Lancaster Examiner and Herald

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LAKGASTER, PA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 211866.
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ATTnJMlI IS COMINQ.
Autmnn days will soon bo here, "With the grave-clothes of the year; And the dreary winds will moan O'er Ihe life that .shall have flown.
Autumn leaves will sbortlj- fall.. Gently yield to Nature's call— Sadl.v wait in little crowil-s Tin they sleep in .-^nowy .slirmuls.
Then tho land will ee.-i.-^e lo ring With the notes Ibo warblers sing; Mirth ojsong lore sunn!/ skies, lyiierc UieSuninicr never dies.
Autumn moments will not wait. Soon they'll close the garden gate. And the joys we dreamcU were ours Will have perished -with the flowers.
Deeds of goodness, deeds of sin. Grain and tares all gathered in; This shall be the signal cast. Telling us tlie harvest's past.
Fields all drear and desolate. Hearts all barren—chilled by fate; This shall be th' unwelcome dawn TelUugus the Summer's gouo.
MILK AND HOITEY.
Emerson, soiiicwlicre, has this iias- sage :—
. "A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced ami tilleil—tlie houses that are built. The strong man sees the pos¬ sible liouses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as tlic suu brced.s clouds." I came across it the other day, and it became tlie text ofa sermon that Rfem- ory preached to me.
I'll tell you where I made a mistake in life—a common mistake; perhaps it will serve as a warning to you.
Twelve yeai-s ago I sat in this identi¬ cal office, with my feet upon those very Patent Office Eeports, smoking this same iiieerschaum i>ipe. Mj' shingle had just been nailed up iu the hall-way, and at the foot of the stairs. I was fair¬ ly launched ii lawyer. Proud of it. I guess I was. Proud is just the word; I was too proud. The i)rofossion, to me, was a liappy escape from all the drudg¬ ery that most of my school-fellows had beeu forced into, to gain a. necessary livelihood, and keep themselves iu fash¬ ionable clothes. Sfoney and influence were to be commanded bj' the authority of intelligence, not carved out stingily by mechanism. 3Iy ambition was of a quiet, unobtrusive kind, muffled in re¬ spectability, prcfering to wait and won¬ der, rather than to rush into noisy and doubtful arenas, searching for possibil¬ ities.
To be frank with you, I earned ray board and liueu, for tlie first two years, by little jobs of copying; but I kept up a legal front among iny associates uiJ town that was highly forensic. Two years I spent in this office, -with nothing more promising than an occasional job to compile, or engross evidence, for Clij)- liam & Drive; or running about, now and then, to collect a dubious bill for Choker & Gouge, down stairs; but I was patiently hopeful of the day when I should have a client of my own.
You can readily see that I had a hard time of it.   I had to dress -well—that was always a failing of mine.   Thero was Miss Seringo had to go to the Opera once a week, aud decency compelled a di'ive on the Bloomingdale Eoad once or twicea month.   It was a tough strug¬ gle, and at the end of the two years I -(vasn't auy better ofl'than at the start.  I One morning in JNIay, I sat here -n-ith my chair tilted, looking out at the dis¬ mal vista of chimneys, and dead walls, and skylights, and the little patch of dirty, gray sky, -when I heard footsteps at my door.   I had grown out of the early folly of x^aying much attention to footsteps—imaginary clients, beaming -with generosity, had always melted in¬ to apple-bojs,  and venders of cheap statuary when I opened the door.   The sound of footsteps,  therefore, did  not disturb my reverie; and when a knock was heard on the same door, -which, I must confess, I had latterly kept locked, through a morbid a])prehension that my imaginary client would, one day, turn out to be my matter-of-fact landlord—I merely puffed at ray pipe, and shouted, " Don't waut any."
Tho apple boy, or vender of statuary, instead of going away, repeated the knock sav.'jgoly, with the fiei'ce cxcla- luatioii: " Jehosephat!   I haven't got auy!" There was a touch of consanguinity in that voice, that brought ray feet to the floor, and the next moment I stood hold¬ ing the door open, aud looking in the I face of my Uncle, Samuel Chandler, of Iowa.
"Nothin' private goin' on hero, is there? I seen your sign dowii-stairs, or I wouldn't ha' found you." And in he came, holding me fast with one hand, and wiping his broad, healthy face with the other. Then ho turned me round once or twice—gave me a patronizing staggerer on the back, and said I looked as though I hadn't blood enough in mo to keep my courage afloat.
To all of his hearty platitudes I made modest replies, as became an entity in tho jirescnce of an agricultural sover¬ eign, .and asked after his farm aud for¬ tune.
"Fortune," said he. "Bless your dried-up soul, Bob, there's a fortune out West for any one that'll pick it up. It's a land flowin'with milk and honey, my boy. With a little pluck, a feller cau steer with the tide into any kind of a snug barbor. That's a fact. How's trade iu the law?"
There was a breezy vitality in Uncle Samuel's roughness, that struck mo jileasantly. He seemed tohavobrought with him an atmosphere of his own, compounded somewhere on the great plains, or within the sound of the great rushing rivers. It blow through me like new oxygen; and his agricultural sentences droppedoutas rouud, aud as unconcernedly, as golden pumpkins- knocking down my skittles of pride, like so many toys.
Business is brisk," I ans-n'ered, glanc¬ ing timidly at my Patent Office Eeports, with an indistinct fear that they might " blow" on mo. "That is, as brisk as I can expect at present."
It was folly to deal in any sueh sub¬ terfuges with him. He made no allow¬ ance for legal traits; paid no tribute to the evasions of gentility, but struck straight home to tho marrow in every thing.
" I don't believe a word of it! You ain't earning your salt here. Bob! Je¬ hosephat! I'd like to take all such flim¬ sy fellers as you by the coat-collar, and yank you out o' this town, aud flop you down in the prairie-grass, where you ean get a full breath, and let yourblood r run, you look so suffocated like I Brisk, eh! What'd you keep your door locked for?"
This was driving rougk-shod through my pet illusions, to the slack machinery behind ^ut tliere \ya3 no help for it. 1 saw that my accustomed diplomacy was as futile to turn him aside, as would have been my eloquence to stem a herd of bisons. As well attempt to silence the sturdy clamor of asa-iv-mill with the ; ulsation's ofan Eolian lyro, .is tomod
Ify this man's honesty of speech with evasions, so I had to own up. 1 es; I had a pretty hard time of it; but it was what every yxjung m.tn must expect. I must learnt labor and to wait.
"WWeh means," said he,- "lockin' youreelfin this dungeon, and waitin'for somethin' to drift in, as I did. Spendin' the best part of your life kee]>in' up ap¬ pearances, spendin' more'n you earn, tellin' folks that you're up to your ears in luck when you can't jiay for your washin.' Frettin' and plannin' and swcatin', along with thousands of other young men, with only one chance for the lot of you. The land's overworked. Bob; too many crops—too much artifi¬ cial manurin' and hot-housin' and coax- in'—to get a str.igglin' yield. And when you've got it it's half smut or rust. It costs more to keei) such a patch in grow- in' order than it's worth. Xow, out West, every smart man's a JMoses; all he does is strike a rock, and out comes the milk and honey! Is there auy place near by where we ean get a steak? I'm as hungry as a cat-fish!"
So we went to dinner, and he insisted on a baijquet, and, what was more to the point, insisted on paying for it. Over the bottle of wine we grew more sociable. There were Aunt Polly's and nephews and second cousins to be in¬ quired after, old acquaintances to be raked up, all of which bound the old filament of consanguinity tighter and made us feel quite familiar, though we had not met before in fifteen years.
But Iowa was his forte; the conversa- ion tended to that, from whatever point it started. Thero wero fresh revelations of the climate, running tributes to the people, rough delinc.itions of tho pro¬ jected railways ou the table-cloth, stun¬ ning statistics of the crops, astounding disclosures of the natural resources. I began tosee that it was, indeed, an .Ar- cidia running with milk and hoiiej-.
" Bless your soul. Bob," he said, lean¬ ing over the emiity dishes, " if there is any one thing we havn't got, and want badl3-, it's just such young men as j'ou. Brains is what the land is eravin' for. Say you go out with me and take a look at it; it won't hurt you, if it only pads your bones a little for the jammin' you get in this cro-wd.   I've got the finest
place in D , only a hundred aud six-
tj' acres, but every inch fuUof sap, right on the river, with a smart show of horses, cows, sheei), hogs, chickens and all that. Mary'U be glad to see you, so'll Liza; aud Mac'll give you a week ofjirairie chickenin', ifyou have a mind for gunnin'. It'll be worth a gallon of blood to you, any way."
So it turned out, after a week's delib¬ eration, that I was to go back with him. A soft vision lay in my brain at night, of a beautiful city brimming with health and enterprise, and wanting only a law¬ yer lo complete its social unity. I could hear the prairie-grass iu my dreams, murmuring a pean ; coal beds seemed to be swelling up to the surface, aud crack¬ ling into view with carboniferous ricli- ness. Sunny hills seemed to be oozing saccharine and lacteal streams tliat meandered to the doorways ofthe com¬ placent inhabitants.
Fortune seemed to have scut Uncle Samuel on a special embassy to me.
My w.iking idea of Iowa -was scarcely less extravagant. It -\vas an immense paradise, bursting with fertility, whose people, rude elysians, revelled in Na¬ ture's profusion, accumulating health and wealth unconsciously, building magnificent towns over night, aud shooting the bufTiiloes on the thousand hills in the morning.
D , to my mind's eye, ijlanted over
lucid waves, was sending out its virile forces into the luxuriant wilderness all about. A wonderful picture of Ameri¬ can energy, with white viailucts simn- ning the gorges, and countless steamers, locomotives, and canal-boats, departing in radiating lines, and startling the In¬ dian (on the bank in the left hand cor¬ ner), with their yells of progress.
I told Miss Seringo that I was going west on business. There -ivas a mental reservation that i f I liked D , I'd
faces and awkward manners, that was not distasteful. There was something, too, I w^ill admit, that was vivifying in the early breakfast next morning.— Think of eating breakfast between five and six o'clock!
And such n breakfast!-plain ham and eggs, and hot biscuit! ennobled with a relish that was now. Then the breozygladncss of out-dooors, that vivid freshness of light and air nnd verdure; the great green gladness stretching out under the Juue sun.
The chirping of fowls and -whistling of birds, the pleasant smell of fresh lum¬ ber, the vivacious bustle of the family— it was all very pleasant for a change.
But, when Uncle Samuel iguidcd me through the city, and poiuted out its beauties and advantages, lonly aoquies- CDd in monosyllables, and dissented down in my heart.
The D  river, which runs past
the metropolis, I found to be au exag¬ gerated swamp, with a great deal pf what they called " rich bottom land," but which I discovered to be alternate patches of dried alluvium and stagnant water, and througli both of which one had to wade toget the pellucid humbug tliat performed its uncertain sinuosities in the middle. There had never been floating palaces on its bosom, for the reason that its bosom and its bof.om were too close together. "There was a little stern-wheeler cpme up a couple of years ago," saidUiidcSaiuuel;" but, as tho caiit'in had to keep his steam whistle a-goin' all the while, to drive the cows out ofthe channel, he said it didn't iiay. Congress will make an ap¬ propriation, next session, I hope, and theu we'll haveaslackwater-navigation comi>any here, and be within a day's run of St. Lo'jis."
From navigation we c.ime to manu- factorie.i, the principal of whieh was a grist mill, locatod on a tributary of the D , nnd the only noticeable feature
build a Swiss cottage iu a jjlum grove, and send for her.
In this state of mind I bid adieu to Kew York, and shot across the conli- nent with Uncle Samuel, my horizon animated with the Goddess of Plenty w.tving a glad -\velcome to me -with her horn.
There were long stretches of wilder¬ ness, with corn-stalks and burned trees; many cities turning up suddenly with the viaducts left out: curious settle¬ ments that seemed to have sprung so suddenly from the soil as to have not yet got rid of the dirt. The arrival at tho great rhubarb-colored father of muds verified one of my fancies. Here, indeed, were the boats, bridges, .ind lo¬ comotives ; but this was .St. Louis, and our homestead lay many miles further nortli and west.
The ride from Davenport to Iowa City was not picturesque. That close-shaven, billowy country presents no salient points to the eye of the artistic tourist. From Iowa City we -\vent west in a stage-coach,a long and sore ride through the same undulations and rolling, tree¬ less spaces all day. Long before we completed the trip, I went oil' in a sul¬ len sleep, and dreamed we were so many peas in a horn of plenty that the God¬ dess w^as shaking up.   When I awoke,
we were in D .
The city was not to burst in its full beauty at ouee upon my wrapt vision. Its few practical beauties had to be un¬ folded carefully by my uncle. It was, iu Aict, a collection of one-story frame houses, built in defiance of all muni¬ cipal unity, nearly every house being in the middle ofa quarter-section of land, with a streak of black prairie mud in front of it, which the inhabitants in their necessities respected as a road, but which their euphonious natures desig¬ nated a street. Uncle Samuel lived in the centre of one of the sections. We were taken to his house in an ox-cart. This house was a curious structure, not without a certain rustic grace, such as I had seen in gnarled cedar furniture. It was ingeniously made of frees hori¬ zontally built one upon the other, and cemented with prairie mud. Sly uncle informed me that he was hauling his timber for a spacious mansion on- the road near by.
You ean readily see that my precon¬ ceived notions were to sustain a series of shocks. To a young man who has been coddled in a city, this kind of life is gaunt enough at best.
As we approached the i-ustic house, I sawa confused assemblageofings, chick¬ ens, dogs and children, in the midst of which a woman was performing some sort of wild incantation, throwing up her arms, and manipulating a tin pan, as though it were a tambourine. Upon my honor, that was my rdspectcd aunt ¦ and although she wiped her hands upon her tow apron before saluting mc, she left an ounce of oatmeal sticking to my glove. Liza and Mac came out to -wel¬ come me. Onewas attired in calico and sun-bonnet; I thought she might at least have worn white stockings. The other, a great huckster of a fellow, seem¬ ed to have been floundering like a be¬ hemoth for days in the prairie mud.— But both had a hearty,T-I cam^ near saying sine^vy—sincerity in their ruddy
of which-W.IS, that the proprietor could never get water enough to run his mill, until spring; and then his establish-r ment was invariably swept away with the fre.-ihet. "But," said Uncle Sam¬ uel, " them bricks over there are for his new steam-mill."
I need uot describe more minutely (hc city of D . It answered to tho pat¬ ent (leseriptioii of western settlements. The "business portion" con.sisted of a block of frame buildings, and ran alpha¬ betically from tile American Hotel to the Post-office. Elsewhere the town was difi'used over vast spaces. Every thing was crude and smelled of the .soil.
Uncle .Samuel promised to intioduec me to one of the rising youug lawyers of the State, Charley X , and I eager¬ ly caught at the chance of congeniality. " Charley," said he, "is uncommon smart; the best talker iu the State, and bound to get uj) some way. If j-ou could go in -with him now, mako a yoke ofit, it would be what I call a certain, sure fi.K. You'd get all the law business in tho county, and, as there's considerable talk of nioviu' the State Capital here, you'd cut a straight swath together, be¬ tween politics and learnin'. I think Charley would like the idea, and it you say so, I'll sound him!"
"There'll certainly be no harm in tho, sounding."
" He doesn't give all his time to the law," continued my uncle; "just now he's got two strings to his bow."
" Ah," I said, " two strings to his bow!'"' "
"Yes, you see, out here,-when oue thing is hatehin' another is bearin'. There ain't much of a law harvest yet, and so he's raisin' stock hogs !'¦'
"Stock hogs!" I repeated with amaze¬ ment, aud unconsciously giving a little imitation of that animal in my tliroat. " What in the name of Blackstoue, has law to do with pork !"
"Do? why, iJork's one of the re¬ sources of the country! That's -where the milk and honey come in. You're jLst like a book-farmer I heard of, that wanted to know what a dung-heap had to do with getting rich. It's not part of the business, perhaps; but it ain't to be sneezed at, if there's money in it. Lord, mau, you don't s'pose, if I como into a new countrj', I'd lay down,un¬ der the trees and say -wood-choppin' wa'n't my trade, when there was a clearin' to be made ? There's a Devon cow over in that turnip-patch that's the best milker in the place.- Well, now, she's like this here country; it ain't much unless you know how to milk her!" I soon afterward encountered Charley
X , in an enormous i)en, shouting at
a immber ot boys and a couiile of hun¬ dred hogs.
Hc was a cordial young man, and, in¬ deed, would have x>asscd for a smart enough fellow, if he had not been sur¬ rounded by tho odor of the sty, aud if— if he had not worn his pantaloons stuck on the top of his raw-hide boots. He looked at mo rather quizzically-making a rapid inventory of my aiipcaranco from umbrella to patent-leather boots, and theu launched out at once into the
prospects  and  advantages   of D .
Heard that I intended to locate. Had I any idea of land ? If so, thero was a splendid little chance over there, just beyond Brown's Slough—some -wet, but sure to come inside the oity limits! could be secured very easily! Parker, the owner, was involved in a lumber spccul.ition, etc.
Then I was conducted over to the slough to mako an insiJccliou of the db- maiu. It was a primeval snare of un¬ dergrowth and morass.
" TeU yo-d what," said the young law¬ yer, looking straight through this jungle into the mostsolid iiossibilities of the future, "if you want to set up, liere's the spot! As soon as the railroad cuts olT the slough, this'll dry uj). Shouldn't wonder if thero was two or three for¬ tunes to be found iu that marsh." From particulars to geucralizatiou—from the
slough to the prospects of D , was
an early antl inevitable transition; so ho gave me a taste of his oratorical powers In an earnest panegyric.  T'here
was, lying north aud west of us, thous¬ ands of s<iuare miles festering, so to sijeak, iu their own richness, and wait¬ ing for us to oiicu the gates of commerce and trot the iron horse through that slough, to throw into our hands an ira- measurable prosperity.
As I had no money to buy land, this eloquence was lost upon me. To tell the truth, there was something unnatu¬ ral iu my being there at all. With my city notions, and dressed in gloves and broadcloth, and carryiug an umbrella to protect me from the sun, I must have presented anything but a favorable as¬ pect to that iiractioal young man.
However, he was cordial, communi¬ cative, and uot lacking iu any of the requisites of a gentleman: I was shown every thing that could be of interest to a stranger, from the fossiliferous lime¬ stone to the treeless hunimbckB that they called rolling prairie, and was somewhat surprised to hear these ineri speak so enthusiastically of the timber- less vista.
"Bless you," said Samuel, "there isn't wood enough in Tama'or johndon Cpuntles to make a .walkin'-^tick; ¦ and last winter, which was: nri uncommon hard one, the folks up in that section
had to dig their own coal on the way to the mill, that being one of the condi¬ tions of grindin' that every settler should bring coal enough to run the en¬ gine long enough to get his corn out." The next day Uncle Samuel assailed me in a direct manner.
" Well, my boy, what do you propose to do now. You've seen the town, and I dare say it'll be a long while before you see a better one for a young man." "Well, uncle," I replied, "forayoung lawj-er, I suppose the best way would be to get a suite of rooms in the busi¬ ness street, furnish 'em rather tastj-, send for a law library, and commence as imposing as possible. The expense ofa clerk and oiHce boy wouldn't—"
" Jehosephat! If j-ou do that, you'll starve to death! "
" Then what, in the name of wonder, would you have me do ?"
"I'm afeard you don't exactly under¬ stand the way o' doin' business in a new country."
I began to fear that was the cise my¬ self.
" Now, I'll tell you what to do," he continued, lighting a cob pipe, and as¬ suming the air of a mentor. " Lawin' aint goin' to pay you at the start, what¬ ever it'll do when you get start«tl; and i)eoi>leoutherewon'tpayyouformakln' a show—just consider tliat a fixed fact. The way for you is to roll up j'our sleeves, and make up j'our mind to tackle the first job that comes along, whether It's plowin' or tcaehin' school. If I was goin' lo give you good advice, I should B.ay go into the stock hog busi¬ ness yourself, for a year or so. There'.-; money in it, and it won't hurt your prospects for lawin'; besides, it'll work yoii into our style, :uid get you ac¬ quainted."
Surprised as I w.is at thispi'Ojio-,irion, it once being made, I Wiu, niejuicd Ibr anything,   lie proceeded:
"You cau buy out Cli'irley X , at
a fair figger and on e.n.v,' terms. I hear he'll go to Sioux City, it you iiioist ou stoppiu' here; that Is, it you'll take hi-, hogsoir his liamls—and the money In them hogs is so sure, ,that I wouldn't mindlettin' you have a little aiiare c.ish tostartwlth, if you're short. I think it's a precious fine opeiilu', myself."
I was pulling off one of my gloves, with a morliid de.-,ire lo look at the white hands that were expected to have all these hogs upon them. To have spoken my mind would have been uuklndnes^, after his generous hospitality; to ac¬ cept his in-oposition would have been madness. Well, I'd think It over, and tell him on to-moriow.
All that night Charley's stock hogs went trooping through my brain. It was slmi>ly abominable.
I considered myself duped, yictlmi- zed. The stories I had heard of western speculators iu town lots, aud of sharp¬ ers dealing in pro.spoetive resources, all came back freshly. I looked tipon my uncle as being either willfully bent on sacrificing me to the interest of a strugg- liug settlement, or as hoi)eles.sly sunk iu the delirium of all these pioneers, who seo a metropolis iu every congerie of shanties, and scent an Eldorado in every swamp.
Was I to bo bit like so many adoles¬ cent fellows before me, because I came from the Great City?. Should I waste my fragrance on this desert.air, -(vaiting •for improbable railroads and hypothet¬ ical grants to rescue it from chaos?
 Stock hogs, indeed!   A pleasant fall
from legal promise! My uncle's kind¬ ness was, after all, but so much irony. Every application of my ambilion to the circumstances of the case ijroduced only disgust. I had no faith—could not hear the wheat growing westward, nor the tramp of .empire eastward. jiy pride harped on stock hogs, aud recog¬ nized in all this figurative oozing and flowing of milk and honey only the soiled stream of exuberant western fancy.
"Uncle," said I, next day, "I've made up nij' mind to return."
" Goin' back, eh? Well, I'm .'-orry.— A young man of your parts dou't often get sueh a chance. If I was you, I'd grab at it, and edge .ilong here some¬ how."
" If hiy edging along progress is do- pendent on that of the town, I'm afraid I should never get to the goal of inde¬ pendence. I guess I'll go back, uncle, before I get the fever and ague."
I-well remember the commiserative look he gave mo as he knocked out his corn-cob pipe—a look that partook largely of kindly contempt. But he nor any of his family, did not allow, for a moment, their iirivate opinions to in¬ fluence their hospitality. They actu¬ ally got up a grand p.irty in tho town for me, as thoughl had been a lion, and Mattie Brown, a gijisy daugliter of tho proprietor of tho .Slough, whom I had already flirted witli through the prairie flowei-s, camo out there quite a. belle.— She was undisgulsedly sorry that I was going away.
The dear, .artless little rustle! What charming black eyes she had! How she drank in ail my accounts of the great city. 1 actually believe I could have fallen in love with that baggage, if she h.ad been reared anywhere but on the frontier.
When I was coming away, she poked a fragr.int little bunch of wild-flowers into the coach, and I went to sleep, half an hour afterward, with the smell of gentian in my head, and dreamed that I was being kicked eastward by the in- dignimt Goddess of Plenty, who was attired in seven-leagued boots. It was the commotion of the ramsh.ickle old coach, of course.
That was the eud of my Milk and Honej'.
The thing seems unimportant enough in the telling; but every year since haa increased my estimate of the chance I threw away.
Isettled down again iu thesamc dark office, with that sterile horizon of dead w.ills and skylights beyond.
Ten long years have passed, in which I have learned what it is to plod and drudge, aud see oue after another of my bright anticipations fade away iu the grimmest of realities. What chance has a man to be ambitious when he has fonr mouths to feed and a fashionable wife lo clothe ?
It is not in good taste, I know, to say any thing disrespectful of one's own
family;  but Mrs. , nee Seringo, I
am forced to say, is too brilliant a wo¬ man for apoor man's wife. I'hat's my misfortune, not her fault. During these ten years, I learned, too, that my abili¬ ties were of the .average kind only—that many of us have to learn sooner or Later —aud that pre-eminence was out of the question here, with so many smarter fellows toiling night and day for the prize.
Well, Uncle Samuel .and his western affairs had grown dim in my lecoHec- tion—ovei-grown with my own profes¬ sional fang;, when, about a month ago, I'received an unexpected invitation from him to come out and pay another visit. Fagged out with work, it so hap¬ pened that I chanced to have a little Slim ahead, aud it occurred to me that a trip to the West would be a good and cheap way of spending the vacation. Tproiiosed it to' Mra.-^—. She  made arrangements  with  our
mother-in-law, about the children, and
we set out for D .
The railroad from Iowa City to the incorporated City oCD:;— was comple-. ted, and we were saved any sliaking up in a stage-coach. When we reached our destination, a marvelous diange saluted me. We were driven up to a sumptuous hotel, from the window of which I looked down upon bustling streets and surcharged depots, and taste¬ ful villas reaching out with their wings toward the prairie.
The rich bottom land had risen iuto a levee, aud the marsh had given way to a pleasant expanse of blue water, on whioh lay the D— River Improvement Company's new boats, with " U. S. Mail" flying gaily from their flag-staffs. I could not see where the old log-mill stood, for great brick structures were shooting up their vapor into tho clear air in continuous puffs.
Tho place, in a word, had como up from an incipient to-wn to a populous and prosperous city. We rode to Uncle Samuel's house in an omnibus—his new house shrouded in maples that I had seen him plant myself, and we heard Liza or somebody else iJaj'ing on a " grand action "as we got out of the ve¬ hicle. This was the place I had taught Mi's.
 to ridicule. She w-^as givten a horse,
and sent cantering through tho wild flowers every morning, to come back to a breakfast of quails. She went to the fl eater and saw " Hamlet"— I believe Murdock was playing there then.
Out of the world indeed! did she not hold almcstdaily coiiveraatipn with oiir respected mother in.Kew York, tellhig her over the wires not to forget " John^ ny's teeth," and to "give Fannj'the syrup of rhubarb."
I went to callou CharleyX—rf-, whose rooms worointheNatlonal Bank Roohis, with tapestry carpet on them, and t,wo or three assistants finishing up Ills woi'k. I couldn't see him, because the Kouso was ill sc.s.sion. Yes—I forgot he was elected a year ago; but I went over to the State House   to hear him
speak, andMi'.s. called on his wife
—yes, .you might gue.ssjt—she was once Mattie P.i-own; but her father's slough was covered with a freight-house and elevators now.
" Charley '11 go lo the U. S. .Senate yet," said Uncle Samuel, proudly. He's wortli about thirty thoiLsand dollars, I should .s.ay. Do you recollect them slock hogs of his? Well, sir, they started him. Hemadeah.andsomethingofthat drove."
JNirs. , after a couple of weeks, en¬ joyment, said lo me:
" Tho smartest, freshest, fastest, little city I over saw. John, you're a fool." .She was right.
jUtogether, the visit -yvas a pleasant one, despite the painful regrets that It awoke. The brisk seories, the stirring evidences of thrift and comfort, lilght- eaod by a inire air and a hearty hospi- tallt.y, sharpened my faculties, and I came back freshened for new drudgery iu my little arena.     .
And so it turns out that I am sitting in this same dark office, this bright summer morning, looking out at the chimney-pots and dead walls, thinking
ofthe sunny City of D , on the in'air-
ies, and wondering If I would be worth my tiiousands, aud in the Legislature, if I had gone to raising stock hogs off of Milk aud Honey.    .	
DIE  ZWEI SABQE.
[-I-nE TWO C0FFI:f s.]
1. £n the -niults of the old<»thedral,-
In the gloaming, gray and eold;; Are the coffins of old King Ottmar
And a bard, renowned of old.
IE.
The king once sat In power.
Enthroned in pomp and pride; .\nd his diadem rests upon him.
And his falchion rusts beside. III. More humbly sleeps the singer
Beside his royal sire; But they laid a lyre upou him.
And his hand upon tho lyre.
IV.
Xjist to the falling castles!
To tho battle-cry In tho land! But the sword leaps not to glory
From old King ottmar's hand. V. But the singer still is singing,
Now as of old the same. And the very breeze and blossoms
Recall his deathless fame.
':a LEGAL NO.TIOBS.
AVDITOB'S KO'ncE.
Estate of .Madison '^.:iBitchie, late bt
rV'Btfe underslghea'Atiditor, appolntetl to dls-; J. trlbuto the balan'ca remaining in-the hands of W. Aug. Atlee, administrator, to and among those legally entitled to'the same, will - sit for that purpose on MOWDAY, NOVEiMBBKSth, ISfiO, at2 o'cloclE,--p. m.. In the Llbrarj- Room of the Court House, In the city of Lancaster, whore all persons interested in said distribu¬ tion may attend.
W. W. HOPKIN.«, octS-lt-IO Aodltor.
AVOITOB'S NOTICE.
Estate of Andrew Murray, late of the County of Lancaster, dec'd. -
The undersigned Auditor, appointed to dis- .tribute tho balance remaining in the hands of C.Hoger, Esq., Administrator on the estate aforesaid, to and among those legally entitled to the same, will attend for that purpose on THtlBSDA-y. NOVEMBER 8111,1808, nt2o'clock- p. m., in the Library Room of tlie Court House, In the City of Lancaster, w-here all persous in¬ terested In said distribution mav attend.
W. W. NliVlN, Ocl3-Gt-lC Anditor.
.Vl'DITOK'S NOTICE.
Hknry SIlErBLEY's usc) Voud. Exp. to Aug. T* vs. yims.   No. 45. E.-t.Boc
Jqiix K. KjsIier.      J      C. P. ofLan. co.
the reltaive position. of the :.,., > sexes:
We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could bo compared in similar things.    Each has wli;it tlie other has uot;  each com- pletes the other, and is comiileted by the other; they are iu nothing alike,  and the happiness and perfection of botli depenils on each asking and receiving /rom the oilier what the other only can give.    Now their separate characters are briefly these.    The man's power is active, progressive, defensive.    Hois eminently the doer, the creator, the dis¬ coverer, the defender.    His iutelleet is for speculation and invention;   his ;en- crgy for adventure, for war and for con¬ quest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary.    But the woman's jjower is for rule, not for battle, and her intellect is not for invention or crea¬ tion, but for sweet ordering, arrange¬ ment ami declsioii.   She has the qtiall- lies of things, thoir claims, and their ijlaccs.   Her great fuuetion is praise; she enters into no contest, but infallibly adjudges the crown of contest.   By lier ofllce and place sho is ju'otectod from all danger and templatlou.     The man, in his rough work in tho open world, must encounter all peril and trial;   to him, therefore, tho failure, the oirencc, the inevitable error;  often he must be wounded or subdued, often misled, and alwaj-s hardened.    But ho guards thu woman from all this; within his Iiouse, as ruled by her, unless she hci-self li.os sotight it, need  enter  no danger, no templatlou, no cause of error or oflence. This ia the true nature of homo—it Is the placo oif peace; the shelter from all terror, doubt and division.   In so far as it is not this, it is not home;  so far as the auxicties of the outer life penetrate into it, and tho inconsistently minded, unknown,  unloved, or hostile society ofthe outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home ;  it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over and lighted fireiii.   But so far as it is a sacred "place,  a vestal tem¬ ple, a temple of the earth watched over by household gods, before whoso faces none may come but those whom they cau receive with love—so far as it is this, and roof and. fire are tyijcs only ofa nobler shade and light—shade as of the rock in a -iveary land, and light as of tho Pharos in the stormy sea; so far it vindicates the namo and fulfils the l)raise of'home.    And wherever a true wife comes, this home is always around her.    The stars only may be over her head; the glowworm iu the night-eold gnoss may be the only fire at her foot; but home is yet wherever she is ;   and for a noble woman it stretches far round her, better than coiled with cedar, or painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet light far, for those who else were homeless.   This, then, I believe to be— will you not admit it to be ?—the wo¬ man's true place and power.    But do you not see that, to fulfil this, she must, as far as oue can use such terms of a hu¬ man creature—be incapable of error? So far .03 sho rules all must be right or nothing is.    She must be enduringly, iucorruptibly good;   instinctively, in¬ fallibly wise—wise, not for self-devel¬ opment, but for self-renunciation—wise, not that she may set herself above her husband, but th.it she may never fail from his side—wise, not with the nar¬ rowness of insolent and loveless pride, but with the passionate gentleness of an infinitely variable,. because InBuitely applicable, modesty of service—the true changefuluess of woman.
FOE THE IITTIE FOLKS.
NAinsrlE'S BOUQUET. '' Whatis the bright thought now Nan¬ nie?" I asked our little invalid, as I marked a sunny smile flit across her pale face.
" Oh! nothing, auntie, only my flow¬ ers have been telling me such sweet stories this morning;"
I was not surprised al;,, Nannie's an¬ swer, for I knew her wise little brain was often peopled wilii beautiful thoughts; .so, laying db-wn my book, I took hoi' slihihand Iri miiie, and asked her what the; "sweet stories" were about.' : '   ¦    ¦
."A.h! auntie, I can't,tell you them half so prettily as my,iitljle flowers told mo; but then I i would like to repeat them over; There, you see that blue .liyaeintlv in the centre of iny bouquet: well, all those little bells seemed to chime together a .glad song about the bright sunshine that came upon tlicm when they were qnito discouraged at being wrapped up so long in their cold, dark bulb; and how, at thelast, Itliclp- ed them burst the prison house, and come out iiito the pure fresh air. Sweet lessons of' tho patience of hoiic,' there, auntie, I thought. Then thatpluk may- lio'.ver told me how an o.ak leaf covered Ul) its bud last autumn just before the snow came down. Moiithsafter, a thrill of life eamoto It, aud struggling, it tried to reach upwards, but the spirit of the woods whispered, ' Ifyou come up now, little bud, your fragrance must be Ijut slight and your color very faint.' So it crciit on and on under the leaves, drink¬ ing in the damp air, and the melting suowlI.akes,with iievera ray of light (o cheer it, till one daj' the spirit breathed iqion It and swept the thick covering quite away. Then the dccii pink leaves unfolded iuto my little blossoms, for only think, auntie, all that beauty was reserved for mc. And- I think it has made mo tindei'stand a little, why God sent the long fever upou me just when I was so eager to complete my studies with the girls. I was not ready to ' come up' theu, auntie, andsoaloving Father bade me wait a llttlo while, and He would teach mo Hisgentlechaslise- monts, richer, deeper lifo lessons."
I loo'Ked at Nannie, and was almost frightened as I noted the excited glow on her cheeks, and the sparkle iu her black eye. But I only pressed the lit¬ tle hand tighter, and whispered, "Yes, darling, our Heavenly Father knoweth what things we have need of."
"And it is so sweet lo trust Him," added the littlo girl softly.
I could not but remember how firm and simple Nannie's failli had been all through her long illness, yet oven I had been able to trace from day to day, a beautiful dcvclox>ment in her Christian character. Ah! yes: perhaps our jiure flower did need the richer hue, even as her little May blossom.
"Andwhat did this bright dafl'odil tell you, Nannie ?" I asked.';
"Oh! that seemed to laugh outright in my face, and I did not quite like its boldness at first; but then it looked so cheery and liapjiy I could'ht biit admire its great, golden.head. It's a brave, honest flower, too; and does not seem loth to return the sunshine it catches. That' Star of Bethleheiu,' peeping out from under it, looks as I have seen Venus Horactiines, in the wostatsuuset. I thought of Whitticr's poem about this star-flower, as I looked at it, and then it brought mo holler thoughts of the real star that the shepherds and the wise men saw. So each flower in my bou¬ quet has been a little messenger to me, and looking at thom altogether, I could not but think how like tliey wore to us, I mean In being so difrerent, although thoy have just the samo sun, and the s.amo air, and the .samo. earth. Is'nt It all vory, very wonderful?"
" Yes, indeed," I answered musingly, for Nannie's words had touched a rleli theme for thought.
" And sh.al] not our wonder turn into adoration," I added, " when we think of the wisdom, jiowcr, and goodness of our great Creator; lor His hand it Is that moulds these tiny blossoms, and gives to each just .as jicrfcct a form as He does to the starry spheres. Surely David's harp might well chant those glowing .words of praiso: ' O iMrd, hoto manifest arc thy works, in wisdom hast thou made them all; the eartli is full of thy riches.'" " Let us road the whole chapter, aun¬ tie," whispered Nannie.
So taking our Bibles, -we read alter¬ nately, verse by verse, the ono hundreil and fourth Psalm, and never had it seemed so beautiful to us as then, with those living, fragrant teachers just be¬ fore us.
And I have given you these simple flower-stories, tlear children, th.at your liearts may be opened Ijko little Nan¬ nie's to the great aud glorious truth, that this our life—
Finds tongues in trees; books in the running brooks :
Sermons in stones ; and good in every¬ thing.
rr^llK nndorslgncil^, appointed Auditor to re-
_ port distribution of tlio moneys ruled Into Court under above stated execution, will bold for that " " "'-
TOBER " .       . ...
House, when and where all person.^ interested inayattendlf they see proper.
BElrBSS," H. LONG. Auditor. Lauc-LSter, Fa., Sept. lath, ISM.     (sep2!l-itl5
meeting for that purpose on MONDAY, OC- OBER '£m, ISGC, at 2 o'clock, p.m., at the Court
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- Wo7.Avaiice in Price.
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Tho Internal BovcuuoTax upon the nmnu- facture of "i ertlllzirs," w„s. „£y„„ „rc „„.are. removed by actof Congri-ss.ontlie l.llh of.Inly last.
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AUDITOB'S NOTICE.
Estate of Dr. AVm. S. McCorkle, late of
tlie borough of Columbia, dec'd. rpHEUndcrsl<j;ned Auditor, appointed to dis- X tribute the balance remaining iu the hands of Elizabclii McCorkle, Administratrix.toand among those legally eutltletl to the same, will sit for that purpo.se on MONDAY, OCTOIiElt aiHi, ISliO. at 2 o'clock, P. M., at tho Franklin House, In tho borough of Columbia, where all persons interested in said distribution my at¬ tend. J. W. JOHNSON, Oct C-Ct-IG Auditor.
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Geouge W. Sir.vEPFEU'l Alias Sub. for Divorce vs. \      to Nov. T. ISGG.
ANXIE SlI.VEl?li'EK.     J No. 111.
NOTICE.— ANNIE .SJI.^EFFEB, you nro hereby commanded to be and appear In your proper person bofore our Judges at Lan¬ caster, at the County Court of Common I'lotuj, to be held on tho Sd .IIONDAY InNO VBMBER, A. D., ISGG, at 10 o'clock, a. m., to show cause, if any you have, wliy the said Geo. W. Sii.vek- KEit siiall not be divorced IVom the bonds of matrimony contracted with you.
P. SJllTH, Shcrlir. Sberi n"s Olhce, L.ancastcr, Oet. IIHI-IT.
MAitvSitiTir       1    Alias Sub. for Divorce vs. \ to Nov. T. ISGG.
.STEi'iiEX B. S.irn-ii. j No. 50.
¦VfOTICE.-STEPHEN B. SMITH, you .arc ll hereby commanded to be and appear in your proper person before our Judgea at Lan¬ caster, jit tlie County Court of Common Pleas, to be held on tho 3d MONDAYiu NOVEMBER, A. D., 180G, at 10 o'clock, a. m., to show cause, i f any you have, why the said JLVBV Smith shall not be divorced from the bonds of matrimony contracted with you.
F.SinTH, Sherili;
SherilT's Ofllce,Lancaster. Oct. lu-lt-l7
AdamSiiafeu    -j    AliasSnb. for]nvo-.-t-e vs. f- to Nov. T. I»JO.
CAun.vit.vSltAFElE.J No. 7:l.
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EXECOTOB'S NOTICB.
Estate of Joshua Brown, late of Little Britain township, dec'd.
LETTERS testamentary on said estate hav¬ ing been granted to tho nnderslKned, all personslndebtedtherctoarc requestedto malce Immediate payment, and those having claims or demands against tliesamc will presont tuem without delay for settlement to the under, signed, residing insaid township.
LEWIS J. KIRK, sopti;-Ct-Hl Executor.
NOTICE.
M.vni- .\NX GoKitEcu-r, ic,! Of AucTcim 1400. vs. J- No. l:ll.
Wir.T.iAH GoKREc'irr. ) Subp. In Divorce. rg-iHE defendant will take notice that deposl- i tions will be tidcen on the part of the plalu- tlfl-before Wra. B. Wiley, Esq., commissioner, at his oillce In the city of Lancaster, on TUEa- DAY, OCTOBER aoth, ISGG, between the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock of said day.
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THI
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COUIIT I'KOCI..1.1I.\TION.
WHEREAS, the Honorable HENRY G. LONG, Presideut; Hon. A. L. Hayes and FERnEE BuixTox, Esq., .Viisoelatc Judges of the Court of Common Pleas iu and for the County of Lancaster, and Assistant Justices of tbe Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery und Quarter Sessions of the Peace, In and for the County of Lancaster, having ls.sucd their Precept to me directed, requiring me, among other things, to make public Proclama¬ tion tlirougliout the bailiwick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer and agenerai Jail delivery, also a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the
Geace and Jail deliver^-, will commence in the ourt House in the City of Lancaster, in the Commonwealth of Pennsvlvania— ON THE THIRD MONDAY IN NOVEMBER,
(THE 19TH1 ISGG. In pursuance of which precept PmitTC Notice IS iiEitEiiY oivEN', to the Mayor .and jVldennen of llie City of Lancaster, in the .said County, and all the Justices of the Peace, the Coroner and Constables, of the said City and Counly of Laneaster, that they be theu aud thero In their own proper persons with their rolls, records and examinations, and inquisitions, und their other remembrances, todo tho.s-e things ivhlch to their offices appertain, in their behalf to be done; and also all those who wlU prosecute .against the prisoners who .arc, or then shall be In the jail of the said County of Lancaster ai-e to bo tlien and lliore to prosecute against Ihcm as shall be Just.
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Oct 17 3t-is
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(,.'<ii-. li'oiirth & Market Strecis,
1'!II1,AU!-:I.1'I1IA. N. I'..—.Vlu-avsln Nlorcalargesloclc of I.IN- I-;.N .v.- OII, sii.vD'is. :inj:2;i-2-.~ii
]C<>\rc»s:ii &, li«o»:ii'<l.
.11A.VITP.\CTUI'.ERS AND
Wlii.lesideaiid Rclail lX-:dei-.s in sii.VEit .\Ni> .>,ii.vi::c-!>3.,'<'r£i> <;»t>^^.'-:.
Toi .-vitcii sTRHi-rr,
PHI LA DELI'111.\.
rplIOSB In want of SILVER ov .Sli,v--.i:- JL I'LATKD W.VUEwill Hud it mnch l.illi. i;- advanlago by visiting OUR S-rol'.l-; b.-l..:r inuUIng Ihclr purchases. ^
Our long experience in Ibe liiauufai-Iin-'* .'i the above kind (,fgiK»is enables us I i>ili-fyi-i,iii- pctltion.
We keep no goods but those whicii an-of i;!-.- F1B.ST CLASS, all of our own niaki.-, and will lie i-f»M at redtu-ed pI-ire^-. I Jul'^-l.v ::¦¦:
I'ESKO.SE K. ItOOl'I?!.
ArrhSlreetAVharf, Scluiylkill, Piiila- ilelphia.
Agent for Ihe Sale of
TERR.V COri'.-V WATER Pll'l-S ANU H'."- DUAULIO CE.'.IKNT.
—: Al-so :—
PLASTER  LATHS,   CALCINED I'LAKTi-;l: HAIR, WHITE .SAND, BAR .S.VND, .te. Juli C 0:»'-''
INVESTORS- 0!-'I-'ICI>J.
D'EPINEUIL   &   EV--VNS
Civil Engineers  &  Patent  Soliciliu.-;
No. 4o-3, Walnut St., l"'hlladelplii:i.
PATENT.S solicited-con.sultatlons on Kngiii- cering, Draughling and Mketclii:s.-.Mod. t... and Slaclilnerv of all kinds matl,- and .vklliult;.- atlendcdto. special altemloii given Io-.t-j" »-:- edCiiscsaud Interfereuees. Auilieutic voi'ii.-; of all docutnenls from J'ateut OUh-e pri-t-ui-. il.
N.B.—.Save yourselves useless Iruubli- int.; travelling expenses, :is Ihere is no :ii-Iiial n>. ;t for personal interview with us. All Inisiii.-,-; Willi IhcsoOliicos, canbe Iran.scled In wrifiliu'. For furtlier infoniuitiou direct a.s aliove, wilii stamp encloscil, for Circular wltli r. fen-iu-e.s.
Jan 10-ly-S
¦I)URKLI1!1-:UTYW1HTI-: LK.VI). J     will do more and laller woi-k at a given CosI, Ulan  any other!   Try it!   Manulaetued only by
ZIEGLER .t.S.MITJL Wbolr-snie llruir.l'alut .t Glass Healers.,
No. 137NorthTll ird Street, Philadelphia.
ja!i21-ly.l0
TJURE LIBERTY WHITE LEAD- X    preferred liv all practical I'aiiitei-s!   Ti-.v it! & you will have uo oilier.    Mamil-aetured only by
ZIEGLER .'£ SMITH, -Wliolosalr Drug. Paint .t Glass Doalei-s.
No. 1:I7 Norlh Third Street I'hlladeHihia.
Jan '2t-ly-10
INSURANCE.
COI.UillBI.l INSrKANCE COMPASV.
CAPIT.A.L AND ASSET.S—8.-532,2I0..«9 ri-lHlR Comp.any continues to Insure BUILD- X INGS, MERCHANDISE, and olhorpropcr- ty, against lo.ss aud damage by flre, ou the mu¬ tual pl.an, either for a cash premium or pre¬ mium note.
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT:
Whole amount insured S,:i0!,'2!).5.51
Lo.ssamountO-xpircdln'U.5...2l'2,:l:lG.OO S,001,ll59..'il
CAPITAL AND INCOME. Am't pre'm notes, Jan. '(>'5...'I2(,-,0;m.lifl Less pre'm notes cxp'd  " ... Ili.(,7.-:.1.'»   -110,017.21
Am't pi-e'in uoles ree'd " -  1I.',,5SI.I3
Balance of prem's Janl "  -       :!,830.l-l
Cash receipts, less commi.ssions in '0.';...-10,7G(!.8U
SI>E.1B".S P.VTENT FllUIT 1»KESEBVIX« SOI.VTION.     ,
WIIICH will prevent the decomposition of any kind of Fruit, and preserve it in a perfeetly fresh and wliolsouie condition for veui-s. It conlalns nothing Injurious lohoidlh or objcctlonalile In articles of diet. 'The fruit retains Us flavor and llrmness.
Fur sale at  CHARLES A. HEINITSH'S, No. 13Ea.st King St., Lancaster, juu 27- 32
t A   r I E K K E   31 » 11 S K .
rillLADELPIIIA. rilHE .Suiiscribors having leased tills favoi-il-- JL House it lias been
REPrrrED and iiKKintNisnEi) in Aa
ELEGANT MANNER.
And Is now psepared with the most iioi-l-e<-l a; -
polntinelits for the reception of guests.
The flrst position  among llrsl-elass  II..I1-I .
wii! be maintained in tiie hitiire, as in liie p:'--;.
may 2G-lyr-T2 UAKER .t PAl 11.1-.V.
II
OAS i-rrriNU .vNi> i>i.rMBiN«J
EST.VBLISIIJIENT, No. 11 North Quccu .Street, Lancaster.
I^AIITIOULAR atlcnlion given lo fllUugnp buildings with Gas or Water I'ipes, Wali-r CioscLs, Basin, Bath Tubs, .to. Repairing promptly attended lo. ani-l-tf-'io A. i:. FLINN.
OOI>  S.  .so .1IEKS.
Wholesale Di-al,.'r iu :V  !, 'J' .
seu-i-Sm -121
S
North wit.vuvi:-. Below Aveii Sll-eet,
I'lIILAIlKLl'iilA.
?S;0,11).1.37
37,l)S7.iM &-!-2,-210.19
CONTR.V.
Losses and expenses paid in ISG5	
Balance capital and assets, Jan. 1, GO
S570,i(K.:rr A. .S. GREEN, Prosldeiil. GEO. Y'otJXG.Jr.. Secretary.
MrCHAKLS. SHUM.VX, Troasuroi^ DIRECTORS.
Plants breathe carbonic acid instead of oxygon. Deprive a plant of carbonic acid, and it would sicken and die. Over the surface of leaves are countless num¬ bers of pores or open mouths, which fake ill the carbonic acid. Tluis the leaves of plants aro lik'o the lungs of animals. It escapes whenever fermen¬ tation takes place, and whenever bodies are decomposed. Snch are somo of the properties of carbonic acid—a substance deadly poisonous when breathed, yet absolutely necessary for our very exist¬ ence.
William ration, .lohn W. Steacy, Geo. Young. Jr. Nicholas M'lJonald, Micliacl S. Sliuman, S. C. Slaymaker.
S.'imucl .Shocli,
R. T. llyon,
.Tohn Fendriclc,
H. G. Mlnnicli,
Samuel'P. Ebcrlein
AmosS. Green,
Edmund Sperlng,
All business for tho Company will lie prompt¬ ly attended to by the Agent. „
THEO. W. HERR, No. 3 North DukcSt., opposite the Court House,
sep I9-3m-J4 Lancaster, I'a.
LANCASTER INSBBANCE AGENCY.
FIRE, LIFE, & ACCIDENTAL INSUR.VNCE,
East King St., one door below Lechler's Hotel.
.iETNA Insurance Company Assets f 1,100,000
PDTN,.UI     do            do            do 600,000
SPRINGPIELD            do            do 000,000
MERCHANTS               do            do 400,000
MUTUAL LIFE INSUR--VNCE COMPANY, N.Y.ACCIDENT.rVL INSURANCE CO.MPANY.
STORE ST.\.M» FOR SALE OSt RENT.
'IiIIE subscriber onirrs bis Sloro Stand for .saii^ X or rent, togetlier Willi his slock oi-g.>o.I..i: situate 111 the villageof Peiiuiuglouviiie, Clie.s- ter couuty.
'The above stand has been kepi as a .store for a number of yeor.s, and Is well worthy the at¬ tention of an.v one wlsliiiig lo enler lulu busi- iies.^.   lAir pari I<-ularsad,Iress tlu-suhscrllK-r. J. GROFF,
aug22-tf-ltlj Penningl'Uiville. i'a.
<il'l P\C\C\ '"KK VE.l RI Wc want Ageuls <JM,t)UU evervwlioretosell our I.Ml'It(rt'EI) S20 Sowing Afadillics. Tliree new kinds. Uu¬ der and upper feed. Senton Irlai. Warrauled Ave years. Above salary or largeenmmlssloiis paid. The ONLY machines sold lii UiiUed Stales for less than SIO. wiiich are/„/r.v/icr/,.irrf/ bit JIowc, Wheetcr .t H i/*o,l, Uroi'er .C- Itnkf.r, dinger & Co., and Jlitehelder. AU other cheap machines are infringements and the seller or nser are lialile lo arrest, fine and imvri.wnmenl.— Uluslraled (drcnlai-s sent/rer.   Addre.ss. or ¦"
upon .siiaw & Clarlc, Chicago. III.
11 at hldiieford, Maine, or ma IG-lv2li
ROOriNU   SLATE PRICKS   ItEDlICEa
TO SUIT TIIE TIME.S.
rilHE undersigned having conslanlly on hand I afollsupply ofLanciLStcrantl Y<irk couut>' ROOFING SLATE OF THE BRST QUALITl 1-
mar81-0m-I9
EDW.tRD BEOAVN, Agent.
A teamster stopped at an inn to break¬ fast, and having drank a cup of what was given to him, the servant asked, " What will you take sir, tea or coffee?" " That. depends upon oircurnstaiices," was the reply; " if what'yoii'igave last was lea, I want coffee; if it was coffee, I waut tea; I want a change."
Why are the arrows of Cupid like a man iu an ag ue fit? Becauso they are all in a quiver.
What Is the difference between the desert of Sahara and an ancient shoe? One is all sand and the other sand-al.
What kind of leather would a naked Moor remind you of? Undres.sed mo¬ rocco.
Why Is a Hebrew in perfect health like a diamond? Because he Is a Jew- well.
What celebrated convention would you be reminded of, ou hearing a young lady giving advice to her uncle? Coun¬ cil of Nice.   ,
What is it that by losing an eye has nothing left but a nose ? A noise.
SLATING 1 SLATING 11
THE subscriber is sole agent for Richard Jones's Peach Bottom and York County SL.\TE. Also, dealer in AMERICAN SLATE generally, is prepared to sell Slate and put ou Roofs an.vwhere lu Lancaster or the surround¬ ing counties, at short notice and ou the most reasonable terms.
fiS*Repairing done at short notice.
The Slate is at Calder's Coal Yard. Resi¬ dence in East Lemon street,between Dulce and Lime sts., L.ancaster. ROBERT OWENS.
sep22 sm-* U
which ho issellingatrcducedprices,and wlilcli wRlbe put on by the square, orsoltlby theton, on the most reasonable lel-ms. Also, constant¬ ly on hand, an extra light Peach Bottom Slate, Intendetl for Slating on shingled Roofs.
Having In my employ the best Slaters in the marlceu-all work will be warranted to be exe¬ cuted in the best manner. As these qualities ofSlatearo tbel.CTf frt/Acnar/.-^/, Builders and otherswllllludlt to their Interest to call and examine at my Agricultural & Seed Ware- rooms, No. 2S,EiLSt King St., two doors west of the Court House.
luarlo-tf.16 GEO. D. SPRECHER.
l'ljiIiMlc!pIii:i  &. T.ivoj'ycot
STEAM S5i5F.<*. rpIIR r,>lIov.-iiiglir.<t-class SI cam Sliij.:: jir.- ;:-.- XleiHled to sail reguliii-ly rv.'i-.v l\v.. u--:-);- liei-ealler, betv.-ecn Llveriiool, t;tieeii.I'n-. 11 .V- I'hiiadelpiiia:
ilOSl'ilORUS-Capt. Ale.vaiider Sfn,-.,...
PROl'i iN'TlS —  "      lligsins"!! -.i'liH
DEl.AW.VKl-;— "      •J-li.oiis.in    i'.«i    -
1:11 l-'-SAl'E.MvE—now liuilding   --7iiii    "
.MI-;i.rr.V—Capt. llai-dli'.  -l""!    -
rei-sons wisliiiig lo eiigiiae pa.-sa:;,' li-.-.m l.i-. - erp'..,! to I'llilieiilpiiia. t-ail   now ih.  s.i  le. :.;-
"'^"'"'" A. 11. M,-iii-:Ni:v.<:.-....
112 Wallinl .-^l.. l-hihid.-ll.ln 1. 45- Bills of ex.-liaime 111 sums losuit al-.-.-;i.' > forsii^i-.              _i'J,'.':-''"'"
W~A '1' K it   W ja K £•; B..''..
llYim.VULIC RAMS!    IIVDUAULl'- IIA.'.:.--
ri-lIlE CHEAPF-ST ANI1 BE^T I'O'.Vi;!;.'; f.-r X lUlliit'lli.K, Irrlgitlloii. cliiii-iiiii-'. ^'i-iJwliii:-. and otiier farm |.iii-pos-> XV.V1-|-;U WIIKEl.-S of various palli'ins, IIMlI!.\M.ll! U.VM.- in oueratioii tlii-owiiigwali-r,andours,-ll-rt-:;iil;il- lllg-WJ-NlJ -MILL (Elgai-'s patent), i-an lie .-;i-eii atom- store. Illlli-iiiliirs and Fosler-s I'al.-iil llO'r.AItY I't'Xlr. This piillip works e(ii::ill.\ well lurned slowly b.v itaiid or rapidi.v by p.'-.v er.   Send fordeseripllve eii-euiars.   Also
LIFT ANU FOllCl:; PU.M1>.-^, of Briixs and Iron.    I.i'ail   t'li.st and \Vi-,.iJ:-,!:! Iron I'lpes.   TEUIt.\.CO-lT.V DRAIN I'll'l-:.-i ..f all.skes.   liatiilUE'Tulw. Wasli Ilusiiis. aii.l otiier articles lu thet riide.ol-tbe best niak.- and at fair prlce-i. .Mi-l '"LLIN .t I! 1 ll 1AI is.
Plumliersand (ixs Fiuei.s, No. |-±!1 .Mai-k. I :•! Plillapelplila. |oe21 'iJi-ly 1.
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AMOS MILEY'S
Harnc.^.^   IHCanufactory,
No. .17 NORTH QUEEN STBEET, Next Door to Shober's Hotel, Lauc-isler, Pa
SADDLES, SADDLES,
I'L/VIX AXn FAXCV
BUGGY HARNESS,
WAGON GE.VRS, WHIPS, BUFF.VLO ROBES
BLANKETS, TRUN103, VALISIiS,
CARPET BAGS, Ac, of all
kinds constantly kept
on hand or laade
to order.
as- Repairing neatly done to order.
I.... I >.:';
Jan 1 '(>j
yI26
CHEAPER TII.VN SUOES—BOOTS
KEEP In mind oil you that wear them, that B.\RNES makes a fine Calf Boot for Sli and S7: French Calf, SIO, at No. 9 Sonth Queen St., i doora below the Dally InteUlgencer olllco ma 2, 'CO-tf
NOTICE TO ITRESPASSERS.
I-'HE undersigned hereby gives notice that he w-lllnotporinit persons to trespass on his Farm In East I..ampeter twp., near Millport, to HUNT, GUN or FISH. He hos been greatly annoyed and,Injured in that way, and will not submit to it any longer, and he will prose¬ cute all trespassers according to law. Bed28-3m-45 .     , JOHN LEFEVER.
OB.APE -nwis.
rnO all who are Interested in the culttu-e of Ihe X Grapo for Gftrden-or Vineyard Culture, w-e would call especial attention to"the quality of onr stock, which Includes all of the leading klnd.s, but principally to lona, Israella; also Delaware, Allen's Hybrid, Adirondac, Diana, Roger's H>-brids, Concord, .So'., The Vines aro nil warranted true to natne. ¦ :They have not been forced by heator.stlmulants,- Samplesof three or more will be sent ,bn roce'lpt ofthe price per dozen. No vines soid'-tssccept those grown by us.   For price list addtess
5aOLTON & ZUNDELL, Haveratraw, Rockland co., N. Y sept2l-0l-«
F
BOOTS ASTD SHOES
IOR the best Boots, go lo
BRENEMAN'.?, W. King Si
For the best Women's Shoes, go to
BRENEMAN'S, W. King
For tho best Children's .Shoes, go to
Estey's Collage ©e-sjhjjm XKE. NOT  ONLY  UNEXCKf.LKi),
BUT THEV AUK .VllSOLirrEI.Y lI.N-KilUAI.I.i:il
By any Other Reed Instrument in tlieCouiiliy
nv:sloXED EXlT.ussr.v
FOB CHURCHES AND SCHOOL.^,
They are found to be equally well adapted I'l the Pai-lorand Di-au-ing Room
For side only by
E.   M.   BRUCE, No. ISNorlhTlb street.
J'lIIJ.ADEI.l'IllA.
«Ii-Also, BRADBURY'S PIANO, and a eoiu-
pieteiissortraeutofthePERFECT.MEI.OIli-:i'N.
oel21 '0.3 ly I.N
illdren's .Shoes, go lo BBENEM.,VN'S, W. King Street,
For the most comfortable fit, go to
BRENEMAN'S, W. King Street,
For work that will not rip, go to
BRENEMAN'S, W. King Street,
For Boots that will not let In waler, go to
BRENE.^IAN'S, W. King Street,
All in want of Boots and Shoes, go to
BRENE.MAN'S, W. IvingSlrcel,
Ever>-hody in the country go to
BRENEMAN'S, mayl-lf-'IS Opposite Cooper's Hotel.
FOR B.ALE OK BENT.
A COACH i WAGON-MAKER'S STAND In BIrd-lu-3?anii, one of the best In LanciLster counts*. ¦ Persons wishing to view the property will call on the aubscrllHjr on the premises, or address him at Enterprise Post Ofllce, Lancas¬ ter county. I    sept'2a-U«-l5 SAMUEL HOAR.
Buy Your S'cas
AT TUE
IMARlvET STREET   TEA   HOUSE,
CORNEU OF
Twelth and Jfarket Streets, Opposite the Great Fanners' Market,
BOTD Sz CO.
1142 Market Slr.-.-l. Feb 17-ly-13         Phllaileliiliig.
.ICENTK W.lNTEl) FOR TUE
PICTOiUAL BOOK OF ANl-:C'i)'i'1'I-:K .t INCIDBNTSiOP'TIIK KEBHr.I.IO-V.
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Amusement as well as/instruction mny lie found in every page, as graphledetall, brilliant wit, and anthcntlc hlstor>-. are sklllully iuler- wo\-en in this work of lilerary art.
This work sells lls'elf. The peoplo are I ircd of drj- details and parti-/jin works, and want something humorous, romantic and startling. Our agents are makiug from SlOO to 5*21)0 per nionlh. clear of all expenses. Send for circu¬ lars, giving full particulars, and seo our terms aud proof of Ihe above assertion. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO..
scplJ-lnl'IJ) 917 Minor St., Philad'a.
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