file ffptator'ji tfoltimn. rpHE BEDFORD REGULATOR, No. 2 ANDERSON'S ROW. IRVINE & STATLER Are again in the field battling against the imposi tion of high prices and would respectfully inform I" 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 & Colored Shirts, Cotton & Woolen Yarns, Trunks & Valises, Brooms & Twines, &c., Ac. fy Call at No. 2 ANDERSON'S Row. If you want a good p'r Boots, go to the Regulator. . QUR STOCK OF BOOTS & 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. R O C E'R I E S. — Prime Rio Coffee, - 25 to 30 cents per lb. do La Guayra, - 25 to 30 44 " " White Sugar, ... 18 44 '• 44 Light Brown Sugars, - 121 to 15 44 44 44 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 44 The Regulator's," No. 2A. R. If you want good Toilet Soap or Perfumery, go to the Regulator. TTNBLEACHED and BLEACHED MUSLINS, From the best Manufactories in the country. Bleached and Unbleached Muslins from l2ic 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. OUR 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., &c., &c. At No. 2 Anderson's Row If you want a variety of Notions, go to the Reg'r. STATIONERY 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 to the Regulator. rpOBACCO AND SEGARS of the best brands and manufacture : Gravely, Oronoke Twist, Century Fine-cut, Cavendish, Baltimore Twist, Natural Leaf, Congress, Ac., Ac. Smoking Tobacco, all kinds. Segars from a Cheroot to the finest article. Also, a large assortment of Pipes. £jp Call at No. 2 Anderson's Row. If you want good Hosiery, Gloves, Neck-tics col lars, Ac., go to the Regulator. HAVE EVERYTHING that is usually kept in a No. 1 country store. 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 ty Country merchants supplied with goods al 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. apr26,'67. IRVINE A STATLER. If you want any thing in our line, go to the Bed ford Regulator, No. 2, Anderson's Row. <SI)c #o?dtc. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. SAVE YOUR GREENBACKS J J You can SAVE 25 per cent, by purchasing your GOODS at the CHEAP BARGAIN STORE of G. R. & 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, tye. LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES: Best styles DELAiNES, 22j and 25 cts. CALICOES, 9, 19, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 cts. GINGHAMS, 12, 15, 20, 25 cts. MUSLINS, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25 cts. CASSIMERES. To, 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, 12i, 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. jy 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. QPLENDID OPENING of CHEAP SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, AT FARQUHAR'S New Bargain Store, REED'S BUILDING. CALICOES, (good) - 12ic. do (best) - - 18c. MUSLINS, brown, - - 10c. do (best) - - 20c. do bleached, - 10c. do (best) - - 25c. DELAINES, boat atyUe, - 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, - - 30c Brown SUGAR - from 10 to 15c FISH : 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 | MEW 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 and Shoes, Groceries, Notions, Ac., Ac. All of wnich will be sold at the most reasonable prices. fjp Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con- J tinuance ot the public patronage. iy Call and examine our goods. may24,'67. G. YEAGER O LIP BILLS, PROGRAMMES O POSTERS, and all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, done with neatness and despatch, at THE GAZETTE office. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri day morning by MEYEKS A MBSGEL, 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 subscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are paid. All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term 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, are required by law to be published in both papers published in this place. (y 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 - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares - - 600 900 16 00 Three squares - - - 800 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Half column - - - 18 00 25 00 45 00 One 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. AT THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICE. By Amy Randolph. 'You don't care for me, Lucy!' Miss Lucy Taylor put one little taper finger meditatively up to her blue vein ed temple and affected to think deeply on the subject. 'Care for you, Carl? N-no, I don't think I do—that is, very much!' Carl Wicklow bit his moustached lip with unavailing wrath and vexation, as the arch blue sparkle of the lovely eyes met his! What a bright, coquet tish specimen of the female butterfly she was, that gold-haired blonde, with her long eyelashes and coral lips and skin like rose-shadowed wax? Carl Wicklow could feel the invisible chains tightening around his heart, even while the firey impulses of masculine pride urged him to snap them in sunder, and assert himself heart-whole. 'Lucy!' 'Well, Mr. Wicklow!' (The question short, sharp and im perative—the answer demure in the highest degree.) ' Will you listen to me seriously, for just half-a-minute?' 'Presently, Carl. I've forgotten all about my poor, dear, little Canary.' Carl bit liis lip again. 'Oh, hang your Canary!' 'That's just what I'm going to do— up among the climbing roses in the porch, where pussy can't by any possi bility get at him.' 'Lucy, I am in no mood to be trifled with.' 'That's almost a pity, isn't it, now?' responded Miss Taylor. 'For, to tell you the truth, I never felt more inclin ed to tease and trifle in the whole course of my life.' 'Miss Taylor,' said Carl, gravely and sternly. 'I Will be listened to!' 'And I won't listen ! so there!' In her pretty, girlish spirit of defi ance, mingled with a rising spirit of anger, Lucy Taylor fluttered through the wide open door, where the rippling tides of the June sunshine crowned her with misty gold, as she passed—and disappeared. Carl Wicklow stood looking after her, with a brow that had blanched to a dull, deadly whiteness, for a single moment. Then he, too, turned away and walked silently down the little path among the velvet-green meadows, where a tiny rivulet ran gurgling all the way by his side in a voiceless refrain, which he, in the bitterness of his soul, interpreted into the mocking words of the ballad: "Beware ! trust her not! She is fooling thee !" Oh, Carl Wicklow! Carl Wicklow! what a dunce you were in the great mystery of a girl's heart! 'lsn't Mr. Wicklow to be here to night?' Lucy Taylor asked the question care lessly, as she stood before the mirror twisting a spray of spicy honeysuckle among her bright curls, with half-a dozen village girls chattering around her, as only village girls can-chatter. 'Mr. Wicklow! Why, didn't you know ? Haven't you heard ?' 'Heard what ?' She stopped, with the honeysuckle trembling strangely in her hand. 'He went away yesterday morning.' 'But he will be back ? Surely he will be back ?' 'Not that I know of. He told Dr. Marcy that he probably never should return.' • The color that momentarily died a way from Lucy's cheek came back in a great tide of carnation; she fastened the honeysuckles in with a hand that never faltered. 'Come, girls are you ready ?' she said, lightly. f 'I have promised myself for the two first dances, and I hear the mus ic already.' And no one saw how tightly she pressed her hand over her breast, to check the dull, bitter aching of its re cesses. Poor Lucy! the consciousness that it was her own fault made it no easier to bear. It was a bright, snug little boudoir, BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1867. carpetechwith mossy velvet, and shad owed with pink and gold lights from silken curtains and merry morningsun shine, and Mrs. Theodore Wicklow sat in her little rocking chair, with two dimpled hands up to her ears, and her black eye-brows elevated at an angle of accute despair, while six or seven rosy, pretty little ones, of any age from twelve to two, tossed and tum bled and climbed on chairs, tables and bijouterie, like a swarm of noisy human bees. 'I shall go crazy,' said Mrs Wicklow. But as, according to her own state ment, she was reduced to the verge of insanity half a dozen times a day the last assertion produced no sort of im pression. 'Mr. Wicklow, do you hear?' demand ed the aggrieved little woman of an abstracted gentleman, who was deep in the columns of a morning paper. 'I hear, my dear, I hear,' he respond ed absently. 'No, you do nothing of the sort,' said Mrs. Wicklow, petulantly .—'You're off in China, somewhere, or you're listen ing to a debate in the snuffy old Eng lish Parliament, or you're running up and down the price lists. Now, will you pay a little attention to me? C'har- Ue, you certainly will break your neck, and/can't mend it! Eloise, let the statuettes alone! Mr. Wicklow, I say! I shall certainly lose my senses!' 'That's nothing new, my dear,' said her husband, dryly. 'But what shall I do?' pleaded Mrs. Wicklow, as two tempestuous little ones, with hair like floating flax, pur sued one another over her lap. 'All of these children and no nurse-maid, and such a neuralgia that I can't stir out of the house. Do, please, put down your everlasting newspaper, and give me a little advice.' My dear, how very unreasonable you are. If you were only aware of it, my everlasting newspaper, as you call it, is the very thing that's going to help you out of our dilemma.' 'I should like to know how.' 'Then just listen.' 'A young woman from the country desires a situation to take charge of children in a respectable family. Wages not so much an object as a good home. 'That sounds very nice,' said Mrs* Wicklow, reflectively. 'Where does she advertise from, Theodore? 'An intelligence office, down town.' 'Would—would you go and see her?' 'Certainly not, dear!' said Mr. Wick low, with a calm decision that dashed his wife's budding hopes prone to the grrounrl 'I havo notiuwio run over town after nurse-maids. Business, Eleanor—business must be looked af ter.' 'Perhaps Carl would go?' 'Perhaps he would,' said Mr. Wick low, in a doubling tone, that brought the vexed flush to his wife's cheek. 'I am sure he would'nt m ind the trouble —Carl is so obliging, and here he comes now.' In the same moment the door svvang slowly open on its silver plate hinges, and Carl Wicklow entered. As brown and handsome as ever, with the same hazel light in his frank eye, and the dark crimped hair tossed away from a square forehead. Eight years have changed him very little, and yet people in society had fallen into the habit of calling Carl Wicklow an old bachelor. 'Hallo!'said Carl, good-humoredly surveying the disorderly scene; 'it strUps me that our children are ram pa* to-day. Take care, Tommy—your head's pretty hard, but it is not equal to a marble mantle in point of density. My poor Eleanor! you'll be entirely annihilated at this rate!' 'lf you would only oblige me, Carl?' 'How ?' Mrs. Wicklow took the newspaper out of her husband's unresisting hands and read the advertisement aloud. 'Don't you think she would suit us, Carl? A country girl you know, would'nt have any of those horrid citi fied ways that Mary Anu had—and she would be so good to the children.' 'And you want me to go down audi secure this paragon for you? is that it, Eleanor?' 'That's just it, Carl.' 'Very well; I may as well lounge away my time in that way as any oth er. Give me the address—l'll go.' The intelligence office was crowded with Irish, French, German and Eng lish, as Carl Wicklow bowed his tall head to enter—a miscellaneous appear ance. 'ls it a cook ye're wantin,' sir?' de manded a ponderous Hibernean.— 'Sure I'm the one you're after—wid two years recommend from my last place, and .' She stopped abruptly as the pale, sallow little clerk advanced. 'Can I do anything for you to-day, sir?' 'Yes; I believe you advertised a nurse-girl for children. My sister needs such a domestic.' 'Ah, yes—Mary Ryan here!' A red-haired girl advanced with a tread like that of a megatherium, and a dirty plaid shawl drawn tight around her. 'You'll find this young woman very reliable, sir.' 'Ah—yes—l dare say,' said Carl, a little taken aback ; 'but the young per son I mean was from the country, and 'Oh, I understand, now—l under stand,' said the clerk, lowering his : voice a little. 'To tell you the truth, I she's entirely different from the sort of persons we have here every day—quite the lady, sir— and she's up stairs with my wife, I really hadn't the face to ask her to come down here.' And the clerk gave his head a little jerk towards the assemblage that lined the walls. 'Walk up stairs, sir, if you please—first door to the right.' And Mr. Carl Wicklow walked up stairs accordingly, and tapped at the indicated door. 'Come in.' There was something in the soft ring of the clear voice that made Carl's heart throb a little strangely. Ileopened the door and went in. It was a small, low-ceiled room, with red curtains and a glaring red carpet and stiff plaster-of-paris ornaments on the wooden mantel—a vulgar looking, dreary little room, without one home association within its four blank walls, And beside the ash-choked fire, with her fair head inclined thoughtfully downward, sat a solitary woman dress ed in a deep black, relieved only by the burnished gold of one stray curl that had escaped from its net and lay over her shoulder. She arose as he entered, and Carl Wicklow stood face to face with his first love and his last—Lucy Taylor. She had been very pale at first; but as she met his earnest, astonished gaze, the crimson rushed over her whole face in a bright billow of carmine, and then she bent her head. 'Lucy!' 'You are astonished, Mr Wicklow —scarcely more so, however, than I am. Did you require the services of a chil dren's nurse? You see it was necessary for me to earn my own living; my ed ucation was hardly thorough enough to enable me to take a situation as govern ess, and I am not sufficiently healthy to sew steadly, I will do my best if you will kindly employ me.' In all the bloom and freshness of her earliest youth Lucy had never looked so lovely in Carl Wicklow's eyes asshe did at this moment, with her pretty head drooping, like a lily crushed down by summer showers, and a meek patience in her eyes. He stood there gravely watching her with a strong purpose slowly maturing in his mind. 'Most people fancy I am not strong enough,'she said in subdued accents; 'but indeed I am; and if your wife y 'I have no wife, Lucy'. She blushed like a whole flower gar den of roses. 'I beg your pardon—you are a widow er? 'Xor that either, Lucy. I was speak ing only of my sister's children.' 'Do you think I should suit her?' 'I think you won't suit her. No' A chill shadow of disappointment came on the meek, pale face. Carl Wicklow took Lucy's hand in his. 'My dearest, I think you are deter mined not to understand me. Mary Ryan down stairs will do very w§U for my sister's children, for I want to en gage you for life!' 'Carl!' 'Yes—you may look astonished, but I'm in earnest! Isn't it as easy to take care of one crusty old bachelor as half a-dozen children ?' The arch shadow of one of the old smiles began to dimple Lucy's lips— her hand trembled a little in Carl's. 'I thought you had forgotten me long ago, Carl.' 'Did you ? Come.' 'Where?' 'To be married!' And Carl Wicklow—who never did things like any body else— went to the nearest church and married Lucy Tay lor !' 'Well, Carl, what luck?' demanded Mrs. Theodore Wicklow, as her broth er-in-law came in at night. 'First rate! I've found you a nurse maid. She's down stairs in the hall with a bundle as big as herself and two band-boxes—Mary Ryan by name.' 'Didn't you find the young person from the country.' 'Yes—l found her, but the truth is, I've married her, and she's now at the C Hotel!' Mrs. Theodore Wicklow opened her black eyes prodigiously wide, and Carl told the whole story. 'You'll call on her, won't you dear?' 'Yes of course, Mr. Carl. llow -odd you are.' 'Am I? Well, perhaps so. One thing, however, I'm certain of—and that is that I'm very happy!' A STRANGE CASE.— In Clinton, Illi nois, ayoung woman, over two years ago, after washing windows, was re placing them, when she struck her hand through the glass, running sev eral long pieces into her hand. After several days a physician was called, and as was supposed, the glass all ex tricated. But it appears not to have been the case, as a large quantity was left in the hand, which soon made its appearance under the skin on her arm and was cut out by her surgeon. It continued spreading until it has ex- I tended to all parts of her body. It has | been extracted from her eyes, head, arms and feet, and, in tact from all parts of her body. Six months ago it caused the lock-jaw, with which she was afflicted for about six weeks, ex cept that she could drink between her clenched teeth. At present she is a raving maniac more than half the time, and is in such agony as words will not describe, and too incredible to tell. At intervals she is rational, and able to sit up and do some work. Up to the 14th ult., 1,200 pieces of glass had been cut out of her flesh. VOL 61.—WHOLE Nb. 5,402. TRI:E AS I'REACIUXI. If men and women were willing to live within their incomes, disposed to begin life at the bottom of the ladder, obey the primary impulses of their na ture, and enter upon the cares, trials, and pleasures of the domestic circle, bind their hearts and twine their hopes around the family altar, they would be greatly the gainers. But here conies the difficulty—they must live when they begin, just as others are living, or In better style perhaps, who for thirty or forty years have been carefully and economically journeying along until they found they could afford to show off a little. It would be well if our modern fair ones were more willing to do as Eve did, when, with a new crea tion smiling around her, she and her husband began their housekeeping. We don't believe she thought the house would look too common without a vel vet tapestry on her parlor or sitting room floors, nor do we believe she had a chamber maid to nurse and run after little Cain and Abel. There is little doubt, in our mind, she made Adam's trowsers and hemmed his pocket hand kerchief, fixed up his Sunday coat, and hept things, generally, nice and tidy in the house. While she was doing this, Adam was probably tending his flock, or working in the garden, fencing his potato patch, and attending to out door things generally. Thus they got along "right smartly" and economically, be came quite rich and aristocratic, had many children, lived to a good old age, and died arnoi g friends. This afterall is the true way for both male and fe male. Begin upon a small scale and gradually rise from that point. Never begin at the top and come down. -Au gusta Press. SENSIBLE TALK FROM THE SOUTH.— George W. Kendall writes from Texas in the following sensible vein to his old paper, the New Orleans Picayune: "The lesson which adversity teaches are hard yet they must be learned.— And these lessons are always useful. I know that it comes hard for a young man to walk behind a plow who once iode behind a fast trotter; nor is it agreeable to a young lady to make and put on her dresses all by herself, who formerly had a couple of servants to take these irksome jobs off her hands. Yet I can see no other remedy, at least for those who have simply been ruined by the war, and the list Is a long one. That a large majority have accepted the situation cheerfully I am glad to say is true —I mean the situation to earn their own living; all must do it. And there are many who think, and I am one (tf them, that in the long run it will be all the better for the rising gen eration of the South—a generation which is to follow one notoriously brought up in ignorance of work and indolence as to any useful occupation. The race of men growing up will be more muscular—the women stronger and heartier—and their children again improve upon the stock. I have never heard that exercise was hurtful, and I have consulted good physicians on the subject. "How often do we hear people com plain that they have been out all day hunting for a servant without success. Had they turned to in the morning they could have done all their work themselves in a couple of hours, and saved money and shoe leather by the operation. Too many people in the South have been brought up to be waited upon ; they must now tie their own shoes, and I repeat that the sooner they begin the better it will be. I know that many think they can escape this state of things by going to Brazil or some other out-of-the-way country: but toil is the common lot of the poor man the world over, so far as 1 have seen, and in no part of the world is toil as remunerative as in the Southern States of America. Let us work." WHO can estimate the value of a newspaper? No one, hehaslostit; until the pleasant periodical visits, like the face of a dear friend, bringing such a fund of wit, news and general intelli gence, that he is always greeted with a hearty welcome, are withdrawn. It is in one sense, the light of the world, with out which the mental universe would be as much in darkness as the terres trial is without the sun. There are books, it is true, good, wise, entetaining; but they do not tell us what we want to know of passing events, or direct us to the best place of business. Neither do they inform us who of our friends are passing away or getting mar ried ; or who is doing a driving busi ness, or who is bankrupt, or who has sailed from the Eastern Continent, or who has returned from a tour thither, <fec. CALIFORNIA STYLE.— Not long since a German was riding along Sansame street, near Sacramento, when he heard a pistol shot behind him, and heard the whizzing of a ball near him, and felt his hat shake. He turned and saw a man with a revolver in his hand, and took off his hat and found a fresh bullet hole it it. "Did you shoot at me ?" asked the German. "Yes," replied the other party, "that's my horse; it was stolen recent ly." "You must be mistaken," said the German ; "I have owned the horse for three years." "Well," said the other, "when I come to look at him, I believe I am mistaken. Excuse me sir; won't you take a drink ?" J WHAT CANT A MILITARY 60YYRN0R DO? A military governor, under the re construction act, can- Suppress newspapers. Silence lectures. - Remove Mayors of cities, Governors of States, Boards of Commissioners, 4c. Can exclude white aldermen and ap point black in their places. Can take possession of saving banks. Can enact stay laws and postpone the payment of debts. Can prohibit the distilation of corn and the sale of liquor. Can run down city stocks and repu diate city currency. Can spend $500,000 for registering black voters and ask tor $500,000 more. Can abolish local taxes and regulate the circulation of papers. Can settle the rate of wages and the price of commodities. Can disobey the President and insult the Cabinet. They can do all this, and far more. W hat they can't do, no one has ventured to say. \et an extra session of Congress is called to give more power to these mili tary chieftains ; to make them so abso lute that for even the President to ques tion the limits of their authority will be a ground of impeachment. This is what the dog-day Congress is to do. Is it not madness ? LEGISLATIVE BRIBERY.— The cor ruptness of that political organization which delights to style itself "the party of great moral ideas" is certainly un paralleled. The New York Times, it self a consistent supporter of the party to which a large majority of the New York Legislature belong, says that in 'Go the New York Central Railroad wanted a bill passed allowing an in crease of fare. It was referred to a com mittee of five. The chairman was not for sale, but the other four demanded $6,000 apiece for reporting in favor. After much higgling they consented to take $5,000; and this was paid, in greenbacks. One became alarmed by the opposition of his constituents, and refused to vote for it in the Senate, but insisted upon keeping his money, as the price of reporting favorably from the committee. A threat of exposure made him give back the money. When it came before the Senate one Senator demanded $25,000 for his vote, SIO,OOO in advance, and $15,000 when it became a law. The bill could not be passed without him. The other Senators could not get their money unless it passed, and they insisted that the agent should comply with his terms. Itpass ed, but Governor Fenton vetoed it. So the poor man did not get his $15,000. In the Assembly some members got SI,OOO and some $250 for voting for it. The editor of the Times says: "The case here narrated is but one o/ hundreds. Bribery has come to be the rule—it is the regular way, and the only way, in which bi 1 Isofgreat money value to corporations or individuals are pass ed in our State Legislature and in our Common Council, and there is scarcely a man who has ever had occasion to seek the passage of such bills who does not know this to be the fact." It must have been nearly as corrupt as recent Radical Legislatures in Pennsyl vania. LOGIC OF OPPOSITION.— An old mer ,chant of Naples, named Morelli, who had realized a splendid fortune, form ed a resolution never, on any occasion, to lose sight of the walls of the city that had witnessed his growing prosperity. He was a man of great fixity of purpose and fully content with his means, was beyond the reach of temptation; never theless the duke set himself the task of overcoming this fancy. With pro found knowledge of human nature, he sent Morelli an edict from the king forbiding him under the penalty of a thousand crowns, ever to cross the frontier of the kingdom. Morelli laughed heartily at an order that chim ed harmoniously with his own inclina tion. The joke was not less relished by his freinds, and many were the al lusions to the superfluous severity of the duke. Somehow, these jests at length lost their raciness, Morelli ceased to smile, and found hiinse.f perpetually recurring to conjecture! What could possibly be the object of the govern ment in placing this singular restraint upon the movements of a peaceful and loyal citizen ? A thousand ideas haunt ed his mind. He began to lose sleep and health, and in place of those came a morbid desire to do the very thing that had been so strangely prohibited. He gave it sway. Sending thousand crowns to the duke, Morelli threw himself into his carriage, and travers ed into the Papal States. He remained a night, and then returned to Naples. Informed of his return, the duke sent five hundred pounds to the public hos pital, and remitted the other half of the penalty, to Morelli, with the words, Opposition augments desire; adding, ttiat the five hundred pounds had suffi ced to teach the public how to deal with a madman. An inqusitive urchin, while reciting a lesson the other day from the sermon on the mount, broke out. "Mother, did Jesus Christ get two thousand dollars a year for preaching ?'' "No my child, he did not get any thing." "Why didn't they pay him?" "Because he refused to preach poli tics. The devil offered him a big sala ry to do it, but he would not accept the call?" "When did the devil offer him the salary ?" "When he took him up into the. mountain and offered him a kingdom if he would join church and state." —The unusual sight of a man reading the Scriptures in the cars was observed upon one of the trains going into Bos ton last Tuesday morning.
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