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ATTORNEYS AT TAW.
JOHN PALMER.
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 Julianna at., nearly
opposite the Mengel House.) june 33, 65.1y
F B. CESSNA,
tj . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with Jons CESSNA, on Pitt St., 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 9, 18fti.
JOHN T. KKAGY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Btsnronn, PA.,
Will promptly attend to ail legal business entrust
ed to his care. Will giT# special attention to
claims against the Government. Office on Juliana
street, Formerly occupied by Hon. A. King.
aprH:'&o-*ly.
J. K. DURBORROW JOHS LUTI.
DURBORROW A LUTZ,
.1 TTtt K.VJ-: I V* JIT LA w,
BKBPORD, PA.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their care. Collection* made on the shortest no
tice.
They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
and will give special attention to the prosecution
f claims against the Government for Pensions,
Back Pay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
* 'Meneel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer
office April 28, 1865:tf
Espy m. alsip, ~~
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin
iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 3 doors south
of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1884. tf.
M. A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter,
Esq., on Juliana street, two doors South of the
"Mengle House." Dec. 9, 1864-tf.
KIMMELL AND LINGENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, rx.
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
ihe Law Office on Juliana Street, twe doors South
of the Mengel House,
aprl, 1864—tf.
JOHN MOWER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PA.
April 1,1884.—tf.
PEYTISTS.
C. S. niCKOK j- G- MISSICR, JR.
DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA.
Ojffiee in the Bank Building, Juliana Street.
All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me
chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per
formed and warranted. TERMS CASH.
janfi'6s-ly.
DENTISTRY.
I. N. BOWSER. RESIDENT DENTIST, WOOD
BK RUT, PA., will spend the second Monday, Tues
day, aud Wednesday, of eact. month at Hopewell,
the remaining three days at Bloody Run, etteod
ng to the duties of his professio'n. At all other
imes he can be found in his office at oodbury,
excepting the last Monday and Tuesday of the
same month, which he will spend in Martinsburg,
Blair county, Penna. Persons desiring operations
should rail early, as time is limited. All opera
ions warranted. Aug. 5,1884,-tf.
PHYSICIANS.
DK. B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders 4ii professional ser
vices to the citizens "f Bedford and ricinity.
Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius.
April 1, 1864—tt.
L MARBOURG, M. D.,
. Having permanently located respectfttlly
tenders his pofessional serrice* to the citisens
of Bodlord and vicinity. Office on Jnli&na street,
opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal
mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf.
HOTEL*.
BEDFORD HOUSE,
AT HOPEWELL, Bunronn COCNTT, PA.,
BY HARRY DROLLINGER.
Every attention given to make guests comfortable,
who stop at this House.
Hopewell, July 29, 1864.
TT S. HOTEL,
U . nARRISBURG, PA.
CORNER SIXTH AND MARKET STREETS,
OPPOSITE REAHISG R. B. REPOT.
I. H. HI'TCHINSON. Proprietor.
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ASHING TON HOTEL.
BEDFORD. Pa..
ISAAC F. GROVE, Proprietor.
THE subscriber would respectfully announce
to his friends in Bedford County, and the public
generally that be has leased for a term of years,
this large and convenient brick hotel, at the corner
of Pitt and Julianna Streets, Bedford Pa., known
as the WASHINGTON HOTEL, and formerly
kept by Win. DiberL
This Honce is being thoroughly re-fitted
fumished. and is now opened for the reception of
guests. Visitors to the BEDFORD SPRINGS,
and persons attending Court, will find this House
a pleasant and quiet temporary home, Every at
tention will be paid to the accommodation and
comfort of guests.
The TABLE will at all times be supplied with
the best the markets afford. Charges will he mod
erate.
Extensive Stabling is attached to this Hotel,
and a careful and competent Hostler will be in at
tendencc.
Special attention will bo paid to the accommo
dation of the farming community.
Coaches leave this House Daily, (Sundays ex
cepted) at 6i o'clock, A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M., to
connect with the trains going East, from Mount
Dallas Station and Bloody Run. A coach will also
leave tri-weekly, (Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day) for Somerset. The traveling public will find
it decidedly to their advantage to stop with him.
ISAAC F. GROVE.
Bedford, April 7, 186.1.
BAMEHMi
G- W. RL'PP O. E. BHASSOS P. BESRMCT
UM UPP, SHANNON a CO., BANKERS,
BEDFORD, PA.
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North
•ml South, and the general business of Exchange,
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Heudttances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and sold. * apr-15,'64-tf.
JEWELER, Af.
J IANIEL BORDER,
* ' PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WRST or rn BB
TURD HOTEL, BBBPOBD, PA.
ATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. &('.
Be keeps on hand a stock at fine Gold and SU
rer Matches, Spectacles of Brilliant Doubleßefin
*d Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
• tch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
Muahty of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
a "J thing in his line not on hand.
"D- 2S, 1865—ix.
I OHN MAJOR,
V JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, BOPEWHLL,
KnroßD cotKTT. Collection* and all business
i? to k* office will be attended to prompt
ill also attend to the sale or renting of real
t ,j ® Instruu cuts of writing carefully prepar
count ,ett,in 8 n P partnerships and other ac-
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DIRBORROW A LUT I Editors and Proprietors.
From the Little Corporal.
THE LAST REVIEW.
BT MRS. B. J. BUODRB.
Twenty-one miles of boys in blue,
Sixty abreast in their last review,
How grandly the columns stretch away,
\ In the cloudless light of this sweet May day.
Onwardr-in rank and file they come,
To the cheering beat of the victors' drum.
Wearied, scarred, and worn they be,
But a prouder host you will never sec,
Their faded banners, riddled with balls,
But floating triumphantly after all,
Never again in the world's sunlight,
Shall the Nations look on a grander sight.
No more till the Christian army stands,
Whose warriors shall gather from every land,
For a ast review on the other shore,
Their life-long battles and marches o'er,
Will a marshalled host like this appear,
Crowned with the glory that victors wear.
Let the beads of the nation bow as they pass,
And scatter with flowers the dewy grass,
As their gleaming weapons flash in the sun,
Remember the deeds of valor done.
How that solid column of human bTeasts
Was bared to the storm, for the nation's rest.
Then beat the drum for the last revielle,
The echoes of the strife arc growing still,
With a conquering tread the heroes come,
Back to the dear delights of home.
But alas ! the army of countless dead,
Wc shall list in vain for their coming tread,
Full forty mites of our noble braves,
Sixty abreast, are in their graves,
As your cheers ring out for the living host,
It emeu,her the heroes loved and lost.
And think of the maimed and wasted band,
Seeking the homes of this stricken land,
For whom the brightness of life is o'er,
Whose feet are nearing the other shore,
Bemnants of manhood once so strong,
Those cannot march in the gala throng.
Then hail! all hail to the hoys in blue,
Gathered to-day fo: a last review,
Marching with floating banners back;
Scatter with flowers their joyous track.
Their brows pcrchanee are dark with gears,
Their worn feet seamed with crimson flars,
But kinge and uictore we erown to-day,
The war-scarred host, on their homeward way.
And I wonder, if down from the sweet repose
Which the soul of the martyred hero knows,
The Commander-in-chief looks down and sees
Those banners float in this earthly breeze,
And if in the calm of that world of bliss,
His spirit would th rill at a scene like this?
foUiioL
ARKANSAS.
Reorganization in the State —Statement
of Hon. E. W. Gantt.
To the editor of the Chronicle :
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31, 1865.— The
reorganization in Arkansas has progressed
quietly, and is a success. In thefajl of 1863
the first meetings were held looking to a
State Convention. In February, 1864, a
convention was held. It adopted a State
constitution abolishing slavery, repudiating
the Confederate debt, and nullifying all the
acts done by the Confederate authorities, ex
cept marriage certificates, acknowledgment
of deeds, aud a lew other minor things. It
proceeded to organize a provisional govern
ment by the appointment of Hon. Isaac
Murphy, Governor, empowering him to or
der an election for a permanent government,
and requiring him to submit to the people
the constitution for approval or rejection.
The election was so ordered, and a perma
nent government established, with his Ex
cellency, Isaac Murphy, as Governor. The
constitution as amended was adopted by a
vote, in round numbers, of twelve thousand
for and two hundred against it. The vote
cast was near one-half the estimated voting
population of the State, a little less than
one-fourth of the vote of 1860, and but a
few hundred less, if not equal, to the entire
vote cast for secession in 1861.
This organization was of the people and
spontaneous. It has been erroneously sup
posed that the Executive or the military
originated or controlled it. I know person
ally to the contrary. Advocating, in the fall
of' 1863 and the winter of 1864, the holding
of a convention and the ameuduient of our
Constitution abolishing slavery, for reasons
stated in various speeches and letters, 1 had
an opportunity to know much that was done.
As the then conimanJer of the department,
a brave and accomplished soldier, opposed
our views on this poiutj it wasdeeuied expe
dient by the friends of the measure that I
should go to Washington and see what influ
ences could be brought to bear upon Gen
eral Steele to induce him to favor our plans,
he expressing his entire willingness to do
what the President desired in the premises.
Before leaving, thore was a general under
derstanding that .f the Convention were
full it should proceed to work aud do what
was necessary. If not full, it should order
an election for a Convention to be held at
some future designated day.
Before reaching Washington 1 was over
taken by a prominent citizen of the State,
who, leaving after I did, assured me that the
Convention would not be hekl. Arriving at
Washington, we visited Mr. Lincoln together
and he submitted to us his plan of reorgani
zation, whereby an election was ordered for
the 28th March. 1864. In the meantime,
advices reached uie from home, informing
me of the meeting and action of the Conven
tion, among which was its order for an elec
tion on the 14th of March. I called at once
on President Lincoln, made a full explanation
and urged the consolidation of the two plans,
lie cheerfully complied, and wrote by me a
letter to General Steele to that effect. So
the election was holden on the day and in
the manner prescribed by the Convention,
and met the full approval of President Lin
coln.
The new State government was thus in
augurated. Since then it has gained strength
steadily. Weak at first and without a dollar
to commence with, its indefatigable officers,
aided by the well timed and prudent counsels
and assistance of General Reynolds, have
succeeded in administering it* affairs until
the opposing Confederate authorities, from
Governor down, acknowledge its supremacy
aud uutil every county in the State is as
tborougiily organized as before the war.
We have fortunately had few dissensions
in our midst, and if the people are not dis
turbed by disappointed and ambitious office
seekers, apprehend little in the future. The
utmost quiet prevails in our midst. A citi
zen of any portion of the United States can
travel unattended throughoutour entire bor
ders. Courts arc being held in all the coun
ties. Estates are being administered aud
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and important rights adjudicated. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are in train of
collection; property is being bought and
sold under execution; marriages are being
solemnized, and other contracts entered in
to upon the faith of the permanence of our
State Government. In a word, every act
which a State-in perfect vigor can do is now
being done, aud trie dawn of returning pros
perity breaks upon us.
It is desired especially that the attention
of the public be called to the fact that three
important questions have been settled in our
State: First, the inserting of a clause in our
State Constitution forever prohibiting sla
very; second, Ibe repudiation of the Confed
erate debtj and, in the third place, the
prompt ratification by our Legislature of the
Constitutional amendment abolishing slav
ery. They arc adopted as just principles by j
a portion of the people, while a large pro- :
portion of the residue acquiesce m them as
points legitimately settled by the war.
That some mistakes were make in returns,
that too much was done in some things, and
too little in others, may be true, but fortu
nately these are all within the reach of the
courts and legislature.
Such is briefly our State government,
which relies upon the President and Con
gress and the country for recognition, and
which, if torn down and rebuilt forty times,
must at last be substantially just what it is.
Yours, truly,
E. W. GANTT.
THE END OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
The Democratic party of the North has
evidently finished its mission. Its last bat
tles have been quite sufficient to show that
its career is ended. These battles were about
as much like one of its ancient fights as the
convulsive struggle of a bird with its head
off is like that of the game animal in the full
vigor of its prime. There is now not one
spark of life in its remains, nor meat enough
on its bones to make the feeblest mockery of
dietary soup.
We contemplate the corpse of the dead
Democracy with considerable composure, and
even a serene contentment. As it lies there
stark and stiff, deprived of all power of mis
chief, it is difficult to realize that this is the
party which once exercised, under the name
of Democracy, the most absolute and pre
scriptive party sway, and dispensed all the
official gilts big and little. Federal and State,
of the American Republic. There was a
time when even to doubt that its decrees
were infallible was the rankest kind of polit
ical heresy, and to question its invincibility
wis the presumption of a fool. With no
argument but its name, and no policy but
the spoils, it vanquished every political par
ty that ever ventured to give it battle. No
talente, however great, — BO virtue, however
spotless,—availed to secure their possessor a
post in the public service unless he wore the
livery of that potent organization. The gi
gantic genius of Daniel "Webster was destin
ed to remain a pyramid in a vale, while, on
the pedestal intended for the statue of a Co
lossus, was perched some diminutive dwarf,
dignified by the name of a great statesman.
The eagle flight of Henry Clay was arrested
in midheaveti by a fang that he eould not
shake off. and the reptile who inserted it
was transformed by the magic spell of De
mocracy into a venerable public functionary,
and clad in the imperial purple. It could
bring an angel from the clouds or clothe an
infernal in the garments of light. There
never, any country, was a more sweeping
and complete political ostracism than that
which, during the whole period of its ascen
dancy. the Democracy exercised in this coun
try. It claimed an entire monopoly of all
the patriotism and official competency of the
land. It took the slave institution of the
South under its especial guardianship, and
no Southern Whig was ever found whom it
eould trust on that subject in comparison
with a Northern Democrat. But long
and brilliant as was its career, it came at
last to a Waterloo, and after that to a St.
Helena. If it had not dragged down the
country with its own downfall, we should rc
fard its overthrow wiih unmixed exultation.
Int the moment that its sceptre was passing
away, it set fire to a train, already laid, for
universal ruin. But there is this matter of
congratulation. Theyuins can be repaired
and the country will rise, while the Democ
racy never can. Its days are numbered. It
will never more be able to ride rough-shod
over the wisdom, conservatism and public
virtue of the land.— Richmond Rep.
THE NEW SCHOOL FRESH YTElll-
ANS SPEAK FOR THEIR
COUNTRY.
The New School Presbyterian Synod has
just held its annual meeting in Philadelphia.
On Thursday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Aikman,
of the committee on the state of the country,
reported the following preamble and resolu
tions, which were unanimously adopted.
They should be perused by every reader of
the paper:
W HEREAS, The Synod holds its annual
session now, for the first time after the close
of a great and civil war; and,
WHEREAS, By Divine command, the
Church is to bear in heart before God the
rules of the land, and cannot therefore but
have the deepest interest in the purity and
stability of the Government; and that, in a
country where the Church enjoys such free
dom and protection so beneficent from the
Government, she is bound by every principle
of honor and of gratitude to God to pledge,
as we have in time of its danger, and as we
do now, her loyalty, and to express her joy
in the hour of its success: therefore
Resolved, That we give humble thanks to
God most high, for the overthrow, so sud
den and so entire, of the great rebellion;
for the virtual extinction of the system of
human slavery, the baleful growth of two
centuries of wrong; fur thaelevatiou of four
millions of men from the degradation of ab
solute servitude into freedom and citizenship;
for the entire establishment of the Govern
ment. and the vindication ot its authority and
honor; for the spirit of peace over the whole
land: and brotherhood, and of a new and
purified life to the nation.
Resolved, That we give thanks to God for
the inspiration of faith, courage and con
stancy which has borne the nation thibugh
four years of self denial, suffering and death,
and which has held it unfaltering on its way
to this day of light and triumph. To God
be all the glory.
Resolved, That the dangers and sorrows
through which the nation has passed, and
God's Providence, all declare that absolute
justice must be done to all men, aud do point
unerringly to the duty of lifting, as speedily
as possible those whom God has made free
to the rights of citizenship before the law.
Resolved, That to the soldiers of the
| Union, to whose valor and enduranca under
God we owe the triumph and peace to-day,
we return our grateful acknowledgment,
and pray that God would crown them with
the richest blessing of His graoe.
Resoleed, That to the great multitude of
the bereaved, whose loved ones have fallen
by disease and exposure, by the arms and in
the prisons of the enemy, we bring our sym
pathy, too .deep for words, and the memory
BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1865.
of their dead we will hallow, and hold them
in everlastingremeiubrance.
Resolvetl, That the Synod would record
its grateful thanks to the Great Head of the
Church that he has so largely preserved the
lives of our young men who went forth to
battle for their country, and that he has re
turned them, in so many inslances, with the
piety only deepened by the experiences of
camp and field, that he has blessed our
churches with revivals ot religion and with
such harmony and general prosperity, that
the close of the war finds us with more evi
dences of vigorous life than ever before.
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
The mastermind of the Episcopal Conven
tion now in session in thiß city is evidently
Stephen Elliott of Georgia. When that
eminent Southern prelate issued his famous
inanchao to the norih, 9i?llenco, if y<m pl*e
but not one word of censure!" he sounded
the key-note to which all the doings of the
Convention have been caTeftilly an i accura
tely tuned. It must be intensely gratifying
to Bishop Elliott to find that his influence
is not only not abated, but that it is greater
than ever. We have had several marked
recognitions of the supremacy of this Grand
Master of tfteOrder of RcUnited Episcopa
lians; but the culmination of them all was
exhibited on Saturday aiorning: when our
townsman, Horace Binmy, Jr., Esq., intro
duced his loyal resolution asking the Bish
ops to recognize our debt of gratitude to God
for the suppression of the rebellion and the
removal of its cause. Had Mr. Binney in
vited the Convention to unite in a war-dance
he could not have met with a more violent
response. From all parts of the House loud
cries were heard, demanding the immediate
slaughter of the resolution by laying it on
the table. Forgetting, for the moment,
those Courtises whieh the Convention may
be supposed to owe to those whose liberal
and willing hospitality they are so abun
dantly enjoying, the Pennsylvania deputa
tion was loudly denied the privilege of a
single word of explanation, ana it was by the
most determined insisting upon their parlia
mentary rights that they succeeded in secu
ring a call for the ayes and nays. Before
this was done, the President, Rev. Dr. C'raik
of Kentucky, was asked if the vote about to
be taken would dispose of the question, and
even that usually bland and accomplished
divine was so carried away by the excite
ment of the House, as to throw his influence
against the resolution and to seek to bias
the vote by replying, "Yes, we shall get rid
of it for this time, at least."
Our readers have read the result. Thirty
six members of the Convention were all that
could be found ready to thank God for the
blessings mentioned in the resolution. The
whole mass of the body promptly repudiated
them and crushed the measure witn an iron
heel. We are proud to be able to say, that
not only the Pennsylvania deputation vote
as a unit for the resolution, but the whole
New York deputation, with the exception of
the Rev. Dr. Payne, voting against it, and
Rev. Dr. Higbee, absent, stood by this most
loyal resolution, Hon. Samuel B. Rugbies,
Jonas C. Heartt, Esq., Hon Hamilton Fish,
and Hon. Mr. Pierpont, are the lay
representatives of the great Diocese of New
York. We need hardly say that Ohio and
Massachusetts proved true to their well
known principles on this occasion. All
honor to the little band of the clergy and laity
who had the courage to declare that they
lire Americans as well is churchmen—that
thev are patriots as well as Episcopalians.
We presume that thii is the end of the
matter, so far as this Contention is concerned.
The loyal sentiment of tie North is as effec
tually muzzled as it ever was in, South Car
olina, and it will be in fain for the distin
guished gentlemen who represent the great
Diocese of Pennsylvania re make any further
effort to place upon the records of the Con
vention those "unutiered truths" which, if
spoken, would kindle the affections of thou
sands of free spirits towards the Episcopal
Chureh. It is impossible to estimate the
influence that would hare been exerted in
favor of the Episcopal Church had it shown
itself, on this occasion, true to its own daily
repeated formulas.— Ph'Ja. Bulletin.
PHILOSOPHY OF EXERCISE.
We take this instructive article from a late
number of If all's Journal of Health:
All know that the less we exercise the less
health we have, and the more certain we are
to die before our time. But comparatively
few persons are able to explain how exercise
promotes health. Both beast and bird, in
a state of nature, are exempt from disease,
except in rare eases; it is because the unap
peasable instinct of searching for their nec
essary food, impels them to ceaseless activi
ties. Children, when left to themselves, eat
a great deal and have excellent health, be
cause they will be doing something all the
time, until they become so tired that they
fall asleep; and as soon as they wake, they
begin right away to run about again; thus
their whole existence is spent in alternate
eating and sleeping, and exercise, which is
interesting and pleasurable. The health of
childhood would be enjoyed by those of ma
turcr years, if, like children, they would eat
only when they are hungry ; stop when they
have done; take rest in sleep as soon as
they are tired; and, when not eating or rest
ing! would spend the time diligently in such
muscular activities as would be interesting,
agreeable and profitable. Exercise, without
mental elasticity without an enlivemcnt of
the findings and the mind, is of compara
tively little value.
1. Exercise is health-producing, because
it works off and out of the system its waste
dead and effete matters; they are all con
verted into a liquid form, called by some
"humors," which have exit from the body
through the "pores" of the skin in
the shape of perspiration, which all have
seen, and which all know is the result of ex
ercise, when the body is in a state of health.
Thus it is, that persons who do not perspire,
who have a dry skin, are always either fe
verish or chilly, and are never well,
and never can be as long as that con
dition exists. So exercise, by working out
of the system its waste, deoayed and useloss
matter, keeps the human machine "free,"
otherwise it would soon clog up, and the
wheels of life would stop forever
2. Exercise improves the health, because
every step a man takes tends to impart mo
tion to the bowels; a proper amount of ex
ercise keeps them acting once in every twenty
four hours; if they have not motion enough
there is constipation, which brings on very
many fatal diseases; hence exercise, especi
ally that of walking, wards off innumerable
diseases, when it is kept up to an extent
equal to inducing one motion of the bowels
daily.
3. Exercise is healthful, because the more
we exercise the faster we breath. If we
breathe faster, we take that much more air
into the lungs; but it is the air we breathe
which purifies the blood, and the more air
we take in, the more perfectly is that process
performed; the purer the blood is, and as
■ everybody knows, the better health must be.
' Hence, when a person's lungs are impaired
he does not take in enough air for the wants
of this system; that being the case air he
does breathe should be the purest possible,
which is out door air. Hence, the more a
consumptive stays in the house, the more
certain and more sjtecdy is his death.
HABITS OF GREAT STUDENTS.
Magliahccehi, the learned librarian to the
Duke of Tuscany, never stirred abroad, but
lived amid books. They were his bed, board,
and washing. He passed eight-and-forty
years in their midst, only twice in the course
of his life venturing beyond the walls of Flo
fence; once to go two leagues off, and the
other time three and a half leagues, by or
der of the Grand Duke. He was then an
extremely frugal man, living upon eggs,
bread and water in great moderation
Luther, when studying, always had his dog
lying at his feet, a dog ne had brought from
Wartburg, and of which he was very fond.
An ivory crucifix stood at. the table before
him, and the wails of his study were stuck
round with caricatures of the pope. He
worked at his desk for days together without
going out; bet when fatigued, and the idea
began to stagnate, took his guitar with him
into the porch, and there executed some mu
sical fantasy, (for he was a skilful musician.)
when the ideas would flow upon him as fresh
as flowers after a summer s rain. Music
was his invariable solace at such times. In
deed, Luther did not hesitate to say that
after theology music was the first of arts.
' Music," said he, is the art of the proph
ets: it is the only other art which, like the
ology, can calm the agitation of the soul,
and put the devil to flight." Next to mu
sic. if not before it, Luther loved children
and flowers. That great gnarled man had a
heart as tender as a woman 's.
Calvin studied in his bed- Every morn
ing at five or six o'clock he had books, man
uscripts and papers caried to him there, and
had he occasion to go out, on his return he
undressed and went to bed again to continue
his studies. In his later years he dictated
his writings to Secretaries. He rarely cor
rected anything. The sentences issued
complete from his mouth. If he felt facili
ty of composition leaving him, he forthwith
quitted his bed. gave up writing and com
posing, and went about his out-door duties
for days, weeks and months together, But
as soon as he felt the inspiration fall upon
him again he went back to his bed. and his
secretary set to work forthwith.
Aristotle was a tremendons worker ; ho
toot little sleep, and was constantly retrench
ing it He had a contrivance by which he
woke early, and to awake was with him to
commence work. Demosthenes passed three
months in a cavern by the sea-side, laboring
to overcome the defects of his voice. There
he read, studied and declaimed.
Rousseau wrote his works early in the
morning; Le Sage at mid day ; Byron at
mid-night, Hardonin rose at four in the
morning and wrote till late at night.
Rabelais composed his life of Gargantua
at Bcily, in the company of Roman cardi
nals, and undei the eyes of the Bishop of
Paris. La Fontaine wrote hi t ftbles chiefly
under the shade of a tree, and sometimes by
the side of Rachine and Boileau.
Pascal wrote most of his thoughts on lit
tle scraps of paper at his by-moments. Fen
clon wrote his Telemachus in the Palacec of
Versailles, at the Court of the Grand Mon
arque, when discharging the duties of tutor
to the Dauphin. That a book so thorough
ly Democratic should have issued from such
a source, and be written by a priest, may
seem surprising.
De Quincy first promulgated his notion of
universal freedom of persons and trade, and
of throwing all taxes on the land—the germ
Eerhans of the French Revolution—in the
oudoir of Madame de Pompadour.
Bacon knelt down before composing his
great work, and prayed for light and inspi
ration from heaven. Pope never could com
pose well without first declaiming for some
time at the top of his voice, and thus rous
ing the nervous system to its fullest activi
tv.
The life of Leibnitz was one of reading,
writing and meditation. That was the se
cret ot his prodigious knowledge. After
an attack of the gout he confined himself to
a diet of bread and milk. Often be slept in
a chair, and rarely went to bed till after mid
night. Sometimes he was months without
quitting his seat, where he slept by night
and wrote by day. He had an ulcer in his
right leg, which prevented his walking about
even had he wished to so.
SLIPS OF THE PEN.
GencralTaylor immortalized himself by
perpetrating one of the grandest bulls on
record, in which he attained what a certain
literary professor calls "a perfection hardly
to be surpassed.'' In his Presidential ad
dress he aunouneed to the American Con
gress that the United States were at peace
with nil the, world, and continued to cherish
relations of amity with the rest of mankind.
Much simpler was the blunder of an English
officer, during the Indian mutiny, who in
formed the public, through the Times, that,
thanks to the prompt measures of Colonel
Edwards, the sepoys at Fort Machison,
"were all unarmed and taken aback and be
ing called upon laid down their arms."
There was nothing very astonishing in an
Irish newspaper stating that Robespirrc
"left no children behind him, except a
brother, who was killed at the same time;''
but it was startling to have an English jour
nal assure us that her Majesty Queen Vic
toria was "the last person to wear another
man's crown." Addison lays it down as a
maxim, that when a nation abounds in phy
sicians it grows thin of people. Filibuster
Heninpcn seems to have agreed with the es
sayist, or he would hardly have informed
General Parker, in one of his dispatches,
that "Doctor Rice and Wolfe died of the
cholera, and Dr. Linsey sickened, after which
the health of the camp visibly improved."
Intentionally or not, the stoat-hearted sol
dier suggests that the best way to get rid of
the cholera is to make short work of the
doctors. Among the obituary notices in
a weekly paper, not many months ago, there
appeared the name of a certain publican,
witli the following culogism appended to it
—"Ho was greatly esteemed for his strict
Erobity and steady conduct through life, he
aving been a subscriber to the Sunday
Times from its first number." This is a
worthy pendant of Miss. Ilawkin's story of
the undertaker writing to the corporation of
Lbodon. "I am desired to inform the_ Court
of Alderman Mr. Alderman Gill died last
night, by order of Mrs. Gil!and not far
short, in point of absurdity, in Madame
Tassaud s announcement of the exhibition
of the effigy of the notorious Palmer, "who
was executed at Stafford with two hundrtd
other celebrities." The modern fashion of
naming florists' flowers must be held res
ponsible for the very dubious paragraph we
extract from a gardening paper:— 'Mrs.
Legge will be looked after; she may not bo
so certain a8 some, hut she was nevertheless
very fine in the early part of the season.
Laay Pop ham is useful, one of the old f'ash
! ioned build, not quite round in the outline,
' but makes up well. "—Chamber's Journal
VOLUME 38; KO. 40.
RECIPROCITY OF COURTESY.
A great many people seem to be born in
to the world—according to their own opin
ion—for the simple and express purpose of
receiving favors. That there is any other
view to he taken of the subject never for a
moment enters the head of an individual of
this class. The idea of a quid pro quo, even
if his intellect is able to grasp it, seems to
him absurd. Isin't he one of the anointed?
Dosen't a great part of the duty of the
world consist in toadying him, and crying up
his miraculous virtues and parts? What
the deuce else was it created for? The cheek
displayed by some of these fellows at times
is perfectly stupendous: and no one in a com
munity, perhaps, is obliged to witness its ex
hibition oftener, or endure its infliction
| more constantly than the editor of a news
: nanor WMPLP who jf R-JI for notoriety.
porations who want their backs scratched,
travelling lecturers who want tickling, all
come to the editor, who many times from
pure good nature, and many times for the
sake of being rid of their importunities, gives
them what is technically known as a puff.
But, eight times out of ten, if a reciprocal
courtesy is required, a courtesy which liter
ally costs them nothing, they don't "see" it.
They are the parties to be favored, and that
end gained, it is all suffitient. Now we pro
test against this sort of thing. It is void of
reason, justice, or right. A kis*s for a blow
is very good in theory, but we have found
from a long series of experiments, that it
don't pay in business transactions.
We have not intended our above remarks
to be taken in any sweeping sense. Not a
bit of it. They are only directed to a par
ticular class, and in a general manner. Ev
erybody ; whatever the position they mar
fill, have suffered from the absorbent qual
ities of these sponges of society without be
ing able to squeeze out much in their turn, j
and in that peculiar suffering we have had
our share. We are sick of it —heart sick.
It dosen't pay in the first place, and in the
Second place itisin't pleasant to feel one's
self the victim of imposition, for it's noth
ing else. It destroys the feeling of inde
pendence. which every one is entitled to
possess, and we believe wc have as many
rights as anybody else. But, yet, notwith
standing the preponderance of this element
in many communities, we are glad to put on
record that, on the other side, there are ma
ny good, square, white men, who appreciate
and act upon the doctrine that one good
turn deserves another. They understand
that mankind was made for mutual support,
not for one-sided swindling. They show at
least common gratitude for favors received,
and that is all we or anybody else can ask—
for we're not speaking for ourselves alone.
That their numbers may be increased and
wax great in the land is the prayer of a suf
fering community.— Erie Dispatch.
WANTED—AN HONEST INDUSTRI
OUS BOY.
We lately saw an advertisement headed as
above. It conveys to everv boy an impres
sive moral lesson.
"An honest industrious boy" is always
wanted. He will be sought for, his services
will be on demand; he will be respected and
loved; he is spoken of in terms of high com
mendation; he will always have a home, he
will grow up to be a man of known worth
and established character.
He will be wanted. The merchant will
want him for a salesman or a clerk, the mas i
ter mechanic will want him for an apprent
ice or a journeyman; those with a job to let
will want him for a contractor ; clients will
want him for a lawyer, patients will want
him for n doctor; parents for a teacher of
their children; and the people for an officer.
He will be wanted. Townsmen will want
him for a citizen; acquaintances, as a neigh
bor; neighbors as a friend, families as a visi
tor; the world as an acquaintance, nay, girls
will want him for a beau, and finally for a
husband.
An honest, industrious boy 1 Just, think
of it, boys, will you answer this description?
Can you apply for this situation? Are you
sure that you will be wanted? You may be
smart and active, but that does not fill the
requisition—are you honest? You may be
capable—Are you industrious? You may be
well dressed and create a favorable impres
sion at first sight—are you both honest and
industrious? IOU may apply for a "good
situation" —are yon sure that your friends,
teachers, acquaintances can recommend you
for these qualities? Oh, how would you feel
your character not being thus established,
on hearing the words"l can't employ you!"
Nothing else will make up for the lack of
these qualities. No readiness or aptness for
business will do it You must be honest
and industrious —must work and labor; then
will your calling and trust be made sure.
The colored people of ludiana met in con
vention at Indianapolis on the 24th ult., to
take measures for securing negro suffrage.
All the counties in the State were represent
ed.
Wendell Philips delivered his lecture,"The
South Victorious," in New York on the 25th
ult. He denounced Presidene Johnson, say
ing that he ought to be impeached by the
House of Representatives, and charged Hen
ry Ward Beeeher with recreancy to the prin
ciples of liberty.
A negro insurrection has broken ont in the
western part of the Island of Jamaica, and a
British man-of-war, with troops to quell the
outbreak, has been ordered to that quarter.
There are 250,000 nobles in Austria, of
whom 24,800 are in Gallicia, 163,000 in Hun
gary, and 2,000 in Bohemia.
An International Congress is shortly to
assemble at Paris to agree upon a uniform
standard of copper coin. France, Italy, Bel
gium and Switzerland will be represented.
The grand cross of Austria's order of St.
Stephen (in right of the Hungarian crown)
has been conferred on Count Walewski and
M. Drouyn de Lhuys.
Major-Gen. Franklin has resigned, and ac
cepted the Presidency of Colt's Fire Arm
Company at Hi rtford, Conn.
Several French Canadian graduates of tha
Government military school at Montreal, Can
ada. have gone to Mexico to take service un
der Maximilian.
The expenditures of the Navy Department
for the year ending June 30, 1865, were
000,000. The Secretary of the Navy estimates
the expenses of the current year at $23,000,
000. . ~
A large number of troops, comprising all
the cavalry in Virginia are soon to be paid off
at Richmond and mustered out of the service.
Commodore John S. Misroon, U. 8. N.,
Ordnance officer at tha Charleston Navy-Yard
died on the 24th ult. He was a native of
South Carolina, and entered the sM vive in
1824.
All the volunteers cn the Pacific coast are
to be mustered out,
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"WHAT SHE IS SHE WILL TEACH HER
DAUGHTERS TO M,"— Sometimes one hears
it said of a good wife and mother that_ "she s
a regular home-body'" The phrase is sim
ple, but what a word of ennobling qualities
it indicates, and what a universe of frivoli
ties it excludes. The matronly homebody
is indeed "Heaven's best gift to man, and
the husband capable of maltreating so true
a helpmeet is only St for such companion
ship as Nebuchadnesxar found in the Baby
lonish pastures. Dashing ladies, whose
mission it is to set the fashions, won't you
look in upon your gentle sister as she eats in
her well-ordered nursery making the chil
dren happy with her presence? Note how
she adjusts their little difficulties, and ad
monishes, encourages, instructs, amuses
them, as the ease may require. Do you
think anv nurse-maid could produce such
harmony m that lime clrcter %
enchantress? Verily, yes, juid her charm ifi
"love stronger than death" for those sweet
young faces where you may see her smiles
and frowns, (though she seldom has occasion
to frown,) reflected in glee and sorrow, like
sunlight and cloud-shaaow on a quiet pool.
What she is she will teach her daughters to
be ; and blessed are the sons that have such
a mother.
PREVALENT MISTAKES.— It is a mistake
to suppose that the subscription price of a
newspaper is clear gain to the publisher.
It is a mistake to suppose that he gets
white paper for nothing. _ ,
It is a mistake to suppose that it is printed
without cost.
It is a mistake to suppose he can live bod
ily by faith. _ .
It is a mistake to suppose that it is an
easy thing to please everyboiy.
It is a mistake to suppose that a paper is
not worth buying whicn contains only what
we know and believe already
It is a mistake to suppose that money due
for a paper would be as good to us a year
hence as it is now.
It is a great mistake to suppose that we
could be thankful for what is due to us and
for new subscriber*.
WHAT EMERSON SAYS. —In a lecture on
"Manners," by Emerson, he says: "'lt is a
great event of life to find, and know, and
love a superior person; to find a character
that prefigures heaven and the saints on
earth.' Such a one is left alone, as the gods
are. In all the superior persons I have met,
I notice directness, simplicity, truth spoken
more truly, as if everything like obstruction
and malformation haa been trained away.
What have they to conceal? hat have
they to conceal? What have they to exhib
it? ' Between the simple and noble persons
there is always a perfect understanding.
They recognize at sight, and meet on a bet
ter grouDu than tho talents or skill they
chance to possess, namely, on their sincerity.
I'D BATHER CARRY IT. —Going from
market one day, we observed a very small
boy, who gave no special indication, by dress
or face, of other than ordinary training in
life, carrying a bosket that was so heavy as
nearly to bear him down beneath it We
observed, ' 'Mv boy. you have a heavy kiad.
"Yes," said he, "but I'd rather carry it
than that my mother should.'' The remark
was one of a nature we love to hear; but
we do not know that we should have
thought enough of it to have chronicled it,
had we not seen across the street a highly
accomplished young lady playing the piano
while her mother was washing the windows.
The Pope has again pronounced an allocu
tion which is making some stir in Europe.
This time he warns the faithful against the
Free Masons, reminding them that several
of his predecessors have proscribed and re
proved that sect, the entrance into which
they declared should entail excommunication
which the Popo alone could remove. The
Pope denounces the Free Masons as the in
stigators of revolutions, and calls on the
secular governments to suppress them.
The Steele of Paris calculates that there are
lin Europe more than 2,000,000 Catholic
Free Mason*.
WE hate some persons because we do not
know them; and we will not knaw them
because we hate them. Those friendships
that succeed to such aversions are usually
firm, for those qualities must be sterling
that could not only gain our hearts, but
conquer our prejudices in things far more
serious than our friendships. Thus there
are truths which some _ men despise, be
cause they have not examined: ana which
they will not examine, because they despise.
"IT was ever my invariable custom in my
youth," says a celebrated Persian writer, "to
rise from my sleep to watch, pray, and read
the Koran. Oni night, as I was thus en
gaged, my father, a man of practiced rirtne
awoke. 'Behold,' said Ito nim, 'thy other
children are lost in irreligions lurnber. while
1 alone am awake to praise God.' 'feon of
my soul,' said he, 'it is better to sleep than
to wake to remark the faults of thy breth
._ > ii
ens.
THE Religion of Jesus Christ is a vast
remedial system, made up of many mighty
forces, ana containing within itself capaci
ties of adaption and adjustment to every
phase of the world's progress and to every
necessity of individual lire. These mighty
forces are to some extent dormant, and they
must be awakened into action j and the out
lying field around the Church must be filled
by all the agencies which God has placed
in onr power. To develop these inner
forces and to motivate this outer field is
the bounded duty of the age and of this
Church.
EVERY young man i> eagerly asking the
best way of getting on in fife. The Bible
gives a very snort answer to the question:
'Walk in the way of good men, and keep
the paths of the righteous." A great many
books of aivicc aud direction have been
written, but here is the gist ot it all: "Walk
in the way of good men, and keep the paths
of the righteous.
SIR CHRISTOPHER TAWNY has somo won
derful old port wine, which, he says, he
laid down at the time of the birth of his
eldest daughter; the wine is undoubtedly
remarkably fine; but the most wonderful
thing about it is that whereas the wine is
thirty-two years old, the young lady, who is
still unmarried, is only just entering her
three-and-twentieth year.
A LHTLE boy five years old, while writh
ing under the torture of the ague was told
by his mother to rise up and take a powder
she had prepared for him. "Powder! pow
der!" said he rising cn his elbow, and put
ting on a roguish smite, "mother, I ain t a
gun!" fmiV ' '"
AuarsTCS Doo LITTLE had been in a store
about three months when his employes asked
him what part of the business he liked best.
To which the elegant youth replied: "Shut
tin' up, sir. '