THE BEDFORD GAZETTE I'UBLISIIEU EVERV FtU>AY MOBMNU BY B. F.mUYKIIS, At the following terms, to wit: $2 00 per annum, if paid within tbe year. $2.00 ' <■ if not paid withiu the year. K?"No subscription taken let leas than six months paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publishei. it has been decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of is prima facie evidence ol fraud and as a criminal offence. courts nave decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from tbe post olfice, whether they snbscribe for them, or not. EDITOU or GAZETTE, DEAR SIB ; With your permission I wish to say to the read ers of your paper that I will send by return mail to all who wish it, (free) a Recipe, with full directions for making and using a simple Vegetable Balm, that will eflectually remove, in 10 days, I'imples, Blotch es. Tan, Freckles, artd ell Impurities of the Skin, leaving the same soft, clear, smooth and beautilul. 1 will also mail free to those having Bald Heads or Bare Faces, simple directions and information that will enable them to start a lull growth of Lux uriant Hair, Whiskers, or a Moustache, in loss than 30 days. All applications answered by return mail without charge. Respectfully yours, THOS. F. CHAPMAN, Chemist, No. 831 Broadway, New York. August 14, 1863—3 m A GENTLEMAN, cured of Nervous Debility, Incompetency, Premature Decay and Youthtul Er ror, actuated by a desire to benelit otbeis, will be happy to furnish'to all who need it [ ree of charg-] the recipe and directions lor malcu g the simple rem edy used in his case. Those wishing to pi oil t by his experience—and possess a Valuable Remedy will receive the same, by return mail, (careiully sealed) bo addressing JOHN B. OUDEN, No. 60 Nassau Street, New York. Augußt 14, 1863—3 m Children awe much of their Siciness to Colds. No matter where the disease may appear to be seat ed, its origin may be traced to suppressed perspiration or a Cold. Uramns and Lung Complaints are di rect products of Colds. In short Colds are the har bingers of half the diseases that afflict humanity, for as they ce caused by checked perspiration, and us five- eighis of the waste matter of the body es capes throLgh the pores, if these pores are closed, that portion of diseases necessarily follows. Keep clear, therefore, of Colds and Coughs, the great precursers of disease, or it contrac'ed, brean them up immediately, by a timely use of Madame Por ter's Curative Balsam. B>ld by all Druggists, at 13 •ents and 26 cents per bottle. Jan. 23, 1863.—1y. NEW JERSEY LANDS FOR SALE—ALSO GARDEN OR FRUIT FARMS. Suitable for Grapes, Peaches, Pears, Raspberries, Strawberiies, Blackberries, Currants. &c., of 1,.2J, 3, 10 or 20 acres each, at the following prices lor the present, viz: 20 acres for S2OO, 10 acres for sllO, 5 acres for SOO, 2jj acres for $46, 1 acre for S2O. Payable by one dollur a week. Also, good Cranberry lands, and village lots in CHETWOOD, 25 by 100 leet, at sl6 each, payable by one dollar a week. The übov ■ land and larms aie situated at Chetwood, Washington township, Burlington county. New Jersey. For further infor mation, apply, with a P. O. Stamp, for a circular, to B. FRANKLIN CLARK, No. 90, Cedar street, New York, N. Y. professional (Sarbs. New fiSankiii;? V ave opened a Bank of Discount and Deposit, in Bed fold, Pa. Money lent and taken on deposit, and collections made on moderate terms. Thev nlso have lands in lowa, .Minnesota, Wiscon sin. Missouri and Nebiaska, for sale or trade. Bedford, Oct. 30, 1863—tf. U • II • A K E IT S , JITTORMEY AT LA IV, Bedford, Pa. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to bis rare. Military claims speedily collected. Office on Juliana street, opposite the post-office. Bedford, September 11, 1863. F. M KIM Mat. L. I. W. LINOKNKELTER. KIWMELL Et I.INGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, FA. lormed a partnership in the practice of t he Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South p f the "Mengel House." JOB MANN. • H. SFANO. MANN & 8 P A N I) t ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. The undersigned have associated themselves in the Practice ol the Law, and will attend promptly to all business entrusted to their rate in Bedford and adjoining counties. tjyOfßre on luliana Street, three doors south of the "Mengel House,'' opposite the residence ol Msj. Tate. Bedford, Aug. 1, 1801. JOHN CESSNA. O. K.SHANNON. CESSNA & SHANNON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.. formed a Partnership in the Practice of the Law. Office nearly opposite the Gazelle Office, where one or the other may at all times be found. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1801. JOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Respectfully tenders his services to the Vubhe. second door North of the Mengel l-louse Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861. J OIINP A L M ER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. [jy Will promptly attend to all business entrus ted to his care. Office on Julianna Street, (near. |y opposite the Mengel House.) Bedford, Aug. 1, 16G1. A. U. COFFROTTL. ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOMERSET, PA. Will hereafter practice regularly in the several Courts of Bedford county. Business entrnsteil to his care will be faithfully attended to. December 6, 1861. S AMHE L KET TK R MAN , BEDFORD, PA., (jy Would heieby notify the citizens of Bedford county, thai be has moved ro the Borough of Bed foul, where he may at all times be found b' persons wishing to see him, unless übsent upon business pertaining to his office. Bedford, Aug. 1,1861. JACOB RKKO, J. J. ScK*t.L, REED AND KCHEI.L, BANKERS FC DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD, PKNN'A. 03r"DRAFTS bought and sold, collections made nd money promptly remitted. Deposits solicited. KKEBKKNCKS. Hon. Job .Mann, Hon. John Cessna, and John Mower, Bedford Pa., R. Forward, Somerset, Bonn, Kaiguel A Co., Phil. J. Watt & Co., J. W. Cuiley, fc Co., Pittsburg. GT. ~ OHARLES HOTF.L, COIt NL: II OF WOOD AND THIRD STREETS P I T T S n I' E. Cr If, p A HARRY SHIRLS PROPRIETOR. April 12 ISGI, • VOLUME 39. NEW SERIES. Select ftoetm # THE FUTURE WAKES ALL RIGHT From the centre of creation, To where 'tis lost in space, There is a law of compensation That pervadeth every place; That reaches every human heart, In accents sweet and light, Or thunders, as the guilty start— "The future makes all righ*." Though wrong may rear its horrid form, Though innocence may weep, While mercy flies, amidst the storm And justice seems to sleep; Though darkness spreads its sombre fold, And earth be veiled ia night, The sun will gild the cast with gold— "The future makes all right." All nature, with emphatic speech, Since chaos ceased to reign. Has sought mankind this truth to teach, But sought, alas ! in vain • While history turns its teeming page To man's and nation's sight. And still cries out fiom age to age— "The future makes all right." There ne'er has been an evil deed, Or governmental crime, That did not retribution speed, And was avenged by time; And low and high, and small and great, In poverty, or might, Have lived to learn, though olt too late- • "The future makes all right." Call empires from the misty past, Assyrian and Greek ; Bid Rome assume its limits vast, And let their voices speak , They'll owu that, 'spite of present power, Of seeming triumph 'spile, The reign of wrong is but an hour — "The I'utufe makes all light." And think not e'en the guiltiest thing Is dead to human weal, Or lost to conscience, or its sting— It may be forced to feel! The crimson hand may grasp the bowl, Tbe murderer's eye be bright, E'en when the whisper flights his soul— "The luture makes all right." As from the couch whereon he lies, The miscreant will start, The vengeful worm that never dies Keeps gnawing at his heart! 'Tis then, while spectral shadows rise, He cowers 'neath the blight, And seems to hear, from e irtti and skies— "The future makes all right."' Then wbo shall dare avow the creed Eternal goodness scorns— That innocence must ever bleed, While virtue treads on tnorns 't Tliat hope, to dry uffliction's tears, Ne'er checks its onward tligbt, Or murmurs in its listless ears — "The future makes all right." There is a jo) , which, midst all joy, Sits crowned upon a throne; The only one without alloy— It springs from duty done ; Anil he, whose throbbing bosom glows With this supreme delight, Does more than dream, he sees and knows "The future makes all right." Rosecrans* Views of the War. The Courier ties Etuts Unit, translating from a Cincinnati paper, presents the following de- j velopincnt of the views of Gen. Rosecrans in regard to the policy of the Administration and flic profligate conduct of so many of its adhe rents. The statement deserves profound con- j sideration by all men capable of honorable crao- 1 tions and who desire to secure the welfare of, their country by those honest means which can 1 alone avail such au end. The picture afforded in this brief passage is dreadful to contemplate; but the coloring is unhappily only too true to re ality. The Courier says: "Persons who tire on intimate terms with Gen. Rosecrans declare that lie is greatly dis couraged about the war. This is not because | he considers the Southern armies invincible, hut because he believes that the seceded States can never he brought hack by the rigorous policy I which the Government lias adopted. He lias ; never taken any part in the proceedings of An- j drew Johnson, the Military Governor of Ten nessee, who lias suceeded in converting to scces-, sion all people who had any hope of Union. — Himself perfectly disinterested, lie looks ivith disgust upon the shameful traffic which is going on under the mask of patriotism. When he looks around him he sees men moved by all sorts of motives, more or less decent, except honor and love' of country. Some are lighting from ambition, others from avarice; to the latter the conquest of country means only pillage and cheap cotton; the former arc jealous of their superiors and their equals, and are delighted with any reverse which may overtake them. "Profoundly honest and religious, Rosecrans regards these spectacles with bitter aversion.— His religious feelings have grown upon him in proportion to the excesses and intrigues which lie is impotent to prevent; and In mystical hopes of another world he schks relief from the cor ruptions of the present. Ho no longer lights with any ardor, hut simply from a sens.: of du ty, considering each victory a useless waste of blood. Ho has no confidence in his successes, considering that they arc followed by the swoop . of birds of prey whose rapacity makes hopeless the pacification of the country. * * *. * All these details come to inc from a person very dear to Kosccrans, to whom the General wrote that he saw in the defeat of ChickatntV'Jgu the finger of God." Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20,1863. lain AFTER THE BATTLE. It was over at last. The sun, which had walked slow and calm through the long hours of that terrible day, ltad gone down in a column of tircbeliind'the western hills j and now the stars were coming out swiftly, like golden petals scattered all over an assure sky. And the stars looked down on the battle field, as they have come out and looked for scores of years on the fair young land which had arisen in her strength and beauty, un til amid all the nations there was none to compare with her—oll the great cities that were hung like jewels on her groeri bosom on the broad harvest fields that wave their tresses of joy through her golden Summers —on the houses whore the dwellers there of sat peaceful and happy under their own tig tree —on all this had the stars'which caine up at night by the watch towers ot the sky looked, until at last there came a change— and now where the harvest had waved their locks in the summer winds, was that most terrible sight which the sun ever beheld— the conflict ltad raged hot and terrible that day. The hearts of the distartt mountains had shuddered with the thunder of cannon, and the earth had drunk in blood as in autumn she drinks the equinoctial rain; but at last the day's awful work was done, and the night winds lifted the gray banners of smoke front the battle-field. The air was full of heat aud smell of pow der ; the dead lay thick together, with stark, ghastly faces on the trampled grass; the wounded lay thick, also, filling the air with their moans—riderless horses rushed terri fied over the field; and the dying daylight and the solemn stars watched over all. A little way from the battle-field ran a small stream, making a blue fold in the d:u - k grass, and two wounded men had crawled to its banks to slake their thirst. And when the two men crawled along the banks, looked up and met each other's face, they knew they were enemies, and they knew, too, that a few hours ago each had aimed his ride at the other, and th*t had made the ghastly wound, a little way from the heart, which had drunk the life blood of each, and each glared desperately at his adversary a moment before he fell. But there was no fierceness in the eyes of those men now, as they tat face to face on the bank of tiie stream, the strife and the anger had all gone now, and they sat still, dying men, who a lew hours before had been deadly foes, sat still, and looked iat each other. At last one of them spoke: j "We haven't either a chance to hold out ! much longer, 1 judge." "No," said the other with a little mixture lof sadness and recklessness. "You did j that last job of yours very well, as that bears I witness;" and he pointed to a wound alit i tie above his heart, from which the life blood I was slowly oozing. I "No better than you did yours," replied the other, with a grim smile; and he point ed to a wound a little higher up—larger, more ragged—a deadly one. And the two men gazed at each other a gain in the dim light, for the moon had coine over the hills now, and stood among the stars like, a pearl of great price. And as they looked a softer feeling stole over the heart of each toward his fallen foe; a feel ing of pity for the strong, manly life laid low; a feeling of regret for that inexorable necessity of the war which made each man the. slayer of the other; and at last one of them spoke: "There's sonic folks in the world that will feel worse, I suppose, because you've | gone out of it V" i" A spasm of pain was on the bronzed ghast ly features. "Yes," said the man, in thick tones — "there's one woman, with a little boy and girl away up among the New Hampshire mountains, it'll well-nigh kill to hear ot this. And then he groaned out, in bitter anguish, "Oh God, have pity on my wife and chil dren !" And the other drew closer to hum "Away among the cotton fields of Gcor ' gia there's a woman and a little girl whose I heart will break when they hear what this i day has done." And then a cry wrung it j self out of his heart: "Oh God, have pity ! upon them!" And from that moment the Northerner and the Southerner ceased to be foes. The thought of those distant homes on which i the anguish was soon to fall, drew them close together in that last hour, and the two I wept like children. And at last the Northerner spoke talking i more to himself than anything else, andiic j did not know tho other was listening greed ! ily to every word: ' "She used to come —my little girl, bless i lier heart!—every night to meet me when I came home from the fields ; and she would I aland under the great plum Iree, that's just | beyond the back door at home, with the ' golden earls and the laugh dancing in her eyes, wlten she heard the click of the gate —1 see her there now; and I'd take her in my arms, and she'd put up her little red lips for a kiss; but my little girl will never watch under the old plum-tree by the well again. I shall iever hear the cry ot joy as she catches a glimpse of me at the gate —I shall never see Iter little feet running over the grass to spring in my arms again!" — "And," said the Southerner, "there's a little browii-cyed, brown-haired girl that used to watch in the cool afternoons for her father, when he rode in from his visit to the plantations—l see her sweet little face shin ing out from the rose that covered the pil lars, and hear her shout of joy as I bound ed from my horse and chased the little Hying feet and the loud lauglt up and down the verandah. Hut, my darling, you will nev er watch again among the roses for your fa ther, and you and he will never go laughing and romping up and down the old. verandah again!" And the Northerner drew near to the Southerner, and the hot tears stood on his cold cheeks, as he said : "Friend, may God have pity on our fa therless children." "Amen!" said the Southerner, fervently. And the Northerner spoke in a husky whisper, for the eyes of the dying man were glazing fast: "We have fought like bravo men togeth er. We are going beiore Cfod in a little while. Let us forgive each other. The Southerner tried to speak but tho sound died awav in a gurgle from his white lips; but he took the hand of the fallen foe, and the stiffening fingers closed tight over it, and his last look was a smile ot forgive ness and peace. And when the next morn ing's sun walked itp the gt ay stairs ot the dawn touched with pink, it looked down and saw the two foes lying dead, with their hands clasped in each other, by the 3tream which ran close to tho battle-field. And the little girl with golden hair that watched under the plum-tree among the hills of New Hampshire, and the little girl with the bright brown ltair that waited by the roses among the green plains of Georgia, went fatherless. How Beau Hackett was Made a Zouave.' 1 was put through a rigid course ol ex amination before I could be made a Zouave, | and 1 say it with feeling and gratification and self esteem, that I was remarkably well I posted in the catechism. My father was a hero of the revolution, having been caught once in a water-wheel, and whirled round rapidly a number of times. Others of the family have also distinguished themselves as military men at different periods, but their I deeds of courage are too well known to need repetition. The following is a copy verba tim et literatim et wordem of most of tho questions propounded to me, and the answers thereto, which my intimate acquaintance with the Array Regulations and the Report of the Committee on the conduct ot the War enabled me to answer readily, and ac curately. ily interrogator was a little man in Federal blue, witli gold leaves on his shoulders. They called lnm Major, but he looked young enough to be a minor. He led off" with—- 'How old are you, and what are your qualifications?' 'Twenty-two and a strong stomach. —• Then I requested him to fire his interro gations singly, which lie did. 'What is the first duty to be learned by a soldier?' 'How to draw his rations.' 'What is the most difficult feat for a sol dier to perform ?' 'Drawing his bounty.' 'lf you were in the rear rank ola com pany during an action, and the man in tlie front rank before you should be wounded and disabled, what would you do?' 1 would dispatch myselt to the rear for a surgeon immediately. Some men would step forward and take the wounded man a place, but that is unnatural.' 'lf you were commanding skirmishers, and saw cavalry advancing in the front and infantry in the rear, which would you meet V 'Neither; I would mass myself for a bold movement, and shove out sideways.' 'lf you were captured what line of con duct would you pursue ?' 'I would treat my captors with the ut most civility.' 'What are the duties of Home Guards V 'Their duty is to see that they have no duties.' ' 'What will you take V' 'Bourbon straight!' 3-A New Hampshire paper says those who went to Lebanon one day last week, for examination, were shocked to see a white man there, followed by his young son, whom he was endeavoring to sell at the highest price as a substitute. The man, at last, after much bantering, sold his boy for s?4i)o, end pocketed the greenbacks with the cool est satisfaction, while the boy dejectedly passed into die Provost's office to report for service. WHOLE NUMBER, 3054 VOL. 7, NO 16. AN ELOQUENT SPEECH. j lion. Mr. Cox, of Ohio, in a speech which he made recently in New York, gave the follow ing eloquent description of the scenes attending the wresting of Magna Charta from King John the Abraham Lincoln of his time: The traveler who visits thnt island meadow in the river Thames, near Windsor, now used as a race-course, and still known as ltunnymede, does not go there to see the horses run, but be cause that meadow marks an era in the progress of human freedom. There, six hundred and forty-four years ago, on the morning of the 12th of August, the iron-clad barons met King John and wrested from him the same rights which have been violated by Abraham Lincoln, and ostracised by the indemnity bill of the last Con gress. (Cheers.) Tlihsc rights were written in Latin of that day. "Nullus liber homo cani tur" it began. Dead language, but vital with liberty—which Chatham said was with all the classics. "No free man shall l>e arrested or imprisoned or deprived of his own free household, or ot his liberties, or of his own free custom, or outlaw ed, or banished, or injured in any manner, nor will we pass sentence upon him, unless by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." (Cheers.) This was the germ of civil freedom, which the pigmies of to-day arc endoavoring to uproot now that it lias grown from tho acorn to the oak! As another (Judge Thomas, of Massa chusetts) has so linely expressed it, "from the gray of that morning streamed the rays, which uplifting with the hours, coursing with the years, and keeping pace with the centuries "have encircled the whole earth with the glorious light of English liberty—the liberty for which our fathers planted tlieso commonwealths in the wilderness; for which they went through the baptism of blood and lire in tho Uevolutiou ; which they imbedded and hoped to make immor tal in the Constitution; without which the Constitution would not be worth the parchment on which it is written." (Cheers.) As it to inako this great charter sacred for ever in the • Anglo-Saxjon memory ; to connect it with the , holiest emotions of religion, and to sanction it by the hopes and tlie terrors of tho unseen world, the Catholic Hierarchy of that day long before Protcstanism arose —before the lie formation—before we bad the transcendental tllght of our Puritan preachers —(laughter) — j this Catholic. Hierarchy, then the Mend ot the , i oppressed and the people were convoked. A : j few days sifter the unwilling King signed tlie J charter. 1 would liko to make a picture in , i vo" 1- ovo of that, groat convocation. They tnet | in Westminster Abbey, the mausoleum ot uie ■ dead royalty and genius of Britain. Here was | the King uf>on his throne, sceptered and crown | ed, irupurpied in his robes of office; near him , were the fords temporal in their scarlet gowns ; I on his right were the gentlemen of England ! representing thp Commons —tho people ot tlie 1 realm, a,nd within the altar were the Lord's a ! nointod, clad in all the pomp of their pontifical i apparel 1 In tlie midst stood Stephen Langdon, ! the Primate of England, Archbishop of Can i terbury. The great organ rolls its music amidst i the Gothic, arches ; the air, suffused with a dim 1 religious light from the stained windows. — ! trembles with the thrilling "symphony divine," i and the choir sirtg Te Deim hmlamus— praise to God for the great charter of human freedom! Censors swing and tho incense rises, an offering to the God oi' Justice ! And in that impressive presence the Archbishop arise. l }, and, gathering upon his brow and in his voice tho terrors of the ■ invisible and eternal world, he sequesters and cx- I eludes, and from the body of our Lord Jesus ; Christ, from the company of the Saints in Heav ! cu anil tlie good on earth, he forever excom- I municates and accurses every one who should j dare violate that great charter ot Anglo-Saxon j freedom! (Cheers.) Think you, mon ol New I York, these curses are not living yet? A Mas j sachusetts senator has said that vour honored • Governor is now being dragged at the chariot I of a Federal executive, usurping the right of j the people and violating the great charter, as i eternised in our traditions, our history, and our j Constitution. But the people of this country ! are meeting as of old—not in any Gothic min- I Kter, not in the presence of the great hierarchs, I nor with ceremony of Church and State, not to j the music of organ and choir or tho rising in ' cense of praise, nor amidst the fuluiinalioii ot 1 Primates; but under the great sky of heaven, j from the Atlantic'to the Mississippi; and they j too arc sequestering and excluding, excommuni ! eating and aceursing—and from the body of the ; just God in Heaven, and from tho company ol the good and patriotic everywhere—Abraham ' Lincoln —(immense cheering)—and the minions I of his power who have dared in this ago and f land to violate these sacred rights of personal i and constitutional liberty. jGroat cheers.) The Ximc Months' Volunteers. —The Secretary of War has decided against the claims of nine months' volunteers to national bounties; but the hoars of a nino months' man who dies or is killed in the service are entitled to the United States bounty of SIOO, besides the pay duo to the soldior at the dnto of his decease. The widows and mothers of nine months' soldiers are also entitled to pensions under act of Con gress, approved duly 14, 1862. *y"l wish I had your head," said a lady one day to a gentloman who had solved lor her a knotty point. "And I wish I had your heart," wan'his reply.—"Well,"*aid she, "since your head and iny heart can ngroe, I don't see why they should not go into partnership." ®tA young lady, U teacher in an academy, was al°o a teacher in the Sunday school. The lessorts of the (My was about the two mites of tlie.widow, which she pronounced mits. Ex plaining the reason why these mits Were so val uable, she said that the widow probably knit tlictn herself ' : 1 ;" i■ r 1 riJ 1 (".i'C Ratts of - '" One Square, three weeknor le 6 '. . . . . .*125 One Square, earh addirional insertion 1e than three months -25- 1? MONTHS. 6 Ja/HtiiAJl rs*n. One square $3 00 $4 00 ss.oo Twoaquares 4 00 SJtQ 0 Three aquarea 500 7JU 13 J Column 00 $ ot> 15 00 $ Column -& 0 20 <: 4 Column .... ... . i 3 Qs ; ft JDjV 30 00. [One Column 18.00 581 00M JO 00/ Administrators'and Executors' noticoql'-htO, Au uitors' notice* $1.50, if under W line*. $2.00 il more (hen a square and lea* than 20 line's. Ectrays, $1.25, if but one head is adrertited, 25 cents lor every additional head.' The apace occupied by ten lines of. size or type count* one square. All fractions <rf* square under Ave lines will be measured as a hill square and all over five lines as a lull square f All legal advertisementi will be charged to the pirson hand inx them in. - . ... *• ' Grape, Canister, Shrapnel and Shell. Grapo consists of jiinw shots in three labors, which vary in size according to the culibre of the gun; they arc held together fey two plates about one fourteenth of an inch less in diame ter than the calibre of the gun, two rings, a bolt, and a nut. The can vans-bag arrangement is too old for this war; it is not so simple or durable, and has not been used for years. Canister for a gun contains twenty seven small cast iron balls, arranged in four layers, the top ofsix, the re mainder of seven inch; for howitzer it contains forty-eight small iron balls in four layer# 'of twelve each ; for the same calibre you will see that the case for canister is a tin cylinder, clos ed at the bottom by a thick cast iron plate or a wooden plate, and at the top by a sheet iron plate with a handle attached; the interstices between the balls are closely padcod with saw - dust to prevent crowding when the piece is fired. Shrapnel consists of a very thin shell which is filled with musket balls; the interstices are then filled by pouring in melted sulphur* ft fi'blo is then borod through the mass ot sulphur fttid bullets to receive the bursting charge. JS'opv, to explain the difference between a "shrapnel" of "spherical case" and a "shell." The des tructive force of a shrapnel is what It receives from the dliarge in the gun, the powder in shrap nel being only to break the envelope and spread the balls, they still moving forward by a forco of the impulse they receive frotn the charge in the gun. A shell is made very much thicker than the envelope of a shrapnel, hrid is nearly tilled with powder, and wilt do great execution if it explodes on the,ground, it having diisUwc tive qualities iu itself, aside from the discharge of the gun. A shrapnel shell has only half pf (he charge of powder that a proper shell has; 1 thus a twenty-four pounder shrapnel bonfulhs twelve mus-kct balls and six ounces of poWiWr. A twenty-four pounder has twelve otrftcea <of powder. A six pounder shrapnel has thirty nine musket balls ami tweuty-tive gfiitMu of powder. . ■. A SATISFACTORY ANSWER. An attorney in the country recently received an account from abroad for collection, and in reply he made the following statement of t(ie financial condition of the section in which ho resides, which was doubtless perfectly satisfac tory to the creditor:— "Now I aiu perfectly astonished nt, yon for sending a claim out here for collection these times. You might as well cast your net into the ''lake of fire and bfimstone," to catch a sun 1— ;-a- _. Sfwian nool to catch | speckled trout as to try to collect money here. I Money! have u faint recolleotion 'of having ■ seen it when a small boy. I believe it was giv en me by uiy uncle to buy candy with. (The candy Ido remember.) But it has been so long since I have seen itny that T'almost- f>rgot whether gold is made of cOrn or mustard, or ' silver of white opious or lish-soalos. Why, sir we live without money- YWro- hehiud the times. It Is a relic of barbarism—of ages past. We live by eating ' hero, sir—we do. Hoot, man. the millcnlum is coming, the year of jubilee is come, and all debts wo paid as thfcy will be, unless you take " proj.uce ." The word "money" is not in our. vocabulary ; in thft fa test Webster (revised for this meridian,) it is marked " obsolete , formerly a coin representing value nnd used as a medium of com moms* A few small pieces can ho seen in our Historical Society's collection, where they aro exhibited as curiosities, along with the skeloton of tha "Mas todon," Xoah's old boots and Adam's apple. VALUE OF AN EXPLANATION. A certain king, it is said, sent to another king saying,, _ .1 "Send mo a blue pig, with a black tail, or else— * The other, in a high dudgeon at the presumed insult, replied. "I have not got one, and if I hnd—, On which, weighty cause, thoy want; tq ~>var for many years. After a satiety of glories and miseries, they finally bethought them that, as their armies nnd resources were exhausted, and their kingdoms mutually laid waste, it might be well enough to consult about preliminaries of peace ; but before this could be concluded a diplomatic explanation was first needed sd, in suiting languugo which had formed the ground of the quarrel. "What could you mean," asked the seoontl king of the first, by saying, "Send mo A) blue pig with a black tail, or else—?" „ "Why," said the otlior, ''l mean a bigo pig with a black tail, or else solue other color. — Hut," resorted ho, "what could yon mean by saying, "I havo not got one, nnd if I had—f' "Why, of course, if X hail, X should liaro sent it!" an explanation which was entirely satisfactory, and pence was concluded accord ingly. Ilymbltcans ffitve B'Oug.'it Upon Us Curt War. Douglas said so; l'ugh said so; Crittenden said so; Everett said so. They would not compromise, but wefo m fa vor of "bloodletting." Chandler said so ; Brough says so; Wade says so—all say so. Thoy aro not in favor of the Union as it was. Butler says so; Greeley says so; the Chicago Tribune says "it is a thing iff the past, hated by every patriot, and destined never to blot, tho pago of history again ;* Bingham says it is a soaudal, and Stevens says "God forbid it." They spit upon "tlio Constitution as it is." Webster said it was all he asked for, whilo Beccher calls it a "sheepskin parchment," and Garrison "a league with doatb " . v Becchor and Garrison, an 1 Stevens, ami Greeley and tlie Chicago Tribune nil support tho ucTtmri-- istration.— Dubuque lierald. CyAn honest man is tho noblest work of God,. but, unfortunately, the odition is very small.
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