IS KVERY FRIDAY MORNING. BY J. R. DIR BORROW AM) JOHN LITZ, ON JULIANA St., opposite the Meugcl House BEDFORD, PENN'A. TKBJW: 12.00 a year if paid strictly in advance. II not iaid within six months 82.50. II not paid within the year gs.oo. ATTORNEYS AT LAW JNO. H. FILLER J. T. KEAST. CULLER A KEAGY I Have formed a partnership in the practice of the law. Attention paid to Pensions, Bounties and Claims against the Government. Office on Juliana street, formerly occupied by S >n. A. King. aprll:'6.j-*ly. JOHN 1*.11,51 ER. Attorney at I.aw. Bedford. Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. YsSt- Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims, Office on Johanna St., nearly opposite the Afcugt-I Puutc.) Joncia, T B. ( F.SSN V. <J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Pittst., 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 9,18155. J. B. DCBBORROW JOHN LUTE. DURBORROW & LUTE, .ITTO B.VF I> .1T L..1 U \ BEBFORO, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the "Metigel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer office. April 28, 1865:tf tSSPY M. ALSIP, 2 ATTORNEY" AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1864.—tf. M" A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFOBH, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. 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At all other imes he can he found in his office at Woodbury, excepting the last Monday and Tuesday of the same month, which he will spend in Martinsburg, Blair county, Penna. Persons desiring operations should call early, as time is limited. All opera ions warranted. Aug. 5,1864,-tf. PHYSICIANS. Vl7 M. VV. JAMISON, M. I)., \\ BLOODY Res, PA., Respectfully tenders bis professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [tlecß:lyr P. H. PEXNSYL. M. D., (late Surgeon 56th P. \ . V.) Bl.oonr Res, PA., Offers his professional services as Physician and Surgeon to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicin ity. decl:lyr* DIP R F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. If. Hofius. April I, 1864—-tf. T L. MARBOURG, M. D., sj . Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office or. 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Counts" U l' partnerships and other ac- fOnMori) 3huinir<x OUR 808 ROW & LITTZ Editors and Proprietors. SOMEBODY'S SON. Somebody's uon was out last night, Brushing about the town; And if I mistake not, he WHS tight— "Tight as a Derby clown." I know he's considered a moi&l youth, Above suspicion—but that Is no reason, to tell the trnth, He had "a brick in his hat." Daylight morality often takes Strange fancies into his head, And -play the A—l" "jump ui snakes;" When the public eye is in bed. "My son can't dance," somebody said, "For never a lesson took he lint he danced last night when you were in bed, And Twilight was there to see. You may call it dancing or not, as you feci, Though for half an hour or more. He danced or "jigged" a "tangle-foot-reel," In front of my office door. "My son can't sing," somebody swears, But he sung last night, I know, As rough a song as a demon dares To sing in the regions below. "My son don't imbibe." somebody thinks, Well, may he he don't, hut then, That he acts very much like one who drinks Can be proved by a hundred men. Yes something was tight—yes, drunk last night. So drunk it could hardly crawl: Perhaps 'twas the brim of a crowuless hat That I tound by my garden wall. So, for fear I am wrong and somebody's l ight My hasty words 1 recall, And say that the thing I saw last night Was nobody's son—that's all ! A REBEL PILGRIMAGE. The Pilgrim Fathers of Alabama -wind, weather and Providence permitting—are to sail to-day from the port of Mobile for Bra zil, with one ton of freight, and probably, a heavy heart eaeh. They turn their backs on the land of free negroes and of mudsills for ever. Like- and yet unlike the old Pilgrim Fathers, they seek a distant and foreign shore; not to worship theirGnd undisturbed but to "wallop their nigger uneondemned. As the Puritaus fled from the Star Chamber, the Alabama pilgrims flee from the Froed men's Bureau. It is the beginning of a new secession movement, which even Lee and Hampton have no power to check. Not to-day by States, but by families and colonies, they secede from the Union once more. Unpatri otic in their former action, they are eminent ly praiseworthy now: — "True patriots they: for, be it understood They leave their country for their country's good." But they seem to have forgotten the pro verb which advices us to look before we leap; not to jump out of the frying-pan into the fire; and especially the dgar-bought wisdom which says that we should begin nothing until we have truly considered the end. The Puritans counted the cost, and the results of their exile demonstrated their wisdom. But have the "Impuritans" of Alabama taken time to consider their step ? We hardly think that they have given it more than one thought—for they seem to have been amply satisfied with the assurance that slavery exists in Brazil. Let us take a brief glance at. Brazil as a field of emigration for the "overpowered ' but "unsubdued" class of our Southern countrymen. Christie, the last author who has written on Brazil, —late "Her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" there, —reports that the slave population of the empire is variously estimated at from two and a half to four millions. He says the total population is about seven millions. But the relative proportion of the races is much more largely in favor of the colored people than even in Alabama, where, in twenty out of her fifty-two counties, there is an excess of negroes; or than in South Carolina, where they constitute, by the cen sus of 1850, fifty-six per cent, of the popu lation, and probably to-day stands as three to two. In the year 1825 Humbolt estimated the entire population of Brazil at about four millions. Of this number he calculated that 920,000 were whites, 1,900,000 were ne groes, and 1,120,000 were of mixed blood or native Indians. Thus, the proportion of the colored races to the white is about three to one. Later estimates give a total population of live millions, with the proportion of col ored to white as four to one. A stili more recent authority, an English parliamentary report, estimated the population on the Ist of January, 1848, to be —whites, 1,000,(XX); free colored races, 500,000; slaves, 3,500,- 000, —being in the same proportion. The free colored races are mulattoes, wild Indians, manumitted native Africans, free negroes born in Brazil, domesticated obori gines, tnamalicoes, (a mixed caste between whites and aborigines,) and mestizoes or zaniboes, the offspring of aborigines and ne groes. When our new pilgrims are safely landed, we wish them joy of this select company. Like the boy at the menagerie, they have paid their money and they can take their choice! But, alas! there is no Eden without its serpent; and the repulsive feature—to the overwhelmed but unconquered mind—the repellant aspect of Brazillian society, has not yet been hinted at. It is— Negro Equal ity ! There is no country where the white and black races mingle in which the field is so fair for the negro. It is true that slavery exists there, but it is equally true that it is a personal relation; that is, between master and slave, not between white man and black. "Though in Brazil a slave is indeed a slave, A LOCAL AND "JENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MOR YLS ''yet a negro is not in the American sense a "negro.' This is the language of a well informed English author. In Brazil there is no social distinction between the black race and the white, resulting in the general proscription of the African. The races have fused. The result is equality. There ex ists a certain pride of purity of blood, but black blood is no bar whatever to advance ment. The races intermarry. They asso ciate without friction or jealousies. The ne groes and the mulatioes hold offices of all grades in the army and navy. Some are ministers of State; others are diplomatists; Wharik mmrisfrsites hold court: yellow lawrers make pleas. It has been noted, even, says one writer, that, "contrary to the usual or der of nature in such matters, these cross breeds are endowed with greater quickness and aptness for business than either of the original races. " One result of this social fusion has been to make slavery more secure from insurrec tions than in other couutries. As involun tary servitude is wholly a condition of life, not of race, there are as many negroes as whites who are slaveholders; and therefore they are as much interested in its perpetua tion as our own chivalry in the palmiest days of the €. S. A. As good as the whites at the ballot box, they are as bad as the whites in the slave quarters. How will our fugitives from freedom, who are running away from the North Stir as eagerly as their bondmen once ran toward it —how will they put up with negro soldiers, negro generals, negro statesmen, negro mag istrates. negro lawyers ? They will find them all in Brazil. And the worst is to come. There are Ab olitionixts in Brazil ! Just imagine, if you dare, how the Alabama runaways will 'swear "and tear round" (as they express it) when they fiud themselves again face to face with live abolitionists, whom they can neither gag nor hang, nor even tender the hospital ity of a ride on a rail, or the seamless coat made of tar and feathers! One of the pet measures of the Brazilian abolitionists is to emancipate all slaves be longing to foreigners of countries in which slavery is unlawful. Thi9 is bad enough, but it is not all. A deputation from the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society of London waited on Senhor Andrada in March last. The Senhor has been secretary of the Brazillian Legation for sonic years, and was thea charged with the superintendence of the Brazilian consulate. He told (he depu tation that the Emperor himself, and all his ministers, and all the Brazillian people be lieve that it is a duty to humanity to abol ish slavery. "lean assure you, he said, "that not only the Emperor, but his govern uient, his advisors and every Brazilian pos sessing the feelings of humanity, think that it is not only the duty but that it will be for the interest of our country to 3b01i.-h slave ry!" And still again: "The government and people of Brazil think that it is their duty and their interest, as soon as they possibly can, entirely to abolish slavery." Whither away ? Is there no hope in which the unconquered can hide his head, and "larrup his negro" undisturbed? Brazil it is clear, will hardly afford even a tempo rary abiding place. Suppose the emigrants try Brigham Young, the much-married pa triarch of the Plains? He is their only hope. — Boxtou Advertixcr. AN INTERESTING STORY. Mr. Seward's Account of the Attack up on Him. The American correspondent of the Lon don Spectator writes that he recently heard Mr. Seward and Mr. Frederick Seward give the following account of their own sensa tions at the time of the attempted assassi nation: "Mr. Frederick Seward said that on step ping from his bedroom into the passage ami seeing the assassin, he merely wondered what he was doing there, and called him to account. On his re.-isting the fellow's endeavor to press into Mr. Seward's room, the assassin drew a revolver, which he pre sented at Mr. Frederick Seward's head. What followed, it must be remembered, took place in a few seconds. Mr. Frederick Sew ard's first thought was, 'That's a navy re volver.' "The man pulled the trigger, hut it only snapped, and his intended victim thought 'That cap missed fire.' "His next sensation was that of confu sion, and being upon the floor, resting upon his right arm, which, like his father's jaw, was barely recovered from a bad fracture —the assassin had felled him to the floor with the butt of the pistol—he put his hand to his head, and finding a hole there, he thought, 'The cap did not miss "fire, after all. - "Then he became insensible, and remain ed so for two days or more. His first indi cation of returning consciousness was the question: 'Have you got the bailout!'— After which he fell oft" again into a coma tose condition, which was of long continu ance. "On the very afternoon of the day when Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, Mr. Frederick Seward, who was Assistant Secretary' of State had asked his father what preparation should he made for the presentation of Sir Frederick Bruce, which was to take place the next day. Mr. Seward gave him the points of a reply to be made to Sir Freder ick, and he laid the outline of the speech upon the President s table, and, as I have previously informed my readers, Mr. Lin coln that afternoon wrote out the reply adopting Mr. Seward's suggestions, and thus preparing that reception of the Brit ish Minister by President Johnson, which was regarded at the time, by the people to whose representative it was addressed, at so friendly, and lair, ami dignified. "Mr. Frederick Seward's first inquiry af ter he came fully to bis senses, which was a long time after the assassination, was: 'Has Sir Frederick Bruce been presented?' He thought that only one night had passed since he knew what had happened to him, ami his mind took up matters just where it had left them. "Mr. Seward's mental experience during his supposed assassination was in its nature SO like that of his son, that it raises the question whether this absence of consterna tvoa and observation of minute particulars is BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22 v 1865. not common in circumstances of unexpected and not fully apprehended peril. Mr. Se ward was lying upon his side, close to the edge of his bed, with his head resting in a frame, which had been made to give him j ease and to protect lis broden jaw from pressure. j "He was trying to keep awake, having been seized upon by ask k man's fancy—it was that if he slept he would wake up with lockjaw. He was brought to lull conscious ness by the scuffle in the passage way, fol lowed by the entrance of the assassin, and the cry of Miss Sewaul, 'Oh! he will kill my father.' But he saw nothing of his as sailant until a hand tppeared before his face, and then his . 'What handsome cloth that* ovv-oat is made or. Tl.u MWNIUL'IU, 'Mien Appeared, and the helpless statesman only thought, 'What a handsome man!' (Payne was a fine looking fellow.) ' 'Then came a sensation as of rain strik ing him smartly upon one side of his face and neck, then quickly the same upon the other side, but he felt no severe pain. This was the assassin's knife. The blood spout ed, he thought 'My time has come,' and fal ling from the bed to the floor, fainted. His first sensation of returning consciousness was that. he was drinking tea, and that'it tasted good.' Mrs. .Seward was giving him tea with a spoon. He heard low voices a reundhini, asking and replying as to wheth er it would be possible for him to recover. He could not speak, but his eyes showed his consciousness, and that he desired to speak. They brought him a porcelain tablet, on which he managed to write, 'Give me some more tea. I shall get well.' And from that moment he has slowly but steadily re covered health aud strength." THE SOLDIER BIRD. One day in the spring of 1861, Chief Sky, a Chippewa Indian, living in the northern wilds of Wisconsin captured an eagle's nest. To make sure of his prize, be cut the tree down, and caught the eaglets as they were sliding from the nest to run and hide in the grass. One died. He took the other home and built it a nest in a tree close by his wig wam. The eaglet was as big as a hen, cov ered with soft brown down. The red chil dren were delighted with their new pet; and as soon as it got acquainted, it liked to sit down in the grass and see them play with the dogs. But Chief Sky was poor, and he hud to sell it to a white man for a bushel of corn. The white man brought it to Eau Claire, a little village alive with white men going to the war- ' Here's a recruit," said the man. "An eagle! an eagle!" shouted the soldiers —"let him enlist; and sure en ough, he was sworn into the . ervice, with ribbons round his neck—red, white, and blue. On a perch ; surmounted by the stars and stripes, the company took hint to Madison, the capital of the State. As they marched into Camp Randall, with colors flying, drums beating, and the pgopie cheering, the ouglo f fciaoJ tUo in nio L- nnit spread his wings, his bright eye kindling with the spirit of the scene. Bhouts rent the air— "The bird of Columbia; the eagle of freedom for ever!' The State made him a new perch, the hoys named him "Old Abe," and the regiment the Eighth Wisconsin) was theneeibrth called "the eagle Regiment." On the march it was carried at the head of the company, aud every' where was greeted with delight. At St. Louis a gentleman offered Are hundred dollars for it, and an other his farm. No, no, the boys had no notion of parting with their bird. It was above all price—an emblem of battle and victory. Besides, it interested their minds, and made them think less of hardships and of home. I caunot tell you all the droll adventures of the bird through its three years of service —its flights in the air, its tights with the guinea hens, and its race with the darkies. When the regiment was in summer quarters at Clear Creek, in Dixie, it was allowed to run at large, and every morning went to the river, halt a mile off where it splashed and played in the water to its heart's content, faithtully returning to camp when it had enough. Old Abe's favorite place of re sort was the sutler's tent, where a live chicken found no quarter in his presence. But rations got low, and for two days Abe had nothing to eat. Hardtack he objected to, lasting was disagreeable, and Tom, his bearer could not get beyond the pickets to a farmyard. At lust pushing his way to the Colonel s tent, he pleaded for poor Abe. The Colonel gave him a pass, and Tom got hini an excellent dinner. One day a rebel farmer asked Tom to come and show the eagle to his children. Satisfying the curiosity of the family, Tom sat him down in the barnyard. O what a screeching and scattering among the fowls; lor what should Abe do but pounce upou ohc and gobble up another, to the great dis gust of the farmer, who declared that was not in the bargain. Abe. however, thought there was no harm in confiscating, nor did Torn. Abe was in twenty battles, besides many skirmishes. He was at the siege of Vicks burg, the storming of Corinth, and marched with Sherman up the Red river. The whiz of bullets and the scream of shells were his delight. As the battle grew hot and ho tter he would flap his wings, and mingle his wil dest notes with the noise around him. He was very fond of music, especially Yankee Doodle and Old John Brown. Upon parade he always gave heed to "Attention." With his -ye on the commander, he would listen and obey orders, noting time accurately. After parade he would put off his soldiery air,flap his wings, and make himself at home. The rebels called him "Yankee Buzzard," "Old Owl, aud other hard names; but his eagle nature was quite above noticing it. The rebel General Price gave orders to his men to sure and capture the eagle of the Eighth Wisconsin—he would rather have it than a dozen battle flags. But for all that, W scarcely lost a feather—only one from his right wing. His tail feathers were once cropped by a bullet. At last the great rebellion came to an end, and the brave Wisconsin Eighth, with their live eagle, and torn and riddled flags, were welcomed back to Madison. They went out a thousand strong, and returned a little band scarred and toil worn, having fought and won. And what of the soldier bird? In the name of his gallant veterans. Captain Wolf presented hiui to the State. Governor Lewis accepted the illustrious gift, and am ple quarters are provided for him in the beaurifnl State House grounds, where he may long live to tell us. "What heroes from the woodland sprang, When through the fresh awakened land The thrilling cry of freedom rang." ' Nor is the end yet. At the great fair in Chicago last summer, an enterprising gen tleman invited "Abe" to attend. He had colored photographs of the old hero struck up, and sold sixteen thousand seven hun dred dollars worth for the benefit of poor and sick soldiers. Has not the American eagle doue its part?-— Child's l'uprr. WHAT THE SOUTH HAS DONE AND LEFT UNDONE. The Nashville Union reviews and depre cates the mistakes of the South in not em bracing more quickly the generous terms of the Executive. It says: "We will begin with Tennessee, the Pres ident's own State. Has she come up to this standard? She has repudiated the rebel debt, declared secession null and void, abolished slavery, ratified the Constitution al Amendment, and elected representatives to Congress who can t ike the oath ot office, ho far all well. But upon the important question of protecting by law the rights of the freedmen, making them equals before . law with the whites, what has she done? Just notinng. UH .a i c, the question of' testifying in the courts has Eassed the Senate, but hangs fire m the louse of Representatives; and, we are told, will fail. Can Tennessee appear at Wash ington, and as a supporter of the President's policy—who has complied with all its de mands—ask admission for her Senators and Representatives in Congress? Surely not. She can claim the favor of neither the Pres ident's adherents in that body, nor of the radicals. "Mississippi started well. She accepted abolition of slavery, and altered her Consti tution to conform to the change in her do mestic institutions, and declared her ordi nance of secession null and void. But she has gone no further. She withholds her assent to the ratification of the Constitution al AnienJment, has refused the freedmen the right to testify in the State courts, and appears determined to deny them the rights and privileges which the President demands for them, and without which freedom is a name. _ "Alabama, following next after Mississip pi, with her constitutional convention, did better. She added to what hor predecessor did. the repudiation of the rebel debt. Her legislature meets to-morrow. We shall not anticipate its action. We hope its first act will be to ratify the Constitutional amend ment ; and that she will follow it up by do ing full and ample justice to her freedmen. North Carolina stands upon the same plat form as Alabama. Her action has been the same; and she has -Jill to meet the question of ratification of the Constitutional Amend ment, and providing for the proper protec tion of her freedmen. She has elected to Congress a delegation not one of whom can take the oath, and perhaps bearen the Uni on candidate for Governor, thus showing her deep-seated hostility to the federal govern ment, and her intention to do nothing she can avoid, to return to her place in the na tional councils. South Carolina has taken a step in ad vance ot Mississippi, Alabama, and North- Carolina. and ratified the Constitutional A mendiuent. But—she simply repealed her secession ordinances, thus adhering to the doctrine of secession, has not repudiated the rebel debt, and seems inclined to keep her free colored population in a state but little better than abject slavery. Georgia, taking the cue from South Carolina, repealed nor secession ordinance, accepted the abolition of slavery, but with an eye to future com pensation, and not until she found it could not be avoided, repudiated the rebel debt. She has yet to act upon the ratification ques tion.and to pass laws for the protection of the fVeednien. "Florida hassimply annulled her seces sion ordinance, ana whilst recognizing the abolition of slavery and adapting her organ ic law to the change, has refused to repudi ate the rebel debt, submitting the matter to a vote of the people. This is as far as she has gone. The other questions will eouie before the legislature. Texas has, as yet, done nothing. Her provisional governor is 'making haste slowly.' Louisiana is more advanced than Tennessee, inasmuch as freed men in that State are admitted as witnesses in the courts. But she is still below the mark in giving her colored population their rights. ' "Arkansas is in about the same condition as Tennessee." ENLIGHTENED SUFFRAGE. MANY of our most thoughtful and experi enced statesmen are of the opinion that none except such as can read and write should be allowed to exercise the elective franchise. It is thought that to require this would grea tly foster the cause of education and materi ally increase the intelligence of the com munity generally—for no parents would be likely to allow their children to grow up with out qualifying them to become voters. Be sides if every citizen had the ability to read all would feel t hat ever increasing thirst for knowledge which uniformly takes possession of business and beautifies intelligent minds. Newspapers and the current literature of the day would be universally read and an impetus would thus be given to letters which in one or two generations at the furthest, would produce a people beyond all question intellectually superior to any that the world has ever seen. In England a man can not vote unless he has a certaiu amount of pro perty. This policy inspires a thirst for gain and the English have become a race of shop keepers.'' The prevalent theory here seems to be that age alone should entitle a citizen to vote. This may not be casting "pearls before swine," but it is making the great privilege of elective franchise so cheap, that the unprincipled mobleading demagogue nas a power that is dangerous and detrimental to the state. To grant equal privilege to all citizens without requiring any degree of intelligence or prudence whatever as a condition prece dent, is to deprive the state of one of its most legitimate powers to elevate its moral, intellectual, and material standard. In a government that has already established free schools for all. to require that all voters should know how to read and write, could hardly he regarded as oppressive or unjust. Some of the European governments, having learned by experience that ignorance breeds mobs and riots, have adopted the policv of forcing the rising generation to attend school for a certain length of time, or until a cer tain amount of knowledge is acquired. All that is desired by these governments and more than is attained by them, we can ac complish without force. All we have to do is to adopt for the rising generation the policy of enlightened suffrage, and every pa rent and boy in the land will at once havera new incentive, and attach a new importance to the acquisition of knowlenge. The result of such a policy will be a whole race of men of whom not one has had his mental facul ties neglected, an accomplishment beyond the power of any government on earth, but our own, and possible to us only by making our own schools free, and adopting the poli cy of enlightened suffrage.— Anwr. States man. THE real object of education is to give children resources that will eudure as long as life endures; habits that will ameliorate, not destroy; occupations that will render sick ness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venera ble, life more dignified and useful, and death ler>s terrible. VOLUME 38; NO. 52. ONE or THE CHURCH MILITANT The following story is told of Peter Cart | wright. the hard-shell Methodist pioneer in the western prairies. He believed in the i use of the carnal weapons of war, and when j with rough characters would assert his mas ten' over them by simple physical strength I and daring. The following incident resting ! on good authority, is very like one told of a I North Carolina pioneer, who pummelled j grace into a profane and fighting black ! smith. J One day on approaching the ferry across the Illinois, he heard the ferryman swear : ing terribly at the sermon of Peter Cart wright, and threatened that if be had to ferry him across, and knew him, he would • Peter onwenjolted Stranger. I want you to put me across.' 'Wait till I'm ready,' said the ferryman, and pursued his conversation and strictures on Peter Cartwright. Having finished he turned to Peter and said: 'Now I'll put you across.' On reaching the middle of the stream, Peter threw his horse's bridle over a stake in the boat, and told the ferryman to let go of his pole. 'What for?' asked the ferryman. Well, you have just been using my name improper like: and said if I came in this way you woul'l drown me. Now you have got a chance.' 'ls your name Peter Cartwright ?' asked the astonished ferryman. 'My name is Peter Cartwright.' Instantly the ferryman seized the preach er, but he did not know Peter's strength; for he instantly seized the ferryman, one hand on the nap of his Deck and the other on the seat of his trowsers, and plunged him into the water, saying: "I baptize (splash) in the name of the dev il, whose child thou art." Then lifting him up, Peter added : 'Did you ever pray?' 'No.' 'Then it is time you did.' 'Never will:' responded the ferryman. Splash ! splash ! and the ferryman is in the river again. 'Will you pray now!' asked Peter. The gasping victim shouted : 'l'll do anything you bid me.' 'Then follow me : Our Father which art in heaven,' &c. Having repeated after Pe ter. the ferryman cried out: "Now let me go.' 'Not yet," said he, 'you must make three promises: First, that you will repeat that prayer every morning and evening as long as you live; secondly, that you will hear eve ry preacher that comes within five miles of this ferry: and thirdly, that you will put ev ery Methodist preacher over free of expense. Do you promise and vow?' 'I promise,' said the ferryman. And strange to say that this man became a shining lifmt. COURAGE. To fulfil successfully the duties of life, a ilc-giee uf moral co-urago io necessary, to which very many persons are strangers. In every important undertaking difficulties arise unforseen, and to the timid, insur mountable. However well prepared the mind may be. however surrounded by favor ing circumstances, yet a certain amount of bold enterprise is required to follow any no ble end, and without which the most bril liant talents are bestowed in vain. Perhaps the most distinguishing trait of great minds is that calm reliance upon self, that fearless intrepidity which sees obstacles only to overcome them. Such a disposition is conipicuous in the characters of "\\ ashing ton, Franklin, Howard, and others, and with diligence and energy there is scarce any de gree of success which is beyond its reach. Providence has hung, as it were, the fair est fruits of life on the loftiest bough, there by intimating that it is alone those who, in lofty thought, are. like Saul, above their fellows, who are worthy of its rewards. And while to the indolent, shame and mortifica tion are the spontaneous growth of earth, honor, wealth and heaven's blessing, is the portion of those who are fearless in the right. THE POPE'S* PROSPECT. According to the British Standard, the "situation" at Home is not encouraging for the Pope. "The Roman people nearly to a man are the mortal enemies of the 'Holy Father,' whom French bayonets alone, for many years past, have been the means of preserv ing on his throne. Assuredly Victor Em manuel will furnish no help. The treaty of September only hinds him to make no attack himself on Rome, and not to permit any body else to do it. This is a master-stroke against the man of sin, who is left to meet his subjects face to face, and to settle mat ters with them as he best can. No soldiers are coming in to take the place of the French, and the annual deficit is fearful. The reve nue in 1864 was five millions of crowns, and the expenditure ten millions five hundred thousand! If this be not the way to the Fleet,' or to Gaeta. we know not what is. | Then as to Peter's Pence, only one million two hundred thousand crowns have resulted from these; and we vouch for it, they will produce much less for the year now current. At present, iudeed. it is distinctly intimated that every pecuniary resource of the Pope is steadily falling off. To raak# matters still worse, the entire circle of Governments who are Papal supporters are in a rickety, we might say, a rotten condition. Cardinal An tonelli himself actually showed at the late council th&t 'no Catholic power was at pres ent in a position to come to the aid of the Holy See.''' THE FENIAN CHIEF'S DISGUISE.— It now appears that James Stevenson, the Irish lonian Chief did baffle the English author ities in a bold way, for some time previous to his arrest. The Dublin correspondent of the Irish American, says: "He played the gentleman of fortune —• the man of large means and expensive tastes. Instead of dodging about the mountains, hiding in peasant's huts, or sleeping in low lodging houses, he rented a handsome mansion in the neighborhood of the city, he purchased a quantity of splendid furniture for it, — passing ail the time as Mr. Herbert, son of a Protestant minister of that name in the south of Ireland, he employed gardeners and a number of work people in beautifying the grounds, erecting green houses, a moss house and so forth. 80 lately as this week he had purchased about twelve pounds worth of; plants for his gardens and shrubberies. In every way he acted np to the character of a man of property; and thus while the police were watching pedlars, tinkers, tramps, and vagrants of every sort he escaped suspicion until a few days ago. It is stated that the magistrate when applied to for a warrant enabling the police to search the house, re fused to give one not considering as sufficient the grounds of suspicion shown by the de tectives. But subsequently his hesitancy was removed; he signed the warrant and ;be police proceeded on their mission." The last steamer brings the news that he has es caped from prison and it is expected that he will soon arrive ki this country. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertiretseats for less than 3 month* 10 cents per line for each insertion. 3|jeial notice* one half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notices of marriage-sand deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 ct-. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required bylaw to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. All Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 8 months, 1 year." One square $ 4.50 SMQ $10.60 Two 5quare5.......... 6,00 #.O<J 16.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth C01umn...... 14.00 20.00' •fe'SHjk Half c01umn................. 18.00 25.00 45.00 One oolurnn 30.00 45.00 80.00 MUSIC. The effect produced by music on the heart is owing more to the simple fact of associa ! tion than many imagine. It is true that in the composition of music, the composer im ! hues it with much of his own feelings while i writing or improvising it; and for a person to listen to such music for the first time with out being previously affected from any cauae lie will be carried upon its tide very nearly as the composer's power at first directed; but I have known it in others, and have myself experienced a feeling of deep defection whiie listeningto music of a light and joyous char acter. This was in consequence oi a former association of the same sounds with a form er trouble. "As much music is taken from Tu^firrAM of written music may have so nearly resem bled such sound, heard before or since, for a time forgotten: heard before when the heart was so severely oppressed as to affect it at hearing it again with the same emotion, and from no other cause than that of associa tion. THE GREAT MYSTERY. —The body is to die. No one who passes the charmed boun dary comes back to tell. The imagination visits the realms of shadows—sent out from some window in the soul over life's restless waters, but brings its way wearily back with out a live leaf in its beak, as a token of emer ging life, beyond the closely bending horizon. The great sun comes and goes in the heaven, yet breathes no secret of the ethereal wil derness. The crescent moon cleaves her nightly passage across the upper deep, but tosses overboard no signals. The sentinel stars challenge each other as they walk their nightly rounds but we catch no syllable of their countersign which gives passage to the heavenly camp. Between this there is a great gulf fixed across which neither feet nor eye can travel. The gentle friend whose eyes we closed in their last sleep long years ago. died with rapture in her wonder strick en eyes, a smile of ineffable joy upon her lips, and hands folded over a triumphant heart, but her lips were past speech and in timated nothing of the vision that enthrall ed her. — J. G. Holland. MEMORANDA OF AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUNO LADY.—The Buffalo Republic says we recently picked up the following memo randa which we saw dropped by a young lady, attired in an embroidered velvet Talma, an exquisite Honiton lace collar, a white hat and plume, and a painfully brilliant silk dress with exaggerated flounces: "I innst get Vail. Broun hoes, Sarceknet, Laise, Gluvs, Shimmyzet, Kulone." We confess wc were startled at the last item, hut think it means cologne. The whole simply proves that wealth and intel lect do not always hunt in couples. RICHARDS was an inevitable chewer of to bacco. To break himself of the habit, he took up another, which was that of making a pledge about once a month that he would never chew another piece. He broke his pledge just as often as he made it. The last time I seen him he told me he had broken off for good, but now, as I met him, he was taking another chew. "What, Richard,' says I, 'Won told me you had given up that habit, but I sec you are at it again.'' "Yes," he replied, "I have gone to chew ing and lift off tying!'' AN Irishman asks a Long Island woman the price of a pair of fowls, and is told, "A dollar." "And a dollar is it, my darlint; why, in my country you might buy them for sixpence apiece." . "And why didn't you stay in that blessed cheap country?" "Oeh, faith, and there was MO SIXPENCE there, to be sure!" THE kissing stories of which we have re cently given several seem to beget more. A gentleman in Richmond, Virginia, writes that in the beautiful village of Lexington, in the valley of Virginia, a young gent having devoted himself to the special ertertainment of a company of pretty girls for a whole ev ening, demandei payment in kisses, when one of them instantly replied: ''Certainly, Sir, present your bill!" - SITLPHCR AND CgoLKRA.—Dr. Herring in his '"Domestic Physician," says of Asi atic cholera : —"The surest preventive is sulphur. Put half a teuspoonful of flour of sulphur into each of your stockings, and go about your business; never go out with an empty stomach; eat no fresh bread nor sour food. This is not only a preventive in cholera, but also in many other epidemic diseases. Not one of many thousands who have followed this, my advice, have been at tacked by cholera. "COLONELW —is a fine looking man." said Jenkins. "Yes," said Noggins, "1 was taken for him once." "You! why you are as ugly as a stump fence!" "I can't help that; I was taken for him. I endorsed his note, and was taken for him by the Sheriff." A PLAIN and unschooled man, who had received his education principally beneath the open sky, in the field and the forest, and who had wielded the axe more than the pen, while speaking of children, remarked with true simplicity : "The little chips are near est the heart.'' Mas. PARTINGTON said she did not marry her second husband because she loved the mala sex, but just because he was the sixc of her first protector, and could wear out his old clotlies. A PROFOUND observer remarks : "I have often observed at public entertainments, that when there is anything to be seen and everybody wants particularly to see i\everv body immediately stands uj> and effectually prevents anybody from seeing anything." A TOFNO lady who was rebuked by her mother for Kissing her lover, justified the act by quoting the passage—-"Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto yon, do you ye even so to them." WE hear that His Holiness the Pope has fiven positive orders that all his bulls shall e kept within the precincts of the 'Vatican while the cattle disease is rife. A "UNION of forces" is well exemplified in the following: . „ "A Turk wears so uiaay fleas in his shirt, that a mathematician has recently demons trated tliat if they should all jump at oner, they would carry him across the Bosphorus! "Trerich, said apoor Jew, "eat veni j>on because it ish deer; I eat mutton because it isli sheep," AN old bachelor says that the proper | name for marriageable young ladies is "wai ting maids,"
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