|ieplator's Column.
riIHE BEDFORD REGULATOR,
No. 2 ANDERSON'S ROW.
IRVINE & STATLER
Are again in the field Wattling against the imposi
tion of high prices and would respectfully inform
their friends and the public generally that they
have just received a large and varied assortment
of goods, consisting of
Boots and Shoes,
Muslins and Tickings,
Notions and Perfumery,
Groceries and Spices,
Queensware and Glassware,
Tobacco and Segars,
White A Colored Shirts,
Cotton & Woolen Yarns,
Trunks A Valises,
Brooms A Twines,
Ac., Ac.
GP Call at No. 2 ANDERSON'S ROW.
If you want a good p'r Boots, go to the Regulator.
QUR STOCK OF BOOTS A SHOES
are full and complete.
BOOTS, SHOES, BALMORALS, GAITERS and
SLIPPERS, Ac.,
to fit any man, woman and child in the county.
Measures taken for Ladies and Gentlemen
and neat and complete fits warranted or no sale.
At IRVINE A STATLER'S, No. 2 A.'s Row.
If you want a good p'r Shoes, go to the Regulator.
ROCERIES.—
Prime Rio Coffee, - 25 to 30 cents per lb.
do La Guayra, - 25 to 30 " " "
White Sugar, ... 18 " "
Light Brown Sugars, - 12i to 15 " " "
Teas, - - - - $1 50 to 2.00 per lb.
Spices, all kinds, cheap and good.
Best quality Syrups and Molasses, at the lowest
market prices, at "The Regulator's," No. 2 A. R.
If you want good Toilet Soap or Perfumery, go to
the Regulator.
TTNBLEAOHED and BLEACHED
MUSLINS,
From the best Manufactories in the country.
Bleached and Unbleached Muslins from 12} c up.
Sheeting, .... - from 18c up.
Tickings, all grades and prices, at
IRVINE A STATLER'S.
If you want a good Shirt, go to the Regulator.
/\UR NOTIONS ARE AT ALL
TIMES FULL AND COMPLETE in
Shirts, Collars,
Neck-Ties, Soaps,
Gloves, Hosiery,
Perfumery,
Suspenders,
Combs, Threads,
Buttons, Wallets,
Brushes, Thimbles,
Pins,
Needles,
Sewing Silk,
Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs,
Shaving Cream,
Ac., Ac., Ac.
At No. 2 Anderson's Row.
If you want a variety of Notions, go to the Reg'r.
i
and PERFUMERY.
Letter and Fools-cap Paper, Envelopes,
Perfumery, all kinds of Toilet Soap, Tooth Brush
es, Ac., At THE REGULATOR'S.
If you want Queensware er Glassware, go to the
Regulator.
QUEENSWABE & GLASSWARE.
We have a large and magnificent selection of
Queensware and Glassware, of the latest and most
fashionable patterns, and will be sold at the most
reasonable prices, by
IRVINE A STATLER.
If you want good Spices of any kind, go tPthe
Regulator.
rpOBACCO AND SEGARS of the
best brands and manufacture :
Gravely,
Oronoke Twist,
Century Fine-cut,
Cavendish,
Baltimore Twist,
Congress,
. Ac., Ac.
Smoking Tobacco, all kinds.
Segars from a Cheroot to the finest article.
Also, a large assortment of Pipes,
jy Call at No. 2 Anderson's Row.
If you want good Hosiery, Gloves, Neck-fies col
lars, Ac., go to the Regulator.
HAVE EVERYTHING that
is usually kept in a No. 1 country store.
iy MARKETING of all kinds taken in ex
change FOR GOODS, and the highest prices paid.
Any goods desired will be ordered from the Eas
tern cities
iy Country merchants supplied with goods at
a small advance. No trouble to show goods. All
we ask is a call and we feel satisfied we can please
ALL. Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con
tinuance of the same.
apr2B,'67. IRVINE A STATLER.
If you want any thing in onr line go to the Bed
ford Regulator, No. 2, Anderson's Row.
<ZTI)c Gc&fori) ©alette.
BY MEYERS & MEN GEL.
&c.
gAVE YOUR GREENBACKS!!
You can SA VE 25 per cent, by purchasing your
GOODS at the CHEAP BARGAIN S TORE of
G. R. A W. OSTER,
BEDFORD, PA.
They are now opening a large and handsome as
sortment of NEW and CHEAP DRY-GOODS,
Ready-Made Clothing, Carpet, Cotton Yarns,
Hats, Boots and Shoes* Sun-Umbrellas, Para
sols, Groceries, Queensware, Tobaccos and Ci
gars, Wall Papers, Wooden-ware, Brooms, (\c.
LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES:
Best styles DELAiNES, 221 and 25 cts.
CALICOES, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 cts.
GINGHA MS, 12, 15, 20, 25 cts.
MUSLINS, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25 cts.
CASS I MERES, 75, 85, 115, 125, 150, 165 cts.
LADIES' 6-4* SACKING, $1.65, 1.75, 2.00,
all wool.
DRILLING and PANTALOON STUFFS,
20, 25, 30, 35 cts
GENTS' HALF-HOSE, 10,12, 15, 20, 25, 30,
35 cts.
LADIES' HOSE, 121, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35 cts.
LADIES' SHOES as low as 90 cts.
Good Rio COFFEE, 25 cts.; better, 28 cts.;
best, 30 cts.
Extra fine OOLONG, JAPAN, IMPERIAL
and YOUNG HYSON TEAS.
SUGARS and SYRUPS, a choice assort
ment.
MACKEREL and HERRING, late caught, !
fat fish.
We invite all to call and see for themselves.
A busy store and increasing trade, is a telling
fact that their prices are popular.
Terms CASH, unless otherwise specified.
may24m3.
OPLENDID
OPENING of
CHEAP
SPRING and
SUMMER
I
GOODS,
AT
FARQUHAR'S
New Bargain Store,
REED'S BUILDING.
CALICOES, (good) - 121 c.
do (best) - - 18c.
MUSLINS, brown, - - 10c.
do (best) - - 20c.
do bleached, - 10c.
do (best) • - 25c.
DELAINES, boat styles, - 25c.
DRESS GOODS
of all kinds
VERY CHEAP.
MEN'S and BOYS'
COTTONADES,
GOOD and CHEAP.
A large stock of
FANCY
ALL WOOL
CASSIMERES
ASTONISH
INGLY
CHEAP.
BOOTS
AND
SHOES.
MEN'S •
AND
BOYS'
HATS.
GROCERIES:
Best COFFEE, - i 30c
$
Brown SUGAR - from 10 to 15c
FISH t
Mackerel and Potomac Herring.
QUEENSWARE
and a general variety of
NOTIONS.
Buyers are invited to examine
our stock as we are determined to
to sell cheaper than the cheapest,
J. B. FARQUHAR.
mayl7
"VTEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!!
The undersigned has just received from the East a
large and varied stock of New Goods,
which are now open for
examination, at
MILL-TOWN,
two miles West of Bedford, comprising everything
usually found in a first-class country store,
consisting, in part, of
Dry-Goods,
Delaines, •
Calicoes,
Muslins,
Cassimers,
Boots a nd Shoes,
Gr< iceries,
Notions,
Ac., Ac.
AH of which will be sold at the most reasonable
prices.
Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con
tinuance ot the public patronage.
Ijp Call and examine our good s.
may24,'67. G. YEAGER
QLLP BILLS, PRO GRAMMES
C 3 POSTERS, and all kinds of PLAIN AND
RF&NCY JOB PRINTING, done with
rind despatch, at THE GAZETTE ofijce.
TERMS OF PUBLICATION.
THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri
day morning by METERS & MENDEL, at $2.00 per
annum, if paid strictly in advance ; $2.50 if paid
within six months; $3.00 if not paid within six
months. All subscription accounts MUST be
settled annually. No paper will be sent out of
the State unless paid for IN ADVANCE, and all such
invariably be discontinued at
the expiration of the time for which they are
paid.
All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less terra than
three months TEN CENTS per line for each ln
ertion. Special notices one-half additional All
esoluti' ns of Associations; communications of
imited or individual interest, and notices of mar
•iages and deaths exceeding five lines, ten. cents
er line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line.
All legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans''
Court and Judicial Sales, ore required by law
to be published in both papers published in this
place.
All advertising due after first insertion.
A liberal discount is made to persons advertising
by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows :
3 months. 6 months. 1 year.
♦One square - -- $450 $6 00 $lO 00
Two squares - - - 600 900 16 00
Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00
Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00
Half column - - - 18 00 25 00 45 00
Gne column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00
♦One square to occupy one 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.
All letters should be addressd to
MEYERS & MENGEL,
Publishers.
AN ADDRESS
I'liverHl at Schfllxbiirg. July 4. 1867,
BY B. F. MEYERS.
[CORRESPONDENCE.]
SCHELLSBURG, July 9,1867.
B. F. MEVERS, ESQ. : — Dear Sir:— Will you
do us the favor, to furnish us for publication, a
copy of your address delivered at this place, on
the fourth inst., and oblige,
Yours Truly,
JNO. S. SCHELC, BURTON EDSALL,
J. J. CLARKE, D. W. MULLIN,
J. E. BLACK, W. J. MULLIN,
PETER DEWALT, A. J. SNXVELV.
BEDFORD, July 10, 1867.
GENTLEMEN :—Your favor of yesterday request
ing a copy of toe address delivered by me at
Schellsburg, on the 4th inst., js beforelne. I
cheerfully comply wiih your request, and here
with place the address at your disposal.
Respectfully Yours,
B. F. MEYERS.
To Messrs. SCHKLL, EDSALL, CLARKE, MULLIN,
and others.
ADDRESS.
FELLOW CITIZENS:—We celebrate
this day as the anniversary of that In
dependence which was the foundation
of tho American Republic. We rejoice
that our colonial ancestors possessed
the intelligence and virtue to resist ty
ranny, and that the Supreme Ruler of
the Universe crowned with success their
struggle for Liberty. Nor is our re
joicing but empty show, —thenoiseand
riot of senseless revelry, the sounding
brass and tinkling cymbals of an un
reasoning adoration of human great
ness ; it is the simple but earnest ex
pression of our homage to Liberty and
our veneration for the memory of those
who established it throughout our land.
The occasion, too, reminds us that we
are to imitate the virtues of the men to
whom the lustre of this day owes all
its brightness and glory; that we are
not merely to rejoice over what has
been and is, but to look forward with
unclouded, truth-searching eyes toward
that which is to be; and, above all,
that we are to see to it that the fabric
of government erected by the founders
of the Republic be preserved intact to
posterity. Thus solemnly reminded of
our duty we look back to that period,
"grand, gloomy and peculiar," in which
the old bell of the Philadelphia State
House, proclaimed Liberty to the tax
ridden and misgoverned people of the
colonies. The story of the Revolution
is familiar to all. .The burden of Brit
ish oppression had become too heavy
to be borne and the colonists took up
arms to resist the execution of the
odious enactments of." arliament. This
war of resistance to the British Tax
laws, was waged about fifteen months,
when the Colonial Congress, assembled
at Philadelphia, adopted and promul
gated the Declaration of Independence,
and thenceforward it became a war for
the establishment of a separate govern
ment.
The difficulties which surrounded the
Revolutionists, the sufferings endured
by the little band of patriots which dur
ing seven years of rapine and carnage
grappled with the power of Britain,
solemnly teach us that our freedom
was dearly bought and that we should
consider it as a boon of priceless worth.
And, indeed, how can we revert to
the story of Lexingt-n and Bunker
Hill, or look, in fancy, upon the flames
of burning Charlestown, how can we
think of Valley Forge and -King's
Mountain, or remember Marion and
his men, without feeling that we should
surrender all, even life itself, rather
than suffer the destruction of the insti
tutions bequeathed to us by the patriot
fathers? How can we study the history
of the early times of our Republic and
learn that it was born amid the shock
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1867.
of civil convulsion, baptized in the
blood of the noblest and best of that age,
and reared under the tutelage of the
wisest and greatest men the world has
produced, and not resolve to guard it
as the very ark of the covenant of Lib
erty?
The true lover of our form of govern
ment, is attached by the blessings it
confers, with cords of imperishable af
fection, to its principles and institu
tions. He needs not be told that those
who founded it, passed through the
fiery ordeal of revolution; he needs not
be reminded of the valor, the fortitude
and the self-denial of its authors; he
knows it to be as nearly perfect as any
system ever devised by man, and ac
cepts and defends it with that whole
heartedness and singleness of purpose
which always characterize the sincere
patriot. But there are those whom
neither the example of the men of the
Revolution, nor the advantages con
ferred by our government, can reconcile
to its continued existence. The spirit
of innovation stalks throughout the
land, and men fall down and worship
it as a god! Its brazen image has been
set up in the Temple of Liberty and in
the very holy of holies incense is burn
ed before this strange deity. But the
iconoclasts will come and the idol will
be broken in pieces. Let us take care,
however, that in the storm of evil pas
sions, the temple itself be not pulled
down. Let us read with profit the les
sons of history, so that ours may not be
the fate of the Amphyctionic Council,
or the Achaian League, but that brighter
and more glorious than the splendor of
Republican Greece, or Rome, may be
the record of the Republic of America.
Let us be true to the nature and spirit
of our government, and no Macedonian
fraud shall ever rob us of our liberties,
no Cesar cross the Rubicon of our Re
publicanism. But it cannot be that in
the light of those historic examples af
forded by the decay and downfall of
the ancient Republics, we, too, shall
lapse into those fatal errors which
proved their destruction. It cannot be
that lust for conquest, greed of power,
the tyranny of majorities, or the turbu
lence of faction, will sk* permitted to
add America to the catalogue of ruined
Commonwealths. History gives us an
apocalyptic glimpse of what may be
our future. We could not, if we would,
shut our eyes and refuse to see our pos
sible fate. We are compelled to look
upon it, and surely we will not delib
erately walk into peril so vividly re
vealed. Besides, the divine warmth of
Christian philosophy has tempered the
human heart, and we are better adapt
ed to the mild government of a Repub
lic than those who lived in the cold
light of Pagan systems and in the cheer
less gloom of idolatry. No, it is in
credible that in our case history will
"repeat itself." The beacon that warns
us of danger shines brightly upon our j
path-way, and though the darkness ot
war and the chaos of domestic tumult
surround us, we will fix our eyes upon
the Constitution, in the light of an un
shaken faith that it will bring us safely
through every difficulty,
"Onward, through the cave of night,
Boring with our signal light;
Though the sky is glooming o'er us,
We will trust the track before us."
Yes! "we will trust the track!" It was
laid by careful hands ; it rests upon the
imperishable rock; it was made to bear
the precious freight of a nation,—made
to bear it as well when the sweet sun
shine of peace beams upon it, as when
the sulphurous clouds of war burst ov
er and spend their fury against it. We
need not fear the track. But, now and
then, obstructions are placed upon it.
Now and then it is buried beneath the
land-slides of fanaticism or the seoriie
of civil feuds. Now and then there is
a reckless, or unfaithful, engineer. But
the track itself remains and will con
tinue to exist, though mountains of er
ror fall upon it, though the ashes and
desolation of civil convulsion hide it
from those of little faith. We cau trust
the track, but not those who would de
viate from it. We cannot trust those
who teach us to forsake the Constitu
tion and seek political refuge in the
dogma of the absolute sovereignty of
the States, nor those who would build
up a central tyranny upon the shift
ing sands of extra-Constitutional pow
er. The one would lead to the inevita
ble disintegration of the Republic; the
other would prove the worst species of
despotism. Is it not strange that A
mericans should favor either of these
things? Is it not passing strange that
men cannot see and appreciate the won
drous beauty of our system in that it so
clearly defines the orbit of Federal, as
well as of State, Sovereignty ? Never
theless it is from the extreme State
Sovereignty men, on the one hand, and
from the advocates of a centralized na
tional government on the other, that
our country has been threatened, from
the adoption of the Constitution until
the present day. Nothing can be more
certain than this: The Federal Gov
ernment is supreme within its Consti
tutional sphere; beyond the limits of
that sphere it has no authority; and
whilst the States cannot encroach upon
the powers of the Federal Government,
all powers not delegated to it by the
Constitution, or not prohibited by that
instrument to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the peo
ple. In the language of the great ex
pounder of the Constitution, ours "is a
popular representative government,
with all the departments, and all the
functions and organs, of such a govern
ment. But it is still a limited, a re
strained, a severely guarded govern
ment. It exists under a written Con
stitution, and all that human wisdom
could do, is done to define its powers
and to preventtheirabu.se. It is placed
in what was supposed to be the safest
medium between dangerous authority
on the one hand and debility and in
efficiency on the other. That happy
medium was found by the exercise of
the greatest political sagacity, and the
influence of the greatest good fortune.
Weeannot move the system either way,
without the probability of hurtful
change; and as experience has taught
us its safety and usefulness, when left
where it is, our duty is a plain one.
"It cannot be doubted that a system
thus complicated, must be accompanied
by more, or less, of danger, in every
stage of its existence. It has not the
simplicity of despotism. It is not a
plain column, that stands self-poised
and self-supported. Nor is it a loose,
unfixed, irregularand undefined system
of rule, which admits of constant and vi
olent changes, without losing its char
acter. But it is a balanced and guarded
system; a system of checks and controls;
a system in which powers are carefully
delegated ar.d as carefully limited; a
system in which the symmetry of the
parts is designed to produce an aggre
gate whole, which shall be favorable
to personal liberty, favorable to pub
lic prosperity, and favorable to national
glory."
Thus spoke the immortal Webster,
and if we but adopt his enlightened and
patriotic exposition of the theory of
our government, all will be well. If
we but cling to the Constitutional track,
there can be no danger of running
either into disintegration, or central
ization. Oh !if we but cling to the track,
we shall travel on forever upon the
road of national prosperity.
The genuine patriot shuns extremes.
He has learned the lesson of the "golden
mean," and applies it strictly to his
conduct as a citizen. He realizes, in
all its fulness, the truth of the German
adage, " Mittelmaas die beste straas."
He remembers that our Constitution
was the work of men who differed
widely in their views of government,
but who advanced each from his own
stand-point, to meet the rest upon
common ground. He knows that our
system was the result of mutual conces
sions on the part of those who framed
it, and that ultraism, whether it be
centripetal, or centrifugal, has no war
rant under it and is utterly foreign to
its nature. But whilst he avoids and
opposes those schemes of malignant
reform which are inconsistent with the
character of our government, or which
threaten to overturn it, he believes in
that sort of progress which educates
and elevates the people, which brings
to the nation, virtue, intelligence and
prosperity, which while it does not
disturb the public peace, pours wealth
into the national treasury, lightens
the burdens of taxation and conduces
to the happiness and contentment of
the citizen. Such a patriot is worthy
of the name. Such was the character of
those men who inaugurated and carried
to a triumphant issue the war of the
Revolution. Such were Hancock and
Jefferson, Franklin and Rutledge,
Hamilton and Madison, and such was
the Pater Patrice , the deathless Wash
ington. Had the generations which
succeeded them emulated the example
of those illustrious men, had those who
administered the laws, striven as zeal
ously for the perpetuation of the Repub-
Hancock and his com peers labored
to establish it,had statesmen of opposite
views met upon common ground, for
the common good, as Hamilton and
Madison met, in short, had that spirit
of mutual forbearance and that deter
mination to bury faction beneath the
necessity of the public weal, which
ennobled the character of the authors
of our government, animated and ac
tuated their successors, we would never
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have been cursed with sectional jeal
ousies, civil commotion, or internecine
war. But alas! history will record
that those grand models of patriotism
and statesmanship, were soon forgotten;
that sectional animosities drove them
from their place in the American heart;
that in spite of the noble example of
tho e who founded the government, in
spite of the solemn warning of Wash
ington himself, political discord, parti
zau hate, and finally civil war, with
all its untold horrors, became the lot of
the American people. Oh! that we
could blot the hateful stain from the
historian's record! Oh ! that pitying
Heaven would sink the volume which
records it, beneath the waters of eternal
Lethe! But the stigma is ineffaceable'
and its blackness can only be softened
by a future of peace and a complete
restoration of friendship between those
who were at enmity. Let, us then,
leave to the historian the unhappy
strife which so lately raged in our land.
Let him tell of the causes which opera
ted to produce it; let him trace the red
track of the gigantic struggle; let him
record the triumph of that banner
which isthesymbol of the Constitution;
Jet him celebrate the deeds of those
who, on maify a bloody field, bore the
oriflitmmeof victory ; and let him not
forget to write, as the redeeming char
acteristic of a fratricidal war, that the
earth never drank the blood of braver
men than those who fell in this sad
and ensanguined conflict.
"As rolls the river into ocean,
In sable torrent wildly streaming,
As the sea-tide's opposing motion,
In azure column proudly gleaming,
Beats back the current many a rood,
In curling foam and mingling flood,
While eddying whirl, and breaking wave,
Roused by the blast ot wijater, rave;
Through sparkling spray, in thunder crash,
The lightningsof the waters fltsh,
In awful whiteness on the shore,
Thus—as the stream and ocean greet,
With waves that madden as they meet —
Thus joined the bands, whom mutual wrong,
And fate and fury drove along !"
Let it be for us this day to rejoice that
we have seen the end of our first (may
Heaven vouchsafe it to be our last) civ
il war. To-day four years ago, the
cannon of Meade boomed from the
heights of Gettysburg and the legions
of Lee galloped to the charge in thun
dering squadrons. To- day four years
ago, we sang carmen triumphale , for we
knew that the soil of Pennsylvania was
once more free from the foot of the
invader. But to-day there is no sound
of deep-mouthed cannon; to-day we
sing no song of triumph ; but westretch
our hands in the magnanimity of true
men, saying, to the vanquished, Come
back with us beueath the shelter of the
old banner, come back and let us bury
out of sight the festering corse of the
dead past, come back and let us restore
that Union which has given us national
greatness and without which we can
have neither internal peace, nor exter
nal safety!
Two years ago the flag of the South
was furled forever. It went down
amid the smoke of battle never to float
again. But the States whose people
revolted against the Federal authority,
remain unrestored to their Constitution
al relations to the government. There
are to-day but twenty seven of the
thirty seven States, represented in Con
gress. This condition of practical dis
union, is, at present, our greatest
danger. Billions of debt, an inflated
currency, and the other inevi able
results of a prolonged and bloody
war, however crushing they appear,
maybe borne, but dis-Union, never!
We need public confidence in the
financial soundness of the country, as
well as that soundness itself. We need
commercial and social intercourse with
the people of the vast agricultural
South. We need thesplendid revenues
which lhat section, if once permitted
to enjoy political quiet, will be sure to
bring to the national treasury. But,
above all, we need the speedy settle
ment, in accordance with the Constitu
tion, of the vexed questions which have
grown out of the war, so that the public
inind may be free from the the distur
bance of violent partizan agitation, and
the danger of fresh feuds and new
wars be averted from the near future.
How shall these desirable ends be
attained? How, but by the restora
tion of the ten States now unrepre
sented in the government, to their Con
stitutional relations to the Republic?
It is not sufficient that the flag of the
Union waves over the strongholds of
the late rebellious South. It is not e
nough that the alarum of war has ceas
ed and that opposition to the Federal
Government has been transmuted, by
force of arms, into abject submission.
It remains for us to restore civil gov
ernment to, or, rather, to remove the
military duress by which civil govern
ment is restrained in, the States of the
I South. When thisshallbeaocomplish
ed, the arts of peace will flourish again;
when this shall be consummated, the
wheat-fields of Shenandoah once more
will yield their golden harvests to the
sickle, and the cotton-fields of Georgia
fullfil the hopes of producer and con
sumer. Then, and not till then, will
the sword be truly beaten into the
ploughshare, the spear into the prun
ing-hook. Let us, then, turn our at
tention to the restoration of that por
tion of our country at present excluded
from participation in the government.
Let us forget all connected with our civ
il war, save the great central fact of a
preserved Union and the memory of
the heroes who f >ught and died in the
struggle. And here let us pay a pass
ing tribute to those who yielded up
their lives in the wager of battle.
"How many a glorious name for us,
How many a story of fame for us,
They left! Would it not be a shame for us,
If their memory part
From our land and heart.
And a wrong to them and a blame for us ?
No ! No! No ! They were brave for us,
And bright were the lives they gave for us.
The land they struggled to save for us,
Cannot forget
Its warriors yet,
Who sleep in many a grave for "■
But how shall we do justice to the
brave men who perished for the sake
of their country? Whence shall we
borrow the glowing language that be
fits their eulogy? Monuments may be
erected in their honor, and their ashes
gathered in gorgeous mausoleums, the
epic page may burn in description of
their deeds and the painter's canvas
glow with the picture of the red con
flict in which they fell, but all will fail
to cancel the overwhelming debt of
gratitude which the nation owes them.
We cannot estimate the value of the
sacrifice they made for us; we can only
drop a tear to their memory and wish
for them,
"Iu Heaven a borne with the brave and blest,
A name in song and story,
And fame to shout with her brazen voice,
'Died on the Field of Glory.' "
But whilst we keep in remembrance
the fallen brave, let us hasten to re
build the waste places of our country;
let us restore the Constiution as the su
preme law of the land; let us banish
faction and check innovation ; and let
us strive to make our government con
form in spirit, as well as in letter, to
i hat liberalism which knows no oppres
sion for opinion's sake and which
makes the title of American citizen syn
onymous with that of freeman. With
our hands upon our hearts, with our
eyes uplifted to heaven, let us, in hum
ble imitation of those grand old patri
ots who, this day ninety-one years ago,
announced the birth of a new nation,
pledge u our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor," that, so help us God, we
will stand by the Union of the States
and the liberty of the citizen, against all
opposition, whether from armed usur
pation, or peaceful revolution.
THE DOOM OP THE WORLD.—What
this change is to be, we dare not even
conjecture; but we see in the heavens
themselves some traces of destructive
elemets, and some indication of their
power. The fragments of broken plan
ets, the descent of the meteoric stones
on the globe, the wheeling com
ets, wielding their loose materials in
our own satellite, the appearance of new
stars, and the disappearance of others,
are, as the solar furnace, the volcan
ic eruptions, all foreshadows of that
impending convulsion to which the sys
tem of the world is doomed. Thus
placed on a planet which is burned up,
and under heavens which are to pass
away; thus treading, as it were, on the
cemeteries, and dwelling upon the
mausoleums of former worlds, let us
learn the lesson of humility and wisdom
if we have not already been taught in
the school of revelation.— North British
Review.
A SWEET TEMPER.—No trait of char
acter is more valuable in a woman than
the possession of a sweet temper. Home
can never be made happy without it.
It is lise the flowers that spring up in
our pathway, reviving and cheering us.
Let a man go home at night weary and
worn by the toils of the day and how
soothing is a word dictated by a good
disposition? It is sunshine falling on
his heart. He is happy, and the cares
of life are forgotten. A sweet temper
has a soothing influence over the mind
of a whole family. Where it is found
in the wife and mother, you observe
kindness and love predominating over
the natural feeling of a bad heart.
Sfhiles, kind words, characterize the
children and peace and love have their
dwelling there. Study, then, to acquire
and retain a sweet temper. It is more
gold; it captivates more
than beauty; and to the close of life it
retains all its freshness and power.
A REMINISCENCE.— OIiver Crom
well was buried in Westminister Ab
bey, but after the restoration, by sol
emn act of Parliament, more barbar
ous than any private act of him they
called the "usurper," his body, together
with that of his son-in-law, Henry Ire
ton, Lord Deputy of Ireland and John
Bradshaw, who presided at the trial of
Charlfes I, was taken from his grave,
conveyed upon sledges to Tyburn, and
there hung at three several angles of
the gallows until sunset. They were
beheaded, the trunks thrown into a
deep pit under the gallows, ami thtir
heads set upon poles on the top of West
minister Abbey.
THE COWAKD'S "ARMS, "—His leg*^