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Bedferd, apt. S, liW —tf. ALEX- Kl.Vti. attosset at LAW. And agent foe procuring arretr, of Pay and Bonnty money. Office on Juliana Street. Bedford, Pa. April 1, IS**—tf. kIXZELL A USGrsriITEL Arroassrs at law, besvouo. pa. Have formed a partner-Sip in the practice el? the Law. Office en Juliana Street, two doors South of tlte Mcsgel House. April 1,15*4 —tf. J till X M.UOK, jcstics or ths riACR, HorzwKLL, nzroßit corsTT. Colleetiani and all hnrineis pertaining to hit office will be attended to promptly. W ill also attend to tbe sale or renting of real estate. Instruments of writing carefully prepared. Also settling *p partnership! and other ae aawMa. April I. 15*4—tf. JM). MOWER. ATTOBXKT AT LAW. Bznr onn, Pa., April I,lsW.—tf. JOSEPH W. TATE. Attobset at Law, F.Enrona Pa. prompt!/ attend to eoUeetfeas and ail ba*ine.-r Y f entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoining cn ties M nsv advanced on Judginen . Notes and o'her Claim.*. Ha* for sale Town Lots, in Tatesvillc, and *C Joec ( ,b. on Bedford Ttailrc-a-i. Farm* and usim- . J'Twt ed mctin quaiititsc" to salt iMireharer*. ! >Sre'pjnwitoihe Banking Hawse of Reed A ScheH. ape. 15, 1-5*4—10 m. JOHN L€ T TZ, ATTOBV*T Af*L*, atn | 1 cculariy "tenured agent f.-r the cotterof (Jorevc- l trrr ; claiir.s, VjUDtics. back |T, prnsons. Will give j pedant astetd wnto *T imrine** eusrustwl '• hi* care. ttffire w;th J. R. Durhone*. K.q. on street, 1 }tedfor*i Yn. * ! Awpc*t Iftk, 18*4.—tf. RTTPP, SHAHJTOH, & CO., BANKEM, Bedford, Pa., BANK OF BISCOINT AND DEPOSIT. ■ / tI.LE?nO>"S made for the East. WeL North and | Vy S-tuth. and tbe general business of Exehung*'. Jran*- ' acted. Notes and Acc<nn?i Collected, and Ben.stances ! prnmptly male. REAL EST ATE bought andse-ld. fi. F. Brrr, 0. E. Siaxxos, F. B*t.:cr. • pr. 15. lA*4—tf. DANIEL BORDER. Pitt itiiet, two loots tssr or m sanronn aont, ; Bedford, Pa. Wnichmaker Jt IlenJer In Jewelry, *r HE KEEPS OS HAND A STOCK OF FIXE UOLD ASH SILVER WATCHES. SPECTACLES OF ; Brilliant Doable Re3oei Glasses, altu Scotch Pebble j t; las re*. Gold Batch Chains Breast Pin*. Finger Ring*. n-a qaalityef (101 l Pens. He wiJl "tpply •* oricr an* thing fat hi* line net i n liial apr. *. ISVt—ta. ; PHYSICIAjSS. AC. DEXTISTRY. I. .1. BOWSER, Reeident Dewtirt of Wood- ( bury, \ 17ILL *pend the record Xeady, Tuc-lay. and Yt r.esiUy. ©f each asonth at Htpewil. the retnaining three day* at Bloody Ben. aßcading to the dntie* of hit , prefewiwn- At ali other time* he can ie found in his t- j ficc at Weodbnry, excepting the last Monday and Tue* J day f the same month, which ha will spend in Martin*- j hnrg. Biair county. Peon*. Persons deiirinc operation* j shoald ©all early, u time if limited. Aii operation* war- . rented. Aug. 5.1W4.-tf. | . V. HiCKOS DENTIST. •FFICSIS BASS BITLBISB, BEDFORD. PA. April 1. i. fc *L—tf. DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully -ecders his professional services to the ! eititens of Bedford an d vicinity Office and resideEee on Pitt Street, to the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofia*. AprHl, ISM —tf. J. i. MARBOCRG, EL D. Having permanently localei respectfully tenders his efeaitaaal serrieue to tie citiicn* of Bedford and vi nity. Office oo Jaiiaaa Street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Palmer's office. April 1. 18*4—tf ~~~ HOTELS. EXCRAXGE HOTEL, HUNTINGDON, PA. JOHN a MILLER, Proprietor. April Wth, 15*4.—ft. THE BED FOR B HOUSE, HOPEWELL, BY HARRY DROLLINGER, PTVERT atiec:i n given to make guests eomfcrtabie* i J who step at this House. Hopewell, July It, 18*4 tf I A LOCAL. AND GENERAL -MIV. S PAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. i ©-- '"""" ~ AX APPEAL. It woald But c®# yon modi, dtnr, | To li*gr in the shade, Wtiio onr gay eonpanioas winder Up and down the wee-Hani glade: Let the red fere dr-oop aroacd as, And the dead lare.< Salter down, Our heart? are fresh and green, dear, Thongh the forest's eeoreh'd and brown. I ft would not eost yon mash, dear, To let me etc yoor hand Ungloved—though well I know it For the fairest ic the bni : And those dainty little finger* For an iastant might I hold; It woaid not cost yon much, dear; To me, 'twere gain untold f It would not oc-st yam curh, dear. To hear me whisper low A secret I discovered Not quite a week ago. Would yon promise, having told you, That I Hfttr need repent 1 Ah! yon goeas itX© reply - But yoar alienca gives consent! COXING HOME. 0 brothers a nd sisters, growing old, Ho yon all renters! sr yet That home is the shade of the rustling trees, Where once oar household met? Bo yon know how we used to eoc-.e from school, t Through the rummer's pleasant heat; With the yellow fennel's golden do-! On oar tired little feet 1 And sometimes m an idle mood We loitered by the way ; And stopped in the woods to gather dowers, And in the fields to play ; Till warned by the deep'iung -baitowL fall That told of the coining night, We climbed to the top of the last long hiU, And saw our home in sight * And, brothers and sisters, older now Thau she whose life is o'er. Bo vcu think of the mother's loving face, That looked from the opes door t Aias, for the changing things of time ; That home ia Ike dust is tow ; And that loving -mile was hid trvia us, la the darkness, long a :o ! And we hare come to life's last hi If, From which oar weary eyes Can almost look on that home- that shine* Eternal in the skies. # So, brothers and listers, as we go, Still let ns more as one, Always together keeping step. Till the march of life is done : For that mother, who waited for ns here, Wearing a smile so sweet, See waits ad toe hills of pandiw For her children's coming foot ! Asoayw.'xs. [JVm the .V. Y. £ew:'ay Aor.l * THE BRYANT FESTIVAL Speeches of Mr. Bancroft aud Mr. Br} ant. Presentation of the Artist*' Portfolio. The following art the- addresses made at the o peniur of the festival given by the Century Club of this chy to Mr. Bryant: MR. BANCROFT'* ADDRESS. "William Cohen Biyant: The "Century" has act apart this evening u> .show you honor. All its members, the old and the young, crowd around you 'ike brothers round a brother—like chilareu round a father. Our wives and daughter* hare come with us. that they, too, may join ia the p.ea sant ofeee of bearing witness to your worth. The artists of our association, whose lai*>r- you have eter bee* ready to cheer, whose merits you bare loved to proclaim, unite to bring an enduring me morial to your excellence in an art uar a kin to their own. A noble baud of your O'liawrs in your own high calling, from ail pari- of Up.- coun try, offer their salutations and praise and good wishes in a full chorus of respect and rfeacion.— Others who eoukt not swept our invitation, keep the festival by themselves, and are now in their own homes cuing over the years which you have done a© much to gladden. '"lt i primarily your career a* a poet that we eatebrate. The m-ouerit is well chosen. While the mountain.- and the ocean >ide ring with the tramp of cavalry and the din of cannon, and the nation is in its agony, artd an earth jiiake sweeps through the land, we take a respite to escape into tbe serene region of ideal pursuit* which can nev er faii. "It has been thought praise enough of another to say that oe "wrote no lino which dying he could wish to btot." JJrerj line whack you have writ ten may be remembered by your-elf and by oth ers at all tim js for yoar genius has listened only to the whi-pcring- of the beautiful and the pure. Moreover, a warm nationality runs through ail youT verse. As one who lives much in the sun is browned by his rays ; yoar imagination took the hue of the youth of our o>untry. and has reflected its cairn content pk-rive moods, when the pulses of its early life beat vigorously hut smoothly, and no bad passions hid distorted it- countenance. The dashing whirlwinds of civil war, the sublime en ergy and prescrvc-raoce of the people, the martyr dom of myriads of its bravest and l est, its new birth through terrible suffering-- will give a more pas->onate and tragic, and varied cast to the litera ture of the coming generations. "A thousand years hence posterity will turn to vour pages as to those which best mirror tbe love ly earnestness of the rising republic, tbe sweet murines of her years of mn c ikk, when -he was all unfamiliiar with sorrow, bright with the halo of promise, seizing the great solitude* by the bu sv host- of civilization, and guarding the nations of tbe earth into the pleasant paths of freedom and of peace. • "You have derived ."our inspiration as a poet from your love of nature, and she has returned your affection and blessed you as her lavored *on. At three score and ton yearsyour eye is undiiumed, your step light and free as in vouth. and the lyre which ever responded so willingly to your tourn refuses to leave your hand. "(Jut tribute tu you is to the poet ; but we •bould not have paid it had we not revered you fa a man. Your Liamelss life ia a gontinuous record of patriotism and integrity ; and passing untouch ed through the Scry conflict* that grow out of the ambition of other, you have, a- aU agree, preserv ed a perfect consistency with yourself and an un awerving. unseihsh udeiity to your convictions. '•This is high prai-e, but the period at which we address yon removes even the Suspicion of flat ! tery, for it is your entrance upon f&tf seventieth year. It is a solemn thing to draw nearer and BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2.*>, ISG4. j nearer fa eternity ; yon teaeb n., bjw to meet flid t-ttwe. Wttb e*?h year yon hare betmnc more aoid ! more genjal, have cheri-hej twjrer and atil! fctrcur sun pa*, hie i with yoarfeliow-iaen. aui if rime as: set on yon any mark, you preserve in ail its nes? the youth of the aral " What remains bat to wish you a cd life, crowned with health and mtMperiky,' with happiness and honor ? live on till you hear your children'- children rise up and call you blessed — Lave on for the sake of us, your old associates, for whom life wouid Icee much of its lustre in los ing you as a companion and friend. Lire oa for your own sake, that y<u may enjoy the better day of which your eye already catches tin dawn. — Where faiti discerned the Savior of the world, the unbeliever looked only on a man of sorrows, crowned with thorns, and tottering under the bur den of the cross on which he was to die. The soeiai skeptic sees America sitting apart in her aflSerioß. stupg by vipers at her bosom, and welcomed to th* pit by earth's ancient kings but throurh the angui-h of bcr grief you torch us to behold her in ins mortal ieauty, as she steps onward through triak to brighter glory. Live to enjoy her coming triumph, when the acknowledged pow er of right shall tear the root of sorrow out of the heart of the country , and makefher morwihan ever the guardian of human liberty and the regen erator of the race." MR. bryaxt'S REPLY. *1 thank you. Mr. President, for the kind word - you have uttered, and I thank this gsx*d-naturod comrany for hav:*g listened to them with so ma ny tokens ofas-cntand approbation. 1 mustonp pose, however, that most of this approbation was bestowed upon the orator rather than upon his ealnect He who has brought to the writing of our national history a genius evjual to tbe vastoesa of the ©ut>! ct; lias of course more than ulen enough jbcu humidor tasks. I wonder not. there fore. that he should be applauded this evening for the skill he has shown in embellishing a barren toptie. "I am congratulated on having com]deted my seventieth year. Is there nothing am burnous, Mr. President, in such a compliment 7 To be congra tulated on one's senility ! To be congratulated t having reached that stage of lift- when the bodily and mental powers pass into decline and decay ! Lear is made by Shakasbeare to say: u 'Age i uflneetisary,' and a later poet, Dr. Johnson, has expressed the same idea in one of his sonorous lines: " 'SuperSaoaj !*g> thi veteran aa the stage.' "Yo have not forgotten, Mr. President, tbe old Greek saying: " •Wh in the god I©'e lie y©aag,'— nor the passage in Shakespeare : And they whose ht jru arc a? dry as saavaier daxt, Bnra to the a>ek." "Much has been said of Old Age. Old age is wi-e, I grant, tor itself but not wise for the community. Ii is. wise in (Leeiiniug new entcrjtrlse. for it has not the power nor the rimt to execute them ; wise in dirinking from diSeal ty. for it ha- not the strength to overcome it: wise* in avoiding danger, for it tacks the faculty of ready and swxrt action, by which dangers are par : ried aud into advantages. But thi, i | 3<it wisdom for mankind a? large, by whom ! enterprise must be undertaken, dangers met and liitficuitier. surmoiintoii. What a worid wou! 11 ; this, be if it were mk u# *f old menf—Ci ni.rr V -, ♦ion -v.v t !ii. ccr. n• t 1 0.. r. •;* too had hf a dozen years or perhaps half that rimt-; to live ! What new work of good would be at- j tempted ? what existing abuse or evil ojrreeted 7 j What -rmnsro subjects would such a witrid afford ; for the pencils of our artists—groups of *nfran r.uated grey-beards baskinc in the sun through j the long day.- of spring, or huddling like sheep ia j wanuoorncrA in we winter time : houses with tb tint Iters dropping a;art : dries in rams ; roa- ? turwroaght and itapassafele ; weedy gardens and adds with the surface fee y -cratcbed to put in a scanty harvest-feeble old men chunbcring int; cr zy wagons. } - rhaps to be run away wi:b ormountn .- horres, if they mounted them at ah. in torror *>s being hurled from their tacks like a sling from a -tone. Well it is that in this world of ours the i-td men are but a very small minority. "Ah. Mr. President, if we could but .-top thL rushing rid - of fume that bear*, u - so swiftly on ward. and make it flow towards it- source : if we , could cause th' *L#: w to tuia back on the visa!- i ■ ..:tte I I -ee * tuc liiany exectieut trienis of I mine, worthy to live a thousand years, on whore oodAtenanees year A.ave set their seal, marking j theia with the liu-HPf affid carir, and cau.-.- ing their Acß'.ies u* thi- froaiaof liw' i laur-nm- fe to auyerv- Otf' tlresr *w!i be rertjPt ed Kis glorious prune. Jiis golden tostth. with it- ] Itj-.Tcißthine locks, fewrowk nnwnuiax Tow,k.>! frcsb and rounded cheek : itajpeariy ana perfect.: teeth, it- Iwwrons ey -. its light and lonnduig \ step, it.-frame full of energy, its exulting -j-irits, 1 its h'ch itftiies, its generow impulses, ani add all these to thu exporieace atri nxd principles of mature age. I am sure, Mr. Pr-iiut. that I| shottie tar? at once to tuy feet and propose that i ia com;3u:<jhitio of starh a ULttvel and byway j of congratulat ing our friend who was its subject, I we r hould hold such a festivity as the Century has j never sc*o nor will fver ee again. Kipque-e cbiild l.nug it- higheat tri: ate, and Art i& fair- tc grace the festival; the j sktlftl tnuscians should lie Hssv with all raann-T ? of in-Trirnents of Liusic. ancient and nnvdea; we would have sackbnt and trumpet and >hawn. and I JMiniawithdaifef ier-. and* modem band three times as large as the on. that now plays on that ( balcony. But why dwell on such a vain dream. >ince it is only by jKWsiag through the darkaet - tha: overiiants fee > alley of the ribadowof Death that man can reach hi-- second youtM 7 "Iliave read, indc-seriptiansof the old world, of die fruatiiiero of princes and Kwwnt coiniuc out of their castles to be present at aptue rustic festivity such a- a wedding of one of their peasantry. I am reiuin led of thL custaa; by rise presence of many literary fiei-sons oi cauncaee ;u these rooms, awl I think them for this act of benevolence.— Yet I miss among them several whom I had wished rather than ventured to hops- that I should us set on this occasion. I miss my old friend Dana Who gave .-olyran lly the stosy of the Buccanee in ius sofemr. -rerses. I utisß Picrpont," venerable \ in years, yet vigor -u-t in mind and body, and with j an nndimmed fancy : and b.im wh< a paged arc- wet i with the tears of maidens who re:, i the story of j Evangeline, and the author qf S|iay : and th - ' CroikfiT#, ffo less rewrreri.ff' fbr the fiery kpirik: which animated hi.- Marco Boxza rLs. and him to •wfctMß wit we qwe the Bigiow Papers, who ha tnade a lowly flower of the wayside# a- cW-ical a the rs so off AuaOreo*,' trod the poet whov- Terse#. Quaker as bo is. stir th" blood like th-; wok* of a trumpet ittßine to battle, an i the poet ess off Hartford, whose beautiful lyrics are it: a million hands, and others whose nsttnea w -re they to occur to an hero as in tivstad;,. i ciiaht waook- | |>any with tbe mention of some characteristic mer it But here is lit- whose aerial verso has raised the Rule insect of our field* makiuc hi marmur iug jouraav from fl-iwer to flower, the humble-bee, to a dignity equal to rimt of Pindar * eagle * he.- i.- the Aut-s:rat oi the Rre-akfa-t Table—aurh- -r; of that most spirited of naval lyrics, beguming with the Kne; " 'Ay®, tear Ker tatter© 1 . dwn F here, too, Is the i>oet who fold yi j atherif vcrec the story of Jeptba s daughfor, and hare are- oihe worthy compeer* of those I have tuenaoncd. yet greatly ray juniors, in the brightness of whose ririnv fame I atn like one who has carried a Jen-! tern in the night, and who perceive'that its beams are no longer visible in the glory whkh the morn ing pours around him. To them and to hi] the i members of the Ccatuiy allow me, Mr. President, | to ff?r the wrsb tft.it they tr.ay Eve longer than I } have lone, in health of Mdt an i mrnd and in the eofttcntraent an 7 ! seynity of -spirit which j :si; --n tu my lot. I must not overlook the !a i<fes who have designed to honor these rooms with .their presence. If I knew where, amid myrtle lowers and Sowers that never wither, gushed 3 fro® the ground the Fountain of PerpetiiafTont h \ vamly sought by the first Spanish adventure i ere on the North American continent. I would {offer to the lips of everyone of them a beaker of f !TC frjfk ar |d sparkling waters, and bid therii drink | 'of -dhis? Mixan. Bat since that is not to be, I r *t"h what, perhaps, is as well, and what, souse would think/reciter, that th- Mm- kin L—> of heart which has prompted them to come hither to-night, may lend a beauty to every action of their futures lives. And to the Century dub iteeifr— the dar old Century Clnb—to whose members I owe both the honors and the embarrassments of this occasion—to that association, fortunate in haying possessed two such presidents as the distin wmshed historian, who now occupies the chair. ; n I til" eminent and accomplished scholar and aliai rable writer who preceded hiin. I offer the with that it mat endure, not only for the-term of year signified by its name not for one' eentwy only, but for ten centuries—so that hereafter perhap®. its members may discuss the question whether its tame should not be chang*-1 i • that of the Club if a Thousand Years, and that these may be centu ries of peace and prosperity, from which its mem ;ers may Kxjk back to this period of bloody strife, as to a fright?-.:! Iream soon chased away by the beams of a glorious morning." PRESENTATION OP THE PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES The portfolio of sketches was present*. 1 to Mr. Bryant, on behalf of the artists, by Mr, Daniel Huntington, who spoke as follows : REMARKS OF M 3. IH/XTIS iTOX. "Honored and beloved Post : The arti.-s of this club haTe entrusted me with the privileges or presenting to yotr this coMeetion of sketches, in token of their bye and admiration. . A beautiful stand aad portbib "have been added through the liberality of several amateur members. There is an illustriou,- artist, whose name, like your own. is imperishabiy traced in the interwoven story our art and literature, who, froitf his intimate re lations with you. as well as from his loagacknowi .edged leadership in our proteaskm, is entitled to the honor of wring for us on this occasion ; out j Durand is absent or silent, and therefore I have J the pleasure, in bis name, ami in beftaif of all the ] artists, oC greeting you to-night as one of their J own body. Indeed, sir, the artists love you very | much, and you know it: for we ekim you as one of j us, remmlwring that you were one of the original I members of the old Sketch Club, and a member ! and founder of the National Academy of Design | yya brother of the pencil most dear to all oar a carts. ; The sketches fog the portfolio have not all been ; finished, owing to the shortness of the time, the [ late return of many tboia their autumn haunts, and their de-ire to make their offerings worthy of their purpose. Such a labor of love will not be slightly done, and when soon it shallbecompleted, it will be marked by the warm affection and deep reverence we feel for oar poet-brother in the di vine art. "<3f the vast aKiltkodes who with ever-growing deli.fht bend over j or pages, or of those more laatiliar ftkads who have met here tods youUon or, there are none *tli— >e hearts glow with, deeper jy: illi Itiw tim <i liitsafttdt" ik. ut I.—. - w j nig* it take part ia "tnis ftsttval soL trinity. Fe mar.y years, by mountain and stream, and in the still ness of the studio, we bare been cheered by yvu- rived picture-of American scenery and in spired by your songs of human freedom, ami we n a r tint (iodinay srrant you ret many years u charm oar heart* with re> w images of truth and beauty, and when thi* dark sad bloody wareekmd baa pas- 1 r never, in the serene evening of your life, to sing for our whole people the csradk-sonsr of a new-born American L : -erty.' 5 .After Mr. Huntington bad made- the ad-ire - to Nr. Bryant on pre-enring the portfolio, of draw ings and sketches by the artiste, Mr. Bryant an swered : MS. BRYANT'S REPLY. "Allow me. through you. a< one of their rep resentatives. to return to the artists of the Centu ry Crab nir best acknowledgments for the ha pert* gift tfc.-y have made me. 1 have no title to it but their generosity, yet I rejoice to possess it, and shrtli eadeavor to preserve it as long as I live. "Among the artl-ts of our country are some of ray oldc-t and best friends. In their conversation I have taker: great It-light and derived from it much instruction. In them the love and the study of nature tend to preserve the native simplicity of character, to make them frank and ingenious and to divert their attention from selfish Interests. I shsP prixv this gift, therefore', not only a* a me morial of the .•cuius of or artists, in which res pect a; me it possesses a high value, bu: also as a tokelt of the good wl-l a .'a-s of men for whom I cherish a particular regard arid esteem." Lessons Shocld be Short. — hmg lessons are unfavorable t- ► teal progress in study, i watched daily for many weeks, the course pursued in some ■ f the best gymnasia ia Germany. Nothing was nor - sury.c-ing. .a first. than tfe. shoitne-s of the lesions. Ail through tije early part of every course of study, the daily task seemed to me at most ridicuiouly short. Yet I soon became eon vineL-d that the ; tasks were better than 1 >ngsr ones. In the first place, the short Ifer-oa w-.s per *. 1;-' arncl; everything every 'word. In l4.Bgpace, for example, the .pupil ready- to give every hew verb*of his le son iu every' required case in in both numbers. Then the word- <h to day's lesson were combined with th >se of yester day s and those of every previous day: sentences jmiumenible were made, so that the exercise be came a review of everything previously studied.— Then the thought of the lesson became a subject of conversation, and, as this had been anticipated, -many bright ingenious tilings were often said. By these processes, the su'te-tanee of the day's lesson was incorporated with Ac previous furniture of the mind; jast as, in -eientifiic road-makirejt, the new metal as it is called, when skilfully applied in CTffeiwidr wti.-tllquantities, and a moist season, t-ssom- = • illy in -orpora'rd with the material of the old roatbbed. and forms a substantial and permanent fonndation for a good way. Every new- It -on thus became an occa-fon for observation and in-rairv, ami for new and ph-a.-unt thonght. The observant teacher knows that the - rrogress of a pupil is measured fcy the (rrouri' i tfirded over, but by the nuinberof clear thought - perfectly mastered awl eoiabined with previous a tainments. so as to form part of the permaner* furniture of fhe mind. Exactness and thorcragL oess are the essentia* things: and these are pO"--i --ble only with easy tessona quick!;? and joyou-b learned awl a part of the mind's stock fy trequen; and taithfrJ reviews.—JfesafldfofSßlii Tmckt i*. Ax Opexinc foe V Rich Max. —There i- n grand chance for a rnilli inaire. The London Sj-tc uit'jr sty- that tho Danish ftv.-riiL.-nt is .-o jjnes% ed for inoney. that very likely it would be wiHiap to seH Iceland, which ha an expendature of •£!;,<**. against a revenue of £4,Od* 1 for a round .mm. Ti.e itku-i i- c-s-Idevably Ir/.g r than Ireland, and its 04.v"00 inhabitants are very goud, obetliem people. Some of our parvfnu aristocracy wrud dc well to seixe this chance. The owner of this de lightful spot would be at perfect liberty to call him self emperor, czar, grand mogul or what ever els* might suit hit- fancy. He wuM write comifdy let t.r- toQr. :r<k 1. L-jui- N-..n0:- the may of the CannFM 1-bnds, should that perjoag< strike his fancy. Never was such a chance befyrt'. Who wiJJ improve it? —A". Y, Crnnidt, [ I TSE WORK BEFORE G9. | Tfcc- Uaionj*i hare had their time of rejoicing I for the great political victory achieved on Tuc~ day last; and, with few inconsiderable exceptions, they hare rejoiced temporary, eu;e&aag an a b'Taat gratitude for the principle established, wbhout exulting in -dently over the nartv or the person defeated- Even the old and offensive par iiouii nickname has suddenly lost its vogue; and [ the general disposition is to forget the animosities 'the- pa-tin the \ arid serious duties of j the present. On the other hand, the democrats. : who ionabt their bat tio strenuously, though some what wildly, k*re. with the same iacoaadcrabie exceptions, submitted gitkefußy to their defeat, showing that the oi l instincts of genuine Ameri can citizenship are still alive in them, and that they tow reverently to the majestic rule of the ?jople. They have made their appeal to tie highest tribunal, to the final arbiter of political controversy ; the decision has gone against them on the main question of the prosecution of the war, and they obey the mandates of the court. iu these circtaustances, with a tem;<oniry lull ia the excite uetits of; assktu and a truce to the late I strifes of tactions, it becomes us to inquire what !is the first duty of really patriotic men. It i* un : Biestakably to carry oh the war with renewed vig or in order bring about a more certain and speedy peace. A distinguished democrat, feme a resident ;o: the South, una a warm admirer McGelian. | aaid to us the other day: •Well, we mu-tnow all turn in together to see how soon, by energetic combinations and movements, we can either force the enemy to the wall or compel a surrender."— He seemed to us to describe the whole case. If. with one accord, the whole people of the loyal states will pre.-- down upon the exhausted faction of the South, we may easily bring the confiiet to an end: hut if we do not, if we iuinw any old root : of party bitterness to remain, if we peruse in ooar reiiimj am <ug ourselves as to mcii. L, ln.-teucS •;* j- pushing on bsuzßonioosSfto the end, the war mast be prolonged, our burdens increased, and the mis eries an 1 desolations of the South expanded into utter ruin. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Lincoln's management of the war, however objectionabl - his extra military measures may seem to some, it is the Set now that these mean res are mostly past: they have had nearly ail the go<xi or ill effect that they can have, and the war henceforth must be ftirsued principally as a grand military enterprise, t would be idle, and worse than idle, to stand r.ill and prote-t against the policy of emancipa tion, alter thatpoiiey has become a pm of history and can no moie be altered. Mo less iik is it to declaim against the employment of the blacks as sokiiers. when eighty thousand of them areatready in arm.-, and the fiiithof the nation is irrevocably ••'edged to the protection and snpportof its troops. Be these things right or wrong,, wise or unwise, they have been adopted by the government, they have been acquiesced iu by, ti. popular mind, and chough, they may be revEewe I l>y Coagne.-- or fay the courts, the; cannot now be changed. We must accept them for what they are worth, ap plaud or condemn them as we may, andgo on with oar immediate practical business. That business is to strengthenarnii o. the governsioc: in. all mil itary measures, to fill up the sans, to inspirit ear officers, to encourage the troops, and Jo shew the insurgents the extreme hopelessness and fatality of theii wretched scheme. In this slate the democrats v h really love their country amy do good, by representing to tee secc-s-ion arc-r.t- hefg. through letters, or in >MPBB9Sr''dk*- o-rnTiittt7n U" *£* thirty-six states, tw nty-seven are loyal, and so strongly ioyai that" '.v>* wili •. jsui.:ic the wr.- un til the Vnoia triumphs or the whole nation is bank rupted and destroyed. These: atas ate the rich est and strongest, the mo-t populous, the most ea ttrprising. the most active, the most determin ed. Their resoarees are as yet cmaparativeiy un touched. In men and iu mangy they have scarce ly felt the drain. Against thorn arc- nine states — poor, exhausted, without mdestty, enclosed from ti. ..O:. „•i 1.- r >ic } drlv.-n to despair. How can a conflict between such op ponents be long continued"? Is there any other Put one end possible? Ii it not madness for tisc South to go on —a mainesc more pr-digious and culpable than pen can d pi ,-t? Let the Hemoerafo then, proclaim the solemn fact to their ancient friends; let them delate the whole truth of things, and invite the awfully misguided people of the southern states to ai return to obedience and wis dom. — .Yew York EzwLuj Pod. How JOHN BCXL ACKXOWLFJOGED THE CORN. —A propos af Joshua Rate-, the great London banker, whose death has just been appropriately noticed by onr Chamber of Commerce, a little iu cide;:i o .''irs to us that amusingly yet fully iiios trates tnsJeaipßS love for his native land. In the month ofdaaaary. ic47. at a certain dinner party in London, at which lawd John Russell, Lord Morpeth Mr. Bates, and many other distinguished men were present, the conversation turned upoa tli3 Irish famine; and the remark wa< made by Lord John that he rejoiced that so good a substi tute for the native bread-stuff" had been found as the Indian com. Turning to Mr. Bates his lord ship went on to say. ""Why Bates, some of the cobs have twelve or fourteen rows of grain on them." Mr. Bates coolly replied, '"Yes my Lord, I have seen from twenty bo twenty-four row- on a cob." "Tha- is rank Yankeeism. was the pleas ant retort otthe Premier, and the whole onapaay ahouted in approval. The burst of incredulous merriment over, 3lr. Bate; bought his peace bv a wager of a dinner for the company ail round that he could produce such an ear. "".Benel" exhum ed Lord John, and the bet was clinched. The dinner passed off. Mr. Bate.- returned at home n r, entirely at ease. He had done a -trance thing; for tfcc first time in hi- life had made ■•MI engagement he WAS not absolutely certain of his ability to i'aiM. He had misgivings that he a-al rashly pledged the honor of his native land. — It Bad been long since he had looked apon an A niericaa crib: and however patiently he winnowed the cr,:-ucopia of his memory, he found chat the cobs of bis early days had "gone gliEameriiig fhronvh the thing 3 that were," and were now so far otr that fee couldn't count tie rows. Ho was, as Plautu.- would say, rad-rctu* ad wv.jiig —in Yan kee perlance, "'hard un."- But fortune favors the brave, it happened that a well-known New York merchant dropped in. next day, at the coun :ing-h i~eof t'ießa ; Mr. Rues, with righ - . ning fa:- hai :i hint, and rr. Ide known 1 - diffi culty. 'You are safo," was the ready re- onse; "if I live to get home, you shall have eyen a big ger ear than you promised. Mr. G so n _ returned to New York, and straightway went to Messrs. Rogers A Reynolds, of Lafayette, In-i., tailing the story, and begging them, for the honor of the country, to come to the rescue, and tuin cue :bia on Lord Joan. Iu the July f Dowing, Mr. G received by expr-.-.--. from Lafayette, a nicely .irrauged fc*>x containing six ears of horao-tcoth corn, two of which had twenty-nine rows, two thirty-one, and two thirty two. The box was-forthwith addressed to .A. J. Bates, Esq-, cure of Mests. Baring, Bros. A Co., shipped by Black Bah Line, cars of the Liverpo 1 house. It ■ rivch'L it* destination. The result was thai Lord John, flm Ltwd of the Treasury, third son of the late I)uke of Bedford by the sec ond daughter of fJeorge Viscount Torrington, and liaeai destvivlent of Lord William Rus-eiL the martyr of liberty, arhi r' dged th'f. c-.ru I'he dinner was won. Joshua Bates did not "perpe trate a ' JjTankeefeiu"—at least none to be asham ed of. The largest of these ears of corn is now displayed with the Nineveh Bull and the Koh-i --noor diamond.—_V>-to York Thnc*. "You're a fool. " said a coxeoaxh one day to clown; and the answer begot was a queer one: "Why, dang it! you partly say true, I must own; if I beaut quits a fool, t b near one." Vol 37: No. 4=B Ho V,-TO GET RID *E A ROCK.— Uriah Abell ! was & Connecticut farmer, and in his time a pret :ly good one. Hit term. like a great many other ( onnectieut farms, wa- full of stones, and he de lighted to dear them off oat of the way of the plow. He bnift a great many rods of substantial stone wxLI. bat he could not use up all the stone. He i had cleved one field of all but one great boulder, • about the size of a large hay-cock. He wanted to arid of that. Ho would hare "blown it tofiin i' as he had a good many others, but it was within two rods of "the best room' windows, which might go "'to hinders at the same time. .So he attempted to haul it out of its bed one day.— After tinng his own and his neighbor's oxen, and I breaking several chains, Uriah grew"wrathy, and | declared that "he would give #5 to any one that would put that peaky rock out of his sight.'' "Tj a'al aeow, I don't mind taking the job if you u find a spade and throw in some dinner, and a mug of cider along in the afternoon." > This pr ; ..?ition was made by a stranger who J had just then come up. He was a fair specimen of a working Yankee, and Uriah dropped the bro r ken chain and turned square round to look him ; full in the face. Tes I'll give it and the dinner and cider too, I bat I won't pull my oxen again at that stone no j how." "Don't wan't you ghoulcL I'm to put the stone out of sight, make all smooth about here so you :.n p: w right a! ng. That's what I'm to do ain't it \ "Yv-. tbat is all 1 want. I don't caTe how you j do it but if you fail I don't pay any thing, do j you unlerstan J? Very well, then come into din jncr." That done, and a large cad of tobacco adjusted, the V. ankee threw off his coat and took up the spade, lie gave a look at the stone to see which way it would tip easiest, and then commenced dig ging a hole on the lower side, large and deep e nough to feary the boulder quite out of sight In three hours he c ot out and took a careful measure ment- and then dug a little more upon one side.— Then he went to the wood pile and got a stout stick of wood, which he planted finally with one end in the bottom of his hole and the other brac ing -gainst the rock. Then he began under mining and worked till he saw the dirt begin to axe, and found that the roek was resting upon his hraoe. "Now says he, "I think that I will take that mu? of cider." Lriah. who. had been warehing him, ordered out the c;der with a right good will. He even of fered to add "some doughnuts and cheese." While the Yankee wi- wiping away the perspi ration and drinking his cider. Uriah brought his oxen around and bitched a chain to the wooden prop. [ t T did say I wouldn't pull iny oxen again, and i I don't mean too. cause it onJv needs a smart | jerk." Jeri it was. and down went the boulder, and with it a shovel full of dirt, and another, and an | other, in quick suecerion, until ail was smooth and - JVC -! aa-i ' -ng before night the Yankee was ready ' . i r-?->r.:e his journey. I "There."' said Uriah, as he handed him the • Cve dollars. "there is the best spent five doßars | that I ever paid for work on my farm. Won't I v r.u take another drink of cider. You are entire ly we cine. I have learned something of you." ' Perhaps some person.- who read this may learn j something—learn how to get rid of some of the j boulders that cunember the surface, and whieh are often blasted and broken up and hauled away, j "just to get rid of them." at a much greater ex i pease than it would require to bury them where • >!>-:•' He, entirely out or sight. The Tide Tnrulng in Europe. I As an evidence that" coming events cast theirshad jo w '-aire, the London correspondence of the Cih ! cinati Gaseite. writing on Oc-torer 19th. says: "A literary gentleman said yesterday in a con ; ver- ttion where i was a listener, that" he met a v.- ek or so ago at Biarritz, the distinguished Con ; federate Lustis, whom he had known in former j year- and that he now found him utterly despond ent. if not despairing. I myself at a public aimer ' the other day heard a warm sympathizer,' who ] was evidently well acquainted with rebels and the j prospects of the loan, say in compliment to the Southerners; "They are the bravest men on earth, sir f The chances are ten to one acainst them, and yet see how they hold on!' I might enumerate many other signs over here that indicate the settled and universal presentiment that the Southern re | be'Hon is in some firm or other soon to eoliapw. ; I have not heard for several months what formerly I heard daily: the South will never be conquered! The Tim ft has not uttered that prophecy, once so frequent in its columu-. for foar or five months," Y hen the result of the Presidential election is known in Europe, the gloom of the rebels there and their sympathizing allies will be depened to ; dispair. CAITFORMA ANTS. —That enemy of the hoard i • ! sweets of the California housekeeper. the ant, is beyond counting in his annoyances this year. In the warmer districts of the .State nothing eatahb can be st- red without attracting myriads of them, and he destruction they cause is really an import ant item. They have never within the memory of the oidess settlers been so numerous in the lower levels cf the fee rem-o to and San Joaquin as in I >54, and in ;he mines resskate inform us they Lira 1 in anaie - every pantry kitchen, and closet. ?f a piece of meat, cheese, sugar, bread, or what not L- laid down, in half an hour it will be oomplete y covered over with those* devouring little wretch es, and burrowed, tunneled, and perforated with ■ man ci< ".i. expedltin. The. miners say they are lay | insr up an earn* stock of contestable? to pass a long - and heavy,* winter! In vineyards and gardens, as the trait ripens, the ante spoil what the I rascally birds ana squirrels leave, and figs and soft fruits are their special delight. The ripening granes around Los Angelos are a great attraction i to their, the vineyard men are in distraction over | their raids, and it is likely they will spoil the ma king of much good wine and brandy, as each of their wretched little bodies contains a concentra ted quantity of a peculiar aeid. sour as vinegar. Here indeed is a new and stranee plague, and there is not only the common go-tothe-am-tbou-snggard species of California, but several others, some with wines and some without. One of these twice as I lac a? a Sea. bitt-s like a fish-hook; while another of his fellows, of biood colour, stings as he bites, rousing up the babies and kittens to a terrible con fer; off- nails and tears in the quiet hours of tho ! night. ' . Pours;i WOMEN. —As to' Polish women, who aresp nof ia such disparaging terms all over Germany, I can only say that after long experience ; of their characters, under ordinary ana extraordi nary cireum.-ranees. I no longer wonder at the in fluence Ley exercise over the men. They arc not pereisc iy charming,, like French women, or fhcina ring, like the women of Spain or Iuly; hut there Li an indefinable something about them which ren ders them irre-i -tabiy interesting. I shall perhaps best express my meaning when I say that you find in them all those qualities which are summed up in the one word "women." And here lain not *:• -iking of r.ay i articular class, but Polish women !in vomeral, be they the wives or daughters of she owners of a "hundred thousand acres, or of the manager of a small farm, or a professor, doctor, or tradesman, It may be that their ten derness of character was brought out to an unusu ja! degiee by their etmunonest occupation of last year, whk-b cessi- tedof tending the sick and woun ded , but I can only say that the cenerel impres -iou which I have carried away with ine is this, that the trouble of a journey to Portland would a* .ply repaid ! y the pleasure of studying wom anhood in its intersting development there. Ladies' Furs. The largest a.iurtment at CHARLES (LAJIFORD A SUNS, Cooticeatal Hotel, Pliil4elpla*,
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