Shi IBiilfovd Ifttqaim IS PUBLISHED KVERY FRIDAY MORNING, l>i J. K. DIIR BORROW AMI JOHN U TZ, ox JULIANA SI., opposite the Mengel House BEDFORD, PENN'A. TERMS: $2.00 n year if paid strictly in advance. IT not )inid within six months 12.50. it not paid within the year &3.00. ijgfettsl & §ttsiu*]3jß tort*. ATTOIWEYS AT LAW. B. K. i:n:ns J. W. BICKERSON. MLYEKS A DICKER-SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PENN'A., Office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P. Scheil, two door* east of the Gazette office, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Tensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Instate attended to. May 11. '66—lyr. JOHN T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PENN'A., Offers t" give satisfaction to all who may en trust their legal business to him. Will collect moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid ows or heirs. Office two doors wt st of Telegraph office. aprll:'66-ly. 1 B. CESSNA, ,} . ATTORNEY AT DAW. Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Julianna street, in the office furmorly occupied by King <t Jordan, and recently by Filler <fc Ivcagy. All business entrusted to his care- will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9,1865. j- M'n- SHARPS: E. P. KERB CjHARPE A KERR, 0 A rrOHNE YS~A T-L A W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their rare w ill receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Offi'ce on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Heed A Schcll, Bedford, Pa. uiar2:tf roil* PALMER, Attorney at Law, Bedford, Ptv,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Particular attention paid to the collection o! Military claims. Office on Julianna St., nearly opposite the Merigel House.) june 23, '65.1y .1. R. DtJRBORROW JOHN LL'TZ. Dvrborrow A IAJTZ, .ITTOHJYBITS .IT I 1.1 U\ BEBFOHD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. Thcv are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents ar.d will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the •Mengcl House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer uffev. April 28, 1865:t ! 1 s j' Y M. A I,IS IP, Pi ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ii<entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claims. Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with M inn A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south 1 the Mengel House. apl 1, 1864.—tf. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BBDFORH, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfciter, Esq., on Juliana street, two d<>rs. South of the "Mcnglc House." Dec. 9, 1864-tf. •riMMELI, AND IANGKN KELT El?, iY ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the I.aw Office en Juliana.Street, two doors South of the Mengcl House, aprl, 1864—tf. 10IIN MOWER, _ >J ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFOIID, PA. April 1, 1864.—tf. OEJTTISTS. C. X. j- G. M WHICH, JR. TkENTISTS, BEDFORD, I'A. 1./ Office in the flank Building. Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical "r Me chiinical Dentistry carefully and faithfully pcr foni" d and warranted. TERMS CASH. janb'6s-ly. I \KNTISTRY. IJ I. N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DENTIST, WOOD- Bf.KRY, l'a., visits Bloody Run three-lays of each in -oth, commencing with the second Tuesday of the m.,nth. Prepared to perform all Dental oper ations with which he may he favored. Term, within the resell of ail and strictly cash except by t/'eial contract. Work io be sent by mail oroth wise, must be paid for when impressions are taken, augs, '64:tf. PHYSICIANS. \\-.M \V. JAMISON. M. D.. YV BLOODY RON, PA:, Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [docß:tyr I \ li. B. F. HARRY, ' / Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity, "dice and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hc-fius. April I, 1864—tf. T L. MARBOURG, M. D., t) . Having permanently located respectfully tenders' his pofessional service? to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. BANKERS. G. W. RI'PP 0. F.. SHANNON F. BENRDICT pupp, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, l\ BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North and Siuth, and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. JtEAL ESTATE bought and sold. apr.15,'64-tf. JEWELER, Ac. \ BSALOM GARLICK, IV Clock & Watchmaker and Jeweller, BLOODY Res, PA. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted to give satisfaction. He also keeps on hand and for sale WA TC'II BS, CLOCKS, and JE WE Lit Y. Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. my 4 JOHN REIMUND, 'J CLOCK AM) WATCH MAKER, in the United States Telepraph Office, BEDFORD, PA. Clocks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry promptly repaired. All work entrusted to his care Warranted to give entire satisfaction. [nov3-lyr DANIEL BORDER, I'LTT STREET, TWO BOOKS WEST OF THE BED POR® HOTEL, BEBPOBD, P*. ICHMAKEK AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY, SPECTACLES. AC. Be keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver U atckes, Spectacles of Brilliant Doable Refin *'< Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold o atch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. lie will supply to order an y thing in his line not on hand. 28. 1866—**. DW. CUOUSE WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, < ; n Peun street A few doorg west of the Court House, North side, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared toell by wholesale all kinds of CIGAJU3. All praers promptly filled. Persons desiring anything ** hU line will d well to give him a call. Bedford, Oct 20, *66. ©eMord 3f turn iter. BUKBORROW Jfc LFT3S Editors and Proprietors. From the Atlantic, for July. THE DEATH OF SLAVERY. BV WILLI All t'CLLEN BRYANT. O Thou great Wrong, that, through the glow paced years, Didst holdthy millions fettered, and didst wield The scourge that drove the laborer to the field, And look with stony eye on human tears, Thy cruel reign is o'er; Thy bondmen croach no more In terror at the menace of thine eye; For He who marks the bounds of guilty power, Long suffering, hath heard the captive's cry, And touched his shackles at the appointed hour, And lo! they fall, mud ho whose limbs they gs.iied Stands in bis native manhood, disenthralled. A shout of joy from the redeemed Is sent; Ten thousand hamlets swell the hymns of thanks; Our rivers roll exulting, and their banks Send up hosannahs to the firmament, Fields, where the bontftnan's toil No more shall trench the soil, Seem now to bask in a sercner day; The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs 0 Heaven, with more caressing softness play, Welcoming man to iiberty like theirs A glory clothes the land from sea to sea, For the great land all its coasts are free. Within that land wert thou enthroned of late, And they by whom the nation'slaws were made, And they who tilled its judgment-scats, obeyed Thy mandate, rigid as the will of fate, Fierce men at thy right hand, With gesture of command, Have forth the word that none might dare gainsay; And grave and reverend ones, who loved thee not, Shrank from thy presence, and in blank dismay, Choked down, unuttercd, the rebellious thought; While meaner cowards, mingled with thy train, Proved, from the book of God, thy right to reign. Great as thou wort, and feared from shore to shore, The wrath of GOD e'ertook thee in thy pride; Thou sitt'st a ghastly shadow; by thy side Thy once strong arms bang nerveless evermore. And they who quailed but now Before thy lowering brow Devote thy memory to scorn and shame. And scoff at the pale, powerless thing thou art, And they who ruled in thine imperial name, Subdued, and standing sullenly apart, Scowl at the hands that overthrew thy reign. And shatered at a blow tho prisoner's chain. Well was thy doom deserved; thou didst not spare Life's tenderest ties, but cruelly didst part Husband and wife, and from the mother's heart Didst wrest her children, deaf to shriek and prayer; Thy inner lair became The haunt of guilty shame: Thy lash dropped blood;the murderer, at thy side, Showed bis red hands, nor feared the vengeance due. Thou didst sew earth with crimes, and, far and wide, A harvest of uncounted miseries grew, Until the measure of thy sins at last Was full, and then the avenging bolt was cast. Go then, accursed of GoD, and take thy place With baleful memories of the older time, 4V ith many a wasting pest, and nameless crime, And bloody war that thinned tho human race; With the Black Death, whose way Through wailing cities lay, Worship of MOLOCH, tyrants that built The Pyramids, and cruel creeds that taught To avenge a fancied guilt by deeper guilt— Death at the stake to those that held them not, Lo, the foul phantoms, silent in the gloom Of the flown ages, part to yield thee room. I sae the better years that hasten by , Carry thee back into tbat shadowy past, Where, in the dusty spaces, void and vast, The graves of those whom thou hast murdered lie, The slave-pen, through whoso door Thy victims pass no more, Is there, and there shall the grim block remain At which the slave was sold; while at thy feet Scourges and engines of restraint and pain Afolder and rust by thine eternal scat, There, 'mid the symbols that proclaim thy crimes, Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. EVENING BOAT The shadows creep across the deep And up the silent river, While softly threugh the central blue Faint rays of starlight quiver, f-o fades life's light, so falls its night, And mantles all in sadness, Till stars of love shine out above And fill the soul with gladness. The homeward main we slowly gain With every oar-atroke's cadence, \nd leave a shore all peopled o'er With fairy men and maidens. "i'is thus we glide on Time's dark tide, To labor's solemn measure, Death's shore to find, and leave behind The flowery isles of pleasure. EDWIN ROSSITKR JOHNSON. Ptedlamw. THE SHADOW OF THE FLAG. From a late letter by an American trav eling abroad, to the New York Independent, we extract the following most graphic and patriotic exciting account of the incidents attending a visit to the U. S. Consulate at Cardiff, in Wales : I had been guided to the right house by seeing a crowd of men and women, whose garb and faces showed that they were of the humblest class, standing in clusters in front of the building patiently waiting in all the rain, earnestly talking in low tones, and ever and anon pointing up to the windows of the consulate. The passage and stairs were thronged by them —some going up, some coming down, but ail having the same intent, serious, burdened look. As I reached the door, it was sharply closed against a little comi any of these poor people, who sadly turned away, and, talking in low, anxious tones, walked down stairs. My own knock brought the clerk abruptly to the door, with a stern expression on his face, as if he in tended to turn me away too, but which re laxed into an invitation to enter as he dis covered that possibly I might be on other business than my predecessors. Mr. Burch happened not to be withiD, but was expected every moment; and I accepted the polite intimation that I might await hw coming. I had hardly got seated when there was an other knock at the door; and they who came had hardly been turned away when there was still another knock, and another, and so on in rapid succession. What could it all mean ? The clerk informed me that two weeks before they had given away a few copies of an official document relating to government assistance in emigrating to the United States. These documents, it seems, had flown like the winds among the poor working people, both Irish and Welsh, throughout all this region ; they had been carried back into the country, among the glens of the mountains, and down into the coal-pits and iron-mines; they had been eagerly read by the furnace-Arcs, by the flickering lantern ot the collier, by the blaze of peat on the cottager's hearth —they had lighted up hopes in thousands of heavy hearts eagerly clutching at the dim possibil ity of escaping from their hard lot here t > the wonderful Land of Promise beyond the sea. Immediately a stream of resolute as pirants began pouring into the consulate. Mr. Burch hail intended merely to obtain the names of any who would like to go to America on particular conditions, and to report the provable number to the govern- A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. rnent; but the names cauic faster than he could take them, and it was necessary, in a few days, to announce that he could receive no more. But this announcement went on siow legs, and was quite unable to head off the glad tidings which were now rushing abroad; and every day since then has brought a repetition of the scene which I have just beheld. From many miles inland, and far along the coast, these poor creatures come to Cardiff. Unabashed by adverse rumors, they find their way to the American consulate ; and there they stand in the street for hours together, in all weathers, till one after another thev have actually gone to the consul's door ana heard with their own ears the answer. Mr. Burcb, who soon came in and gave me a very gentlemanly greeting, said that, within the two proceeding weeks there must have been two thousand personal applica tions at his door for passage to America ; that this number could have been more than doubled had he held out the least encour agement ; and that, if the government or a private company saw fit to undertake the matter, several thousand valuable laborers, experienced colliers, miners, and mechanics, would be glad to grasp at any arrangement by which they could get across the sea. It was indeed saddening to watch the crowd below, and listen to the incessant en treaties at the door, If any of ns went to the window, straightway all faces were up turned, their eyes peering into ours with an inquiring and beseeching look, as if somehow in that room and in our persons their detsiny resided, and the brightness and cheer of their future lives. There they stood— strong men, and women, some of them with banes in their arms—the raiu coming down upon them heavy but unnoticed, gazing up at the windows and trying to glean from them some tokens of promise. Then the reiterated formula at the door between the clerk and applicants was something as fol lows : "We have called, please sir, to put our names down, sir, in the book, sir, for America.'' "We can't Dike any more names at prcs- "But, sir, please do take ours, sir; we do wish to go, sir." "I tell you we can t take any more names." "But sin we've come a long way." "Sorry for it—can't take you," (partly closing the door," "But, sir, tell us when we shall come again to see." "Can't tell you uow—you must go away;" and upon this the door roughly closed, and the poor candidates for expatriation would go down, looking very forlorn, and report the answer to their equally forlorn compan ions. In sheer self-defense it was necessary to treat them harshly. I do not think any American could have stood where I stood, and have seen what I saw, without having his heart filled with sadness and compassion, and without feeling a nobler pride than ever in the name and mission of his country. Many times have I sat ill the House Of Commons, and, hoar ing from the lips of England's great states men glowing compliments for America, elo quent recognitions of her military greatness, her wealth of territory, and her political success, felt my joy and pride too much for silence. It was hard not to get up and shock the decorum of the whole assemblage by one huge Homeric shout: "I too am an American ! " But it seemed to me to-day, as I stood at the windows of the consulate, or listened to the importunities at the door, that these poor peasants were paying a higher compliment and bearing a nobler testimony than was ever borne by the most affluent orator in Parliament. It did not nourish a boastful patriotic vanity ; it was no food for national gasconade and assump tion ; it was a thought grander than the remembrance of our invincible citizen sol diery, of our navy, the most formidable that ever floated, of our boundless, ...atrial re sources; it was the simple and the sacred fact that to millions in all lands who are humble and heavy-laden this word AMERICA means all that is meant by the word HOPE. These poor, sad-faced creatures, standing before the American consulate in Cardiff seemed to symbolize the struggling masses of all the populations of Europe, their weary fight with life's hardships, their toil which returns them just enough to let them keep on toiling, their rudeness and ignor ance, their unthrift, their unhnppiness, and their universal looking to that star which has risen in the West, and which, they think, shines not for peers, and for princes, and for taskmasters, but for men and wo men. WHAT WILL VOU HAVE. BY REV. J. W. ALEXANDER, I). D. Alter a day's work of calculation and copying, I was under the necessity of wait ing an hour in the tap room of a tavern to secure the services ot a mail guard who was to carry a parcel for my employers. Amid the smoke, the spitting and the clatter of a crowd of inn-haunters, I could not but find some subject for reflection. The presiding genius of the bar was a bloated, whiskered young man, whom I had long known as the abandoned son of a de ceased friend. I sighed and was silent. Ever and anon, as one after another, or squads of two or three, approaebed his shrine to receive and empty his glasses and deposit their sixpences, 1 heard the short peremptory formula of the Bacchanal minister: "What will you have?" And the victims severally made their bids, as the ease might be. The constant repetition of the "form in that case made and provided," sit me upon a drowsy meditation on the pregnant question, "what will you have?" "Methinks I can answer the question," said Ito myself, as I cast a glance around the murky apartment. —And first to the young shoemaker, who, with a pairofnewly finish ed boots, is asking for "grog." \Y hat will you have? Young man you will soon have an empty pocket. There is a trembling, ragged man, with livid spots under the eyes. He is a machine maker, and has lodgings, in the house. What will you have? Ao! the barkeeper knows without an answer; tic takes gin and water. Poor man! —I know also what you will have. Already you have been twice at death's door; and the giu will not drive off that chill. You will have the typhus fever and death. The glasses arc wash'; ! out nd cleaned in the slop tub under the bar shelf. Now a fresh Devy comes ur, eigai in hand, ''lirentlenien, what will yot* have?" I sup ply the answer for myself. The baket there will have an apoplexy or a sudden full in his shop. The tailor in green glasses will have the consumption; and I fear that the three idlers in their train will have the next epidemic that shall sweep off our refuse drunkards. Sorry, indeed, am Ito see in this place, Mr. Scanting, the cooper: Not to speak of himself, I have reason to Iteliove that both hia gi uwu auus aic beginning to drink. He BEDFORD. Fa., FRIDAY. JUDY 13, 1866. looks about him suspiciously. Now he plucks up courage He takes whiskey. You will have a pair of drunken sons. That young fellow in the green frock coat and colored neckcloth is a musician, a man of reading, and the husband of a lovely En glish woman. He takes his glass with an air of a Greek drinking hemlock. You will have a heart broken wife. What! is that lad of fifteen going to the bar? He is; and he tosses off his Cognac wit an air. You will have an early death. The old man that has tottered out of the door has doubtless come hither to drown his grief—His last son died from the effects of a brawl in a""theatre. Wretched old man! You will have the halter or a suicide. I must tako-the rest iti mass, for it is Saturday night, and tho throng increases. The barkeeper has an ass&tant in the person of a pale, sorrowful girl. Two voices now reiterate the challenge—"What will you have?' Misguided friends! I am greatly afraid you will have a death bed without hope. My man has arrived. As I walked home across the common, I thought thus: "And what will you have, who. day after day, and and year after year, dealt out the devil's bounty to his recruits, and received his six pences, as if it were ovef the coffins of his victims? You hardened tempter! (if memory live hereafter,) you will have the recollection of your triumphs and the vision of their eternal results. You will have a terrible judgment, and an eternity of such retribution as befits your fife. EXTRAVAGANCE. The pulpit and the religious press are well nigh dumb on this important topic, which is every day demanding fresh and bold treatment. We are all asleep, while world liness, in its worst forms, is coming upon us like a flood. It is quite humiliating to find the pulpit so backward, and the religious press uttering an uncertain sound, or no sound at all, and leaving the hardest blows at fashion and frivolity to be stuck by the secular press. Can it be shamed into a bet ter course, or is it so completely absorbed with petty sectarian strifes that it has no power to turn aside for an hour, and treat questions of practical morality ? Among a few other secular journals, the Round Table gives us au excellent example in this respect, and one which we might all well follow. It well says in its last issue that a "craziness is abroad in the land. Some mysterious sptrit of evil has led the people into the blindest, wildest infatua tion. The one great ruling passion has become the thirst for monev —money for display and money for reckless excesses. Men that once were counted reasonable and sensible are carried along on the waves of wild and foolish speculation, and women that once were decorous, modest and woman ly, have donned the most shameless fashions and flaunt the most extravagant ornaments. The worst of all that France can offer, is poured in upon us with no regard for either decency or economy. At least one half the people are living beyond their means. In Rici, tlie puoici half seem iu make tho greatest display, and enter into the most unpardonable excesses. The blood of the people is pulsing quite too fast for health and safety. We are drifting sadly, terri bly away from the old landmarks, and from every beacon of sense aud security. What madness has seized upon the people ? How far are these things to carry us ?" These are questions that we may well ask. Further on it says : "The real extravagance of the people is doubtless but little known. The outer cloak of display which the multi tude can see, is not a tithe ofthei real excess es. Men that have but small incomes feel that they must live within limits of style and location which they know are beyond their means. The fact is, the greater part of the evil attaches to men of small means. We find fault with the wealthy for their useless, wicked waste and unfortunate exam ple but their mistake is not so great, nor their conduct so blameable, as that of the other and larger class who knowingly five beyond their means. Herein is the su ftreme folly of the hour Not content with iving in a quiet and careful way young men rush to the cities and soon are seized with the fever of money getting and display. They are taught excesses and extravagances which tend well nigh to their ruin. They drift with the tide and soon are living be yond their means all for show and name. Fashionable women too often encourage them in their course, and instead of safe and economical men, we have excited and reckless spectators. Fortune must be made in some way, or the man considers himself of little account. He has no time for the development of his heart and health, no time for public and benevolent enterprises. He must maintain his place in society,' go to a given number of parties and live up to a polite standard of expense and enjoyment. Strange, passing strange! As though a young man could make his way faster by as suming airs and position beyond his right to claim." In the course of the article, the editor also lashes that class of women (you see them in all the churches on Sunday) who so greedily accept the follies which the French demi mondc bring in, and declares, with all reason, that it is a shame to see respectable women who should stand out as examples, f iving way to such disgraceful authorities, t concludes as follows: "There is but one road to happiness and prosperity, for either individuals or a nation, and that is economy and faithful persistence in the legitimate paths of business. The riches that come in an hour, generally go in au hour, and do mure harm than good. Ileuee wc call upon all good people to unite in an effort to stay the tide of wild excess. Let a man be frowned upon in society when it is known that he is living beyond his means. Let all noble and true women express their disgust at the extravagant and indecent display of the followers of fashion. And so shall the nation be saved from the millstone that has dragged other republics to destruction —so shall oar young men find a larger and nobler devotion than that of money and modesty and dignity shall not wholly desert American womanhood.'' — Episcopalian. SLEEVING ALONE. —A capital story is told of a spirited young lady on her way to the church to be married. At the door her intended husband paused, and said very unexpectedly, "My dear girl, there are three things of which I ought to have spo ken to you before, and if you do not like them, it is not too late to retire even now from our engagement To tell you the whole truth, I must insist first, to sleep alone; secondly to eat alone ; ami thirdly, to find fault when there is no occasion " "Is that all?" she said. "I agree at once. If you sleep alone, I shall not; if you eat alone, I shall eat first; and as to your find ing fault, I shall take care that you never want occasion." The conditions being thus adjusted, they entered the church, the ceremony was per formed, and at the last accounts, both par ties were doing very well, the husband hav ing fairly given in to the high spirit and good huuior of his wife. THE RICHEST MEN IN NEW YORK THE HARDEST WORKERS. The hardest working men and the hard est working institutions in New-York, arc those which are most successful. To the outsiders it seems an easy thing to make money and to keep it. Banking was an easy work a few years ago, and is now, in the old fashioned institutions who have no foreign or country exchange. But no facto ry or machine shop keeps men on the jump as does a live hank in this wide awake city. I was in one of these institutions yesterday which is not yet ten years old. Its army of clerks have to be on hand early in the morniug, and they cannot leave until their day's work is done, which is often not until long after the gas is lighted. Its capi tal is two millions, and its daily receipts seven million dollars. It receives daily front two hundred and fifty to four hun dred letters, all of which have to be regis tered and answered before the business, of the day ends. No batik clerk on a salary of a thousand dollars a year goes to his bank as regularly, or works as many hours, as William B. Astor, who counts up his forty millions. His little one story office, a step or two from Broadway, on Prince street, with its iron bars, making it resemble a police prison, is where he performs his dai ly toil, and out of all his wealth and labor, lie gets only his 'vituals and clothes.' He attends personally to all his business, knows every dollar of rent or income that is to become due, pays out every dollar, makes his entries in his own hand, and obliges his subordinates to come to him for information, while he does not go to them. He gener ally comes down in the omnibus at an early hour of the day, remains closely absorbed in business until five o'clock He rarely takes exercise, and finds his chief pleasure in the closest attention to his business. A friend of mine rode to Washington with hint in the same car from New York. He neither spoke nor got off his seat, and hard ly moved, from -Jersey City to Washihgton. He usually leaves his office at five o'clock, an'l walks slowly up Broadway to Lafayette place. He is over six feet high, heavily built, with a decided German look, small hazel eyes, as if he was half asleep, head round as a pumpkin, and about as destitute of hair. He is exceedingly hospitable, and in the "season" gives a dinner to his friends weekly at which the richest viands on ser vices of gold and silver are presented by liveried servants to his guests. Commodore Yanderbilt never worked harder in his fife—never worked more hours than now. lie has a confidentiil servant who works like a pack-horse, who has been in his employ thirty years. Besides this, Yanderbilt does his own business, makes and executes his own contracts, and this, with the business he docs on twenty mil lions, is no small toil. The Commodore goes down to his business regularly every day, and can be found at certain hours. His only recreation is a game at euchre and fast horses. Moses Taylor, whose dividends from coal stock alone this Year reached the pretty lit tle sum of a million dollars, began the busi ness in New York when he was sixteen years of age, kept his books with his own bands, and has doue so ever since. His library in his house in 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, is 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 destroyed, it would make no difference with him, for he has the originals in his own hands. Many merchants spend the after noon in riding, or in games, or in the excite ment in the evening stock board ; but Mr. Taylor finds his recreation in a bath, a good dinner, a comfortable siesta, and an even ing devoted to work. Such a man would make money and keep it. These are only specimens of how the men of wealth in our city become men of toil. — Y. F. Tribune. AN AMERICAN PROFESSOR IN ENG LAND. A very remarkable article appeared lately in the Cornhill Magazine , from the pen of that eminent critic and essayist, Matthew Arnold, who told his countrymen, with a degree of frankness and boldness that hardly any American would venture upon in addressing his own compatriots, that a lack of proper education in the governing classes of Great Britain had reduced England from the position of first in the rank of nations to that of third, placing France and the United States both before her. _ But Mr. Arnold is not alone in his opinion of his countrymen. A Liverpool merchant, of the name of Thompson, who recently visited the United States, was so imDressed with the baneful ignorance of his educated coun trymen in relation to our history and our institutions, that on his return home he made the very liberal offer to the University of Cambridge, of a sum sufficient to endow a professorship, which should be filled by an American, to be appointed by Harvard Col lege, subject to the approval of Cambridge, whose duty it should be to deliver lectures on America. The proposition was eagerly accepted by some of the Cambridge men, among whom was Charles Kingsley, hut the ' Dons" were terribly flustered by the strange proposal. What cared they for America or its institutions ? Like the Peruvians, they ll want no change,' - and least of all such a change as a Harvard pro fessor would be likely to bring them. They shuddered at the very mention of it; they scented Socinianism and democracy from afar, and they rejected the offer with as much indignation as a Mississippi college, before the rebellion, would have rejected a similar offer from the same quarter. It is simply incredible to us on this side of the Atlantic, where information of all kinds is so eagerly sought for, that such a proposi tion as that of the benevolent Liverpool ine a'lant should have been rejected by one ot the principal seats of learning in Great Britain. There could have been but one motive that influenced the Cambridge dons in making the decision ; they were appre hensive that the alluring faets'of our history would so demoralize the miuds of the Cam bridge students that they would prefer republicanism to a constitutional monarchy. V* e do not imagine they would have refus ed a similar offer in relation to Austria or Prussia. But what they have missed! One of our English correspondents, presu ming that the offer of Mr. Thompson would be gladly accepted, suggested, as as ntable person for Hai vara to send over, Professor Jewell ; and what a delightful and instruc tive series of lectures the genial and brilliant author of Hosea Biglow would have given them, if hv had accepted ; and how much would the personality of such a representa tive Yankee have done towards correcting the crude ideas of an American which an average Briton entertains. Harvard would, of course, have selected one of her best men, or have furnished relays of them. tQ show YOLIME 39: XO 27. her intellectual wealth. Lowell, Holmes, Longfellow aud Emerson might have been sent over in turn, with Bancroft, Motley and some of the younger men whose names are not yet familiar on the other side. But the opportunity of affecting so much good in so pleasant a manner may not altogether be lost; i f Cambridge objects, perhaps more conservative Oxford might not; but if the great universities refuse to be enlightened, Mr. Thompson might accomplish his object by instituting a course of lectures outside of these venerable scats of learning. lie will find a hearty response here whenever he settles upon any practicable plan of enlight ening his countrymen in relation to Ameri ca. — lndependent. CURIOUS FACTS. The following curious facta with regard to our Presidents appear from history. George Washington, first President, died without children. He was re-elected. John Adams, second President, died without children. He was not re-elected. Thomas Jefferson, third President, died without children. He was re-elected. James Madison, fouith President, died without children. He was re-elected. James Monroe, fifth President, died without children. He was re-elected. John Quinev Adams, sixth President, had children. He was not re-elected. Andrew Jackson, seyenth President, had no children, and was re elected. Martin Vanßuren, eighth President, had children, and was not re-elected. William H. Harrison, ninth President, had children, and died in about six months after he was sworn into office. John Tyler, tenth President, had chil dren and was not re-elected. James K. Polk, eleventh President, had children and declined a nomination for a 2d term. Zacharv Taylor, twelfth President, had children, and he died before the expiration of his term. Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President, had children and was not re-elected. Franklin Pierce, fourteenth President, had children and was not re-elected. James Buchanan.fifteenth President, had no children and will not be re-elected. From the above facts it will be seen that no President ever having had any children has been re-elected to tne Chief Magistra cy of the Nation, while, with the exception of Mr. Polk, who declined a re-nomination, all those having no children, having been re-elected. EUROPEAN PROPHECIES CON CERNING AMERICA. Some time since a prominent English Weslyan divine suggested that a most enter taining volume might be produced by col lecting the various prophesies and prognos tications made by hostile European journals concerning America during the progress of our conflict, and comparing them with the actual results. Such a book would certain offuitl UIUuL auiUOVmoni. \\ T + vjuwitvu. however, whether the London Times, and other journals of that stripe, would learn any lessons from it ■; for. notwithstanding their previous ridiculous failures, they have continued, since the close of the war, to prognosticate and presage in regard to this country with all their accustomed assurance. This has been especially true of our finan cial affairs. The European Times remarks on this point : There is one feature of the present period which lias commanded much attention—the large amount of specie which is now reach ing us from the Western world to rectify the state of the exchange. Every recent packet from America has brought consider able quantities of gold. No less a sum than two millions has come to hand during a short time from that country. So far the commercial panic, which many writers on finance on this side of the ocean declared must inevitably overtake the Americans on the termination of their great struggle, has not yet made its appearance. It is a remark able fact that almost all the dismal prognos tications which were indulged in here, both during the war and since it ended, have been signally falsified by actual events. There were to have been sudden collapse, universal bankruptcy, and other deplorable evils ; and the answer to these misgivings is the millions of gold from America which now prove so useful in the coffers of the great English monetary establishment in Threadneedle street. LOSS BY NOT TAKING A COUNTY PAPER Generally speaking but little importance is attached to the taking of a county newspa per. This neglect and indifference had its practical reward the other day. Some time ago a gentleman in this town was appointed an Auditor to distribute the funds in the hands ol an Adminstrator amongst the creditors.' Notice of the Auditor was published in two of the county papers. It so happened that a few creditors resi ding in a certain portion of the county, who had collectively claims to the amount of seven or eight hudred dollars, from the neg lect of taking a county paper, never heard of the audit until after the Report of the Auditor had been confirmed by the Court. Shey then came to town to inquire about ie likelihood of securing their claims; call ed upon an Attorney, who examined into the matter, and informed them that they had for ever lost their money, and we pre sume charged them five dollars for the in formation. All this resulted from being too penurious or too careless to subscribe for a county paper. These gentlemen have learned a lesson that will last them the balance of their lives and is a warning to others who from the same motives fail to take their county pa per. There is scarcely a man in the community who will not be caught up some day on a legal notice, thai does not take a paper, un less he clandestinely reads his neighbor's and every gentlemen should be above litera ry pilfering like this.— Exchange. A young girl named Molly Mohan aeoom nained one of the Fenian regiments from Wisconsin to the field as its "daughter." She is sixteen years old, the daughter of a Union soldier who died of wounds received at the battle of South Mountain, and is said to be highly educated. She wears a short woolen dress and trowsers, on which is em broidered the Irish linrp in silk. ONE Charles S. Dunlap got himself into jail, the other day, at Zanesville, for going through the country and poisoning the mouths of horses then suddenly* appearing us a "horse doctor," and offering to cure them for "so much." He ought to he made uke a bit in bis own mouth. THE intelligence and education of a peo ple are the passports of a country to emin ence and nrosnentv. RATES OF ADVERliwvfrt ' J All advertiieraentti for lei than 3 monuS"^ eentg per line for each insertion. Special notices ,2 one half additional. All reiolntions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notices of marriages and deaths,-ex ceeding five 1i8e.% 10 ets. per line. AU legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by lair to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 16 oent. per line. All Advertising due after first insertion A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 months, lyear. One square $ 4.00 $ 8.00 SIO.OO Two squares.. 6,00 8.00 16.60 Three squres 8.00 13.00 30.00 One-fourth column 14.00 30.00 36.90 Half column 18.00 26.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 8000 POWERFUL ON THE GUM. A laughable incident occurred at the de pot. The train from Mobile brought up several barrels of shell oysters. A number of country negroes stood by, and, never having seen oysters before, were somewhat surprised at the bivalves. "Where he inout?" exclaimed one of the most inquisi tive. "How urn cat? Gollv ! Itinksum nuffin'cept a bone. Yah! yah!" he con tinued, laughing at his wit; "spec some white man tinfc nigger a fool when he call dat ister." Just then he discovered an open oyster, and seizing it eyed it closely. Not satisfied with the examination, he placed it to his nose, but no sooner was that organ inserted between the shells than they closed; the nigger ho*'led with pain and called out. "Pull um off! pull um off! pull um off!' but the more the oyster was pulled the more it would not let j.O and as poor Cuffee dan ced and yelled, his frantic efforts to rid him self of his uncomfortable nasal ornament were both ludicrous and painful. "Hit um wid a stick," suggested a buxom wench, and in a moment the oyster was knocked right and left with a will; but Cuffee's head went with it. "Pinch his tail," cried a little nig. 'and he sure to let go!' but there was no tail to pinch, and poor Cuffee seemed doomed to wear the oyster forever. At this moment an intelligent contraband whipped out a knife, and with it soon severed the oyster. Cuffee looked at the shell with amazement, and finding the oyster toothless threw it away, with the remark. "Um got no teef, but he gum is powerful!" YOUR OWN BUSINESS. —How annoying to an industrious man to have office loi-fers hanging round, not only killing their own time but his also. Such persons rurally complain of "hard times," "poor pLy," "bad government," and go about in a "slip shod" way, grumbling, grunting, or cursing, complaining of others and excusing them selves. They find fault quarrel with women and children but fail to hit those most to blame—themselves. Loafers geneially smoke, chew, or drink; and are always ready to take a hand at any game where tne chan ces man result in a gratuitous "treat' 'by a junior loafer, whose "means" are not yet exhausted. Oh, could these persons but see where this sort of life most lead to, would they, could they, continue on? Idleness, dissij>ation, and disease, lead to death of body and soul. Header, admonish the loaf er ; set him to work : induce him to read, think and p r ay to be delivered from the temptation which leads straight to perdi tion. Do not permit "loafers" to live in your presence. Set them to work, and teach them business, and induce them to mind it. IN MEMORIAM.—The Rochester Democrat proposes to erect a monument in honor of the defunct Democracy, and offers the fol lowing as an inscription: Hie Jacet! THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, kin.l Enaftand of SLAVERY. an indnlsent father of RIOTS, and a firm friend of REBELLION. The tender plant that north winds chilled, Has drcopad and withered in its prime; But what the snowy ballot killed, May flourish in a /carina- clime. A Paris letter says: ~There is a new bon net on the horizon. It is made of one large full blown rose, which lies fiat on the top of the head, sewn on a scarf of dewhedropped tulle, which is crossed under the chin, where another small rose peeps forth. The whole is called "chapeau puff." In less than three weeks it will be in struggling rivalry with "Lambrille." B®b.A temperance lecturer descanting on the essential and purifying qualities of cold water, remarked as a knock-down argument: 'When the world had become so corrupt that the Lord could do nothing with it, he was obliged to give it a thorough sousing in cold water.' 'Yes,' replied a toper, 'but it killed every darned critter on the face of the earth.' tap""'Sir;'' said a little blustering man to a religious opponent, .'to what sect do you suppose I belong ?" 'Well, I don't exactly know,' drawled his opponent, 'but to judge from your size, appearance, and constant buzzing, I should tnink you belong to the class generally call ed m-seefc.' 80c,,An elderly lady telling uer age remarked that she was born on the 22i of April. Her husband who was present observed, "I always thought you was born on the Ist of April. "People might well judge so," responded the matron," "In the choice I made of a husband. " Itt&~A carriage driver made a very happy reply the other day. A gentleman had responded to his 'Wan't a carriage sir ?' by saying, 'No, lam able to walk,' when he rejoined, 'May you long be able, but seldom willing, sir.' "Who's there ?" said Kobison, one cold winter night, disturbed in his repose by some one knocking at the street door, "A friend," was the answer, "What do you want?', "Want to stay here all n'ght." "Queer taste, ain't it ? But stay there by all means," was the benevolent reply. AN editor thus logically nudges his delin tiuent subscribers: "We don't want money desperately bad, but our creditors do, and no doubt they owe you. If you pay us, we'll pajfthem, and they'll pay you ' THE lady who did not think it respecta ble to bring up her,children to work, has lately heard from her two sons. One of them is a bar keeper on a flat boat, and the other is a steward in a brick yard. As one siugle drop of black ink will tinge and polute a vessel of crystal water, so one little act of faithlessness may irredeemably poison a whole lifetime of the purest friend ship and confidence. A LOVE op A BONNET- IWO rve Straws tied together with a blue ribbon on the top of the head, and red tassels suspended at eaeh of the four ends of the straws A SKNTIMKNTAI. old bachelor says a wom an's heart is the "sweetest" thing in the World; in fai t, a jierfeet honey como—fuß of cells. Boe ware. GOOD spirits are often taken for good na t ire, yet nothing differs so much,.insensi bility being generally the source of the form er and sensibility the latter. A MAN'S worth wwniste in his virtue, ! and hdfc in nia dollars an-' <• *•-.
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