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at Xau\
JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTORNEY
f f AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., will promptly
attend to collections of bounty, back pay. 4c., !
and all business entrusted to his care in Bedford
and adjoining counties.
Cash advanced on judgments, notes, military
and other claims.
His for sale Town lots in Tatesville, where a
good Church is erected, and where a large School
House shall be built. Farms, Land and Timber
Leave, from one acre to 500 acres to suit pur
•turners.
Office nearly opposite the u Mengel Hotel" and |
Rank of Reed 4 Schell.
April 6,1866 —ly
J. MCD. BHARPE. E F. KERR.
QIIARPE & KERR, ATTORNEYS
AT LAW BEDFORD. PA., will practice in
the courts of Bedford and adjoining counties Of
fice on Juliana Bt., opposite the Banking House of
Reed 4 Schell. | March 2, '66.
R. DL'R BORROW. | JOHN LTLTZ.
DU II BORRO W t% LITT Z ,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their eare. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
and will give special attention to the prosecution
of claims against the Government for Pensioas,
Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, 4c.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
"Mengel House," and nearly opposite the Inquirer
office.
rOHN P.BEEP, ATTORNEY ATI
fj LAW,' BEDFORD. PA. Respectfully tenders
his services to the pnblic.
Office second door North of the Mengel House.
Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861.
TOHN PALMER, ATTORNEY AT
f ' LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will promptly attend
to all business entrusted to his care.
Particular attention paid to the collection of
Military claims. Office on Juliana Street, nearly
•pposite the Mengel House.
Bedford. Aug. 1. 1861. _
EjISPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT
LAW r , BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and
promptly attend to all business entrusted to his
care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military
laims. back pay, bounty, 4c., speedily collected.
Office with Mann 4 Spang, on Juliana street,
to doors South of the Mengel House.
Jan. 22, 1864,
.M. KIMMELL. I J• W. LINGEXFELTER.
\T IMMELL & LINGENFELTER,
IV ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
he Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South
•ftba -'Mengel House,"
(1 11. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT
J". LAW BEDFORD. PA. Will promptly at
tend to collections and all business entrusted to
his care in Bedford and adjoining counties.
Office on Juliana Street, three doors south of tho
'•Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs.
Tate.
May 13, 1864.
B. F MEYERS. | J. W. DICKKRSON.
l\/f EYEHS & DICKERSON, AT
JJIJL TORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford, Pa., office
same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P. Schell,
two doors east ol the GAZETTE office, will practice
in the several courts of Bedford county. Pensions,
bounty and back pay obtained and the purchase
and sal# of real estate attended to. |mayll, 66.
lOHN H. FILLER, Attorney at Lute,
Bedford, Pa. Office nearly opposite the Post
Office. [apr.2o,'66.—ly.
£Uit.sirians and dentists.
DR. GF.O. B. K Eli LEY,
having permanently located in ST. CLAIRS
VILLE, tenders his professional services to the
citizens of that place and vicinity. nov2 66yl
"ITT \V. JAMISON, M. D., BLOODY
YV • kdn, Pa., tenders his professional servi
ces to the people of that place and vicinity. Office
one door west of Richard Langdon s store.
Nov. 24, '65 —ly
DR. J. L. MARBOURG, Having
permanently located, respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of Bedford
and vicinity.
Office on Juliana street, east side, nearly opposite
the Banking House of Reed 4 Schell.
Bedford. February 12, 1864.
Z. H. HICKOK, I J. G. MINNICH. JR.,
¥\ENT I S T S ,
I ) BEDFORD, PA.
Office in the Bank Building, Juliana St.
AH operations pertaining to Surgical or Me
chanical Dentistry carefully performed, and war
ranted. Tooth Powders and mouth Washes, ex
cellent articles, always on hand.
Tfrms—CASH.
Bedford. January 6,1865.
riTU lUM PH IX DENTISTRY!
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN,
by the use of Nitrous Oxide, and is attended with
no danger whatever.
TEETH INSERTED
upon a new style of base, which is a combination
of Gold and Vulcanite ; also, upon Vulcanite, Gold,
Platina and Silver.
TEMPORARY SETS inserted if called for.
Special attention will be made to diseased gums
and a cure warranted or no charge made.
TEETH FILLED to last for life, and all work
in the dental line done to the entire satisfaction of
all or the money refunded. Priceg to correspond
with the times.
I have located permanently in Bedford,
and shall visit Schellsburg the Ist Monday of each
month, remaining one week ; Bloody Run the 3rd
Monday, remaining one week ; the balance of my
time I can be found at tny office, 3 doors South of
the Court House, Bedford, Pa.
n0v.16,'66. WM. W. VAN ORMER, Dentist.
DR. H V I RGI L POUTER,
(late of New York City,)
DENTIST,
Would respectfully inform his numerous friends,
and the public generally, that he has located per
manently in Bloody Run, where he may be found
at all times prepared to insert full or partial sets
of his BEAUTIFUL ARTIFICIAL TEETH on new and
improved principles. •
Teeth filled in a superior manner.
Teeth extracted without pain.
All operations warranted. feblotf.
DAN lELBORDER7
PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEDFORD, PA.
WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY, SPECTACLES, 4C.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
er Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Re
.ined Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not on hand.
Oct. 20, 1865-
T>R IXTERS' INK has made many a
Ybusiness man rich We ask you to try it in
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MEW GOODS! FALL A- WINTER!
The undersigned have now opened a large nnd
general assortment of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
to which they respectfully invite the attention of
buyers, confident they can offer
BARGAINS! BARGAINS!
BARGAINS!
BA RGAINS! B A RGAINS!
In every department.
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]V"EW GOODS! NEW GOODS
A large and complete stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
just received and opened at J. M. SHOEMAKER'S,
No. 1 Anderson's Row—bought just at the right
time. •
The following comprise a few of our goods :
DRY GOODS:
Calicoes. Delaines, Coburg Cloths, French Meri
noes, Alpacas, Flannels, Ginghams, all wool De
laines, all colors, large stock of bleached and un
bleached Muslins. Cloths, Cassimeres, Satinetts,
Jeans, Tweeds, 4c., 4e.
BOOTS AND SHOES;
A large assortment of Men's and Boys' Boots and
Shoes Ladies" Misses' and Children's Boots. Shoes
and Gaiters, all prices, and sizes to suit everybody.
CLOTHING:
A very large stock of Men's and Boys' Coats, Pants
and Vests, all sizes, and prices to suit the times.
HATS AND CAPS;
A complete assortment of all kinds, sizes and
prices.
GROCERIES, SPICES, 4c.:
Coffee. Sugar, Lovering and other Syrups, Molas
ses, Tea, Kice, Tobacco, Spices, Ac.
LEATHER:
A prime article Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Kip and
Upper Leather an Linings.
COTTON CHAINS,
Single and Double, all numbers, cheap.
CEDAR AND WILLOW WARE,
Tnbs, Buckets, Brooms, Baskets, Ac.
Call and see our stock of Goods and be convinced
that No. 1 Anderson's Row, is the place to get
bargains. J. M. SHOEMAKER,
sep. 28,'66.
\TK\V STORE!! NEW GOODSD
xN -AT-
M ILL-TOWN,
two miles West of Bedford, where the subscriber
has opened out a splendid assortment of
Drv-Goods,
Groceries,
Notions,
&c\, Ac.
All wnich will be sold at the u.ost reasonable
prices.
Dress Goods, best quality. Everybody buys 'em.
Muslins, " '• Everybody buys em
Groceries, all kinds, Everybody buys 'em.
Hardware, Quecnsware, Glassware, Ccdarware.Ac.
and a general variety of everything
usually kept in a country store.
Everybody buys 'em.
Call and examine our goods.
dec7,'66. G. YEAGER
-1807." - R - wi:;
AT IT AGAIN!
AND
A rare CHANCE for BARGAINS!
JAMES B. FARQUHAR
Is pleased to state to his friends and former custo
mers, that he has
RESUMED BUSINESS IN BEDFORD,
at the well known P. A. Reed stand, opposite the
Bedford Hotel, where he is prepared to sell
everything in his line,
CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST !
He has a full line of
Dry-Goods,
Ready-Made Clothing,
Boots and Shoes,
which have been purchased at very low prices, and
will be sold at a very small advance.
IX 5- Call and examine our stock.
jan,18,'67.
ganhfrs.
JACOB REED, | J. J. SCHELL,
REED AND scHE LL ,
Bankers and
DEALERS IN EXCHANGE,
BEDFORD, PA.,
DRAFTS bought and sold, collections made and
money promptly remitted.
Deposits solicited.
RUI'P & SHANNON, BANKERS,
BEDFORD, PA. ,
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
COLLECTIONS made for- the East, West, North
and South, and the general business of Exchange
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Remittanses promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and sold. febB
P ICHARD LEO,
Manufacturer of
CABINET-WARE, CHAIRS, &C.,
BEDFORD, PA.,
The undersigned being engaged in the Cabinet
making business, will make to order and keep
hand everything in his line of manufacture.
BUREAUS, DRESSING STANDS, PARLOR AND KXTEN
SION TABLES, CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WASH
STANDS, AC., AC.,
will be furbished at all prices, and to suit every
taste. COFFINS will also be made to order.
attention paid to all orders for work.
on West Pitt Street, nearly opposite
the residence of George Shuck.
July lfl, 18 —ef RICHARD LEO
A \ IRISHMAN'S UIRB.
The following: characteristic letter,
written by a Hibernian of six years'
experience of American institutions,
we copy from an exchange:
NEW YORK, Feb. the 14.
My dear Mary, the darlint of me
hart and sowl, I am well, but had the
favor and agor, and I hope you are in
the same condition, thanks be to God.
I wish you many happy New Years,
and the children, and hope you will
have three score and tin of thim. We
< had Christmas here, but the haythens
; don't kape it like we used at home.
Divil the one iver said to me, many
happy Christmas, or bad luck to ye, or
any other politeness. I didn't get a
Christmas box until I was goin home
that night, and a night walkin' blag
gard gave me one on the eye, and axed
me for me money. I gave him all I
could, about a score of poundtf, which
knocked the cents out of him. They
tell me that the nagur is going to be
the white man in future, and that the
white nagurs in Congress (a public
house in Washington) are goin to try
the President for being a white man.
If they find him guilty, and there's no
doubt about it, for they are accusers,
witnesses, lawyers, judges, all in one,
they're goin to execute the executive,
make a fellow called Cold facts presi
dent, and remove the sate of govern
ment to a place called Bosh-ton, cele
brated for its Republicans and sinners.
Thim is the same as the rediculous fel
lows they call ridicules—no radicals—
saving your presence. They want to
continue theirown power—God betune
us and all harm. They say the .South
erners must go down on their knees to
them. They forgot that the poor div
ils are flat on their backs in the dust al
ready, and they're a mane set to kick a
man whin he is down. Be jabers it
makes me blood bile to think of it, and
that's the rason I'm running over this
paper. One war is no sooner over than
they commence the beginning of an
other in Washington, and God only
knows where, or whin it may end. I
lost one tine leg in the last, but I have
another left for a good cause, and I'll
tight for Johnson, for I hear his great
grandmother by his forefather's side,
was an Irishman.
We have snow and frost here now,
and it is likely we will have more wea
ther. The temperance men—God save
the mark—in a place called Albany,
where the people send Ripresentatives
to chate them, have stopped our grog,
only by daylight. Divil a much mat
ter anyways, for they don't kape a
dhrap of dacent drink in the country —
no rale ould Irish potheen, a tumbler
of which would charm the heart of a
wheelbarrow, or make shovel douce—
nothing at all but stuff that would kill
a pig if he had to live 011 it, much less
a Christian baste.
Remimberme to Jim ; toil him he's
well, .and ask him how I am. Tell
Tady McFinn if he comes out here,
he'll see more of America in one day
than if he staid at home all his life.
I'm glad his wife got over the twins,
and hope she'll do better next time.
There's room for improvement. I
like this country, but there's no place
like ould Ireland, where you'd get as
much whisky for a shilling as would
make tay for six people. If you don't
git this, write and let me know. If
you don't write soon I may be dead,
tor life is oncertain under the radicals,
but dead or alive, I'll answer your let
ter. Address your dear brother Jim
my, New York, America, and I'll axe
for a letter from me darlint sister.
POL'LTRY.-STRAY GRAIN*.
Garlic fed once or twice a week is
excellent for colds.
See that plenty of pure water is with
in easy reach of your chickens on frosty
mornings. Also feed early.
Pulverized charcoal given occasion
ally is a preventive of putrid affections
to which fowls are very subject.
Feed your poultry raw onions chop
ped tine mixed with other food, about
twice a week. It is better than a doz
en cures for chicken cholera.
Pulverized chalk administered with
soft feed will cure diarrhoea. This
disorder is caused by want ot variety
in the food, or by too much green food.
Close up all cracks in poultry houses
near the roosting poles. Fowls very
much dislike air which reaches them
through cracks and crevices.
Fowls exposed to dampness are apt
to be troubled with catarrh, which will
run to croup if not attended to. Red
pepper mixed with soft feed, fed seve
ral times a week, will relieve the cold.
The place where the young chickens
retire to ought to have a dry floor and
be kept scrupulously clean, and as the
floor is the coldest part of a room, their
roosting box ought not to be more than
twelve inches high, and to be slanting,
which will keep the warm air in the
roost.
Setting hens can be cured by putting
water in a vessel to the depth of one
inch, putting the hen into and cover
ing the top of the vessel for about
twenty-four hours. The vessel should
be deep enough to allow the fowl to
stand up. Give it air.
Earth-worms are greatly relished by
confined fowls. Take a spade once a
day °.nd turn over the ground for your
hens. They will soon run after you
when they see you with the spade, and
will amply reward you for the extra
trouble to accommodate them by an
Increased supply of egg*.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1867.
Because they are afraid of the enor-
I mous expenses of housekeeping. It
requires a little fortune, now, to buy a
house, and every article of furniture
costs about three times, as much as it
did years ago. Young men of spirit
(and they are the only ones worth hav
ing now) begin to count the cost of wed
lock. When they see the extravagi nt
length to which our daughters go in
their dress; when they look at the splen
did mansions in which their fathers
live, their minds begin to run in this'
channel: "She is a charming girl; in
fact too good for me; but to place such
a trusting creature in a condition infe
rior to the one in which she now finds
herself, would be dishonorable, and I
must forego the happiness of marrying
her, even were she willing, until I have
obtained the means of placing her in a
social position worthy of her." And
while he is bending his energies to
bring about this end, years creep on;
opinions have changed, views of life
have altered; the affections have become
chilled and the mind hardened with
attritions of men; preferences have been
diverted, and in too many cases an old
bachelor and an old maid occupy the
places which otherwise might have
been the abode of a happy family anda
delightful association.
Everybody ought to get married who
can boast of three things, First, a sound
body; second, a sound mind; third a
good trade. This as to men. And
as to women, they should possess good
health, tidiness and industry. With
these any young couple can get as rich
as they ought to be, or as rich as is nec
essary to an enjoyable life, if they will
only go to housekeeping a little below
their ability.
The young should have courage to
live within their means; to have more
pride in the consciousness that they
have a little spare money at home,
than in living in a style which keeps
them all the time cramped in maintain
ing. Better to live in one room, with
all the furniture your own, than occu
py a whole house with scarcely a chair
or table paid for.
"MINE GOT VAT A PEOPLES."
Since the burial corps of the Federal
Government commenced the work of
disinterring the remains of Federal
soldiers, who were killed in the battles
in Spottsylvania and the adjoining
counties, many persons have come on
from the North for the purpose of re
moving the remains of their friends to
their homes, and many dodges are re
sorted to to escape the payment of the
freight on these remains. A day or
two since a man presented himself at
one of the depots near Fredericksburg,
intending to tai e passage on the train
for Acquia Creek, and thence byway
of Washington, to his home in New
England. He had with him a candle
box, which he wished to take on as bag
gage.—The agent of the road, suspect
ing that it was something more than is
usually carried as baggage, refused to
allow him to do so, and on investiga
tion, it was found that he had collected
the bones of his brother and put them
in this small box. When he was in
formed that box of bones could not go
as baggage, he concluded not to go that
day, and left the station. The next
day he turned up again with his bones
in a carpet bag, and thus succeeded in
carrying theni as baggage. A day or
two since, two females came on, on a
similar errand. They stopped in Fred
ericksburg, and, after collecting the
bones of their friend, packed them in
their trunk amongst their clothing, to
escape paying freight on them.
Some years since, a new Prussian
minister reached Washington onenight
and put up at oue of the hotels on Penn
sylvania Avenue. The next morning
at breakfast, an altercation arose be
tween a member of Congress and one
of the waiters. Not many words pass
ed before the member of Congressdrew
a pistol and shot the waiter.—The
Prussian, thinking that affairs of this
kind were of daily occurrence, raised
his hands and exclaimed, "Mine Got,
vat a peoples!"
FREEDOM. —A Washington paper,
in reviewing passing events, well says:
that "Freedom languishes amid the
clatter of muskets and the clang of
swords. Judicial justice demands pa
tience, investigation, ample leisure and
unbiased will. It deals in precedents
and applies well-established principles.
It laboriously establishes facts and
searchingly sifts evidence. It can only
be secured by the calm deliberation and
skilful labors of men learned in the
law and skilled in legal investigation.
But military justice must be prompt
for the virtue of the soldier is decision.
It has no time and less taste for labor
ed inquiry. It is always more or less
tainted with passion, for the camp
breeds the atmosphere of contention.
It is at the mercy of adroit flattery or
the keen hope of promotion. It de
spises the poor and slights the uninflu
ential. It is warped by the hand of
beauty, and too often perverted by pet
ty malice and the baseness of revenge.
Yet this is the kind of justice that the
House of Representatives would ad
minister to one-third of their country
men."
A flower garden is the cheapest and
most attractive ornament, any dwell
ing, whether in town or country can
possibly have for both boast and beau
ty.
THE MEN WON'T PROPONE. '
SOLITUDE OF SINGLE WOMEN.
The following contribution portrays
the forbearance of woman, a christian
virtue rarely possessed by the opposite
sex. Frequently a life of celibacy is
borne by the latter from unknown cau
ses;
It is a condition to which a single
woman must make up her mind, that
the close of her days will be more or
less solitary. Yet there is a solitude
which old age feels to he natural and
satisfiying as that rest which seems
such an irksomeness to youth, but
which gradually grows into the best
blessings of our lives; and there is an
other solitude so full of peace and hope
that it is like Jacob's sleep in the wil
derness at the foot of the laddei! of an
gels :
••All things are less dreadful than they seem."
And it may bethattheextreme lone
liness which, viewed afar oft', appears
to an unmarried woman as one of the
saddest of the inevitable results of her
lot shall by that time have lost all pain,
and be regarded butas thequiet, dreamy
hour "between the lights;" when the
day's work is done we lean back, clo
sing our eyes, to think it all over, be
fore we Anally go to rest, or to look
forward in faith and hope, unto the
coming.
A finished life—a life which has
made the most of all the materials
granted to it, and through which, be
its web dark or bright; its pattern
clear or cloudy, now can be traced
plainly the hand of the great Designer;
surely this is worth living for. And
although at its end, it may be some
what lonely, though a servant's, and
not a daughter's arm, may guide the
falling step, though most likely it will
be strangers only who come around the
dying bed, close the eyes that no hus
band ever kissed, and draw the shroud
over the poor withered breast, where
no child's head had ever lain ; still such
a life is not to be pitied, for it is a com
pleted life. It has fulfilled its appoint
ed course, and returns to the Giver of
all breath as pure as He that gave it.
PITBE, PERFECT POETRY.
What is poetry ? A smile, a tear, a
longing after the things of Eternity.
It Jives in all created existences—in
man and every object that surrounds
him. There is a poetry in the gentle
influences of love and affection, in the
quiet broodings of the soul over the
memories of early years, and in the
thoughts of glory that chain our spir
its to the gates of Paradise. There is
poetry in the harmonies of nature. It
glitters in the wave, the rainbow, the
lightning and the star—its cadence is
heard in the thunder and in the cata
ract —the softer tones gurgle sweetly
from the thousand voice harps of the
wind, and rivulet, and forest—the
clouds and sky go floating over us to
the music of melodies —and it minis
ters to Heaven from the mountains of
the earth, the untrodden shrines of the
ocean. i
There's not a moonlight ray that
comes down upon stream or hill, not a
breeze calling from its blue air-throue
to the birds of the summer valleys, or
sounding through midnight rains its
low and mournful dirge over the per
ishing flowers of spring ; not a cloud
bathing itself like an angel vision in
the rosy gushesof theautunm twilight,
nor a rock glowing in the yellow star
light, but is full of the beautiful influ
ences of poetry. Earth and Heaven
are quickened by its spirit, and the
heavings of the great deep in tempest
and in calm are but its secret and mys
terious breathings.
THE WESTERN WONDER.
The greatest wonder, in the State of
lowa, and perhaps any other State, is
what they call the "Walled Lake," in
Weight county, twelve miles north of
the Dubuque and Pacific Railway, and
about one hundredand fifty miles west
of Dubuque City.
The water is from two to three feet
higher than the earth's surface. In
most places the wall is ten feet high,
width at bottom fifteen feet, at the top
five.
Another fact is the size of the stone
used in its construction ; the whole is
of stone varying in weight from three
tons down to one hundred pounds.
There is an abundance of stones in
Weight county; but surrounding the
lake to the extent of five and ten miles
there are none.
No one can form an idea as to the
means employed to bring them to the
spot, or who constructed it.
Around the entire lake is a belt of
woodland, half a mile in width, coin
posed of oak ; with this exception the
country is a rollingprairie. The trees,
therefore, must have been placed there
at the time of building the wall.
In the spring of 1856 there was a
great storm, and the ice on the lake
broke the wall in several places, and
the farmers in that vicinity were obli
ged to repair the damages to prevent
inundation. The lake occupies a ground
surface of 1900 acres, depth of water as
great as twenty-five feet. The water
is clear and cold, the soil sandy and
loamy.
It is singular that no one has been a
ble to ascertain where the water comes
from and where it goes to, yet it al
ways remains clear and fresh.
"IN some places out west the grass
hoppers have destroyed everything but
grass widows.
A MERCHANT'S advice in selecting
a wife, was, "Get hold of a piece of
calico that will
VOL. 61.—WH0LE No. 5,386.
NATIONAL CEMETERIES.
A Washington correspondent of the
Rochester Democrat furnishes the fol
lowing information from official sourc
es.
There are in command of General
Thomas the following national ceme
teries:
At Natches, on of six acres, contain
ing about 2,500 dead.
Vicksburg, one of twenty acres, con
taining about 15,000.
Memphis, twenty-five acres, about
12,000 graves. The dead from Colum
bus, Ky., to Helena, Ark., along the
Mississippi river, are gathered here.
From Helena to Grand Gulf they are
interred at Vicksburg.
Corinth has one of twenty acres. It
contains about 6,000.
Pittsburg Landing, twelve acres and
4,000 graves. This contains the dead
from up and down the Tennessee riv
er.
Fort Donelson, twenty acres, and 3,-
500 graves, containing dead of that
field, all along the Cumberland below
Nashville.
Nashville, sixty-two acres, and 18,000
graves. This contains the bodies from
many hospitals and a wide region of
country.
Stone River, sixteen acres, and 5,000
graves.
Chattanooga, seventy-five acres, and
12,000 graves.
Knoxville, four acres, and about 3,-
000 graves.
Marietta, Ga., twenty-five acres, and
10,000 graves.
Andersonville, about 15,000 graves.
Millen, 1,000 graves; small enclosure.
Savannah, 3,000 graves. Cumberland
Gap, Ky., 350 graves. Loudon, 300;
Mill Springs, over 500; Perryville 1,200;
Camp Nelson, 1,500; Lebanon 150.
In the city cemeteries there are col
lected at Covington, Ky., 600 dead;
Lexington, 1,000; Richmond, 500; Dan
ville 400.
At Columbia, Tenn., there are 1,200
graves.
At Montgomery, Ala., about 50C
graves; in Mobile, 1,000.
Too TRUE. —Says the Old Common
wealth :
"When a people are in the throes of
a violent political revolution men ol
mean capacity and brutal passion.-
come to the surface, and for a time the
Pest intellects and men of virtue anci
great social and moral worth, from an
instinctive abhorence of, and fear O;
contamination by association, shrink
from public duties and places of public
trust."
Consider society an ocean. The waves,
lashed by the storms of opinion and
prejudice, have agitated that ocean to
the very bottom', antT cast to the surface
all the human dregsand garbage which,
during the still weather of peace, had
settled out of sight. Glance, for a mo
ment, at the characters and doings ol
the persons who have been foisted into
high positions through carelessness, pas
sion and fraud, during the past fewyean
of popular agitation. Seethe Butlers,
Stevenses, Ashleys, Scheneks, and the
rest of that class, who are the storm-cast
settlings from the dark and horrid cav
erns of life's ocean. The whole current
is foul through which they have passed
to the surface. Their presence and em
anations have spread impurity far and
wide, until every class of society, and
every branch, almost, of the public ser
vice is tainted with crime.
Time and quietude would bring relief
by sending those filthy and destructive
elements back to their dens of darkness,
but, knowing this they re-act with their
storm-given power upon the waves of
passion and prejudice, and are thus
hurled again and again to the surface,
where, with the froth and foam, they
keep up a boil and whirl destructive as
a maelstrom to everything that comes
within reach. That they are persons of
mean and brutal passions no one can
deny, and that, in peace, they would
sink into oblivion is equally undenia
ble. So long, however, as the people
will permit themselves to be acted up
on through their passions and to be
kept in a constant state of morbid ex
citement by those cunning and selfish
actors, so long will the country suffer
for want of men of true merit and real
patriotism as directors and legislators.
—Patriot & Union.
ROTATION IN CROPS.
The physiology of plants is such, says
the Rural New Yorker, that scarcely
any two of them take from the ground
or the atmosphere the same kind 01
nutriment in equal proportions. Hence
it follows that in continuous cropping
of the same product, much of the pro
ductive power of the soil and of the fer
tilizers combined with it. is lost or re
main inert. This loss may be retrieved
by a judicious system of rotation, by
which means all the elements of growth
are brought into successive action and
rendered available for farm products.
Perhaps the order of the crops is not
of special importance. One might be
gin a system with corn; follow with
oats, then wheat or rye; and theu pas
ture or meadow, according to the tastes
or necessities of the farmer. Some
lands will do well in pasture for a series
of years. So of the meadows, but as a
general rule, the best results are attain
ed by changes every three or four years
at the most. If oftener made the chan
ces of remuneration are believed to be
improved, while the soil so relieved of
the thousand noxious plants which im
pair its vitality without returning any
thing of value byway of recompense.
ISRTIE\(E or WIVES.
It was not all a dream which made
the wife of Julius Csesar so anxious
that he should not go to the Senate
Chamber on the fatal Ides of March ;
and had he complied with her entreat
ies he might have escaped the dagger
jof Brutus. Disaster followed disaster
j in the career of Napoleon, from the
time he ceased to feel the balance-wheel
of Josephine's influence on his impet
uous spirit. Our own Washington,
when important questions were sub
mitted to him, often has said that he
would like to carry the subject to his
bedchamber before he had formed his
decision; and those who knew the clear
judgment and elevated purpose of Mrs.
Washington, thought all the better of
him for wishing to make her his con
fidential counsellor. Indeed the great
majority of men, who have acquired
for themselves a good and great name,
were not only married men—but hap
pily married—both paired and matched.
EHITT TREES.
As the season for tree-planting is near
at hand, the American Agriculturist
gives a word of caution against the
common practice of ordering large trees.
A small, well grown tree, with an
abundance of small roots, is greatly
to be preferred to a tall, much branched
one, with its large roots chopped off in
digging. Some of the best western or
chardists prefer trees one year from
the bud or graft to any other.
Plant whenever the soil is ready, ta
king care first to trim mutilated roots,
and shorten back the top. Planting,
the present wet state of the soil consid
ered, will generally be left until next
month.
Two WAYS OF DOING A THING.— In
the train from Harrisburg was a gen
tlemanly Jack Tar, in a go-ashore out
fit, jolly, genteel and happy, with a de
cidedly pretty specimen of eighteen
year old crinoline, to whom he had
been a week spliced, and was convey
ing Philadelphia-ward. Opposite Jack
and his wife were a couple that anyone
could see were on a honeymoon cruise,
the bride all blushes, beauty and bash
fulness, and the gallant bridegroom all
devotion and endearment. At one of
the way stations the cars stopped, and
the careful bridegroom thus addressed
his timid bride:
"My love, I am about to step out a
few moments for refreshments. Do not
be alarmed during my absence."
Gentleman Jack took the cue; and
patting his little wife on the shoulder,
sung out as if he were hauling the
maintop-gallant-yard in a gale of wind :
"I say, wifey, I'm going a shore to
wet my whistle; don't tumble over
board while I'm gone."
TIIE SOUL MADE VISIBLE.— Every
one knows tnat in every human face
there is an impalpable, immaterial
something, which we call "expression,"
which seems to be, as it were, "the
soul made visible." Where minds live
in the region of pure thoughts and
happy emotions, the felicities and
sanctities of the inner temple shine out
through the mortal tenement, and play
over it like lambent flame. The in
cense makes the whole altar sweet; and
we can understand what the poet means
when he says that
"Beauty born of a murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.''
On the other hand, no man can lead
a gormandizing, sordid or licentious
life, and still wear a countenance hal
lowed and sanctified with a balm of
peace and joy.
ADVICE TO PREACHERS.— Be short
and lively. Load up before you enter
the sacred desk; announce your text,
when the timecoraes, with distinctness,
and dash right into discussion. Fire
at point b'ank range. Keep your eye
on that drowsy hearer until he becomes
wide awake. Hold the children and
those restless young folks under good
command. "Give a portion" to the
aged ones, who try so hard to catch ev
ery syllable you utter, and, under some
of the modern pulpit orators, loseabout
half. Stir up all the people! "Shake
off dull sloth" in manner and tone. Be
in earnest—tremeudously, in earnest!
Time is passing; eternity is near; judg
ment is at the door! Make an impres
sion if you can, inside of thirty min
utes; if not, ask God to give his bless
ing, and—close.
Go To CHURCH.— There is no one
thing which helps to establish a man's
character and standing in society more
than a steady attendance at church,
and a proper regard for the first day of
the week. Every head of a family
should go to church as an example.
Lounging on the streets and in bar
rooms on the Sabbath, is abomniable,
and deserves censure, because it lays
the foundation of habits which ruin
both body and soul.—Many a man can
date the commencement of his dissipa
tion which made him a burden to him
self and his friends, and an object of
pity in the sight of his enemies, to his
Sunday debauchery. Idleness is the
mother of drunkenness.
MAM'S GOT HOLD ON MY "TIL
TERS."—The Smithfield Times tells an
other story illustrative of the old saw
that "the course of true love never did
run smooth." AyoungcoupleinSmith
field had laid a plan to outwit the vigi
lance of cruel parents and elope. The
Times tells the sequel th us: The youth
stood beneath the window—the lady
attempted to climb out —when, oh! hor
ror, some one detained her from the
rear! "Why dost thou not come, gen
tle Amelia?" She answered iu an agi
tated voice: "I can't, Bill, mam's got
hold on my tilters."
"YOUNG man, do you believe in a
future state?" "In course I duz; and
what's more, I intend to enter it as
soon as Betsy gets her things ready."
WHAT goes most against the grain
of a farmer? A. reaping aaacbino.