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A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows: 3 months. 6 mouths. I vear. ♦One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares ... 600 0"0 ? Three squares ... 8 00 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 3a 00 Half oolumn ... 18 00 25 00 4o 00 One column - 30 00 45 00 80 00 ♦One square t* occupy ene inch of space. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has just been refitted with a Power Press and new type, and everything in the Printing line can be execu ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates —TERMS CASH. Ail letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL. Publishers. gtttornnrs at £au\ 8. L. Rt'FLSEL. J. H. LONGENECKER. RUSSEL A LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay. Bounty, Pensions. Ac OFFICE, on Juliana Street, south of the Court House. a P rs 'L 67t^__ J. MCD. SHARPE. E F. KERR. SHARPE A KERR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BEDFORD, PA., will practice in the courts of Bedford and adjoining counties Of fice on Juliana st., opposite the Banking House et Reed A SchelL J March 2. '66. R. DURBORROW. | JOHN LUTZ. nURB ORR O W A LUT Z , I f ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. 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 Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the "Mengel House," and nearly opposite the Inquirer office. JOHN P. REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA Respectfully tenders his services to the public. Office second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford, ESPY M. A LSI P, ATT< >RN I:Y -VT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his eare in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military -laims, back pay, bounty, Ac., speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, t fori> rt?cttc. BY MEYERS & MEN GEL. £ry-6fA*> 6wriff, ft*. ****** * * * * * i "VTEW GOODS! FALL A WINTER! | 1 x The undersigned have now opened a large and general assortment of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, FALL AND WINTER GOODS, to which they respectfully invite the attention of j buyers, confident they can offer BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! In every department, tir CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK. You can be SUITED at the LOWEST PRICES. J TERMS: CASH or PRODUCE. When credit is given, in ALL cases after six LG? MONTHS, interest will be charged in the account. A. B. CRAMER & CO. ****** * * * * * oct26 | GOODS! NEW GOODS A large and complete stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, just received and opened at J. M. SHOEMAKER'S, No. I Anderson's Row —bought just at the right i 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, Ac., Ac. 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, j HATS AND CAPS : A complete assortment of all kinds, sizes and | prices. GROCERIES, SPICKS, Ac.: Coffee, Sugar, Lovering and other Syrups, Molas ses, Tea, Rice, Tobacco. Spices, Ac. LEATHER: A prime article Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Kip and 1 Upper Leather and Linings. COTTON CHAINS, Single and Double, all numbers, cheap. CEDAR AND WILLOW WARE, Tubs, 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. j ! lypEW STORE!! NEW GOODS!! j I I> -AT— MILL-TOWN, two miles West of Bedford, where the subscriber has opened out a splendid assortment of Dry-Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., &c. 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, Queensware, Glassware, Cedarware,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 |K(>7. J "- F ' - 1867 ' AT IT AGAIN! AND A rare CHANCE for BARGAINS! JAMES B. FARQUHAR Is pleased testate to his friends and former custo mers, that he has RESUMED BUSINESS IN BEDFORD, j 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, lieady-Made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, which have been purchased at very low prices, and will be sold at a very small advance. ~ Call and examine our stock. jan,18,'67. gankerg. I JACOB REED, | J-J- SCHBLL, REED AND SCHELL, Bankers and | DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDFORD. PA., DRAFTS bought and sold, collections made and money promptly remitted. Deposits solicited. RUPP & 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 | Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE j bought and sold. febß iTvlt. GEO. B. KELLEY, I / having permanently located in ST. CLAIRS VILLE. tenders his professional services to the citizens of that place and vicinity. nov2'66yl WW. JAMISON, MI)., BLOODY # RUN, Pa„ tenders his professional servi | es to the people of that place and vicinity. Office •ne door west of Richard Langdon's store. Nov. 24, '6s—ly DIl. J. L. MARBOURG, Having permanently located, respectfully tenders his professional services to the citiiens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, east side, nearly Cpposite the Banking House of Heed A flihe'h fhe ffrilfonl i&ntttWt. REFORMATIO* OF WIMIII WIRT. A True Incident in His History. The distinguished William Wirt, within six or eight months after his first marriage, became addicted to in temperance, the effect of which opera ted strongly on the mind and health of his wife, and in a few months more she was numbered with the dead.— ller death led him to leave the country where he resided, and he moved to Richmond, where he soon rose to dis tinction.—Rut his habits hung about him and occasionally he was found with jolly and frolicsome spirits and bacchanalian revelry.—His true friends expostulated with him to convince hi in of the injury he was doing himself. Rut. he persisted. His practice began to fall off and many looked on him as on the sure road to ruin. He was ad vised to get married. With a view of correcting his habits. This heeonsent ed to do if the right person offered. He accordingly paid his addresses to Miss Gamble. After some month'sattention he asked her hand in marriage, she re plied—Mr. Wirt, 1 have been well aware of your attentions for some time back, and should have given you to understand that your visits and atten tions were not acceptable, had I not re ciprocated the affectiom which you evinced for me. Rut I cannot yield my assent until you make a pledge never to taste, touch or handle any in toxicating drinks. This reply to Wirt was as unexpected as it was novel. — His reply was that he considered the proposition as a bar to all further con sideration on the subject, and he left her. Her course towards him was the same as ever —his resentment and neg lect. In the course of a few weeks he went again and solicited her hand. But her reply was, her mind was made up. He became indignant, and re garded the terms she proposed as in sulting to his honor; and vowed it should be the last meeting they should ever have. He took to drin king worse and worse, and seemed to run headlong to ruin. One day, while lying in the outskirts of the city, near a little grocery, or grog-shop dead drunk, a young lady, whom it is not necessary to name, was passing that way to her home, not far off, and beheld him with his face up turned to the rays of the scorching sun. .She took her handkerchief with her own name marked upon it, and placed it over his face. After he had remained in that way some hours, he awakened, and his thirst being so great, he went into the grog-shop to get a drink, when he discovered the hand kerchief, at which he looked, and the name was on it. After pausing a few minutes, he exclaimed—'Great God! who left this with me! Who placed this on my face?' No one knew. He dropped the glass exclaiming—"e nough! enough !" lie retired instant ly from the store forgetting his thirst, but not his debauch, the handkerchief, or the lady, vowing, if God gave him strength, never to touch, taste or han dle intoxicating drinks. To meet Miss G., was the hardest ef fort of his life. If he met her in her carriage, or on foot, he popped round the nearest corner. She at last -address ed him a note under her own hand in viting him to her house, which he fi nally gathered courage to accept. He told her if she still bore affection for him, he would agree to her own terms. Her reply was: "My conditions are now what they ever have been." "Then," said Wirt, "I accept them." They were soon married, and from that day he kept his word, and his af fairs brightened, while honorsand glory gathered thick upon his brow. His name has been enrolled high in the temple of fame, while his deeds, his patriotism and renown live after him with imperishable lustre. How many noble minds might the young ladies save, if they would follow the example of Miss G., the friend of humanity, of her country, and the relation of Lafay ette. RADICAL CHANGE IN THE GOVERN MENT OF THE UNITED STATES. —The Times thus announces that adespotism has replaced the Constitution and the Government of the United States: "We do not wonder that they deem the terms (of reconstruction) required harsh and illiberal. We agree in so re garding them unjust and inexpedient— at war with the Constitution and hos tile to the dictates of a wise and consid erate statesmanship. But how does this help their ease? Suppose theterms imposed are unconstitutional, how does the South expect to avert their imposi tion? Has it not discovered that, wher ever the right may be, the power of this Government rests with Congress? That body over-rules alike the vetoes of the President and the decisions of the Supreme Court; and in neither case is there any authority that can overrule its authority or avert its action." What is this but an acknowledgement that the people have surrendered their rights and their freedoril to politicians without a struggle, and that hereafter they are at the mercy of any political party that secures a majority in Cong ress? All the limitations to the exer cise of power contained in the Constitu tion, the opposition of the President and the decisions ofthe Supreme Court of tne United States, having been set aside and overriden by Congress. Thus has our vaunted form of Government been revolutionised by wan—M JKi Uum. 4cht*riimr. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1867. FEMALE SI'FFRAGE. Views of Mark Twain. Editors Missouri Democrat: I have read the long list of lady pe titioners in favor of female suffrage, and as a husband and father I want to protest against the whole business. It will never do to allow women to vote. It will never do to allow them to hold office. You know, and I know, that if they were granted these privileges there would be no more peace on earth. They would swamp the country with debt. They like to hold office too well. They like to he Mrs President Smith of the Dorcas Society, or Mrs. Secreta ry Jones of the Hindoo Aid Associa tion, or Mrs. Treasurer of something or other. They are fondof the distinc tion of the thing,you know; they rev elin thesweei jingle of the title. They are always setting upsauclified confed erations of all kinds, and then running for President of them. They are even so fond of office that they are willing to serve without pay. But you allow .them to .vote and go to .he Legislature once, and then see how it will be. They will go to work and start a thousand more societies, and cram them full of salaried offices. You will see a state of things then that will stir your feelings to the bottom of your pockets. The first feebill would exasperate you some. Instead of theusual schedule for judges, State printer, Supreme Court clerks, Ac., the list would read something like this: OFFICES AND SALARIES. President Dorcas Society, SI,OOO Subordinate officers of same, each, 2,000 Pres't Ladies Union prayer meet ing, 3,000 Pres't Pawnee Educational Soci ety, 4,000 Pres't "of Ladies' society for dis semination of Belles Letters a mong the Shoshones, 5,(K)0 State Crinoline Directress, 10,000 State Sup't of Waterfalls, 10,000 State Hair Oil Inspectress, 10,000 State Milliner, 50,000 You know what a state of anarchy and social chaos that feebill would cre ate. Every woman in the Common wealth of Missouri would let go every thing and run for State Milliner. And instead of ventilating each other's po litical antecedents, as men do, they would go straight after each other's private moral character. (I know them —they are all like my wife.) Before the canvass was three daysold it would be an established proposition that ev ery woman in the State was "no better than she ought to be." Only think how it would lacerate me to have an oppo sition candidate say that about my wife. That is the idea, you know—having other people say these hard things. Now, I know that my wife isn't any better than she ought to be, poor dev il—in fact, in matters of orthodox doc trine, she is particularly shaky—but still I would not life these things aired in a political contest. I don't really suppose that that woman will stand a ny more show hereafter than —howev- er, she may improve—she may even be come a beacon light for the saving of others—but if she does, she will burn rather dim, and she will flicker a good deal, too. But, as I was saying, a fe male political canvass would be an out rageous thing. Think of the torch-light procession that would distress our eyes. Think of the curious legends on the transparen cies : "Robbins forever! Vote for Sal lie Bobbins, the only virtuous candidate in the field!" And this: "Chastity, modesty, patriotism ! Let the great people stand by San ders, the champion of morality and progress, and the only candidate with a stainless reputation!" And this: "Vote for Judy MeGinnis, the incor ruptible! Nine children—one at the breast!" In that day a man shall say to his servant, "What is the matter with the baby?" and the servants shall reply, "It has been sick for hours." "And where is its mother?" "She is out e lectioneering forSallie Robbins." And such conversations as these shall trans pire between ladies and servants ap plying for situations: "Can you cook ?" "Yes." "Wash?" "Yes." "Dogen eral housework?" "Yes." "All right; who is your choicefor State milliner?" "Judy MeGinnis." "Well, you can tramp." And women shall talk poli ties instead of discussing the fashions; and they shall neglect the duties of the household to go out and take a drink' with candidates; and men shall nurse the baby while their wives travel to the polls to vote. And also in that day the man who hath beautiful whis kers shall beat the homely man of wis dom for Governor, and the youth who waltzes with exquisite grace shall be Chief of Police, in preference to the man of practiced sagacity and deter mined energy. * * * * Every man, I take it, has a selfish end in view when he pours out elo quence in behalf of the pul lii good'in the newspapers, and such is the case with me. Ido not want the privileg es of woman extended, because my wife already holds office in nineteen different infernal female associations, and I have to do all her clerking. If you give the women full sweep with the men in political affairs, she will proceed to run for every confounded of fice under the new dispensation. That will finish me. It is bound to finish me. • She would not have time to do a nythingat all then, and the one solita* ty thing t have ■blrlwd Up Ut ent time would fall on me and my family would go to destruction ; for I am not qalified for a wet nurse. MARK TWAIN. THE London correspondent of the Boston Journal , in noticing the upris ing of the Fenians in Ireland, ob serves: "What seems strange to an American is the fact that of the men found on British soil not one was arrested, hut all were allowed to depart in peace and go their several ways, though the fact thatthey were Fenians was well known. This fact brings out one peculiar ele ment in the English character, and that is the sacredness of personal liberty. Suspicion will not answer. A man must do some wrong to be arrested. A well-known thief or pickpocket going into a crowded assembly may not be hindered in his going in, though his intentions may be well known. The Fenians at Chester simply gathered in a crowd, and loitered round the city and attempted no violence. Though Parliament was moved, London all in a ferment, the Queens Guards, that seldom leave London, posted by ex press to the scene of invasion, though the train bands were called out, men enrolled as private constables, and Liv erpool sent her forces to the place of at tack, yet none were arrested; the inva ders looked on, saw the Guards disem bark, heard the alarm at the Castle, and then quietly strolled away into the country and were seen no more. After all this uproar a British subject could not be arrested unless he had committed some wrong act. Even in Ireland, Fe nians are allowed to depart if they will, and their passage would be gladly paid if they would go to America. This does "seem strange to an Amer ican;" but is it not a sad commentary upon republicanism that such is the case? How many men have been ar rested here on suspicion within the past six years is known only to Secretary STANTON and his subordinates; and to such an extent hits this disregard for personal liberty permeated national, state, and local governments, that, but a short time ago, the police of this city were ordered to arrest any person, on the public conveyances, whom they had reitson to believe was a thief. Yet this is "the land of the free and the ho'ne of the brave," while Great Brit ain is a monarchy.— World. THE NEW RADICAL ALLIES.— It is not enough for our Radical rulers that hundreds of thousands of ignorant ne groes in the South are made voters; but in order that these miserable creatures may more surely become mere instru ments in the hands of Northern adven turers, the mode of voting commonly used in the South is to be changed. If one of these new voters was permitted to name to theelection officers his favor ite candidates, he would at least know for whom he had voted; but Congress don't allow any such freedom -the men who are fed, clothed, and guided by the Freedman's Bureau are to be provided with printed ballots which not one of them can read, and under the eye of the Government officers the-e are to be de posited. What a wicked farce is all this first clothe with the very highest trust a whole race of slaves too ignorant to makea bargain of hiring, and unable to take care of their earnings unless assist ed by public officials—and then enact that they shall use the printed ballot, which their guardians can read, but which they cannot. Can any fair mind ed citizen doubt that the wholearrange ment is for the merepurposeofstrength ening the Radical party and keeping in office the knaves who are waisting the public money on useless extravagance, while the land is full of tax-gatherers. YANKEE DOODLE AX OLD SPANISH TUNE.— There have been a great many asserted origins of Yankee Doodle. The following is the last, related in a letter from Spain by Win. C. By rant, the poet: "Some time since, when Mr. Perry, Secretary of the American Legation at Madrid, was in one of the Basque prov inces, he heard a band playing their old national airs. The Basque have preserved whatever ispeculiartothem, their language, their customs, and many of their political rights, from the earliest period in which they are known to history; their national musicisclaim ed to be of the same antiquity. After the band had played several airs it struck up Yankee Doodle, the very tune, in every note, which is so famil iar to American ears. Mr. Perry im mediately claimed it as our national air. 'lt is one of our old tunes,' said a gentleman to whom he spoke, 'and I can convince you of the fact.' For hundreds of years it has beenapopular air among us. The gentleman after ward made good his assertion by show ing Mr. Perry a manuscript of great antiquity which contained theidentical musical notes of 'Yankee Doodle.'" During the recent session of the e qual rights convention, a strong mind ed female entered a street railroad car. And old gent rose to give her a seat, but asked, "Be you one of those wo men's righters?" "I be." "You believe a woman should have all the rights of a man?" "Yes I do." "Then stand up and enjoy thorn like VOL. 61.—WHOLE No. 5,388. A NEW LICENSE LAW. A FURTHERSUPPLEMEXTto an act fur ther to regulate the granting of licen ses to hotels and eating houses, ap proved March thirty-first, one thous and eight hundred and sixty-six. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofihe Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same , That when an application is madetoany court or quar- j ter sessions of this Commonwealth, for ! license to sell intoxicating drinks, it j shall be lawful for said court to hear : petitions, in addition to that of the ap plicant, in favor of, and remonstrances against the application for such license, and in all cases to refuse the same whenever, in the opinion of said court, having due regard to the number and character of the petitioners for and a gainst such application, such license is not necessary for the accommodation of the publicand entertainment of stran gers and travelers, and upon sufficient cause being shown, the said courts shall have power to revoke any license granted by them, and all laws incon sistent with this section are hereby re pealed: Provided , That the sureties in the bond, required of the applicant for license, shall be signed to his petition. SEC. 2. That applications for license to keep an eating house, beer house or restaurant, authorizing the sale of do mestic wines, malt and brewed liquors, shall hereafter be made in the same manner and to the same authority as application for license to keep a hotel; Provided , That the regulation in rela tion to bed rooms and beds shall not apply to applicants for an eating-house, beer house and restaurant license, and the tenth section of the act of twenti eth April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, authorizing county treasurers to grant an eating house or retail brewery license, is hereby re pealed. SEC. 3. No license to keep an eating house or restaurant under the provis ions of the second section of this act, shall be granted in an incorporated city for less than fifty dollars, nor elsewhere for less than twenty dollars. SEC. 4. If any person, after the pas sage of this act, shalll sell spirituous and vinous liquors, domestic wines, malted or brewed liquors, without hav ing obtained a license authorizing him so to do, such persons shall, on conviction in the court of quarter sessions, be fined for the first of fense, in any su m not less than fif ty, nor more than two hundred dol lars ; and for the second, or any sub sequent offense, such person shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, and, in the discretion of the said court, be imprisoned in the county jail, not less than thirty days, nor more than ninety days: Provided , That nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal the provisions of the act of Assembly passed March thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, relating to sales by druggists and apothecaries. SEC. 5. That the provisions of the first section of this act shall not apply to the city of Philadelphia or to the county of Allegheny: Provided , That nothing in this act shall authorize the granting of license to hotel and inn keepers, to vend vinous, spirituous and malt liq uors, and to license beer houses, eating houses and restaurants in any locality where licensing of hotels, inns, beer houses, eating houses or restaurants is now prohibited by law. DESCRIPTION OF MR. JAY COOKE'S NEW PALATIAL MANSION.—A lady, who has been on a visit to Mr. Jay Cooke's new palatial mansion, near Philadelphia, thus writes: "I can't describe what it is like. I don't think anything grander, more beautiful, more splendid, or more in keeping could be imagined. And the Cookesare just the kind of people to live in it. L. is a perfect brunette, and her sister S., who is younger, is a blonde. L.'s room is furnished in bright crimson satin, and S.'s in light blue satin. Just beyond their rooms is still another bedroom, which belongs to the girls, and is called the spare bedroom, and is intended for any friend whom they wish to invite to visit them. C. was occupying this room. Everything in the house, with the exception of Mr. Cooke's boudour and a few of the pain tings, is American. Mr. Cooke would have nothing else. In the sitting room is a large old fashioned, open fire-place, with andirons, which Mr. Cooke'smoth er presented to him. There is every kind of room in the house that you could think of—billiard room; amuse ment room, where they have a regular stage, foot-lights, &c.; music room, where they have an elegant square grand Chickering piano. I can't tell you of all the rooms, for it would take me all night, and even then you wouldn't have a very clear idea of them." OFFICERS' FEES.—In the Legislature, the bill to ascertain and regulate the fees to be received by the several offi cers of this Commonwealth was taken up and passed, after three hours' con sideration. The bill increases the fees of the following officers about twenty percent, viz:—Sheriffs, Prothonotaries of the Courts of Common Pleas, Clerks of the Courts of Quarter S ssions, Clerks of the Oyer and Terminer, Clerks ofthe Orphans' Court, Attorneys-at-law, Al dermen and Justices of the Peace, ex cept in Philadelphia. The increase in fees of the Registers and Recorders is krg* MEASURING DISTANCE BY SOUND.— j A bell rung under water returns a tone as distinct as though rung in the air. Stop one ear with the finger, and press the other to the end ofa long stick or piece of dead wood; and if a watch be held at the other end of the wood, ticking will be heard, whatever the length of the stick of wood. Tie a poker on the middle of a strip of flannel two or three feet long, and press your thumbs or fingers into your ears while you swing the pokeragainst an iron fender, and you will hear a sound like that of a heavy church bell. These experimt nts prove that water, wood, and flannel are good conductors of sound, for the sound of the bell, the watch, and the fender pass through the water, and along the deal and flannel ! to the ear. I It must be observed that a body in : the act of sounding is in a state of vi \ bration, which it communicates to the I surrounding air, the undulations of the sound affect the ear, and excite in us the sense of sound. Sounds of all kinds, it is ascertained, travels at the rate of fifteen miles in a minute; the softest whisper travels as fast as the mo3t tre mendous thunder. The knowledge of this fact has been applied to the meas urement of distance. Suppose a ship in distress fires a gun, the light of which is seen on shore, or by another vessel, twenty seconds be fore the report is heard, it is known to be at a distance of 7.6(H) yards, or little more than four and a quarter miles. Again, if we see a vivid flash of light ning, and in two seconds hear a tre mendous clap of thunder, we know that the thunder cloud is not more than 760 yards from the place where we are, and we should instantly retire from an exposed situation.— Scientific Ameri can. A CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.—We find the following going the rounds of our exchanges, and give it for what it is worth: The effects resulting from the bite of a rabid animal are so inconceivably heart-rending that the writer deems it but an act of justice to make the sub joined remedy public, for the benefit of the unfortunate hereafter. Within the past two weeks there have been two cases of hydrophobia, of the most dis tressing character —one in this city and one in New Jersy—and daily reports are made in the newspapers of mad dogs being seen in and about the city. Every individual in the community, therefore, should procure and preserve a copy of the following cure, to use in case of an emergency. William Hoffner, Esq., of Passyunk, the gentleman from whom the writer obtained this invaluable receipt, states that he has known several instances of men and animals who have been bitten in the severest manner by mad dogs, but who having taken this remedy, never experienced any effect whatever of the disease: "Take of the root of elecampane one ounce and a half, cut it tine, then boil it in one pint of new milk down to a half a pint; take this three mornings fasting, and eat no food until four o'clock in the afternoon. It should be taken ev ery other morning; the last two doses must weigh two ounces each. This remedy will have the desired effect if taken at any time within twenty four hours after the accident." The press generally, by giving the above receipt a conspicuous insertion, will advance the cause of humanity. Mrs. Partington sometimes gets tnings mixed up, but in regard to mar riage her ideas are tolerably clear, and she is, we are happy to see, "sensible to the last." "If ever I'm married," said Ike, looking up from the book he was reading, and kicking the stove door energetically—"lfever I'm married"— "Don't speak of marriage, Isaac, till you are old enough to understand the bond that binds congenial souls. Peo ple must'nt speak of marriage with im purity. It is the first thing children think of now-a-days, and young boys in pianofores, and young girls with heads fricaseed into spittoon curls, and full of love-sick stories, are talking of marriage before they get into their teens. Think of such ones getting mar ried! Yet there's Mr. Spaid, when heaven took his wife away, went right to a young lady's cemetery and got an other, no more fit to be the head of a family than lam to be the Board of Mayor and Alderman. She tapped tho new box that her friend, the colonel, had given her, with her eyes resting upon the gold heart inlaid in the cen tre of the lid, as if hearts were trump in her mind at the time, while Ike, with out finishing his sentence, kept on with his reading, accompanying himself with a pedal performance on the stove door, and a clatter upon the round of his chair with the handle of a fork in his hand. GKEAT EXPECTATION.— A husband (himself perfect, of course), thussketch es what he dreams he deserves: "A woman whose intellect has field enough for her in communion with her husband, and whose heart asks no other honors save love and admiration; a woman who does not disdain to be beautiful; who believes in thevirtueof glossy hair, and well fitting gowns,and who eschews rents and ravelled edges, slipshod shoes, and audacious make ups; a woman who 6peaks low, and does not speak much; who is patient and gentle, intellectual and industrious; who loves more than she reasons, and yet does not love blindly; who never scolds and rarely argues, but adjusts with a smile; such a woman is the wife We have all dreamed of once ih our I lives, and is the mother we allWorßhip it the backward distance*"