J lie ißtlfoi'tl jiJut)wfit IS PC 15 LIS HUD j.VKRY 1141 IY*\ Y MUIiNING, BY J. il. MRBOKFOW JOHN IITZ •Hi Jl 11 VA ST.. •|q?i> tie Men gat House, BSUIORD, BEDFORD CO., PA. Tl'.llMH : $ '.OO a year i* paid strictly in advance, -2.25 if not paid within three months. $2.50 if i, ,e IR withi tni year. ILVTES OF AIIVKUTrSING. i ■•!<> -,,'iare, one insertion...., SI.OO Hue : jiiare, three insertions.... 1.50 Rack additional insertion less than 8 months, 50 2 months. 6 months. 1 year. One square. $ 4.j0 $ 0.00 SIO.OO Tiro SQUARES 6,00 0.00 16.00 Three squares S.OO 12.00 20.00 Hal;' column 18.00 25.00 45.00 ijn- column 30.00 45.00 80.00 Administrators' and Executors' n dices, $3.00. Auditors* notices, if under 10 lines, $2.00; if over 10 lines, $2.50. Sheriffs'* sales. SI.TS per tract. Ta bic work, double the above rates; figure work 25 per ecot. additional. Ettrays, Cautious and Xoti . - to TuqilMlHt $2.00 for three insertion.-, it ni.t above ten lines. Marriage * ices, 50 ets.each, payable in advance. Oliituar over five lines in b-ngth, and Resolutions of Beneficial Associations, it half advertising rates, payable in advance. .uouo. i 'rifii'- ib':<;hf. gratis. ( tines in edi torial column, 15 cents oer line. jfc&~ So deduc tion to advertisers of Patent Medecioes, or Ad vertising Agents. 3r*fcssiro*i & tfnrte. ATTORNEYS AT IS AW. jOHS I'VLHKIt. Attorney at Mw. BcUforil. Pa., Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his oare. w, Particular attention paid to the collection of Miiitarv claims, tlffioe on Juliauna St., nearly opposite the Mengcl House.)' june 23, *65.1y s ii. CESSNA, ,}, ATTORNEY AT LAW, otii.-e with Jnnv CESSNA, on Pitt St., opposite the Pclford Hotel. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Mili tary I laiuis, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 0,15G5. JOHN T. READY, • I ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will promptly attond to all legal business entrust ed :•> his care. Will give special attention to claims against the Government, Office on Juliana - rvct, !> nucrly occupied by Hon. A. King. nprll:6o-*ly. J. U. JOBS' Lt'TZ. i \PRHORROW A LDTZ, St , rrroK.yt: ys ./ /' Be it en no. PA., M ill uttcud promptly to all business intrusted to thciv core. Collections made oh the shortest no- They are, also, regularly licensed (Taiw Agents and will eive special attention to the prosecution •>f claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay Eouatyt, Bounty Lands, Ac, Sice on Julibna street, one door South of the '■ Men eel House" and nearly opposite the hiquirer April 28, !S6s:tf. iv-f'V \i: aIsTTU 1 J ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bedford, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in BeiLford and adjoin in,- counties. Military claims, Pfchsions, back uav, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south • >fthe Mengel House. apll, IS6I. tf. VI • A. POINT*. i\ l ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD. PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. I.ingenfeltcr, Kso., on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mangle House." I>ec. 9, 18Bd-tf. KIMMELL AND LINOENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice Of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mengel House, aprl. 1804—tf. TOIIN MOWER, .j ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. April 1, 1564. —tf. |>i;XTISTS. . S. HtC tf O- **■ J,< - nEN TISTS, BEDFORD, PA. th- Bank BniMing, Jtt liana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per formed :- BF.RRV, Pi- will spend the second Monday, Tues day and Wednesday, of each month at Hopewell, the remaining three days at Bloody Run. attend, ins to the duties of his profession. At all other, times he can he found in his office at Woodbury, excepting the last Monday and Tuesday ot the same i . until, which he will spend in Martinsburg, Blair -oei.'- v. Pennu. Persons desiring operations should mil "carl*, as time is limited. All opera. tb>n- warranted. Aug. 5,1864, -tf. PHYSICIANS. j\ H. lIVrH AltnY. ' . I / Rcspectfnlly binders lite professional -or. viee* to tlio citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the trail din formerly occupied by Dr. j. 11. Eofiwt April I, JSfi-I—tt. I L. MARHOURB, M. 1)., ') . Ilnvitx- permanently located respectfully • nders his pnfessional services t<> the citizens : P.cdlor. ml vicinity. Office on Juliana street, npocite the Bank, one door north of Halt A l'al ucr'g office. ' April.l, 1814 —tf. ii or FIX. BEDFORD WQJJSE, AT HOPEWELL, BI I.rORD CorNTY, PA., BV HARRY DROLLINGKR. Every attention gwen to make guestsvorafortable, who stop at this House. Hop. well. July 29, 1864. | ' S. HOTEL, L . UAKRISRIT.RU. PA. CORNER STATU AND MARKET STREETS, ol I oSITK UK ".DING R. R. DEPOT. I). 11. HUTCHINSON, Proprietor. .1 I nt>:6s. PXt'HA.NtiE HOTEL. Ij HI XTINODON. PA., JOHN E. M IDLER, Proprietor. April 2Vtb. (864.—ft. Iti.Mi IKS. o. -H'.N'M'N" F. IH'.NKMUT 1> IPP, SHANNON & CO., BANKERS, I K BEDFORD, PA. BANK OP DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, Went, North arid South, and the general hustnesnt of Exchange, transacted. Notts and Accounts Collected and R> u.ittancef promptly made. HEAT, ESTATE bought and nold. apr.15,'64-tf. JEWELER, At . n ANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED TORI) BUTI'L, BEBFORD, PA. TVATCIIMAKEK AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY, SPECTACLES, AC. He keeps on hand a stoek of fine (told and Sll ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Dotthle ltefin- 1 Gla..-es, aire Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best cpiality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand, apr. 6, 1864—it. .I IKTICIIS OF TIII: PEACE. TOHN MAJOR. *f JUSTICE OP THE PEACE, UOPEWEDD, RDPORD cot'RTT. Collections and all business p< rtaining to bis office will be attended to prompt ly. Will also attend to the sale or renting of real c.cate. Instruments of writing earefolly prepa red. Also settling tip partnership, and ther %t . cvunt*. * April I, 136 -if. DI KBORROW A LITZ, Editors and Proprietors. THE BATTLE-FIELD. ltr WM, CIII.ES BUT AST. Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands, Were trampled by a hurrying crowd, And fiery hearts and armed hands Eneountcr'd in the battlc-cloud. Ah ! never shall the land forget, How gush'd the life-blood of her brave—- Gu.-h'd, warm with hope and courage ret, I'pon the soil they fought to save. Now all is calm, and fresh, and still: A lone the chirp of flitting bird, And talk of children on the hill, And bell of wanderiog kins are heard. "No solemn host goes trailing by The blaek-mouth'd gun and staggering wain , Men start not at the battle-cry ; 0 1 be it never heard again. Soon rested those who fought; but thou Who minglest in the harder strife For truths which men receive not now, Thy warfare only ends with life. A friendless warfare! lingering long Through weary day and weary year ;. And wild ami luauy-weapon'd throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not at thy chosen lot, The timid good may stand aloof, The sage may frown —yet faint they not. Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, surging bolt of scorn, For with thy side shall dwell at last The victory of endurance born. Trutb, crush'd to earth, shall rise again : The eternal years of God are her'g : But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among hi worshippers. Yeu, though thou lie upon the dust, When they who help'd thee flee in. fear, Die full of hope and manly trust, Like those who fell in battle here. Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is pcal'd The blast of triumph o'er the grave. pi£Uaimni£, ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR JOHNSON OF GEORGIA. Gov. Johnson of Georgia has issued a proclamation calling upon the people of the State to elect delegates to a convention to be held on the fourth Wednesday of October, next, He also delivered an address in the (Sty Hall at Macon, on Saturday evening, July 15th, in which he said he had been ap pointed for the single jiurpose Of enabling the State to form a Government. He ad vised the people to receive the amnesty oath and thus prepare themselves to become citi zens. He expressed his ideas on the slave ry question in the following pertinent man ner : I now fool bound to declare to you one thing which you must recognize as accom plished : and the sooner you know it. and conform to it. the sooner you will be relieved from military rule. Slavery exists ho more. This is decreed. Its restoration under any form, is Utterly put of the question. Sla very lias been extinguished by the operations of the late war. Ido not propose, in this connection to enter u{>on a lengthy argument to prove it. I simply state what is univer sally acknowledged by all writers on national law, that belligerents have the right to make captures of persons and property, and that they may make what disposition they please of the property captured. The vanquished are at the disposition of the conquerors, ami may be dtspo-ed of as they think jnroper. Such is war. and it is a sin against (rod and humanity that it should he waged. We must submit, to the result of the war. Con gress, by the Constitution of the United States, has the power to give to the Presi dent the regulations of captures by sea and land, and the President, in the exercise of this power given to him by the Constitution and bv Congress, issued his proclamation disposing of their captures, declaring that all : the negroes who were slaves in the revolted States, should, by virtue ot that proclama tion, become emancipated. Such is, in my judgment, the law. and 1 believe the Su preme < 'ourt will so decide. I come to another point. The Constitu tion which the people of Georgia shall adopt in convention will be required to recognize this faet. The convention will he called up -lon to agree to this amendment to the Con stitution, that slavery shall no longer exist in these states. They will Weal led upon to decide this l)efore their restoration to the Union, in order that this quarrel about sla very, which has existed since the beginning of the government to the present time, shall never he revived, and in order that there -hall be no dispute among the people of this 1 State on the subject. They must provide for its extinction now. and so 1 tell you to day, if you wish to be admitted into the Union this convention of the people of 1 Georgia uiost be composed Of Such material a.swifl recognize the feet of the extinction of slavery in Georgia, and agree to the amend ment to the Constitution 'of the United States, which will extinguish slavery throughout the country. It is claimed by -omc that the negroes will not work. I know that those who have been driven off the farms do not work, bo cause they have no opportunity of working, and some of them will not work where they have not been driven off. For this latter class, the Legislature must make laws de claring them vagrants, and punhliing them as such. The negro will not work! How do you know they will not ? I saw tlieiu working very well in New \ orli aud other places whore I have been- _lt is true, they sometimes commit crimes in those places, and they are punished for it. They must work —they can work —they niu.-t either work or perish. What is the difficulty . I>o not the people have to work iu Germany in Franco, iu New York, in Ohio W hut-is the reason they will not work ? I tell you they will work; and I must say that under the peculiar circumstances by which they are surrounded, no people ever behaved better than they have done. Those who tell you they will not work, have hopes of contin uing their control and dominion over them. They will work under contracts of hire; and and if they fail, they become vagrants, and may be punished or exiled, as the laws of the Slate may direct Let the Legislature meet and pass the aeedful laws for tneir reg ulation. and everything will move smoothly on. Ist them be employed by men of hu manity. and have fair compensation givert t hem, and, in my judgment, no difficulty will 1 lie in the way. A LOCAL AMD GENEHAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO"'POLITICS, EDUCATION. LITKRATURB AND MOItALS. We have lost our capital in negro proper ty. It is gone. We are reduced, as a IIO ple, to bankruptcy. We have been in af fluence, and our ric-hes have flown away. But who is to blame ? From what source came the result ? It is from the war; it is one of the penalties we must pay. It was a war of our own seeking, and such has been the result of it. We made the war. As a Southern man I am bound to say, and his tory will say, we tired the first gun, the re sult of which has been a war of gigantic, huge proportions. Wo have been impover ished by our folly, and such will ever be the result of stupendous folly. But while I say these things on this point, T think some advantages will result from this war in the future. Whilst we have been hurt and chastised for the present, yet let us remember that we may accumulate property in the future, and all our surplus capital, instead of being laid out in negroes, will be expended in permanent improvement in increasing the comfort of our homes, ma nuring our lands, planting orchards, build ing permanent fences, and in manufactures of all kinds. Attracted to this land, immi grants from other parts of the world and from the North will come to settle amongst us, because we have as good a clime as any under fthe sun. Our towns and villages, instead of going to decay, will improve, 'and arts and sciences will flourish among us. Such, I believe, will be one of the results of this war. And not only that, there is another advan tage. We have been very sensitive as a people. We allowed no wan to thiuk that slavery was a moral, social, or political evil, and if any one thought thus he was deemed unsound, and arraigned before vigilance committees. Even when Lord Jolm Ilussel in England, took occasion to say he hoped slavery would be abolished by this revolu tion, our people commenced abusing him as if he had trespassed upon our rights. We abused mankind when they differed with us, and we carried our opposition to men's think ing as they pleased to such an extreme, that men among us who dared to differ from us on this subjeet were arraigned, not by law, or before a legal tribunal, but before vigilance societies, and personally abused. Civiliza tion was almost driven from the land ; law and order were suppressed by these lawless men. But now we can look over this land, and pray, asSolomoudid. that all of Adam's race maybe elevated to dignity and liappb ness. Now every pne may. in the exercise of his constitutional rights, advocate slavery or denounce it, surrounded as he is, by the power of the Government of the United States, which protects us fully in the enjoy ment of these rights. But. fellow citizens, as I have before re marked, we have severely suffered from this war. Our towns have been burned and de stroyed, our field.-; have been laid waste, our homes and cattle have beeu taken from us, and our children have fallen on bloody fields. But, notwithstanding this, there is hope. It seeuis to be the order of Providence in dealing with nations, as He deals with indi viduals, that they will bo perfected by suf ferings. We shall come out of this contro versy a more glorious and happy people. The presence ofliberty will De well guarded among us. We shall "remain a free and uni ted people. In looking down the vista of time, I see Georgia ten fold more prosper ous. and when all our sectional prejudices shall have died away, we shall meet together North and South, as brethren, rejoicing un der our government, and marching on to the glorious destiny which is before us. Not only will Georgia increase in wealth and pop ulation, but the whole Southern country will be more prosperous in arts, manufac tures, wealth and crvilizatiou. I sec them marching on in this new order of things. The whole country united in the bonds of charity and levc, must go on prospering un til this groat nation shall be unequaled by any Power on earth. This is our country : these are her prospects. To this standard I invite you to rally. ''Tisthe star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.'' THE MISSION OI A iMEVtSPAPER, The Springfield Rcpuhlicui. which to us appears to be the most independent and manly journal in New England, gives the following paragraphs, which entirely agree with our opinions and practice : "As wc understand the mission of a news paper press, it is to tell the truth ; to give its reactors as accurate ideas of events and men as are to be had, and to make such com ments and suggestions as seem likely to pro mote the public welfare. This is only saying that an editor is bound to be an honest man. If he is, he will of course sometimes have oc casion to tell unpleasant truths about his own party leaders, or acts of the Govern ment, and ex pore malfeasance and corrup tion in office. To suppress the truth may often be ns hurtful as to utter a falsehood, and the newspaper that intentionally does either, with the idea that it is thus serving the interests of any party, makes a gross mistake. It is merely destroying its own in fluence in the community and making itself a nonentity. What intelligent niau values the opinion of a strictly partisan newspaper, which systematically defends all that its own party says and does, and maintains the im peccability of every man that party votes in to office? There is a certain class thatis in fluenced by such indiscriminate partisan ships, but it is not the thinking and control ling class; it is not the class that an editor of honorable ambition endeavors to influ ence." The Republican cares very little whether it is called radical or conservative, or both alternatively.- It aims to give real facts and honest opinions on all subjects without fear or fawr. and without regnrd to the supposed interests of party, or the petty ambitions of partisan leaders. And it believes that the American press will only attain its proper in fluence and consifhration by rising above party and expressing independent opinions. In this way it will not only take its tree posi tion among the great instruments of human progress and amelioration, but it will purify and elevate politics, and aid in bringing the time when sincere men can enter iuto the contests of parties without lass of self-re spect. GENERAL LEE. —It is a poor business to be trying to create sympathy and admiration for General Tree. He is a perjured traitor, who turned against the Government that educated him into a position, and he used the education that the people had paid for to slay them. Thousands of dead patriots who sleep in unknown graves were sent there by the orders of this military head of the great plot of treason. A truly loyal man can look at Loe with no other feeling than that of abhorrence. r Twelve hundred fresh troops, direct from France, were landed at Tampioo, in the beginning of this month, and there wa< a rumor which did gain much credence, that soon after there arrived twelve thousand more. BEDFOKD. Pa,. FRIDAY, AUGUST Li, 186& RESTORATION TIIE WORK OF TIME. (From the New York Tim -*, 20th.) Many men arc disappointed in not finding a more rapid transformation of' Southern character. They read of a great deal of bit terness yet towards the National Govern ment, of f. loyalty thfff is simply subiuitwion to the strongest, of continued adherence to the doctrine of State tights, of a disposition to oppress and persecute the freedmen; they conclude that there a but a poor prospect that the South will ever assimilate with the rest cf the country, .aad look forward to an indefinite prolongation of military rule, oy to never-ending disorder and wrong. From this state of mind naturally comes tin inclina tion to try rigorous measures and summary expedients. This view of the subject is false and mis chievous. We nevi had a right to imagine that the South metamorphosed merely by being vnnouishod by Force Tfn nian nature is capable of no such sudden change—least of till the tough stuff of' A merican nature. We are too apt to apply Northern standards to Southern conduct making too little allowance for the immense difference of education. With our anti-sla very principles and our inbred reverence for the national flag, wc can hardly appreciate what it costs a Southerner to acknowledge that a negro has natural rights as sacred as his own, and that his "sovereign State" has not the first claim to his allegiance. It is al most impossible for us to estimate the nov elty of the situation in which the Southern man now finds himself, and the extreme dif ficulty of his adapting himself to it. All the civil ideas, ill the social habits of his lifetime, must be changed! All his concep tions of citizenship, of loyalty, of State dig nity, of the relations of races, of the title of labor to respect, of political economy, of natural justice, of the divine ordinances, of the precepts of Christianity, must he adjust ed to a new order of things, contrary to all lie has ever seen or felt . Were we, on awa kening to-morrow, to find ourselves the sub jects of Queen Victoria, our old ideas and habits would hardly experience a ruder shock than the old Heas and habits of the Southern people hive sustained by the sud den break up of their social system. The truth is. that there is cause for sur firise in the readiness with which the great jody of the Souther® people recognize the real aspects of their new situation, and the necessities it entails. They have generally yielded with far letter grace than was anti cipateid before the war closed. Though most or them have not as yet shown any particu lar devotion to the Government, few of them have exhibited a contumacious or sullen spir it. Their general disposition is to follow the course indicated by the Government, in' the hope that it will finally bring them out of-their present calamities. Nothing like enthusiasm is shown in this; nor could it be expected. Their spirits, if not broken by their defeats and their miseries, have been too much depressed to admit of a recovery for many a day yet. They move, for the most part, passively; hut it an excellent thing that they move at all. Every stop for ward will strengthen their faith in the Gov ernment. find prompt to new exertion. Gain ing new aseuratKse phot they have the cordi al good will of the Northern people, and that it is possible to live with them in brother hood, and new proof's that all their material interests depend upon a conformity to the same principles and systems that have se cured for the North its unparallelled pros perity, they will gradually come to our own ground, and thoroughly identify themselves with us, in act, thought, and feeling. Till; TWO ROADS. A traveller once came to the forks- of a road, not knowing which one take, in or der to reach his destination. The one was routh and the other smooth. The one set out into a flat and barren piece of land, whilst the other wound around the base of the bill, and disappeared finally far away in a smiling and fertile valley. The former road, in short, was in every way uninviting to the traveller, whilst the latter seemed to beckon him on itswav. The pleasant prospect decided his course, and he turned his feet into the latter road, lie passed down into the valley and wended his way tlong the banks of a laughing stream until the sun was high in the middle of the heavens, lie then left it and passed up out of the valley over the dulls. Here the prospect became less inviting, and the farther he advanced the more broken and desolate the country became, until at lust the horse which hewas riding sank into the mire, and was unable to go any farther. After having made inquiry as "to where this road led." he turned his liOr.se about and retraced his steps, and _ ; when on the next day he neared his destination on the other road, the scene which on every hand met his eye. was fairly enchanting! Two roads start, my dear young friends, from your very feet. See how they look. The one is narrow and rough, and thorns and briers grow thick on either side. The other is broad and smooth, and a charming pro-meet opens up on cither hand of green meadows and dense foliaged woods. The former is "the narrow way" which leads to life everlasting, and the latter is "the broad road" which leads to eternal death. The roughness and thorns and briers of the one are the trials and temptations of a godly life, and the smoothness and pleasant ness of the other arc the sinful pleasures and practices of a godless life. To, you it may seem easy and pleasant to follow on in the way after Satan, but very difficult and disagreeable to take up the cross and bear it after Christ. "through evil as well as good report. In short, you think that if you become a Christian boy or girl, you must renounce all the pleasures of the world, and ever afterward lead a gloomy life- Remem ber. dear children, the end is not always as in the beginning. The traveller was deceiv ed and so you are, if you take it that a Christ less life is the most plcn--autone.be cause it sets out with tint full enjoyment of the pleasurer of the world. Don't think al together about the present, hut look into the future also. We know that you do not want to become profane swearers, thieves or liars, or finally die and lift up your eyes "being in torments." Don't choose, then, such a life as will lead you to these things. Set out now in the way that will bring you to Christ and to Heaven; Start imme diately-. Pass right at once over the stony and rough road, and by the side ol thorns and briars. Give yourself up at once to Jesus. Begin now to leave off all your bad habits. Surmount every difficulty, over come if possible, every temptation. "Touch not, taste not, handle not the unclean thing.' "Avoid the very appearance of evil." Ih> these things, and you will be a hero or a he roine in the sight of God, a bongtteror over the world, ana when you die you will pass into a world flooded with beauty, and lull ol joy.— Youth's Evangelist. j|6P""Good morning, Mr. Jenkins where have you kept yourself thislong time?' "Kept myself,' said Jenkins; I don t keep myself. I live on credit. THE UNREMITTING BRAVE. Amid all the pomp and splendor of mili tary reviews, wheeling squadrons, and clat ter of flying artillery, the heart —now that the cruel war is over—turns sadly to those who shall come buck to us no more. They sleep in far-oil' graves—if they have such distinctive marks at ail—and if not, their bones bleach on distant battle fields in re mote wilderness or oozy swamps, untrodden by human lootsteps. The soul sickens in contemplating all the agonies and sorrows and indignities to which they have been sub jected since leaving their homes of peaceful quiet. What hot pulses and passionate hearts have been stilled forever since this summer tour years ago; what brilliant hopes and anticipations; what glowing dreams of military greatness; what ambitious longings for the strife of battles, are felt no more for ever! Who is- then: that cannot recall one hand some youth whose joyous laughter idled some stately home with pleasure? In all the pomp and pride of young manhood, with frank beautiful eyes, and clear complexion, and well rounded form, he appeared the em bodiment of health, too full of youth to be food for death. Love and days of dreamy pleasure, seemed the fitting pursuit for such bright, beautiful Adonises. But the distant boom of the cannon of Sumter struck his ear and, throwing aside the college class books, lie rushed proudly away to the bat tic. Sweet-eyed Julictat the balcony kissed fair hands to Romeo, and from windows em bowered in honeysuckle and roses waved white handkerchiefs, lighting him onto glo ry and to greatness. The perfumes of heli otrope watted from blossoming gardens in his march recalled the former life of pleas ure perchance, but turned him not aside. Everything about war at first was a glori ous circumstance;. The manliness to com mand men, to feel a bright sword upon his thigh, and the consciousness within of feel ing that he dared to draw it in one of the noblest causes that ever excited the enthusi asm of a young hero; the courtly ceremo nies of parade and reviews, the glorious roll of drums, and the thrill of' brazen "bugles j and flutter of bright, starry banners present- ] ed by fair ones at home as he started for the J wars—all this kept him eoustantly in a state j of pleasurable excitement and hope. What was grander than to win a name, and march j at the head, perhaps of conquering col umns! What would they say at homo to see him Co!nine hack, a general perchance, and the sword that fair Juliet had kissed and deco rated with n rihhon from her hair, how gal lant to wave it in a flashing salute, bow ing from the saddle as lie passed her house. Ah! bright-eyed, eager hoy of ardent hopes and noble ambition! Where sleejts the faultless form now that onee gladdened a mother's fond eyes, and the touch of whose lingering fingers thrilled supremest eestaey through aching Juliet's heart? The return ing legions every day marching to expectant towns and welcomed with open arms as they bravely hear their tattered, scarred banners back to tliose who gave them, miss you; and the eager glances of merry, waiting eyes at home turn tearfully away to the darkened parlor. rWrnyftwn,*.l the gladsome strains of music. Oh, the bitterness of -neb moments to those who wait and weep, or, despairing, sit hopelessly dowri to deep despondency i If he had but lived to come back with them— even senrred and wounded —if he only had conic bark! It is the burden of many a bitterly sor rowful heart just in these days of our tri umph, at the close of the war. l'hc return of the armies with p;. an- of rejoicing revives all the memories of the past. The weari some waiting in muddy camps, the terrible winter nights on picket duty, the sickness at heart, the lingering fevers of camp and hos pital. and the pining for the lost comforts of home, were trials that were as life-consuming to some as the fierce deadly charge of rnsh iug squadrons, or the flash of trained musk etry in the midst of hottest battles. Peace to the gallant dead ! Eternal grat itude to the noble and self-forgetting heroes who sleep in unknown graves, far away from familliar homesteads. A nation of count lt-s united republics shall, in the bright fu ture impending, do saint-reverence to such en-tly'sacrifices. And the pride of being connected by blood or kindred ties with such nobles will be more than Norman. IXIM.I'KX'E or SENSIBI.E WOMEN. It is a wondafou.- advantage to a man in every pursuit or avocation, to secure an ad visor iu a sensible Woman. Iu woman there is at once a -nblk delicacy of tact and a plain soundness of judgment, which are rarely cxKcbiued to an equal degree in man. A woman if she bo really your t rieud, will have a sensible regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a -hubby thing, for a woman friend always desires to he proud of you. At the sum. tjjme her constitutional timidit.v makes her more cautious than your male friend. She, therefore, seldom counsels you to do an im prudent thing. By female friendships, we menu those in which there is no admixture of the passion of love, exceiit in the married state. A man's be t female friend is a wife of good sense and good heart, whom he loves and who loves him. If he have that, he need not seek elsewhere. But supposing the man to be without such a help mate, female friendships he must still have, or his intellect will be without a garden, and there will be many an unheeded gap even in the strongest fence. Better and safer, of course, such friendships where circumstances put the idea ot love out of the question. Middle life has rarely this advantage; youth and old age have, lie may have female friendships with those much older and those much younger than ourselves. Molierc's old housekeeper was a great help to his genius, aud Montaigne's philosophy takes b< tli a gentler and loftier eharaetei of wisdom from .he date in which he finds, in Marie do Germany, an adopted daughter "certainly beloved by ntc," savs the Horace of essavists, "with more than paternal love, and involved in my solitude and retirement as one of the best parts of my being. ' Female friendship, indeed, is to" man ' l prcrmii>nn et dul.ee ple to illustrate more nobly the dignity and self-reliance which liberty both inspires and justifies. It is a notable chapter in the history office governments which the soidi t'hd guardians and nurses of liberty on the Continent of Europe will do well 'to study and make its lessons their own.'' MASKERS AT UOAIE. Two great men, at whose feet the genera tions, since their time, have sat to learn wisdom, were Sir Matthew Hale and Rich ard Baxter. The last-named has left an in teresting picture of their intercourse with each other, as follows: The manner of our converse w as as suita ble to ray inclination as the matter, for whereas many bred in the Universities, and called scholars, have cot the wit, manners, Mid r-aticitvc to hear itiose with whom they discourse speak to the end; but through list and inipotency cannot hold, but cut off a man's speech, when they hear anything that urgeth theui. before the latter part make the former intelligible or strong, more like scholars; a.- if they commanded silence at the end of each sentence to hint that speak cth, or else would have two talk at once—l do not remember that ever lie and I did in terrupt each other in any discourse. His wisdom and accustomed patience caused him still to stay for the end. And though niy disposition has too much forwardness to speak, I had not so little wit or manners as to interrupt him; whereby we far better un derstood each other than we could have done in chopping and maimed discourse." Now, the reader may consider this a small matter —a mere punctilio of politeness. What was not beneath the notice aud prac tice of such minds as Baxter's and Judge Hale's, can, however, scarcely Lie thought beneath the notice and practice of common er men. Was not this small observance of good manners a token of something deeper and nobler, even of a mastery over the im patience of human nature? Aud when we hear and see in families the very opposite, the quick contradiction, the rude breakiug in upon each other's speech, we may con clude readily that there is a deeper fault than mere surface impetuosity; there is gen erally the ungovemed temper; the rash aud thoughtless heart. — Christian World. NOT TN.LY AI'VRECIATEI).— Nothing is more common than to hear people talk of what they have paid newspaj>crs for adver tising, as so much given in charity. A co tcmpoary, in commenting upon this subject, make- some very truthful remarks, when it says that newspapers, by enhancing the value of property in their neighborhood, and giving the localities ia which they arc pub lished a reputation abroad, beuent all such grumblers, particularly if they are merchants or real estate owners, thrice the amount of the meagre sum they pay yearly for their support. Besides, every public spirited citizen has a laudable pride in having a paper which he is not ashamed of. A good -looking, thriving sheet helps to sell property gives character to the locality, and is in all respects one of the desirable public conve niences. If from any cause the matter in the editorial or local columns should not be quite up to yonr standard, do not cast it aside and pronounce it worthless and of 110 account, until you are satisfied that there has not been more labor bestowed upon it than is paid for. If you want a good reada ble sheet, it must not be supported in a spirit of charity, either, but because you feel it is a necessity to support it. The local press i- "the power that moves the people, and the community of people that cannot support a good paper are poor indeed. GENERAL JACKSON'S MOTTO.—' Think bofore you act, but wben the time lor action comes, stop thinking." This is the true doc trine. Many men fail in life and go down to the grave with hopes blasted and prospects of happiness unrealized because they did not adopt and act upon this motto. Moth ing so prepares a man for action as thought; but nothing so unfits a man for action in the course of action Better by far adopt some course and pursue it energetically, eventho' it may not be the best, than to keep contin ually thinking without action. ''Go ahead_ ought to he printed in every young man s hat, and read until it becomes a part of his nature, until he can act upon his judg ment, aud not be turned from his course by every wind of interested advice. In conclu sion," we would say, "Think before you act; but when the time for action comes, stop thinking.' THE TOOTH OF TRUE.— "When Nineveh has departed and Palmyra is in ruins; when Imperial Home has fallen, and the Pyramids themselves are sinking into decay, it ts no wonder,"' sighed a French humorist, "that uiy old black coat should be getting seedy at the elbows. : HOW TO PICK WHORTLEBERRIES. When I first knew .Mr. John Ilorsly, he was a white haired man and very rich. He seemed never to have been in any great bus ness. such as merchants and speculators now engage in. and he was never accused of be ing a dishonest man, it was always a myste ry to me how he came to be so rich. I knew that his father was a poor country clergyman and that John could have received no prop erty from him. Meeting my friend one day when our conversation happened to turn on the subject of gathering property, I ven tured to ask him how it was he had been so successful in life. "When I was a boy, 'he said, "mv father was a poor minister. We lived very plain and dressed very plain, but that never trou bled us. We always bad enough of some thing to eat and my mother was one who contrived to have lier children dressed pret tily if not richly. One day when I was a little fellow, several little boys and girls came along on their way to pick whortleberries. They invited me to go along with them, and when I saw their bright faces and little bas kets, and the bright afternoon, I wanted to go with them. So I went into the house and asked my mother. 1 saw she sympa thized with me, but she said I must go and ask father. "And where is lather?" "Up in the study, of course." "Up I bounded, hat in hand, and gently knocked at the door. He bade me come in. "Well, Johnny, what is your wish?" ."I want, sir, to go with the children and pick whortleberries." "Where are they going?" "Only to Johnson's hQ], tir." "How many children are there?" "Seven, besides myself. Please let me go." "Well, you may go. Be a good boy, and use no bad words.'' Away I scampered, and just got to the bottom o? the stairs when my father called me back. 0 dear, it's all over now. He's going to take it all back, I said to myself. Trembling, I again stood in the doorway, expecting to have the permission with drawn. ' Johnny, ' said my father, with a peculiar smile, ''l have a word of advice to give you. You will find berries growing in clumps all over the lot. The children will pick a few minutes at one place and then go off to an other, in hopes of finding better picking, and thus they will spend half of the after noon in roaming from one place to another. Now my advice to you is, that when you find, pretty fair picking, stick to that spot and kern niching there. Your basket at night will snow whether my advice is good or not."^ ''Well, sir, I followed my father's advice, and although the children would wander about and cry out: ''Oh, Johnny here's a world of them" and "there's splendid pick ing,'' and "here you can fill your basket in no time, and yet I stuck to my fair picking place. When we got through at night, to the astonishment of every one, and my own no less, it was found that I had nearly twice as many as any other one. They all won dered how it came. But I knew. And that was the lesson that made nie a rich man. Whenever I have found fair picking I have stuck to it. Others have changed occupa tions and business, but I have never done so, and I attribute all my success to the les son bv which 1 learned to pick whortleber ries.' I have recalled this conversation, and the form of my old friend, who has long since passed away, to impress it upon the parent, and upon the teachers, that a tingle sentence of instruction may shape the course of the whole life of the child now under his care. Not only did property and success hang on the old minister's hint, but the shaping of his son's whole character for life, and per liupu forevar. How much wisdom we need to be able to say the right thing and at the right time. THE DOG. —The man who could ever tire of reading Fred. Cozzens's description of ' his dog, must have a nature deficient in the sublime and beautiful ingredients. To those who have never read it, or want to read it a gain, we now present it: ' * A dog is a good thing to have in the coun try. I have one which 1 raised from a pup. He is a good, stout fellow, and a heartv barker end feeder. The man of whom 1 bought him said he was a thoroughbred, but he begins to have a mongrel look a bout him. He is a good watch dog. though; for the moment he sees any suspicious look ing person about the premises, he comes right into the kitchen and gets behind the stove. First, we kept hiin in the house, and he scratched all night to get out. Then we turned him out, and he scratched all night to get in. Then we tied him up at the back of the garden, and he howled so that our neighbor shot at him twice before day-break. Finally, we gave him away, and he came back; and now lie is just recovering from a fit in which he has torn up the patch that has been sown for our spring radishes." SIGNS.— When will signs and wonders cease? Hot till the destroying angel shall clip short the thread of time and the heav ens be rolled together as a scroll. Not a day passes but we sec good and bad signs, as the following will show: It is a good sign to see a man doing an act of charity to his fellows. It is a bad sign to licar him boasting of it. It is a good sign to see an honest man wearing his old clothes. It is a bad sign to see them filling the holes in the windows. It is a good sign to see a man wiping the perspiration from his brow. It is a bad sign to see him wipe his chops as he comes out of the cellar. It is a good sign to see a woman dressing with taste and neatness. It is a bad sign to see her husband sued for her finery. It is a good sign for a man to advertise in the paper. It is a bad sign to see the sheriff adver tise for him. It is a good sign to see a man sending his children to school. It is a bad sign to see there, educated at ! evening school on the public square. Goon ADVICE. —If the body is tired, rest; if the brain is tired, sleep. If the bowels are loose, lie down in a warm bed and remain there, and eat nothing until you are well. If an action of the bowels does not occur at the usual hour, eat iiot au atom till they do act, at least for thirtysix hours; meanwhile drink largely of cold water or hot teas, exercise in the open air to the extent of a gentle perspiration, and keep this up till things are righted. This one suggestion if practiced, would save myriads ot lives every year, both in the city and the country. The best medicines in the world are warmth, abstinence and repose.— Halls Journal of Ilmlth. IF you happen to be an honest and dili gent young man; if you possess the respect of your associates; and nave taken a fancy in your head to get rid of your industry and honesty; to lose the respect of your friends and the good opinion of your mates, I will tell you now you .may manage the matter in a very little time, and with little trouble — (earn to drink rum. GENERAL BE.ECREGARD IS expected to arrive in New in the course of a few days with a view to his denarture for Europe. It is understood that the Government has given him permission to leave the country, on condition that he will never take arms up against it. It is supposed he will tender his services to the French army.