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Will give special attention to claims against the Government. Office on Juliana street, formerly occupied by Hon. A. King. nprll:'6s-*ly. __ J. It. IH'RBORROW JOBS Mix. DT; RBORROW A LUTZ, . .ITTOHJVEWS •/ /' Ll#', BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to U business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shoitest no tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana -tree), one door South of the • -Menget House" and nearly opposite the fmjnircr office. April 2S, 1865:tf ¥TBPY M. ALSIP" JLU ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street. 2 doors south of the Mcngel House. apl l, 1864. —tf. M. A. 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At nil other imes he can be found in his office at Woodbury, excepting the last Monday and Tuesday nt the same month, whjoh he will spend in Martinsburg, Blair county, Pcnna. Person- desiring operations should call early, as time is limited. All opera ions warranted. Aug. 5,1864,-tf. PHVNKIANS. INK. B. F. HARRY, 1) Respectfully tenders hia professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Ilofius. April 1, 1864—tf. J ITMARBOUHO, M. P., . Ha ring permanently located respectfully tenders his pofcssional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hail A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864 tf. HOTELS. BEDFORD HOUSE, AT HOPEWELL. BEDFORD COUNTY, PA., BY HARRY DROI.LINGER. Every attention given to make guests comfortable, who stop at this House. Hopewell, July 29, 1564. tT* S. HOTEL, j. HARKLSBURU, PA. CORNER SIXTH AND MARKET STREETS, OPPOSITE READING R. R. DEPOT. D. H. HUTCHINSON, Proprietor. jtn6:ls. BANKERS. G. W. RFPP O. "K. SHANNON F. BK.VROICT RUPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, BEPFUKD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS tnaile for the East, West, North and South, and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. apr.ls, <>t tf. JEWELEH, At . TOH N Rill MEND, J CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER, in the United States Telepraph Office. BEDFORD, PA. Clocks, watches, and nil kinds of Jewelry promptly repaired. All work entrusted to his care warranted to give entire satisfaction. [novZ-lyr RVANIEL BORDER, X ) PITT STKKKT, TWO DOOMS WEST or THK BKB ronn HOTKI., BEBFORU, I'A. ATCHMAKEIt AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fina Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He w ill supply to order any thing in his line not on hand, spr. 28,1886 —*z. Bonds SnilaWe top llollidn.r rresenls. HENRY HARPER, Sao ARCH Stteet, PHILADELPHIA. WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY .SOI.II> SILVER WARE, aixl Superior SILVER PI.ATEK WARE. Oct. TOBACCONISTS. DW. CKOtTSS i CO., . WHOI.KSAt.i: ASH lU.TAII. TOBACCON ISTS, One door west of the Port Office, chore Daniel Border's jewelry store, Bedford i'cun a., are now prepared to soil by wholesale nrretwil all kinds of Tobacco. Cigar* and Sna IS". Orders for Cigars promptly filled. Persons da siring anything in their line will do well to give them a call. Bedford, Oct. 26, '65. JI STICKS OF Tin; PEACE. JOHN MAJOR, *) JUSTICE OK THE PEACE, HOI-KWEU, BEDFORD cot'STY. Collections and all business pertaining to his offiec will be attended to prompt \V. Will also attend to the sate or renting of real estate Instrun cuts of writing carefully prepar ed. Also settling np partner-ships and other ac counts, Api '6l — l |. i) UK BORROW & IXT2 Editors and Proprietors. fwllortl jfaijium. Texas Correspondence. CAMP 19 U. S. C. IN FT., ) Oct 17, 1865, f MESSRS. EDITORS: 1 think I promised to write again shou d anything turn up, that might interest your readers. I am afraid, that should I be as good as my word, I would be long in doing so, as everything has settled down into the most painful monotony. Yes, here we are from day to (lay without eYen a bit of a "serini age," to relieve the tedium of every day life. True we hear the sound occasionally across the river between the Liberals and "Max." I am aft aid the cause of the Liberals is hopeless, and shall attempt my reasons for this conclusion. 'Tis nothing more than ignorance, which renders them the most stupid of any race I know of. Thus it is only necessary for some one to raise a stan dard, and he will not want followers. Cor tina is an example; before the war the most inhuman of cut-throats, and in Brownsville stands indicted of 40 murders. He was the terror of the people on both sides of the river until defeated by our noble Stoneman, who killed some 50 of bis party. At the invasion of the French, he took sides with the Liberals, and continued with them until Gen. Mejar's advance on Matamoras. when he turned over his forces and joined the Im perialists, marching against his former friends. But finding lie did not possess the influence ho expected, he turned about and is at present waging a war of extermination upon the French. When we came here, he was looked on as a patriot; but now that he is known, all turn liitn the cold shoulder. In a conversation with a Captain of Ne gretes force, I was informed that Cortina was held in supreme contempt by the Libe rals. No prisoners are ever taken either of, or by Cortinas' force. I give you the following facts: Some days siuce a sergeant of the 43 U. S. Colored, crossed the river either to plunder or desert, was captured by Cortina, and held, until the Imperials made a rally, driving Cortina and capturing the sergeant. He was immediately con demned, and executed' on the 14th inst. Of course no protest was entered by us. a > the punishment was merited. As to the Mon roe doctrine, I am afraid it is "played," as the "grand army of the Rio Grande' is be ing disbanded. All the Northern regiments are now on their way home, among which are the 3d, Bth, 22d, 43d, 45th and 114 th raised in Philadelphia, This certainly does not look like "intervention," and, I fear the Mexican are indeed a subjected people. Owing to the large wages offered here j many of the boys are being mustered out j "to remain." I learned in Mattiuioras on the 14th that brick layers commanded from 6to 8 dollars. Carpenters 3to 5 dollars per day. Undoubtedly many of those remain ing will find their way into the ranks of the Liberals. Col Mejers of the army of the Argentine Republic and Colonel of the 45th 11. S. colored is trying to raise a Brigade of colored troops to assist the Liberals. I hope he may succeed, but I see little hope for such a result. Matamoras is in danger bow ever, and mtnj be captured, but this cannot effect the result materially. Of the troops now being mustered out, the following order is published : IL'N. QUARTERS, 25TH A. C. ) Is THE FIELD, TEXAS, Oct. 5, 1865. j [GENERAL ORDER, NO. 65.] i The commanding General desires to ex- I press to the many good regiments that are | | about to be mustered out, his regret at their departure, and to congratulate them on the pleasure they will experience in returning to their friends and relations at home. Although none of them have as many bat tle fields to be proud of, as the regiments that were raised at the beginning of the war, still they have an equally brilliant rec ord, because tliev have always accomplished everything required of them. Olustee, Petersburg, the Mine, Deep Bot tom, New Market Height, Fursel's Mills, and I'ine Mill Road, arc among those fields where they proved their valor and settled the question as to the capacity of the color ed man to make a good soldier. The Commanding General has, no doubt, that in their future conduct as private citi zens at home, they will, by their good be havior, preserve untarnished the brilliant record they have made in the army. By command of Major General Weitzel. J). J). WHEELER, Asst. Adj.-Gen. I give the order in full as many of these troops are from your county and entitled to the respects of your citizens. In regard to entertainments, Brownsville is gloriously deficient. True we can indulge ourselves during the heat of the day on sherry oblers, a claret punch, sungaree or a lemonade at the trifling sum ol 25 cents each. II you wish a game at Billiards, one dollar per hour; ditto Ten pins and Baga telle: drinks exclusive. At night then there are the same sports over again with an occa sional free and easy fight, including knives and revolvers to say nothing of tumblers and beer bottles. Then again there are the Fan dangoes which if you accompany me for a few moments, 1 will show you one, or at least try, to do justice is itupos IbW- The fandango is held in an openlot, (the greasers call them gadero). extremely dirty —atone end there is a shed under which arc stands at which are sold ruck liquors and vegeta bles as the market affords. The most con spicuous dishes are "Saboyes" (onions) in vinegar and "Chilli Cullarou" (red pepper) to which the party at the end of each dance adjourns and munches ouions, vinegar and red pepper (never le-s than a "bits" worth ) a drink of "fcwngaree and invariably wind ing up with a "cig.iretta or pure "Haven mi" I should have said that i>p<- is drawn A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MO FT VLS in a circle in the middle of the lot where the party dance to tolerable good music by a Brass band—as free Sghts are frequent, sol diers are usually posted in the ring as "mas ters of ceremony." I ant afraid Mr. Editor that some of our fastidious young ladies at home, now so ta ken with balls would see little in them to admire if conducted on the Mexican plan. As to costumes I negleeted to say that the men usualiv go in shirt sleeves with a red sash around the waist. The women some times appear in the richest costumes, mak ing grand displays of dress and jewelry— others are only about half dressed, making a squalid appearance indeed. As I have written more than I intended "taps" have sounded and with "tenga bue nos ranches" subscribe myself yours truly. F. H., Capt. 19 U. S. C. I. NEWS ITEMS. The allied forces of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentine are closely beseigingthe Paraguay an army in Uruguavana, and will probably soon force a surrender. The London Post, the English minstrel or gan. admits that the American Government has reason to feel aggreived in regard to the fitting out of the Alabama and other Rebel cruisers, and urges the calling of an interna tional congress to fix upon a common code to be observed by all neutral nations. President Johnson's recent address to the Brazilian Minister at Washington, advising his Government to be absolutely independent of foreign powers, is strangely enough inter preted in Englaad and France as an abandon ment of the Monroe doctrine. The Journal de St. Petersburg, the organ of the Russian Emperor, recently congratu lated the Washington Government on the rap id reconstruction of the Southern States, and designated America and Russia as "rising na tions designed to have interests and sympa thies in common.'' The Rebellion in Hayti seems near its end. The insurgents at Cape llaytien are in a star ving condition. The negro insurrection in Jamaica is likely to prove serious. Four Spanish war vessels, at the request of the English Consul at Ha | vana. have been sent by the Cuban Govern ment to aid the authorities in putting it down, j The subjects of the Elector of Hesse, grand son of the Landgrave who sold his Hessian subjects to England in the American Revolu tion. are about to apply to the German Diet to have him confined as a lunatic. The recent seizure of champagne wines in New-York and San Francisco by the U. S. Government has caused great excitement in the province of Champagne, France, and the wine merchants are appealing to the Empe ror Napoieon to intervene in the matter. They assert that there was no intention to I evade the duties. In Mexico a battle took place on the 25th I ult. between the Juarez forces, which have for some time been investing Matamoros, and the Imperalists, in which the former were routed with n loss of of 500 killed and woun ded. Senor Duran has been appointed Minister to Great Britian by Maximilian. The Imperial Government of Mexico has issued three decrees regulating Lieut. Maury's Colonization Bureau. A curious phenomenon occurred in the Valley of Mexico, Oct. 1. Five large streams ot water burst suddenlv forth from a moun tain. which if they do uotduuinish in volume, will form a considerable river. The French Government has reduced the duties on raw whalebone, the product of Ame rican fisheries the tariff being now the same as upon the European article. The Toronto papers state that the Canadian Government is organizing an army of 40,000 to guard the frontier against the Fenians and that depositors are withdrawing their funds from the banks through fear of a raid on those institutions. In Madrid, Spain, 500 per day are dying of cholera out of a less tliau 500.000 population, and the people are leaving the city daily. In Paris the deaths are 200 daily. The negro insurrection in Jamaica is spread ing and great alarm prevails among the whites. Many revolting murders have been perpetra ted by the negroes. Coolies are being introduced in the Sand wich Islands, 250 having recently arrived from China. They are bound to labor five years for $4 per month, and clothe themselves, the masters to take care of them in case of sick ness. (Jen. Sir William Frederick Williams, the "hero of Kara,'' has been appointed Lieut.- Governor of Nova Scotia. President Juarez has received an address from a democratic association in Antwerp, Belgium expressing sympathy with his cause and condensing the sending out of soldiers by the Belgian Government to aid Maximilian. Maximilian has withdrawn all French troops from the army of the Rio Grande to avoid all chances of a difficulty with the United States. The arrest of Fenians still continues in Ire land. One of the recently-discovered eaves under the city of Nashville, Tenn., is 80 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 40 feet in depth. Great distress preveils among the blacks in the neighborhood of Columbia, S. C. Ihe mortality among children is frightful, many having starved to death within the last three weeks. Wm. Gihnoro Simms and Ilobert Bruno j Masonic commissioners from South Carolina, are on their way to the North to represent to the Masonic fraternity the prostrate condition of the lodges in their State. NOBILITY OK BLOOD. Worth make* the UUM and want of it the fellow, The rest is al! but leather and prunella; What can ennoble sots, or knaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. A MAN came into a printing offiec to beg a newspaper; "beenuse, said he. "we like to read the newspapers very much but our neighbors are all too stingy to take une." BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1865. gflriui. THE PEACE AUTUMN. BY JOBS . WTLLTTIBR. Thank God for rest, where none molest, And none can make afraid, For Peace that lit* as Plenty's guest, Beneath the homestead shade ! Bring pike and gun, the sword's red scourge, The negro's bwken chains, And beat them at the blacksmith's forge To plowshares for our plains. Alike henceforth our hills of snow, And vales where cotton flowers; All streams that flow, all winds that blow, Are Freedom's motive powers. Henceforth to labor's chivalry Be knightly hnnor-'paid* For nobler than the sword shall bo The sickle's accolade. Buitd up an altar to the Lord, O grateful hearts of ours ! And shape it of the greenest sward That ever drank the showers. Lay all the bloom of gardens there, And there the orchard fruits; Bring golden grain from sun and air, From earth her goodly roots. There let our banners droop and flow, The stars uprise and fall; Our roll of martyrs, sad ami slow, Let sighing breezes call. Their names let hands of horn and tan And rough shod feet applaud, Who died to make the slave a man, And link with toil reward. There let the common heart keep time To sueh an anthem sung, As never swelled on poet's rhyme, Or thrilled on singer's tongue. Song of our burden and relief, Of peace and long annoy; The passion of our mighty grief And our exceeding joy. A song of praise.to Him who filled The harvests sown in tears, And gave each field a double yield To feed our battle-years ! A song of faith that trusts the end To match the good begun, Nor doubts the power of Love to blend The hearts of men as one. —Atlantic Monthly, Nov. CONCERNING LAUGHTER. There are times says the London Saturday Renew , when the body craves for laughter as it does for food. This Is the laughter which on some occasion or other, has betray ed us all into a scandalous, unreasonable, re morseless gayety. After a long absence from cheerful thoughts there are a few occasions so sad and solemn, as to render this impor tune rev ok impossible, unless where grief absorbs the whole soul, aud lowers the sys tem to a uniformity of sadness. Iu fact, no solemnity can be safe from incongruities, such occasions are not seldom the especial scene of these exposures—of explosions of a wild, perverse hilarity, taking the culprit at unawares; and this even while he is aghast at flagrant insensibility to the demand of the hour. This is the laughter ascribed to Sa tanic influence. The nerves cannot forego tbe wanted stiuiulas, and are malignantly on tbe watch, as it were, to betray the higher faculties into this unseemly indulgence. Thus John and Charles Wesley, in the early days of their public career, set forth one particu lar day to sing hymns together in the fields ; but on uplifting the first stave, one of them was suddenly stiuck with a sense of some thing ludicrous in their errand, and the oth er caught the infection and both fell into convulsions of laughter, renewed on every attempt to carry out their first design, till they were fain to give up and own them selves for that time conquered by the devil. There is a story of Dr. Johnson much to the same purpose. Naturally melancholy, he was yet a great laughter, and thus was an especial victim to the possession we speak of, for no one laughs in depression who has not learnt to laugh in mirth. He was dining with bis friend Chambers in the Temple, and at first betrayed so much phys ical suffering and mental dejection that his companion would not help boring him with remedies. By degrees he rallied, and with the rally came the need of a general re-ac tion. At this point Chambers happened to say that a common friend had beeu with him that morning making his will. Johnson — or rather his nervous system—seized upon this as the required subject. He raised a ludicrous picture of the "testator" going about boasting of the fact of his will-mak ing to anybody that would listen, down to the inn-keeper of the road. Roaring with laughter, he trusted that Chambers had had the conscience not to de- j scribe the testator as of strong mind, hoped there was a legacy to himself, and concluded with saying that he would have the will set to verse and a ballad made out of it. Mr. Chambers, not at all relishing this pleasan try, got rid of his guest as soon as he could. But not so did Johnson get rid of his merri ment; he rolled in convulsions till got out of Temple date, and then, supporting him self against a post, sent forth peals as loud as, in the silence of the night, to be heard from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch. We hear of stomach coughs; this was a stomach, or ganglionic, laugh. The mis-timed laughter of children ha# often some such source as this, though the sprite that possesses them has rarely the gnome-like essence. A healthy boy, after a certain amount of constraint, is sometimes as little responsible for his laughter as a hy pochondriac. Mrs. Beecher Stowe, in de scribing, and even defending, a Puritanical strictness of Sabbath observance, recalls the long family expositions and sermons which alternated in her youth with prolix meeting sendees, at all of which the younger mem bers of the household were required to as sist in profound stillness of attention. On one of these occasions, on a hot summer af ternoon, a heedless grasshopper of enorm ous dimensions leapt on the sleeve of one of the boys. The tempting diversion was not to be resisted; he slily secured the animal, arid imprisoned a hind leg between his firm ly compressed lips. One by one the youthful congregation be came alive to the awkwark contortions and struggles of the long-legged eaprive ; they knew that to laugh was to be flogged, but after so many sermons the need was imper ative, and they laughed, and were flogged | accordingly. Different from all these types ' is the grand, frank laugh that finds its place in history and biography and belongs to ] master minds. Political and party feelings | may raise, in stirring times, any amount of j animosity, even in good-natured men; but once bring about a laugh between them, and an answering chord is struck, a tie is estab lished not easily broken. Something of the old rancour is gone forever. There is a sto ry of Canning and Brougliman, after hating and spiting one another through a session, finding themselves suddenly face to face in some remote district in Cumberland, with only a turnpike gate between them. The situation roused their magnanimity, simul taneously they broke into laughter, and passed each on his separate way, bettor friends from tbat time forth. No honest laughter knows anything about his own laugh, which is fortunate, as it is apt to be the most grotesque part of a man, especially if he is anything of au original. Character, oddity, humor, all expatiate in it, arid the features and voice have to ateom modate themselves to the occasion a they can. There is Prince Hall's laugh, is like a wet cloak ill laid up; there is the laugh we see in Dutch pictures, where every wrinkle of the old face seems to be in motion; there is the convulsive laugh, in which arms and legs join; there is the whinney, the ventral laugh, Dr. John son's laugh like a rhinoceros, Doniine Sam lo gon's laugh lapsing without any intermedi ate stage into dead gravity, and the ideal social laugh—the delighted and delighting chuckle which ushers iu a joke, aud the cor dial triumphant laugh which sounds its praises. We say nothing of the laughs— and how many there are! —which have no mirth in them; nor of the "ha, ha! ' of melodrama, and the ringing laugh of the novel, as being each unfamiliar to our wak ing ears. Whatever the laugh, if it be gen uine and comes from decent people, it is as attractive as the Piper of Ilaiueliu. It b impossible not to want to know what a hearty laugh is about. Some of the spark le of life is near and we long to share it. The gift, of laughter is one of the compen sating powers of the world. A nation that laughs is so far prosperous. It may not have material wealth, but it has the poetry of prosperity. W hen Lady Duff Gordon laments that she never hears a hearty laugh in Egypt, and when Mr. Palgrave, on the contrary, makes the Arab proper a laughing people, we place Arabia, for this reason, higher among the countries than its old neighbor. And it is the same with homes. Wherever there is a pleasant laughter, their inestimable memories are being stored up, and such free play given to nerve and brain that whatever thought and power the fami ly circle is capable of will have a fair change of due expansion.— Exchange. MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY V STO RY or BISHOP SELWYN. In the autumn of 1857 I spent a few days in a country parsonage, and on the Sunday morning at breakfast, the pastor's wife re ceived a letter, which her tittering told us must be a tit-hit. "Ah, uncle,'! exclaimed she, "here are clerical doings exactly to your taste." The writer, a lady in a Jistant coun try, narrated that there had lately come into the next parish a new vicar—a very fine young man, who at school had no superior either in Greek or in his boxing, and who at the university won honors for his classics and silver cups for his boating. He was be ginning in earnest the work of an evangelist among a long neglected, vicious and brutal people. He had a plan and a will; but many worthy folks were fearing that his zeal was without* knowledge—or wisdom, at any rate. One of his first measures was to open a school in a remote part of the parish and get the room licensed for week-day preaching But all the drunkards rose against such un heard of proceedings. They would run af ter him cursing and hooting, and discharg ing volleys of sods and other missiles. Find ing remonstrance vain he adopted another course on the Wednesday evening in the week before I heard the story. Making a stand in the middle of the road at the en trance of the hamlet just as the storm arose, and looking the savages in the face, he ad dressaed them thus in a firm, quiet, voice which commanded their attention: "My good fellows, I have borne this patiently for some time but now I must put a stop to it; and I'll do so iu your own way. Choose your | best man, aud we'll fight it out. If I beat, you'll give up you know. "They looked at him unbelievingly; but throwing his coat on a bush he added, "I am in earnest; send your man.,, The ruffians laid thpir heads together; and then a burlv giant stepped forth and stripped, and made a furious dash at his reverend challenger, who quietly par ried the unskillful blows, and played with them for a few seconds. But. then, a fist was planted in the peasant's chest, and he lay at full length on the ground. Quickly gathering himself up, however, h 3 skulked away to his companions. "Now send your next best and I'll go through the lot of you." Again their heads drew together and another threw down his jacket; going to work, how ever, with a more cautious energy. But at once a stomacher stretched liirn on the road. "Your next." Once more a conglomerate of dense pates was formed. "Bill, thee teck him."—Bill eyed the hero askance, and shook his hoad. "Thee, Jim;" a shake of the head from Jim also. "Hick, thee'l teck th' parson?" a shake more decided, and a stiff "Nay, nay; I'se see thee hung fust. " And now the iirst one who was vanquished stood forward and. like a brave man, called out, "I say, parson, yo're a rare young un, yoar. I'se tell thee what; we're going to hear yon preach." And they all followed him along the little street, said the writer, and heard the Word quietly, adding, it re mains to be seen what will become of the fight. What did come of it? I heard, along time afterward, that from that day the men doffed their hats, and the women curtsied, and the children looked awe stricken, when they met or passed him; that the church aud schools were filled; that the beer-houses wej>e nearly all shut up, and that a great moral ■ and religious reformation was in progress. That gentleman had previously been tne in -1 strument of a like change in an equally de -1 moralized parish. 1 may add that a few years back he was deemed the fittest clergy man in the church to go out as bishop to a scene of great personal danger in a heathen country. MASI.Y courage, fortitude and self denial will triumph over the greatest ills. The .storm will soon blow ever and the sun of prosperity again blase in the heavens with cheerful effulgence and then those who have held out with indomitable firmness, will be prepared to reap the advantages of the new order of things. A stout heart will keep the body vigorous, the health good, and chase away the blues; while despondency will wreck not only but mind and body also. All that the luckiest of us get in this world is our keeping—our food, clothes and lodging— at the best, and what matters a little hard fa rQ for a few mouths'/ MANY persons complain that they cannot find words for their thoughts, when the real trouble is they cannot find thoughts for their words. VOLUME 3S; VO. it. >IU. NANUY 11 \S A '-HIST HOKRI BLE VISION. SAINTS' REST, (which is in the State 1 uv Noo Gersey,) Oct. 16. 1865. J Last night, weary and disgusted wit! readin eleekshun returns, I picked up a vol urn uv Caiueil's Poems, and red that spleu did pcese, "The Ijast Man." Caimueil is ; poick—ther -tint no doubt uv it. Ff my to; partial friends aint ton partial, I can whoj liim on the sublime, hut, on the pathetics, icknollidge him ez my sooperior. lie tha vi, it may, the poem made an impression oi my mind, which is proof that ther is snthii nto it, and rny mind wuz a dwellin onto i sz I sunk into slumber. Ez yoosual I bed a dream, and sieh ! dream may I never hev agin. Methaut the epidemick, which is now de /astatin Europe, hed struck Noo York. Fo: e time, it struck down all classes. Th< prowd Caucashen, the hidjus nigger, the uo ble red man of the forest, and the almon i*ped Chinese, all, all. fell afore the ratifies destroyer. But, at las, it abated, eecept so far ez the nigger wuz concerned. The whit* nan wuz spared, so wuz the Injun, and tin Chinese,* but, among the Afrikins, it raget with redoubled fury. (), it was crushin The planter looked abroad, and lo! the stal wart field hand, which was worth $1,500 wuz a cold corpse, and the feeld was un flowed. Agin he looked, and alas! th; -rawny wench, which alluz bore him a pica finny wich wuz worth S2OO ez soon cz wean id, wunst per year, and by a little extra wliippin, did a full year's work, wuz pros :ratc in the cold embrace uvdeth. Agin be ooked, and wo to him! the oetroon, foi which he paid $2,500, and whose girl bahief be cood sell in Noo Orleans cz soon ez the) wuz 16 for $3,000, an akkouut uv their hav n his blood in their vains, wnz torn froii lis luvin grasp by the stronger hand uv dis jase, and wuznt wurth a copper for any purpus. The Demoerisy bekum alarmed. The in lefatigable leaders whispered: ' 'The nig rer is fad in away!—sposin he liekums ex lack!'' Whereupon a consultation uv thf tiead men wuz held. In view uv the crises, i pair—won male and wun female, wuz se lected and examined by a committee uv ex >ert examiners in life insurance companies. They wnz pronounced perfect specimens— mtirely sound and free from disease. These rwo wuz locked up in a room in a healthy bcashen. and twenty-four uv the most emi aent physicians uv the country wuz detailed —one to stay with them one hour of eac-I lay, that, in case the disease struck em the remedies might be towunst applied, that, from these two, the race might be propaga ted. and the cappytle uv the party be pre served. But all to no purpose. The last nigger in the Yooniteu Staits per! -hed, and finally, these two were struck, and notwithstandin the precautions adopted, they too died! Ther wuz a season nacher sympathized with the party in its affliction. The heav ;ns wuz clothed with leaden colored clouds, ithr rt wich, ever and anon, flashed gleams iv loorid lite. Low-voiced thunders mut tered ominously, and birds and beasts rur howlin o'er the feelds. Dray horses fel dead upon the stony streets, and wild beast rushed frantickly from their coverts, ant snapped foorionsly, madly at whatever eamt in their way. The last UY the Afrikins were layin pros trate in the hall. Fernandywood entered, md, ez he seed em, he bustid into tears. Farewell," guslied he, "a long farewell ast uv a cussid race! You wuz our tower ol strength; on you we bilded! Hatred u\ ,ou give me the Irish vote uv Noo York. D, how cheerin it wuz to see them lambi bust yer heads and iunocently hang you up :o lamp posts! But you'ni gone —you'm zone —and hentzfth life's a blank to me. ['arewell, vain world ! —for wat is life with jut a nigger!" and seizin a jack knife he saw stickin out the nigger's pocket., he struck it into his stummick, and fallin icross the deceesed Afrikins expired peace fully. Franklin Peerse approached. ' 'Alas! and :hou art gone? Too troo, thou art! In life hou wurt luvly! Twas thou alone that nade me President, thy'woolly bed wuz my -teppin-stun to place and power! Thou wast my right bower my left and ace! Ef 1 wuz a Democratic Sampson, thou was the bair wich the Deliler, Death, hez sheered >rf. Fernandy I kum!" and scezin the lack-knife from his hand, he plunged in into [lis bowels, fallin across fernandy. Yallaudvgum approached. 'T, too, must -ay farewell, said he, kissin their cold fea tures, "for thou wast my anker. Thou, twast, who made me Congressman—thou 2xiied me, and hate uv the gave me $30,- XH) in ten cent pieces when I wuz in C'ana iy. Do I want to go to Congress again ? No! no! no! I sbood be dumb, for the main-spring uv my elokenee lies here!'' and nkin the jack-knife, he immersed it in his lowcls, and fell across Pearse. (fid Jeemes Boocannou. and Yorhees, and Brite, and Florence, and, in fact, all the oaders uv the party, North, to the number if suthiu over 200, kum up, and each ma kin a short orashun, struck theirselves with :he jack-knife, tallin across each other, as ?ord-wood is piled. Finally, I felt it a duty I owed to the party to foller suit. Seein he jack-knife, I made my orashen (which was techen!) and was about to sever my in testines, when I seed a quart bottle stickin mt uv the nigger's pockit. Drawin it 4th, T pulled the cork : Glory! it was whiskey! Two sucks and it wuz gone—the room spun round, and I fell senseless on the top ov the file ov ded Democrats. Jest then Horris Greely cum in. "Be lold Demoerisy," sed he, "ezitwuz in the leginnin, so it is in the endin. Nigger at the bottom, whiskey at the top, and a stink n the middle," ana .holdin his nose, he ffl rambled out uv the room. I awoke in a cold sweat, happy to find hat it wuz only a dreem ; that the nigger still lived in hi- 1 cussitood. and that we still lad suthin to go on. PETROLEUM NASBY, hate Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dis lensashun. MORAL EFFECTS OP IMPATIENCE. —Noth- ing incapacitates a man more for the lead than impatience. No constitutionally im patient man who has indulged this tendency ever gets to the bottom of things or knows with any nicety the standing disposition and circumstances of the people he is thrown, or has thrown himself amorist. Certain sa lient poiuts he is posessed of, but not what rceonsiles the accounts for them. Smne thing in liim —an obtrusive self or train of thought or likings or antipathies—will si ways come between him and an impartial judgment Neither does hewineonfidenee, for he cheeks tho coy, uncertain advances which are the precursors of it. We doubt if a thoroughly impatient man can read the heart, or be a fair critic, or; understand the rights of any knotty question, or make him self master of any difficult situation. Ihe power of waiting, deliberating, hanging "i suspense. is necessary fur all those—the power for staving off for considerable peri ods of time merely personal lear nings, UAXJ£& OF ADVFKTISINO. All advertisements for less than 3 month? 1.0 cent* per line for each insertion. .Special notices one half additional. All resolution* of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individu il interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, JO cts, per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and ot her Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices If eents per iiue. All Advertising doe after first insertion. A Liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. One square $ 4.50 $ 6.0Q $lO.OO Two squares 15.00 9.00 16.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14-00 20.00 15.00 Half column 18.00 25.06 45.00 One column 38.00 45.60 80.00 THE RICH MEN OF NEW YORK HOW THEY WORK. No bank clerk on the salary of a thousand dollars a year goes to his bank as regularly, or works as many hours, as Wm. B. Astor, who counts up his forty millions. Eis little one story office, a step or two from Broad way, on Prince Street, with its iron bars, making it resemble a police prison, is the den where ho performs his daily toil, and out of all his wealth and labor gets only "his victuals and clothes.' He attends personally to all his business, knows every dollar of rent or income due, pays out every dollar, makes his entries in his own hand, and obliges his subordinates to come to bun for information while he does not go to them. He generally conies down in the omnibus at an early hour in the day, remains closely absorbed in business until 5 o'elock. I He rarely takes exercise, and finds his plea sure in the closest attention to business. A friend of mine rode to Washington withhiin in the same car from New York. He neith er spoke nor got out of liis seat, and hardly moved, from Jersey City to Washington. He usually leaves his office at 5 o'clock and walks slowly up Broadway to Lafayette place. He is over six feet high, heavily built, with a decided German look, small ha zy eyes, as if he was half asleep, head round as a pumpkin and about as destituteol hair. He is exceedingly hospitable, and in "the season" gives a dinner to his friends weekly,_ at which the richest viands, in service of' gold and silver, are presented by liveried servants to his guest-. Com. Yanderbuilt never worked harder in his life, never work ed more hours than now. He has a confi dential clerk who works like a paekhorsc, who has been in his employ for thirty years. Besides this Yanderbuilt docs his own busi ness, makes and executes his own contracts, and this with the business he does on twen ty millions, is no small toil. The conimo dore goes down to business regularly every day. and can be fouud at certain hours. His only recreation, euchre and fast horses. Mo ses Taylor, whose dividends from his coal stock alone, this year reached the pretty little sum of a million of dollars, begun bu siness in New York when he was sixteen years of age. kept his own books with his own hand, and has done so ever since. His library in his house on Fifth Avenue is a regular workshop. Every night he brings up his business with his own hand. His vast business personal to himself, and his business as trustee are kept by himself. He makes all the original entries of sort and kind, and goes to his office for no informa tion, and he knows just how things must be there to be right. And should every record kept by his book-keepers and clerks be de stroyed, it would make no difference with him for he has the originals in his own hands. Main - merchants spend the after noon in riding or in games, or in excitement in the evening stock board; but Mr. Taylor finds his recreation in a bath, a good dinner, a comfortable seista, and an evening devo ted to work. Such a uiau would make money and keep it. — Cor. Boston Journal. THEORY OF "GOSSIP." We are often asked, '"What is gossip?"' We answer, in a general way, that it is talk ing of persons rather than things. Nothing shows the paucity of ideas more than this talking about the affairs of your neighbors. It is not only malicious people who originate scandal, it is narrow ■ minded people, igno rant people, stupid people. Persons of cul ture and intelligence are not so hari run for topics of conversation. They can usually find something to say about art, literature, fashion or sociecy. The moment people be gin to talk of their neighbors—of persons rather than things—they are apt tc degener ate into scandal; for where one speaks of the virtues of an acquaintance, a dozen expatiate on his or her shortc-omin gs. And this brings us to speak of real culture, or what we con sider to be such, at least. A cultivated per son, in the highest sense of the term, is not merely one who can talk of books, pictures, and other elevated subjects of human inter est. To be thoroughly cultivated, the heart as well as the intellect, should be refined and enlarged. Sometimes we see women who, without education, yet having been born am iable, are never guilty of gossip. Again, we see woman, not naturally amiable, whom education has taught to talk of things, not of persons. The perfect woman, in this re spect, is one who is both amiable and educa ted. But education does not always elevate people above the reigons of gossip. A really bad heart is always malicious. The l>e?t ad vice we can give is the liouielv old adage: "Mind your own busiuess." Very few of us ever know the whole truth about any thing concerning a neighbor, and to speak of his or her conduct is usually to run the risk of being unjust. Much less should wc talk of the motives of others. Very few of us'know j our own motives, and to tenture otj discuss j ing a neighbor's motives is always imperti nence, and often a real crime. IDLE BOYS. He who is idle and vicious in school is still more so when he leaves it. He who fires squibs, will in time lire pistols. He who plays cards for sport will, if he turn not, play ere long for money. He who robs hen roosts and orchards, will probably some day rob safes and pockets. He may not do it in the way to expose himself to the penitentiary lie may have nis wits so sharpened as to rob legally, by setting up a wiid cat bank, or be traying the confidence of his employer, or obtaining the possession of property without the means of paying for it, or by getting his hand upon the public coffers, that he may till his own, under the soft appellation of "breach of trust." I would that you could see with my eyes for a little while; you would then think with me, that he who, when a boy, could not be trusted, cannot now that he is a man. It would not be proper for me to mention names or I could illustrate this by numerous pain ful examples. But they are not necessary. Effect will follow cause —as a man sows, so shall he reap; boyhood is the seed time, of which manhood is the harvest. As therefore, you love yourselves, form the habit, while young of employing all your time usefully. N ever be unemployed. The land is full of idlers, striving to live without labor. It is not to be supposed that you are never to take recreation; this is useful, it is necessary but if it come after hard study or R reductive labor it will propably be health il and moderate. An honorable mind, in the desire of mere relaxation, will not go forth in forms of mischievous exertion. It is not to be supposed that a boy is to be a man, much less an old man; but in the midst of his mirth and hilarity, he may be innocent and amiable. As a razor is best whetted in oil so wit is best sharpened by politeness, The lack of edge in both is discoverable from the offence or pain they give. Wk often formed the wish —and after wards made a picture of it —that we could be present at all the reconciliations in the world, because no love is so beautiful or moves us so deeply as rtturmno love.
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