VOLUME 57.
NEW SERIES.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By Virtu* of Sundry
writs of Fi Fas, Vend.Exponas and Levari Facias
to me directed, there will he sold *t the Court
House in the Borough of Bedford, on Saturday, the
9th day of February, 1861, at 11 O'clock, A. M.,
the following described Real Estite, to wit :
One tract ot [land containing 70 acres more or
less, about 45 acres cleared and under fence, with
a log dwelling house, log barn and tenant house
thereon erected, also a small apple oich ird thereon,
■draining > an - i3 of Henr y Imler, William Lamburn,
a-id otiic', situa'e in Union township, Bedlord co.,
ami taken in execution as the property of Peter
Cc.'abuugh. *
—ALSO—
One lot of ground in the Town of Rainsburg,
fronting S'-H leet on Main Street and extending
tick about 165 feet to lot o; Vndrew J. Robbuis,
with a two story frame cw g house v....i bac •
buildin" attached, and small frame stable thereon
erected, adjoining lot of A. J. Robbins on the North
nd lot of If 'orge Vaughan on the South, situate in
Coleraw Township, Bedlord County, ate! taken in
execution as the property of William O'Neal.
—ALSO—
One tract ot land consisting of parcels, or tracts
of land, contiguous and adjoining, containing 35
acres, more or less, about 10 acres cleared ana un
der fence, with a log dwelling house thereon, erec
ted, alsoayoung peacuorcharu apple trees thereon,
adjoining lands of George B. Kay's heirs, George
Clapper, Christian Baitzel, and others, ntuate in
Hope welt Township, Bedford county and taken in
execution as the property of Preston Briles and
Mel ford James.
_ ALbO-
Two lots of ground in Stonerstown, each fron
ting 55 ieet on .Main Street, leading to Saxton and
extending back 'about 150 feet, with a plank house
with basement story thereon erected, adjoining lot
of James Dunn and others, situate in Liberty Town
ship, Bedford County, and taken in execution as the
pioperty of Terreiice Kinney.
—ALSO—
One tract of land containing 259 -teres, more oj
less, about 25 acres cleared and under fence, with
a lo ff dwelling house and small stab.e thereon erec
ted,'adjoining lands of William Broliier, Joseph W.
Tate, Esq., and others, situate in Hopewell town
ship, Bedlord county, and takeh in execution as the
property of George Swartz."
ALSO-
All the ondivided third part of seven tiacte of
land, warranted in the names of Wijliam Lane, Wil
liam Fo rrester, Ceorge Hinish, Francis Johnston
Alexander Johnston, David Montgomery, and James
Hunter, containing about 2300 acres, more or les,
situate on Yellow Creek, in Hopewell township,
Bedford County, and known as the Lemnos Iron,
Works propetty.
—ALSO—
One tiact of land warranted in the name oi
Swope, King Co., containing 237 J acres, more or
less,situate in said township, and known as the
Be.-ford Forge tract, and taken ru execution as the
property of Henry ?. King.
—ALSO-
One part of a tract of unimproved land, contain
ing 360 acres, more or less, in the name of Marga
ret Diehl, adjoining land in the name of Samuel
Diehl, on the South, Top of Cove Mountain on the
West, Solomon Diehl on the North, and Frederick
Herring on the West, situate in Shover's Valley,
Bedford township, Bedford county, arid taken in ex
ecution as the pioperty of the heirs and legai rep
resentatives of Dr. William Watsin, Dec'd.
—ALSO—
The undivided half of one tract of land contain
ing 21 acres, mere or less, unimproved, adjoining
land of King & Osborne, and others.
—ALSO—
The undivided half of 19 acres of land , about 4
aeres cleared and under fence, adjoining lands of
Rathmell Wilson and others.
—ALSO—
The undivided half of 160 acres of land, more nr
less, about 30 acres cleared and under fence, with
a log -iwelling house thereon erected , also an apple
orchard thereon, adjoining lands of John P. Ander
son and others.
„ —ALSO-
One tract of land containing 5 acres, more oi
1 ess, nearly all cleared and under fence, adjoining
lands of Rathmell Wilson and others, all situ tte in
Broad Top Township, Bedlord County, and taken ir
execution as the property of Lemuel Evans.
—ALSO-
One tract of land containing 75 acres, more ot
less, about 60 acres cleared and under fence, with
a two story log dwelling house ar d log stable there
tin erected, also an apple orchard thereon, adjoin
ing Unds of Henry Harcleroad and others, situate
in Colerain Township, Bedford county, and taken
In execution as the property of Eveiina Harcieroad
and William B- Hactzell.
—ALSO-
One lot of Eround lronting about 200 feet on th
Bedford and Stoystown Turnpi kd Road, and ex'en
ding back about 90 feet, with a story and a half loe
dwelling bouse, new frame wagon maker shop am.
new frame stable thereon erected, adjoining land;
of John W. Scott on the East, West and South, sit
uate in Bedford township, Bedford county, and ta
ken in execution as the property ot Andrew J
KtgS ' JOHN J.CESSNA,
Jan. 18, 1861. Sheriff
BEDFORD COUNT V, SS.
At an Orphans' Coun
held at Bedford, iu nnd for the County of Bedford,
on the i 9th day cf November, A D., 1860, before
the Judges of said Court,
On motion of G. H
Spang, Esq., the Court grant a rule upon the heirs
and legal representatives of Dr. William W. Reed,
ate of South Woodberrv township, dec d., to wit:
Aaron Reed, William Reed, and Nathaniel P. Reed,
all lesiding in Bedford County, to be and appear al
an Orphans' Court, to be held at , Bedford, in am!
lor said County, on the 2d Monday, 51th day ol
February, next, to accept or retuse to take the
real estate of said Dr. Wm. W. Reed, at the valua
tion, which has been valued and appraised in pursu
ance of a Writ of Partition or Valuation issued out
of the Orphans' Court of Bedford Co nty, and to the
Sheriff of said County, directed, or show cause why
the same should not be 6old by order of the said
Court.
t - ■. — In testimony whereof, I have hereun
-5 SEAL >to set my hand and the seal of said Court
I Vat Bedford,;the 26th day of Nov., 1860.
ATTFST:
JOHN J. CESSNA, SAM'L. H. TATE,
Sheriff. ClerJ-
Jan. 18, 1861.
Attention : Bedford rifle
0 AMEM.— You are hereby ordered to meet
ff for Parade, at the Court House, in Bedford,
on Friday the 22d of February, 1861, at
10 o'clock, A.M., in full Winter Uniform ,
B|Y (with Plume.) It is desired by the Bri-
VIJ gade Inspector that there be afu 1 turn
yy out. Verv important business will be
put befor'e the Company on that occa
•oin , „
By order of the Captain.
GF.ORG E STIFFLER,
Jan. 18, 1861. 8
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THE UNION.
BY MRS. L. H. SIGOCRKEY.
Ho! Eagle of oyr banded State*
Wilt drop thine olive fair,
And bid the shafts ot war and woe
Speed bursting through the air f
And the soaring eagle answered.
Waving his pace-b?anch high,
"No ! Freedom's chieftain gave the trust—
I'll guard it til! 1 die
Ye stars, that shine in sp>rkling blue
Upon your banner'd field,
Shall ye be stricken from your place,
And half in clouds concealed ?
But sileot were those glorious orbs,
With dread amazement fraught ;
Each trembling in its crystal sphere
At the dark traitor-thought.
Oh. human hearts ! to concord train'd,
By sires "A ho stood ofyo.c,
As brothers, when around their homes
The Lion ramp'd in gore ;
Will ye the heritage they won
With Juthless hand divide 1
Or rend the 'JorJian knot they drew
Around ye—when they died f
Then from the Pater Patriae s tomb,
Beneath Mount Verriou's shade —
And from the hero's bed, who sleeps
In Nashville's beauteous glade—
And from green Quincey's honored breast,
Where sire and son repose—
"lireai not that bind!" a solemn voice
In deep accordance rose.
Hark, hark! o'er forests rob'd in snow,
In sunny, tfower-crown'd vales,
From where the Atlantic's thunder-tone
The far Pacific hails ;
From mart and dell, where millions dwell,
By prairie, lake and hill—-
Rolls on. the full, sublime response—
'Hr never, never will
PETER CHANCERY, ESQ.. AND iliS
FIVE DOLLARS.
SHOWING THE BLESSINGS THAT MAY FOLLOW THE
SETTLEMENT OF THE SMALLEST ACCOUNT.
'Sir, if \on please, boss would like you to
pay this little bill to-day,' said lor the tenth
tune, a half grown boy in a dirty jacket, to a
lawyer ia his office.
The attorney at length turned round and
staled the boy lull in the face, as if he had
been some newly discovered specimen, gave a
lons' whistle, thrust his inkv tingers into one
pocket and then into the other ot his black
cloth vest, and then gave another Ion? whistle,,
and completed his stare at the boy s face.
'Hi>, ha, hum ! that bill, eh V said the legal
voung igentleman, exteniiine the t<ps ot his
towards ttie well-wotn nit ol paper, and
daintilv opening it, looked|at the contents.
'Hum ! —lor capping and tor heel-tapping,
six shillings—for foxing, ten and sixpence,
and other sundries, eh ! So your master wants
me to settle this bill, eh V repeated the man of
briefs.
'Yes, s:r ; this is the nineteenth time 1 have
come lor it, and 1 intend to knock off a* twenty,
and call it a halt a day.'
'You're an impudent boy.'
l's always impudent to lawyers, coz I can't
help it, —its catchin.'
'You've got yor eve teeth cut, 1 see.'
'That's what the boss sent me for, instead of
tlie 'prentices as was gettin' their teeth cut. —
I cut mine at nine months' old with a hand
saw. Boss says if you don't pay the bill, he'll
sue you.'
'Sue me ? I'm a lawyer.'
'lt makes no odds. Lawyer or no lawyer,
boss declares he'll do it—so fork over.
'Declares he'll sue me ?'
'As true as here is another lawyer in
Filadelphy.'
'That would be bad !'
'Wouldn't it ?'
'Silence you vagabond ! I suppose I must
pay this,' muttered the attorney to himself.—
•It's not n.v plan to pay these bills. VV hat is
a lawyer's profession good for, il he can t get
clear of paying his own bills? He'll su* me !
'Tis just five dollars. It comes hard, and he
don't waa't the money. What is five
dollars to him ? His boy could have earned it
in the time lie has been sending him to me lor
it. 'So your master will sue me for it if I don t
pay ?'
'He says he will do it, and charge you a
new pair of shoes for me.'
'Harkee ; I can't pay you to-day, and so if
your boss will sue me, just a?k him to employ
me as his attorney."
'You ?' . . I
'Yes I'll issue the writ, have it served, anu
then you see I shall put the cost into my own
pocket, instead of seeing it go into another law
yer's. So you see if I have to pay the bill, I
make cost —capital idea !'
The boy scratched his head awhile, as if
striving to comprehend this capital idea, and
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, FERUARY 1,1861.
shook it dbubtingly. 4 I don't know about this;
it looks trick v. I'll ask boss though, if as how
you won't pay it no how without bring sued.'
'I had rather be sued, ft he will employ me,
boy.'
•But who is to pay them costs—the boss V
The lawyer looked all at once very serious,
and gave one of those long whistles peculiar
to him.
•Well, I'm a seosible man, truly. My
anxietv to get the costs of suit blinded me to
the fact that they were to come out of my own
pocket before they could he safely put in. Ah,
well, my boy, I suppose I must pay. Here's
a five dollar gold piece ; is the bill receipted ?
it's so dirty and greasy I can't see.'
'lt was nice and cle3n when boss gin it to
me, and the writin shined like Kapp's blackin
—its torn inin'so much.
'Well, here's your money,' said th man of
law, taking a solitary five dollar gold piece
from his watch lob ; 'now tell your niastei, Mr.
Last, if he has any other accounts he wants
stied, I'll attend to them with the greatest pleas
ure.'
'Thank'ee sir,'answered the boy, pocket
ing the five : 'but you are the only dunin'
customer boss has, and now you've paid up, he
hain't none but cash (oiks. Good day to you.
'Now there goes five dollars that will do
that fpllow no good. lam in want of it, but
he is not. It is five thrown away. It
woulrint' have left my pocket but that I was
sure his patience was worn out and cost would
comeofit. I like to get costs, but I cam
think a lawyer has anything to do with pay
ing them.'
As Peter Chancery did not believe in his
own mind, that paving his debt to Mi. Last,
was to be anv benefit to him, and was ot an
opinion that it was money thrown away, let
us follow the fate of these fiv-e dollars through
the day.
'He has paid,' said the boy, placing the
money in the master's hand.
•Well, I'm glad of it,' answered Mr. Last,
surveying tiie money through hi-- glasses—'and
its a half eagle too. Now run. and pay Mr.
Furnace,' as the boy delivered his money. '1
was j ist wondering where I coufd get five dol
lars to pay a Ivll that is due to day. Here
J ihn,' he called to one of his apprentices, 'put
on your hat ant! take this] money to Can. ()'-
Brine, and tell hfm I came within one of dis
appointing him, when some money came in I
didn't expect.'
Capt. O'Br.ne was on board his .schooner a*
the next wharf, and with him was a seaman
with a hat in his hand looking very gloomy as
he spoke with him.
'l'm sony, my man, I CJ 't pay you—but
[ have just raised and scraped the last dollar I
can get above water, to pay my insurance mo
ney to-day, and have not a copf-r let* in thy (
pocket to jmgle, but keys and old nails.'
'But lam very much in need,'sir: my wife '
is failing, and my family are in want of a good
many things just now, and 1 got several arti- i
cles at the store, expecting to get money ot you j
to take them up as I went along home. We j
hain't in the house no flour, nor tea, nor.—
'Well, my lad, I'm sorry. You must come |
to-morrow. I can't help you unless I sell my ;
coat off my back, or pawn my schooner's kedge. !
Nobody pays me.'
The sailor who had come to get advance of
wages, turned away sorrowfully, when the ap- ;
prenlice bov came up and said in his hearing : '
'Here, sir, ij five dollars Mr. lurnace owes ;
vou. He savs when told you he conldn't pay
your bill to-day, he didn't expect soine money
that came in after you left the shop.'
'Ah, ihat's my fine boy I Here, (Jack, take
this five dollars, and come on Saturday and get
the balance of your wages.'
The seaman with a joyful bound took the
piece, and touching his hat, sptung with a light
heart on shore and hastened to the store where
he had already selected the comforts and ne
cessaries his family stood so much in need of.
As he entered a {>oor woman WAS trying to
prevail upon the sloie-keeper to settle a demand
for making his shirts.
'You had better take it out of the store, Mrs.
Conway,' he said to her. 'really I have not ball
the amount ot your bill 'o-day, and I don t ex
pect to. I have to charge everything and no
money comes in.'
'I can't do without it,' answered the woman
earnestly,'my daughter is very ill and iii want
ol every comfort ;T am out o 1 firewood, and
! indeed I want many things which I have de
pended upon this money to gt'. 1 worked
night and day to get your shirts done.'
'Fm very soriy, Mrs. Con way,'said the store
keeper, looking into (.is money drawer: 'l've
not five shillings here and—and your bill is five
dollars and ninepence.'
The f>oor woman thought ofher invalid child
and wrung her hands.
'A sailor was here awhile ago, and selected
full live dollars of articles here on the
counter and went away to get his wages to pay
for them, but I quest ion if he comes back. II
he does and pays for them, you shall have your
money, madam.'
AI this instant Jack made his appearance at
the door.
'Well, shipmate,'said he, in a tone much
more elevated than he was discovered speaking
in with the captain, 'well, my hearty, handjoyer
your freight. I've got the documents, so give
us possession ;' and displaying his five dollar
piece he laid hold of the purchases. The store
keeper examining and seeing that the money
was grxnUbade him take them with him ; land
then, sighing as he took another and last look
at the piece, he handed it to the poor widow,
who with a joyful smile, received it from him
and hastened from the store. In a low and
very humble l<moment, near the water, was a
i family of poor children, whose appearance ex
hibited the uimost destitution. On a cot bed
i lav a poor woman, ill and emaciated. The
! door opened and a man in coarse, patched gar-
I ments, entered with a wood saw and a -horse,
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
and laid them down by the door and approach
ed the bed.
"Are you any better, dear?" he asked in a
rough voice, but in the kindest tones.
"No—have you found work ? If you could
get me a little nourishing lood, I could regain
my strength."
The man gaz-d upon her pale face a moment
and again taking up his horse went out. He
had uot gone far before a woman met him,
and sa id she wished him to follow and saw some
wood for her. His heart bounded with hope
and gratitude, and he went after her to her
dwelling, an abode little better than his own
for poverty ; yet wearing an air of comfort.
He sawed the wood, split and piled it, and re
ceived six shillings with which he hastened to a
store for necessaries for his sick wife, and then
he hurried home to gladden her heait with the
delicacies he had provided. Till npw he had
no work for four days, and his family had been
Starving, and from this day his wife got hetter,
and was at length restored to his lairi iy arid to
health, from a stale of weakness which another
day's continuation would probably have proved
fa'al.
These six shillings, which did so much good,
were paid him by the poor woman from the five
dollars she had received from the storekeeper,
and the sailor had paid him. The poor woman's
dau ahter was also revived and ultimately re
stored to health, and was lately married to a
young man who had been kept three years ab
sent, and returned true to his troth. But for
the five dollars which had been so instrumental
in her recovery, he might have returned to be
told that she whos- memory had been so long
the polar star of his h-art had perished.
So much good did the five dollar piece do,
which Peter Chancery, Esq., so reluctantly
paid to Mr. Last's apprentice boy, though little
ci edit is due to this gentleman for the result that
followed. It is thus Providence often makes
bad men the instrument of good to others. Let
this little story lead those who think a "small
bill" can stand because it is a small bill, remem
ber how much good a five dollar piece has done
in one single day, and that in paying one bill
they may be paying a series of twenty bills and
dispensing good to hundreds around them.
NOBLE SENTIMENTS !
STEPHEN' A. DDK,LAS FOR PEACE!
The fallowing extract Iroin the great speech
recently delivered in theU. S. Senate, by
Judge Douglas is worthy ot being preserved in
letters ol gold. It is a passage full ot the elo
quence of patriotism, and breathes the spiritof a
man true to the best and dparest interests of his
country. Let every Democrat read it and pass
it around among his neighbors.
"The laws ot naticnis anrt ail the laws of civ
ilization demanded that the government dejac
to be acknowledged. But the laws must be
enforced. In our system of government the
laws are to be enforced by civil authority assis
ted bv the militia and posse commitatus, when
the Marshal is resisted, li' the colonies, or a
State, revolt, the revolution is complete. When
1 tie federal authorities are expelled and no one
man leU to acknowledge allegiance to the Uni
ted States, how are you going to enforce the
laws then ? How are you going to do in South
Carolina ? She has passed an ordinance of se
cession. 1 deny her light to secede, but she has
done it. The revolution is complete. She has
no human being m her borders to acknowledge
our authority. This is all wrong,but how are
you going to help it ? You tell us we must
entorce. the laws. lam in favor of that.—
Laws must be enforced according to the consti
tution and the laws. Under our constitution,
laws can only be enforced against criminals,
and those of us who are in favor ot the Consti
tution and the Union, must be camful that we
do not perpetiate the very tilings which we de
nounce as criminal in these seceding States.—
And South Carolina does not stand alone. We ;
are told ttiat sevenother States will tollow them.
The answer is, we must enforce the laws.—
My reply is, you cannot enforce the laws in
counties not 111 your possession. I deny that j
we have the right to make war in order to re- I
gain possession, in order to enforce the law.— i
Are we prepared for war ? Ido not mean
prepared in the sense ot having soldiers, and j
arms and munitions; but are we prepared in our
hearts for war with our brethren ? While I i
affirm that the constitution was intended to
forma perpetual Union—while I affirm the i
right to use all lawful means to enforce the I
laws—yet I will not meditate war, nor toler- j
ate the idea, uotil after every effort at adjust
ment has been tried and laded, and all hope ofj
the Union is gone. Then, and not till then, '
will I deliiberat e and uetermiue what course j
my Juty will require of me. 1 am for peace j
to save the Union. War is disunion, certain,
inevitable, final and irrepressible. Our own
very existence forbids war.
"#* * *
* • L* N *
"A war between eighteen States on the one
side, and tilteen seceding States on the other, is
to me a revolting thing. For what purpose is
the war to be waged ? Certainly not for the
purpose of preserving the Union. ] have too
much respect for gentlemen on the other side of
the chamber, collectively and individually, to
believe there is one among them who does not
know what war is. You cannot expect to ex
terminate ten millions of people, whose passions
are excited with the belief that you mean t<f in
vade their homes and light the flames of insur
[ rection in their snidst. You must expect to
| exterminate them, or subjugate them, or else,
j when you have got tired ot war to make a trea
ty with them. No matter whether the war
lasts one year, or seven years, or thirty years,
<it must have an end at some time. Sooner or
i later both parties will becometired and exhaus
ted, and when rendered incapable of lighting
|any longer, they will make a treaty of peace,
|and that treaty will be one of serration. The
' history of Ibis world does not furnish an exam
pie of a war of sections, or between States of
the same nation, where the war ended in rec
onciliation. Such a war always ends in a trea
ty of peace, and a final, eternal separation.—
I don't understand, then, how a man can claim
to be a friend of the Union, and yet be in favor
of a war upon ten millions of people in the U
nion. You cannot cover it up much looser
under the pretext of Jove for the Union. Now,
the question must b met, and whatever con
cessions lam called upon fo make, I choose to
make voluntarily, before blood is ehed, and not |
afterward. No man has more pride of country I
than I. It humbles rny pride to see the author- j
ity of the government questioned, but we are
not the first nation whose pride has been hum- \
bled. Republics, empires and kingdoms, alike i
in all ages, have been subject to the same humil- i
iating fact. But where there is a deep seated
discontent pervading ten millions of people,
penetrating every man, woman and child, and
involving everything dear to them, it is time for
inquiring whether there is not some cause for
the feeling. If there be just cause for it in
God's name let us remove it. Are we not
criminal in the sight of Heaven and posterity,
if we do not remove the just cause? II there is
no cause, and yet they believe there is, so much
the greater the necessity for removing the mis
conception."
SOUND TALK-
The Washington correspondent of the Phila
delphia North American, a Republican journal,
(Morton McMichael's,) in speaking ot the fanat
ics headed by Horace Greeley, of the Tribune,
sa vs:
"A dogged determination to do what is called
"standing firm," by rejecting all overtures and
making no propositions, is below the dignity ol
statesmanship, and shows them to be wholly
destitute of it, who have no other remedy but
this sulky and defiant position. There are some
of us who can't be driven, and who do not mean
to follow any such lead. We have been ac
customed to think for ourselves, and if the al
ternative between saving the country and shiv
ering the party be presented, the latter wilt be
our choice at all hazards, if it fails to rise up
to the necessities cl this great exigency."
That'® the voice of a man. So is the follow
ing, from the last Adams Sentinel :
What fiindersa settlement ?—The Providence
Press, of Monday week, says a letter received
there fiom a Providence gentleman now in
Washington, contains the "following signfi cant
passage :
"The President to-day said to me : "I wish
the New England men could have persuaded
Mr. Seward to adopt the Missouri Compromise
line, ]as proposed by Mr. Crittenden. Tbat
would save us."
Judge Douglas authorized me to say that in
! the Senate Committee of Thirteen, Mr. Hunter
Mr. Davis and Mr. Toombs all agree to accept
that as a compromise, if the Republicans
would."
If a civil war follows a refusal to adjust the
existing difficulties on such a basis, awtul will
be the responsibility of those who reject all
compromise.
MR. BUCHANAN'S CABlNET. —Secretary Tho
mas resigned the Treasury Department last
Friday. General John A. Dix, of New York,
was nominated in the stead of Mr. Thomas, and
immediately confirmed bv the Senate. Mr.
Holt has been confirmed as the head of the
War Department. The ]Cabinet is now a
unit on the sectional Coubles. As re-construc
ted it stands as follows : ,
Secretary ot State—Mr. Black of Penn'a.
Secretary of ihe Treasury—Mr. Dix, of New
York.
Secretary of the x\avy —Mr. Toucey, ot
Connecticut.
Secretary of War—Mr. Holt, of Kentucky,
(acting.)
Secretary of the Interior—Vacant.
Postmaster General—H. King, of Maine.
Attorney General—Mr. Stanton, of District
of Columbia.
Mor.E OF THE BITTER FROIT. —AIIot our',
large factories are at a stand-still, owing to the
political troubles and the consequent destruc
tion ot business. In the one article of hard
ware alone, including its vaiious branches, the
business ot New Britain has amounted, in ordi
nal v times, to nearly $2,0N),000. Now we!
are doing nothing in this department of our
manufactures.
Russell icErwin's large shop, employing be
tween 400 and 500 men, has been idl- these ,
three weeks, with no hope of starting at pres- !
ent. They have a large Southern trade— near- |
ly $1,000,000. O. B. North's saddlery-hard-!
ware establishment, employing about 100 work
men, is doing nothing—and there is no hope of j
their doing anything for the present. Messrs. |
Corbin and Landers are dßing nothing. Judo's ;
hardware establishment is doing no more work,
and no prospect of any, apparently. Sargent's
is the only concern in the hardware line now \
in operation.— Hartford Times.
MR. SEWARD'S SPEECH. —The following crit- j
icism upon Mr. Seward's spech, which appears i
among the despatches in the New York Tri- !
bune, is brief, but pointed, and true :
"Mr. Seward's speech is much discussed, and ;
the general judgment seems to be that the Pre- 1
mier has made a very diplomatic oration—that
he has succeeded in talking prettilv and sooth-'
ingly, without saying anything in particular,
that he has assumed the character of the Minis
ter before laying aside the toga of the Senator.
The conciliatory tone of the speech suits eve
i rybody, while the absence of any distinct plan
( lor settling the national difficulty dissappoints
j everybody."
THE GAME OF LIFE. —In youth, hearts are
trumps; in manhood, diamonds and clubs, but at
the close of life spades are sure to win.
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VOL. 4. NO. 25.
1 A CONSERVATIVE MAN. —We observe that
some o( our eastern contemporaies, noticing the
election of Cowan as U. S. Senator, speak of
him as "belonging to ftbe conservative class of
Republicans !" All we have to say is, that if
Cowan is a conservative Republican, it is to
be hoped that Pennsylvania may never have the
misfortune to be represented in our National
councils by a radical Republican. We ques
lion whether a more rampant Abolitionist re
sides north of Mason and Dixon's line than this
same man, Cowan, and if he in really elected
under the impression that he belonged to the
"conservative class of Republicans," somebody
has had the wool pulled over their eyes most
beautifully. A conservative, forsooth ! Why,
liie speech delivered by him, at Aitoona, du
ring the late campaign, was so intensely Abo
lition in sentiment as to disgost even the ultra
Republicans of this county who heard it, and
heaven knows their stomachs are not easily
nauseated by anything in the shape ot wool.—
That's even so ! — Hollidaysburn Standard.
LIKE YOCRSELP. —In a Scotch parish there
was an ancient of the name of Sanders, whose
wit was reputed to be very oarp. The laird,
who was also a wag, met him one day, drrving
a pig to market. "Weel, Sanders," quoth he,
"ye're driving your kizzin (cousin) to the mar
ket." _ •
"Na, na, laird ; he's jist an auld acquaintance
like yourseli."
DISADVANTAGE OF BEING WHITE. —"WeII,
Dinah," said a would-be belle to a black girl,
"they say beauty soon fades ; do you see any of
my bloom feding ? Now, tell me plainly, with
out anv complimems."
"Oh, no, Missa; but den me kinder t'ink—"
"Think what, Dinah 1 you're bashful."
"Oh, no, me no bashful ; but den me kinder
t'inks as how Missa don't retain her color quite
as well as colored lady."
[CfA wretched editor, who hasn't any wife
to lake care of him, Went the other nigh: to a
ladies' fair. He savs he saw there "an article"
which he "fain would call his own, but it wa9
not for sale." He declares that since that night
he has been "wrapturousfy wretched." As the
article was bound in hoops, the reader is left to
infer that it was either a girl or a keg of whis
key. They are both calculated to make a
wretch "wrapturous."
ON a wet, miserable, foggy London day,
Charles Lamb was accosted by a beggar woman
wilh :
"Pray, sir, bestow a little charity upon a poor
destitute widow woman, wha is perishing for
lack of food. Believe me, sir, I have seen bet
ter days."
"So have I," said Lamb, handing the poor
creature a shilling ; "so have I, it's a miserable
day. Good bye.'
ken a pane of glass, was making the best of his
way out of sight, but the proprietor stole a
march upon him, and having seized him by the
collar, exclaimed :
"You broke my wiodow, fellow, did you
not ?"
"To be sure I did," said Pat, "and did'nt
you see me running home to get the money to
pay for it 1"
[CF"A lusty young fellow in a tattered garb,
and a long beard that bespoke the extreme cf
distress, solicited an elderly gentleman lor
alms, in a piteous tone of voice ; the benevo
lent gentleman gave htm a shilling. "If this
relief," said the beggar, "bad not come so ob
portunely, I should have been driven to do
what I never had intended." "What was that 1
said the gentleman impatiently. "To work,"
said the impostor.
Alabama a farmer very recently had
his butter seized by the clerk of the market for
short weight, and gave as a reason that the cow
fiom which the butter was made, was subject
to tb* cramp, and that caused the butter to
shrink iu weight.
(XF"An exchange thus pathetically describes
the fainting of a young lady :
"Down fell the lovely maiden,
Just like a slaughtered lamb ;
Her hair hung round her pallid cheeks.
Like sea weeds round a clam."
"In my time, Miss," said a stern aunt, "the
men looked at the women's faces, instead of
their ankles!'' "Ah ! but my dear aunt," re
torted the young lady, "you see the world has
improved, and is more civilized than it used to
be. It looks more to the understanding."
inventive Yankee has produced an
apparatus which he says is a cure for snoring.
He fastens upon the mouth a gutta percha tube
leading to the tympanum of the ear. Whenev
er the snorer snores, he himself receives the
; first impression, finds how disagreeable it is, and
ot course, reforms.
I OCF*A lawyer ouce jocosely asked a board
i ing-house keeper the following question :
"Mr. -, if a man gives you SSOO to
: keep lor him and he dies, what do you do ? Do
j you pray for him ?"
"No, ii, M he replied, "I pray for another
j like him."
j t£r*"A young lady remarked jthe other day
that she would iike to do something so as to
| have her name appear in the paper. We ad
vise her to get some one to put his name in
with hers.
1 'I?" A Scotchman visiting a churchyard with
a friend, pointed to a shady, quiet nook, said :
i "That is the spot white 1 intend to be laid
if I am spared."
r£F = "A man lately put Ins dog to bed and
■ kicked himself down stairs. He did not dis
cover his mistake until the next morning, when
* he chased a cow and couldn't bark.