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EBPY M. ALSIP,
ATTORNEY JIT LA IV, JJJiDFOIiD , PA.
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business
entrusted to his cate in Bedford and adjoining coun
-lies. Military claims, back pay, bounty, he.,
tpedily collected.
Office with Mann fc Spang, on Juliana street, two
Jours South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, 'fit.
'iVcw Banking House.
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* t ave opened, a Bank of Discount and Deposit, in
Bedfoni, Pa. Money lent and taken on deposit, and
collections made on moderate terms.
Thev also have lands in lowa, Minnesota, Wiscon
lin. Missouri and Nebraska, for sale or trade.
Bedford, Oct. 30, 18fi3—tf.
J. ALSIP & SON,
Auctioneers & Commission Merchants,
BEDFORD, PA..
Respectfully solicit consignments of Boots and
•hoes, Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, nnd all kinds
*+t Merchandise for AUCTION and PRIVATE Sale.
REFERENCES.
Phit.adbi.phia, BrnFORD,
Philip Ford h Co., Hon. Job Mann,
Boyd St Hough, Hon. W. T. Daugherty,
Armor Young St Bros., B.F.Meyers.
January 1, 1964—t1. I
J. L. MARBOUR3-, M. D.
Having permanently located, respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of Bedford
and vicinity.
Os*oflice on Julianna street, opposite the Bank,
•se deor north of John Palmer's office.
Bedford, February 10, 1804.
U . II • AKE R S ,
JITTOLLMEY .IT LAW, Bedford, Pa.
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care. Military claims speedily collected. !
Office on Juliana street, opposite the post-office.
Bedford, September 11, 1863.
f. M. Kimmsll. J. W. Linoenfri.TXß,
KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA
-oT"Have formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South
•f the "Mengel House."
JssMahn. G. H. Spaho.
MANN & SPANG.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA-
The undersigned have associated theffnselves in
the Practice ol the Law, and will attend promptly
to all business entrusted to their caie in Bedford
and adjoining counties.
on luliana Street, three doors south
at the "Mengel House,'' opposite the residence n<
Mat. Tete.
Bedford, Aug. 1, 1861.
JOHN P- REED,
ATTORNEY at LAW, BEDEORD, pa.,
Km pectfully tender, hie services to the Public.
K7"office second door North of the Mngel
Heme.
Bedford, Arg, 1, 1861.
JOHN PALMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA
tGTWiII promptly attend to all business entrua
tad to bis rare. Office orr Johanna Street, (near
!y opposite the Mengel House.)
Bedierd, Aug. 1, ISCt.
A. U. COFFROTII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Pa.
Will hereafter practice regularly in the several
Courts of Bedford county. Business entrnated to
kit care will be faithfully attended to.
December 9, 1861;
BAM BEL KETTERBI ,
BEDFOItn, PA.,
0?"WouId hereby notify the citizens of Bedford
aounty, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed
ford, where he may at all times be found b- persons
wishing to see him, unleas absent upor. business
pertaining to his office.
Bedford, Aug. 1,1861.
JACOB RKED, J.J. BCHILL,
REED AND BCIIELL,
BANKERS k DEALERS IN EXCHANGE,
BF.DFCRD, PKNN'A.
bought and sold, collections made
and iponey promptly remitted.
Deposits solicited.
ST. CHARLES HOTEL,
CORNER OF WOOD AND THIRD STREETS
PITTSBURGH, PA
HARRY SHIRLS PROPRIETOR.
April 12 1861.
ii.iTMllTole&To7^
Wholesale Grocers,
407 NORTH THIRD STREET,
ABOVX CA[.L.OWHILL, M
PHILADELPHIA.
Hank 7, 180?—ly.
A. A. SHU WW AY & CO.,
Manufacturer, and Whole-ate Dealer, m
Boots A Slutcs,
No, 121 Market Street, and 310 Cburfk Alley,
PHILADELPHIA
March 7, 1863—1y. i
RICHARD LEO.
MANUFAi'TURER OF
CABINET-WARE, CHAIRS, &C.,
BEDFORD, PA.
The undersigned being engaged in the Cabinet
aiakii.g ousiuess, will make to or'er and keep on
hand every thing in fiia lineol manufacture.
BUREAUS, DRESSING STAXDS, PAR
LOR AND EXTENSION TABLES,
CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WASH
STANDS, &C., SeC.
*ill be furnished at all prices, and to suit every
**'**• COFFINS will also be made to older.
attention paid to all orders for work.
on West Pitt Street, nearly opposite the
residence of George Shuck.
RICHARD LEO.
July 10, 1863.—tf
iivMfari* Wvwtie.
VOLUME .79.
NEW SERIES.
Select IJJoetni..
I Wish I Was an Editor.
BY NDI>.
I wish I was an Editor, '
I really do indeed ;
It seems to me that Editor*
Get everything tliey need.
Tliey got the biggest nnd the best
Of everything that grows,
And get in free to circusscs,
And other kinds of shows.
When a mammoth cheese is cut,
They always get a slice,
For saying Mrs. Smith knows how
To mak? it vory nice *,
The largest pnmpkin, tho longest beet,
And other garden stuff;
Is blown into the sanctum by ,
An editorial pufT;
The biggest bug will Bpeak to them,
No matter how they dress,
A shabby coat i 3 nothing if
You own a printing press;
At Ladies' Fairs tliey arc almost hugged
By pretty girls who know
That they will crack up everything
The ladies hnvo to show ;
thus they gel a blow out freo '
At .every party, feed, •
The reason is because lliey write,
And other people read.
• "i"
THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.
EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ,
All contributions to this column must be addressed
to "Simon Syntax, Box 23, Bedford, Pa."
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS.
The School Directors of the cbunty will do
well to notice the following, given in answer to
the question ; "At what time does the terra of
office of directors who are elected at the winter
or spring elections, commence for 18G-f?"
It was enacted April 22, 1863, that from and
after the first day of January, 1861, the term
of office ot School Directors should commence
on the firtft Monday of June in each year. Al
so that the term of office of school directors
then iu ofiice shall severally be extended until
the first Monday of June of the year in which
their term of office expires. Ily this law direc
tors who are elected at tho winter or spring e
whose term of office expires this year are to
continue to net with the board until that date.
Any action of a board in which the newly elect
ed members took their scats before said first
Monday in June is illegal; the business thus
transacted should bo acted upon again by the
old board.
From the Pennsylvania School Journal.
REPORT ON TEACHERS INSTITUTES,
DISTRICT AND COUNTY.
It will not be iny object in tho tew thoughts
which I am about to present, to seek out thoor
igin,of Institutes, and trace them up through
the different periods of their growth to the pres
ent time; but to speak of them as an establish
ed institution—as an essential element in our
common school system.
As to tho paßt results of Institutes, there is
no question. Although imperfectly organized,
with a want of system and method in the man
ner of conducting them, the results are greater
than from any other single educational agency ;
first suggesting if they did not actually effect a
complete change in our methods of teaching and
school management.
DISTBICT INSTITUTES. : Sinco the passage of
tho law making it obligatory for teachers to de
vote two days of each month to exercises for
their own improvement, District Institutes have
been established on a permanent basis; for al
though this portion of the law has been in op
eration fer but a comparatively short time, the
hopes of its friends are being realized. True,
We are having some failures. The teachers of
certain districts, from a lack of knowledge or
inclination, fail to compensate themselves or
their schools for the time thus spent; but as In
stitutes become general, they become moro pop
ular and effective.
Institutes aro now organized in almost every
district in the ,State, thus bringing all classes of
teachers within their influence. As these be
come more effective in their operation their in
fluence extends beyond the teachers and the
schools to tho county organization.—making it
more practical and interesting; both agencies
also exerting a powerful influence on communi
ties, by means of the clearer views disseminated
up®n the importance, means and ends of edu
cation, and the importance of employing none
but well qualified teachers.
In order that there may be no failures in car
rying out the law in regard to Institutes, it is
necessary that there be a permanent organiza
tiori of the teachers in the different districts
Lei there be a definite plan of operation, with
clear ' conceptions of tho objects and ends in
view and a sett!?J purpose to accomplish theso
ends,'even though difficulties do present them
selves.
The principal exercises .or the Institute should
bo drills in the diflerent branci,.® B of the com
mon school course, and discussions o£! the theo
ry of teaching. m
The manner of conduetiug these drills will
suggest itself to the iqtelligent teacher, from
reading articles upon the subject in our educa
tional periodicals, and be somewhat in propor
tion to a knowledge of tho ability of the differ
ent members of the class. The exercises should
not be merely adapted to the present stock of
knowledge possessed by the different toaehcrs;
but,, by assigning subjects for succeeding meet
ings end requiring careful preparation ia order
Freedom of Thought and Opinion,
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1864.
to appear creditably before the Institute, addi
tional acquisitions should be provided for.—
1 cachers will thus be compelled to subject them
selves to professional study, or have their igno
rance nrid carelessness exposed. An additional
Amount of labor is thus imposed, to which the
true teacher will willingly submit. We arc on
ly successful by laborious effort.
While the principal object of the Institute
should be professional improvement, parents and
citizens generally should be induced to attend.
On such occasions exercises of a more general
nature should be introduced—not merely for
their present entertainment but for giving cor
rect views upon educational topics in regard to
which misunderstanding exists.
To insure regularity, and punctuality in at
tendance, a correct minute of the proceedings
of the Instituto should be kept, which should
at nil times bo open to the inspection of direc
tors, or a synopsis of these minutes be monthly
presented to the District SocreMvy. A failure
to perform any reasonable duty assigned should
ho treated as a failure to perform any of the
usual school room duties.
Ihe want of professional rending is felt by !
many of our teachers, and this can only be sup- 1
| plied by establishing libraries in connection with ■
the District Institute. Many of those now en- :
gaged in teaching are too poorly compensated j
to mnke much outlay for this purpose. In no
other way could directors better dispose of a
small portion of the funds of the district than '
by adding, annually, a few well selected vol
umes to an Institute Library; thus insuring to !
every teacher a constant supply of reading mat- j
ter upon educational topic>.
Difficulties in the way of successfully cstah- '
lishing Institutes in all of the different districts of
tbe State may lead to modifications of the gen- ;
eral.plan of operation; hut many of these are
imaginary. The county which 1 represent has i
a reasonable share of these difficulties, yet we
have an organized Institute in every district, I
with an attendance of at least 80 per cent, of
the teachers employed. Where there are real \
difficulties in the way, a liberal construction j
should he put upon the law, and the distiict, as j
much as possible, relieved.
Objections are frequently ur„ed, and with i
some plausibility, that the Institutes, owing to'
the conduct of tho members, often entirely fail;
in accomplishing the desired purpose, ami send
away persons completely disgusted with their !
proceedings. Teachers who act in this way dc- i
serve censure. If they cannot conduct them
selves with proper dignity nnd decorum while j
engaged in exercises for mutual improvement, !
tlu-v are wmp Y. JAv\A\T " l -~ j
— mam
The Democratic Party and Slavery.
Some observations on this subject, which we
deemed it prudent to offer a few weeks sinco,
hnvc drawn out, from all parts of the loyal states,
responses which show that we were fortunate
enough to strike the key-note of a widely diffus
ed public sentiment. We have found our views
echoed, with, more or less abatement, or more
or less exaggeration, in the loyal press of the
country, in Congress, and especially in numer
ous letters of indorsement from men of influ
ence and standing in the Dcinocrutic party.—
This favorable impression and these warm in
dorsements are certainly not due to the novelty
of our views, but only to their timeliness. If
they had any merit, it consisted merely in an
apt application to present circumstances of time
honered principles to which the Democratic
party has always assented. We have not made
converts to a new faith, hut only led the way
in the application of old principles to a new
problem.
While the main drift of public sentiment to
the Democratic party is toward a simple and
unqualified indorsement of our position precise
ly QS detincd it we observe that a very few per
sons and presses, who seem to mistake that po
sition for an innovation, full into lines of argu
ment Which evince, on the one side, something
of the exaggerated zeal of now converts', and
on the other, a littlo of the defensive vehemence
natural to tuon who fear that their party is cut
ling loose from old moorings. These are points
I on which wo do not think it wise to have u con
troversy with any class of men who desire the
success of the Democratic party j especially,
as the general sense of the party, which has
been so widely expressed, is in entire harmony
with our views. The only argument we choose
to make on the subject is simply to restato our
position, leaving tho statement to make what
ever impression may be thought duo to its in
! trinsic weight.
•It has for some tirno been tho cue of tho ad
versaries of tho Democratic party to stigmatize
it as a pro-slavery party, and to excite preju
dice against it as the pntron and apologist of an
institution which is condemned by tho civiliza
tion of tho age. That this is an unjust impu
tation on tho Democracy of the Northern States,
is demonstrated by tlie broad and undeniablo
fact that slavery was abolished in all the Norh
ern States in whirh it ever existed with the
warm npproval.nnd hearty concurrence of all
the people of these states without distinction of
party. No northern Democrat ever opposed
orrergetted the abolition of slavery in tho state
of his residence, much loss ever proposed or
wished its re-establishment. The head of a
family who takes the most careful pains to train
up his own children in the principles of Chris
tains virtue, gives the stsongest possible evidonco
of his approval of those principled, even though
ho may not think it his duty to interfere with
the domestic discipline of his infidel neighbor.
If that neighbor happens to bo his partner in
business tho fact tlmt they arc members of tho
same firm confers upon neither any control o
ver tho household of tho other however strong
ly ho may disapprove of its management, hut
can there be no virtue unless it be of that med
dlesome and Intrusive kind wnich violates the
sacred right of distinct families, or of distinct
communities, to be exempt from the officious
| and censorious survcilance of neighboring fami
lies, or neighboring communities? Docs a man
cease to he virtuous, because in addition to
other virtues, he practices the discreet and peace
promoting virtue of minding his own business.
Besides the great cardinal fact on which we
insist, that Northern Democrats have proved
their abhorrence of slavery by assisting in ex
pelling it from their own States and bolting tbe
doors again.-; its return, they have expressed
pnblie nnd constant satisfaction at all movement
toward its abolition in other States, by the peo
ple of those States, and equally decided depre
cations of tho arrest of such movements by im
pertinent outside interference. We could if ne
cessary, till our columas to overflowing with
citations from the documents, speeches, and
writings of Democratic statesmen, in which it
was urged as a strong point against the aboli
tion crusade of the last thirty years, that it had
put hack emancipation in the border slave Slates, j
Is this a species of argument to he used by men '
who approve of slavery and desire its contin- '
uance V . J
j The pro-slavcrv sligma attempted to be fixed
■ on Northern Democrats is a calumny; it lias
always been repel ted as a calumny throughout
: the heated controversies which have prevailed
since the annexation of Texas. Among Suuth
; Democrat the slavery issue was early merged
in the.higher issue of the right of the States
to control their domestic affairs, and it was only
by attacks on slavery that this right was as
sailed, they were led to defend the outpost as if
it were the citadel itself, and thereby furnished
a pretext for the calumny ag linst the Demo
cratic party. But the Democrats of the North,
in rebelling this calumny, have steadily asser
ted that it was not slavery which they wished
to uphold, but on)y Ibe constitutional right of
each State to determine for itself (as the North
ern States had done) when it would abolish
slavery, or whether it would abolish it at all.
The facts we have here stated are of such
general notoriety that no person tolerably ac
quainted with our political history will be like
ly to deny them. It only remains to apply the
principles which underlie them to present issues.
I keep in my house a small aquarium and a
few canary birds, and my neighbor, whose taste
differs from mine, is a snakefancier. He keeps
a cage of poisonous serpents, whose breath in
fect the atmosphere of his apartments and im
pairs the health of his family. 1 have no more
right to enter his house and kill or uncago his
serpents than he has to enter mine and break
my aqunirium. But supposo he has disturbed
lie peace of the neighborhood, and committed |
It . allhnnirh
may, and if I am summoned as one of a posse
to assist in the arrest and the criminal resists,
bis snake-cage may lie broken to pieces in tho
melee , and tho lifo trodden out of the hissing
monsters; without any grounds of an action for
trespass.
No magistrate could have issued a warrant for
killing the serpents; but the officer of tho law;
once legally in the house, is not responsible for
any damage which may incidentally be done in
overpowering resistance. ' Whether it bo the
noxious snakos or dishes that
nr'e destroyed, it is all the same. And so, when
our armies are legally within the Southern States
for the purpose of overpowering resistance, those
who make the resistance have simply to thank
themselves whether it is their erops, their com
merce, or slavery that is incidentally destroyed.
Now, so far as we observe any deviation from
the principles which we have thus stated in the
form of a parable, it consists either in an as
sumption that because the otficer of the law
is not responsible for damages necessarily inci
dent to the discharge of his duty, he may there
fore do all other damage that ho can ; or in the
contrary assumption that because the otficer had
no original right to enter tho house or kill -the
snakes, he is obliged to leave them in good
health-. Neither assumption is admissible. Hie
radicals argue as if it were the duty of the of
ficer, when once in the house, to lay about him
and do all the damage in his power.
Hut he cannot go beyond the necessity of
executing the lnw. Even if tho homicide was
committed because the man's neighbors quar
reled with him about his snakes, it by no means
follows, as'the radicals contend, that the snake
must be killed to remove the cause of the hom
icide and prevent its repetition. The law runs
into no sucli whiraseys. It merely justifies tho
damage which may incidentally be done in its
own execution, and, in this respect, it regards
all kinds of property alike.
When the South entered upon this war, they
deliberately exposed their slave property to tho
perils and vicissitudes of a military contest, and
they must take the consequences. The Demo
cratic party of the North steadfastly holds to
the same principle of nonintervention which it
has always insisted upon as the true constitu
tional doctrine. As it would not interfere to
destroy or cripple slavery tho' disapproving it,
so neither will it interfere to save slavery from
the consequenses to which its own friends have
exposed it,— World.
ARTEMUS WARD, in a recent letter, thus gives
his idea of re-organization:
"I never attempted to re-organize my wite
but onco. I shall never attempt it agnin. I'd
bin to a public dinner, and had allowed myself
to be betrayed into drinkin' their healths until
my own beenme affected. Consekena was, I pre
sented mysdf at Betsy's bedside late at nite,
with considerable licker concealed about my per
son. 1 had somehow got perseshun of a horse
whip on my way home and rmemberin' some
cranky obscrvashuns of Mrs. Ward, in tho morn
ing, I snapt tho whip putty lively, and in a very
Joud voice I said Betsy, you need re-organizin'!
1 have coine to re-organize 11 dreamed that'i to
that somebody had laid a horsewhip over me
sev'ril conseckootive times; and when I wuke up
I found she had. I hnint drunk tnuch of any
thin* since; and if I ever have another re-organ
izin' job on hand I shall let it out.
WHOLE NUMBER, 3100
VOL. 7, NO 33.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
1 On Tuesday, says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
1 of Feb. 20, a singular occurrence in real life
took place in the Police Court, which, in this
city, at least, has seldom transpired. The facts
are these: About five years ago a man named
Edward Carey left an atfectionate and beautiful
wife and three interesting children, to seek a
i fortune in the mines of California. For one
' year after his arrival in the goid country, Carey
j wrote constantly to his wife, and enclosed fre
quent sums of money. Suddenly the correspon-
I dence ceased, and Mrs. Carey received no mon
ey, was compelled to adopt other means to ob
j tain a livelihood for herself and little ones- In
a few weeks thereafter Mrs. Carey received in
• formation that her husband had been killed#n
j the mines, which was corroborated by a sub.se
: quent letter received from California. For three
j years she lived, as she supposed she was, a wid
j ow, and receiving the attentions of an Italian,
I named Joseph fieibe, who succeeded in gaining
, her. affections, she consented to marriage, and a
year'ago the two were legally united in the bonds
of wedlock, and hare ever since lived quite hap
pily together. On Sunday last, as the church
bells were summoning to the house of God the
worshippers of the true lleing, Edward Carey
who had arrived direct from California by the
i morning train, wao making inquiries in the neigh
borhood (in which his family resided when he
left Cincinnati,) for his wife and children. His
neighbeftj and friends stood amazed, and trem
bled upon beholding the man whom they had
, long since believed to be dead. Upon being as- !
sured that it was Carey, who was not dead but I
| living, he was astounded with the intelligence
that his wife, who had also believed that he had i
"gone to that bourne froth whence no traveller I
returns," was married to another man, with ]
whom she was now living in domestic felicity.
Ascertaining the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Keii, the afflicted husband hastened to ascer- I
tain whether what ho had heard was true or <
false. Knocking at the door, a tall Italian, <
measuring six feet one and one-half inches, came I
to the door. Caret' inquired: i
"Does Mrs. Keibc live here V'
Italian "She dues-r-will you walk in ?" 1
Carey—"Yes, sir; will you please tell her
that a gentleman desires to see her ?"
The Italian consented, and on going to the
door leading into the dining room, called his
wife by her first name. She answered, and, all
full of smiles, came running down into the par
lor. Upon seeing her husband, who rose from
his seat to meet her, sho screamed out, "My
(rod, Carey!" and fell fainting to the floor.—
The husbands both hastened, to raise her from
was Edward Carey, the Tally s lawtul husoana.
Reibo also claimed her as his wife, and added,
"I shall never give her up." Before the wife
had folly recovered from her fainting attach the
two husbands had become engaged in angry, vi
olent words, resulting in Carey drawing a pistol
on Reibe, nnd by the latter being forcibly eject
ed from bis house. Reibc, on Monday morning,
had a warrant sworn out in the Police Court,
charging Carey with disorderly conduct and pro
voking him to cdmmit a breach of the peaco.
Carey was arrested, and when arraigned before
Judge Warren, in the presence of Reibenndhis
wife, he asked the Court to hear an explanation
before he entered his plea. J udge W arren con
sented, and Carey stated that he and Reibo both
claimed the lady (pointing to Mrs. Carey Reibe)
as wife, and he believed himsolf tq be the legal
claimant, had become disorderly in demanding
of Reibo that he should give her up. Reibe,
through the Prosecuting Attorney, Mr. Straob,
exhibited toMie Court the marriage certificate,
and the question was at once raised, "What fur
ther proceedings could be had in that Court?"
The wife, who, like Niobo, all in tears, was call
ed up and asked by the Court if either of these
men was her husband? She replied that she bad
been mnrried to both, but having learned that
her first husband was dead, sho formed an at
tachment for Reibe three years afterwards and
married him. After assuring the Court of her
deeply seated attachment always for Carey, nnd
now her warm affection for Reibe, who had
been to her air affectionate and devoted husband,
the Conrt inquired of her, viz :
"What do you now propose to do ; live with
your first husband, who is legally snch, or your
last husband, who by misapprehension, and un
intentionally, you have made your husband ?"
The lady replied, "My duty and my desire
nre 'to live with my first husband, Edward Ca
rey."
The scene which followed can never bo dn.
scribed. Carey nnd his wife approached each
other and wept aloud, while the disappointed
Italian, seated in his chair like a statue, present
ed a picture of despair and disappointment.—
Presently his feelings wero overcome, and griev
ously wept, dieting the sympathy of all. Carey
and his wife, arm, in arm left the Court room
and Reibe, after receiving kindly admonition
from the Court that he must be resigned, and
pcrsuo the matter no further, left the presence
of the Court deeply chagrined and terribly
mortified at the fate which had befallen him.—
Carey and bis family are preparing to leave the
city, and Reibe, all alone in a deserted house,
refuses to be comforted.
CSrWhen the steamer Cosmopolitan returned
to Beaufort, South Carolina, with two hundred
and forty wounded and dying men from the
Florida battle field, a grand ball Was in full
blast, at which were present General Gil more
and Saxon. "Dance all night to the broad day
light, and" bury the dead in tho morning.
ggrlt is stated on high military authority that,
before Gn. Hallcck was relieved of his com
mand of the Department of the West, President
Lincoln transmitted an order to him relieving
Gen. Grant of all command, and practically
shelving him, as he had done Gen's. McClellan
and Fremont. Gen. Hallcck. however, took the
responsibility of pocketing the order, and thus
' saved Gen. Grant to tho service. /
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Honorable Conditions.
Many years ago, in what is now a flourishing
city in this State, lived a stalwart blacksmith,
fond of his pipe and joke. He was also fond of
his blooming daughter, whose many graces and
charms had ensnared the affections of a suscep
tible young printer. The couple, after a season of
billing and cooing, "engaged" themselves, and
nothing but the consent of the young lady's'pa
rent prevented their union. To obtain this, an
interview was arranged, and typo prepared n
little speech to astonish and convince the old
gentleman, who sat enjoying bis favorite pipe
in perfect content. Typo dilated upon the fact
of their long friendship, their mutual attach
ment, their hopes for the future, and like topics;
and taking the daughter by the hand, said, 'I
now, sir, ask your permission to transplant this
lovely flowor from its parent bed*—but his feel
ings overcame him, he forgot the remainder of
his oratorical flourish, blushed, stammered,
and finally wound up with—'from its parent
bed into my own.' The father keenly relished the
discomfiture of the suitor, and after removing
his pipe and Mowing a cloud, replied: 'Well,
young man, I don't know as I 'vc any objection,
provided you will marry the girl first /'
Sometime ago the New York Tribune wanted
j to know, because the New York Nem printed
McClcllan's report, why it was, if he was not a
a traitor, that he received the supportof traitor.
If Lincoln does not believe that the Conslitur
tion is a league with death and a covenant with
hell,' why does Garrison support him T If
he does not believe our flag is a "flaunting lie,"
why does the Tribune support hiraT If he is r.ot
a miscegenationist why do the sixty-four spins
ters at Port Royal, who are reported to have
practically applied the doctrine, support him?
a recent "receptjon" at the Presidential
mansion, two negroes—officials wearing the Fed
eral uniform—were present mingling with the
crowd. It was noticeable that Mr. Lincoln
treated them with "cold indifference." It is
said the blacks are urged by Sumner and other
Abolitionists to put themselves forward in
white society, and especially at these public re
ceptions, for the purpose of familiarizing the peo
ple with the idea of the social and political equal
ity of the whites and blacks.
I Crlt is related that in Illinois a few days
ago, a negro announced a lecture, and the mis
cegenationists bestirred themselves, and got him
a largo audience. What was their surprise, how*
ever, when they heard him declare that the Ab
olitionists are the worst enemies the negro has,
to lecture again, and left town on the next (Fata.
iHr'l'liere have been instances of audacity
since the war commenced, but we should like
to know whnt Democrat ever attempted to show
so conclusively the imbecility, unpopularity and
criminally even of the present Administration
as Messrs. lllair, Pomeroy and Greely. "
®-Gen. Meade bids fair to lie the next mil
itary victim of the Administration. He has been
summoned to Washington to answer the charg
es preferred against liitn by General Sickles and
General Doublcday. The matter is becoming se
rious to him.
©-A valuable bed of coal underlies the city
of Steubenvillc, Ohio and parties have offered
the city one hundred and fifty thousand dollaie
for the privilege of mining it.
torA great fault in tho dietetic system of
this country consists in the fact that most peo
ple are supported mainly by dinner. This meal *
is consequently too large.
(3-A woman has been arrested in San Fran
cisco for bathing ber^lf-in whnlooil. Hut wby
haven't women as good n right to bathe them
selves in whale-oil ns to oncaso themselves in
whalebone ?
NEW USE FOR COAI. OlL. —The Ohio Farmer
states that coal oil has been by mere accident,
found to be a mostjeffectivo means of protecting
fruit trees against the ravages of the cutculio,
by placing sawdust, saturated with oil at tho
foot of the tree..
A GREEN ONE. —An exchange tells a
good stoYy of an innocent countryman who
chanced to be in one of our cities on sun
day, and concluded to go to church, arriving
there he waited outside for a moment, when
to his profound sueprise, the organ struck"
up, from which he concluded some sort of
a "shave down' 1 was about to commence.
Just at that moment he was invited to walk
to a scat. ."Not "zacly, Mister—l ain't used
to no such doin's on Sunday; and, besides.
I don't dance."
FORK OVER. —Seward recontly asserted
that "every man in the Northern States is
richer in consequcnco of the war." His
circle of acquaintances is probably confined
to army contractors and highly paid official.
We wish he were obliged to make his word
substantial! v good with every man in North
ern States. * He would then be compelled
to fork over a few hundred dollars defect
to us.— Penn Yan . Democrat,
Cr"lsaac, can you describe a bat?'—
"Yes sir; he's a flying insect, about the size
of a stopple, has india rubber wmga, and
a shoe string tail, he sees with his eyes shut
It is said that there turo eleven govern
ment contractors who have taken th® small
pox in Washington. The rascals got' in
such a bad way of taking things, that it is
no wonder they took the small pox.