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VOL. XXXIV. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAT 9, 1860. NO. 24. J. A. HIESTAND, J. F. HUBBE, F. HECKBKT tntpu THB mn or JNO. A. HIESTAND & CO. orrioi IK itokTa qtrsni btaiit. THK EXAMINKK & HEBALD la pobllshed weekly, at two poi^sAks a year. ADVERTISEMENTS wiU be insejted at the rate of $ I 00 par stjaara, of ten Uaea, for three loeer tionsor leas; and 2S canta pariKinareforeaahaddlttoDal Insertion. Advertlsementa exceeding 10 Unea will be charged 6 centa per Une for the 1st Inaertioa, and 3 ceots ^er Une lor each aubsaquent InserUon. Bnalaeas Advertlsementa Inaerted by tbe qnarter half year or year, wUI be charged as follow*: 3,}nonf/u. 6 months. 12 vumths. OneSqtiare $3 00 $6 (W $ 8 00 Two " fi 00 3 00 13 00 it colnmn 10 00 18 00 26 00 U " 18 00 26 00 4fi 00 I •• SOOO 65 00 80 00 BDSm£SS NOTICES Inserted before Marriages and Deaths, double the regular rates. JC^All advertising acconntaare conaidered coiiecta- hlo at tbe expiration of half tbe peiiod contracted for Transient advertlaements. cabb. THE BIEDS. BY MABALA OOWRAN. The beantlful birds are here again ! They've come over monntain, hill and plalo; Somejotl fr^m tbe chores of & far-off lale, Wheru myrtle bowers In the sunbeams amlle, And the rippltnc brooklet- sing all day To the alr« ihat breathe e'.ernal May. Aud tbe grovCft a fadeless verdure wear And flll witb fragrance the morning air. There the oraace bloomM, and the balmy breew, Kw^*'pH gently through the u-taacled treea. O, who would auk why they haunt the ahore OI thai fair Southland tlU wiuter la o'er ? Now, *.wfet Ibeir l«y» at tbe tuurlaa hour. Ere lhe dew-drop Uaves tha half-blown flower— Thay raite tba heart that Is sunk In gloom And Waken bopea to bnd and hloom. Row vre lova Uie wood-throah'a melow lay, From the forest riim. at the cloee of day, Tbe Wren tbat visits Ihe honnohold eaves. And the ^onnd-blrd among tha violet leaves r What melody cliarnirt witb sweeter spell Tlian tbe roliiOH uong all love >>o well r And wl.o can bal hntl iheir relnrn in apriag. With tbeiUQ'-lcaDd life and Joy they bring ? THE WIDOW COBB'S FIUST LOVE. BT MART W. STANLEV GIBSON. TUe fire cracked cheerfully on the broad hearth ot theold farm bonse kitchen, a oat and three kitteua basked in the warmth, and a decrepid yellow dog lying fnll in the redeo- tion of the blaze, wriukled his black nose approvingly, aa he tnrned his hind feet where bis fore feet had beeu. Over the chimney bong several fine hams and pieces of dried beef. Apples were festooned along the ceil¬ ing, and crooked necked squashes vied with red peppers and slips of dried pampkins, in garnishing each window frame. There were plants, too, ou the wiudow ledges—horse-shoe geraniums, and dew plants, and a monthly rose jnst badding, to say nothing of pots of violets, that perfamed the whole place wlien¬ ever tbey took it iuto tbeir pnrple beads to bloom. The floor was carefnlly swept—the chairs had not a speck of duat npon leg or ronnd—tbe loug settee near the fire-plaoe sbone aa if it had beeu jnst varnished, aud tbe eight day clock in the corner had its white face newly washed, aud seemed determined to tick tbe louder for it. Two arm chairs were drawu np at a cosy distauee from the hearth aud eaoh other, a candle, a newspaper, a pair of spectacles, a dish of red cheeked apples, aud a pitcher of cider, filled a little table between them. In ona of these chairs sat a comfortable lookiug woman, about forty- flve, with cheeks aa red aa the apples, and eyes as dark and bright as they had ever beeu, resting her elbow on the table, and her head npoQ her haud, and looking thongbtfnlly into tbe flre. Tbis was the Widow Cobb, "reliot" of Deacon Levi Cobb, who had beeu moulder¬ ing iuto dust in the Bytown church-yard, for more tban seveu yeara. She was thinking of ber dead bnaband, poasibly because—all ber ¦work being done, and the servants gone to bed—the sight of his empty chair at tbe other aide of tbe table, and tbe silence of the room made her a little louely. * Seven years," so the widow's reverie ran. " It seems aa if it was more tban fifty—aud yet, I don't look so very old, either. Perbaps it'a not having auy childreu to bother tay life out, as other people have. Tbey may aay what they like, children are more plagne than profit, that'a my opinion. Look at my siater Jernaba, witb her six boys. She's worn to a shadow—and I'm sure they bave done it— thongh she never will own it." The widow took an apple from the dish and began to peel it. "How dreadfal fond Mr. Cobb used to be of these grafts. He will never eat any more of tbem, poor fellow, for I don't suppose they have apples where he bas gone to. Heigho! I remember very well bow I nsed to throw apple parings over my head when I was a girl, to see wbo I was going to marry?" Mrs. Cobb atopped short aud blnshed. For in those daya abe did not kuow Mr. Cobb, and waa always looking to aee if the peel bad formed a capital "S." Her meditations took a new tnrn. " How handsome Sam Payson was! and how mnch I nsed to care about bim. I won¬ der what baa lieoome of him 1 Jerasha saya he went away from our village just after I did, and no one has ever beard of him since. And what a ailly thing that quarrel waa '. If it had not beeu for that " Here came a long paaae, dnring which the widow looked very steadfastly at the empty arm-chair of Levi Cobb, deceaaed. Her fin¬ gers played careleaaly with the apple paring; Bhe drew it safely toward ber, and looked aronnd the room. '* Upon my word it is vary ridicaloaa, and I don't know what tbe neighbora wonld say if they saw me." Still the plump fingers drew the red peel nearer. "Bnt then they oan't fiee me, that'a a comfort, and the cat and old Bowse never will know what it meana. Of courae I don't believe anything about it." The paring hung gracefully from herhand. " Bat still I Bbonld like to try: it would seem like old times, and " Over her head it went and carled np qui¬ etly on the floor at a little distanoe. Old Bowse, who. always alept with one eye opeu, saw it fal!, aud marched deliberately np to Bmell it. "Bowse—Bowse—dou't tonch it!" cried his mistress, aud bending over it wilh a beating heart, she tnrned aa red as fire. There was as handsome a oapital "S" aa any one could wish to see. A great knock came suddenly at the door. BoWBe growled and tbe widow screamed, and snatched ip the apple-pearing. " It'B M -. Cobb—it's his spirit come back again, beckuse I tried that silly triok," she thonght fearfully to herself. Another knock—louder tban the firat, and a man'a voice esclaimed; "Hillo, thehonae!" " Who is it ?" aaked the widow, somewhat relieved to find that the departed Levi was BtiU safe in his grave npon the hill aide. " A stranger," aaid the voice. "What do yoa want?" " To get a lodging here for the night." The widow deliberated. " Can't yon go on there'a a honse halt a mile farther, if yon keep to the right hand Bide of tbe road—aud tnrn to the left after yon get by—" " It'a raining cata and dogs, nnd I'm very delicate," said the stranger, coughing, "I'm wet to the akin—don't yoa thiuk yoa oaa accommodate me—I dont mind sleeping on the floor." " Earning is it! I didn't know that," and the kind-hearted little woman unbarred the door very quickly. " Coma in, whoever yoa may be—I only asked yon to go on because I am a lona woman, with only one aervant in the houae." The Btranger entered—shaking himsolf like a Fewfoandland dog npon the atep, and scat¬ tering a Utlle^shower ot drops over his boa- tesB and her nicely swept floor. "Oh—that looks oomfortablB after a maa hu iiMii ont lot boun In a ¦torm," h» uid, ss ha oanght sight of tha fire, and Btriding along towards tha hearth, followed by Browse, who annffed Buspioionsly at hia heels, he sta¬ tioned himaelf in a ohair—ifr. CoM'j arm c*oi"r, whioh had been kapt aaored to hia memory for aeven years I The widow waa horrified, bnt har gnest looked ao weary and worn oat, that she coald not ask him to move, but buBled heraelf in stirring np the blaze, tbat he might the sooner dry his dripping clothea. A new thongbt struck her; Mr. Cobb bad worn a oomfortable dressing-gown dtiring hia illneaa, whioh atill hang in tbe oloaet at tha right. She oonld not let thia poor man catoh biB dealh by sitting in' that wet coat—if be was in Mr. Cobb's ohair, why shonld he not be in Mr. Cobb's wrapper 1 She went nimbly to the oloaet, took it down, fished out a psir of slippers from a boot-rack below, and bronght them to him. '' I think yoahad better take off yonr coat and boots; yon will hava the rheumatic fe¬ ver or something like it if you don't. Here are some thinga for yon to wear while they are drying. And yon mnst be hnngry, too ; I will go into the pantry and get yon some¬ thing to eat." Sbe bustled away " on hospitable thonght intent," and the stranger made the excbange with a quizzical smile playing around his lips. He waa a tall, well-formed mau, with a bold bnt handsome face, annbumed aud heavily bearded, and looking anything bnt " delicate," though hia blue eyes glanced oat from under a forehead as white aa anow. He looked aronnd tbe kitchen with a mischievoaa air, and stretched out his feet before him, deco¬ rated wilh tho defunot Deacon's slippers. Upon my word, this ia atepping into the old man's aboes with a vengeance! And what a hearty, good-humored looking woman ahe ia ! Kind aa a kitten," and he leaned forward and stroked the cat and her brood, and then patted old Bowse upon the head.— Tbe widow briaging in sundry gooi thiuga, i looked pleaaed at hia attentions to ber dnmb friends. *' It'a a wonder Bowae doea not growl; he generally doea if atrangera tonoh bim. Dear me ! how atupid !" The laat remark waa neither addresaed to the atranger nor to tbe dog, bnt to heraelf.— Sbe had forgotten that the little atand waa not empty—and thara was uo room on it for the tbinga ahe held. " Oh, I'll manage it," said the gneat, gath¬ ering np paper, oandle, apples and spectaclea (it was not without a little pang that ahe saw them in hia haad, for they had been the Deacon'a, and were placed eaoh night, like the arm-chair, beaide her,) aud deposited them ou the aettee. "Giva ma the tabla clotb, ma'am; I can apread it as well as any woman. I've leamed that along wilh scores of other things in my wanderings. Now let me relieve you of tboae iliabes ; they are far too heavy for those little banda;" (the widow bluahed;) " and now pleaae sit down with me, or I oannot eat a morael." " I had supper long ago, bat really I think I cau take aomething more," aaid Mra. Cobbi drawing her chair nearer to the table*. "Of conrae you can, my dear lady—in tbia oold autumn weather people ought to eat twice aa much as they do iu warm. Lat me give yoa a pieca of thia ham—your owu curing, I dare say." " Yea; my poor huaband was very fond of it. He used to say no one anderstood ouring ham and drying beef better than I." " He was a most aenaible man, I am anre. I drink your healtb, madam, in this cider." He took a loog dranght, and aet down his glass. "Itis like neotar." The widow was feeding Bowse and the cat, (who thought they were entitled to a ahare of every meal eaten In tbe houae,) and did not qnite hear what he aaid. I faucy ahe wonld hardly have known what "nectar" waa—ao it was qnite as well. " Fine dog, ma'am—and a very pretty cat." "Theywere my. hnsband'a favorites," and a sigh followed the answer. " Ah—yonr husband must have been a very happy roan." The blue eyea looked at her so long tbal she grew flurried. " la there anything more I can get for you, air!" ahe asked, al last. "Noihing, thankyon, I hava finished." She rose to clear tbe things away. He aa. sisted her, aud somehow their handa had a queer knack of tonohing as they carried the dishes to the pantry ahelvea. Coming back to the kitchen, she pat the applea and cider in'their old placea, and brought ont a clean pipe aud a box of tobacco from au arched re¬ cess near the chimney. "My husbaud always aaid he could not sleep after eating supper late, nnlesa ha smoked," ahe aaid. "Perhapa yon would lifce to try it." " Not jf it ia to drive yon away,'' he anawer¬ ed, for she had her candle in her hand. "Oh, no—I do nol objecl lo amoke at all." She pnt tbe oandle down—some faint sugges¬ tion about " propriely" troubled her, bnt ahe glanced at the clock and felt reassured. It waa only half-paat nme. The Btranger puahed the atand back after the pipe waa lit, aod drew her easy chair a little nearer the fire—and his own. " Come, sil down," he said, pleadingly. •' It's not late—and when a man has been knocking about in California and all sorts of placea, for a berth like thia—and lo have a pretty womau to speak to onoe again." " California I Have youbeen in California?" she exolaimed, dropping inlo the chair a^ once. Unconscionaly sbe had long cherished the idea that Sam Payson—the lover of her yonth—with whom she had so foolishly qaar- reled, had pitched his tent, after many wan¬ deringa, in lhat far-off land. Her heart warm¬ ed to one who, with something of Sam'a look and ways about him—had also beeu sojourn¬ ing in that conntry—and who very possibly Tiad met him—perhaps had known him inti¬ mately ! At that thoaght her heart beat qnick, and she looked very graciously at the bearded.stranger, who, wrapped in Mr. Cobb's dreasing-gown, wearing Mr. Cobb's slippers, and aitting in Mr. Cobb's ohair, beaide Mr. Cobb's wife, smoked Mr. Cobb's pipe with sncb an air of feeling moat thoroughly and comfortably at bome I "Yes, ma'am—I've been in California for the laat aix years. And before that I went qnite round tbe world—in a whaling ahip." "Qood gracious I" The strauger sent a puff of smoke onrling gracefully over hia head, "It'a veiy strange, my dear lady, how often yon aee one thing as you go wandering abont the world after that faahion." " And what ia lhat ?" " Men, witbont house or home above their heada, roving hore and thera, and turning np in all sorts of odd places, caring very littla for life aa a general thiog, and making for¬ tunes jnat lo fling them away again—and all for one reasou. You don't aak me what that ia I No donbt you know already very well." "I think not, air." " Becanae a woman has jilted them!" Here was a long pause, and Mr. Cobb's pipe emitted short pnffa with surprising rapiditj. A guilty conacience needa no accuaer, and tha widow'a cheek was dyed with blaahas as she thonght of the absenrSsm. " 1 wonder how women manage whan tkex/ gel served in the Bame way," said the stranger musingly. "Younever meet «sm roaming up and down in that style." "No,"said Mis. Cobb, with some spirit; " if a woman is in troable she mnat stay at home and bear it the beat way ehe can. And there's more woman bearing suoh thiugs than we know of, I dare say." "Like enongh I We asver know whose hand gets pinched In a trap unless they Boream. And women tte too shy or too sen- •Ibl», wUoh you ohoon, for that.". "Did yoa ever, in all yonr wanderings, meet any one hy the name of Samuel Payson!" asked the widow, unoonoemedly. The stran¬ ger looked towards her—ahe was rummaging her drawer for her knitting work, snd did not notice him. When it was found aud the needles in moiion, he answered her. "Payson! Sam Paysou? Why he waa my most intimate friend! Do yoa know him?" " A lillle—tbat is, I uaed lo when I was a girl. Where did you meet him!" " Ha went with me on tha whaling voyage I told yon of, and afterwards to California.— We had a tent together, and aome other fel¬ lows with ns, aod wa dug in tbe same olaim for more than six monlhs." " I suppoae he was quite well t" " Strong as an ox, my dear lady." " Aud—aud happy ?" aaid the widow, ban¬ ding closer over her knitting. " Hum—tha leas said about that the bet¬ ter, perhapa. But he seemed lo enjoy life after a faahion of hia own. And he got rich out tbere, or rathor, I will aay—well off." Mra. Cobb did not pay much attention to that part ot the atory. Evideutly she had not finiahed asking queationa. But ahe waa puzzled ahont her uext oae. At laat ahe bronghl it out beaatifully. " Was his wifo with bim in California ?" The atranger looked at her with a twink¬ ling eye. "Hia wife, ma'am! Why, bleaa yon, be haa not gol one !" " Ob, I thoaght—I mean I heard"—here the little widow remembered the fate of Ana¬ nias and Sapphira, and stopped before she told auch a tremendous fib. "Whatever you heard of hia marrying waa all nonaense, I can aasure you. I know him well, and be had no thonght of tha kind abont him. Some of the boya naed to tease him abont it, bul be aoon made them stop." "How?" "He jnat told them frankly that the only woman he ever loved had jilted him years before, and married auother man. After that no one ever meuiioned the anbject lo him again except me." Mrs. Cobb laid her knitting aaide and looked thoaghtfully into the fire. " He waa auother specimen of the class of men I waa speaking of. I have seou him face death a score ot limes as quietly as I faoe the fire. 'It matters very lillle whal takes me off,' be used to say; 'I've nothing to live for, and there's no one that will shed a tear for me when I am gone.' It'a a aad thought for a man lo have, isn't il?" Mrs. Cobb sighed as abe said ahe thought It waa. "Bnt did he aver tell you the name ot the lady who jilted him!" " I know her first name." "Wbat waa it?" " Maria." Tbe plump little widow almoat started ont of her ohair ; the name was spoken so ex¬ actly as Sam woold have said it. " Did you know her!'' he asked, looking keenly at her. "Yes." " Intimately!" "Yes." " And where is ahe now! StiU happy with her liusband, I suppose, and never giv¬ ing a thought to tbe poor fellow she drove ont into lho world." " No," aaid Mra. Cobb, shading ber faoe wilh herhand, and speakiug unsteady. "No, her husband is dead." " Ah ! but atill ahe never Ihinks of Sam." There was a dead silence. "Doea she?" "How can I tell?" " Are you still friends !" "Yea." " Then yon ought to know aud do. Tell me." " I'm snre I don't know why I ahoald. Bat if I do you must promise me, on youi honor, never to tell bim if you ever meal him again." " Madam what you say to me never shall be repeated lo auy mortal man, upon my honor." " Well, tben, she doea remember bim." "Bit how?" " As kindly, I think, as be conld wish." " I am glad to hear it for his sake. Y'ou and I are the friends of both parties ; we can rejoice with each other." Ha drew hia chair nearer her's, and took her hand. One momeut ahe resisted, but i^ wasa magic touch; the rosy palm lay qui¬ etly in his, aud the dark beard bent so low that il nearly touched her shoulder. It did not mallei mnoh. Waa he nol Samuel's dear friend!" If he was not tbe roae had he nol dwell very near it for a long, long lime ? '' It waa a foolish quarrel that parted them," said he softly. "Did he tall you about it P" "Yea, on board tha whaler." "Did he blame her muoh ?" " Not ao much as himself. He said lhat hia jealonsy and ill temper drove her to break off the matoh ; bnt he thonght sometimea if he had only gone back and spoken'kindly to her, ahe would have married him after all." " I am sure sha wonld," said the widow, pileonely. "Shehas owned it to me more than a thouaand times." " She was nol happy, then, with another," " Mr, that is to say her husband—was verygood and kiud," said the little womau, thinking of the lonely grave on the hillaida rather penitently, " aud they lived very pleas¬ antly together. There never was a harsh word belween them." " Still—might she nol have beea happier wilh Sam? Be honest, and aay jnat what yon think." " Yea." "Bravo! that ia whal I wanted to come at, Aud now I have a aecret to tell you, and you muat break il to her." Mrs, Cobb looked rather soared. "Whatisit?" " I want you to go and see her, wherever she may be, and say to her,' Maria !'—whal makes you start so ?" " Nothiug—only you speak like some one I used to know, once in a while," "Dol? Well, take the rest of tbe mes¬ sage. Tell her that Sam loved her throngh the whola; tbat when he heard aha was free, ha began to work hard al making a fortune ; he baa got il, and he ia coming to share it with her, it ahe will let him. Will you tell her thia !t' Tha widow did not anawer. She had freed her hand from hia, and oovered her face with It. By and by she looked np again. He was waiting patiently. "Well!" "I will tell her." He rose from hia Beat and walked up and down the room. Theu he came baok and leaning on the mantelpiece, atroked tha yel¬ low hide of Bowse wilh his slipper. "Make her quite underatand thathe wanta her for his wife. She may live where she likes, and how she likes, only it must be with hini." "I will tellher." " Say he haa grown old, but not oold; that he lovea her now perhaps better than he did twenty years ago ; that he haa been faithfnl to her all through his life; aud that ha will be faithful till he diea—" The Californian broke off suddenly. Tbe widow anawered still: "I will tell her." "And what do you think she will say?" he asked, in an altered tone. " What can she say but—Com*."' " Hurrah!." The stranger oaught her ont of her ohair as it aha had been a ohild, and kissed her. "Don't oh, don't!" she oried out. " I am Sam's Maria I" " WeU—I am Maria's Sam 1" Off went the dark wig, and the blaok whiakeis—there smiled the dear fisoe ahshad never forgotten I I leave yoa to imagine tbe tableau—even the oat got np to look, and Bowse sat on his slump ofa tail, and wonder¬ ed if he was on his heals or his haad. The widow gave one little scream, and then she— But stop I Qntat peopla like yoa and me, dear reader, who have got over aU thasa fol¬ lies, and can do nothing but tnrn up our noses at them, hava no businesa here. I will only add tbat two hearts were very happy, that Bowse concluded, after awhile that all waa righl, and ao laid down to slsep agsin, and that one week afterwards thera was a wedding al the housa that mada the neighor- ing farmers stare. Tba widow Cobb had married her First Love I 01D SWEETHEAET S . BY ASDREW HALLIDAT- Wben old Annt Patterson naed to tell me, as we sat together by her parlor flra, that she was once a very prelty girl, and that all the lads of the village were over head and ears in love with her, I wondered very muoh, I should mention that I was a very small boy theu. Looking up from tha footstool on whioh I was aoonalomad to sit, at aunty's wrinkled brow, her sunken oheeks and olosely approximating nose and ohin, I could never realise to my imagination the picture which she painted of heraelf "when ahe waa young." She was a pretty girl then, ahe Baid, with blue eyea and a bnnch ot flaxen curia hanging down her baok for aU the world like a blos¬ som of a luxuriant labarnnm tree. There waa a pictnre ot jnat anoh a girl in aunty'B parlor, which aunty aaid waa a picture of herselt at the age of aeven. It never occurred to me, or indeed to any oue elae who knew her, to doubt aunty'a word. Bnt how coald I believe lhat old Aunt Patteraon had ever been anythiug like that ? The girl in the pictare had roay cheeks, and over her shoul¬ ders flowed a profusion of flaxen curls, which were now represented by a brown wig wilh au unnaturally white and well-defined parting. In her dimpled hand, the ohild had an apple as rosy aa her own oheeks. Oft, as I sal at aunty's feet, would I look np at those dim¬ ples, and wonderingly compare them with the blue veins ot the shriveled band which I held in mine. What evil genie wrinkled lhat damaak cheek, and dimmed thoae briUian^ eyes! Ah! I knew nol theu what a potent magaciau is Time. Aunty'a story waa like a fairy-tale to me. Side by aide with the piolnie of "roay oheeks there hnng another: it was that of a handsome yoang man with bright, dark, piercing black eyea and curly blaok hair.— And thereby hnng another ot aunty's talea. That waa a picture of Robert Aliaon, who went to South America flve-and-thirly yeara ago. "Robert and I were old sweethearts," aanty naed to tell me; " he waa poor, roy dear, and rathar wild, and my father wonld not conaent to 0 ar marriage. It nea rly broke my heart, for I loved Robert very dearly, and I am Bure he loved me. He took my father'a repeated deniala ao much to heart lhat he resolved to leave th& conntry. " I will go to South America, Lizzy," he aaid, "maka a fortnne, and come baok and marry yon.— Your father will not object to my marrying you when I am rich." I cried bitterly, you may be anra; for, as I said, I loved Robert dearly. Well, Robert carried onl his resolu¬ tion. I got np one moruing before it was light, and met him at the old bridge, to bid him good-bye. I was so flurried on leaving ths honae, for fear tbat my father shonld awake and discover my purpoae, that I forgot to pnt on my bonnet; and I remember that, aa I ran, the wind blew my curls about ao that it aiiy peraon had seen me they must have thous-ht me mad. Bnt nobody was up so early. 1 found Kobert waiting for me on the old bridge. After a few hurried words, we parted. Bul before he left me, he begged a look of my hair as a rememberanoe againsl the time when he shonld retnro and claim me for his bride. I had plenty of hair lo give him, and was right willing to give it; but we had notbing to cnt it off with—noth¬ ing bnt Robert's pen-knive. But Love laughs at Bciaaora-makera, my dear, aa well as at locksmiths, and Robert laid one of my curia npon hia walking-aliok, an^ jnat whittled it off; and then I look off one of hia in the same way, though I did not do it so neatly, and made Robert cry ont a little. I could have laughed if my heart had not been so fuU, I stood on the bridge watching him until he was ont of sight among the trees, aud theu I went baok home, crying all the way." I dare say aunty told me this story a score of limes, and always in the gloaming of the evening, hetween the lights. But she never carried her early hiatory beyond the parting of the old bridge. All the romance ended there. What followed was prosaic enough. Aunty waited several years for Robert withont hearing any news of him ; and, al length believing him dead, she mar¬ ried Mr. Grainger, the iron-founder—more I believe to please herfather than herself. At the end ot twenty years Mr. Grainger died, and lefl aunty very well off—so weU off, indeed, lhat before the year of mourning was out she was beaeiged by dozens of suitors.— Aunty reaiated Ihem all tor a long lime, and remained a widow until he met my Unole Patteraon, whom ahe look tor better or for worse, and, alaa! fonnd him altogether for¬ the worae and none for the better. Patterson was a kind-hearted, genial soul, and strongly attached to whiakey toddy, and waa by no means diligent in hia buainesa, which was that of an accountant. Wheu ha mada up his own lasl account on earlh, there was a very amall balance left in favor of aunty. A great proportion ot what the iron-founder had made ont ot pota and pans had gone in dou¬ ble-shotted jugs of toddy. Aunty waa a widow a second time before abe heard any¬ thing ot har old sweetheart, Robert Alison. Then she heard that he waa married and do¬ ing well in Sonth Amerioa. She uaed to iay great atreaa upon the fact ot his being mar¬ ried. Poaaibly that waa raiher a consolation tban otherwiae. She might have telt it a re¬ proaoh to heraelf had she heard that he was StiU aingle, aa that might have beeu taken to imply lhat he remained a baohelor for her aake; whereaa she had married and buried two husbands. Soma ten or flfteen years after the death of Mr. Patterson, news oame to the towu that Eobert Allison had loat his wife, and was ooming home with his only son. Old Mrs. Joyce, who had a nephew in Sonth America, from whom tha news oame, called one evening to show aunty the latter. Annty, at this time was getting old and frail, and occasion¬ ally showed symptoms ot falling inlo dotage. When Mrs. Joyce read her the letter she laughed childishly, and said how glad she shoald be to see her Eobert again ; and then, when Mrs. Joyce went away, she told me the old, old story ot her early conrtship with Robert, and thair parting at day-break at the old bridge. I was, aa I have said, a vary little boy when aunty first relaled to me the Btory of her early love. I was nearly a man now, and had oome lo spend my oollege holidays with the good old lady. One eveniug, abont six weeks atter Mrs. Joyce called with her letter from South America, aunty and I were sit¬ ting by the parlor fire aa ot old. It was nearly dark; but I did not like to light the oandlea, for aunty loved to ait and talk by tha fire belwean the lighta. The sombre shadea of evening seemed to have something iu harmony with her mood at suoh times.— She sat oppoaite ths piotare of Robert All- son, looking into the fire, aad merrily mbblng her hands. Suddenly the flra burned up into a flama, aud threw a flash of light upou Rob- art's picture. Aunty who had long beeu si¬ lently gazmg at the burning coala, cast har eyas up to tbe handsome face, and heaving a ilgh, mattered half to heimlf and half to ma: " He waa a pa felloir, bat he's dead aov; at the bottom of the eea, my dear,* sha addad, pointedly addressing ma. I was startled for a moment, thinking lhat aunty might hare heard some farther news—per¬ haps that the ship oa which Robert was com¬ ing home had-been wrecked. I aow saw, however, that ahe was only wandering in her mind, as she had often done before of late.— Freseatly, whea the flickering light of the Sre agaiu fell on the piotura, she langhed, and begau to babble abont the flaxen hairthat slreamed in the wind that moming wheu ahe went to bid Eobart goodbye. " There is some of it lett yet," sha aaid; " Eobart has got the look that he out off with his pen¬ knife. Did I ever show yon the look that I took from Robert in return!" I had ssen il many atime; but I said that I should like lo see it. I don't think aunty could have been a vary sentimeatal peraoa; for, though ehe kept thia lock and oherished it, she never wore it about her person, as women do wear those thinga. Perhaps ahe thought that, afler the iron-founder and the accountant, it would have looked like affectation. She kept Robert's bair ia a lillle rad box, wilh rings and brooches, and other ornaments of the kind. She never took any partionlar oare ot this box, or the hair whioh it contained ; bnt alwaya apoka of tbe touviner and ot Robert simply as pleasant remembrances ot the paat. She look the box from tbe place on the man¬ tle shelf which it usually occupied, opened it and took out the hair. Tha lock was a sin¬ gle jet-black curl, and, as annty gently straightened it out, it slipped from her grasp and twined itself aronnd tbe third flnger of the left haad, exactly over her two wed¬ ding-rings. " Why, annty," said I," that's aa omea— Robert is certaialy coming home to marry yon." "Marry me, ohild!" she repUed; "I've had enough of marrying. Robert wiU jnat be five and Ihirty years too late. I remember that lock cnrling round my finger before I married Mr. Grainger, and 1 thought some¬ thing would come of it—and so Bomething did come of it, but ll was nol the something that I expeoted. Robert got married—aad so did I. We Bwore oa tha old bridge to live aad wait for eaoh other; but oar oaths went dowa on the stream that flowed anderneath, and were carried away to the ocean of obli¬ vion. Yel, it seema but yeaterday that we parted." Aunty pauaed, apparently over¬ come by emotion, and, ere ahe could reaume, the fire fell ia and bnrat into a ateady, bril¬ liant flame. My attention, which waa aud¬ denly attraoted lo the blaze, was almost immediately diverted to a noise as of some one entering the room—and at the same mo¬ ment a scream from aunty. On looking np, I discovered the presence of a stranger. My gaze no aooner teU npon his coutenance thau I alao uttered a cry ot surprise. "Robert—Robert 1" cried aunty. Had the picture stepped down from ita frame, or was thia some conjuration of the fanoy! Thare, hia hal in his hand, and hia gloaay blaok hair hanging in clnatering curia round hia handaome head, atood the very embodiment ot tha picture of Robert Aliaon. " I knew it—I knew it!" oried aunty, with almost frantio joy ; and risiug from her chair, she rnabed lo the yonng man and threw her arms around his neok,^ Poor annty had been dwelling in imagination upon her old sweet¬ heart, and seeing his very counterpart before her, was lost to aU sense of the posaibility of hia being the same person from who she had parted forty years before. I myself waa pnz¬ zled, and it was some momenta before il flashed upon me that the peraoa before ns might be Robert Alison's aon. The young man was serioualy embarrassed, but kindly look the good old soul's embraces witbout attempting lo diaeuchanl her. While she hung around him, caUing him her "dear Robert," I explained to the yonng maa lhat I was her nephew, and that aunty, who waa fast sinking into dotage, had taken bim for his father, to whom, as he might know, she was attached in her youth. He said he know lhat, and that his father was coming in pres¬ ently. Meantime, aunty hung about him, calling him by endearing names, and remind¬ ing him of their yonng days, and of thair sorrowful parting on tha old bridge. "Don't yon remember, Eobert, the old bridge, and my flaxen curls shining in tbe wind lhat moming when I cama to say fare¬ well ! Come—come and sit by me;" and when the yonng man took a seat by her side, she stroked har gloasy ourla, and, turniug lo me, aaid proudly— "You see it ia jot blaok aa I told you— blaok and gloasy, and all in cnrla, jast like the one that he gave ma forty years ago." The candles were now alight, and as aunty aaid theae words, her eyes feU full npon her own shrivelled fingers, which embraced the fresh, yonng hand ofher old sweetheart's aou. "Fortyyeara ago !" she repeated with a sigh: " what a fooliah old woman I am ! I am won¬ dering in my wits.'" Here ahe paused, and covered her face wilh her nands, Al length,ahe said, more calmly—" I have been dreaming, young man, aa if tima had been atanding atUl for forty yaara. You can't be my Robert Aliaon, but you mnst be Robert Alison's aon. Look," she aaid, befora he had time to reply ; 'therela your portrait,jast aa if you bad sat for it;" and so saying, she took the caudle, and led the young mau to the pictare.— Meanwnile a knook came to the door, and au old grey-bearded man enlered at my bidding. " Mistress Patteraon ?" said the atranger inquiringly. I atepped up quietly to him, and aaked him if he was Mr. Aliaon—Eobert AUaon !¦ He aaid yes, and he wanted to aee Mistresa Patterson. Aunty was slill atanding with the young mau, throwing the light upon the picture wilh her hand. I aaid in a whiaper, pointing to aunty," That is Miatreas Patter, son 1" The old man atarted, and aiezed my arm as if for anpport. Annty alill slood there shading the light, and the old man, grasping my arm mora lightly, remained gazing at her abstractedly. At lengih, tuming to me, he said, in a low voice—" Excuse me, I have snstained a shook. Porty years ago that waa the prettieat girl in tbia lowu; du¬ ring lhat lima I have thonght of her aa ahe was then. I meet her now, when both she and I are verging towards tbe grave. I shouldn't have recognized my old sweetheart, aud I dare say she wIU not recognize ma.'' I went ap to aunty and told her who had come. She oame forward to where the old mau was standing, with the candle stiU in her hand. Sbe gazed at his snow-white hair, and thin, sallow faoe, and snid, calmly, holding onl her hand—" WeU, Robert, and so we havo met at last, atter forty years." " We have," retnm- ed old Robert Aliaon; " and having been old Bweelhearta, there wiU be no harm in an em¬ brace, espeoiaUy as I am a widower aad yon a widow." And the old man took aunty ia his arma, and kiased her right heartily, I fully expeoted a "scene;" but I was greatly relieved to find that tha old sweet¬ hearts were by ao meaaa disposed lo be sen¬ timental. The old mau aad his soa slopped, and, afler sapper, auaty grew quite chatty and cheerful, and talked in a light and airy way of old times. Aud at last she broagbt ont Robert's black ourl; and tbe maa langh¬ ed, aad said he conld not supply any more according to that sample. " Nor do I sup¬ pose, Mistress Patterson," headded, taking a locket trom his neok, "that you oau execute an order according to that;" and so sayiag, he took ont the tresses of flaxen hair which aunty had givan him on the old bridge forty years before. There ware tears in anaty's eyes, she looked upon tha two locks lying side by side ia her lap. Eobert Alison setUed down ia his aative towa, aad was onoe mora aunty's sweetheart. He wasa oonstant Tisitor at her house, and often walked oat with har to the old bridge whore they .parted la their youth.; The neighbors laaghed to see the old couple to¬ gether, and eaid, plaasautly, that the best thing they could do, sinoe they had been sweethearts so long, was to getmarried, Eut aunty alwaya said ahe had enough of marry¬ ing. Aunty did not Uve long atter the arrival of her old sweetheart. The inflrmities of aga oama upoa her vary fast, and the last time sha weat out she waa wheeled In a chair to the old bridge, and Eobert Alison walked with tottering steps by her side. Annty lies in tho chorchyard now I Aad last year Eobert Aliaon waa laid by her aide. The iron-founder and tho aoconataat repose hard-by; bat they have aothiag to say to it. THE ATUOSPHEEE AT HOHE- TWO PICTTTEES. " There's a vast differenoe in the atmoa¬ phere of homes," remarked a friend to me a few days since. '' Yes, indeed," said I; and memory brought to view a grand and stately city home, fair in its arohiteotnral proportions 'as a poet's dream,' and superbly adorned with all that tasle could suggest and wealth sapply. Truly, this ia a plaoe wbere happlneaa must love lo linger, it splendor haa any power to attract it. Bat we shaU see. As you asoend the broad steps a ohill creeps alowly over the heart, that you oan't but hopa an inner view wiU dispel. Yet as you traverae lofty, richly-decorated rooms, the feeling increases in spite ot yon. The subdued Ught seems gloomy. Can il be, lhat amid this rare collection of the beauti¬ ful, comfort has been forgotten? But StUl yon wander oo, hoping to flnd the cosy apot where tha Lares and Penates of the household cluster. A quiet placa adorned with Plelores, aad boats, aai books, and flowera. And a light he&rtb where ona may sit for hoars, And reel lho minates In their rapid flight, Tet never think to conut them as they go, The mind in coaverso sweet begailed so. Alas! 'tia a vain aearoh; 'tia as cold as tha marble slabs lhat adom it. There's a con¬ servatory graced with the rarest of plants, and birds carol there amid ita fragrant blos¬ soms, and waters splash in the liny fountain; but it's all show, and afforda no pleasure lo ita possessors; indeed, they know bnt liltle enjoyment. The husband, wholly absorbed through the day ia basineaa, retuma home weary and harraased with care, and veata hia ill-hamor npon thoaa whom he ia bonnd to lova and cherish; while the wife and daugh¬ ters are rendered too irritable and restless, by a ronnd ot gaiety and diaaipalion, to ever settle down to quiet home pleaaures. So there is constant bickering and contention, and hearts aohe sadly beueath valvals and jewela; but amilea have marked grieMadea hearta thia many a year; ao what doea it matter if people only fanoy Ihem happy! There's ao familyealtar there, uo sweet ia- cense arising from gratefnl hearta to the Giver of every good gift; living for theworid iathe aim ot their existence. Bul now step from the ahadow ot this gorgeoas home. I know you bave a feeliug of relief to be once more in the open and sunny slreel thanking a kind Providence lhat your lot haa not been caat there. Then come with me once more—tbis time away from the noisy bnatUng streets of tbe crowded oity, lo an hnmble home, nestled in among green hiUs and gay pastures, doited over with aoddiag daises and bntleronps. There la something in the very air of tha place that attraota yon ; it weara tbat cheer¬ ful faoe lhat does the heart good; sunshine seems to linger lovingly in every told of the curtains, and dances and froUcs upon the wall In very gladness ; there is odor witbout stiffuesa, the beautiful and useful are com¬ bined in a way tbal is easier seen aud felt than described. The furnishing, evidently, waa not the work of an upholater. There are picturea upon the waU, easy chairs, and lounges, all home-made, while trne feminine taste aud in; genuity are displayed everywhere. These are the little adommenta that serve to make any place seem homelike. Bat there's noth¬ ing there too good to nae. Happy ohildren trip over the neat carpets and cUmb the cush¬ ioned chalra nncheoked; aud when the wel¬ comed sound of "Papa ia coming,"'rings through the honae, there's the swift palter ot little feet, and the merry aound of laughter as they rush lo meet him and make ready the slippers and the easy-chair. Here the hna band ia atrengthened for another day's toU, and the mother nerved for her daily ronnd of dntiea, by the bleaaed consciousnesa of mak¬ ing otbera happy. And whan tha dark daya come, aa they come lo all, there'a aomething to maat the alain beside tha flimsy vanities of life. There's a strong arm npon which to loan, and a trust in a Heavenly Father's guidance, knowing that he leadeth us in a way that we know not. Thns one sunshiny heart wiU diffusa its brightness through a whole home, making the loneliest Bsot pleasant, and the home¬ liest dear. Then envy nol the rich, you that have humble homes, aud are somelimes weary, and long for recreation and some of tha luxuries that others enjoy; remember that "elegant leisure" is often but anotber name for " aplendid misery," " Contentment, with godliness, is greal gain," There are some men so coldly correct that they leave no oue to regret their loss, not eveu a creditor. If yonr friend, though a man of strong senae is thoronghly determined to do what yon consider a silly thing, by all means be kind enough to lel him chooae bis own manner ot doing it, as ha thnn may obviate a part of the evU; Hor, if tha deed mnat at all risks he done, Bang weoplngat his skirts, and spoil bia ran. There are some reasoners and preachers with snch a showily adroit mode of mana¬ ging their arguments, and with such smiling self-satiafied asanrance as to their reaults, lhat they irresistibly remind ua of preatiglita- lora, or those who make lace by tha awift movement ot bobbins. :'A Yankee boy once had a whole Datch cheese set before him by a waggish friend, who, bowever, gave him no knife. ¦ " Thia ia a fnnny cheese. Uncle Joe, bnt whare ahall I ont it ?" " Oh," aaid tba grinning friend, "cut it where you like." " Very weU," aaid the Yankee, oooly putling it under hia arm, " gnesB I ShaU besl cul it at home." Some yeara ago there was a man in Naw Orieana, who, on week days, was a cottou broker—on Sundaya he waa,a preacher.— There had been a weak ot unusual excitemeat in tha cotton market, and oa the foUowing Saaday oor frlead commenced the aervices with a hymn, wbich he annonnced as followa: " We will aing 10 the praise of the Lord the 42th hymn—long staple.'" Bisbop Home had bis dignity aomewhat taken down when he took posaeaaion ot the Epiacopal Palace al Norwich, in 1791. He turued ronnd npon the stepa, and exclaimed: " Bleaa na I what a multitude of people !"— "Oh, my lord," said a by-atauder, "this is nothing to the crowd last Friday to see a roan hanged!" Aa Arkanaas candidate for Congress sets forth his qnallfioations for office, iu tbe follow¬ ing language : " Gentlemen, if I am elected lo Congress, I will represeut my constituents as tha sea represents the earlb, or aa the nigbt contrasts with the day, I will uurivit all hu¬ man sooiety, clean all its parta, aud screw it together again. I will correct all abuses purge out all corraption, and go through the enemies of our parly like a rat through a new cheese." He waa eleoted. Old Judge Jouan Joles prononuced upon Elm Chnrch thia seuieuce: "Elm €hurch, stand up and face the muaic. You are fonnd gailty of suicide for stealing. Now, thia oonrt sentences you to pay a fine ot two shil¬ lings, lo shave your head with a bagganet, in tho barracks, and it you try to eave in tbe heada of any of the j ory, you'll catch thun¬ der, that'a all. Your fate will be a warning to othera; and iu couclusion. Sheriff, bring me a pint of redeye, I'm awfal thirsty." An avaricious man is like a aandy desert, that sucks in all the rain, but yields no fruit¬ ful herbs to the inhabltauls. There ts a man in towu so knowing, that people who dou't kuow Iheir own minds come lo him for information ou the subjeot. PHILADELPHU ADVEETISBMBNTS. BAtroH'S KAW BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME, Mandfactubbd fbou Unbubned BcXEd BY BATTGH & SONS, Wkolesale Office and Store, 20 S. Wharves, bit. Markei i Chesnut SU, PHILADELPHIA. Cash price 845 per 2000 lba, (2Ji ota. per lb.) TN the preparation of tfais valuable JL Uannre, BOHES ABE USED IS THEIB BAW STATB OHLT, Thsrhave nsver been boimd oe cal- cl.YEb. Ther aro Uken as aatnre haa made Ihem, crashed witb powerfal machinery, and subjected to a procBBs, by which, while all tbe vlrtaeof the Bona ia retained, a Fertiliser ia proeared, farnishing ia a C05- CBSTBATBD and BOLimiiB POBK the two indispansable in¬ gredients for the growth of Plants and snrichiog the soil, vis : PBOBFHORIO ACID AHD AUiOKIA. ThsBO twO Ingredients, br tha asa of " BADQH'S BAW BOME BnPEE-PHOSFHATE," are givea to the soil in all their original atretigh and purity. They assimUate at once with the aoU, fnrnlsh all the needfal Ammonia for tho growing crop, giving it ample laxaiiance. and leavo the laod permanently benefitted so tbat ita presence can be traced for years afterwarda. ICS'We recommendFarmors to porcbase of onr agents everywhere, BAXTGH 4; SOHS, SOLE MANUPACTURERS. marU 3m-16 JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. "Ain't there no exceptions to your law aboot punching a teUow?" said a scamp lo a Judge. "Ho, air; no escapliona whatever, "Now, Judge, I guesa you are mistaken*— Just suppoae, for inatanoe, I ahonld brandy- bunch a man—what then!" "No levity in Cour, air. Sheriff, expose thia teUow to the atmoaphere." Evary deaire bears its death in every grat location. Cariosity languishes nnder repeat ed stimnlanlB, and novelties ceaae to excite surprise.untU at length we cannot even wou der at a miracle. Literary fame ia more easily caught than kept. If yon do noihing, you are forgotten, but if you writa and fail, your former auccess is thrown in your teeth. There are three modes ot dealing wilh an adversary besides that of adducing argument. One is to pretend indignatioa ; anoiher, to feign want of oomprabenslon; and the third ia the " greal ia Diana ot the Epbealans method or Luther's " hoc est corpus, hoc est corpus I" in his argnment wilh Zwingle, where we drown the voioe of our opponent by indefaligably Btating, withonl supporting, our own proposition. If peace oould be mainlained trom the pre¬ sent moment with little interruption, for the next forty or fifty years, oommerce would by that time have forged snch manacles for the hands of war aa it wonld be scarcely posaible to break. The great uae of reading the memoira of men of exoesaive and apparently irrealatible eccentricitiea of mind is that we may be pre¬ pared to make allowanoea for the infinite but undefined gradea ot approach to theae peou- liaritiea iu more ordinary men. Nothing givea a man such ajusl and reason¬ able independence of spirit aa acdualulance wilh the maaler-mind of hia conntry. A maa need teel little awe in the preseoce of au ordinary living nobleman, when he ia daily in the habit in hia study of conversing with thoae who have gained an inaUenable nobil¬ ity. To be etornaUy talking abont ourselves, our own virtnes, faults, and families, fs very far indeed from being aa infaUible siga of selfiah" neas in action, hnt it is a symptom. Still, if we are iaoapable of aaythiag but personal oonversation, it may be, on tha whola, safer to make onraelTu the subjeot of it than other pwiple. I DIVIDEND. LaMOasteb couktv baxk, ) Mat 1. ISCO, ( fT'HE Directors have this day declared I a Dividend nf foar aod one half per cent (4i^) on the Capital Stock paid ia, payable oa demand, may it3t-S3 W. L. PEIPBK. Cashier, Litiz Turnpike Dividend. ADIVIDEND of one dollar and fifty conts per Rhara, eqnal to eix per cant for iha last tiix laonlhH h&H boon ordered, payable at the oOlca of the Treasnrer, at Lltiz, or at the Furmerii Baok of Lan¬ caater, onand after MONDAY, MAY TtU next, Lilii. April 26th, 1S60. J. B. TSHUDY, may 2-at.23 Treasarer. 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ALLEN, A'O. 14 SOUTS DELAWAHB AVE.VUE, PHILADELPHIA. ta-AOESTS WAHTED. feb 22-3m-13 PHILADKLPHU ADVERTISBMENTS, 0 Philadelphia Flatform Scales, F JfiVERy DESCRIPTION, SUI- ^ TABLE FOR KArLHOADS, 4o., for welghlngX* lu.y,coal,oreandEierobandlB«geaerally. Parchaa- ll ers ran no rlek, every seals la gnaranteed correct,<B» and If, aft«r trial, sol foand aatiafactory, can b» ra* tarned wltboat oharge. .^-Factory at tha old aUnd, eatablliihed for mor* than thirty.fiTo yeara. ABBOTT & CO., Comer of Hlalh and Melon Str«e'ji, PhU*. apt 4 ain-19. Hew Pancy Goods Store and Brush M A N u r A 0 T 0 K y. H. DIXON, No. 33 Sontli ElglLtli st., Philadelphiu, IB selling at very iow prices acomplete asBortment of Bra^taen, Comba. TravelUnff Bagi, Uttod Mlrrofd, T^tilet Arliclof, l'arso<4 Port Monalea, Card Cased,F&raHolti und San Umbrella-i. Head Draeaea, Nets, &c; BEADS la gretit variety; Farin. Saratoga, and other Fancy FanH; Parian, Bohemian, Glaas, Terra Cotta and China Oraament};. Oood articlfla at the low- eat prices. . a3"PSAC0CE FEATHERS boaght or mada Into Bmshaa or Fans, at the FACTOKT. ZM MORTH BECOND STEEET. apr 4 ly-19 DissolTition of Partnership. THE co-paitiicrship herotofore existing under the finn of SPENCER. BOARDMAN 4- FPBNCER,ia tha COTTON MANUFACTDRISa BUSI¬ NESS, bax teen thin day dissolved by mutnil coneant; g.H. BpBOcar retlriDg. Tlia ba^inrsd uf ttto late Srm win bo conlinned by tlid nndereigned, nuder the firm of SPENCER. BOARDMAN ai CO., to whom all persoos haviug clalmif trill pr9l^e&t tfaem for saliUmeat, and tfaoNe indebtod will maica payment. Laacastor, May lst., 18S0. S. P. SPENCER, H. BOARDMAN, msy2-3t-23 OXKUS BLAIR. .\f ?'.rJi'u°i "J^^*P?!''1 I'l the C««'t of CommoL catioii to aboli^b aqd di"- V pt..-/,,-.i,„ nn««tin^ ^r conttnaotheCarinarBoSchool^Ji^*^;";*'* County of District. J ^an«»«". TO all persons interested—April 16, 18E0, npon the petition of Oeorge Witmer. et al, praying the Coort to dlBcontl naa aad abotiiih the Car- marrcn School District. Court bave fixed MONDAY, tha iSth day of JDNE next, for the hearing of eaid application. Patitloa filed. W. CARPENTER, Prothonotary. apr 26 5t-22 SPICED OYSTEKS FllOiAI JOHN GAMBER'S WHOLESALE OVSTBR ESTABLlSflMENT, nohfolk:, va. THK superior qunlity of Norfolk Oys tera is whH known, and no city in the Dnion pos- 6et<t>es such advautagea for putting up Oyatera as Nor¬ folk is fAVored wilh. They nre procnred fresh from the extensive oyster grouads In ths immediate neigbborfaood, and are con- hcciuently put up la a healthy Rtate, being spiced a few hours after they are takrn out of i^alt water. Thepo Sl'ICED OYS'rERS need only be tried to prove Ihalr enparlority over oyaterH sent from other cltioa. where they are often uplcad lu a sickly or decaved Btate, In conseqaence of the difficulty of procuring tliem frebb from the beds. A iarge lot just received in 2J^ and 2 pound tlu caus, and for eale by the dozen or elngle cau. WATSON H. inLLER, Corner of Weat King and Market Street, may 2-4t-23 Agent for Lancaster cliy nud coan^. GRAPE VINES! GKAI-E VINES!! THE Subscriber has ibr sule at his GreoB Hoasef, No. 74 ^'o^th Quoeo Streel. LancriH- ter, the folltjwiag varioties of bardy native grape vines, grftwn In pola. aud noir rea-ly 1ft i^et out; Delaware, Rebecca. Dlaaa, Union, Village, EUon. bargli, Nortbem, Hascadine, Horbemont. Clinton, Lonl«», CaeBady. JOHN ZIMMEKMAN. may 2 2t.S.) GARDEN SEEDS. A&ENERAL ASSOllTMENT- WHITE Clovek Seed for grass plats; MixEn Lawn GBisf* Seed for very pretty sod ; Gbee-v Grasi Seed. Blub GaAi-9 Seed. Yiir-i.ow Loccst Seed,at HEITaHD'S DKUO fcTOKE, Ono door East of Stelnman'K, West King at., Lanc. apr 4 tr-19 Whiteley's Champion Reaper and Mower, TT^HE undersigned, Agent for this coun- X ty. wl" be in Lancastar city, at SHO BER'S HOTKL. from and afterthe ISlh diy of .May, tosell the above named Keaper and Mower. This is the patent exhibited by Daniel Bollinger, at the County Agricaitoral Fair lant October, and recoived a SILVER MEDAL premium. Farmers will do well to examine this machine before pnrchaaiog elsewhere. AMOS BOLLINGER, Agent for Whitelkt St Co., may 2-2l».23 Springlield, Ohio. H. L. & E. J. ZAHM'S AMERIOAN WATOH.^^S. A MERICAN ingenuity and perseve- r\, ranee have at lengtb triatnpheil ovar tba low priced labor ofEurope, and wa cau now farnifib waich- esof equal,If not enperior finish end mannfaclurein oar own coantry, and far more RELIABLE and LAST- INO aa pocket tlrae-keepers, at Iohh toul than auy foreign watch of equal quality. W© have constantly for sale the AMERICAN WATCH, made by APPLETON, TRACY Ai CO., WALTHAM. MASS., and KEEDd i-ATE.NT Am.^r- ican Watch made, oy E. HOWARD i Co.. Boston, in Oold and Silver Oases of rariouii styles. Every watch warranted to be au accurate timekeeper. English and Swiss watchea of flne and common quality also in store and for sale low for cash. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and apsotaclaa repaired.— Special attention la paid to thia branch of onr buainess. HARHT L. ZAHM. EDW. J. ZA HM. Cor. N'orth Qaeen & Cantre Sqnare, may 2-*i-ly-26 Lancaster I'a GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO CASH BUYERS ZAHM "&" JACKSON, No.15 NORTH QUEEN ST., Lancaster. TO SDIT THE EMERGENCY OP THE TIMES. WE NOW OFFER ODR STOCK Op WATOHES AND JEWELRY, AT GREATLY EEDUCED PKICES, CONSISTING of Ladies' and Gon- Uemen'H GOLD and SILVER WATCHES of the moat celebrated TnaTreH. _^,i._i. French, English and Swien, opau face and la hnniing casea. We have aUo received a new article of Swisa Watehee, tbe wheels of whicb are mado of gold, and thebalance of the movemont of nlcliel; theae watches are flniahed In a superior manner, and caa ba aold at tbe price of watches with Brasa movemt-nts. Our Block ot American Watchea is very large, and willbe soldatmannfactnrer'spricefl. Geld Cbains. Cbatelaine, VoKtand Fob, Gold Cameos, Florentine and Roman Uosalc Setts, Armlets, Bracelets, Neciclaces and Finger Rings. SUver Waio of aH descriptions, Plated Sects ForkH, Spoons ic. 83-CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWELRY AND SPECTA¬ CLES, carefuUyrepalredandwarranted, octfi-tfJ5 HENHY SHENK, WATCH, CLOCK AND JEWELRY STORE, So. 16 Nortli q,aeeu St., Z<anoa8t«r. Pa.. NEARLY Of i-OdlTE MICHABL'd UOTBL, WHERE he is prepared to fumisli ALL KINDS OF Gold & SUver Watches, of the best make, and warranted tni .„^ ,^ ba good tlme-keepera. Also, 2t-honr, SO-honr, haO 8 day CJoeka, from »l.00 np to «25.00, warrantad to keep good time. ^ BREAST PINS AND EAR RINGS of averj deBcriptloa aod qiuUtjr alwftjrs on haod. AlBo.FiQg.rKlogH, SpecUcles, Accardeons, Port HoQ. nales. Pockot Books, and aUBitiolesnsaAllT kept ina w»U ordonid Jowolry Store. Partienlar attention given to repairing of Watciiei and Jewtzj ;aUirarrantod,uUi< work li done br the proprietor. HSHSY BBBSK. apr as ly.jj ALLEN & NEEDLES' FARMERS' DEPOT FOR GENOINE SU.PER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME, The old establialiod and atandard article. Prioe Si5 per WOO lbs. (2i ots. per ib.) GtTANO. "PERUVIAN. We aeli none but No. Jj 1 Government: Beware of the counterfeit article. AaiEBICAN. From Jarvla Island, received direct per eblp " Keynard." ICBABOE. Two cargoes of this well known Faatbery Gaano, Imported per Barquea "Trova- tore " and " Anuie." ALLEN & NEEDLES' NEW FEUTILIZEK. Highly amoionlated, compoaed of Bonea, Hair, Wool, Au.mal mattar, aud Sulpharlo Acid. It contains all that U wiuted for a Fiasr Class Masdre. Price 830 per 2000 lbs. (IJ cent per lb.) N. B. We wiah you to heir lu mind, that In no case, do we sell any articled ualeaii we kuow them to be gen¬ nine. and would reipectfnlly call yonr attectlon to the pretniama taken at tba following Agricnltaiitl Exhihl- tiooH, dipiomaa of wblch may ba seen at oar Coantlng Room. Pe.vssti,tasia, Stata Agricultural Society. NBWJEKBBr, " " " MoHTGoMEat Cocsxr, Pa. " *' BBcjfa " *' " " J. B. SHANWOBT, MANUFACTJHER OF LOCKS,, BELL-HANGER, SILVER-PLATER, AXD DEALBB I.T Building Hardware, Nailt and Satk Weights, 1009 MATCKF.T ST., ab^va loth St., Hortk Bid*. E3~ Belie repaired, Keya fitted, .Seo. Porcelain Door* Piatea aappUod and put oa. Speaking Tubes pat np. aept 7 ly-41 PAPEB HAKGINGS, &c. 1860. SPKING STYLES, I860. OF WALIi PAPERS. HOWELL iTBOURKE, Manufacturera & Importers of PAPER HAMGIWGS, ^Vo. 17 aOUTtrFOUIirirSl., hehio Market, PUILADELPHIA. Offar nnnsa&l rauilUieu to Wliolcaaie .£¦ RetaU Buyert.m aplendid stock of ffood^ to tfllccl frwni, audall ol tha newest and best desigae. WINDOW CDKTAIH PA- PERS tn eodlesH Vftriely. mar lj.3m.16 JAMES ELPKETH, S. E. Corner of Ninth fy Filbert Sireels, PHILADELI'UIA. THREE Ply and Ingrain Carpets at all prices; Valval, BniHsalH and Tapealry Carpot.; Had, ^VbUe and Faacy Caoloa Mattiag ; Wooil.a Floor Droggata aod Cramb Clotha, Rag Carpeta, Liat Carpot. aad Vara Carpets, Floor OU Clotba ^om 1 yard to 8 yarda wide: all gooda aold low for caaff, at the NKW CARl'ET STOKE, 5, E. Cor. o/Kinth 4- niOcrt afa., Irf street above ^darket, PuiLADEi-pniA. roar 14 3m-16_ 1860. 1860. SPKIIfG STOCK NOW OPEN. Full Slock of SILKS, Full Stock ot SHAWLS, PqU Stook of DBES3 GOODS, Full Slock of LINEN GOODS, Full Stook ot COTTON GOODS. Fall Stock ot BL..\CK GOODS, Fall Stock of WUiTE GOODS, Fall Stook of LACK GOODS, New Materials for DUSTERS, Novelties in FRENCH GOODS, &o. &o. EYRE & LANDELL, Fourth and Arch .^trect.i, Philadelphia. t3-ST0USEEliPEBS, may at all tlm. Cod Oood Bar. gaina. Dally from Maw TorR atid I'liila. AOOTIOifj. N. B.—BLACK SILKS, ut Net Prlcea, decidedly Cheap. feb !0-3m.H GLENN'S ONE PRICE IIAT AND CAP STOKE, {CORSEn OF THE KIVE STOKY BLOCK,) North Weal Curner of Eighth and Race Streeti, PHILADELPHIA. THE public are respectfully iuvited to bear In mlad that at thid Store may be found &n at-aortmeat o! t'oHhioaable asd Ilauditotne — I Moleskin. Dres3 Hats. Soft Hals, n* aiQH, Lc>VVAilEWUilI>EPrUCKt>vv'W, ™ 1 CLOTU, AND GLAZED CAPS, ^ .\ Plash and Plnah Trimmed Caii.i for Mea iind Boyn. Fancy Haut and Capa for ChUdraa, at Fair Pbicm. i:^yo Ttvo prices for regular hoods. Jan 13 _____ ly-8 Bebss BCRLtKaTOK Cdbstbk LiMCASTKE New Castlb SCHUrLKILL SCHDXLEILL •' .1 " If. J. Pa. " DaL Pa. Agricaltural and Horticaltn¬ ral Society A. liberal deduettoa m&d« to DE ALKRS, on sU the above articles. ALLEK & NEEDLES. 43 SODTH WHARVESand -11 SODTH WATEK STREET, Firnt ytortf abore Chestnat, I'hUa. [feb 8-3m-U KEROSENE & COAL OIL LAMPS. Head Quarters and Manufactory, No. 114 South sSecond street, below CheHtnut, and N;. 1 Carter Slreet, Philadelphia. M. B. DYOTT'S Excelsior Kerosene & Coal Oil Burner. MERRILL & JONES' Sprimj Burner^ and all other good burners forCoat Oil, together with the largeitt and bandsome-ft variety of LaMI'S. of every dflHcription. CHANDELIERS, from two lo flfty Burcertj. Glasses, fVicks, Shades, and all articlen per¬ taining" to the baainesH, together with the be* KERO¬ SENE OIL ia the country, WHoLEaALB & Retail, at the manofactorera' loweat prices, IC3"MercbantB and others will flave money by ex¬ amining onr Stoek aod Pricei. M. B. DXOTT'B LAMP and OAS FlSTDRE STORE and FACTORY. No. 114 South Second, and Na. l Carter Street, below Chastnut, Philadelphia feb 29 ._^ .-Jm-l 4 SPRING GOODS^ THOS. W. EVAWS & CO., RESPECTFULLY announce that they have now open a large and elegant assortment of Spring Dress Goods, comprising the aowent and handsomeat styles imported this season In Silks of all kinds. Shawls, Mantillas, Orenadines.Baxeges, Thin Robex, Gro de Epson, Tina Cloth, Favilia de Chine, Travailing Oooda, Chintzes. Barege Anglaia.Etnbroiderlea, Gloves, Hosiery, Hand¬ kerchiefs, ic. ltc togetber witb all the LATEST NOVELTIES that have apj^eared this aaiBoa. Castomera vlsltiog tha city will flnd It advantageous to viait this Store, aa T. W. 3t Co's facilities for procuring thehAodsomdEt goods at tbe most reaHonable prices are oaequallfld. Noii. H1S& sao Cliestnnt Streot, Phila., Opposite Gikabd House. apr 4 lm-19 WALL PAPERrnVALl7pAPERT! BTTKTON & LANING, MASCPACTURHB3 AKD ImPOKTKRB, NO 603 ARCU ST., PHILADKIiPHIA, W'HERE may be found thc largest and b&ndeomeat assortment In tbe city. 23»Porcha6ar8 from the coantry will flnd it to their advaoUge to call at onr Plore, where tbey will be suited with a Boperior article, at the lowest prices. _apr 25-3in-22 _ BURTON & LAi\lSG._ CHAS. F. aUMPP, ai8 NORTH FOURTH ST. PHILADELPHIA. IT THE OLD STAND Wholeaala and Retail Manufacturer of Port Monnaieu, Cabas and Purses, Dressing Cases, Money Bolts, Beticoleif, Cigar Casos. Banker's Caaes, leather Bai-s, Wrilfoff Desks, Pocket Books, Fort Polios, Bill Booka, Ao. _aept2I ly-43_ WESTERN HOTEL, No, 826 MARKET St.. PHILADELPHIA J. C. MAXWELL, Agent. npHIS House haa been returoishcd with JL entire new furniture. The Kooma are llgbt and airy. J3-Tho Table will be fomlahed wlththe beet lho market can afford. The Bar with the cholc^it ef Llqoora and Sei:ara. oct 25-tf-4S 1859. 1859. HOWABD ASSOCIATIOIT, PHII.ADEI,PHIA. A Benevolent InstUution, estalitislied by special endow. ment for thc relief of the sicli and distressed, ajjlicled with Viruleiit and Epidemic diseases. rr^HE Directors ot* this well known In- I Btitution In tbelr Annual Report, apon the treatment ut Sexual Diaeasea, expre a tho higheat satisfaction with the ancceris which baa attended the labors ot tbeir aar- geons in the cnre of ^permatorrha;a, Semioal Wcakneiia Impoteace,Gonorrhmd.,Qleet,Syphilla, the Viceof Unan lam, or Self-Abnae, &e., and order a cooiinuanca of the same plan for the enaoiug year. Tho Conaaliing Sur¬ geon la autboriied to give MEDICAL ADVICE GRATIS, to all who apply by letter with a doEcriptlon of their condition (age, occopatlon, habita ol life, &c,) andin caaes of extreme poverty, to FURNISH MEDIUINEFREE OF CHARGE An admirable Eeport ou SpermatDrrhoea, or Seminal Weakneaa. the vice of Onanibm, Maatnrbation, or Self Abase, and other diseaeea of the Sexaal Orginji, by the Consulting Surgeon, will be sent hy mail (i^ a sealed envelope). FREE OF CHARGE, on receipt of TWO STAMPS for pontage. Other Reporto and Tracu on the ualure and Treatment of Sexual dlaeaaes. diet, Jkc, are constantly beUg publlahed for graiaituus dSstrtbation, and vrlll be sent to the afflicted, foma of the newieme- diea and methods of treatment di<scoveted during the laat year, are ofgreat valne. Addreaa, for Eeport, or Treatment. DR. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON, Actiug Surgeon, Howard Aaaociation, Ho. 2 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. By Order of the Directora. EZRA D. HEARTWELL, Preaident. GEO. FAIRCHILD,SecreUry. aept 7.1y-4l POTATOES FOR SEER AND PAJIIIY USE. TWENTY THOUSAND BUSHELS of all the different varietlea from varloaa sectiona 01 tbe coantry. aocb as Maine Mercera, Back Eyes, Blue •' Cartera. White '• Wood Seedling. Black *' Foxltes, Jackaon Wbltes, Lata Pink Eyea, Peach Blows, Early Prince Alberts, " Junes, Early Dykemeo, To which we would invite tbe atteation of FARMBRS aud OTHERS. All informatioa wiU be glvea of the yield, quality and cultivation of the differant varieties. We will aell them In qoantities to anit porchaaera at thalotoest Wholesale Market Price. All ordera by mall or otherwise promptly attended to. wboDROPF & TAYLOR, CoiuiBflioit MERCHAJiTa & Pboddcb Dkalkiu, mar 14^m-I6 No. 4 Arch Street, Phltapelphia. REMOVAL! IMPOETANT TO THE LADIESI MRS. E. M. BOLENIUS would in¬ form her friends and the publlo that she has tomo»ed her Trimmlog and Pattern Store from No. 3 North Qaeen street, HP STAIRS In tbe sune bnlldlog, (Oronlte House) entrance No. 8, where shewlU be pleased to accommodate them. MaaMneamchLag'of aU kinds aad itamplDg for em- brolderr. d0B« to order attho shortest noUce. Alao. Dreaa Waists cot by meaanre. AU the latest Patterna for I.adlei and ChUdran'e PreM, Kantmai, 81—tw, Aprone, Ac-reoelTedmonthly at S7o. S Kown Qum kr., CP BTJOES. JOSyS SfflrBS TIN WARE. PRICES REDUCED. MERCHANTS AWD DEALERS ARE invited to call and exaiuiae the largeat aasortment of WeU made Tin Ware to be foond ia the Stote, which we are prepared to sell at LOWER PRICES than inferior gooda are generaUy sold for. MELLOV & FORD. SlOS OF TRE LaROE COFFEB POT. mar 14-3m-IS 723 Market St., Phitadelphia ^TRUSSES! BRACES 1! SUPPORTERS iTT^ C. H. NEEDLES, S.W.COR. TWELFra AND KaCB STS.,PHILAD'A. Practical Adjaater of Rupiara Trusses and Mechanical Keiuedtei^, HAS constantly on hand a large Stock of Ganolne Frencb.Trnsaea; also, a complete aa¬ aortment uf the best American, including the celebrated WhUe'a Patent Lever TraM8,heUefffld by tha beataathor- itiea to be auperior to any yet inveated. EngUsh and Amarican Supporterfi and Belta. Shoalder Braces, Sas- peasory Bandaged. Sdlf InJoctlDg Syriages, adapted to botb aexei, in ueat portable canaa, Fronch Peasariea, Urinal Baga. Ac. Ordere and lettera of enqoiry, wlU meet prompt at* tention. aag 24-Iy-39 J. W. SCOTT, (Latb op thb Firsi op Winchester & Sco«,) GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE, ASD SHIRT MANUFACTORY, 814 Chestnut Sl,. nearlo opposite the Girard House, PHILADELPHIA, J'W. SCOTT would respectfully call 0 the atteotloa ofhis former patrons and freinds to hia new store, and la prepaied to dll orders for SHIRTS at abort notice. A perfect lit gaarauteed. tS-CoDaTai: Tradb aappUed with FINE SHIETS and COLLARS. ect 12-ly-4B SILVER PLATED WARE, BY HARVEY PILLSr, NO. 1222 MARICET STREET, PHILAD'A., MANUFACTUKKK of Hno KICKEL SILVEK, A.VD SILVEH PLATKE of Forks, Spoons, Ladiea, Butier Kuives, Castors, Tea Setts, Urus, Kettles, Waiters, Batter Dishes, Ice Pitchers, Cake Baskets, Coiamunion Ware, Cup?, Mugs, Goblets, &o., &o., &c.. With a geaeral aiiuorttneat. compriatug SO.NE Bm- THR BEdr QDALiTr, Di&da or the Bt^T MATKKiALsand hbjltilt PLATBo, cooBlUoEing theui a BorTicaable and darable ar¬ llclo for Hotela, Stoamhoau nod Private Famllleti. B3- Old Ware re plated in the belt maaaer. foi) 23 lyia- THE PHILADELPHLi €ash Drug, Paint and lilass Store, S. W. cor. Fourih und Callowhill Sis., PHILADELPHIA. I[3"Druggi8ta, Merchant.'!, Farmers, and the publlo everywhere. 1 will sell at wboieaale aud retail, to the Spriag Trade of lSt>U, a heavy etock of Draga, Medi- cines, CheuiicatH.^c, xc, Ita. 20,000 Boxas of Window Glaaa, aasorted sizes and qualities. 10,000 I'ounda of i'atty, White, Black, Hed, tec, in Bnlk or Bladdera. 10,000 Gallona Llnaeed OU,'Spirits Tarpentine, Cam- phino, Alcohol, ic. 20 Tone or Puro While Lead, in bble., ^ bbls, 100,50, '25 and UK It>. Kega. 30 Tons of Foarl Sbow WhUe Lead, la bbls. >£bbU. 100, ai. 2.1 and 12>i lb. Kega. ¦10 Tona of N«w i'oric Wnite Lead, iu bbld. }£ bbla., 100, 50, 25 and 12H lb. Kega. 35 Tona of Puro Freuch White Ztuc, la bbU., H bbls,, 100,50,25 aad I2}i Ib. Kega. 40 Tdoa of Americaa baow iVhlta Zlac, ia bbls., }i bbla., IUO. 50, 25 and l*i»4 lb. Kegs. 20 Tons of Lebigh American 'Mae, in bbla., K hh\a., 100,60, 25 and 12>2 lb. Kegs. 25 Tone of Ziuce Paints, of dltfereat colora, la bbls., ^ bbla., 10-), 60,25 iud I2>i lb. Kega- 30 Toaeof Mineral Fii.iats, of dltfereat colora, dry or gronnd In Oil. 10,000 Pounds of Pare French Greeu, Chrome Green, VeUow, Blue, Black and other colora, dry oria Oil. I.OOO Pounds of SmalU' aborted Bine, Black, Sad, Oreen, and other colora. ;iOO Packa OfGold Loaf,Glaziera' Diamonds, Glaziera* Patty, Uack KuiToa, &c. 20,000 Ualloas Botlod Oil, Varai^hea, Japaaa. ZIqo Dryer, ic. Paint, Ynrnlsh audCalaomlne Bru3ht.a, together with a completa aasortmeat of flrat claaa Qoods em¬ braced in the Ora'^ and Paint baalaflas. AUO, 2,000 Bbbls. Romaa Cement. 3,000 " Boseudale aud Hydraulic Cement. l.UU) " Calcined, Land. Dentiatry, Caating Plae- ter, &c. r^AU of which I will sell at WHOLESALE or .KETAIL, at fri>m 10 to 20 per caat. leaa tbau other eatabllsbmentH. HENBY O. D. BANKS, Proprietor ot tho PHILADELPHIA CASH DKOO, PAIXT ASD GLASS STOKE, South.West Comer of Fourth atid CallowhIU Streets, PHILADELPUIA. teb 39 3m-t-l "THE TlifYoN," JlRCBSTREET.aBOy-E THIRD, PHIL- JIDELPHIA. THE UNDKKStWNED liaving pur- chaaed the iDtereHt of hlH former partaer, Etau Evaae, ia the ahove Hotel, woald call atteatloa of the pobllc to lie CooTeoleace for those Tleltlog the clljr, either for boaiaeas or pleaaure. The Bltoatloa beiag bat a faw etepd from tho priaci¬ pal aTeaoea of trade, otfera lodacemeots lo those oa ba¬ slaess—while to those la searcb uf pleasare, passeager railroads, which ran past aud ia close proximity, aiford a cheap aad pleasaat ride tu all places of loterest ia or aboat tho city. Tho proprietor ao&oaaces that "The Ualoa" shall be kept la soch character as will taoei pablic approhatioa, aad woaid respectfaily soilclt patroaage from Laacas¬ ter, aad adjoialog coaatles. nPTOS S. SEWCOJIKB, aag -I-Iy-SS Proprietor. BLINDS ANO SHADES. B. J. WILLIAMS, No. IG Nortb Slxtli St., PUlladelphiB, IS THE MOST EXTENSIVE HASDPACTUIiEE OF Venitian Blinds & Window Shades. TUE LARGEST AND FINEST ASSDllT.ME.NT IN THE CITy,^AT TUE LOWEST CASH PBICES. STOEE SHADES MADE AND LETTERED. aprll 2°i-30 BBOOKE & PITGH, Forwarding & Commission Merchants. No 1731 MAEKET ST., PHILADELPHIA. BXCLDSrVELT COMMISSION. rOB THE SALE OP Hour, Grain, Whiskey, Seeds and COUNTKS PRODUCE. : EJ-Forwaxders of Freight, per A. K. 'Wltmei*, Cats to PazsdlM, Laacuter ooooty; Maaaelouui, a«rr it Co. Oaza to StzMborg. Lucaater ooanty, Fa. ... juijt e lyjj
Object Description
Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Masthead | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 24 |
Subject | Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County |
Description | The Lancaster Examiner and Herald was published weekly in Lancaster, Pa., during the middle years of the nineteenth century. By digitizing the years 1834-1872, patrons are provided with a view of politics and events of this tumultuous period from a liberal political slant, providing balance to the more conservative perspective of the Intelligencer-Journal, which was recently digitized by Penn State. |
Publisher | Hamersly & Richards |
Place of Publication | Lancaster, Pa. |
Date | 1860-05-09 |
Location Covered | Lancaster County (Pa.) |
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Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
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Date | 1860-05-09 |
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VOL. XXXIV.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAT 9, 1860.
NO. 24.
J. A. HIESTAND, J. F. HUBBE, F. HECKBKT tntpu THB mn or
JNO. A. HIESTAND & CO.
orrioi IK itokTa qtrsni btaiit. THK EXAMINKK & HEBALD
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it colnmn 10 00 18 00 26 00
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THE BIEDS.
BY MABALA OOWRAN.
The beantlful birds are here again ! They've come over monntain, hill and plalo; Somejotl fr^m tbe chores of & far-off lale, Wheru myrtle bowers In the sunbeams amlle, And the rippltnc brooklet- sing all day To the alr« ihat breathe e'.ernal May. Aud tbe grovCft a fadeless verdure wear And flll witb fragrance the morning air.
There the oraace bloomM, and the balmy breew, Kw^*'pH gently through the u-taacled treea. O, who would auk why they haunt the ahore OI thai fair Southland tlU wiuter la o'er ? Now, *.wfet Ibeir l«y» at tbe tuurlaa hour. Ere lhe dew-drop Uaves tha half-blown flower— Thay raite tba heart that Is sunk In gloom And Waken bopea to bnd and hloom.
Row vre lova Uie wood-throah'a melow lay, From the forest riim. at the cloee of day, Tbe Wren tbat visits Ihe honnohold eaves. And the ^onnd-blrd among tha violet leaves r What melody cliarnirt witb sweeter spell Tlian tbe roliiOH uong all love >>o well r And wl.o can bal hntl iheir relnrn in apriag. With tbeiUQ'-lcaDd life and Joy they bring ?
THE WIDOW COBB'S FIUST LOVE.
BT MART W. STANLEV GIBSON.
TUe fire cracked cheerfully on the broad hearth ot theold farm bonse kitchen, a oat and three kitteua basked in the warmth, and a decrepid yellow dog lying fnll in the redeo- tion of the blaze, wriukled his black nose approvingly, aa he tnrned his hind feet where bis fore feet had beeu. Over the chimney bong several fine hams and pieces of dried beef. Apples were festooned along the ceil¬ ing, and crooked necked squashes vied with red peppers and slips of dried pampkins, in garnishing each window frame. There were plants, too, ou the wiudow ledges—horse-shoe geraniums, and dew plants, and a monthly rose jnst badding, to say nothing of pots of violets, that perfamed the whole place wlien¬ ever tbey took it iuto tbeir pnrple beads to bloom. The floor was carefnlly swept—the chairs had not a speck of duat npon leg or ronnd—tbe loug settee near the fire-plaoe sbone aa if it had beeu jnst varnished, aud tbe eight day clock in the corner had its white face newly washed, aud seemed determined to tick tbe louder for it. Two arm chairs were drawu np at a cosy distauee from the hearth aud eaoh other, a candle, a newspaper, a pair of spectacles, a dish of red cheeked apples, aud a pitcher of cider, filled a little table between them. In ona of these chairs sat a comfortable lookiug woman, about forty- flve, with cheeks aa red aa the apples, and eyes as dark and bright as they had ever beeu, resting her elbow on the table, and her head npoQ her haud, and looking thongbtfnlly into tbe flre. Tbis was the Widow Cobb, "reliot" of Deacon Levi Cobb, who had beeu moulder¬ ing iuto dust in the Bytown church-yard, for more tban seveu yeara. She was thinking of ber dead bnaband, poasibly because—all ber ¦work being done, and the servants gone to bed—the sight of his empty chair at tbe other aide of tbe table, and tbe silence of the room made her a little louely.
* Seven years," so the widow's reverie ran. " It seems aa if it was more tban fifty—aud yet, I don't look so very old, either. Perbaps it'a not having auy childreu to bother tay life out, as other people have. Tbey may aay what they like, children are more plagne than profit, that'a my opinion. Look at my siater Jernaba, witb her six boys. She's worn to a shadow—and I'm sure they bave done it— thongh she never will own it."
The widow took an apple from the dish and began to peel it.
"How dreadfal fond Mr. Cobb used to be of these grafts. He will never eat any more of tbem, poor fellow, for I don't suppose they have apples where he bas gone to. Heigho! I remember very well bow I nsed to throw apple parings over my head when I was a girl, to see wbo I was going to marry?" Mrs. Cobb atopped short aud blnshed. For in those daya abe did not kuow Mr. Cobb, and waa always looking to aee if the peel bad formed a capital "S." Her meditations took a new tnrn.
" How handsome Sam Payson was! and how mnch I nsed to care about bim. I won¬ der what baa lieoome of him 1 Jerasha saya he went away from our village just after I did, and no one has ever beard of him since. And what a ailly thing that quarrel waa '. If
it had not beeu for that "
Here came a long paaae, dnring which the widow looked very steadfastly at the empty arm-chair of Levi Cobb, deceaaed. Her fin¬ gers played careleaaly with the apple paring; Bhe drew it safely toward ber, and looked aronnd the room.
'* Upon my word it is vary ridicaloaa, and I don't know what tbe neighbora wonld say if they saw me."
Still the plump fingers drew the red peel nearer.
"Bnt then they oan't fiee me, that'a a comfort, and the cat and old Bowse never will know what it meana. Of courae I don't believe anything about it."
The paring hung gracefully from herhand. " Bat still I Bbonld like to try: it would
seem like old times, and "
Over her head it went and carled np qui¬ etly on the floor at a little distanoe. Old Bowse, who. always alept with one eye opeu, saw it fal!, aud marched deliberately np to Bmell it.
"Bowse—Bowse—dou't tonch it!" cried his mistress, aud bending over it wilh a beating heart, she tnrned aa red as fire. There was as handsome a oapital "S" aa any one could wish to see.
A great knock came suddenly at the door. BoWBe growled and tbe widow screamed, and snatched ip the apple-pearing.
" It'B M -. Cobb—it's his spirit come back again, beckuse I tried that silly triok," she thonght fearfully to herself.
Another knock—louder tban the firat, and a man'a voice esclaimed; "Hillo, thehonae!"
" Who is it ?" aaked the widow, somewhat relieved to find that the departed Levi was BtiU safe in his grave npon the hill aide. " A stranger," aaid the voice. "What do yoa want?" " To get a lodging here for the night." The widow deliberated. " Can't yon go on there'a a honse halt a mile farther, if yon keep to the right hand Bide of tbe road—aud tnrn to the left after yon get by—"
" It'a raining cata and dogs, nnd I'm very delicate," said the stranger, coughing, "I'm wet to the akin—don't yoa thiuk yoa oaa accommodate me—I dont mind sleeping on the floor."
" Earning is it! I didn't know that," and the kind-hearted little woman unbarred the door very quickly. " Coma in, whoever yoa may be—I only asked yon to go on because I am a lona woman, with only one aervant in the houae."
The Btranger entered—shaking himsolf like a Fewfoandland dog npon the atep, and scat¬ tering a Utlle^shower ot drops over his boa- tesB and her nicely swept floor.
"Oh—that looks oomfortablB after a maa hu iiMii ont lot boun In a ¦torm," h» uid,
ss ha oanght sight of tha fire, and Btriding along towards tha hearth, followed by Browse, who annffed Buspioionsly at hia heels, he sta¬ tioned himaelf in a ohair—ifr. CoM'j arm c*oi"r, whioh had been kapt aaored to hia memory for aeven years I The widow waa horrified, bnt har gnest looked ao weary and worn oat, that she coald not ask him to move, but buBled heraelf in stirring np the blaze, tbat he might the sooner dry his dripping clothea. A new thongbt struck her; Mr. Cobb bad worn a oomfortable dressing-gown dtiring hia illneaa, whioh atill hang in tbe oloaet at tha right. She oonld not let thia poor man catoh biB dealh by sitting in' that wet coat—if be was in Mr. Cobb's ohair, why shonld he not be in Mr. Cobb's wrapper 1 She went nimbly to the oloaet, took it down, fished out a psir of slippers from a boot-rack below, and bronght them to him.
'' I think yoahad better take off yonr coat and boots; yon will hava the rheumatic fe¬ ver or something like it if you don't. Here are some thinga for yon to wear while they are drying. And yon mnst be hnngry, too ; I will go into the pantry and get yon some¬ thing to eat."
Sbe bustled away " on hospitable thonght intent," and the stranger made the excbange with a quizzical smile playing around his lips. He waa a tall, well-formed mau, with a bold bnt handsome face, annbumed aud heavily bearded, and looking anything bnt " delicate," though hia blue eyes glanced oat from under a forehead as white aa anow. He looked aronnd tbe kitchen with a mischievoaa air, and stretched out his feet before him, deco¬ rated wilh tho defunot Deacon's slippers.
Upon my word, this ia atepping into the old man's aboes with a vengeance! And what a hearty, good-humored looking woman ahe ia ! Kind aa a kitten," and he leaned forward and stroked the cat and her brood, and then patted old Bowse upon the head.— Tbe widow briaging in sundry gooi thiuga, i looked pleaaed at hia attentions to ber dnmb friends.
*' It'a a wonder Bowae doea not growl; he generally doea if atrangera tonoh bim. Dear me ! how atupid !"
The laat remark waa neither addresaed to the atranger nor to tbe dog, bnt to heraelf.— Sbe had forgotten that the little atand waa not empty—and thara was uo room on it for the tbinga ahe held.
" Oh, I'll manage it," said the gneat, gath¬ ering np paper, oandle, apples and spectaclea (it was not without a little pang that ahe saw them in hia haad, for they had been the Deacon'a, and were placed eaoh night, like the arm-chair, beaide her,) aud deposited them ou the aettee.
"Giva ma the tabla clotb, ma'am; I can apread it as well as any woman. I've leamed that along wilh scores of other things in my wanderings. Now let me relieve you of tboae iliabes ; they are far too heavy for those little banda;" (the widow bluahed;) " and now pleaae sit down with me, or I oannot eat a morael."
" I had supper long ago, bat really I think I cau take aomething more," aaid Mra. Cobbi drawing her chair nearer to the table*.
"Of conrae you can, my dear lady—in tbia oold autumn weather people ought to eat twice aa much as they do iu warm. Lat me give yoa a pieca of thia ham—your owu curing, I dare say."
" Yea; my poor huaband was very fond of it. He used to say no one anderstood ouring ham and drying beef better than I."
" He was a most aenaible man, I am anre. I drink your healtb, madam, in this cider." He took a loog dranght, and aet down his glass. "Itis like neotar."
The widow was feeding Bowse and the cat, (who thought they were entitled to a ahare of every meal eaten In tbe houae,) and did not qnite hear what he aaid. I faucy ahe wonld hardly have known what "nectar" waa—ao it was qnite as well. " Fine dog, ma'am—and a very pretty cat." "Theywere my. hnsband'a favorites," and a sigh followed the answer.
" Ah—yonr husband must have been a very happy roan."
The blue eyea looked at her so long tbal she grew flurried.
" la there anything more I can get for you, air!" ahe asked, al last. "Noihing, thankyon, I hava finished." She rose to clear tbe things away. He aa. sisted her, aud somehow their handa had a queer knack of tonohing as they carried the dishes to the pantry ahelvea. Coming back to the kitchen, she pat the applea and cider in'their old placea, and brought ont a clean pipe aud a box of tobacco from au arched re¬ cess near the chimney.
"My husbaud always aaid he could not sleep after eating supper late, nnlesa ha smoked," ahe aaid. "Perhapa yon would lifce to try it."
" Not jf it ia to drive yon away,'' he anawer¬ ed, for she had her candle in her hand.
"Oh, no—I do nol objecl lo amoke at all." She pnt tbe oandle down—some faint sugges¬ tion about " propriely" troubled her, bnt ahe glanced at the clock and felt reassured. It waa only half-paat nme.
The Btranger puahed the atand back after the pipe waa lit, aod drew her easy chair a little nearer the fire—and his own.
" Come, sil down," he said, pleadingly. •' It's not late—and when a man has been knocking about in California and all sorts of placea, for a berth like thia—and lo have a pretty womau to speak to onoe again."
" California I Have youbeen in California?" she exolaimed, dropping inlo the chair a^ once. Unconscionaly sbe had long cherished the idea that Sam Payson—the lover of her yonth—with whom she had so foolishly qaar- reled, had pitched his tent, after many wan¬ deringa, in lhat far-off land. Her heart warm¬ ed to one who, with something of Sam'a look and ways about him—had also beeu sojourn¬ ing in that conntry—and who very possibly Tiad met him—perhaps had known him inti¬ mately ! At that thoaght her heart beat qnick, and she looked very graciously at the bearded.stranger, who, wrapped in Mr. Cobb's dreasing-gown, wearing Mr. Cobb's slippers, and aitting in Mr. Cobb's ohair, beaide Mr. Cobb's wife, smoked Mr. Cobb's pipe with sncb an air of feeling moat thoroughly and comfortably at bome I
"Yes, ma'am—I've been in California for the laat aix years. And before that I went qnite round tbe world—in a whaling ahip." "Qood gracious I"
The strauger sent a puff of smoke onrling gracefully over hia head,
"It'a veiy strange, my dear lady, how often yon aee one thing as you go wandering abont the world after that faahion." " And what ia lhat ?" " Men, witbont house or home above their heada, roving hore and thera, and turning np in all sorts of odd places, caring very littla for life aa a general thiog, and making for¬ tunes jnat lo fling them away again—and all for one reasou. You don't aak me what that ia I No donbt you know already very well." "I think not, air."
" Becanae a woman has jilted them!" Here was a long pause, and Mr. Cobb's pipe emitted short pnffa with surprising rapiditj. A guilty conacience needa no accuaer, and tha widow'a cheek was dyed with blaahas as she thonght of the absenrSsm.
" 1 wonder how women manage whan tkex/ gel served in the Bame way," said the stranger musingly. "Younever meet «sm roaming up and down in that style."
"No,"said Mis. Cobb, with some spirit; " if a woman is in troable she mnat stay at home and bear it the beat way ehe can. And there's more woman bearing suoh thiugs than we know of, I dare say."
"Like enongh I We asver know whose hand gets pinched In a trap unless they Boream. And women tte too shy or too sen- •Ibl», wUoh you ohoon, for that.".
"Did yoa ever, in all yonr wanderings, meet any one hy the name of Samuel Payson!" asked the widow, unoonoemedly. The stran¬ ger looked towards her—ahe was rummaging her drawer for her knitting work, snd did not notice him. When it was found aud the needles in moiion, he answered her.
"Payson! Sam Paysou? Why he waa my most intimate friend! Do yoa know him?"
" A lillle—tbat is, I uaed lo when I was a girl. Where did you meet him!"
" Ha went with me on tha whaling voyage I told yon of, and afterwards to California.— We had a tent together, and aome other fel¬ lows with ns, aod wa dug in tbe same olaim for more than six monlhs." " I suppoae he was quite well t" " Strong as an ox, my dear lady."
" Aud—aud happy ?" aaid the widow, ban¬ ding closer over her knitting.
" Hum—tha leas said about that the bet¬ ter, perhapa. But he seemed lo enjoy life after a faahion of hia own. And he got rich out tbere, or rathor, I will aay—well off."
Mra. Cobb did not pay much attention to that part ot the atory. Evideutly she had not finiahed asking queationa. But ahe waa puzzled ahont her uext oae. At laat ahe bronghl it out beaatifully.
" Was his wifo with bim in California ?"
The atranger looked at her with a twink¬ ling eye.
"Hia wife, ma'am! Why, bleaa yon, be haa not gol one !"
" Ob, I thoaght—I mean I heard"—here the little widow remembered the fate of Ana¬ nias and Sapphira, and stopped before she told auch a tremendous fib.
"Whatever you heard of hia marrying waa all nonaense, I can aasure you. I know him well, and be had no thonght of tha kind abont him. Some of the boya naed to tease him abont it, bul be aoon made them stop."
"How?"
"He jnat told them frankly that the only woman he ever loved had jilted him years before, and married auother man. After that no one ever meuiioned the anbject lo him again except me."
Mrs. Cobb laid her knitting aaide and looked thoaghtfully into the fire.
" He waa auother specimen of the class of men I waa speaking of. I have seou him face death a score ot limes as quietly as I faoe the fire. 'It matters very lillle whal takes me off,' be used to say; 'I've nothing to live for, and there's no one that will shed a tear for me when I am gone.' It'a a aad thought for a man lo have, isn't il?"
Mrs. Cobb sighed as abe said ahe thought It waa.
"Bnt did he aver tell you the name ot the lady who jilted him!"
" I know her first name."
"Wbat waa it?"
" Maria."
Tbe plump little widow almoat started ont of her ohair ; the name was spoken so ex¬ actly as Sam woold have said it.
" Did you know her!'' he asked, looking keenly at her.
"Yes."
" Intimately!"
"Yes."
" And where is ahe now! StiU happy with her liusband, I suppose, and never giv¬ ing a thought to tbe poor fellow she drove ont into lho world."
" No," aaid Mra. Cobb, shading ber faoe wilh herhand, and speakiug unsteady. "No, her husband is dead."
" Ah ! but atill ahe never Ihinks of Sam."
There was a dead silence.
"Doea she?"
"How can I tell?"
" Are you still friends !"
"Yea."
" Then yon ought to know aud do. Tell me."
" I'm snre I don't know why I ahoald. Bat if I do you must promise me, on youi honor, never to tell bim if you ever meal him again."
" Madam what you say to me never shall be repeated lo auy mortal man, upon my honor."
" Well, tben, she doea remember bim."
"Bit how?"
" As kindly, I think, as be conld wish."
" I am glad to hear it for his sake. Y'ou and I are the friends of both parties ; we can rejoice with each other."
Ha drew hia chair nearer her's, and took her hand. One momeut ahe resisted, but i^ wasa magic touch; the rosy palm lay qui¬ etly in his, aud the dark beard bent so low that il nearly touched her shoulder. It did not mallei mnoh. Waa he nol Samuel's dear friend!" If he was not tbe roae had he nol dwell very near it for a long, long lime ?
'' It waa a foolish quarrel that parted them," said he softly.
"Did he tall you about it P"
"Yea, on board tha whaler."
"Did he blame her muoh ?"
" Not ao much as himself. He said lhat hia jealonsy and ill temper drove her to break off the matoh ; bnt he thonght sometimea if he had only gone back and spoken'kindly to her, ahe would have married him after all."
" I am sure sha wonld," said the widow, pileonely. "Shehas owned it to me more than a thouaand times."
" She was nol happy, then, with another,"
" Mr, that is to say her husband—was
verygood and kiud," said the little womau, thinking of the lonely grave on the hillaida rather penitently, " aud they lived very pleas¬ antly together. There never was a harsh word belween them."
" Still—might she nol have beea happier wilh Sam? Be honest, and aay jnat what yon think."
" Yea."
"Bravo! that ia whal I wanted to come at, Aud now I have a aecret to tell you, and you muat break il to her."
Mrs, Cobb looked rather soared.
"Whatisit?"
" I want you to go and see her, wherever she may be, and say to her,' Maria !'—whal makes you start so ?"
" Nothiug—only you speak like some one I used to know, once in a while,"
"Dol? Well, take the rest of tbe mes¬ sage. Tell her that Sam loved her throngh the whola; tbat when he heard aha was free, ha began to work hard al making a fortune ; he baa got il, and he ia coming to share it with her, it ahe will let him. Will you tell her thia !t'
Tha widow did not anawer. She had freed her hand from hia, and oovered her face with It. By and by she looked np again. He was waiting patiently.
"Well!"
"I will tell her."
He rose from hia Beat and walked up and down the room. Theu he came baok and leaning on the mantelpiece, atroked tha yel¬ low hide of Bowse wilh his slipper.
"Make her quite underatand thathe wanta her for his wife. She may live where she likes, and how she likes, only it must be with hini."
"I will tellher."
" Say he haa grown old, but not oold; that he lovea her now perhaps better than he did twenty years ago ; that he haa been faithfnl to her all through his life; aud that ha will be faithful till he diea—"
The Californian broke off suddenly. Tbe widow anawered still:
"I will tell her."
"And what do you think she will say?" he asked, in an altered tone.
" What can she say but—Com*."'
" Hurrah!."
The stranger oaught her ont of her ohair as it aha had been a ohild, and kissed her.
"Don't oh, don't!" she oried out. " I am Sam's Maria I"
" WeU—I am Maria's Sam 1"
Off went the dark wig, and the blaok whiakeis—there smiled the dear fisoe ahshad
never forgotten I I leave yoa to imagine tbe tableau—even the oat got np to look, and Bowse sat on his slump ofa tail, and wonder¬ ed if he was on his heals or his haad. The widow gave one little scream, and then she— But stop I Qntat peopla like yoa and me, dear reader, who have got over aU thasa fol¬ lies, and can do nothing but tnrn up our noses at them, hava no businesa here. I will only add tbat two hearts were very happy, that Bowse concluded, after awhile that all waa righl, and ao laid down to slsep agsin, and that one week afterwards thera was a wedding al the housa that mada the neighor- ing farmers stare. Tba widow Cobb had married her First Love I
01D SWEETHEAET S .
BY ASDREW HALLIDAT-
Wben old Annt Patterson naed to tell me, as we sat together by her parlor flra, that she was once a very prelty girl, and that all the lads of the village were over head and ears in love with her, I wondered very muoh, I should mention that I was a very small boy theu. Looking up from tha footstool on whioh I was aoonalomad to sit, at aunty's wrinkled brow, her sunken oheeks and olosely approximating nose and ohin, I could never realise to my imagination the picture which she painted of heraelf "when ahe waa young." She was a pretty girl then, ahe Baid, with blue eyea and a bnnch ot flaxen curia hanging down her baok for aU the world like a blos¬ som of a luxuriant labarnnm tree. There waa a pictnre ot jnat anoh a girl in aunty'B parlor, which aunty aaid waa a picture of herselt at the age of aeven. It never occurred to me, or indeed to any oue elae who knew her, to doubt aunty'a word. Bnt how coald I believe lhat old Aunt Patteraon had ever been anythiug like that ? The girl in the pictare had roay cheeks, and over her shoul¬ ders flowed a profusion of flaxen curls, which were now represented by a brown wig wilh au unnaturally white and well-defined parting. In her dimpled hand, the ohild had an apple as rosy aa her own oheeks. Oft, as I sal at aunty's feet, would I look np at those dim¬ ples, and wonderingly compare them with the blue veins ot the shriveled band which I held in mine. What evil genie wrinkled lhat damaak cheek, and dimmed thoae briUian^ eyes! Ah! I knew nol theu what a potent magaciau is Time. Aunty'a story waa like a fairy-tale to me.
Side by aide with the piolnie of "roay oheeks there hnng another: it was that of a handsome yoang man with bright, dark, piercing black eyea and curly blaok hair.— And thereby hnng another ot aunty's talea. That waa a picture of Robert Aliaon, who went to South America flve-and-thirly yeara ago. "Robert and I were old sweethearts," aanty naed to tell me; " he waa poor, roy dear, and rathar wild, and my father wonld not conaent to 0 ar marriage. It nea rly broke my heart, for I loved Robert very dearly, and I am Bure he loved me. He took my father'a repeated deniala ao much to heart lhat he resolved to leave th& conntry. " I will go to South America, Lizzy," he aaid, "maka a fortnne, and come baok and marry yon.— Your father will not object to my marrying you when I am rich." I cried bitterly, you may be anra; for, as I said, I loved Robert dearly. Well, Robert carried onl his resolu¬ tion. I got np one moruing before it was light, and met him at the old bridge, to bid him good-bye. I was so flurried on leaving ths honae, for fear tbat my father shonld awake and discover my purpoae, that I forgot to pnt on my bonnet; and I remember that, aa I ran, the wind blew my curls about ao that it aiiy peraon had seen me they must have thous-ht me mad. Bnt nobody was up so early. 1 found Kobert waiting for me on the old bridge. After a few hurried words, we parted. Bul before he left me, he begged a look of my hair as a rememberanoe againsl the time when he shonld retnro and claim me for his bride. I had plenty of hair lo give him, and was right willing to give it; but we had notbing to cnt it off with—noth¬ ing bnt Robert's pen-knive. But Love laughs at Bciaaora-makera, my dear, aa well as at locksmiths, and Robert laid one of my curia npon hia walking-aliok, an^ jnat whittled it off; and then I look off one of hia in the same way, though I did not do it so neatly, and made Robert cry ont a little. I could have laughed if my heart had not been so fuU, I stood on the bridge watching him until he was ont of sight among the trees, aud theu I went baok home, crying all the way."
I dare say aunty told me this story a score of limes, and always in the gloaming of the evening, hetween the lights. But she never carried her early hiatory beyond the parting of the old bridge. All the romance ended there. What followed was prosaic enough. Aunty waited several years for Robert withont hearing any news of him ; and, al length believing him dead, she mar¬ ried Mr. Grainger, the iron-founder—more I believe to please herfather than herself.
At the end ot twenty years Mr. Grainger died, and lefl aunty very well off—so weU off, indeed, lhat before the year of mourning was out she was beaeiged by dozens of suitors.— Aunty reaiated Ihem all tor a long lime, and remained a widow until he met my Unole Patteraon, whom ahe look tor better or for worse, and, alaa! fonnd him altogether for¬ the worae and none for the better. Patterson was a kind-hearted, genial soul, and strongly attached to whiakey toddy, and waa by no means diligent in hia buainesa, which was that of an accountant. Wheu ha mada up his own lasl account on earlh, there was a very amall balance left in favor of aunty. A great proportion ot what the iron-founder had made ont ot pota and pans had gone in dou¬ ble-shotted jugs of toddy. Aunty waa a widow a second time before abe heard any¬ thing ot har old sweetheart, Robert Alison. Then she heard that he waa married and do¬ ing well in Sonth Amerioa. She uaed to iay great atreaa upon the fact ot his being mar¬ ried. Poaaibly that waa raiher a consolation tban otherwiae. She might have telt it a re¬ proaoh to heraelf had she heard that he was StiU aingle, aa that might have beeu taken to imply lhat he remained a baohelor for her aake; whereaa she had married and buried two husbands.
Soma ten or flfteen years after the death of Mr. Patterson, news oame to the towu that Eobert Allison had loat his wife, and was ooming home with his only son. Old Mrs. Joyce, who had a nephew in Sonth America, from whom tha news oame, called one evening to show aunty the latter. Annty, at this time was getting old and frail, and occasion¬ ally showed symptoms ot falling inlo dotage. When Mrs. Joyce read her the letter she laughed childishly, and said how glad she shoald be to see her Eobert again ; and then, when Mrs. Joyce went away, she told me the old, old story ot her early conrtship with Robert, and thair parting at day-break at the old bridge.
I was, aa I have said, a vary little boy when aunty first relaled to me the Btory of her early love. I was nearly a man now, and had oome lo spend my oollege holidays with the good old lady. One eveniug, abont six weeks atter Mrs. Joyce called with her letter from South America, aunty and I were sit¬ ting by the parlor fire aa ot old. It was nearly dark; but I did not like to light the oandlea, for aunty loved to ait and talk by tha fire belwean the lighta. The sombre shadea of evening seemed to have something iu harmony with her mood at suoh times.— She sat oppoaite ths piotare of Robert All- son, looking into the fire, aad merrily mbblng her hands. Suddenly the flra burned up into a flama, aud threw a flash of light upou Rob- art's picture. Aunty who had long beeu si¬ lently gazmg at the burning coala, cast har eyas up to tbe handsome face, and heaving a ilgh, mattered half to heimlf and half to ma: " He waa a pa felloir, bat he's dead
aov; at the bottom of the eea, my dear,* sha addad, pointedly addressing ma. I was startled for a moment, thinking lhat aunty might hare heard some farther news—per¬ haps that the ship oa which Robert was com¬ ing home had-been wrecked. I aow saw, however, that ahe was only wandering in her mind, as she had often done before of late.— Freseatly, whea the flickering light of the Sre agaiu fell on the piotura, she langhed, and begau to babble abont the flaxen hairthat slreamed in the wind that moming wheu ahe went to bid Eobart goodbye. " There is some of it lett yet," sha aaid; " Eobart has got the look that he out off with his pen¬ knife. Did I ever show yon the look that I took from Robert in return!" I had ssen il many atime; but I said that I should like lo see it. I don't think aunty could have been a vary sentimeatal peraoa; for, though ehe kept thia lock and oherished it, she never wore it about her person, as women do wear those thinga. Perhaps ahe thought that, afler the iron-founder and the accountant, it would have looked like affectation. She kept Robert's bair ia a lillle rad box, wilh rings and brooches, and other ornaments of the kind. She never took any partionlar oare ot this box, or the hair whioh it contained ; bnt alwaya apoka of tbe touviner and ot Robert simply as pleasant remembrances ot the paat. She look the box from tbe place on the man¬ tle shelf which it usually occupied, opened it and took out the hair. Tha lock was a sin¬ gle jet-black curl, and, as annty gently straightened it out, it slipped from her grasp and twined itself aronnd tbe third flnger of the left haad, exactly over her two wed¬ ding-rings.
" Why, annty," said I," that's aa omea— Robert is certaialy coming home to marry yon."
"Marry me, ohild!" she repUed; "I've had enough of marrying. Robert wiU jnat be five and Ihirty years too late. I remember that lock cnrling round my finger before I married Mr. Grainger, and 1 thought some¬ thing would come of it—and so Bomething did come of it, but ll was nol the something that I expeoted. Robert got married—aad so did I. We Bwore oa tha old bridge to live aad wait for eaoh other; but oar oaths went dowa on the stream that flowed anderneath, and were carried away to the ocean of obli¬ vion. Yel, it seema but yeaterday that we parted." Aunty pauaed, apparently over¬ come by emotion, and, ere ahe could reaume, the fire fell ia and bnrat into a ateady, bril¬ liant flame. My attention, which waa aud¬ denly attraoted lo the blaze, was almost immediately diverted to a noise as of some one entering the room—and at the same mo¬ ment a scream from aunty. On looking np, I discovered the presence of a stranger. My gaze no aooner teU npon his coutenance thau I alao uttered a cry ot surprise.
"Robert—Robert 1" cried aunty.
Had the picture stepped down from ita frame, or was thia some conjuration of the fanoy! Thare, hia hal in his hand, and hia gloaay blaok hair hanging in clnatering curia round hia handaome head, atood the very embodiment ot tha picture of Robert Aliaon.
" I knew it—I knew it!" oried aunty, with almost frantio joy ; and risiug from her chair, she rnabed lo the yonng man and threw her arms around his neok,^ Poor annty had been dwelling in imagination upon her old sweet¬ heart, and seeing his very counterpart before her, was lost to aU sense of the posaibility of hia being the same person from who she had parted forty years before. I myself waa pnz¬ zled, and it was some momenta before il flashed upon me that the peraoa before ns might be Robert Alison's aon. The young man was serioualy embarrassed, but kindly look the good old soul's embraces witbout attempting lo diaeuchanl her. While she hung around him, caUing him her "dear Robert," I explained to the yonng maa lhat I was her nephew, and that aunty, who waa fast sinking into dotage, had taken bim for his father, to whom, as he might know, she was attached in her youth. He said he know lhat, and that his father was coming in pres¬ ently. Meantime, aunty hung about him, calling him by endearing names, and remind¬ ing him of their yonng days, and of thair sorrowful parting on tha old bridge.
"Don't yon remember, Eobert, the old bridge, and my flaxen curls shining in tbe wind lhat moming when I cama to say fare¬ well ! Come—come and sit by me;" and when the yonng man took a seat by her side, she stroked har gloasy ourla, and, turniug lo me, aaid proudly—
"You see it ia jot blaok aa I told you— blaok and gloasy, and all in cnrla, jast like the one that he gave ma forty years ago."
The candles were now alight, and as aunty aaid theae words, her eyes feU full npon her own shrivelled fingers, which embraced the fresh, yonng hand ofher old sweetheart's aou. "Fortyyeara ago !" she repeated with a sigh: " what a fooliah old woman I am ! I am won¬ dering in my wits.'" Here ahe paused, and covered her face wilh her nands, Al length,ahe said, more calmly—" I have been dreaming, young man, aa if tima had been atanding atUl for forty yaara. You can't be my Robert Aliaon, but you mnst be Robert Alison's aon. Look," she aaid, befora he had time to reply ; 'therela your portrait,jast aa if you bad sat for it;" and so saying, she took the caudle, and led the young mau to the pictare.— Meanwnile a knook came to the door, and au old grey-bearded man enlered at my bidding. " Mistress Patteraon ?" said the atranger inquiringly.
I atepped up quietly to him, and aaked him if he was Mr. Aliaon—Eobert AUaon !¦ He aaid yes, and he wanted to aee Mistresa Patterson. Aunty was slill atanding with the young mau, throwing the light upon the picture wilh her hand. I aaid in a whiaper, pointing to aunty," That is Miatreas Patter, son 1" The old man atarted, and aiezed my arm as if for anpport. Annty alill slood there shading the light, and the old man, grasping my arm mora lightly, remained gazing at her abstractedly. At lengih, tuming to me, he said, in a low voice—" Excuse me, I have snstained a shook. Porty years ago that waa the prettieat girl in tbia lowu; du¬ ring lhat lima I have thonght of her aa ahe was then. I meet her now, when both she and I are verging towards tbe grave. I shouldn't have recognized my old sweetheart, aud I dare say she wIU not recognize ma.'' I went ap to aunty and told her who had come. She oame forward to where the old mau was standing, with the candle stiU in her hand. Sbe gazed at his snow-white hair, and thin, sallow faoe, and snid, calmly, holding onl her hand—" WeU, Robert, and so we havo met at last, atter forty years." " We have," retnm- ed old Robert Aliaon; " and having been old Bweelhearta, there wiU be no harm in an em¬ brace, espeoiaUy as I am a widower aad yon a widow." And the old man took aunty ia his arma, and kiased her right heartily,
I fully expeoted a "scene;" but I was greatly relieved to find that tha old sweet¬ hearts were by ao meaaa disposed lo be sen¬ timental. The old mau aad his soa slopped, and, afler sapper, auaty grew quite chatty and cheerful, and talked in a light and airy way of old times. Aud at last she broagbt ont Robert's black ourl; and tbe maa langh¬ ed, aad said he conld not supply any more according to that sample. " Nor do I sup¬ pose, Mistress Patterson," headded, taking a locket trom his neok, "that you oau execute an order according to that;" and so sayiag, he took ont the tresses of flaxen hair which aunty had givan him on the old bridge forty years before. There ware tears in anaty's eyes, she looked upon tha two locks lying side by side ia her lap.
Eobert Alison setUed down ia his aative towa, aad was onoe mora aunty's sweetheart. He wasa oonstant Tisitor at her house, and often walked oat with har to the old bridge whore they .parted la their youth.; The
neighbors laaghed to see the old couple to¬ gether, and eaid, plaasautly, that the best thing they could do, sinoe they had been sweethearts so long, was to getmarried, Eut aunty alwaya said ahe had enough of marry¬ ing.
Aunty did not Uve long atter the arrival of her old sweetheart. The inflrmities of aga oama upoa her vary fast, and the last time sha weat out she waa wheeled In a chair to the old bridge, and Eobert Alison walked with tottering steps by her side.
Annty lies in tho chorchyard now I Aad last year Eobert Aliaon waa laid by her aide. The iron-founder and tho aoconataat repose hard-by; bat they have aothiag to say to it.
THE ATUOSPHEEE AT HOHE- TWO PICTTTEES.
" There's a vast differenoe in the atmoa¬ phere of homes," remarked a friend to me a few days since.
'' Yes, indeed," said I; and memory brought to view a grand and stately city home, fair in its arohiteotnral proportions 'as a poet's dream,' and superbly adorned with all that tasle could suggest and wealth sapply. Truly, this ia a plaoe wbere happlneaa must love lo linger, it splendor haa any power to attract it. Bat we shaU see.
As you asoend the broad steps a ohill creeps alowly over the heart, that you oan't but hopa an inner view wiU dispel. Yet as you traverae lofty, richly-decorated rooms, the feeling increases in spite ot yon. The subdued Ught seems gloomy. Can il be, lhat amid this rare collection of the beauti¬ ful, comfort has been forgotten?
But StUl yon wander oo, hoping to flnd the cosy apot where tha Lares and Penates of the household cluster. A quiet placa adorned with
Plelores, aad boats, aai books, and flowera. And a light he&rtb where ona may sit for hoars, And reel lho minates In their rapid flight, Tet never think to conut them as they go, The mind in coaverso sweet begailed so.
Alas! 'tia a vain aearoh; 'tia as cold as tha marble slabs lhat adom it. There's a con¬ servatory graced with the rarest of plants, and birds carol there amid ita fragrant blos¬ soms, and waters splash in the liny fountain; but it's all show, and afforda no pleasure lo ita possessors; indeed, they know bnt liltle enjoyment. The husband, wholly absorbed through the day ia basineaa, retuma home weary and harraased with care, and veata hia ill-hamor npon thoaa whom he ia bonnd to lova and cherish; while the wife and daugh¬ ters are rendered too irritable and restless, by a ronnd ot gaiety and diaaipalion, to ever settle down to quiet home pleaaures. So there is constant bickering and contention, and hearts aohe sadly beueath valvals and jewela; but amilea have marked grieMadea hearta thia many a year; ao what doea it matter if people only fanoy Ihem happy!
There's ao familyealtar there, uo sweet ia- cense arising from gratefnl hearta to the Giver of every good gift; living for theworid iathe aim ot their existence.
Bul now step from the ahadow ot this gorgeoas home. I know you bave a feeliug of relief to be once more in the open and sunny slreel thanking a kind Providence lhat your lot haa not been caat there.
Then come with me once more—tbis time away from the noisy bnatUng streets of tbe crowded oity, lo an hnmble home, nestled in among green hiUs and gay pastures, doited over with aoddiag daises and bntleronps.
There la something in the very air of tha place that attraota yon ; it weara tbat cheer¬ ful faoe lhat does the heart good; sunshine seems to linger lovingly in every told of the curtains, and dances and froUcs upon the wall In very gladness ; there is odor witbout stiffuesa, the beautiful and useful are com¬ bined in a way tbal is easier seen aud felt than described.
The furnishing, evidently, waa not the work of an upholater. There are picturea upon the waU, easy chairs, and lounges, all home-made, while trne feminine taste aud in; genuity are displayed everywhere. These are the little adommenta that serve to make any place seem homelike. Bat there's noth¬ ing there too good to nae. Happy ohildren trip over the neat carpets and cUmb the cush¬ ioned chalra nncheoked; aud when the wel¬ comed sound of "Papa ia coming,"'rings through the honae, there's the swift palter ot little feet, and the merry aound of laughter as they rush lo meet him and make ready the slippers and the easy-chair. Here the hna band ia atrengthened for another day's toU, and the mother nerved for her daily ronnd of dntiea, by the bleaaed consciousnesa of mak¬ ing otbera happy. And whan tha dark daya come, aa they come lo all, there'a aomething to maat the alain beside tha flimsy vanities of life. There's a strong arm npon which to loan, and a trust in a Heavenly Father's guidance, knowing that he leadeth us in a way that we know not.
Thns one sunshiny heart wiU diffusa its brightness through a whole home, making the loneliest Bsot pleasant, and the home¬ liest dear. Then envy nol the rich, you that have humble homes, aud are somelimes weary, and long for recreation and some of tha luxuries that others enjoy; remember that "elegant leisure" is often but anotber name for " aplendid misery,"
" Contentment, with godliness, is greal gain,"
There are some men so coldly correct that they leave no oue to regret their loss, not eveu a creditor.
If yonr friend, though a man of strong senae is thoronghly determined to do what yon consider a silly thing, by all means be kind enough to lel him chooae bis own manner ot doing it, as ha thnn may obviate a part of the evU;
Hor, if tha deed mnat at all risks he done, Bang weoplngat his skirts, and spoil bia ran.
There are some reasoners and preachers with snch a showily adroit mode of mana¬ ging their arguments, and with such smiling self-satiafied asanrance as to their reaults, lhat they irresistibly remind ua of preatiglita- lora, or those who make lace by tha awift movement ot bobbins.
:'A Yankee boy once had a whole Datch cheese set before him by a waggish friend, who, bowever, gave him no knife. ¦ " Thia ia a fnnny cheese. Uncle Joe, bnt whare ahall I ont it ?" " Oh," aaid tba grinning friend, "cut it where you like." " Very weU," aaid the Yankee, oooly putling it under hia arm, " gnesB I ShaU besl cul it at home."
Some yeara ago there was a man in Naw Orieana, who, on week days, was a cottou broker—on Sundaya he waa,a preacher.— There had been a weak ot unusual excitemeat in tha cotton market, and oa the foUowing Saaday oor frlead commenced the aervices with a hymn, wbich he annonnced as followa: " We will aing 10 the praise of the Lord the 42th hymn—long staple.'"
Bisbop Home had bis dignity aomewhat taken down when he took posaeaaion ot the Epiacopal Palace al Norwich, in 1791. He turued ronnd npon the stepa, and exclaimed: " Bleaa na I what a multitude of people !"— "Oh, my lord," said a by-atauder, "this is nothing to the crowd last Friday to see a roan hanged!"
Aa Arkanaas candidate for Congress sets forth his qnallfioations for office, iu tbe follow¬ ing language : " Gentlemen, if I am elected lo Congress, I will represeut my constituents as tha sea represents the earlb, or aa the nigbt contrasts with the day, I will uurivit all hu¬ man sooiety, clean all its parta, aud screw it together again. I will correct all abuses purge out all corraption, and go through the enemies of our parly like a rat through a new cheese." He waa eleoted.
Old Judge Jouan Joles prononuced upon Elm Chnrch thia seuieuce: "Elm €hurch, stand up and face the muaic. You are fonnd gailty of suicide for stealing. Now, thia oonrt sentences you to pay a fine ot two shil¬ lings, lo shave your head with a bagganet, in tho barracks, and it you try to eave in tbe heada of any of the j ory, you'll catch thun¬ der, that'a all. Your fate will be a warning to othera; and iu couclusion. Sheriff, bring me a pint of redeye, I'm awfal thirsty."
An avaricious man is like a aandy desert, that sucks in all the rain, but yields no fruit¬ ful herbs to the inhabltauls.
There ts a man in towu so knowing, that people who dou't kuow Iheir own minds come lo him for information ou the subjeot.
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"Ain't there no exceptions to your law aboot punching a teUow?" said a scamp lo a Judge. "Ho, air; no escapliona whatever, "Now, Judge, I guesa you are mistaken*— Just suppoae, for inatanoe, I ahonld brandy- bunch a man—what then!" "No levity in Cour, air. Sheriff, expose thia teUow to the atmoaphere."
Evary deaire bears its death in every grat location. Cariosity languishes nnder repeat ed stimnlanlB, and novelties ceaae to excite surprise.untU at length we cannot even wou der at a miracle.
Literary fame ia more easily caught than kept. If yon do noihing, you are forgotten, but if you writa and fail, your former auccess is thrown in your teeth.
There are three modes ot dealing wilh an adversary besides that of adducing argument. One is to pretend indignatioa ; anoiher, to feign want of oomprabenslon; and the third ia the " greal ia Diana ot the Epbealans method or Luther's " hoc est corpus, hoc est corpus I" in his argnment wilh Zwingle, where we drown the voioe of our opponent by indefaligably Btating, withonl supporting, our own proposition.
If peace oould be mainlained trom the pre¬ sent moment with little interruption, for the next forty or fifty years, oommerce would by that time have forged snch manacles for the hands of war aa it wonld be scarcely posaible to break.
The great uae of reading the memoira of men of exoesaive and apparently irrealatible eccentricitiea of mind is that we may be pre¬ pared to make allowanoea for the infinite but undefined gradea ot approach to theae peou- liaritiea iu more ordinary men.
Nothing givea a man such ajusl and reason¬ able independence of spirit aa acdualulance wilh the maaler-mind of hia conntry. A maa need teel little awe in the preseoce of au ordinary living nobleman, when he ia daily in the habit in hia study of conversing with thoae who have gained an inaUenable nobil¬ ity.
To be etornaUy talking abont ourselves, our own virtnes, faults, and families, fs very far indeed from being aa infaUible siga of selfiah" neas in action, hnt it is a symptom. Still, if we are iaoapable of aaythiag but personal oonversation, it may be, on tha whola, safer to make onraelTu the subjeot of it than other pwiple. I
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of Ub worth. It has beea extenaively ased in tue New £fl($laad aad Sontbera Statea for tea years past, and its increasing i^ale
PKOVES ITS SUPEEIORITY! It is packed in strong Bags of 160 ponnds eaoh.
PKICB $4 per BAG, or 850 per TOW.
Orders accompanied hy Bomlttancea will meet wilh Prompt Atlenlion.
TestimonlalB and Samplea given Frea ot Charge, on appUcation to lba Solo Agent, ,
B. W. P. ALLEN,
A'O. 14 SOUTS DELAWAHB AVE.VUE, PHILADELPHIA.
ta-AOESTS WAHTED. feb 22-3m-13
PHILADKLPHU ADVERTISBMENTS,
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Philadelphia Flatform Scales, F JfiVERy DESCRIPTION, SUI-
^ TABLE FOR KArLHOADS, 4o., for welghlngX* lu.y,coal,oreandEierobandlB«geaerally. Parchaa- ll ers ran no rlek, every seals la gnaranteed correct,es such advautagea for putting up Oyatera as Nor¬ folk is fAVored wilh.
They nre procnred fresh from the extensive oyster grouads In ths immediate neigbborfaood, and are con- hcciuently put up la a healthy Rtate, being spiced a few hours after they are takrn out of i^alt water.
Thepo Sl'ICED OYS'rERS need only be tried to prove Ihalr enparlority over oyaterH sent from other cltioa. where they are often uplcad lu a sickly or decaved Btate, In conseqaence of the difficulty of procuring tliem frebb from the beds.
A iarge lot just received in 2J^ and 2 pound tlu caus, and for eale by the dozen or elngle cau.
WATSON H. inLLER, Corner of Weat King and Market Street, may 2-4t-23 Agent for Lancaster cliy nud coan^.
GRAPE VINES! GKAI-E VINES!!
THE Subscriber has ibr sule at his GreoB Hoasef, No. 74 ^'o^th Quoeo Streel. LancriH- ter, the folltjwiag varioties of bardy native grape vines, grftwn In pola. aud noir rea-ly 1ft i^et out;
Delaware, Rebecca. Dlaaa, Union, Village, EUon. bargli, Nortbem, Hascadine, Horbemont. Clinton, Lonl«», CaeBady. JOHN ZIMMEKMAN.
may 2 2t.S.)
GARDEN SEEDS.
A&ENERAL ASSOllTMENT- WHITE Clovek Seed for grass plats; MixEn Lawn GBisf* Seed for very pretty sod ; Gbee-v Grasi Seed. Blub GaAi-9 Seed. Yiir-i.ow Loccst Seed,at HEITaHD'S DKUO fcTOKE, Ono door East of Stelnman'K, West King at., Lanc. apr 4 tr-19
Whiteley's Champion Reaper and Mower,
TT^HE undersigned, Agent for this coun-
X ty. wl" be in Lancastar city, at SHO BER'S HOTKL. from and afterthe ISlh diy of .May, tosell the above named Keaper and Mower. This is the patent exhibited by Daniel Bollinger, at the County Agricaitoral Fair lant October, and recoived a SILVER MEDAL premium.
Farmers will do well to examine this machine before pnrchaaiog elsewhere. AMOS BOLLINGER,
Agent for Whitelkt St Co.,
may 2-2l».23 Springlield, Ohio.
H. L. & E. J. ZAHM'S AMERIOAN WATOH.^^S. A MERICAN ingenuity and perseve-
r\, ranee have at lengtb triatnpheil ovar tba low priced labor ofEurope, and wa cau now farnifib waich- esof equal,If not enperior finish end mannfaclurein oar own coantry, and far more RELIABLE and LAST- INO aa pocket tlrae-keepers, at Iohh toul than auy foreign watch of equal quality.
W© have constantly for sale the AMERICAN WATCH, made by APPLETON, TRACY Ai CO., WALTHAM. MASS., and KEEDd i-ATE.NT Am.^r- ican Watch made, oy E. HOWARD i Co.. Boston, in Oold and Silver Oases of rariouii styles. Every watch warranted to be au accurate timekeeper. English and Swiss watchea of flne and common quality also in store and for sale low for cash.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and apsotaclaa repaired.— Special attention la paid to thia branch of onr buainess.
HARHT L. ZAHM. EDW. J. ZA HM.
Cor. N'orth Qaeen & Cantre Sqnare,
may 2-*i-ly-26 Lancaster I'a
GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO CASH BUYERS
ZAHM "&" JACKSON,
No.15 NORTH QUEEN ST., Lancaster.
TO SDIT THE EMERGENCY OP THE TIMES. WE NOW OFFER ODR STOCK Op
WATOHES AND JEWELRY,
AT GREATLY EEDUCED PKICES,
CONSISTING of Ladies' and Gon- Uemen'H GOLD and SILVER
WATCHES
of the moat celebrated TnaTreH. _^,i._i.
French, English and Swien, opau face and la hnniing casea. We have aUo received a new article of Swisa Watehee, tbe wheels of whicb are mado of gold, and thebalance of the movemont of nlcliel; theae watches are flniahed In a superior manner, and caa ba aold at tbe price of watches with Brasa movemt-nts. Our Block ot American Watchea is very large, and willbe soldatmannfactnrer'spricefl. Geld Cbains. Cbatelaine, VoKtand Fob, Gold Cameos, Florentine and Roman Uosalc Setts, Armlets, Bracelets, Neciclaces and Finger Rings. SUver Waio of aH descriptions, Plated Sects ForkH, Spoons ic.
83-CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWELRY AND SPECTA¬ CLES, carefuUyrepalredandwarranted, octfi-tfJ5
HENHY SHENK, WATCH, CLOCK AND JEWELRY STORE,
So. 16 Nortli q,aeeu St., Z |
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