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Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims lor Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac OFFICE, on Juliana Street, south of the Court House. a Pf6, 671f J. MCD. SHARPS. E F. KERR. SHARPE & 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 of Reed A Schell. |MarohJ, 66. R. DURBORROW. | JOHN LUTZ. PKURBORROWA LUTZ, IJ 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, Baok 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 pnhlic. Office second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861. I7ISPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT 'j LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his oare in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military daimt, back pay, bounty, Ac., speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, t vo doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22, 1864, .M. KIMM ELL. I J- W. LINGBNFELTER. \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 of the "Mengel House," GH. SPANG, ATTORNEY AT # 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 doers south of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence of Mrs. Tate. May 13, 1864. B. F. MEYERS. | J. W. DICKERSON. MEYERS <T DICKERSON, AT TORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford. Pa., office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P. Schell, two doors east of the GAZETTE office, will practice in the several courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounty and bak pay obtained and the purchase and sale of real estate attended to. f mayll,'66. GFTTTIISTRY. 3. N. HICKOK, | J- G- MINNICH, JR., DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office in the Bank Building, Juliana St. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry carefully performed, and war ranted. Tooth Powders and mouth Washes, ex cellent articles, always on hand. TERMS —CASH. Bedford, January 6,1865. MRI UM P H IN 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 deutal line done to the entire satisfaction of all or the money refunded. Prices to correspond with the times. ty 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 my offi e, 3 doors South of the Court House, Bedford, Pa. n0v.16,'66. WM- W. VAN ORMER, Dentist. TA EN TIS TR Y! DENTISTRY! A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH FOR TEN DOLLARS Dr. H. VIRGIL PORTER, (late of New Yorfc 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 from ONE TOOTH to full sets of his £EA UTIFUL A R TIFICIA L TEE TH, on new and improved atmospheric principles. THE TRIUMPH OF MECHANICAL DENTISTRY, RUBBER. FOR THE BASIS OF ARTIFICIAL TEETH. This discovery which has met with such universal approval throughout this and other countries, has seemingly placed Artificial Teeth at the disposal of all who require them. Dr. PORTER is now in serting most beautiful and durable, at prices ranging from ten to eighteen dollars per set. ty Temporary sets inserted if desired, jy All operations warranted. TEETH EXTRACTED, without pain, by the use of NITROUS OXIDE or LAUGHING GAS. This is NO HUMBUG, but a positive fact. Gas administered fresh every day. As the Gag administered by Dr. Porter is pre pared in accordance with the purifying method of Dr. Strong, of New Haven, Ct.. and Prof. Siliman (late Professor of Chemistry in Yale College), he has no hesitation in asserting that it is attended with no danger whatever. Persons desiring the services of a Dentist, would promote their own interest by oalling upon Dr. Porter, as he is determined to spare no effort to please the most fastidious. Dr. Porter's mode of operating will at all times be of the mildest char acter, avoiding the infliction of the slightest un necessary pain, and carefully adapted to the age, constitution, health and nervous condition of the patient. t fC' Special attention is invited to Dr. Porter's scientific method of preserving decayed and aching teeth. H. VIRGIL PORTER, mar29,'67tf. Dentist, Bloody Run, Penna. MERCHANTS' SHOW BILLS* printed in superior style, and upon rms, at Tax BEDFORD GAZETTE office. £l)c Bc&fori> ©njcttc. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. sry-6ooas, (Brormesi, A*. ****** * * * * ♦ GOODS! FALL & WINTER! 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 buyers, confident they can oflfer BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! In every department, ty CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK. You can be SUITED at the LOWEST PRICES. TERMS: ty CASH or PRODUCE. When credit is ty given, in ALL cases after six ,JS3 TY MONTHS, interest will be ty charged in the ty 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. 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 nocs, 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. HATS AND CAPS : A complete assortment of all kinds, sizes and prices. GROCERIES, SPICES, Ac.: Coffee, Sugar, Lovering and other Syrups. Molas ses, Tea, Rice, Tobacco, Spices, Ac. LEATHER: A prime article Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Kip and 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. STORE!! NEW GOODS!! MILL-TOWN, two miles West of Bedford, where the subscriber has opened out a splendid assortment of Dry-Goods, Groceries, Notions, <fcc., &c. All which will be sold at the most 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. [y* Call and examine our goods. dec7,'66. Q. YEAGER -1867r J — F - - 1887 ' 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. |y Call and examine our stock. jan,18,'67. gkgjiriXM*. TAR. 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, M. D., BLOODY S RUN, Pa., tenders his professional servi ces to the people of that place and vicinity. Office •ne door west of Richard Langdon's store. Nov. 24, '6s—ly _ TAR. J.L. MARBOURG, Having I 7 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 A Schell. Bedford, Febiuary 12, 1864. MEDICALT—DRTS. G. STATLER, near Schellsburg, and DR. J. J. CLARKE, irly of Cumberland county, Pa., having asso ciated themselves in the Practice of Medicine, re spectfully offer their professional services to the citizens ol Schellsburg and vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as form erly occupied by J. Smith, Esq., dec'd. aprl2,'67yl STATLER A CLARKE. THE GENUINE BARTLETT MACHINE. WANTED—Agents, $l5O per month and all ex i -penses paid, to sell the genuine Bartlett hewing i Machine. This Machine will do all the work that I can be done on any high-priced machine, and is ! fully patented, licensed and warranted for five j years. We pay the above wages, or a commission, j from which twice that amount can be made. For i circulars and terms address H. HALL A Co., ' aprl2w6 724 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. ALL HAIL CONNECTICUT. What land is that so nicelj bound By Massachusetts and the Sound, Rhode Isl'ind and New York around, Where Yankees thick as hops are found, And hasty puddings do abound? Connecticut. What land is that, where folks are said To be so scrupulously bred, To be so steady habited, Where hearty boys and girls are fed With pumpkin pies and gingerbread ? Connecticut. What land is that where old Time walks A steady pace o'er maple blocks ; Forsakes his glass for wooden clocks; Where heads too high meet with hard knocks, And land were more if fewer rocks ? Connecticut. What land is that where onions grow, Where maidens' necks are white as snow, And cheeks like roses red you know ; Where johnny cakes are baked with dough, The land where milk and honey flow ? Connecticut. What land is that whence peddlers come, A thousand miles or more from "hum," With tin, with bass-wood trenchers; some With patent nutmegs and new rum ? To gather up the coppers ? Hum ! Connecticut. What land is that where parsons live, Where men hear gospel and believe, Where humble sinners seek reprieve, Where women stay at home and weave, Nor gad without their husband's leave ? Connecticut. What land is that where I can trace My nineteenth cousin by his face, Where once I fished with little dace, And never learned the deuce from ace; Where grandmothc. this day says grace? Connecticut. And better still, what land is that, Where Democrats laugh and grow fat ? Where Radicals like cunning rat Forsake the swamp'd Disunion "flat" And "turn" like nimble acrobat ? Connecticut. EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY LAW-SUIT. A Story of French Life. The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Times has the following account of a curious ease in a French law court: "A very extraordinary family law suit concerning the custody of two young ladies, aged respectively twenty and seventeen, occupied one of the Par is courts last week. The plaintiff, M. Baison, a gentleman of property, liv ing in the Rue St. Ilonore, is the fath er of the minors in question by a first wife, who died many years ago. M. Baisson has several children by a sec ond marriage. Immediately after the death of his first wife he placed his two children, then infants of tender years, nnder the care of his mother-in-law, the defendant, a widow. This lady became passionately attached to the girls, took the utmost care of their ed ucation, treated them in all respects as her adopted children, relieved the father of all expenses for their main tenance, and made no secret of her in tention to leave them the whole of her very large fortune. Under these appa rently most happy circumstances, the utmost harmony prevailed between M. Baisson and the mother of his first wife; he was able to devote himself to his new family with the knowledge that his elder children were in the hands of a tender, judicious and wealthy re lation whose greatest object in life was their welfare. "But a few months ago it happened that the eldest Mile. Baisson fell in love —amostimproperthing for any young lady to do according to French notions. The rule of good French society is that a girl until married is never to speak to any man unless in the presence of her parents or guardians, and then only in monosyllables. A well bred French girl knows that she has one day to be mar ried, and looks forward to the event with pleasure, as one which will give her an opportunity of making many old school fellows jealous by the dis play of her trousseau. But she is sup posed to have no preference on thesub ject. One day her father comes to her and says, 'My love, I have found you a husband.' To which she replies, kissing her father on the forehead, l Merci, monperef 'Who is it?' He gives the name, mentions a proximate day for the wedding and then the young lady consults with her mother about the wedding outfit. These well known rules were not regarded in the case of Mile. Baisson's attachment. Yes! she absolutely formed an attach ment, and her rich grandmother, who had brought her up and was prepared to do everything requisite, humanely speaking, to make her futurelife happy, was privy to it. "The object of her attachment is an army surgeon, a man of merit, both personally and through his foregoers. His father was a distinguished general officer, and he himself wears upon his breast a constellation of medals and decorations attesting his good services. But his only fortune is his commission, and on this sole ground M. Baisson, when informed of the engagement by BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1867. his mother-in-law, peremptorily de clared that the army surgeon was no fit match for his daughter. The father who had been content to delegate to her grandmother the entire care of his daughter from her earliest infancy came forward resolutely to exercise the stern parental authority which the law gives him in order to prevent the marriage of a girl almost of age with the man of her choice, and who had courted her with the approbation of the relation who stood in loco parentis, and had been throughout life her best friend.' M. Baisson went to his mother-in law's house, saw his daughter, told her that he would never give his consent to the marriage, and moreover, that he would no longer allow her to live with her grandmother, and that she must come away with him directly. The young lady, in obedience to this paren tal command, packed up her trunks and got into her father's carriage, which was in waiting. But the car riage had only gone a few yards when she suddenly opened the door, at the risk of breaking her neck, jumped out into the street, and ran back to her grandmother's. M. Baisson thought it undesirable to make a scene by at tempting then and there to bring his daughter away by force. He content ed himself by saying that he was in flexible, and she would hear from him in a few days. When next he went to the house he was informed that the whole family had gone away, and had left no address. "M. Baisson went over almost all Europe in search of his daughters. He inquired at all the German watering places, and at every town in Belgium, but wilhout any result. At length he hit upon the expedient of sending a money letter to the grandmother at her old address at Paris, and learned, through the post office, that this letter was delivered to the ve; y army surgeon whose pretensions to his eldest daugh ter's hand formed the casus belli. He afterwards found that the two girls were concealed under false names in a Catho lic convent at Glasgow. Thereupon he brought action against the mother-in law, requiring her to bring the girls back to France and hand them over to his custody. The Tribunal of First Instance made a decree in his favor, and ordered the young ladies' grand mother to pay one thousand francs a day for two months unless the girls were restored to their father. She, thinking that the penalty of this decree would be the worst of the matter, let the two months expire, and actually paid the large sum of sixty thousand francsinto the court —a sum that she was prepared to sacrifice rather than surrender the girls to their obdurate father. But then he brought a further action, laying the damages at a million of francs. "M. Desmarest, the lady's counsel, told her that the law was altogether on the father's side, and that if she did not give the children up he might go on bringing actions until he utterly ru ined her. Acting upon M. Desmarest's advice, the grandmother has now brought the young ladies back from Glasgow. The father has gained his point; they are now in his custody. The only question ultimately before the court was, what damages she should pay to the father for interfering with his authority. The sum, after his counsel, M. Jules Favre, had been heard, was fixed at five thousand francs, and the balance of the sixty thousand francs interest is to be refunded to the lady. As matters now stand Mile. Baisson cannot marry in France till twenty-five, without her father's con sent, but in a few months she will te twenty-one, and then he will have no legal right to prevent her from living where she pleases." A TEXAS paper tells of a young coup le who eloped on horseback, accompan ied by a clergyman who was to marry them. The lady's father gave chase, and was overtaking the party when the maiden called out to her clerical friend, "Can't you marry us as we run?" The idea took, and he commenced the ritual, and just as the bride's father clutched her bridle rein the clergyman pronounced the lovers man and wife. The father was so pleased with the dashing action that, as the story goes, he gave them his blessing. To FLORISTS AXD PLANTERS. — Those who intend making flower beds, or garden, will find it a great advantage to spade their grounds deeply at this time, and spadeaud mellow them again when the time cou.ies to plant seed or put out shrubbery and flowers. In put ting out rose-bushes, procure fine, rich chip manure, or procure rich earth from the forest, to put in the cavities where you propose to place them. See that there is plenty of room to spread out all the roots and fibers, so that they will grow readily and vigorously. From the Free Christian Commonwealth. THE ATLANTIC CABLE FORETOLD. " Their line ts gone out through all the earth.'''' PSALM xix: 4. As this wonderful thread now belts more than half the world, we prefer this, to the exegesis of referring the line to a musical string, as ordinarily explained. It was a singular providence that suffered cable after cable to break, until the time,i n the great dial of nations, would permit the plans to be completed. It was not until the grandest problem ever solved by any one of the nations on earth had been finished forever. Had that mysterious line been comple ted a few years sooner, would not the intensely zealous autocrats of the Old World, learning the extent of our reverses in the late struggle, have decided to strike a blow and settle the question f Would not the Southern Confederacy, that fear ful product of guilt and daring, been rec ognized at once, and the hopes of our race been turned back for centuries on the dial plate of human hope. But the struggle ended, the last fet ter having dropped from a redeemed nation of bondmen, the work of bind ing the nations of earth went on. The first flashings across the ocean were the kind wishes and mutual fervent pray ers for continued peace. The patriot rejoiced with grateful reverence, and the Christian with adoring love to God; that the cable was to bind more and more closely the interests of mother and daughter—and all that is hopeful in the universal sanctified brotherhood of man. W. H. V. D. The foregoing quotation from the Philadelphia Presbyterian is a painful evidence of the degeneracy of the times. How any ordinary Bible read er could so pervert that beautiful psalm, as to make its sublime utteran ces terminate in a telegraph line is dif ficult to understand. Darkness cer tainly covers the earth and gross dark ness the people. This original com mentator infers that because the line has gone through more than half the world it certainly was indicated by the Psalmist. He seems to forget that there are other things more widely ex tended than Morse's poles and wires he certainly forgot Ayer's Cherry Pecto ral, Jacob Townsend's patent medi cines, wooden clocks, and a great many other Yankee notions. These all have had a wider extension than the tele graph—"this grandest problem ever solv edP The time too when this great e vent was accomplished affords the wri ter particular comfort. I wonder if this same W. H. V. D. is not oneofthe individuals who pained the hearts of God's people some years ago, on the premature announcement of itssuccess, by applying the same language to the Atlantic Cable, that was used when the glorious Redeemer was first announced to our world, "Glory to God in the Highest." How the application of this language which is associated with the most wonderful record God has given of Himself, could be made to a mere human operation, and yet escape the censure of the press is almost as great a mystery as the telegraph itself. According to the reasoning ofthis wise commentator the propitious hour had not then arrived—there was a wise providence in the failure which soon became evident. If the lines had proved a success at that time and had continued to the time of that "fearful product of guilt" the "Old World" would have reversed the order of God's providences. As the 'Old World' with her weekly communications was so en tirely ignorant ofall American transac tions the Atlantic Telegraph would have been invaluable. How wonderfully it would have affected England and France, to learn by telegraph that the little bell in Washington had every American citizen at the end of its tongue —and how completely terrified and Submissive all Europe would have been lest its tinkle should be heard in the Jourt of St. James and elsewhere. The writer of the above article is cer tainly wrong—wrong in his premises, wrong in his conclusions—wrong all through. But the concluding and most overpowering thoughtof the wri ter is its power to bind the two" nations —"mother and daughter," by this won derful submarine handcuff. Now whenever it is proved that four thous and miles of prepared wire will bind a certain portion of the "great American nation" to keep a covenant or contract and comply with all its requirements and conditions, all will undoubtedly ex claim, the "grandest problem ever solved by any one of the nations on earth!" ' ■?. S. Great com plaints are coming up from various sections of the Southern States about shrewd and rascally negroes from the North (mulattoes, especially,) w r ho are preying upon the ignorant South ern darkies—swindling them out of ev ery thing they make by their industry. It is said that there are thousands ot Northern darkies engaged in that busi ness—two or three thousand from New York city and State alone, and a still larger number from Boston. VOL. 61.—WHOLE No. 5,390. TALK WITH A SOLDIER. "Good morning, Johnny!" "Good morniug!" "You went to war, I believe?" "Yes, and I got home again alive,and that is more than some of us did." "Glad to see yon back sorry any of you were killed. What did you en list for?" "Well, I enlisted to save the Union —Cousin Paul enlisted under a later call to secure the bounty and escape the draft, for he was a poor man. And Cousin Bill, who owned that farm up the Creek, was drafted, had no money to get a substitute, and was obliged to go." "Well, that was the inconvenience of being poor! Now tell me what you fought for ?" "To restore the Union." "Did you go into the war to free the negroes?" "No,sir—went to fight for our flag." "Could you have conquered without the aid of negro troops?" "Could we have conquered without the aid of negro troops? Do you mean to ask me if white men of the North are inferior to the black men of the South? Do you mean to insult me—to insult the army ?" "Not a bit of it! I only ask for infor mation, as the Radicals say had it not been for the negro you never would have won your battles." "Tell the Radical he lies. Perhaps if all the troops had been like him, we might not have won—but all were not like him." "Which did the most service in the army, the niggers or the mules?" "A mule is worth a dozen niggers, and is good for something now when the war is over, and a nigger is not. The mule can pay his way, the nigger can't." "When you heard that the war was over, what did you think?" "Well, all thought the Union was re stored, and we could live in peace." "How much did you make by going to war?" "Not much. I had no rich relatives to push me ahead—except in battle! When we went to fight I could always get a front view!" "What made the soldiers hate the Democrats?" "We were taught to believe you were disunionists. We could not get a Democratic paper to read, we must read those against you or none, and gradually we began to believe all that Republican papers said about you." "How do you find us on your re turn?" "We find you in favor of the Union, the Republicans opposed to it, and ask ing us to go into another war to fight an unarmed, submissive foe, that a few rich men may be made richer, and that more contracts may be given to the friends of those who Jive by war and agitation." "Did the Republicans keep faith with you while in the army?" "No! They did not?" "Please tell me how and where they deceived you?" "Well sit down on that bench or log, ancWJ will tell you. They asked me to fight to restore the Union. We fought till there was no more army left, and they tell us our fighting amounted to nothing, and the Union is not restored. "They said Democrats were disuion ists, and we find them all in favor of the Union. "They said if we would go and fight for them, they would take care of our families, and stand the expense of the war, and that the rich ones should and would take care of the poor ones—the brave ones—the patriots." "But have not the Republicans kept their words?" "No not even in one respect. "We went to war; we were poor and had to go. Myself and two cousins. They took care of our families by town tax, taking our property and little farms while we were lighting. And after we had gone to war, they gave bonds of the town and county, bought them for half their face, and now demand full pay and interest, and we soldiers must now work to pay their bonds. "And when Cousin Bill was drafted, he had to go and leave his farm. And when the tax call came, to escape the draft, they piled the taxes on the farms of us who were fighting, to raise mon ey to exempt those who dare not go, and who were smart enough to keep out at our expense. "And you see, now the war is over with, we come home to find that our fighting did not restore the Uniort, and so we had better stayed at home, and voted taxes for somebody else to pay- "And we find the towns and coun ties covered with bonds, mortgages, and that, beside doing all the fighting, we are now made to pay more than our share of taxes—we are made to support the niggers we liberated. We are made to work to raise gold to lay in bank for rich men to draw out as interest on their bonds, which are not to be taxed. We are working, in short, to pay our selves for the luxury of being shot at, while the 'friends of the soldiers' were getting rich at home. "And we find the same Congressmen who stampeded our army at Bull Run who got rich from the war, voting SIOO bounty to white soldiers, S3OO bounty to black ones, and then stealing two thousand hollars a year each, and run ning off with it for us to settle in extra taxation." "Well, and what conclusion do yon come to ?" 4< l have said this, that I would have been better off to-day had I too stayed at home, voted taxes on some other poor man's property, held office, speculated, got contracts, turned my property into United States Bonds, which bring big interest and pay no taxes, and have left the rampant, loud-mouthed Aboli tion agitators and stay-at-home guards, who are still for war, done the fighting, then, as they may do next time, for I shall not!" "Why, my dear friend, you are a bad man. You talk likeaCopperhead! You will be called a traitor." "Can't help it—that's the way I feel; that is the way it worked in my case, and I don't intend to vote for radical ism, aristocracy, and unequal taxation anymore. But I must go to work; the bond-holder wants his interest, the negro bureau must be kept up, the Congressmen want their pay, the ne gro must have his big bounty, while I have a little one; I must buy some stamps, and pay taxes to support the policeman who watches the rich man's bonbs, and I must go to work or before my taxes are paid my poor family will starve. Good day !" WHAT FASHION DOES.—Fashion rules the world, and a most tyrannical mistress she is—compelling people to submit to the most inconvenient things imaginable, for her sake. She pinches feet with tight shoes, or chokes us with tight neckerchiefs, or squeezes the breath out of our bodies by tight lacing. She makes people sit up by night, when they ought to be in bed; and keeps them in bed in the morning when they ought to be up and doing. She causes hosts of apparently sensi ble persons in other respects to pay ex orbitant prices for the privilege of seeing some foreign operatic or drama tic performers, puffed into notoriety by hired nwspaper writers, and to call the exhibition "splendid," when they don't understand a word that is said, or enjoy the thing as well as an ordinary min strel show. She makes it vulgar to wait upon one's self, and genteel to live idle and useless. She requires people to visit when they had rather stay at home, eat when they are not hungry, and drink when they are not thirsty. She invades our pleasure and inter rupts our business. She compels people to dress gaily, whether upon their own property or that of another, whether agreeable to the word of God or the dictates of pride. She ruins health, and produces sick ness ; destroys life, and occasions prem ature death. She makes tools of parents, invalids of children, and servants of all. She is a despot of the highest grade, full of intrigue and cunning, and yet husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and servants, black and white, have voluntarily become her obedient subjects and slaves, and vie with one another to see who shall be most ob3equious. GRAFTING.—As the season of graft ing fruit trees is at hand, the following advice from the Germantovvn Tele graph, good authority in such matters, will be of use in the business Graft ing is a very easy operation when once understood. A sharp penknife and a good fine saw are indispensable. Split ting the stock so that the bark shall not be bruised—and shaping the scion wedge-fashion both ways, preserving also the bark uninjured—and placing the rim of the wood of both stock and scion exactly together, so that the sap can intermingle—there is no dangerof fail ure if properly waxed. We make a shoulder to the graft and think it adds to the certainty of success, though pro bably it weakens it. We prefer two eyes or buds to a graft, and would rath er have one than more than two. One year's wood should always be used when it can be obtained, as it is more certain to take, and grows more vigor ously. We remind those about prepar ing grafting wax, that we have found lour parts of rosin, one part of beeswax, aud one part of beef tallow, to be the best proportion. Melt them together in a kettle, (which is the best,) or a tin cup, and mix well. It should remain in the vessel and be used as needed. Twenty or thirty scions can be waxed with one heating up. When much grafting is to be done, a little fire for heating the wax, should be made on the spot, between two bricks or stones. We have seen various preparations for mak ing grafting wax, and we believe we have tried them all, but prefer our own. Applying warm or hot does no injury to the graft. The object to attain in the proposition, is, that the wax will not crack in cold dry weath er, or run in warm weather. April is the best time to graft. THE LAUGH OF A WOMAN.—A wo man has no natural gift more bewitch ing than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water. It leaps from her in a cl< ar sparkling rill; and the heart that hears it feels as il bathed in a cool exhilarating spring. Have you ever pursued an unseen fugitive through trees, led on by a fairy laugh —now here, now there, now lost, now found? We have; and we are pursuing that voice to this day. Some times it will come to us in the midst of care and sorow, or irksome business, and we turn away and listen and hear it ringing through the room like a silver bell, with power to scare away the evil spirits of the mind. How much we owe that sweet laugh! It turns the prose to poet ry; it flings flowers of sunshine over the darkne&s of the wood in which we are traveling; it touches with light ev en our sleep, which is no more the im age of death, but is consumed with dreams that are the shadow of immor tality.
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