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loll*' PAI..HKB.
' Attorney at Law. Bedford, Pa,.
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care.
Particular attention paid to the collection
of Military claims. Office on Julionna St., nearly
opposite the Mengel House.) }une23, '65.1y
JB. CESSNA,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with Jens CBSXA, on Pitt xt., opposite the
Bedford Hotel. All business entrusted to his care
will receive faithful and prompt attention. Mili
tary Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected.
Bedford, June 8, 1865.
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claims against the Government. Office on Juliana
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J ATTORNEY AT LAW, BIDFOBD, PA.,
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ot the Mengel House. apll, 1864.—tf.
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to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter,
Esq., on Juliana street, two doors South of the
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FOB THK 12W1.18R.
WAITING FOB A BITE.
I ascribed to Kate and Heckle.
BY ESURIOR.
Dear girls, you well remember,
When we so gaily hied,
To the "bright-eyed Juniata"
To angle in its tide ;
How on its grassy bank we sat
And fished with all our might,
But rainly threw in and out,
Waiting for a bite.
Old Sol ttnt down his scorching rays—
Oh 1 'twas most awful hot,
04r heads were fairly in a broil,
But not a bite we got.
Yet still we plied the rod and line,
Tossed in both left and right,
But not a fin there seemed to be
Waiting for a bite.
The day wore on—we lingered still,
In fact, 'twas growing late,
But still we hoped some friendly fish
Would, in pity, take the bait,
But nary one was green enough—
Couldn't see it in that light,
Determined all to keep us there
Waiting for a bite.
Tie true full many a bite we got,
Which made vexation worse,
'Twas only for your sakes, dear girls,
I didn't rave and curse.
Gt ats -and musketoes sucked our blood,
Fell vampires in their flight,
We looked as though we measles had
Waiting for a bite.
We plodded on from "hole to hole
We crottcd to 'tother tide ;
We scratched our faces in the brush,
And waded mud beside,
Until at last quite worn out,
And in a sorry plight,
Despair within our hearts we felt
Waiting for a bite.
The perspiration poured in streams,
Like butter rolls we felt,
Our cases seemed alarming, girls,
I feared that we would melt.
But still this desperate state of things
Though causing some affiright
Our purpose fixed did not divert,
Waiting for a bite.
Confound the fish ! they "wouldn't take,"
Oh ! 'twas a bitter cup,
And mortified we turned toward home
Most loth to give it up.
Away we threw the rustic rods,
Each gave a sigh outright,
And thought we'd had a wretched time
Waiting for a bite.
Wo strode through many a weedy field,
We crept o'er ditch and bank,
Until we reached our home again,
Most hungry lean and lank,
But there a sweet—a tempting scene
Did greet our longing sight,
Rich viands on the table spread
Waiting for a bite.
Like odor from Arabia's iand,
That coffee's perfume rose,
And, oh! delicious fowl and ham
Their incense filled the nose.
We did not keep them waiting long,
We ate with appetite,
And felt that we no longer were
Waiting for a bite.
But, yes, we e'en are waiting still,
And will to end of life,
For in this funny world of ours
There seems to be a strife—
All strive the hujijent bite to get—
Each has a prize in sight,
Active, doing, stili pursuing
Waiting for a bite.
A young lady recently remarked that she
could not understand what her brother
George Henry saw in the girls, that he liked
them so well, and that, for ber part, she
would not give the company of one young
man for that of twenty girls.
DOWN ON THE IRISH. —The Chicago Times
a howling Democratic organ in the North
West, has commenced the abuse of the Irish
population of that city, for the active part
they took in the war to crush rebellion, and
for otherwise supporting the National au
thority. It is a little strange that after the
Democratic leaders find they can no longer
use the Irish, they should resort to abuse of
that class of our fellow citizens, as the best
way of exhibiting their spiteful resentment.
CONUNDRUMS. —Why cannot two slender
persons ever become great friends? Be
cause they will always be slight acquaintan
ces.
Why is a crow a brave bird ? Because he
never shows the white feather.
Why is a person who never lays a wager
as bad as a regular gambler ? Because be
is no better.
Why is dough like the sun? Because,
when it rises, it is light
JiajfA young lady of New Bedford was in
timately acquainted in a family in which
there was a sweit bright little boy of some
five years between whom and herself there
sprang up a very tender friendship. One
day she said to him—
'Willie, do you love me ?'
'Yes indeed!' he replied, with a clinging
kiss.
'How much?'
'Why, I love you—l love you—up to the
sky.'
Just then, his eye fell on his mother.
Flinging his arms about her and kissing her
passionately said —
'But, mamma, 1 love you way up to God!'
SUCCESS IN BUSINESS.— Twenty composi
tors in a printing-office, twenty apprentices
in % work-shop, twenty young men in a vil
lage ; all want to get along in the world,
nnd expect to do so. One of the composi
tors will own a newspaper and become an
influential and prosperous citizen; one of
the apprentices will become a master me
chanic , one of the villagers will get a hand
some farm and live like a patriarch. But
which is to be the lucky individual ? Lucky!
There is no luck about it: the thing is al
most as certain as the ' 'rule of three. The
young fellow who will distance his competi
tors is he who masters his business, who
preserves his integrity, who lives cleanly
and purely, who never gets in debt, who
gains friends by deserving them, and puts
his money into a savings bank. There are
some ways to fortune which look shorter i
than this, but the staunch men of the com
munity, the men who achieve something
really worth having, ull traveled along this
road.
A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION. LITERATURE AND MORALS.
PIWTTIMEMTJSI.
THE PUBJLIC DEBT ON SEPTEM
BER Ist.
The present exhibit of Secretary MOCUL
LOCH affords the gratifying news that the
Treasury of the T nited States paid its own
way through the month of August The
Taxes ana Customs begin to telfmost sub
stantially against any further considerable
borrowing. There is no increase of the Pub
lic Debt since the close of July, save a tri
fling difference in the grand total of less
than a half a million. The Gold balances
on hand have been increased about ten
millions and the Treasury now holds the
large totffl in Gold and Silver of forty-five
una a riafy muuontj a sum un
in the history of the Department. The
Currency balances are not so heavy as at the
close of July, but the unadjustea requisi
tions on the Treasury are more closely set
tled up than on any previous report during
the War. The Funded Debt bearing Inter
est in Gold is a few hundred thousand dollars
less than on the first of August. The Legal
Tender Notes a million less.
These facts are most cheering in several
points of view, but chiefly because they
point to an early maximum of the Public
Debt, rather below than above the prevail
ing round estimate of three thousand mil
lions, when everything fe. settled up. If, as
we now believe, the Secretary can carry on
his finances through the next three months
as he did in August, to the meeting of Con
gress, on his resources from Taxation and
Customs, there would be a strong probabili
ty of a permanent arrest of borrowing, ex
cept to fund previously outstanding obliga
tions in the shape of Currency and Certifi
cates. The authorized limit of $150,00*), 000
on the line of Deposits has not been reached,
and we have no aoubt the Secretary will be
offered in the meantime, a sufficient sum in
currency on 6 per cent, interest, and also
Gold for safe keeping, free of interest, (pro
vided he should conclude to accept the last
named trust, which, we suspect, has been
urged upon him since recent events in Wall
street,) to give him on deposit the full total
authorized by law.
The internal revenues in September and
October, if not in November, must, from
the present prospects of trade, and the cir
cumstance that a large share of the last in
come tax remains to he collected this month,
continue on a large scale. The Customs in
Gold will scarcely continue so large as in Au
gust—about seventeen and a half or eigh
teen millions at all the ports—hut Septem
ber will probably yield quite as much as Ju
ly, say thirteen and a half or fourteen mil
lions, and place, with his present Gold bal
ancesj a reserved power ot at least fifty mil
lions in Gold to raise Currency, by its con
version or gradual sale in the market, if
needful for the general conduct of the Trea
sury or to prevent his Customs accumula
tions from stimulating the premium on Gold,
lhat Mr. McCuiaoch thoroughly under
stands this last important consideration —
important to the interests of trade as well
as public confidence in the Currency —is at
tested by the steadiness of Gold since the
20th July, and the decrease of Gold gam
bling, on what is called the Gold Exchange
in Broad street, since it was discovered that
he would not suffer the very richness of his
Customs revenue, to promote an upward
speculation.
There would be less cause for rejoicing in
the present remarkable buoyancy in trade
and neavy_ receipts in Gold tor Customs, if
the latter indicated an overgrown, and in the
end, exhaustive importation of foreign mer
chandise; we mean, exhaustive of the reas
onable ability of the country to pay for the
goods otherwise than by greatly diminishing
its Gold and Silver resources of sixty mil
lions a year. But such is not, yet at least,
the case. Our tariff duties are Working, by
the amplest revenue standard, to a different
result, and the adjustment being for the
greater part by specifics, rather than ad va
lorem*, they are not so much affected as un
der the system of 1864, by the constant
changes in foreign and e.ucn, J values. They
are the same on sugars whether the East In
dia crop be a large or a moderate one; the
same on iron, whether British production
be overstrained or held to a fair average. At
this part, in July and August, the Govern
ment collected $23,000,000 in gold customs
on $46,000,000 or $48,000,000 foreign mer
chandise taken for consumption, In July
and August,! 860, before the war, the value
of Foreign Goods taken for consumption at
this point was .$48,889,261, on which the
Government received only $8,994,358 in
Customs. That the present Tariff is not
more prohibitory than the old one, so far as
prohibition is judged practically by the needs
of the country, is made quite apparent by
this comparison.
But our purpose Is not to discuss the Tar
iff, but only, while congratulating our read
ers on the state of the Public Debt and the
prosperity of our Customs revenue, specifi
cally devoted to its support, to say that no
part of this prosperity is due to over-impor
tation, any more than our increasing income
and excise revenue are due to exhaustive
taxation.—JY Y. Times.
MEN FIND THEIR. OWN LEVEL.
The flattery with which our assembled
working classes are apt to be served, un
doubtedly contributes .to keep many of them
content to make no higher attainments. If
they are not received with open arms by
the educated and refined, they attribute it to
their occupation, not to themselves; to the
unreasonable pride and prejudice of others,
and not to their own deficiency. But water
is not the only thing that will find its own
level. Genius, wit, learning, ienorance, are
each attracted to its like. Two persons
were overheard talking in the room where
they were at work- Lord 1 knowed him
well when a boy," said one. "He used to
live with his grandfather next door to us.
Poor as Job's turkey; but I ain't seen him
since till I hearn im in hall t'other night,
Don t s' pose he'd come a nigh me now with
a ten foot pole. Them kind o' folks has
short memories, ha! ha! Can't tell who a
poor working man is, nohow."
No, no, good friend, you are in the wrong.
There is, indeed, a great gulf between you
and your early friend, but it is not poverty.
To say that it is, is only away you have of
flattering your self-love. For if you watch
those who frequeut your friend's house you
will find many a one who lives in lodgings as
plain as your own among them. No, sir; it
w not because you work, for he is as hard a
worker as you are; but because, (begging
your pardon) you are vulgar and ignorant;
because you sit in your sittiug room at home
with your hat on and smoke your pipe or
spit tobacco juice on the carpet floor ; be
cause you plunge your own knife into the
butter and your own fork into the toast,
having used both in your eating with oqual
freedoms because your voice is ioud, your
tone swaggering, and jour grammar horrible;
because your two paths from the old school
hou,*c diverged ; his let! upward, yours did
not; and the fault is noi his. You both
chose. He chose to cultivate his mental
powers; you chose not to do so.
BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1860.
THE POLICY OP ENGLAND.
> There is no historical fact better estab
lished than that the British government,
more than two centuries ago. instituted a
system of protection to the infant manufac
turers of England, and maintained it per
sistently until a very recent period. So rig
idly was the principle maintained for a long
time that the importation of many fabrics
was absolutely interdicted, while skilled ar
tisans were introduced from the continent at
heavy expense, in order that the several
branches of industry in which they were
skilled might be established in England, and
her own people be instructed in them. This
was done, not in a few branches, but many,
and the holicy was persisted in as long as it
was neede J to enable the English people to
compete successfully with those of other
countries more adv&ced in loth skill and
capital.
And this policy was eminently successful.
Under it the English people became at length
among the moat skillful in the world in a
vast variety of avocations. But this was not
all. It was necessary, in order to gain a su
premacy which could not be rivaled, that
capital should accumulate to such an extent
that her prineely manufacturers could com
mand as much money as they wanted at
very low rates of interest, often as low as
four per cent As for labor, the supply kept
pace with the demand; for, populous as
England was rectoned to be at the beam
ing of the 18th century, its people quaaru-
Sled in number bttween that time and the
ate at which the protective policy was re
laxed, some tweny- years ago.
Had England alopted the policy of free
trade in the middle, or even towards the
close, of the last century she would have
been ruined. The competition of the conti
nental countries would nave borne down her
manufactures, for their growth was slow,
and she jabored under many disadvantages.
But, under her steady system of protection
which no changes of party ever disturbed,
her coal and iron asserted their power;
her resources and the skill of her people
were developed; her agriculture flourished
amazingly; all interests advanced in an ever
increasing ratio, until she became the most
opulent and powerful nation on the globe.
Her manufactures built up and rave employ -
ment to her commerce; her ships carried
away her various and valuable fabrics and
brought back raw materials to be worked up
and increased ten, twenty, fifty fold in value,
and then sent hack, perhaps, to the very
places they came from. Without her man
ufactures what would the commerce of En
gland have amounted to? Comparatively
nothing. And without her long-continued
protective policy, what would her manufac
turing industry amounted to? Just about
as little. She oould not have begun t® man
ufacture.
But now England is so rich, so strong, so
thoroughly established, that she can afford
to challenge the world to adopt the policy
of free trade, her statesmen well knowing
that no country can successfully compete
with her.
Npw the United States is in this reepeet,
relatively, just about where England mm t
the middle of the last century. We say rel
atively, for we are just about as able to dis
pense with protection now as she was then.
The day will come, however, when we too
shall be able to challenge the world to a
1 . ~ r .Jr— .t.n —v„t,u.
game ot tree craue; uu we duU
not be half so long in reaching that period as
England was; but we have not reached it
yet by a long way.
There is an unerring criterion by which to
know when we may sifely adopt the policy
of free trade with Eunpe, and that is, when
the average prices of both labor and capital
shall be the same there and here. The dis
parity between these prices here and there
mark the degree of protection that this
country needs. So long as the European
manufacturer can send his fabrics here at a
satisfactory profit to limself just so long is
our tariff of duties too low for our own na
tional prosperity.
England has set us an excellent example
in this matter; and we will show our sagaci
ty by doing as she did, and not as she now
preaches.
THE FKEEDMEN IN TENNESSEE.
-NEW YORK, September 2.— The Time*
Washington special says: A communication
has been received at the Freedmen's Bureau
from General Clinton B. Fisk, Assistant
Commissioner for Kentucky, Tennessee and
North Carolina, dated Augußt 26th, from
Chattanooga, in reference to Freedmen's
affairs in Tennessee. He states that it has
been his continual effort to break up all
contraband camps in his District, encourage
the freedmen to seek labor in the country,
and not congregate in citigp and towns, and
he has been measureably successful. He
has broken up every contraband camp in
East Tennessee, and at this date not one
hundred colored people, and eastward from
Chattanooga are drawing rations from the
Government. In this region he finds fifty
whites to one colored person subsisting off
the Government. The camps at Huntsville
and Tunnell Hill will be immediately hroken
up. Those at Gallatin and Henderson are
colored. The colored people who came into
East Tennessee from North Carolina, are
returning to their old homes. The Legisla
true of Tennessee at the approaching re-un
ion, it is expected, will conoede the right of
colored people to prosecute in the civil
courts, and give testimony in all the courts.
The desire on the part of the colored people
to be educated is indeed marvelous. They
literally hunger and thirst after knowledge,
and in many places are themselves contribu
ting liberally for the support of schools.
The immense wagon trains, numbering
five hundred wagons, with an ambulance
train, which was recently organised for an
over land trip to Leavenworth, Kansas, have
started on their journey. They are exnec
tcd to reach their destination in the middle
of November.
A WRITER'S RESPONSIBILITY.
He who proposes to print his lucubrations
should in the first place have something to
say, and then he should study how best to
say it. No man should write a line intended
to meet the public eye who does not appre
ciate the moral responsibility which he in
curs by that act The tastes and capacities
of the readers of a publio journal are as
widely different as those q[ the writers who
cater to their literary necessities; and every
article, however illogical or poorly written,
strikes home somewhere, and exerts an in
fluence upon some one for good or evil.
Your words once printed cannot be recalled.
—They float out on the great sea of human
ity, whispering in a thousand read? ears les
sons fraught with life or death. They raise
a ripple in the boundless sea of huinam
thought which will expand and flow on
forever. By the very act of writing you as
sume superior knowledge. Keep the grave
responsibility steadily before you, and en
deavor to make your generation wiser and
more virtuous than it would have been if
you had not lived.
"Let all the ends thou aim'st at be'thy
country's Thy God's and Truth's."
GEN. LOGAN'S APPEAL TO KEN
TUCKY.
. Itio* General Logan, in a speech at Lou
isynta urging the constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery, argued thus:
It is said if the slaves are made free, Ken
tucky will be without labor. This is a great
mistake. If made free, the probabilities
i are that they will remain, and for wages, la
bor with much more energy than heretofore.
If not made free, with no laws to protect
the institution, surrounded as you are by free
states, offering to them an asylum and wa
ges for their labor, thoy will desert their
i masters and find for themselves a home in a
foreign state, where the spirit of freedom is
universal. And would it not be better for
Kentucky to show her magnanimity, her
patriotism, her desire for a bating peace and
the return of fraternal iteettngs, by at om*
doing that which, if she does not do, will
soon do itself? Think of the great desire on
the part of the civilized world that the chains
of slavery, still clanking in your State,
should be stricken from the limbs of the
black man by the generosity and Christian
spirit of your own people. Let your cloud
kissing hills and smiling valleys once test
the energies of free labor, and ere Long the
number you are behind your sister states in
population you will gather, the deficiency in
wealth you will accumulate. Enterprise,
capital, intelligence, and Christianity will
leap for joy over the new and bright pros
pects before them. Kentucky will then take
the poiition she ought to occupy among her
sister States, and claim rank and respecta
bility second to none.
Our land is swarming with thousands of
cripples; some have lost legs and others
arms: why do not these men go abroad
among the people and hold up their shatter
ed limbs and tell the slaveholder, "This is
what your institution has cost me. While
you were basking in the sunshine of
safety at home I was at the front.
I return now to my home to drag out,
through a few lingering years, a miserable
life." Oh, that I had the power to-night
to bring together all the slaveholders of this
land, and have them look on in solemn si
lence, while the crippled, the widows and
orphans that have been made by this war,
could pass before them in grand review and
tell their tales of misery and woe that slave
ry has brought upon them; were their hearts
net made of stone, they would melt while
(razing on such a scene, and with one voice
ct the land be at once rid of the curse that
has caused such a dreadful scene. Let us
cast our eye down along the banks of the
mighty father of waters, and then returning
start again at Perryville, and glance along
that broad and deep channel over which the
red tide of battle rolled through the gorges
of the Cumberland and down along the plains
of Georgia on to the sea. Then pursue it
around through the Carolinas, to Raleigh,
and all over the crimsoned soil of Virginia,
and as youjeount the almost countless graves
that lie along the banks of that river of
blood, thick as "autumn leaves in Vallam
brosa," pause for one moment to contem
plate tha xoax of team, tbe par*yKßa of
unutterable agony, all these must have cost
when "somebody's darling" had to fall at
every blow, and then tell me, if you can.
when you know that slavery caused it all,
can you still cling to it ? It has filled all the
land with mourning. It has deluged your
lanu wiut intunuu utouu. it nas snapped
in twain the tondcrest ties of social society.
It has caused desolation to reign in princely
palaces, where happiness had always held
its revels. It has smitten with want and
woe millions who were born in the lap of
luxury.
llow can any mortal man desire to see
such a cause of sorrow and suffering, injury
and infamy, hypocrisy and hate, perpetua
ted among the institutions of his country?
In heaven's name I implore you, strike at
once and deal it a death-blow. Let it lie
f>roclaimed to the ends of tne earth, that we
ive in a land of universal liberty, where the
fires of patriotism, being rekindled, will
flow on as brightly as over, in a Union that
as battered down the walls of treason.
OUT OF ONE'S ELEMENT.
I have thought of a swan, clumsily wad
dling along on legs that cannot supports its
weight, when I have witnessed a great schol
ar trying to make a speech on a platform,
and speaking miserably ill. The great schol
ar had left his own clement, where he was
graceful and at ease; he had come to anoth
er, which did not by any means suit him.
And while he floundered and stammered
through his wretched little speech, I have
beheld fluent emty pates grinning with joy
at the badness of his appearance. They had
got the great scholar to race with them, they
in their element, and he out of his. They
had got him into a duel, giving them the
choice of weapons. And having beat him
(as logicians 3ay) ricundum quid, they plain
ly thought thev had beat him mnpltaUr.
You may have been amused at the articles
by which men, not good at anything but very
fluent speaking, try to induce people infinite
ly superior to them in every respect save
that one, to make fools of themselves by
miserable attempts at that thing they could
pet do. The fluent speakers thought, in
fact, to tempt the swan out of the water.
The swan, if wise, will decline to come out
of the water.
I have beheld a famous aoatoiaut unim
a goose. He did it very ill. And the faith
of the assembled company in his knowledge
of anatomy was manifestly shaken. You
may have seen a great and solemn pßloso
pher seeking to make himself agreeable to
a knot of pretty young girls in a drawing
room. The great philosopher failed in lis
anxious endeavours, while a brainless cornet
succeeded to perfection. Yet. though the
cornet eclipsed the philosopher in this one
respect, it would be unjust to say that, on
the whole, he was the philosopher's supeii
or. — The Country Parson.
Tim INCOME RKTI HNS.—It is a mistake
to imagine that because a person's income
does not actually exceed the amount author
ized by law, he need make no returns. A
knowledge of this fact will prove a benefit
to those so situated who have received no
blanks, but who have not supposed it nec
essary to return them with the requisite
statement Kvery one who has received a
a blank, no matter what may be the amount,
of his income, or even if, in fact, he have
no income at all, must make a return with
his blank before the time has expired, or he
will be assessed by the District Assessor to
the amount he may deem proper, the law al
lowing no appeal from hit assessment.
Tut TONGUE.—A white fur on the tongue
atteuds simple fever and inflamatiou. Yel
lowuess, of the tongue attends a derange
ment of the liver and is common to billions
and typhus fevers. A tongue vividly red
on the tip or edge, or down the centre, or
over the whole surface, attend* inflamation
of the mucous membrane of the stomach
or bowels. A white velyet tongue attends
mental disease. A tongue red at the tips,
becoming dry, brown ana glazed atteuds ty- j
phus state.
VOLWjXff. S*
A REFORM NEEDED.
[\V clip the following from one of our
exchanges because it is equally true in our
columns, and the subject deserves more at
tention than it usually receives, j
There is scarcely a sheet in any of our cit
ies fit to be taken into a respectable house.
The advertisements of wretched quacks dis
figure one column. Another is filled with,
'Wanted—Correspondence." Still anoth
er contains notices of rile "Books" and
' Circulars.' The morning paper will bring
more corruption into the hands of a man's
children than any other like amount of prin
ted Matter going. We have the protection
of law against a certain style of literature.
1 he ordinary newspaner is rapidly approach
ing a point where it will be necessary to
; bring us the provisions of that law in defense
! oi outrage .1 jtUc Uiccr.oy.
| \\ c know where foui books have been in
j traduced among the young people of our
public schools, and have circulated among
tuem for months, to the ruin of many, and
the morning paper which the fathers took
had informed the children where to send for
these issues of the devil's presses.
It is the duty of every man who at all re
gards the morals and purity of his children
to shut out every newspaper which contain,
these advertisements. It is purely a ques
tion of money with the publishers. They,
oi course, must have no principle on the
matter. They would publish anything
whatever, it is clear, if they could make it
pay. The decent part of the community
must take the matter in band and make its
wishes imperative in this respect. It is
done. Stop the paper at once.
V lthdraw your advertising patronage. Let
the merchant and banker and manufacturer
refuse to have his honorable business adver
tised side by side with the cards of "Satan's
recruiting sergeants.'' A course treatment I
of this sort wili soon mend the matter. The
appeal to the pocket is unfortunately about
tne only appeal that many conductors of "a
"O®-press' are capable of appreciating.
If quacks and villains must advertise their
wares and their wants, let them be forced to
do it in sheets which shall go forth as the
professed organs of the wretched classes.
The police will deal with them as with other
nuisances. And let the community, iu self
defence, force publishers to take their choice.
Let us insist on having ratsbane labelled.
>\ e have weekly, al most daily applications
for the insertion of advertisements of the
class referred to. We always put them in—
our waste basket. If we cannot sustain a
paper without thus pandering to the low and
devilish appetites of depraved human nature
we prefer to dig gravel for a living.
THE THINKING-CAP.
"There is no time lost in sharpening the
scythe," is an old maxim among mowers,
and the same principle applies to every de
partment of activity. The tourist who would
take an intelligent view of the scenes
through which lie is to pass, first sits down
and studies up the geography of the ooun
try, and also the historical associations with
tbc different localities. The farmer who
would do his work to the best advantage
must first think well over it, even if it is
only laying out the beds of a garden. There
is nothing but what we can do better by
thinking over it
A great mathematician said if his life de- j
ponded on working & problem in two inin
utes, lie wonld spend one of the minutes in
thinking what was the best manner in which
to do it
Knowledge is a great nower in the world
which works such marvels. It was thinking
over it that brought to perfection the won
derful steam-engine, whose might exceeds
all that is fablea of the giants of classic his
tory. Your thoughtless "hit or miss" sort
of people would never have hit on such an
invention.
Boys think—think hard—over whatever
comes in your way that is worth a second
thought. No one can tell who of you will
strike out the next great invention. There
will be a great many in the next twenty
years. But if you never come out inventors
whom the world delighteth to honor, you
can certainly be superior workers in your
respective callings. You can command
respect for your thoroughness in business.
You can get a name for a reliable sound
judgment on matters in which you are en
gaged, because you thoroughly understand
ail the principles and are familiar
with their application. This can only be
the case after patient and continued obser
vation. There is no fact that bears on the
point that you can rightly call of no impor
tance. The most trifling facts have lea to
the most impoitant results. There is noth
ing seemingly more fragile and useless than
a spider's web, yet one suggested to an ob
serving mind the idea of the suspension
bridge.
Be sure to put on your "thinking-cap" as
soon as you wake in the morning, and do
not put it off till sleep seals up your eyelide
for the night.— Country Gentleman.
LEGALITY OF MILITARY COURTS.
The Attorney General, in response to the
inquiry of President Johnson, whether per
sons charged with the offense of having as
sassinated the late President, should be tried
before a military tribunal or a civil court,
gave a written opinion sustaining the former
mode of trial. This opinion has been prin-
Idl. It lu*l uUal.ua tlutMi
exist under and according to the Constitu
tion in time of war; that the law of natious
constitutes part of the law of the land, and
that the laws of war constitute the greater
part of the law of nations. The laws of war
authorize human life to be taken without
legal process, or that legal process contem
plated by the provisions in the Constitution
are relief on to show that judiciary tribu
nals are the Constitutional law of nations,
which is the result of experience and wis
dom of ages, has decided that jayhawkers,
bandittis, &c., are offenders against the law
of nations and of war, and as such amenable
to the military. Our constitution has made
these laws part of the law of the land.
Obedience to the constitution and to the law
requires that the military should do their
whole duty. They must not only meet and
fight the enemies of the country in open bat
tle, but they must kill or take the secret ene
mies of the country, and try and execute
them according to law. The civil tribunals
of the country cannot rightfully interfere
with the military in the performance of
their high, arduous and perilous, but lawful
duties.
The Attorney General characterizes Booth
and his associates as secret, active public
enemies, and he concludes with the opinion,
that the persons who are charged with the
assassination of the President, committed
the deed as public enemies, as I believe they
did, and whether they did or did not. is a
question to be decided by the tribunal before
which they are tried. They not only can,
but ought to be tried before a military tribu
nal. If the persons charged have offended
against the laws of war, it would be palpa
bly wrong for the military to hand fchvm
over to theoivil courts, as it w<.iil<Uu
in the civil mnri fat onniirt a man of ji 4ur
der, who had, in time of war, killed anther
in battle. ? i ■ !
LABOR TO IMPROVE*
What you do, perfbrra well, and labor to
improve. Are jron an artist? Keep in
view the high nature of tout calling; emu
late the example of Raphael and Da Vinci.
Are you a lawyer t Rest not a mere petti
! logger, a collector of bills, a pleader in the
lower courts; study that you may take a
limb rank. Are you a minister ? Preach
well and study your senates. Don't ha a la
zy drawling pastor of a meagre church, ele
vate your people tad put energy iato them
by your discourse, there is ao reuse* why
you should not he a Raster or a Lua/aa, a
rhysou or a Beeeher. Are you an ethame?
—Let an Arkwright and a Watt (Simulate
you; never suffer an article to go from your
shop that won't hear scrutiny—that you
would not be willing to stamp th maker's
name upon. Are you a merchant f Re at
tentive to your business, undersssmd per
fectly what you are about; leave not your
accounts to go to loose end*; let a Qregor, a
Phrker Dana or a Browa be your pattern.
Are you a laborer ? Be faith fid to your bu
siness and do everything well; it if the oi
ly way to succeed.
Aim high, go beyond ether* if gee ean,
bet study and labor so that no sue outsteps
£ou in your profession or business. Never
e idle, never lose e minute by sloth end by
a buy spirit; "up and on" should be your
motto by day and by night—year in and year
out.
1 DIFFERENT VIEWII OP ITTM6
MAM RUED.
Dr. Thompson, in hit "Letters from Eu
rope," handsomely hits off the different
views which obtain among different classes
and different communities respecting mar
riage:
One says—
"l wish to take advioe about n serious
matter that weighs heavily upon my mind."
"What is itF
"(retting married. Is it best?"
"Well, whom have you in view? If she
is young, handsome, and virtuous, the soon
er you get her the letter. Who is she?"
Oh, nobody in particular; it is marrying
in the abstract that I am thinking about
That is Young Germany.
"Zounds, I love her and will have her, if
I have to swim the river for her." Young
America.
"No use to deny me ®r run from me.—
Where you go I will go, where you stop I
will stop, where you lire I will live, where,
you die I will die, and where you are buried
there will Ibe buried.'' That is Young Ire
land.
"She is worth three thousand one hundred
and twenty-seven pounds, six shillings and
four pence half penny, which, under tne eir
cumstanoe, is not quite sufficient." Young
England.
SCARCE ARTICLES.
A parson who practioes all he professes;
A beauty who never feels proud when she
dresses;
A lawyer whose honesty pleads for his cli
ent ;
A braggart whose courage is always defi
ant:
A sensible dandy, an actual friend;
Philosophy publishing, money to lend;
A skillful physician regardless of self;
A staunch politician forgetful of pelf;
A sour old bachelor neatly arrayed:
And last though not rarest, a cheerful old
maid.
The Justice or the Republic ah Pah
ty.—lt has been a favorite plea with the
more desperate of the copperhead faction
anxious to preserve a State and National or
kmumUoii, to porwade efery Democrat
from supporting a Union nomination on the
ground that the Republicans would cheat all
who entered into such coalitions. Of oouree
such assertions were utterly devoid of truth.
Resrnts prove that the Republicans are
faithful to those Democrats who stood by
the country in the hour of its danger, despite
the denunciations of the men who now in
sist that all such patriots would be cheated.
In many of the counties of the State, where
the Republicans hare overwhelming majori
ties, the nominations have been fiaiiiy shared
with the War Democracy. The nomina
tions of the Union State Convention vindi
cate the same practice of justice. Gen.
Hartrmnfl, the candidate for Auditor Gene
ral, was a staunch Democrat at the precipi
tation of the war, and to all intents and pur
poses, is still a Democrat of the highest in
tegrity and patriotism. On this account he
was nominated. Because he repudiated the
control of the rascally leaders of an old party
organization, and rallied to the support of -
his country, he was singled out by the Re
publican parly as worthy of it* support. As
men act toward each other, so also do they
deal with principles. Let aU honest Demo
crats ponder this sentiment as they seek an
explanation for Gen. HartranfVa nomina
tion. — Har. TtL
How SCHOLARS ARK MAl>x. —Costly ap
paratus and splendid cabinets have no mag
ical powers to make scholars. In all circum
stances, as a man is under God the maker
of his fortune, so is he the maker of his own
mind. The Creator has so constituted the
human intellect that it can grow only by its
own action, and by its own action it will
most certainly and necessarily grow. Every
man must therefore in an important sense
educate himself. His book and teacher are
but helps; the work is his. A man is not
educated until he has the ability to summon
as an act of emergency, all his mental powers
in vigorous exercise to effect his proposed
object. It is not the man that has seen the
most, or has read most, who can do this;
such a one is in danger of being borne down
like a beast of burden, by an overloaded mass
of other men's thoughts. Nor is it the
man who can boast merely of native vigor
and capacity; the greatest of ail ths war
riors that went to the seige of Troy, had not
the pre-eminence because nature had given
tim nfrpnortV, vried *h< Uuwesf
ow, out because tey-ductplme had taught
him hove to head it.
W HTIB N DOWB. —The Democrat* party
' is just now engaged in raising the ery or "ne
gro equality,' 1 negro toting," Ac., in or
der to distract the attention of the peorle,
and pore especially the soldiers from their
damning record of the last three years.
They hope by raising fhlae issues, to escape
the merited obloquy that rests on them on
account of their traitorous course during the
existence of the rebellion. It won't win.
The people cannot be humbugged in that
manner, and the soldiert are not children to
be frightened by the cry of negro equality,
raised by the Democratic party. They have
not forgotten the party nor the men who de
nounced theui as 'murderer s," "thieves,"
"Lincoln hirelings," as will be pretty well
ascertained by the vote this fall. The sol
diers have not forgotten their old enemies,
and honeyed words, and "soft-soaping'
generally will not help the Democratic party
any, when applied to the "brave hoys in
blue."
BEAUTIFUL AB TRP*- R ~^ *
teraaid: "Flowers art noi Di. ufs '
might know from the eaxe betaken or
them everywhere ; not one unfinished, no*
one bearing the marks of a brush or
Fringing the eternal borders ot mountaia
winters, gracing the pulseless bread; of tM
gray, -; d granite eTeowhere tbey we
Murderers do not ora J
Wjar roses ia their buttou-hofcs. v tUaunj
Ast
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SaII tmubi q
they are JM