Sit fPtlfwiS is . F.VKRY FRIDAY MORNING, ny J. R. DjCRBORROU AM) JOHN UTZ, ON JULIANA St., opposite tlie .Jicngcl House BEDFORD, PENN'A. TEBJLSt $2.00 a year if paid strictly in advance. If not paiU wltUiu Nix months tJ2.3U. If not pail within the year $.'1.00. Ittomeys atlaw. J' M'D. SHARPF E. F. KBGR. CJ IIARP k KERR, io A TTORSE YS-A T-L AW. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and u<l joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, <fcc., speedily col lected from the Government. Offii-e on Juliana street, opposite the banking houso of Reed k Sehcll, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf Jxo. 11. FIM.BR J. T. KEAGY. CULLER A KEAGY 1 Have formed a partnership in the practice of the law. Attention paid to Pensions, Bounties and Claims against the Government. Office on Juliana street, formerly occupied by Hon.A. King. aprU:'6o-*ly. JOHN PAI.-11ER. " Altwrnc}' at Law, Iledlord. Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Offico on JuliaDna St.. nearly opposite the Mengei House.) junc23, 65.1y JB. CESSNA, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN* 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, Juno 9, 1866. ~ J. R. JOHN LUTZ. DC I {BORROW A LUTZ, ./ TTO H.YU I*.V ./ T JL.I H*, BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no t'ce* „ They arc, also, regularly liccused Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Offico on Juliana street, cpft door South of the 'Mengei House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer office April 28, 1865:t SPY M. ALBIP, 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, baek pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mongol Houso. apl 1, 1861. If- 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 d' ors bouth of the "Mengle House." Bee. 9, 1864-tf. KIMMELL AN D LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mengei House. aprl, 1861 tf. TOHN MOWER. J ATTORNEY AT LAW. BunFonn, PA. April 1,1864. — tf. I)K\TITS. C. It. HtCKOK J - G - KOBTOW* jk - DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office in the Bnnk 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, RESIDEST DENTIST, W OOD BKRKY, Pa., visits Bloody Bun three days of each uionth, commencing with the second Tuesday of the month. Prepared to perform all Dental oper ations with which he may he favored. Term* tcithin the reach of all and strictly cash except by tneeiril rmttrw t. Work to be sent by mail or oth wise, must be paid for when impressions are taken. augs, *64:tf. PHYSICIMS. "IX7M. W. JAMISON, M. D., YY BLOOPY RUN, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [decß:lyr P. 11. PENNS YD, M. IX, (late Surgeon 56th P. V. A.) BLOODY RUN, PA., Offers his professional services AS Physician and burgeon to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicin ity. dccltlyr* DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofios. April 1, 1864—tf. I L. MARBOURG, M. IX, *J . Having permanently located respectfully tenders bis pofessional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall 4 Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864 tf. HOTELS^. T_) EDFORD HOUSE, 1) AT HOPEWELL, BEDFORD COUNTY, PA., BY HARRY DROLLINOER. Every attention given to make gnests comfortable, who stop at this House. Hopewell, July 29, 1864. BANKERS. C. W. HUPP O. K. SHANNON F. BENRDICT RUPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made 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, 64-tf. JEWELEB, Ac. JOHN REIML'ND, CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER, in the United States Telcpraph Office BEDFORD, PA. Clocks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry promptly repaired. All work entrusted to his care warranted to give entire satisfaction. [novj-lyr DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO noons WEST OF THE BED FONC HOTEL, BEBFOBD, PA. TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY, SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Cold 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 Pons. Ha will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand, apr. 28, 1865—zz. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. JOHN MAJOR, 'J JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, HOPE WELL, BEDFORD COCHTY. Collections and all business pertaining to his office will be attended to pronqq ly. Will also attend to the sale or renting of rea estate Instruments of writing carefully prepar ed. Also settling up partnerships and other ac counts. Apl '6l—tj. (J YES! O YES! The subscriber having taken out Auctioneer's License tenders his services to all those who de sire an auctioneer. All letters addressed to him at Bedford will reach hiin, and receive prompt at tention. MARTIN MILLBURN, Bedford, March 2:3 m. D lit BORROW & LUTZ Editors and Proprietors. §lnj. GO FEEL WHAT I HAVE FELT. A young lady of New York was in the hab' it ot writing for the newspapers on the sub ject of temperance. Her writing was full of pathos, and evinced such deep emotion of soul, that a friend of hers accused her of be ing a maniac on the subject of intemperence, whereupon she wrote the following touching lines: Go feel what 1 have felt, Go bear vhat I have borne— Sink 'ncath a blow a father dealt And the cold world's proud scorn; Then suffer on from year to year — Thy sole relief the scorching tear. Go kneel as I have knelt, Implore, beseech and pray — Strive the besotted heart to melt, The downward course to stay, Be dashed with bitter curse aside, Your prayers burlesqued, your tears defied. Go weep as I have wept O'er a loved father's fall— See every promised blessing swept— Youth's sweetness turned to gall; Life's fading flowers strewed all the way, That brought me up to woman's day. Go see what I have seen, Behold the strong man bowed — With gnashing teeth —lips bathed in blood — And cold and lived brow; Go catch his withering glance and see There mirrored his soul's misery. Go to thy mother's side, And her crushed bosom cheer; Thine own deep anguish hide; Wipe from her cheek the bitter tear: Mark her worn frame and withered brow — The gray that streaks her dark hair now; With fading frame and trembling limb: And trace the ruin back to him, Whose plighted faith in early youth, Promised eternal love and truth, But who, foresworn, hath yielded up That promise to the cup: And led her down through love and light, All that made her promise bright— And chained her there, 'mid want and strife, That lowly thing—a drunkard's wife — And stamped on childhood's brow, so mild, That withering blight—the drunkard's child: Go hear, and feel, and see, and know, All that my soul hath felt and known — Then look upon the wine cup's glow, See if its beauty can alone — Think if its flavor you will try, When all proclaim, 'tis drink and die! Tell me I HATE the bowl— Hate is a feeble word! I loathe—abhor —my very soul With strong distrust is stirred — When I see, or hear, or tell Of that dark beverage of Hell. Pteltnnwus. NEWSPAPER IMPROVEMENTS. There is nothing in private business, which more concerns the public good than the con duct and management of our public press. Newspapers have long ceasfed to be mere vehicles for the dissemination of news. They are now required to be instructors of the public as well as entertainers of leasure hours, and everything which concerns the public interest is expected to be discussed intelligently in their columns. A vast im provement has been made within the last quarter of a century in these publications. Formerly they were only the organs of cliques or parties established to promote the interest of individuals or party leaders. Then they were violent, vituperative, inflammatory, untruthful, and being without the elements of popular support, were dependent and obsequious. A new class of papers, the ''lndependent Press," having sprung up, newspapers very materially began to change their characters for the better. The pro prietors of them were men of capital or of credit, and could therefore own their columns and control the conduct of their journals. They established them soundly on business principles, and being self dependent could afford to be thoroughly independent in the management of their papers. The power of the mere party organ ocan at once to decline and party politics ceased to absorb the whole of public attention and discussion. Men of education and intelectual resources became connected with the independent' press, and the whole field of politics, American and European, was not too extensive for their research, science, philsophy, morals, ethical critism, all the great interests of mankind affords thcines for the consideration and in struction of readers of public journals. These were certainly very great strides to wards a perfect daily literature, which should benefit the reader and advance the interests of mankind. But as these popular publica tions grew more general in their use, they became liable to an evil which maired half the good they were capable of imparting, though it contributed largely to defray the heavy pecuniary expenses which attended the publication of a journal of large circula tion. Persons who could not directly, with out offending against the laws, publish ad vertisements of a vicous character, found the advertising columns of the popular press the very best vehicle for bringing the victims of vice and their professed benefactors into in timate relations. Hence the columns of the most respectable and respected of the inde pendent press exhibited these disgusting in famies by the side of an original essay distin guished for learning, ability, morality, and a high sense of social propriety. This jux taposition was disgusting, and now an effort is being made in England and in this coun try to separate things so incongruous. The subject is being fairly discussed, and it only needs ventilation for a correct decision to be speedily reached. That it should be preach ed in England is not sui prising. There the press is in the hands of capital able to main tain it in any rule they may think the public interest requires. But in this country, where the capital in newspapers is not so large, it tells well for thos<* who have the press in charge, that they are likely to be tbe first to establish as a rule—that nothing offensive to decency should be published in a journal which enters into all classes of society and whose aim should be to strengthen and improve the moral tone of the public. Making merchandise of the great vices of society must cease before long to be the prac tice of any journal having a decent respect , for itself, or desirous of that of its readers. ' —Exchange. A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. MR. NASBY SUGGESTS A PLAN FOR THE UPBUILDING OF TIIE DEMOCRACY. CONFEDKIT X ROADS, (which is in the ) Stait uv Kentucky,) Jan. 21, 1860, j Halleloogy! Halleloogy I Halleloogy ! 1 see a lite ! It beams onto me! It pene trates me! It fills me! Goy to the world! I hev diskivered the cause of the decline uv the Dimocrasy. I seed it yisterday. 1 wuz a wunderin on the neighborin hills, a muain onto the depravity uv humanity ez exemplified in the person uv the grocery keeper at the Comers, who unanimously rc foosed to give me further credit for corn whisky, wich is the article they yoose in this country to pizeu themselves with. He as soored me that he had the utmost regard for my many virtues, nut he diskivered that the one he prized the most I hedn't so ma ny uv, to wit: that uv payiu for my linker. Therefore the account mite be considered closed. Then for the first time in my life, I beleeved in total depravity. While moosin in a melankoly mood on this dark cloud wich fell across the Dim ocratic party, I came onto a party uv men borin for ilc. Then the trooth flashed over me—th fir operations showed me the way to success —the shoor path to triumph, "When," said I to myself, "when men seek to gain ile they bore for it They go down—never up. Even so with the Dim oerasy. We dug downward! downward ! through all the strata uv society. We went through all the groceries—the the stratum was the most ignorant uv furiners, then we struck the poor whites uv the South, then below them the heft of the poor uv Noo Gersey—then Southern Illinois and Indiana, then Pike county, Missouri, and so on ! We never went upwards for converts cause 'twant no use —had to come down. We got lots of converts. There was a regular sliding scale with the heft uv Democrats who wazn't born in the party hev slid down, to wit: Quarter dollar smiles. 15 cent nips. 10 cent drinks. 5 cent sneks. A flat flask conceded. A bottle openly. Dimocrisy. We lost our holds for two reasons. First, the poor licker we hev now kills off our vo-, ters too fast, and the tax on whisky forced two-thirds of our people to quit suekin, and ez soon ez they begin to git on their feet they jined the Abffitionists. Secondly, our leaders supposed there wuz no lower strat um to dig into, and they gave up in disgust. But 1 have diskivered that lower stratum —1 have found it, and when the idea flashed over my Websterian intellect I shouted Hal leloogy ! The nigger is the lower stratum and ef we bore down to it, and work it thor oughly, we hev at least a twenty year's lease uv oowcr. L e must cultivate the nigger. lit must hev the suffrage ! ! It is a burnish shame that in this Nineteenth Sentry, in the full blaze uv intelligence, living under a Dekla rashun wich declares all men "free and ekal," that a large body of men shood be denied the glorious privilege uv being taken up to the poles and voted. Is not the Af'ri kin a man'? Is he not taxed ez we are and most uv the Dimocrisy, for many uv them own property ; is he not amenable to all the laws even ez we is ? Then why, I trium phantly ask, is he not entitled to a yote ? An why not indeed ! . 'But this is Abolition!' methinks I hear an obtuse Dimocrasy observe in horror — 'and why give them votes, who will use them agin us ?'' My gentle friend will they use their bal lots agin us? Ef 1 know mysilf I think not. Kin they read? Kin they right? Aint the bulk of them rather degraded and low than otherwise? Methinks. Aint that the kind of stock we want, and the kind wich alluz set us up. Readin has alluz been agin us—every skool master is an engine of Ablishinism —every noospapei is a cuss. General Wise of Virginia, when he thanked God there wuzu't a noospaper in his district had reason to, for do you sposc a readin constituency would have kept s>ch a blath erskite ez him in Congress year after year. Then agin, the Constitootional Amend ment will pass, given representashun to vo ters alone. The Democratic States will have more members uv Congress and more elec toral votes than afore the war, and them States we depend on. But my skeem is still more comprehen sive. Them niggers ain't needed in the South. We'll send them North. A few thousand will overbalance the Ablishun ma jority in Noo Gersey; fifty thousand will oring Ohio back to the fold, the same num ber will do for Noo York and Pennsylvania, and the country is saved —we will be able to elect the President. Thus the pit Lire Ab lishnist dug for us he'll fall in hisself—the club he cut for us will break his own head. Honey hez cum out uvNbe carcass. The nigger smells sweeter to me now than nite bloomin Serious —he is more precious to me than gold or silver or precious stones. He is the way and I shall walk in it. He shel lift me into a Post orifis. We must give our Afrikin brother —for is he not a man and a brother ? not only the suffrage, but he must hev land and the Dimocrasy must give it to him. I want Garret Davis to in stantly interdoose a bill to give him a sec tion of land, a pair uv mules and a cook stove, and each female African brother two flarin calico dresses and a red bonnet. I wantjhim to advocate the bill in a speech uv not more than two hours, so that it will stand some chance of passin. On second thought 1 think some other man had better interdoose the bill, as the Sennit hez got sich a habit uv votin down everything he proposes that they'd slater this without con siderin it, on jineral principles. Then we've £ot em. Work ez hard ez they may at it it'll take twenty years afore the Ablishnists ken edikate em up to the standard uv votin their tickit, and even that time won't do it, if we kin get the tax taken off uv whisky so that wc Kin afford to use it ez in the happy daysuv yore. Goyously I went home to lay the founda tion uv the new temple of Dimocrasy. I slept that nite at ween two niggers, and hev bin shakin hands and enquirin after the health uv the families uv all I hev met. That is hard for an orthodox Dimocrat —such sudden shifts is rather wrenehin on the con shence, but what uv that ? The Dimocrat who hez follered the party closelv'for thirty years ought not to balk at sich a triflin change ez this, partieulerly when it promises such glorious results. There's a lite about to gleam. There's a fount about to streem, Wait a little longer ! PETROLEUM V. NASBY. "IT S my nature, and 1 can thelp it," is the only excuse of the tenorant, or the indo lent. Every one should know that all that is natural is not excellent; and on the other hand, should, be encouraged, because help is never withheld from sincere seekeis. Some of the most passionate men have be come examples of patience and equanimi ty- BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, APRIL G, 1860. THE LAKE COUNTRY IN ENGLAND. The Lake Country is permantly associa ted with the names of Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge. Southey. Wilson, lAQuincy, Jlartiy Coleridge and Arnold. The travel ler who is acquainted with their history peoples these scenes with their presence, and with the mind's eye sees them as they once climbed these mountains, explored these ravines, and walked through these valleys. First and foremost he thinks of Wordsworth, the great meditative poet of man and nature, who came hither in 1799, and here remained till his death in 1850. He fixed his dwelling here that he might commune with nature in her wouuderous and changing aspect of mountain and vale, offeloud oi the storm howling over these steeps, and of solemn midnight brooding over these solitudes, and that he might study man in his simple and homely guise, because in his affections and loyalty and trust, in his cares and joys and griefs, lie was nearer to truth and nearer to God. Wordsworth is seen every where in these valleys. There is scarcely a place, howev er trivial, which is not mentioned in some of his verses. We seem to see him everywhere. We behold him in his walks and by his fireside, stiff, solemn, awkward, and opinion ated, and yet humble, affectionate, consci entious, giving himself to his work with a constant sense of its noble influences and its high responsibilities. We miss him at the church and by the way, upon the mountain at the waterfall, and in the humble cottage; for all these he made a part of himself, and has wrought all these into his works. We think next of Coleridge, sympathizing with Wordsworth in his aims, and far more highly gifted than he in learning, in quick ness of intellect, in soarring imagination, and in his command over words that paint to the eye and entrance the soul; but immeas urably inferior in steadiness, perseverance, and self-command. Now he discourses like Plato, aspires like a seraph, and then he almost drivels with imbecility or disappoints from utter self-forget fulness. His connec tion with these scenes was like himself—in constant, capricious, inconsequent. Sou they came later, and was slow to be persuaded to inakc his home among the lakes. But when Greta Hall received him, it was for his life. With a taste for reading that was strangely contrasted with the very select and limited curiosity of Wordsworth, with a patience of work that shamed Coler idge's inconstancy, he had at heart the same manly aims, the same admiration for the better writers of an earlier era, the same contempt for factitious arts of success, and the same hatred for the profane and im pious demoralization which had nearly de based the English mind. Though a man of books and of reading pre-eminently, he lov ed the simple ways of the dalesmen of the lakes. Though, as he expressed it, he was always drawing his living out of his inkstand he yet ever dedghted at the right of Fkid daw as it overhung his window, and many and many a time lie sought its lofty sum mit. Wilson was also here, and lived a most jubilant life. Gifted originally with poetic aspirations and a poetic taste, and with an excess of imaginative sensibility, and of animal spirits, with an herculean frame and indomitable strength he was attracted hither from his love of na ture, his admiration of Wordsworth, and his fondness for boating. What magnificent regattas did he conduct upon Windermere! At what uproarious feasts of wit and wine did he preside in Klleray! With what ad vantage to the literature of our time was his residence among the lakes, the reader of the Noctes and his manifold and rich diseours ings on books and men in Blackwood can testify. How noble his estimates of man, how strong and hearty his sympathies for the good in lowly life, how inspiring his love of nature, how contemptuous his expos ure of factitious and pretentious shams! ' What shall we say of DeQuincy? Smitten with admiration for Coleridge and Words worth. he came to the lakes, and here, with splendid gifts and marvelous power for study he fell a victim to a sensuous appetite, the joys and sorrows, the heaven and hell of which he contrived to infest with a fascina ting interest by his rare powers of descrip tion. Its actual horrors to himself and its mortifying inconvenience to his friends, as well as its liindcrance to the prosecution of a noble life have never been truly recited. It were better that they should not even be imagined, there was so much in the man and is so much in his writings that is truly ele vating and instructive. Poor Hartly Coleridge! Thou too wast a child of the lakes, for here only couldst thou he satisfied with nature, and here only was man thv friend. Nature here lifted thee above tueyself when thou didst fall, and the friends of thy father watched over thee and forbore with thee, as they have done with thee, as they have done with him. Thou in turn gavest to t hem thy warmest admiration and fervent gratitude, and gayest to litera ture geuis of biography, criticism, and poe try worthy of the school in which thou wort reared. Thy life was checkered and debased but there imnothing in they writings that does not elevate and insnire, nothing that is not conceived in the truiv noble style, that docs not lilt to virtue and to God. We have room but tor a single word for Arnold. This pure-minded anil most ener getic of men was led to the lakes not alone jy that love for nature which made him as a hoy in her presence, but from his interest in the school of poets and thinkers whom we have named. — Exchange, PATERNAL, DLJTY- Tlie father who plunges into business so deeply that he has no leisure for domestic duties and pleasures, and whose intercourse with his children consists iu a brief word of authority, or a surly lamentation over their intolerable expensiveness, is equally to be pitied and to be blamed. What right has he to devote to other pursuits the time which God has allotted to his children? Nor is it any excuse to say that he cannot support his family in their present style of living, without this effort. I ask by what right can his family demand to live in a man nci which requires him to neglect his most solemn and important duties? Nor is it an excuse to say that he wishes to leave them a competence. Is he under obligation to leave them that, competence which he de sires? Is it an advantage to them to be relieved from the necessity of labor ? Be sides is money the only desirable bequest which a father can leave to his children? Surely, well cultivated intellects; hearts sensible to domestic affection ; the love of parents, and brethren, and sisters; a taste for home pleasures; habits of order and regularity, and industry; hatred of vice and vicious men; and a lovely sensibility to the excellence of virtue —are as valuable a lega cy as an inheritance of property—simple property purchased by the loss of every hab it which could render that property a bless ing.— Wagner. HAPPINESS abounds most with the lowly, there are more blossoms in the valley than on the hills. A WORD FITLY SPOKEN. "And the Syrians had gone out by com panies, and had brought away captive out of the land of( Israel, a little maid; ami she waited on Naaman'swife. And she said un to her in astro ss, Would God my lord were with the prophet the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of hi leprosy." Just one word, fitly spoken—how beauti ful it is! The works of a wise man. it is said, are like apples of gold in pictruesof silver. And how many, many men have been saved i by just one word! How many by just one discreet word from a wife! How many by just one prudent word from a mother! How many by just one word from an inferior! How many are indebted to persons that are unspeakably less than they are in the esti mation of men for all that makes life worth having to them! Here was this little maid. She had been captured and carried away from home. But she did not forget home, nor the lessonu of it, nor its religion, nor the faith that it inspired. In all her distress in a foreign land, and reduced to abject service, she was true still to the religion of her lathers and that is a great deal more than you are young man, that made haste on coming hither from your rural home, to throw off religion, and give way to the temptations oL this giddy city. She was a great deal more faithful to the teachings of her youth than many of you have been, who have been ashamed of home and childhood, and have seetned to think that you must as speedily as possible dis- Eossess yourselves of that which, if you did ut know it, is more value to than silver or gold. You will observe that she pitied her supe riors. Although she was so poor as to be their servant; though she has been stolen, and was held in bondage, and compelled to perform menial service, yet she pitied them. A person in bondage may have that which no fondliness nor estate can give; namely, heart treasure. And oh. how rich the heart is, when it is rich! and how poor "men are when they are poor in their hearts! Here was this, proud Oriental monarch; here was this Teat general and statesman, standing, in ah the plenitude and show of prosperity; and here was this little maid-of all work, serving in the nursery, and kitch en, and throughout the household, who had that in her hand which was worth more to him than his jewels, or honors, or place. Ile did not know it. We do not know what is in people. We despise those that possess the secret of our imjnortality. We go heed lessly past persons that, if they could speak to us of God, would cleanse us and make us noble in spite of out inability*. People in humble circumstances should remember that they can do great good to those above them. It is the common excuse of men, "I have no influence;" but no man that knows how to sneak the right word at the right moment has a right to say, "I have no in fluence." In battle, the warrior lets fly the arrow without aim, and kills be knows not who, and persons may let fly those arrows of in struction which shall slay on the right hand and on the left, and yet make alive. — Ituh peiieJeiit. 1108 TO SAVE YOUR TEETH. Mr. Beecher, who is something of a phy sician, as well as a theologist, author, lec turer, and reformer, generally, says: "Our teeth decay. Hence, bad breath, unseemly mouth, and imperfect mastication. Everybody regrets it. What is the cause? It is a want of cleanliness. A clean tooth never decays. The mouth is a warm place, ninety eight degrees. Particles of meat be tween the teeth decompose Gums and teeth must suffer..Cleanliness will preserve the teeth to old age. Use a quill pick and linse the mouth after eating; brush with castile soap every morning; brush with pure water on retiring. Bestow this trifling care upon your precious teeth, you will keep them aud ruin the dentists. Neglect it, and you will be in sorrow all your lives. Children forget. Watch them. The first teeth determine the character of the second set. Give them equal care. Sugars, acids, hot drinks, salaratus, are nothing compared with food decomposed between the teeth. .Mercury may loosen the teeth, use may wear them out, but keep them clean and they will never decay. This advice is worth more than thousands of dol lars to every boy and girl. Books have been written on the subject This brief article contains all that is essential." CHARACTER OF A TRITE FRIEND. —Concern ing the uian you call your friend; tell me, will he weep with you in the hours of dis tress? Will he faithfully reprove you (o your face for actions which others are ridi culing and censuring behind your back? \Yi ! l he dare not to stand forth in your defence, when detraction is secretly aiming its dead ly weapon at your reput itition. Will he acknowledge you with the same cordiality and behave to you with the same friendly attention, in the Company of yoc- superiors in rank and fortune, as when the claims of pride do not interfere with those of friend ship? If misfortune and losses should oblige you to retire into a walk of life in which you caunot appear with the same liberality as as formerly, will he still think himself hap py in you society, and instead of withdraw ing himself from an unprofitable connection take pleasure in professing himself your friend, and cheerfully assist you to support the burden of your afflictions? \\ hen sick ness shall call you to retire front a gay and busy scenes of the world, will he follow you into your gloomy retreat, listen with atten tion to your "tale of symptoms,' and ad minister the balm of consolation to youts tainting spirit.--? And lastly, when death shall bust assunder every earthly tie, will he shed a tear upon your grave, and lodge the dear remembrance olyour mutual friend ship in his heart. HIGH ANO LOW LIFE. —Who are those generally in society, whom society itself re gards as enviable — as. indeed, representa tives of the highest iitb in society ? Are they men of intellect, the men of accom plishments, the men of pure morale and pure motives, the Christian men; or are they the men of wealth, or the occupants ot place ! Who are those who give to society its shape—who puli down one and set up another? Who arrogate to themselves the distinctions and prerogatives of high life ? I answer the men of power and the men of money. It matters not what their pursuits are; it matters not whut their motives are —whether a love of power, or distinction, or money; tbey elaitn, receive, and hold the highest place. Low life vides and high life walks. Low life assumes the leadership, and high life modestly, though with many inward protests, acquiesces. Low life throngs political conventions, throngs the halls of legislation, throngs all the fashiona ble assemblies. It has a low and vulgar do sire to be seen of men, while high life is modest, and shrinks from contact with so much that is meretricious and base. The animal is rampant aud regnant, and the an (*#l hangs his head and folds his wiugs. VOLUME 30; NO H THE FERE HEART. o The springs of everlasting life are within. There are clear streams gushing uplrom the deptlis of the soul, and flow out to enliven the sphere of outward existence. But like the waters of Siloah, they "go swiftly." You must listen to catch the silvery tones of the little rill as it glides from its mountain home ; you may not witness its silent march through the green vale, but its course will be seen in the fresh vendurc and the open ing flowers; its presence will be known by the forms of life and beauty that gather around it. It is ever thus with the pure. You may not hear the "still small voice," or heed the silent aspiration, but there is a moral influence and a hols' power which you will feel. The w tidiness is made to siuere, flowers of new life and beauty spring up" and flourish, while an invisible presence breathes immortal fragrance through the atmosphere. FLOWERS. —-How the universal heart of man blesses flowers ! They arc wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar and the tomb. The Persian in the far East delights 'n their perfume, and writes his loves in nosegays, while the Indian child of the great West claps his hands with glee as he gathers the abundant blossoms —the illumi nated scriptures of the prairies. The Cu pid of the ancient Hindoos tipped his ar rows with flowers, and orange buds are the bridal crown with us, a nation of yesterday. Flowers garlanded the Grecian altar, and they hang in votive wreaths before the Christian shrine. All these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are themselves a lovely type of marriage. They should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrec tion. They should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. IN A NUTSHELL. —The Knoxvillc Whig puts the whole thing in a nutshell, when it says the following: "Six millions of white -people, without shadow of pretext, engaged in a struggle to overthrow the government, and with it, twenty millions of whites and four millions of blacks. They waged a terrible war, char acterized by a fiendish barbarism never equaled before since the beginning of time. They caused an expense of four thousand millions of moiuy to the nation. They murdered fifty thousand of soldiers of the Government by starvation and cold, denying fire by winter and shelter in summer. They burned cities and spread pestilence ; they assassinated the ruler of the country , filled the country with widows and orphans ; de moralized the Churches and blasphemed the name of God; and now ash to vote, and rule the country, as they had formerly done!" THE GREAT RI LE OF CONDUCT.— The rule of conduct followed by, Lord Erskine— a man of sterling independence of principle and scrupulous adherence to truth—are worthy of being engraven on every young man's heart. "It was a first command and counsel of my earilest youth,'' he said always to do what my conscience told me to do, my duty, and to leave the consequence to God, 1 shall carry with me the memory, and I trust, the practice, ofthis parental lesson, to the grave. I have hitherto followed it, and [ have no reason to complain thfit my obedi ence to it has been a temporal sacrifice, I have found it on the contrary, the road to prosperity and wealth, and I shall point out the same path to my children ft>r their pur suit. And there can be no doubt after all, that the only safe rule of conduct is to follow implicitly the guidance of an enlightened conscience. NEVER "KNOCK UNDER." —No, never.— A1 ways rally your forces for another and more desperate assault upon adversity. If calumny assails you, and the world —as it is apt to do in such cases—takes part with your traducers, don't turn moody and mis anthropic, or worse still, seek to drown your unhappiness in dissipation. Bide your time. Disaprove 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 real thief would do to energetic action. No matter how deeply you may have got into hot water —always orovided that you did not help the father of i.ies to heat it —your case, if you are male of the right kind of stuff, is not desperate; for it is in accord with the Divine order and sweep of things that life -hould have no difficulties which an honest determined man, with Heaven's help, cannot surmount. IGNORANCE IS LOSS. —A man who is al lowed to grow up with his mind entirely ne glected, has had inflctcd upon him a griev ous wrong. He is cut off from the surest and noblest source of happiness, and if he is regarded simply as an agent for the pro duetion of" wealth, lie is made by ignorance comparatively useless and inefficient. An unintelligent laborer is like a machine which works roughly, because no cure was taken about putting together the various parts which, perfect themselves, might have been so combined that the machine would achieve completeness in all operations. Consequent ly, ignorance, by impairing the efficiency of labor, inflict upon the nation a most serious pecuniary loss. DEFINITIONS NOT IN WEBSTER.— Buss, to kiss; rebuss, to kiss again; plcribus. to kiss williout regard to sex; silly buss, to kiss the hand instead of the lips; blunder-buss, to kiss the wrong person; omnibuss, to kiss all the persons in the room: erebus, to kiss in the dark. Evidently the country girl who went down to the city recently had these definitions in her mind. A young gentle man was to escort her some distance through the town, and not wishing to walk, here marked, "Hold on Mary, let's take a bus," but Mary, blushing to the eyebrows, drew back, and with wounded modesty replied. "Oh, George, not right here iu the street!" flow TO KEEP POOR. —Buy two glasses of ale every day, five cents each, amounting in one your to $36 f>o; smoke three cigars —one after each meal, coming up in the course of the year to $54 75; keep a big dog, which will consume in a year at least sls worth of provisions, and a eat $4 more. Altogether this amounts to sllO 15 —suffi- cient to buy six barrels of flour, one hun dred bushels of coal, and a barrel of sugar, one sack of coffee, a good coat, a respecta ble dress, beside? a frock for the baby, and a half dozen pair of shoes —more or less. Just think of it 'Sandusky Register. TIIE Gospel proposes to make men hap py only by making them holy. How absurd ly they act who seek enjoyment in sin, when but for sin there would be nothing but en joyment. _ AN Irishman being in church where the collection aparatus resembled a box on its being handed to him, whispered in the car rier's ear that he was not naturalized, and i could not vote. KATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisements for low than 3 months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices one half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notices of marriajes and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 cts. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required bylaw to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per lino. All Advertising due after first insertion A liberal discount made to yearly advertizes. 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. One square.. $ 4.50 $ 6.00 SIO.OO Two squares 6,<io 9.06 16.00 Three squres 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 THE TRUE LIFE. —The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat and diink and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around the mill of habit and turn the wheel of wealth ; to make reason our book-keeper, and turn thought into im plements of trade—this Is not fife. In all this, but a poor fraction of the conscious ness of humanity is awakened, and the sanc tities still slumber whieh make it most worth while to be. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vi tality to the mechanism of existence. The laugh of mirth, which vibrates through the heart the tears which freshen the dry waste within, the music that brings childhood - back: the prayers that call the future near the doubt, which makes us meditate the ctdßfh startles us with mystery, the hardship that forces us to struggle, the anx i iety that ends in trust; these are the true nourishment of our natural being. A LEFT-HANDED COMPLIMENT.— The Democratic journals are exulting over the fact that some of the Republican members of the Legislature complimented Mr. Clymer on his nomination.- They, however, omit to give the reason why those gentlemen ex tended their congratulations to the Senator from Berks. Knowing him to be the weak | est and most vulnerable aspirant the Democ racy could select they naturally expressed their gratification after he had been nomina ted —a left handed compliment which men generally would prefer saving little about. Press. ABOVE IS BUSINESS. —It is a serious ev'l that many a young man has fallen into to be above his business. A person learns a trade find then he must go to shop-keening, or street loafing, or turn politician. Fool! If he cannot make living at his trade, we are sure he cannot any other way. And then, youDg men brought up to shop keeping must buy farms,or- houses, or some other foolish things they know nothing about, and what is the result? Head over heels in debt and certain failure. Multitudes have been ruin ed by being above their business and branch ing out into what they know nothing about. AN exchange correctly remarks that when a man gets mad and stops his paper, he al ways borrows the next number of his neighbor, to see if the withdrawal of his subscription hasn't killed the editor, and he has not dressed the coluius of the paper in morning. Such men imagine that the world rests on their shouldies. " THE times are hard, wife, and I find it difficult to keep my nose above water." "You could easily keep your nose above water, husband, if you didn't keep it so of ten above brandy.'' A LAWYER is something of a carpenter He can file a bill, split a hair make an entry, get up a case, frame an indictment empan nel a jury, put them in a box, nail a witness, hammer a jdgeu bore a court and such things How romantic young people are when they court. Till girls get married, all they think necessary to happiness are moonlight evenings a few hollyhocks, and a red brick bird cage, surrounded by honeysuckles and grapevines. THE most difficult operations in the prac tice of surgery is said to be ''taking the jaw out of a woman." The fellow who said that must be an old bachelor, of the large blue sort. A YOUNG lady rebuked by her mother for kissing her lover, justified the act by quot ing the passage— Whatevor ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them." A smart chap who lias -tndicd considera bly. says he i- satisfied that the reason why girls are in the habit of pouting out their lips is because they are always willing that theirs should meet yours half way. A York county, Pa., Democratic sheet calls Gen. Grant a usurper and tyrant for suppressing Rebel papers, and intimates that President Johnson must put a stop to such proceedings. GIVE a man brains and riches, and he is a king; give a man brains without riches, and he is a slave; give a man riches without brains, and be is a monkey. AN Irishman was about to many a South l em gill for her property. "Will you take this woman for your wedded wife?" said the minister. 'Yes, your reverence, and the nagers, too." THERE are eight requisites to success iu u lawsuit —a good cause, a good judge, a good counsel, a good attorney, voi d witnesses, a good jury, good purse, and last, though not least, good luck. A Southern paper think- that "some thing is on foot in South Carolina." She herself is on foot. She used to ride the •'high horse," but can't now. "MAMMA," said a lad of six, "If a uian is a Mister, is a wrpiau a Mbtery?" We rather guess she is. sonny. MRS. PAHTINGDON declare - that the only way a traveller can avoid being killed by railroad collisions, now adays is to take the other train. IK you have gone half crazy at not hav ing won your sweetheart as a wife, remem ber you might have gone the other half if you had succeeded. A PERSON being asked why he gave his daughter in marriage to a man with whom he was at enmity, answered, "l did it out of pure revenge A LOCOMOTIVE on a Western railroad has been adorned with the title. 1 still live." That is more than many of the passengers can say at the end of their journey. WHY is matrimony iifcc a besieged city? Because those who are in Want to get" out, and those who are out want to get in. A CHAPLIN of a State prison was asked by a pious friend how the parishioner were, "All under conviction," was the re ply. A DANDY lately appeared iu lowa with legs so attenuated that the authorities- had him arretted because he had "no visible means of support.' LOUD Chesterfield once remarked that even Adam, the first man, knew the value of politeness, allowed Kve to have the first bite at the apple. ARTEMIS WARD -aysthata Son of Temp erance he believes in temperance hotels — though as a general thing they sell poorer liquor.-than the other sort. THOSE who are incapable of shining but by dress, would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage. KISSING never goes out of fashion, but ■till it is rather dangerous to kiss one's neigh bor's wife, even if she lik>-b
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