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j OHX PALMER,
Attorney at I .aw, Bedford, Pa,.
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care.
X-%, Particular attention paid to the collection
of Military claims. Office on Julianna st., nearly
opposite the Mengel House.) june 23, '65.1y >
f B. CESSNA,
J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Pitt St., opposite the
Bedford Hotel. Ail business entrusted to his care
will receive faithful and prompt attention. Mili
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Bedford, June 9,1865.
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O ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
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BEBFORD, PA.,
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Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
' -Mengel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer
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ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
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ufthe Mengel House. apl 1, 1864.—tf.
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Esq., on Juliana street, two doors South of the
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IV ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
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the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
of the Mengel House,
aprl, 1864—tf. !
[OHN MOWER,
fj ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PA.
April I, 1864.—tf.
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atch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
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QUERIES.
"If a person feel a person treading on his toes,
Need a person nek a pereon hnxc a person knoxce."
Is it any body's business,
If a gentleman should choose
To wait upon a lady,
If the lady don't refuse?
Or, to speak a little plainer,
That the meaning all may know,
Is it any body's business
If a lady hat a beaut
Is it any body's business
H'hen the gentleman does call,
Or when he leaves the lady,
Or if he leaves at allt
Or is it necessary
That the curtain should be drawn,
To save from further trouble
To out tide lookert-onf
Is it any body's business
But the lady's, if her beau
Rides out with other Indies!
t And doesn't let her know?
Is it any body's business
But the gentletnan's, if sho
Should accept another escort,
Where he doesn't chance to be?
Is a person on the side-walk,
Whether great or whether small:
Is it any body's business
Where that person means to call?
Or if you see a person
And he's calling anywhere,
Is it any of TOUR businest
Vr hat Ait business may be therel
The substance of our query,
Simply stated would be thit:
Is it AXT BODT'B BUSINESS
What ANOTHER'S BUSINESS IS?
If it is, or if it isn't,
We would really like to know
For we're certain if it isn't,
There arc SOME who MAKE IT SO.
If it is we'll join the rabble,
And act the nobler part
Of the TATTLERS and defamers,
Who throng the public mart;
But if not, we'll act the toacher,
Until each meddler learns,
It were belter in the future
To mind his owx concerns.
TIIE RECONSTRUCTION QUES
TION.
What are the conditions of reconstruc
tion? What the essential prerequisites to
the restoration of the late rebel states to the
full fellowship of the Union? These are
questions which the people of this country
have now to consider, and that eosnidera
tion ought to be thorough and candid. Let
it be thorough, in order that the reorgani
zation of civil polity throughout the south
ern states may be made to conform to those
radical ideas of justice on which our whole
political fabric is based. I>et our investiga
tion be candid, so that we may leave no
ground for bitterness and recrimination in
the future. Thai 13 to say, in siariinganew,
let the southern states start right, and let
all who speak on the subject of reorganiza
tion speak freely and without reservation.
W r e need not vex ourselves in tnis discus
sion with the various theories, some of them
metaphysical in the highest degree, which
have been put forward, bearing upon recon
struction. It is enough for us (o know, as a
matter of fact, that the southern states have
not now any representation in the councils
of the nation; that they have at present no
voice in the control of the government.
Their representatives, known and ac
knowledged as such, and as such entitled to
an equal share with the representatives of
of all ihe other states in the federal legisla
ture, openly withdrew from the government
alter the election of President Lincoln.
They did not, save in ihe two honorable in
stances of Messrs Hill of G:jorgia, and
Boulij: ;ncy of Louisiana, resign their places
in Congress-leaving vacancies to be possibly
filled thereafter. To do this would nave be
lied the principle in virtue of which ihev
claimed to act. They did not mean that
their places, once vacated, should ever be
refilled. In those cases where they did not
act in obedience to positive instructions from
the several state legislatures, their co-eon
spiralors who misled public opinion through
out the South easily managed to have their
action in withdrawing duly ratified. During
the next four years it accordingly happened
that no successors to these voluntary absent
ees came to Washington. The southern
representatives had, at last, seceded, and
the question as lo how far such a secession
might proceed had been submitted to the
ordeal of battle. It has been definitely as
certained since then what may be the limit
of secession; and the question now is, upon
what terms may those srates which adopted
the principle of secession resume their rela
tions with the Union?
The question is eminently a practical one.
The common sense view of President Lin
coln suits best the temper of our people,
and accords roost fitly with the spirit of our
institutions. Discarding the fine-spun the
ories, which can never be made to suit ev
erybody, what the great mass of the people
want is that the laie rebel states be re-estab
lished, as soon as practicable, in their prop
er and normal relations to the United
States.
It is evident from the outline above given,
of the course adopted by the seceding states,
that they are themselves precluded from
dictating, as some would seem desirous to
have them do, the terms of readmission.
They are, in legal phrase- estopped from de
nying the virtue of secession. Repudiating
the doctrine now is very good, as far as it
goes; and it is certainly a healthful symp
tom. But the historical fact is that the
principle of secession received its finishing
blow at the hands, not of southern legisla
tures, but of the loyal people throughout
the country who opposed its arrogant pre
tensions by force and anus, and in the com
bat slew it. By virtue of the t'tle thus ac
quired. which is, in effect (call it what we
will | the right of conquest, that is, the title
of the superior power, those same loyal peo
ple now assume to declare what shall be the
terms of readmission into the Union of
those who voluntarily and without cause left
it. They are far from any desire of ven
geance, they do not wish to use harsh meas
ures beeause they are harsh, but they would
be worse than foolish to ask less than such
measures as seem to them to afford perfect
security for the future. The question of re
construction will be determined by this rule,
quite irrespec, ive of any theories, whether
of state equality or state suicide.
In seeking, therefore, to define these
measures of security, the American people
have only to guide themselves by the same
chart which has brought them with safety
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through the dreadful events of the last four
years—their institutions being not merely
unharmed, but, on the contrary, purified
and perfected. The chart is the constitution
of the United States, and the special provis
ion which governs the question of recon
struction is found in article fourth, section
fourth: "The United States shall guaranty
to every stale in the Union a republican form
of government."
Now, it is of comparatively little conse
quence, from a practical point of view,
whether we consider the late rebel states as
alien enemies, and therefore outside of the
Constitution, or as still component parts of
the Union, and therefore entitled to ail the
rights and privileges of states under the
Constitution. One thing is clear; one fact
is indisputable; it meets us at the threshold
of our inquiries, and we show true wisdom|in
fairly examining the significance and bearing
of it. That fact is the one already referred to,
to, namely, the non-representatiou of tlielate
rebel states in the government.
The question immediately suggested is.
How to restore that voluntarily forfeited
representation? There is but one way.
The states lately in rebellion must, by some
method or other, proceed to the business of
electing the proper representatives, and the
latter must present themselves with their
credentials at the national capital. It will
then become the duty of Congress to satis
fy itself as to the compliance, on the part of
those who may thus ask readmission, with
the requirements of the organic law. In
other words, the Constitutions of the late
rebel states, in virtue of which representa
tives may have beeu elected, will be then
before the people of the United States for
their consideration. If they, acting through
their representatives in Congress, shall be
satisfied that those constitutions accord with
the spirit of our laws and are not repugnant
to the principles of the organic law, it will
remain simply to admit the repentant states
into full fellowship. Till they are so satis
fied no power on eartn can change the pres
ent fact of the non-representation of those
states in our government.
Now, we understand (he President's pres
ent course in dealing with the late rebel
states to be entirely in accordance with the
views here set forth. It could not well be
any other, without exciting the apprehen
sions of the American people. It is an at
tempt to put the demoralized inhabitants
of the southern states in the way of recov
ering their forfeited privileges. The Pres
ident seeks, by means of provisional
governors, to effect a beginning in the
political organization of the southern states.
They were stripped of all government by
the despotism and anarchy of the Confeder
ate rel>ellion, and lie properly, as the Chief
Magistrate of the nation, and charged with
the duty of caring for the protection of its
inhabitants, extends to them a helping hand
toward the restoration of political order and
civil society. He can do nothing more, as
he could nothing less.
If the southern people are ready to resume
their rejations with the Union, they will as
semble in their various state conventions, as
they are now doing, under the call of the
United States provisional governors, and
will act in the premises with such wisdom
and good sense as experience and reflection
may have taught them. If their eyes are
still blinded to the results which have been
wrought by the revolution of the last four
years, they need not expect a speedy resto
ration to the rights and privileges of citizens
of the United States Governor Hamilton
has correctly and well advised the people of
Texas in this point. In such an unfortu
nate event the people of anv Southern State
must expect to be remanded to whatever
provisional government Congress may see St
to prescribe.
The people of the loyal states are anxious
for a speedy restoration of the others to the
Union. They will not regard with favor any
policy that may be proposed, which looks to
unnecessarily delaying this good work. But
on the other hand, let not the southern peo
ple be deluded into the belief that, in their
anxiety to accomplish such a restoration, the
people who have been Wr>! to the Union
will consent to ignore any ol the principles
which .were at issue between North and
South before the war, and which the event
of the war has only rendered more dear to
every loyal heart. Let not the southern
people b deceived, as formerly, with any
such absurd idea as that the people of the
northern states fear the consequences of war
and that they now fear to hold firmly to the
institutions of the republic, which they be
lieve the war has confirmed and made sure
forever. Above all. let the sonthern people
comprehend in its full significance, that the
motto of the nation is henceforth contained
in those memorable words of Webster,
which could be no more than prophecy
when he uttered them : "Liberty and Union
now and forever, one and inseparable."
WORKING FOR A LIVING.
"I never will marry Mr. Siuclair, ma, HO
you may as well drop the subject as not. Do
vou suppose that I'll have a mechanic for a
beau, when Sophia Marshall, and Sally
Edes and all my associates have young gen
tlemen to wait on them ? Look at his
coarse hands ; they are too big lor a kid
glove—there is not a pair imported of suf
ficient size for him. I'll never marry him,
and you may tell father so."
"llut, my dear daughter, Tom Emery has
only a small salary ana you need never think
your father will countenance him. Why,
child, should you slight a mechanic ?
Your father was a journeyman carpenter
once.''
"Mother, I'll hold my ears if you tell me
that again. I've been mortified enough to
hear father tell every young gentleman that
comes here, about his beginnings, and being
bound to old Mr. (Iraggas an apprentice. I
really left the room the other evening, it
was so painful. Certainly he was a master
builder before he retired, and never worked
any; he only rode round in his carriage, and
superintended his workmen."
'But, my dear, he first earned his horse
and carriage by hard labor."
"And what good will all his money do, if
he hoards it up, and wo girls cannot dress
like other people? I'm sure, I'm tired to
death with hearing about how you used to
live. I want to live wel! now, and keep up
with the fashions."
"If you should accept Mr. Sinclair, Hitty
I have no doubt but your father would give
you a handsome house, and furnish it beau
tifully, and do everythig you wish ; but if
you disobey him and marry a worthless rake
you alone must bear the consequence ; but I
enjoin it upon you, child, to "look before
you leap."
Sinclair was the son of a worthy mechan
ic and chose his father's occupation ; but he
was well educated and had just offered him
self to Hitty, the retired master-builders
daughter, and many people thought he had
male a great mistake.
Tom Emery was a brainless clerk at two
hundred and fifty dollars a year salary—
wore white kid gloves, attended operas.
BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1865.
threw boquets at Signorina Teresa Parodi,
carried a gold opera-glass, a perfumed hand
kerchief and a gold-headed cane, was culti
vating a mustache and whiskers, and above
all, did not work for a living—he only sold
goods, and changed places about once a
month. Yet fiitty thought he was "di
vine!"
"I should feel pretty, ma." said Hitty one
day, "to be seated in my velvet chair, or be
in the street wearing my velvet cloak, and
meet Sinclair with his working dress on.
I'm sure I would not bow to him—what
would Efiie Grieves think of me ?"
"You talk very foolishly, child; Sinclair
lias a mind and a purse far above your dan
dy beaux."
' 'But look at his hands, ma; those awful
big hands, and his homely face ! Oh, dear,
say no more to me about Sinclair. Mr. Em
ery, ma, is a beauty, and Pa had better not
oppose me too much—tS? 'Wre more ways
than one to get married.®*"*"
The mother wiped her eyes, and secretly
wished girls had not such silly notions in
their heads.
The mother said to Ler husband that even
ing : "If our Hitty should marry Tom Em
ery. I hope you will make the best of it."
Her husband replied that Hitty should
never, with his consent marry such a good
for-nothing fop as Tom Emery.
The remainder of the story is easily told.
Tom and Ilittv eloped, were married, and
went to a distant city, where Tom obtained
a situation as elerk, which he filled credita
bly for a year and a half, when his employ
ers found that Tom had been robbing them
to enable him to keep up with the world,
because his salary was too small to bear the
family expenses, for before this time a child
had been born unto them. Tom was im
mediately discharged, and being unable to
obtain another situation, took to drinking so
much that he is now a couurmed drunkard.
They arc now living in a miserable condi
tion, with barely enough breat to eat, which
Hitty obtains by sewing, and appearances do
not indicate any improvement. H itty has
not written to her parents since the elope
ment, so they know nothing of her wherea
bouts and situation in life. Truly, the 1 'way
of the transgressor is hard."
Mr. Sinclair, the mechanic, has been
married lately, to a handsome, well educated
and industrious voung lady, whose parents
are not so wealthy as Hitty's. He is now
carrying on business, becoming wealthy, and
living happily.
YOUNG MEN--BUSINESS MEN.
It is easier to be a good business man
than a poor one. Half of the energy dis
played in keeping ahead as is required in
catching up when behind will save credit,
give more time to attend to business, and
add to the profits and reputation of those
who work for gain. Be prompt. Keep your
word. Honor your engagements. If you
promise to meet a man or do a certain thing
at a certain moment be ready at the appoin
ted time. If you have work to do—do it at
once, cheerfully and theiefore speedily and
correctly. If you go out on business, at
tend promptly to the matter at hand, then
as promptly go about your business. Do
not stop to tell stories in business hours.
If vou have a place of business, be found
there when wanted. No man can get rich
by sitting around saloons, playing old sledge
euchre, peanuekle, or other games for whis
ky. Never "fool" on business matters. If
you have to labor for a living, remember
that one hour in the morning is better than
two at night. If you employ others, be on
hand to see that they attend to their duties,
and to direct work to an advantage. Have
order—system—regularity—promptness—
liberality. Do not meddle witli business you
know nothing of. Whatever you do, do
well. Never buy an article simply because
the man who sells will take it out in trade.
Trade is money. Time is money. A good
business habit and reputation are always
money. Make your place of business pleas
ant and attractive, then stay there to wait
on customers. Never use quick words or
allow yourself to make hasty and ungentle
manly remarks to those in your employ, for
to do so lessons their respect for you, and
your influence over them. Help yourself
and others will help you. Be faithful over
the interests confided in jour keeping, and
all in good time your responsibility will be
incrcascd-
Do not be in too great baste to get rich.
Do not build till you have arranged and laid
a good foundation. Do not, as you hope or
work for success, spend time in loafing, if
your time is your own, business will surely
suffer if you do. If it Is given to another
for pay j it belongs to him, and you have no
more right to steal it than you have to steal
money. Be obliging. Strive to avoid harsh
words and personalities. Do nut kick every
stone in the path. More miles can be made
in a day by going steadily on than by stop
ping to kick. Day as you go. A man of
honor respects his word "as he does his bond.
Ask but never beg. Help others when you
can without convenience to yourself. But
never give when you cannot afford to, sim
ply because it is fashionable. Learn to say
no. No necessity of snapping it out dog
fashion, but firmly and respectfully. Have
but few confidants. The fewer the better.
Use your own brains rather than others.
Learn to think and act for yourself. Be
honest. Be vigilant. Be active and liberal.
Keep ahead, rather than behind the times.
Young man —cut this out, and if there is
folly in the argument let us know.
The above rules have done us good serv
ice, and arc given as hints to the young men
of the country who must he either loafers
or gentlemen, business men or bankrupts,
respected or uncared for, as they themselves
may determine.— Brick Pomeroy.
BETTER BURN THE*.
An old card-player, who had spent the
best part of his life in this senseless employ
ment, had become so habituated to hand
ling these bits of pasteboard, that wherever
he was, or however engaged, he would be
constantly moistening Iris thumb, and invol
untarily going through the motions of deal
ing out cards. If the body had become
such a slave to this amusement, what must
have been the ease of the immortal soul ?
A young acquaintance, who had just learn
ed to play, was so elated with his first suc
cess that he went out and bought a pack of
cards. He called, on his way home, and
showed them to the old player, who fingered
them over familiarly for a minute, and then
returned them, saying, "O well, you had
better go home and burn them."
The young man was amazed at such ad
vice from such a source, and it set him to
thinking seriously. Surely if any one was
competent to judge of the worthlessness of
such pursuits he was, and his opinion made
so deep an impression upou the mind of the
youth that he never played again.
Quin was at a small dinner party. There
was a delicious pudding, of which the mas
ter of the house begged him to partake. A
gentleman had just before helped himself
to an immense piece of it. "Pray," said
Quinn, looking firstatthe gentleman's plate
and then at the dish, "winch is the pud
ding?"
THE LDITOR.
A correspondent of the Ria-jIK t c York
er wr ; t : ng of the "editor" of modern times
says:
1 'A discus -ion nowand then arises whether
"the news" is a s : ngulur or plural noun; or,
pradically whither we should say, "what is
the news, ' or "what are the new.This
question is always open; but that the dissemi
nator of news, that the editor himself is of
the plural number, admits of no question.
He is dupliea.ed and reduplicated, lie re
gards himself as plural. He speaks of him
self as we, like kings. He follows the advice
of the senior Weller to his son Samivel:—
"That's right Sutuivel, spell it with a we—
spell it with a wel"
"The Editorship is a fourth profession.
Once it was occupied by some harums sca
rum renegade, who had either been expelied
from College for his pranks or dropped out
for h< laztneic, or by some broken 4 0Wn
lawyer or unsuccessful merchant. The term
editor was a synonym for a shiftless, careless
jolly, bright, hopeful, rollicking blade, who
at a scrape was always in at the death, and
out at the elbows, i'eople cried "as poor as
arat," or "as poor as an editor," with equal
proprirty. Those days are past. Editorship
is now a fourth estate, honored and rewarded
The editor is educated, energeoe, particular
in liis dress, nice in his tastes, and often rich.
He has brains in his head, good meat on his
board, and money in his pocket. He is hon
ored. trusted, and —believed!
"But the Editor needs a greater improve
ment. He needs a higher idea of culture,
and a better tone of morals. lie should be
something loftier than the traditional knight
of the quill and scissors. He should be
something more than "the snapper-up of
unconsidered trifles." or the mere retailer
of other men's ideas. That trenchant wea
pon of his, the pen which can "make the
worse appear the better reason," shouM be
wielded always in the cause of Truth and
Eight. He should stoop only to lift up oth
ers, never to depreciate himself. He should
be ready to stem as well as to swell the tide
of public .sentiment. He should both em
body and direct public opinion. He should
by superior discernment, safely lead the pub
lic mind, when he cannot safely fol'ow.
"I would rather be the pilot fish that
guides the whale, than the great mass of
spouting bluber behind."
THE MITTEN.
Seventeen years ago, there was a fair girl,
so pure, so lovely, so refined, that she still
rises to mind as almost akin to angels. She
was wooed, and ultimately won by a hand
some young man of considerable wealth.
He sported a fine team, delighted in hunt
ing, and kept a pack of hounds. He neither
played cards, drank wine, nor used tobacco.
He had no occupation, no calling, no trade,
lie lived on his money, the interest of which
would have supported a nwu handsomely.
I never saw the fair bride till a tew days ago.
Seventeen years had passed away, and with
them her beauty and her youth, her hus
band's fortune and bis life 2 during the latter
part oi which they lived in a log cabin on
the banks of the Ohio, near Blennerhassct's
Island—a whole family in one single room,
subsisting on water, fat bacon, and corn
bread.
The husband had no bnsiness capacity.
He was a gentleman of education, of refine
ment. of noble impulses; but when his mon
ey was gone he could get no employment,
simply because he did not know how to do
anything. For a while he floundered about
—first trying one thing, then another; fail
ure was written on them all.
Ile however, fiaallj 7 obtained a situation ;
the labor was great, the compemation small
—it was that or starvation. In his heroic
efforts to dischaige his duties acceptably, he
over-worked himself and died, leaving his
widow and six girls in utter destitution. In
seventeen years, the sweet and joyous and
beautiful girl had become a broken-hearted,
caie-worn, poverty-stricken widow, with a
house full of children. Young woman, if a
rich young man asks you trt marry him, and
has no occupation, or trade, or calling, by
which he could make a living if he were
thrown on nis own resources, you may give
hint your respects but give him the mitten.
—Dr. IML
A CAPITAL BATH.
An open window, with the direct rays of
the sun coining in, will be good for the little
one. On a hot summer dav, to lay it down
near the window, quite nude, and let it lie
for some minutes where the rays of the sun
may fall upon its skin, will give it new life.
There is vital relation between sunshine and
a vigorous human being. Seclusion from
sunshine 'is one of the greatest misfortunes
of civilized life. The same cause which
makes petato vines white and sickly when
grown in dark operates to produce
the pale, and sickly girls that are reared in
our parlors. Expose either to the direct
rays of the sun, and they begin to show col
or, health and strength. When in London,
some years ago. I visited an establishment
which had acquired a wide reputation for
the cure of those diseases in which prostra
tion and nervous derangement were promi
nent symptoms. I soon found the secret of
success in the use of sunshine. The slate
roof had been removed and a glass one sub
stituted. The upper story was divided into
sixteen small rooms, each provided with
lounges, washing etc. The pa
tient on entering each his little apartment,
removed all his clothing, and exposed him
self to the direct rays of the sun. Lying on
the lounge and turning over from time to
time, each and every part of the body was
exposed to the life-giving rays ol the sun.
Several London Physici ins candidly confes
sed to me that many cases seemingly only
waiting for the shroud were galvanized into
life ana health by this process.— Dr. Dio
Lewis.
FATE OF FAST MEf*.
The vicious die early. They fall like shad
ows or tumble wrecks and ruins into the
grave —otteu while quite young, almost al
ways belbre forty. ' "The wieked liveth not
half his days." The world at once ratifies
the truth and assigns the reason, by describ
ing the dissolute life of''last men;" that is,
they live fast; they spend twelve hours in
six, getting through the whole before the
meridian, and dropping into darkness while
others are in the glory of light. —"'Their
sun goeth down while it is day." And they
might have helped it. Many a one dies be
fore he need. Young men of genius, like
Burns and Byron, to whom, when dissipated
and profligate, thirty-seven is so tatal, and
your obscure and nameless wanderings-tars,
wht> waste their time in libertine indulgence
—they cannot live, they must die early.
They put on steam till they blow up the boi
ler. They run at such a rate that the fire
goes out for want of fuel. The machinery
is destroyed hy rapid speed and reckless
wear. Nothing can save them. Their
physical system cannot stand the strain they
put to it; while the .state of their minds is
often such that the soul would eat the sub
stance of the most robust body and make for
itself away of escape from the incessant hell
of its own thoughts.
VOLUME 38; KO. 42.
PAT AND li'S PIG.
A loJuckipg JDbeiniaii of the light divis
ion in ui2 1 eninsula, w?s trudging along the
road wi. ha Pig,led Jo a string behind him,
when, as bad luck would have it, he was
overtaken by Gen. Can ford. The salutation
as may be supposed, was not the most cor
dml. "VVhe'-e did you steal that pig you,
blundering rascal?'' ' 'What pig. general - !",
exclaimcdPaddy, turning round with the
most i surprise.—'Why ihat pig
yo'xt have behind you, you villain." "Well,
then, I protes , general,"rejoined Paddy,
notlvng abashed, and turning round to his
four-footed compamon, as if he had never
seen hm before, "it is scandalous to think
what a wicked world we Jive in, and how
ready folks are to take awav an honest boy's
character. Some blackguard, wanting to
get me into trouble, lias tied that baste to
my cartooch box.'' The general smiled and
rode on.
SMART.— Two men dining at the League
in Philadelphia, the other day, the singular
freaks of lightning were referred to, ana es
pecially a recent occurrence where the fluid
entered a store, lit a hanging lamp, and then
peaceably disappeared. Said one. "That is
the most remarkable freak I ever knew it to
perform.'' "Yes replied the other, "it cer
tainly is—it is matchless."
One of the gentlemen was eating boiled
jowl, and insisted upon his friend tasting how
very good it was. "Why," said he, tasting
some, "this is nearly as good as tongue!
"Yes," replied the other, "it is next to
it 1"
A GENTLEMAN who had long been subject
to the nocturnal visitation of theives in his
orehardsf wishing to preserve his property
without endangering any one's life, procured
from a hospital the leg of a subject, which
he placed one evening in a steel trap in his
garden, and the next morning sent the crier
around the town to announce that "the
owner of the leg left in Mr. Johnson's
ground last night, might receive it on appli
cation. '' lie was never robbed again.
II OW TO REFUSE A LOAN.— A young city
clerk who felt inclined for a trip to the sea
side, called upon a friend. "Hal, my dear
boy,' said he, "I'm off for a holiday, and I
find I'm a trifle short—lend me a teD, will
you ? Hal, after a pause, which apparently
included a mental examination of his finan
cial arrangements, replied, "Well—Phil—to
tell the you truth—l do not feel—disposed
—at present—to make any—permanent in
vestments."
Nothing decisive has occurred at the thea
ter of war in Paraguay. The Paraguayans
were marching upon tlrrigayann, and had
committed atrocities in Corrientes.
The Liberal army, 2,500 strong, under
G en. Escopedo, is threatening Matamoros.
It is defended by Gen. Mejia with 1,800 na
tive troops. A Juarist force had taken the
town of Catarzo and levied a forced loan of
SBO,OOO.
AN EDITOR ON HIS TRAVELS.—"We re
turned home on Thursday, 1 ' says an editor,
"after a trip of six hundred miles in about
three and a half days, having in that time
passed over four States, nine railroads, four
oxen and a barouche. Any person who has
done more in that time, will please forward
his address, and the small balance he owes
us.''
A NEW KIND OF SCULPTOR.—At the ,
the other evening, one gentleman pointed
out a dandified looking individual to his
friend as a sculptor. "What!" said his
friend, "such a looking chap as that a sculp
tor? Surely you must be mistaken." "He
may not be the kind of one you mean," said
the informant, "but I know that he chisled
a tailor out of a suit of clothes last week.''
THE LANGUAGE OE FLOWERS AND FRUITS
—The lilac in April—"Give me leave." The
rose in June—'Well. I'm blowed." The
asparagus in July—Cut and come again."
Peas in August—"Shell out." The apple
tree in September—"Go it, my pippins."
The cabbage in December—"My heart's
my own."
AT a recent exhibition of paintings, a lady
and her son were regarding with much in
terest a picture which the catalogue desig
nated as "Luther at the Diet of Worms.
Haying descanted at some length upon its
merits, the boy remarked —"Mother, I see
Luther and the table; but where are the
worms'?"
The difficulty arising out of the arrest in
Prussia of Germans who had become Amer
iean citizens for the non-performaoce of
military service required by the Prussian
laws continues to excite attention in that
country. There is every disposition shown
by the Liberals to keep on friendly terms
with the United States.
Two more telegraphic lines will shortly
connect llussia with the north of Europe.
The Czar has just given the necessary con
cessions for laying down a submarine cable
between Grislebamn, in Finland and Kystad
in Sweden, via the Aland Isles; and another
from Cronstadt to Copenhagen, via Born
holm.
In Mexico matters are rapidly improving
for the Kepublicans. Late news from the
United States has caused great despondency
among Maximilian's adherents, and corres
ponding elation on the part of the friends of
J uarez.
The cholera is decreasing in Italy, but is
rapidly increasing in France. At Marseilles
many were leaving the city to avoid the pes
tilence. The deaths from cholera at Con
stantinople amount to 50,000.
The Seboys and other East Indians are
circulating a report that an ancient prophecy
of their Brahmins foretells the overthrow of
British rule in 1866. and it is feared will in
stigate insurrection.
A BOSTON Storekeeper the other day
struck upon his door the laconic advertise
ment, "A Boy Wanted." The next morn-,
ing, on opening the door, he found a little
urchin in a basket, labelled* ' 'Here he is." j
A LEARNED Coroner, the other day, being
asked how he accounted for the great mor
tality this year, exclaimed, "I cannot tell;
there are people dying this year that never
died before."
AN Irishman, who was once on ti journey,
said he never liked to see tables full of books
and newspapers where he stopped at night,
"for, I can never find any whisky at such
places."
Two men were conversing about the ill
humor of their wives. "Ah, said one,
with a sorrowful expression, "mine is a Tar
tar." "Well," replied the other, "mine is
worse than that; mino is the cream of Tar
tar."
SOUTHERN NEWS.
At the Episcopal Contention in Virginia,
Bishop Johns earnestly recommended a re
union with the northern branch of the
church. - '■ !'"> V■ TW
Ex-Rebel Gen. Forest is running a saw
milFin a small town in Mississippi.
The Lexington Presbytery of Virginia
have declared "that it is neither practicable
Bor desirable to re unite with.the Northern
assemblies."
A great revival of religion is now pro
gressing among the colored population of
Richmond. The colored churches in the
city are densely crowded every night
A letter writer from North Carolina, says
that unless the Government compels the
Rebels to treat the freedmen with less cru
elty, there will certainly be a rising of the
negroes and bloody retaliation (there.
The President set aside Judge Wylie's writ
of habeas corpus in the Burcb case, not so
much to take these men out of the civil courts
as to deny a precedent which would, if estab
lished, open the prison doors to Wira or any
other criminal who might choose to avail
himself of the writ., -
The return of peace has already developed
the fact that there is a good deal of hard,
substantial money in the South, consisting of
parcels put away at the outbreak of the war
and now brought out into active service.
Bishop Atkinson, of the North Carolina
Diocese of the Episcopal Church, in his recent
address to the Council of the State, urged a
re-union with the Northern Church. He also
insisted that the fact of the negroes having
acquired their freedom increased the duty cf
the Church in caring for their spiritual wel
fare.
In many parts of the South the negro les
sees of land have to he protected by the sol
diers from the fury of their Rebel neigh
bora.
Several Rebels have recently been shot in
East Tennessee by Union men, who had suf
fered at their hands during the Rebellion.
The safety of Union men in Louisi&nna and
Mississippi is still very precarious. Negroes
are frequently shot down, and no one is pun
ished or even arrested.
After the adjournment of the Council of the
Episcopal Church of Virginia on the 21st, •
petitition to the President for the pardon of
Jeff. Davis, was presented, and received 62
signatures from the 60 clergymen present.
Gen. Carl Schurz has been oil a tour
through the South. He says he saw no basis
for immediate successful reconstruction ia any
State.
Former disloyal citizens of Virginia, whose
property had been confiscated previous to the
amnesty proclamation, are having the same
restored upon payment of costs.
Five hundred Post-Offices have been re
opened in the South since last May.
There is a great scarcity of laborers at Gal
veston, Texas. Ordinary laborers get $4 par
day.
Work is very much delayed in Baltimore
ship-yards by the refusal of the white calkers,
carpenters, painters andjoinerstodo any work
until the negro workmen are discharged.
A letter from the Plains says that G. P.
Parker of the 7th Michigan Cavalry, was re
cently tied to a wagon by the Indians, sur
rounded with bacon, and burned to death.
President Johnson has expressed his wish
that none should be elected Representatives
to Congress from the South who cannot take
the test oath ; and certain ex-Rebel candi
dates for that honor in Virginia hava with
drawn.
The Richmond Enquirer will reappear in
about two weeks, for the first time since the
fall of 'Richmond.
Three colored women are in Washington
to secure the pardon of their former master,
a planter in Virginia.
The trial of Emerson Etheridge will take
place in Memphis, Tenn, as soon as a court
martial can be organized.
The pardon of Joseph R. Anderson, of the
Richmond Tredegar Iron works has given
rise to much unfavorable comment. He waa
a graduate of west Point, a Rebel brigadier
general a notorious blockade runner, and the
owner of the most noted foundry in the Con
federacy.
De Bow the Southern reviewer has been
pardoned.
Mr. Singleton ex-member ofthe Rebel Con
gress from Mississippi is reported to have
been specially pardoned.
There are no guerrillas in Kentucky, except
those in duress and on trial for their liven-
Upward of 17,000 bales of cotton find their
way to the Mobile market every week.
Gov. Wells has issued hi 3 proclamation call
ing far the election of Congressmen and State
officers of Louisiana, for the first Monday of
way to the Mobile market every week.
The Rebel war debt of Alabama amounts to
$2,000,000. It is held by the citizens of the
State, and forms no part of the Confederate
debt property.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Hon. W. Duane, who was Secretary of
the Treasury under Jackson and resigned hie
office rather than remove the deposits from
the United States Bank, died at Philadelphia
on the 26th ult.
It has been decided that any person who
sells any goods, foreign or domestic, whether
he has a fixed place of sale or not, is subject
to license tax as a dealer. Agents receiving
and selling consignments of merchandise thus
come under the head of dealers.
Boots and shoes to the value of $1,200,000
were manufactured at Lynn, Mass., last
month, which is an increase over any previ
ous month.
There are 103 collieries in Pennsylvania
which employ 6,500 hands. The yield in
1864 was 48,462,966 bushels. The value of
the coal lands and appurtenances is $12,000,-
000
A fac simile of the President's signature
has been prepared for the purpose of expe
diting the issue of pardons.
A new issue of fractional currency 0 f
the denomination of 50 cents will shortly be
made to replace, as far as possible, the last
issue of half dollar greenbacks, which have
been extensively counterfeited. The new 10
cent currency of the same general fona as
other new fractional notes will shorter be
ready. They are printed on common bank
note paper.
The Freshman class in Yale College num
bers 150, being the largest ever known.
The United States steamers Saranac and
Lawrence sailed from San Francisco on the
14th and 20th in pursuit of the Shenandoah.
It has been decided that State officials have
no right to tax land settled under the Home*
teadßill, although they may tax improve
ments.