Jbf geifed labium is PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, ON JULIANA ST., oppozite the Mengal House, BEDFORD, BEDFORD CO., PA. TERMS: $2.00 a year if paid strictly ia advance, $2.25 if not paid within three months, $2.50 if oo tpaid within the year. I KATES OF ADVERTISINGS p ne iqnare, one insertion SI.OO Q b( square, three insertions 1.50 Ezch additional insertion less than 3 months, 50 3 months. 0 months. 1 year. square $ 4.50 $ 6.00 SIO.OO I*o 5quare5............... 6,00 9.00 16.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.0# Half eoiumn 18.00 25.00 45.00 t t ne column 30.00 45.00 80.00 Administrators' and Exeeutors' notices, $3.00. Auditors' notices, if under 10 lines, $2.00; if over 10 lines, $2.50. SherifiVs sales, $1.73 per tract. Ta work, double the above rates, figure work 25 er cent, additional. Betrays, Cautions and Neti 'e? to Trespassers, $2.00 for three insertions, if hat above ten lines. Marriage notices, 50 cts. each, javable in advance. Obituaries over five lines in tng th, and Resolutions of Beneficial Associations, ii half advertising rates, payable in advance. Announcements of deaths, gratis. Notices in edi torial column, 15 cents oer line. jfegrNo dcdnc |jon to advertisers of Patent Medecines, or Ad rertising Agents. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JOHN T. KEAGY, if ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa., Will promptly attend to all legal business edtrust iJ to his care. Will give special attention to tiaims against the Government. Office on Juliana freet, formerly occupied by Hon. A. King. aprll:'6s-ly. PSPY M. ALSIP, 4 J ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDronD, PA., Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi est entrusted to bis care in Bedford andadjoin u? counties. Military claims, Pensions, back ,ay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with \han & Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south ifthe Mengel House. apl 1, 1864.—tf. TX. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services the* public. Offico with J. W. Lingenfelter, h-q., on Juliana street, two doors South of the 1 Mengle House." Dec. 9, 1864-tf. TOHN LUTZ, J ATTORNEY AT LAW, \sd regularly licensed agent for the collection of jovernment claims, bounties, back pay, pensions, tc., will give prompt attention to all business en rusted to his care. Office with J. R. Durborrow, Esq., on Juliana Street, Bedford Pa. August 19th, 1864.—tf. R R7 DURBORROW, J , ATTOKKET AT LAW, BEDFORD, FA. Uffice one door south of the ''Mengel House."— fill attend promptly to all business intrusted to his tire. Collections made on the shortest notice.— Euring, also, been regularly licensed to proge :uteClaims against the Government, particular ttention will be given to the collection of Milita t claims of all kinds; Pensions, Back Pay, Boun r, Bounty Loans, Ac. Bedford, apr. 8,1864 —tf. KIMEELL AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BKDFOBD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of he Law Uffice on Juliana Street, two doors South jf the Mengel House, aprl, 1864—tf. TOHN MOWER, J ATTORN EY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. April 1,1864.—tf. DEYTISTS. C. * HICKOK I. X. MIXNICK, JR. 1 \ENTIST, BEDFORD, PA. I U Office in che Bank Building, Juliana Street. ' All operations pertaining to Surgical or Ms i-hamcal Dentistry carefully and faithfully pef jformed aud warranted. TERMS CASH. | jan6'6s-ly. DENTISTRY. L N. BOWSER, RESIDEXT DENTIST, WOOD ! BERRY, PA., will spend the second Monday, Tues idav, and Wednesday, of each month at Hopewell, the remaining three days at Bloody Run, attend ing to the duties of his profession. At all other times he can be found in his office at Woodbury, excepting the last Monday and Tuesday of the same month, which he will spend in Mariiasburg, j Blair county, Pcnna. Persons desiring operations 'ihould call early, as time is limited. All opersi- Itions warranted. Aug. 5,1864,-tf. PHYSIO AITS. DM II B. F. HARRY, Respectfully Lenders his professional ser- Ivices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. [Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building [formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Uofius. April 1, 1864—tt. JL. MARBOURG, M. D., . Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citizen! of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A PaR iner's office. April 1, 1864— tf. HOTELS. BEDFORD HOUSE, ■ AT HOPEWELL, BEDFORD CorsTY, PA., BY HARRY DROLLINGER. 1 Every attention given to make guests comfortable, who stop at this House. Hopewell, July 29, 1864. | UNION HOTEL, L VALENTINE STECKMAN, Proprietor, WIST PITT STREET, BEDFORD PA., (formerly the ' Globe Hotel.) The public are assured that be has made ampe arrangements to accommodate all that may favor him with ibeir patronage. , A splendid Livery Stable attached, fap'r 64. ITS. HOTEL, U. IIARRISBURG, PA. CORNER SIXTH AND MARKET STREETS, OPPOSITE READING R. H. DEPOT. I). H. HUTCHINSON, Proprietor. jin6:6s. EXCHANGE HOTEL. HUNTINGDON, PA., JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. April 29th, 1864.—ft. .11ISCELLA1 EORS. T. W. BCPP O. E. XHAXXOX F. BEXRDICT* RUPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, West. North and Booth, and the general busineaa of Exchange, tranaacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and H'.n.ittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. apr.15,'64 tf. DANIEL BORDER, FITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF TUB BED FORD HOTEL, BEBFORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY, SPECTACLES, AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil- I ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, beat quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order Any thing in his line not on hand. Apr. 8, 1864—zz. TOHN MAJOR, '} JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, HOPIWELL, >zt>roßD COCSTT. Collections and all business pertaining to bis office will be attended to prompt '?■ Will also attend to the eale or renting of real ""late. Instruments of writing carefully prepa red. Also settling up partnerships and other ac 'nunts. April 1,1864—tf. HENRY HARPER, No, 520 Arch St. above sth Phila. Manufacturer and Dealer In WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY, SOLID SILVER WARE, and Su- F*rsUjV£& PLATED *AIF- B. F. McNEIL. Editor and Propi'ietor. rjTHE STUMP ISLAND OIL COMPANY. CAPITAL - $120,000. Development Fund $21,©00 120,000 Shares, par value $1 No certificates of stock to be issued to the cor porators until 21,000 shall have been sold for the benefit of all the stockholders, in the further devel opment of the Company's property. FRESIDBNT, WM. HARTLEY, Bedford, Pa. SECRETART k TREASCREB, Hon. S. L. RUSSELL, Bedford, Pa. DIRECTORS, Hon. T. B. SHANXOX, M. C., California. W. D. MCKINSTBT, Mercersbnrg, Pa. Hon. SAXCEI. DAVIS, Bedford, Pa. J. M. SHOEMAKER, " G. W. RUPP, " The property of thia company is all owned in fee simple and is all paid for, and consists of the follow? ,g tracts: Ist. That valuable island, known as the "Lower Stump Creek Island," containing 2 acres and 93 perches, situated in the Allegheny river, at the mouth of the Clarion river. On this island a derrick was erected in the spring of 1861, and an engine placed on the grounds, but the war breaking out, the parties sold off and enlisted. 2d. The "Upper Stump Creek Island," is situ ate but a few roda above the lower island, con taining 4 acres and 20 perches, 4 acres of which are owned by this company, on which are erected a house, stable, Ac. Neither of these islands is lia ble to overflow, and both are well protected by stone and trees against washing. By 'reference to the map of Pennsylvania, it will be observed that the Clarion river empties into the Allegheny at a point due south from Oil Creek, and as oil is found at Freeport, on this line further south, we have every reason to believe that these islands are in the very centre of the great oil belt of Pennsylva nia. Besides all this, they lie far below tbe coal measures. The company also owns 1 acre and 81 perches of land about 5J miles above the upper island, at the mouth of Ritcbey Run, near the town of Em lenton, Venango Co., Pa., upon which is the cel ebrated Fox and Widel well, with new engipe, derrick, building, Ac., Ac., and well bored to the depth of 420 feet. This well was tubed at 350 feet, and in a few hours pumping yielded about ODO barrel of oil, but the proprietors determined to sink it deeper, and the company will, as soon as possible, sink this well if necessary to tbe depth of 10n0 feet or more. The "Stump Islands Com pany" ownes the i chole interest in well, fixtures and land, and "Development Fund' will be amply sufficient to complete this well and sink others in the 'lslands. There is besides, room enough on the Ritchey Run tract for several more wells. The property owned by this company is all practical boring territory, and persons acquainted with the lands along the Allegheny aud other oil streams, will bear testimony that we have more practical boring surface than many of the 300 acre tracts contain. In addition to this, our basis will compare favor rably, with the large majority of Companies, whose Capital stock is five times as great. The services of an efficient Superintendent have been obtained, and the Directors are determined to prosecute operations vigorously. Persons desirous of securing a portion of the 21,000 shares of stock, must apply fsoon, to Hon. S. L. Russell, Bedford Penn'a.; at whose office subscription books have been opened for the sale of Stocks, at SI.OO per share. Feb. 10, 1565. JJLOUTZ'S CELEBRATED Horse and Cattle Powders. These Powders have proved, after a trial of sev eral years, to be superior to auy preparation of the kind in use. The chief superiority of these powders arises fiom the fact that they are compos cd of medicines that have Laxative, Tonic and Purifying properties. The laxative ejects crudi ties from the stomach and intestines, thetonicgives strength to the system of the Horse, and the puri fying medicines contained in them cleanse the blood, and lay the foundation for a vigorous and healthv circulation. The use of them improves the wind, strengthens the appetite and gives tbe horse a fine, smooth and glossy skin, thus improiing the appearance, vigor and spirit of this noble animal. These powders are not intended, as most pow ders are to bloat the auimal, so as to give him the appearance of being fat when not really so—but to remove the disease and promote his general health. These powders will strengthen the stomach and intestines, cleanse them from offensive matter, and bring them to a healthy stale. Tbey are a sure pre vention of Lung lever, and a certain remedy tor all diseases incident to the Horse, as Glanders, Yellow Water, Distempers, Founder, Heaves, Sla vering, Coughs, Fevers Loss oi Appetite and! ital Energy, Ac.—These powders, if used two or three times a week, through the winter and spring, vour horses will never get the Lung Fever Coric or Botls. A few doses of these powders will re move the worst cough, on any horse. W ere own ers of horses to feed a few of these powders every year, they might save the lives of many valuable horses. MILCH COWS. The properties this powder possesses in increas ing the quantity of milk in cows, gives it an im portance and value which should place it in the hands of every person keeping a cow. In fatten ing cattle, it gives them an appetite, loosens their hide, and makes them thrive much faster, HOQS. In all diseases of swine, as coughs, ulcers in tha lungs and liver, Ac., by putting from half a paper to a paper of these powders in a barrel of swill, the above diseases can be cured or entirely prevented. By using these powders the hog cholera can be prevented. Prepared only bv, S. A. Foutz A Bro. at their Wholesale Drug A Pattent Medicine Depot, No. 116 Franklin St. Baltimore Md. For sale by H. U. Reamer, and Dr. B. F. Harry and Druggists and Storekeepers throughout the United States, These powders can be had at manulactures' prieesof Johnson Hollowav A Cow der, No. 23 North Third St. Philadelphia. LECTERE TO YOUNG MEN. J,1,l published in a Sealed-Envelope. Price 6 cts. A lecture on (he Satnre,Trealmentaal Radical Cure of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weak ness, Involuntary Emissions, Sexual Debility, and Impediments to Marriage generally. Nervousness, Consumption. Epilepsy, and fits; Mental and Phy sical Incapacity, resulting from Self-Abuse, Ac. By ROB'T J. CULVERWELL, M. D„ Author of the Green Book," Ac. The world renowned author, in this admirable Lecture clearly proves from his own experience that the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may be effectually removed without medicine, and without dangerous surgical eperationi, bougies, instru ments, rings or cordials, pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectna). by which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, can cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically. THIS LECTURE WILL PROVE A BOON TO THOUSANDS. Sent under seal, to an any address, in a postage paid envelope, on the receipt of six cents, or two postage stamps, by addressing. CHAS. J. C. *L!NA CO., 127 Bowery, Now York, Post-Ofireßox, 4688. VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE— In Hopewell Township, Bedford county, near Wishart's Mill, on Yellow Creek, about four miles from Hopewell Station on the H. A B. T. R. R., i and within six miles of tbe Broad Top Coal Mines, [ which affords one of tbe best markets in the coun ; try for all marketing a farmer can p,oduce. It ! contains Two Hundred Acres good limestone land, about One Hnedrcd and Fifty acres of which are cleared and in a good state of cultivation — convenient to schools and churches. It is now occupied by Henry Clapper, who will give parties calling to see it any information desired in regard I to the land. For further information, address R. B. WIGTON, President Glamorgan Iron Co., Nor. 18, 1864. Huntingdon, Pa. WHISKERS! WHISKERS! Do you wan Whiskers or Moustaches? Our Grecian Compound will force them to grow on the smoothest face or chin, or hair on bald heads, in Six Weeks. Prioe, SI.OO. Sent by mail anywhere 1 closely seaied, on receipt of price. Address, WAR NEB A CO.* Box 138, Brooklyn, N. Y. FOBJ7 A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. JYJ" ASTER'S SALE REAII ESTATE. 1 In the Court of Com- Josiah Miller, Esq., Ad- mon Pleas of Bedford ministrator of the estate County. No. 107, No of Catharine Wolford, vember Term, 1864, be- Widow of Joseph Wol- ing Scire Facias to Re ford, deceased, view Judgment in Eject vs. ment to No. 229, April James Logue. J Term, 1850. WHEREAS, on the 21st day of December, A. D. 1864, to tbe aforesaid Term of said Court, Judg ment was entered against the Defendant in the above entitled cause, to tbe effect that the said Defendant should pay a certain sum of money therein designated (with interest and cost) being for the purchase money for certain Real Estate,- and whereas at the February Term of sai<L Court, A. D. 1865, on motion of John P. Reed, Eeq., the undersigned was appointed a Master in Chancery to sell the real estate afuresaid unless the said de fendant should pay the amount of said Judgment, Debt, Interest, and Cost; now, therefore, dofault having been made in the payment aforesaid, I, by virtue of said appointmer t, will sell on the prem ises, on SATURDAY, the 22d day of APRIL, next, at 11 o'clock, in the forenoon of said day, the real estate of James Logue, the aforesaid de fendant, consisting of the following described TWO TRACTS OF VALUABLE FARM LAND, with usual improvements, situate in Londonderry township, Bedford county, to wit: All that oertain real estate and tract of land adjoining lands of Henry Wolford, Jacob Wagertuan and others, containing 142 acres and 52 perches, more or less. ALSO, All that other tract of land adjoining lands of Henry Wolford, Adam Wolford and oth ers, containing 73 acres and 43 perches more or less; the same being part of the real estate, devis ed to said Catharine Wolford by her late husband Joseph Wolford, dee'd, for aud during her natural life, as by his last will and testament. Recorded in Will Book No. 3, page 306, in the Register's Office, at Bedford, fully appears, Ac. Terms made known an day of sale. G. H. SPANG, Master in Chancery. Bedford, March 31, 1865. VJOTICE OF INQUISITION—Whereas, JAI Anna Rininger, widow of Henry Rininger, late of St. Clair township, deceased, presented a petition setting forth that the said Henry Rininger lately died intestate, leaving a widow, the said Anna, and issue six (6) children, to wit: Malinda, intermarried with Martin Blackburn, residing in Cedar county, Iowa; Joseph Rininger. in Cedar county, Iowa; George Rininger, residing in Bed ford county, Pa.; John Rininger, Jeremiah Rinin ger, and Etlen Rininger, residing in Cedar coun ty, lowa, all of who are minor's and have for their Guardian (ad litema) William Clark; that said in testate died seized in his demensne as of fee, of and in a certain tract of land, adjoining lands of William Clark, Joseph W. Sleek, Thomas Black burn, John Ake and others, containing about one hundred and twenty-five acres more or less, and praying the C ourt totnake partition of the prem ises afuresaid, to and among the heirs, Ac., where upon the Court awarded an inquest to make par irion according to the praver of the petitioner. NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of a writ of Partition or valuation to me directed I will proceed to hold an Inquisition on the premises on MONDAY the 17th day of APRIL, 1865, when and where all persons interested may attend if they see proper. mar 24 JOHN ALDSTADT, Sheriff. "Vf OTICE IN PARTITION—By virtue of a AN writ of partition or valuation issued out of the Orphans' Court of Bedford county, and direc ted to me as Sheriff of said county, I will proceed to value and appraise the real estate of Catharine Miller, late of Harrison township, Bedford county, deceased, to wit: One tract of land in Harrison township, Bedford county, containing one hundred and eight acres and one fourth, wttn double tog house, stable, spring house, Ac., thereon, about 40 acres cleared, adjoining lands of Samuel Hoffman, Isaac Devore, John H. Worts and others, on THURSDAY, the 13th day of APRIL, 1865, at one o'clock p. in., when and where all parties may attend if tbey think proper. The heirs of said Catharine Miller are: 1. Mary Annwife of Peter F. Lehman, Esq., of Juniata township. Bedford county, Pa.: 2. Sophia wife of John 11. Wertz, of Harisen townsrhip; 3. Susan wife of Andrew Ball, of Londonderry township; 4. Catharine, wife of Peter Aaron, of Venango county; 5. Hester, wife of Daniel M. Miller, of Harrison township; 6. The issue of Sarah, a deceased daughter, to wit: 1. Eli zabeth Miller, of Bedford township; 2. Susan, wile ofGeorge Leydig, of Londonderry township, and 3. John S. Miller, of Harrison township mar 24 JOHN ALDSTADT, Sheriff. PUBLIC SALE OK Valuable Heal Estate- By virtue of an order ot the Orphans Court ot Bedford county, the undersigned. Executor of the last will and testament of JOHN WEIPKI,, de ceased, will sell at public outcry, on the premises, ON THURSDAY, the 13th day of APRIL next, all the following described Real Estate, situate in St. Clair township, Bedford county, to wit: All that tract of land now in possession of JOHN WENTZ, situate on the Johnstown Road, about 3 miles from Pleasantville, containing Two Hundred and Twenty-two Acres and 21 perches more or less, about 40 acres clear ed and under fence, with Dwelling House and Double Log Barn thereon erected. There is also an Apple Orchard of choice fruit upon the prem ises. The tract is well supplied with good run ning water, and is covered with fine Locust, Chest nut and'other valuable Timber. Also, there will be sold On FRIDAY, THE 14TH OF APRIL, On the premises, in the same township, one other tract, containing Two Hundred and Fifty-one Acres, and 23 perches, more or less, the same being the Mansion Property of said deceased, and situate within one mile of St. Clairsville. about 125 acres of this tract are cleared and under fence: and the balance of the tract is well covered with While Pine, Oak and other valuable Timber. There is also a good Log Dwelling House and Double Log Bam upon the premises. This farm is well sup plied with water and there is an Orchard of choice fruit upon the premises. Both of the above tracts of land are Patented, and titles indisputable. TERMS.—Ope third in hand at confirmation of sale, and balance in two equal annual payments, with interest. JOHN WEISEL, I Exccutors JOHN FICKES, J Lxecutors. marll HEADQUARTERS OF PROT. MAK., 1, 6th Dis. PA. CHAMBERSBVUG Feb. 27, 1865. DRAFTED MEN who enlist after they are drafted are considered as DESERTERS from the draft, and must he credited to their enrollment places, no matter whether or not they received lo cal bounties upon their illegal enlistments. GEO. EYBTER, marl7:3t Capt. and Pro. Mar. 16th Diet. Pa. AUDITOR'S NOTICE.—The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the Orphans' Court of Bedford County, to distribute the money in the hands of the Executors of the last will, Ac., of FREDERICK BERKIIEIMER, dee'd., to and amongst legatees and devisees, will attend to the duties of his appointment on FRIDAY, the 31st day of March, instant, at his office, in the Bor ough of Bedford, when and where all parties in terested can attend. marl7 JNO. P. REED, Auditor. JALSIP A SON . AUCTIONEER A COMMISSION MERCHANT Bedford Ha. RESPECTFULLY solicit consignment of Boots and Bhoes, Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing and all kinds of merchandise for auction and private sale. REFERENCES. Philadelphia. Bedford. PHILIP FORD A CO. Hon. JOB.MANN, BOYD A HOUGH. Hon. W. DAUGHERTY, A. YOUNG A BROS. B.F.MEYERS. Badford, jan. 1,1863 —tf. — NEW MACKEREL, HERRING, and SHAD, For Sale at Bleody Rod Station. fcW7** J. W. BABNDOiLAR. BEDFORD, Pa., FRIO AY, APRIL 7, 1865. THE PKTTIBO.YK LINEAGE- From the April Atlantic Monthly. My name is Esek Pettibone, and 1 wish to .affirm in the outset that it is a good thing to be well bom. In thus connecting the mention of my name with a positive statement, I am not unaware that a catastrophe lies coiled up in the juxtaposition. But I cannot help wri ting plainly that I am still in favor of a dis tinguished family-tree. Esto perpetual To have somebody for a great grand-father that was somebody is exciting. To be able to look on long lines of ancestry that were rich, but respectable, seems decorous but all right. The present Earl of Warwick, I think, must have an idea that strict justice has been done him in the way of being launched properly into the world. I saw the Duke of Newcas tle once, and as the farmer in Conway descri bed Mount Washington, I thought the duke felt a propensity to "hunch up some." Some how it is pleasant to look down on tbe crowd and have a conscious right to do so. Left an orphan at the tender age of four years, having no brqthers or sisterf to prop me round with young affections ani sympa thies, I fell into three pairs of haois, excel lent in their way, but peculiar. Patience, Eunice, and Mary Ann Pettibone were my aunts on my father's side. All my mother's relations kept shady when the lone'y orphan looked aboutfor protection; but Patience Pet tibone, in her stately way, said, —"The boy belougs to a good family, and he shall never want while his three aunts can support him." So I went to live with my plain, but benign ant protectors, in tae state of New Hamp shire. During my boyhojd, the best-drilled lesson that fell to my keeping was this: "Respect yourself. We cone of more than ordinary parentage. Superior blood was probably concerned in getticg up the Pettibones. Hold your head erect, and some day you shall have proof ofyout high lineage." I remember onte, on being told that I mu3t not share my juvenile sports with the butch er's three little brings, I begged to know why not. Aunt Eunice looked at Patience, and Mary Ann knew what she meant. "My child," slowly murmured the eldest sister, "our family no doubt came of a very old stock; perhaps we belong to the nobility. Our ancestors, it is thought, came over laden with honors, and no doubt were embarrassed with riches, though the latter importaticu has dwindled in the lapse of years. Respect yourself, and when you grow up yon will not regret that your old and careful aunt did not wish you to play with butchers' offspring." I felt mortified that I had ever had a desire to "knuckle up" with any but kings' sons or sultans' little boys. I longed to be among my equals in the urchin line, and fly my kite with only high-born youngsters. Thus I lived in a constant scene of seir enehantmerit on the part of the sisters, who assumed all the part and feeling that proper ly belong to ladies of quality. Patrimonial splendor to come danced before their dim eyes; and handsome settlements, gay equip ages, and a general grandeur of some sort loomed up in the future for the American branch of the house of Pettibone. It was a life of opulent se'f-delusion, which my aunts were never tired of nursing: and I was too young to doubt tbe rpality of it. All tbe members of our little household iield up their heads, as if each said, In so many words, "There is no original sin in our composition, whatever of that commodity there nay be mixed up with the common clay of Snowbor ough." Aunt Patience was a star, and dwelt apart. Aunt Eunice looked at her through a deter mined pair of spectacles, and woishipped while she gazed. The youngest sister lived in a dreamy state of honors to come, and had constant zoological visions of lions, griffins and uuicorns, drawn and quartered in every possible style known to the Herald's college. The Rev. Hebrew Bullet, who used to drop in quite often and drink several compulsory glasses of home made wide, encouriged his three parishioners in their aristocifitic no tions, and extolled them for what ht called their "stooping do vn to every-day life." He differed with the la-lies of our house only on one point. He contended that the unicorn of the Bible and the rhinoceros qf to-day were one and the same animal. 31y aunts held a different opinion. In the sleeping-room of my aunt Patience reposed a trunk. Often during my childish years I longed to lift the lid and spy among its contents, the treasures my young fancy conjured up as lying there in state. I dared not sk to have the cover raised for oiy grati fication, as I had often been told I was -'too little" to estimate aright what thk armorial box contained. "IVhen you gror up, you shall seethe inside of it," Aunt Mary Ann used to say to me; aud so I womfered, and wished, but all in vain. I must ha*e the vir tue of years before I could view thetreasures of past magnificence, so long entomled in that wooden sarcoghagus. Once I saw the faded sisters bending over the trunk togtther, and, as I thought, embalming something in cam phor. Curiosity impelled me to lhger, but, under some jfretext, I was nodded >ut of the room. Although my kinswomen's meajs were far from ample, they determined that Sviftmouth college should have the distinctiot of calling me one of her sons, and accordingly I was in due time sent for preparation to a neiehbor ing academy. Years of study and hard tare in country boarding-houses told upon my self-importance as the descendant of a great Englishman, notwithstanding all y letters from the honored three came freighted with counsel to "respect inj-self and kjep up the dignity of the family." Growing up man for gets good counsel. The Arcadia c> respecta bility is apt to give place to the lenty of foot ball and other low-toned accomjlishments. The book of life, at that period, pens read ily at fun and frolic, and the insigoa of great ness give the school boy noenvioui pangs. I was nineteen when I entered the hoary halls of Swiftmoutb. I call them hoary, be cause they had been built more than fifty years. To me they seemed uncommonly hoary, aud I snuffed antiquity in the dusty purlieus. I now began to. afudy, >, good earnest, the wisdom of the padt. 1 aaw clear- ly the value of dead men and mouldy pre cepts, especially if the former had been en tombed & thousand years, and if the latter were well done in sounding Greek and I began to reverence royal lines of deceased monarchs, and longed to connect my own name, now growing into college popularity, with some far-off mighty one who had ruled in pomp and luxury his obsequious people. The trunk in Snowborough troubled my dreams. In that receptacle still slept the proof of our family distinction. "I will go,"' quoth I, "to the home of my aunts next va cation and there learn how we became migh ty, and discover precisely why we don't prac tice to-day our inherited claims to glory." I went to Snowborough. Aunt patience was now anxious to lay before her impatient nephew the proof he burned to behold. But first she must explain. All the old family documents and letters were, no doubt, des troyed in the greaf fire of '9B, as nothing in the shape of parchment or paper implying nobility ever been discovered in Snow borough, or elsewhere. But—there had been preserved, for many years, a suit of imperial clothes, that had been worn by their great grandfather in England, and, no doubt, in the New World also. These garments bad been caretully watched and guarded; for were they not the proof that their owner belonged to a station in life, second, if second at all, to the royal court of King George itself? Precious casket, into which I was soon to have the privilege of gazing! Through how many long years these fond, foolish virgins bad lighted their unfiickering lamps of expecta lion and hope at this cherished old shrine! 1 was now on my way to the family reposi tory of all our greatness. I went up stair? "on the jump." We all knelt down before the well-preserved bcx; and my proud aum Patience, in a somewhat reverent manner, turned the key. My heart, —lam not asham ed to confess it now, although it is forty years since the quartette, in search of family hon ors, were on the#r knees that summer after noon in Snowborough,—niy heart beat high. I was about to look on that which might be a duke's or an earl's regalia. And I was de scended from the owner in a direct line? 1 had lately been reading Shakespeare's "Ti tus Andronicus"; aud I remembered, there before the trunk, these lines, — "0 sacred receptacle of my joys, "Sweet cell of virtue and nobility !" The lid went up, and the sisters began to un roll the precious garments, which seemed all enshrined in aromatic gums and spices. The order of that interior lives with me to this day; and I grow feint with the memory of memory of that hour. With pious precision the clothes were uncovered, and at last the whole suit was laid before my expectant eyes. Reader ! 1 am an old man now, and have not long to walk thia planet. But, whatever dreadful shock may he in reserve tor my de clining years, lam certain I can bear it ; for I went through that scene at Snowborough, arid still live! When the garments were fully displayed, all the aunts looked at me. I had been to col lege; I had studied Burke's "Peerage;" I had been once to New York. Perhaps 1 could immediately name the exact station in noble British life to which that suit of clothes be longed. I could: I saw it all at a glance. I grew flustered and pale. I dared not look my poor deluded female relatives in the face. "What rank in the peerage do these gold laced garments and big buttons betoken?' cried all three. "It is a suit of servant's livery!" gasped I, and fell back with a shudder. That evening after the sun had gone down, we buried those hateful garments in a ditch at the bottom of the garden. Rest there per turbed body-coat, yellow trousers, brown gaiters, and all! •'Vain pouip and glory of the world, I hate ye." A LETTER FROM MR. COBDEN. The ..übjoined letter, from one of the emi nent friends of this country in England to our minister at Copenhagen, though not intended for publication, is so suggestive, particularly at this moment —even mc re sonowthan when it was first written—that having been permit ted to publish it by the gentleman to whom it is addressed, we are confident that it will greatly interest our readers. The opinion ex pressed of American politics by such men a Cobden, Bright and Mill, whose concern for our prosperity cannot be doubted, ought not in any (pse to be regarded as intrusive, or to be received but with respect. "MIDHCBST, sth February, 1865. "My dear friend: I duly received your let ter of the 12th December. Ever since I have been an invalid, not having lef, the house for more than two months. , I was imprudent in going at so late a season to address my con stituents in the North, and was unfortunate in being obliged to speak, not only for myself but for Mr. Bright, who was prevented from being present by the death of his son. But I am better now, though not well enough to be at my post at the opening of the session. I must wait for fine weather. "I congratulate you on the course which events have taken in your country during the last few months. It seems to me that there are unmistakable signs of exhaustion in the Confederacy, and it would not be rash to pre dict now that the famous 'ninety days' will witness very decisive events in the progress of the war. Jeff. Davis rules in Richmond, but the federal armies control his dominions. I hold a theory that in these times, when ar mies require vast appliances of mechanical resources, and when they are so much larger than in olden days, it is impossible to carry on war without the base of large cities. If the seaports be taken and Lee be obliged to evac uate Richmond, there will not be a town left in the Confederacy with twenty thousand white inhabitants. It will be impossible to maintain permanently large armies in the in terior of the slave states, amid scattered plan tations and unpaved villages. You cannot, in such circumstances, concentrate the means of subsistence or furnish the necessary equip ment for an army. I expect, therefore, to see the loss of the large towns lead to a dis persion of the Southern armies. I have some times speculated on what course Lee will take if obliged to abandon his position at Rich- Vol 38: No. 15. mond. I have my doubts whether he will continue the struggle beyond the borders of his native state. However, all these are : | speculations, which a few months will dispose of. I pray Heaven we may soon see the ter mination of this terrible war. "I observe what you say about Confederate agents having found encouragement in Eu rope. I can easily believe this. If the South caves in, there will be a fierce resentment felt by the leaders towurds those potentates or ministers in Europe who have deluded them to their ruin, and I should not be surprised to hear some secrets disclosed, in consequence, of an interesting kind. Democracy has dis covered how very few friends it has in Europe among the ruling class. It has at the same time discovered its own strength, and what is more, this has been also discovered by the aristocracies and absolutisms of the old world, ho that I think you are more safe than ever against the risks of intervention from this side of the Atlantic. Besides, you must not forget that the working class of Eng land, who will not always without direct po litical power, have in spite of their sufferings and the attempts made to mislead them, ad hered nobly to the cause of civilization and freedom. "Tou will have task sufficient to employ all your energies at home in bringing your finan ces into order. There is a dreadful want of capacity at your head in questions of political economy—you seem now to be in the same state of ignorance as that frotn which we be gan to emerge forty years ago. The labors of Huskissou, Peel and Gladstone seem never to have been heard of by Messrs. & Co.— Depend on it that, as there is no loyal road to learning, so there is no republican path to prosperity. You must follow thebea teu track of experience. Debt is debt, wheth er on the west or east of the Atlantic, and it can be paid only by prudence and economy, and a wise distribution ofits burden. * * * * "Yours, veiy truly, R. COBDEN. "Hon. B. R. WOOD." HEANQRARTEUS, PROVOST MARSHAL, ") SIXTEENTH DISTRICT PENNA., [ Cnambersburg, March 23, 1865. J The following Opinion of the Attorney General of the United State is published for the information of the people ot this District. GEO. EYESTER, Capt. & Provost Marshal 16th Dist. Pa. OPINION. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, March 15, '65. HON. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:— SIR : Upon the 14th section of the Act, en titled "An Act to amend the several Acts heretofore passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces," which provides as follows : "That hereafter all persons mustered into the military or naval service, whether as vol unteers, substitutes, representatives, or other wise, shall be credited to the State, and to the ward, township, precinct, or other enrollment sub-district where such persons belong by actual residence, (if such persons have an actual residence within the United States) and where such persons weie or shall be enrolled, if liable to enrollment); and is hereby made the duty of the Provost Marshal General to make such rules and give such instructions to the several Provost Marshals, Board of En rollment, and Mustering Officers, as shall be necessary for the faithful enforcement of the provisions of this section, to the end that fair and just credit shall be given to every section of the country : Provided, That in any call for troops hereafter no county, town, town ship, ward, precinct, or election district, shall have credit except for men actually furnished on said call, or the preceding call, by said county, town, towaship, ward, precinct, or election district, mustered into the military or naval service on the quota thereof."' You, iu your letter of the 12th of March, ask my opinion on the following points: First. As to the meaning of the words "ac tual residence," as employed in the above ! section, and the proper mode, according to aw, of determining the actual residence of men offering as recruits? Second. Where the "actual residence" oi the recruit is in one sub-district, and he is enrolled in a different sub-district, where shall the credit be given ? Third. In cases where the recruit has no legal domicil or actual residence iuanyenrollr inent sub-district, shall be credited to the snb district or district where he is enrolled, or shall he be allowed to select his locality ? 1 The figures of the above questions maj be divided into two parts : First, as to the meaning of the words "actual residence and secondly, as to the proper mode of ascer taining the "actual residence." It is very difficult to give atest by which the question of actual residence maybe determin ed in each particular case. A few general rules may be given, however, by which a vast majority of cases can be readily determined. 1. Every person must be presumed to have an actual residence somewhere. 2. A man can have but one actual residence at one and the same time. 3. A residence once acquired remains until another is acquired. 4. The place of a man's origin is that of his actual residence until he requires another. 5. Minors have their actual residence with their parents, guardians, or, if apprentices, with their masters. 5 Adults reside at the place of their dwell ing. A man's dwelling isin contradistinction to his place of business, trade or occupation. He dwells at the place he habitually sleeps or passes his nights. 7. In every county there is more or less population floating like drift. They never expect to remain long at any place, and go thence whenever and wherever the hope of employment may invite, or fancy dictate. — Such person s have their actual residence in the community in which they may dwell atthe time of the enrollment. As to the mode of ascertaining the actual residence of a recruit, the statute gives au. thority to the Provost Marshal General to make such rules and gives such instructions as will enable the Boards of Enrollment and Mustering officers to ascertain the facta, and assign the credit according to the truth of the case. In most cases, the affidavit of the en rolled man would determine the matter- Bvt as it it, 4 question ill which the sub-districts have an interest as well as the recruits, andas recruits may, for bounties or bribes, declare contrary to the fact, their places ot residence the rules to be prescribed should admit of counter proof. H. My opinion is, that where the actual residence is in one sub-district, and the man is enrolled in a different sub-district, the cred it should be given to the district of his actual residence. The whole object and purpose of this section i is to fix a rule by which places are to receive credits for enrolled men. It gives a rule of [ credits to the State, and to the ward, township f precinct or other enrollment sub-district, for , enrolled men only. It is silent as to how or where recruits not enrolled, are to be credited. Id order that the credit may be made accord ing to the rule in this section prescribed, the man must not only have an actual residence, but he must be enrolled. The words of the section, "and where such persons weie or shall be enrolled," relate to the fact ofenroll ■ raent rather than the place of enrollment. — i Those words are introduced to announce the ► fact of enrollment, and not to affect or control the question as to place of credit. This is manifest from the context, andespecially from the words in parenthesis, just following those above quoted, to wit: ("if liable to enroll ment." ) 111. Nothing else appearing, it must be ta ken for granted that the actual residence is the place of enrollment, and the credit given i accordingly. If, however, it should be made i to appear though enrolled in a particular sub district, the person Las no actual residence, then this statute furnishes no rule by which the credit can be given. In such case credit must be given under the law, or according to the rule in force before and independently of this Act. 1 am, Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant JAMES SPEED, aprilT-lt Attorney General. MAGNETISM IN PARIS.— At the Cirque Na poleon in Paris, two brothers, possessing the lucky patronymic"Bonbeur," magnetize each other with marvelous results. The brothers appear, followed by a page, exquisitely cos tumed ala Regence, whose rosy cheeks be tray her sex. The elder Bonheur magnetizes the younger. The somnambulist then reads visiting cards in sealed envelopes, deciphers minute figures concealed beneath heaps of paper, and finally tells the number engraved on the inner case of your watch. The elder Bonheur descends from his dais, and you whisper the name of a well known character in his ear ; the somnambulist instantly rises, walks straightway to a black board previously arranged by the fair page, and his eyes un doubtedly bandaged, be sketches with white chalk a cleverly done outline of the personage whose name you have given to the magnetiser. Victor Emanual, Lamartine, Alexandre Du mas successively appeared on the magic board, and were undoubtedly well done. — Mayerbeer was the only failure ; but it will be remembered that bis expression was extreme ly difficult to seize at any time. There is no visible communication between the magneti zer and the somnambulist. Ojc Jfarm antr oarUcn. CHEESE-MAKING. —A writer in the Philadel phia North American and United States Ga zette says :—"As one feelingan interest in the productions of Pennsylvania, I have read with exceeding gratification the recent arti cles contributed to yourvalued paper by Hen ry C. Carey, Esq. As having a beariug upon the question of the value of our agricultural productions, I give you some information col lected at the 'Convention of Ceeese Manufac turers,' recently held in Utica, New York. — Delegates were in attendance from Canada, Ohio, New York, and the New England States, to the number of about five hundred. No other agricultural pursuit has ever elicited the intelligent, and even scientific information that has been compiled for this. It is of great value, and the knowledge gained of the vari ous modes of manufacture is of exceeding benefit. The product of cheese throughout the country nas reached to an amount that, without a foreign outlet, would entirely glut our own markets. We exported from Sep tember, 1858, to September. 1859, five million pounds of cheese, one-fourih of the quantity being made in Herkimeu county, New York ; while from a like period in 1863, to Septem ber 30, 1864, we exported to Engiand alone over fifty millions of pounds, and at higher prices than previously obtained. Experi ments reported to the Convention from nu merous farmers show the product to be from 76 to $76 pef cow, in the yield of milk per annum, making the manufacture of cheese an important consideration to the revenue of the agriculturist, wherever such factories may lie located. lam pleased to learn that some . nterprising capitalists of Susquehanna coun ty, Pennsylvania, are about to erect a large cheese manufactory in that, section, and I have but little doubt the results will stimulate oth ers to follow, who are located in the rich pro ducing valleys in the centre of Pennsylvania, and from whence the article could be convey ed with so much facility to your port, if need ed for export." SORGIIFM. —Sugar can be manufactured from sorghum with complete success, accord ing to the St. Louis Republican , which says : —After experimenting for five years, Mr. Robert Moore, of Bloomington, Illinois has discovered a method of crystalization, by which the syrup from imphee and Chinese su gar cane can be advdntageously reduced to sugar. During the past year Mr. Moore has made about 600 pounds of sugar, and samples sent to us show it to be of very good quality. While all kinds of cane syrup can be reduced to is now agreed that the imphee variety is the most profitable, on ac count of the purity of its juice and the supe rior richness of saccharine matter. Mr Moore states he can produce sugar in large quanti fies, as quickly as it is obtained from the or dinary sugar cane, and at prices far more sat isfactory to consumers than those now pre vailing. The estimates are baed on one gal lon of syrup yielding about five pounds of su gar, leaving an excellent article of molasses. EXECUTOR'S NOTlCE.—Letters testa mentary on the estateof Samnal S. Stuckey, late of Napier township, deceased, having been issued to the subscribers by the Register of Bed ford county, all persons having claims against the estate are notified to present the same for settle ment, and all persona indebted are requested to make payment immediately. ASA S. STUCKEY, Snake Spring tp., marl7 JOHN 8. STUCKEY, Napier tp.,Ex'r. S___ A LARGE quantity—in sacks and in barrels —wholesale and retail—at Bloody Run Station. 00U.8,-64-17* JOHN W. BARN DOLLAR.
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