THE BEDrORD GAZETTE IS rUBLISIIED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY B. F. BEYERS, At the following terms, to wit: $2 00 per annum,'if paid within the year. $2.30 " " if not P a 'd within the year. subscription taken lor les9 than si* months. tE?-No piper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. It has been decided by the United States Courts that the stoppige of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence ol fraud and as a criminal offence. tt?"The courts have decided that persons are ac rountr.ble for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the po3t office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. © rtfi.i ft a I so£ t v j). For the Bedford Gazette. A PLEA FOR TEMPERANCE. Intemperance is one of the most debasing and hateful vices which infest the human kind: it stultifies atid brutalizes man; it generales diseases innumerable, ol body and ntind, eon suming life like ii plague or tlio parching winu of the desert.— Dr. Doyle's Life, by 11'. J. Fit;- palrick. Of crystal water from the. running brook God's holy prophet for his drink partook. A cup of water only and a spear Lay at the head of Saul who knew no fear; Sampson who made the Philistines to quake, With purest water us'd his thirst to slake; John who for Christ the world prepar'd, On locust, honey and sweet water fared; Saints and sages, all o'er creation wide, On aqueous beverage liv'd and thriv'd. And wretched we, —what fools!—must poison And soul and body in perdition sink! [drink, Dash, Drunkard! from thy lips the fatal bowl, And thus preserve thy fratno and reason whole. Come back, come back to God—to peace untold, And live like saints and sagos did of old.—T. II From Vanity Fair. GREELEY IN HIS SANCTUM. Aits— The J fistletoe Bough. The Editor's bosom overflows with gall, Dor no glimmer of comfort he sees at all, As lie figureth up in his shambling way, The woolly head loss on Election day. "Ohio is gone and the Land of Ponn, And lowa turns on her track again; While the Empire State may to-morrow be Attached to that recreant company. 0 the terrible blow!" "I am weary of figuring," Horace cried, "The horrible issue I may not hide, In vain do we clamor, harangue, and write, The masses won't have it, that black is white. No/ndoth in sinoke our cherished plan To mix up the checkered race of man. What a mournful thing! that folk will take pride In unfrizzlcd hair and a pure white hide. O the terrible blow! Where, where arc the million I said one day I'd send from tue North to the blood-red fray? Unwilling alike to la* polled or shot, Though J sought them wildly I found them not. And as years roll on, and the war at last Becomes a thing of the time long past, Men will say, as I totter along, aside, "Alas! alas! how that old man lied." O the torriklo blow! I wish I could know where those men lie hid, Though what, were the use if I could or did? For they've cither deserted me clean and quite, Or have taken an oath not to vote or fight. Ah! sad is my fate! I'm a common jest, A bird that's unhappily fouled its nest. And my hopes that the spring saw freshly bloom Lie a-mouldering now in old John Brown's tomb. O the terrible blow!" $ 1) £ Schoolmaster 51 b r o a It. EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ. o^7""Teacliers and friends of education are respect fully requested to send communications to the above, caie of %i Jjtdfoid Gazette," 1 ho Bedford Union Institute met Dec. "7, 1£62, pursuant to adjournment. There not being a quorum present no business was done except to order the program of exercises to be continued for (ho next meet ing and adjourn to January 10, 186.1. It is to be hoped that, at that time, every mem ber will be present, especially those assign ed duties. Attendance at the district in stitute is ROW, by law, as much Ihc duty of teachers as any other service they stip ulate to perform; and directors should hold them to the same strict accountability. The penalty for non-attendance is the forfeiture r-t orc dollar for each and every offence; - ame to be deducted from the salary of the derelict, teacher by the directors employ ing him. Directors should see to it timt the penalty is exacted in every instance. Teach ers have no more right to defraud the schools and the community of their servi ces in the institute than they have to de mand pay for any other service never ren dered. Will directors sec to this ? •y"\\ e have received a communication from some friend who omits to furnish us his veal name. Contributors will bear in tnin.l that whilst wc will print over any signature they profer, they must furnish us with their real names. KrWc would be greatly obliged totcack cis and others for information as to local " ucational events throughout the county. esK )ur friends seem to have forgotten the problems in "Mental" entirely. Send us ' d peculiarly knotty. VOLUME 38. NEW SERIES. \Frmn the Tsuistoicn Gazette] THE TEST OF A GOOD TEACHER. The homely adage that 'The proof of a pudding is in the eating,' applies quite well to teachers. There are three general clas ses of teachers, which it seems well enough to describe briefly, so that tiny who are doubtful where they belong, may tind out pretty nearly. The first and lowest class consists of persons who teach simply because that is the easiest mode they know of to get a hun dred dollars; they really care nothing for the progress of their pupils in sound learn ing, through discipline, or good morals; they attend Institutes only by compulsion, or fear of loosing a dollar by staying away —the idea of making themselves more competent to teach and guide their pupils is utterly foreign if not distasteful to them. They read no Educational Journal or Books; they tcaeli in the moat • i-• ;!i> 'a, killing man ner; in short, they aro a nuisance to com munity mid onglit to he abated forthwith. The .second class ineludea those who profess to be great admirers of Education, count themselves, model teachers, and are ready to talk you out of your senses if you disagree with them in anything. They are generally 'Fogies' in some respect; do not think much of new-fangled notions, such as Montal Arithmetic, Outline Maps, Grammatical Analysis, Teachers Institutes, and the revolution of the Earth on its axis, but place a high estimate 011 the 'good old paths,' 'Parsing,'working out 'Sums' 'taking scholars through' hooks,. and similar an cient practices. They may he good schol ars, possibly good teachers ; hut they scout the idea of trying to improve,- as if New castle had coal enough already. The third class consists of those who, being good scholars and teachers now, con stantly seek to become better, to gain ful ler knowledge and facility in teaching, to acquire gufiatcr familiarity with human na ture that tiicy may teach and govern their pupils wisely. They are eager to attend Institutes and to gain the greatest possible benefit from them; they believe that the most skillful may acquire yet greater skill, —ii short, they realize the duties, respon sibilities. and delightful rewards of true teachers. Teachers, you who read this, —to which! class do 2/01/. belong If Qi'is. Decisions of tiia State Superintendent. 56. QUESTION : Has a teacher the right <o "keep in"' scholars the whole recess at dinnertime, for not getting their lessons; and also in the evening, for the same fail ure ; and how long after dismissing school ? —Director in Wiconisco District, Dan- j 2> fcin co. ANSWER : The right to keep in for les- , sons omitted, till tlie omitted lessons have j been studied and recited, has never been j successfully disputed,—though a few teach ers desirous of leaving the school room as , soon as possible and many unthinking pa rents, have raised objection to its exercise. | —lf appropriater.es of punishments to Of- \ fences is the proper guide in their selection, ; 1 nothing can be more appropriate than this; for it is not only causing the omitted act of duty to be done, with as little suffering to ( the offender n,s possible, but it is also cau- • sing him, in school and after school hours, to give the same portion of iris time to the lesson, which should have been given at : home and out of school hours. This is a kind of punishment, also, in the use ot which the tea "her should be sustained and not opposed by tlie parent; —being not on ly inflicted (o his own inconvenience hut for the good of the scholar, inasmuch as it causes him to keep up the connection of his studies. In regard to the length of time during which a pupil may be kept in,—the circum stances of the case must determine. As a general rule, the keeping in after dinner, should not be so long as to deprive the tea cher and pupil of their meal: and in the evening, it should cease soon enough to per mit the scholar to reach homo, in time, to prevent alarm for his safety by the parent. There may be cases, however, in which to avoid resort to otlter severer punishments and to convince the scholar that the teach er is in earnest, the keeping in during the whole dinner recess may be necessary and proper. In such cases, the objection—that the pupil may be injured by going without his dinner-has little force.—Exclusion from the table is something resorted to even in parental government; and there is little danger of this deprivation being so often in flicted by the teacher, as to become injuri ous to tlie health of the pupil. C>o. QUESTION : Have County Superin tendents the. right to annul a teacher's certificate for refusing to attend the Insti tutes t — Director of Bristol tirjp. District, Bucks co. ANSWER : They have. Such refusal is a breach of the, law and of professional du ty. and the officer who granfs fhc certifi cate may withdraw it from all who neglect a duty so plain, and refuse to attend to means so necessary and promotive of the. Freedom cf Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD,PA..FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1363. improvement of the profession and the el evation of the schools. If this refusal be not made known by the proper Board, so that the certificate can be annulled at the time it occurs, the County Superintendent should decline to renew the certificate, at the next examination. We find tho following in a late number of the X. Y. Herald, and as it is a N good satire, we give it a place in our columns: "ON TO RICHMOND." [From the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 18.] The screaming farce of "On to Richmond" has had a run unparalleled in the history of the Yankee drama. Staring placards in New York proclaimed that "Toodles" had been performed tor upwards of one hundred consecutive nights, and many other such elegant plays, adapted to Northern taste, have had a like career f but what are these compared with "On to Rich mond," whi-k ran for upwards of six hundred bays pi id nights, and has been played by Yan kee comedian:; to an nudienco consisting of the whole civilized, world 1 Su< ha success was nv cr before recorded in the annals of theatricals, and will never lie ngain. Seward and Lincoln, the authors of this brilliant farce, might b" a - tonished at the results of their genius, and the Northern people, who Lave en maw become the actors in the play, cannot fail to tie proud of their performance. But what is most singular in the career of this surprising Lis, rionic achievement, is the fact that it was put on the boards in violation of the wishes of the public, and lias been continued through nearly two year, in spite of the earnest remonstrances of the audience, for the solo ben etit and amusement of the authors themselves. One would suppose that by this time there would be a diminution of interest 011 the part of the players. Generosity is a great virtue; but a comedy that costs two millions of dollars a day, without producing one cent of receipt for so c normm - an outlay, ought, in the course of two revolutions of the earth about the sun, to pro duce a slight languor, and, perhaps, soma posi - tive fatigue in the leading actors and supernu meraries, if not in "the management." That an approximate conception of the labors and disappointments incident to the farce of "Onto Richmond" may be obtained, we will trace the adventures of one of the wandering players en gaged in it. j lis early years were passed among the pump kins of Vermont, his youth and dawning man hood in l.lie muJat of the bists and awlsof I von During tire week he made shoes for Southern negroes, and on Sundays sat under the drop pings of his sanctuary of Wendell Phillips. The J'rbnne was his Bible, and his notion of Para dise was freedom, which he thought to realize on earth by liberating the bodies of those the making of whose soles gained him a precarious living. The drama of "011 to Richmond" was announced. Fired with ambition and the de sire of reducing his social theories to practice in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," he cast his awl upon the altar of his country, and threaded his way to the theatre of operations at Washington.— Costumed in blue, lie attended the rehearsals of the play, nnd blew oIF the heads of his com rades while learning the manual. The first rep resentation of the farce was fixed for Manassas, nnd thither he repaired with fifty thousand men one fine Sunday in July. His piety did not re mind hint in the morning that lie was using the Sabbath as a play day: but as thj sun declined his conscience settled in his legs, and carried him violently to Washington. "On to Rich mond" during that terrible night was to him not only a screaming farce, but also a bellow ing tragedy. Still lie stuck to his new calling. The fail ure of the performance was attributed to the fact that the leading actors, Scott and McDow ell, did not know their parts. So our ambi tions' cobbler, reinforced by 200,000 others, went to rehearsing again, assisted by a tremen dous paraphernalia of big guns, little guns, bal loons, calcium lights, rocket brigade-'-, poisoned balls, and, above nil, cavalry, that di. iaiued saddles and preferred sitting on the necks of their horses. A new loading actor, Mc.Clellan, was introduced. Nothing was left undone to insure the success of the second presentation of "On to Richmond." But the winter rains spoil ed the Manassas theatre, and the whole compa ny, after being stuck in tlio mud until starva tion stated them in the face, hobbled back to Washington as best tliey could. Disgraceful failure number two. Objection being made to mud, McClcllan took to water, carrying cobbler over with him. They arrived in front of Yorktown, where, in order to avoid the mud, the company went to ditch ing. Having outditchcd a rival company, man aged by an obscure person of the name of John ston, they rushed to Williamsburg, and tried to play "On to Hiehmond," but an obstreperous follow named Longstrcct, being intoxicated 110 doubt, interfered with the performance and broke it up. Again they tried it at Barhours ville; but some rowdies in the vicinage fell up on the company and drove them back to their boats. Still undismayed, the company dug their way to Seven Pines, when, to their utter aston ishment, a parcel of rustics rushed out of tho woods and kicked them into the swamp. A month of preparation ensued, all things were quite ready; "On to Richmond" was to be played this time without fail, no postponement on account of weather, when lo! a furious inan j called A. P. Hill, accompanied by tho lunatic .lackson, with many other Southern barbarians, swarmed out of their holes and caves, and im pertinently elbowed them from Mention Bridge to Mechanicsvilte, thence to Cold Harbor, thence to Savage's Station, thence to Malvern I [ill, thence to 1 lurrison's Landing, and so spoil ed the plan entirely, besides robbing them of a groat part of their theatrical wardrobe. The cobbler from Linn was not left at liar- riscn's IJhding long enough to collect, his dis tracted faculties. He was called in haste to join Pope on the Rappahannock, and saw him knocked down at Cedar Run, and thrice again at Manassas, and then hissed off the stage. Mc- Cleilan re-appeared on the scene, and under him tin- cobbler starts "On to Richmond," byway of Hharpsburg. There a horrible fate awaited them. They were beaten out of their senses by company of evil disposed persons, who jumped up from the pit to their own boards and completely gutted their green room. They re cover anil rush to the Potomac only to sec it filled with the slaughtered bodies of their eoni pan Cns. JMcClellan retires fron the profession, but the cobbler lias no choice in the matter ; he miv-t go with Burnside and play "On to Rich mond" stil! another time. Saturday, the 18th of December, sees him and the play filially damn ed in the magnificent amphitheatre at Freder icksburg, and Monday, the 15th of December, finds hitn back again in Stafford, satisfied that the plav cannot be played. As he digs the "raves of hi slain com millions, as lm counts the hundreds of miles he has traveled by land and \ water, the hardships he has endured, tho ditch- j c'i be has dug, the roads he has built, the myri- 1 ads of comrades he has buried, it most occur ' to this simple, ill-fated cobbler from Massachu- . reft:, Hint tho farce of "On to Richmond" is j ti; most expensive, tedious, tiresome, idle, un >;•. (I table and dangerous piece of tom-foolery I that his family and himself ever engaged in. I Bumside to Ealleck on the Battle of Fred ericksburg. Gen. Ilallcck and 11 • congressional Investi gating Committee on Sunday returned from the bnttle-lield of Fredericksburg: and Gen. Burn sitlc on Friday writes a despatch, which is pub lished throughout tlio c unity, in which he strives to assume the responsibility of tiie late fearful disaetcr at that place. There are just t\< . suppositions in the case, as presented there in: cither Gen. Burnside has prostituted him self to the uses of the administration so far us to have suffered this despatch to go forth at their instigation, and in an at.erupt to palliate the crime which naturally and actually beiougs to ilir.n, or he is, as lie strives to show, in purl rea per ,-ible himself for the slaughter, author sttp- 1 10.tttion is equally discreditable to Gen. Bum side. A glance at the despatch in question con vinces us that Burn Side is guilty rather <r>f weak ness in allowing himself io be made a tool ti an of the crime of the terrible experiment up in the lives of his men, which his apparent adfe sacrifice endeavors to induce us to believe. Jfißa: bad business, make the best of it; and iHR KiffpuTi h puis an parries cwiwruiM in worse light before the country than it ithed nev er been suffered to go forth. The two points of difference, it appears, to take Gen. Bumside at his word, lietwoen bis orders—or rather the plan agreed upon by Gen. Ilallcck, Secretary Stanton, President Lincoln and himself-—-and the plan at last adopted, had •reference to the time and place of crossing, and the place of attack upon the rebel works over the Rappahannock, lie alleges that he crossed sooner than agreed upon, and in violation of llallcck's and Stanton's nnd Lincoln's injunction "not to be in luiste," because the supplies he needed came to hand at an earlier date than had been expected. That ho was ordered by them to cross at one time or another and attack those works, is therefore admitted; and what advantage any delay 011 his part would have gained, does not appear, especially since, when he did cross, by reason of some unaccountable steppage at the bridges of twenty-four hours* duration, the enemy had concentred liis force for the attack sufficiently to eenil liira back again defeated. The precise point indicated by TPillock and (lie rest tor crossing is not shown; and in Burn side's estimation his own place, had no delay oc curred, would have been the bettor one. Had nothing occurred, according to his showing, to prevent, "the battle would have been in my [his] opinion more decisive than it wo had crossed at the places first selected." llow mis erable the apology turns out for nil parties, vhorclbre, is shown by its own context. Burn side, while ho attempts to shield Ilallcck and tlio others, admits that their plan in his opinion would not have sueceded any better than bis own. It was tweedledco and tweedledum —de- feat in either case! In conclusion ho adds, "(he f.iet that you (Lin- i coin, Mnllcck and Stanton) left the. wliqjo move ment in my hands, without giving me orders, makes mo (Burnside) tho more responsible."— Where, then, the necessity for this manifesto? What military usage requires this last of our j many military expedients to pacify the people j and cover up, if possible, some wrong or blun- j dor? Such things are Ilnllcck and Stanton's ! specialities; and this is of the same piece as the • rest —that of Stanton and Halleck combined, j for example, when McClcllnn was removed, and the special pleading in apology for hope's cam- j paign by tho General-in-Chief's official report. : Qnnsijiie tandem abutere —how long will the i country stand these things? If Burnside is an i incompetent commander let him be removed ac- j cording to bis own showing, if he is proselyte, i so far as to make it ids special business to oov- J er up, at Hnlleck's instigation, other men's blun- i ders, ho is unfit for the position ho holds. He j has done himself certainly mote discredit by this publication than the defeat could ever have i attached to him. Where is that dignified reti cence of the late General of the Army of the Potomac! Where, we ask 111 vain, is that straightforward, soldierly, unflinching, silent at tention to the duty of his position ami profes sion, which marked the late commander's action in the field ? But more than all—wlienco came those disasters which require so much apology, from the removal at Ilarrison'sLanding, through Pope's campaign, down to tho Fredericksburg massacre ? Look at. the catalogue, peoolc of tho loyal Union—Bull Bun, Cedar Mountain, Manassas, Fredericksburg—go read the annals WKM2 KOERER, 8037 of the dond left strown upon these fields, and eomc uud answer, who did it? What matters it whether that frightful slaugh ter which betel the brave and murdeted troops at Fredericksburg was here or there around the deadly breastworks of the enemy ? Who cares, in times like these, when crime like this is rife, for distinctions so finely drawn? Who wants these manifestoes? It is not the first time that Ilallcek and his coteries have found necessary apologies for slaughter, ruthless, aimless, worse than useless. For God's sake let it be. the last! Let us have no more carnage by these silken a pologists of imbecility. Abraham Lincoln, we invoke you by the hopes you have of Heaven, now that the way lies open, turn from your councils the murderers of your people; recall again the victorious Chieftain, the great human heart which'while it turns from slaughter, beats only in unison with the safety, honor and wel fare of this country!— Patriot tf Union. "When Shall We Have Peace?" The Gotland AthwrW, the leading Republi can paper ill Maine, asks this important anu iff* tcresting question, and answers it as follows: '•We auswcj - , when Congress shall be persua ded that reason, not force, is THE DIVINITY of the age in w'lic hwe live. When Congress fhnll bo persuaded that history furnishes no example of six millions of people educated, free, and in dependent, being subjected to captivity, and ruled against their consent. When Congress shall be persuaded that no nation on earth lias proved themselves powerful enough in arms, or in wealth, to establish, and maintain, indefinite ly, a military despotism over six millions of white men accustomed to freedom, and to a rep resentative government. When Congress shall be persuaded that every bayonet that carries a demand for obedience to law, and to the Feder al Government, should also carry the announce ment of a religious respect for the political rights out of which this war has arisen, and a willing ness to confer amicably upon the terms of a re adjustment of those rights. "Fight on, ye men of the North! and fight on will lie the cry of the men of the South, un til, substantially, these conditions we have na med shall come to pass. But fewer of each side shall live to enjoy the result, as day by day passes away, and all of each will be poorer in purse, until the result that gives peace shall bo attained. Peace is the child of reason and re ciprocal interests. War is the heathen and soulless Moloch that devours, without reuiorsc, every life and every interest'that stands in the way of its imagined or proclaimed necessities. Cold, pitiless, inhuman, is war in its best aspect. It makes children fatherless, wives widows, the ■N Boa t r - ■■ , - ble, the feeble despairing, and tne world itself everything what it ought not to be to every cit izen and to every interest. "Hut tight on, light on, will be the impulsive cry of politicians, of aspirants to oltice, of Gov ernment jobbers, and contractors, and of fa natical, one-idea men, both of the North and at the South. Fight on will be the cry of stand ard loyalty, until the still, small, and yet sub lime, voice of the ballot-box shall bid battles to cease, and reason to resume its sway over the councils of the nation. Then 110 broken nationality—llo inviduous titles to superior righteousness in the frame-work of institutions and of society—will be recognized, but a rc-u --r.ited people, with one flag of national glory and strength, and one Constitution, one govern ment, and one supremacy, shall become the in heritance of all our people, East, West, North and*South. If there Ire treason in the senti ments, 'make the most of it."' We commend the answer to the careful at tention of those who are so free with their char ges of t reason against every Democrat who speakis of peace. It is a signal rebuke af the presumption, insolence and ignorance ot such venal sheets as the Washington Chronicle , Phila delphia Press, and Ilurruburg Telegraph. WntSKET and Ncwspapehs.—A glass of whiskey is manufactured from perhaps a dozen grains of corn, the value of which is too small to ho estimated. A pint of this mixture sells for ftno shilling, and if of a good brand, U con sidered well worlh the money. It is drunk in a minute or two —it tires the brain, sharpens the appetite, deranges and weaken* the physi cal system. On the same side-board on which this pernicious beverage lies a newspaper. It is covered with halt a million of types—it brings intelligence from the four quarters of the globe. Tho newspaper costs less than the glass of grog—tho juice of a few grains of corn; but but it is no less strange than trite that there is a large portion of the community who think i corn juico cheap and the mowspaper dear. THE COURTING or A SHARP MAX OF BUSI XESS. —Potts is u sharp man, H man of business tact, and when ho goes into a store to trade, ho always gives the lowest cash prico; and lie says: —'Well, I'll look about, and if I don't tlnd n nytliing that suits ine better, I'll call and take this.' Potts, like all men, is partial to women and young onos in particular. Now, quite lately Potts said to himself:—'l am getting rather long in years and guess I'll get married.' J lis business qualities wouldn't let liini wait, so oil' ho travels, and calling upon a lady friend, opened the conversation by remarking that ho would like to know what she thought about his getting married. 'Oh, Mr. Potts, that, is an affair in which I atn not so greatly interested, and I pretend to leave it with yoursolf'.' 'lint,' says I'otfs, 'von are interested, and, my dear girl, will you marry me?' The young lady blushed, hesitated, and final ly, as l'otts was very well to do in the world, lind morally, financially and politically of stand ing in society, she aeeepted him. Whereupon the matter-of-fact l'otta responded: 'Well, well, I'll look about, and if I don't find anybody that mill mo hotter than yon, I'll come. ' bar!,-: " Hates of Sttujertielng. One Square, three weefcaor lec $! til- One Square, earh additional insertion las* than three mdnthi . ..... ... . ti . 3 MONTHS. 0 MONTHS. 1 Vri, One square • $1 00 $4 00 SO in Two squares 3 00 S 00 : in Three squares 5 00 7 00 tin J Column 6 00 9 00 1 •> n„ J Column 800 12 00 20 ot> I Column 12 00 18 00 30 00 One Column 18 00 30 00 30 00. Administrators' and Executors' notices $2.50, Au ditors' notices $1.50, if under 10 lines. $2.00 if more than a square and less than 20 iiues. Katrays, $1.25, if but one bead is advertised, 25 cents for every additio^lhead. The space fllupied by ten lines of this size of type counts one square. All fractions of a square under five lines will be measured as a half squarei and all over five lines as a full square. All legal advertisements will be charged to the person handi ing them in. __________ VOL. 6. NO. 22 HOW TO GET RICH. Do you wish to be rich ? It is perfectly easy, lie as mean as dirt. Cheat everybody you can —friend or foe—father and mother—sister and brother. 15uy nothing that you cannot sell a gain and double your^money. When you pur chase, declare the article is not worth half what is asked for it and screw the seller down to one third his price; and he sure when j'ou sell tho sutae, to declare it worth double what you ask. away a cent. Kick the beggar in the—trim at the contribution box—-or feci all over your pockets: to give them impressions j that you forgot to bring your money. Belong to no society whatever—litterary, religious or sci entific. Take no newspaper. In making change always keep the half cent, and invaria bly give twelve cents for a shilling. I>ispute every bill presented,and if you get an opportu nity erase the figures and lessen the charge. Charge as much as you can get for your goods, and never have any consience in such matters. Endorse no notes. Never lend—though it may save a neighbor from failing. Always exact interest All ydtir 'IUC3 —and trust no one you are not certain will pay when you send the hill. When you buy, make the article weigh as little as possible, but on selling the same be sure they weigh something more, even though you have to stow in some useless article—like our friend on the wharf, who in selling old junks of rags, to make them solid, always shovel in mud from the docks 1 so the story goes—we do not vouch for it. Never purchase anything but what is absolutely necessary. What have you to do wftli the luxuries of life. Never ride, sail or go to places of public amusement unless you can make others pay yonr score. Eat hasty puddings and molasses and pudding for dinner, an 1 mixture of both for supper for a rarity. Examine your cupboard, your cellar and swill pail, to see that nothing is lost, and occasion ally give your wife a lecture on economy. Wear cowhide shoes, and make your clothes of tho stoutest cloth. In tin. Love yourself—bcncfit ing no one and doing 'no good to the world. Grasp all you can and hold all you cup get. Make every mill tell. And you will be rich, this you may rely upon, but—here is an unfor tunate but in tho way—you will have no friends —everybody will detest you and scorn you be sides, you will throw up your interests in both worlds, first starve in this, and be damned in tbatwhich is to come. THE BEST ADVANTAGE. A countryman went into a store in Boston the other day, and told the keeper that a neigh bor of his had entrusted him with Borne money lie had been very well treated in Boston by the traders, and would not part with his friends money until lio found a man who would, treat iiiin about right. With the utmost suavity the trader says: . 'I think I can treat you to your liking ho w do you want to he treated V Well says the farmer with a leer in his eye. 'ln the first place 1 waut a glass <if toddy,' which was forthcoming. 'Now I will have a nice cigar,' said the countryman. It was prompt ly handed htm, leisurely lighted, and then tlirow ing himself back, with his feet as high as his head, ho commenced puffing away like a Dutch man. 'Now what do you want to purchase I' says the storekeeper. 'My neighbor handed me two cents when I loft, home to buy liirn a plug of tobacco,' an swered the farmer, 'have you got tho articleV The storekeeper stopped instanter, and the next thing that was lienrd from him was, that lii.s sides were shaking and his face on lire as he was relating the sell to his friends down town. Undo Sam looking after his Old Clothes. Uncle Sam, having recently discovered that immense quantities of military stores, including, blankets, shoes, clothing, arms, equipments, etc., has been stolen from tho various depart ment.-., and sold or transferred to individuals, the Secretary of War has directed tho Adju dunt General to issue n general order, requir ing all post commanders to seize such goods, wherever found, and arrest those having them in possession, unless they can satisfy the officer that they enrno by tho goods honestly. All l'rovost Marshals appointed by the Department will assist in recovering to the United States this description of public property. Comman ding officers of companies are reminded that it is not only their duty to cause soldiers who nro guilty of violating the law forbidding the sale, destruction or negligent loss of clothing, arms and public property, to bo charged on the Mus ter Hulls, with all the articles improperly lost or disposed of but also to enforce such other punishment us the nature of tho offence may' demand. Under this order, Capt Wright, Provost Marshal at this place, will overhaul all persons wearing United States clothing, and will divest the same unless satisfactorily accounted lor'— Look out, ye military pretenders and humbugs!- —Pitfsbuiy Chronicle. syln Europe, we bolieve, when nations are at war, tho immediate collection and publication of the names of killed and woun ded in battle is a part of the. duty of gov ernment. Not. so here. Wc arc left to the enterprise of individuals to furnish these records, and hundreds of thousands are left pulsating between hope and fear for weeks after every engagement or battle beforo they can learn tho fate of those most near and dear. This should be. among the ear liest efforts of 4he government, and would, besides giving certain information, exhib it a commendable sympathy for those who have certainly the largest interest in the war.
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