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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.