VOLUME .5.X NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY MEYERS & BEN FORD, At the following terms, to wit: $1.50 per annum, CASH, in advance. $2.00 " " if paid within the y**ar. $2.50 " " if not paid within the year. C3*"No subscription taken for less than six months. paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid,unless at the option of the publishers. It has been decided by the United States Courts, that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of ar rearages, is prima facie evidence ol fraud and is a criminal offence. CyThe courts have decided that persons are ac. Countable Tor the sublet iption price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. KIND HEARTS EVERYWHERE. W iiy should we call the patli of life, A bleak and desert spot, When we ourselves but make it so Ao, no believe it not ; For though the ilis we're doomed to feel, Are sometimes hard to bear, The world we live in teems with gooJ And kind hearts everyu here. A wis!) to calm each others grief, To sooth each others woes, In every bosom finds a place— And this ail nature glows, Men of all claims, abroad, at home Ht3 generous feelings share : The world we live in teems with good And kind hearts everywhere. And should misfortune's heavy hand, On evetv side prevail, Or sorrows overwhelming storm Our happy hours assail, To grieve is folly, wise men sav, Then why should we despair ? The world we live in teems with good And kind hearts everywhere. JOHN STRAUSS ANI) HIS SOPHIE WALTZ. Strauss is a second Orpheus, whose tender moving, spirit-stirring, love-kissing music con quers the most inveterate enemy of Terpsichore; whose magic sounds soothe hearts, still sighs, dry tears, lame wild beasts, and move the stones themselves. Strauss has written waltzes that are more to me than any operas. In seven of his measures, there is often more melody than in as many heavy scores of other musicians.— What a fullness of siren beauty, what a rich mind of poetry; what on inexhaustable fount of over-gushing melody.' AJ not rue alone—the rhythm, also, with magical influ ence seizes the brain and enters the heart. — Hi; violin is a talisman, by which he draws lrom the depths of the human soul brightest joy and deepest wo, and mingles them with master hand. The bow with which he draws these many-colored tones from bis instrument is a m3gic wand, which touches the gi ief-worn soul with the healing bal-ain of jov, and lends her wings to mount up into the heavens of peace. There are many waltz compositions as lich in melody, but lew as rich in melting rhythm as those of Stiauss —by turns skipping, humming, waltzing, gliding, and dancing, so inviting, s > irresistible, that no dancer can withstand their witching influence. He is the idol of women. In every house, on every piano in Vienna lie Strauss'" waltzes. He has written over two hundred; all are favorites, all are sung an.l trilled, and played throughout Europe. Cob bier and dandy hum and pipe them; orchestra and barrel-organ play tbern. We hear them in the streets, at the ball, in the garden, and at the theatre. The dancing Viennese carry him on their shoulders and shout "Stiauss forever !" This Strauss, this waltz-hero, loved the daughter of a count. Sophie was her name. Hv"eve was bluer than Italy's heavens, and soiter than the sweet light of the evening star. Grace and beauty were in every motion, and music in every tone. In a word, Sophie w'as beautiful. He would have given worlds to win but one glance of love, but she was cold and stern. Madness, indeed, for a poor musi cian, with nothing but his violin, to dare to love the high-born Sophie, who had as many noble ancestors as he had waltzes. "Impertinent," said Sophie, and when lie came to give her brother a lesson on the \iolin, she scarcely deigned him a look. Shortly af terwards Sophie was betrothed to Count Robert, Lord Chamberlain, who had indeed as many proud ancestors as Sophie,\ but beyond these and his titles, had nothing of which he could boast. One day, when Strauss chanced to be alone with Sophie, he sank upon his knees before her, and with burning words declared his love, and besought her to give but one word or look of loveetehe was quite driven to despair. Hut neither tears nor protestations moved her; she was cold and unfeeling as marble. "I am an affianced bride," she said haughtily; "and if I were not,think you I would become the wife of a poor musician ?" She turned away scornfully, and left him alone in his griel and despair. The repentance which soon awoke in the heart of Sophie, un happily came too late. The bridegroom and her lather hastened the marriage. In eight days she would be the wife of Count Robert.— The ceremony w as to be performed in the great saloon ol the city, and the Count called on Strauss to request him to lead the orchestra on that occasion, and to honor his bride with the composition of a new waltz. Strauss, the most miserable man in God s uni verse, promised him both. "He wishes to wound me yet more deeply," said the unhappy man to himself; "but I forgive him; and may she be happy— may she never repent her choice. He addressed himself earnestly to his work. This waltz should be the interpreter ol his pas sion and his grief to Sophie. It should chal lengeat least"her pitty, if" not her love. When •II tHe great city slept, Strauss took his violin, opened his window, gazed out into the cold night and improvised and moaned forth his sad tale of woe to the sweet stars above, that look ed kindly down on the desolate and hPrat stricken. The day of the wedding came at last. The fierce agony of love had gived him a waltz, every measure of which spoke a longing sor row, a wailing woe. The hall glistened and shone with bright jewels, and brighter eves; but Sophie was more gloriously beautiful than all. The richest gems Jent her their charms and their lustre; the pure myrtle wreath bloom ed in her golden hair, and the rare and costly bridal veil shaded her beautiful features from the gaze of the adoring crowd. Strauss a hag gard, emaciated man, with brilliant, piercing black eyes, sharp, strongly marked features, drpssed from head to foot in black, as though he had assumed this mourning livery fi>r the bride now dead to him, stood sad and silent in the gallery above, directing the movements of the orchestra. Sophie danced now with one, now with another of the wedding guests, and so often as she paused after the giddy whirl of the dance, she turned her eve toward the pale, grief-strirken Strauss, in his robe of sorrow and mourning, and met his look of despairing love. It was more than pity she felt —it was re- j morse, it was kindling love. A terrible pain j awoke in her heart, lake a swelling stream, 1 growing ever wider and deeper, threatening to j overwhelm and destroy her quite. Gladly | would she have wept, but she dared not. it j sounded twelve o'clock, and Strauss gave the signal for the performance of the new waltz'— Tiie gav dancers stood up, Sophie on the arm of tlie happy bridegroom. All stand spell-bound with the wondrous witchery of those magic sounds. They forget to dance—they gaze wondering up at the pale man in black, whose grief-turn soul breathed out its woe through the soun ling strings of bis instrument. His bow moved with his heart went his spirit. The bridegroom led off—tliey dance and dance.— Strauss followed the flying pair with tearful eyes—torn heart. They dance and dance, and will never cease. Stiauss played and play ed and played, and w ill never stop his wonder ful waltz, which so fearfully affects both him and them. They dance and dance; he played and played; suddenly the E string of his violin snaps, and in tha f moment Sophie falls dead upon the floor. Violin and bow fall from his trembling hands, and with a crv of horror, he shrieked, "Sophie," and fell fainting on the ground. uy inn'ue's death, the waltz is ca."j' nef S • n,s a ' h " He, too, is dead, but his charming "Sophia Waltz" lives yel. Translated from Herman. MUSK IX A BACKWOODS TAVERN. A week sine*, a gentleman and ldy from this vicinity were travelling in Michigan, and having missed the stage, were compelled to take a private conveyance from the town of Scuden to Thomastown. The lady had with her a beautiful little lap dog, which she carried on her lap on an embroidered mat. During the ride the husband discovered that he had no handkerchief, when the ladv lent him hers which was scented with mu*k. About half way between the two towns the carriage broke down in the midst ola hard rain, and they were obliged to lake refuge in the half way house—a ""one horse" log tavern, consisting ol two rooms—a bar-room and lodging room.— The lady laid her lap dog on its mat before the fire and herself and husband took seats. In a short time the gentleman had an ocaasion to use his handkerchief, and took it out, leaving it ly ing on his knee when he got through with it. J n "a few moments the landlord opened the doOF, put his head in, looked around, went out, came in, gazed at the dog—his nostrils all the while upturned in intense disgust. He finally appear ed satisfied, went to the outside door, opened it, came back with a bound, seized the lap-dog by the tail, and hurled him howling through the open door, full ten rods in the forest. The wife tainted ; the husband rose to his feet terri bly enraged, and wanted to know what he did it for. "That's my dog," continued he, furi ously, "dont care a cuss whose dog it is," said the man gruffly and impetously ; ''l ain't going to have nosicii blasted smelling varmint around mv tavern." The husband and wife evacuated the house instantly, and pioceeded on their way in the rain. WALKING. It is really astonishing to see how few peo ple have ever learned to walk properly. The art of pedestrian locomotion is one ot ttie earli e-t of human acquirements, yet hardly one in ten does it gracefully or characteristically. In the city, people all walk in too much of a hur ry they seem to have no time to straighten out the knee-joint, at the end of every step, but go trotting along, with bended legs, leaning for ward and presenting altogether, a very lous appearance. In the country, the heavy, ! stifl boots generally worn, and soft nature s ofthe ground, give to the walker the air of having thirty-six pound of shot fastened to his ankles. YVomen very rarely walk well. Even those who dance, stand, or recline with the grea test grace cannot walk easily, and it is posi tively unpleasant to see many ladies perform pedestrian duty, la walking, one should keep the shoulders back well, and move the feet neither too fast nor too slow. The toes # should be turned out, and bis knee joints entirely straightened at each step. The carriage of the much to do with the gait, and should be upright though not stiff. It would be an excellent idea for walking to be taught in the schools, as a regular branch of exercise, especi ally in this country, where its beneficial effect and value in giving grace to all other move ments are so universally ignored. , Why is Ull man like the lobby-carpet at the Opera ? Because he's been shook, beat and floored. BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1859. i A TERRIFIC CA FERN. i Mr. J. Atkinson, an English scholar and trav . eler, recently described, in a lecture, a fearful cavern, with which he met in the course of his , travels. While travlin? along the steppe, near the foot of the Altaian Mountains, in Asia, he 1 said he came to the brink of one of the drv j river beds frequently found in those regions— This was the evident trace of the sudden disrup tion of a mountain lake, by a fea-ful earth ,j quake, at some period. Traveling along the . ( bed of the stream, he came to a deep valley. I about 15 miles long and 4 miles wide, surroun (led by mountains, varying fiom 5,000 to 7,000 feet in height. That this had been a deep mounlan lake, was proved beyond all doubt, by the sand shells spread over its bed. "I also found," continued Mr. Atkinson, "the water line on the cliffs, showing that the depth was five hundred feet. Nearly opposite to the gorge by which we had entered, there was another in the mountains to the north. On reaching it 1 found this was also a deep and narrow ravine, and no doubi formed by the earthquake ; through this the water had rushed, draining the lake, and had formed the great water-course on the plain. We shortly enter ed the chasm, which 1 found was about 120 j yards wide, covered with fallen rocks, among j which a torrent was foaming with great fury, j Our way was a rough and dangerous one ; | sometimes several hundred feet above the stream, and then descending nearly to the ievel of the water. At last we reached a spot bpyond which, to all apperance, we could not proceed. We were now a little above the torrent, which was hidden from our view, and close in front of us the rocks rose up like a wall to an enor mous height. A loud roaring of the water was heard, which induced me to suppose it was rolling over a deep fa If. The old guide told me it was Shailan's Cavern, swallowing up the river. The mouth of the cavern was formed by a rugged arch, about 60 feet wile and 70 ; feet high. The river entered this, opening by a channel cut into the solid rock ; it was about 30 feet wide and 10 feet deep. A ledge of rocks, about 12 feet wide, formed a terrace along the edge of the stream, and just above the level of the water. When my astonishment had somewhat subsided, I prepared to explore the cavern, by placing my packet of baggage and my rifle on a rock, and the two Cossacks followed my example. The guide watched these proceedings with great intereste, but when he beheld us enter the cavern, he was horrifie' 1 Havifl.r -v s -.vaier, tearfui and cold, c hilling, blast met us. r rom this point the cavern extended both in width and height, hut I could form no idea of its dimen sions. We cautiously groped our way on in thp gloom lor about eighty yards from the entrance, when we could sep the river bound into a terrific abyss—'black Erebus,' while some white vapor came wreathing up, giving the spot a most supernatural appearance. Few persons could stand on the brink of this gulf without a shudder ; the roaring of the water was dreadful as it echoed in the lofty dome. It was impossi ble to hear a word spoken, nor could this scene he contemplated long—there was something too feaiful for the strongest nerves, when trying to peer into t'iss-* horrible depths. We tur ned away, and looked toward the entrance : for a distance the sides and arch were lighted up, but the great space and vast dome were lost in darkness." WEARING FLANNEL. The very best thing that can be worn next to the skin, in summer as well as in winter, is common wollen flannel. One color has no ad vantage over another, except that which is more agreeable t > the sight, is more likely to "full up" in washing ; but this may be almost entire ly prevented, if done properly. Pour boiling hot strong soapsuds on the garment in a tub, let it alone until the hand can bear the water, then pour off and add clean water, boiling hot, let this stand also as before ; pour off and add more boiling clean water, and when cool enough merely squeeze the garment With the hands— no wringing or rubbing. Stretch it immediate ly on a line in the hot sun, or b-lore a hot fire and as the water settles at the most dependent part of the garment, press it out with the hand and be careful to stretch the fabric as soon as the water is squeezed out, aiming as much as possible to keep the flannel hot until it is dry. If wollen garments are treated literaly as above they will remain pliable and soft until worn out. Recent scientific experiments carefully con ducted, prove the truth of the popular senti ment that flannel is the best fabric to be worn next the skin, as it absobs more moisture from the body than any other material, and by so do ing keeps the body more perfectly dry. Cotton absorbs the least; hence the prespiration remains more on the skin and being damp, the heat of the body is rapidly carried off by evaporation, and suddenly cools when perspiration ceases, the ill effects of which no intelligent mind needs to be reminded of. Hence it is that the com mon observation of all nations leads them to give their sailors woolen flannel shirts for all seasons and for all latitudes, as the best equal izers of the heat of the body.— Hall's Journal of Health. —' IT?" A Challenge to skate was given by a Miss , of Salem, Mass., a Di Vernon young lady, who saucily gave out that if any of the male gender could catch her, she would forfeit a kiss. The Boston Herald says that an ath letic negro hearing of the challenge gave chase, and soon his arm encircled her waist. Her broiher, however averted the impending smack by presenting the fellow with a $5 bill—tel ling him to "slide." The African started on a . "bender" with the funds, remarking audibly I that he "wouldn't give $5 to kiss any white gal libbin." Freedom of Thought and Opinion. THE "TOM BOY." j Let parents ponder on the truth contained in the following remarks, which we cut from the i Horn" Journal : "The "Tom-boy" is an eagpr, earnest impul- i sive, bright-eyed, glad-hearted, kind-souled spe cimen ol genu* feminiut If her laugh is a lit tle too frequent, and her tone a trifle too em phatic, we are willing to overlook these for the ' sake of the true life and exulting vitality to : which they are escape-valves ; and indeed we I rather like the high pressure nature which must close oil its superfluous "steam" in such ebulli tions. The glancing eye, the glowing cheek j the fresh, balmy breath, the tithe and graceful play of the limbs, tell a tale of healthy and vig- ' orous physical development which is nature's best beauty. The soul and the mind will be developed also in due time, and we shall have before us a woman in the highest sense of the term. I When (lie "Tom-boy" has sprung up to a healthful and vigorous womanhood she will be ready to take hold of the duties of life, to be come a worker in the great svstern of humanity. She will not sit down to sigh over the "work given her to do," to simper nonsense, languish in ennui, or fall sick at heart—but she will ever be able to take up the burden of duty. In her track there will be sound philosophy, in her thought#, boldness and originality, in her heart heaven's own purity, and the "world will be better that she has lived in it." To her (allot ted task, she will bring health, vigor, energy, and spirits, and these will give her both the power and the endurance without which her life mast be, in some respects at least; a lail ure. 5.4 TURD A Y NIGHT. Whi blessed things Saturday nights are, ami wiat would the world be without them ? Those breathing moments in the broad and gearish glare of noon ; when pale yesterday looked oeaufilul through the shadows, and faces change! long ago, smiling sweetly : again in the huih, when one remembers the old folks at homt. Saturday nights make people human ! set their Ivan's to beating softly, as they used to do before the world turned them into wax drums,and jarred them to pieces with taltoes. The iedger closes with a clasp; the iron doored anil? come too with a bang ; up goes the stutters with. ™-*s the kev been irf. We week, gently closes behind him, thewor.d is shut out. Here are the trea sures, a.rl not in the vault, not in in the book - save u the old family Bible-and not in the bank. May b you are a bachelor, frosty and forty. Then, i>or fellow.Saturday nights "are nothing to you. *et a wife— get a home —thank God" and takeourage. Ihe di and dusty shops are swept, f|j e hammer thrown, the apron is dofl'ed, and the laborer hlens homeward. "Satony night,'' faintly muimurs the languishrly, as she turns wearily on her couch ; "d is there another to come "Satury night at last whispers the weep er over e dying ; "and it is Sunday to-mor row !•' INEBRIETY. Whens vice has taken fast hold of a man farewell nstry—farewell attention to thin-' worthy oaltention— farewell love of virtu ous soci—farewell decency ofmanners • and farevto even an attention of person.— Every this sunk by the predominating and brutal aple. In how many instances do we see i who have Degun life with the brightestipects before them, and who have closedj itiout any ray of comfort and con solation !. oung men with good fortunes, good talegood tempers, good hearts, good' const.tut.only being drawn into the vor tex of thmkard, have become by degrees the most some and despicable of mankind. In the hof the drunkard there is no happi ness for one. -Ail is uncertainty and anxiety, is not the same man for any one day at a No one knows of his outgoings or incoir When he will rise or when he wiil lay to rest, is wholly a matter of chance, t which he swallows foi what lie calls re, brings pain surely as night brings nj. Poverty and misery are in the train KP'W from the money article of a late nupf the Philadelphia Press, the followinring comments upon the prospect of "betta." We fondly trust that thp "good lining" may speedily arrive : "Businot only reviving among us, but the prosoroad are reported by good au thority y cheering. The commercial classes :and have re-established confi dence 4 in themselves and each other. The maies are in operation everywhere* labor mdy employment in the agricul tural dind food, generally, is cheap.— It is assit in any ordinary times, under such a stings as prevail there, monev would j in demand at high rates of usance, extraordinary caution of the tnoQeyets brought home such an im mense a' money, that (lie corrent rate of discod the Bank of England is one and a ha per cent, per annum, while the bankvo and a half is expecfed to continued for a considerable time." Onceie, an Irishman and a ne<ro were f:gi while grappling with each other, linn exclaimed : "You divi! of a bur, cry enough—l'll fight till 1 did I boss," sung out the darkey, "I alwa J ' There ouriterfeit $5 note in circula tion on Bank of Reading. ! [EfThe following poem, from the San Fra n i cisco Golden Era, is not only Homeric in style, ' but complete in itself, for it ends in the total annihilation of the combatants : "On a pine wood shed, mjan alley dark, where scattered moonbeams, sift ing through a row of tottering chimneys and an awning torn and drooping, fell, strode back and forth, with stiff and tense-drawn muscle and peculiar tread, a cat. His name was .N'orval; on yonder neighbor ing shed his father fought thecals tfiat came in squads from streets beyond Dupont, in search of food and strange adventure. Orim war was courted ; and twisted tail, and spine upheaving in fatastic curve, and claws dis tended, and ears flatly pressed against a head thrown back defiantly, told of impending strife. With eyes a-gleam and screeching blasts of war, and steps as silent as the falling dew, ! young Norval crept along the splintered edge, and gazed a moment through the darkness down with tail a-wag triumphantly. Then with an imprecation and a growl—per haps an oath in direst veangeauce hissed he .started back, and, crooked in body like a letter S, or rather like a U inverted, stood in fierce expectancy. ! I was well. With eye-balls glai ing aud ears aslant, and open mouth in which two rows of fangs stood forth in sharp and drea I conformity slow up a post from out the daik below a bead appeared. A dreadful tosfin of determined strife young Norval uttered : then, with a face unblanched, and moustache standing strait before his nose, and tail (lung wildly to the passing bteeze, step ped back in cautious invitations to the foe. Approaching theothprand, with preparations dire, each cat surveyed the vintage of the field. Around they walked with tails uplifted and hacks high in ai r , while from their mouths in accents hissing with consuming rage dropped nrief but awful sentences of bate. Thrice round the roof they rnent in circle, each with eye upon the foe intently bent ; then sidewise moving, at is wont with cats, gave one long-drawn, teirific, savage yaw and buckled in. The fur (lew. A mist of hair hung over the ba'tle-fieht. High bove the din of passing wag ons rose the dreaful tumult of the struggling cats. So gleamed their eyes in frenzv, that t( me who saw a conflict from a window near naught else was plain but fiery ball that movei in orbits most eccentric. 'ben faint and fainter in tempestous might until M „„d h u , hp j. Tt ,,- j J,, sa-v I , ' ,ne surrcyed. Wha hand'!„| C ' a , , "r on< ' r " ar_ol lpelh - perhaps (ail Tl ~• m " s '" """I" a *>' ■" k" e"1 Tl WM , ri „, (erpass' n ?' *'" I" (he mal ivr p asS . The tale will do without the ear." n pfi II ,;R '• Of PENNSYLVANIA.— rhe following circular has b en i sued by th resident of the above institution • "The officers of many County Agncultura >oc,et.es have omitted to nominate candidate or admission to this School; whilst manj >ihers desne to name a greater number thai heir ratio of representation entitles them to - Air chart er enjoins upon us the observance o his principle, and we desire to comply with i the recommenda!ions be made to us. If t hi ifncers of County Societies do not make nomina ions on or before the I(sth February, when th< >chool will open for instruction—we will ad rut the surplus of other counties or those whr ire reccommended to us by individuals, if suet rossess the necessary qualifications. In tin nean time individual applications will b- recei •fi PP ,,c f nts be 1G years age, and luahfi ed by a knowledge of reading, Vrilino md arithmetic, grammar, and geography to a '-"SJ-dc, efficient q „ al ,fy . cSmlnc. i collegiate education of the highest grade.' A DOG FEAT FAST TRAVELLING.—A youn° gentleman connected with the express office n this city, says the Stillwater (Minn.) Jfessen rcr.hao occasion to go to;Areola, a few davs iince, on business requiring speed, whereupon ; 1e harnessp( a fine Newfoundland do* to a light handsled, and made the journev on the ice in twenty-seven minutes! The dis lailce is seven miles in a littlfe less" than four minutes. The dog is about four years old but large and powerful. We would like to see the dog that can excel this feat. FIGURATIVE LANGCAGE.-HOW inany common expressions in our language are borrowed from the art of carpentry, may be seen in the follow ing sentence : "The lawyer who filed a bill, shaved a note cu an acquaintance, split a hair, made an' entry, got up a case, framed an indictment empaneled ajury, put them into a box, nailed a witness, hammered a judge, and bored a whole court, all in one day, has since lai i do wn taw, and turned carpenter." A MONSTER OF A HORSE—A gentlemen who was at Zanesv.lle, Ohio, a few davs since gives a description of monster sorrel horse which was raised in Pennsylvania, and pur chased by a resident of Zanesville. He j s "pony built," measures twenty hands hi*h X ! !o VOUnds ' The n ric * was' ?H,OOO. He will probably be exhibited at the State fair at Zanesville. A LOVER m A DILEMMA.- An unfortunate swain who has been duped by some fair mai den, thus delates the case : With whiskers thick upon my face, I went my fair to see , She told me she could never love A BEAR faced man like me. I shaved Hum clean and called again, And though my troubles o'er. She laughed outright, and said I was. MORE RARE FACED than before. WHOLK \l TIBEIt 2*3*. IIOW* THE OPPOSITION ACT IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE. We have no disposition to interfere in the domestic strifes and brickerings of the "happy family" which now rules the House of Rep resentatives of this State. They have raised the demon and they may exercise him. But still as faithful chroniclers of the doings of our State Legislature, we are compelled to* note a recent occurrence in the House, which illus trates in a most forcible manner '.he -eekless character of the Opposition, and their open disregard of all those consideraLons which usually influence honest men in the discharge ol important public duties. The Legixtnfiv Record is now published and issued by R. .f HALDEMAX, under a contract which extends through the present session, unless said contract be rescinded by a joint resolution of the two Houses. All efforts to rescind this contract having failed, the house, in direct violaton of the law , en tered into another contract with Mj. BEEG.NEE to furnished them wiih two thousand ropies daily, ol a'similar record, at the rale of §3 20 per page. I'he supply of Mr. Haideman being fixed at three thousand per day, the attention of the House was called to the fecf, and while discussion was being held upon it, the political fiends of Mr.jßergner allege that he altered his proposals from two (o three' thou sand, thus making it agree with the contract of Mr. Haideman. This was at once pointed out by M. FOSTER, an Opposition member from A1 legheny, who denounced it as an outrage of the-most palpable character. Mr. ROSE, from Mercer, also joined Mr. Foster in his repudia tion of this attempted swindle, and resolutely proclaimed his determination to resist the consummation of this fraud upon the Treasury at all hazards. But the main body of the Opposi tion 10Ilowed the lead of the Speaker, and voted to sustain the Bergner contract in th e face of such facts as were substantiated by the evidence presented to them, and not denied by the Spea ker of the House, who was forced to admit that the alteration had been made and that in a most suspicious manner. The iniquity of this act of tiie Opposition is heightened when the lact is known that this alteration was mads after the securities were attached to the official bond for the faithful performance of the con tract, and as such alterations relieves the securi ties, those who voted for the contract after this discovery, voted to give it to Mr. Bergner without a dollar of responsibility on his part. He might execute it or not, he might give them five hundred or one thousand copies, ° he r=i"-r ms;eaa ot white, and fenrf " "°rejrn laras th, o'ffi" bond w M concerned. That „■* wor!l,l„. S }e the majority of the Opposition members 'contract 11 f T J " Untl y contract, this contract without security, and thus made up a record on which the honest tar-payers of the c_ M " h , ai lr , . f o • rhe "onornic view of this question it a ro interesting when placed in contrast with the £.°!"'? ° . retren ) Chment and r r'orm which w ere so loudly made by the Opposition withVr II!?? ' all Car f npai - n - The contrarl nnt -I Ilaldeman 19 of a full bindincr effect until properly annulled. That has nit beer done, and therefore he is entitled to compensa ion. He supplies both Houses with Record They have no need for another. B-rt lhe House of Representatives, knowin that the whole amount of Mr. Haldeman's claim will udd/t / pai , propos( ' s o contract for an odaitionul and unnecessary Record, and take ZziV?r ry ov %/ ive thomand ,ioii^ of that economy which the genemllj H. Weeks, a well "known actor who was converted to religion during the revi val last fall, m New York, and subsequently preached .none of the churches in thai d ? po,pit anJ <• >b.' ,bl! V ? as a reason ' that h * was un n' by P™" 1 ""?. to support himself, an a*ed mother and two sisters, who Were dependent upon his exertions. C T The cure for cold has been on record since 1430 : Putte your feete in hot water As high as your thighes ; Wrappe your head up'in flannel.'e As low as your eyes ; Take a quart of rum'd gruel!*, When in bedde as a dose, VY ith a number four dipped Well tallow your nose. "Pap, I have planted some potato's in he garden, said one of the smart youths of lohis father . fl#nd think came up ? "Why potatoes of course " No, strree . There came up a rirove of hoes and ate them all." The "old maD gave i^° g ' itf*A dancing master was taken up in Nat chez recently, f or robbing a fellow boarder. He that afi )r ; inif ' nct ' d b . v cheating a printer, and c'i;;,o l :,r rr ' h,ogri ' ■ !D The Missouri Legislature has under ad visement a bill fur the expulsion of free ne groes from that State within a year, or the alternative of their choosing masters and re maining as slaves. (rr-William and Mary Colleg7, at Williams burg, \ a., one of the oldest institutions of lear ning in tins country, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday last. Ihe property was very valuable. fp"~A contract has been concluded with certain parties to clean the streets of New York, five >- a i at $342,000 per annum. At a party in Washington city a few nights since a lady from New York is said to VOL 2, Na so.
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