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PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS. V. 11. hKEHN. ATTOKXBY at LAW, BKDFORD, PA. Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to his •are. Military claims speedily collected. Office on Juli ana Street, two doors north of the fbquirer Office. April I,lßo4—tf. ESPY X.AIAIP, ATTbRXBV AT LAW, BKDRORD. PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all business cn braned to his cade in Bedford and adjoining counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. spee dily collected. Office with Mann & Spang, en Juliana street, 2 doors aenth of the Men gel House. April 1, 1864.—tf. J. R. DCKROKKOW, . ATTOltXrr AT LAW, BSDFOBD, PA. Oflu one door south of the "Meugel Bouse," Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care ffiellections made on the shortest notice. Having, also, been regularly licensed to prosecute •laims against the Government, particular attention will be gi ren to the collection of Military claims of ail kiads; Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Loans, Ac. Bedford, apr. 8,1364 —tf. ALEX. Kl^, ATIORKKir AT I.AW. A>4 ageat for procuring arrears of Pay and Bounty ueeaey. Office on Jb liana Street. Bedford. Pa. April 1, IS64—tf. KIXMELL Jt I tl4.t JirEl.Tt R, ATTORXETi AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. Hare fcrmed a partnership in the-practice of the Law. • Acs on Juliana Street, two doors Stuth of the Ifengc! loan. April I,lßß4—tf. JOHN MAJOR, mrenca or THB PEACH, BOPKWBI.L. BEDPCrd COCXTT. Collections and all business pertaining to his office will b attended to promptly. Will also attend to the sale it renting of real estate. Instruments of writing carefully prepared. Also settling up partnerships and ether av •ennts. April 1, 1864—tf. ll*. XOWF.it, ATTt'ItKBV AT I.AW Bim-OKP, PA .. April I 1864. —tf. JOSEPH K. TATE, ATTORXBT AT LAW, BEDFORD PA. WILL promptly attend to collection* and all business entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining conn ties. Money advanced on Jndgnia Note and other Claims. Has for sale Town Lot-, rt TatcsviHe, and St. Joseph.e on Bedford Kail road. Farms and unim proved land in quantities to suit purchasers. Office oppositetlte Banking House of Keed A Schell. apr. IS, 1364—10 m. BUPP, SHANNON, & CD., BANKERS, Bedford, Pa.-, OF MSQOCNT AND DEPOSIT. OOLLECTIONS made for the East. West, North and South, and the general business Of Exchange, trans asted. Notes and Accounts Collected, and Remittances paemptly made. REAL ESTATE bought iu>4 sold. 9. W. Kerr, O. E. BbakkOßv F. BBSBBICT. apr. 15, 1864—tf. DANIEL BORDER. Fbv< TBJ*t, TWO DOORS WEST or TBB BBDFOWD b*TKL, Bedford, .Pa. WaMufiakn* Healer ia hwelry,SpeetttCles, Arc HE KEEPS ON HAND A STOCK OF FINE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, SPECTACLES OF Brilliant fcouble Refined Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Fftigcr Rings, beit quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his Hue not hand, apr. 8, 1884—at. MtSIftANSi &C. ~ 1 DEN TISTR Y. L H. BOWSER, Resident flutist of Wood friirr, WILL spend the second Monday, Tuesday, and Wed nesday, of each month at Hopewell, the remaining three days at Bloody Run,-attending to the' duties of his profession. At all other times he can be found in his of- Bee at Woodbury, excepting the last Monday and Tues day of the same month, which he will spend in Martins burg, Blair county, Penna. Persons desiring operations should call early, as time is limited. AH operations -war ranted. Aug- 5,1864,-tf. C.N. HICKOK DENFLST OFFICE IN BANK BLILDINS, BEDFORD, PA. April 1,1864.—tf. _ DR. 3. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his . professional Services to tho •ritiseas of Bedford send vicinity. Office and residence bn Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Bed as. April I,lßß4— tf. J. L. MARBOURG, M. D. Having permanently located respectfully tenders hi? professional services to the citiiens of Bedford and vi •inity. Office on Juliana Street* opposite the Back, one door north of Hall A Palmer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. EXCHANGE HOTEL, HUNTINGDON, PA. JOHN ft. MILLER, Proprietor. April th, 1864.—ft UNION HOTEL. VALENTINE STECKMAN. PROPRIETOR, West Pitt Street* Bedtbrd, Pa., (Formerly the Globe Hotel.) THIS public are assured that he has made ample ar rangements to accomtoodateall that may l'avor him vitb tbtir p&trotUkge. A apleudid Lirdby Stable attached. <t __[agr/64. IVOTICE TIB undersigned having associated with himself in the Mercantile Business, his brother, SAWCEL D. WIL MS VC, gives notice that his Books are now ready for set tlement. Persons having accounts standing thereon, TitO please oall and settle the same without delay. - J. B. WILLIAMS. f.m, Nay 19,1864 tf. A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORAL ? rlfrt §?flffcr. THOU WILT NEVER GROW OLD. Thou wilt never grow old, Nor wcwry nor end, in the home of thy birth ; My beautiful lily thy leaves will unfold In a clime that is purer and brighter than earth. 0, holy, and fair, I'rejoioe thou art there, In that kingdom bf light with ita cities of gold; Where the air thrills with angel hosannas, and where Thon wilt never grow old, sweet, Never grow old! I am a pilgrim, with sorrow and sin Haunting ay footsteps wherever I go ; Life is a warfare my title to win— Well will it be if it end not in woe. Pray for me, sweet, I am laden with care; Dark ate ray garments with mildew and mould': Thou, my bright angel, art sinless and fair, And will never grow eld, sweet* Never grow old! Now canst tHbu hearfrom thy'home in the skies All the fond worth! am whiipering to thee ? Dost thou look dowfa'on hie With the soft eyes Greeting me oft ere thy spirit was free? So I believe, thOhgh the shadows of'time Hide the bright spirit I yet shall Behold; Thou wilt still love me, and pleasure atflblime, Thou wilt never grow old, sweet, Never grow old ! Thus wilt thou be when the prilgrim, grown gray, Weeps when the vines from the hearthstone are riven ; FVlth shall behold thee, as pure as the day Thou wert torn from the earth and transplanted to Heaven. O/holy anu fair, I rejoiee thou art there, In that kingdom of light with its cities of gold, Where tbe air thrills with asgol hosannas, and wbro Thou wilt never grow old, sweet, NvVdr grow old! Tennyson. TENNYSON'S NEW POEM. Tile two longest poems are love stories, exquisitely told in that peculiar blank verse which Tennyson has made into music that has rarely been equalled, The volume is full of fCennysonian felicities such as these : "A passion yet unborn perhaps Bky hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the pale eggs of the nightiugale." "A dagger, in rich sheath with jewels on it, Sprinkled about in gold, that branch'd itsdff Pine as ice-ferns in January panes Made by a breath." "Far-folded inisU, and gleaming halls of morn." "And champing golden grain, the horses stodd Hard by their chariots, waiting for the dawn." "Tkirfe the liberty, thine the glory, thine the deeds.to te celebrated, Thine the myriad-rolling ocean, light and shadtrw Illimitable." "Far ran the naked moon across The houseleSs ocean's heaving field." "As thro' the slumber of the globe Again we dash'd into the dawn." "The rabbit fondles his own harmless face." "Fairer than Rachel by the palfty well, Fairer thrfn Ruth among the fields of corn, Fair as the Angel that said 'hail,' she seemed." j "For her fresh and innocent eVes Had such a Star of morning in their bid", That all neglected places of the field Broke into ntture's music when they saw her." . MELANCHOLY. When I go ratising all alone, Thinking of divers things fore-known-, When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this afe folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy. When I lie waking all alette, Recounting what I have ffl done, My thoughts on me then tyrannise, Fear and sorrow me surprise, Whether I tarry still or go, Methinks thi time moves very slow. All my gHefs to this arc folly, Naught So sad as melaneh'oly. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, t nheard, unsought for, or nnseen, A thousand pleasures do lire bless, And crown myself with hltpp'rrfess. All my joyi besides are foßy, None so swoet as melahholy. —Burton-. GENEVIEVE. Main of my Love, sweet Genevieve! In Beauty's Kght you glide aloug : Your eye is like the star of eve, And sweet your Voice, as Seraph's song. Yet not your heavenly Beauty gives, This heart with passion soft to glow : Within your soul a Voice there lives! It bids you hear the tale of Woe. When sinking low the Sufferer wan Beholds no Band outstretch! to saVe, tilr, as the Bosom of the Swan That rises graceful o'er the wave* I'Ve seen your breast with pity heave, And thoreforc love I you, sweet Genevieve"! —Coleridge. Freaeh Politeness, Skin-deep. The London Review, in a recent issue, eftdCav orsto kill the popular idea of ''French Polite ness' ' —thus: — "To Englishwomen'' it says. "French manners are far from universally agreeable. The French, since the Revolution, are a polite, but not essen tially a chivalrous nation. They look upon wo men, Rot with the exaggerated homage of the American, nor with the inbred reverence of an Englishman, biit with the eallantry of a nation that adores without respecting beautj'. A lady represents to a Frenchman gaiety. pleasure, ele gance—in fact, the luxuries and the perfume of life. It is obvious that this is not a species of worship which is calculated to intoxicate English women. With all a Frenchman's finished ease in talking to a woman, there is always something in tensely disagreeable at the bottom of bis tone and in the inmost recesses of his jye. The trtith is, that the French, with all their idealism, mix ma terialism in still larger Quantities. They are at best divine monkeys; ana when Talleyrand tfilis us that VQU have only to scratch a Russian to get at the Cossack underneath, he forgets that the max im be turned against his own race: Scotch the Parisian and you will find underneath a G#bL ' 1 BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 , 18G4. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 25, 1864. By an act of Congress, approved June 30, 1864, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue an amount not exceeding two hundred millions of dollars in Treasury notes, bearing in terest at a rate not exceeding seven and three tenths per centum, redeemable after three years from date, and to exchange the same for lawful money. The Secretary is further authorized to convert the same into bonds, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum, payable in coin. In pursuance of the authority thus confer red, I how offer to the people 6f the Ufcited States Treasury notes as described in uiy adver tisement dated July 25, 1864. The circumstances under which this loan is ask ed, and your aid invoked, though differing widely from the existing state of affairs three years 'ago, are such as afford equal eneouragemeut and secur ity. Time, while proving that thie struggle for national unity was to exceed in duration and se verity our worst antitipations, has tested the na tional strength, and developed the national re sources, to an extent alike unexpected and re markable, exciting etjual astonishment at borne and abroad. Three years of war have burdened you with a debt which, but -three years since, would have seemed beyoftd your ability to meet. Yet the accumulated wealth and productive ener gies of the nation have proved to be so vast that it has been borne with comparative ease, and a peaceful future would hardly feel its weight. As a price-paid for national existence, and the pres ervation of free institutions, it does not deserve a ihomeuts consideration. Thus far the war has been supported and carri ed on. as it only could have been, by a people re solved, at whatever cost of blood affd treasure, to transmit, unimpaired, r tb posterity, the system of free government bequeathed to them by the great men who framed it. This deliberate and patriotic resolve has developed a power surpi ising even to themselves. It has shown that in less than a cen tury a nation has arisdh, unsurpassed in vighr, and exhustless in resources, able to conduct, through a series of years, war on its most gigantic scale, and finding itself, when "near its close, almost un impaired in all the material elements 6f power. — 'lt has, at the present moment, great armies in the field, facing an enemy Apparently approaching a period of utter exhaustion, but still struggling with a force the greater and more desperate as it sftl's the near approach of a final and fa tat; con summation. Such, in my deliberate judgment, is | the present condition of the great"c'dt)test for civil liberty in which you aie now engaged. Up to the present moment you have readily and cheerfully afforded the means necessary to j support your government in tlris-protracted strug gle. It is yottr war. You proclaimed it, and you have sustained it against traitors everywhere, with a patriotic devotion unsurpassed in the world's history. The securities offered are such as should eom -I.—„ . >. Y--1- -TA>- Ihh.l I been made to shake public faith in our national i credit, both at home and abroad. .V; yet we have asked no foreign zr.d. Calm and reliant, our i own means have thus far proved adequate to our wants. They are yet ample to meet those of the present and the future. It still remains for nacri- ; otic people to fuftiish the needful supply. 'I he brave men who are fighting our battles by land and sea must le fed and clothed, munitions o, war , of all kinds must be furnished, or the war must end ' in defeat and disgrace. This is not the time for any lover of'ids country to inquire as to the state of the money market, or ask whether he 'can so invest his surplus capital as to yield him a larger i return. No return, and no profit, cau be desira ble if followed by national dissolution, or national disgrace. Present profit, &us acquired, is but the precursor of future and speedy destruction. — No investment can b4 so sur*% profitable as that which tends to insure the national existence. I am encouraged in the belief "that by the re cent legislation of Congress our finances may soon be placed upon a sounder and more stable footing. The present deranged condition (i the currency is imputable, in a great degree, to disturbances arising from the withdrawal of necessary checks, often inevitable in time of war, when expendi tures must largely exdeed any possible supply of coin. The opportunities thus presented to ac quire sudden wealth have led to vicious specula tion, a consequent increase of prices, and violent fluctuation. The remedy is to be found only in controlling the necessity which begets the evil.— Hitherto we have felt the need of more extensive and vigorous taxation. Severe comment has been made upon what seemed to many an undue timidity and tardiness of action, on the part of Congress, in this regard. I deem it but just to say that very great misapprehension has existed, and perhaps still exists, upon this point. Legis lators, like all others, have much to learn in a new condition of affairs. An entirely new system was to be devised, sffld that system must necessa rily be the growth 6f tune and experience. It is not strange that firtt efforts should have proved imperfect and inadequate. To lay heavy burdens on a great and patriotic people in 6uch a foamier as to be equal, and as to occasion the least amount of suffering or annoyance, requires time ahd cau tion, And vast labor; and, with all these, experi ence ts needful to test the value of the system, and Correct its errors. Such Has been the work which Congress was called upon to perform. I am happy to say that daily results are proving the Internal Revenue act to exceed in efficiency the most sanguine expectations of its authors. In the month of June, 1863, it yielded about four and one-half millions of dollars, while the corre sponding month of this year returned about fif teen millions, under the same law. Under the new law, which went into operation on the first d&y of the present month, the Treasury not un frequcntly receives one million in a day, As time and experience enable ' the officers employed in collecting the revenue to enforce the stringent provisions of the new laW I trust that a million per day will be found the tule and not the excep tion. Still, much space is undoubtedly left for improvement in the law, iftid its administratidfi, as a greater amouut of necessary information, Is acquired. The proper sources of revenue, an i the most effective modes of obtaining it, are best developed in tlie execution of existin r laws. And I have catfoed measures to he initiated which will, it is believed, enable Congress to improve and en- large th system, as when taken in connection with the revenue from customs, and otb&r sources, to afford ample and secure basis for the national credit. Only on such a basis, and in a steady and Vigorous restraint upon currency, can a rem edy be found' for existing evils. Shch restraint can only be exorcised when the government is fur nished with means to provide for its necessities. But without the aid of a p&triotic people any gov ernment is powerless, for this or any other desir able end. The denominations of the notes proposed to be issuedj ranging from fifty to five thousand dollars, place these securities within the readh of all are disused to aid their country. For their re demption the faith and hohbr and property of that country ire solemnly pledged. A successful issue to this cbntest, now believed to be near at band, will largely enhance their value to the holder; and peace once restored, all burdens can be lightly borne. He who selfishly withholds bis aid in the hope of turning his available means to greater im mediate profit, is speculating upon his country's misfortunes, and may find that what seems to be present gain leads only to future loss. I appeal, therefor*, with confidence to a loyal and patriotic people, and invoke the efforts of all who love their country, and desire for it a glorious future, to aid their government in sustaining its cred t and placing that credit upon a stable-foundation. W. P. FESSENDEN, Secretary of the Treasury. AGRICULTURAL FIXED FACTS. Somebody has got up the following list of "fix ed facts'' in agriculture, and for once in a conden sation of 4:hat sort, has hit the nail on the head in most of them: 1. All lands on which clover or the grasses are grown must either have lime in them naturally, or that raincrhl must be artificially supplied in the form of liniestone, oyster shells, or marl. 2. All permanent improvement of laud must look to lime as its basis. 3. Lands which have been long in culture will lie benefitted by the application of phosphate of lime, and it is unimportant whether the deficiency be supplied in the form of boue dust, guano, na tive phosphate of lilne, or marl—the land needs lime also. 4 No lands can be preserved rh a high state of fertility unless clover and the grfcsses are cultiva ted in the.cofcrse of rotation. 5 Mould is indispensible in every soil, and a healthy supply can only be preserved through the cultivation of clover or the grasses, by the turning in of green crops, or by the application of coin posts rich in the elements of mould. ft. All highly concentrated animal manures afo increased in value, and their benefits prolonged, by the admixture with plaster, salt, or by pulver ized charcoal. 7. Deep plowing greatly improves the produc tive powers 6f every variety of soil that is not wet. 8. Subsoilrhg sound land that is not wet is also conductive to increased production. V. All wet lands shcfild be drained. 10. All grhin crops should be harvested before tin- grain is thoroughly ripe. IL. Clover, as well as the grasses intended for haj. should be mowed When in fl'ossom. 12. Sandy loams can be most effectually improv ed b> clay. When such, lands Require inning or ffltedwhsf Jirade"Wtf'l-.kflNKt beneficially ap slaoking lirig. .-'alt v ater is better than fresh. 13. the chopiugs or grinding* Of grain to be fed to stock, operates as a saving of at least 25 per cefet. 14. Draining of wet and marshes adds to their value by making them produce tn6rc, and by improving the health of neighborhoods. f 15. By stabling and sheltering stock through the winter a saving of one-fourth of the food loat he effected —that is, one-fourth less food will an swer than when ttio stock is exposed to the inclem ency of the weather. . , 16. To manure and lime wet lands is to threw manure, lime and labor away, 17. A bushel of plaster jier acre, sown brofed cast over clover, will add one hundred per cent. t't> its produce. 18. Periodical application of ashes tends to keen up integrity of soils by supplying most, if not aii inorganic substances. 19. Thorough preparation of laud is absolutely necessary to the succesful growth of crops. 20. Abundant crops cannot be grown for a suc cession of years unless care be taken to provide an equivalent for the substances carried off the land in the products grown thereon. 21. To preserve meadows in their productive ness. it is necessary to harrow them every Becond autumn, imply top-dress, and roll them. tiFE iy. York. —Rurleigh. the New York corresponded Of the Boston Journal, in 4 late let ter says: . '■ One of the saddest things in New York life is the great number of yduug girls under the ages of sixteen who throng the streets, fill the low con cert saloons, and are found in the low dance cel lars in every section of the city. At aft early age tffey commence their drUnken and dissolute life.— The great mass of street walkers and "dwellers in disreputable ffiouses are mere children. They can be seen on afternoons crossing the ferries of Brooklyn. Htaten Island Jersey City. Hoboken, and other Idealities, and returning in the morning regularly after their night of debauch Many of these have fathers Who are in the war ifr at sea ; many of them have brutal parents, who abandon their children to a life of infamy, and live on their earnings; many of the girls are deprived beyond belief, and bid defiance to parental rule: many mothers with more children than they ctfn sup port, amid sickness and poverty, starving daily while making cloth caps tor German Jews at a ' shilling a dozen, are too thankftrl to take the food, and even luxuries, that their children can furnish, to inqtfire toostrictly howtheir children spend the night or gain the money which brings gladness to their desolate hearth stones. But the number and audacity of these young girls is appalling. The worst class among us who breed brawls and riots, couimft robberies and burglaries, are \ oung fellow- between sixteen and twenty, known as Irish Americans, born in this land of Irish par ents ; so the great amount of crime is in the hand of mere children of both sexes. A Brave Gnu.. —Among the inciddhta of the guerilla rails in Missouri, the followiug is told by the Laclede Unionist : '• "On Friday evening, Bth mst.. at about 2 o clock, two bushwhackers entered the house of William Hinkle. two miles south of this plir.ee, the family, except Miss Hattie Hinkle. being from home.— Thev had Teade many threats, and showed Misi Hinkle a dead list, embracing, she thought soni? twenty or more of the best citizens of this section, all to be slaughtered. The poor girl read till she came to her father's name, when she laid the pa per down. They then demanded their dinner.— She refused. They drew a revolver and threaten ed her life, but she persisted, refused, stating that she would suffer death before she wonld cook for men who contemplated the murder of her father. They stated that they had a company near by, and threatened her with death if she At tempted to report them. Having failed to intim idate her. they left, swearing that they would kill Mr. Weatherly another citizen, before nipht. Miss Hattie contrived to send word to her fath er and Mr. Weatherly, and came in person to town to notify the people of the presence of these cut throats. WHY 1 KAN AWAY. Donald Lean and my self wcrv good friends at fourteen years of age, and we both regarded with little more than friendship pretty Helen Graham, our oldest girl at school. We romped and danced together, and this lasted foi such a length of time that it is with feelings of bewilderment that I look back upon the mystery of two lovers continu ing friends. But the time was to come when jeal ousy lit the spark in my bosom, and blew it into a consuming flauie. Well do 1 remember v/ken the green eved-mon ster perpetrated this incendiary deed. It was on a cold October evening when Helen, Donald and myself were returning with our parents from a neighboring hamlet. As we approached a ford, where the water ran somewhat higher than ankle deep, we prepared to carry i lelen across, as we were accustomed to, with hand s interwoven "chair fashionand thus we carried our pretty passen ger over the brook. Just as we were in the middle of the water, (which was cold enough to have frozen anything like feeling out of boys less hardy than ourselves, j a faint pang of jealousy nipped my heart. Why | it was I know not, for we had carried Helen across the brook ere now without emotion, but this evening I thought or fancied that. Helen gave Donald an undue preference by casting her arm around his neck, while she steadied Herself on my side by holding the cuff of my jacket. No flame can burn so quick or with 'so little fuel as jealousy. Before we had reached the opposite bank I had wished Donald at the bottom of the sea. Being naturally impetuous. I burst out with— "You need na hand sae gingerly, Helen, as if ye-feared a fa". I can carry ye lighter than Don- ' aid can carry o' ye." Surprised at the vehemence of my tone our qUeen interposed with an admission tl&.t we were both strfcng and, and that she had no idea of spar ing my power. But Donald's fire was kindled, and he utterly denied that I was at all qualified to compete with liini in feats of physical courage. <)h such topics boys are generally emulous, and j by the time we reached the opposite bank it was settled that the point should lie deterinifced by our singly bearing Helen across the ford in ofer arms. Helen was to deterniine who carried 'her most easily, and I settled with myself privately in ad vance that the one who obtained the preference would really be the-person who stood highest in her affections. The reflection stimulated me to exert every effort, and I verily believe to this day that I could have carried Donald and Helen on either arm like feathers. But I must not antici pate. We suffered the rest of the party to pass quiet ly along, and then returned to Helen. AV*itlx the utmost care I carried her like an infant to the middle of the water. Jealousy bad inspired a wanner love, and it was with feelings tiftknown before that 1 embraced her beautiful form, and felt the 'pressure of her cheek against mine. All went swimmingly, or rather wadingly, for a min ute. Efot alas I in the very deepest part of the ford I trod on a treacherous bit of wood which rested, I suppose, on a smooth stone, fiver I rolled, bearing Helen with me, udr did we rise till fairly soaked from bead to foot. I need not describe the taunts of Donald, or the accusing silence of Helen. Both believed that I had fallefc from mere weakness —and my rival de- j monstrated his superior ability, Ijearing her in his j arms a long distance on our homeward path. As we approached her home, Helen, feeling dry and better humored, attempted to reconcile mo. But I preserved a moody silence. I was mortified be yond redress. That night I packed up a few things and ran CYKge.cMy hoyisb mind, sensitive and irritated, and prompted me to better results thaVi attend such irregularities. I went to Edinburg, where I found an uncle, a kind-hearted, childless man, who gladly gave me a place in his house, and employed me in his business. Wealth flowed in upon Lite. I became his partner—went abroad— resided tour years on the continent, and finally re turned to Scotland rich, educated, fifed, in short, j everything but married. One evening, while at a bfill in Glasgow, my at tention was token by a lady of unpretending ap pearance, but whose Yeiuarkable beauty and high toned expression indicated a mind of extraordinary power. I was introduced, but Scottish names had long been unfamiliar to my ear. r.nd I could ! aot catch here. It was Helen something; and j there was something in the face, too. that seemed I familiar —something snggestive of pleasure and j pain. _ _ ! We became well acquainted that evening. I i learned wirhdftt difficulty her history. She was j from the country, had been well educated, her parents had lost their property, and she was now j acting as governess i a family of the city. I was faeinated with her conversation, and was continually reminded by her grace and refinement of manner that she was capable of moving with distinguished success in a far higher sphere than that which fortune seemed to have allotted hc-r. — I was naturally not talkative, nor prone to confi dence; bnt there was that in this yoong lady which inspired both, and I conversed with her as I had never before conversed with a lady. Her questions about the various countries with which 1 was fh miliar indicated a remarkable knowledge of litera ture, and she possessed a large store of useful in formation. We progressed in intimacy, and as our conver sation turned upon the causes which induced so mtny to leave their native land. I laughiuglv re marked that I owed mv own travels to falling with a pretty girl while crossing a ford. \ had hardly spoken these words ere the blood mounted to her face, and was succeeded by a re markable paleitess. 1 attributed it to the heat of the room, la'nghed. iftd. at her request, proceeded to relate my ftf'd adventure with Helen Graham, painting in glowing colors the amiability of my love. Her mirth during the recital became irrepressi ble. At the conclusion she remarked— "Mr. Roberts, is it possible that you have for gotten me?" I .gazed an instant, remembered, and was dum founded. The lady with whom I had thus be come acquainted was "Helcto Graham herself. 1 hate, and so do you, reader, to needlessly pro long a story. Ws were soon married, and Helen ■ and I made our bridal tour to the old place. As Ire approached it in our carriage, I greeted a stout follow working in a field, who seemed to be a bet ter sort of laborer, or perhaps a small, farmer, by inquiring some particulars relating to the neigh borhood. He answered well enough, and I was aboi'w to give him a sixpence, when llclen stayed my hand, and cried out, in the old style— "Hey. Donald, man, dinna ye ken your old freens?" The man looked up in astonishment. It was Donald Lean. His amazement at our appearance was heightened by its style; and it was with the greatest difficulty thai we jeould induced lii*n to enter onr carriage, and answer our nuiuerous queries as to our friends. Different men start in life in different ways. I believe that thine, however, is tHe only instance on record of a gentleman cvho owes wealth and happiness to rolling over with a pretty girl in a stream of water. THE Wheeling Intelhpeneer has the following: "We saw yesterday, going.u'p toward the upper ferry, a team of four animals—a horse, a pony, a mule and a bull. The horse lind the heaves, the pony was blind, the mule was lame, and the bull had no provision for fly time. In the wagon, which was an ordinary one, sat a white man, a crippled negro aDd a sktinfc. The skunk was firm ly bound with a wisp of straw. The white man held the reins, the team, held its own. and the nigger held the skunk." Vol. 87: N0.83. JkHßg tfomspotulttur. THF EXPLOSION AT PETERSBURG. Headquarters Co. I. £lst Pa. Caaalrt, i j Frost uke or Battle, xkar Peterßhcbo, Va July 20. 1804. ) To the Editor of the, Bedford Inquirer : The evening is calm, the boys are moving arounc the works as etreiesriy as if at .a pic nic. Tht enemy gratified iiis spleen by shelling our lines. • and now both armies gaze at each other in suiier. j silence, the stilines.; only broken by the F. F. Vs. who do not like to see the sable sons of Afric* clime, their once '"'most humble servants," now with yahkee weapon* in their hands, constantly declaring their love to their "former protectors" by sendin* greetings of powder and lead into theit ranks, v, ith this single exception, all is as quiet I along the lines of the Potomac army as was ever iq the palmy days of little 3lcNapoleon. Soon, however,- rations of picks and shovels were issued and men instructed to make the best use of them until 3 o clock in the morning, when a bail wiU be i opened for which extensive preparations have been made for some .time. July 30th, 4P. 31.—1 laid down a few moments to sleep and my mind wandered back to the loved ones at home, and the •'Two in the low trundle bed,' I'ar away lhfee cot on the mountain." 3Yhen my light repose was broken by a sudden fearful crash whidfi shook the earth all around and threatened destruction to one or the other of the armies. Then followed as quick as the tick of av'ovk a roar all along the lines from rightto left. The first crash was caused by the blowing 'up of a very strong rebel fort, which commanded about a mile of our lines, was well manned and stored with guns, mortars and amunition. The hegro troops, under Gen. Burnside, bad undermined this fori and its explosion was to be the signal for opening on their works. The destruction of life mast have liet n great, as'the whole work arose majestically in the air, where magazine, shells andall exploded scattering nien. arms, limbs, iuortars, cannon and shells m all directions, the Wlftde mess returning to the earth with a crash that caused the earth to tremble, and discouraged every rebel soldier that witnessed tHe The ruihs were im mc Jiately occupied by our brave boys and soon the "star spangled banner" waved over the ruins of rebel folly. fhe rebs promptly replied to ourennaon, but Were soon completely sildnced, proving the supe riority cur arms, and science as well as undaunted 'courage. \\ hat a beautiful sight these s f7nion lines pre sent. All along the works are to'be seen numer ous banners, many of which are placed far beyond our works, waving in grand defiance to the rebel missies, while not a single emblem of rebel prow ess is to be seen alcng their lines. Soon as we si lenced their batteries, the compliments of the whole, artillery was payed to Petersburg, the effect or which was soon manifest by volumes of smoke arising from the heart of"the city. "Alas! aks ! that great city; in one hour has her destruction . mc ' scene presented to the right is worthy of note. Two bodies of troops confront each other; one the best families of Virginia, whose former fame and present valor is unquestionable; tho other are the sable sons of Africa, illiterate and unknown to fame, both'placed in battle array.— !'he negroes occupy the ruins of the destroyed fort, the position of which is of extreme impor tance to the Confederates, so they make desperate efforts to regain it. Accordingly they charge on their former slaves. Both 'armies, who were hid behind their breastwork, now leap up to behold the dreadful struggle. Hostilities are suspended vanoe with a yefl. "ana are mdt by "AtfrS sohs. But soon the rebel lines waver, their ranks are thinned by the unerring aim of the colored troops. Not waiting to receive them in the works, the ne groes rush On them with a fun- that could not be opposed, and assail them iu open field. The rebs scatter and run in confusion back to their works, lean eg on the field the greater part of their numbers. Twice they tried this game, aud twice were they repulsed by the dark men with great slaughter. 3lay Goo have mercv on their souls as we cannot have any on their bodies. But the battle commences to rage again and 1 must go to my post. 31. P. D. Tiie Dangers of Luciff.r Matches. A German writer for a New York paper, under the heading of "A Fearful Poison in the Household," gives the following instances of death from get ting the phosphorus from the ends of matches into the stomach: A little girl, between two and three years of age. accidentally swallowed the heids of several lucifer matchhs. Two days afterwards the child gbtsick. Theonly uuusualconditionobserved was a slight * feverishness, without any marked symp toms. however. The child neithei suffered frriu pain, retching, or purgation- Four hours after it was particularly noticed, it was suddenly thrown into convulsions, and died in five hours A post mortem examination exposed a ft ass of phlegm, mixed with blood, and the stomach was very much inflamed throughout. In dhe plftce, about two inches in apace, a bright red snot appeared, aud the whole fneinbrape was coateu with phlegm. Another wof.ianpoisbned herself by dissolving the phosphorus off the ends of the matches in some wine vinegar. j?he drank the mixture and died, after she had suffered excrutiatinglv for eight days. Her symptoms were hydrophobic i in character. Another young woman, twenty-six years of age, swallowed a decoction of matches in coffee. In the course of an hour she received an emet ic and threw up a matter of the consistency of the white pf an egg, and like it, to the amount of a half a jpint, which partook of the order of phosphorus. arid was of a bluish tint By the fourth day she appeared to have recovered, but then her nose began bleeding, she became jaundi ced. and spots of blood showed themselves amid febrile symptoms. She died a week after she took the poison. It wbuM be well for parents to be careful that their children do not play with matches, and get them, as they are very apt to do, into their mouths. The writer alluded to elaborates the subject; we have given a few of the fatal in stances narrated for the caution and benefit of our readers. PENSIONS TO COLORED YOLUSTEERS. —Several modifications have been made in the Pension Laws of the United States passed by the last Con gress. Section Hoi' an Act of July 14th, 1862. provides that the widows and children of colored soldiers who have been, or who may be hereafter kiiled, or who have died or who may hereafter die of wounds received ia battle, or who kave died, or may hereafter die of disease contracted in the mliitary service of the United States, shall be en titled to receive pensions as now provided by law, without other proof of marriage than that the parties had habitually recegnized each other as man and wife, and lived together as such for a definite period, not less than two years, next pre ceding the enlistment, to be shown by affidavit* of witnesses. Provided further , That such widows and children are free persons: that if parties resided ih any State in which their mar riage may have been legally .solemnized, the usual I evidence snail be required. Smites the pirate is to become an author again, a jaondon firm announcing the cruise of the ala baia and the Sumter ; from the private Journals. of Capt. Semmes, C. S.,>*.. ad the officers. ' The surrender and sinking of the Alabama will make a fine closing chanter. The Apple tons wi. republish the book in this country
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