BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. Ttie BKPFORT> GAZETTE is published every Thurs .l if morning hy METERS k MESCEI,, at J2 00 per annum, tf paid strictly in advance; $2.50 if paid witbin six months; $3.00 if not paid within six months. All subscription accounts MUST be settled annually. No paper will be sentout of tho State unless paid for is ADVASCK, and all aucb übseriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are aid. All ADVERTISEMENTS for a lees 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 kind, and Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, yre required by lav t be published in both papers published in this place Ijf" All t ivertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows: 3 mouths. 6 months. 1 year *Onc square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares ... 600 900 16 00 Three squares - - - 800 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Half column - - - 18 00 25 00 45 00 One column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00 ♦One square to occupy one inch of space. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with neatness and dispatch. THK 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. kjpAll letters should be aldressd to MEYERS k MENGEL, Publishers. #oli printing. fr H i BE D F O K D GAZE TT E POWER PRESS P ItINTING ESTABLISHMENT, BEDFORD, PA. MEYEItS & MENGEL PROPRIETORS. Having recently made additional im provements tc our office, we are pre pared to execute ail orders for PLAIN AND FANCY J O B PRINTING, With dispatch and in the most SUPERIOR STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CER TIEICA TEZ, BLANKS, DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS. HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN VITATIONS, LABELS.tr-. ire. Our facilities for printing POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, &c., FOR CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction as to time and price rjpilE INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Mengel House, BEDFORD, PA. The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the public the foliowing articles belonging to the Book Business, at CITV RETAIL PRICES : MISCE LL AN EOUS BOOKS. N O V E L S. BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.: Large Family Bibles, Small Bibles. Medium Bibles. Lutheran Hymn Books, Methodist Hymn Books, Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, History of the Bks 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' Hilt, Ladies' Octavo, Mourning. FreDcb 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. l'i>cket 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 Glass Ink \Vells and Rack, Arnold's Writing Fluids, Hover's Inks, Carmine Inks. Purple Inks, Charlton's Inks, Eukolou for pasting, Ac. PENS AND PENCILS. Giltot's, Cohen's, Hollowbush A Carey's, Payson, Iluuton. and Scribner's Pens, Clark's Indellible, Faber's Tablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office. Faber's Outtknechts, Carpenter's Pencils. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Mon'ihly, Harper's Magazine, Madame Domorest's Mirror of Fashions, Electic Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, Galaxy, Lady's Friend, Ladies' Repository, Our Young Folks, Nick Nax. Yankee Notions, Budget of Fun. Jolly Joker. Pbuuny Phellow, Lippineott's Magazine, Riverside Magazine, Waverly Magazine, Ballou's Magazine, Gardner's Monthly. Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Chimney Corner, Now York Leiger. New 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 mattter. 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 Wo buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange ment we expect to sell a-eaeap as" goods of tnia class are sold anywhere •*n2! LEcT B I 0 telegraph in china. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY S OFFICE. Nos. 23 & 2") Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Organized under special charter from the State of New Y'ork. CAPITAL .$5,000,000 50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH. DIRECTOR 8. JH.n. ANDREW li. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAUL S. FORBES, of llussell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield & C New York. ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New Y'irrk. Hon JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y. 0. H. PALMER. Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New York. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs k flardcasde, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New Y'ork. O F FIC E It 8. A. G. CURTIN, President. N. MICKLES, Vice President GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K. McCLURE, 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, viz : 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 Government, of business, and of social life especially in China. She has no postal system, and ber only means nowofcoinmuuicating information is by couriers on land, and by 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 centra! authorities for taxing purposes by tho local magistrate make her population Four hun dred ana 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 ss that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach ers and traders; and the latter 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 evangelically. UTThe 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 Y'ork 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 $2.50 each, commencing December 1, 1868, on application to DREXEL & CO., 31 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica tion to Reed k Schell, Bankers, who are author ized to receive subscriptions, and can give ail no cessary information on tho subject. sept2syl W E combine style with neatness of tit. And moderate prices vnth the best workmanship JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE 604 MARKET STREET, GEO I V. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA. [sepll,"6B,yl | rpilE BEST PLACE TO BUY J[ fihoice brands of chewing Tobaccos ami Ci gars, at wholesale or retail, ia at Deters. (lood natural leaf Tobaccos at 75 centa. Try our 5 cenl Yaraaud Uaranna cigare—thejrcantba beat, junelSmd. BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING-, SEPTEMBER 9, 1869. £rtDo>oods, &c. IVTEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED i> 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 Storo. 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, Cjothing, llats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Fish, Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats. Boots and Shoos, Queensware, Leather, Fish. Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware. Notions, Leather, Tobaceo, Fish, Ac., at J. M Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Hats, Boots am) Shoes, Quoonsware, Notione. Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Stor. 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, lints, Boots and Shoes, Queensware. Notions. Leather, Tobacco. Fish Ac , at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. Bedford, Pa., June 11, 1869. ( I It. OSTEIt & CO. VX. READ AND SPEAK OF IT! COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED ' We are now receiving our usual extensive and well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND CII E A P SUM ME R GOOD S, And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG BARGAINS TO CASH BUYERS, In Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton Tarns, Carpet Chains, Hart, Boots, Shoes, Clothing, Brooms, Baskets, Wall aud Win do w Papers, Groceries, Qacens vare, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt. Jfc. IT e invite everybody to cad and sec for them selves. NO TR ÜBLE TO SHO W GOODS. TERMS CAS H . BRIKO ALONG YOUR CASH and we will guarantee to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles and qualities can be s ild in Central Pennsylva nia. Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully winning argument, and that those who BUY and SKLL for CASH are always masters of the situation. junelßm3 U. R. OSTER A CO. IN M. FISHER AND BABIES, Next Door to the Bedford Hotel. GOO I) NE W S AT LAS T. The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford. We will soil GOODS CHBAPKR. by 15 to 25 per cent, than ever sold in Bedford county. The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the less we soil the better we are off. The LADIES' HOSE, at 10 cents we will not hare this time, but come at us for 15, 20 and 25 cents, and we will make you howl. You will all be waited on hy ELI and the BA BJES , as the OLD ELI cannot do anything himself A great variety of Parasols, Sunnmbrel las. Pocket-books Ao. Linen HandkCs (Ladies and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICOES, from 10. 12 and a few pieces at 15 conts MUS LINS. from 10 to 25 oents. \ ...u all know that we soil NOTIONS 100 per cent, cheaper than anybody else All Wool Cassimeres, from 50 cents to SI.OO. All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 cents. Tick ing, from 20 to 40 cents Paper Collars, lOcents; best, 25 cents per box. 4 pair Men's Half Hose, for 25 cents. Clear Glass Tumblers, 60 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 oents per gallon, or 15 cents a quart. These Goods will "positively" not bo sold unless for Cash or Produce. Come and see us, it will not cost anything to sec the Goods and Babies. N. B. All these Goods wore bought at slaughtered prices in New York E. M. FISHER A BABIES. These Goods we sell so low, that we cannot af ford to sing (Auld Lang Syne.) All accounts must be settled by the middle of July next, by cash or note, or they will be left in the hands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for eolleotion. junlßin3 -VTOTIOE.—I hereby give notice to INi all persons not to barber or trust my wife, SARAH, on my account, as I will not be respon sible for any debts she may contract—she having left my bod and board without just cause or pro vocation. ANDREW POTE Eaiontp Aug I! w3* ihf DEMOCRATIC FEATFOItM. 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 unification 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. 1. 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 eo-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 of military governments in States in the Union aud the o verthrow of all civil governments therein, are acts bf 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 Hag of our country to victo ry must he 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 assertion 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 internal revenue and taxing system of the general gov ernment is grossly unjust, and means ought at once to be adopted to cause a mollification thereof. The report was acccepted and unani mously adopted. The Gettysburg heroesamused them selves the other day in designating the positions of the extreme left of the Army of the Potomac on the 2d of Ju ly. The examination of the entire field, with the noble work of peg-driv ing, is now almost complete. Visitors, who had expected a grand affair, have been deserting since the failure of the show became apparent on the first day, and the peg-drivers are pretty nearly left alone in their glory. Prof. Jenkins made his promised trip over the Niagara, Wednesday of last week on a tight rope, and mount ed on a bicycle. His machine was ar ranged so as to throw the weight under and place him virtually astride of tho rope. It was a queer sight, a poor feat, hut a sharp trick. Several thousand persons witnessed it. The Governor of Colorado lias called on the citizens of that country to arm and assist in the annihilation of the Indian tribes who are committing all sorts of violence aud depredations there. Scouting parties sent out from Denver a few days ago, however, have returned without having seen any In dians. The Utesand Apaches, it is feared, are visiting other tribes, now friendly to urge consolidated resistance to the Government's design of placing them upon reservations in the San Juan country. The settlers in New Mexico are very much unsettled about it. Two miles of snow-shed on the Cen tral Railroad, between Cisco and Sum mit stations, were burned on Wednes day night of last week. Considerable damage was done to the track, but was repaired in time to permit the passage of trains on Saturday. The Spanish Government, it is an nounced, will send six thousand addi tional troops to Cuba within the next two weeks. Aab, an American, who was recent ly arrested in Cuba by the Spanish au thorities, has been released and is on his way home. The Spaniards are enlisting more volunteers, black and white, in Cuba, to put down the rebellion. They have improved upon the "square meal" in Montana. A saloon in Helena gives "cube meals" at a low price. A Kansas reader of the Declaration of Independence on July oth, began with, "Know all men by these pres ents." The Janesville (Vis.) Gazette sus- j pended publication for two days, "as 1 the printers celebraU the 3d and the J editors the sth of July." j A LIVELY APPEAL. We find the following stirring ap peal to the people in the last Carbon Democrat. As it suits in every locali ty, and may perhaps be of use in awak ing some of the sleepy-headed Demo crats in this region, we publish it en tire. We trust the Democracy will heed its advice: form ix line! Democrats of Peensylvania, Honest yeomanrj of our grand old Commonwealth, Laboring men, Mechanics, Tradesmen, Artisans, All who pay taxes, vote, and are amenable to the laws and have an in terest in their construction and faith ful execution. A great contest is upon us. A battle to be fought and we must win it! Are you ready for the fight? Look along your line and survey the field. Are your forces thoroughly orga nized ? Have you your townships and sub district clubs in active working order? Do you not know of at least one vo ter whom you can influence to east his vote for Packer and a pure State ad ministration? Stop and think. Then appeal to the man's conscience, his ideas of honesty and rectitude; his State pride and his duty to himself and family. The argument is all with you. Radicalism lias no argument now anil it never had. It came into power in its incipient stage during a period of temporary na tional derangement. It has only maintained that power by bayonets at the throats of the people in one section and by fraud and cor ruption in another. As fast as the mailed hand is remov ed from the control of the States of the South, Radicalism dies, strangled by its own monstrous crimes. In the northern States it has achiev ed temporary success through the me dium of a wanton expenditure for par ty purposes of the people's money, and by the most outrageous and infa mous system of corruption and ballot box stuffing ever known aud scarcely credible. It can no longer scatter vast sums of money in lavish profusion to carry an election. It has robbed the public coffers un til nothing is left to steal, and the vast burden of taxation beneath which the people are now groaning is insufficient to keep up the expenses of a spend thrift administration. Let it be hurled from power ! Workingmen of Pennsylvania, be it ; your duty and your pride to achieve the victory. From the mines of the mountains, From the farms of the valley, rally j for Packer and Pershing! Peace and prosperity ! A TOUCHING SCENE. j [From tho Little Itock (Ark ) Gazette, July 25.) The Jackson port Herald and Bates j viile lime* have lengthy accounts of I the capture and imprisonment for six years, of Mr. 11. 11. Lee, a cousin of i Gen. It. E. Lee, and formerly a citizen |of Madison, in this State. In | November, W>2, he was arrested in j Memphis, on a charge of speculating in Confederate money, put in the Ir ving Block for one night, and then shipped for Camp Douglas, Illinois.— Arriving there, the officer refused to receive him, because there was no law forbidding speculation in money of ; any kind. Tne lieutenant having him in charge, then started with him to Rock Island, accompanied by seven ; guards. They went to Milwaukee, j Wis., and were going to put Lee in I jail for safe keeping until they could have a spree. About this time Lee ! and one of his guards, who accompan ied him, escaped, but were soon recap tured. Mr. Lee was then imprisoned in Milwaukee jail, and kept in close confinement for two and a half years without a trial. At the end of that time he was taken out and sentenced (without a trial) to four years' impris onment in the state Prison, at Madi son, Wis. During these four years he was not allowed to write to his friends, or read a hook or newspaper of any kind, but was effectively excluded from the world. During this time his health was good. The time for release came. lie went to Cincinnati, where he heard that his wife was dead, and he could hear nothing of his child. From there he went to Memphis, were he was received by his friends as one risen from the dead, and learned the joyful news that his wife and child, the latter a grown young lady, were both living, and at Batesville. The telegraph was used in announceing to | his wife his safety, and stating that he would meet her at Jacksonport on tho 13th. Says the Herald: "They met, and such a meeting as it was never occurred within our knowl edge. The joy of the wife at the sight of her restored husband was too great, and swoon after swoon followed in rap id succession." From here they went to Batesville, their future home, where we leave them, trusting that a long and happy life may tie vouchsafed to the happy family, and trusting that this is the last Confederate prisoner. "I)o you think, doctor," askvd an anxious mother, "that it would im prove little Johnny's health to take him to the springs, and let him try the water ?" "I haven't a doubt of it madam." "What springs would you recom- j mend, doctor?" 1 . "Any sprui/s, madam, wnora you can find plenty of soap." j THE TWO CANDIDATES FOB UOV CB.MIIt. ASA PACKER, The Christain Patriot, the Enterpris- j ing Business Man, the Friend of . Industry, and the True-Hear ed Gentleman. "ills WORD IS AS GOOD AH HIS BOND." lie has Dispensed Hundreds of Thons andsof Dollars in the Cause of Education, Rc-lig ion, and Charity. DONE MORE TO ADVANCE THE PROS PERITY CF OUR STATE THAN ANY OTHER CITIZEN, And Risen from a Poor Boy to the Front Rank Among our Public Men. His Election will Overthrow the Cor ruption at Harrisburg, Give us Wise Laws, and Hon est Admistration. AND RESTORE TO US THE BLESSINGS OF GOOD GOVERNMENT. JOHN W. GEARY, The Candidate of the "Ring," the Tool of the Monopolists, THE PARDONER OF ROGUES, AND THE POOR MAN'S ENEMY'. He has Stoope J to Everything Low and Mean in order to secure his Re-Election. VOTE FOR HIM, AND YOU VOTE TO PERPETUATE THE REIGN OF THE CORRUPTIONISTS, Help to Tighten the Chains which the Great Corporations have Fas tened about us, Encour age the Worst Ele ments of Society. DESTROY THE WOKKINGMAN's LIB ERTY, And Continue the Disgraceful Scenes which make our State Capital a By-Word of Reproach. AGHICCI.rrKAL EXPERIENCE. 1. All soils are benefitted hy being under drained, but the benefit is most apparent and lasting in thoseof a clay ey nature, or having a subsoil retentive of moisture. 2. After drainage, subsoiling and good cultivation are necessary to in sure good crops on heavy soils. 3 Lime is the best manure to apply to strong clay soils. It renders them more pervious to light and heat, and also corrects their acidity, hy combin ing with some of the chemical salts in the soil, making plant food of poison. 4. Summer fallowing is the most ef ficient and profitable means of prepar ing strong soils for wheat, and of be ginning a rotation, after grass has been grown a length of time. 5. Green crops plowed under, when in the most succulent state are power ful auxiliaries in rendering a light soil fertile, but if this is done too often sue- I cessivelly the soil becomes overcharged ! with carbonaceous matter. 6. Leached ashes applied in large quantities to sandy soils, or those con taining too much vegetablenumus, will greatly ameliorate their condition and render them more compact 7. There is no soil so poor or sterile but some mode may be found of amel iorating and enriching it. 8. Blowing-sands may he gradually made productive by spreading six in ches thick of straw over them, to re main till rotted. Then seed thickly with clover on the surface, without plowing, and when the clover has taken hold and becomes established, pasture sheep upon the land for two or three years preparatory to manuring and cultivating it. 9. Two successive grain crops on the | same land leave it very foul. 10. Summer fallowing ameliorates a soil, and if properly done, gets rid of most of the weeds and noxious plants infesting it. ACCIDENT AI, I NSC It A NCE. Between Kenosha and Milwaukee, an agent of the Traveler's Insurance Company entered the car, and having issued tickets to several passengers, ap proached an elderly lady, who, as it afterward proved, was very deaf. "Madam, would you like toinsurea gainst accidents?" inquired the agent, at the same time exhioitfng his tick ets* "I got my ticket down to Kenosha," she said. "I am going to Oshkosh to visit my darter who's married up there, and has just got a baby." The agent raised his voice a little. "Would you like to insure your life against accidents. "She's been married two years and a half, and that's the first child—its a gal." Agent, stilt louder. "1 am an Insurance Agent, madam, don't you want to insure your life a gainst accide nts?" "She's got along, first rate, and isdo ing as well as could be expected." Agent, at the top of his voice. "I'm an insurance agent, madam ; can't 1 insure your life against acci dent's?" "Oh, didn't understand you," said the old lady. "No, her name is John son ; my name is Evans, and I live live miles from Kenosha." A little darkey was recently found sitting on the steps of a fashionable house crying pitifully. "What's de matter wid you ?" asked a colored wo man. "Dar's matter 'nuff—drouble all ober the house. Fadder am drunk— mudder am from home wid de close- Sis broke looking-glass wid de broom stick—de hnby got her eyes full ob kj an pepper, and little Ned Anthony put de mustard on his hair for goose grease. 1 put salt in my tea for white sugar, and it made me sick. De dog licked Ned's face and got his mouth full oh mustard and lies under the bod a howlin'. l)e kitten got her head in Go milk-pot, and I cut iier head off to save de pitcher, and den I had to break de pitcher to get de head out; and do way i'll get licked when mud dor comes home for setting de bed afire will he a sin." VOL. 65.—WHOLE No. 5,506. VAMA HI.F RECEIPTS. HASTY PUDDING.—A correspondent write# as follows: If any of your lady readers should wish for something for ajdessert when they have company un expectedly and not prepared, the fol lowing will be found excellent and the dish wholesome and very quickly made: One pint of milk and one half pint of flour, two eggs, pinch of salt, flavor with nutmeg, bake in square pans in a hot oven about half an hour, as it is quickly made can be putin the oven just before sitting down to dinner and be just ready when wanted. Serve with butter and sugar. AN EXCELLENT CAKE RECIPE.— Two eggs, one half-teacup of molasses, one-fourth teacup of shortening, one teacup of buttermilk, one tea-spoon of cinnamon, one teaspoon of salaratus, two teacups of unbolted wheat flour; bake half an hour. A very healthy cake, and those who may give it a trial will not be troubled with indiges tion. Tough ! AMBROSIA.— Take oranges, peel and and cut in rounds, place some in a deep dish, sprinkled with sugar, add a layer of grated cocoanut; fill the dish with successive layers of the same,orange and ocoanut. Place on the ice and serve, when you will have food indeed fit for the gods. The following proves incontestibly the purity and high honor of the Dem ocratic candidate for Governor: 2 J UDGE P ACKEK IN CONGUESS.— W hen Judge Packer was in Congress, a hill was introduced to reduce the duty on iron, and repay that which had been paid by importers. The Judge was then an extensive railroad man, and had taken a heavy contract to supply rails, amounting to several millions of dollars. The repeal of the duty would have added enormously to his profit, aid every motive of self interest, add e 1 to the arguments of his friends, would have induced him to favor the bill. He felt it to be his duty howev er, to vote against it, and the bill was defeated. When his vote had been recorded he turned to one of bis colleagues, and s lid: "The success of this bill would put half a million dollars into my pocket." "Why didn't you vote for it,then?" was asked. "Because 1 cannot consist eatly with my principles. I know that Pennsylvania needs a tariff, and I will not not vote to cripple my .State." WHICH?—If Governor Geary was not linked in with, and a part and par cel of the Iting w hieh controlled the Legislature at Harrisburg during the last three years, we ask his friends to inform us why he did not, as he could and should have done, interpose his ve toes? There was nothing to prevent this, save thefact that lie was"asdeepin the mud as the Ring was in the mire." He was either a voluntary aider and abettor of the shameless prostitution of the people's interests by the King, or he was the pliant tool of that King, not possessing discernment sufficient to detect the wrongs ami promptly defeat them. Which horn of the dilemma | will liis supporters take? Can they accept either, and yet honestly support him? He has proven himself either corrupt or incompetent. Is such a man lit to be longer entrusted wi h I the Executive department of this great I Commonwealth? We pause for a re- I piy. __ A little five year old was being in structed in morals by his mother. The old lady told him that all such terms as "by golly !" "by jingo!" "by thunder," etc., were only minced oiths, and but little better than any o'her profanity. In fact, she said, he could tell a profane oath, by the prefix 'by'—all such were oaths. 'Well then, mother," said the little hopeful, "there's a big oath in the newspapers—"By telegraph." The old lady gave it up, and the boy is bewildered on morals. SO F.N K AT THE ATLANTIC TELE GRAPH OFFICE.— Fond Wife (to tele graph operator)—O sir! I want to send a kiss to my husband in Liverpool How can I do it ? Obliging Operator. —Easiest thing in the world, ma'am. You've just got to give it to me with ten dollars, I'll transmit it right away. Fond Wife. —If that's the case, the directors ought to put much younger and handsomer men in your position. (Operator's indignation is great.) "The candles you sold me last ntght were very bad," said Suett to a tallow chandler. "Indeed, sir, lam very sorry for that." "Yes, sir; do you know they burnt to the middle, and would then burn no longer." "You surprise me; what, sir, did they go out?" "No, sir, no; they burned shorter ?" A Western traveler, having secured half a bed, in order to prevent