TEBMS OF PUBLICATION. TDK BEDFORD GAZETTE i published every Fri day morning by METERS A MK*GEL, at $2.00 per annum, if paid strictly in advance ; $2.50 if paid within six months; $3.00 if not paid within sis months. AH subscription accounts MUST he settled annually. No paper will bo sent out of the State unless paid for is 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 In sertion. Special notices one-half additional All resolutions of Associations; communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of mar riages and deaths exceeding five lines, ten cents per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. • All Itgal Notices of every iind,and Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, are. required by law to be published in both papers published in this place fcjr A 11 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 - - - 8 00 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 SO 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. l-tf-' All letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. at £ait\ S. L. KL'SSELL. J. 11. LONGENECKER. I) USSELL A LONGENECKER, VI ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention eiven to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay. Bounty, Pensions, Ac OFFICE, on Juliana Street, south of the Court j House. aprs,'67tf J. MOD. SHARKS. E - KERR. SHARPE & KERR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., will practice in the courts of Bedford and adjniningcounties Of fice on Juliana st., opposite the Banking House of Reed A Schell. | March 2, '66. J. R. DUUBORROW. I JOHN LUTE. DUR BORROW & LUTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They are. also, regularly licensed Claim Agents ami will special attention to the prosecution •if claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac Office on Juliana street, one door South of the ' ; Mengcl House," and nearly opposite tho Inquirer office. fOHN P.RESD, ATTORNEY AT fj LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his services to the public. Office second door North of the Mengel House. Bedford. Aug, 1. IS6I. lASPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT Si LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military daims, back pay, bounty, Ac., speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, t vo doors South of the Mengel House. Jan. 22. 186 L F. M. KIMMELL. 1 J. W. LINGENFELTER. KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South ofthe "Mengel House," IL SPANG, ATTORNEY AT r. LAW BEDFORD. PA. Will promptly at tend to collections and all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining counties. Office on Juliana Street, three doors south of the ".Mongol House," opposite tho rosidoneo at Mrs. Tate. May 13, 1864. B. F. MEYERS. | J. W. DICKF.RSOX. MEYERS & DICKERSQN, AT TORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford, Pa., office same as formerly occupied by Hon. S. L. Russell, a few doors south ot the Court House, will practice in the several court&of Bedford county. Pensions, bounty and back pay obtained and the purchase aud sale of real estate attended to. [may 11,'66. HAYS IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bloody Run, Pa. Office in Harris' New Building. marlJ 68 BJ. WILLIAMS A- SONS, . .Vo. 16 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF VENETIAN BUNDS WINDOW SHADES, CJrSELL AT THE LOWEST Blinds Repaired. Store Shades, Trimmings, Fixtures, Plain Shades of all kinds. Curtain Cor nices. Picture Tassels, Cord Rel! Pulls, Ac. apr24in2 FURNITURE AND CABINET ROOMS. THOMAS MERWINE, AT TIIF. OLD STAHL WORK-SHOP, hns rc-opcned the Furniture and Cabinet business in that part of town, and is prepared to furnish ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE, at remarkably cheap rates. Call and examine his work before purchasing elsewhere. Satisfaction guaranteed. Special attention paid to the manufacture and furnishing of coffins. Terms reasonable. maylm3 A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.— x\_ Notice is hereby given that letters of admin istration have been granted to the undersigned, by the Register of Bedford county, upon the estate of G. R. Bamdollar, late of Middle Woodbury tp., Bedford county, dee'd. All persons indebted to said estate are request ed to make immediate payment, and those having claims can present them, duly authenticated for settlement. D. L. KEAGi. adm r. mayl wtt /CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, VC Wagons, Carts and Wheel-barrows, Baskets of all kinds. Rope and Twine of all sizes. Old Ham mered Shovel Molds, Gate Hinges, Red Irons, and many things new and useful at the Hardware Store of HARTLEY A MKTZQKR. mayltf /A RAIN CRADLES! GRAIN CRA VT DLES I HARTLEY A METZGER are the only Agents in Bedford eo. for the Original tleu nine Green Cast It Grain Cradles. Persons needing cradles should call soon at Hartley A Metzger's, as the supply of "genuine Green Cas ' lea la liinitejl ITCH ! Itch!! Itch!! ! — Scratch ! Scratch!! Scratch!!' —ln from 10 48 hours WHBATON'S OINTMENT cures THE ITCH. WHEATON'S OINTMENT cures ' SALT RHEUM. WHEATON'S OINTMENT cures TETTER. WHEATON'S OINTMENT cures Barbers' Itch. WHEATON'S OINTMENT cures Old Sores. WHEATON'S OINTMENT cures Every hud of Humor hie Magic. Price. 50 cents a box ; by mail, 60 cents. Ad dress WEEKS A POITER, No. 170 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. For sale by all Druggists sep2o,'67yl CANCER, SCROFULA, &e., CCRED. — tXp* Persons afflicted with Caucer, Scrofula, Tu mors, Eruptions, Ac., are CUBED by the use of Dr. GREENE'S ELECTRO-MEDICATED BATHS and Indian Vegetable remedies which cleanse the blood of all Humors, Mercury, Lead, Ac., and restore kenlth to invalids afflicted with every variety of disease. A book describing Cancer, Scrofula, Hu mors and other diseases, with their proper means of cure, may ue obtained free at the Medical Insti tute, or by mail. Address Dr. R. GREENE, 16 Temple place, Boston, Mass. To CONSUMPTIVES. —The Rev. ED WARD A. WILSON will send (free of charge) to all who desire it, the prescription with the directions for making and using the simple remody by which he was cured of a lung affection and that dread disease Consumption. His only object is to bene fit the afflicted and he hopes every sufferer will try this prescription, as it will cost them nothing, and may prove a blessing. Please address Rev. EDWARD A WILSON, No. 165 South Second Street, Williamsburgh, New York. sepl3mß ®)jc Ucbford BY MEYERS & MENGEL. &r. MOVED to the COLONNADE BUILDING! MILLER & BOWSER, At the Old Colonnade, - - Bedford, Pa,, OFFER GREAT BARGAINS, (in order to reduce their stock, before making their spring purchases) in Ready-Made Clothing, Fancy Goods, Notions, Cotton Yarn, Hats and Caps, Roots and Shoes, Groceries, Queensware, Wooden ware, Tobacco and Cigars, Brooms, Baskets, Ac., Ac*., Ac. LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES CALICO, at 8, 10, 12, 15, 16. GINGHAM, at 12-4, 15, 18, 20. MUSLIN, at 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20. Cassiineres, Cloths, Satinetts and Ladies' Sacking, at very low prices. Br#*- Ladies', Gents' and Misses' Shoes. Sandals and Over-Shoes, in great variety. jgriT Men's, Boys' and Youths' Boots. Buxf Best C-offee, Tea, Sugar and Syr up in the market. Prices low Feed, Flour, Ac., for sale at all times. £.■3?" We invite all to call and see our * goods and compare prices before buying elsewhere. Our motto is, Short Proffits. BZIR TERMS—Cash, Note or Produce. apr3,'6B JUST RECEIVED j A large asssortment of D. j R. KING A Co's Ladies' j Misses' and Children's j GAITERS, BOOTS and SHOES, made to order, — i Ladies call and see them ; j they speak for themselves. G. R-OSTER A CO BACON! Choice Sugar-cured bacon, Shoulders, Hams and dried beef in STORK and for sale by G. R. OSTER A CO. PEACHES! Choice peeled and unpeelcd, dried peaches in STORE and for sale by O. R. OSTER A CO. EXTRA FAMILY FLOUR! Fresh ground Extra Family Flour constantly in STORE and for sale by G. R. OSTER A CO TO BUY CHEAP! and to get what you want, go to the now bargaiu Store of G. R. OSTER A CO. Constantly on hand a large and attractive stock of goods. Bedford, Pa., mayß'6B. Dlt. H.FRAESSLEY, PHYSICIAN FUR THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES, and formerly attending Physician in , one of the most celebrated hcspitals in the world for Chronic Diseases, will make his first visit through this county, for the treatment ol chronic diseases, and may be consulted at the following j places and times, FREE OK CHARGE. If the Doctor cannot tell and explain the na ture of a disease of a Patient after a thorough examination. without making many questions, he considers himself not able to treat the case, lie submits himself to be judged from, that standpoint, if the patient is not satisfied it will not cost him anything. Saxton, Saturday, May 16. Woodbury, Monday, May 18. Pattonville, Tuesday, May 19. Enterprise, Wednesday, May 20. St. Clairsville, Thursday. May 21. Lewisville, Friday, May 22. Marietta, Saturday. May 23. Pleasantville, Monday, May 25. New Paris, Tuesday, May 26. Schellsburg, Wednesday, May 27. Buena Vista. Thursday, May 28. Dry Ridge, Friday, May 29. Rockville. Saturday, May 30. Bridgeport, Monday, June 1. Pala Alto, Tuesday, June 2. Centrcville, Wednesday, June 3. Rainsburjj, Thursday, June 4. Charlesville, Friday, June 5. Springville, Saturday, June 6. Clearville, Monday, June 8. Cheneysville, Tuesday, June 9. Elbinsville. Wednesday, June 10. Kobisooville, Thursday, June 11. Brush Creek, Friday, June 12. Rayshill. Saturday, June 13. Bloody Run, Monday, June 15. Yellow Creek, Tuesday, June 16. Hopewell, Wednesday, June 17. Riddlesburg, Thursday, June 18. Fairplay, Friday, June 19. Bedford, (Mengel House) Saturday, June 20. German Physician, having practiced Medicine nearly twenty years in Europe and this country. Call at your principal post-office and get one of Dr. Fraessley's circulars. maylsw4* NEGRO VOTING IN GEORGIA. The spectacle presented to the gaze of the people of this city, on Monday morning, the first day of the recent election, says the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel,,\s one which will linger in their memories for years to come. They saw a long line of sable voters, headed by a "ring master" on horse back, brandishing an old cavalry sabre, and all marching to the invigorating music of a wheezing fife and the dull thud of a broken-headed drum. These were the voters—the intelligent law makers and executive and legislative creators of the county of Richmond. It will scarcely bo doubted that not a single son of 11am who toilfully trudged the streets in that motly procession could read or write, or had the least idea of the character of a ballot, or who or for what he was about to vote, save that Captain Bryant and the boss "driv ers" had told him he must vote for the Radicals. As this long line of ignor ant, vindicitive and defiant negro vo ters passed through our principal thor oughfares to the City Hall, where the mockery of an election was going on, every right-minded white man must have felt that representative govern ment, founded upon such suffragans, was not only a solemn mockery, hut a crime against virtue, law, order, peace and human liberty. The alacrity with which each member of the fantastic procession conformed to the different and frequently repeated orders from the "boss drivers" showed how com pletely they were under the control of their masters, and how much they es teemed it a privilege to he thus driven like brutes through our streets. Up on reaching the City Hall, ballots were placed in their hands, and they were directed to hand them to the same man and in the same way their driver dis posed of his. And this is what is called manhood suffrage, the basis of constitutional liberty and thesalvation of free government! "BEHIND THE SCENE 'S This is a title of a book by "Mrs. Keckley, for thirty years a slaVe. but more recently modiste and friend to Mrs. Lincoln," which will shortly be published. It is pretty liberally inter spersed with miscellaneous scan, mag., and will be a rich morsel for scandal mongers. We are treated with dis plays of feminine jealousy on the part of Mrs. Lincoln, and of the moral and religious character of her husband.— Mrs Lincoln's opinions of generals and elnlcmrn arc givrii. BhcaajT ofChlcf Justice Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury, in conversation with her hus band, that "he is anything for Chase. If he thought he could make anything by it be would betray you to-morrow." Of Mr. Seward: "It makes me mad to see you sit still and let that hypocrite Seward twine you around his finger as if you were a skein of thread." Gen eral McClellan she pronounces to be "a humbug." General Grant even is not exempt from the withering criticism of this worthy lady. "Yes, he generally manages to claim a victory, but such a victory! He loses two men to the ene my's one. He has no management, no regard for life. If the war should con tinue four years longer, and he should remain in power, he would depopulate the North. I could fight an army as well myself. According to his tactics, there is nothing under the heavens to do but to march a new line of men up in front of the Rebel breast works, to be shot down as fast as they take their position, and to keep marching until the enemy grows tired of the slaugh ter. Grant, I repeat, is an obstinate fool and a butcher." She further adds that "should Grant ever be elected President of the United States she would desire to leave the country, and remain absent during his term of office." So the General will have, at all events, one most decided opponent in his Presidential schemes. Mrs. Keckley, further on, tells us of her mistress that "search the world over, and you will not find her counterpart." On Mrs. Lincoln's departure from the White House, subsequent to the death of her husband, Mrs. Keckley informs us that lady "owed different store billsamount ing to $70,000," and that "Mr. Lin coln knew nothing of these bills, and the only happy feature of his assassina tion was that lie died in ignorapce of them." This secret is disclosed in re gard to Mrs. Lincoln's debts "in order to explain why she should subsequent ly have labored under pecuniary em barrassments." We are also told the well-worn story of Mrs. Lincoln's "old clothes" experiences, with the addi tion of many private facts connected with that delectable adventure ; while, in an appendix, a series of letters from the widow, purely private and unhesi tatingly confidential, are published to prove the authenticity of what has been said in the preceding chapters.— Wash ington Express. THE REASON.—At a certain college, the senior class was under examination for degrees. The professor of natural philosophy was badgering in optics. The point under illustration was that, strictly and • scientifically speaking, we see no objects, but their images de picted on the retina. —The worthy pro fessor, in order to make the matter plainer, said to the wag of the class: "Mr. Jackson, did you ever actually see your father ?" Bill replied, prompt ly, "No, sir." "Please explain to the committee why you never saw your father." "Because, replied Mr. Jack son, very gravely, he died before 1 was born, sir." BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1868. WHAT A WORK IS® MAN THINKS. In a recent speech, Hon. John A. Bingham, a meuil>er of Congress from Ohio, exclaimed. "Thank God there is no such thing as equal taxation."— Upon this a Montpelier (Vermont) working man, says the Argus, not for merly a member of the Democratic party, comments as follows: Of course Bingham and his party rep resent the bondholder who has his horses, his carriages, his wine parties, his plate, his bonds. lam a working man. I have my tin dinner pail, my tool chest, and my hard palms, and tired bones at night, and my hasty breakfast in the morn ing, a lean purse, and a tax receipt at the end of the year. When quarter day comes the bond holder cuts off his co! j -; and draws his interest, and thank - : o< 1 there is no such thing as equal ion. I draw ray purse aau pay my rent. And when the year i- gone he counts up his gains, rustles his bonds, and has a wine supper. Anil when the year is gone, I look at the great robber, the tax receipt, go to bed with an aching heart, to dream of Democratic times, light and equal taxation. The bondholder does nothing. He is supported. I pay State taxes. I pay county taxes. I pay village taxes. I pay town taxes. I pay revenue taxes. I pay direct taxes. I pay taxes on everything. I pay taxes to support Congress. I pay taxes to support the Govern ment. I pay taxes to support the bondhold ers who pay no taxes for any purpose whatever. I shall vote for equal taxation, and down with the party God that there is no such thing as equal tax ation." •i'OOK .BEX ABE .\OT TAXED." "Poor men are not taxed," said a de luded workiugmau; "they can't tax me, because I am worth nothing!" Can they not ? Before the war, you paid less than one-half for all you eat, drink and wear, than you pay now, and before the war you had not the sup port of five millions of niggers to pro vide for, who now eat, drink and wear at your expense. Taking the cost of supporting life to-day, and a reckless, wicked, wealth, destroying admini stration, and the poor white voter in thx? Uuitod Sillaiisa, ivlm i- OUlt WOrtll U dollar in the .world, is the heaviest taxed mortal on God's earth. Sleep ing or waking ; well or ill ; at labor or at rest; week days and Sundays—the taxes are being piled on him who is not worth a dime, by those above him in the scale of property, who are worth thousands and hundreds of thousands. Remember, you moneyless, honest toiler, if you eat, drink, wear clothes— if you are warmed and sheltered, you are thus made to pay your' own taxes and the taxes of the capitalists of the country also. They are indirectly thus piled upon you. The great public debt is a curse to you, if not a eurse to the capitalist. Remember this when you go to the polls next November. UXGRATEFULCHILDREN.—An East ern proverb which declares that there are no ungrateful children, is nearer the truth than it appears. It is but another version of the Biblical maxim : "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will never depart from it." The parent who does really train up a child in the way he should go, is the parent who truly de serves the gratitude of his child, and he is the only parent who can hope to receive it in full measure. How many parents there are, who, after indulging their children's every desire, are sin cerely astonished to find them making no return of love and gratitude. Grati tude! For an impaired digestion ? For a will uncurbed? For a mind empty? For hands unskillful? For a child hood wasted ? For the chance of for ming a noble character lost? These are poor claims upon the gratitude of a child. Bring up your child so that, at mature age, he has a sound consti tution, healthy desires and an honest heart, a well-formed mind, good man ners, and a useful calling, and you may rely upon his making you such a rich return of grateful affection as shall a thousand times repay you for the toil and self-denial which such a training costs. No—there are no ungrateful children, when there is anything to be grateful for. RATTLESXA K E BITE.—A m monia, or hartshorn, is doubtless the best remedy known for the bite of the rat tlesnake. Alchohol is good, but not to be relied upon for a cure in all eases. So with several kinds of vegetable rem edies ; they cure in some cases, but not in all. Next to ammonia, mud is prob ably the best. A son of Mr. J. D. Sharp, of Spring Valley, Minnesota, was bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. Several remedies were applied, each said to be a certain cure; but they all failed. He grew spotted, like a rattle snake, they said, and became very sick, and likely to die. At length they put his foot in a pail of mud. He was relieved in fifteen minutes, and con tinued to improve until he was well. If one has such a bite to treat, and can not get ammonia, let him give whisky, or some other stimulant internally, and apply mud to the part bitten, changing it once in three hours during the day.— l. T. in N. Y. Observer. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. The following anecdotes are told of W. M. Swain, formerly proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger: As a business man be was very rigid in adherence to what lie conceived to be sound business principles. "Never fix price on another man's goods," was one of these principles. A paper dealer met him one day on the street. "Mr. Swain," said he, "I have some excellent white paper of the size of the Ledger. Do you wish to buy?" "Yes, sir," was the reply. "What are you willing to give for it?" was the next inquiry. "Precisely the worth of it sir, nei ther more nor less, was the rejoinder. "Oh, of course. But I mean, Mr. Swain, what can you afford to give me for it." "Double the price, sir, if I chose, but I-don't." "But, fix the price, sir." "I never put a price on another man's goods. If you don't know the value of your own paper you should not dis pose of it. If you do, you are wasting my time and your own in idle circum locutions to get the advantage of me. Tell me your price. If it suits, well, if not you may find some other customer." Business is business, and nothing should interfere with it, was another of his business principles. Consequent ly he would take nothing off the "price of an advertisement on the score of friendship, or benevolence, or any oth er of the ten thousand petty excuses made to "nip the printer." A gentleman once called upon him with an adver tisement of a benttit for a poor widow with several helpless children. "How much for the advertisement under the eircustances ? "Just what it coines to," said Mr. Swain, "business is business sir, chari ty is another question." "But to a poor widow, sir, every dol lar saved is a matter of serious mo ment to her family." "Business is business, I repeat, sir. What I choose to give in charity is my own private affair. My business has nothing do with it." "Then you will take no less?" "Not a cent, sir." "The gentleman paid the bill very reluctantly, amounting to perhaps, two dollars and was going out of the of fice reflecting rather severely in his own mind upon the parsmony of Mr. Swain, when the latter stopped him. "Do you know this widow ? Is she honwt mul deserving ?" "She is, sir." Mr. Swain, slipped a $lO bill in the gentieyoan's hand, and turning on his heel, walked away, saying "business is business." GET eout, you nasty puppy—let me alone, or I'll tell my ma!" cried Sal Smith to her lover, Jack Jones, who sat about ten feet from her pulling dirt from the chimney jam. "1 ain't touchi'n on you, Sal," re sponded Jack. "Well perhaps you don't mean to nuther,—do you ?" "No I don't." "Cause you are so tarnal scary you long-legged, lantern-jawed, slab-sided, pigeon-toed, gatigle-kneed owel, you hain't got a tarnal Lit of sense, get along home with you." "Now, Sal, I love you and you can't help it! and efyou don't let me stay and court you iny dady 'll sue yourn for that cow he sold him t'other day. By jingo he said he'd do it." "Well, look here Jack, if you want to court me you'd better do it as a white man does that thing—not set otl' there as though as if I was a pizen !" "How on airth is that ?" "Why, side right up here, and hug and kiss me, as if you really had some of the bone and sinner of a man about you. Do you s'pose a woman's only made to look at, you stupid fool you?" "Well!" said Jack, drawing a long breath, "if I must I must, for I love you, Sal!" "That's the way we do it, old boss; that is acting like a white man orter." "Oh Jerusalem and pancakes!" ex claimed Jack, "if this aint better than any apple-sarse inarm ever made, a darned sight, Sal. Crack-e-e; buckwheat cakes and 'lasses ain't nowhere 'long side of you, Sal. Oh how I do love you!" Here their lips came together, and the report which followed was like pul ling of a horse's hoof out of the mire, and on the following Sunday they were married. "Pi E PLANT."—One of the most val uable and healthy articles for making pies during the summer season is rhu barb, or, as some call it, "pie plant." Every one who owns a garden should cultivate it. It requires deep tillage, the deeper the better, and heavy ma nuring. The large roots and leaves re quire plenty of room to extend above and below the soil. Some persons trench the soil to the dfyth of two feet, when preparing to plant rhubarb, but without drainage very deep tillage is useless. If propagated by dividing the roots, the plants should be set out singly, and not in threes, as is so often done. One or two buds is sufficient in each dividing root. The ordinary va rieties are generally planted in drills two and a half or three feet asunder, the plants of a similar distance apart in the rows. Some of the larger varie ties require to be planted much further apart—say five between the rows, and three feet between the plants. .VOL. 62.—WHOLE No. 5,444. lIOKKOKS or W Alt. Since the creation of the world four teen thousand millions of human bc ings have fallen in the batth s which man has waged against his fellow crea ture—man. Suppose this amazing number of men were to hold each oth er by the hand at arm's length they would extend over fourteen millions, five hundred and eighty-three thous and, three hundred and thirty-three miles of ground and would encircle the globe on which we dwell six hundred and eight times! If we allow the weight of a man to be on average one cwt. (this is below the mark,) we shall come to the conclusion that six mil lions two hundred and fifty thousand tons of human flesh have been man gled, disfigured, gashed and trampled under foot. The calculation will ap pear more striking when we state that if only the four-fingers of every one of those fourteen thousand millions of human beings were to be held in a straight line they would reach more than six thousand miles beyond the moon ; and that if a person were to un dertake to count the number, allowing nineteen hours a day, and seven days in a week, at the rate of six thousand per hour, it would occupy that person three hundred and thirty-six years. And awful is the consideration ! three hundred and fifty thousand pipes of human blood have been spilt in bat tles ! Who would not exclaim with Bishop llall—"Give me the man who can devise how to save troops of men from killing, his name shall have room in my calender. There is more true honor in civic garland for the preserving of one subject, than in a laurel for the victory over many enemies." Or, with Bishop Taylor—"lf men were only subject to Christ's law, then could they never go to war with each other."— Dr. Thomas Dirk. A SHARP GIRL.—A spruce looking young girl, carrying a bundle, was accosted in thestreets of Philadelphia by a man who chucked her under the j chin, and said he would like to accom pany her home. "Well, do," said the girl, "but hold my bundle while 1 tie iny shoe." The man took the bundle, i when the girl started off on a run.— The man felt a slight movement in the bundle, and in great trepidation start ed after her, repeatedly bawling out, "Ilere, you woman, come back and take your baby." Soon a crowd gath ered, to learn the natureof the distress. "A woman gave me her baby to hold, and then ran off," plteously exclaimed the man of burden. "Take it to the alms house," shouted some half a doz en voices. "Let us see it, first." cried one more sagacious than the rest; and, us a large coarse towel was unfolded, out jumped a full grown cat, who scam pered off amid the vociferous shouts and laughter of all present save one, who looked awfully. It seems that a lady, desiring to rid her house of one of these animals, whose petty larcenies in the kitchen were a source of great annoyance, had commissioned the ser vant girl to take it out of the neighbor hood and drop it. MECHANICAL GENIUS.—The Paris Putrid contains the following: A young man aged eighteen, who belonged to a respectable family in Paris, had, a bout a year ago, been condemned for theft to five years imprisonment.— His conduct in prison being quite ex emplary, he gained the good opinion of the director, who remarked in him a peculiar aptness for mechanical con trivances. A few days ago he begged the director to tell him what o'clock it was, that he might set his watch. — "You have a watch, then?" asked the director. "Only since yesterday, sir" said the prisoner, and to the astonish ment of the director, produced one made of straw. The little masterpiece is two-and-a-half inches in diameter, about one-half of an inch thick, and will go for three hours without wind ing up. The dial plate is of paper, and a pretty little straw chain is at tached to the whole. The instruments which the prisoner had at his command were two needles, a pin, a little straw and thread. Several persons of distinc tion, moved by his surprising genius for mechanics, are now endeavoring to obtain his liberation. FACTORY OVERSEERS IN MASSA CHUSETTS.—There is a law in Massa chusetts which is intended to regulate the employment of children in factor ies. The officer appointed to enforce this law reports as follows: In Fall River he found one thousand children employed in factories, mostly of foreign parentage, in generally low condition, ignorant in many cases of their own ages, earning very low wages, and de prived in great part, or altogether, of the school privileges which the law re quires. To ill lustra te the spiritof some of the employers, the officer inquired of the agent of one qf the principal factories there whether it was the cus tom to do anything for the physical, intellectual, or moral welfare of the work people. The answer would not have been out of place to the captain of a coolie ship: "We never do; as fyr myself, 1 regard my work people as I regard my machinery; so long as they can do my work for what I choose to pay them, I keep them, and get out of them all I can. What they do, or how they fare, outside of my walls I do not know. They must look out for themselves, as Ido for myself. When my machinery gets old and useless, I reject it and get new; and these peo ple are part of my machinery." CERTAIN Cl'itE l Oii FOUNJ>tR- A.- soon as you discover (hst the horse i foundcrcd, take him to the nearest branch or stream of water and tic him j in it, standing the water nearly up to his belly—his head being so high that he cannot drink. If the weather is warm, let him stand in the stream sev ■ oral hours; then take him out, rub his legs thoroughly to promote circulation, | and again tie him in the water, if he is still lame. By repeating this process two or three times, the horse will be effectually cured. If the weather is cold when the horse is foundered, that is, if it is in winter, the horse must not be allowed to stand in the water more than about twenty minutes at a time, he should be taken out and his legs rubbed diligently till they become dry and warm and the circulation of the blood made active, and this proems must be repeated till the horse is cured, which will be generally within twenty four hours. This remedy will cost nothing, can do no posible harm, and will in every instance, cure, if the dis ease has not been too long standing. Don't be afraid to try it.— Rural World. ARIHTKAKV POWER.—Lord Chester field, in his speech on the liberty of the press, very forcibly says: "Arbitrary power has seldom or never been introduced into any country at once. It must, be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step, lest the people should see its approach. The barriers and fences of the people's liberties must be pluckcd up one by oue; and some plausible prtenees must bo found for removing or hoodwinking one after another of those sentries who are posted by the constitution of a free country for a warning." Ilow pertinent all this is to thu pres ent condition of our unhappy country. How cunningly and how stealthily have the advocates of despotism, un der the prentice of enlarging liberty, step by step retarded her advance, un til now it is difficult to say where liber ty ends and where arbitrary power be gins. There not a single guaranteed right that has not been struck down— not a single constitutional landmark that has not been torn up—and the people, hoodwinked and blinded by one pretence or another, now find all their liberties gone. PRESEVERANCE.— Henry Clay thus spoke: Constant, perservering applica tion will accomplish anything. To this quality if 1 may be allowod| to speak of myself, do I owe the little success which I have attained. Left in early life to work my own way alone, with out friends or pecuniary resources and with no more than a common educa tion, I saw that the pathway before me was steep and rugged, and the height upon which 1 had ventured to fix the eye of my ambition could be reached only by toil most severe and a purpose the most indomitable. But shrinking fromjio labor, disheartened by no obstacles, I struggled on. No opportunity, which the most watchful vigilance could secure, to exercise my power, was permitted to pass by unim proved. "Breeches of faith!" screamed Mrs. Partington, as she heard that term applied to Mexican violations of the armistice. " Well, I wonder what they will have next. I have heard tell of cloaks of hypocrisy, and robes of puri ty, but I never heard of the breeches of faith before. I hope they are made of something that won't change and wear out as old Deacon Gudgin's faith did, for he was always changing, lie went from believing that nobody would be saved to believing that all would bo, and at last turned out aphrenolgerand didn't believe in nothing! Wonder if it's as strong ascassimere?" and she hit off her thread, and prepared a new needle full. TCXI'RESSSONS of OPINION.—CoIoneI Forney; in one of his letters to the Press, says that "there is not a Sena tor in Congress who has not on more than one occasion, expressed or enter tained an opinion in favor of his (Mr. Johnson's) removal from office." This is not given as a reason why they are disqualified to sit as jurors and decide on his removal, but as a conclusive rea son why they should hot vote for ac quittal. It may strike unprejudiced people as rather a curious perversion of justice, but it does not strike Col. F. iy that light.— New York Times. RATIONS FOU VOTES. —The New York Times (republican) says: "The mayor (by military appoint ment) of Augusta, Ga., has made a proposition to the city council that ra tions be issued to needy parties depriv ed of employment for "voting as their consciences approved," and that a tax be levied on property-holders for car rying out this design. This is a very bad form of confiscation, which will work far more harm in its effects upon the black race than upon the whites, whom it is intended to injure," A traveler through a country town in Maine wherejthere are no hotels, ob tained lodging with a farmer. The next morning when he enquired for his bill, the farmer said : "85 cents for meals and lodging, and 25 cents for squirting tobacco juice over the clean floor." A LADY, who was suffering under an indisposition, told her husband that it was with the greatest difficulty she could breathe, and the effort distressed her exceedingly. "I wouldn't try, my dear," soothingly responded the husband. A LVDY asked a minister whether a person might be fond of dress and or nament without being proud. "Mad am," said the preacher, "when you see a fox's tail peeping out of the hole, you may be sure the fox is within."