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Authentic Co pies of all Documents from Patent Office procured. N. B. Save yourselves useless trouble and tr ivelling expenses, as there is no actual need for personal interview with us. All business with these offices, can be transacted in writing. For further information dirrct as abovo, with stamp enclosed, for Cireular with references. janl2:4y ©eMorfc arnqiurcv. DURBORKOW £ LVTS Mltm and Proprietors. FIRST GRIEF. [The following poem was written by James Hedderwick, a Scottish poet but little known in this country. Who that ever lost a brother or sister could read these lines without a fal ter in the voice or tear in the eye:] They tell me first and early love Outlives all after dreams; But the memory of the first great grief To me more lasting seems. The grief that marks our dawniDg youth To memory ever clings; And o'er the path of future years A lengthened shadow flings. Oh! oft my mind recalls the hour When to my father's hdme "Death came an uninvited guest From his dwelling in the tomb. I had not seen his face before — I shuddered at the sight; And I shudder yet to think upon The anguish of that night. A youthful brow and ruddy cheek Became all cold and wan, An eye grew dim in which the light Of radiant fancy shone. Cold was the cheek and cold the brow, The eye was fixed and dim; And there I moaned a brother dead. Who would have died for him! I know not if'twas summer then; I know not if'twas spring; But if the birds sang in the trees I did not hear them sing. If flowers came forth to deck the earth Their bloom I did not see; I looked upon one withered flower, And none else bloomed for me! A sad and silent time it was Within the house of woe; All eyes were dim and overcast, And every voice was low. And from each cheek at intervals The blood appeared to start, As if recalled in sudden haste To aid the sinking heart. Softly we trod, as if afraid To mar the sleeper's sleep, And stole last looks of his sad face For memory to keep. With him the agony "as o'er And now the pain was ours, As thoughts of his sweet childhood rose, Like odor from dead flowers. And when at last he was borne afar From the world's weary strife How oft in thought did we again Live o'er his little life. His every look, his every word, His very voice's tone, Came back to us like things whose worth Is only prized when gone! The grief has passed with years away, And joy has been my lot; But one is long remembered, And the other soon forgot. The gayest hours trjp lightly by And leave the faintest trace, But the deep track that sorrow wears No time can e'er efface. §pjM*ltaeoo. GEN. SCHIiBZ' REPORT. The following is the conclusion and sum ming up of the late report of General Carl Schurz of his examination into the state of affairs in the South. I may sum up all I have said in a few words. If nothing were necessary but to restore the machinery of Government in the States lately in rebellion in point of form, the movement made to that end by the people of the South might be considered sattsfac- But if it is required that the Southern people should also accommodate themselves to the results of the war in point of spirit, these movements fall short of what must be insisted upon. The loyalty of the masses and most of the leaders of the Southern people consists in submissiou to necessity. There is, except in individual instances, an entire absence of that national spirit which forms the basis of true loyalty and patriotism. The emancipation of the slaves is submit ted to only in so far as chattel slavery in the old form could Dot be kept up. But al though the freedman is no longer consider ed the property of the individual master, he is considered the slave of society, and all independent State legislation will show the tendency to make him such. The ordinan ces abolishing slavery, passed by the Con ventions under the pressure of circumstan ces, will not be looked upon as'barring the establishment of a new form of servitude Practical attempts on the part of the Southern people to deprive the negro of his rights as a freedman, may result in bloody ( collisions, and will certainly plunge South ern society into restless fluctuations and an archical confusion. Such evils can he prevented only wr con tinuing the control of the National Govern ment aI the States lately in rebellion, until free labor is fully developed and established, and the advantages and blessings under the new order of things have disclosed them selves. The desirable result will be hasten ed by a firm declaration on the part of the Government that national control in the South will not cease until such results are secured. Only in this way can security be established in the South, which will render numerous immigration possible, and such immigration would materially aid a favora ble development of things. The solutiou of the problem will be very much facilitated by enabling all the loyal and free labor elements of the South to exercise a healthy influence upon legislation; it will hardly be possible to secure the freedmen against oppressive class legislation and private persecution unless he be endowed with a certain measure of polit ical power. - As to the future peace and harmony of the Union, it is of the highest importance that the people of the States lately in rebel lion be not permitted to build up another "peculiar iustitution." whose spirit is in A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. conflict with the fundamental principles of our political systsm; for as long as they cherish interests peculiar to themselves in preference to those they have in common with the rest of the American people, their loealty to the Union wiH always be suspected. I desire not to be understood as saying that there were no well-meaning men among those who were compromised in the rebell ion. There are_ many, but neither their number nor their influence is strong enough to control the manifest destiny of the pop ular spirit There are good reasons tor hope that a determined policy ou the part of the Na tional Government will produce innumera ble and valuable conversions. This consid eration counsels lenity as to persons, such so is demanded by the humane and enlight ened spirit of our times, and vigor and firm ness in the carrying out of principles, such as is demanded by the national sense of jus tice and the exigencies of our situation. In submitting this report I desire to say that I have conscientiously endeavored to see things as they were, and to represent them as I saw them. I have been careful not to use language stronger than was warranted by the thoughts I intended to express. A comparison of the tenor of the annexed doc uments with that of my report will convince you that I have studiously avoided over statements. Certain legislative attempts at present made in the south, and especially in Sonth Carolina, seem to be more than justifying the apprehensions I have express ed. Conscious though I am of having used my best endeavors to draw from what I saw and learned, correct general conclusions, yet I am far from placing too great a trust in my own judgment when interests of such mag nitude are at stake. I know that this re port is incomplete, although as complete as an observation of a few months would ena ble me to make it. Additional facts might be elicited calculated to throw new light up on the subject. Although I see no reason for believing that things nave changed for the better since I left the South, yet such may be the case. Admitting all these pos possibilities, still I would entreat you to take no irretraceable step toward relieving the States lately in rebellion from all nation" al control, until such favorable changes are clearly and unmistakably ascertained. To that end, and by virtue of the permis sion you honored me with when sending me out, to communicate to you my views as to measures of policy proper to be adopted, I would now respectfully suggest that you ad vise Congress to send one or more "investi gating committees "into the Southern States to inquire for themselves into the actual con dition of things before final action is taken upon the readmission ofsuchStates to their representation in the legislative branch of the Government and the withdrawal of all na tional control from that section of the coun try. TALLEYRAND AND THE COUNTRY WOMAN. In 1793, M. de Talleyrand was in Boston. One day while crossing the ir.arket-place. he was compelled to stop by a long row of wagons, all loaded with vegetables. The wily courtier, generally so dead to emotion, could but look with a kind of pleasure at these wagons, and the little wagoners, who, by-the-by. were young and pretty country women. Suddenly the vehicle came to a stand, and the eyes of M. de Talleyrand chanced to rest upon one of the young wo men, who appeared more lovely and grace ful than the others. An exclamation esca ped from his lips. It attracted the atten tion of the fair one, whose country dress and large hat bespoke daily visits to the market. As she beheld the astonished Tal leyrand, whom she recognized immediately, she burst out, laughing. "What! is it you? ' exclaimed she. "Yes, indeed, it is I. But you, what are you doing here?" "I?" said the young woman. "I am wait ing for my turn to pas.- on. Tam going to sell my greens and vegetables at the mar ket. At that moment the wagons began to move along; she of the straw hat applied the whip to her horse, told M. de Talleyrand the name of the village where she was liv ing, requesting him earnestly to come and see her, disappeared, and left him au if riv eted to the spot by this strange appari tion. Madame la Comtesse de la Tour-du-pin, | (Mademoiselle de Billion,) the most elegaut among the ladies of the court of Louis XVltn, King of France, and whose moral and intellectual worth had shone with so dazzling a luster in the society of her nu merous friends and admirers. At the time when the French nobility emigrated, she was young, lovely, endowed with the most remarkable talents, and, like all the ladies who held a rank at court, had only had time to attend to such duties as belonged to her highly fashionable and courtly life. Let any one fancy the sufferings and ago ny of that woman, born in the lap of wealth and who had breathed nothing but perfumes under the gilded ceilings of the royal palace at V ersailles, when all at once she found herself surrounded with blood and massa cres, and saw every kind of danger beset ting her young and beloved husband and her infant child! They succeeded in flying from France. It was their good fortune to escape from the bloody land where Robespierre and his as sociates were busy at the work of death. Alas ! in those times of terror the poor chil dren themselves abandoned the parental roof, for no hiding place was secure against the vigilant eye of those monsters who thirs ted for innocent blood. The fugitives landed in America, and first went to Boston, where they found a retreat. But what a change for the young, pretty, and fashionable lady, spoiled from infancy by loud and continual praises of her beauty and talents! Mons. de la Teur-du-l'in was extravagant ly fond of his wife. At the court of France he had seen her, with the proud eye of a husband, the object of general admiration. Indeed her conduct hadalwaye been virtu ous and exemplary. But now in a foreign land, and among unsophisticated republi cans, (1793) what wastne use of courtly re finement ? Happy as he was in seeing her escape from all the perils he had dreaded on her own account, still he could not but deplore the future lot of the wife of his bosom. However, with the prudent foresight of a good father and a kind husband, he nerved himself against despair, and exerted himself to render their condition less miserable than that of many emigrants who were starving when the little money thev had brought over with them had been exhausted. Not a word of English did he know; but his wife spoke it fluently, and admirably well. They hoarded at Mrs. Muiler's a good natured, notable woman, who, on every oc casion, evinced the greatest respect and ad miration for her fair boarder; yet M. de la Tour-du-pin was in constant dread lest the ! conversation of that good, plain, and well meaning woman, might be the cause of great : ennui to his lady. What a contrast to the BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 36, 1866. society of such gentlemen as M. de Nor bonne, M. I). Talleyrand, and high minded and polished nobility of France ! Whenever he was thinking of the transition, (particularly when absent from his wife, and tilling the garden of the cottage which they were going to inhabit,) he felt such pangs and heart throbbing as to make him appre hensive on his return to Mrs. Muller s to meet the looks of bis beloved wife, whom he expected to see bathed in tears. Mean while, the good hostess would give him a hearty shake of the hand, and repeat to him, "Happy husband ! Happy husband!" At hist came the day when the fugitive family left the boarding house of Mrs. Mul ler to go and inhabit their little cottage, where they were to be at last exempt from want, with an onlv servant, a negro, a kind of Jacko'-all-traaes —viz., gardener, foot man, and cook. The last function M. de la Tour-de-pin dreaded most of all to see him undertake. It was almost dinner time. The poor emigrant went into his little garden to gath er some fruit, and tai ried as long as possible On his return home his wife was absent; looking for her, he entered the kitchen, and saw a young country-woman, who. with her back to the door, was kneading dough; her arms of snowy whiteness were bare up to the elbows. M. de la Tour-du-Pin started; the young woman turned round. It. was his beloved wife, who had exchanged her mus lins and silk for a country dress, not as for a fancy ball, but to play the part of a real farmer's wife. At the sight other husband, her cheeks crimsoned, and she joined her hauds, in a supplicating manner. "Oh ! my love," said she, "do not laugh at me. I am as expert as Mrs. Muller." Too full of emotion to speak, he clasps her to his bosom, and kisses her fervently. From his inquiries, he learned that when he thought her given up to despair, she had employed her time more usefully for their future happiness. She had taken lessons from Mrs. Muller and her servants, and, after s>x months, had become skillful in the culinary art, a thorough housekeeper, dis covering her angelic fortitude. "Dearest," continued she, "if you knew how ea.-y it is ! We in a moment understand what it would cost a countrywoman some times one or two years to learn. Now we shall be happy—you will no longer be afraid of ennui for me, nor I of doubts about my abilities, of which I will give you many proofs," said she looking with a bewitching smile at him. ' 'Come, come, you promised us a salad, and I am going to bake for to morrow; the oven is hot. To-morrow the bread of the town will do —but oh! hence forward leave it to me." From that moment, Madame de la Tour du-Pin kept her word; she insisted on going herself to Boston to sell vegetables and cream-cheese. It was on such an errand to town that M. de Talleyrand met her. The day after be went to pay her a visit, and found her in the poultry-yard, surrounded by a host of hungry chicks and pigeons. She was all that she promised to be. Be sides her health had been so much benefit ted that she seemed less fatigued by the fatigued by the h< pusework than if she had attended the balls of the winter. Her beau ty which had been remarkable in the gorge ous palace of Versailles, wa i dazzling in her cottage in the New World. M. de Talley rand said so to her. "Indeed!" replied she with naivete — "indeed, do you think so? lam delighted to hear it. A wornnn is always and every where proud of her personal attractions. At tnat moment the black servant bolted into the drawing-room, holding in his hand his jacket, with a long rent in the back. "Misses, him jacket torn; please mend him !" She immediately took a needle and repaired Gullah's jacket, and continued the conversation with a charming simplicity. This little adventure left a deep impres sion on the mind of M. de Talleyrand, who used to relate it with that tone of voice pe culiar to his narrations. CONCERNING LAUGHTER. [From the Saturday Review, Oct. 7.] There are times when the body craves for laughter as it does for food. This is the laughter which, on some occassion or other, has betrayed us all inta a scandalous, un seasonable, remorseful gaiety. After long abstinence from cheerful thought, there are few occasions so sad and solemn as to render this important revolt impossible, unless where grief absorbs the whole soul, and low ers the system to a uniformity ot sadness. In fact, as no solemnity can be safe from incongruities, such occasions are not seldom the especial scene of these exposures—of explosions of wild, perverse hilarity taking the culprit at unawares; and this even while he is aghast at his flagrant insensibility to the demand of the hour. This is the laugh ter so often ascribed to Satanic influence. The nerves cannot forego the wonted stimu lus, and are malignantly on the 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 particular day to sing hyiuns together in the fields; but, on uplifting the first stave, one of them was suddenly struck with a sense of some thing ludicrous in their errand, the other caugnt the infection, and both fell into con vulsions of laughter, renewed on every at tempt to carry out their first design, till they were faiu to give up and own themselves for that time conquered by the devil. There is a story of Dr. Johnson much to the same purpose. Naturally melancholy, lie was yet a great laugher, and thus was an especial victim to the possession we epcak of, for no one laughs in depress! on who has not learnt to laugh in uiirth. He was din ing with his friend Chambers in the Temple and at first betrayed so much physical suf fering and mental dejection that his compan ion could not help boring him with reme dies. By degrees he rallied, and with the rally came the need of a general reaction. At this point Chambers happened to say that a common friend had been with him that morning making his will, Johnson —or rather his nerveous system—seized upon this as the required subject. He raised a ludicrous picture of the ' 'testator' going a bout boasting of the fact of his will-making to anybody that would listen, down to the inn keeper on the road. Roaring with laughter, he trusted that Chambers had had the conscience not to de scribe the testator as of aound mind, honed 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 ot his merri ment; he rolled in convulsions till he got out ofthe Temple Gate, and then, supporting himself against a post, sent forth peals so loud as, in the silence of the night, to be heard from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch. > e hear of stomach coughs; this was a stomach, or ganglionic, laugh. The mistimed laughter of children has often some such source as this, though the sprite that possesses theui has rarely the ' gnome-like essence. A healthy boy, after a certain length of constraint, is sometimes as little responsible for his laughter as the hypochondriac. Mrs. Beccher Stowe, in describing, and defending, a puritanical strictness of Sabbath, observance, recalls the long family expositions and sermons which alternated in her youth with prolix meeting services, at all of which the younger mem bers of the household are required to assist in profound stillness of attention. On one of these occasions, on a hot Summer after noon, a heedless grasshopper of enormous dimensions leapt on the sleeve of one of the boys. The tempting diverson was not to be resisted; he slily .secured the animal, and imprisoued a hind leg between his firmly compressed lips. One by que, the youthful congregation became alive to the awkward contortions and futile struggles of the long-legged cap tive: they knew that to laugh was to be flog ged, but after so many sermons the need was imperative, and they laughed, and were logged accordingly. Different from all these types is the grand, frank laugh that finds its place in history and biograbhy, and belongs to master minds. Political and party feel ing may raise, in stirring times, any amount of animosity, even in good natured men; but Dring about a between them, and an answering chord 1:5 struck, a tie is estab lished not easily broken. Something of the old rancor is gone forever. There is a storv of Canning and Brougham, after hat ing and spitting one another through a ses sion, finding themselves suddenly face to face in some remote district in Cumberland, with only a turnpike gate between them. The situation roused their magnanimity, simultaneously they broke into laughter, and passed each on his separate way, better friends from that time forth. No honest laugher knovis anything about his own laugh, which is fortunate, asitisapt to be the most grotesque part of a man, es pecially if he is anything of an original. Character, humor, oddity, all expatiate in it, and the features and voice have to ac commodate themselves to the occasion as they can. There is Prince Hal's laugh, "till his face 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 wliin cey the ventral laugh, Dr. Johnson's laugh like a Rhinoceros: Doiuinie Sampson's laugh lapsing without any intermediate .stage into dead gravity, and the ideal social laugh—the delighted and delighting chuckle which ush ers in a joke, and the cordial triumphant laugh which sounds its praises. We say nothing of all the laughs—and how many there arc! —which have no mirth in them; nor of the "ha, ha!" of melodrama, and the ringing laugh of the novel, as be ing each unfamiliar to our waking ears. the laugh, if it be genuine and comes from decent people, it :e as attrac tive as the Piper of Ilamelin. It is impos sible not to want to know what a hearty laugh is about. Some of the sparkle of life is near, and we long to share it The gift of laughter is one of the compensation powers of the world. A nation that laughs is so far prosperous. It may not have material wealth out it has the poetry of posterity. When Lady Duff Gordon laments that she never hears a hearty laugh in Egypt, and when Mr. Pal grave, on the contrary, makes the Arabs 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 pleasant laughter there inestmable memories are being ptored up, and such free play giv en to nerve and braiu that whatever thought and power the family circle is capable of will have a fair chance of due expansion. POPULAR FALLACIES. The following is from Hall's Journal of Health: That warm air must be impure, and that, consequently, it is hurtful to sleep in a comparatively warm room. A warm room is as easily ventilated as a cool one. The warm air of a close vehicle is less in jurious, be it ever so foul from crowding, than to ride and sit still and feel uncomfort ably cold for an hour. The worst that can happen p rom a crowded conveyance is a faint ing speii; while, from sitting even less than an hour in a still, chilly atmosphere, has in duced attacks of pheumonia, that is, inflam mation of the lungs, which often prove fatal in three or four days. It is always positive ly injurious to sleep in a close room where water freezes, such a degree of cold causes the negatively poisonous carbonic acid gas of a sleeping-room to settle near the floor, where it is breathed and rcbreathed by the sleeper, and is capable of producing typhoid fevers iu a few hours. Hence, there is no advantage, and always danger, especially to weakly persons, in sleeping in aa atmosphere colder than the freezing point. That is necessary to the proper and effi cient ventilation of a room, even in warm weather, that a window or door should be left open; this is always hazardous to the sick and convalescent. Quito as safe a plan of ventilation, and as efficient, is to keep a lamp or a small fire burning in the fireplace. This creates a draft, and carries bad airs and gasses up the chimney. That out-door exercise before breakfast is healthful. It is never so. And, from the very nature of th ngs is hurtful, especially to persons of poor health; although the very vigorous may practice it with impunity. In winter the body is easily chilled through and though unless the stomach has been fortified with a good warm breakfast, and in warm weather, miasmatic and mularious gases and emenations speedily act upon the empty and weak stomach in away to vitiate the circu ! latioo and induce feaver and ague, diarrhea, ! and dysentery. Entire families, who have : 'arranged to cat breakfast before leaving the ; house and to take supp jr before sundown, have had a complete exemption from fever and ague, while the whole community around < theui was suffering from it from having ncg i lected these precautions. That whatever lessens cough is "good ! for it, and, if preservecftn, will cure it. On the contraiy, all coughs are soonest cured by promoting and increasing them, because nature endeavores by the cough to help bring up the phlegm and yellow matter which is in the lungs, as the lungs cannct heal while that matter is there. And as it 1 cannot lie got rid of without coughing, the more coughing there is the sooner it is got rid of —the sooner are the lungs cleared out for the fuller and freer reception of pure air which is their natural food. The only rem edies which can do any good in coughs are such as loosen the phlegm, and thus less cough is required to bring it up. These remedies are warmth, outdoor exercise, and mything which slightly nauseates. A coquette treats a lover like a bouquet — carries him about a certain time for amuse ment or show, and then quietly picks him to pieces. Doctor Mott used to say that roast beef, serenity of mind, cold water baths, and an amiable and pretty wife would make almost any man healthy, wealthy and wise. YOU ME 19; NO 4. DURATION OF LIFE. The aTerage duration of the life of man in civilized society is about thirty three and a third years. This is called a generation, making three in a century. But there are certain localities and certain communities of people where this average is considerably ex tended. The mountaineer lives longer than the lowlander, the fanner than the artisan; the traveler than the sedentary; the temper ate than the self-indulgent; the just than the dishonest. "The wicked shall not live out half his days," is the announcement of Di vinity. The philosophy of this is found in the fact, that the moral character has a strong power over the physical; power much more controlling than is generally imagined. The true man conducts himself in the light of Bible precepts; is temperate in all things; is "slow to anger;" and on his grave is writ ten: "He went about doing good." In these three things are the great elements of human health: the restraint of the appetites the control of the passions: and that highest type of physical exercise, "'going about doing good. " It is said of the eminent Quaker philanthropist, Joseph John Gurney, that the labor and pains he took to go and Bee personally the objects of his contemplated charitiesj so that none of them should be unworthily bestowed, was of itself almost the labor of oDe man, and he attended to his immense banking business besides: in fact, he did too much, and died at sixty. The average length of human life, of all countries at this age of the world, is about twenty eight years. One quarter of ail who die do not reach the age of seven; one half die before reaching seventeen: and yet the average of life of "Friends," in Great Bri tain and Ireland in 1860, was nearly fifty-six years, just double the average life of other people. Surely this is a strong inducement for all to practice for themselves, and to in culcate it upon their children day by day, that simplicity of habit, that quietness of demeanor, that restraint of temper, that control of the appetites and propensities, and that orderly systematic, ana even mode of life, which "Friend's" discipline incul cates, and which are demonstrably the means of so largely increasing the average of hu man existence. Reasoning from the analogy of the animal creation, mankind should live nearly an hun dred years; that law seeming to be, that life should be five times the length of the period of growth; at least, the general observation is that the longer persons are growing, the longer they live; other things being equal. Naturalists say. A dog grows for 2 years, and lives 8, An ox " 4 " " 16. A horse " 5 " " 26. A camel " 8 " " 40. Man " 20 should live 100. But the sad fact is, only one man for every thousand reaches one hundred years. Still it is encouraging to know, that the science of life, as revealed by the investigations of the physiologist and the teachings of educa ted medical men, is steadily extending the period of human existence. The distinguished historian Macaulay states that in 1685 one person in twenty died each year: in 1850, out of forty persons, only one died. Dupin says, that from 1776 to 1843 the duration of life in France increased fifty-two days annually, for in 1781 the mor tality was one in twenty-nine; in 1843, one in forty. The rich men in France live forty two years on an everage; the poor,only thirty. Those who are "well to do in the world" live about eleven years longer than those who have to work from day to day for a living. Remunerative labor and the diffusion of the knowledge of the laws of life among the masses, with temperance and thrift, are the great means of adding to human health and lite; but the more important ingredient, hap piness, is only to be found in daily loving, obeying and serving Him "who giveth ua all things richly to enjoy."— Half s Journal of health. A COUNTRY HOME. The following tribute to the charms and elevating influence of a rural life is from the pen of the Hon. Horace Greely, principal editor of the New York Tribune: "As for me, long tossed on the stormiest waves of doubtful conflict and arduous en deavor, I have begun to feel, since the shades of forty years fell upon me, the wea ry, tempest-driven voyager's longing for land, the wanderer's yearning for the ham let, where, in childhood, he nestled by his mother's knee, and was soothed to sleep on her breast. The sober, down-hill of life, dispels many illusions, while it developes or strengthens within us the attachment, per haps long smothered or for 'that dear hut, our home, 1 And so I, in the so ber afternoon of life, when its sun, if not high, is still warm, have bought a few acres of land in the broad, still country, and, beiring hither my household treasures, have resolved to steal from the city's labors and anxieties, at least one day in each week, whereby to revive as a farmer the memo ries of my childhood's humble home. And already .1 realize that the experiment cannot cost so much as it is worth. Already I find in that day's quiet an antidote and a solace for the feverish, festering cares of the week which environ it. Already my brook mur murs a soothing even-song to my burning, throbbing brain; and my trees, gently stir red by the fresh breezes, whisper to my spirit something of their own quiet strength and patient trust in God. And thus do I faintly realize, but for a brief and flitting day, the serene joy which shall irradiate the farmer's vocation, when a fuller and truer education shall have refined and chastened his animal cravings, and when science shall have endowed him with her treasures, re deeming labor from drudgery while quad rupling its efficiency, ana crowning with beauty and plenty our bounteous beneficent earth." Important Railroad Contract. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10, The contract in progress of negotiation between the Atlantic and Great Western railroad company and the Philadelphia and Reading railroad company has been finally agreed upon, and goes into effect immedi ately. It provides for laying a line in the narrow gauge upon the Atlantic and Great Western railroad to Cincinnati, Cleveland and other western cities, and also the imme diate construction of a line of narrow gauge railroad through Clarion, Jefferson, Centre, Union and Northumberland counties to con nect the Great Western with the Catawissa road, thus forming, by means of the latter road, ind the Philadelphia and Reading road, a continuous line of narrow gauge railroad from all the great cities West to Philadelphia and New York. One immedi ate result of this contract will be the estab lishment of a line of steamships between Philadelphia and England. for the building and equipment, of which, the latter compa nies have contributed half the amount nec ffwirv In the suit between the Catawissa and Pennsylvania railroads, to be heard in the Nisi Prius branch of the Supreme Court to morrow, the Reading road becomes a party with the Catawissa road, RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertuomeats for lea* than 3 month* 10 cent* per line for each insertion. Special notice* one half additional. All resolution* of Anoeia tion, comma&ication* of a limited or individual interest and notice* of marriages and deaths, ex. ceeding five lines, IV cu. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Ooovt and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices IS cent* per line. All Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 mouths. 1 year. One square $ 4.50 $ 6.00 §10.04 Two squares 6.00 0.00 36.00 Three squares - 6.00 11.6* 26.00 One-fourth column. 14.00 #0.06 35.00 Half column 18.00 #5.00 46.00 One column 80.00 45.00 80.00 PROTECTION t'OMEXOF.IS TO ITS BT AN ENGLISHMAN. Mr. Handel Cossham, one of the English capitalists now in this country, speaking at the New-York Union-League Club Supper, said,— "No Englishman who hadnot9een Amer ica with his own eyes could have any proper conception of the magnitude of her resources, the rapidity of her progress, or the great power she wielded as a nation. He was not disposed to make small beer of his native land, for he be an unworthy son if he did; but he had to acknowledge that Ameri ca was far ahead of England in her resources and her temtoiy. He thought that if A mericans only developed their couutiy t re sources in the future, at Englishmen had Great Britain s their future would he great I indeed The very essence of troth, —the sum of the laws of economy which underlies the wealth of nations! How did Englishmen, with the harmonious legislation of their Parliment ever seconding their efforts, 'de velop the resources of Great Britain?' 1 By protecting the domestic manufactures of their island against foreign competition for centuries together, without suspension or relaxation, by every device that lawyers could frame, and practical spinners, smelt ers, and weavers, could suggest. When this persistent policy of protection was crowned with the success at which it aimed, and England had become the "Workshop of the World," then, and not till then, did she preach to the nations of the world her im pudent doctrine of Free Trade, —that the way for them to grow rich was to raise raw products for her use at prices she should see fit to pay, and to take from her in exchange manufactured goods at prices she should see fit to charge.— N. Y. Tribune. A BEAUTIFUL SOLITUDE. The common wayside road, tamest and most trite of objects everywhere else, is ex ceedingly beautiful in the Island of Borneo. A recent traveller says he walked from the wharf at Sarawak to the mines at Bidi, and that his path lay through thickest jungle, bordering the road like a jewelled wall, for all along the vista blushed the peering heads of flowers, rich and rare of tint, flowers such as horticultural enthusiasts see only in their dreams, dead silence reigns around, and the traveler starts when it is broken for a mo ment by the crash of some giant branch far in the depth of the immemorial forest, where the vast trees throw deep and solemn shadow around. The song of birds is not heard there, nor the restless rustling of gay-phim aged wings. Thousands of butterflies glitter and flit, like soul-endowed gems, in the steady, kingly sunshine; but they are qnite noiseless, and the traveler's is like a marvel ous magic pilgrimage in a dream. BEAUTIFUL SIMILITUDE. God knows what keys in the human soul to touch, in order to draw out its sweetest and moat perfect harmonies. They may be the minor strains of sadness and sorrow: they may be the loftier notes of joy and gladness; God knows where the melodies of our nature are, and what discipline will call them forth. Some with plaintive songs moat walk in the lowlv vale of life's weary way; others in lof tier hymns shall sing of nothing but joy as they tread the mountain tops of lire; hut they all unite without a discord or jar. as ascending anthem of loving and believing hearts finds its way ißto the chorus of the redeemed in heaven. NEVER KNOCK UNDER.—NO, never.— Always rally your forces for another and more desperate assault upon adversity. If calumny assails you ana the world —as it is apt to do in such cases, takes part with your traducers, don't turn moody and misan thropic, or worse still, seek to drown your unhapiness in dissipation. Bide your time. Disprove the slander if you can; if not, live it down. If poverty comes upon you like a thief in the night—what then? Let it rouse you, as the presence of a reai thief would do to energetic action. No matter how deeply you may have got into hot water—always provided that you did not help the Father of Lies to heat it your case, if you are made of the right kind of stuff, it is not desperate; for it is in accord with the divine oraer and sweep of things that life shou'dhave no dif ficulties which an honest, dete.mined man, with Heaven's help, cannot surmount. FIVE DAUGHTERS.— A gentleman had five daughters, all of whom he brought up to some respectable occupation in life —These daughters married, one after another, with the consent of their father. The first mar ried a gentleman by the name of Poor, the second a Mr. Little, the third a Mr. Short, the fourth a Mr. Brown, and the fifth a Mr. Hogg. At the wedding of the latter, her sisters, with their husbands, were present. After the ceremonies of the wedding were over, the old gentleman said to his guests: "I have taken groat pains to educate my daughters, that they might act well their part in life, and from their advantages and improvements, I fondly hoped that they would do honor to the family: and now I find that all my pains, cares and expec tations have turned to nothing but a poor little, short, brown, fujgg. CONCERNING DOORS.—When you go into a neighbor's premises, be sure to leave the doors us you find them. If you find the door shut you may reasonably suppose that your friend wanted it shut, ami therefore you have no right to leave it open; and if you find it open, no matter how cold the weather is, do you leave it open; for it is but reasonable to suppose that it was left open for some good purpose. And the same is good for all places, whether they be houses, stores. factories, offices, or whatever they may be. Remember the rule —it has no exception; leave the doors as you find them if the owner of the door does not know how he wants it. how do you know how be wants it? Two YOUNG MEN. —Two young men com menced the sail-making business at Phila delphia. They bought a lot of duck from Stephen Girmrd on credit, and a friend had engaged to endorse for them. Each caught a roll and was carrying it off, when Girard remarked. "Had you not better get a dray?" "No; et is not far, ana we can carry ii our selves. ' "Tell your friend he needn't endorse your note. I'll take it without"- WOMAN is never so amiable as when she is useful; and as for beauty, though men inay|?all ia love with it. at a play.there is noth ing to make them adhere to their love like seeing them at work —engaged in the useful offices of the home and family. Human existence hinges npoatrifle#, What would beauty be withoutaoap- HAPPINESS consists in thinking you are hajjjy; and misery in thiflfcingyeu
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