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C. KLINE A CO., 127 Bowery, N. Y. Post Office Box 4586. aug23,°67—*7 ®he Ocbforb (fiinjettc. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. f)ni- THE GRAY. "The women of f 'olumbns, Mississippi, anima ted by nobler sentiments than are many of their sisters, have shown themselves impartial in their offering made to the memory of the dead. Tbey strewed flowers alike on the graves of the Confed erate and of the National soldiers."— New York Tribune. By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead ; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day;— Under the one, the Blue ; Under the other, the Gray. These in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; Under the laurel, the Blue ; Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go; Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe '. — Under tho sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; Undej the roses the Blue , Under the lilies, the Gray. So with an equal splendor The morning sun-rays fall, With a touch, impartially tender, On the blossoms blooming for all : Under the sod and ihe dew, Waiting the judgment day ; Broidered with gold, tne Blue ; Mellowed with gold, the Gray. So, when the Summer calleth, On forest and field of grain With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain ; Under tne sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; Wet with the rain, the Blue ; Wet with the rain, the Gray. Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done ; In the storm of the years that are fading, No braver battle was won ; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; Under the blossoms, the Blue Under the garlands, tho Gray. No more shall the war-ery sever, Or the winding rivers be red; ' They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead ! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray. NOT GOOD ENOUGH KOK IICK. In the days of the good colony of Vir ginia, the distinction between rich and poor was based upon laws which, like those of the Medes and Persians, alter ed not. One of the most devoted fol lowers of this code was a wealthy plan ter, living in what is known as the Northern Neck. He was in all respects a frank, open hearted manly gentleman; but his estimate of his fellow men was founded upon the principles that gov erned the selection of his horses—blood. Wealth, too, was by no meansan unim portant feature with him. He had our human weakness, and like all of us, was influenced more than he believed, by pounds, shillings and pence. This Mr. G had quite a large family, and among them was a daugh ter whose beauty was the standing toast of the country. She was just eighteen, and budding into lovely womanhood. — Not only was she beautiful in person, but her amiable disposition and many accomplishments made her more than ordinarily attractive, and half the gen tlemen of the Northern Neck were al ready sighing for her love. There was in the country atthistime a young man who was already rising high in theesteem of his neighbors. He came of good family, but was, as yet, a poor young surveyor, who had taught himself his profession, and who had spent much of his time in traveling unknown forests, with nothing but his compass for his guide, and his chain for his companion, locating lands and settling disputed titles. He was a model of manly beauty, and excelled in the varied feats of strength in which the olden time Americans took such pride. lie was calm and reserved, and there was about him a dignified sweetness of demeanor that accorded well with his frank independence of character. He was a great favorite with all who knew him, and there was no gathering to which he was not asked. Mr. G seemed especially to like the youug man, and it was not long be fore he insisted that the latter should a bandon all ceremony in his visits to him, and come and go when he pleas ed. The invitation was heartily given, and as promptly accepted. The young man liked the planter, and he found the society of the beautiful MaryG a very strong attraction. The result was that he was frequently at the plan ter's residence; so frequently, indeed, that Mrs. G felt called upon to ask her husband if he did not think it wrong to permit him to enjoy such un reserved intercourse with their daugh ter. The father only laughed at the idea, and said he hoped his daughter knew her position too well toallow any thing like love for a poor surveyor to blind her to her duty and to her fami ly- Nevertheless Mary G was not so fully impressed with this conviction of duty as was her father. She found more to admire in the poor surveyor than in all her wealthy and'aristocratic suitors, and, almost beforeshe knew it, her heart passed out of her keeping and was giv en to him. She loved him with all the honesty and devotion of her pure heart; and she would have thought it happi l ness to go out with him into the back BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1867. woods and share his fatigues and troub- les, no matter how much sorrow they might bring to her. Nor did she love in vain. The young man, whose knowledge of the world was afterwards so great, had not been taught to consider as binding the dis tinctions which society drew between his position and that of the lady. He knew that in all that makes a man, he was the equal of ar.y one. He believed that, except in wealth, he stood upon a perfect equality with Mary G , and beloved her honestly and manfully, and no sooner had he satisfied himself upon the state of his own feelings than he confessed hisdevotion.simply and truth fully, and received from the lady's lips the assurance that she loved him ve-y dearly. Scorning to occupy a doubtful posi tion, or to cause the lady to conceal aught from her parents, theyoung man frankly and manfully asked Mr. G for his daughter's hand. Very angry grew the planter as he listened to the audacious proposal. He stormed and swore furiously, and denounced the young man as an ungrateful upstart. 'My daughter has always been accus tomed to riding in her own carriage,' he said. 'Who are you, sir?' 'A gentleman, sir,' replied the young man quietly; and he left the house. The lovers were parted. The lady married soon after a wealthy planter, and the young man went out again in to the world to battle with his heart and conquer his unhappy passion. He subdued it; but although he afterwards married a woman whom he loved hon esty and truthfully, and was worthy of his love, he was never wholly dead to his first love. Time passed on, and the young man began to reap the reward of his labors, lie had never been to the house of Mr. G since his cruel repulse by the planter; but the latter could not forget him, as his name soon became familiar in every Virginia household. Higher and higher he rose every year, until he gained a position from which he could look down upon the proud plan ter. Wealth came to him, too. When the great struggle for independence dawned, he was in his prime, a happy husband, and one of the most distin guished men in America. The strug gle went on, and soon the 'poor sur veyor' held the highest and proudest position in the land. When the American army passed in triumph through the streets of Wil liamsburg, the ancient capital of Vir ginia, after the surrender ofCornwallis, the officer riding at the head of the col umn chanced to glance up at one of the balconies which was crowded with ladies. Recognizing one of them he raised his hat and bowed profoundly.— There was a commotion in the balcony, and some one called for water, saying Mrs. Lee had fainted. Turning to a young man who rode near him the of ficer said gravely— ' Henry, I fear your mother has faint ed. You had better leave the column and go to her.' The speaker was George Washington, once the 'poor surveyor,' but then com mander-in-chief of the armies of the United States. The young man was Colonel Henry Lee, the commander of the famous 'Light Cavalry Legion;' the lady was his mother, and formerly Miss G , the belle of the 'Northern Neck.' TRICKS OF A J COOLER. The far-famed Robert Heller cannot be satisfied with his legitimate tri umphs before an audience, but occa sionally does a neat thing for his own amusement, very much to the surprise of those who happen -to be persent. On Saturday last, while passing an itiner ant vender of cheap provisions, Mr. Heller suddenly paused and inquired: "How do you sell eggs, Auntie ?" "Dem eggs," was the response; "dey am a pickeyune apiece—fresh, too, last one of 'em ; biled 'em myself, and know dey's fust rate." "Well, I'll try em," said the magi cian, as he laid down a bit of fractional currency. "Have you pepper and salt?" "Yes, sir, dere dey is," said thesable saleswoman, watching her customer with intense interest. Leisurely drawing out a neat little penknife, Mr. Heller proceeded very ! quietly to cut the egg exactly in half, | when suddenly a bright, new twenty five cent piece was discovered lying imbedded in the yolk, apparently as ! bright as when it came from the mint. Very coolly the great magician trans ferred the coin to his vest pocket, and taking up another egg, inquired: "And how much do you ask for this Oarer "I)e Lord bress my sole !• Dat egg ! De fact am, boss, dis egg is worth a dime, shure." "xUI right," was the response; here's the dime. Now give me the egg." Separating it with an exact precision that the colored lady watched eagerly, a quarter eagle was most carefully pick ed out of the centre of the egg, and placed in the vest pocket of the oper ator, as before. The old woman was thunderstruck, as well she might have been, and her customer had to ask her price for the third egg two or three times before he could obtain a reply. "Dar'sno use talkin', inars'r," said the bewildered old darkey. "I can't let you hab dat ere egg, nohow, for less dan a quarter. I declare to de Lord X can't." "Verygood," said Heller, whose im purturbable features were as solemn as an undertaker, "there is your quar ter and here is the egg. All right." As he opened the last egg, a brace of five dollar gold pieces were discovered snugly deposited in the very heart of the yolk, andjingling them merrily to gether in his little palm, the savant ! coolly remarked: "Very good eggs, indeed. I rather like them ; and while lam about it, I believe I will buy a dozen. What is the price?" "I say price! screamed the amazed daughter of Ham. "You couidn' buy deni eggs, mars'r for all de money you's got. No! Dat you could't. I'segwine j to take dem eggs all home, I is, and dat money in dem eggs, all 'longs to me. It does dat. Couldn't sell no more of dem eggs, nohow." Amid the roar of the spectators, the benighted African started to her do inicil to "smash dem eggs," but with what success we are unable to relate. "GIVE ITS THIS DAY OIK DAILY It 1(1. A l>." In a miserable cottage at the bottom of a hill, two children hovered over a smouldering fire. A tempest raged without, a fearful tempest, against which man and beast were alike pow erless. A poor old miser, much poorer than those shivering children, though he had heaps of money at home, drew his ragged cloak around him as he crouched down at the threshold of the miserable door. He dared not enter for fear they would ask for shelter, and he could not move for the storm. "I am hungry, Nettie." "So am I, I've hunted for a potato paring, and can't find any," "What an awful storm!" "Yes the old tree has blown down. I guess God took care that it didn't blow on the house. See, it certainly would have killed us." "If He could do that, couldn't He send us bread." " I guess so—let's pray 'Our Father,' and when we come to that part, stop till we get some bread." So they began, and the miser crouch ing and shivering listened. When they paused,"expecting in their childish faith to see some miraculous manifestation, a human feeling stole into his heart, as an angel to soften it. He had bought a loaf of bread, thinking it would last him a great while, but the silence of the two children spake loud er to him than the voice of many wa ters. He opened the door softly, threw in the loaf, and then listened to the wild eager cry of delight that camc from the half-famished little ones. "It dropped down from Heaven, didn't it?" continued the younger: "Yes I mean to love God forever for giving us bread because weasked him." "We'll ask him every day, won't we? Why, I never thought God was so good, did you ?" "Yes, I always thought so, but I nev er quite knew it before." "Let's ask him to give father work to do all the time, so we never need be hungry again; he'll do it, I'm sure." The storm passed—the miser went home. It was no longer barren. In a few weeks he died, but not be fore he had given the cottage, which was his, to the poor laboring man. And the little children ever after felt a sweet and solemn emotion, when in their devotions they came to those trustful words : "Give us this day our daily bread." HORRIBLE SCAFFOLD SCENE.—A horrible scaffold scene occerred the other day in the prison yard of Jauer, in Silesia. A young woman, not of the lowest class of the population, was to be beheaded for gratifying her jeal ousy of her former lover, by an act that led to the death of several persons. The faithless man had deserted her and married another girl. The deser ted mistress, to revenge herself, set fire to his house, and several persons perished in the flames. She was arres ted, convicted, and sentenced to suffer death. On the scaffold, just at the mo ment when the executioner bared her neck, and was about to fasten it to the fatal block, she broke loose from him and his assistants, seized the large axe that was to cut off her head, and then defied the dumbfounded officers to take her. They rushed upon her, showered blows upon her head, and, finally, af ter she had slightly wounded some of them in the scuffle,she was knocked down and handcuffed. She uttered wild, terrible screams all the while, and the executioner and his men tried to dispatch her as quickly as possible. They tore her dress from her shoulders, tied her feet, and dragged her to the block. Although still screaming and resisted, to the best of her power, the leather strap on the block, by which the the victim is drawn foward, was soon slipped over it, and the executioner seized the axe. Unfortunately, the dreadful scene had made him quite nervous, and, on striking her, he mis sed her neck and cut deeply into her shoulder and back. The blood rushed from the fearful wound, and the screams of the unfortunate woman grew heart-rending beyond descrip tion. A second stroke, dealt her a few seconds afterwards, finally put a stop to her sufferings. THREE men were recently convicted of murder in Tex.s and sentenced to be hanged within a month, unless the alleged victim turned up alive within that time. Fortunately he appeared, and they were set free. VOL. 62—WHOLE No. 5,413. HONOR THE MTROXUEMT BOND. Two centuries ago it was thought an insult in the Highlands of Scotland to ask a note from a debtor. It was con sidered the same as saying, "I doubt your honor." If parties hadsmall busi ness matters to transact together, they stepped out into open air, fixed their eyes upon the heavens and each re peated his obligation with no mortal witness. \ mark was then carved in some rock or tree near by to be a re membrance of the compact. Such a thing as a breach of contract, we are told, was then very rarely met with, so highly did the people regard their honor, and so truly did they fear Him beneath whose eye they performed such acts. When the march of improvement brought the new mode of doing business, they were often painted by these inno vations. An anecdote is handed down of a farmer who had been to the Low lands and learned worldly wisdom. On returning to the native parish he had need of a sum of money, and made bold to ask a loan of a gentleman of means, named Stewart. This was cheerfully granted, and Mr. Stewart counted ont the gold on his library table. This done, the farmer took a pen and wrote ar* ceipt, and offered it to the gentle man. "What is this, man ?" cried Mr. Stewart, sternly eyeing the slip of paper. "It is a receipt, sir, binding me to give ye back yer gold at the right time," replied Sandy. "Bindingyet Well, my man, if ye canna trust yerse/f I'm sure I'll na trust ye! Ye canna ha' my gold !" and gath ering it up, he put it back in his desk and turned his key on it. "ttut, sir, I might die," replied the canny Scotchman, bringing upan argu ment in favor of his new wisdom, "and my sons might refuse it to ye. But this bit o' paper wad compel them." "Compel them to sustain a dead fa ther's honor!" cried the high minded Scot. "They'll need compelling to do right if this is the road yer leading them, I'll neither trust ye nor them. Ye can gang elsewhere for money! But ye'll find none in this parish that'll put more faith in a bit o' paper than in a neighbor's word o' honor and his fear o' God!" A PROUD MAN'S BONES.—Of all the farces which disfigure the human soul, not one is more foolish than pride. Its folly was practically illustrated by that surly old cynic, Diogenes, who, while examining a heap of bones, was accos ted by Alexander the Great. "What are you looking for?" asked the proud monarch. "For the bones of your father, but I cannot distinguish them from those of his slaves," replied the philosopher. If the cynic was rude he was also right.—ln the end the king and the slaves are alike. As both come alike naked into the world, so both leave it alike naked. Both come and go with nothing. How foolish then fortheone to lord it over the otherduring the brief interval between the cradle and the grave! The proudest man on earth is only dust.—Why should he despise his fellows who are made of the same ma terial, and are inheritors of the same destiny? Consider this, O proud heart, arid take lessons in the school of Christ, who was meek and lowly in heart. HAVANESECUSTOMS.—A letter from Havana says: "The ladies here do not wear anything on their heads. You think at home that our ladies wear next to nothing, but the bonnet worn by our party attracted such attention, because there was anything at all worn, that the ladies feel it a great annoyance to be stared at, and have taken the veil, which is all that is worn. The Hava na ladies do not come out till evening, and then come out in their carriages to the plaza or on the drives, to hear the music. The children seem growing up about the street, like weeds by the wayside, uncared for and but little ob served. We noticed them from six months to six years old as naked as when they came into the world. This is among the lower classes, but you can see them at any time of the day on most all of the streets of this city, or standing in the doors and windows.— The nativesseem tosmoke all the time. They come into the dinning-rooms for breakfast, and the first thing after they sit down to the table is to take out a ci gar, light it, order the breakfast, smoke and eat. You will often see at our first class hotels from twenty to thirty men sitting at the table smoking, while, la dies are sitting at the same table. I find that Americans pick up the habit quite readily." DARK HOURS.—TO every man there are many dark hours when he feels in clined to abandon the best enterprise, hours when his heart's dearest hopes appear delusive; hours when he feels himself unequal to the burden, when all his aspirations seem worthless. Let no one think that he alone has dark hours. They are the touchstone to try whether we are current coin or not. RECENTLY, in St. Louis, a crowd had gathered on a corner, and an excited individual, panting with heat, rushed up to the scene, exclaiming, "What's the matter?" Only a man killed, was the reply. "Oh ! is that all? I thought it was a dog fight." KIXDXEM TO ACTUALS. Professor Youatt gives the following interesting fact in one of his valuable works: "A horse in the depot at Woolwich liad proved so unmanagable to the rough-riders, that at length no one among them durst even mount him. His mode of throwing or dis mounting his rider consisted in lying down aud rolling over him, or else crushing his leg against some wall, or post, or paling. All means to break him of these perilous tricks proving unavailing, the animal was brought be fore the commanding officer with the character of being "incurably vicious," and with a recommendation, on that account, that he should be sold. Col onel Quest, hearing of this and know ing the horse to be thoroughly bred and one of the best-actioned and cleverest horses in the regiment, besought the commanding officer to permit him to be transfered into the riding troops.— This was consented to, and the transfer was no sooner accomplished than Col onel Quest determined to pursue a system of management directly op posite to that which had been already attempted. He had him led daily in to the riding school, suffered no whips even to be shown to him while there, but petted him and tried to make him execute this and the other manoeuver, and as often as he proved obedient re warded him with a handful of corn, or beans, or a piece of bread, with which bribes his pockets were invariably well supplied. In this manner, aud in no great distance of time, the rebel was not only subdued and tamed, but ren dered so perfectly quiet that a little child could ride him. He became, at length, taught to kneel down while his rider mounted, and to perform several evolutionsand dances and tricks in the menage , which no other horse in the school could be brought to do. In tine, so great a favorite did he become, that his master gave him the appellation of The Darling." HOYS OX THE FA KM. The time was when boys were consid ered of but trifling account upon the farm. They answered to run on er rands and to do the light "chores" a bout the houseand barn. To keep them out of mischief when not attending school they possibly did some service astride the horses to mark out corn ground, and cultivate the corn and po tatoes. But if ambitious to join the men in the field or elsewhere, they were equipped with the most worthless cast-aside tools, such as rusty hoes, worn out scythes, old fashioned forks, used up shovels, dull axes, battered hammers, unfiled saws, and so on through the whole catalogue of farm implements. They grew wea ry using them and so would men have done accomplishing only the same a mount of labor. It would not be strange if such treatment first planted dissatisfaction in the heart of many a farmer's boy, which finally ripened in to utter disgust, the seeking of employ ment behind the counter of the village store, or perhaps, in something less honorable, which in the end resulted in iniquity and ruin. We have faith in the farm boys of this day and generation. The nation owes them its sencere gratitude. They are ' deserving of all the benefits that shall result to them from the new Industrial Schools that are about being establshed. Their early life is a preparatory school that will teach them to appreciate the benefits and blessingsthat theagrieultu ral colleges are intended to dispense. Honor, encourage and care for the boys of farm agriculture. KEEPING FARM AccouNTs.-Letany farmer try the experiment, and he will find it as interesting as it is useful, and both interesting and useful to know from year to year the actual produce of his farm. Let everything, therefore, that can be measured and weighed, be measured and weighed; and let that which cannot be brought to a correct standard, be estimated as if he himself were about to sell or purchase it. Let him, likewise, as near as possible, meas ure the ground on which he plants, the quantity of seed that he uses, and the manure that he applies. The labor of doing this is nothing compared with the satisfaction of having done it, and the benefits which must arise from it. Conjectures in these cases is perfectly wild and uncertain, varying often, with different individuals, almost a hundred per cent. Exactness enables a man to form conclusion which may most es sentially, and in innumerable ways, avail to his advantage. It is that alone wliich can give any value to his experi ence; it is that which will make his ex perience the sure basis of improvement; it will put it in his power to give safe counsels to his friends, and it is the only ground on which he can securely place confidence in himself. DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.— A Boscawen farmer came many years ago into the office of the Statesman and illustrated the difference between the economic habits of the brothers Web ster in the following way: Ezekiei, he said, having a cord of wood at his of fice door, would say to a laboring man, "Mr. Jones, there is a cord of wood to be sawed twice, split, and carried up stairs. What will you doit for?" One dollar," replies Jones. "But, my dear man, you can complete the job by the middle of the afternoon, and you do not pretend to ask more than a dollar a day. Come, say seventy-five cents, and the money is yours." Jones yields and does the job. "Daniel," he continued, having a cord of wood to be served in the same way, calls the first man who comes along, and says, "I wish you would properly prepare that wood for my stove, and take it up stairs.' > WJ 10 " the work is done the laborer is asked what is to pay and says, ''One dollar, sir." One dollar!" says Mr. Webster, "why man, you can't afford to work so cheap as that; here is a dollar and a half, and call again when you see a load of wood at my office door." -A ew Hamp shire Statesman.