®l|£ IStHfurSi BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. Tb Bedford G.UEKTTKII published every Thurs day morning by Meters A Mrwokl, 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 is advakce, and all such inscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are aid. 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 legal Notices of every find,and Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, are required by law t be published in both papers published in this place. Jjp" 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. *Gne square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares ... 600 000 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 Gszkttb 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. DP" All letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. sob griming. r|3 ii EBE D FOR D GAZETTE POWER PRESS PRINTIN G EST AB LISIIM ENT, BEDFORD, PA. MEYERS & MENGEL PROPRIETORS. Having recently made additional im provements tc our office, we are pre pared to execute all orders for PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, With dispatch and in the most SUPERIOR STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CERTIFICATES, BLANKS, DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS. HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN VITATIONS, LABELS, d-c. \c. Our facilities for printing POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, Ac., FOR CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction as to time and price rjXHE INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Mengel House, BEDFORD, PA. The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the public the following articles belonging to the Book Business, at CTTY RETAIL PRICES: MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. NOVELS. BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.: Large Family Bibles, Small Bibles, Medium Bibles, Lutheran Hymn Bonks, Methodist Hymn Books, Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, History of the Books of the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, Ac., Ac., Ac. Episcopal Prayer Books. Presbyterian Hymn Books, SCHOOL BOOKS. TOY BOOKS. STATIONERY, Congress, Legal, Record, Foolscap, Letter, Congress Letter, Sermon, Commercial Note, Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Octavo, Mourning, French Note, Bath Post, Damask Laid Note, Cream Laid Note, Envelopes, Ac. WALL PAPER. Several Hundred Different Figures, the Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county, for sale at prices CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD in Bedford. BLANK BOOKS. Day Books, Ledgers, Account Books, Cash Books, Pocket Ledgers, Time Books, Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books, Money Books, Pocket Books, Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac INKS AND INKSTANDS. Barometer Inkstands, Gutta Percha, Cocoa, and Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands, Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools, Flat Glax* Ink Wells and Rack, Arnold's Writing Fluids, Hover's Inks, Carmine Inks. Purple Inks, Charlton's Inks, Eukolon for pasting, Ac. PENS AND PENCILS. Gillot's, Cohen's, Hollow bush A Carey's, Payson, Dunton. and Scribner Pens, Clark's Indeliible, Fabor'sTablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office, Faber s Uuttknecht's, Carpenter's Pencils. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine. Madame Demorest's Mirror of Fashions, Electic Magazine, Godev's Lady's Book, Galaxy, Lady's Friend, Ladies' Repository, Our Young Folks, Nick Nax, Yankee Notions, Budget of Fun, Jolly Joker, Phunny Phellow, Liapincott * Magazine, Riverside Magazine, Waverly Magazine, Ballou's Magazine, Gardner's Monthly. Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Chimney Corner, New York Ledger, Now York Weekly, Harper's Bazar, Every Saturday, Living Age, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Arthur's Home Magazine. Oliver Optio's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac. Constantly on hand to accomodate those who want to purchase living reading maltter. Only a part of the vast number of articles per taining to the Book and Stationery business, which we are prepared to sell cheaper than the cheapest, are above enumerated Give us a call We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange ment we expect to sell its cheap as goods of this class are sold anywhere jan29,'yl yfereUMftM. THLEC T R I C TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. TIIE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY S OFFICE, Nos. 23 A 2T> Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Orzaniied under special charter from the State of New York. CAPITAL $5,000,000 50.000 SHARES. SIOO EACH. DIRECTOR S. flo* ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAUL S. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield A C New York. ISAAC LIVKRMORE. Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New York. Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y O. 11. PALMER. Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New York. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, (iibbs A llardcastle. New York. NICHOLAS MICKLKS, New York. OFFICERS. A. G. CURTIN, Preai lent. N. MICKLES, Vice President GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K MeCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting the great sea ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele graph cable, we propose commencing operations in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred miles at once, between the following ports, vis : Population. Canton 1,000,000 Macoa 60,000 Hong-Kong 250,000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250,000 Foo-Chow 1.250,000 Wan-Chu 300,000 Ningpo 400,000 Hang Chean 1,200,000 Shanghai. 1,000,000 Total 5,910,000 These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,- 000.000. and an enormous domestic trade, besides which we have the immense internal commerce of the Empire, radiating from these points, through its canals and navigable rivers. The cable being laid, this company proposes erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which must command there, as everywhere else, the commu nications of the Oovernmont, of business, and of social life especially in China. She has no postal system, and her only means nowofcommuuicating information is by couriers on land, and oy steam ers on water. The Western World knows that China is a very large country, in the main densely peopled ; but few yet realize that she contains more than a third of the human race. The latest returns made to her central authorities foe taxing purposes by the local magistrate make her population Four hun dred and Fourteen millions, and this is more likely to be under than over the actual aggregate. Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old, not only can but do read and write. Her civili zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten sive as that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach ers and traders; and the Utter are exceedingly quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili ty for procuring early information. It is observed in California that the Chinese make great use of the telegraph, though it there transmits messages in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and used by them exclusively for the transmission of early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose connecting all their great seaports, were now in existence, it is believed that its business would pay the cost within the first two years of its suc cessful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter No enterprise commends itself as in a greater degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our whole people. It is of vast national importance commercially, politically and ovangelically. LgTThe stock of this Company has been un qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial articles in the New York Herald, Tribune, World, Times, Post , Express, Independent , and in the Philadelphia North American, Press, Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down, sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in monthly instalments of $2.60 each, commencing .December 1, 1868, on application to DREXEL & CO., 34 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA. Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica tion to Heed A. Scheli, Bankers, who are author ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all no cessary information on the subject. scpt2syl E combine style with neatness of fit. And moderate prices with the best workmanship JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE 601 MARKET STREET, GEO W. NIEMANN. . PHILADELPHIA. [sepll,'#3.yl | SAVE YOUR TIME and MONEY by going to U. K. Oater i Co. for cheap stockings, and bo convinced that the assertion of one man selling 100 per cent, cheaper than an other is .'imply nonsense. Lailiee' cotton hoee at 10 ; 12, 15, 20 ots. and upwards. un2sml BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1869. §ry-<soofls, &t. NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED AT J. M. SHOEMAKERS BARGAIN STORE NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M Shoemaker's Bargain Store. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, llats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Fish, Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Ac , at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, llats, Boots and Shoes Queensware, Leather, Fish, Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. .M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, llats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Notione, Leather, Tobacco, Fish. Ac., at J- M Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats. Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Notions' Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing. Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware. Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fiah Ac., at J. M Shoemaker's Bargain Store. Bedford, Pa , June 11, 1869. S1 It. OSTER A CO. vT • READ AND SPEAK OF IT! COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED ! Wo are now receiving our usual extensive and well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND C II E A P S UMM Elt GO OD S, And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG BAHGAINS TO CASH BUYERS, In Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton Yarns, Carpet Chains, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Clothing, Brooms, Baskets, Willi and Window Pavers, Groceries, Queens ware, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt, <s-<" He invite everybody to rati and see for them selves . NO TiIUBLE TO SHOW GOODS. TERMS CASH. BHINC ALONG YOL'B CASH and wo will guarantee to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles arid qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva nia. Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully winning argument, and that those who BUY and SELL for CASH are always masters of the situation. jnnelSm.'i ft. R. 08TER A CO. M. FISHER AND BABIES, J® Next Door to the Bedford Hotel. GOOD NE W S AT LAS T. The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford. We will sell (loons CHEAPER, by 15 to 25 per cent, than ever sold in Bedford county. The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the less we sell the better we are off. The LADIES' HOSE, at 10 cents we will not have this time, but come at us for 15, 20 and 25 cents, and we will make you howl. You will all be waited on by ELI and the BA BIES, as the OLD ELI cannot do anything himself A gTeat variety of Parasols. Sunumbret -188, Pocket-books Ac. Linen Handkfa (Ladies and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICOES, from 10, 12 and a few pieces at 15 cents MUS LINS, from 10 to 25 cents. You all know that we sell NOTIONS 100 percent, cheaper than anybody else All Wool Cassimeres, from 50 cents tosl.oo. All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 cents Tick ing, from 20 to 40 cents. Paper Collars, 10cents; best, 25 cents per bo*. 4 pair Men's Half Hose, for 25 cents. Clear Glass Tumblers, 00 cents a dozen or 5 cents a peace. A great lot of Boots and Shoes, to be sold cheap. Queens and Glass ware, very low. Syrup, 80 cents and $1 00. $1 30 for best as clear as honey, and thick as tar. Bakers' Molasses, 50 cents per gallon, or 15 cents a quart. These Goods will " positively " not be sold unless for Cash or Produce. Come and see us, it will not cost anything to see the Goods and Babies. N. B. All these Goods ware bought at slaughtered prices in New York E M. FISIIER A BABIES. These Goods we sell so low, that we eannot af ford to sing (Auld Lang Syne ) All accounts must be settle# by the middle of July next, by cash or note, or they will be left in the hands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for collection. junlßm3 NOTICE.— I hereby tfive notice to all persons not tc harber or trust my wife, SARAH, on my account, as I will not be respon sible for any debts she may eontract—she having left my bed and board without just cause or pro vocation. ANDREW POTK Union tp., Aug 12 w3 fftflforil feetle. DEMOCRATIC 1 I. AT FOB*. 1. That the federal government is limited in power to the grants contain ed in the Federal Constitution; that the exercise of doubtful constitutional powers is dangerous to the stability of the government and the safety of the people, and the democratic party will never consent that the State of Penn sylvania shall surrender her great right of local self-government. 2. That the attempted ratification of the proposed fifteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution by the radi cal members of the last legislature, and their refusal to submit the same to a vote of the people, was a deliberate breach of their official duty and an outrage upon every citizen of the State, and the resolution making such ratifi cation- should be promptly repealed and the amendment submitted to the people at the polls for acceptance or re jection. 3. That the Democratic party of Pennsylvania is opposed to conferring upon the negro the right to vote, and we do emphatically deny that there is any right or power in Congress or elsewhere to impose negro suffrage up on the people of this State in opposi tion to their will. 4. That reform in the administration of the federal and State governments, and in the management of their finan cial affairs is imperatively demanded. 5. That the movements now being made for the amelioration of the con dition of the laboring man has our most cordial co-operation. 6. That the legislation of the late re publican Congress "outside of the Con stitution," the disregard of the major ity therein of the will of the people and sanctity of the ballot box, in the exclu sion from their seats in Congress of representatives clearly elected, the establishment ofinilitary governments in States in the Union and the o verthrow of all civil governments therein, are acts of tyranny and usur pation that tend directly to the de struction of all republican government and the creation of the worst forms of despotism. 7. That our soldiers and sailors, who carried the flag of our country to victo ry must be gratefully remembered, and all the guaranties given in their favoi must be faithfully carried into execution. 8. Equal rights and protection for naturalized and native-born citizens at home and abroad ; the assertiou of American nationality which shall command the respect of foreign pow ers and furnish an example an encour agement to people struggling for na tional integrity, constitutional liberty and individual rights. 9. That the present interna? revenue and taxing system of the general gov ernment is grossly unjust, and means ought at once to be adopted to cause a modification thereof. The report was acecepted and unani mously adopted. A VILLAIN KILLED RT A DO. The Augusta (Ga,) Chronicle prints the following: In one of the mountain counties of Georgia there live two families, each before the war noted for its wealth and refinement. One of them, the L's, consisted of Mr. L., a gentleman of fif ty-live years of age, his wife, nearly the same age, and an unmarried daugh ter of about twenty-five. Within a bout a quarter of a mile of their house lived one of the It's, a young man who had recently married a very beau tiful young lady of the country, and having left the paternal mansion, was farming by himself a small tract of ground. The two families lived some distance from the country town, in a sparsely inhabited section of the coun try, and being each the nearest neigh bor of the other, were, of course, on terms of great intimacy. Between the young wife and the daughter of Mr. L. a friendship was soon formed. A few days since, Mr. R. informed his wife that he had received a letter which would compel immediate attend ance in Atlanta, where he would have to remain for several days. Feeling that she had a protecter in a large and very fierce yard-dog belonging to her husband, she took him into her bed room, and, after securing the house, laid down and resigned herself to sleep. About twelve o'clock she was awak ened from her slumbers by a noise in the house and the angry growling of a dog, and discovered that the hall door had been forced, and that some one was standing at her room door seeking an entrance. Speaking as loudly as her fright would let her, Mrs. It. asked, "Who is there?" A man's voice which she did not recognize, replied by telling her to "open the door." Again she asked the same question, and again received the same reply, the stranger adding that if she refused he would break the door down. During this dialogue, the dog still growling, crouched upon the floor, as if ready to spring. Thinking to intimidate this man, who sought her ruin, Mrs. R. cried out to him that if he forced the door she would shoot him. Laughing scornfully, the ruffian threw his weight against the light door, burst it open and entered the room when, quick as thought, the savage dog sprang forward and fastened on his neck. The man, astonished at the sudden attack, attempted to kill the dog with a knife, which he held in his hand, but unsuccessfully, and the powerful animal dragged him to the ground, still retaining hold upon his throat. Stunned at first by this un looked lor deliverance, the woman, in a few seconds, regained her presence of mind somewhat, ran screaming from the house, never stopping until she ar- rived at the place of the L', where her cries soon aroused the family. Her tale was rapidly told, and ihe ser vants were preparing to go to the scene of danger, when suddenly Mr. L. was missed, and his wife almost on the instant, as if struck by a sudden presentiment, exelaimed, "Merciful God ! it inustbe my husbund." With a cry of horror, the party set forth and ran as fast to the house of Mrs. It. as the latter had run away from it a few minutes before. Arrived there, they found the man still lying on the lloor and the dog still grasping his thraat. Beating him away from his prey, they found the suspicions of Mrs. L. but too correct. It was her husband ; but the teeth of the dog had done their work, and he was dead. A CH ANCE FOR FREEDOM. Within a few weeks from now will take place several important and de cisive State elections, and a word to the people may be timely. Upon these results will hang, not only the questions at local issue, of which the people in the respective States are themselves the best judges, but there will also be the vital ques tions that divide the two great politi cal parties. The Democracy are engaging in the canvass without a semblance of fear or d iscou ragemen t. The members of that grand old or ganization are increasing in number, spirit and confidence, while its ene mies are disheartened, disgusted, de jected Radicalism is on the defensive. For many long years have they pushed the Democracy to the corner. For many long years they have kept the Democracy constantly on the de fenaive, while it needed no defense.— It had a record clear and bright as the nood-day sky. It could point to that record as the record of the party that brought greatness, and power, and wealth to the American people and the American nation. In contrast with this, how is the re cord of the Radical mob that during these late years has controlled the ad ministration of the Government. That record is a record of crime, of outrage, of destruction. It is a record of imbecility, of ignor ance. It is a record of humiliation for the proud people of America, who saw their nation hurled from its high po sition of greatest among empires to a depth so low as to have heaped upon it the indignities, insults, and jeers of all the world. It is a record that notes the destruc tion of our greatest wealth, and the enslaving of millions of toiling men, who were free under the liberal ad minist ration of the Democracy. It is a record that has indicated gradual but most certain steps toward a monarchical form of government, to take the place of that built upon the bloody fields of the Revolution by WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON, and their compatriots, and under the wise administration of which America be came great. It is a record of despotism more ac cursed and damnable than any free people ever before endured. It is a record of mobs that have murdered free American citizens. It is a record of bastiles in which na tive and free-born Americans have been imprisoned without charge or trial, and who, after months of suffer ing, have been released without know ing for what they were incarcerated. It is a record of times in which free speech was not permitted in this coun try, that had so long boasted of free dom; and when American newspapers were forbidden circulation in Ameri can mails. It is a record of murder, and plun der, and outrage, when honest men were degraded beneath the heels of thieves, marauders, pimps and har lots. Such is the record of the party that arrays itself in opposition to the De mocracy, and which is the party that for ten years has had absolute control of the Fe leral Government, and which during that time has kept the Democ racy in abeyance. The picture is not good ! But the picture is not painted in oth er than true colors,and, to thedisgrace of American history, is as incapable of being blotted out as the ocean itself. And with all this record, this same demoralizing, destructive party comes forward and fawns to the people for further power. At the ballot-box the people are su preme ! In office, the leaders are the des pots ! Now is the time for the people to make terms; to insist upon their rights ; to insist upon equal taxation; to insist upon an houest administra tion of the Government; to insist upon a return to the old times of Democracy. Now the people may do it. But wait until the demagogues are firmly fixed in office and they will laugh at your desires and demands, just as they have always done it since they have come into power. Now the people are masters. They may do that "which will free them from the yoke of Radical despotism. Let them strike note ! If they care not to do it, let them look bitck over the dark years of war, and strife, and desolation that have hung so thick and black over this country. Let them remember who has done this, and then peer away in to the future and watch the thick clouds still coming up—clouds certain to envelop us unless the people shall strike now, and strike effectively.— Democrat. THK man who was filled with emo tion hasn't room for a dinner. A QUEER OLD LADY. One of the best writers in America makes a good picture of a popular old lady. Will our young readers tell us what her name is ? How different people appear at dif ferent times, as when we are sick or well, rejoicing or mourning, laughing or weeping. A few days since J met an old lady who nodded very familiar ly to me, and yet I hesitated to call her by name, lest I should miscall it. She looked old, and yet young, soft and smiling, and yet wore stern frowns. She was fair in face, yet her hands were iron. It seemed as if the wind would blow her away, and yet she moved with the strength of an elephant. "Why sir," said she, "you seem to stare at me, though you have seen rue a thousand times before." "That may be, madam, but I never saw you loaded down with all sorts of things. I am curious to know about them. Would it be rude to ask you a few questions?" "Not at all. Ask away." "Well, what are you going todo with those small, thin, ladies' shoes?" "Why, make the ladies ware them, to be sure." "Not this cold wet season ? Why, I can hardly keep my feet warm in these thick, double-soled boots. I must have over-shoes. llovv can they wear such thin cold-catching shoes?" "Oh, sir, I have only to bring them to them and the dear creatures put them on, and never hesitate a mo ment. They know me !" "And those little half dresses hang ing on your arm ?" "They are to put on little children in cold weather, or to walk out in naked at the knees, naked at the neck, and hardly covering half the body. You can't think how eager parents are for these dresses." "What have you in that little tin box ? "Lozenges, sir; troches, hoar-hound candy,—things that always go with thin shoes and thin dresses. And this bright red box, sir, contains what is called conscience salve, which I always kecpon hand to rubtheconscience when any one sees they have done wrong in obeying me. It's in great demand sir, and a certain cure." "What have you in that bundle, madam ?" "This? Why a few knick-knacks, which I sometimes distribute in Sab bath-schools, in the shape of dialogues, speeches—things to make people laugh and to prevent the schools from feel ing too serious, or thinking too much about religion. You must understand, sir, that I continually have to attend church to regulate things there—to see that the bonnets are right, the rings are bright, and the dresses complete ; yet religion itself I hate as poison! And here is a box of tlie finest—what shall I call it? It is a sort of wit and smartness which I deal out to preach ers, with which they spice their ser mons, and become popular. I sell them by the gross. They are grow ing in demand, and they are a real sa ving of conscience and head-ache. Warranted to keep in all climates- a kind of sensation powder." "Pray madam what are those screws for?" "Why, to pinch the feet and make them look small, without regard to corns or bunions. They can't wear those dear little shoes except they "have these pinchers to go with them." "And that great heap of books in your arms!" "Those? They are the latest, most exciting, and the weakest, most silly novels. But I hand them out, and shake my head with a smile, and crowds read them." "Well, madam, I am very inquisi tive, I know, but I do want to know what you have in that great bag thrown over your shoulder?" "A great variety of valuables, such things as Mate suppers,' in great de mand, and which send people to the grave early, and thus make room for more. Here are Mate hours,' and Mate rising,' and all manner of hair dressing, and expensive dressing— things that ladies must have, even if their husbands fail. Here are dia mond pins and rings—just the things to stir up envy and create extrava gance. Here are gold watches, cigars, meerchaum pipes, gold headed canes, eye-glasses, and all manner of things to suit all kinds of people. And I laugh and coax, and frown and command till I get them to wear and use them, and do just what I please. Now I have stopped to talk with you a few moments; don't you see what a crowd have gathered round me—low necks, thin shoes, muslin dresses, tight boots; some on crutches, some crouching, some breathing short, all crowding to get near me; and when I move you will see how they all run and rush and crowd after me. O, sir, I am the great power of the world. I rule k ings and queens, beggars and philosophers. Don't you see?" "Truly, madam, truly. And now may I ask you your name?" "Name? Fashion, Sir ;my name is Mrs. Prevailing Fashion I I thought everybody knew me." AN tWKHAKD POSITION. Out in Missouri lives a Mrs. Ilemp dale, who has or had a daughter nam ed Laura, who loved a man named Jack. This man Jack the old lady didn't like, butshe was informed by a neighbor that Jack and Laura had ar ranged a plan of elopement. Her mind was quickly made up. She announced to Laura the next morning that she was going to 13ell ville on a visit to le gone for three days, and that she must be a good girl and not tear the house down when she was gone. That night Jack knew of it, as he read the nice little note that bade him "co aie over and stay until mothercomes VOL 65.—WHOLE No. 5,503. home, and what a splendid time we will have," he smiled, knocked the ashes off his cigar, and resolved of course he would. Jack went over, but there is no earth ly use in our attempting to describe the delectable things he eujoyed; it was a sugar season at that plantation, sure. Just before dusk, while Jack was running over full of the occasion, in rushes Laura's waiting woman with: "Lor bress me, chil'n, ef yer ain't missus atde gate." "My God, Dinah, what shall we do with Jack ?" "Pop him in de closet, Miss Laura," and Jack was popped in the closet in a twinkling. In stocked the old lady, who sharply scrutinized the disconcerted and blush ing countenance of Laura, felt sure that Jack had been there. "Come here, Laura. Now you can't deceive me. That abominable I'laine has been here, and you and he have fixed upon a runaway match, to come off to-night; I know, you see." Laura was silent, and the old lady continued. "But you will find that your mother is no fool, and too sharp for you, my lady. Booner than have you marry that miserable Jack Plaine, I'd see you laid in your grave. He's not going to squander my money, I assure you." The old lady rose, and going to a clothes press, returned with several coinforterss and a pillow. Then walking up to the close* where Jack was concealed, she threw them in and said to Laura: "Now march in here Miss, step a long; I'll look out that you don't see that low-born mechanic this night." Laura protested that she didn't want to, declaring that her mother might be sorry for it some day. But, without paying any attention her mother gave her a push, shut the door, and locked it, put the key in her pocket and went to bed. Early in the morning the old lady arose, and without waiting to dress, took the key from her pocket, and o pened the closet door to bid Laura come forth, gazed wildly for a mo ment, and uttered a most piercing scream. Recovering very rapidly, she started away from the door and called faintly I to Laura. "Laura, dear, go into the kitchen and see about breakfast." Then presently: "Jack, I say, Jack." Jack came forth with a son-in-law looking air and answered : "Well, madam what is it?" "Do you know anything about a farm ?" said she. "Nothing to brag of, ma'am," said Jack humbly. "Well, at any rate, Jack, I think that after breakfast you and Laura j may as well go down to the city arid get married, for I'm tired of watching you, that's a fact." WOBKIXOMEX OF PE.VVSYLVA.VIA. The Jacobin politicians and the Jac obin press of Pennsylvania are united ly attempting to draw off the support of the workingmen from Hon. Asa Packer, the Democratic candidate for Governor, with the plea that he is a millionaire, and not a friend to the workingman. Beware of such infamous falsehoods. That Mr. Packer is a millionaire is true. He has accumulated a large for tune, and is accounted among the wealthiest men of the eountry. That lie is not a friend to the work ingman is false, for Mr. Packer has not forgotten that he himself was once a laboring man, struggling and bat tling, for home and home ones, for the comforts and necessaries of life. Mr. Packer was an early settler in Pennsylvania. With his own hands did he clear himself a place fora home, and with his own hands he made that home. Gradually, by earnest economy and by honest toil, he accumulatid wealth. He invested his money in the improvements and enterprises i that were going on around him, all of which gave employment to a large number of workingmen, and it came back to him in large dividends. In this way he prospered, and instead of stowing away his wealth in bonds, up on which working men are laboring to pay interest, he has it spread around in various manufacturing enterprises, where it may benefit the couutry in the way of productions, and where it can benefit the workingmen by giving them employment. This is Asa Packer whom the Jaco bins are shooting their large and small guns at, and this is the man who is to be the next Governor of Pennsylva nia, for the yeomen of the Keystone State have gone to their work to win. They are earnest in their fight! They are not to conduct a defensive canvass with such an adversary as the party that elected Grant to the Presi dency, and seeks again to make Geary Governor of Pennsylvania. They advance with fixed bayonets! They will push the enemy to the wall. They will use the earnest and hon est arguments of the man who loves his country and his rights; who loves justice and the law, against those who devote their all to the god of party. It is the fight of the honest toiling meu against the thieves and shoddy ites. It is the fight of truth against un truth. It is the fight of honesty against cor ruption. It is the fight of the people against the people's robbers. A nd the people will win. The Democrats of Pennsylvania are not to he trifled with in a contest that involves so much. They have chosen Hon. Asa Packer as their standard bearer, and they will now make him their Governor.
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