fripnil.-<. and tha ladles in general, to call and examine for tbouiselveK. april 16  3in 20
X3Ls
$30 KEWAED.
STOLEN from the premises of the sabscribar in Pequea townsbip, lAncagter conntf, on Taeada7 morning, April 14th, A BAT <1 .^ HORSE, abont six or eeven years old, blind, /y^^ carrier a crooked tail, very atyllah and a good -i-r-*- traveler, and bas one white hind foot. Tho horaa wns tracked to the borongh of Strasbnrg, wbera all trace uf him Waa loBl. The above reward wlll be paid for the apprebension of tbe thief and recovery of tbe boree, or S20 will bo paid for tbe recovery of the horae.
JOHN BRENEMAN, aprll 15-3»t.20      Now DanviUe, Lancaater connty.
SCHOOL ELECTION.
AN Election will be held at thc City Hall, (north side) on TDESDAY, MAT Sth, 1557, between tbe honrti of one and seven o'clock In tho after¬ noon, for the election of twelve qnallfled citizens to serve aa School Directors for the Lancaster CUy School Dlfltrlct, for three years, la place of the following gen¬ tlemen, whose terma expire:—Hon. A. L. Hayes, Ewd. C. Darlington, Jonathan Dorwart, Benjamin P. Sbenk, Joahoa W. Jack, F. J. Kramph, Theo. Fenn, John Ham¬ ilton, W. G. Kendrick, Wm.B. Wiley,David Hartman, and Amos Slaymaker.
THOMAS H. BDRROWES, President. Wm. B. Wilrt, Secretary. aprii 16-td-20
HliJMOVAL.
THE subscriber would respectfully in¬ form her friends and Ihe pnbllc geoerAlly, that she has removed ber FANCY and VARIETY STOKS from Strasbnrg borongh to tho riltitge of Paradife, where she wlll constantly keep on hand and sell at reasonable rates, snch gooda as are nsnally kept in storea of this kind, Tbo etock will consist in part of Dress Trimmings, Collars, Under Sleeves, Ladies'  Caps,   Gloves, Hosiery, ^c,
together wilh a large assort mont of LADIES and CUIL. DHEN'S SHOES, GAITERS, ic.
Anawortment of Ffit,77'5 and  CONFECTIONARY always on band.
53" ^° connection witb the store, will alw be^ carried on tba
MILI,rN"ERY   BUSINESS, in all it? branches, to which the especial atten* tlon of the ladles of the neighborhood ia invited, april 8-at-19 LADRA L. FETTER.
LADIES' Bonnet, Ribbon and Millinery Store. S the season is uow approaching^ for
general Sprinc Millinery snd Straw Goods, ic,
JOHN  ROUGH,
JV. Queen st., opposite Howell's Marble Vard, has BUpplled blm.-'elf with a large and fresh stock of the same, and now inviles. tbe ladies of tbls city and vicinity to Inspect his stocli. An entlro new purchase of Itadios' Fashionable Straw Bonnets.
WITH  A LABIIK utTPPLT OF
WHITK  AND   COLORV.D   RIBBONS, FLOWERS. WRE.iTIlS, qUILLINGS, Buches, Head Drosses, &c. EMBROIDERIES, viz:   Swiss. Jaconet and Nainso.^k Flonnclnga; Sleeves, Collara, Kercbiafti, Infiinta* Dodic«. Edgings and Insertlngs.
LACES—compriaing Black. White and C.^lorM i^llk Laces, French do.,Thread do.. Linen Bobbin do.. Cot¬ ton, do.
Black and White Engll«h Crapes; cul.)reJ do. Black Silk Veila, wilh Veil Ti^oup.'* aad Berrgen, kc. V3-J. R. has bought bis goods this reason on the moat favorable*lerai'',ttnd bope-t to be able lo sell the same as cbeap aa naoal. apr l-2*ni-lS
Lancaster Mercantile College.
OrKi\ DAY AND >:VKN1NG, oifers to young men and othars who desire It, an excel- Jaut opportunity to prepare for entering Into hu^iae^H, either as clerks or npon tbeir own acconnt. Koom-i In Sprecher's new bnllding, Xo. 22 Duke .Street, .ijiponita the Court Honae. tj-For full particuLirs call atthe College, or address,
T. H. POLLOCK, Priacipal. april S-l'm-iq     LancailjwjCiiy. P;i-
AN ORDINAWCE
PROVIDING SALARIJ5S tothe Clerks of ConncUa. b'Rc. 1 Tba Select and Common Conncila of the City of Lancaster, hereby Ordain tbat, for the present term and thereafter, tbe Cl«rk of Select Connell and Clerk of Common Council, each, shall receive an annual salary, of One Hnndred Dollare, payable qnsrtarly. as com¬ pensation for tbe ft^thfnl discharge of their Incnmbant dalles.
Sec. 2. AU ordinances inconsistent with, or altered, or snpplied hy the aforegoing, ara bereby repealed.
Ordained and enacted Into a law at the City of Lan¬ caater, the 7tb day of AprU, 1857.   AtiQst. AUBSi) SAirDEaao.<r,    } GEO. SANDERSON,
Clerk C. C. t  President of Com. Council. Jas. C. Carpektee.    ) D. G. ESHLEMAN,
Clerk a, C.t   Prealdentof Select Council. aprU 15   3t-20
 OWE CENT  REWARD f
11/ ALKED away trom the subscriber,
W (bacansB he waa too laiy to rnn) on SATUR¬ DAY the 4th day of April, CHSlSTIAiV WAATZEL, a white boy. and an Indentured apprentice to farming. AllpersonB aro forbid harboring or tmstinysaid run¬ away on my account, as I will pay no debta of hla con¬ tracting. The abore reward, bat no expea»ea wiU ha paid, for the retnm of said boy or hia deUvary at the Conctr prison. - _
' JACKSON AUKRIM.
april l&.3t-20 Dramora twp., April Ttb. 1857.
Early Garden Seeds.
EARLY York, Sugar Loaf, Flat Dutch, Albans, Savoy and Dromhead Gabbaga, White and Red SoUd Celery, l^avg Ylolet and Pnrple ^gs Plant, .Bed Beet, Brocoli, Canliflover, Cncomber, Let-- tnoe. Radish, Extra Early, Frame,'Washington, Cedo Nnlll Peas, Beans, Onlona, TomatoeB, together with a fnU asaortment of GsTdea Seeds.   For sala at
CHAKLEa A. HEINITSH'S Drag and Gbemleal Store, Ko. 13 East King street. march.23 tf-17
LIME. ^.    ^^
THE underaigned would inform his old cuatnmers and the pabllo generaUy, tbat he haa sov and irm eoBBtantly hava oa hand Lime of the beat qnality. . O-Ordera laft at.tha hotel ct Frederick
wper, wUil uprUl
« attended to TTltlioat delay-
DAlflBIt E£BB. (F«qaea.)
BELIi HANGING.
THE .subscriber offers lii.s services to the citliens of Lancaster and vicinity as a Bell Uanger, and wUl take pleaxiira in doing all work In that lino antrnnted to his cara in the moat workmanlike manner. His materials will bo of the bent inality and most modern atyle. Job* completed at from $3..>0 to SIO according to material U'sea. Commuaicatar» and Speiking Tubal pat np. Repairing of aU kinds done in the best stylo. Tbe sabHcriber'a eiporience in tha larire cUIe» readers blm confident of giving-'^ttlsfactioa, large ci.c ANDREW CROSS.
S^Be can bo foond at Mr. Bolman's, In Xorth Qtieen street, two Hiuaraa north of tho Kailroad, and two doors ^outb of Horting's tavern: or ordara may be left at tho' Sxamlner St Herald Offlco. april B-3t-19
SLATE EOOFING.
THE subscriber, Agent for Hunipli- reys & Co.'a Booflnff Slate, manufactared at hiate HUl, York county, Pa., returns his thanks far tbo liber¬ al patronage heretofore extended to him. and respect¬ fnUy informs the dUiens of Lancabter city and county, that he le prepared to pnt on roofi* In the best manper, by the very best workmen, on abort noiice. He Invites those wisning roofs pnt on, to call and examine tha quaUty of the Slate fnraiBhed by bim. „„^
WILLIAM WKIGHT. febl8-6m-l2 Sonlh Prince ntreet. I.«acaster.
Slate I Slate rr
THE subscribers respectfully announea
J^^eb^t^lSri^aLAT^S^?^^^
Vol    Our work Is done by tbe moat experienced work
i7o« .nd warranted to gtre aatisfacUon.
men, and warraai*«     « RUSSEL & BARR.
Hardware Merchanta, J
-a-a&.
o.SS^iKlngtt., LancaHter
BtriLDrNG SLATES.
THE subscriber having takeu the agen¬ cy for Brown's BalldUig Sl&tes, Is st nnj tima roady to famish Slate by the ton, or pat OB. by the sQiisje at thesbortestnoUceaadoathemostressoDabl* tMrms 'Applyatmy Hardware Store lo Korth Qaeea sliSl. OIO.D.WEKCHSK.
Printing Paperfor sale attiiis office