BY DAVID OVER. ■ ; . ' SPEAK TO THAT YOUNG MAN. BY R. JOHNSON. Speak to that youth ! tby timely warning May save him many years of pain; Though lie appears all counsel scorning, One gentle word may him restrain. Check that young man, but do it mildly, Nor pass him by with cool neglect ; For though he seems to rush on wildly, Thy voic# may wake bis self respect. Speak kindly, sister, he's thy brother, Throw round love's fettem where he'd roam, Thy voice and smile, so like none other, May win the wayward to bis home. Frown not, but smilo wheie'er you meet him, For sorrow's cloud mav dun his day, Sweet words of kindness, when you greet hiro. May cheer him on life's gloomy way. Stop that young maa; thy friendship proffer, Let confidence his feet rtstrain ; Should he, in baste, reject thy ofiTer, Forsake him not, but try again. Speak to that youth with prospects blighted, And soul debased by hoarded store ; Thou, parent, art the cause ; he's tlighted, And should'st thou turn him from tny door ? Speak to that boy, ere sloth has given Its giant power to chain the soul, Or fashion Folly's ear has driven, Beyond the power of self-control. Teach iiiiu respect for good behavior, Show htm low vice engenders strife, And, most of all, make the world's Saviour, A pattern for his future life. Move on. keep trying, never falter, Do good every way you can, For, though you may not wholly alter, You may improve the Btate of man. THE BIBLE. Sitting alone in my study, I fell into a train of reflections on the preservation of tho Bible tn 1 its influence oo the history of man. Here Before m? lies an unpretendiog little book. — What a volume of thought does it suggest! — It is by many centuries the oldest book iu the world. .Mora than three thousand years ago the first word of it was written in the desert of Arabia; more than seventeen hundred, the last word was written on the rocky isle of Pal mo*. It has been read by more people than all other books in the world put together.— More of it is remembered by men than all the books that were ever writteD. It treats ot questions of the highest moment to all men, and proposes to reveal that for which the wi sest of all ages have sought in vaiu—the se cret ot true happiness. These very letters that pass under my eye are the same as those traocd by the finger of God on toe tablets of stone amid the thunders and lightnings of Mount Sinai. The language in whieh the New Testa m-. ot was written, is the same in which Solon, Plato and Demosthenes wrote and spoke. This book has survived the revolutions and changes of three thousand years. It has seen Nineveh, Babylon, Memphis, Thebes, Tyro, Sidon, (J.irtiiage, Home, Athens, and a tbous aitJ o'her cities, rise, flourish and fall. It has lived amid wars the most bloody, amid desola tions the most complete, amid tyranny the most grinding, amid darkness the most profound, amid superstitions the mot degrading, amid idolatry the most repulsive, amid blasphemy tho most he.iven-daring, and has been agaiDtt all these the great witness of God. This book has outlived all the efforts made to shake the faith of man in its revelations and to banish it from the world. Celsus, Porphyry, Julian and a host of others, fiercely attacked it in the first eges of the Church, but it stiil lived; Hume, Hobbes, Voltaire, Paine, and uiany others of the rabble rout of infidelity, in modern times, hut it still lives, while its enemies sleep iu dis honored graves. This book has laid hold of all classes.— The warrior has carried it next his heart in the storm of battle, and oftsn has tbe bullet aimed st his life buried itself in tbe leaves of his Bible. It has been laid upoo the throne of >he monarch as bis safest guide book in the administration of justice. It has bceo exalted by the priest in the cathedral, amid solemn chants and penitential confessions of sin. It has been sought by tbe world-sick for its heal ing balm; by the hermit in his cell for its con eolations; by the poor mau for its promise of more than earthly riches; by tbe homeless wanderer for its promises of a "homo iu heav en-," hy tho guilt? for jrs assurance of par don. >.j the liviug tor its guiding principles ot truth; by the dyiou for its password into the '•heavenly places." i iv book has been given to tho world iu all its babbling tongues, in mor3 than two bun df • i Lnguagc* and dialects it is read by a nmfttl race. It has long been unchained from ♦tie aitars of grey old temples, and sent out to all the tribes, nations, and people of A Weekly .Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. the world, and yet it cannot be supplied fast | enough, though a Bible is punted every minute I in tbe day. j This book has marched at tbe head of oivi- ' lization in all ages. It went with the Jews into Palestine; it invaded Greece, Rome, and all tbe States of the ancient world under the preaching of the first heralds of the truth.— j Its principles have been at the base of oil rev olutions that have pushed forward the huuiao j race. It was so iu Germany, England, Frauoe and Scotland, aud in our own eouutry. Tbe Pilgrims fled to American wilds that tbey might enjoy the blessings of Bible truth and Bible teachings unmolested aod unoppres- | ed by tbe laws of tyrants. It was devoutly recognized as a book especially needful for a people struggling for freedom by the fathers : of our Republic, la the darkest and sturuii- j est hour of the Revolution, when money could hardly be found to pay the starving, naked, and bleeding soldiers of liberty, Congres3 iu 1777 appointed a committee to confer with a printei*, with the view of striking off thirty thousand Bibles at the expeuse of the Con gress; hut it being difficult to obtaiu paper and type, the Committee of Commerce were order ed to import twenty thousand from Holland, > Scotland and elsewhere. Tbey gave as the j ' reason that its use is so universal and its im- ; porttuce so great. Iu 1780 Congress appointed a committee to attend to priuting an edition of the Bible ID Philadelphia, and voted that they highly ap proved the pious aud laudable undertaking as ; i subservient to tbe interests of religion, andyb- j j commended tbis edition of tbe Bible to tbe I 1 people of the United Sttes. la eight suoces- ! ive years Congress voted aud kept sixteen ua- j tiooal feasts and thanksgivings. On the coua , mittec whieh reported these bills were such : men as General Livingston, of New York, B. I H. Lee, of Virgiuia, Roger Sherman, of Coo- j necticut, E*ias Boudiuot, and James Madison, j ■ Some of these signed tbe Declaration' of lade -1 pendeoce, and moat of them were engaged iu ' procuring the Constitution, an 1 knew its true spirit. Thus was the Bible honored by these upos- I ties of freedom. When these children, who > j enjoy the fruns of tbeir labors, shall cease to ! cherish it as tse palladium of civil and reli j gious liberty, that moment will the nation be gin ii.vdownward march to rum. From the J\. Y. Times. Tbe liigbt of Secession, ; The Southern Disunion ist journals are laying ; great stress ou their assumed right to secede. ! Tbey are very fond of asserting that tbis is only a partnership of States from which any one mem ber iuay secede at will. They forget apparently that this very ques tion was raised aud decided before tbe adoption of the Constitution. New York was unwilling j to accept that instrument and join the Union I which it created, unless she could terminate | her connection with it at pleasure. Her pro j posal was to join it for five or six years, with tho right to withdraw if she desired. Alex ' ander Hamilton was inclined to favor the com- ! promise, aud wrote to Madison in regard to it from Poughkeepsie, July, 1788, in these terms: "Y"U will understand that the only qwilifi ; cation will be the res rvation oj a right to secede j j "n case our amendments have not been decided ; ; upon iu one ol ibe modes pointed out by the ; I Constitution, within a certain number of years, | perhaps five or seven. If this om, in the first j , lustauce, be admitted as a ratification, 1 do not i | lar further consequences. Congress will, I j | presume, recommeud certain amendments, to : ! render the structure of the Government more i secure. Tbis wiil satisfy the more oousiderate j , and Lcuest opposers of tbe Coustitutiou, and with the aid of them will break up the party. Yours affecronately, A. HAMILTON. And here is Madison's reply: NEW YORJC, Sunday evening. My DEAR Slß: —Yours of yesterday is tbis instant at baud, aud I have but a few minutes to answer it. lam sorry that your situation oblige* you to listen to propositions of tbe ua ture you describe. My opinion is that a res ervation of a right to withdraw, if amendments be Dot decided on under tbo form of the Con stitution within a certain timer, is a conditional ratification; that it does not mike New York a member of the new Union, and consequently : that she should not bo received on that plan. ; Compacts must be reciprocal; this principle would not iu such case be preserved. The Con i sftlution requires an adoption m toto and FOR EVER. It has been so adopted by the other | States. An adoption for a limited time would jbe aa defective as an adoption of some of tbe j ' articles only. In short, any condition wbat j ever must vitiate the ratification. What the ! new Congress, by virtue of tbe power to admit uew States, may be able and disposed to do in such a case, Ido not inquire, and I suppose that is not tbe material point at preseßt. I have not a moment to add more than my fervent wishes for your success and happiness. The idea of reserving the right to withdraw was started at Richmond, and considered as a con ditional ratification, which was itselj abandon ed—worse then rejection. Yours, Ac., JAMES MADISON. New York finally abandoned her claim, and "adopted the Constitution tn toto , and FOR EVER." And so did all tho other States. No j one of tbeiu has any right to secede,—or to i withdraw from the obligations and respoosibih j tics of the Union. Io the language of Judge j Spencer Roane, President of the Electoral Coi | lege of Virginia in 1808, "it i p-treason to seeede." , BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1860. j Anecdote bf the late Col. l*rc*tou- Many of our readers remember tho stately j presence, the dignified bearing and imposing manner of Col. W. C. Preston, of South Car ! olina. It was when all these qualifies wore in their prime, aDd Preston reprcsvu'ed his State 'in the Senate of the Uuited States, that busi ness or pleasure eailed him to tbe West, and to take passage down the Mississippi river.— In those 'flush times' tho steamers swarmed with hoosiers, greeuhorn* and gamblers, the | Utter politely designated 'sporting gentlemen,' ! the term 'blackleg* or gambler' eutailing on the 1 speaker a pistol sbot or a wipe from a bowie : knife. 1 Tbe boat was on the eve of departure, and [ our Senator, standing on tbe deok, aud holding i a small mahogany box, was observing with great interest and pleasure tbe busy scene on the wharf, when an individual, luxuriating in a rather ornate style of dress, approached him, and iu subdued tones demanded: '1 siy, old feller, when are you going to commence?' 'Commence what, sir?' asked the astonished Souator. 'Pshaw ! none of that gammon with mo! The fact is, a few of us boys oo b<> r d want a i little-fun, and we won't pile it cm too strong for you; so come aod opcu act once.' 'Really, sir,' said Preston, 'I am totally at a loss to guess your meaning; open what?' 'Open what? Why, tbe hank, of course.— 1 Maybe you think our pile isr.'t large enough to make it an object. But we're not so poor as : all that, any bow.' The Senator meditated gloomily, but all-was j dark to him: he was plunged in a eea of doubt ! aud bo had never met any problem, not even a ; political one, so hard to solve, i 'Perhaps,' broke io his pertinacious friend ! again, after considerable pause, 'perhaps 501 | will say direotly that you arc not a sporting I uiati?' 'I certainly am nothiug of the k'ud, sir,'re joined Preston, rather angrily, 'and I cauT imagine what put the idea ioto your head.' 'Not a sportiug uian ! Whew-w ! I never heard of such a piece of impudence ! Weil, if you're not a aportiug man, wtd you please to tell me why you carry tbe tools about with you?' and ha pointed to the mahogany box which he still carried. A light broke on Proton's tain i. 'The mahogany box!' he cried. 'Ah, yes ! h, ho ! Very natural mistake, indeed, my good tor, very natural indeed. Well, I wII show you tho contents.' And laughing heartily, be opened the box iu question, which vras, iu fact, bis dressing case, anS displayed the usual pa rade of brushes, combs, razors, soap, etc., wLioh usually fi'l that article of jraveiiug com fort. Cur friend looked at tbe case, then at Pres ! ton again. Theu he heaved a long sigh, ami 1 then he pondered. 'Well,' he broke out at length, 'I did take you to be a .sporting geutieuK-n I did, but j now I see you aro a barber, and if I'd known it, hang me if Pda spoke to you ! and so sbio, while two or three old chairs and disabled stools graced the receotion room, the dark walls of which were further ornamented by a display of d:rty tin* ware and a broken shelf article or two. The woman was crying in one corner, ami the man, with tears in bis eyes and a pipe iu his mautb, sat on a stool, with bis dirty arms resting ou his knees, and his soirowful-lookiug head up poited by the palm of bis bands. Not a word greeted the iuterloper. 'Well,' he said, 'you seem to be in ail awful trouble here, what's up 1 ' 'Oh, wo are almost crazed, neighbor,' said tbe woman; 'and we aio't gat no patience to eee folks, now.' 'That's all right,' said the visitor, not much taken aback by his polite rebuff; 'but can I be of any service to yoa in all this trouble?' ♦Weil, we've lost our gal; our Sal's gone off aDd left as,' said tbo man, in tones of ucsp air. 'Ah, do you know what induced her to leave you?' remarked the new arrival. •Well, we can't say, stranger, as how she's so far lost as to bo iuduced, hut then she's gone and disgraced us,' remarked the afflicted father. 'Yes, neighbor and—not as I should say it, as is her mother—but tbere wun't a pootier gal 'n the West than oar Sal. She's gone and brought ruiu on us and ou her own hoad, now,' followed the stricken mother. 'Who has she gone with?' asked the vis itor. 'Well, there's the trouble. The gal could have done well, and might have married Mai tin Kehoe, a capital shoemaker, who, although be has got but one eye, plays the flute in a lively manner, and earns a good living. Then, look! what a borne and what a life she has deserted; she waa here sorrouuded by all the luxury in the country,' said the father. 'Yes, who knows what poor Sal will have to eat, drink or wear, now 1 ' groaned the old wo man. 'And who is tbe feller that has taken her into such misery?' 'Why, she't gone off and got married to a critter culled an editor, as lives in tbe village, and the devil only knows bow they are to aim a living!' A little boy being asked "What is tbo chief end of man?" answered, "The end what's got the head on." A Commercial View of Secession, We may as well have a word about seces sion as about any other improbability, so long as people make it a topic of talk. Without toucbiug the political aspects of the caso in this financial column, three or four plain mat ters, which, in a business point of view, will be likely to interfere somewhat seriously with tbe South Carolina frolic. 1. If South Carolina has a right to any other State has a similar right, or any number of other States. Suppose, theu, that of the present Thirty-Three iu the Uoioo. thirty-two should secede, leaving ooly one iu tbe Republic. To whom would the creditors of the Government look to for tbe payment of the National Debt? And if that single State, for instance, were New Jersey, bow much money would the creditors be likely ever to get? 2. If South Carolina secedes, she aDuuls the right of the National Government to send its mail bags through her postoffices. What will busitie.-s rneD say to this, who wish to bint oc casionally to their Southern customers,' by friendly reminders through the mail; that cer tain notes for last spring's goods aro failing duo ? 3. If South Carolina secedes she wiil c'ase to py her custom-house duties. But if cue State may claim this exemption every other may. What then becomes ot tbe national • revenue ? Ttie Government wiil end, and trade wiil end with it. 4. If Soutb Carolina has a right to secede, she has a right to secede at one time us well as at another. 80 has any other State. Sup pose, then, the Federal Government were to pay §150,000,000 for Cuba, aud where to ad mit the Island as a State. The new State would have a right like South Carolina to so* pcede at any time, aud might secede the very | next day atter she was p ul for, and thosstheat I the Government, by a gambler's trick, out of I §150.000,000. JMtjgffl 5. It South Carolina secedes, she I iy carries with ber (be publio worn' w'ujg* 1 staud upoa her own aoil. Now, what p, tfbeK] | tho Factfic Railroad shall be i j tbe whole eouutry uncounted sums ovS&a&f j I —the Slates through whose borders it win run j wore to aeoede and carry out of the Uuiodi as 1 tSfr iMt'Moaie prixw-ut ifeair- eeewHtten, • whole iiue of tire raiDoad, thu* robbing the : rest of the nation of that which they gave to buiid it ? No ; South Caroliua has 00 right to accede. Si.a wilt amuse hereelf awhile by waiving i. uimotto flags, and by wearing disunion coek aues, hut sue has uot foigolleu that Geu. Jackson once sont Winfield Scott to fire a gun tt' io Fart Moultre, and that a single o*ol.oo ball stopped the Seoession. We think the present Secession will not need even a blank caitridge to kill it.—J\f. Y. Independent. THE HEART. Few people hold close commuLiou with their own heaits. It is a terriole thing to question it continually—severely—aod feel the truth ot its replies, wrung out fraction by fraction till tbe questioner sees himself revealed and hum bled ai tbe revelation. There is far more of profound and far reaching knowledge than most men ate wiiliug to perceive iri tbe exclauntion cf the Hebrew poet —'The heart i 9 deoeitful above all tbinga and desperately wicked.' And yet men uead uot be. thus deceived. It is tie cause they dare not learu the truth—they fear to know themselves. I share in this fear.— Once or twice I havo torn tbe tuak away, and looked on tbe nakedness of the heart, but 1 shut my eyes and tried to cheat myself into the beiief that there was no devil there. I will confess it now. It is not a difficult mat ter to know more of our neighbor than ourself for we do not fear to study him. We read him in an opeu book, and though we cannot pry closely into every page, we can peruse tbe table of coutents aud learu more thau he would he wili+ug to tell. I thank God for the re straining influence which he throws around men, for his monitions without aud withiu tc keep and cheri-h the spirit of good iu the hu man heart, that it may not wholly dio. But for these, how soon would tbe light of the tu ner temple go out iu darkness, and a midnight of de.-pair and horror wrap the sou'. FOR THE BOYS. —'How do you like arith metic?' said Mr. Puelps to John Perkins, as he cams home from school with his slate under his arm. 'Not very well.' -How do you get along with it?' 'Well enough. Sam Brice does my sums for nie.' 'Why don't you get him to eat your dinner fotLjou?' 'I couldu'i live without eating. 1 should not grow any if I did'ut eat.' 'Ycur mind won't grow any if you don't use it. It would be just ss reason able for you to get Sam to eat your diuuer for you, as to ask him to do your studying for you." A young lady, ia reply to her falher'a ques tion why she did not wear rings upon her fin gers, said: 'Because, paps, they hurt me when anybody squeezes my hand.' ♦What business have you to have your hand squeezed?' 'Uertaioly none, but still you know, papa, one would like to keep thair hand io squoeta- i hie order.' 'My wife tells tha truth throe times a day,' remarked a jocose oid fellow, at the same time casting a very mischievous glance at her.— 'Before rLiug in the morning she says: 'Oh, dear, I mu*t get up, but I dou't want to ' Af ter breakfast she adds,' Well, I suppose 1 must go to work, but I don't want t;' and she goes to bed, saying, 'There, I've been fussing all day, and haven't done anything.'' VOL. 33, NO. 51. The Future Lad; of the White Houne, Mrs. Lincoln is, perforce, a persr-Bage to whom just now the liveliest 'mterest attaches. That she will adorn and grace even the exalted position to whieb she bids fair to* succeed, none who bare had the fortune to see her eio douU. She is yet apparently upon the advantageous side of forty, a face upon which diguity and sweetness are blended, and an air ot cultivation and refinement lo which famili arity with tbrf courtly drawing-room of Lon don or the aristoeratio saloons of Paris, would hardly lend an added grace, the is admirably calculated to preside oyer our republican court. If oue were permitted to describe Lcr personal appearance as to meet half way the respectful "cariosity which is .generally felt upon the subject, toe description would be that she is slightly above the medium stature, with brown eyes, clearly cut features, delicate, mobile, expressive , rather distinguished in appearence than beautiful, conveying to the uiiDd generally an impression of self posses sum, state]iness and elegance. I dietiost my own opinion upoD subjects of the kind, but I concur in the belief prevalent hereabouts, that she will make as admirable a leader of the stately daptcs and lovely demoiselles of the national capital as the most fastidious social martinet could desire.— Correspondence of the