Lancaster Examiner and Herald

              !^
•s;
VOL. XXXYIL
LMGiSPR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1863.
NO. 13.
The Lancaster Examfner & Herald
b PutlMid CKTj HWnaAiy. «< Ttoo OoHor. » Fmt. Office Ho. 8Zi Horth Qnaen Btreet.
J. A. HlISTASD, F. HlOKEET & E. M. Klisi.
ADVKRTISSMKNTS will be Inserted it the
TAU Of t\ 00 p«T tqaan, of Uo Unei, for tlu.. iDMr- tloai or liM*; Uld S5 c«Qt« p«r Bqura far oieh .ddlUODxl LMXi:...
AdT«rtiB«aeaU ftzsewltng 10 Uqm will b. ebuKwl S •lau ptr Uqo for th. !•! iBMrtloa, uU • cnU p«r llss tit .ach aabtMiaABt laianloo.
BiLEloess AdT«rtl8flmaBU tUBsried fay th. qtimrur half yaw or yotr, wUl b. cbMgod m follow.:
I month.. 8 monlhM. IS months.
CiUaaar. «» 00      «s 00      » 8 00
¥5,0    ••".".!".... S 00 S 00 13 00
Xaolnmal l"""       '8 00 J6 00
l"     .. " SOOO        MOO 80 00
BDSINHS^ NOTIOSS iBivrtad bafor. Uarrlag.! aud
Daath*. doobi, tha rainilar ratM.
X3r Special Botlcee loaarted as tcadicg matUr will ba charged teo ceota a Una.
^3r Ths priTilejo of Inanal AdTartlaera ia alrlctly limited !o their o^vo Immeltate bosloeaN: aad all ad- TaiUeeioentBforlhe beoeflt of other persooa, aa wallaa .11 adTenieenieolB D..I tiuiordiataly coasecled with tbelr owo banloea.. aod all cIbsbbb of adTartlBamaota, iB leogth or utberw.ae- beyoad Ihe Iboeta aoga^ai, will ba charged at the o.qtI rates.
t^aii edTflrtihla^ jMjcooot" ara coBaldarad eollaeta- bla at ih« axpjratli'o of hair the pariod oootraaUd for. TraoBleat adTBrlioemecls, oafs
THt" KXAMtN^'.K & HERALD
l.ANCASTliK  UNION
It rvhlnkeA  mny Suturtlay tt Tioo Dotlars a Ytar.
fr.]rioB of adrerti.<io^ the same aa abora.]
Jno. A. Hiestand & Co.
IEE i;"WEll]HGS OF IHE POOB.
BY  FKNI-KY JOIIXSON.
Are there not lonely cottages
In ?ome secure relreat, ¦ffhose garden -walks redolent are
"ft'ilL liowety fragrance sweet ? Do not pure zejihyr's incense breathe
Into tbe Tcrj door. Aijd peaco nnil comfort reign within
Thc dwcnings oftho poor?
On. no, let not such Tisions blest
Fiud intrance in the heart, for iLty but cause us in tbeir lot
To tako a careleas part; Eui lei us put such thoughts aside,
Like the fend dreams of youth. And nerve our hearts and clear our eyes,
To sec and foel the truth.
fil' ihroupli the crowded cily—search
Through narrow laue .ind street; Acu tec hoK niucli of wrectbedness
It i-v'thy lot to nieel; Xo Ildwtrs there—no happy birds
The poor nutu's heart to cheer, Xo plea-iint words, no merry laugh
To creel ihiiie eager car.
Come lo this chamber, close and dim,
And l»-t iby b'jsoiu sigb. To see tbose pnle, slight, sickly girls
Tlie bii)-y ueeiiie ply Al! day, and, oli, how oft at night
V.'iih ^car\, aching head, Tdiy I'tbor on lioccRsingly
Tl' earn tboir ilaily bread.
Sueh scones a.s these are common things.
Yet s:itidcr things ihere be; Vice, in its native hideousness,
-\nd famine, ['ale. we see ; Kut as we gflzc, oh, let us not
Tiie poor man's errors blame. ¦Who kuows if wc were poor as he,
M"e wonld not be the same.
There raay be dwellings of the poor,
Where virtue's garb is seen, Eut Ibey, oh, rich man, let me say,
Are few and f.ir belween. Tlien put away the selfi.sbness
ivhich is wilbin tby heart. And in the poor man's deep distress. Take Ihou no active part.
Sei-k then llie dwellings of (he poor,
Ar.d mix wiih coarser thinga ; Perhaps some act of tbine may touch
Their virtue's bidden strings, Ob, strive then with unceasing care,
Thy efforts ne'er ceaae. To plant withio Ihe poor man's heart
Tbe seeds of love and peace.
Norma's lieart was too full for words. Child tliough she was, she saw through the man's little ruse. God hless such men as Jared Fish ! Anythiug he gave away he had no .possible use for. You would think it was in his way. True, he was a coarse, common man; but that was nothing in his Maker's sight. God would pay him interest on all such deeds, and in the "book of remembrance" above, may¬ hap, was written underneath the name of Jared Fish: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have it done unto me."
irOBHA.
" Violets, violets, beautiful blue violets! Who'll buy my violets ?" And a sweet- brown eyed girl of nine years looked ap- pcalingly upon the passers-by. Her face was exceedingly sorrowful, and her brown eyes had a ihr-way look in tlieir mi.sty depths, as though her soul was half loosed from hor body's conlrol. A fcill slender man, with a pale face and wretched cough, stopped, and jmrcbaBing a sixpenny bunch cf flowers, faid, kindly: " Your'violets are partic.ularh* beautiful, little one. I hope you may be nble to sell them before they wither."
"Oh,see those violets, Horace! J)o stop the carriage one moment and let me get some.
'' You shall have lhem all if you wish darling. 1 haven't seen your face so hright for many a day."
Ucckoniiig the girl to the carriage, the gentleman took two largo bonqucts and handed thcni to the lady.
" Oh, how beautiful and fresh ! itseems OS ifthe dew was on them yet. Beauti¬ ful violets ! my childhood's flowers! how sweet your fragrance is tome!"
The man looked fondly at the pretty speaker, saying in a low tone: " I will take my pay in kisses when we get home Mela,"
For an.^w^r lho lady whispered:    " Pay her well, Horace; I know she is poor." He gave her a sillver duliar and then they drove oif rapidiy.
" Oh, he has forgotten his change !— 'Vfhat shall 1 do ?" And the girl looked wistfully after thc carriage. She wan¬ dered up and down the city streets an hour longer; then, having sold all but one buuch of flowers,she stopped in a '-one horse"-l6okii;g grocery-store in a retired Etrect.
" I w.int a pound of butter in my little pail. 3Ir. Fish.":
" Ha, Norma, is it you, little one ? Sell many fiowers <o-day, hey ?"
« Al! but theso." And she laid down her money for the butter.
" Keep your money, child. I'll take the flowers for pay." And the grocery man filled an old tumbler with water and placed them on his desk.
Norma opened her bucket-lid. " Oh, Mr. Fish, you liave made a mistake. I said one pound, and the bucket is full to the brim."
The good man's face flushed. " Never mind, childie, I wanted to have the firkin eleaned out, so I put it into your little pail."
God, I think, would forgive that lie ; ot least, I hope so; for thc man had out the smooth yellow butter from a fresh lot ¦   that had come in that morning.
" How is your mother to-day. Norma ?"
" She is a little better, thank you."
" Oh, by the way. Norma, I got a lot
of beef this noon, and it's so warm I'm
afraid it won't keep.   I'll jtiat a put a bit
,      in your basket.     It would be a pity to
]uTe it spile."
There waa mourning and wailing in the stately home of Horace Leigbton; for Meta, the sweet, loving wife, lay sleeping the sleep of death.   Meta Leigbton, the sweet-voiced lady who, seven years  ago, had purchased the sweet fragrant violets from  the little  flower-merchant. Norma Laey.   Let us enter the chamber where lies the  beautifal dead.     One mourner only is there—a slender figure kneeling beside the still form, with her head rest¬ ing upon the pulseless heart.    There are no teats in the large brown eyes; no moan upon the pale lips; hut a bitter voiceless woe is written upon thc colorless face. "Gone, gone, my last friend." ''Dead! dead 1 dead ! 0 God! it ia o'er! From life's sad changeful ahore, Eer loving aonl bas fled. Come, coma away,
Tlierfl*. DOthiQg. nothing mora To hope for or to pray." A dry,tearless sob escaped the mourner. "Alone again npon the earth.    Oh, my lady, would to God I had died for tbee!" The door unclosed and a woman of mid¬ dle age ontered.
"Norma, child, you will make yourself sick with grieving, and then who will help me take care of Mr. Leigbton and little Allie! I know it is hard for yon, poor child! such afriend as she was,to you— to us all" (and thewoman'slipsquivercd,) "hut it is sinful to mourn so ; besides, you are not fulfilling your promise to Mrs. Leigbton. Did you not promise to be watchful and attentive to Allie and her father, and here you have shut yourself up all day to mourn."
Tbe girl sprang to her 5?et. 'Forgiveme, dear Mrs. Steel.    I  am selfish and deserve your rebuke.    I  will go now to .\lUe."
" I wish you would, Norma, for I am fairly sick at heart. Allie has fretted for her niamma all day long, and Mr. Leigh- ton has not eaten a morsel since his wife died. I have been twice and knocked at his door; but it is locked and he only an¬ swers in that sad voice : 'Thank you, Mrs. Steel, I do not wish anything to cat.'— Suppose you go and try to persuade bim to tako a mouthful. Come, let us go down." And the kind old housekeeper laid the sheet over thc sweet dead face, and drew the girl from the room.
Horace Leigbton sat by the table in his pleasant library, pale and motionless. Before him lay a sweet-faced picture—a face 80 beautiful that it migbt well mad¬ den any man that looked upon it and re¬ membered tbat, in the room above, sho lay dead—that death had stricken the love-light from her eyes and stopped the workings of the tender heart. The pic¬ tured face lay smiling up into tbe an¬ guished eyes ofthe mourner, bringing be¬ fore him, with^harrowing distinctness, the happy day on which sbe sat for it. Clo¬ sing the jeweled case, the lonely man bowed his face upon it.
0 Meta, darling ! how oan I live in this world withont you ?"
It was the same wail that, thonsands of times, bas fallen from human lips; but wbich loses none of its anguish in the rep¬ etition.
There came a sofl voice at tbe door. " I have brought you some tea and toast, Mr. Leigbton; please let me in ?" There was a quiver in the voice, and he remembered how his wife had loved the girl. Ho unlocked the door and let her enter.
" I eannot eat. Norma, child." " 0 Mr. Leigbton, she bade me he kind to you; but, alas ! poor Norma can do nothing." And, throwing her apron over her head, she sat down and wept bitterly. The man's kind heart was touched.— Kising, ho stood beside her, and, smooth¬ ing the silken hair, said kindly: " Poor girl! you, as well as I, have lost your best frieud. Do not weep so sorely, girl; it is of no use. I promised your mistress I would be your friend; and I will, for her de.ir sake. You must be as a watchful mother over Alice. Let ^ler miss her mother as little as sfae may, poor mother¬ less one !"
"0 Mr. Leigbton, your heart will sure¬ ly break in this dreary room. Come up into the nursery. Alice cannot go to sleep. Perhaps she will feel better for seeing you.".
They left the room together, and taking his orphan child in his arms, Horace Leigbton walked up and down the floor till sleep stole over the weary eyes, then lying down by her side, he soon slept the heavy sleep of exhaustion.
Slonths passed, and the loneliness of his home so wore upon Mr. (jeighton, that he made arrangements for an extended tour through Europo. Leaving Mrs. Steel and Norma to take care of Alioe, he turned his back upon his native land.
It was a quiet, lonely life that Norma led during the years he lingered in a for¬ eign Jand ; but she read and studied, and in the main was happy. Two unceasing pleasures she had—tending and watching little Alice, and in learning to read French and Latin from Mr. Leighton'a old pastor who, seeing her intenso passion for study, ofiered to teach her during the long win¬ ter evenings. The pastor's daughter was giving her music-lessons; so our flower- girl bade fair to be an accomplished wo¬ man.
Many times during the summer that Norma first sold her fiowers to the sweet pale Mrs. Leigbton sbehad met her, and many times received a kind word. The lady drew from Norma her history, and after her mother's death took her to her own home, where she was as one Tif the family. As years passed by, the love that Norma bore her gentle mistress amounted almost to idolatry. She was untiring in her watchfulness and oare during the last illness which ended iij death; and when those gentle eyes olos^, she felt desolate indeed. ¦ Nobly wia she BowietnTniDgsll
that lady's kindness by her unceasing care of the orphan Alice.
Now in her womanhood a new world was opening before her. The knowledge she was gleaning year hy year was a plea¬ sure that never changed; and the more she gleaned, the mora her thirst forit in¬ creased. She grew hungry for the gems that lay bidden between the leavea of books, and when Mr. Lucas ofiered to give herjessons in French and Latin, and bis daughter in music, her happiness was com¬ plete. Then it was as it ever-is; as her mind expanded, new aspirations were bom in her soul. The limita of " Heath HaU", extended though they were, at times op¬ pressed her. Tbey seemed to close her in from something orsomewhere. She knew that just bpond the hills lay the beauti¬ ful city where the weary little feet had trod, selliug her flowors. She had not seen it for five years, and sometimes it seemed as if she could breath freer there' She wondered at the strange unrest that
TEE HOVSE OF OOO.
be?   And hia eye wandered over the 	
graceful form; the sweet, womanly mouth |    uxbetinsworabippersibsllworahipthe Father and shining hair.   A new feeling surged  '¦> "PW •¦">'" truih."-./oin i-.ii. through his heart.    Thia was a woman, not  Prayer has do place peculiarly ita owit- a child; he ahonld not he as lonely as he  ^o lofty temple, with its shining thron. ; thonght.    Traces of tears  were on  the
aweet face, and a thrill of tenderness drift¬ ed up from his heart to his lips, and the words, " Norma, darling", broke thc stillnesa. The words did not awaken the aleeper; atler her exoitement ahe slept heavily.
"It ia as well," he muttered. "She is a woman, now—a woman of three-and- twenty, and I must be careful."
Horace Leigbton wasa great reader of the hnman heart, and knew all its work¬ ings. He took a chair, and sat down by the girl's side, scanning the fair faee earnestly. He saw she had been griev¬ ing, and suspected strongly that his com¬ ing home, and its eflPec.t upon herself, had been the cause. She sighed heavily, and moved her position.   Leigbton stooped
oppressed her; did not know.as she would | and raised her head from its hard resting have known in latter years, that her aoul : P'aoe, saying, tenderly : was throwing off ita rigbts.    Shfe loved {     " Wake up,  Norma,  and   ask who's the little motherless Alice, andgood,kind   eome.
Mrs. Steel, but that did not suflice. Her soul had other needs now—they must be attended to. It was but a short walk to the sea-shore, and there Norma loved to go when those yestless moods came over her; and thero, looking over the boundless sea and up to the blue of the sky,her soul grew hungry for what lay beyond the blue waters. Ko true it is that not "satisfied" is written upon every brow on  earth.
In a hotel in Southampton, Horace Leigbton paced to and fro. In an bour he'd set sail for America, the land where the skies are of snch bewildering beauty, and where the people's hearta are so noble and true.
" Oh, if Meta were only there to meet mc.
That " if," alas! it ia remorseless as tho grave. He thought ofhis baby Alice,for- getting tbat his absence had lengthened into seven years, and that Alice was now eigbt years of age. And Norma—he thoHg'it ofthe soft-eyed Norma. She was a nice cbild, he thought, and wondered if sho would like that coral necklace he bad bought her. He forgot, too, that seven years had converted Norma into a woman —thought only of the shy, rather small ohild be had left. What will he think of our handsome, regal Norma ? ofher bright eyes and many accdmplisbments ? T opine to see that graceful form moving through his home will quicken his pulses some¬ what !
Wc will, with the reader's permission, ¦ transport onrselves over tbe "big pond" to "Heath Hall." It was the night be¬ fore 3Ir. Leigbton wns expected to arrive, and all was preparation.
" Shull we move Mrs. Leighton's pic¬ ture from tbe bed-room, Norma'i" I think it will kinder make Mr. Leigbton feel bad to eome bome and see it there, and miss her."
" Oh no. Aunty Steel; do not remove it. Hejivill n^^jap her any the less for seeing this picture. I think all is arran¬ ged now.' • I will go and see Alice safe in h3d."
The littKgirl was. soon laid to rest, as tenderly as though a mother had minis¬ tered to her, then Norma sat down to read. Later, Mrs. Steel stopped at the door.
" I'm going to bed. Norma. It's early, I know, but I'm tired.    Good night-"
Norma sat in the library. It waa in¬ tensely warm, and the light enticed the millera and inaects, in at the window; so .she laid aside her book, and extinguish¬ ing the ligbt, sat down in the moonlighted window to think. She had exchanged ber dress for thc cool, wbito wrapper, an exchange that only added to her beauty. Her cheeks were flashed, and her eyes shone like stars. Tho veins in her tem¬ plea awollen, and her heart ached and throbbed. The longer she sat in tho calm moonlight the more excited she hecame— it was evident thought was at work.
" What ails nie to-night? Even the weight ofmy hair oppresses me." And she removed the comb, leaving tbe shi¬ ning mass to fall around ber like a veil. Kising, she paced tho floor to and fro, the red on her cheek deepening. How would this ooming bome afl'ect her? was the burden of her thonghta. She was a wo¬ man now, and things could not be just as they bad been. Had she not best adver¬ tise for a situation as governess or compa¬ nion ? Such thoughw did not tend lo lessen her nervousness. Tho red lips were mute, but they spoke volumes. Nor¬ ma bad one of these speaking mouths wc sometimes see, wbose quivering, and smi¬ ling, and compression, tell thc story of tbeir heart. (Header, have yoo ever watched the play of such a mouth ? If not, then amid thc crowd search one out, and mark it well.)
Norma sat down by tbo window; and wbethor it was the calm of the night, or tbe presence that dwells beyond the starry tent on wbich her eyes were fixed, tbat soothed bor into quietness, we cannot tell; but gradually the flush faded from her cheek, and by-and-by sleep stole into the
The brown eyes sprang open. " 0 Mr. Leigbton! I am so glad 1" " Are you Norma ?    Tben why these traces of tears ?"    And he passed his arm about her.
Norma trembled; the efi'ects of her nervous excitement, whieh her companion noticing, .said kindly:
" It is twelve o'clock. Norma, and yon look tired and pale; you had better go to rest. Is my old room ready for me ?" "Yes; we arranged it to day, though we did not expect you till to-morrow." " Come, then; I will not waken Alice to night, leat excitement prevent her from sleeping again. Tbey went together up the moonlit staircase, and then parted with a kind good-night.
Why did Mr. Leighton atand watching the slender figure as it glided along the hall? I fancy he would have found it difficult to answer the question himself; though certain it is, a pair of brown eyes and silken hair mingled confusedly in bis dreams.
Sitting next morning in the library, there eame a aoft atep, and the door un- cloaed. It was a quiet, womanly child that half halted on the threshold. Could that be bis little Alice ? Yes, it must be. There was Mela's beautiful eyea and long shining curls.    He opened his arms.
" Dear papa!" And the child sprang forward and laid her hand apon his breast. She Wiis but an infant when he left; but Norma had taken ber evciy day before bis picture, and told her of him, and in this way, the unknown fatber had oome to be very precious to her. Again there came a soft step along the hall, and Norma entered, tall and stately, like some young queen. Leighton's face flushed as he thought of tbeir strange meeting the pre¬ vious night; but Norma, womanlike, had more self-possession. She extended her hand, saying:
" Breakfast is waiting and Biddy grows impatient."
After that day, things passed on pretty much as when  the  master of " Heath Hall" was over the  sea, save tbat  some¬ thing was wrong with the master's heart. It had a strange way of throbbing, and of making sudden bounds that were not plea¬ sant.    This   always , happened   when he heard the sound of soft footsteps, or tbe carol of some  old  song.    That  Norma avoided ratber than sought his society, he eould soon see, wherefore, he  eould  not tell.    Not understanding this, he grew cold and constrained, and spent bnt little of his time at home.    It ao happened that after a fortnight's absence, he returned one evening suddenly.    As  he entered tbe parlor he saw Norma standing at the deep window with  ber arms folded, and her cyqa fixed on the distant hills.    Tbe old hungry look was on her face—the old unrest in her soul; and as she tnrned at the sound of his voice, the inefi'ablc sad¬ ness of that speaking faee was a new rev¬ elation to him.    Joining her, he  looked steadfastly into her eyes.    She  did  not speak; but the white  lids drooped  over the lustrous eyes.    AVith a passionate, ir¬ resistible  movement,  Leighton  put hia arm around her, and drew her toward him. Tbe calm lips trembled—that was all— but she removed his arm from about her waist,  holding his  hand  between  both hers, as though sbe dreaded  to  be  left •alone, and looking out toward the distant hills with tbe old look of dumb sorrow in her eyes.
" Norma, I wish to heaven you were a ohild of sixteen years again, ao that I might say to you just what I feel; .but here you are a stately, superb woman, and Horace Leigbton is nothing to you."
Norma burst into tears, the first he had seen her shed since her childhood.— Flinging his arms in a kind of petulant, boy¬ ish way, he said :
" Norma, I will just tell you what ia in my heart, and then leave it to you. I love you. Norma! Will you be my wife? There! You have it in a few worda. I have been loving you ever sinee the first night I came home.    I have  been for
Bat everywhere the knee nijij bdWf. The soul may breathe in aooents low- Its hoinble wants.
Chnrches unknown within the city's mart.
Hidden within the verdure of the heart Of each true worshipper, nprise. With steeples pointing to the skies— Emblems of faith.
There, meeting in the still, seolnded plaoe, With holy prayer and upward-lifted faoe. The yearnings of our spirits bend, Andall our thoughts together blend In one desire.
The spirit's dome is gilded o'er with prayer;
And downward leaning from the arching there, Are cherubim and seraphim. Watching to calch tbe rising hymn Of praise divine.
There, wiihout fear, in penitence we bow. And our confessions make in aooents low, Owning our weakness and our sin, With only tears fast dropping in
God's treasury.
But these are precious in our Father's sight, As was the dropping of thp widow's mite, And treading the still, inner aisles, He lighteth np the soul w^h siniles.
And makes it his—
And makes it his—for evermore his own— The home, the " house of God," his humble throne— The Boul-churcb, where onr longings meet, And wbere our aspirations sweet
Make Sabbath there.
" ii ii'n't at all worth whil*. Do sit down I and be easy, my love 1"
Bnt Jane started away to carry her baby up to tha naiseiy. Jnst as she reached the door something tingl.ed sofUy in the pocket of her little silk apron—the stopped in the passage.
" Oh, by the way, Philip, here is the key to your iron safe. I found it on the dining-room table this afternoon ; and she added, with an archsparklein herroguish eyes, "I thonght it would he an exeeilent opportunity for giving my husband a les¬ aon 1"
She laid the key in his hand, and ran ont of the room as be recoiled involunta¬ rily from the sound of his own pedantic words. Aa he contemplated the gleaming wards of the little steel misehief maker,in mingled delight and mortification, the echo of Jane's merry laughter on the stairs reached his ears like a chime of silver bells.
He laughed too—he couldn't help it.
Mrs. Jane Walter was a discreet little woman. She never alluded to the subjeet of keys again, and her husband was never after known to reproach her for careless- nesa.
MY LOST KEY.
" My dear Philip, have you seen my portemonnaie ;"
Mr. Walter'a brow contracted slightly at the words, and he drew away the hand which had been caressing his wife's pret¬ ty hair.
"Is tbat portemonnaie lost again ?" " Jfow, Philip," said thc littlo woman with a world of pretty penitence in the lengthened monosyllable, " don't acold ! Upon my word, it'a the firat time I've mislaid it this whole morning."
" It ia too provoking, Jane," said the husband, pushing back the books on the tablebefore him withamovement denoting intense' irritation- " Will you never break yourself of this careless habit, my love ?" Jane was silent, looking down like a very naughty child whohad been chidden. " You don't know wbat an annoyanoe tbese heedless habits are to a methodical man like myself, dear," he added, in a gentler tone, as tho coral lip began to tremble and the eyo to sufl'use. " Do try to be more tbojightful for my sake !— Here is your lost treasure," he added, quietly drawing a tiny case of pearl and gold from his pocket. I fonnd it lying on tbe stairs, and thought it a most ex¬ cellent opportunity for giving my careless liltle wil'e a lesson."
Jane clapped her hands at the sight of the reatored treaaure, and danced out of the room in girlish glee.
" A perfeet ohild," murmered the hus¬ band, looking after her vith a smile and a sigh blending unconsciously into one another. " Well, if don't make haste, I shall be too late for that engagement in the city. Let mc see—the notes are in my iron safe, I believe. Nothing like looking up things and keeping the keys yourself. If Jane only followed my ex¬ ample "
Mr. Walter paused apruptly, seeking in his various pockets, witb nervous haate, for something whioh seemed not to be forthcoming.
" Very strange," muttered be, biting his lip. " I always put it in lhat waist¬ coat pooket. Possibly I may have laid- it on tbe  table among those papers."
The aforesaid papers rustled hither and thither, like animated snow-flakes, as Mr. Walter hurriedly sought among their con¬ fused masses, but it was all in vain.
"I can't have lost it," he exclaimed, in I looking down at them steadily.
A STORY FOU THE LITTLE POIKS. Willie's Tronblea.
School was out, and Nettie Irving stood at the window watching for her brother Willie, who waa unusually late, and as she eaught a glimpse of him on the opposite aide of the atreet, she ran quickly to open the door, juat in time to aee him shake hia fist threateningly at a boy about his own size, and hear him aay—
" I'll give it to you to-morrow, mister, aee ifl don't!"
" What is that, Willie ?" asked Nettie, as he eame up the steps, his face the very frontispiece for a volume of misfortune.
" Who ia apeaking to you, I should like to know;"' he replied roughly, as he brushed past her and entered the parlor. Nettie's face clouded, and the tears came into her soft, blue eyes, for she lov¬ ed her brother very dearly. He waa ait¬ ting moodily in the parlor when she en¬ tered, and he looked so cross and nnnatu¬ ral Nettie dare not speak to him, bnt pass¬ ed on to the open piano, where she had been practising, and sat down.
" Perhapa if I play him that pretty, new song, he will feel better," she thought.— " He always likes to have me play or sing to him whon he comes home from school;" so she run her nimble fingers along the keys in the soft, sweet prelude, and waa just ready to join her voice with the charming accompaniment, when Willie spoke out sharply—
"I wish you would stop that tormented drumming. Nobody asked yon to play."
Nettie's fingers dropped instantly; she turned around upon her atool and sat mo¬ tionlesa a moment, then moved noiselesaly aerosa the room, and Willie heard ber soft footsteps on the stairs and along the upper passage, and when she opened the, door of her own room, a quick sob, as if she had held her feelings in check as long as possi¬ ble.
"Well, I've done it to-day, I guesa; halfthe boys in school are mad with me, and now I have almoat taken Nettie's bead off. 0 dear, that ia where all my good reaolutions go to."
"Why, has my littlo boy got home ?" said Mrs. Irving opening the door at that moment. "I have been down town, and came up by your school house on purpose to walk home with you,butI thought your school was not out, so I made a call on my way home."
"Yes, it was out, but I was kept." "Why, Willie, how did that happen ? Did you not have your lessons perfeetly ?" "No, and I was tardy besides." "You left home in season,did younot ?" Willie did not answer, but kept work¬ ing hia   feet under the hearth rug, and
oq
bright eyes, and yielding to its spell, she | seven long years a lonely, desolate  man,
my soul filled with ceaseless regrets for that darling Meta. With your love, I will be no longer lonely. You are all tbe mother Alice has ever known—be that mother indeed. Come, darling, let us not play with our.own happiness. Lay your hand in mine, and give me the gift of betrothal, and I will be the happiest of
laid her head upon the window-ledge, and yielded herself to the embrace of tho drowsy god. (What an immense amouni of sque—embracing lhat fellow does, to be sure!) Now, it so happened that Mr. Leighton had arrived in the heat of that bot afternoon, and feeling—what with weariness, heat, and musquitos—unfit for sleep, he hired a cab to carry him to "Heath Hall". There was not a glimmer of light to be seen wbea he reached the hall at eleven o'clock; and, paying the man, he entered quietly by nieans of a night-key whieh he carried in bis poeket. As he stood in the wide hall, a feeling of deso¬ lation came over him. Where were now the fiying feet that were wont to greet bis coming.? Alas' tbose feet were still now—they tired early walking over rough roads. He would seek the library—the moon would lighl him well; and there he conld best realize he was at home once more.
He was in the middle of tbe room when the white-robed figure lying in the window, caught his eye.
A woman ! Who could she be ?
He moved softly to the window, and gazed upon the sleeping face. The brown eyes were hiden beneath' their "curtain¬ ing lids", biit sutely the faoe waa the face I ot the: oluld, Norma.   And yet eould it
dire perplexity. "And every one of those notes is locked up in the safe,, with bo earthly chance of ever getting at it. But lam certain tbo key can't be lost—I never lose anything ! It won't do to wait many more minutes—I'll just put on a clean shirt and run down town. Hang that confounded key !"
Mr. Walter hastened np to his dressing room to complete tbe details of his toilet ere he left tho house; but his trials were not yet destined to terminate. He'was a methodical man, therefore, hia wardrobe was carefully locked ; he always kept things in one plaoe, therefore the keya were anugly reposing in one corner of the inaccessible iron safe.
He rushed frantically back to the li¬ brary, hoping faintly tbat the key might be on the mantle-place, where he had not yet searched. No, it was not there; but a treacherous inkstand was, the contents thereof, by one unlucky sweep of the el¬ bow, descended in an ebon cataract over bis shirt front—the shirt fronl upon which alone he had depended.
"Well, here is a catastrophe!" he mur¬ mured gloomily, staunching the inky flow with his packet handkerchief. "How¬ ever, I can button my coat over for the present. Let me aee—there is that mo¬ ney I promised to pay Smithson to-day, and "
Norma did lay her hand in his; but the kiss he had to litoop his handsome face to get.
" Two weeks later, there was a quiet wedding at "Heath Hall," where Norma, by a little myatic ritaal, waa converted inlo Mrs. Horace Leigton.
- ai ¦ ^ le     .
Two cardinals found fault with Kaph- ael for having, in one of his pictures, given too florid a complexion to St. Peter and St. Paul. " Gentleman," said the artiat, ill-})leased with the criticism, " don't be snrprised. I paint them just as tbey look in Heaven. They are blushing vrith shame to see the Chnrch helow so badly governed."
When yon find your property (but mind not your person) ia mnning|to waste, then only it ia justifiable to poll in.
Man withont a bntton ia hopelessly adrift, not less so than a ahip wi^out its needle.
He stopped short, a cold dew of dismay breaking out on bis forehead—the money drawer was a fixture of the iron safe I
Penniless and shirtless, what more des¬ perate state of affairs could his worst ene¬ my deaire for him ? .
There was a lower deep yet, however— would ho not be characterless, likewise, if his wife should, by any inopportune chance, discover that he, the model of rule and order, had lost hia key! So tho't Mr. Water, as he went off to a day of per¬ plexities and mortifications.
" If ever Iteaae Jane again aboutloaing things," he muttered inwardly, aa he en¬ tered the room on returning home," I hope to be drowned wilh a handre 1 weight of keys ahont my neek 1 It'a certainly a judg¬ meut upon me!"
He unbuttoned hia coat as he apoke, forgetful of the inkataina of the morning. Jane uttered a faint scream, aud ahrank baok exclaiming:
" My dear Philip, what ia the matter with your shirt ?"
" The matter! Oh !" said he coloring and laughing, " I remember now—^IspiU a little ink over ic thia moming. It dont signify much"
" Do let. me get ont another, -deul' :;" No, no/' MidlM Mgtirltf 4«ti^UBgba I ipntle b<ir^
"What ia the trouble, Willie ? You look as if you had no frienda in tbe world."
"I haven't as I know of" "Willie !"
"I suppose you are," he said apologeti¬ cally, "but I guess you are the only one. Everybody ia put out with me but you and father."
"What has happened to make you feel so wretched my child ?"
Well, you see, mother, it is just tbis. Last night, before I went to sleep, I went to thinking over the things I had done through the day I ought not, and thinks I, now lo-morrow I will try very hard not lo do one thing I sball be sorry for; but when I got up thia morning I forgot all about it, and never onee thonght till I came in from acbool. My resolutions dont amount to much any way."
Whal have you done  lo day  that you regret."
" From beginning to end I have gone wrong.     Some hoiv,  things did not go rigbt all the morning at school. I missed two or three times ; the teaoher waa cross to me.   But the worat came this afternoon- Just after I started for school the fire bells rang, and pretty soon a lot of the boys came running along,  and  called, 'Come on. Will, we are going to tbe fire; plenty of time before school;'  and I did not mind what you had told me, never to to  a fire unless aome~older person  was with me, but followed ou as faat as I could.     It was away down to the North End, ever  so far,  and  after  all  there wasn't anything to be seen but a little black amoke, and ever so many people. I knew it waa paat school time, and I kept coaxing the boya to go,  but they wouldn't for a long time;   and as soon aa they started lhey began to plague me be¬ cause I was such a scarecrow ahout every¬ thing.   George Lovell aaid:   'Well, you missed to-day, and I'm glad of it,  ain't you, boys?'   They all aaid,  'Yea,'  and tben  George took off his cap and aaid, 'Three cheers for Tot Irving !'    When I got to school, I couldn't study a bit, the letters all mn together so;   of course I ^ould not say bardly any of my lesson; the teacher punished us qll, and we bad to stay and recite after acbool;   but the minute we got out, George Lovell set the boya all on again, and they called me namea and everything.    I wiah George Lovell waa dead and buried.    I'll give him something to-morrow he won't forget, I'Ubetl"
" Is thia Willie living, at lome wioked fiuiy, eome in the shape of my nguallj
" Why it is me mother, and not exact¬ ly me either; but I want you to promise me that I needn't go to school any more. It is a great deal easier to be good when I am at home with you. Yon can fit me for college, can't you ?''
" Perhaps I oan, so far as hook knowl¬ edge is concerned; but ifl keep you bere with me, and do not let you get toughen¬ ed by contact with the world, yon will not be fitted to encounter the temptations you will find there."
_ "I will risk it. When I gel big enough to go to college I shall nothave any trou¬ ble."
"You think you will obey the com¬ mandments when you get lhere,do you ?" Willie looked up into his mother's face with a puzzled expression, as mueh as to say, •' have I broken them."
" Repeat lhem to me, Willie, and see if there are any you have broken."
Willie commenced alowly,—" ' God spake these words, and said, I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods but me.' Haven't broken tliat," he said, with emphasis on the last word. " Go on," said Mra. Irving. Slowly Willie repeated them, pausing inquiringly at the end of each,lill he came to fhe fifth.
" la lhat the one ?" he asked. I don't know as I quite honored you when I dis¬ obeyed you tbia afternoon."
" It was hardly the one 'I meant, but you wHl do well to remember and heed it. What is the next ?"
" Thou ahalt do no murder. Thou shalt not^"
" Stop a moment, Willie, till we talk a little about the aixth."
" Why, of course I haven't broken that. I haven't killed anybody."
"Did I not just hear you say, I  wish George Lovell was dead and buried ?" " Yea; but that wasn't killing him." "In yonr anger, did you not think you wanted to kill him ?"
" Yes, I did. I told him I would kill him."
" Well, Willie, God looka upon you aa a murderer.    You havo fallen out with ono of your little playmates—" " He begun it."
" Very well, did not the wicked men who pnt the Saviour to death begin it, and yet did He not say, amid all their bitter taunts, their cruel tortures, 'Father forgive them;' and cannot my little boy be enough like the blessed Jesus to say that ?"
¦fho tears began to run down Willie's oheeks, bnt he did not speak.
"Poor litlle Georgie, you have fine times playing ball and marbles with bim. If he was dead you would misa him very mueh, and his empty seat in the school room would look very lonely, wouldn't it ? I dare say he is sorry by this time. You forgive him now, don't you ?"
"0 yea, indeed] do; I wish it wab morning now, so I could tell him. It ahall be a betler day to-uiorrow than it has been to-day." „.,
" Don't trust in your own strength too much. I am afraid you did not aak God to help you this morning."
" No, I did not, but I will to-morrow." Tho tea bell rang and ended the con¬ versation. Nettie was eoming slowly down' from her room, and the moment Willie caugbt sight of her, he ran to her, and, clasping both arms about her neek, whis¬ pered—
' Do forgive me, Nettie,, for being so cross. I must hear that new song just as soon as supper is ended."
Tbere was an exchange of friendly kisses ; it was all "made up," and hand in hand lhey went oat to the cheerful supper room.
Willie stood by the window the nexl morning repeating to himself the sixth commandment, and chanting to himself in a low voice, "Lord have mercy upon ME and incline Jir heart to keep thia law," when George Lovell came -alowly along the atreet.
, "Georgie, Georgie," ahouted Willie, tapping upon the window, "wait for me, wait till I get my geography."
Mrs. Irving smiled, and went to the window to watch the meeting between the two boya. Willie boanded down the steps and held out his band.
'• Wc are two big fools to get mad with each other,"j^said Willie bluntly. - " I know it, Willie," responded George grasping tightly the proffered liand. " I was 80 sorry Ittst night I used you so, I cried myself to sleep I'll never do so again, if you will just forgive me this time, and I wont let the boys plague you either." Happily the two went on to the school¬ room, and the other two boys seemed lo have forgolten all about it, for they greet¬ ed Willie cordially; the teacher smiled and called him her dear little scholar,and everything went just right with Willie that day.—Arthur's Home Miujizine.
EXAMINER & HER ALB
CARD, BOOK AWD JOB
PRINTING   OFFICE.
KO. 32 KORTH QUEEK ST., LANCASTElt, PA.
BUl Hflaan. Rotfll BegtaUn,
CbecliB, Kolen,
BaHlD«fit) Cards,     Dr«fU, Hoob-, Fu.[iipblpts, Btioff CardB,
FaaerHl Rotlcen, Bi^ls ofFare, BUleta, DrasglKt's I-abela, ViBitlng Carda, BlaokB. rrugratntnes,        PoHtarfi. Vaper Boobs,
CoDHtitallons,        Order Boolts, Sale BUIn, Uc.
Printed at Short Notice.
Tbiu ostabUubiDetit contalDn tb« UrgflHt, neataet and best auortment or Prlatlos Typss, )a tb« city of l>ao> caster, which eaables as to f£et ap work far Anperlor lo any other eHtabliHhmeat.
In addltlotL to oar.faet Printlog Taylor and Hoa Freiiqea, we bavo Introdaced one ot BAbcock'e Pateot Power Jobbers, which for n«at, ciuso and beaotlfnl priatiog cannot be ezcalled. WUb tbia Pri'ds wa are enabled to prlat BUl Headu, Circnlars, Cardx, &c., at aaprecedented low price.-.
We reapectraUylnvUo the pablio to call andeiamtn* onr Freshes, Materlr.18 aod f>peelmene, which we wlU at all tiuea be pluancl to Hhow then.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICB. Estate of Levi Fownali, Br-, late of Sadsliary Township, deceased.    '
LKTTERS testamentary on said estate hsvtDf been granted to the ao'ler'IgDed, ail per- bona indebted Ibereto ir« regaealed to make ImmedtatA payment.aad ibone bartogclalmsordflrnrtoiis agalniic the samd will preneot tbem withont delay for eettle¬ meat to the aad«ral(;aed £xflcat>>rH
LEVI i'rtWSAI.L. •  OtOaOIA POWNALL, OiiOliGii ?iTKELli. fab 7-fl»t-12 ,^ Exacatora.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICB.
Estateof John Peoples, iate of Prondonce-twp
Lancaster County, dec'd.
LJ'jTTKRri Tostameuciirj'un f-aid estate ba'P'inn beon granted to th9 aadiirflgnod all per- aunx Indebted thereto ara rcqae-ted to Diski ImnmdUt- aettlemnot. aod tlioae haTlag cUlmtt or domaadttagaiDtf the Hame will prRi^eotttiom withoat delay for Mitle- uent (0 the nadnrHleDHtl f,
ABNER P8i)l'LBgr''9idingiDSlra«bare-tWp, or BIKaU FiSOl'LES, rcajdlog la Pnir- feb4-6:*l 1 Idencg- twp
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. ~
Estate ofHenry Schenck, late of West Done- gal-twp., Lancasterfo.. dec'd.
LET'I hKb 'i'estameutary ou said Es¬ taie having bego granted ta tDa aodernlgoed. all \liln\}\l•^ Indebted Ihereto nro rtqaasieJ tu makt )mffi(»- diate ^e tlemeot, and tboue bariog clatmrt (tr demaods ag^innt tbe Humn will prtiHeDt tbem wiiboat del«y to tha aadernif^oed, reeidiug in s^id towai-hlu febj-ll til* A1AR7 aOHK.>CK. Execatrix.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Abraham Hersbey, late of Wes'
Hempfield twp, dec'd.
LETTEitb tcstameut-ify oa ("aid estat- ha7lDg been Kranted to tb^ aadarni^in.'d. alt per- ptiDH loddbted tbereiu ar« rfqaeaied lo lualiQ iiometlinle eettlaaieut.and thoit* baTiui; clittmt ur demaodn aaainst tbn ri>tTau will pfei^eat tbam Wltbont dbUy for erttle- maat to ttt- anderaigoud. rexi'tidg iu f.iiil lowaabto. ]an24 6i«-9 BENJiMlN KOuT.ExecatM.
" Jancj (Kolartb ^rintmi.
TbiB establlbbiaant contiaae^ to take the lead iQ the PrloUog of BBO>'ZB and COLOKED WORK and we defy ccrmpetitloa ia thia purttcclar brancb.
Thooe of onr citlzaas wbo detire oeatly Printed Woric ofthis deseriptioo are respectfally lavited to call acd exaniinn t>peeiaena.
KXECUn>R"S NOTICE.
Estate of Uichael Hoffman, lace ofCe'.oy twp,
deceased.
LETTERS Testameotary oa saici o.<state haviog been graated t<> toe anderHUaed, atl perfiona Indebted therelo ara reqaeatHd to maHe im • mediate oettlameut.aod tboea baviug cluhat or demaoda agaiost the NaiifiwilJ pie^eot them wUooat delity for aeitlement to tbs ooderotEoed i'xacaturtt,
BBNJa.MlN HOPm&.N.Caaoy twp. SHCUAtiL If. HOFFilAN, taat D .oegal. jaa ai. 6"I-9
D. G. SPREOHER, WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER
— 1  K —
Oigars, Snuff and Tobacco,
No 14^ North Qoeen Street,
LANCASTER, Cfl., OPPOSITE MIGDAEVS nOTEL.
HAVING fitted up the room nest door to HeitHhn'a Hat Store, he is oow prepared to accommndate cooniry dealere aod the pablic sener. ally with the liei«t t'JGaHS. TOBACCO aod i-MDFF ever olfered io tLe Uity of Liocititer. Hl^ atock coohidta Iq part of tbe followiog brands :
CIGARS:
H&rL Kari, Jockey Clab.
Wabhln(;tno, Caroaa Dogal.
Eilaworth, Americaa Goaaio.
La Fidelia.
SIXES AKD HALP SPAKISH
and every brand tn be obtained in tba market.
TOBACCO:
'Fine Cttt Andaison's Soi-ca,        Piantation,
Bearl'K P-'ligbt, Tallauai:,
Cba':apeube Hay.      SanoySlda, Cavendiah, Plonoder, BlacksoaiiOj Congreea, Natural Leaf, Coarta Twiet. &c-
SNUFFS:
VemathV Bappea,
Scented Happea,
'¦¦oicb. Maccaboy, Ac.
J3"A11 ordei'6 promplly filled «t reanooabie raleii...£S
iUr. Kpfscber reiipectfulfy inviteia  bis coaotry friends
togive hima caU,a)4 he feels ccnfldeot he can give
entififHCtion in nil article? ia bie line of baeiuaaa.
jaaai    6m-9
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Phoebe Miller, late of Bart-twp,
Lancaster Cotmty, Bec'd.
LETTEKS testamentary on eaid estate ' havini: been z^a.'axtd to tha noderaipoed, all p r- buud lodobted thareto are reqaeated to maUe inimndiata eettlement. an't tbosa liavinK claima ur demauils againf*: tbe eKtae will preeeat tbem wlthoat delay to tba onder¬ sigoed, reuldlng la t<aid tuwa^Dlp. jan'il ttt-& Wjl.L KAKKSTRAW, Execator.
EXECUTOR'S NOTlcE
Estate of Jacob Spotts, laca  of   CarnarroD
Township,  deceased.
LETTKRS testiimentary on said estate havlog been granted to the nnderaisoed, all per- ttuua indebted thereto are reqneated to makM immediate payinent, and tooae having claim"or demanda afalnet Che pame will preaaot tbem withoat deity for eattla- meot to the ood^rRi^ed, realdiug in hatd towuahip. JAUSS iUcCAA. Jaa21-0t 9 I-xecator.
CIGARS AND SMOKING TOBACCO
N.   W.   HAINES   &.Co.,
(LATK OF \Vi^"CllE.STt;R, VA.,)'
!IA.NL'r.\(.TrKKKS OF
Fine Cigars of Various Brands,
\\^E also huve on hajid a lot of very
Tti   fiiB Yirgiuiu fcMOKlNO TOUACCO, in cans and iu paperf.   '
Jtaf Atl ;;nodf; Diade nf ri^E iniiti>rliiV and of ooop HOrk(iiaDHhi[;, .tLd wMrraiil-rd to (iiv* ^itti(!fe<:tioD.
S. IV. IMI.'it::* AC^i.,
noviC-6m      No. 53, Wi'.«t Kir.^ ytrn-t. l-rinciMer. Ps,
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOT/CB. Estate of Thomas King, late of Fulton town¬ ship, dec'd. LETTERS teatameut:57 on said estate having been  graated to tbe anoeralgned, all P'teona iodtibted tboietv are req'ieated tomane imme¬ diate settlement, and  thObe bavie;; clalma or deoiaudn againKt lhe satco will  preaeat thmu wltb-;T)t delay for aettlement to the uoderaigned, r^aidlLf; m i-ald twp. Lir.'DLbT KIKO. febll-til*12 AdutlKtctrator. .
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
Estato of Joseph L. Detweiler, late of West'
Hempfield-twp, dec'd.
LETTERS of administration on said ^ estate having beea grao:ed tu the osderaigosd, ' a:t iierfODfi lodebled threto are r'=iaefi»>d to toake Im¬ mediate aettlemeat.xod thiiSa baviug elalma ordemasda against the F-ame will pr^a-iDt tbtia wuboat deUy for aettleiceat to tbe audeialgnad, reaidiog in aald tcwa- ship. HAilAH DITWII-BK,
HENBY G*'NKLI>-. feb il-t2.6t Admtuistratore.
SEGAR AKD TOBACCO HTUKE.
rpHAT Old Stand, No.—, W. KING
Jl ET.iBacbod doorhelow tbeCroBs Keys Tavero,coq. taios tbe flnest aod bor-t a^aotttiieDt cf Beware and To¬ bacco ofevery desorlptioo in ttta city. The «tock con- liiMaof tbe fiaenl H.cd heat qnalUleaoI Havaua,PrloelPefl and YaraSegarf oferery variety. Oerniau and Amerl¬ cao Sixea and Balf-SpiioUh Segare. Roogh nod Ready, Bow Twiet, Fig, Eldorado,CongresaaadTwiatTobaccoB. Snaff ofevery variely. Pipes'.Snaff and Tobacco Boxes, and ageneral variety of Faucy Gooda beloogiog lotbr tixde. All of which will lie eold at prieea toauit por- chaeere, wholesale and retail hy tbe proprietor.
ALSO,   Kentncky, Mayarille, Maryland, Ohio & I'SDoa. B«ed leafTobacco tn Iota to aufl   m&nofaelare
lan«6-ly'-2?! P-'J. BBKRMAS.
ADMINISTRATORS I-JOTICE. Estate ofHenry W. Froe, Ute of £a&t Doneg-al township, deceased.
ETTEKd of admiuistration with, the
_wiU annexed, on said eatata baViog been graoied tu tue nBder-iRued, aU p«r*ona iodsbtfd thereto jira re¬ qneated tomake imme-lUteatittlement.aQd tbatbe bavin;; claima or demandK atraloat the ^nme wUI pr^^et't ihein withont delay f»r aeltlemeut tu 'bu oaderKiguad. rettidiug Id aaid towrablp. CHKiaTiAK WALTKK.
febl) At*i2 iduitul.'<t.-;tlor.
(rarden
Seeds ^   Garden Seeds
AD.MINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of 'William A. fchelly, ,ftI.D., lata of
VUaxvsrxo^ XovffxxatltVt deo'd.
LETTKRS ot adimuittrjiiuu on i-aid ei-tite haviug been graoted to tbe nudersi>:aed. all pateooB Indrbiod tberet-J H-e rt^q-ier-ttid i» maS* iiume¬ diate eett'emeut, aud ihti-u baviut; clAlm.t or di^maDd-i agaliiat 'he aame wUl pre-ent th-jm wit«oat demy fiir aettlement to the uaderalgned, r'-aiding iu aaid l«iWa- ,.btp. TUuUi* .-^HilLLY,
fub 4 6t-U AJinini-irAtor.
pHK Attention  of   Gardener.-*,   Re-
,^    lailcra acd othera Is Invited  lo onr hopply of' FKBSH OAKD£:f SEEDS oftbe growth of IS6-i.
CABBAGE.
Large Early Tori;, Early Cone,
Earlv Imperial.        Early Savoy. Barly tinc.«.r Loaf.     K^d Batch for Pickling. Flat Datch for Pickling, Dram Head,
BEET.
Extra Early Tntoip,      Early H«d Tornlp,
Larga Sogar, Loag Blood.
BADISH.
Early Scarlet, Whit»» Tornlp.
iied Tnrnlp, Tellow Tornlp.
White Snmmer, Black Winter,
BAEiiY WHITE CAULIELOWEH.
Aeparagas, Broceole.
OKIOK.
WhUe ot Silver Skin. Large Bed
BEAKS.
Early Si* Weeka, Early Valeolloe,
Early Uohawk. Lima.
PEPPEB.
Large BeU Pepper, SmaU Bed Pepper.
OYSTEK   PIiAKT,
Marjoram, Rhubarb or Pie Plant.
PEAS.
Extra Early, Large Marrowfat,
Blae Imperial Princa Albert,
Tom Tbamb, Sugar,
Early Biahop'a Dwarf.
CELEBY.
targa WhUe Solid. Bed Solid,
Silver Giaot, Eoymour'a Superb.
Long Oreen Eariy Cocamber.
Loag Grean Saab Sqaaeh.
purple Bgg Plant
Cnrled Paraley, Long Oraoge Carrot.      *
bogar Parsnip.
Akra or Oombo. SMALL WHITE SKED OSlMli*.  . For f^ale Wholaaala aod Retail, at JOHN F. LONG k SONS, DmK aod  Chtimical Store, No. 5 North  Qaeeo Sirewl. I.hncaft»tr. J«n 28 IH tf
ADMINISTK-ATOR'S NOTICE.
Estata of James B Lane, late of the City of
Lancaster, dec'd.
r ETTERS of adiuiuUtration on said _J eatate having be^oKrMnt(Hl totti*! Qoder!-li;a"0, all poraona ladabted thereto aro requeai-d to mikti immedi¬ ate aettlemeol.aad thuBJ bAviiiR claim- or d'."iJ.<ndB agalnftt the f&m« will v''e''*'nt 'l'^'" with'int deiay for aettlemeat to Wm. 8 Fordn-y, Acltg AJmini - :rator SUKTHa LANli. WJI. B. FuitliS'BY. ..  jan2l6ta Adminiatratora.
  ADMINISTRATOR NOTICK.
Estate of Mathias Glauner, lata of SaUsbury township, deceased.
LETTERS of administnition on said estatp bavins ht>ea graulnd tu 'lie uodari-icotid all pereous indabted" thereto are reqasaieJ to mAko Im¬ mediate eeillimep t, and tho-'o li-irlng claima or de¬ mands againat the same will ptaaeui them wilncol delay fjr, *etilemt.-nt lo the tia.i6r>lKceiJ. r-hiolug in aid lowoahtp. BF.VJ. F. Wrt l VSK,
jau7-6t-7 AduiiuiatrBlor.
KOTICE TO  THOSE IKDEBTED
TO THE "LANCASTER UNION."
PERSONS indebted to the *'J>ancaster Ualna" for SahNcrlpti<>n. Advertisintt or Jobbing, are heroby notiDad thatall acconnta daa tbe eNtabll^'h. ment ou the flnt of April next, will tie placed io tbe banda uf a magiatrate for coUeotioo TTp to that time eettiemant can be made at the late office of the Dnion in Ceotrt Sijnare
JOBN a ZSLLBR, Erq, of MoontJoy towonhip.la aothori»d lo mako collecliuuF In  the  wester i eod  of tbe csaoty, and billa hava been farnlibed him for that pnrpobe.                                   THOd. E. COCHKAN. JebU        13 3t
WAKTED,
GOLD,  SILVER of all kinds,  and DNITED STATES DEMAND NOTES wanted, for which the highaat premiom will be paid, at tbe Bank¬ ing Uouae of REED. BEN IIERSON & CO. f«bIt.|f.I3
LASCaSTEB COONTY H.\^K'S UsE va. SAilUEL McCOMSEV,
In tha Coart o( Common Pleas for tho County oC Lan¬ ca-ter. Plarl"H Levari K.tcisa of Jannary Term ISM, Ho. 26, Execution Docket.
T'^HE   nndersiirned Auditor appointed
j|[ to dlatrihaie the proceeda of tlio -a.Ui yf tlia^real CBtate of tha above naui-td de.endMot. now ia the Coar: of Common I'leaa. lo and among tlioae legally entitled tbereio, will ait for that fQipose on lOii^DAY.lhe :id of March. 1S6.S. at 2 o'c'ock P 31 .in lbe Libiary H«om, in the I'oart Hoaae. iu tbe city of Lancaator. waaa aufl where all peraona interesled ar- riqu(.i-ied lo attend. JAUES U. BtYAOt.lla. feb ll-4t-12 Aoditor.
DRUGS, &c.      I80'2,      DRUGS, &c J. B. IttABKLEY,
Wbolasale   and    RetaU    Dealer   lo
DRTTGS,   .AIKDICIxN-ES,   &c.,
No* 41 9forlli <tneen «t.,
Lctc    Kauffman's.)   Lancaster,    Penna.
''I^HK subscriber has just opened thf
JL   lRrK«Bt and best Hock of DRDGS, CHEMICALS. PEKFDMKRY, SOiPS. 4c., aver .>ffa>edin Lancaater. te tbt! atteotion of whlcb ha miliclis a cdil from coantry rrercbuaia and otbera, feeling asaared tbathecAn aeU ut lower rale.« thitn any other boa«D io Lancaater, hav¬ iug  pnrcbaaEd  hla  atock before the advanoa price ol Oooda.    Us loviiea aU lo cali before "'skEng their par chaHea and tvitt tbo matter thomseivo". Hts ootire dock la PKESK, and aoUclud wi'h care and Jodgmeot. J. B  MAKKLEY. 'VVholeaaU Drupgiet aod Apothecary, mar 7-lf-24 4l North Qnean .itreet.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Samuel Crawford, late of Lancaster
1 County, dec'd.
^HE undersigned Auditor, appointod by the Orphaua* Coort of Laacanler c»nuty, to make dlatriballoa of the balat.ce remalulng J« i1»m landaof I'ald Sf.roael Crawford dec'd a-i per hia AdminlHtration acioaat, 'onHrmed by said Cuun.'.ii and auioug ihiBela- Bally entitled to tb) nara«, wfll alt for (hat parpoi^e on Saturday the SSlh dHy cl Febrnary, A.D. IS03, at 11 o'clock. A: M . in the Jnry Koum of the Coort Honae, oo the City of Ltncaster. wbere all perooaa iuierenied io aaid di»<tribatioa may attend. feh4-ll-lt- .I-KTERMARTIN, Aalitor.
* DIVIDBKD.
THE Managers of thc Willow  Street Toropika Compaoy b*ve d^cl&red  » d'.viJoud of peveotv-Bv* ceolh per sbaro pay*tile   uaud a'tfr Feb. 6. Igtj.J, at WUliam Cooper'a Uotel ia tbe City of Lan¬ eaater J. JtJ. F. HBKB. Ieb4* l*-3t
WAKTED, fymS COMING SEASON,
2000 CORDS BLACK OAK BABK,
For whlcb the Aig'A«ff CoiA price will be paid.dellvered at Shirk & Brobalcer'a Taooery, Bird-ia-haod Kailruid StaUoQ, Laacaeter coooty, Pa.
SHIRK & BKUBAKER, Address Koterpriae P. O febl t.tf 13
IKFOBMATIOK   WAKTEB.
AYOUNG man named Luther M. Tooatj, left hla bome In Maocbeater towoahip. York Cooaty, Fov, aboot th* beginoiog of Joly last.aod theflrst place be Uved at after leaviog home wan with Samoel Nluley, uear LaudiavUle Laocaater coanty, wilh whom he remaloed several jnoothi. Ha ief( Ur. Hiaaley'a hoasa on or aboot the llth of September lavt, lioce which time fae baa aot heea beard of He la about 34 years of age. abont 0 feet 6 laehea high, of fair com¬ plexiou. with dark hair asd good froot teeth. Hewas Tery much afflicted with the aattma and phtblalc. Whea laat heard of blm he wa« engaged in peddling niora Any iDfonnatlouor hla whereabonta.daad or alive, will be thaskally neclved, aud any expauae lu- eurred wUl be paid by addreaaloghis fatber, BLIJAH TOOUST. York P. 0., fehU.tI-8t« .    Tork connty, pa.
KOTICE.
THE Oommissioners of Laooaster Oo. h%Ti beeu iaformed tbat a larga amouot of money bM bMa brooght to the flouuty from th* Toluntaara for th* OM of tbolr fhtoiUu: They, therefore, raqu'aat the GoamUtMi of the diffsreot dtatrlots. to rsporMo tl(«m iiam«dlat«lT Ch* uamea of tht families bf eaoh vblii'n- tMT. feb4St-ll   -    'P?a;SBBRMAIf^OUrkw
Fresh Garden Seeds—Kew Crop.
TU E attention of Fanners and Gard- anerx, I. rpqoeftle'l to tho larirg variety of NEW CKOP O&UDEN SEKDif, Juct roceived ao-l f.ir iale wholepali and relail,at J. H. SIARKLEY'S,
may l-lf^li .ApnlliTury  T'orth Qn.* a   t.
MA.WOK TXTRKPIKB HOAD CO.
THE Annual Jleetins  of the Stock- bold«r«..ad Et.ccliin at ofl2.r. will   I.-.  Ji«l.i ftl Hornhnger'H Holel.   MllNrailiH. oa    tVSIi.VEaDlY, Uarch -It't. ISdi, (« 2 o'clock p  in. fatll 3t-12 OEO K BRESBMAH S«c'y.
NOTICE.     '
THE StocklioldtTs of the Lancaster Lo- crimotivA Workn. wilt ntei.t at tbeir oHilcn ia tba Cnyof lnnc«-lsr. on iloNUiT. FhI>. 3J. Iii53. atl o'claclE, P- M, lof lba 9l«clloa of offlcm for tho ensoinfC v,,r. M. O. KU.NB.
'fobll-3112 . Sicr.iiTj.
*•*
ill
fiintlng Inka kegs *nd ouu, of the but qiufilj .ila» O.Maa» Inn; Am u4 TAunn u poMd NU
XS63. X863
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS,
HAGER & BROTHERS'.
1 ^00 ^'^^" ^^^^^^ MATHERS. CHINA, GLASS AND aUEENSWARB. GOLD BAND AND PLAIN-FKENCH CHINA. FANCY AND WHITE STONE CHINA. PlTTSBUllG AND BOSTON GLASSWARE. PLAIN AND FANCY ENGLISH GRANITE WARE.
DKY GOODS.
Bleached and Uobleaobed MasHus. Sheetings
and Pillow Cadings, Farniture ch.'cks.Ta-
bleDiap-^rdand Lineu Ditna^ks.Craah
Bird E/o and Hohkatack Tow-
elingH,   Marseill.*s   Qnilts,
Blankets,   Window
Shades,
CARPETS & FLOOR OIL CLOTHS.
We bavo aow open a romptet* stock of tbe above goods, many of which having been purcbaaed before the great advance, will be eold at low prices.
JaoU-S-tf HAGEE & BROS.
HEMOVAL.
WILLTAM N. AMEB, DENTIST, for flve yean ia etodent aod asfiat- aot of Dr. WATLAN, formerly of thla City, haa removed hlaofflee to the rooma lately' occapied by Dr. McCalla, lo Eaet Kiog at., 2 doon from Cantre Square. wberfLba Is prepared to meet tbOM who laaoy favor blm. with tbelr confldence, and ¦nre tbem lu tha moit-akllUnl'^miiuar, vamotiag ¦AtUUetloft is eTitry r«uo>mbI# e»a<botb as to opert- ttOM Mrfbimtd »ud cluurcM tai tb« luaa. _ .- ¦ucM-'lV' .' i-^.---.' -'*'-WA X. Aim,'
KOTICfi.
ALL persons indebted to the Kstutc.of Col. Ofowe Mayer, dec'd., aru rrnnetted to make payment withou* roriner dolay. Ttie Ktore books are Ui with Mr DaVlDO Si'HEOUKs N... 14^' North Qoean ulieet, who i-wniborMi to recnipt lur lbe ac- couotrt charged thtreia A iacconnt-t aoi wjtUed onor before the Br.-t d^y ot AprU nest will be p.aced la lha banila ofa maciBirate for collaclioo. (ehll-123t    ¦ THOa E   FiiA.NKi.lN, Admln'r,
FUBS rFllRSMFUKS! SHULTZ   & BRO.,
HATTERS.
No. ao NorlJi Q,iieeu St., Lancaster, P«.
Have now opened a fall aa8orim«Dt of
Ladies   and  Misses  Furs, SLEIGHING & BUGGY ROBES,
To which tbe attenii^a of the public is Invited.
SHIPPING FURS WANTED,
.tuch ts Mobkritt, Miuk. Fox. CooQ, Oppon-nm, Babbit ADd &11 other Sitios, aod the higheflt C..h I'licefl paid.
JOHN A. SHDLTZ, dftctl)
Hli.Nxy A. SHOLTZ lf-»
FHEDEBICK   SMITH,
FASHIONABLE HAT andjJ CAP MAMDFiCTOEKE, Ho. n«   We.t*» Klii5 8tr««t.L«lieH'l.r.P«. »•   l-'T"'
m
SJog street. Lanc&al
GEO. W. MEHAKFEY, L U M B K R     Jl E R C n A N T
UARIETTA,   PENNSYLVANIA. AS  on hand  a  large  ai.d  general _ aeeortmeatof
BOARDS, PLASK,
JOISTS. KArrSHS.
SflASTLlSa,     SHraOLES,        »Bi) LATHS. FUaed Wblte Pine for Sheiviag, Plooring and Ceiling, Shlnsle and PUetar   Lath,  Pales, Ac.: also.
Pine and Gait 8tn|[,
005HrAirn.T pa haicp akd bawbd to oanBa.
Also^ SASH, DOOES, SHDTTEBS, Plain and VenlUan
t^Ordera attended to at the ahortert notice, and da
Tared at anr poUt oa tbe Bailroad and Canal.
MU V-U