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JOHN MAJOR, JUSTICE OF TnE PEACE, BOPIWBLI., I'DFORD COUNTY. Collections and all business Renaming to his office wiil be attended to prompt -1 • >Vill also attend to the sale or renting of real "tate. Instruments of writing carefully prepa 10,t. Also settling up partnerships and other ac- C'UIltS. April, 1861— tf. ©eMotO 3hiqturcr. JVRBORROW £ LIiTZ, Editors and Proprietors. WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A PAPER 1 He was a model husband, So generous and kind. One like good naturod Alfred Gray 'Mongst men 'twas hard to find. He had a household, hale and strong, But dim was wisdom's taper; Because the evening glided by Without the weekly paper. But woman's eye Is quick to see, And Mrs. Gray was shrewd; And though he was a quiet man, Yet sometimes she was rode : And when they went, last Friday night. To call on Mrs. Draper, She said her husband was a goose, And doesn't take a paper. Good natured Alfred when accused Of this before them all, Looked calmly round and softly said, My income is too small ; I always wear a bonnet less, Said gentle Mrs. Draper, Throughout the year to give my dear His 'Democratic' paper. llow would we know produce wu up, Or shoes and dry goods down, The name of our new President, And where his native town, Nor would we know yonng Andrew Brown, Had wed the Miss Laypcr, With ninety thousand, all in eash, If 'twas not for the paper. This hare I done said Mrs. Gray, For bonnetlcss am I I wear a hood of dingy silk, Yet nothing hare laid by. My Alfred says 'tis very Well For every idle gaper. Who has the cash and time to waste, To buy and read the paper. My Jane is twenty-six to-day, And yet she don't get married) Economy has been our rule, Yet still at home she's tarried ; And Alfred has three dollars now Saved up to buy a scraper; I wish that be would change his mind And take a weekly paper. The question was then put to rote To know which was most meet, Get something new to clear the mind Or shoes upon the feet; The good wives clapped their hands with joy, The children cut a caper, The vote at once were twelve to one, And so he took the paper. There is an edifice np town, In upper-tendom street. There's Alfred Gray, Esq's home, The rich and poor to greet, Ho rose quite soon from obscure life, Soon left its murky vapor, For affluence and usefulness Because he took the paper. Dear reader, in fretful home, If you from day to day Are hobbling awkwardly along, As once did Alfred Gray : If trials hard you have to bear, Although you bear them meekly, If you'd out-live them and he rich, Why don't you take a weekly ? QUIET WILLIE. TALK ABOUT MARRIAGE. BY T. 8. ARTHUR. Two maidens, in youthful bloom and beauty, sat earnestly talking. Their thoughts were reaching away into the future; their theme was marriage. "I like him well enough," said one of them, but—' She paused, the objection unspoken. 'What is the impediment, Alice?' 'His income is to small.' 'What is it?' 'Eight hundred dollars a year.' 'You might live on that.' 'Live! Bah! What kind of living? 'Not precisely in style, I will admit ' 'Nor scarcely in plebeian, Fanny. Eight hundred dollars! Why father pays six hundred dollars rent, and I'm sure our style of living is plain enough. Eight hun dred ! Oh, no, I like Harrv better than any young man I have met t could love him, no doubt. But he can't support a wife in any decent kind of style.' Did your father and mother begin their marriage life on a larger income than Harry Pleasants now receives? Mine did not, as I have often heard them relate.' 'Father and mother ! Oh, according to story, Job's famous turkey was scarcely poorer than they were in the beginning. Mother did all her own work, even to wash ing and ironing, I believe. Father's income was not over three or four hundred dollars a year.' 'And they were happy together, I am quite sure. 'No doubt. In fact, I've heard mother say that the first hard struggling years of their life, were among the happiest she had known. But that doscn't signify for me. That is no reason why her daughter should elect to go into the kitchen, and spend her years in washing, ironing and cooking. If a man isn't able to support a wife genteelly, and in the style to which she has been accus tomed, let him marry some Irish Cook, sewing girl, or washerwoman, who will man age his household with the needed economy. Young men who can't earn more than eight hundred or a thousand dollars a year should not look into our circles for wives.' 'I don't like to hear you talk in this way, Alice,' said her companion. 'We are not superior beings, but only the equals of the men.' 'Did I say we were superior?' 'One might infer from your language that you thought so.' 'I don't see how the inference can fairly be drawn.' 'Our circles for wives, you said just now.' 'Yes.' 'What do you mean by it?' 'A circle of intelligence, refinement, taste and cultivation,' said Alice. You don't say wealth.' 'No. My father, though living in good style, is not rich. 1 have beard him say, more than once, that we were living up to our income.' 'Then we have our own sweet selves with which to endow our husbands. No houses or lands; no stocks from which to draw an income; nothing substantial on which to claim the right of being supported in costly idleness. We must be rich indeed as to per sonal attractions.' 'We are educated and accomplished, and —and— Alice was a little bewildered in thought, and did not finish the sentence. _ 'Not better educated, or accomplished, as girls, than are most of our young men. who as clerks, earn only S7OO to SI,OOO a year. In this regard they are simply their equals. But, it strikes me, that in another view of the case, we cannot even claim an equality. They are our superiors.' 'Not by any means,' replied Alice. 'We shall see. Here is Harry Pleasant, for instance. What is his income?' I think you mentioned the sum just now.' 'Eight hundred dollars a year.' A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. "That is the interest on—how Biaoh ?'— let me see—about twelve thousand dollars. To be equal as a match ibr Harry, then, you should be worth #l2,oot'. 'How you talk, Fanny!' 'To the point, don'sl? If we are not su perior to the young Men who visit us, supe rior is simply virtue to our sex, then our on ly claim to be handsomely supported in idle self indulgence, must be in the fact that we endow our husbands with sufficient worldly goods to warrant the condition.' 'Your are ingenious! 'No, matter of fact. What have you to say against my position. Alice ? Are we better than young men of equal intelligence ami education. 'No, I cannot say that we are.' 'lf we marry, we must look upon these for husbands, Ekih men as a general thing select their wives from rich men a daugh ters. Our chances in that direction are not very encouraging" Yours has no dowry for his child, nor has mine. Their families are large and expensive, and little or nothing of the year's income is left at the year's end. The best they can do for us is to give us homes; and I feel that it is not much to our credit that we are content to lean on our fathers, already stooping under the burden of years, care and toil, instead of supporting ourselves. The thought has troubled me not a little." A sober hue came over the face of Alice, as she sat looking into the face of her friend. She did not reply, and Fannie went on. 'There is wrong in this. On what ground of reason are we to exempt the common lot of useful work ? We expect to become wives and mothers. Is this our prepara tion? Can you make a loaf of sweet, light bread?" 'No.' 'Nor can I!' 'Or roast a sirloin?' 'No.' 'Or broil a steak ? Just think of it, Alice I We can manage a little useless embroidery, or fancy knitting; can sing and play, dance and chatter, but as to real and substantial things of life, we are ignorant and helpless. And with all this, forsooth, we cannot think of letting ourselves down to the level and condition of virtuous, intelligent young men who in daily useful work, are earning a fair independence. We are so superior that we must have husbands able to support us in luxurious idleness, or we will have none! We are willing to pass the man to whom love would unite us in the tenderest bonds, because his income is small, and many for position one from whom the soul turns with instinctive aversion. Can we wonder that so many are unhappy?' 'But eight hundred dollars, Fanny! How is it possible for a married eouple to live in any decent style, in this city, on eight hun dred dollars a year ?' 'They may live in a very comfortable style, if the wife is willing to perform her part.' 'What do you mean by her part, Fanny.' 'We will take it for granted that she is no better than her husband. That having brought him no fortune beyond her dear -♦W ialii ■ •**!..■ .... j , Til . > 'Well?' 'He has to work through all the day.' 'Well?' 'Under what equitable rule is she exempt?' 'None. She must do her part, of course, if there is anything to do it with. She must keep his house, if he can afford a house. But if he only has eight hundred dollars a year. Why rent alone would consume half or more than half of that. There would be no house keeping in that case. They must board.' 'And the wife nit in idleness all the day '£he would havs nothing to do.' - 'Could she not teach ? or by aid of a sew ing machine earn a few dollars every week ; or enrage in some other useful work that would yield an income, and so do her part ?' 'Yes, she might do something of the kind —but if marriage is to make : workies' of us, it were better to remain single.' 'And live in unwomanly dependence on our parents and relative*. N •>, Alice; there is a false sentiment prevailing on this sub ject, and as I think and talk, I see it more clearly. Our parents have been weak in their love for us, and society, as constituted has given wrong estimates of things. We should have been required to do useful work in the household, from the beginning, and shonld have taught that idleness and self indulgence were indisereditable. Our brothers are put to trades and professions, and made to comprehend, from the begin ning, that industry is honorable, and that the way of useful work is the way by which the world's brightest places are to be reach ed. But we are raised daintily and uselessly and so fitted for our duties as wives and mothers. Our pride and self esteem are fostered; and we come to think of ourselves as future queens, who are to be ministered to in all things, instead of being a minis trant, in loving forgetfulness. No wonder that an anti-marriage sentiment is beginning to prevail among young ruen of moderate incomes, in all our large cities. The fault is in us, Alice. The sin lies at our door. We demand too much in this copartnership. We arc not willing to do our share of work; our hasbands must bear all the burden.' Alice sighed heavily. Her friend continued: 'I have read some where that the delight of Heaven is the de light of being useful. And it seems to me, as I dwell upon the thought, that the near est approach to heavenly delight her#, must be in that state into which a wife comes when she stands by her hnsband's side, and out of love for him, removes one burden and another from his shoulders, and so ligh ten his work, that smiles take the place of weariness and the shadows of care. If he be rich, she can hardly have BO great a priv ilege ; but if they are alike poor, and know how to moderate their desires, their homes may become an image of Paradise. Eight hundred dollars? Alice if you were really fitted to become Harry's wife, you might live with him, doing your part, happier than a queen.' 'That is, I must take in work, and earn money, if we board ; or—but housekeeping is out of the question.' 'No, it should never be out of the ques tion in marriage, I think.' 'But house rent alone would take half of our income.' 'That does not follow.' 'lt does for any honse I would consent to live in.' So pride is stronger than love. But pride has its wages as well as love; and the one is bitter while the other is sweet. It is this pride of appearances, this living for the eyes of other peoplej who do not care a penny for us, that is marring the fair fabric of our so cial life. Fine houses, fine dresses, parties and shows, costly luxuries of all kinds, are consuming domestic happiness, and burden ing lathers and husbands in all grades of so ciety with embarrassment and wretchedness. Alice, we must be wiser in our generation.' 'That is, coop ourselves up in two or three little rooms, with our eight hundred dollar a year husbands, and do our cooking and BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, AUGUST 35, 1565. hotisework. Is it that, my pretty one?' 'Alice? you do not deserve a good roan. You are not worthy to wed Harry Pleasants, and I trust you will pass him by, should he be weak enough to offer YOU his hand. He can't afford to marry a girl of your expecta tions ; he must content himself with one who, like himself, regards life as real, life as earnest; and the way of use and duty, the way to true honor and true highest happi ness. it GENERAL GRANT IN CANADA. What People T h P>*GfiLSay of Him. A correspondent the Boston Journal, writing on Ixiard the steamer Europu, wlucb conveyed General Grant and his party from Quebec to Montreal, relates the following interesting incidents; — THE DEPARTURE FROM QUEBEC. When the tourists at Quebec learned that General Grant was to go up the river by boat, there was a rush for tickets Every state room and berth was speedily engaged. There is a crowd on board, and the steward is trans forming the saloon tables into bedsteads. The passengers have improved the occasion to stare ad tibitum.aL the Lieutenant-Gencral. Many have been introduced; many have in troduced themselves. His uniform courtesy to all is the theme of remark. His depart ure from Quebec was marked by the same enthusiasm which greeted him on his arri val. The wharf was nacked with people, who cheered vociferously. GRANT SMOKES A CIGAR WITH ADMIRAL HOPE. Among those who called upon him was Sir James Hope, Admiral, commanding her Majesty's navy in America. He drove up to the hotel this forenoon with three of the officers of his fleet in full official dress. A second carriage contained his valet and box es enough to freight one of Adams and Go's express wagons. The contrast between the two men was very great. The Admiral is taller than General Grant and older by fif teen or twenty years, with iron-grey hair, white whiskers trimly brushed, a grey eye, florid face, quick and vigorous m his actions, and a good natured countenance. General Grant is so well known that I need not give a description of his personal appearance. Sir James found a plain man in plain clothes. The admiral and his officers were gorgeous in gold lace, bright buttons, crimson sashes, chapeaus, noddingplumes,epaulets and stars. After the call the Admiral sat down with General Grant and enjoyed a cigar. He gave free expression to his admiration of General Grant. He said he wis surprised to see a man so unostentatious. "He is not at all like our officers," he said. The Admiral laid a side his coat, chapeau and plumes, and ap peared in naval undress of white pants, blue coat, and plain cap. CANADIAN OPINION OF GENERAL GRANT. As stated in a previous letter, I am here, not to speak of General Grant's movements, V.ut, fimrvW VVoylv will fttt of him. It is interesting ui hear me corny ments. There is a large, stout, white-haired man, dressed in Canada grey, accompanied by his wife and daughter on a trip. "I intended to spend another day in Que bec," said he, "but when I found General Grant was going up the river, I thought I would go in the same boat, and so secured tickets, my wife feels bad not to see Mont inorenci, but then sie can see General Grant.'' "How does he in press you?" I asked. "Oh, he is a gentleman. He is a plain man, and the morel see of him the better I like him. He is not stuck up at all, but wears his honors qaietly,'' was the reply. On the sftfa opposite to me is a young snob, dressed in a grey roundabout. He has red whiskers of the shoe-brush oattern, and is quizzing the Genera] through his eye glas ses. "Aw, I don't see anything remarkable a bout him," he says to a fellow of the same breed who sits beside him. If the subject of their remarks was ex ceedingly dignified and wore full military dress, with epauletts stars, gold lace, aud gilt buttons, if he looked haughtily upon everybody present, if he was proud enough not to see any one who was not presented with formality and dignity, doubtless these fellows would see something remarkable in him. They have not sense enough to know that his unostentatious manners, his urbane treatment of all who approach him, is so very remarkable that the people recognize it at once. I stood upon the guard when the boat left the wharf at Quebec and listened to the crowd: — "He'sa brick," said one. 1 That is the man who licked the Rebels,'' said another who stood by his side. "I had a brother who fit under him," said a third. While walking around the citadel I fell in to conversation with the soldier who con ducted our party. He belongs to the Rifles. "I had a brother who was under Grant," said he. "He was wounded in front of Pe tersburg and has got his discharge." "What does he say of General Grant?" I asked. "Oh, he says he is a bully boy."" Then he began to talk about the fortifica tions. ' 'These are no good. I reckon your guns, which you have got, wouldknockthe.se walls to pieces mighty quick." Then looking a crossthe river he pointed out the place where the new fortifications are to be erected at Point Levi, and said, "What good will they do when completed ? They may keep a ves sel from coming up the river, but if we had war with you. Grant would come up from Maine and take us en the land side. There was more practical wisdom in what he said than in the whole Board of Admi ralty, or whatever board of the Home Gov ernment sat upon the Canadian defense ques tion. Canada can't be defended any more than the Confederacy could be defended. Are the English lords and admirals bats that they don't see it? I have some important information on that and kindred points which I must preserve for another letter. But we are approaching Montreal, the bitterest secession place in Canada. It will be interesting to watch the reception accorded to General Grant by the people of that city. BRITISH FREE TRADE.— Lord Goderich, in a debate in the British Parliament, hit the nail on the head exactly when he uttered the following words: '• "Other nations know, as well as the no ble Lord opposite and those who acted with him, that what we meant by free trade, was nothing more nor less than, by means of the great advantages we enjoyed, to get at the monopoly of all their markets for our man ufectures, and to prevent them, one and all, from ever becoming manufacturing na tions. ' 1 Free trade, as understood in England, means nothing more nor less than all the trade, in other words, monopoly, just as Lord Goderich said. MR. NASBY LAYS DOWN A PRO GRAMME FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN. FAINT'S REST, (which Is in the Hfaif } uvNoo Gersy,) Joan V2th, 1865. j These is the dark days of Uimocrisy. The thisforchoons that befell our armies in front uv Richmond, the fell uv our kappytyle. I'ollered by the surrender of our armies to. Grant and Sherman, Lez lmrt us. Our Tccd- 1 ers arc either pinin in loathsnm dnnguns, inkerseffitid by the heavin-detrin, nian-de stroyin, tyranikle edix uv our late lamented President, or air barskin in the free are uv Jtaly and Kanady. We hev no way uv keep- Img our voters together. Opposin the war wont do no good, fer before the next eleck shun the heft uv our voters will hev disktv ered that the war is over. The fcer uv draft* may he. suihin inyum parts nv IVnn sylvany and Svrthren Tllinoy, fer sum time yit: but that can't be dependid oil. But we hev won recourse fer a Ishoo —ther will alluz be a Dimocrisy, so loug ez ther'sa nigger. Ther is a uneoinpromisin dislike to the nigger in the mind uv a ginooine Pimoerat. The Spanish bull fighter, when he wants to inflame the bull to extra cavortiu, waves a red flag afore him. When you desire a Diinicrat to froth at the mouth, you will find a black face will answer the purpus. Thcr4 the nigger is. to-day, our best and on ly holt. Let us use him. For the guidance ov the faithful, I shell lay down a few plain pools to be observed, in order to make the most uv the eappytle we hev:— ]. Alius assort that the nigger will never be able to tak care uv Uisselt, but will alius be a public burden. He may, possibly, give us the lie by going to work. In sich a emer gency, the duty uv every IHmocrat is plane, lie must not be allowed to work. Associa tions must be organized, pledged to neither give him employment, to work with him, to work for enny one who will give hin work, or patronize enny who duz. _ (I would seiesfc that sich uv us ez hez bin foretunit enuff 2 get credit, pay a trifle on account, so ez to maik our r.atroniilge worth suthin.) This course rigidly and persistently follered up, wood drive the best uv em to stealin, and the balance to the poor houses, proovin wot we hev alius claimed, that they ar a idul and vishus race. Think, my brethren, wot a in spirin effeck our poor housis and jails full of niggers wood hev onto the people. My sole ex pans ez I contemplait the delightful vish un. 2. Likewise assert that the nigger will come North, and taik all the good places, throwin all our skilled meehnniks out uv work by underbidden uv em. This might be open to objeeshuns. to wit: It crosses slitelv Rcfcl the 1. and men mite say, ef there's jist enuff labor fer here, why not perliibit furriners from coming? I an ser: Its the biznis uv the voter to reeonsile the contradikshun—he may beleeve either or both. Ez to thesekundobjeeshun, wher is the Dimocrat who coodn't be underbid, and stan it even to starvashun, if the under bidden wuz dun by a man uv the proud .K s ,.uain race? and wher is .the LJimpcrat soTost to manhoodez to annkblud, yf the same underbidden is dud by the nigger ? The starvin for work ain't the question, it's the color uv the cause uv the starvashun that maiks the diffrens. Nigger equality may be workt agin 2 ad vantage. All men, without distinckshun uv seeks, air fond of flatrin theirselves that t somebodv's lower down in the skale uv hu manity than they is. Ef twan't fer niegers. what, wood the Himocrisy do for someboddy to look down upon?* Its alsoshoor toenlist wun stile uv wimmen on our side. In times gone by I've notist gusliin vir gins uv 45, full 16 bands high, and tuff ez wire, hold'n aloft banners onto which wuz inscribed "Save us from Nigger Equality." Yoo see it soothed cm 2 hev a chance uv advertism, Ist, That they wuz frale. helplis critters, and 2d, That anshent and tuff ez they wuz, some one wuz still goin for em. Ef there aint no niggers, Sentrel (Jom mittis must furnish em. A half dozen will do fer a ordinary county, ef theyr hustled along with energy. Ef they won't steel, the Sentrel Committis must do it themselfs. Show your niggers in a township in the inor nin. and the same nite rob the clothes lines and hen roosts. Ever willin 2 sacrifice my self for the cause, I volunteer to do this last kutv in six populous counties. These ijccs, if follered, will, no doubt, keep us together until our enemies split, when wc will reap the reword uv our con stancy and fidelity. May the Lord hasten the day. PETROLEUM V. NASBV, Lait Paster uv the Church ur the Xoo l>is pensa&hun. OUR CENSUS. The State Census now being taken shows that the rural districts of our State have rather lost than gained population since 1860. There may be local exceptions; but we pre sume there is no longer a doubt that the general fact is as we have stated. We note lit tempts to impeach there on the accuracy of the Census, they seem to us unfounded. At our late Presidential Election, when the vote was very heavy, the Agricultural Coun ties of Allegany. Cattaraugus, Clinton, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Livingston, Rock land. St. Lawranee, Seneca, Warren, Wayne, and Wyoming gave each a smaller vote than at the less excited election of 1860. Deduct the increase in the cities and large villages (Syracuse, Auburn, Binghamton, Owego, Ithaca, Morrisania, Flushing. Ac,) and we presume three-fourths ofthe Counties in the State would show a like falling off The causes arc not far to seek. The rural districts sent the flower of their youth to the war while the cities eked out their quotas in larger measure from the ever in-flowing tide of immigration. Some ofthe Counties draf ted once or twice, which sent quite a string of the more malignant Copperheads at full speed into Canada, whence they had not re turned when the Census was taken. (They arc all disfranchised by their disloyalty or cowardice, aud must be spotted at the polls next Fall.) We judge that the migration henoc to the Western States has been less than formerly; but there is a steady relative gain of urban over rural population which we observe with regret. Our youth prefer | to swelter on pavements rather than enjoy the scope and freedom of the pure, free country air. They forsake their fathers, farms to pull teeth or measure tape or chop logic in souie fetid city. \\ e must try to teach thsm better. , „ , . , Nay: we must ennoble and dignity Agricul ture by making it the intellectual, liberal pursuit it might and should be. Now the pettiness of its processes disgust aud repel; it seems to most boys to be mere coarse, rude, mindless drudgery. It can be quite other than this, and in time it shall be. More of this hereafter.—A 7 ! Y. Tribune Twenty thousand Poles, it is said, are com ing to the United States. The Poles are an agricultural people, and to the Southern State, they would be s valuable acquisition al time. Vol 38: No. 35 A STARTLIN(i SCENE IN CHURCH. There wore many thrilling scenes in the New England churches daring the Re vein-1 tionary War. The following one occurred j in Bharon, Oorcm., under the ministry of llev. Cotton Mother Smith. It is found in Headlcy's "Chaplains of the Revolution." Mr. Smith one Sunday took for his text ft\ part of Isaiah xxi. 11. 12; what of the night?" The watdhman said. ' The morning cometh." The question in the first part of this passage had been the daily, almost tire hourly inquiry for nearly a month, of every one of that congregation, and hence its appropriateness was keenly felt- by the etarfliag .announcement, "The uioruiu9 ometh," took them by surprise; and they could not at first comprehend its significance or how it could be adapted to the present prospect. Ilad he heard any good new# What had happened that he oould say so cenlidently, "The moraine cometh? No. he had nothing new to tell them, on'y to proclaim over again his un shaken cthfideßce in God's promises. He did not at tempt to conceal or lesson the ca lamities that had befellen the country, nor deny that a fearful crisis was at hand. He acknowledged that to human appearance "clouds and darkness were round about (rod's throne;'' but said that the eye of faith could pierce the gloom. The throne was there, though wrapped in impenetrable darkness. In all the disasters that had suc cessively overwhelmed them, he traced the hand ofGod, and declared that to his mind, they clearly indicated some striking interpo sition of Divine Providence about to take place in their behalf. Man's extremity had come, and now was the time for him to make bare "his arm for the deliverance of the peo ple.'' Prophet-like, kindling with lite vision on which the eyes of his nis faith rested, he boldly dropped tbc general subject of God's faithfulness, and told his astonished hearers that he believed they were on the point of hearing extraordinary news of victory to our arms. He would not waft, for an indefinite future to prove his faith to be well founded —he was willing to bring it to the test of the present. They might judge whether he was right or wrong, for, said he, "The morning cometh." I see its beams already gilding the mountain tops, and you shall soon be hold its brightness bursting over the land." One cannot imagine the effect of such a time of doubts and suspense. He ceased, and as he closed the Bible and exclaimed "Amen so let it be," a silence profound and death-like rested on the audience; each one seemed to feel as if an invisible presence was there, and some weighty announcement was just at hand. Suddenly the deep hush was broken by the distant clatter of a horse's hoof alongthe road. The sharp and rapid strokes told of swift riding and of urgent haste. They knew at once what it meant. For days and weeks their eyes had strained up the street* that led northward, to catch _ sight of the messenger of good or evil tidings that was hourly expected. He had come at last and as nearer, clearer, rang the sound of that wild gallop on the listening ear, each looked to urate nfa ewtjwstriflrq'cnyy lirto nis neign bor's face. Bight on through the place, straight for the meeting house hasted the swift rider, and drawing rein at the door, leaped from the saddle, and leaving his foam-covered steed unattended, strode into the main aisle. On the deep silence that filled the building like a sensible presence, his armed heel rung like the blows of'a ham mer. As he passed along a sudden pale ness spread over the crowd of faces turned with a painful eagerness toward him. But looking neither to the right hand nor left, the dread messenger passed on, and, mount ing the pulpit stairs handed the pastor a letter. Notwithstanding the good man's faith, his hand trembled and an ashy hue over spread his face as he reached out to receive it. "Burgoyne has surrendered," were the first words that met his eye. He staggerred under them as under a blow. The next mo ment a radiance like that of the morning broke over his countenance, and he burst into tears, Hiring to read the incredible tidings, such a tide of emotion flooded his heart that he could scarcely utter them aloud. The audience sat for a moment over whelmed and stupefied, then, as their pas tor folded his hands and turned his eyes to heaven in thankful prayer impelled by a simultaneous movement they tell like one man upon their knees and wept aloud. Sobs, sighs, and fervently uttered "Aniens" were heard on every side, attesting the depth of their gratitude and ecstacy of their joy. "The morning" had come; bright and glori ous, and its radiance filled all the house. GO FISHING. It was a very sensible piece of advice that the philosopher of the Tribune gave to Bar nuin, when asked whether he should con tinue his business and rebuild the Museum —"Take the rest of your life easy," said Greely ; "go fishing. I've been wanting to go fishing for the last thirty years, and have not had a chance yet.'' The advice is none the less sensible that Barnum didn't act up on it. When men have been long in busi ness and acquired a competent fortune—and we mean by competent, a fortune sufficient, if well invested, to return a revenue suffi cient to support its owner comfortably—he also acquires certain habits that he finds it difficult to throw ofl. Very few men retire fVom active life iu the possession of the fac ulties of enjoyment. They postpone the day: they want to amass a few more thou sands; they want to figure as largely as their neighbors in the income list; and so old age, decrepitude, and infirmities are upon them before they retire from business. Then, in tend of enjoying life and fortune, their time iB employed in postponing the visit of that stern messenger who knocks with equal force at the door of the rich man's palace and the poor man's cottage. It is philosophical ad vice, that of Greely. Go fishing. If you have secured a competence, give way to young men ivho are forward for the same end. Retire from business; from the confinement of the counting room, the per plexities of the office, the strife of political life, the cares of state. Seek nature in her loveliest forms, in the mountain and the val ley, in {he forest and by the river side. There is a world of happiness to be found by those who wisely searcn for it. and go after it. But it will not mix with business, nor is it to be found in the marts of commerce. Given moderate wealth, good health, a contented mind, companionable friends, readable books, and the pleasures of rural life, and a man's old age may be happier than his youth.— Cincinnati* Commercial. Sleep soothes and arrests the fever-pulse of the soul, and its grains are the quinine for the cold fit of hate, as well as for the hot fe ver of love. A kind word and pleasant voice are gifts easy to give; be liberal with them, they v re worth more than money. WE are apt to hate them who won't take our advice, and despise them who do. ' STRIDING. It is difficult at time® not to feel that ire are living in a land of dreams. Good ola fashionel thinkers moralise about "the even pace of nations; but in the Utter days it seems that nations stride, and that over the whole world there is one continuous rush and roar. This month of July ended the most magnificent hundred days hi history. The hundred days of 1815 are memorable for the multitude of eventi that 'crowned Aem, although nothing remained a Government which took no root and lasted thirty yeare, and the exile of man who only wanted that exile to turn.lbe world's hatred into the world's pity. Ifa those Hundred Days Europe was thrown back a century. Tyrannv and superstition and oppression } were all sustained and protected by the great name of Wellington. The tinged, expen sive and dustywWea that England calls roy alty, ahd wWctl cover and dog and check everything like free thought and free deed, fvere burnished anew and wrapped tighter a found the growing limbs or a struggling people. In our Hundred Days we have completed the overthrow of the rebellion; we have reduced our armies to a mere con tingent; disarmed a naw and sent ships-of war back to the better duties of carrying corn and cotton; hurled a victorious army into the mines and cannons of the Western Territories, and raised money enough out of our own forms and looms to pay the extraor dinary expense of the Government. Our victories of peace are even greater than the victories of war. On one side our pioneers are girdling the Rocky Mountains with rail roads —on the other we stand waiting to grasp the hand of the Englishman who brings us within an hour of London. There is something uneasy in our very ambition, To the South we nave a territory newly conquered—unsettled, and sadly wanting 'Reconstruction' '—and yet we begin to look longingly to the North, and to covet the St. Lawrence and the vast Canadian Countries, and chave at any boundary this diderif the Polar Sea. In the majesty of newly asser ted strength we stride toward a dazzling destiny. Do wc feci that every step brings us more important and burdensome dutic9? For the second timein the world's history we are call ed upon to rise up and control the destiny of the world. This is no vain thought. Men are but representatives of ideas —and,ideas are not bounded by religion, race, or terri tory. Cromwell, Washington, Franklin, Mirabeau, Napoleoh, Hugo, John Brown, Lincoln —stepby step the idea of Resistance to Tyranny has traveled over the world — saved England, revolutionized France destroyed Slavery in America. ThoAe Who look at these men and their times, an<s see what they call the ebb and flow of idefcs— Croiuwell followed by Charles, Mirabeau by Nepoleon, Franldfh by Calhoun, Hugo ban ished by a Bonepart. and Brown hanged by Buchattnan—forget that generations are hut as days—that whatever temporary ebb may come the tide always rises—that Cromwell dead was as powerful as in life —and that when John Brown's body went down to moulder in the dust, his soul still marched —on. Nor is our work done. It is merely beginning. When John Stuart Mill tri umphed over palace and treasury, aided by "two hundred workmen," it was the logical result of Grant's success. Those workmen took comfort from America, and were sttong and bold when they saw men of their own blood and lineage defending their flag and giving up their lives TOr & government with more devotion than royalty ever commanded. America has hot triumphed in vain. There is not* desponding Rebublican that crouches under the llapsburgs and Boneparte or eats hard bread away down in a dismal mine that my Lord of Westminister may carry a stick before Her Majesty and eat up thousands of broad acres in feeding oxes, hounds ana deers, who does not feel stronger, and more resolute, and more anx ious for the hour to strike. Men call this a selfish, sensual, mercenary age, but only in our moments of petulence and impatience. It is a grand old Nineteenth Century, full of good deeds and brave endeavors, and proudly to be remembered in song and story and over many a cup of generous wine in the good days coming.— Exchange. I SPARE MOMENTS. A lean, awkward boy came olie ihdrhing to the door of a principal of a celebrated school and asked to see him. The servant eyed his mean clothes, and thinking he looked more like a beggar than anything else, told him to go round to the kitchen. The boy did as he was bidden, and soon ap peared at the back door. "You want a breakfast, most likely," said the servant girl, ' 'and I can give you that without troubling him." "Thank yen,' said the boy, "I should have no objection to a bite, but I should like to see Mr. , if he can see me." "Some old clothes, may be you want." remarked the servant, again eyeing th£ boy's patched clothes. 'T guess he has none to spare, he gives away a sight," ana without minding the boy's request, she went away about her work. "Can I see Mr. ," again asked the boy, after finishing the bread and butter. "Well, he is in the library, if he must be disturbed, he must, but he does like to be alone sometimes," said the girl in a peevish tone. She seemed to think it very foolish to admit an ill-looking fellow into ner mas ter's presence. However she wiped her hands and hade him follow. Opening the library door, she said: "Here's somebody, sir, who is dreadful anxious to see you, so I let him in." I don't know how the boy introduced himself, or how he opened business, but I know that after talking awhile, the princi pal put aside the volume he was studying and took up some Greek books and began to examine the new comer. Every question which the principal asked the boy was an swered readily. "Upon my word." exclaimed the princi pal, ''yon do well, looking at the boyfrom head to foot over his spectacles:—" Why my boy, where did you pick up so much?" "In my spare moments," answered the boy. Here he was. poor, hard-working, with but few opportunities for schooling, yet al most fitted for any position by simply im proving his spare moments. Truly, arc not spare moments the "gold dust of time?" How precious they should be ! What ac count can you show for them? Look and see. This boy can tell you how very mnch can be layed up by improving them, and there are many other boys, I am afraid, in jail, in the houso of correction, in the fore castle of a whale-ship, in the tippling shop, who, if you ask them when they began their ruinous course, might answer, in my spare ! moments." "In my spare moments I gambled for marbles. In my spare moments I began to smoke and drink. It was in my spare mo ments that I gathered my wicked associ ates." Oh, be careful how you spend your spare moments! Temptation always hunts you out in seasons like these. V hen you are not busy, he gets into your hearts, if he pos sibly can, in just such gaps. There he hides himself, planning all sorts of mischief. Take care of your "spare moments." A PRINTER'S TOAST.—"Woman—the fair est work in creation. The edition is urge, and no man should be without a copy. THE slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment; the greatest 19 sufficient, if it do not. i A LADY says moustaches axe the things [ she sets her face against.
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