lb* gfrdford Ifrnjuim IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY J. R. DI RBOHIiOV. AM- iOUN LITZ, t.'N JULIANA St., uppoD i-1!> .lit'uscl House lIKHFoan, PENN'A. TKK.US: f'GOO h year if paid atriclly in advance. If not paid within alt months J2.10. If not paid within the year tol.OO. grotesioaal & gusiaess ATTORNEYS AT TAW. JOHN PALMER. Attorney at Law. Bedford. Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on Julianna at., nearly opposite the Mengel House.) june 33, 65.1y F B. CESSNA, tj . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with Jons CESSNA, on Pitt St., opposite the Bedford Hotel. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Mili tary Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9, 18fti. JOHN T. KKAGY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Btsnronn, PA., Will promptly attend to ail legal business entrust ed to his care. Will giT# special attention to claims against the Government. Office on Juliana street, Formerly occupied by Hon. A. King. aprH:'&o-*ly. J. K. DURBORROW JOHS LUTI. DURBORROW A LUTZ, .1 TTtt K.VJ-: I V* JIT LA w, BKBPORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collection* made on the shortest no tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution f claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the * 'Meneel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer office April 28, 1865:tf Espy m. alsip, ~~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 3 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1884. tf. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mengle House." Dec. 9, 1864-tf. KIMMELL AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, rx. Have formed a partnership in the practice of ihe Law Office on Juliana Street, twe doors South of the Mengel House, aprl, 1864—tf. JOHN MOWER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. April 1,1884.—tf. PEYTISTS. C. S. niCKOK j- G- MISSICR, JR. DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Ojffiee in the Bank Building, Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per formed and warranted. TERMS CASH. janfi'6s-ly. DENTISTRY. I. N. BOWSER. RESIDENT DENTIST, WOOD BK RUT, PA., will spend the second Monday, Tues day, aud Wednesday, of eact. month at Hopewell, the remaining three days at Bloody Run, etteod ng to the duties of his professio'n. At all other imes he can be found in his office at oodbury, excepting the last Monday and Tuesday of the same month, which he will spend in Martinsburg, Blair county, Penna. Persons desiring operations should rail early, as time is limited. All opera ions warranted. Aug. 5,1884,-tf. PHYSICIANS. DK. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders 4ii professional ser vices to the citizens "f Bedford and ricinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius. April 1, 1864—tt. L MARBOURG, M. D., . Having permanently located respectfttlly tenders his pofessional serrice* to the citisens of Bodlord and vicinity. Office on Jnli&na street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. HOTEL*. BEDFORD HOUSE, AT HOPEWELL, Bunronn COCNTT, PA., BY HARRY DROLLINGER. Every attention given to make guests comfortable, who stop at this House. Hopewell, July 29, 1864. TT S. HOTEL, U . nARRISBURG, PA. CORNER SIXTH AND MARKET STREETS, OPPOSITE REAHISG R. B. REPOT. I. H. HI'TCHINSON. Proprietor. jtn6:6s. ASHING TON HOTEL. BEDFORD. Pa.. ISAAC F. GROVE, Proprietor. THE subscriber would respectfully announce to his friends in Bedford County, and the public generally that be has leased for a term of years, this large and convenient brick hotel, at the corner of Pitt and Julianna Streets, Bedford Pa., known as the WASHINGTON HOTEL, and formerly kept by Win. DiberL This Honce is being thoroughly re-fitted fumished. and is now opened for the reception of guests. Visitors to the BEDFORD SPRINGS, and persons attending Court, will find this House a pleasant and quiet temporary home, Every at tention will be paid to the accommodation and comfort of guests. The TABLE will at all times be supplied with the best the markets afford. Charges will he mod erate. Extensive Stabling is attached to this Hotel, and a careful and competent Hostler will be in at tendencc. Special attention will bo paid to the accommo dation of the farming community. Coaches leave this House Daily, (Sundays ex cepted) at 6i o'clock, A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M., to connect with the trains going East, from Mount Dallas Station and Bloody Run. A coach will also leave tri-weekly, (Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day) for Somerset. The traveling public will find it decidedly to their advantage to stop with him. ISAAC F. GROVE. Bedford, April 7, 186.1. BAMEHMi G- W. RL'PP O. E. BHASSOS P. BESRMCT UM UPP, SHANNON a CO., BANKERS, BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North •ml South, and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Heudttances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. * apr-15,'64-tf. JEWELER, Af. J IANIEL BORDER, * ' PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WRST or rn BB TURD HOTEL, BBBPOBD, PA. ATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. &('. Be keeps on hand a stock at fine Gold and SU rer Matches, Spectacles of Brilliant Doubleßefin *d Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold • tch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best Muahty of Gold Pens. He will supply to order a "J thing in his line not on hand. "D- 2S, 1865—ix. I OHN MAJOR, V JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, BOPEWHLL, KnroßD cotKTT. Collection* and all business i? to k* office will be attended to prompt ill also attend to the sale or renting of real t ,j ® Instruu cuts of writing carefully prepar count ,ett,in 8 n P partnerships and other ac- Apl '!— tj. CBcMorO 3Jnoiui'cit DIRBORROW A LUT I Editors and Proprietors. From the Little Corporal. THE LAST REVIEW. BT MRS. B. J. BUODRB. Twenty-one miles of boys in blue, Sixty abreast in their last review, How grandly the columns stretch away, \ In the cloudless light of this sweet May day. Onwardr-in rank and file they come, To the cheering beat of the victors' drum. Wearied, scarred, and worn they be, But a prouder host you will never sec, Their faded banners, riddled with balls, But floating triumphantly after all, Never again in the world's sunlight, Shall the Nations look on a grander sight. No more till the Christian army stands, Whose warriors shall gather from every land, For a ast review on the other shore, Their life-long battles and marches o'er, Will a marshalled host like this appear, Crowned with the glory that victors wear. Let the beads of the nation bow as they pass, And scatter with flowers the dewy grass, As their gleaming weapons flash in the sun, Remember the deeds of valor done. How that solid column of human bTeasts Was bared to the storm, for the nation's rest. Then beat the drum for the last revielle, The echoes of the strife arc growing still, With a conquering tread the heroes come, Back to the dear delights of home. But alas ! the army of countless dead, Wc shall list in vain for their coming tread, Full forty mites of our noble braves, Sixty abreast, are in their graves, As your cheers ring out for the living host, It emeu,her the heroes loved and lost. And think of the maimed and wasted band, Seeking the homes of this stricken land, For whom the brightness of life is o'er, Whose feet are nearing the other shore, Bemnants of manhood once so strong, Those cannot march in the gala throng. Then hail! all hail to the hoys in blue, Gathered to-day fo: a last review, Marching with floating banners back; Scatter with flowers their joyous track. Their brows pcrchanee are dark with gears, Their worn feet seamed with crimson flars, But kinge and uictore we erown to-day, The war-scarred host, on their homeward way. And I wonder, if down from the sweet repose Which the soul of the martyred hero knows, The Commander-in-chief looks down and sees Those banners float in this earthly breeze, And if in the calm of that world of bliss, His spirit would th rill at a scene like this? foUiioL ARKANSAS. Reorganization in the State —Statement of Hon. E. W. Gantt. To the editor of the Chronicle : WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31, 1865.— The reorganization in Arkansas has progressed quietly, and is a success. In thefajl of 1863 the first meetings were held looking to a State Convention. In February, 1864, a convention was held. It adopted a State constitution abolishing slavery, repudiating the Confederate debt, and nullifying all the acts done by the Confederate authorities, ex cept marriage certificates, acknowledgment of deeds, aud a lew other minor things. It proceeded to organize a provisional govern ment by the appointment of Hon. Isaac Murphy, Governor, empowering him to or der an election for a permanent government, and requiring him to submit to the people the constitution for approval or rejection. The election was so ordered, and a perma nent government established, with his Ex cellency, Isaac Murphy, as Governor. The constitution as amended was adopted by a vote, in round numbers, of twelve thousand for and two hundred against it. The vote cast was near one-half the estimated voting population of the State, a little less than one-fourth of the vote of 1860, and but a few hundred less, if not equal, to the entire vote cast for secession in 1861. This organization was of the people and spontaneous. It has been erroneously sup posed that the Executive or the military originated or controlled it. I know person ally to the contrary. Advocating, in the fall of' 1863 and the winter of 1864, the holding of a convention and the ameuduient of our Constitution abolishing slavery, for reasons stated in various speeches and letters, 1 had an opportunity to know much that was done. As the then conimanJer of the department, a brave and accomplished soldier, opposed our views on this poiutj it wasdeeuied expe dient by the friends of the measure that I should go to Washington and see what influ ences could be brought to bear upon Gen eral Steele to induce him to favor our plans, he expressing his entire willingness to do what the President desired in the premises. Before leaving, thore was a general under derstanding that .f the Convention were full it should proceed to work aud do what was necessary. If not full, it should order an election for a Convention to be held at some future designated day. Before reaching Washington 1 was over taken by a prominent citizen of the State, who, leaving after I did, assured me that the Convention would not be hekl. Arriving at Washington, we visited Mr. Lincoln together and he submitted to us his plan of reorgani zation, whereby an election was ordered for the 28th March. 1864. In the meantime, advices reached uie from home, informing me of the meeting and action of the Conven tion, among which was its order for an elec tion on the 14th of March. I called at once on President Lincoln, made a full explanation and urged the consolidation of the two plans, lie cheerfully complied, and wrote by me a letter to General Steele to that effect. So the election was holden on the day and in the manner prescribed by the Convention, and met the full approval of President Lin coln. The new State government was thus in augurated. Since then it has gained strength steadily. Weak at first and without a dollar to commence with, its indefatigable officers, aided by the well timed and prudent counsels and assistance of General Reynolds, have succeeded in administering it* affairs until the opposing Confederate authorities, from Governor down, acknowledge its supremacy aud uutil every county in the State is as tborougiily organized as before the war. We have fortunately had few dissensions in our midst, and if the people are not dis turbed by disappointed and ambitious office seekers, apprehend little in the future. The utmost quiet prevails in our midst. A citi zen of any portion of the United States can travel unattended throughoutour entire bor ders. Courts arc being held in all the coun ties. Estates are being administered aud A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORVLS. and important rights adjudicated. Hun dreds of thousands of dollars are in train of collection; property is being bought and sold under execution; marriages are being solemnized, and other contracts entered in to upon the faith of the permanence of our State Government. In a word, every act which a State-in perfect vigor can do is now being done, aud trie dawn of returning pros perity breaks upon us. It is desired especially that the attention of the public be called to the fact that three important questions have been settled in our State: First, the inserting of a clause in our State Constitution forever prohibiting sla very; second, Ibe repudiation of the Confed erate debtj and, in the third place, the prompt ratification by our Legislature of the Constitutional amendment abolishing slav ery. They arc adopted as just principles by j a portion of the people, while a large pro- : portion of the residue acquiesce m them as points legitimately settled by the war. That some mistakes were make in returns, that too much was done in some things, and too little in others, may be true, but fortu nately these are all within the reach of the courts and legislature. Such is briefly our State government, which relies upon the President and Con gress and the country for recognition, and which, if torn down and rebuilt forty times, must at last be substantially just what it is. Yours, truly, E. W. GANTT. THE END OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The Democratic party of the North has evidently finished its mission. Its last bat tles have been quite sufficient to show that its career is ended. These battles were about as much like one of its ancient fights as the convulsive struggle of a bird with its head off is like that of the game animal in the full vigor of its prime. There is now not one spark of life in its remains, nor meat enough on its bones to make the feeblest mockery of dietary soup. We contemplate the corpse of the dead Democracy with considerable composure, and even a serene contentment. As it lies there stark and stiff, deprived of all power of mis chief, it is difficult to realize that this is the party which once exercised, under the name of Democracy, the most absolute and pre scriptive party sway, and dispensed all the official gilts big and little. Federal and State, of the American Republic. There was a time when even to doubt that its decrees were infallible was the rankest kind of polit ical heresy, and to question its invincibility wis the presumption of a fool. With no argument but its name, and no policy but the spoils, it vanquished every political par ty that ever ventured to give it battle. No talente, however great, — BO virtue, however spotless,—availed to secure their possessor a post in the public service unless he wore the livery of that potent organization. The gi gantic genius of Daniel "Webster was destin ed to remain a pyramid in a vale, while, on the pedestal intended for the statue of a Co lossus, was perched some diminutive dwarf, dignified by the name of a great statesman. The eagle flight of Henry Clay was arrested in midheaveti by a fang that he eould not shake off. and the reptile who inserted it was transformed by the magic spell of De mocracy into a venerable public functionary, and clad in the imperial purple. It could bring an angel from the clouds or clothe an infernal in the garments of light. There never, any country, was a more sweeping and complete political ostracism than that which, during the whole period of its ascen dancy. the Democracy exercised in this coun try. It claimed an entire monopoly of all the patriotism and official competency of the land. It took the slave institution of the South under its especial guardianship, and no Southern Whig was ever found whom it eould trust on that subject in comparison with a Northern Democrat. But long and brilliant as was its career, it came at last to a Waterloo, and after that to a St. Helena. If it had not dragged down the country with its own downfall, we should rc fard its overthrow wiih unmixed exultation. Int the moment that its sceptre was passing away, it set fire to a train, already laid, for universal ruin. But there is this matter of congratulation. Theyuins can be repaired and the country will rise, while the Democ racy never can. Its days are numbered. It will never more be able to ride rough-shod over the wisdom, conservatism and public virtue of the land.— Richmond Rep. THE NEW SCHOOL FRESH YTElll- ANS SPEAK FOR THEIR COUNTRY. The New School Presbyterian Synod has just held its annual meeting in Philadelphia. On Thursday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Aikman, of the committee on the state of the country, reported the following preamble and resolu tions, which were unanimously adopted. They should be perused by every reader of the paper: W HEREAS, The Synod holds its annual session now, for the first time after the close of a great and civil war; and, WHEREAS, By Divine command, the Church is to bear in heart before God the rules of the land, and cannot therefore but have the deepest interest in the purity and stability of the Government; and that, in a country where the Church enjoys such free dom and protection so beneficent from the Government, she is bound by every principle of honor and of gratitude to God to pledge, as we have in time of its danger, and as we do now, her loyalty, and to express her joy in the hour of its success: therefore Resolved, That we give humble thanks to God most high, for the overthrow, so sud den and so entire, of the great rebellion; for the virtual extinction of the system of human slavery, the baleful growth of two centuries of wrong; fur thaelevatiou of four millions of men from the degradation of ab solute servitude into freedom and citizenship; for the entire establishment of the Govern ment. and the vindication ot its authority and honor; for the spirit of peace over the whole land: and brotherhood, and of a new and purified life to the nation. Resolved, That we give thanks to God for the inspiration of faith, courage and con stancy which has borne the nation thibugh four years of self denial, suffering and death, and which has held it unfaltering on its way to this day of light and triumph. To God be all the glory. Resolved, That the dangers and sorrows through which the nation has passed, and God's Providence, all declare that absolute justice must be done to all men, aud do point unerringly to the duty of lifting, as speedily as possible those whom God has made free to the rights of citizenship before the law. Resolved, That to the soldiers of the | Union, to whose valor and enduranca under God we owe the triumph and peace to-day, we return our grateful acknowledgment, and pray that God would crown them with the richest blessing of His graoe. Resoleed, That to the great multitude of the bereaved, whose loved ones have fallen by disease and exposure, by the arms and in the prisons of the enemy, we bring our sym pathy, too .deep for words, and the memory BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1865. of their dead we will hallow, and hold them in everlastingremeiubrance. Resolvetl, That the Synod would record its grateful thanks to the Great Head of the Church that he has so largely preserved the lives of our young men who went forth to battle for their country, and that he has re turned them, in so many inslances, with the piety only deepened by the experiences of camp and field, that he has blessed our churches with revivals ot religion and with such harmony and general prosperity, that the close of the war finds us with more evi dences of vigorous life than ever before. THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. The mastermind of the Episcopal Conven tion now in session in thiß city is evidently Stephen Elliott of Georgia. When that eminent Southern prelate issued his famous inanchao to the norih, 9i?llenco, if y<m pl*e but not one word of censure!" he sounded the key-note to which all the doings of the Convention have been caTeftilly an i accura tely tuned. It must be intensely gratifying to Bishop Elliott to find that his influence is not only not abated, but that it is greater than ever. We have had several marked recognitions of the supremacy of this Grand Master of tfteOrder of RcUnited Episcopa lians; but the culmination of them all was exhibited on Saturday aiorning: when our townsman, Horace Binmy, Jr., Esq., intro duced his loyal resolution asking the Bish ops to recognize our debt of gratitude to God for the suppression of the rebellion and the removal of its cause. Had Mr. Binney in vited the Convention to unite in a war-dance he could not have met with a more violent response. From all parts of the House loud cries were heard, demanding the immediate slaughter of the resolution by laying it on the table. Forgetting, for the moment, those Courtises whieh the Convention may be supposed to owe to those whose liberal and willing hospitality they are so abun dantly enjoying, the Pennsylvania deputa tion was loudly denied the privilege of a single word of explanation, ana it was by the most determined insisting upon their parlia mentary rights that they succeeded in secu ring a call for the ayes and nays. Before this was done, the President, Rev. Dr. C'raik of Kentucky, was asked if the vote about to be taken would dispose of the question, and even that usually bland and accomplished divine was so carried away by the excite ment of the House, as to throw his influence against the resolution and to seek to bias the vote by replying, "Yes, we shall get rid of it for this time, at least." Our readers have read the result. Thirty six members of the Convention were all that could be found ready to thank God for the blessings mentioned in the resolution. The whole mass of the body promptly repudiated them and crushed the measure witn an iron heel. We are proud to be able to say, that not only the Pennsylvania deputation vote as a unit for the resolution, but the whole New York deputation, with the exception of the Rev. Dr. Payne, voting against it, and Rev. Dr. Higbee, absent, stood by this most loyal resolution, Hon. Samuel B. Rugbies, Jonas C. Heartt, Esq., Hon Hamilton Fish, and Hon. Mr. Pierpont, are the lay representatives of the great Diocese of New York. We need hardly say that Ohio and Massachusetts proved true to their well known principles on this occasion. All honor to the little band of the clergy and laity who had the courage to declare that they lire Americans as well is churchmen—that thev are patriots as well as Episcopalians. We presume that thii is the end of the matter, so far as this Contention is concerned. The loyal sentiment of tie North is as effec tually muzzled as it ever was in, South Car olina, and it will be in fain for the distin guished gentlemen who represent the great Diocese of Pennsylvania re make any further effort to place upon the records of the Con vention those "unutiered truths" which, if spoken, would kindle the affections of thou sands of free spirits towards the Episcopal Chureh. It is impossible to estimate the influence that would hare been exerted in favor of the Episcopal Church had it shown itself, on this occasion, true to its own daily repeated formulas.— Ph'Ja. Bulletin. PHILOSOPHY OF EXERCISE. We take this instructive article from a late number of If all's Journal of Health: All know that the less we exercise the less health we have, and the more certain we are to die before our time. But comparatively few persons are able to explain how exercise promotes health. Both beast and bird, in a state of nature, are exempt from disease, except in rare eases; it is because the unap peasable instinct of searching for their nec essary food, impels them to ceaseless activi ties. Children, when left to themselves, eat a great deal and have excellent health, be cause they will be doing something all the time, until they become so tired that they fall asleep; and as soon as they wake, they begin right away to run about again; thus their whole existence is spent in alternate eating and sleeping, and exercise, which is interesting and pleasurable. The health of childhood would be enjoyed by those of ma turcr years, if, like children, they would eat only when they are hungry ; stop when they have done; take rest in sleep as soon as they are tired; and, when not eating or rest ing! would spend the time diligently in such muscular activities as would be interesting, agreeable and profitable. Exercise, without mental elasticity without an enlivemcnt of the findings and the mind, is of compara tively little value. 1. Exercise is health-producing, because it works off and out of the system its waste dead and effete matters; they are all con verted into a liquid form, called by some "humors," which have exit from the body through the "pores" of the skin in the shape of perspiration, which all have seen, and which all know is the result of ex ercise, when the body is in a state of health. Thus it is, that persons who do not perspire, who have a dry skin, are always either fe verish or chilly, and are never well, and never can be as long as that con dition exists. So exercise, by working out of the system its waste, deoayed and useloss matter, keeps the human machine "free," otherwise it would soon clog up, and the wheels of life would stop forever 2. Exercise improves the health, because every step a man takes tends to impart mo tion to the bowels; a proper amount of ex ercise keeps them acting once in every twenty four hours; if they have not motion enough there is constipation, which brings on very many fatal diseases; hence exercise, especi ally that of walking, wards off innumerable diseases, when it is kept up to an extent equal to inducing one motion of the bowels daily. 3. Exercise is healthful, because the more we exercise the faster we breath. If we breathe faster, we take that much more air into the lungs; but it is the air we breathe which purifies the blood, and the more air we take in, the more perfectly is that process performed; the purer the blood is, and as ■ everybody knows, the better health must be. ' Hence, when a person's lungs are impaired he does not take in enough air for the wants of this system; that being the case air he does breathe should be the purest possible, which is out door air. Hence, the more a consumptive stays in the house, the more certain and more sjtecdy is his death. HABITS OF GREAT STUDENTS. Magliahccehi, the learned librarian to the Duke of Tuscany, never stirred abroad, but lived amid books. They were his bed, board, and washing. He passed eight-and-forty years in their midst, only twice in the course of his life venturing beyond the walls of Flo fence; once to go two leagues off, and the other time three and a half leagues, by or der of the Grand Duke. He was then an extremely frugal man, living upon eggs, bread and water in great moderation Luther, when studying, always had his dog lying at his feet, a dog ne had brought from Wartburg, and of which he was very fond. An ivory crucifix stood at. the table before him, and the wails of his study were stuck round with caricatures of the pope. He worked at his desk for days together without going out; bet when fatigued, and the idea began to stagnate, took his guitar with him into the porch, and there executed some mu sical fantasy, (for he was a skilful musician.) when the ideas would flow upon him as fresh as flowers after a summer s rain. Music was his invariable solace at such times. In deed, Luther did not hesitate to say that after theology music was the first of arts. ' Music," said he, is the art of the proph ets: it is the only other art which, like the ology, can calm the agitation of the soul, and put the devil to flight." Next to mu sic. if not before it, Luther loved children and flowers. That great gnarled man had a heart as tender as a woman 's. Calvin studied in his bed- Every morn ing at five or six o'clock he had books, man uscripts and papers caried to him there, and had he occasion to go out, on his return he undressed and went to bed again to continue his studies. In his later years he dictated his writings to Secretaries. He rarely cor rected anything. The sentences issued complete from his mouth. If he felt facili ty of composition leaving him, he forthwith quitted his bed. gave up writing and com posing, and went about his out-door duties for days, weeks and months together, But as soon as he felt the inspiration fall upon him again he went back to his bed. and his secretary set to work forthwith. Aristotle was a tremendons worker ; ho toot little sleep, and was constantly retrench ing it He had a contrivance by which he woke early, and to awake was with him to commence work. Demosthenes passed three months in a cavern by the sea-side, laboring to overcome the defects of his voice. There he read, studied and declaimed. Rousseau wrote his works early in the morning; Le Sage at mid day ; Byron at mid-night, Hardonin rose at four in the morning and wrote till late at night. Rabelais composed his life of Gargantua at Bcily, in the company of Roman cardi nals, and undei the eyes of the Bishop of Paris. La Fontaine wrote hi t ftbles chiefly under the shade of a tree, and sometimes by the side of Rachine and Boileau. Pascal wrote most of his thoughts on lit tle scraps of paper at his by-moments. Fen clon wrote his Telemachus in the Palacec of Versailles, at the Court of the Grand Mon arque, when discharging the duties of tutor to the Dauphin. That a book so thorough ly Democratic should have issued from such a source, and be written by a priest, may seem surprising. De Quincy first promulgated his notion of universal freedom of persons and trade, and of throwing all taxes on the land—the germ Eerhans of the French Revolution—in the oudoir of Madame de Pompadour. Bacon knelt down before composing his great work, and prayed for light and inspi ration from heaven. Pope never could com pose well without first declaiming for some time at the top of his voice, and thus rous ing the nervous system to its fullest activi tv. The life of Leibnitz was one of reading, writing and meditation. That was the se cret ot his prodigious knowledge. After an attack of the gout he confined himself to a diet of bread and milk. Often be slept in a chair, and rarely went to bed till after mid night. Sometimes he was months without quitting his seat, where he slept by night and wrote by day. He had an ulcer in his right leg, which prevented his walking about even had he wished to so. SLIPS OF THE PEN. GencralTaylor immortalized himself by perpetrating one of the grandest bulls on record, in which he attained what a certain literary professor calls "a perfection hardly to be surpassed.'' In his Presidential ad dress he aunouneed to the American Con gress that the United States were at peace with nil the, world, and continued to cherish relations of amity with the rest of mankind. Much simpler was the blunder of an English officer, during the Indian mutiny, who in formed the public, through the Times, that, thanks to the prompt measures of Colonel Edwards, the sepoys at Fort Machison, "were all unarmed and taken aback and be ing called upon laid down their arms." There was nothing very astonishing in an Irish newspaper stating that Robespirrc "left no children behind him, except a brother, who was killed at the same time;'' but it was startling to have an English jour nal assure us that her Majesty Queen Vic toria was "the last person to wear another man's crown." Addison lays it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in phy sicians it grows thin of people. Filibuster Heninpcn seems to have agreed with the es sayist, or he would hardly have informed General Parker, in one of his dispatches, that "Doctor Rice and Wolfe died of the cholera, and Dr. Linsey sickened, after which the health of the camp visibly improved." Intentionally or not, the stoat-hearted sol dier suggests that the best way to get rid of the cholera is to make short work of the doctors. Among the obituary notices in a weekly paper, not many months ago, there appeared the name of a certain publican, witli the following culogism appended to it —"Ho was greatly esteemed for his strict Erobity and steady conduct through life, he aving been a subscriber to the Sunday Times from its first number." This is a worthy pendant of Miss. Ilawkin's story of the undertaker writing to the corporation of Lbodon. "I am desired to inform the_ Court of Alderman Mr. Alderman Gill died last night, by order of Mrs. Gil!and not far short, in point of absurdity, in Madame Tassaud s announcement of the exhibition of the effigy of the notorious Palmer, "who was executed at Stafford with two hundrtd other celebrities." The modern fashion of naming florists' flowers must be held res ponsible for the very dubious paragraph we extract from a gardening paper:— 'Mrs. Legge will be looked after; she may not bo so certain a8 some, hut she was nevertheless very fine in the early part of the season. Laay Pop ham is useful, one of the old f'ash ! ioned build, not quite round in the outline, ' but makes up well. "—Chamber's Journal VOLUME 38; KO. 40. RECIPROCITY OF COURTESY. A great many people seem to be born in to the world—according to their own opin ion—for the simple and express purpose of receiving favors. That there is any other view to he taken of the subject never for a moment enters the head of an individual of this class. The idea of a quid pro quo, even if his intellect is able to grasp it, seems to him absurd. Isin't he one of the anointed? Dosen't a great part of the duty of the world consist in toadying him, and crying up his miraculous virtues and parts? What the deuce else was it created for? The cheek displayed by some of these fellows at times is perfectly stupendous: and no one in a com munity, perhaps, is obliged to witness its ex hibition oftener, or endure its infliction | more constantly than the editor of a news : nanor WMPLP who jf R-JI for notoriety. porations who want their backs scratched, travelling lecturers who want tickling, all come to the editor, who many times from pure good nature, and many times for the sake of being rid of their importunities, gives them what is technically known as a puff. But, eight times out of ten, if a reciprocal courtesy is required, a courtesy which liter ally costs them nothing, they don't "see" it. They are the parties to be favored, and that end gained, it is all suffitient. Now we pro test against this sort of thing. It is void of reason, justice, or right. A kis*s for a blow is very good in theory, but we have found from a long series of experiments, that it don't pay in business transactions. We have not intended our above remarks to be taken in any sweeping sense. Not a bit of it. They are only directed to a par ticular class, and in a general manner. Ev erybody ; whatever the position they mar fill, have suffered from the absorbent qual ities of these sponges of society without be ing able to squeeze out much in their turn, j and in that peculiar suffering we have had our share. We are sick of it —heart sick. It dosen't pay in the first place, and in the Second place itisin't pleasant to feel one's self the victim of imposition, for it's noth ing else. It destroys the feeling of inde pendence. which every one is entitled to possess, and we believe wc have as many rights as anybody else. But, yet, notwith standing the preponderance of this element in many communities, we are glad to put on record that, on the other side, there are ma ny good, square, white men, who appreciate and act upon the doctrine that one good turn deserves another. They understand that mankind was made for mutual support, not for one-sided swindling. They show at least common gratitude for favors received, and that is all we or anybody else can ask— for we're not speaking for ourselves alone. That their numbers may be increased and wax great in the land is the prayer of a suf fering community.— Erie Dispatch. WANTED—AN HONEST INDUSTRI OUS BOY. We lately saw an advertisement headed as above. It conveys to everv boy an impres sive moral lesson. "An honest industrious boy" is always wanted. He will be sought for, his services will be on demand; he will be respected and loved; he is spoken of in terms of high com mendation; he will always have a home, he will grow up to be a man of known worth and established character. He will be wanted. The merchant will want him for a salesman or a clerk, the mas i ter mechanic will want him for an apprent ice or a journeyman; those with a job to let will want him for a contractor ; clients will want him for a lawyer, patients will want him for n doctor; parents for a teacher of their children; and the people for an officer. He will be wanted. Townsmen will want him for a citizen; acquaintances, as a neigh bor; neighbors as a friend, families as a visi tor; the world as an acquaintance, nay, girls will want him for a beau, and finally for a husband. An honest, industrious boy 1 Just, think of it, boys, will you answer this description? Can you apply for this situation? Are you sure that you will be wanted? You may be smart and active, but that does not fill the requisition—are you honest? You may be capable—Are you industrious? You may be well dressed and create a favorable impres sion at first sight—are you both honest and industrious? IOU may apply for a "good situation" —are yon sure that your friends, teachers, acquaintances can recommend you for these qualities? Oh, how would you feel your character not being thus established, on hearing the words"l can't employ you!" Nothing else will make up for the lack of these qualities. No readiness or aptness for business will do it You must be honest and industrious —must work and labor; then will your calling and trust be made sure. The colored people of ludiana met in con vention at Indianapolis on the 24th ult., to take measures for securing negro suffrage. All the counties in the State were represent ed. Wendell Philips delivered his lecture,"The South Victorious," in New York on the 25th ult. He denounced Presidene Johnson, say ing that he ought to be impeached by the House of Representatives, and charged Hen ry Ward Beeeher with recreancy to the prin ciples of liberty. A negro insurrection has broken ont in the western part of the Island of Jamaica, and a British man-of-war, with troops to quell the outbreak, has been ordered to that quarter. There are 250,000 nobles in Austria, of whom 24,800 are in Gallicia, 163,000 in Hun gary, and 2,000 in Bohemia. An International Congress is shortly to assemble at Paris to agree upon a uniform standard of copper coin. France, Italy, Bel gium and Switzerland will be represented. The grand cross of Austria's order of St. Stephen (in right of the Hungarian crown) has been conferred on Count Walewski and M. Drouyn de Lhuys. Major-Gen. Franklin has resigned, and ac cepted the Presidency of Colt's Fire Arm Company at Hi rtford, Conn. Several French Canadian graduates of tha Government military school at Montreal, Can ada. have gone to Mexico to take service un der Maximilian. The expenditures of the Navy Department for the year ending June 30, 1865, were 000,000. The Secretary of the Navy estimates the expenses of the current year at $23,000, 000. . ~ A large number of troops, comprising all the cavalry in Virginia are soon to be paid off at Richmond and mustered out of the service. Commodore John S. Misroon, U. 8. N., Ordnance officer at tha Charleston Navy-Yard died on the 24th ult. He was a native of South Carolina, and entered the sM vive in 1824. All the volunteers cn the Pacific coast are to be mustered out, cent* per line for each insertion. Special notices one half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communication* of a limited or indlridual interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 cts. per line. Alt legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papees. Editorial Notices 14 coats per line. All after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months, fi month*. 1 year. One square - $ 4.40 9.00 SIO.OO Two squares...... 6.f>o 9.0# 16.00 Three squares 8.00 11.00 30.00 One-fourth columu 14.00 30.00 33.00 Half column 18.00 35.00 45.00 One column.*..•-......... 30.00 45.00 80.00 "WHAT SHE IS SHE WILL TEACH HER DAUGHTERS TO M,"— Sometimes one hears it said of a good wife and mother that_ "she s a regular home-body'" The phrase is sim ple, but what a word of ennobling qualities it indicates, and what a universe of frivoli ties it excludes. The matronly homebody is indeed "Heaven's best gift to man, and the husband capable of maltreating so true a helpmeet is only St for such companion ship as Nebuchadnesxar found in the Baby lonish pastures. Dashing ladies, whose mission it is to set the fashions, won't you look in upon your gentle sister as she eats in her well-ordered nursery making the chil dren happy with her presence? Note how she adjusts their little difficulties, and ad monishes, encourages, instructs, amuses them, as the ease may require. Do you think anv nurse-maid could produce such harmony m that lime clrcter % enchantress? Verily, yes, juid her charm ifi "love stronger than death" for those sweet young faces where you may see her smiles and frowns, (though she seldom has occasion to frown,) reflected in glee and sorrow, like sunlight and cloud-shaaow on a quiet pool. What she is she will teach her daughters to be ; and blessed are the sons that have such a mother. PREVALENT MISTAKES.— It is a mistake to suppose that the subscription price of a newspaper is clear gain to the publisher. It is a mistake to suppose that he gets white paper for nothing. _ , It is a mistake to suppose that it is printed without cost. It is a mistake to suppose he can live bod ily by faith. _ . It is a mistake to suppose that it is an easy thing to please everyboiy. It is a mistake to suppose that a paper is not worth buying whicn contains only what we know and believe already It is a mistake to suppose that money due for a paper would be as good to us a year hence as it is now. It is a great mistake to suppose that we could be thankful for what is due to us and for new subscriber*. WHAT EMERSON SAYS. —In a lecture on "Manners," by Emerson, he says: "'lt is a great event of life to find, and know, and love a superior person; to find a character that prefigures heaven and the saints on earth.' Such a one is left alone, as the gods are. In all the superior persons I have met, I notice directness, simplicity, truth spoken more truly, as if everything like obstruction and malformation haa been trained away. What have they to conceal? hat have they to conceal? What have they to exhib it? ' Between the simple and noble persons there is always a perfect understanding. They recognize at sight, and meet on a bet ter grouDu than tho talents or skill they chance to possess, namely, on their sincerity. I'D BATHER CARRY IT. —Going from market one day, we observed a very small boy, who gave no special indication, by dress or face, of other than ordinary training in life, carrying a bosket that was so heavy as nearly to bear him down beneath it We observed, ' 'Mv boy. you have a heavy kiad. "Yes," said he, "but I'd rather carry it than that my mother should.'' The remark was one of a nature we love to hear; but we do not know that we should have thought enough of it to have chronicled it, had we not seen across the street a highly accomplished young lady playing the piano while her mother was washing the windows. The Pope has again pronounced an allocu tion which is making some stir in Europe. This time he warns the faithful against the Free Masons, reminding them that several of his predecessors have proscribed and re proved that sect, the entrance into which they declared should entail excommunication which the Popo alone could remove. The Pope denounces the Free Masons as the in stigators of revolutions, and calls on the secular governments to suppress them. The Steele of Paris calculates that there are lin Europe more than 2,000,000 Catholic Free Mason*. WE hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not knaw them because we hate them. Those friendships that succeed to such aversions are usually firm, for those qualities must be sterling that could not only gain our hearts, but conquer our prejudices in things far more serious than our friendships. Thus there are truths which some _ men despise, be cause they have not examined: ana which they will not examine, because they despise. "IT was ever my invariable custom in my youth," says a celebrated Persian writer, "to rise from my sleep to watch, pray, and read the Koran. Oni night, as I was thus en gaged, my father, a man of practiced rirtne awoke. 'Behold,' said Ito nim, 'thy other children are lost in irreligions lurnber. while 1 alone am awake to praise God.' 'feon of my soul,' said he, 'it is better to sleep than to wake to remark the faults of thy breth ._ > ii ens. THE Religion of Jesus Christ is a vast remedial system, made up of many mighty forces, ana containing within itself capaci ties of adaption and adjustment to every phase of the world's progress and to every necessity of individual lire. These mighty forces are to some extent dormant, and they must be awakened into action j and the out lying field around the Church must be filled by all the agencies which God has placed in onr power. To develop these inner forces and to motivate this outer field is the bounded duty of the age and of this Church. EVERY young man i> eagerly asking the best way of getting on in fife. The Bible gives a very snort answer to the question: 'Walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous." A great many books of aivicc aud direction have been written, but here is the gist ot it all: "Walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. SIR CHRISTOPHER TAWNY has somo won derful old port wine, which, he says, he laid down at the time of the birth of his eldest daughter; the wine is undoubtedly remarkably fine; but the most wonderful thing about it is that whereas the wine is thirty-two years old, the young lady, who is still unmarried, is only just entering her three-and-twentieth year. A LHTLE boy five years old, while writh ing under the torture of the ague was told by his mother to rise up and take a powder she had prepared for him. "Powder! pow der!" said he rising cn his elbow, and put ting on a roguish smite, "mother, I ain t a gun!" fmiV ' '" AuarsTCS Doo LITTLE had been in a store about three months when his employes asked him what part of the business he liked best. To which the elegant youth replied: "Shut tin' up, sir. '
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