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VOL. XXXIY. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1860. NO. 14. J.-A. HIBSTAND, J. P. HUBER, F. HBCKKRT. DRIIBK TB% FIBK Or JNO. A. HIESTAND St CO. OFriCB IV HOBTB QURBir BTBBKT. THE EXAMINKR iS; HERALD IB publlBhed weekly, at two noLLaaa a year. 'ADVfiRTlfiKilENTS will be inserted at the rate of 01 00 per sqaare, ot ten Unee, for three Inser- Uons or leas; and 25 cenU par aquare for each additional insertion. Adverttsemenla exceeding 10 lines will be charged 0 ceaia per line ior ttae lat ludertlon, aud 3 cents per. Uae for eaoh sabsequent Insertion. Bneinesa Advertisements Lneerted by tbe qnarter half year or year, will be charged ae follows: 2 monlhs. 6 Tnonths. 13 mor^hs. OneSqnare ,«» 00 «A UO « 8 OU Two " 6 00 '"'~ M colnmn 10 00 % :: ISOO 12 00 26 00 46 UO 80 00 'soo 18 UO 36 00 66 OO BUSIHESS NOTICES Inserted before Marriages and Deaths, donhle tbe regalar ralee, K;$-A1I advertising accoaatbare considered coUecta ble at the espiratloa of balf tbe peiiod oontracled for raubient advertiHemeniH, cash. HEAVEN HOLDS THE SEftUEL. I auk not why, the ro«ew lie In lbe church-yarda of "to-morrow;" I ask not why the yearn go by, To bring but loU and eorrow; I ahk uot why. a fval i-hall wait Beneath itump earthly portal. Wtaohe warnlog thought had reached the gate That leadK lo the luimorUl. Let life be rife with woe and slrlfe. Kojoy niv joy can equal; Old lime roay clo.-e thu Book of Life But U«aven holds the peqoet. I sck not why. wllb hlUK ^o high, Hu Imaudhour earlbly rlMon; 1 a-k nol why. h»>>oud lbe cky, Wm wait fur our elVhUu ; Kot wby tbe Mouw before me lay— 0"er which my lei-t are falling; I?or why (-< narrow ti«^mn the wa-y From which bU vtiico ie calliug. Lel life be rife wiib woe and atrife. Ko joy mv joy can equdl; Old time may clo^e the Bouk of Life, ' Bot Heaven holds tbe Seqnel. 1 a-k not why D-uard'tt sigh Wi'hiu my brna-i It iOf*ing ; I ask not wby. between «« U«* Tbe wave« ihal bAV^ uo crusslue. Kor wby ho darkly MU mv sight; Why friend from frieud innfl ^evBr: Wheu qnencbUM* plown the orb of light, Tby Marti thine ou forever. LpI life be rife wilh wi*'e and atrife. Ku jov mv Jov can "qnal ; For Hn wbo'sava the Book of Lire, Full Ktun obnll givt« ihe aeqaei. MY GHOST. A BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE STORY. I am not snptTstiiioii?. Whatever Ican- iiips I may have had in lhe days of myyontU toward-; splritaalitien aud myiitioilities, and ab^^nlitiea of tbat nature, I am now practical enough—a man of middle age—a married man. StiU, as I write the heading of this pace, a thrill shivers througii me; and,, as my wife (bt^udiiig over me) reads the sarae, I feel her little hand tremble sympathetically npou my eboalder. She knn^s the story, aud, I kuuw the story ; and the story, ia true! 00 this cold winter uight, wben tbe wind is rnshing wiih shriets against the window, like some homeless ghost bfgging to .be let in ; wbeu the suow stands adrift under tbe hedge where the dead ohild was found, and under, the churcb yard wall, where the vagrant who died in the work house was buried yesterday, stands adrift like a spectre —tbe more horrible that it is motiouless ; when the furniture is cravkingiu tbe room and tbe curtains stir tremnlously about tbe window, and the whole boude shakes and the latchless attic door creaks continuously on ils rnsty binge—to nigbt, though my wife is beside me, aud I cau almosl hear the low breathiug of onr baby iu the room above, and can catch sounds of Christmas merriment from my housebold servants iu the kitchen —to night I will tell you this said true story of my earlier life, the historyof " My Ghost.'* 1 was scarcely nineteen; I was reading tor Cambridge. These were tbe circnm sta nees —the place was Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight. At Ventnor I fell in lt)ve—tbis confession is foolish, no doubt.—AU boys of scarcely, nineteen do fall in love, readiug diligently in tbe pages of fair living faces some scraps of kuowledge whereby tbey matriculate as sous of the nniversal i,>3/7na Maier. "The hard- grained Muses of tbe cube and square" bold Apbrodtttf(the Uranian particularly^ in holy horror ; but nevertheless, she will rise from the troubled seas of youug sonls—the Muses have no chance against ber. Oue day accord¬ iug to custom, I sauntered iuto tbe Landslip —lhat curious little bit of chaos whicb, if it were oniy on a larger scale, would be sub¬ lime. I had wilh me a volume of Shelley, (I liked Slielly in those unpractical daya, and thought I understood him,) my pipe aud my bktitch-book—pleasant companions all, on a glorious July moming; there being a cool, sleady breeze out, and above a blue sky, looking bluer by contrast agaiust a flock of fleecy clouds which pastured on it far over tbe sea. Through the hazel thicket by a tangled path, jumping a mimic ravine, climb¬ ing a few rock steps, and so to a higher level —a Utile terrance of emerald velvet-grass* shut in ou one side by overhanging rocks' open on tbe other, and overlooking a grad¬ ual decUviiy bristling with miniature crags and precipices, waving and rustling with tiuy forests of hazel. Beyond a distaut hilhick which rose again from the boltom of this declivity gleamed the Channel. As I threw myself upou the grass, its level out agaiust the sea, emerald green against Eteel blue. I never saw sucb green grass anywhere else ; it looked as if it were a special dancing place of the fairies, whither timy flocked in sncb multitudes tbat their rings were inscribed one within the other, aud so covered the wbole tnrf. I 'igbled my pipe ; Shelley opeued of himself at the " Witch of Atlas ;" aud I lay gazing idly on tbe emerald green and the flashing steel blue, and the sheep>clouds sleeping uu tbu steep of tbe sky, with the Hue ruuning in my head : " And unlverRal Pan, Mb' said, wan there ; . Aod universal Fan, 'lis bald, waa there." I was too idle to thiuk of sketching, I was too idle to read. Oh ! lhat luxurious idleness of the days before I became practical 1 What ' can be the good of staring up into a void Of sky, ? Do you suppose it was made to be looked at ? I watched a hawk quivering ou such rapid wiugs that he seemed motionless —he swooped half down lo the earth, and then ro.-e again, poising over esaclly the same spot,—Three rooks crossed tbe sky, and forlhwilh proclaimed battle with the hawk, chasing bim hither and thither wilh borse war cries. A steamer came m sight on tbe strip of sea, ciatiug a loug horizontal Une of Bmoke behind it, as Rtraight as if it had been ruled. Tbero was a rustle in the grass close tfl me ', a golden, dark-spotted snake glided along, leaving the grass-blades trembling in hia wake. M.y pipe was ont; I turned for my tobacco-pouch to refill it, wheu there was a voice—"Oh ! don't move, please !" I thoughi the snake hai spokeu ; bnt uo, it was not the serpent ; it was Kve, There, seated in the hnllow between two of the "over slanting rocks, " half-light, baU-sbade," like Tennyson's *¦ Gardener's Daughter," was a lady—no, uol a lady ; a Uttle girl—no, acarce ly tbat; a yonng lady we will say. She was drawing and had evidently been quietly put¬ ting me in as a fore ground figure to her sketch, when I had moved and thus inter¬ rupted the sketch, and startled the sketcber iulo tbat Blrang_e exclamation : " Oh! dou't move, please!" Sbe instantly apologised—*'! beg your pardon, I am snrel" and then laughed a liltle laugh al tha absurdity of the scene — She half rose, blushing and smiling, and apologising ; while I, with bashful volubility, besonght that sbe would continue hor aketoh resuming my former position as nearly as I could. "la that right?" "Your bead a Uttle higher, ifyou please. Thank you.'* There waa a silence again. My back waa towarda the lady, as It had been at first. I I^Mwnwaringa Terify my momentary Tisiou. A tiny fignre dressed in white ; & small, thin face, almost loat between two torren'ts of brown hair which awept down from a brown gipsy bat; eyea of the first magnitude, and a blnsh rose red. The moments passed slowly by. My viaion was getting more and more indistinct. Waa the hair brown f What was the expres siou of the eyes ? Was she a girl or a wo¬ man? Tbis last qneation pnzzled me the most. She was too self-possessed for the one, too frank for the other. She was very quiet. Why shoold we not talk? She had aeemed to have a pleaaant voioe ; I was not snre tbat she had ; but I could satisfy myself ou tbat point: I would apeak to her. " I hope I have not spoiled yonr drawing." No answei:, ** TeU .me when I may move."— No auaweV. I was silent having aome misgivings. There was no sound but the sawing of the grasa hoppers, and the faint rustling of the hazel- bushes lower down, "May I move now?" lasked, waited a momeut, aud then sprang to my feet The Uitle lady bad disappeared. The grass was slightly pressed where, sbe had sat; other sign of her there was none I Tbia was my firat sight of Daisy Main waring. Of this Uttle flower, wbom 1 tbus saw bedded in the emerald grasa, I soon learned more, much more than was good for my subsequent peace of miud. Three days afier, she and her fatber came to call on the clergyman with whom I was reading. I reooguized ber at onoe, chiefly by ber luxuriant bair. Sho ev¬ idently recognised me too, but would uot acknowledge that she did so. Impelled by that bashful impudence which often darea more than settled nonchalance, I said and¬ denly aa I stood beside her: "Did you finish your sketch ?" Tbe blush rushed to her face ; sbe trilled out a treble lauyh, and anawered : " I was ashamed of mysoif and so ran away." A strange little persou was tbia Daisy Maiu- wariog; not a obild, and yet scarcely a wo¬ man, having all tho frank innooeuce and un¬ spoiled originality of the child, with the grav¬ ity nnd self possession of the matrou, I learned what she was, Httle by little. She startled me often, outraged all my precon¬ ceptions, followiug an orbit of ber own which I eould not atall calculate. Her inexplica- hility lay in this—that she was herself. She had not been moulded into tbe conventional liue of beauty. It takes one's breath when untaught uature dares to appear openly in the midst of this artistic world. She was not beantiful—ibiu aud small with a child-face, always drooping, it seemed, under the weight ofher brown-hair; eyes wbich defied you, their laugoage was oue tbat bad died out of the earth long ago; but tbis language I learn¬ ed, and could at lengih read tbem. Sbe was as variable as .in April day, abandoning her¬ self to joy or grief like a obild, aud for causes unimagiuablrt to any but herself, Sho al¬ ways needfd a strong, tender hand to gnide and quiot her. This need endeared her to me most. Her educatiou and manner of life had beon unlike that of girls gt-uerally.— Her mother died when sho was yery youug, and she was au ouly child. H^r fatbor was a Uterary man—a laborious student, shnt up always in a fog of psyobological problems and metaphysical eniirmas. Margaret had never left him; bad never been to school, had never bad any feminine bome compan¬ ionship except that of the one servant. Her father had educated her; and this education bad been a kiud of con promise botween coming out of bis fog to her and takiug her iuto the fog to himself. He had experiment¬ alised on her aa psychologists must, and where he should have tanght had often qnes¬ tioned, guessing at the riddles of human ua¬ ture as ifahe bad beon a Sphinx. The effect of this education was tbat sbe was ignorant of most tbinga wbich girla naually know; and had acquired au amount of heterogene¬ ous erudition wbicb would bave puzzled most meii. Sbe bad read numberless, atrauge. heavy, antique books, whioh seemed to lio as a weight upon her, and from which sbe had gathered dialeclual subleties and mystical beliefs which frightened one. Ever since abe was a obild sbe had begun to be her father's amanuensis, aud now this laborof love had in¬ creased uutil il fell somewhat heavily on her. It was not tbe brown hair alone that weighed down the weary Uttle head. Some such anomaly as I have tried to sketch was ibis Daisy Mainwaring, and witb her I fell in love. Wo aoon became great frieuds. One good iofluonoo at least of her education was tbat she bad none of that sUly prudery wbich most yonng ladies aff'ect tow¬ ard young gentlemen. Sho liked me, and when I used to go inlo tbeir lodgings towards the afiernoon, to drag ont tbe old man and ber for a walk, wonld rise from her writing, run lo me, and put her Httle ink stained fin gers in mine, saying: " Oh 1 I am so glad yon have come !" Tben ber father would take tbe spectacles from bis dim, abstracted eyes, and put his book nnder his arm ; hor brown bat was in a moment, tied over her browu hair, and we sallied fortb for the Landslip. Arrived tbere, the old mau soon absorbed iu bis bonk; and Margaret aud I, having chosen an eflec¬ tive "bit" of scenery, sat down to sketch.— She drew very incorrectly, but had an eye for color and an intuitive perception of the spirit i>f nature whicb was marvolons. Solemnly the liltle face used to peer over my shoulder as I altered her outlin^'a ; and theu she would 'lash away at tbe color witb a succhss of effect which made mo half-envious. Our sketch finished, we talked—iu what manner rested with her. Somelimes she was ao childishly wild and mischievous lhat aho had made me augry. Sbe teased "papa" unlil became out of his fog; abe teased me, blurred my wot eketcU, hid my pipe; then climbed up inaccessible rocks, or crept tbrough tbo hazel- thickets which closed behind her and swal¬ lowed ber up. At other times ahe would be silent and grave, and then pour uut a torrent of t-mall iraaKiuary troubles, looking most dis¬ consolately al tho past and the future, pro¬ phesying evils and wretchedness; accusing herself of nnheard-of crimes and selfishness. Again, she would start some airy supernatural theory, enforcing it by keeu arrows of bor¬ rowed dialociio which sounded strangely enongh in her treble voice. Thns she would talk of pre existence, and argue tbat in dreams came our reminisconcos ihereof, that sleep was the iutermediaie slate between life and deatb ; that birth and death were the same—mere gatt^waya leatljpg into a uew state of life, and bo would fall to wondering how far it waa posaible to retroject ourselves agaiu throngb tbese gates, to re-enter the world be¬ fore this Ufe, to re-enler tbis world after death. Thus agaiu, she wonld retail to me Berkley's doolrine of Idealism colored by her own poetic imagination,aud would prove that I who sat beside her did not exiat, aave as an impreaaion on her mind; that the graas arouud ua waa not really emerald green, did not wave aud tremble in the wiud, waa not grass at all; in fact, was nothing. In the trutb of which theory, modified, I agreed; for was I not addicted to Shelly? The old man, bearing metaphysical words and idioms, would arouse himself from hia book, and he would find his apectacles fixed upon ua. He regarded us pnrely in a psychological Ught, and would busy himaelf for a moment in uothiug the eflect we had on each otber—how earb acted sympathetically on each. Those wore happy daya. Even with my good wife seated near to me by the roaring winter fire,I cannot help looking baok with a reprohenalble fondneaa on those idle sum mer days, Slill, I oan remember that they were not altogetiier happy. There waa a cer¬ tain Bir Hercules Lowther, a huge stolid youug geutleman, of whom I waa at that time very jealous. He waa au old friend of the had known tiiem in London a grand psychological hislory which had been the work ofhis Ufe. Tbis I*owthor waa the very antilhesia of Margaret; large in body, small in mind : show, both^corporeally and mentally ; and yet for Margaret he had a de¬ cided and nnmiatakable liking. To my dis¬ comfort I fouud him often in the Mainwaring lodging whou I made my daily viait there.— Sometimes he wonld even accompany us to tbe Landslip, speaking Utile, but watching Daisy, with wide, wondering eyea, payiug her clumsy ftttontious and helping her awkward¬ ly. I felt she conld not Uke this mau; and yet, had she not ofteu told me that we in tbia-| worid—imperfect—sought out tbat wbiuh waa unlike ourselves to perfeot our own im- porfectiona? What if this stolid mass of flesh and muscle was the makeweight to sober dowu Daisy to a propar earlbliuess ? Tbia Lowther was gall and wormwood to me ; the more especially that I saw thai Margarel kept her power over him, and rejoiced in it I What woinan baa nol a touch of coquetry in her? Would not the laok of it unaex them ? If they were not gifted by natnre wilh this desire of pleasing, where ^would be their magical power over na men ? Daisy with all hor innocence—her innocence by no meana leas immaculate thereby—soon learned her power over Lowtber and over me ; aud uaed that power, aometimes tyrannically. However, before the summer was over Mar¬ garet and I were engaged. I had no jealouay of Lowther then ; but pitied him sincerely. Happy times those I My dear Uttle wife that was to be grew daily more womanly and nat¬ ural ; her cbildish wilfulness and petulauoe became softened and harmouised by love, ber fragmentary and abstract spetjulations grav¬ itated tt/warda a concrete oentre, and ao wi¬ dened and purified onr aO'ectiou. Mr. Main¬ waring was surprised at tbe turu which our "actiugly aympathetically eaoh on each," had taken. There waa Uttle difficulty in arrauging the matter on thia aide. My wordly prospects were moderately good ; sufficiently so if he had been urgent on that point, which ho was not. I firmly believe that he looked ou the marriage as a foolish and in¬ consequent conelnsion to bis psychological theory of our mutual attractions. On anoth¬ er side tbe difficulty was much greater. I was an only son, as Daisy waa au only daughter—I had bnt one parent, as she had; bnt mine was a mother. To my mother I wrote about my engagement—foolish, fervid iottors, wbioh made the:affair look more boy¬ ishly romantic tban it really was. However, tho eugagr«ment was made, aud to it ahe ac ceded perforce, giving her consent in cold aud sarcastic phrases, and hinting vaguely at canning fascinatinna and artful eutrap- ments. I told Margaret nolhiug of tbia. If it chilled me in one way, it but served to make my affection for her the warmer and moro tender. Sir Hercules Lowther, with bis large estates, would bave been a mnoh richer quarry to fly at than myaelf. Sbo had given him np for me, I had uo donbt of her, and I was sure it wonld be tbe same with my mother when ahe came to see and kuow her. Autnmu came ; the last roses died out of tho garder-' • the leaves of tbe sumao begau to tnrn blood-red, our green platform iu tho Landslip had become ..sere and yellow un¬ der hot harvest anus. The timo had come wheu I was to leavo Ventnor for Cambridge. I walked with Daisy to our firat tryating place for the last time. She was grave aud sad, and then broke out inlo one of her old fits of misery, wbich I had not heard for a long time. She throw herself ou the sodden grasa, and bid her Uttle place ou my kneea. Sbe forhoded aU kiuda of evU. We should nover see each other any more; ahe should die; I should cease to love her. Sbo euded witb cbildish sobs as if her heart would break. I stroked ber luxuriant hair, and chided aud soothed her. Thou she seated herself quietly at my feet, and after a long aileuco began to speculate dreamily on what we should do during the separation. We were to think of eaoh other at a certaiu time every day; we wore always lo think of eaob other at night bofore we weut to sleep, aud so try to dream of each other. It waa not impossible, she thought, that in dreams wo might actually meet. Such things have been ; why sbonld tbey nol be now ? The old philosophers could separate tboir aouls from tbeir bodies by Intense thongLt. She I believed firmly it might be done. Again, I there were strange sympathies often between twin-brothers—each know when the. other was ill—each folt the joy and sorrow of the otber. We loved each other better than twiu-brotbera did, why should it not be tbe same with us ? Sbe was sure ehe would know if I were ill, she would feel happy wbeu I was happy, sad when Twas sad. Sup¬ posing she should die suddenly, would it be posaible for her lo come to me lo aay good¬ bye, or to summon me to her death-bed? If eitber of us died, would it be possible for tbe dead to come and see the liviug?—to make ils presence kuown ?—to appear visibly aa it used to bo in tbo flesh ? Agreements had been made between dear frieuds that the one who died first sliould come from tbe futnre world and visit the other—would I make this agreement wilh ber ? Sbe was pertin¬ acious ou this poiut; she wonld have the agreement made. To satisfy her I acceded and ratified the promise with a kiss. This seemed to comfort her, aud I scolded her for her foolishness. It had been arranged tbat she waa to come and stay with my mother dnring the Christmas vacation. Tbero was but two montba of separation, and I talked to her of this, and tried to cheer her by the proapeot of ao aoon meeling again. Still this our last meeting in the old place was very sad—as different from the first as waa the yellow from tbe green grass, the gray aky from tbe blue, the bitter east wind from the soft wost, Daisy came to us at Chriatmas, aud that Christmaa aaw the end of oar engagment. It is uaeless to delail all the petty words and doii'gs which lod lo this rupture. My mother ie dead, (God rest ber soull) aud the.wroug tbat sho did was done for love of me. She would havebeen jealous of auy one whom I loved belter tban herself—for whom I medit¬ ated leaviug her; and for Daiay ahe had taken a strong disUke before she eveu saw her.— They were the oppositea of each otber, and could no more sj^mpatbios tbau flre could mingle with water. My mother waa of cold temperament, precisely bred, looking upon surface proprietiea as vital mattera; uover suffering a wave of passiou or strong feeliug to diaturb the viaible level of her natnre, proud of her good blood and of her competent wealth. Daisy was what I have sketched bor; and moreover, abe was poor, and neither knew nor cared about her pedigree. My mother's orthodoxy waa shooked at her ram¬ bling speculationa; it was a sin, she thonght, for auy girl to have a deep thought beyoud her oateohiam, her croed, and the eatabllshed interpretationa thereof. She was shocked at her undisguised fondness for me: when Dai¬ sy ou my first arrival ran up to me and hung about my neck, my mother blnshed scarlet. I, had dreaded their ooming together, and the event I aoon saw would provo worse than my lorobodings. The first symptoms of my mother'a aversion was a rigid sileuce about Margaret wheu aloue with me; then camo the old hints about cunning entrapmenta, and, in addiiion,alluBionB to want of modesty atid religion ; th6 plaiuer sayings ; aud the Issue waaJiard words betweeu mother and son, and consequent quarrel and estrange- meut. " Your mother does not like me," said my Uttle betrothed to me continually, aud look- ttdr-iu my face with her solemu eyes, and read now. One morning mr darUng came to mo, andsaid quietly. "You shall not marry me," and tben ahe threw herself into my arms and kiased me passionately, and she was gone. I stormed and raged in vain,— The episode of my Ufe waa over. O Daisy I Daisy I if hearts do bleed—do, in their agony wriug forth bitter tears of blood—then my heart bled wben Idlest yon ! " Did I cry out ' Daisy ?" No wife, you bave faUeu asleep and dreamed it. Do uot come to look over me- You ahaU road the story wben it is finished." I sowed a pleutiful crop of wild oata at Cambridge, whioh bore their mingled prodnce of good and ill. When I came home after degree, for a week, before I set off for Italy. I was much more cynical a%d stoical than in the days of my matriculation. It wonld bave taken mnoh to make me faU in love now, and if I had doue so I should have bave stifled the weaknesa bofore:I had con¬ fessed it even to myself. That past quarrel was made np between my mother aud me; but we generaUy, by mutual consent, fenced round tbat ugly pit with a wall of silence.— I ha i lost all sight of the Mainwaringa ; I never heard their names, never suffered my¬ self to think about them. Ouly in my dreama little Daisy would rise up, her head drooping beneath the weight of brown hair, and her solemn eyea fixed always tenderiy on mine. Lowther had boeu my fellow collegian ; but he, tbe rich mau, did not stay to take his de¬ gree as I did, to whom the prestige of that ceremony would be serviceable at tbe Bar.— So of Lowther I had lost eight also for a year or more. On the last morning of my sojouru at home before my departure, I sat reading my letters at the breakfast-table—reading alond a scrap here and theie whiohl Ihought might iutereat my mother. Suddenly I became silout: aa in a lettor from a college friend I oame npon this paaaage: "You remember old Xowther. Did you ever think It possible that lhat stolid Horcnlea would find hia Om- phale? Yet uone the lesa fouud she is, and Hercules is a alave, and only all his wealth will ransom him. He Is going to be married. Tbe affair is to come off immediately. Om- phaleianot precisely a queen; in fact, is a poor little devil of a milliner, or a governess, or aometbing of that eort; her name Main¬ waring, People talk with horror about thei mesalliance. I do not aee it in tbat light. ; A man might do worse than marry a mill¬ iner. You see I am reading for ordination, and so getting moral." I turned white, and gasped for breatb— The old wound_burnt like fire, and throbbed as if the oicatrice wonld break. | " What is the matter ?" said my mother.— " Thero is bad news." All my cynicism roae up to help me.— " Not at all 80," I said. " You rememher a ' little peraon whom you never would call Daisy f WeU, the aaid Uttle peraon is about to'be married to a frieud of mine. It la a I good match. The pearl ia a pearl of great'. price, and hae sold itself for fifteen thousand per annum," Shame on me for that sentence ; but all my old jealonsy bad sprung up within, more acrid than it had ever been before. " And who is the purchaser ?" asked my mother, in a low voice, but flushed np to the temples. The wall of silence was down, and the air from the pit was unwholesome with fire-damp. I read hor face. As tbe old love had awakened iu my breast, so tbe old fear had awakened In hers. Sbe gnessed what my pale face meaut, aud I knew the mean¬ ing of tho flush on hers. She shonld uot read my meaniug thus. " Tho purchaser—happy mau be his dole," I anawered, " is a Sir Hercules Lowther. A certain person and he were rivals long ago ; bat what mere murtal man cau strive wiih a Hercules, particularly when that Hercules haa a handle to his name aud fifleen thou¬ sand a yoar ? Really," I said, changing my tone, "I am glad that Misa Mainwaring is about to make so good a match. Notwith¬ standing your antiptithy to her, my dear mother, she was a verygood girl in her way." folt unoomfortably angular, and had a ner-I long before I had known them; waa asort of vous twitching in my lege. I longed tp look benefactor to tbem, ih that he was aaaletlng orar my shooidtri tlutX might reaUse and ths-ffttherpwoxuanly iutbo ^iios^ig ou^ I went to Italy, aud remained there and ahout the coast of the Mediterraneau for | a year. Do wbat I would—Daisy haunted my dreams—alwaya the aame, aometimea to the ink-atained fingers cramped with long bolding of the pen. I laughed savagely about the marriagei This waa woman'a constancy.— Not three years, and she waa married and to Lowther too, who, from reminiscences of old days muat constantly remind her of me. I confessed now that I stiU loved her—confess¬ ed it aa a penance to myself, pressing it down ou my sore heart like a cauterizing irou, and writhing under tbe pain of my own self- contompt. Still from week to week I waa uot sure that the marriage bad taken place. I alwaya hoped tbat it waa not consummated. Not to day, not to-day ; let it be to-morrow. Some six montbs aftor I had left, home, there was a sentence in one of my mother'a letters which aettled the matter. "Your friond. Sir Hercules," ahe wrote, " was married last week. I have seen tbe announcement in this morning's newspaper." Certainty is better than uncertainty; the fall of Damocles' sword ia more bearable thau ils suspension. I need not narrate here how by degrees I regained peaoe of mind—apeace of mind truer and healthier tban had beeu my former cynicism. I learned to look on Daisy's marriage iu ita trne Ught. What rigbt had I (dog in the manger that I was) to dream of monopolizing her who could not marry me—wbom my kin bad injured be¬ yond redemption f Witbout marriage a wo¬ man'a life was incomplete In this world.— Lowther would make her a good and loyal husband—better thau I should. Lowther bad never been nearly so wild aa I had—had uover so hardened and debaaed hia better nature. I forgave TfAisy^-forgavc.' Could ahe have forgiven me ? My mother died before I reached England again. Nevermore conld that sad quarrel bo renewed. Now I felt how that groat wrong abe had done was solely through lovo. My soul hungered after love, and tumed and guawned itself in ita deaperate cravings. I can understand bow friendless poople in their tonolineaa gaibered dumb animals about tbem. I settled dowu to my profession and worked hard. My miseries passed away, and the acnteuess of my feeling became numbed un¬ der tbe influence of cloae study. Ambitiou awoke withiu me. The more I succeeded the more I wished to succeed; the farther I ad¬ vauced ou tbe road the longer grew the road before me. Aided by favorable oircumstanoes, my progress was faster than usual at the bar. At the age of thirty-five my practioe was large. If ever I looked back to that love- dream of my romantio boyhood, it was aa upou aome childish toy. I smiled ae I recol¬ lected the old paaaion, the soreneas of heart, the bitteruess of spirit, the weariness of life. I Boarely believed it could all have been true ; I wondered at my former aelf—half regretted that I waa ao ntterly changed. I was not anre that I had a heart now. If tbat mysterious organ atill existed within me, it slept quietly enongh. To bave awakened it for a momeut; to hive felt even one twinge of tho sharp pain, thia would have beeu a luxury now.— My pulse waa ateady aud regular; tbe blood- mechanism beat atrongly and oalmly iu my leftside ; my head was cool and clear. I had over-lived the age for heart-fever. We came tbrough those diseases aa childrou through their ohlldleh complaluts, and our moral oon- stitutiA^ were the healthier that we had I paaeed through them-and were rid of them. About this time I determined to marry. I the truth there, though my Upa evaded it— | was rich, I had liiany friends, iSut I had no It waa soon plain enough. _ Greater famil- j home; I feU the laok of these domestio com- iarty emboldened my mother's tongue^ and [forts, and, tbat eoclal poaition whioh only relenileaa Barcaama became broader ahd ] marriage can give. This waa a very different broader day by day. My mother is dead, | feeling to that lonelinees which had weighed (Godrest heraoull) and I will write no more me down after my mother's death. It waa of this, fo^ I ^oaimot write fpr^Tiogly even - put^. in the iona of a datjthat lentortalasd this idea of marriage, partly in tbe formof a sober, selfish advautage. It was desirable to change my bachelor Ufe, ivhieh was be¬ coming somewhat wearisouie. A mansion in the more civilized quarter of the town would be an improvement on my dusty, cfaamber within Temple Bar. I felt that it was Incum¬ bent on me to take my staud in tbat station of life in whicb I had beon called, to do as otber meu did, to exeroise the duties of hos¬ pitality, to oultivate tbe honshold amenities, to obey the laws of Nalure and S(>Glety ; aud it might be so, to rear children aroand me, wbo should succeed to my name and fortane aud fill my place after I was gone. So I be¬ gan to look round for a wife. My frienda BOOQ learued that I was a marrying man, and recommendations oame to my ears of so-and- so's aiater, and snch-au-oue'a daughter. Mam¬ mas called on me with increased, favor, aud incited their lovely offspring to diaplay for me their virtues and accomplishments. Many a fanltleas filly, from model training stables, waa put throngh ber paces for my behoof. Haviug decided on the expediency of marry¬ ing, I had decided too on the nece^isary quali¬ fioations for my wife. Soberly and quietly, as beseemed a senslbe man, I had reasoned out the whole matter. Moderate beanty, moderate fortune, the conventional accom- plishmenta, a good temper, a good mauuer, and perfeot good breeding. Surely a hund¬ red auch girls come from thoir nurseries into the marriago markei every year. Very opposite was thia marriage project to the looUsb engagement of fifteen yeara ago Thon an insane fancy for a obild like myaolf bad nearly hurried me into the matrimonial coudition for which both of us were yet un¬ ripe. We were unfitted for oach other. It would have been a sacrifice on both sides. How unaatlsfactory would Daisy have filled tbe office whicb I now looked for in my wife I The woman of my aearch waa the very anti- podea to her. I was wiser since that time, aud now judged ol the holy institution of marriage by tbe Ught of that reaaon which God had given me. I saw the wiadom and the expedience of the oondition, and sought to adapt tbat coudition to my own particular requirements. Then, au impulsive passion foran individual had impelled me towards marriage; now, having syUoglatlcallyproved tbe dealrableneas of marriage, I made deliber¬ ate search for tbe individnal who ahould be tbo fit meana to the accomplishment of that eud. It is by the heart ouly that man is misled; let him use his reason and he is aafe. I had professional busiuess in the north of England, and I arranged to atay for a nighti on my way, at the aoat of a friond iu one of the midland countiea. Of course thia friond had a daughter. I weut to view thia daugh¬ ter, as I should have gone to look at the pointa of a horse whicb I thought might ault me, if I had wauted a horse. I had aeeu Mias Dalton in London duriug the laet aeason. Sbe had all the requisite anvautagea whichi have mentioued above; aud to tbia favored peraon I, the Orand Seigneur, felt inclined at length to throw the haudkerohief. I would aee her at home, and thon make up my mind in tho affirmative or negative. On the railway plat form I met an old frieud—uo otber thau Low¬ ther. He waa In doep mourning, aud his black dress together with the change which timo had worked on him, made me at firsl uncertain of hia identity. However, In a mo¬ meut we recognized oach otber, shook hands, and took our seats in the aame carriage. My heart gave ono throb, aud slept again. I had not Beon Lowther since his marriage. He bad broadoued into a portly country gentle¬ man, and his stolid countenance had gaiued a gravity which looked not unUke wisdom. Hla deep voice had a majoslic roll iu it, aud his slow Epoech a deliberation suggestivo of woll-weigbed words. I was amuaed at the form iuto which bis juvenile stolidity had ripened. I learned from his converaalion that his wife waa not loug dead. Agaiu a throb at my heart, aud a long, quivering tremor, ere it subsided to reat. Poor Daisy 1 Hor girlish figure roae before me vividly for a momeut and then gradually faded. I noted on Low- ther's finger a memorial ring of brown hair, and round it imprinted '"Margaret." Lowther waa bound for an estate of his iu the north, not far from my ultimate destination. He made me promise to come to him fora day be¬ fore I returned lo London. A meeting with an old follow collegian is alwaya pleasant, the sociality of those early days retains Its hold upon us through Ufe. Lowther and I, for this and for otber cauae, were glad to see each othor, and shook bauds heartily and warjply when we separated. My reception by the Daltons waa kindly, and had that domestic charm about it which ia woudrously agreeable to tho bachelor. It ia somethiug to be received en famille.whe-a ono has not a home of one's own. I liked Amy Dalton better in the old-faahioned coun¬ lry bouse than In the London ball-rooms. I liked her kindness to the children wheu they oame down after diuner. Childreu cannot be bribed or scolded into acting love where they do uot feel love. I liked the hints whioh I heard of her household handiness, and of homely dutiea diligently performed by her, liked her stories about the village folk, abow- I ing, not in the way of exhibition, how she i visited their cottages aud read to tbem. Above aU, I liked her because abe did not try to captivate me, did not parade her accomplish¬ ments aud her vlrtuea before me. I had aeeu too much of that lately. All these little favorable traits were so much thrown in over and above the essentials in the bargain which I meditated. At night I retired to the library. I had writing to do, which must be done for to-mor¬ row's poat. I wrote my letters, and tbeu threw myaelf into an easy chair by the dyiug^fire. Instead of Amy, thoog-hts of Daisy rose within me—thoaghta long stifled and dead. Those summer days came back—the wanderings In the Landslip, the skelches, her childish potulanoo, her wUd spirits, her fits of melan¬ choly, her foolish dreama aud apeculations. I remembered bow she used to disappear in tbe hazel-thickets ; bow her little hoad had lain upou my knees ; how at the last parting she bad thrown herself into my arma and paaaion- atoly kissed me. Now tbat aho was dead, it seemed as if her marriage with Lowther was wiped away. She waa mine onco more. The old feelinga rushed back iu a torrent, I tried to atem tbem, but in vain. My heart awoke from ita aleep, and proclaimed its omnipotence; and my frigid reason shrunk away beforo Ita fiory aceptre. Tbere waa a sound. The handle of tbe latch turned, and the door creaked and opened.— Good Godl was I mad? There, in the doorway, stood Daiay—a little figure dressed in black, the same thiu face, the same heavy hair. The same treble voice uttered my name. A momeut aud abe was goue, I rushed forward, aud there waa nothing. A lamentable weakness this. My head was affected. My will oame Into aotlon, and beat down the atraggllngs of my heart, and atrung my nervea with its fingers, aud brought my wildlhoughtauudercoutrol. ThisI impreaaed on my mind, haa been a pbantom of my im¬ agination. I am tired aud feverish after my journey, aud 1 bavo suffered old thoughts to i gel tho bettor of me. I will never lot suoh ! absurdities conquer my reason again. I have been a fool. I Ughted my candle and went to bed. Not¬ withatanding will and reaaon, there was a ceaseless whispering within, saying: "Itwaa uo trick of imagination. You have aeen Uttle Daisy to-night, as undeniably ae yeueveraaw her in old daya. Do you not rememberthe promiae that whoever died first should come to the other ?" united aud mingled Into one phantom, wbioh I puraued vainly—a shadowy something, af¬ ter which I yearned with a passion unqiiencb - able aud hopeless, with a mental determina. tiou nuoonquerable as it waa fmitlesa. But all these olouds of darkneaa melted away at onoe before the cold light of the morniug aun. Wbeu I descended to breakfaat I was the same calm, reasonable person I bad been tbe day before. The vision of the previous nigbt had been a dream, Hke the dreams whicb succeeded it; that was certain. I banished the trivial incideut from my mind resolutely. Amy'a cbeerfnl, fresb, quiet face, as ehe pre- ¦ aided al tho early breakfaat, had a aoothing influenoe over me, wbich I accepted ae yet; auother advautage in tbe meditated bargain, j Wben we were married the conetanl preeence : of that quiet face would affect beneticially my j daily life—make my head clear, keep my nervea cool. I left tbe Dalton'e that aiorulng and pro¬ oeeded on my journey. My bueiuess in the north waa accomplished, and two daya after, I arrived at Sir Hercules Lowther'a just in time to join him at hia aolitary dinner. He was dnll and silent; the Borvants moved about with mute lips aud noiseless feet. All brought Daisy to my mind, but this time not so mnch in connectiou with my own feeUngs as in tbe oharacter of my friend's dead wife. I pitied him for bis loes. Aa we sat by the firn over our wiue, he begau to talk about bis wife, speakiug with a rough simple pathos of bow goud she had beon, and whal a bless¬ ing to him. "Poor Daisy!" I said, using tbe tender dimiuutive involuntarUy. "All you say of her is true, I kuow. You were happy in mar¬ rying her. It ie something to have had her to lose." "Y'es," he auswered, looking at me medi¬ tatively. "Bat only those wbo know her can judge of my loes. I feel that you sym¬ pathise with me, old frieud, aud thauk you for it ; but you did not yet know ber." "Nol kuow her? Do you think I havefor- gotten the old Isle of Wright days ? -Why, Lowther, I too ouce loved thia little Daiay of; youra. I may eay eo now. You will not be jealous of me." "Knew my wifel loved my wife 1" he gasp¬ ed out, syllable by syllable, with a alow hor¬ ror aud astonishment. "Yes, you muat have known it then," I said. " I wae wUd when you married ber.— But all that ie past long ago; and remember¬ ing what ahe waa, I only feel for you the moro." " Loved my wife I" he atill muttered, in a stolid sort of wouder. "Lovod my wifo?— Daisy? Whal! There ia a mistake," he aaid, and his face brightened slowly into in¬ telligence. " There is a mistake. You surely kuow whom I married ? " " "Yes," I oried, "certainly I do. Daisy Mainwaring." "Never. You are wrong." I stared at him aghast, aud pointed to the ring which ho wore. " Whose hair is that ?" " My poor wife's. I married my consiu, Margaret Lowther, nol Daiay Mainwaring, as you oall her. That was a mere boyish fanoy. I would have married her at ono time, but sho would uot marry me; and thank heaven for it. My wife ouly, iu all tbe world, conld have made me ao happy aa I have boen." He aighed and went on": " however did you come by thia false notion? Where did yoa hoar it? How on earlh did it enter yoar head?" By slow degreea I recalled and explained how I bad heard of hia marriage. It was not easy for me, having held the event for so long as au established fact, to bring' to my mind the precise mauner in which the news had reached me. However, I sncceeded, at length, recalling the leiter from my frieud, and also the confirmation of the former tidings, in my mother's letter, received In Italy. I learned (but not wholly then,) what had been tbe true alate of the case. When my friend wrote of Lowther'a approaching marriage to Daiey, Lowther had beeu williug enough to make that aesertion true Itwas at that time that ahe had refused to marry him; and cou- seqneut upon this refusal seemed to me to have been bis marriage with his cousin so eoon after. Whether in pique, or whelher in the way of coneolatlon, did uot clearly appear; but, at all events the marriage had turued out happily. My mother's noilficatiou to me was substantially true—Lowther was married at that time. Daisy, then was not dead ; bnt the phan¬ tom of that night—how was it to be explain¬ ed f I aaked for uewa about her, and Lowther told me tbat he had lost sight of her for aome time; that after her father's death ahe had goue out a governess; that he had offered help to her in vain ; tbat sho was too proud to accept help from an old lover. On my way back I called again at the Dal¬ ton'e. Aa I walked by the aide of Amy, in tbe wintry gardeu, I aeked abruptly : "Have you a goveruesa here ? " " Yes," ahe answered, a little surprised. " What ia her name ? " " Miss Mainwaring. Here she ia, ooming with thechildren," "Shalli go on any more, little wife?— Sball I tell them how hard I found it to win you back to me ? How I, the Grand Seigneur, did not get my wife by a mere throwing of the handkerchief, but waa obUged lo go oh my knees ; obliged to outrage all forgone conclusiona and determination abont my matrimonial needs, aud about the proper view and bearing of matrimony I Shall I tell them of all your troubles in those long years d^ separation; and how you are changed there¬ by, and yet the aame? Graver, soberer wiser—equable aud quiet—but Daiay atlll \ ' No,' do you say, * I have written euough ? Then I wiU write no more." Special Sleccion for Alderman. ~|yr( )TlCKis iiereby given tu the qnaiifieil J_\ volnre of the i^outh Wtisl Ward Of tho city of l.an- CHrtter, Ibat, aud«r the Acl of Art^mmhly <>f tbe l.Htb of Jaoe. IS40,(prOT|<hoKfor ra«o« wh"rf an-qnal oamber of lef^l vote- bave heeu polled for caudldatoH,} au t-lec- tloa wtll bn held for onn Aldermau lu aald Ward, la place nf .Tohn C Van Oanip. whof^e t«>rm has fxpir«d. on TOB-'DAY, tbe Bth day of MARCH, I88!t. batweeo the bourn ofS o'clock, a-m , aod To'clock p m of xaid day. batd elpciiou |o be held at tbe maw place and hy the name offl'^eni who hold thn left municipal eI»c'lou, aud iu all r^fneclo to tin ciiodacted accordin:; In Ihw. JOIIN KtTH.N-^. feh 22.lM.t CoORtahln Soatii Wnnt Ward. POUND. I.V Paradise township, Ijanca.<rter '""o., a SATCHEL.conlaluloBHeveralartlcIeB, Iftl owner comfla.forward, proves property, and payRebm;,'i« for advertlBtng, it caa bo oblaiuf d by applyiuK at tbn re«l dence of the nubKcriber, on ttie road leadlnjr from stran- batR to Georgetown. JACOB DESLISOBK. feb 22 4f-l3 POE RENT OR SALE. 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BV its use a great saving is made in time, wear and tear of clolbBH. A week'a wanb of an ordinary rlzed family can be done before breakfant. It tn epuBl lu capacity to four able-bodied women, and a saving ofat leatl &0 pnr ceut. Hnndreds are now la use, and the demaud coutiua«s. Call and examiue Ior yonrflelven. For '^a'e by PLOWMAN- & M'BRIDB, 37 STRA IV BE RRY STREET. PHILADELPHIA. g3~^ll perxonH are tiuMoned agaiuKt iofringiug upon tbe Pateat in ['enaa . an the law will be rigidly en¬ forced. CODNTY HIOHTfi FOR SALE. f^b 22 3m-l,'l THE HAilMONTON FARMER—A newspaper davoted toLUenitnreand Agriculture, also setting forth full acconuts of the new eettlement o Hammonton, In New Jersey, can he snbfccribed for at only 25 cents per annum. locloae postage "lamps for the amouut. AddresH to Editor of tht Farmer. Hammouton, P. O., Atlantic Co., NflW Jer-ey. Tlioce wii-hmg cheap laad, of Ihe btrft qinlity, in oneofthe h0!ilibie.-t and mont dnligbtfal cli¬ mates iu the Uuiun. aud wiit^re crops are never cut down by frorttH, tbe lerribie 'scourge of the nortb, ^ee adver- -nm-nt of H-iraiiiiia!.)i l..nd-i [-m.-ii-lm 4:tl pKKSONS WISHING to CHANGE JL their buainefii to a rapidly increasing Country, a Now -ettlement wbere buudrnds are Roluf;. Where the climate ts mild and deligbtfal. See advertlKement of tbe Bammonton Settlemeat lu another columa, Bep. 21. firn-IR ¦Ci WORCESTER'S EO-2AL QTIAETO DICTIOWABY, AN bo obtained in Lancaster only from tha AgBBIa yf Meaara. Heckling. Swan It Brewer, at No. 31 EAST KING Street, Where tho complete work, inthe varioas ety leao'Vnl ioff, may ha aeon. Copiea deliverud .n I'ayment aubacriplion price j7.6n. Tbo price of ti.e Lihrary EdilioL will ba raised, wben tbo distrihation of copiea to regular aah..:crlhera sball bave beeu completsd. ELiA.S BAKR & CO., Agents. feh2-2-tf-13 EAST KIXU STItEET, Lancaster. JOHW B A E a^'~S^" S o'n S , ^va-12 xonru qijeux .it., r.AxcA.'iT.Kit, PUBLlSUEllS Oif THK " Volksfreund and Beobaciiter," A GElliUAN Newspaper haviiit; a XJL larger circulation than any otber newspaper puliltabed in the couaty of Laucaater, nud therefore an excellent advertislni; medium. ENGLISH AND GEiniA.M ALMANACS, ENULISB ASD GERMAN BOOKS, BLANK DEEDS. JOSTiCES' BLANKS.ic. DEALERS IN SCHOOL BOOKS, BLASK ACCOUNT BOOKS. WKITING PAl'lill, ENVELOPES, UOL PENS. STEEL I'KSS. ARNOLD'S WRITINO FLHID, 4c. R.A. BAER. O.K. BAEK. fob le tfl2 BOOKS! BOOKS!! THK UNDKllSIGNED would eall the attention of bis friends and the pabllu to bis large aad choice HKKorlment of govdx, cuurii^tinc in n.irt of 15 0 0 K S . ,, Now is the Time to subscribe. "nPHK COUNTKY GKNTLEMAN," JL writes lho Hou. Johh We-stworth. In tbe Chi¬ cago Oemocrat, io theaame of wiTHotrr Q[iE3Tio.v, THE BEST AOaiCDLTDKAL I'APER IN TUE DNITED STATES." THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN Is pnbllsbefl Weekly— 16 pages quarto, end entered upon Its FiyrEK^TH Voi.- DUE wllh 1S60—inaogaraiingat that time several Im¬ provements—among them an enlarged page, largwr type, and an increased amoant of contents. THECOHNTKY GENTLEMAN forms far the most complete and practical Journal for the Farmer and Couutry Kesident, published in this conntry. Tznsis: TWO DOLLARS A YEAH- AddrobS With remittance, or for Sample Numbers. IiTJTHBB TTTCKBR & SOW, Albany, New York. •»• ARR.^NGEMENTShave just beeaxompleted by which the pahllsher» of the Cocstet Ge-vtlemas are enabled to offer TWO HDNDRED AND FiFTT OF THE BEiiT STRAWBKRBY PLANTS,as a Preminm for Five Sahscribera accompanied by the caab ($10.) Writa for further parlicalare with Prospectosea and I'ofitera. jan 25.6t-9 L. T. A SOX. DEFOBEST, ARMSTHOWa & CO., DKY GOODS MERCHANTS, 8(1 (t 82 CHAMBERS ST., N. Y., Wonld notify the Trade that they areopeuing Weekly, In new and beaatliol patterna, THE :WAM,STTTTA PBIHTS, ALSO, THE AMOSKEAG. A Now Print, whicb excels every Priot In the Country for nerfection of execntion and deslcn In full Medder Colors. Our Prints are cheaper than any in the marh et and meeting with extensive sale. a3-0rdera promptly attended to. feb l-ly-10 TO HOUSEIcHpiRS,—SOMETHING NEW, B. T. BABBITT'S BEST MEDICINAL SALERATUS. j Is manufactured from common salt, and .Is [prepared entirely dilfereut frora other Sale- iJQiratas. All tbe deleteriouH matter extracted la CQ 'U'-';auch a manneras to produce Bread, Biscuit and "" lall kinds of Cake, wlthoatcoutaiaiaga particle A.TD,or Saleratas when the Bread or Cake la baked; AKl It.ereby producing wholeaome resalts, Evnry '^AlpartlcleofSaler^tae is turned to gas aud passes vYA ¦*' ihrougbibeBr-.-adorBiHcaitwhile Baking; coo- '^ sfiqueutly nothiag remains but commoa Salt, Water aad Floor, You will readily perceive by ^C the taste uf this Saleratus tbat it ia entirely dlf- DQ vtJ ferent from other Saleratas. "O It Is paekedin one pound papers,each wrap- A.SU per branded, "B. T. Babbitt's Be-,t Hediciual and Salemtus;" alrfo, Pictare,twisted loafof bread, TA with a glat^s of etfervesclng water ou tbo top ^A •VjWheu you purchase one paper you ehonld pre- ¦" ;nerve the wr<4pper, aud he particular to get thu ;next ex.ictlv li^e tbe tirsi—brand ai above. CQ\ Fall directioas for makins Bread with tbisfQ "" .Salerntas aad conr Milk or Cream T^rUr, witl "" iiccompany each package; alwo, dirflctious for ASD makiug all kiuda of Pastry; also, for makiog Soda Water and Seldlilx Puwdnrs. 7ft WAKE TOUR OWN BOAP, •" WITH B, T. BABBITTS PUKK CONCKNTRATED POTAtJH, CO Warrauted double the strength of ordinary; "" Potatih; nut up in cau^—I lb., 2 lbs., 3 lbs ,a¦"- lbs. aud "•¦-ilbs.—wUbfulldlrectionsformakingi ASD Hard aud Soft Soap Cousamera will find this a.vd lhe choapont Potash iu market. I 7ft aiuanfactured and for eale by i^A •" B.T. BABBITT, '" Noa. 68 nnd 70 Waahington atreet. New York,! and No. 38 India-st.. Hobton. JnneS-ly-2S ' B S T a' B L I S H'e D TV gT'. PETBRlLORILIiAKD, Snuir and Tobacco ¦ Manufacturer, 16 aHd 18 CHAMBERS STRKET, (Formerly 42 Chatham Street, New York,) \X70UliD call the special attentiou of fV Grocers and Druggists to his removal, and aleo lhe articlea of bi^^ manufactare. viz: BROWN SNUFF. Macaboy, Demigros, Flae Rappn'e, Pare Virgiaia, Coarse Kappee, Natchlioch<>s, American Oeutleroan, Copenhagen. YELLOW SNUFF. Scotch, Fresh Scolch, High Toast Scotcb, Irish iigh Toast, Fre^b Honey Due Scolcb, or Lnudyfoot. TOBACCO. SMOKING, FINE CUT CHEWING. SMOKING. No. 1, P. A. L., or plain, St, J.-igo, No. 2, Cavendish, or sweet, Spanish, Nos. 1 &2mix'd,'Sweut Scented Oronoco, Canli'Ier, Kitefoot. Tin Foil Cavondiab. Pnre TarklRh IE3"A Circular of Pricet* wiil be eeat on application N. 11.—Note tho new article of Fresh Scotch Suulf which will be fonoJ a superior article for dipping pur. poses. dec '23 :lo)-6 SILVER PLATED WARE, hahvey'^pillet, NO. 1222 MARKET STREET, PHILAD'A., MANUFACTURKR of fine ."(lOKEL SILVEK, AND BILVBK PLATER of Forks, Spoons, Ladlos, But.er Knives, Castors, Tea Setts, Urus, Kettles, Waitera, Batter Dishes, Ice Pitehers, Cake Baskets, Communion Ware, Cap?, Mnga, Gobleta, ko., ko., &o., With a f^Aaathl aasortmeat. comprtHtos hoite bitt thb BE3T QDAI-ITT. made ofthe nE*r MATBBiAUiand OEAVILr PLATED, cODKtitatiiig tbflm a HorvtcAahla and darable ar¬ ticle for Hot-lH, Stoamboatu and PriTate FaulUlea. 5^ OIJ Ware re plated in the best maaner. feb 23 ly-ia MAPES' NITROGENIZED SUPER-PBOSPHITE OF LIME, COMPOSED OF Dried Blood, Bones, Sulphuric Acid, Peruvian Guano, and Sulphate Ammonia. 100 Ponnds of the HITEOGENIZED PHOSPHATE WlU equal In effect and lastlag power 185 Ponnda Peruviaa Guano—will produce GREATER WEIGHT OF WHEAT, And other Grain, per Baabel, JGSrIT PREVENTS RUST! I solicit Farmere to giva ita fair trial, being confldeat of ite worth. It has boea extenBlvely used in tbe New £oglaad aod Soaihern Statea for ten years paat, and Ita Increasing salo PROVES ITS SUPERIORITY! It is packed in strong Baga of 160 pounds eacK PRICE 84 per BAGj or 850 per TON. Orders accompanied by Kemlttances will meet with prompt Attention. Tastimonialfi and Samples giren Free of Cbarge, on application to tho Sole Agent. H. W. P. AIiIiEU", .VO. It HO UTU DELAWARE AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA. g3-AGEyT3 WASTED. feb 22.3m-13 A LOST LOVE. So fair, and yel so desolate; So wan, and yet su yoang; Oh, there is grief loo de»p for teara. Too seal'd for tell-iale tongne ¦ With a fadsd floweret in bor band. Poor little band, so white I And dim bine eye, from ber casement high She looks npon the nigbt. Only a Utile rosebnd— Ouly a simple flower— ¦ Bnt It blooms no more as tt eeem'd to bloom Tbroagh many a lone lone bonr. As they Boat from her fever'd tonch away. The petals wither'd and brown. All tbe hopes she deem'd toobright tobedream'd ^tnk trembling and flnlterlog down. It needs no bnsb of the Present To call hack the sweet calm Past; Tbe lightest snmmer marmaring . May be heard thruagb tbe wiatry blast; Aud the wind is roaRb with sob and with soagb To-night npon gable and tree. Till the bare elms wail like upectres pale. And the pinea Uke a passionate sea. Bat nbn tblaba of a dreamy twilight Oa the gardeo walk below, Of the lahrels whispering in their sleep, And the white rone in fnll bluw. The early moon had sank away Like some pale qneen, lo die In the corttly shroad of an opul clond To the Jaue air's tremuloa'a aigh. Ali, all too freshly real; Tlie soft sabdned ocUpne, Hand In hand, aod heart in heart And the thrill uf the wedded lips ; Those tender memories, bow tbey flush Pale cheek and brow again. Thoogh heart be changed, and Up estranged. Thai swore eaob loving then t 'Tis bnt the old, old story Snug 80 ofteo io vaia; For man all the fre(*dom of passion. For womao the calm aod the pala. Tell it tbe sonl wbose grief is read In the poor, pale snffering face. It win StlU cling on to love that la gone With tbe warmth ofits flrst embraee, Ob.'ti-" well for the careless spirit To weave tbe web of rhyme, Aud ptinoa tbe Idle memories Tbat float oa the breath of time; bnt better for many an aching heart. If ever it migfat be eo. To forget, to forget the Ught tbat has set, And the dreams of long ago. Conrtof Napolaon. Poets of America and Eng¬ laud. Female Poets of America. •• " " Great Brit¬ ain. Josephine Gallery. Lady'of tbe Lake. Poets aud Poetry of Ameri¬ ca. Byrou'e Works iSliakespeare'a Works. Cowper's Hem an's Wordiwonh's *' Gerai* of Beanty. Festas, by Bailey. Buok of Baanly. Ohristiao Keepsake. The Bmhlem. ! Komauco of Acaerican Laud- 1 ^cape- Prayer Books, Bibles and Hyma Book4 ia great va riety. JUVENILES. $40. ©40. $40, FAMILY SEWING JIACHINES. IIARTIN & BEED'S SUPERIOR SHUTTLE LOCK-STITCH FAMILY SEWIN'(i MACHINES, CONSTRUUTKD in the most simple, neat aud damble maaner, with le-a UabUity to get oHi of order thaa auy other machioes that have beeu iotrodaced. Wabkaatkd, and especially adapted to all kiodsuf FAMILY OR TAILOR'S SEWING. beiog lbe only mucbiae iu the market at the low price of $40, that makns the celebrated luck-stltcb, being aliko on both Mdes. All instrnctions given free of charge.— T'l he cunviaced all weat-kiri for peruuus, befure pur¬ chasing elsewhere, to call and see them In oparatlon at 245 .^uoth Fifth street, below Dock, Philadelphia. Et-AGEKTrf WASTED. JRa-l-ly-ti . D. VCO.NEET, Agent for MannftLtnrerB. Tbe Aimwell Slories The Hofland Lihrary. The Parlor The Little One's " Anot Hatty's Stories. Little Storiesfor Children, And hnndreda of MlsceUaneons Joveniles. AMUSIWa GAMES AND PDZZLES, DISSECTED MAPS AND PICTURES. Artbur'aJaveallo Storiea, Youth's Cabinet Tbe Florence storie-. Tho Oakland Tbe Tiuy Lihrary. Ur. Pnzby Cards, Dr. Bazoy " Red M-u " Paper Dolls aud Soldiers, NewPwper FaraUare, fiame of Kugagemeuis, " '• Goldeu Egg. Yankee Pedlar, Chinese Puzzle, Oame of Old Soldier, Japau Puzzle, Old Maid Game, Merry Goose, ABC Blocks, Movable " Amoog other things very appropriate for Holiday Gifts are Writing Deeks, Papetries, I'yrliuonaies, Pur¬ ees. Morocoo Bags, Albums, Antograpbs, kc, kc B3»A kindly invitation is exteueed to all to call, examine, and choope for themselves. J. U. WESTHAEFFER, Corner of Orange and Nortb Queen streets, d«c 21-if-4 • Lancaster, BOOKS AWD STATIONARY, AT WHOLESALiil A.ND RKTAl b A LARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF STANDARD WORKS, IN EVERY departmeut of Seience nud Literatarer Bibles, Hymu Book.*. Prayer BoL»kp, .-ichool Boeks, Childrens Bouks, Blauk Work .^ud t:ts- tionary of all kluds. to wbich in inrited the att'^utiuu ofConntry MerchanU, Committee^ ofLibraries, Teachers And Rnrchaserf geuerally. Kj"AGENT for Pelton's Outline Mapfl, Franklio Globes. Holbrook Scbool Apparatus, Row's .School Keg. lste., Zander's Headers and Etocntiouary Chart. Fur sale all the Books n^'t'd iu the Puhllc :'chortls, wbolesali and retail. Alfo, Ageot f.tr tbe Ameriruu ^ruudny School Uniun, Americun Tracr SuclAty, <iud for eale t'm Metbo- di>:t. aud aU other Keligious Pabiicatioah. Piihlixher ofthe Keystone Coilectiou off^horch Mnsic, Galde to the OracleH,TheBuquel. Why Uo You Wear II, &c. IM- PUKTER OF STEEL PF-KS. We would call especial utientii'n to our larg« assort¬ ment of Sunday School Hooka on bnud, uf every variety, wauted for tha use of t<chuols. and sell at (lalalugae prices. JOHN tjUEAFFEK'd Jau SJi-tf-fl Cheap Book Store, North Qaeeu St. NOWTS THE TIME TO SUBSORiBE. DtnsrCAN & STONEB, CENTRE SQUARE, LANCASTER, PA., RECEIVE subscriptions to the follow¬ ing VAGAZISES aud NEWHPAPBKS: MONTHLIES, Pnce a yeai Pelerson's Monihly Coanterfeit Detector.^l 00 Harper'a Magaziue... 3 uu Godey's Ludy's Bouk. 3 00 Petersoa's .Magaziue., 2 00 Graham's Magazine.. 3 00 Huusehold Wurde SUO: Koickerbocker 3 UO AtlauUc Meatbly S IK) Blackwood's Mag 3 00 Hant'e Merch'ts Mag. 5 00 Arthur's Homo Mag.. 3 00 Frank Leslie's Mag.. 3 Oi Ecleollc Magaziue fi 00| Ballou's Magazine... 1 00] American Agriculiu'l. 1 Oi Banker's Mag.^Boeton. 5 00] POUNDED 1852. CHARTEJtBD 1354. LOCATED Cor. of RALTLMOUE nml CHAHLES STS, BALTIMORE, MD. . THE Largest, Most Elcgiiutly Furn¬ ished, and Popnlar Commercial CoUege iu the Dnited States. Deaigned expressly for Yonag Mea de¬ siring to obtain a TuoRonuH Practical Bcsi.tEfaEi»i:- CAT10.1 la the shortest positible time aud at theleast exp< use. A Large aod Beaatifally Oruamonted Circular, con¬ taiuing upwards of SIX i-QUAKB FEET, with :irEci«E.\ OF Pe.vsia,'*iihip, auda Large Engraviog (the tt uest of tbe klud ever made In this coaatry) representing tbo Interior View of the CoUege, with Catalogue elating terms, kc, will be sent to Every Youug Mau on applicatiou. Free of CHAttOE. tl3"Write immediately and yon will receive the nackuge by retarn mall. Address, feb S-ly U E. K. LO:-lEK. Baltimore, Md. Hi SEMI-MONTHLIES. Price a ytar. |Peterson*a Keml-Mouib- jly Counterfeit HetecV.ja 00 WEEKLIES. Scieutidc American.. 3 »0 Dollar Newspaper.... 1 OO Home Joarnal 2 Ofl Loodon Pnuch fico iCuuutry Gentleman.. 2 (Ki X.Y. Albion 6 01) Weekly Herald S OC Weekly Trlbnue 2 00 Harper's W-ekly.... 2 r,0 BaUnu's Pictorial.«. 2 .50 ,Ulust'd London News.lO ItO Leslie's lUust'd Kews. 3 0(1 Liviug Age 6 00 London, 7 60 forter'a Ijpirit of the Cbamber'H Edinbargh Journal 2 50 Hortlcelturi..t 2 00 do Col, Piatea, a 00 Law Eeporter 3 00 Londou Lancet fi Oil Londou Art Journal. 9 00 Mloiog Magazine 6 OOl Timea .i 00 Saturday Eveuing Post 2 00 QUARTERLIES. Edinburgh Review..«3 0.1 London Qaarterly.... 3 00 Sorth British Keview 3 00 iWesiminsier Review. :i 00 Broad Banlight mostly dispels the imagina- ! tive lanaoios of ovemigbt. I had feveriali j dreama, in whioh Daisy and .Amy ,played i fantastio parts, interoljanglng their identitjr- Amy dead, Daisy alive again^^^^beooming in- extriijably oonfuiwd ia •MKbaiOT; Mttfi they THE KAIHY DAY. The day is cold, aud dark, and dreary ! It rains, aud tbe wind la nover weary ; Tbe vine still clings to tbe mouldering wail, Bnt at every gnat the dead leaTes fall, And tbe d&y U dark and dreary. My life ia cold, and dark, and dreary ! ~ It raiuh, and tbe wind is never weary; My thonghu siill cliog to the mouldering Pant, Bnt the bopes of youth fall thick In tbe blast. And tbe daya are dark and dreary. Be fltiU, aad heart 1 aud ceaae repinlog; ¦ Behind the clouda le tbe eon sUll ehlulng; Tby fate is tbe commoa fate oT all— Into eaeh life eome r^n moHt fall— Hom« dayi atUt l» duk ud droary. tC^Rerau the amount, per maU, iuoIuHcd iua leller, for whatever ones yoa may wi^h 10 t.uJ.-cnbo lur, to DUNCAN & STONER, Centre Sguare, Lancaster, and yon will receive tbe uumbers regnlarly afterwarda, CLUB TEBMS:—Large d*dnotlou« from lbe ahove prices will be made to clubs of five. ton. fifteeu or twenty, andinaU caaes ONE COPi' WILL BK FKBSESTBD 0 KATIS, to the getter up uf clnbs. nov 9 tf-60 The Fat© of Sir John Franklin, rr>HE authorized uditiuu. MeCliutuck, 1 Price $1 fiO. FOOTFALLS ON THE BOUNDARY OF ANOTHER WORLD, Price $1 'i-l. MEMOIRS OF CAR\ 0S80. Price 40 cts. febS-tf-U ^^ ELIAS Bare a CO. -" 'ladies' pens at e. babb & co's, kelly's law pens. ALAllUE invoice of theae excellent Law Pens baa joat beea received. We wiu'sell tell them at a UtUe more tban half the price at wblch tiiey havn herttofbn bau aold. ELUS BABR & CO., ftVa^Hl " Opp6riUtli«CoirtHottfle. GEO. W. MEHAFEEY, L U M B E 11 il E K C II A N T , MARIETTA, PEX.\SYL VAXFA. AS on haud a large aiid geuer.il assortmeut of BOARDS, PLANK, JOISTS. HAFTEE8. SCANTLING. SHINGLES, aod LATHS. Planed White Pine for Shelving, Flooring and Ceiling, . Shingle and Plastor Lalh, Pales, ic; also. Pine and- Oak Stuff, C0N5TA.VTI.V o.v naSD A.VU SAWKD TO ORDBB. AlHO, SASH, DOORS, SHUTTERS, Plain nnd Veuitian. S3-0rders attendod to al ibe'shuriart n-itlco. aud de¬ Uvered ai aoy point on tbe Railroad aud Canal. fehl--. I y.l 2 Middletown Steam Saw Mills. Seasoned Lumber and Bill Sttifi" Orders. W"K have now ou hand at our STEAM SAW MILLS. Middletown, Peun'a,, abouno,- 000 FEET Oi' WHITE PINE. l>i, 2 AN D 3 INCH MILL I'LANK. goftdsintr. ALSO, about 150,000 FEET of WUITE PINE INCH MILL BOARDS, aud ;!l),00n PEKT INCH OAK BOARDS, nf det-irable widths and lengths which will be nold upon rennouable terms. Tbis lumber is alt well seasoned and can be brought loto Iminediain nse. Orders for heavy bills of WbUe Piue, Oak and Horn- lock, also tor White Pine JolRt, ScauUing of all slieii and Plastering Laih will be received and forwarded ou Peonsylvanla Kailroad or auy of the couueciing Unei of Raiiruad. ZIMMERMAN k LESCUKB. Middlotowu Peun'a. Steam Saw Mills, dec28 -i'm 5 TRUSSES! BftACESI! SUPPORTERS III C. H. NEEDLES, S.W.COR. TWELFTH AND itACE STS,,PHILAD'A. Practical Adjuster of Kupiure Trasses aud Mechanical Remedies, HAS constantly on hand a large Stock uf Geunine Freuch Trossos; also, a complete as¬ sortmeut uf lbe best Amoricau, tnctuding the c-tlebrated While's I'atent Lever Truss,belleved by the best author- iUes to he snperior to auy yet invented, Eutilish and Americau ^uppurters aad Bolts, Shoalder Braces, Sa^ peuhory BandugGs. S«if iujectieg Syringes, adapted to both sui:es. in neat portable cases, French Pessaries, Driual Bags, kz. Orders and lelters of emintry, wlU meet prompt at¬ tention. agg 34-Iy-')S CHAS. F. HXrMPP, lis NORTH FOURTH ST, PHILADELPUIA. AT THE OLD STAND Wholesale and RetaU Manuractarer of Port Mounaies, Cab^sandl'nraes, Dresaing Caaes, 3toney BeUs, Ileticnlos. Cigar Cases. Bsuker's Cases, Leather Ba,8, WriUng Deaks, Pocket Booke, Port FuUos. BiU Books, &o. sept 21 ly-13 CARDS.! CARDS!! CARDS!! PRINTER'S SHEET AND CITT CABDS UKSTAXD CIIE.tPEST I.V THE MABKET. CAKUS FOK itloiintln^, Plioto^rapu Pictures, OF SOPEROIB qOALITV AND AT LO\r FKICBS, Blue and White aud fine White Paste Boards, Straw Boards, SfC, on hand and for sate by A. M. COLLINS, PAPEK aod CAKD Wiireb, -... Sep 7 6M MIXORSTREET FHILADELPUIA. 6m-41 WESTERN HOTEL, No. 826 MARKET St.. PHILADELPEIA . J. C. MAXWELL, Agent. 'T'niS House has beun refuruiahod with \. entire ne^ rarnitnrs. The Boome are Ught ""O-Tbo TaWe irill be farQluheJ with tho h«8t tho marlcet can atford. The Bar with tha cboicest of LbtnorHaod Secars. oct 26-tf.43 GLENN'S ONE PRICE UAT AND CAP STORB, (COIlSIIlt OP THE KIVB STORV BLOCK,} North West Corner of Ei'ihth and Race Street., FHILADELPUIA. THE publie are respectfully invited to bear in mind tbat at thia Store may be fottnd aa dttsortmaot of Farthiouable and Hanilriome Moleskm Dress Hats. Soft Hats, r*, HIGH. LDW i aEUlUll OEITU CKOWS, ,' ^ CLOTH, AXD GLAZED CAPS. Flush and Flnab Trimmed Cape for Menaod Boya,Fancy Hate and Cap:4 for Cbildreo, at Fata Pkicbs. S3-,V0 Tiro PRICEH FOU REGULiH GOODS. lao 13 _^ ly-8 MEHAFFEY, HOUTZ & CO., Lumber Mercliants, Marietla, Penn'a. AVE on hand a large and generdl h: asHOrtraentof I BOABDS, JOISTS, 6CASTL1SQ. PLANK EAFTERS, SHINGLES, and LATHS, Planed Wblte Pine for Shelving. Fl ooriog and Ceiling Shlngleand Planter Lath, PnleK.&c; al,^, llneandOait Sins', conalanlty on hand and sawed to order, Al»o,SAall, DOOKS, oHUTTliKS. plain and Tealtlaa. 93°0rdura attended to at the aborteat notice, and de¬ livered at aoy point on tho Railroad by cara. J. MEUAFVEr, D. K. HOUTZ, dec U-Iy-3 JAS. DllFFV. COAL! COAL!! TpHE subseriber haviug leased the prop- l erty on tbe corner of PKINCE A.ND LEMON STRBETS, formerly occnpied hy Shenk & Long aa a Lamber Yard, otfere to tbe pnblic COAL OF AL-L KINBS, and of the best quality for Family, Foundry, Steam, Blacksmithand Liuit-bornet's ase, uucb as „ Baltimore Company, Lancaaier ColUery, Loeuat Gap, Lnke Fidler Colliery, Lambert Colliery, Short Mount^n, Treverton, Broad Top, And Hollidaysburg COAL. The attention of Farmers Is parUcularly called to the fact that tbey can drive la or out of this yard without crossluR or goluR uear the BaUroad. 53"PriceH as low aa the loweat and cleau Coal and fnll weight gnaranUed to all. 13-Ciiy orders left at Dr. T.EUmaker'd Drng Store. Weht Kiug btreet, wiU be pauclaaliy auended to. July 8-601:32 ' _j.EYI E LLM A KB R. F' ARM'LANDS FOii SALK'25 miles from Pblladwlpbiii by Kailroad in tbe State of New Jersey. Soil among tbe host for ABricaliaral parposes, beiuKagood ioam soU, wiib a clay bottom. The laod is a largo tract, dividtjd luto BmaM farms, and bnudreds from ail parts uf the conntry are now eettUng aud huilt ding. The crops produced are large and caa be U!t>u growing. Too cUmaieis deUghlfnl, and secure from froats. Terms from $ 15 to ^au per acre, payable withia foai yearo*yla6talmente. To Tlftlt the place—^Leave Vine Stroet Wbarf atPblladelphlnat7>i A.M.by Hail¬ road for Hammontoa, or address K, J. ByrueB,by letter, Hammonton Poet Office, AtUntio Coanty, :<ew Jeraey. See faU adTfliliaemeEt la anothar oolomn. Mp.ai, am^ SPICES! SPICES n SPICES I! Pare and No. 1 Qronnd Pepper. Oiager, Cinnamon, Allspice, Cloven. American aud English M,ii5tard. Cayenne Pepper, Nutmegs, Mace. Sup. Carb. Soda, Saltpetre, Saleralus. Sal. Soda, Indigo. Caraway & Coriander Seed. Ashton Dairy aud Ground Salt, &c., ForSaleat the Bajjle MiUs No. 2-11 and 21(1 North Fiout Stroet curner of Myw. Pbtladel|>bla. HuWiKU WOttBELL. Itj^Purcbasers wUl find It greaUy to tholr Uteres t hoth in aaality au.l prico to bny these goods, whicb ara warrautod as represented or forfeited. A trial is a-dio- ted. mar lrt-lyil5 FURNITURK UPHOLSTELRING WAHE-HOUSE! TIIK Uuderiigued res petit fully iuforuis his customers aud the public, that hr* has eulargod his place of ha!«int^o iu bu Bregaut aud splendid style, and keeps consuully ou haud. a lur^e a,-«.or[menl of FASUIONABLE t'aK.VITQKE, of all kinds, umaufMciurod wilh especial care by bis own wo'kmen, aud under his owu ntip-*rvi»ion. He also re¬ commends to the pubUo bis newty invented and lm< proved SOFA BEDSTEAD AND LOUNGE.S, which for coaveuieuco and ea-M, surpass aoythiog ever ns«a before. SPKISU, UAlKaad HUrih' MATTKASSEti made iu tba best style. Uis prices are ttanarliably Low and be solicits a sbare uf public pAtruunge. JOti.'fA. BAUER, No. 2.16. South Secoud St.. ahove spructf, Pliilade phla mar 9 ly-16 BLINDSANDSHADE3, ' CHEAP FOR t:ASH. B. J. WILLIAMS. no 16 NORTH SIXTH BT^ET, PHILLDELPHIA, Is the iart!o„t Mannfacturer of WINDOW BLINDS, AND DEALEKIN WINDOW SHADES, OP EVEBV VAEIETT. He Is the Originator ol aii New -Stylea and has a. Hno Stock to ba sold at HEDUCED PEICE.^. BUFF, AND ALL OTHEK COLORH OF. LINEN SaADES,-TKI3IMl.VUJ, FIXTURES. 4e. STORE liHADBS Palntwl to order. a3-B. J. W. Invitea Cilirens of tbia Connty to. eall bef'ire pnrchasihg, and assures them he can sell a het¬ ter arUcle fur tbe mouey tban any other Eatablishmvnl in the Uailed^utea^ mar 23-tf.l7 B. B. KNIGHT, COMMISSION MEKCHANT, -Vo. 32 Xorlh Wharves, Bet. Market ifc Areh Sti PHILADELPHIA. DEALEB IN " - - Maekaral, Codhsb, Shad. Herrring. feb 8 Blue Fish, ¦White Flsh, I Haddock, Hams, Bides, Lard, Pork, Chsese, Beana. Dried Apples. '• Peacbes, Bice, JtC, &c. 3m.ll J. "W. SCOTT, (Latk of tub Fiem of Wischestee & Scott.) GENTLEUEN'S FURNISHING STOEE,' ¦ AKD SHIRT MAN UFACTORT, su Cltestnut St.. neaity oyposite tlie Girard House. T W.SCOTT would respeotfuliy oall ^} » the attenlion ofhis former patrona aildfreiada to hla uaw store, and la prepaied to nU orders for 8U1BTS at short notic«. A perfect flt saarahteed. CJ-CoinrrKl Tsaos anppUed with MNE BHIBTS ul OOLLASS, out U-l7.tf
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Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
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Title | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Masthead | Lancaster Examiner and Herald |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 14 |
Subject | Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County |
Description | The Lancaster Examiner and Herald was published weekly in Lancaster, Pa., during the middle years of the nineteenth century. By digitizing the years 1834-1872, patrons are provided with a view of politics and events of this tumultuous period from a liberal political slant, providing balance to the more conservative perspective of the Intelligencer-Journal, which was recently digitized by Penn State. |
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VOL. XXXIY.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1860.
NO. 14.
J.-A. HIBSTAND, J. P. HUBER, F. HBCKKRT.
DRIIBK TB% FIBK Or
JNO. A. HIESTAND St CO.
OFriCB IV HOBTB QURBir BTBBKT.
THE EXAMINKR iS; HERALD
IB publlBhed weekly, at two noLLaaa a year. 'ADVfiRTlfiKilENTS will be inserted at the
rate of 01 00 per sqaare, ot ten Unee, for three Inser- Uons or leas; and 25 cenU par aquare for each additional insertion.
Adverttsemenla exceeding 10 lines will be charged 0 ceaia per line ior ttae lat ludertlon, aud 3 cents per. Uae for eaoh sabsequent Insertion.
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2 monlhs. 6 Tnonths. 13 mor^hs.
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BUSIHESS NOTICES Inserted before Marriages and Deaths, donhle tbe regalar ralee,
K;$-A1I advertising accoaatbare considered coUecta ble at the espiratloa of balf tbe peiiod oontracled for raubient advertiHemeniH, cash.
HEAVEN HOLDS THE SEftUEL.
I auk not why, the ro«ew lie
In lbe church-yarda of "to-morrow;" I ask not why the yearn go by,
To bring but loU and eorrow; I ahk uot why. a fval i-hall wait
Beneath itump earthly portal. Wtaohe warnlog thought had reached the gate
That leadK lo the luimorUl.
Let life be rife with woe and slrlfe.
Kojoy niv joy can equal; Old lime roay clo.-e thu Book of Life
But U«aven holds the peqoet.
I sck not why. wllb hlUK ^o high,
Hu Imaudhour earlbly rlMon; 1 a-k nol why. h»>>oud lbe cky,
Wm wait fur our elVhUu ; Kot wby tbe Mouw before me lay—
0"er which my lei-t are falling; I?or why (-< narrow ti«^mn the wa-y
From which bU vtiico ie calliug.
Lel life be rife wiib woe and atrife.
Ko joy mv joy can equdl; Old time may clo^e the Bouk of Life, ' Bot Heaven holds tbe Seqnel.
1 a-k not why D-uard'tt sigh
Wi'hiu my brna-i It iOf*ing ; I ask not wby. between «« U«*
Tbe wave« ihal bAV^ uo crusslue. Kor wby ho darkly MU mv sight;
Why friend from frieud innfl ^evBr: Wheu qnencbUM* plown the orb of light,
Tby Marti thine ou forever.
LpI life be rife wilh wi*'e and atrife.
Ku jov mv Jov can "qnal ; For Hn wbo'sava the Book of Lire,
Full Ktun obnll givt« ihe aeqaei.
MY GHOST.
A BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE STORY. I am not snptTstiiioii?. Whatever Ican- iiips I may have had in lhe days of myyontU toward-; splritaalitien aud myiitioilities, and ab^^nlitiea of tbat nature, I am now practical enough—a man of middle age—a married man. StiU, as I write the heading of this pace, a thrill shivers througii me; and,, as my wife (bt^udiiig over me) reads the sarae, I feel her little hand tremble sympathetically npou my eboalder. She knn^s the story, aud, I kuuw the story ; and the story, ia true!
00 this cold winter uight, wben tbe wind is rnshing wiih shriets against the window, like some homeless ghost bfgging to .be let in ; wbeu the suow stands adrift under tbe hedge where the dead ohild was found, and under, the churcb yard wall, where the vagrant who died in the work house was buried yesterday, stands adrift like a spectre —tbe more horrible that it is motiouless ; when the furniture is cravkingiu tbe room and tbe curtains stir tremnlously about tbe window, and the whole boude shakes and the latchless attic door creaks continuously on ils rnsty binge—to nigbt, though my wife is beside me, aud I cau almosl hear the low breathiug of onr baby iu the room above, and can catch sounds of Christmas merriment from my housebold servants iu the kitchen —to night I will tell you this said true story of my earlier life, the historyof " My Ghost.'*
1 was scarcely nineteen; I was reading tor Cambridge. These were tbe circnm sta nees —the place was Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight. At Ventnor I fell in lt)ve—tbis confession is foolish, no doubt.—AU boys of scarcely, nineteen do fall in love, readiug diligently in tbe pages of fair living faces some scraps of kuowledge whereby tbey matriculate as sous of the nniversal i,>3/7na Maier. "The hard- grained Muses of tbe cube and square" bold Apbrodtttf(the Uranian particularly^ in holy horror ; but nevertheless, she will rise from the troubled seas of youug sonls—the Muses have no chance against ber. Oue day accord¬ iug to custom, I sauntered iuto tbe Landslip —lhat curious little bit of chaos whicb, if it were oniy on a larger scale, would be sub¬ lime. I had wilh me a volume of Shelley, (I liked Slielly in those unpractical daya, and thought I understood him,) my pipe aud my bktitch-book—pleasant companions all, on a glorious July moming; there being a cool, sleady breeze out, and above a blue sky, looking bluer by contrast agaiust a flock of fleecy clouds which pastured on it far over tbe sea. Through the hazel thicket by a tangled path, jumping a mimic ravine, climb¬ ing a few rock steps, and so to a higher level —a Utile terrance of emerald velvet-grass* shut in ou one side by overhanging rocks' open on tbe other, and overlooking a grad¬ ual decUviiy bristling with miniature crags and precipices, waving and rustling with tiuy forests of hazel. Beyond a distaut hilhick which rose again from the boltom of this declivity gleamed the Channel. As I threw myself upou the grass, its level out agaiust the sea, emerald green against Eteel blue. I never saw sucb green grass anywhere else ; it looked as if it were a special dancing place of the fairies, whither timy flocked in sncb multitudes tbat their rings were inscribed one within the other, aud so covered the wbole tnrf. I 'igbled my pipe ; Shelley opeued of himself at the " Witch of Atlas ;" aud I lay gazing idly on tbe emerald green and the flashing steel blue, and the sheep>clouds sleeping uu tbu steep of tbe sky, with the Hue ruuning in my head :
" And unlverRal Pan, Mb' said, wan there ; . Aod universal Fan, 'lis bald, waa there."
I was too idle to thiuk of sketching, I was too idle to read. Oh ! lhat luxurious idleness of the days before I became practical 1 What ' can be the good of staring up into a void Of sky, ? Do you suppose it was made to be looked at ? I watched a hawk quivering ou such rapid wiugs that he seemed motionless —he swooped half down lo the earth, and then ro.-e again, poising over esaclly the same spot,—Three rooks crossed tbe sky, and forlhwilh proclaimed battle with the hawk, chasing bim hither and thither wilh borse war cries. A steamer came m sight on tbe strip of sea, ciatiug a loug horizontal Une of Bmoke behind it, as Rtraight as if it had been ruled. Tbero was a rustle in the grass close tfl me ', a golden, dark-spotted snake glided along, leaving the grass-blades trembling in hia wake. M.y pipe was ont; I turned for my tobacco-pouch to refill it, wheu there was a voice—"Oh ! don't move, please !"
I thoughi the snake hai spokeu ; bnt uo, it was not the serpent ; it was Kve, There, seated in the hnllow between two of the "over slanting rocks, " half-light, baU-sbade," like Tennyson's *¦ Gardener's Daughter," was a lady—no, uol a lady ; a Uttle girl—no, acarce ly tbat; a yonng lady we will say. She was drawing and had evidently been quietly put¬ ting me in as a fore ground figure to her sketch, when I had moved and thus inter¬ rupted the sketch, and startled the sketcber iulo tbat Blrang_e exclamation : " Oh! dou't move, please!"
Sbe instantly apologised—*'! beg your pardon, I am snrel" and then laughed a liltle laugh al tha absurdity of the scene — She half rose, blushing and smiling, and apologising ; while I, with bashful volubility, besonght that sbe would continue hor aketoh resuming my former position as nearly as I could.
"la that right?"
"Your bead a Uttle higher, ifyou please. Thank you.'*
There waa a silence again. My back waa towarda the lady, as It had been at first. I I^Mwnwaringa
Terify my momentary Tisiou. A tiny fignre dressed in white ; & small, thin face, almost loat between two torren'ts of brown hair which awept down from a brown gipsy bat; eyea of the first magnitude, and a blnsh rose red. The moments passed slowly by. My viaion was getting more and more indistinct. Waa the hair brown f What was the expres siou of the eyes ? Was she a girl or a wo¬ man? Tbis last qneation pnzzled me the most. She was too self-possessed for the one, too frank for the other. She was very quiet. Why shoold we not talk? She had aeemed to have a pleaaant voioe ; I was not snre tbat she had ; but I could satisfy myself ou tbat point: I would apeak to her.
" I hope I have not spoiled yonr drawing." No answei:, ** TeU .me when I may move."— No auaweV.
I was silent having aome misgivings. There was no sound but the sawing of the grasa hoppers, and the faint rustling of the hazel- bushes lower down,
"May I move now?" lasked, waited a momeut, aud then sprang to my feet The Uitle lady bad disappeared. The grass was slightly pressed where, sbe had sat; other sign of her there was none I
Tbia was my firat sight of Daisy Main waring. Of this Uttle flower, wbom 1 tbus saw bedded in the emerald grasa, I soon learned more, much more than was good for my subsequent peace of miud. Three days afier, she and her fatber came to call on the clergyman with whom I was reading. I reooguized ber at onoe, chiefly by ber luxuriant bair. Sho ev¬ idently recognised me too, but would uot acknowledge that she did so. Impelled by that bashful impudence which often darea more than settled nonchalance, I said and¬ denly aa I stood beside her: "Did you finish your sketch ?"
Tbe blush rushed to her face ; sbe trilled out a treble lauyh, and anawered : " I was ashamed of mysoif and so ran away."
A strange little persou was tbia Daisy Maiu- wariog; not a obild, and yet scarcely a wo¬ man, having all tho frank innooeuce and un¬ spoiled originality of the child, with the grav¬ ity nnd self possession of the matrou, I learned what she was, Httle by little. She startled me often, outraged all my precon¬ ceptions, followiug an orbit of ber own which I eould not atall calculate. Her inexplica- hility lay in this—that she was herself. She had not been moulded into tbe conventional liue of beauty. It takes one's breath when untaught uature dares to appear openly in the midst of this artistic world. She was not beantiful—ibiu aud small with a child-face, always drooping, it seemed, under the weight ofher brown-hair; eyes wbich defied you, their laugoage was oue tbat bad died out of the earth long ago; but tbis language I learn¬ ed, and could at lengih read tbem. Sbe was as variable as .in April day, abandoning her¬ self to joy or grief like a obild, aud for causes unimagiuablrt to any but herself, Sho al¬ ways needfd a strong, tender hand to gnide and quiot her. This need endeared her to me most. Her educatiou and manner of life had beon unlike that of girls gt-uerally.— Her mother died when sho was yery youug, and she was au ouly child. H^r fatbor was a Uterary man—a laborious student, shnt up always in a fog of psyobological problems and metaphysical eniirmas. Margaret had never left him; bad never been to school, had never bad any feminine bome compan¬ ionship except that of the one servant. Her father had educated her; and this education bad been a kiud of con promise botween coming out of bis fog to her and takiug her iuto the fog to himself. He had experiment¬ alised on her aa psychologists must, and where he should have tanght had often qnes¬ tioned, guessing at the riddles of human ua¬ ture as ifahe bad beon a Sphinx. The effect of this education was tbat sbe was ignorant of most tbinga wbich girla naually know; and had acquired au amount of heterogene¬ ous erudition wbicb would bave puzzled most meii. Sbe bad read numberless, atrauge. heavy, antique books, whioh seemed to lio as a weight upon her, and from which sbe had gathered dialeclual subleties and mystical beliefs which frightened one. Ever since abe was a obild sbe had begun to be her father's amanuensis, aud now this laborof love had in¬ creased uutil il fell somewhat heavily on her. It was not tbe brown hair alone that weighed down the weary Uttle head.
Some such anomaly as I have tried to sketch was ibis Daisy Mainwaring, and witb her I fell in love. Wo aoon became great frieuds. One good iofluonoo at least of her education was tbat she bad none of that sUly prudery wbich most yonng ladies aff'ect tow¬ ard young gentlemen. Sho liked me, and when I used to go inlo tbeir lodgings towards the afiernoon, to drag ont tbe old man and ber for a walk, wonld rise from her writing, run lo me, and put her Httle ink stained fin gers in mine, saying: " Oh 1 I am so glad yon have come !" Tben ber father would take tbe spectacles from bis dim, abstracted eyes, and put his book nnder his arm ; hor brown bat was in a moment, tied over her browu hair, and we sallied fortb for the Landslip. Arrived tbere, the old mau soon absorbed iu bis bonk; and Margaret aud I, having chosen an eflec¬ tive "bit" of scenery, sat down to sketch.— She drew very incorrectly, but had an eye for color and an intuitive perception of the spirit i>f nature whicb was marvolons. Solemnly the liltle face used to peer over my shoulder as I altered her outlin^'a ; and theu she would 'lash away at tbe color witb a succhss of effect which made mo half-envious. Our sketch finished, we talked—iu what manner rested with her. Somelimes she was ao childishly wild and mischievous lhat aho had made me augry. Sbe teased "papa" unlil became out of his fog; abe teased me, blurred my wot eketcU, hid my pipe; then climbed up inaccessible rocks, or crept tbrough tbo hazel- thickets which closed behind her and swal¬ lowed ber up. At other times ahe would be silent and grave, and then pour uut a torrent of t-mall iraaKiuary troubles, looking most dis¬ consolately al tho past and the future, pro¬ phesying evils and wretchedness; accusing herself of nnheard-of crimes and selfishness. Again, she would start some airy supernatural theory, enforcing it by keeu arrows of bor¬ rowed dialociio which sounded strangely enongh in her treble voice. Thns she would talk of pre existence, and argue tbat in dreams came our reminisconcos ihereof, that sleep was the iutermediaie slate between life and deatb ; that birth and death were the same—mere gatt^waya leatljpg into a uew state of life, and bo would fall to wondering how far it waa posaible to retroject ourselves agaiu throngb tbese gates, to re-enter the world be¬ fore this Ufe, to re-enler tbis world after death. Thus agaiu, she wonld retail to me Berkley's doolrine of Idealism colored by her own poetic imagination,aud would prove that I who sat beside her did not exiat, aave as an impreaaion on her mind; that the graas arouud ua waa not really emerald green, did not wave aud tremble in the wiud, waa not grass at all; in fact, was nothing. In the trutb of which theory, modified, I agreed; for was I not addicted to Shelly? The old man, bearing metaphysical words and idioms, would arouse himself from hia book, and he would find his apectacles fixed upon ua. He regarded us pnrely in a psychological Ught, and would busy himaelf for a moment in uothiug the eflect we had on each otber—how earb acted sympathetically on each.
Those wore happy daya. Even with my good wife seated near to me by the roaring winter fire,I cannot help looking baok with a reprohenalble fondneaa on those idle sum mer days, Slill, I oan remember that they were not altogetiier happy. There waa a cer¬ tain Bir Hercules Lowther, a huge stolid youug geutleman, of whom I waa at that time very jealous. He waa au old friend of the had known tiiem in London
a grand psychological hislory which had been the work ofhis Ufe. Tbis I*owthor waa the very antilhesia of Margaret; large in body, small in mind : show, both^corporeally and mentally ; and yet for Margaret he had a de¬ cided and nnmiatakable liking. To my dis¬ comfort I fouud him often in the Mainwaring lodging whou I made my daily viait there.— Sometimes he wonld even accompany us to tbe Landslip, speaking Utile, but watching Daisy, with wide, wondering eyea, payiug her clumsy ftttontious and helping her awkward¬ ly. I felt she conld not Uke this mau; and yet, had she not ofteu told me that we in tbia-| worid—imperfect—sought out tbat wbiuh waa unlike ourselves to perfeot our own im- porfectiona? What if this stolid mass of flesh and muscle was the makeweight to sober dowu Daisy to a propar earlbliuess ? Tbia Lowther was gall and wormwood to me ; the more especially that I saw thai Margarel kept her power over him, and rejoiced in it I What woinan baa nol a touch of coquetry in her? Would not the laok of it unaex them ? If they were not gifted by natnre wilh this desire of pleasing, where ^would be their magical power over na men ? Daisy with all hor innocence—her innocence by no meana leas immaculate thereby—soon learned her power over Lowtber and over me ; aud uaed that power, aometimes tyrannically.
However, before the summer was over Mar¬ garet and I were engaged. I had no jealouay of Lowther then ; but pitied him sincerely. Happy times those I My dear Uttle wife that was to be grew daily more womanly and nat¬ ural ; her cbildish wilfulness and petulauoe became softened and harmouised by love, ber fragmentary and abstract spetjulations grav¬ itated tt/warda a concrete oentre, and ao wi¬ dened and purified onr aO'ectiou. Mr. Main¬ waring was surprised at tbe turu which our "actiugly aympathetically eaoh on each," had taken. There waa Uttle difficulty in arrauging the matter on thia aide. My wordly prospects were moderately good ; sufficiently so if he had been urgent on that point, which ho was not. I firmly believe that he looked ou the marriage as a foolish and in¬ consequent conelnsion to bis psychological theory of our mutual attractions. On anoth¬ er side tbe difficulty was much greater. I was an only son, as Daisy waa au only daughter—I had bnt one parent, as she had; bnt mine was a mother. To my mother I wrote about my engagement—foolish, fervid iottors, wbioh made the:affair look more boy¬ ishly romantic tban it really was. However, tho eugagr«ment was made, aud to it ahe ac ceded perforce, giving her consent in cold aud sarcastic phrases, and hinting vaguely at canning fascinatinna and artful eutrap- ments. I told Margaret nolhiug of tbia. If it chilled me in one way, it but served to make my affection for her the warmer and moro tender. Sir Hercules Lowther, with bis large estates, would bave been a mnoh richer quarry to fly at than myaelf. Sbo had given him np for me, I had uo donbt of her, and I was sure it wonld be tbe same with my mother when ahe came to see and kuow her.
Autnmu came ; the last roses died out of tho garder-' • the leaves of tbe sumao begau to tnrn blood-red, our green platform iu tho Landslip had become ..sere and yellow un¬ der hot harvest anus. The timo had come wheu I was to leavo Ventnor for Cambridge. I walked with Daisy to our firat tryating place for the last time. She was grave aud sad, and then broke out inlo one of her old fits of misery, wbich I had not heard for a long time. She throw herself ou the sodden grasa, and bid her Uttle place ou my kneea. Sbe forhoded aU kiuda of evU. We should nover see each other any more; ahe should die; I should cease to love her. Sbo euded witb cbildish sobs as if her heart would break. I stroked ber luxuriant hair, and chided aud soothed her. Thou she seated herself quietly at my feet, and after a long aileuco began to speculate dreamily on what we should do during the separation. We were to think of eaoh other at a certaiu time every day; we wore always lo think of eaob other at night bofore we weut to sleep, aud so try to dream of each other. It waa not impossible, she thought, that in dreams wo might actually meet. Such things have been ; why sbonld tbey nol be now ? The old philosophers could separate tboir aouls from tbeir bodies by Intense thongLt. She I believed firmly it might be done. Again, I there were strange sympathies often between twin-brothers—each know when the. other was ill—each folt the joy and sorrow of the otber. We loved each other better than twiu-brotbera did, why should it not be tbe same with us ? Sbe was sure ehe would know if I were ill, she would feel happy wbeu I was happy, sad when Twas sad. Sup¬ posing she should die suddenly, would it be posaible for her lo come to me lo aay good¬ bye, or to summon me to her death-bed? If eitber of us died, would it be possible for tbe dead to come and see the liviug?—to make ils presence kuown ?—to appear visibly aa it used to bo in tbo flesh ? Agreements had been made between dear frieuds that the one who died first sliould come from tbe futnre world and visit the other—would I make this agreement wilh ber ? Sbe was pertin¬ acious ou this poiut; she wonld have the agreement made. To satisfy her I acceded and ratified the promise with a kiss. This seemed to comfort her, aud I scolded her for her foolishness. It had been arranged tbat she waa to come and stay with my mother dnring the Christmas vacation. Tbero was but two montba of separation, and I talked to her of this, and tried to cheer her by the proapeot of ao aoon meeling again. Still this our last meeting in the old place was very sad—as different from the first as waa the yellow from tbe green grass, the gray aky from tbe blue, the bitter east wind from the soft wost,
Daisy came to us at Chriatmas, aud that Christmaa aaw the end of oar engagment. It is uaeless to delail all the petty words and doii'gs which lod lo this rupture. My mother ie dead, (God rest ber soull) aud the.wroug tbat sho did was done for love of me. She would havebeen jealous of auy one whom I loved belter tban herself—for whom I medit¬ ated leaviug her; and for Daiay ahe had taken a strong disUke before she eveu saw her.— They were the oppositea of each otber, and could no more sj^mpatbios tbau flre could mingle with water. My mother waa of cold temperament, precisely bred, looking upon surface proprietiea as vital mattera; uover suffering a wave of passiou or strong feeliug to diaturb the viaible level of her natnre, proud of her good blood and of her competent wealth. Daisy was what I have sketched bor; and moreover, abe was poor, and neither knew nor cared about her pedigree. My mother's orthodoxy waa shooked at her ram¬ bling speculationa; it was a sin, she thonght, for auy girl to have a deep thought beyoud her oateohiam, her croed, and the eatabllshed interpretationa thereof. She was shocked at her undisguised fondness for me: when Dai¬ sy ou my first arrival ran up to me and hung about my neck, my mother blnshed scarlet. I, had dreaded their ooming together, and the event I aoon saw would provo worse than my lorobodings. The first symptoms of my mother'a aversion was a rigid sileuce about Margaret wheu aloue with me; then camo the old hints about cunning entrapmenta, and, in addiiion,alluBionB to want of modesty atid religion ; th6 plaiuer sayings ; aud the Issue waaJiard words betweeu mother and son, and consequent quarrel and estrange- meut.
" Your mother does not like me," said my Uttle betrothed to me continually, aud look- ttdr-iu my face with her solemu eyes, and read
now. One morning mr darUng came to mo, andsaid quietly. "You shall not marry me," and tben ahe threw herself into my arms and kiased me passionately, and she was gone. I stormed and raged in vain,— The episode of my Ufe waa over. O Daisy I Daisy I if hearts do bleed—do, in their agony wriug forth bitter tears of blood—then my heart bled wben Idlest yon !
" Did I cry out ' Daisy ?" No wife, you bave faUeu asleep and dreamed it. Do uot come to look over me- You ahaU road the story wben it is finished."
I sowed a pleutiful crop of wild oata at Cambridge, whioh bore their mingled prodnce of good and ill. When I came home after degree, for a week, before I set off for Italy. I was much more cynical a%d stoical than in the days of my matriculation. It wonld bave taken mnoh to make me faU in love now, and if I had doue so I should have bave stifled the weaknesa bofore:I had con¬ fessed it even to myself. That past quarrel was made np between my mother aud me; but we generaUy, by mutual consent, fenced round tbat ugly pit with a wall of silence.— I ha i lost all sight of the Mainwaringa ; I never heard their names, never suffered my¬ self to think about them. Ouly in my dreama little Daisy would rise up, her head drooping beneath the weight of brown hair, and her solemn eyea fixed always tenderiy on mine. Lowther had boeu my fellow collegian ; but he, tbe rich mau, did not stay to take his de¬ gree as I did, to whom the prestige of that ceremony would be serviceable at tbe Bar.— So of Lowther I had lost eight also for a year or more.
On the last morning of my sojouru at home before my departure, I sat reading my letters at the breakfast-table—reading alond a scrap here and theie whiohl Ihought might iutereat my mother. Suddenly I became silout: aa in a lettor from a college friend I oame npon this paaaage: "You remember old Xowther. Did you ever think It possible that lhat stolid Horcnlea would find hia Om- phale? Yet uone the lesa fouud she is, and Hercules is a alave, and only all his wealth will ransom him. He Is going to be married. Tbe affair is to come off immediately. Om- phaleianot precisely a queen; in fact, is a poor little devil of a milliner, or a governess, or aometbing of that eort; her name Main¬ waring, People talk with horror about thei mesalliance. I do not aee it in tbat light. ; A man might do worse than marry a mill¬ iner. You see I am reading for ordination, and so getting moral."
I turned white, and gasped for breatb— The old wound_burnt like fire, and throbbed as if the oicatrice wonld break. |
" What is the matter ?" said my mother.— " Thero is bad news."
All my cynicism roae up to help me.— " Not at all 80," I said. " You rememher a ' little peraon whom you never would call Daisy f WeU, the aaid Uttle peraon is about to'be married to a frieud of mine. It la a I good match. The pearl ia a pearl of great'. price, and hae sold itself for fifteen thousand per annum,"
Shame on me for that sentence ; but all my old jealonsy bad sprung up within, more acrid than it had ever been before.
" And who is the purchaser ?" asked my mother, in a low voice, but flushed np to the temples. The wall of silence was down, and the air from the pit was unwholesome with fire-damp. I read hor face. As tbe old love had awakened iu my breast, so tbe old fear had awakened In hers. Sbe gnessed what my pale face meaut, aud I knew the mean¬ ing of tho flush on hers. She shonld uot read my meaniug thus.
" Tho purchaser—happy mau be his dole," I anawered, " is a Sir Hercules Lowther. A certain person and he were rivals long ago ; bat what mere murtal man cau strive wiih a Hercules, particularly when that Hercules haa a handle to his name aud fifleen thou¬ sand a yoar ? Really," I said, changing my tone, "I am glad that Misa Mainwaring is about to make so good a match. Notwith¬ standing your antiptithy to her, my dear mother, she was a verygood girl in her way."
folt unoomfortably angular, and had a ner-I long before I had known them; waa asort of vous twitching in my lege. I longed tp look benefactor to tbem, ih that he was aaaletlng orar my shooidtri tlutX might reaUse and ths-ffttherpwoxuanly iutbo ^iios^ig ou^
I went to Italy, aud remained there and ahout the coast of the Mediterraneau for | a year. Do wbat I would—Daisy haunted my dreams—alwaya the aame, aometimea to the ink-atained fingers cramped with long bolding of the pen. I laughed savagely about the marriagei This waa woman'a constancy.— Not three years, and she waa married and to Lowther too, who, from reminiscences of old days muat constantly remind her of me. I confessed now that I stiU loved her—confess¬ ed it aa a penance to myself, pressing it down ou my sore heart like a cauterizing irou, and writhing under tbe pain of my own self- contompt. Still from week to week I waa uot sure that the marriage bad taken place. I alwaya hoped tbat it waa not consummated. Not to day, not to-day ; let it be to-morrow. Some six montbs aftor I had left, home, there was a sentence in one of my mother'a letters which aettled the matter.
"Your friond. Sir Hercules," ahe wrote, " was married last week. I have seen tbe announcement in this morning's newspaper." Certainty is better than uncertainty; the fall of Damocles' sword ia more bearable thau ils suspension. I need not narrate here how by degrees I regained peaoe of mind—apeace of mind truer and healthier tban had beeu my former cynicism. I learned to look on Daisy's marriage iu ita trne Ught. What rigbt had I (dog in the manger that I was) to dream of monopolizing her who could not marry me—wbom my kin bad injured be¬ yond redemption f Witbout marriage a wo¬ man'a life was incomplete In this world.— Lowther would make her a good and loyal husband—better thau I should. Lowther bad never been nearly so wild aa I had—had uover so hardened and debaaed hia better nature. I forgave TfAisy^-forgavc.' Could ahe have forgiven me ?
My mother died before I reached England again. Nevermore conld that sad quarrel bo renewed. Now I felt how that groat wrong abe had done was solely through lovo. My soul hungered after love, and tumed and guawned itself in ita deaperate cravings. I can understand bow friendless poople in their tonolineaa gaibered dumb animals about tbem. I settled dowu to my profession and worked hard. My miseries passed away, and the acnteuess of my feeling became numbed un¬ der tbe influence of cloae study. Ambitiou awoke withiu me. The more I succeeded the more I wished to succeed; the farther I ad¬ vauced ou tbe road the longer grew the road before me. Aided by favorable oircumstanoes, my progress was faster than usual at the bar. At the age of thirty-five my practioe was large. If ever I looked back to that love- dream of my romantio boyhood, it was aa upou aome childish toy. I smiled ae I recol¬ lected the old paaaion, the soreneas of heart, the bitteruess of spirit, the weariness of life. I Boarely believed it could all have been true ; I wondered at my former aelf—half regretted that I waa ao ntterly changed. I was not anre that I had a heart now. If tbat mysterious organ atill existed within me, it slept quietly enongh. To bave awakened it for a momeut; to hive felt even one twinge of tho sharp pain, thia would have beeu a luxury now.— My pulse waa ateady aud regular; tbe blood- mechanism beat atrongly and oalmly iu my leftside ; my head was cool and clear. I had over-lived the age for heart-fever. We came tbrough those diseases aa childrou through their ohlldleh complaluts, and our moral oon- stitutiA^ were the healthier that we had I paaeed through them-and were rid of them. About this time I determined to marry. I
the truth there, though my Upa evaded it— | was rich, I had liiany friends, iSut I had no It waa soon plain enough. _ Greater famil- j home; I feU the laok of these domestio com- iarty emboldened my mother's tongue^ and [forts, and, tbat eoclal poaition whioh only relenileaa Barcaama became broader ahd ] marriage can give. This waa a very different broader day by day. My mother is dead, | feeling to that lonelinees which had weighed (Godrest heraoull) and I will write no more me down after my mother's death. It waa of this, fo^ I ^oaimot write fpr^Tiogly even - put^. in the iona of a datjthat lentortalasd
this idea of marriage, partly in tbe formof a sober, selfish advautage. It was desirable to change my bachelor Ufe, ivhieh was be¬ coming somewhat wearisouie. A mansion in the more civilized quarter of the town would be an improvement on my dusty, cfaamber within Temple Bar. I felt that it was Incum¬ bent on me to take my staud in tbat station of life in whicb I had beon called, to do as otber meu did, to exeroise the duties of hos¬ pitality, to oultivate tbe honshold amenities, to obey the laws of Nalure and S(>Glety ; aud it might be so, to rear children aroand me, wbo should succeed to my name and fortane aud fill my place after I was gone. So I be¬ gan to look round for a wife. My frienda BOOQ learued that I was a marrying man, and recommendations oame to my ears of so-and- so's aiater, and snch-au-oue'a daughter. Mam¬ mas called on me with increased, favor, aud incited their lovely offspring to diaplay for me their virtues and accomplishments. Many a fanltleas filly, from model training stables, waa put throngh ber paces for my behoof. Haviug decided on the expediency of marry¬ ing, I had decided too on the nece^isary quali¬ fioations for my wife. Soberly and quietly, as beseemed a senslbe man, I had reasoned out the whole matter. Moderate beanty, moderate fortune, the conventional accom- plishmenta, a good temper, a good mauuer, and perfeot good breeding. Surely a hund¬ red auch girls come from thoir nurseries into the marriago markei every year.
Very opposite was thia marriage project to the looUsb engagement of fifteen yeara ago Thon an insane fancy for a obild like myaolf bad nearly hurried me into the matrimonial coudition for which both of us were yet un¬ ripe. We were unfitted for oach other. It would have been a sacrifice on both sides. How unaatlsfactory would Daisy have filled tbe office whicb I now looked for in my wife I The woman of my aearch waa the very anti- podea to her. I was wiser since that time, aud now judged ol the holy institution of marriage by tbe Ught of that reaaon which God had given me. I saw the wiadom and the expedience of the oondition, and sought to adapt tbat coudition to my own particular requirements. Then, au impulsive passion foran individual had impelled me towards marriage; now, having syUoglatlcallyproved tbe dealrableneas of marriage, I made deliber¬ ate search for tbe individnal who ahould be tbo fit meana to the accomplishment of that eud. It is by the heart ouly that man is misled; let him use his reason and he is aafe.
I had professional busiuess in the north of England, and I arranged to atay for a nighti on my way, at the aoat of a friond iu one of the midland countiea. Of course thia friond had a daughter. I weut to view thia daugh¬ ter, as I should have gone to look at the pointa of a horse whicb I thought might ault me, if I had wauted a horse. I had aeeu Mias Dalton in London duriug the laet aeason. Sbe had all the requisite anvautagea whichi have mentioued above; aud to tbia favored peraon I, the Orand Seigneur, felt inclined at length to throw the haudkerohief. I would aee her at home, and thon make up my mind in tho affirmative or negative. On the railway plat form I met an old frieud—uo otber thau Low¬ ther. He waa In doep mourning, aud his black dress together with the change which timo had worked on him, made me at firsl uncertain of hia identity. However, In a mo¬ meut we recognized oach otber, shook hands, and took our seats in the aame carriage. My heart gave ono throb, aud slept again. I had not Beon Lowther since his marriage. He bad broadoued into a portly country gentle¬ man, and his stolid countenance had gaiued a gravity which looked not unUke wisdom. Hla deep voice had a majoslic roll iu it, aud his slow Epoech a deliberation suggestivo of woll-weigbed words. I was amuaed at the form iuto which bis juvenile stolidity had ripened. I learned from his converaalion that his wife waa not loug dead. Agaiu a throb at my heart, aud a long, quivering tremor, ere it subsided to reat. Poor Daisy 1 Hor girlish figure roae before me vividly for a momeut and then gradually faded. I noted on Low- ther's finger a memorial ring of brown hair, and round it imprinted '"Margaret." Lowther waa bound for an estate of his iu the north, not far from my ultimate destination. He made me promise to come to him fora day be¬ fore I returned lo London. A meeting with an old follow collegian is alwaya pleasant, the sociality of those early days retains Its hold upon us through Ufe. Lowther and I, for this and for otber cauae, were glad to see each othor, and shook bauds heartily and warjply when we separated.
My reception by the Daltons waa kindly, and had that domestic charm about it which ia woudrously agreeable to tho bachelor. It ia somethiug to be received en famille.whe-a ono has not a home of one's own. I liked Amy Dalton better in the old-faahioned coun¬ lry bouse than In the London ball-rooms. I liked her kindness to the children wheu they oame down after diuner. Childreu cannot be bribed or scolded into acting love where they do uot feel love. I liked the hints whioh I heard of her household handiness, and of homely dutiea diligently performed by her, liked her stories about the village folk, abow- I ing, not in the way of exhibition, how she i visited their cottages aud read to tbem. Above aU, I liked her because abe did not try to captivate me, did not parade her accomplish¬ ments aud her vlrtuea before me. I had aeeu too much of that lately. All these little favorable traits were so much thrown in over and above the essentials in the bargain which I meditated.
At night I retired to the library. I had writing to do, which must be done for to-mor¬ row's poat. I wrote my letters, and tbeu threw myaelf into an easy chair by the dyiug^fire. Instead of Amy, thoog-hts of Daisy rose within me—thoaghta long stifled and dead. Those summer days came back—the wanderings In the Landslip, the skelches, her childish potulanoo, her wUd spirits, her fits of melan¬ choly, her foolish dreama aud apeculations. I remembered bow she used to disappear in tbe hazel-thickets ; bow her little hoad had lain upou my knees ; how at the last parting she bad thrown herself into my arma and paaaion- atoly kissed me. Now tbat aho was dead, it seemed as if her marriage with Lowther was wiped away. She waa mine onco more. The old feelinga rushed back iu a torrent, I tried to atem tbem, but in vain. My heart awoke from ita aleep, and proclaimed its omnipotence; and my frigid reason shrunk away beforo Ita fiory aceptre.
Tbere waa a sound. The handle of tbe latch turned, and the door creaked and opened.— Good Godl was I mad?
There, in the doorway, stood Daiay—a little figure dressed in black, the same thiu face, the same heavy hair. The same treble voice uttered my name. A momeut aud abe was goue, I rushed forward, aud there waa nothing. A lamentable weakness this. My head was affected. My will oame Into aotlon, and beat down the atraggllngs of my heart, and atrung my nervea with its fingers, aud brought my wildlhoughtauudercoutrol. ThisI impreaaed on my mind, haa been a pbantom of my im¬ agination. I am tired aud feverish after my journey, aud 1 bavo suffered old thoughts to i gel tho bettor of me. I will never lot suoh ! absurdities conquer my reason again. I have been a fool.
I Ughted my candle and went to bed. Not¬ withatanding will and reaaon, there was a ceaseless whispering within, saying: "Itwaa uo trick of imagination. You have aeen Uttle Daisy to-night, as undeniably ae yeueveraaw her in old daya. Do you not rememberthe promiae that whoever died first should come to the other ?"
united aud mingled Into one phantom, wbioh I puraued vainly—a shadowy something, af¬ ter which I yearned with a passion unqiiencb - able aud hopeless, with a mental determina. tiou nuoonquerable as it waa fmitlesa. But all these olouds of darkneaa melted away at onoe before the cold light of the morniug aun. Wbeu I descended to breakfaat I was the same calm, reasonable person I bad been tbe day before. The vision of the previous nigbt had been a dream, Hke the dreams whicb succeeded it; that was certain. I banished the trivial incideut from my mind resolutely. Amy'a cbeerfnl, fresb, quiet face, as ehe pre- ¦ aided al tho early breakfaat, had a aoothing influenoe over me, wbich I accepted ae yet; auother advautage in tbe meditated bargain, j Wben we were married the conetanl preeence : of that quiet face would affect beneticially my j daily life—make my head clear, keep my nervea cool.
I left tbe Dalton'e that aiorulng and pro¬ oeeded on my journey. My bueiuess in the north waa accomplished, and two daya after, I arrived at Sir Hercules Lowther'a just in time to join him at hia aolitary dinner. He was dnll and silent; the Borvants moved about with mute lips aud noiseless feet. All brought Daisy to my mind, but this time not so mnch in connectiou with my own feeUngs as in tbe oharacter of my friend's dead wife. I pitied him for bis loes. Aa we sat by the firn over our wiue, he begau to talk about bis wife, speakiug with a rough simple pathos of bow goud she had beon, and whal a bless¬ ing to him.
"Poor Daisy!" I said, using tbe tender dimiuutive involuntarUy. "All you say of her is true, I kuow. You were happy in mar¬ rying her. It ie something to have had her to lose."
"Y'es," he auswered, looking at me medi¬ tatively. "Bat only those wbo know her can judge of my loes. I feel that you sym¬ pathise with me, old frieud, aud thauk you for it ; but you did not yet know ber."
"Nol kuow her? Do you think I havefor- gotten the old Isle of Wright days ? -Why, Lowther, I too ouce loved thia little Daiay of; youra. I may eay eo now. You will not be jealous of me."
"Knew my wifel loved my wife 1" he gasp¬ ed out, syllable by syllable, with a alow hor¬ ror aud astonishment.
"Yes, you muat have known it then," I said. " I wae wUd when you married ber.— But all that ie past long ago; and remember¬ ing what ahe waa, I only feel for you the moro."
" Loved my wife I" he atill muttered, in a stolid sort of wouder. "Lovod my wifo?— Daisy? Whal! There ia a mistake," he aaid, and his face brightened slowly into in¬ telligence. " There is a mistake. You surely kuow whom I married ? " "
"Yes," I oried, "certainly I do. Daisy Mainwaring."
"Never. You are wrong." I stared at him aghast, aud pointed to the ring which ho wore. " Whose hair is that ?" " My poor wife's. I married my consiu, Margaret Lowther, nol Daiay Mainwaring, as you oall her. That was a mere boyish fanoy. I would have married her at ono time, but sho would uot marry me; and thank heaven for it. My wife ouly, iu all tbe world, conld have made me ao happy aa I have boen." He aighed and went on": " however did you come by thia false notion? Where did yoa hoar it? How on earlh did it enter yoar head?" By slow degreea I recalled and explained how I bad heard of hia marriage. It was not easy for me, having held the event for so long as au established fact, to bring' to my mind the precise mauner in which the news had reached me. However, I sncceeded, at length, recalling the leiter from my frieud, and also the confirmation of the former tidings, in my mother's letter, received In Italy. I learned (but not wholly then,) what had been tbe true alate of the case. When my friend wrote of Lowther'a approaching marriage to Daiey, Lowther had beeu williug enough to make that aesertion true Itwas at that time that ahe had refused to marry him; and cou- seqneut upon this refusal seemed to me to have been bis marriage with his cousin so eoon after. Whether in pique, or whelher in the way of coneolatlon, did uot clearly appear; but, at all events the marriage had turued out happily. My mother's noilficatiou to me was substantially true—Lowther was married at that time.
Daisy, then was not dead ; bnt the phan¬ tom of that night—how was it to be explain¬ ed f I aaked for uewa about her, and Lowther told me tbat he had lost sight of her for aome time; that after her father's death ahe had goue out a governess; that he had offered help to her in vain ; tbat sho was too proud to accept help from an old lover.
On my way back I called again at the Dal¬ ton'e. Aa I walked by the aide of Amy, in tbe wintry gardeu, I aeked abruptly : "Have you a goveruesa here ? "
" Yes," ahe answered, a little surprised.
" What ia her name ? "
" Miss Mainwaring. Here she ia, ooming with thechildren,"
"Shalli go on any more, little wife?— Sball I tell them how hard I found it to win you back to me ? How I, the Grand Seigneur, did not get my wife by a mere throwing of the handkerchief, but waa obUged lo go oh my knees ; obliged to outrage all forgone conclusiona and determination abont my matrimonial needs, aud about the proper view and bearing of matrimony I Shall I tell them of all your troubles in those long years d^ separation; and how you are changed there¬ by, and yet the aame? Graver, soberer wiser—equable aud quiet—but Daiay atlll \ ' No,' do you say, * I have written euough ? Then I wiU write no more."
Special Sleccion for Alderman. ~|yr( )TlCKis iiereby given tu the qnaiifieil
J_\ volnre of the i^outh Wtisl Ward Of tho city of l.an- CHrtter, Ibat, aud«r the Acl of Art^mmhly <>f tbe l.Htb of Jaoe. IS40,(prOT| |
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