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Ha will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. apr. 8, 1864—xx. JIISTICKS OF THE PEACE. J OHN MAJOR, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, HOPKWELL, BBDTORD COUHTY. Collections and all business pertaining to his office will be attended to prompt ly. Will also attend to the sale or renting of real estate. Instruments of writing carefully prepa red. Also settling np partnerships and other ac counts. April 1, 189—tf. DI KBORROW A- ll r TZ, Editors and Proprietors. ©nnhuil, A SERMON Preached by Iter.-J. //. He(Jarrah, at PleastinteiUe, an Thursday, the Ist of June, the day set ajxtrt as a day of Humiliation and Prayer, % the President of the United States. Rev. J. H. MCGARRAH: Dear Sir—We respectfully solicit a copy of your remarks on Thursday last, for publication. Yours truly. J. 11. WRIGHT, N. W. WRIGHT, J AS. SILL, P A-ML FYOCK, GIDEON D. TROI'T. Pleasantville, June 1, 1865. "Ami the victory that Jay war turned into mourning unto all the people." 2 Samuel, xix, 2. How sad and solemn are the scenes aud circumstances, by which we are. this morn ing surrounded. Our shops and stores are closed; the loom is silent, and the plough stands in the furrow. All over this broad land. thr hn'fh'rf arid the rnttltr of machinery are hushed. Vessels lie-to at half-mast, while house and church and cap ital are draped in mourning. What is wrong? A nation, to-day, mourns its mur dered President. These circumstances give a deep and solemn meaning to the worship of this hour, as we turn from the avocations of secular life to our altars of prayer. The appointment is one of mourning, aud it be comes us to turn away from earth to heaven for consolation in this deepest and darkest calamity. It is too soon to form a correct estimate of the life and character of Abraham Lin coln. As the roughly-carved statue is not seen to advantage, by the beholder. In-fore it is elevated; so the character of this man does not now appear to many in the favor able light that it will when time shall inter vene. The rough statue must be placed 011 the top of the monument before its beauty stands forth, then all its rough lines disap pear. So, when a few years shall have roll ed over the grave of the President, when prejudice shall have have subsided aud men have had time to carefully review the char acter of Abraham Lincoln, it will lise to sublimity aud continue to brighten beneath the eye of hi.-tory as time roll- on. Though it is too soon to place a proper estimate on the great and good man, we shall look at his character and deeds in the light we have, leaving the future to develop*; them fully. In early life lie removed Pi Illinois. Here God prepared him for the great struggle of his later years. The bracing winds aud ac tive duties of that frontier life secured to him an iron frame, which he so much need ed duriug liia presidential career. A less vigorous physical constitution might have goue dowu under the weight resting upon him. A few mouths in the. school room, it is said, gave him the rudiments of an Eng lish education, which, however, he diligent ly followed up. True genius always will discover itself; it was so here. He soon be came known. and continued tugrow into the confidence of the people of the great West, until he stood out us one of their leading men. But his fame was as yet confined to the West; it was not, however, to be cir cumscribed by geographical limits, but to become world-wide. He was one of the few who were not born to die. Accordingly in 18(10 he was chosen by the majority of American people to fill the most honorable and responsible position within their gift. Here ho .stood for four responsible and la borious years. So that at the time of his death he had reached the acme of human greatness. The record of the world furnishes no name so universally be loved and so universally lamented: his name was a name of national pride, and his death is a death of national lamentation. What gave him such a mighty hold upon the heart of the people? What made him great? I answer, he lived not for himself, but for his country and humanity. Let us then look at the man a little more closely. Intellectually he was a strong man. Though not finely educated, "he had no su perior in perception of facts, in readiness and retentiveness of memory, and in logical acuteness which enabled him to follow un waveringly every link in a chain of argument, and to arrive with unfailing certainty at the correct conclusion. Thus much was ho in tellectually. Mind is mind, as marble is marble, some is finer and some is coarser. You may polish some men at college for half a score of years, and make nothing out of them at last. Others, without these ad vantages develope and rise, because they have the calibre. As to his style of writing, you all knftw how simple, clear and direct it was. This at first was laughed at by his enemies, but is now acknowledged by all to be one of his crowning excellencies. The laborer could lay down his axe or shovel, pick up his mes sages, read and understand. He was a man of great moral 'power. However ignorant of him the masses were wheu he went to Washington to assume his responsibilities, they soon learned him as an honest man; one who trished to do right, and who had the nerve to do right, whether under-handed, wire-pulling politicians were pleased or displeased. It was his moral honesty that gave him access to the people, which gave theui such unbounded confi dence in him. And here to is to be found the reason why so many voted for him when he ran the second time, who opposed him the first. He was singularly free from po litical scheming, a very Unusual thing among leading men now. Open, honest and upright, he was willing, not only that his actions should come to the light, but also that his motives should tie made manifest. Abraham Lincoln was also a good man. I am not acquainted with the character of his ifiner life. 1 believe he did not make any pretention to the enjoyment of the blessings which spring from a renewed heart, and yet OUT faith forbids us to think that his immortality is alone in the hearts of men. This much we do know. He was temperate, honest, honorable and just. He read the Bible, and it is said, tried to con form bis life to its teachings. He largely possessed those traits, which, in the com mon acceptation of the word, make a man "good." Indeed, in some respects he was a beautiful exemplification of the Christian character. .He was very forgiving. There never lived a ntan more misrepresented and maligned. Both in Europe and this coun try the press vomited forth it* poisoned spleen upon him. But can you show me a single sentence of revenge? Point me to one vindictive word. He never wrote un kindly nor spoke bitterly of his enemies. The words of Bishop Thompson might have been truthfully uttered by Abraham Lin coln. "Shoot on your poisoned arrows, it is a brothers heart they pierce, and he can for give you." He had a kind nature. It did him so much good to pardon the condemned, or in any way to exercise mercy, when he could do without invading the rights of justice. When asked to pardon a soldi* r boy, who in an unguarded hour, bad violated a military A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. order, and was condemned to death, he said, "I am always glad to find an excuse for sa ving a man's life- I feel better and docp easier when I reflect how thankful he will be, and how glad his family will be;" and so saying he wrote his name. And how light ly his heart beat when he was able to an nounce that the draft was suspended. The drafting of men into the military service of the United States was perhaps the most un pleasant duty he ever performed; it almost crushed him to call men from their homes and friends, and send them forth to l|attle and death. But, after all, a man's greatness depends more on his actions than on any natural or mental traits he may possess. Let us, then, examine the action* of this man. What did he do? lie was called to assume the leader ship of this nation under greater difficulties than met any other man since the days of Washington. He left his home in Spring field not knowing whether he would ever reach the capital alive, for the murderer was even then seeking his blood. Disguised, he reached the city in safety. He began at once to stay the war which threatened the ice public, ill.-, lust inaugural was a kind ana conciliatory document. In it lie deplor ed war, and expressed the hope that the time was not far distant when the excite ment which then ruled the hour would he allayed, and "the mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and from everv patriotic grave, would yield a sweeter music, when touched by the angels of our better naturp." But he was disappointed in his expectations. The Southern States renounced their allegiance to the Federal Government, established a Government of their own. within the limits of our Govern ment, and at the point of the sword and bayonet demanded the acknowledgement, and recognition of the Southern Confeder acy. War was inevitable. But when the hour came Mr. Lincoln was the man for the hour. Like a hero, he threw himself full length into the work of saving the Govern ment. and nobly did he sustain himself. He looked around him for an army, but we liad lived in peace so long that none was to be found. He called, and the voice now si lent, was responded to. Able generals and thousands of patriots rushed to the reseue. Through four long, bloody years he stood firm as a rock. He saw his country nailed to the cro>s —he saw her hands and feet pierced—he -aw the steel enter her side he saw foreign countries pass by mocking and deriding* hut he faltered not. With a stroug heart and an iron will he stood to his work, until at last light began to break across the darkened heavens. He looked again, and 10, from the grave came forth his country, renovated, purged, and the foul stains which had dishonored her brow wash ed away, and she prepared for a higher life, a nobler destiny. But just when the hour of victory hail come, aud from every hill-top its accents were floating, he fell. His work was done. God had called him to one work, now that work was completed. "A man is immortal till Lis work is done." The assassin sought his life before, but not until the last act was added to the drama, did Omnipotence permit him to fall. Why? I may not say. I'erhaps he was too lenient to reconstruct the State, and a man of firmer mould was needed. But Abraham Lincoln did one thing which immortalized his name. Ho gave freedom to a race. Long after the marble has crumbled away, and refused to mark the spot, where repose hi- honored bones, his name shall U- revered and cherished a- the saviour of his country and liberator of the dark-browed sons of Africa. When he went to Washington I suppose he did not expect to perform this great act. But the viewless hand of Gou was behind the clouds shaping the tempest, lie put it into the heart of this great man to do as he did. He told him when to strike —he struck, and the mass of political rottenness tumbled— the shackles fell and a race stood forth en franchised from the blistering curse of sla very. Ihe manner and time of the President's death east a still deeper shade over the sad event. Had he died at home, in his bed tiom disease, he might *r<d time for re flection, .and communication with .us family. But not a moment was given him—no part ing word was allowed. Shot suddenly and unexpectedly—shot in the hour of triumph, just when the ship of State was emerging from the tempest and clearing the breakers —shot in hope that the vessel would strand on a sea of blood and go down. The pilot is indeed prostrate, but another stands at the helm, and the shin holds on her way, '"not a searon her deck, nor a break in her keel." Abraham Lincoln is dead, but his name will never die. It will be cherished by Americans, as the Swiss cherish the name of Arnold Wiuklereid. It will be revered by us as that of Washington. His name will live in the memory of the good, in every family circle that laid a son on Freedom's altar, in the love of the sable sons of the South, in the remembrance of all who hate tyranny and oppression. Let us torn with strong hearts irom the man to the work he left us to do. Tnere is still something to be done. The leaders of the rebellion already in custody, with those at large; if they can be had. must be attended to. The will of the people is that those men must suffer the extreme pen alty of the law, and the people are the pow er- "The people will arise in their might, and sweej) compromises and compromisers away." Does this seem hard? God has declared that "the way of the t ran-grosser is hard." These men are the murderers of vonr sons, hasbands and brothers. These are they who hunted down your children when they were trying to escape from loath some prisons, starvation ant I death. "They that take the sword shall perish with the sword."' And now as we turn frnni thv grave, no ble martyr, we bid thee farewell. A nation loved thee, a nation mourns thee. Thy life was beautified by deeds recorded in heaven with honor. Thy death, sudden and vio lent. we trust was safe, and thy immortality glorious and blessed. A WIDOW'S TESTIMONIAL. —Noticing the decorations in New York in honor of Presi dent Lincoln, the Em ting /W says: "From a window in New York hangs a crutch shrouded with crape, and inscribed with the words, "Our loss." Thereby hangs a tale. A woman fits at the window who has given her all to the country. No panoplied catafalque covers the remains of her husband, yet she sorrows with the em blem most expressive of her loss. She gave' him. up for her country's sake, and he lies upon Gettysburg's bloody field. With a leg gone, he was slowly moving about, when he was stricken down again. Our late Presi dent visiting the hospitals, saw his death struggles, and heard ..is last words, 'Good bye, Carrie—meet me in Heaven.' The President's heart was opened. He stopped a moment, and wrote a letter of consolation to 'the widow of John Dinsmore" to be sent with hi> crutch, and fifty dollars from his own purse. The widow lias a sacred right to morn such a loss. BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1865. frMtviu DEW DROPS. "Mother," said little Isabel, "While I am fast asleep, The pretty grass and lovely flowers Do nothing else but weep; "For every morning, when I wake. The glistening tear-drops lie Upon eaeh tiny blade of grass, And in each llowret's eye. "I wonder why the grass and flowers At night become so sad: For early through their tears they smile. And seem all day so glad. "Perhaps 'tis when the sun goes down They fear the gathering shade, And that is why theyejy at niyht, Because they are afraid. "Mother, if I should go and tell The pretty grass aad flowers Abowt God's watch. ,A love arid care Through the dark and midnight hours, "I think they would no lrfiger fear, But cease at night to weep; And then, perhaps, would bow their heads, And gently go to sleep." "What seemeth tears to you, my child, Is the refreshing dew Our heavenly father sendeth down, Each mom and evening new. "The glittering drops of pearly dew Are to the grass and flowers What slumber through the .-ilent night Is to this life of ours. "Like dew, the Holy Spirit's grace Falls on us from above, He doth our souls with strength renew, And train our hearts in love. "Thus God remembers all the works That He in love has made: O'er all his watchfulness and care Are night and day displayed." p imllmtffl#. THE PAR VALUE OF BRAlNS.—Working as art ordinary hand in a Philadelphia ship yard, until very recently, was a man named John L. Knowlton. His peculiarity was that, while others ol' his class were at ale houses, or indulgiug iu jollification, he was incessantly engaged in studying upon me chanical combinations. One of his compan ions secured a poodle dog, and spent six months in teaching the quadruped to execute a jig upon his hind legs. Knowlton spent the same period in discovering some method by which he could saw out ship timber in a beveled form. The first man taught bis dog to dance—Knowlton, in the same time, dis covered a mechanical combination that ena bled him to do in two hours the work that would occupy a dozen men, by slow and la borious process, an entire day. That saw is now in use in all the shipyards of the coun try. It cuts a beam to a curved shape as quickly as an ordinary saw-mill saw rips up a straight plank. Knowlton continued his experiments. He took no part in parades or target-shootings, and in a short time afterwards he secured a patent for a machine that turns any material whatever, into a perfectly spherical form. He sold a portion of his patent for a sum thai isequivalent to a fortune. The machine is now in operation in Philadelphia, cleaning off cannon balls for the government. When the ball comes from the mould the surface is intrusted, and the ordinary process of smoothing it was slow and wearisome. This machine, almost in an instant, and with mathematical accuracy, peels it to the sur face of the metal, at the same time smooth ing out any deviations from the perfect spheroidal form. \\ ithin a few days the same plain, unas suming man has invented a boring machine that was tested in the presence of a number of scientific gentlemen, a few days ago. It bored at the rate of twenty two inches an hour, through a block of granite, with a pressure of but three hundred pounds upon the drill. A gentleman present offered him ten thousand dollars upon the spot for a part interest in the invention in Europe, and the offer was accepted on the spot. The moral oi this is, that people who keep on studying are sure to achieve something. Mr. Knowiton does not consider himself by any means brilliant, but if once inspired with an idea, he pursues it until he forces it into tangible shape. If every body would follow copy, the world would be less filled with idlers, and the streets with grumblers and malcontents. SOMETHING TOR EVERYBODY. —When you walk in the street with a lady, keep your hands out of your pockets, and your cigar out of your mouth. We would sooner be caught stealing than in the act of smok ing while walking with a lady. Don't change sides with her on crossing the street; it is quite as proper that you should fall through cellar doors and other traps set by careless people, as that she should. Always take t he right hand when you meet another person, and don't stop. At table take the dish the host offers you, and dou't pass it to the nearest neighbor, even if a lady; it is ungenerous to reprove your host or hostess to his or her face. There is a point where self-abnegation becomes rudeness, and this is precisely that point The person who gives the entertainment has a perfect right to say which shall be served first. Don't offer your chair to a new comer, unless it is the only one of the kind and the best in the room. Rise when another guest leaves the house where you are entertained, but do not follow to the door. \ou may thus spoil a more cordial leave-talking. Don't sitcross lcgged in presence of ladies, or in company of ceremony. Keep your fingers out of your button boles, and your hands from off your lap. Make yourself as comfortable as you can without incommoding any one. Tour host, if a gentleman, always likes to see his guests comfortable ami contented. Re neither a pump nor a pumper, but alter nately resume both conditions. Ask and answer questious with diplomatic propriety. Sneak well of people, or speak not at all. Nothing indicates greater defect of collo (juiul ability than vituperation, or angry declamation. Maintain repose if the earth quakes. Don't squeeze a lady's hand, for, besides being a vulgar demonstration of affection, ladies often wear rings. The slightest possible pressure is in good taste. But there is a difference between the respectful and the real kindly, scarcely perceptible, pressure of the whole hand and a persistent grip that leaves the fingers white for an hour, and a lady disgusted with you for a week. Always wear a clean shirt and collar, and do not fail to use a tooth brush. All of which is respectfully sub mitted to those who would LWJ recognized s person,- of good breeding. THE GROWING WEALTH OF INDIA.— The effect of the war in this country is felt in every laud open to commerce, but perhaps in none more than in India, which has been looked to by English manufacturers for a supply of the cotton cut short by the block ade of the southern ports. Previously to 1860, the cotton export of India was not seven millions sterling annually. The im port of bullion into Bombay tliat year, chiefly in payment tor cotton, was seven and a quarter million- sterling; hut in the four years since not less than sixty millions ster ling in coin have been poured into that city, which now aspires to be the Liverpool of the East. To all India, Europe now pays near ly forty millions sterling a year, of which more than half is in bullion for cotton. The largest share of the trade in Bombv is in the hands of the natives, many of whom reckon their wealth by millions and .speak with contempt of so petty an amount as a lac of rupees, or $50,0(A). The influx of wealth is not confined to the merchants, but the mass of the peasants who raise cotton are rolling in wealth, though formerly bur dened with debt and slaves to the usurers. They hardly know how to spend their sud denly acquired wealth ; one making the tires ©f his cart-wheels of silver ; another, in an idolatrous procession, carrying enormous bags of rupees at the end of poles; while speculation rages wildly. Many of the wealthy of the educated classes are giving largely to public objects, being lavish in their public spirited expenditures to make Bom bay a great commercial capital. But as inight be expected, ince prices have quad rupled in four years in Bombay, while the rich are growing richer, the poor and those with fixed incomes are becoming poorer, and the rich are becoming fast demoralized with i unhealthy speculation. HEADING THE BIBLE.—Read your Bible slowly. Take time, even if you have but little time. A great mathematician once said, if his life depended upon solving a problem in two minutes, he would spend one of the two in deciding how to doit. So in reading the Scriptures; if you are pressed for time (and this should be a rare case,) then spend the precious moments on a por tion of a chapter. When you feel that the mind and heart begin to drink in the sen timent, even of a s.ngle verse, then stop and drain the heavenly chalice, because the Divine Spirit is filling the cup. It isa true, solemn and interest! ig thought, that we are to wait, to linger, to tarry for the blessing to oonie from the vvurd before us. To search the Scriptures with the clear, uninoted eye of meditation, secures treasures of knowledge, known oniy to him who thus cooly, piously and philosophically studies the Word of God. Let any man give us a reason why, when the Scriptures are read so much, memory retain- so little, that quotations are so blundering aud incorrect., if the reason is not found in the fact of hasty reading of the WcudofGod. There, a- el-ewliere. a man must reap as he sow s.—N. Y. Observer. SUMMER FRUITS.—Acids promote the separation of the bile from the blood, which is then passed from the system, thus pre venting fevers tire prevailing diseases ol summer. All fevers are "billious," that is the bile is in the blood. Whatever is an tagonistic of fever is cooling. It is" a com mon saying that fruits are cooling, and also berries of every description. It is because the acidity which they contain aids in sepa rating the bile from the blood. Hence the great yearning for greens, and lettuce, and salads, in the early spring, these being eaten with vinegar: hence, also, the taste for some thing sour—for lemonade—on an attack of fever. But this being the case, it is easy to see that we nullify the good effects of fruits and berries in proportion as we eat them with sugar, or even sweet milk or cream. If we eat them in their natural state —fresh, ripe, perfect—it is almost impo-.-iblc to cat too many—to eat enough to hurt us—espe cially if we eat them alone, not taking any liquid with them whatever. IMPORTANT TO MEN OP LIMITED MEANS. —A line field for northern emigrants is pre sented in the plantations of the Southern States. Land in Virginia and North Caro lina, which before the rebellion could not have been purchased for less than one hun dred and fifty dollars per acre,can now be bad for two dollars and two dollars and a half per acre. The planters there take a very gloomy view of the .present condition of a flairs, and consider their States irretriev ably ruined because the abolition of slavery has for the present depreciated the value of their lauds, which, will no doubt be soon ta ken up in small parcels by colonists from the North and from Europe, and ultimately become far more valuable, under improved systems of tillage, than they have ever yet been. Already a plan, with the aid of Northern capital, is in course of preparation whereby some of the large estates of Virginia will be cut into small tracts, with the view of their purchase and cultivation by North enn farmers of moderate means. AN INSTANCE or MR. LINCOLN'S GOOD JIDGMENT. —One of Mr. Lincoln's last acts was to decide upon the appointment of a gentleman in one of the Western States to an important office. He said to a friend of mine who called upon him : Tam greatly embarrassed by the persistency of Mr. and Mr. in sticking to their candidate for the place. " My friend asked what was the objection to their man. The President quickly replied • "'He is a drunkard. I hear bad stories of h moral character, yet his 1 ackers' arc among the best Republicans in the State. 1 like the fellow's friends, but it goes against my conscience to give the place to a man who gambles and drinks." The result was that Mr. Lincoln refused to give the appointment to the applicant and gave if to another person who aid not ask forth but whose character was above sus picion. THE PRESS IN RT SSIA.—The new press law has been adopted by the Council of the Empire and will probably be shortly sanc tioned by the Emperor prior to promulga tion. The chief clauses are as follows: ' The censorship is abolished upon all books containing more than ten sheets of printed matter; also upon all newspapers, magazines, and periodical publications the editors of which arc willing to submit to the system of warnings. A journal will be suppressed after three warnings. The first two will be given by the Administration, but tlie third must be sanctioned by the Senate. The Government . reserves to itself, in addition, the right of! prosecuting the delinquents before the ordi- j nary tribunals, and they will in that case j have to submit to the verdict of the jury, j CHARACTER does not depend on diet. The ass eats thistles and nettles, the sharpest of food, and is the dullest of animals. The editor of a paper in Indiana wants to know if Western whiskey was ever seen coming through the rye. VoJ 38: No. 25 THREE HOME RULES. —It appears to me that three simple rules, steadily observed from tie very germ of active existence, would make children's tempers much more amiable than we generally see them. First, never give anything improper to them, because they strongly and passionate ly desire it; and ever to withold proper tilings from them until they manifest a right snint. Second, always to gratify every reason able desire when a. child Ls pleasant in its request, that your cliildren may see that yon love to make them happy. Third, never become impatient and fretful yourself, but proportion vour displeasure to exactly the defence. If parents become angry, and speak loud ly' and harshly upon every slight failure of duty, they may bid a final adieu to domes tic subordination, unless the grace of God interposes'to snatch the little victims of se verity from destruction. I feel confident, from what observation I have made, that al though more c hildren are injured by exces sive indulgence than by the opposite fault, yet the effects of extreme rigor are the most hopeless , and the reason is, that associa tions of a disagreeable nature, as some of the ablest philosophers have stated, are the strongest. This may account for the melancholy fact that the children of some excellent people grow up more strenuously opposed to every thing serious than others. They have been driven, rather than led, to observe the out ward duties of a religion, and its claims upon their hearts have been too commonly pre sented to their minds in the imperative and not the inviting form. — Mother s Treasury. "HAVE Y<JO FACKED UP?"— We once went, upon invitation, to dine with a very clever and intelligent gentleman of the city, who professed to be a I uiversalist, but whose wife was a devoted Christian. While seated around the table laden with life's luxuries, the conversation turned uj>on the subject of the necessity of personal religion, when the hu.-band related the following beautiful inci dent, which, he said, had given him much serious thought: On one occasion, when the pious mother had been instructing her chil dren in the truths of her religion, and telling them that she expected to go to heaven, a thoughtful little girl said, after musing in silence for some moments, "Ma, have you packed up ?" "Why do you ask such a question, my ehild ?" said the mother. ' Because you said you were going to heaven," said the little innocent. "And I sometimes think," confessed the Universalist, "that there is some packing up necessary, before we can go to heaven." How many poor sinners are hoping that they will at last go to heaven, and yet have never set about the needful preparations ! The summons to appear before God will find them whglly unprepared, and in that hour all their hopes will die. — Cumberland Pres byterian. FAULT-FINDING WITH OUR CHILDREN.— It is at times necessary to censure and pun ish ; but very much more may be done by encouraging children when they do well. Be, therefore, more careful to express your disapprobation of bad. Nothing can more discourage a child, than a spirit of incessant fault-finding on the part of its parents; hard ly anything can exert a more injurious in fluence upon the disposition of both the pa rent and the ehild. There are two great mo tives influencing human action —nope and fear. Both of these are at times necessary. But who would not prefer to have her child influenced to good conduct by a desire of pleasing rather than by the tear of offending? If a mother never expresses her gratitude when her children do well, and is always censuring them when she sees any thing amiss, they are discouraged and unhappy ; their dispositions become hardened and soured by this ceaseless fretting, and. at last finding that whatever they do well or ill, they are equally found fault with, they re linquish all efforts to please, and become heedless of reproaches.— Ladies' Reposi tory. VALUE OF AMUSEMENTS.— The world must be amused. It is entirely false reason ing to suppose that any human being can devote himself exclusively to labor of any description. It will not, do. Rest alone will not give hini adequate relief. He must be amused. He must enjoy himself. He niustJaugh, sing, dance, eat, drink and be merry, lie must chat with his friends, ex ercise his mind in exciting gentle emotions, and his body in agreeable demonstrations ot activity. The constitution of the human system demands this. It exacts a variety of influence and emotion. It will not remain in health if it cannot obtain that variety. Too much merriment affects it as injuriously as too much sadness : too much relaxation is as pernicious as none at all. But to the industrious toiler, the sunshine of the heart is just as indispensable as the material sun shine is to the flower; both soon pine away and die if deprived of it. WEAR A SMILE. —Which will you do, smile and make others happy, or be crabbed and make everybody around you miserable? Yon can live among beautiful flowers and singing birds, or in the mire surrounded by fogs and frogs. The amount of happiness which you can produce is incalculable, if you will show a smiling face, a kind heart, and speak pleasant words. On the other hand by sour looks, cross words and a fretful dis .posifcion, you can make hundreds unhappy almost beyond endurance. Which will you do ? Wear a pleasant countenance, let joy beam in your eye and love glow on your fore head. There is 110 joy so great as that which springs from a kind act or a pleasant deed, and you may feel it at night when you rest, and at morning when you rise and through the day when about your daily business. GOOD READING. —Where the predisposi tion or susceptibility exists, a book read at the right time often gives an abiding com plexion to the character, or a life-long direc tion to the faculties. The delight with which Pope, when a school-boy read Ogilby's Ho mer resulted in our English Iliad; and the copy of the "Faery Queen,'" which Cowley found on the window scat of hi.s mother's room, committed him to poetry for the rest of his days. In the same way Alex. Mur ray used to ascribe the first awakening of hi's nolyglottal propensities to the specimens of tne Lord's Prayer in many tongues, which he Found in Salmon's Geography, and our pleasant friend Jauies wilson, was made a naturalist by the gift of "Three Hundred Wonderful Animals.' f — MaaniU&n * Afaga zins. ■ KINDNESS.— Kind words, looks and acts are the small currency of social life, each of inconsiderable value, but in the aggregate fuming the wealth of society. They are the "excellent oU" which keeps die machi nery from rusting, wearing, or creaking, j They are the dew that refresW on! n.mt ishes the otherwise arid uu.. . . Tj .. ••■r ■ ' the snusbiuc. .J an else uuuky, uiuary j world. I j NOT APPRECIATED.— Nothing if more common than to hear people talk of what they have paid newspapers for advertising, &c., as so much given in charity. An ex change, in commenting upon this subject, makes some very truthful remarks. It says that newspapers, by enhancing the value of property in their neighborhood, and giving thelocalities in which they are published a reputation abroad, benefit all such grum blers, particularly if they arc merchants or real estate owners, fcbrke the amount of the meagre sum they pay yearly for their sup- Tort. Besides, even' public spirited citizen nasa laudable pride in having a paper which he is not ashamed of, even though he should pick it up in New York or Washington. A good-looking, thriving sheet helps to sell property, gives cliaracter to the locality, and is in all respects one of the desirable public conveniences. If from any cause the matter in the editorial or local columns should not be quite up to your standard, do not cast it aside and pronounce it worthless and of no account, until you are satisfied that there has not been more labor bestowed upon it than is paid for. If you want a good, read able sheet, it must be supported. And it must not be supported in a spirit of chanty, either, but because you feel it is a necessity to support it. The local press is "the power that moves the people,' and the community of people that can not support a good paper are poor indeed. ANECDOTE OF DR. NOTT, OF UNION COL LEGE. —On an evening preceding Thanks giving many years ago, two students left the college, with the moat foul intent of procu ring some of the Doctor's fine fat chickens, that roosted in a tree adjoining the house. When they arrived at the spot, one ascend ed the tree, while the other stood with the bag reacv to receive the plunder. It so happened that the Doctor himself had just left the houae, with the view of securing the same chickens for his Thanksgiving dinner. The rogue under the tree hearing some one approaching, immediately crept away, without notifying his companion among the branches. The Doctor came up silently, and was immediately saluted from above as follows: ' 'Are you readv ?" _ "Yes," responded the Doctor, dissembling his voice as much as possible. The other immediately laying his hands on the old rooster, exclaimed: * "Here s old Prex, will you have him ?" "Pass him along," was the reply, Mid he was soon in the Doctor's bag. "Here's inarm Prex," said the all uncon scious student, grabbing a fine old hen, "will yon have her?" "Yes," again responded the Doctor. "Here's son John, will you have him?" "Here's daughter Sal, take her?" and so on until he had gone regularly through with the Doctor's family and chickens. The old man walked off in one direction with the plunder, while the student, well satisfied with his night's work, came down and streaked it for the college, Great was his astonishment to learn from his compan ion that he had not got any chickens, and if he gave them to any one it must have been to Doctor Nott Expulsion, fines and dis grace was uppermost in their thoughts until the next forenoon, when both received a po lite invitation from their President, request ing the presence of their company to a Thanksgiving dinner. To decline was im possible, so with hearts full of anxiety for the result, they wended their way to the house, where they were pleasantly received by the old gentleman, and with a large par ty were soon seated around the festive board. After asking a blessing, the Doctor rose from his seat, and taking the carving knife, turned with a smile to the rofjues and said: "Young gentlemen, here's old Prex, and marrn Prex, son Joan, and daughter Sal, at the same time touching successively the respective chickens; ' 'to which will you be helped?" The mortification of the stu dents may be imagined. QUIDDITIES.—No doubt a lady may be ex pected to make a great noise in the world when her dress is covered with bugles. Rooks are the best friends, because when they bore you can shut them np without offence. The bottle is the devil's crucible, in which everything is melted. The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the sel ler but one. A smatterer in everything is generally good for nothing. Great talkers are like cracked pitchers ; everything runs out of them. At a fashionable dinner eat slowly—as a matter of course. "Time works wonder," as the lady said when she got married after an eight years courtship. A SHERIFF was once asked to execute a writ against a Quaker. On arriving at his house he saw the Quaker's wife, who, in reply to the inquiry whether her husband was at home, said he was, at the same time requested him to be seated, and her hus band would speedily see him. The officer waited patiently for some time, when the fair Quakeress coming into the room, he re minded her of her promise that he might see her husband, ' Nay, friend, I promised that he would see thee. He has seen thee. He did not like thy looks; therefore he avoided thee, and hath departed from the house by another path. " THE Duke of Wellington once lost his tempeT with the pragmatical imbecility of one of his colleagues in a certain British ad ministration, so iaras to say of that vexa tious personage, "he is intolerable because he is educated beyond the calibre of his brains to bear." —The Duke's description fits a large class of people whom it is the tendency of modern life to Ahrust into an unnatural prominence; a class so large as to have wrung from Carlyle the sardonic declaration that "all Christendom is in con spiracy for the promotion of fools." IN the midst of a stormy discussion, a gentleman rose to settle the matter in dis pute. Waving his hands majestically over the excited disputants, he began, "Gentle man, all I want is common sense— —" ".Ex actly," Jerrold interrupted, "that is precise ly what you do wmit (" The discussion was lost in a burst of laughter. QUILP, talking of a young man whose sire is remarkable for being extremely wise in his own conceit, said—"There, now, goes a promising young fellow. When he has obtained as much experience, he will be as big a fool as his father. AN Irish peasant being asked why he per mitted his pig to take up his quarters with his family, made an answer abounding with satirical naivete. "Why not ? Doesn't the place afford every convenience that a pig can require?" A SCOTCH woman having invited a gen tleman to dinner on a particular day, he ac cepted, with the reservation, "If I am spa red." "Weei, weel," said Airs. Bobinson, "if ye're dead, I'll not expect ye. " A DISAPPOINTED candidate for the offioo of constable remarked to us, in speaking of men who would sell their votes, that they were "as base JSeop of old, who sold his birth-right for a mesa of potash." ALL bachelors are not entirely lost to the refinement of sentiment, for the following toast was lately given by on of them at a public dinner: ' 'The ladies—sweet-briars in the garden of life. A TALL, thin, xquart-biU gentleman was *een walking down the street a few days age. when all of a sudden he was observed to turn/VWHL ; ..-s.. -
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