'X'ei-iuM ol" lulllfiit Ion. Tiib WArnnavRQ Ukfublica, Office in Bayers' b.illdliiv, emit or this Court House, U ptib llilied every Wi-diicxluy morning, nt S3 per annum, m advasi e. or 81 SO If not puld Willi lu tlieyenr. All atmrrlptlon account must beaxllled annually. No paper will b lent . out of the State, unless paid for in advance, and all audi subscriptions will Invariably be discon tinued at the expiration of the time for which they are paid. ' I 'ominunlentinnsnn sulijcels of local or general Interest are reswctfuly solli-lted. To ensure intention ftivorHor this kind must Invariably i. ai-compiiiiled by the immi'of th author, not for publication, but ns xuurnnty against Imposition. All letters pi'NiiliiIng to laislnessof thu olik-e must be adtlressud to the Kdltor (Original Tor the ttF.l'UUML'AN. AJT APPEAL. To whom It may Confirm. tupll of our Alinu Miitir, Paer, Virgo, homo, pater; Or whttteVr your ttwlnl station, Uiton to thU brtuf narration. The first lecul of Eln'.iten hundred, (I'm told that KiR.it thryuir uu numbero!) Wan li'irn, (f nklp tU r.;.i!o;?y,) AtC'rm':M(l, MWm A-iilumy, Wii') lu d 10 tltu at m ly h; t'Mix, Wan mirrlo 1 un'o Mr. (Jrccno. Hheprovel fiir'f l-iduHtrlotw wlfn, An I led a hi iy prip;ron life; in f.int, in UVitern I'tmn-tylvunl Hhe Imnlly wiw surpKHHod hy any UnTHnm :id djtihtf nt (jn-w arouml her, And ni ifiv woru tho Mm tint bound hir, Hut eu:liHhff(uve ap KdiTniliitu, A fbrtun' th it ne'er Inrki diiruifon. IIro th mi, sltr nnd oivh brother, J a twit unto our e jm-nin in Hher Tlw yj;iM of tlm s Unvn rolled aw:iy, And tlion art Sixty lurir, and gray: A thoimnd now ur thy dosiMmdunti, And th.o w.imonen nntrh'd d ?p?u hint II it now, enc'.i on h jiub piirpst bent, They've s-iattoiv I o'er n eontlmmt ! And, Mile I with HMtlen Itfuun 1 motion, A few hnvo dared the henvhiij ojea'n, And stood upon the lilllsof Homo, Or hived prehnnee wheremirnes foam, " Anions t!ie lnlunls of the .. AU own u thous mJ t.iatiks to thee! ' Tho merchant standing In thu mart; The Hon ofm-li'iieo, and of urt, With wisdom written on hW brow; The n'fi'leulturutlMt at hi plow, Killing with we ilth the teeming loam ; Thu m 'i Iron lu her ijnlet home, The teacher who by thee waft taught, T!ie hero wIioho w.irm bloo I hax brought The Union tint H ours to-diiy; The many who have pussed away i The minister, physician, hii'i( And every trade nnd Hex and met Now represent thee lu Uj.-'h ranks; Kaeh owes tn thee tea thousand thanks ! Well done the foist deems k-xxI enough ; Hot toasltn? I" wit Just tlu-Htutt That h"lp- a fellow wlu n he's needy, Or keepH his clothes fmni netting seedy ; ThU In a dally proven lesson Our M iter has a hik"1 dress on. And ('tis conthUnt In!, kNIi-t, brother,) Hhe wears It constant, for no other Hasslie, who clothed falrfoims with knowledge An I Meat her sons prepared to college, And pave I their way to wealth and fame; Hut Klmll we len roller thus? No! Hliame 0"d him whoshowH Inr itHude, And whofor'tg lb' kind nnd oo 1. 17t deeds then, and not words, reply, You'll be rewarded by and by. It U the oi-iitMt (KMlre of the Trustee to paint an 1 nth l-'i 'ive a pleasant exterior lln.Kli to Oreene Aca demy and ns there Is no appropria tion for the purpose, they appeal to theom r oi'ty of Its fil-nds. Contrilnitiou-ishould bo sent to Dr. .1. A. Oilbert, Treasurer of the Hoard, Cftrmlcha.'U l'a. From tilt New York "I.KIMl':lt."' ii:'oi,M:T!tM or a in my i.ii i:. 11 v iion.vc'K(;i:i:i:i,i:Y. Tlic Tribune. On the 10th day of April. 1811 a day of most unseasonable chill, and lileet, and snow our city held her p;reat funeral parade mid p:icatit in honor of our lo.t pivsiilent, who had died six days before. (Jen. Robert 15oo;ardus, the venerable Grand Mar shal oftne parade, died not long After ward of exposure to its inclemencies. On that leaden morning I issued the first numlier of The New York Trilmne. It was a .small sheet, for it was to be retailed for a cent, and not much of a newspaper could be afforded for that price, even in t!toc Fpcoie-paying times. 1 had been incited to this en terprise by several Whig friends, who deemed a cheap daily, addressed more especially to the laboring class, emi nently nee.l-vl in our city, whero the only two cheap journals then and still existing The San and The Herald were in decided, though unn vowed, and therefore more effective, sympathy and affiliation with the Democratic party. Two or three had promised pecuiaryaid if it should be needed; only one (Mr. James Coggeshall, long since deceased) ever made good that promise, by loan ing mo $ 1,000 which was duly and grate fully repaid, principal and interest. I presume others would have helped nie had I asked it ; but' I never did. Mr. DudlcyS. Gregory, who had volunta rily loaned me $ 1, 000 to sustain The New Yorker in the very darkest hour of my fortunes, in 1837, and w hom I had but recently repaid, was among inv most trusted' friends in tho outset ol my new enterpise, also ; but I was ablo to prosecute it without taxing (I no longer needed to test) his gener osity. ' My leading idea was the establish ment of a journal removed alike from servile p.irtisanshipon the one hand and from gagged, mincing neutrality on the other. Party spirit is so fierce and intolerant in this country that the Editor of a non-partisan sheet is re strained from 6aying what he thinks nnd let-Is on the most vital important topics; wmic on tuu other Hand, a Democratic, AVhig or Republican journal in generally expected to praise or blame, like or "dislike, eulogize or condemn, in precise accordance with the views and interest of its party. I liclieve there was a happy medium be tween these extremes a position from which a journalist might openly dnd heartily advocate the principles and commend the measures of that par ty to which his convictions allied him yet dissent frankly from its course on a iirticular questiou, and even denounce its candidates if they were shoyn to be deficient in capacity or (far wor.se) in integrity. I felt that a journal thus loyal to its guiding convictions, yet ready to expose and condemn unwor thy conduct or incidental error on the E art of men attached to its party, must ofur more effective, cveii party wise, than though it might always be count ed on to applaud or reprobate, bless or JAS. E. SA YL'RS, VOL. XI. burse, as tin party's pitjndiccs or ini modiiite interest might seem to pre scribe. Ei; wiil ly Uy tlie Wliiri who were r-.tthcr the loosely ougreguted mainly untlioiplinotl opponents of a great party tlnii, in the Stricter sense a party themselves did I feel that sueh a journal was consciously needetl, and would be fairly sustained. I had been a pretty constant and copious contributor (generally unpaid) to near ly every cheap Vliijj Journal that had troni time to time, been started in our city ; most of them to fall after a very brief anil not particularly bright career; lr.it one Thi Neir York Whig, which w.is throughout most of its existence, under thu dignified and concientious .direction of Jacob R. Moore, formerly of The Arte llampihire Journal hal been contimied throuoh two or three years. My familiarity with its histo ry and inanajreiwMit jrave me confidence that the rfcht sort ol a cheap W hiur journal would bo enabled to live. I had been ten years in New York, was thirty years old, m lull health and viif or, mill worth I presume, about 2,000 half of it in printiii' materials, The JdJWsonian, and still more The Log Cabin, had made nio lavorbly known to many thousand ol.those who were most likely to take such a paper as t proposed to make The Tribune; while HiOiU'M' 1 orker Had civen mo some literary standing mid the reputation of a usuiui and wen iniorined compiler of election returns. In short, I was in a better position to undertake tho es tablishment ol a daily newspaper than the great mass of those who try it and fail, as most w ho make the venture do and must. I presume the new jour nals (in English) since started in this city number not less than one hundred whereof barely two The Timen ami The II 'orhl can be fairly said to be still living; and The H or' is a mausoleum within ti.'J remains of The Eetniny Star, The American and The Courier awl Inquirer, lie iiiurned ; these hav ing long ago swallowed sundry of their predecessors. Yet several of those which meantime lived their iit'Je hour ami passed away, were conducted by men of decided ability a:id r'po expe rience nnd were backed by a pecuniary 'capital at least twenty times gnatcr than the leartully ina dcqnate turn whereon I star'cl The Tribune. On the intellcti'.al side, my vcntjire was not so rash ns it seemed. My own fifteen years dovotion to newspa-per-nuikin;j', in all its phases, was worth fir more than will bo generally supposed; and Nnd already secured a first !,s-i t nit in Mr. Henry J. Ray mond, who hnv n; for two years, while in eollega at Rurlingtoii, Yt., been a valued contributor to the liter ary side of The jVrit- Yorker had hie 1 to tho city directly upon gradua ting, late in 1810, and gladly accepted my oiler to hire him nt 8 per week until he c iu'.d do butter. I had not much for him to do till The 'Tribune was started: then 1 had enough; and I never found another person, barely of age and ju.-t from his studies, who evinced so much and so versatile abil ity in journalism as ho did. Abler and stronger men I may have met ; a cleverer, readier, more generally e!li eiont journalist, I never saw. He re mained with mo eight years, if my memory serves, and is the only assist ant with whom I over felt required to remonstrate for doing more work than any human brain and frame could be expected to endure. His salary was of course gradually increased from time to time ; but his services were more valuable in proportion to their cost than those of any one else who over worked on The Tribune. Mr. George M. Snow, a friend of my own age, who had had considerable mercantileexpcrience, took cliargoof the Finantinl and Wall-street department (then far less important that it is now is,) and retained it for more than twenty-two years; becoming ultimately a heavy stockholder in and a trustee of tho concern ; resigning his trust only when (in 18(53) he departed for Europe in ill health; returning but to tlie two years later. A large majoi i'.y of those whoaided in preparing or in issuing the first number l.aJ proccded or have followed Mr. Sr.o.v to the Silent I n 1; but tworcmaim, and arc now Foreman and Engineer rcspcetivly in the t rutt ing department both stockholders and trustees. Others doubtless, sur vive who were with us then, but have long since drifted away to the West, to the Pacific slope, or into some other employment, and the places that once knew them know them no more. Twenty-six years witness many changes especially in a city like ours, a position like mine ; and I believe that the only man wh was Editor of a New York dailybelbic me, and who still remains such, is Mr. James UorJua Bennett of The Herald. About live hiindre.l names pfguit-s.-ribcrs had already bean obtainc l for IVie Tribune mainly by my warm personal and K)!itical friends, Noah Cook and Janus Coggeshall before its first issue, whereof 1 printed 5,000, and nearly sucvccJed iu giving away all of them that would not sell. I had type, but no presses; and so had to hire my press-work done by the "token ;" my folding and mailjng must have staggered me but for the circum stance that I had few papers tc mail and not very many to fold. The lack of the present machinery of Railroads and Expresses was a crave obstacle to -I . . .. n . 1 me emanation oi my paper oucsitie oi the city's .suburbs'; but I -think its' paid-for issu?s were 2.000 nt the close of the first week, and that they increas FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE RIGHT. iTiieofo. WAYAKSBIUG, ed pretty steadily, nt tho rate of 500 per week, till they reached 10,000. My current expenses for the first week were about 852.3 : my receipts $92 : and though the outgoes steadily, ine vitably increased, tlie income increased in a still larger ratio, till it nearly balanced the firmer. But I wns not made foru publisher; indeed, no man was ever qualified at once to edit and to publish a daily (taper such as it must be to live in these times ; and it was not until Mr. Thomas McEliath . I rill i wnom l nad uarclv Known as a member of the publishing firm over w-nose store I lirst set type in tins city, but who was now a lawyer in gootl standing and practice maile me a voluntary and wholly unexpected proller of partnership in my still strus- gling but hopeful enterprise, that it might be considered fairly on its feet. He offered to invest 2,000 as an equivalent to whatever I had in the business, and to devote his time nnd energies to its management, on the basis of perfect equality in ownership and in sharing the proceeds. This 1 very gladly accepted : and from that hour my load was palpably lightened. During tho ten years or over that 77ie Tribune was issued by Greeley & Me Elrath, my partner never once even indicated that my anti-Slavery, anti Hanging, Socialist, and other frequent aberrations from the straight and nar row path of Whig partisanship, were injurious to our common interest, though he must often have sorely felt that they were so; and never, except when 1 (ran ly) drew lrom the common treasury more money than could well be spared, in order to help some needy friend whom he judged beyond help, did he even look grieved at anything I did. On the other hand, his busi ness management of the' concern, though never brilliant nor specially energetic, was so safe and judicious thu it gave me no trouble, and scarce ly re i iiircd ol me a thought during that long era of nil but unclouded prosperity. The transition from my tour preceding year of incessant pecu niary anxiety il not absolute embar rassment, was like escaping from the lungeon and the rack t freedom and sympathy. Henceforth, such rare pe cuniary troubles us 1 encountered wire the just penalties of my cw:i lolly in endorsing notes for persons who, in the nature of things, could not rationally be expected to i nvtlicni. Butthtsc penalties are not to be evaded by those who, soon af'.cr entering responsible life, "go into business," as the phrase is, when it is inevitable tint they must thereby be involved in debt. He who starts on the I tbis of dependence on ins own proper to extend his bii-in no faster thao his niav fairly rcl'o-c resources, resolved 's no further nnd means will justify, to lend what ho needs in his own operations, or to en dorse for others w hen iie asks no one to endorse for him. But you cannot ask favors, nnd then churlishly refuse to grant any borrow, and then frown upon whoever asks vou to lend seek endorsements, but decline to give any ; and so the idle, tho prodigal, the dis solute, with tho thousands foredoomed bv their own defects ol capacity, of industry, or of management, to chronic bankruptcy, live upon the earnings of tho capable, thriity and provident. I Setter wait live years to so into Imsi . . " ... ncss upon adequate means wiiicn are properly your own, than to rush in prematurely, trusting to loans, en di moments, and the foiLiarance of creditors, to help you through. I have squandered much hard-carnal monev in trying to help others who were already past help, when I not only might but should have save most of it if I had never, needing help, sought and received it. As it is, 1 trust that my general obligation h:is hten Hilly discharged The Tribune, as it first appeared, was but the germ of what I sought to niakt it. No journal sold ;Vr a cent could ever be much more than a dry summary of tho most important or the most interesting occurrences of the day; and such is not a newspaper, in the higher sense of the term. ' We need not kinw. not only what is done, but what is purposed anil said, by those who sway tho destinies ol states nnd realms; and, to this end, the prompt perusal of the manifestoes of monarchs, presidents, ministers, legislators, etc., is indispensable. .No man is even to"o:-ably informed in our dav who Iocs not regularly "keep the run" ol events and opinions, through tho daily perusal of at least one good journal ; and the rea'y card that "no one can read" all that a great modern journal contains, only proves the ignorance or thoughtlessness of the ca viler. No one person ise.tected to take such an interest in the rise nnd fall of stocks, tho markets for cotton, cattle," grain, and goods, the proceedings of Europe and the ever-shifting phases of Spanisli Anioricnn anarchy, etc., -etc., as would incite him to a daily perusal of the entire contents of a metropolitan city journal of the first rank. The idea is rather to cmliody in a single sheet the information daily required by all those who aim to keep "(Misted" on all im portant occurrences ; so that tho lawyer, the merchant, tho banker, the forwarder, tho economist, the author, tho politician, etc., may find here whatever' he needs to see, and be spared the trouble of . looking else where. A copy ol a-treat morning journal now contains more matter than any average l.mo volume, and its tif1 iti. . in nrtztc till mora. u-iiln it lu sold for a fortieth or fiftieth part of theglish coal mines, 6A., WtDAESDAV, DECEMBER IS, 1807. volumes price. There is no other miracle ol cheapness in comparison with its cost which at all approaches it. i lie fjcctno lelesrrapli lias iter- eluded the multiplication of -journals in the great cities, by enormously in creasing the cost of publishing each of them. 1 helrilntne, tor example, now pays more than $100,000 per annum, lor intellectual labor (reporting in cluded) in nnd about its office, and 100,000 more for correspondence anil telegraphing in other wortls, for col leeting and transmitting news. And, wiuie its income uas been largely in creased from year to year, its expenses nave ineviiaoiv been swelled even- more rapidly ; so that, at the close of 18b(, in winch its receipts had been over $900,000, its expenses had been very nearly equal in amount, leaving no profit beyond a fair rent for tho premises it owned and occupied. And yet its stockholders were satisfied that they had done n gootl business that tho increase in the patronage and value of the establishment amounted to a fair interest on their investment, nnd might well be accepted in lieu of n dividend. In the good time coming, with cheaper paper and less exorbitant charges of "cable dispatches" from the Old World, they will doubtles renp where they have faithfully sown. Yet thev realize and accept the fitct that a journal radically hostile to the gainful arts whereby the cunning and power ful few live sumptuously without use ful labor, and ohen amass wealth, by pandering to lawless sensuality and popular vice, can never hope to enrich its publishers so rapidly nor so vastly as though it had a soft side lor Liquor Traffic, and for oil kindred allurements to carnal appetita and sensual indul gence. lame is a vapor; popularity an accident ; riches takes wings ; the only earthly certainty is oblivion no man can lorsec what a day may bring forth ; and those who cheer to-day will often curse to-morrow ; and yet I cherish the hope that the journal I projected and established will live and flourish long after I shall have moldcrcd into forgotten dust, being guided by alarger wisdom, a more unerring sagacity to discern the right, though not by a more unfaltering readiness to embrace and defend it at whatever personal cost ; and that the stone which covers mviishes may bear to future eves the still intelligible inscription, "Founder of 'J in: Nkw Yoi:k Teibuxe." ' IT Aiinnii:. Don't be afraid of a little fun at home, good p 'opie I Uon t shut up your house lest the sun should lade your carpets, and your hearts, lest a hearty laugh shako down sonic of the musty old cobwebs there. If you want to ruin your sons, let them think that nil mirth and social enjoyment must be left on tho threshold without, w hen (hoy come homo at night. When once a homo is regarded as only a place to cat, drink and sleep in, the work is begun that ends in gambling houses and reckless degredation. Young people must have fun and relaxation somewhere; if they do not find it at their hearthstones, it will be sought at other and perhaps less profitable places. Therefore let the grate burn brightly at night, and make the home stead delightful with nil those little arts that parents so perfectly under stand. Don't repress tho buoyant spirit of your children. Half an hour of merriment, round the lamp and firelight of a home, blots out the remembrance of many a care and an noyance during tho day ; and the best safeguard they cm take with them into the world i.3 the unseen influence of a bright littk domestic sanctum. t'r.rtlcw l,i;cr Writer!. According to the Postmaster General's report, not less than a million letters were mailed last year, without signa tures, and misdirected, or so badly directed that the address was totally unintelligible. These were destroyed. More than a million and a half others I,G1 l.GSG were . restored to their writers by the care of the dead-letter oflicc. Thus it seems that at least two and a half million of mistakes were made, in nn operation which one would think likely to enlist the suffi cient care of the writer, the addressing of a letter. These letters contained nearly ?150,000 in money, bills of exchange, deeds, checks, tc, to the value of over 5,000,000, and over -19,000 contained photographs, jewelry, dec. Good Advice If your coat is comfortable wear it two or three months longerno matter if the gloss is off. If you have no wife, get one. If you have one, bless God ; stay at home with her, leave the bar-room-nnd gambling table these are expensive luxuries where mm? men beggar their families an 1 blow outtheir own brains in remorse. Be homst, frugal, plain : strive to make others happy around you, and if you are in debt'you will soon get out. If your circumstances are now embarrassing they will soon become easy, no matter who may be President or what mav be the nnrn nf stock. J. L. lleney. , The Poat-oflit Denartmcnt is mid to be experimenting on a new kiiuj of uubuure eiamp witn a view to US intro duction. . ' Two thousand men have- durinn the past ten years, been killed in En- Tr.e conundrum nnd epigram, says uiu iL-v i urti toiiiHirrcKH, ure per haps the most appropriate dishes in which to serve up light wit. The effect ii about the same in each. The methods of tho two are different. The conundrum states a proposition, ana requires an answer without a demonstration. The epigram argues the question nnd reaches a logical eon elusion. The epigram is slow. ' The conundrum is quick. The hitter re quires accuracy of statement, the for mer consisting of argument. In fact, the epigram is a labored conundrum. Both depend generally upon a play upon words. To illustrate: "Why is there no hereafter for chickens ? Be cause they have their necks twirled ill this. Hero no one'is supposed to question the conclusion. . If any one should do so, reasoning mav be rotor ed to, thus : 'Tis plain Hint clttckons Imvc no bapo For a world of future blips, Since fulo declares that they should hivo Their next world (necks twl'led) In this. This gives the exact 'difference be tween two popular watering places : Santtnj!,.aiHlNevvport--you've seen them," Siiid Charley, one mornluCi to Joe j 'Pray tell me tho dilTorence bet word them, For bother my whig if.I know !" Qi'.olh Joe, "Tis the easiest matter At once to distinguish tho two At tH 3 one you go Into the water, At the oilier It goes Into you 1" Mathcw Arnold throws out some useful hints to poets, thus ; What poets fuel not, when they take A pleasure lu creating, Tito world in in turn, will not take Pleasure lu contemplating. What have tho women to say to this: Women were born, so futo declares, To smooth our linen and our cares ( And 'lis lmtiut, for by my troth Thu're very apt to rultli both. The Boston Post gives publicity to the following dialogue ubout the vexed piestionof the weather : ' I think," said Is ibel, "Hie tearful sky Is weeping sadly only bear it sigh.'' "Do not," g-iid Quilp, "coiiinilserato its woes, It does not weep It only blows Its snows." It were not difficult nor altogether unpleasant to solve such chess prob lems ns this. (Two pieces on the board ; John to move nnd mate in two moves :) gjJohn movis bis arm round Julia's neck She moves one s piare and whispcrs "Check." lie, nothing daunted, moves right straight His lips to hers, and calls out "Mate." Coventry Pat more gives the follow ing advice : ' So let no man, lu desperate mood, Wed a dull girl becauso she's good. To which one might add : , And let no woman, in her plight, Wed a bd man because lie's bright. The Boston Post thus embodies Bon ner nnd his newly purchased horsf, Dexter : "Fifty thousand for Doxterl" a cavalier cries, "Excuse me let pcoplejbcllcve It who can!" "'Ti'Holhing surprising," a crony replies, 'For Bonner was always a Dexter-ous man :" A soldier in the hospital, who had his left leg amputated, addrcssino tin detached pnrty, thus turns the calami ty to his advantage ! Strange paradox ; that In (height Where I of thee was thus bereft, I lost my left leg for "the right," And yet tlie right Is the oie that's left '. nit; Fiiii.it i:nr. Statement of Merretnry Ucmllneh. WASnixcTOX, D20. 7. The fol lowing is tho statement of tho public debt. Totnl hearing coin lntrct SI,SI0,T17:sni S) Tntnl Imnrinit currimfy InNwHt ifi'j;ij,ltit) 21) .Miilurol di-ot not preuutt-a for lnnnient ll,ITS,WIn Debt bearing no Inti-ri-nl lo,"i,il:lAi7 0., Tnlnl dVlit Amount In TreiMury, coin.. Currency i Total Debt lets eiwli lu Treasury.. ..!l,,w,i..1"1 iii .. lHO,!!-!,'!! O'l li.lHI.m 11 ,. SI.-H.ITH.fUI in ..l.',.ini,avii 5 It is worth notice, remarks the "Tribune," that the incessant clamor against Congress ns reckless, proscrip tive, revolutionary, Ac, is bassd on acts that Congress has never sanction ed. Mr. Stevens makes a Confisca tion speech, which not oncother Mem ber of Congress has seconded ; yet the country rings with denunciation of it' as showing tho malignant animus of "the lCadioals. ho with project after project which Congress has listened to, because it must, but refused to adopt. We challenge History for another in stance wherein- a triumphant Nation has dealtso forbearinglv witha crushed Rebellion as ours has clone. The perseverance of the Union Pa cific Railroad Company in the face of many obstacles, lias earned the line to a point nearly five hundred and twenty miles west of. Omaha, beyond Chey enne, to tho western base of the Rocky mountains. On the 1st of July the receipt of tho Union Pacific Road, then in operation to Julesbnrg 377 miles, amounted to $1,015,195,29, and its ex penses te $658,880,54; leaving; the net earnings $3oG,314,"5.SJrfj Guard. 1 A Chinese maxim says: "U'e re quire lour things of woman, mat virtue dwell in Tier heart ; that mod esty play on her brow; that sweetness HoW from her lips J tbat industry occu py her band." EDITOR AND PUJiLlSHEll. m. 20. BAKKItlKr LAW. I wo hundred and twenty -six cases m bankruptcy have bedn hied up to Jjov. 19th in the Western U.S. Judi cial District. In tho 21th Coneres- sional District thirteen cases have been filed, eight of which are in Washing ton county, throo in Greene and two in IJeavcr. There is unnecessary delicacy and hesitancy in sonic debtors in availing themselves.of the wise benefits (in most cases) of this law. It is a just and proper law in the innin and should nuve uccn piisscu years ago. e give below answers to 'important questions connected with tho law, from an ex change i II 7io may lake advantage of this law f Any .person or firm who owes debts to the amount of three hundred dollars or upward, whether they be individual or partnership debts or both, mill it malies no difference what is the charac ter of the indebtedness, whether it b.- by bill, note, account, judgment, as principal, or surety, or otherwise, H7i( does the law demand of theap- viieanx f That ho shall surrender his proprty, except such as is hereafter mentioned, to his creditors, for a pro rata distribti tinn among them. What does the law permit the appli cant to Keep j First Household nnd kitchen fur- nitur and necessaries to the amount of W00. Second Ilio wearing apparel ' of himself and family. Third Tho uniform, nrms and equipments of nny person, who is, or has been, a soldier in tho militia or the service of tho United States. Fourth If tho applicant i.s the head ofn family, his homestead, to the value of ftoOO! If ho has no hoins- stead, then in lieu thereof, money or other personal property to t lie value of $:0(). If tho applicant has only s' much properly as is above enumerated of course ho has nothinz to irivo up to his creditors. Tho result of takintt tho benefit of this law is a discharge from all indebt edness. In eases where there is no contest, it requires from sixty to nine ty ctuys to protwe tins discharge. This law went into operation on the first day of June, 1807, and persons who propose to avail themselves of its advantage should do so as soon as pos sible, as they cannot do i-o after one year from its commencement, unless they can pay fifty cents on the dollar of their indebtedness, or get the con sent ofji majority in number nnd val ue of their cicditors. Washington (Pa.) Heparin: M E ARK XOl DF.VD. That excellent paper, the Slate Guard, recently started at Hnrrisburg, has tho following : Some of our Democratic eotemporaries are laboriii" under an hallucination, lhcv have seen nn apparition, and ure deluded with the idea that victory to them, like Hamlet's father's ghost, has come within tho range of thoir vision for the purpose of revealing some dread ful secret, and the secret is that the Republican party is dead. Mr. Andrew Johnson is itnhu :d with the same idea. IIo too, labors tinder an hallucination. Ha has flattered him self that the result of the lafo elections killed the Republican party. But the organs of Democracy, as well as their tool, the President, are sadly mistaken, for the reason that thero is as much vitality, faith, principle and patriotism i:i tfie Republican pirly op when that organization stood out boldly and a'oiio in the defence of tics Government. There is no denyiiu: tho fact that tho elements of Rep:ib i- canisui are now worini' out the sal vation of the South. Xor can there be any escape from the truth that tlie same party has fostered the mechani cal enterprise and commercial energy of the North. The late elections were no indication of popular feeling on any inestion at present at issue between loyal men nnd traitors, so fir as their cllects could interfere for or against tho settlement of such issues. Xo officer was elected in tlie Northern States who will have any power in the settlement of these questions, and in many cases the men who felt most solicitous on tho subject of reconstruc tion were tho most indifferent as to the result of the elections. But such was not the case with our Democratic opponents. They are hungry for po litical tower. They wanted tome sort of a show of victory, and stole a march on our friends, which they now vaunt as a triumph. Of course they are welcome to their boasting, if that is all they need to make them happy. But we desire they do not mistake tna con dition of tho Republican party. It is a live organization. Free Govern ment never had a purer rcprescnhitivc. Justice was never more subserved by any political organization. Treason never had so invincible an opponent. To tho contrary, it is life ami health tVid prosperity. . Without it, liberty would not today have an abiding place in the United States. It saved the Union, and is destined to purify the executive branch of the Govern ment i Hereafter, when great princi pies are at stake, the Republican party will win great political victories. This is a tact which the Democracy should not fail seriously to consider, as it may save them a large amount of means, a - great aeai ot luoor, ana incalculable! mortification. il'unuM oi Aclvortlalnar nun . JOB WORK. A DVEKriSBMRNTu linerted at BV Mr MMm for Hire insertion. nn1 SO cent per tiituim lor raoJi additional Inm-rtion I ton llura of it Mf ' i-ount.-d uMiuare'. All tmnnK-nt advertiKiurnW . to be- pnlrl for liimlvunre. Ilcrji ! Nora-rs set tin!(r tha head of local tii'M-n will iieclmrKt-d Invariably 10 -! Un for each ltiurlloit. A IiIh ml drum-lion rondo to paraoni advartt luit by the qtiinl-r, hull-year or yi-ar. (SptH-lal notUt-H i-lmiKt-U out-half more tbiia regular ad- vi-rtlHi-iiH-ntM. , J on I'msrixoof overy kind In Plain and Fnu j j i-uioin; iiriim-i'i i-., i lurtKM, lurun nuiipiiiin shorten! notk-r. of i-very vurii ly nnd Htyln, print'-! al tlx rfpnt liitl'iv Tin. lt.-i.itMI it' A M fl.-.-li-c In. a ' lust lii-t ii n--lUl.-d.nnd ovurvlblna In the Print lux llM eiui bo exfrutrd In tits most artlm.a m-.Mimriuul at tlie lowutt ruti-a. "m ' 1 - 1 - . - -'Li I .' LA ANC.OTCH.1f A.N Oil MIlLAtXl. "Well, . yoii may say what you , please," said Smith, "I, for mv part, cannot believe that God would first impose laws on nature, nnd then vio late them. What would be the use of mak ing them if they are to be so readily . set aside?" . . "I. tlinnn ken, sir,'1 eaid unclej "what God mav do, or what he winna do j but i cWt regard a miracle to be ' a violation o' the laws o' nature. There's nac violation o' the laws o' nature, or rather the laws o' God, that I ken o', save the wicked actions o' wicked men." ' "And what then," nskc-d Smith, "do you make a miracle to be?" "I regard it," taid uncle, "to be , merely such an 'interference wi' tho established course o' things, as infalli bly shows ns (he presence nnd the ac tion o' a supernatural power. What o'clock is it wi' vpu, sir, if you please?" J "It's half-past twelve, exactly Greenwich time," replied Smith. "Well, sir," said uncle, pulling a huge old time-piece from his pocket, "it's ono o'clock wi' me j I generally keep my watch n bittie forrit. (A ! little forward.) But I may lute a " special reason tho noo for setting my xvaich by the railway and so, ye see, I'm turning the hands o't around. ' Noo wad ye say that I have violated . the laws p' a watch? True, I have done violence to none o' its laws. My . action is only the interference o a su perior intelligence for a suitable end, ' but I have suspended nae laV, violat ed line Jaw. Well, then, instead o'thb' watch, say the universe ; instead o' moving tho hands, say God acting wholly o' himsel', nnd we line a' that I contend for in a miracle j that is the ' unquestionable presence of nn Almighty hand working tho Divine will. And . if IIo sees fit ii work miracles, what can hinder llun ! Ho has clone it oftcner than once or twico already ; : ana wim ciaur say that lie 11 not get leave to do't again ?" i A FAin 1UT. Senator "Zaek" Chandler, who is not nlwjiys in the best of taste, perpe trated a really capital joke the other day, by the introJu ition of the follow ing joint resolution : WHEiiEAs, e r.r3 at poaee with nil Sovereign Powers nnd State3: And w'urcas, Hostilities have un happily commenced between tho Gov ernment of Great Britain and tho King of Abyssinia ; ' An I wherca', We being at peace with the Government of Grant Britain and with tho Kimr of Ab-ssiiiim therefore, llesohed, That wo do now declare oiirclclermin ition to maintain & strict ' and impartial neutrality in the contest between the s.nd contending nart.es. granting to the flag of each belligerent me saiim rignts privileges and immu nities, both upon land and water. The above is a verbatim copy6fti proclamation issued on the 14th 6T May, lOGI, simply changing tho name" of the "Uuitjd States" to "Great Britain," and the "Confederate States" to "Aby.-siidu." Mr. Chandler thinks it only just and right that we should observe tin same courtesy towards Great B itui i that she did "toward us. Thu resolution went over Under tho rule. Mopping apnpr.' Some people thinks that their' sub scription toa newspaper obligates the editor to advocate their own peculiar views on nil questions which ntfect the public, forgetting that an editor should ho wn independent thing, honest (lirm-jh to give his opiuioas, and let iet his readers judge of what they ore worth. To thoe who are ready to s n 1 w ivd, ".Stop my Paper," because the editor expresses his honest opinion formed aiter careful research nnd ma ture deliberation, we command the fol lowing little story : A certain man hit his toe ajainst a pebble and fell headlong to the ground, fie was vexed, and, under the influ ence of anger and self-sufficiency, he kicked mother earth .right saucily. With impcrturablc gravity, he looked to sec tlio earth itrclf di.-solve and com? to na-ighfi Hit t ie earth re mained, and only his poor foot waa In jured in the encounter. This is the way of ma-.i. An anicle in a newspaper 'o iches l i n ii i weak spot, and straig! t vay he sends to "S:op his paper!" With great self complacency he looks to see the crash when the o'yoct of his spleen slu.ll cease to b?. Po r foo!, he has only hit hie own tos against a world that does not perceptibly feel the rhook,nnd infurce tj a slight extent n no but himself. The Cleveland Herald say 'that the road by which Weston entered that city looks as though an army had passed over it. . "Buggies minus a wheel or a shaft; pieces of harness, hate ' and caps are strewn along this road in endless confusion. It is estimated that the damage to buggies aloae will' amount to $l000." At Rev. Henry Ward BetohexV church last Sun lay week, the rite of baptlsfn was administered with water ' brought from the river Jordon, and the wine Used at ths communion m from Jerusalem. The water and Triaa were presents from Captain Duncan, o the Palestine expedition. t
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