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4 GOOD CHANCE FOR AN INVEST
n MENT.--The well-known and popular Res
taurant corner Of Pennsylvania and LIST street
at the foot Of the Capitol elegantly fitted up with oil
the bar fixtures liquors, cigars dc, Is for sale.
The lease can be extended at the pleasure Of the
tenant
For Particular, inquire at the place Of
jc 2G-2awd X. nj. A. fENWlOk.
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M g.. EMEKY,s Granite Marble and
Ivus Brown Stone Yard, corner Of B and Second
streets. Office on Second street, between and O
streets. Residence 4ls street, between Sixth and
Reventh nov ~
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MRS, LOW,
Kangfactuy8r Of Ladies' Dress Trimmings,
Fringcs, Gimps, Cords and Tassels,
Fancy Buttons, Regalias, Military Trimmings, Ban.
ners, Flags, &c,
Pennsylvania avenue south side, between ON ana
10th streets. No. 2s7.
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PRosPERI,s CORNET BAND.
FOR RENT.
$4,000 WANTED.
NY PERSON HAVING THE ABOVE

n amount to loan, on the most unexceptionable
real-estate security will hear Of customer By ad-
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PETERSBURG, October II, 1871.
About Eve years ago obtained from Mr.. Tobias,
in Washington, pair Of Glasses for the Spectaces
which used, ard found them Of great assistance 10
my decaying vision; and my opinion Of him is that
he is skilini in the preparation Of Glasses for eyes
not too far gone to be benefited by such aid.
j. f. MAY.
See, for more testimonials, the Evening Star.
auU l5--ly
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TAKE NOTICE.
VNHE undersigned Is prepared TO furnish
n 10 order, Dooking-glasses, Portrait and Pic
ture Frames Of any or pattern also, marbe.top
Pier Tables with brackets Room Moulding. Look
ing-glasses inserted in old frames.
Aiso, all kinds Of old work regilt with despatch,
and on reasonable terms
JOHN WAGNER,
255, Penn. avenue, near Twelfth street.
a. ~ Cuposite Kirkwood House
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
The nrarc., 10 the Grave.

What a mighty procession has been
marching to the grave during the last year.
At the usual estimate, since January 1854,
more than thirtyo one millica FIVE hundred
thousand of the worlds population have
gone down to earth again, Place them in
a long array, and they will give a moving
column of more than one thousand three
hundred to every mile the earth's cir
conference. Only thinE ,ofit! ponder and
look upon this astounding computation!-
What spectacle as they move on, tramp,
tramp,tramp, forward upon this stupendous
dead march,
"Life is short, and time is Geeting,
And our hearts, though strong and brave,
Still like muilled drums are cheating
Funeral marches to the grave"
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
WHOLE NO 1881
Ner1eEnnuenoe.
Wocldes; ;hoa listen to rs geatls teaching.
Al Thy restless ysarniaglii would silI;

wocldas: ;hoa listen to rs seatls teaching.
AL thy restless yearniAglh would siilI;
Leaf, and flower, and laden bee arc preaching,
Thine own sphere, though tumble, first 10 MI.
TRULY has it been said. that "our du-
tiea are like the circles Of whirlpool, and
the innormost includes home A mod
ern writer has designated home heavens
fallen sister," aud melancholy truth lies
shrouded in those few words. Our home
influence is not'a passing; bat an abiding
one; and all powerful for good or evil, FOR
peace strife, for happiness or misery
Each sepersle Christian home has been
linked TO central sun, around which re-
wolves happy and united band OF warm,
loving hearts, acting, lhiuAing, rejoicing,
and sorrowing together Which member
OF tue family group can say. have no in
duence! What SORROW, or wha. happi-
ness, lies in tbs power Of eacb
"a lighted lamp, writes MEbeyne, dis
very small thing and j: burns calmly
and without noise yet it giyeth light to all
who are within the house" And so there
is a quiet influence, which, like the fame
OF a scented lamp, many home with
light and fragrance. Such an influence
has been beautifully compsred to "a car
pet. soft and deep, which, whle it diffuses
a look Of ample comfort. deadels many
creaking sound. It's the curtain which,
from many beloved form, wards of at
once the summers glow and the wini4r's
wind. II is the pillow On which sickness
lays its head and forgets half its misery"
This influence falls as the refreshing dew,
the invigofaiing sunbeam, the fertiizing
shower, shining on all with the mild lustre
OF moonlight, and harmonizing in one soft
tint many Of the discordent hues Of fami-
lY pictpre
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
A yOrd fof Yorng won.

Young man save that penny, pick ur
that pin, let that account be correct n :
iarthing. find out what that bit Of ribbon
costs before you say you will take it,
pay that half dime your friend handed you
TO make change with, in word, be econo.
mical. beaceurate, know what you are doing.
be honest aud then be generous, for all Won
have or acquire, thus belongs to you by
every rule Of right, and you may put it to
any good use. And you viii put it to a
good use, if you acquire il Justly and hon
esiiy, for you have a foundation, a back
ground which will always keep YOU above
the waves Of evil. 1t is no. parsirnonv to
be economical. It is not naiserly to save a
pin from loss. 1t is not selfish 10 be cor
rect in youT dealiag. Ii is not small to
know the price Of aFticks VOC are about 70
purchase, or remember ihe little debt Won
owe. What if you do igeet Bill Pride
deeked out in much better suit than
yours. the price Of which he has not vet
learned from his tailor. and be laughs at
your faded dress and old fashioned notions
OF honesty and right, your day will come.
fFank!ln, who from a penny saving boy,
walking the streets with a roll under his
arm became company for kings, says
take care OF the pennie, and the dollars
viii take care Cf themselves. LATTE.
the celebrated French banker, on leaving
the house to which he bad applied for a
clerkship was not too proud or careless 10
pick upa pin. The simple pin laid the
foundation Of his immense wealth. The
wise banker saw the aes, called him back
and gave him employment, convinced from
this seeming small circumstance of his a.
bility and honesty. Be just and then be
generous. Yes, be always just and gener-
Gus. Beuevolence is great duty, heav-
en- given privilege by which you not only
benefit the object, but feel a sensation Of
JOY. in your own soul which is worth more,
far more than gain. But You may not
give your neighbours goods. Your own
just earnings you should always share
with the needy, but generosity can never
be measured by the amount you lavish on
a fine dress, or that you spend with your
friends to satisfy the requirements of yani-
ty and folly. What if they do pat you on
the shoulder? They would do as much
to any dog that would serve them. 1t is
the service not yourself that gets the fat
terry, or you spend your money for nought,
certainly. Well, let the girls say you are
small, rather th&n spend the dollar You
need for book. Get the book, If it is a
good one. it will tell You that no girl worth
having ever selected man for a hus-
band for his long tailor or livery stable
bill, more than his long ears.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
The Love OF Home.

1t is only shallow minded pretenders,
who either make distinguished origin a
matter Of personal merit, or obscure origin
a matter Of ofpcrsonal reproach. Taunt and
soothing at the humble condition OF early
life affects nobody in this country but those
who are foolish enough to indulge in them,
and they are generally sufficiently punish
ed by the published rebuked. A man who
is not ashamed of himself need not be a.
shamed of his early condition.
1t did not happen to me to be born in a
log cabin, but my elder brothers and sis
ters were born in a log cabin, raised among
the snow drifts of New Hampshire, at a
period so early, that when the smoke first
rose from its rude chimney, and curled
over the frozen hill, there was no similar
evidence of white mans habitation be-
tween it and the Settlements ON the rivers
of Canada. Its remains still exist l make
itan annual visit. carry my children to it,
to teach them the hardships endured by
the generations which have gone before
them. l love to dwell upon the tender
recollections, the kindred ties, the early
affections, and the narrations and incidents
which mingle with all 1 know of this prim-
tive family abode. l weep to think that
none of those who inhabited it ere now a
mong the living; and if ever fail in afec
tionate veneration for him who raised it,
and defended it against savage violence
and destruction, cherished all the domestic
virtues beneath its roof, and through the
fire and blood ofseven years Revolutionary
war, shrunk from no toll, no sacrifice, to
serve his country and to raise his children
to condition better than his own, may my
name, and the name of my posterity, be
blotted forever from the memory of man
kind.-Ddniel WeJStsr.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
The Art OF Thinking.

One Of the best modes Of improving
the art Of thinking, is to think over some
subject before You read upon it, and then
observe after what manner it has occurred
to tie mind Of some great master, you will
then observe whether you have been too
rash or too timid, what you have omitted
and what you have exceeded, and by this
process you viii iusensibly catch the man
ner in which great mind views a great
question. 1t is right to study, not only
TO think when any extraprdinary incident
provokes you to it, but from time to time
to review what has passed, to dwell upon
it, and to see what trains OF thought VOL
unfairly present themselves to your mind.
1t is most superior habit in soue minds to
refer all the particular truths which strike
them to other truths more general, SO that
their. knowledge is beautifully methodized, /,
and particular truth at once leads to the
generaltruth. This kind of understanding
has an immense 4 decided superiority over
those confused heads IL which one fact is
piled upon another. without any attempt
st classification and arrangement. Some
men always read with PENN their hand,
and commit TO paper any new thought
which strikes them, o!hers trust 10 chance
for its appearance.
Which Of these is The best method in the
conduct of the understanding, must, 1 sup
pose, depend a good deal upon the under
Standing in question. Some men can do
without preparation-others little with it;
some are fountains, others reservoirs.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
Old Tin,e Piece.

The following lines, says the Rochester
American, may be seen on an old clock in
Scrantum's auction store. The clock was
made by "Tobias & Co., liverpool and
London" and is a hundred years old
Stills "going," going" like the auction
eer, and is likely to be "going" long aftel
the auctioneer has been "struck off" and
"gone!"
"f am old and worn as my face appears,
For have walk'd on Time for Hundred years!
Many have fallon since begcn,
Many DiIfaH ere my course is run!
Ihave bariedthe psrid with itshopes and fears,
In my long lone march ofa huHired years."
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
Mysterious PIovidences.


One man sucks an orange and is clicked
by pit, another swallows penkniie and
lives; one runs thorn into his hand and
no skill can save him, another has the
shaft of a gig driven completely through
his body and rccoyeFs; one is overturned
on a smooth common and breaks his neck,
anothe-is tossed outof a gig over Brighton
Cliff and survives; cne walks out on a
windy day and meets death by brickbat,
another is blows up in the air, like Lord
Hatton in Gurnsey Castle and comes down
uniniured. The escape of this nobleman
was indeed miracle An explosion OF
gunpowier, which killed his mother, wife,
and some OF his children, and many other
persons, and blew up the whole fabric of
the castle. lodged him in his bed on wall
overhsnging tremendous precipice.-
Perceiving mighty disorder, las well he
might be was going to leap out of his
bed to know what the matter was, which
if he had done be had been irrevocably lost;
but in the instant of his moving fash of
lightning came and showed him the preci-.
pice, whereupon he lay still till tho people
came and took him down.-Boston Tam
scTipt.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01

The RIGHT KIND OF PREAcH1NG.-Itw was
a beautiful criticism made by Longinus up.
on the effect of the speaking of Cicero and
Demosthenes. He says, the people would
90 from one of Cicero's orations, exclaim-
ing, "'Whata beautiful speaker! what
rich fine voicel What an eloquent man
Cicero isp' 7Hey talked Of Cicero, but
when they left Demosthenes, they said:
"Lst usJgM Philip" Losing sight Of
the speaker, they were all absorbed in the
subject; they thought not of Demosthenes,
but of their country. So, my brethren,
let US endeavor to send away from our
mnistrations the Christian, with his mouth
full of the praises, not of "our preacher"
but of God; and the sinner, not descanting
upon the beautiful figures and well turned
periods of the discourse, but .inquiring,
with the brokenness of a penitential heart,
."What shall do to be saved?" so shall
we be blessed in our works and when call
ed to leave the watch-towers of our spirit
ual Jerusalem, through the vast serene,
like the deep melody of an angels song,
heavens approving voice shall be heard
DR.. CLdrk's Sermon.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
To Whom lt May Concern.

Men of wealth who have many children
should remember that at their death prop
erty is to be divided amongst them, max
ing the share of each small, and that it is
positively unjust to establish in them hab-
its that great wealth alone can sustain. 1t
not unfrequently happens that youngpeo-
pie who have been reared in idleness by
wealthy and weak parents, soon spend
their patrimony when left TO themselves;
then as there are but three ways of obtain
ing living--that is, either by working,
begging, or stealing; and as they do not
know how to work, or would not if they
did, they naturally become either beggars
or thieves.-LouS. Joar.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
DOCTOR FRANKLIN
AND HIS MOTHER

1t was an idea Of Doctor Franklin's if
not settled opinion, that mother might,
by kind of instinct of natural affection,
recognize her children, even though she
had lost the recollection of their features.
And on visit to his native town of BoS-
ton, he determined topascertain by expert
met whether his theory was correct or
not.
On bleak and chilly day in The month
of January, the Doctor, late in the after
noon, knocked on the door of his mothers
house and asked to speak with Mrs Frank
lin. He found the old lady knitting be-
fore the parlor fire. He introduced him
self, and observing that he understood
she entertained travellers, requested lodg-
ings for the night
She eyed him with that cold look of dis
appreciation which most people assume
who imagine themselves insplted by being
supposed to exercise an employment which
they deem degree below their real occu-
patton in life. She assured him he had
been misinformed-she did not keep tav-
ern, nor did she keep house to entertain
strangers. 1t was true, she added, that
to oblige some members of the Legislature,
she took small number of them into her
family during the, session; that she had
four members of the Council and six of
the House of Representatives, who then
boarded with her, and that all her beds
were full.
Having said this she resumed her knit
ting with that intense application which
said, as forcibly as action could, if you
have concluded your business, the sooner
you leave the house the better. But on
the Doctors wrapping his coat about him,
affecting to shiver, and observing th at the
weather was very cold, she pointed to a
chair and gave him leave to warm himself.
The entrance of boarders prevented all
further conversation. Coffee was soon
served, and he partook with the family
To the coffee, according to the good old
custom of the times, succeeded plate of
pippins, pies, and a paper Of tobacco, when
the whole company formed cheerful smok-
ing semi circle before the fire.
Perhaps no man ever possessed colloqui-
al powers in more fascinating degree
than Doctor Franklin, and never was there
an occasion on which he displayed them
to better advantage than the present one.
He drew the attention of the company by
the solidity Of his modest remarks. instruct
ing them by the varied, new and striking
lights in which he placed his subjects, and
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
cop MY MOTHER.

Rev. Charles Morgan,o of East Troy, Wis
consin, in giving an account of religious
revival in that place, says:
An infdel oftalent and respectability,
under the power CT Truth, bowed upon lis
knees and cried in agony:
God of my mother, have mercy upon
me-
His mother is devoted Christiau,in the
State of New York.
God ofmy mOtherl' How much is re-
yealed in that single exclamation--how con-
clusively proves thatthisman had amoth-
er whose faithfulness left its impression on
his soul too deep TO be obliteratcd by time
and sin.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
e!xth Sense of the aat.

The animal senses are usually consider
ed to be i've in number, viz: smelling,
hearing, seeing, tasting and feeling. But
besides jhese, bats are endowed with sixth
sense, which enables them, during night,
to avoid all obstacles withoutthe aidofsight.
The celebrated naturalist, Spallan2ani, long
since found'by experiment, that bats de-
|prived ofsight, by having wax placed over
their eyes, still avoided obstacles as per-
fectly ashley did with aeiF.: ei, entire sight.
More recently Others ,ere tlyeonfrmed tho
truth of This curious faceRy various and re-
peated trials, and it has also been found
that the destruction of hearing, as well as
Of sight made no difference in this respect;
but that without exercise of either of these
senses, the bat would fly through apertures
Just large enough to admitit without touch
ing. In the course ofthese experiments,
numerous small threads were drawn across
the room at various angles, and still the
bat flying aboutin every possible direction
never touching one of them even by acci-
dent, NJ. Jardine supposed that this sense
was lodged in the expanding sense of the
nose, but that several species want this pc
culiar nerve. Others had believed that
the peculiarity in question depended on the
vibration of the air, which striking against
the impediment, returned sound by which
the bat was warned of its direction. But
since it was found that deafness made no
difference in the facts, naturalists have
proposed no theory to account for this Gu
rious Circumstance.-Rom Journal.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
SocrErY's CEMENT Social, affectionat

Soc1ErY's CEMENT.-SOcial, affectionate
friendship, is the only principle that in
any degree cements society. Without this
society is only broken mass of frag-
ments. How dear to the heart is that kind
and affectionate neighbor who seems to be
looking after the health and prosperity OF
all around him. OF more intrinsic value
are the honors bestowed on the individual
whose countenance wears the smile ofun-
feigned friendship, than all the fawning
batteries the hero or monarch is heir to.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01

You've WoMEN-An eminent writer
says thatvery young ladies cannot be said
to have any conversation. Experience,
knowledge Of society, acquirements gradu-
ally and imperceptibly accumulated, are
requisite before person can be properly
said to converse. The female character
is, from its attributes, peculiarly under the
control of circumstances, and the influence
of other and stronger natures. There
cannot be more momentous condition
than that Of a young woman under TWEEN
ty. A fool may win her admiration, and
her character becomes for a time frivolous.
Many a noble spirit in woman has been
checked by an ill-placed first affection;
but if she be fortunate enough 10 place an
early dependence upon worthy object,
the tenor Of her life is determined. 1t is
observable that in youth, women cannot
understand friendship towards men,
Girls never stop at that point There is
always tinge Of love in their sentiments
towards intimate associates of the other
sex. Hence the dangerous ascendancy
acquired by their male instructors, and by
other less attractive and less meritious in
dividuals, over women who have been
even delicately nurtured.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
MY Motner.

"dy mother. manhood = nxiOus brow
! Aud sterner cares have long been mine,
YetiHrn 10 thee foHdly now,
! As when upon thy boson's shrine
Ny infant grief were genly hush'd to rest,
And thy low whispered prayers my slumtar,
bicss'd."
The cordof human nsympathy untouched
to the word "Mother," can yibrate 10 no
concord Of sweet sounds" From the
earliest cradle prayer, down through in
fancy and boyhood, 70 the Threshold Of
mans estate-when the parting benedic.
tion rests on the son as he steps into the
world, and the mother can only follow him
with her blessings-the fergent tones, the
gushing tears, the tremblinghopes of that
mother burn in the memosy, and those
sweet recollections, as a star ofhopc, guide
his unsteady feetthrough life.
The mother draws the tend1l Of the del
icate vine Of youth close to her beating
heart. and teaches it how TO grow, and
whore to run; and as she guides the cling
ing vine, so it fastens itself TO the firm pillar
OF stern integrity, or trails along the dew
GUS path of dishonor.
''1he mother, in her Office, holds hickey
ofthe soul; and she ii is who stamps the coin
or character, that makes the being, who would be
savage
But for her gentle cares, Christian man."
1t needs neither prose or poetry to ar
que convincingly the controlling power of
the mother over the future destiny of the
child. The exception is rare, in which
If Influence and example have been virtu.
GUS and good-the after life Of the child
has not been swayed and improved by it.
True, the good seed, sown and .watered
with the tears and prayers of sainted
mother, may long be buried under the
tolls, the cares, the temptations of busy
life, and even the lips which uttered those
prayers, and eyes which wept those tears, |
may for years rest closed in death; before
a blade from that seed bursts forth. Yet
sooner or later the thoughtless man, or the
wayward son starts at the "still small
voice" of that mother, whose tones, almost
forgotten, ring out from the dim and
dreamy past; and memories crowd upon
him-and those long lost words touch his
ear-and he feels that guardian spirit of
a friend whose affection faleth not, how
ers over him, and he obeys that mysterious
influence
"-asyear by year and day by day,
Some friend still trusted drops away,
Mother dear Mothor! Oh! dosi thou see
How the shortened chain brings me nearer tbeei' |
( Cleveland Herald |
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
REHenry Ward Beecher has qui

Ew Henry Ward Beecher has quaint
way of saying things. Speaking of the ef-
feet of the recent "cold snap" upon the
roots and flowers he says:-They are a.
sleep, past all autumn waking. The frost,
like fierce sheriff has been in and taken
possession, or sealed up all the effects OF
the year" What sublime metaphor is
this. In its light, one can almost see the
burly old sheriff tripping through gardens,
dropping everywhere along his path the
white writs of ejectments and "notices to
quit"