THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERV FRIDAY MORNING BY B. T. MEYERS, Ai the following terms, To wit: $3 00 per annum, if peiJ strictly w> advance. 5.d.50 if paid within 0 montts; $3.00 if not paid wiLhiu 6 months. K7~Sa subscription taken tor less than six months paper discontinued until all airesirages are naid, unless at the option of the publisher It has bn decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage of & newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and as 3 criminal oflence. courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription pries of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they sabscrihe for them, or not. I3usines3 €arfcs. JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will piomptly attend to collections and ail bnsi r#t entrusted to his care, in Bedford and adjoining counties. Cash advanced cn judgments, notes, military and Other claims. Has for sale Town lots in Tatesville, and St. Jo vfph's, en Bedforu Railroad. Faimsand unimproved land, trom one acre to 150 acres to suit purchasers. Office nearly opposite the "Mengel Hotel" anil think of Keed St Schell. April I, ISO I— lv J. R. DURBOPROW. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Office one door South of the "Mengel House." \\ ill attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care m Bedford and adjoining counties. Having also been regularly licensed to prosecute claims against the Government, pai ticsilar attention will be given to the collection of Military claims ot all kinds , pensions, back pay, bounty.bounty loans, &. April 1, 18G4. b'sry M AirSiPt ATTORNEF JIT LA W, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to hiscaie in Bedford and adjoining comi ties. Military claims, back pay, bounty, &c., speedily co'lected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, two doors South of the Mengel House. .lan. 22, 'fit. U . II AKE US V JJTTOUMFA' AT LAW, Bedford, Pa. Will promptl) attend to all business entrusted to his care. Military claims speedily collected. CEF-Office on Julianna street, opposite the Bank, one door north of John Palmer's office. Bedford, September ft, 1863. F. M. KIMMSLL. L W. LINGENFELTZS KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. GST-Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mengel House." G H- SPANG. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA Will promptly attend to collections and all busi ness entrusted to bis care in Bedford and adjoining counties. on luliana Street, three doors south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate. May 13, 1861. JOHN P- REED. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Respectfully tenders his services to tic PtNltc. second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford, Atg, 1, 1861. JO H N PALME 11 , ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Q-p"Will pKimptly attend to all business entrus ted to his rare. Office c-n Johanna Street, (near ly opposite the Mengpl House.) Bedford, Aug. 1, 1861. A. H. COFFifrTH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset. Pa. Will hereafter practice regularly in the several Courts of Redford county. Business entrusted to his care will be faithfully attended to. Deceaiber 6, 1861. P. C. DOYLE, M. D., Tender* his professional services to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicinity. Office next door to the otel of John C. Black. [June 10, 1861. J. L. MARBOURG-. M. D. Having permanently located, respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on West Pitt street, south side, ne.arly op poiite the Union Hotel. Beiiford, February 12, 1864. F. M. MARBOURG, M. D , SCHELLSBURG. PA, Tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. Office immediately oppo site "the store of John F.. Colvin, in the room for merly occupied by J. Hefiry Schell. July 1, 1864. P. H. PENNSYL, M. D., RAY'S HILL, BEDFORD CO., PA Having located at the above place tenders bis pro .essional fervices to the communit} . August 19, 1864. f DAVID DEFIBAUGH, G I' N SMITH, BEDFORD, PA , Workshop same as formeily occupied by John Border, deceased. Rifles and other guns made to or der, in the best s'ylo and on reasonable terms. Spe efal attention will be given to the repairing of fire arms. July 1, IV'J— ly. BA9IEL KKTTKRMA , BEDFORD, PA., Qy Would hereby notify the citizens of dedford county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed ford, where he may at all times be found by persons wishing to see him, unless abienl upun business pertaining to his office. .Oxford, Aug. 1,1861. J/BBs Reed, J- J* SCHELL, KEED AND SCHELL, BANKERS it DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD, PENN'A. [T7"DRAFTR bought and sold, •olleeron* made ,r.d money promptly remitted. Deposits scire iterf. J. ALSIP & SON, Auctioneers Ifc commission M.Tenants, BEDFORD, PA.. Respectfully solicit consignments of Boota and Shoes, Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Lndall kind* of Merchandise for AUCTION and PRIVATE Sale, REFERENCES. PHILADELPHIA BEDFORD, Philip Ford ft Co., Hon. Job Mann, Boyd ft Hough, Hon. W. T. Ueugherty Arqnor Young &c Bror., ti. Y\ Meyers. January 1, TS64—tt., SCOTT & STEWAftT, AUCTIONEERS Commission ftlertljants j Jayne's Marble Building, 616 Chest nut St., if 616 Jayne St. PHILADELPHIA. JNO. E GILLETTE. B. SCOTT. IR. An- I", 1663 —ly. I I VOLUME 60. NEW SERIES. THE SONG OF AUTUMN.- I have painted the woods, I have kindled the sky, 1 have brightened the hills with ejglance of mine eye ; I have scattered the liuits, I have gathered the cam, And now from the earth must her verdure be torn. Ye lingering flowers, ye leaves of the spray, I summon you all—away, away ! No more from the depth of the grave may be heard The joy-burdened song of its fluttering bird ; I have passed o'er the branches that shelter him there, And t heir quivering drapery ;s shaken to air. Ye lingering flowers, ye leaves of the spray, ! summon ye all—away ! away * Plead i.ot, the diy9 are yet sunny and long. That your hues are still bright'ning, your fi bres still strong , To vigor and beauty, relentless am I There is nothing too young or too lowly to die. Ye lingering flowers, ye leaves of the spray, 1 summon ye all—away t away ! And 1 call on the winds that repose in the north, To send their wild voices in unison forth ; Let the harp of the tempest be dolefully strong— "here's wail to be made, there's a dirge te be sung ; For the lingering flowers, the leaves of the spray, They are doomed they are dying, away, away 1 —"■ ■■■' - ■ cm I. 11l 111 OUR MINISTER'S TRIAL. BY RKV. W. H. HAYWA.RU. A good man was our pastor, Rev. Thornton Haven, and one of no common eloquence. Our best—l had almost written good church members loved him. I am sorry to say that a few, thorned by the words that feil from his lips when he endeavored to excite his breth ren and sisters to A closer walk with God." j regarded lorn with other emotions than the fruits of the spirit. Like all other good men bo was carefully watched by those who would have been trans ported with fiend-like delight could they have found a flaw in his conduct. '•Well! well!" said Mrs. Monroe, the wheel wright's wife, to her husband as they sat at the breakfast table one morning, "suppose Mr. Ha ven did kiss Fanny Lawton. She was almost one of the family—what in the world was the harm I "But," said the wheel-wright. "I uon t be lieve that he did kiss her." 'Fanny herself said he did," replied the wife. This seemed to bo a clincher to Mr. Monroe. He deliberately wiped his face with his hand kerchief. and with H downcast, thoughtful look, and much slower pace than usual, went to his shop. He Lad hardly taken his shave in his hand, and begun to ply it on an unfinished spoke, be fore Deacon Brown came in. The Deacon stood a while chewing a small fragment of n shaving and talked about this, that and noth ing. Suddenly he said: "Brother Monroe, have you heard about our Minister?" "Yes," replied the brother. Then there was not another word spoken for several minutes. The wheel weight lustily worked on the spoke—the Deacon looked out of the window. At length Sir. M;nroe asked, in n low tone of voice: "What is to be done ?" "Something must," wa3 the Deacon's an swer, "or the causo will suffer." And then he walked rapidly up the street. "What is this story about Mr. Haven's im proper treatment of young ladies ? asked the cynical lawyer Thompson of Woodward the tavern keeper. 'Why,* said the mixer of sherry cobblers and drawer of small beer, "the parson is no better than other?.' 'Have you haerd of the saintly priest Haven's fall?' was the question of one infidel to anoth er. 'Yes : just as I thought it would be—ha, ha, ha!' 'Something must be done," were the words of Deacon Brown, 'and that soon,' ho thought but did not speak. So from the wheel-wright's he went to the house of another Deacon —Benton Johnson. He had heard the story, and, being an enemy, believed it, and was determined to deal with the pffendcr. The deacons called on the minister. Dea- ! con Johnson was spokesman. The story in full was that Mrs. Barnard, a grass widow, whose husband had gone off because ho could not live with her. bad beard, as she. was pass ing 'he parsonage, Fauny Lawton say to one Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1864. fit' the children, 'you lost a kiss from your lilt her by not being i n't he house when bo got home this afternoon from the lower vUlago, ar> I I got it.' Mr. Haven denied ever having kissed the girl, and suggested that the deacons should write to Fanny, who was teaching school a hout twenty miles distant, and get at the truth of the matter. The deacons did. They stepped into the min ister's study and wrote. In a few days there came the reply. 'You ask niu if on mie occasion Rev. Mr. llsTen gave me a kiss—where we were, and who were present. In answer I state : Rev. Mr. I! aren, did one afternoon, while I was staying at his hotrae, and in tire sitting room, give me a kiss. No persons but ourselves were present.' Deacon Jcfenscn was ciated, and immediate ly wrote to his wife's cousin, A young candi date, that there would soon be a vacant parish where he, no doubt would receive a cai!. Deacon Brown was thunderstruck and dis appointed. Fanny Lawton's word was not to be doubted—-it was so plain a matter that there could be no mistake. Mr. Ilaven, after a!! was a wolf in sheep's clothing, Bt'Jl the min ister denied tiie charge. lie could not do such a thing without being aware of it, and know that he had never kissed the girl, or any other girl but his wife, before marriage or since, in his life. Deacon Johnson brought the entire matter before t lie church. He v? as excel lent on such cases. The charge contained two distinct alle gations : 1. Rev. Thornton Haven had been guilty of a great impropriety, rendering it expedient that be should be dismissed from the pastorate. 2. He had lied about the matter. Fanny Law ton was sent for, and the church called together- Rev. Solon Dickenson, the pastor of a neighboring church, was present to moderate (he meeting. The meeting house was filled. Every member of the church, but old bed-ridden 1 'oily Stears, was present. The tav ern was well represented. All the scoffers and scorners, within half a score of miles, who could get there, were in attendance. The church meeting was duly opened. Deu ces Johnson then brought forward tus charg- l anny was called to testify. Her testimony was : "One afternoon—•! think it must have been early in March—three of Mr. Haven's chil , dren and myself were uiione in the sitting room : their mother had gone to the sewing circle. Mr. Haven came into the house from the other village ; the children met him at the j door which opens from the sitting-room into the hall; as he came in they went out, and lie gave each, as they met him, a kiss—then coming in, gave me one.' A painful silence followed Miss Lawton's testimony. At length Deacon Johnson put the question : "Did he -close the door before coming into the sitting-rxim! The answer was : 'I think he did." Had a pin fallen on the carpet, it would have been heard in any part of our large and beau tiful sanctuary. Then Mr. Haven rose up and said: 'Miss Lawton what did you do with that kiss I gave you ?" 'Here it is,' said Funny, holding up a speci men of confectionary sometimes called a ki*s. Then there was another pause, and silence that was oppressive. All were too much ama zed, and cither gratified or mortified and disap pointed, to move. Most of those present held their breaths. 'Fanny,' said our blessed min ister, "did I ever kiss you?" "No never. I never said you did." So ended our minister's trial. MR. LINCOIJJ'S CHOIOK READINGS.—Ancient ! philosophers used to say, that the best indica tions of a man's inward feelings was to lo found in the choice of his readings, and in the com munion of the soul with tho writers of the age. I do not believe that this reflection has lost anything of its accuracy for being Old. Mr. Lincoln, who tries to regulate his life upon the model of the great statesmen of Rome and Greece, and, who to that effect has lived in close intimacy with Montague for the last three months, adds by his example a new weight to the authority of the old sayes. He reads the old French writer with delight, and says he is the greatest thinker France, and perhaps the world, has produced. His readings are not, un fortunately for us, confined to that book. Others' of a more dangerous character occupy, also, his leisures. 110 has recently added to his pri vate library the "History of Cromwell's Pro tectorate," the "Return of Napoleon the t r-:t from Kgvpt," the "Coup d'Etnt of Nap< eon the Third." These three books, which might be called "Treaties on the Art of Usurpation," are now his subjects of meditation, lie reads them by day and by night, and puts them un der his pillow case when ne goes to bed, so ns to have the deleterious example and practices contained in these hooks in close proximity with, the seat of bis thoughts.— WashvH/ton Ut ter. ONE STEP MORE. j Had I better get in and row across, I won- I Iderl Nobody would ever knc.v any tiling about it; and there the new boat lies, rocking oa the river, and theie are two oars in the bot tom. It's ouly a mile down to tlio bridge, and ; I could row down there and back in a little while ; it would be such a splendid sail! Of course, nothing could happen to me, for ( grandpa said to mamma the other evening, when we went down to the mill, 'Why, Helen, Harry's a natural-horn sailor. ; He can manage the boat as well as I.' •O dear! 1 wish he'd never seen that boat!' , said mamma. T expect it will be the death of him yet." 'Weil, lie didn't inherit his natural taste' from you, that's certain,' laughed grandpa, ! 'hut women are always nervous about the wa- . ter.' And that's all. It's just mamma's nervous- [ acss; and I know nothing would happen to me, getting in there, and having a little sail ; und it would bo so nice this afternoon, and the riv- j er looks away up by the bridge, like a ribbon among the oaks and poplars. Nobody would know anything about it, eith- 1 cr; for, of course, I should get back safe, and ; I don'i believe there's any harm in it. i But. then, there's :rry promise to mother. . there's no getting around that, as it was the , last thing she said to me before she left home on Thursday. She called me to the carriage and bout ovsr I one side, and smoothed my hair as she always j does when she talks to mo. 'Now, Harry, my hoy,' .-he said, 'I want you t j promise that you won't get inside that boat . until your father and I get home again.' 'No, mamma, I won't certainly,' I answer- j ed, though I 1 ated to bad enoflgh—that's a I fact. And I think it's too bad that such a big boy j as I am can't have bis own way in such things. 0 dear! dear! the longer I look, the more I want to go. It seems as if I must. One more step and I shall bo in the boat; | irrtl there —my promise to mamma! i And how shall I feel when she comes and j looks in my face, and call me her darling boy,. , | and puts her arms around my.neck and jkisses ; ! me tr'vr and over again ? ° She won't ask me whetlier I've been in the | boat, because I promised her 1 wouldn't ; and 1 never told my mother a lie in my fife. And ! I won't now. Mamma came home last night. Such a hug- j ging as Lhad! 'Has Harry been a good hoy!' she said, j 'and not done a single thing his mother would i disapprove of V 'No, I guess not. mamma,' I said ; but I j thinking about the boat, and didn't speak very J positively. Mamma held me away, and looked in my eyes. ! 'You guess not ? Arc you quite certain, i Harry?' she asked ■Well, mamma, I haven't done anything, but ! I've thought about it.' She threw her arms around ma and held mo : close to her. . 'Tell me all about it, Harry,' she said. And then-I did. I told her about going to i the liver Saturday afternoon, and how near I ennie to getting into the boat, and rowing down to the bridge, and what a terrible temp- j tation it was, and how it was, and how in one ; step I should have been in ; but the memory of. my promise to her. and the thought that God , j saw me, held me back, when there was only j j one step betwixt me and the boat. ■ And when I had done, I found mamma's tears falling like rain-drops on my hair. 'Oh my child! 1 thank God. I thank God !' j she said. .And I, too, thanked him from my heart that! I didn't take that one step. — Church Monthly. \ AM.KGFO DISARMOIKNT OR AUSTRIA A\';> Tr- At.r.—The. Intlependauce Bchjc t>f the 18th o! October says:—"We arc informed from Far is of the commencement of a disarmament which may be regarded as one of the first consequen ces of the treaty of the loth of Sept. At the period when that treaty was being negotiated Franco pressed the Italian government to calm ! the susceptibilities of Austria which the Fran co-Italian convention might awaken, and to give that power pledges of its pacific intentions by reducing the effective of the army to the number necessary for tbo maintenance of in ternal order. M Minghetti entered into an en gagement to do this, reserving the fulfilment of it to the time when the measure could not be used by extreme parties against the government : as a disavowal of the national programme, and when the vote of the parliament upon the con vention should have restored calm to the public noind. Upon the imformution which the rep resentative of France imparted to the cabinet of Yienca as to the engagements entered into ! by Italy, Austria gave effect to its resolution, ' taken beforehand from motives of economy, but suspended in consequence of the conven tion, to reduce its military forces in Venetia.— It is known that in Austria as well as Italy these reductions are in course of execution ; they are effected by definitive discharges given ; to soldiers whose time of service would not bo completed till a later period." CyWisdom is tbe olive that springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth i fruit in the actions. — • ; <®-It is tbe temper of the highest heart, like j the palm tree, to strive most wards when most | burdened. i — ajrZobart Hall was once asked what he ! thought of an elegant sermon, which had crc-! ated a great sensation. "Very fine sir," he j replied, "but a man can't eat flowers.'' WHOLE NUMBER, if©B4 A TOUCHING INCIDENT. | A correspondent of the Blair cointy (Pa.) , Whig furnishes that paper wfth the particulars of the following interesting incident of which he was an eye-witness, It oecnred ft fetv years j ago on JIMJ line of tlx? great internal improve ments of that State. It was one of those acts : of genuine kind-heai tedness which fill the mtnd with the involuntary consciousness that there j is something of tlie angel still in our common i nature. i At the point this side of the mountain, where ; occurred the transshipment of passengers from ■ the West, was moored a canal boat awaiting the arrival of The train ere starting on it< way through to the East. The captain of the boat, a tall, rough, sun-embrowned man stoi*l by bis craft superintending the labors of his men, : when the cars rolled up, and a few moments after n party- of about a half dozen of gentle men came out, and deliberately walking up to the captain, addressed him something after this wise : } ".Sir, wo wish to go on East, but our further progress to-day depends upon you. In the cars i we have just left is a sick man whose presence is disagreeable. We have been appointed a committee by the passengers to ask that you will ' deny this mau a passage in your boat. If he goes, we remain; what say you V ••Gentlemen," replied tnc captain, "I hare heard the passengers through their committee. ! lla3 the sick man a representative here t" j To this unexpected interrogatory there was 1 no answer; when without a moment's pause, the captain crossed over to the car, and enter ing, beheld in ona corner a poor, emaciated, i worn out creature, whose life was nearly eaten I out bv that canker worm—consumption. The | man's head was bowed in his hands, and he i was weeping. The captain advanced nnd spoke j to him kindly. "O, sir," 3aid the shivering invalid looking : up, his face now lit with trembling expectation, ; "are you the captain, and will you take rne ? i God help mc ! The passengers looked upon me j as a breathing pestilence, and arc so unkind! You see, sir, f am dying. sut oh, if I am spared ito reach my mother, I shall die happy ! She lives in Burlington, sir, and my journey is mere than half performed. I am a poor printer and the only child of her in whose arms I wish : to die." "You shall go," said tho captain, "if I lose j every passenger for the trip." j By this time the whole crowd of passengers . were grouped around the boa?, with their bag j gage piled on the path an 1 they themselves a waitir.g the decision of tho captain before en gaging their passage. A moment more and that decision was made i known, as they ltelield him coming from the ' ears with his dying burden cradled in his arms. Pushing Ins way through the crowd with the j sick man, he ordered a mat trass to be spread in the choicest part of the boat where he laid : the invalid with the euro of n parent. That done the captain ordered tho boat to be got ready for starting. But a new feeling seemed to pervade tho as tonished passengers—that of shame nnd con trition at their inhumanity. With one common : impulse they walked aboard the boat, and in a few hours after, another committee was sent to the captain, entreating his presence among the passengers in the cabin. He went, and from their midst there arose a ' white-headed man: who, with tear-drops in his eyes, told that rough,.sun browned man that ; they ft-!t humbled before him. and they asked j forgiveness. It .was a touching Scene. The I fountain of true sympathy was broken in the heart of nature, and its waters swelled up, ! choking the utterance of all present. | On the instant, a purse was made up for i he rick man, with a "God S|ced ; ' to his homo. to die i/i the arm* iti' his mother _ THE FIVE CRADLES. A gentleman who had recently bjcome a votary to Bacchus, returned home one night in an intermediate state of boo/.ines3. That is to say, he was comfortably drunk, but per fectly conscious of his unfortunate situation.— Knowing that his wife was a deep, he decided j to attempt gaining his bed without disturbing • her and by sleeping off his inebriation, conceal j the fact from her altogether, lie reached the j door of his room without disturbing her, and i after ruminating a few moments on the matter, he thought if he could reach tiie bedpost, and hold ou to it white he slipped off his apparel the feat would he easily accomplished. Un fortunately for his scheme, cradle stood in a di rect line with the bedpost, about the middle of the floor. Of course, when his shins came In contact with tho aforesaid piece of furniture, be pitched over it with perfect looseness: and upon gaining an erect position, ere an equili brium was established, lie went over it back wards in an equal summary manner. Again he struggled to his feet, and bent foremost over the bower of infuut happiness. At length, with the fifth fall, his patience exhausted, and the obstacle was yet to overcome. In desper ation lie cried out to his sleeping partner. ••Wife! wife! how many cradles have you got in the house ? I've fallen over five, and here's another one before me " err Many real virtues may be acqui red by straining after an unattainable perfection When a thing is once believed possible, it is half re alized. es*A little girl residing in. Whitewater, Wis consin, was strangled to death u few days ago, in endeavoring to swallow a raw oyster. •arWliat reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants and spiders? Wbat wise hand teaches them what reason can not teaoh us? . - ■ ■- M. . —r— := ~ Hates of utiJmtisfng. One Square, three weeks or less . ,$J 23 One Square, ear h additional insert ion lex tharrtbree months s ® 3 MONTHS. 6 MOJITHI. 1 TSAA One square $ 3 , 10 $4775 sj 00 1 wosqnnre. ....... 500 700 10 00 Three squares 6 50 900 15 00 Column 00 20 00 2' 00 One Column 20 00 35 00 03 0u Admmisi rators' end Ktecutors' noti v -e52.50, Au ditors' notices $1.50. if under 10 line,, $2.00 it more than a square and less than 20 Uk*. Katrays, | $1.25, if but one head is advertised, 23 cem u f OT every additional bead, j The spare occupied by ten iinei of this size of [ type rountaone square. All fractions of a square under live tines will be measured as a half sqnaia, and all over live lines as a lull square. All legal advertisements willbe charged toThe person bank ing them in. VOL. NO. 16. CHOPS FOB THE YEAR 1864. Tito final report (September and October) of the crops for the present yeur has just been made by the Agricultural Department at Wash ington. The returns arc now full, and the following assume fbc character of ascer tained quantities. The wheat crop amounts to 160,095.823 bushels, ft takes about five bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour, which would make the production equal to thirty-three millions and a half barrels, or more than one and a half barrels to every one of the population of twenty millions whose industry produced it. The production of wheat is only about nine millions less than in 1863, which was considered mi excellent crop. The ryu production was 10,872.957 bushels, or less ; than one million short of the production of the previous yenr. Hurley 10,710,3*28, about the same decrease as rye in the year's production. Oats 176,090,061 bushels, an increase of six millions over the previous yeur. Hay 18,116,- 751 tuns, or about u million and a half ton* i less than in 1803. Corn 530,531,103 bushels, or about seventy-eight millions increase over ! the year preceding, lluckwheat 18,700,510 | bushels, an increase of nearly three millions.- — , l\>iatoe? 9ii,256,838, a decrease of four mil-" lions - Taking the yearly production, therefore, the | balance is in favor of 18C+, and the quality is j much better. If the currency and taxes did ; not ntTect prices, all the loading articles of pro j visions which form the support of life would i i>e les in price. The sorghum, another valua j bie crop, shows a largo increase. In the pro i duction of animal foo 1 there is, however, n I material falling off in nearly all the States.- The production of flax-seed shows a very large increase, New Jersey and Pennsylvania taking the load in this increase; in thl first amounting to over fourteen per cent., and in Pennsylvania i four per cent. Ten of the iuyal Slates produce cotton. The falling ofl in tobacco is sot down at -ixty-seven millions of pounds, balancing, all the increase and decrease of vegetable amf animal production, and there is ,-hown to be abundance of food for the population. The surprising part of it is that the production should be so large with so many men engaged in war: and so much destruction of animal life for war purposes. The use of machinery it*, farming has made up for the absence of hands Hereafter, when peace is re-established, its good e fleets will bo felt in highly increased crops: — Phil. Ledger. TEE OLD VILLAGE CHURCH. Last evening we were walking leisurely along The music of choirs in three churches came floating out into tlia darkness around us, and they Were all new and strange times but one ; and that one. was not sung as we have heard it, but it awakened r. train of long bur ied memories, that rose to us even as they were before the cemetery of the soul had a tomb iu it. It waft sweet old "Corinth" they were sing ing—strains that we have seldom heard since the rose-color of life was blanched ; and were in a moment transported back again to the old village church . and it was a summer afternoon, and the yellow sffn beams were streaming through the \Ttst windows, and tire silver hair of the old deacon who sat in the pulpit was turned to gold in its light, and the minister, who wo used to think could never die, so good was lie, had concluded "application" and "exhortation," and the village choir singing the last hymn, and the tune was "Corinth." It is years—we dare net think bow many — since then, and "the prayers of David, thu son j of Jesse," and the choir are scattered and gone j —the girl with blue eyes sang alto, and the f girl with black eyes sang air ; the eyes of oue j were like a clear Juno heaven at noon. They j both became wives and both mothers ; and they i both died. Who shall say they arc not singing j "Corinth" still where Sabbaths never wane, j and congregations never break up? There they .' sat, Sabbath after Sabbath, by the square col umn at tho right of the "leader;" and to our young ears their tones were the "very sou? of music." That column bears still their penciled names as they wrote them in life's June, 18S-, before dreams of change had overcome their spirits like a summer's cloud. Alas! that with the old singers most of tins sweeter tunes have died upon the air! but they linger in memory, and they shall yet be in the sweet re-union of song that shall take plaeo by and by in a ball whose columns aro beams of uiorning light, whose ceiling is pearl, whose floors are all gold, and where hair never turns silvery and hearts never grow old. Then she that sang alto, and she that sang air, will be in their place? once more. A VEKV SENSIBLE LADY.—A deaf old lady who had brought an action for damages against a neighbor was being examined in Court, when the Judge suggested a compromise, and in structed tho counsel to ask what she would take to settle the mntter. "What will you take?" asked the counsel of the old lady. She shook her head at the coun sel, informing the jury in confidence, that she was "very hard o* herin." "His Honor want? to know what you will take ?" asked tho learned counsel aguin, this time bawling as loud as he could in the ear uf the old lady. "I thank hi* Honor kindly," said the an cient dame, "and if it's no inoonvonienco to him, I'll take n little ale." is fond of tho society of the ill-natured. Treat it good hutnoredly, and it won't call again. CSrOld men love their early memories. Like the CTrceks, the;, drew pictures of bliss, it were, on the marble sarcophagi of their cbaug ed, but slumbering past.
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