' ' ' * '' BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. THB BEDFORD GAXETTK is published every Thurs 4v morning by MEYERS A MUSSEL, AT $2 00 per annum, tf 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 i he State unless paid for is ADVANCE, and all such übscriptions will invariably be discontinued at -he 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 ceDts per line. All legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans Court and Judicial Sales, art required by late t be published in both papers published in this place 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. t> months. 1 year. *One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares . - - 000 900 16 00 Three squares *-- 800 12 00 20 00 Ouarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Halt" 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. |_JR°AU letters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers. griutiny. II K B E1) FO &L> GAZETTE POWER PRESS PRINT ING ESTABLISHMENT, BEDFORD, PA. MEYERS & MENGEL PROPRIETORS. Having recently made additional im provements t< our office, we are pre pared to execute all orders for PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, With dispatch and in the most SUP E 810 11 STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CERTIFICATES, BLANKS. DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS, HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN VITATIONS, LABELS,ire. ire. Our facilities for printing POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, etc., FOR CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction us to time and price riMIE 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 CITY RETAIL PRICES : M ISCELLANEt>US 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 Books of the Bible, T'ilgrim's Progress, Ac., Ac., AE. Episcopal Prayer 'looks. 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 ilimdrcd 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, Aceount Books, Cash Books. Pocket Ledgers, Time Books, \ Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books, Money Books, Pocket Books, Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac INKS ANI) INKSTANDS. Barometer Inkstands, Uutta Pereha, Coooa, and Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands, Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools, Flat Glass Ink Wells and Back, 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, Hollowbush A Carey's, Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's Pons, Clark's Indellible, Faber's Tablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office. Faber's Gutikoecht's, Carpenter's Pencils. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Mon.hly, Harper's Magazine, Madame Itemorest'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. Phunny Phellow. Lippincott's Magazine, Riverside Magazine, Waverly Magazine, Ballou's Magazine, Gardner's Monthly. Harper's Weekly, rank Leslie's illustrated, Chimney Corner. New York Ledger, New York Weekly, Harper's Bazar, Every Saturday, Living Age, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Arthur's Home Magazine. Oliver Ontie's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac. Constantly on band to accomodate those who want to purchase living reading mattter. Only a part of the vast number of articles per t lining to the Book and Stationery business, which wo are prepared to sell chouper than the cheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arr'ngt,- metit we expect to sell as cheap as goods of this tass are sold anywhere no 2 t pijsrrUancous. T7l L E C T R I C TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY S OFFICE, Nos. 23 A 25 Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Organized under special charter from the State of New York. CAPITAL $5,000,600 50,000 SHARES. $lOO EACH. DIRE C T O It S. flow. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Ba tterfield A C New York. ISAAC LIYEUMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New York. lion. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y. 0. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New York. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs A Hardcastle. New Y"ork. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New Y'ork. O F FIC E lIS. A. S. 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 Burtingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting tbo 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 port*, viz : Population. Canton 1,000,000 Maeoa 60.000 Hong-Kong 250.000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250,000 Foo-Ctiow .. i,asn.ao<) Wan-Chu 300.0(10 Ningpo 400 ooii Hang Chean . 1,200,000 Shanghai 1,000,000 Total 5.910,000 I 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 laud lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which mast 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 her only means now of commuuicating 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 mf.de to her central authorities for 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 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 geaporta, 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. |j^ s The 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, Pre.s *, Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, may be obtained at $5O each, $lO payable down, $l5 on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing Deedhber 1, 1868, on application to DREXEL A CO., 31 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica tion to Reed A Schell, Bankers, who are author ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne cessary information on the subject. sept2syl I • E combine style with neatness 01 fit. And moderate prices with the heat workmanship JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE * 604 MARKET STREET, GEO IV. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA. Iseplt,'#B.yl ] rpifE BEST PLACE TO BUY _f choice brands of chewing Tobaccos and Ci gars, at wholesale or retail, is at Osier's. Hood natural leaf Tobaccos at 7a cents. Try our 5 cent Yara anil Havauna cigars—they cant be beat, unelBm3. BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1869. gnf-<soodsi, &r. "VfEW GOODS -JUST RECEIVED IN 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. NEW GOODS just Received at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing. Hats, 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 Shoes tjueensware, 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, Tobacco, Ei.ih, Ac., at J. M Shoemaker's Bargain Store. BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Ilats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Natione, 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, Fish Ac., at J. M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store. Bedford, Pa., June 11, 1869. R. OSTER A CO. READ AND SPEAK OF IT! COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED .' Wo are now receiving our usual extensive and well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND Cll EA P SUM ME R GOO JS, And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG BARGAINS TO C A S 14 BUY E R S , In Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton yarns, Carpet Chains, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Clothing, Brooms, Baskets, Wall and Window Papers, Groceries, Queens ware, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt, 4'C II e invite everybody to cat! and see. for them selves. NO TRUBLE TO SIIOW GOODS. TERMS CASH. BRIXO ALONG YOUR CASH and we will guarantee to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles and qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva nia. Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully winning argument, and that those who BUY anil SELL for CASH are always masters of the situation jane!Bm3 G. R. OSTER A CO. 1,1 M. FISHER AND BABIES, J m Next Door to the Bedford. Hotel. GOOD NEWS AT LAS T. The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford. We will sell GOODS CHKAPER. by 15 to 25 per cent, than ever gold in Bedford county. The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the leas 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 bo waited on by ELI and the BA HIES , as the OL D ELI cannot do anything himself A great variety of Parasols. Sunumbrel las, Pocket-books Ac. Linen Handkfs (Ladies and (Sents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICOES, from 10, 12 and a few pieces at 15 cents. MUS LINS. from 10 to 25 cents. \,<u all know that we sell NOTIONS 100 per cent, cheaper than anybody else All Wool Cassimcres, from 50 cents to $ 1.00. i All Wool Dress Hoods, from 15 to 25 cents. Tick ing, from 20 to 40 cents. Paper Collars, 10 cents; begt, 25 cents per box. 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 u 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 K. 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 bands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for collection. junl3tn3 'VTOTI'JE.—I hereby give notice to j_sj all persons not to barber or tru3t tay wife, SARAH, on my account, as I will not be respon sible for any debts she may contract—she baring left iny bod and board without just cause or pro- TOcaUon. ANDREW POTE. Union tp. Aug 13 w3* Mil HITS AN II THE I, ITT I. E HEATHEN. BY JOHN QUILL. "But they must have clothes, Mr. Wilkins." "No they mustn't It's ridiculous nonsense for any collection of old wo men like your sowing society to start out a lot of duds to the heathen in Af rica. It is confounded stupid, I say.— Whatdo you suppose a lot of old coffee colored pagans, steeped in ignorance und vice, want with shirts? Hey? Why, they don't wan't 'em. They were born without 'em, weren't they? And if it was right for them to have clothes don't you suppose they would have hud 'em ? Don't you suppose be neficent nature knows better than you and all the other heifers down at the sewing bee? Why it's absolutely ri dic " "Wilkins, you shan't talk that way about " "It's perfectly ridiculous. But you go on ; you go on and send them over there to Africa, and do you know what will happen ? Do you know what will be the result of your tomfoolery ? Why, the very first thing you know some benighted heathen or other will go and mount one of those shirts some nigh 1 ., and paddle around in the dark and scure the other heathen, and make them believe in ghosts, and set the whole continent of Africa to falling down and sacrificing themselves to a lot of old nine-headed idols, and jab bering away at their pagan prayers. You've got sin enough on your soul, old woman, without that, I want you distinctly to understand." "Mr. Wilkins you are too contempt ible to notice." "Yes, and I'd like to know what an ignorant heathen knows about shirts, any how ? Why, absolutely nothing; aud very likely the first fellow that tries to get into one will get it upside down, and mix his legs all up in the sleeves, and get himself into a tangle and trip up, and fall over some preci pice or other, and then there will be the responsibility for a mangled man ad ded to your list of crimes. But I'd just like you to bear in mind that you don't send any of my wardrobe out there. I don't want a parcel of Ethiops sport ing around on Afric's sunny shore in my lineu. Not exactly. I like to see men enjoy themselves, but not in that indecent style. "But, Mr. Wilkins " "Pretty spectacle it will be now, won't it? Forty-six little Africans dressed in a simple but chaste garb of white shirts, sitting along a bench in Sunday-school wriggling their toes, or else enjoying themselves at recess sing mg 'ham fat' and doing 'the walk a round.' Tliat'u a pretty way to civil ize a heathen land, ain't it? For they won't wear any pants you observe. If you go to shipping a lot of pants over tiiere' the first thing you know they'll have them tacked on some idol or other, or rammed full of feathers, and be holding religious service before each pant; and as for socks, why every sock as has ever been sent over there has been stuffed with sand, and used as a \par club. That's so, and I've no doubt that very identical pair you're knitting on now will brain a stray pagan some dav or other in some muss. "Mr. Wilkins, you know that's not so." "If you vvaiit to do your colored friends a service, why don't you go to work and ship them a lot of the delica cies of the season? Why don't you send out a ship load of canned mission aries, or something else that will make their teeth water? Or you might col lect an assortment of second hand jaw bones, and give them for necklaces, or send out your own false teeth, or " "Wilkins! I'll scratch " "Or go yourself, and see how it feels to be eaten. I won't stop you. You've got my permission, you understand. But I pity the miserable pagan that stuffs himself with you. You won't agree with him. You never did with me, my love " "Mr. Wilkins, you area brute." "But for my part I think you had better stay at home and attend to your children, instead of fooling down there at that society with a lot of tabbies, who slander their neighbors, and make more mischief than they do under clothes fur the naked Hottentots." "Mr. Wilkins, that's not so." "You'd better stay at home and sew for your family, that's what you'd bet ter do. There's William Henry been going round for six weeks or more with only one gallus on his pants, and look ing like he was a deformed cripple, with one shoulder a foot higher than the other, while ills stockings have no feet, and the upper part of them keep a working up liis leg until the boy nearly goes mad." "What an awful story, Wilkins." "And Bucephalus Alexander's best Sunday jacket has burst out all over in spots,and Breckenridge Augustus, hav ing run out of handkerchiefs, lias late ly been practising wiping his nose on his sleeve in church, until I was so mortified that I had to take him out last Sunday and have him stood in the coal hole and spanked like the nation by the sexton. Unaffected simplicity is all well enough in its way, but that's carrying it a little too far." "Mr. Wilkins, you know that's not true." "And, as for Mary Jane, she is just going straight to destruction. She's got to imitating your example, and now she thinks it ain't worth while to live if you can't do something for the heathen. So what does she do yester day but go and give my best high hat to the boy who swept the chimney, and it came nearly down to his waist, and she asked him if he had ever read Dr. MePherson's treatise on "The Whole Duty of .Man," and he observ ed that he "didn't knt>w nuffln about dat dar, he reckon " and while she went up stairs to get it for hint he em- bexzled two chunks of corned beef and a coVl potato, and tlie first thing you know lie will be in the penitentiary, and all along of your blaine foolish ness." "I declare, Mr. Wilkins, you are a scandalous story-teller." "And there's the boys, it was only last Saturday that they took their crowd up stairs, and played that the garret was Africa, and one half of them represented heathen, and ran a round without a stitch of clothes on them and Bucephalus Alexander he distributed my clean shirts among them, and they upset all the barrels, tired away all my old books in a skir mish with the savages, and one of them, who was a cannibal, like to gnawed the whole thumb oft' of Win. Henry, trying to swallow him, because he said he was a missionary, and it ain't well vet." "Pshaw, Mr. Wilkins, you talk like a—" "And, then, what must Mary Jane do, but try to represent a heathen mother; wholly unenlightened by Christianity, trying to drown her in fant in the sacred river, which she rep resented by dousing the eat in the bath-tub, but that animal wouldn't play fair, and liked to scratch the whole hide off of her, whileshe Jet the water run until the room was full, and it poured a perfect cascade out of the window, which she said was to repre sent the overflowing of the Nile, like she read about in her Sunday school lesson. I say it's perfectly outrageous to bring up your children in this kind of style. If you love the heathen, why go among them, but don't go to poisoning the minds of your innocent offspring." "As long as you have made such a fuss about the sewing-circle, Mr. Wil kins, I'll tell you what I've been mak ing there." "You needn't mind, I don't want to hear it. I'm tiredof hearing you talk. Just give me a chance to speak a word now, will you ?" "But " "Oh don't'but' me; I won't listen to you." "I wasn't sewing for the heathen, I didn't stick a stitch for the heathen at the sewing-circle." "Well, what in the mischief were you fooling your timeaway down there for, then?" "Why—l—was—making—you—a dozen—new—shirts—while—you—were abusing—me—you'll break my heart— yes, you will." "There, now, don't cry, my darling. Don't cry, I was only in fun; I was only joking, you understand. I didn't mean it. There now, don't cry, I say, Sally. Well, v bellow, then, bel loV. You may cry until you are tir ed. I never did see such a woman as you are." And Mr. Wilkins took a pull at the covers, turned overand went to sleep. But he seemed to be reconciled to her next day, for he called her several hard names because she left the baby cover ed up on the sofa, so that he inadver tently sat down on it. -■ 1 ' ' ™ ' A curious suit is about to be tried be fore a Memphis justice of the peace. A white man has a young hull pup. The puj) bit a bare-footed negro in the heel as he was passing. The negro jumped and two of the pup's teeth i were thereby abstracted. The negro sues the white man for allowing a vi cious dog to run at large. The white man files a crosscut saw bill and sues the negro for having a heel tough o nough to drag a dog's tooth out. The Hon. Edward Everett, when a young man just out of college, was in vited to give an oration in the city of Salem. At the dinner, Judge Story called up Mr. Everett by the following sentiment: "Fame follows applause where ever it (Everett) goes!'' Mr. Everett arose instantly, and gave the following: "Themembers of the legal profession! However high may be their aspirations , they can never rise higher than one slory. The Chinese do not steep their tea in a pot, hut put it in your cup, pour in hot water, covering the cup to re tain the steam, allowing it to stand live minutes, draining off and refilling. The second cup is considered the best, and the third filling is very good. But when the strength is exhausted, the grounds are thrown into the jars, tak en outdoors, spread on clothes, dried, doctored, repacked, and sent over to us. The following sentiment is attribut ed to Napoleon Bonaparte: "A hand some woman pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the heart. The one is a jewel—the other a treasure." A man in Wisconsin lias invented a pocket stove warmed by alcohol. We have seen one of them. It looks very much like a pint flask filled with bran dy- Sleeping on feather beds, or with the hands raised above the head, is very bad for the lungs. So says a doctor of experience. An old lady was asked what she thought of the eclipse. She replied: "Well, it proved one thing, and that is the papers don't always tell lies." ■MBMMMMHMMMMBI In an Illinois cemetery is a tomb stone, bearing only this simple but touching epitaph, "Gone up." A sailor once had a high dispute with his wife, who wished him to the devil. A store in Denver city has a sign as follows: FyNe KUT 2. bak(). "Veil, Jake is a shmart fellow. He can vip his own taudy." Light literature—the books of a gas com nany. Used up when it rains -an umbrella. VUNSII 1 Ano i i' 4> r.oKUE AV ASIIIM;- TOX. Hi* Ilnnse aixl Habit* in PhilH<io||tliin. Awhile since, in lookihg over a Philadelphia Directory for 1797, my heart gave a great bound as I came up on this entry; Washington, George,l9o HigbStreet. To the disgraceof Philadelphia, that house, second only in historic interest to Independence Hall, was many years ago demolished. But, for a few charmed hours of a midsummer evening, that mansion has stood again for me, and Washing ton has walked before my eyes "in his habit as he lived and yet the only magic conjuration was the clear mem ory of a gracious old man, who in his early childhood, was a neighbor of Washington, his parents living, I be lieveon Sixth street, near High. At the house of a friend in Philadel- ! phia I was so fortunate as to meet Mr. Robert E. Grey, a man past fourscore, but wonderfully well preserved—look ing much younger than his years—a gentleman of the old school in courle ousness of manner, in elegance and neatness of dress, stately in figure, with afresh and handsomecountenance. In person and demeanor lie reminded j trie strongly of Walter Savage Lander, j as I saw him in his eighty-first year, i When I asked this noble relic of the past for his recollections of Washing- | ington, he said : "Bless you, I have little to tell. I was so very young at the time when I knew him, that I have only childish recollections, mere tri fles which will scarcely interest you." On my assuring liiin these were just the things I wanted to hear, he talked modestly, and with much questioning, of the old days of Philadelphia, and of the great President and his household. In his childhood, he said, the place where we then were, on Tenth street near Arch, with the roar of the great city about us, was quite in the rural distiiels. He remembered going to bathe in the little pond, near the cor ner of Sixth and Arch streets,a secluded and shaded spot. High street, the fashionable avenue, was only planted with rows the Lombdary poplar nearly out to the Scuylkill, and was the favorite Sunday promenade of the citizens. "Washington's house," said Mr. Grey, "was thought a very fine man sion. It was what was called 'a house and a half'—that is, the hall was not in the middle, but had two windows at the left. It was two stories and a half high, with dormer windows. It was rented for the President of Rob ert Morris, but originally belonged to Galloway, the Tory." "Was Washington the stately and formal personage he has been represen ted?" "Yes he was a very dignified gentle man, with the most elegant manners— very nice in his dress, careful and punctual. I suppose he would be thought a little stiff nowadays." "Did you ever hear him laugh hear tily ?" "Why, no, I think I never did." "Was he always grave as you re member him, or did he smile now and then ?" "Why, bless you, yes, he always smiled on children ! He was particu larly popular with small boys. When he went in state to Independence Hall, in his cream-colored chariot, drawn by six bays, and postillions and out-riders anu when beset out for and returned from Mount Vernon, we boys were on hand ; he could always count us in, to huzza and waive our hats lor him, and he used to touch his hat as politely as though we had been so many veteran soldiers on parade." "Were you ever in his house, as a child?" "Oh ! yes; after his great dinners he used to tell the steward to let in t ie little fellows, and we, the boys, of the immediate neighborhood who were never far off on such ocea sfons, crowded about the table and made quick work with the remain ing cakes nuts and raisins. "Washington had a bad lvabit of pacing up and down the large front room on the first-floor, in the early twilight, with his hands behind him ; and one evening a ltttle boy, who had never seen him, in attempting to climb up to an open window to look in upon him, fell and hurt himself.— Washington heard him cry, rung for a servant, and sent him to inquire about the accident—for, after all, he was soft hearted, at least toward children.— The servant came back and said: 'The boy was trying to get a look at you, sir.' 'Bring him in,' said the gen eral, and, when the boy came in, he patted him on head and said: 'You wanted to see General Washington, did you ?' 'Well, I am General Washing ton.' But the little fellow shook his head and said : 'No, you are only just a man, I want to see the President.' "They say Washington laughed and told the boy that he was the Presi dent and a man for all that. Then he had the servant give the little fellow some nuts and cakes and dismissed him." I asked Mr. Grey if he remembered the Custis children. "Yes," he said I often saw them at the windows or driving with Mrs. Washington in her English coach." They did not seem to have left a very vivid and human impression on his memory. With their fine clothes and company manners, with their at tendants, tutors, dancing and music masters, they must have seemed very strange, inaccessible, and little personages to all the happy, free and-easy children of the neighbor hood. "Do you remember Washington's levees , and Mrs. Washington's draw ing-rooms ?" I asked. 'Yes I remember hearing about them. All the evening parties were over by 9 o'clock, and the President's VOL 65.—WHOLE No. 5,512. house was dark and silent by ten. They were great affairs, but I was too young to know much about them. I attended his horse levees. I was very fond of visiting his stables, early in the morning, at the hour when he always went to inspect them. I liked to see him at that work, for he seemed to enjoy it himself. Like President Grant, lie was a great lover of horses. I can almost think I see him now, come striding out of the house across the yard to the stables, booted and spurred, but bareheaded and in his shirt-sleeves? "Washington in his shirt-sleeves?" "Yes, madam ; but he was always Washington. The grooms stood aside, silent and respectful, while he exam ined every stall and manger, and reg ularly went over every horse—l mean, he passed over a portoin of its coat with his large white hand, always looking to see if it was soiled, or if any loose hairs had come off on it. If so, the groom was reprimanded and order ed to do his work over. Generally, however, Washington would say: "Very well. Now, John get out Prescott and Jackson, his white char gers. 'l'll be ready by the time you come round." "Did he ride at so early an hour?" "Yes. Generrally between 5 and G of a pleasant morning he was off; and he almost always rode uj to Point-no- Point, on the Delaware, a little way above Richmond. He was a fine horse man, and being a long-bodied man, booked grandly on horseback. It was a sight worth getting up to see." Here came a pause, and then I pro pounded the momentous oid question : "Did Washington ever swear?" "Well, as for that I can not speak from my own observations. Washing ton had great self-control—he was a moral man—a religious man, for those times, and did not swear upon small occasions, and, I should say, never be fore children ; but, from what I have heard my father and old soldiers say, I think he must have blazed away con siderably in times of great excitement. He was very tender to his favorite horses, and, at onetime I remember to have heard a young aide or secretary ask leave to ride one of his white char gers, on the way to Mount Vernon, and the General allowed him to, but cau tioned him not to rein the horse too tightly. After awhile, Washington saw he was worrying the animal, and cautioned him again ; but the fellow kept pulling and jerking at the bit un til the creature became almost unman ageable." "Then Washington broke upon him, like a whole battery, ordering him to dismount, and swore tremendously. I remember, too, that I once heard an army officer tell about hiscursingsome General who disobeyed him in battle." "Lee, at Monmouth ?" "Yes, I believe so. Anyhow, my informant said it was the preat at sort of swearing, yet wasn't so awful as Washington's face at the time. He said, I remember: 'I never saw the devil before.' "These things were told of him, but not told against him. It was the fash ion of those times. However, I never heard a rough word from him, or saw his face when it was not peaceful and pleasant.'— Grace Greenwood in Ilearth and Home. 1 Like the generality of the kings and conquerers, Frederick the Great had a most philosophic indifference to death —in others. In one of his battles, a batalion of veterans having taken to their heels, he galloped after them, bawling out, "Why do you run away, you old blackguards? Do you want to live forever?" A man, less heavy than a horse, has a greater relative muscular power. The dog, less heavy than man, drags a comparatively heaiver .burden. In sects as their weight grows less and less, are able to drag more and more. It would appear, therefore, that the muscular force of living creatures is in inverse proportion to their mass. A preacher in Chicago recently refused to say grace at the table when reques ted to do so, saying it was a mere for mality, and the best grace was to eat moderately, digest well the meal, and then go to work and earn another. For the same reason he refuses to pro nounce the benediction. - An invalid disturbed all the inmates of his boarding house, recently by imi tating a dog. When asked why hedid it, he said ho had been ordered by his physician to use Port-wine and bark. Why are sheep the most dissipated animals in creation? Because they gambol in their youth, spend most of their days on the turf; the best of them are black legs, and they are sure to be fleeced at last. The author of a radical total-absti nence novel wrote in his book,' Drun kenness is folly." He was much cha grined when the Work came home from the press to find that the printers had made it read, "Drunkenness is jolly." A pupil in declamation having been told to gesticulate according to the sense, in commencing a piece with'the comet lifts its fiery tail,' innocently lifted the tail of his coat, and looked a round for applause. A lady complaining that her hus band was dead to fashionable amuse ments, he replied, "But then, my dear, you make me alive to the expense." The London Spectator justly remarks that in the United States "a tone ol contempt towards the President is be coming more apparent in both parties. An infant died in Westport, Conn., recently, from the poison taken into its stomach by sucking a green veil which the nurse had thrown over its face to keep the flies off.
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