fk* fteilferd .iiluqaim US I'URUISi!' EVERY FRIDAY .'.lU'lNlNef, tiv J. K. 1)1 KBO aL H Art ii ou .1 All, ll'lilASASl.. i . leugcl House BEDi ; >Ki >, FKN'N'A. TERMS: 92.00 a year if paid strictly in advance. If not patil witiiin six mouths It not pnirt witiiin the year HXOO. |roft£sio&al & gustes darfls. ATTOKXEI'S AT LAW. JSO. H. ITTR.KR J. T. KRAUT. FULLER A KEAGY 1 Have formed & partnership in the practice of the law. Attention puid to Pensions, Bounties and Claims against the Government. Office on Juliana street, formerly occupied by Hon. A. King. aprll:*6J-*ly. jOHS PALMER, Attorney at Law, Bedford, Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. ■isa. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on JuTiimnart,pearly opposite the Mcngel Hou3e.) june-L-L, OO.ly JB. CESSNA, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN OESSXA, on Pitt st.. opposite the "Hertford Hotel. AH business entrusted to his care •vill receive faithful and prompt attention. Mili tary Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9,18L5. H. ■ DURBORROW A LUTZ. •JTTOIfcVE 1 S .1 P H , BKBFORO, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no- They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents ■ud will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pen-tons, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, AE. Office on Juliana street, one door bouth ot the ••Mengel House" and nearly opposite OM/A.YA.RER tTSP Y M. ALSIP, TJ ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEIIFORI), PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, jack av, Bounty. Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street - doors south , ,f the Mengel House. PL L 18FI4^-TF^_ Ml. A. POINTS, I ATTORNEY AT LAW, BRDFOBB, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services I to the public. Office with J. W. LmgenleUe, Esq.. on Julian., street, two doors South of the "Mengle House. ' L64 ' TF - j XT IMMELI, AND LTNGENFELTKR, IN ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BKIIFORII, L'A. J i lave formed A partnership in the practice of HO Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors boutb f the Mengel House, aprl, LH64--t F . JOHN MOWK^ TORf i E Y AT LAW. BBDFORP, PA. April 1, IS64.— tf. PBMfIBTO. C. • "row**' JR " DENTISTS, BEPVOR. PA. OJfce in the Bank Building, Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry C REFNUY MD faithfully per formed and warranted. IBJRMFE CA-. 11. janth P. \ . V •) Bl.oonv Ru>, PA., Offers his professional services as Phyaieian and Surgeon to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicin .. " decl:lyr lty. I \R. B. F. HARRY, J ) Respectfully RENDERS his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building iormerly A cupiedby Dr. J. 11. Hufius. April 1, ISfil —tt. _____ | L. MARBOURG, M. D., J , Having permanently located respectfully tenders hi: pofessional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of ILALL A Pal mer's office. April 1, 186S tf. lIOTKLK. BEDFORD HOUSE, AT HOPEWELL, BKDPOUD COUNTY, Pa., BY HARRY DROLLINGER. Every attention given to make guests comfortable, who stop at this House. Hopewell, July 29, 1864. K1 \ K I:KS. O. IV. BUPP O. E. SHASXOS P. F.EXRDICT Rl PP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North and South, and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. apr.1 5,'64-tf. JEWELER, Ac. JOHN REIMUND, •J CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER, in the United States Telcpraph Office, BEDFORD, PA. Clocks, watches, and nil kinds of jewelry promptly repaired. All work entrusted to bis care warranted to give entire "atisfacti-M. [nov3-Jyr I \ ANIEL BORDER, I f PITT STREET, TWO BOOKS WEST OP THE FED !■• I:I> HOTEL, BKBPOKP, PA. W ATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches. Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glosses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Kings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand, apr. 28, 1865— zz. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. T OHM MAJOR; •J JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, HOPEWKLL, BEDFORD Qovxrr. Coilectiona anil all business pertaining to his office will be attended to prompt ly. Will also attend to the sale or renting of real citato Instrun.';utH of writing carefully prepar •d. Also settling up partnership* and other ac counts. A ,.l •fil—tj. INVENTO S' OFFICER, d'DPINEL'tI, Ai EVANS, t'ivil Engineers and I'm cut MolirlforM. NO. 435 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. Patents solicited—Consultations on Engineer ing, Draughting and Sketches. Models and Ma clunery of all kinds made and skilfully attended to. Special attention given to REJECTED CA SKS and INTERFERENCES. Authentic Co pics of all Documents from Patent Office procured. B. Save yourselves useless trouble and travelling expenses, as there is no actual need for persona! interview with us. All business with ese offices, can be transacted in writing. For '.tier information direct as above, with itami) enclosed, for Circular with references. jan!2:*y ©cMorD Jutuurct. OI'KBOKROW A LITZ Editors and Proprietors. VO THE DILEMMA. Now, by the blessed I'aphian queeu, Who heaves the breast of sweet sixteen; By every name I cut on bark Before my iqprning star grew dark; By Hymen's torch, by Cupid's dart, By all that thrills the beating heart; The bright bßck eye, the melting blue, — 1 cannot choose between the two. I had a vision in my dreams; — T saw'a row of twenty beams; From every beam a rope was hung, In every rope a lover swung; I asked the hue of every eye, That bade each luckless lover die; Ten shadowy lips said, heavenly blue, And ten accused the darker hue. I asked a matron which she deemed With fairest light of beauty beamed; She answered, some thought both were fair— Give her blue eyes and golden hair. I might have liked her judgment well, But, as she spoke, she rung the bell, And all her girls, nor small nor few. Came marcbiag in,—their eyes were blue. 1 asked a maiden; back she flung "I he locks that round her forehead hung, And turned her eye, a glorious one. Bright as a diamond in the sun, On me, until beneath its rays 1 felt as if my huir would blaze; She liked all eyes but eyes of green; She looked at me; what could she mean? Ah! many lids Love lurks between Nor heeds the coloring of his screen; And when his random arrows fly, 1 he victim falls, but knows not why. Gaze not upon his shield of jet, The shaft upon the string is set; Look not beneath his azure veil, Though every limb were cased in mail. Well, both might make a martyr break The chain that bound him to the stake: And both, with but a single rav, Can melt our very hearts away; And both, when balanced, hardly seem To stir the scales, or rock the beam; But that is dearest, all the while. That wears for us the sweetest smile. Ptoltaujiis. INTERESTING DIALOGUE. Wheat Meat—Cahhage - -Potatoes Ap ples Grapes Beets Tomatoes Bread—Cake—Aud some other Things —And the Boys and Girls Besides. SCENE — John Smith's Country Store — TIME, Even ing — SPEAKERS, Sundry Vil lagers, and Farmers who have "happened in as usual." Mr. Smith. —Trade is very dull nowadays; 1 don't sell baif as much a I did five years ago. Mr. .Jones.— Good reason. Things're so high, we can't afford to buy. You charge such awful prices, Smith. Mr. Sm>'th. —Can't help it. I have to pay so much more. When I sold sugar at ID cents a pound. I made a cent a pound, and only make a cent now ou 20 cents, and this cent profit don't go so far to keep my family. Mr. Brown. —I buy just as much as ever. I don t see as there is much change. I used to sell my 000 bushels of wheat for 75 cents a bushel, or $450. Of this, $250 went for family store bills, and S2OO to pay off niy farm debt. Now, when I sell for $1.50 per j bushel, or S9OO, it takes about SSOO for j store bills, and leaves S4OO to pay off the debt. In fact, these high prices suit me. I wish Mr. McCullocli had kept out of the Treasury, for he threatens to make Green backs par, and knock down prices. Mr. Price. —I don't see a., it makes much difference. If there is twice as much mon ey going, and everybody gets twice as much for everything he raises, and pays twice as much for everything he buys, it all conies out square at the end; and there is this gain in tiie operation; those who save money, or make a profit, make double, as neighbor Brown explains about paying his farm debt. Mr. Butler. —That's so. Mr. Greene. —So I think. Mr. Moore. —So do I. Mr. BaJcer. —There is a little drawback. I| keep the aecouuts of Widow Robert, who has the mortgage on Mr. Brown's farm, and ! the S4OO he pays, don't go only half so far j in supporting bor, and educating her chil- I dren. Mr. Travis (the School Teacher). —Yes it does, for I only get S3O a month for teach ing Mrs. Robert's and others' children, and i I used to get $25, with wheat at 75 c. Rev. Air. Corey. —And I only get S6OO a yeaj, while 1 always had SSOO with wheat at 75 cents and sugar at 10 cunts. Several Voices. —That ain't quite square. Mr. Knox, (Editor.) —And you only pay me $2 a year for my newspaper, which you thought cheap at $1.50 five years ago, though I have now to pay three times as much for every thing 1 use in making a newspaper. Afr. Greene. —Why don't you raise your i prices, too? Afr. Knox. —People won't stand it. I ! must keep along with no profit, or even at a loss, hoping for better tunes, or else lose i my subscribers, and let the paper go down. Why, when I raised the price from $1.50 to $2 a year, a good many stopped the paper —among them Mr. Brown himself, though I paid him double for his wheat. Afr. Brown. —l didn't stop it so much ; for the price; I went in for paying for my farm by extra economy. Air. Knox. —Yes, he followed my advice for people "to economize and pay their debts now. " But let us see if Mr. Browu began at tbe-right place. On one Saturday 1 published iu my paper that wheat had ad vanced 15 cents a bushel. (In Monday Mr. Brown went to market with his wheat, and j sold 60 bushels at one cent advance over the old price, and t bought he did well, lie came home boasting about it, uutil he met neighbor Johnson, who got the ioeentsad vuuee, because he read my paper, and was wide awake. Mr. Brown's loss on 60 bush els would pay four whole years' subscrip tion. Air. Btown. —Don't say anything mora about that, Mr. Knox, and put me down a subscriber for life. Air. Knox. —I have heard of several oth er such losses by those who stopped my pa per. Not to be too personal, as some of them are here, I will call them A, B, C, etc. Mr. A. paid 4 per cent more fees on s7l taxes, because he did not see the collector * A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO p OL ITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. notice in my paper, and thus lost $2.84, to save $2. Mr. B. paid $3.60 the same way. Mr. C. failed to bring in his claim against an estate, because he did not see in my paper the legal notice limiting the time. That, cost him $34, to save $2 subscription. Mr. D. sold 200 pounds of wool at 62 cents, because he did not see an advertisement of Mr. Smith, right here at home, offering 70 cents. I'hat cost him sl6, to save $2. Mr. F's boys went down to the village every night or two, to get the news and local gos sip, because they had no paper at home, and one of them fell into bad company, and is ruined. I know twenty cases where peo ple lost money for not learning; whirls go" ing on. I gather np all that is going on in business and society, and condense it into my columns. It is important for every man to know all about homd matters, and I doubt if there is a man in this whole town who would not, in the course of a year, get some information, that would pay him back more than $2 a year. And then think of a house hold sitting down together 365 days in a year, and having nothing to talk about, ex cept their own affairs, and a few items of gossip, gathered up by occasional contact with other people. Mr. Taylor. - -Let me help Editor Knox's argument. Wife read to me an item he published about a humbug, which he copied from the American Agriculturist, of New York City. Next day one of those same hum bugs came round with his article, and was so plausible that he almost persuaded her into paying him $3, for his swindling re ceipe; but the edi ors caution kept her back. Mr. Knox. —Yes, and do you know that the fellow sold more than fifty of the hum bug recipes hereabout, at $3 a piece '? hut not to any one of my subscribers. Mr. Potts. —Put me down as a subscriber, Mr. Knox, here Is your two dollars. Mr. Shaw. —And me too. Mr. Knox. —Thank you. gentlemen. I'll try to make a bettor paper than ever. Eve ry dollar helps; a new subscriber only adds to my ex pen so the cost of paper. If every body took the paper, and thus divided the cost of getting news, setting type, office rent, etc., I could double the value of the paper to each. Please talk the matter over with other neighbors and see, if it cannot be done. Several Voices. —We will. Mr. Smith. —And now while you are about it, 1 want to make up a club for a good New York paper. Mr. Brown. —We can't afford to take so many papers. Mr. Smith. —You have just seen that you could not afford to stop your home pa per; let us see ii it will not pay to join our club. Mr. Rich, you have taken the Amer ican Agriculturist for several years. Does it pay f Mr. Rich. —Pay? Yes, fifty times over. Why I got two ten-acre fields ready to sow to wheat, and put in one of them. That night my Agriculturist cauie, and I read a simple recommendation about preparing seed wheat, leaded John and we put 15; bushels iu soak for the next day. It cost j 50 cents for the materials. Well, that sec- j ond field yielded 5 bushels an acre mora than j the other—or 50 bushels extra, and better | wheat too. Pretty good pay for $1.50 ex- I pended for a paper. Aud I have got lots of, other hints almost as profitable. You know I get better pofits on my beef, pork and j mutton, than any other man iu the place. Now does this not come frotu any direct hint, like the wheat, but from a good many suggestions that I have picked up in read ing the Agriculturist , and from *tlie course of reasoning that I have been led into, by reading in it what others do, and think, and say- Mr. Smith. —You are another subscriber to the Agriculturist, Mr. West ; does it pay ? Mr. IVest. —Pay? Yas. Y'ou know what good cabbages and potatoes I had last sea son. Why, the cabbages were worth double , any other in town, for ' -t or for home use. I had 400 heads, worth 5 cents a piece, extra; aud they only cost 20 cents ex tra for seed. My 250 bushels of potatoes are all engaged for seed at $1.50 a bushel, when other kinds bring only 50 cents. That's $250 clear gain, for the sl4 extra I paid :or seed, and the $1.50 I paid for tiie Agricul turist. It was through this paper that I learned about both the cabbages and pota toes. Its editors are careful, intelligent men, on' the constant lookout for anything new that is really good, while the paper abounds in cautions against the poor and unprofitable. Mr. Smith. —What say you, Mr. Taylor? I)oe3 it pay to invest $1.50 in the Agricul turist. Mr. Taylor. —Most certainly. A hint in the paper led uie to look after certain in sects at the proper time, and the result was, I had 160 barrels of splendid apples, which brought me a clean $5 per barrel, and this you know was better by SJ, than the aver age prices here, or $l6O. Then I have read so much about good and bad Grapes, the method of treating them, etc., that I can beat the town iu raising grapes profitably. My son, William, got a kink in his head about Tomatoes, from something the Edit ors said, and sent for some seed, lie made more money on the crop raised iu his spare hours, than was cleared by half the farmers in this town. Mr. Smith. —Let's hear from Mr. Crane. Mr. Crane. —I only read in the paper what was said about hogs—what kind paid best, how to feed them, and the like; but if you will call around and see my porkers, and my expense account, I'll bet a pippin I can ■how fifty dollars more of pork for the same money, than uny other man here. And this comes from reading what other men think and do. But wife ought to be here to speak. She and the girls read the Agriculturist next to the Bible. They think the house hold department is worth more than all the fashion magazines in the world. They say, it is so full of good hints about all kinds of house work. All I can say is, that we do have better bread and cake; aud wife says, the cake don't cost so much as it used to. She has learned from the paper how a hun dred other house-keepers do their work. Rev. Corey. —Let me say, also, that Mrs. Crane and her daughters have added a good many beautiful but cheap home-uiade fix tures to their parlor and sitting rooms, which certainly makes their home attract ive. They told me the other day. they got these up from pictures and descriptions in the Agriculturist. Mr. Travis. —My tlilary hat not allowed me to take the paper; though I must squeeze out enough to do so this year. My school j boy's have brought tne some copies to look at, the past year or two, and I find theßoynj ; and Girls' department of the Agriculturist the best thing I ever saw. Lt is full of items, etc., that amuse and at the same time iustruct the children. Why, I could pick out the boys and girls in my school ; whose parents take the Agriculturist , just by hearing them talk—they are so full of new and good things they have learned from i the paper. The paper has many beautiful engravings. Rev. Ccrr.y. —As small as is my salary, I BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY a, 1866. would have the paper if it east $5 a year, instead of $1.50. The fact is, it helps out my salary My little garden pilot at the parsonage has yielded us almost all our table vegetables, besides many beautiful flowers. The Agriculturist has been my constant guide. I knew but little of gardening; but this paper is so full of information about the best things to plant and sow, when to plaut, and how to cultivate—all told in so plain and practical away, by men who seem to talk froia their experience, that I know just what to do, and how to ao it well. The high moral tone of the paper, its common sense, the care it takes or,all parts of the Farm, the Garden, theOrehatU —the House hold work, and the Children as well, with its hundreds of beautiful and instructive en gravings—make it the most valuable period ical I have ever seen. I heartily wish every one of my parishoners would take it for himself anil family. It would awaken thought and enterprise, give interest to the town and neghborhood talk, stimulate im provement, introduce new and profitable crops, animals and implements, and add to our wealth. Take my advice, and all of you try the paper a year. The $ 1.50 it costs, is only three cents a week, and it is worth that anyway. Why the large and beautiful en gravings are worth many times that. Mr. Davis. —l took the Genesee Farmer last year, and as that has stopped, I thought I would take a new paper. Mr. Smith. —The "Genesee Farmer" was not really stopped. The Publisher of the Agriculturist invited Mr. Harris to join the Farmer to the Agriculturist , and put his whole force into the latter paper. They paid him a large price for his office, and moved it with everything connected with it to their office. So the Agriculturist is really two papers joined into one, and of course better. 1 think we better go with Mr. Harris to the Agriculturist, that has been published for 25 years, and has a hundred thousand circu lation, which, as Mr. Knox has told us, sup plies the means and facilities for givnig us a great deal more for the same money. Mr. Harris carries on his large farm, and in his "Walks aud Talks on the Farm," and other things he writes for the Agriculturist, he tells us a great deal about all kinds of farm work. Mr. Davis. —Put me down for the Agri culturist. Mr. Smith. —1 am glad to do so. I know you will like it. The January number, which has just come to hand, is alone worth the cost of a year, t See here, (showing it.) there are 40 pages, twice as large as the magazine pages, and tnere are thirty-Jive engravings in it, two of them full page size, and see how beautiful! Why, I'D give any man who takes the papers a year, a dollar and a half iu goods out of my store, if he says at the end of a year he has not got many times his money's worth. Mr. Butler. —Put me in your club. Mr. Greene. —And me too. Mr. Brown. —And me. Mr. Smith. —l have no interest in the matter, except to do a good thing for the place. You can join our l' O>, or any one who desires can get the Agriculturist for all of 1866 (volume 25), by simply enclosing $1,50, with his name and post office address, and sending it to Orange Judd A Co., 41 Park ltow, New York City. The paper always comes prompt and regularly, and, what is a good thing, it stops when your time is up, without you having to write about it. 1 predict that there will be plenty of others next winter, to talk as Mr. Rich, Mr. West, Mr. Crane and Parson Corey have done to night. HOW TO PKOSPEITTN Bl SINESS. In the first place make up yqur mind to accomplish whatever you undertake; decide upon some particular employment; perse vere in it. All difficulties are overcome by diligence and assiduity. Be not afraid to work with your own hands and diligently too. "A cat in gloves catches no mice." He who remains in the mill, grinds; not he who goes and comes. Attend to your business and never trust to another. "A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled. Be frugal. "That which will not make a pot will not make a pot lid." "Save the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." Be abstemious. "Who dainties love shall beggars prove." Rise early. "The sleeping fox catcher no poultry." "Ploueh deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep." Treat every one with respect and courte sy. "Everything is gained and nothing lost by civilty. Good manners in>ure success. Never anticipate wealth front any other source than labor; especially never place de pendence upon becoming the possessor of an inheritance. "He who waitsfor dead men's shoes may have to go for a long time bare foot." "He who runsaftara shadow has a weariesome race." Above all things never dispair. "God is where he was." Heaven helps those who help themselves." follow implicitly these precepts, and noth ing can hinder you from prospering. THE REAL INTEREST OF TIIE FARMER. Nothing can be more absurd then the no tionthat the interests ofthe manufactures are inimical to those of the agricultural classes. The latter want first a good market for their crops, and second, reasonable prices for the articles they consume. No one can say that the farmer is much the bet ter for depend ing on a foreign market for his crops, as the vast spaces to be traversed s,nd the compe tition encountered abroad from the products of Russia, etc.. necessitate the appropria tion ofthe greater part ofthe money realiz ed abroad from the sale of our crops to pay the expenses of transportation. So much is this the ease, that large por tions of the western crops will not even bear the cost of freight to the eaboard. If man ufactures can be established all over the west, a home market of steadily increasing magnitude will be provided for the western crops, aud then the greater part of the prof its will insure to the farmer. So far, then, as the sale of his crops is concerned, it is to the farmer's interest to encourage home manufactures, since they furnish him with a better and more reliable market for his products. Next, as to the obtaining of manufactured goods at reasonable rates, that ie tho very object of establishing facto ries at his own door, Siuce, however, the products of the-e factories may in the be ginning be high r. they must in the end be come lower thau the prices of goods sent over thousands of miles of land or sea. with the profits of many different handlings ac cumulated upon them before reaching the consumer. It L oloar, therefore, that it is to the interest of the farmer to encourage protection. — Phila. X. Amer. It matters not what rnaii loses, if he saves his soul; but if he lose his soul, it matters not what ho saver. THEY ALL WILL DO SO. A young man, the son of a well to do far mer, had the misfortune to become deeply enamored of a young lady, and after a brief courtship, proposed and was accepted. But what was his surprise one evening, when entering the parlor with the unceremonious freedom of a young lover, at discovering his young inamorata upon the sofa, her arms around the neck of a neighboring youth, and her lips in such blissful proximity to his as to convince our hero that matters were fearfully in earnest In a rage and mortifica tion he rushed homeward, arriving just in time to surprise his only sister, the pious wife of the village minister 'squeezing to kill' a young disciple of Blackatone.—Near ly frantic at such unlooked for disclosures among people he hail believed but little low er than the angels, he made a bold da-h for the barn, running directly upon his mother, kissing the oh] family physician, who had 'stolen a march' upon her as she was look ing after the poultry. This was too much, and with a groan the young man turned un discovered, away, resolved to pass the night with his grief, beneath the stars, fearful of further revelations should he venture be neath the shelter of another roof. The morning encouraged him, however, and dew-drenched ana sorrowful he sought his home, when his mother, with true maternal solicitude, questioned him as to the cause of his sad looks; whereupon he related the in constancy of his fair bethrothed, receiving in reply the gratifying intelligence that she WAS a good-for-notnlng, miserable huzzy, and he must not speak to or notice her a gain. one so wholly unworthy. "But mother," he continued, falteringly, "that is not all." "Not all?" "What can there be more?" was the next question, "Why, when I battened home, what should 1 find but ray istcr —my godly sis ter. in the arms of a rascally young lawyer. ' "Your sister!" sh ieked the outraged mother; "my child? The ungreateful, wicked creature! Is it for this I have given her a home and cared for husband and children? I will do it no longer; such conduct is infa mous—and to be disgr iced! She shall leave to day and never enter my presence again. " "But this is not the worst, mother." . "Not the worst? 1 ran imagine nothing worse; what can it be?" "When sick and discouraged by such re peated exhibitions of sin, I left the house, determined to pass the night in the barn. 1 there found my mother kissing old Dr. F." "Y'ou did?" "I did!" ; "Well, never mind, my son; they all will do so." Proposed Union of the Anglican, Roman and Greek Churches. The New York Express has an article on this vexed question—the proposed union of the Anglican, Roman and Greek churches under the auspices of Rev. l)r. Pusey, who seems to be using all his powers to bring about a union with the Church of Rome, ft a [i pears that not only L it advocated by Dr. Pusey, but many of the most eminent in fluential scholars aud the ologians attached to the establishment are giving it counte nance. And what is to be especially noted, is the further fact, that the proposition is apparently finding masked favor with some of the most eminent of the Roman Catholic hierarchy themselves, in England as well as in France. The ways aud means of promoting such a Union, of course are but dimly foreshadowed. On both sides the utmost caution is observed with a prudent avoidance of specific details which indicates a lively conviction in ihe minds of both parties of the extreme delica cy of the subject, to say the least of it. This much however, seems to be certain that at the very start both sides must be prepared to surrender something both as regards things temporal and things spiritual For example, the Anglican Unionists, as represented by Dr. Pu.ey, will have to give up their prejudice against praying for the Saints, while the Romanists must abandon the dogma of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin. The Anglicans must ■eserve the Tridentine Creed, not as at pre sent interpreted, indeed, but in such away as to render it capable of acceptance by the English Church, while the Romanists must a baa don the universal primacy of, the Pope that is to say, they must be content to have him reduced to the level of a Bishon—not the head of the Visible Church on Earth, but simply as Bishop of Rome, neither hav ing nor exeicising powers superior to those which may be lawfully claimed or exercised by other Bishops. The Re-Unionist, however, do not propose to stop here. Some of them propose to bring in the Greek Church also, and to this it is contended that there are no obstacles in the way that need b< deemed insuperable with men imbued with a sincere spirit of Christian unity. It is a well known fact that some such ovi rtures to the Greek Church have already b :en made,on the part, not only of the Englis i Church, but by the Episcopal Church in he United States, — and with a degree of encouragement, we are informed bv those w 10 favor the project, justifying the expectation of ultimate suc cess. •m.'se The Negro Suffrage Bill. Wa Hi.NUTON. Jan. 18. The announcement Jiat a vote would be taken this afternoon, upon the question of colored suffrage, drew a large crowd to the galleries of the House and caused a full at tendance of members. The closing of the debate was given to Governor Boutwell, of Massachusetts, who, in a bri*f speech, en tranced the House an l galleries by one of the finest oratorical efforts that has been witnessed in the House for many years. While all parties have conceded to him much ability, it remained for his speech to day to give him the palm as one of the very finest orators and ablest statesmen in this Congress. The motion to postpone, then the motion to recommit to the Committee with instruc tions to amend were voted down, the Dem ocrats voting against both in order to get a vote upon the originai bill to strike out the word "white" wherever it appears in the District Laws. This ;urnof affairs brought the issue down to a point which was met promptly by the Republicans voting almost solid for the bill (116 and the Union Democrats from the Border and the Northern Democrats, numbering in all 52 votes, against it. Raymond, of New York, voted for the bill on it > final passage. On the announcement of the vote there was a loud clapping o hands by the mem bers on the Republican side, an 1 the galle ries joined in the appL use. The Speaker's gavel fell loudly, and iie announced that if members would not keep the rules adopted bv themselves we should not attempt to en force them on galleries. Amid much con fusion and excitement an adjournment was i carried. Why do recriminations of married i ouples resemble the sound of waves on the sea shore ? Because they are murmurs of the tied. VOLUME 3#; 50 5. DIETING. Is usually considered to mean the same thing as a kind of starvation. The idea which the educated physician attaches to the term, is a judicious regulation of the quan tity and quality of the food, according to the circumstances of each case. A healthy manmaydiet himself in order to keep well; un invalid may diet himself with a view to the recovery of his health: yet the things ea ten by the two will widely differ in their nature, bulk, and mode of preparation. A vast multitude are suffering hourly by the horrors of dyspepsia; no two are precisely alike in all points, since there is an endless variety of combinations as to age, sex. occu pation. air, exercise, mode of eating, sleep ing, constitution, temperament, etc. Yet dyspepsia is always brought on by over and irregular eating; it could"be banished from the world in a generation, if the children were educated to eat moderately, regularly, and slowly; the parents who do this will do their offspring a higher good than leaving them large fortunes, which, in three cases out of four, fo.-ter idleness, gluttony, and every evil thing. As the rich can get any thing to eat or drink when they want it, they with indulged children, bring on dyapepsia by eating irregularly and without an appe rite. The poor—those who have to work fora living—induce the horrible disease by eating too rapidly and at unseasonabl hours; mainly by eating heartily at supper, and go ing to bed within an hour or two afterward. In the heyday of youth and manly vigor, there may not for a while be noticed any special ill effect from such a practice—in truth, it is at first, inapprecible, but it is cu mutative, and impossible not to manifest it selfin due time. Infinite benevoleace for gives a moral delinquency; but, omnipotent as he is, and loving towards all, it is not in the nature of his government of created things to work a mircale to suspend a nat ural law. in order to shield one of his crea tures from the legitimate effects of a vio lence offered the physical system by excesses in eating, drinking, or exercise. Perhaps hearty suppers make more dys peptic than any or all other causes combined. If dinner is at noon, nothing should be ta ken for supper but a single cup of weak tea, or othor hot drink, and a piece of stale bread and butter. After forty years of age, those who live indoors, sedentary persons—that is all who do not work with their hands as laborers—would do better not to take any supper at all. Half the time the sedentary who eat at noon, do not feel hungry at supper; especially if they see nothing on the table but bread, and butter, and tea. But nature is goaded to act against her instincts in almost every family in the nation by "relishes ' being placed on the supper table, in the shape of chipped beef, salt fish, cake, preserves, or other kinds of sweetmeat, and, before the person is aware, a hearty meal has been taken, resulting in present un oomfiortablenesa, in disturbed sleep, in a wearey in the morning, bad taste in the mouth, and little or no appetite for break fast, all of which can be avoided by begin ning ear y to eat habitually, according to the suggest ions above mad e. — BnWt Jonr nal Health. A BACHELOR'S DEFENCE. The wretch who wrote the following has very wisely, for his aw* safety, omitted to give us any clue by which he could be iden tified: Bachelors are styled by married men who have put their foot into it, as only half per fected beings, cheerless vagabouds, but half a pair of scissors, and many other titles are given them; while, on the other hand, they extol their state as one of perfect bliss, that a change from earth to heaven would be somewhat of doubtful good. If they are so happy, why don't they enjoy their happiness and hold their tongues about it? W hat do half the men get married for? Simply that they may have some one to darn their stock ing#, sew buttons on their shirts, and trot their babies; that they may have somebody, as a married man once said, to pull off their boots when they are a little balmy.' These fellows are always talking of the loneliness of bachelors. Loneliness indeed! Who is petted to death by ladies who have daugh ters? invited to tea and to evening parties, and told to drop injust when it is convenient The bacheh r. \\ ho lives in clover all his days, and when he dies has flowers strewed on his grave by the girls who couldn't en trap him? The bachelor. Who strews flowers on the married man's grave? His widow? Not a bit of it; she pulls down his tombstone that a six weeks' .rrief has set up in her heart, and goes and gets married again—she does. Who goes to bed early because time hangs heavily on his hands? The married man. Who haa wood to split house hunting and marketing to do, the young ones to wash and the lazy servants to look alter? The married man. Who is arres ted for whipping his wife? The married man. Who gets divorced? The married man. Finally, who has got the Scripture on his side? The bachelor. St. Paul knew what he was talking about when he said, He that marries does well; but he that mar ries not does better." WHAT A NEWSPAPER DOES FOR NOTHING. The following article should be read and pondered well by every man who takes a newspaper without paying for it. My observation enables me to state, as a fact, that the publishers of newspapers are more poorly rewarded than any other class of man in the United States who invest an caual amount of labor, capital and thought. They are expected to do more service for less pay. to stand more sponging and "dead head ing," to puff and defend more people with out fee or hope of reward, than any other class. They credit wider and longer, get oftener cheated, suffer more pecuniary loss, are of tener the victims of misplaced confidence than any other calling in the community. People pay a printer's bill with mnch more reluctance than any other. It goes harder with them to expend a dollar on a valuable new-paper, than ten on a needless gewgaw; yet evt. 17 body avails himself of the use of the editor's pen and the printer's ink. How many professional and political le putations aud fortunes have been made and sustained by the friendly though unrequited nen of the editor? How embryo towns and | cities have been brought into notice and 1 puffed into prosperity by the press? How many railroads now in successful operation, : would have foundered but for the "lever that moves the world?' In short what branch of industry or activity has not been promoted, stimulated and defended bv the j press? And who has tendered it more than a . miserable pittance for its mighty services? The bazaars of fashion and the haunts _f diasipation aud appetite are thronged with an eager crowd, bearing gold in their palms i and the commodities there needed are sold at enormous profits, though intrinsically worthless, and paid for with scrupulous punctuality; while the counting room of the newspaper is the seat of Jewing, cheapen ing, trade, orders and pennies. It is made i a point of honor to liquidate a grog bill, but not of dubonvr to repudiate a printer'# bill. RATEB OF ADVERTISING. All advertisement* for le*s than 3 mouths 10 cent* per line for each insertion. Special notice* one half additional. All resolutions of Antucia tion, communication* of a limited or individual internet and notices of marriage and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, la cts. per lias. All legal noti ces of ererjr kind, and all Orphans' .Court and other Judicial sales, art requireoby law to be pub lished in both papers, editorial Notices 13 cents per line. All Advertising due after find insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly adrerticer*. S month*, t months. 1 year. Oca square $ 4.50 $ 6.88 slo.o® Two squares 8.08 0.08 18.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.80 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 36.08 Half c01umn..... 15.06 25.08 45.00 One column 30.08 45.00 80.00 ANECDOTE. —A Western farmer who wished to invest the accumulations of his industry in the United States securities, went to Jay Cook's office to procure the treasury notes. The clerk inquired what denomination he would have them in? Hav ing never heard that word used excepting to distinguish the religious sects, he, after a little deliberation, replied: "Well, you may give ine part in Old school Presbyterians to please the old lady, but give me the heft on t it in Freewill Baptist." FUNNY YET BEAUTIFUL.—A peculiar ge nius furnishes the following poetic conceit: Insects must generaly lead a jovial life. Think what it must be to ledge in a lily! Imagine a palace of ivory or pearl, with pillars of silver and capitals of gold, all ex haling such a perfume ceaserl Fancy, again, the fun of tucking yourself, up for the night in the folds of a rose, rocked to sleep by the gentle sighs of a summer air, and nothing to do when you wake but to wash yourself in a dew drop, and fill to and eat your bed clothes. THERE is nothing that takes the starch out of an aristocrat so soon as to nominate him to some office that comes before the people. He's fawning as a dog, and at. po lite and neighborly as a French dancing inoster. Elections by the people do more to take the starch out of tne ruffled shirt geutry than anything else. BARON ROTHSCHILD OIK* complained to Lord BroughmaG of the hardships of not being allowed to take his seat in Parliament. "You people." To which, the Ex-Chanee lor, with his usual causticity, replied. "So was Barabbas." An Irish emigrant , hearing the sunset gun at Portsmouth, asked a sailor, "What's that ?" "Why, that's sunset," was the reply. Sunset!" exclaimed Pat; and does the sun go down in this country with such a bang as that?" "Pray, sir," said a judge, angrily, to a bluut old Quaker from no direct answer could be "do you know what we sit here for?" "Yes, verily, I do," said the Quaker, "three of you for four dollars each day, and the fat one in the middle for four thousand a year. A bachelor and a young lady bought some tickets in partnership in a lottery at the re cent Sanitary Fair at Millwaukie. agreeing to divide the proceeds equitably. They drew a double bedstead, a baby crib, and a lunch basket, and the question is, how to divide them, o? whether they shall not use them "jintly." Bad luck ie simply a man with his hands in his breeches pockets and a pipe in his mouth, looking on to see how it will come rut. Good luck is a man of pluck to meet difficulties, his sleeves rolled up, working to make it come out right. When is a smack on the mouth no offense When it is received from the lips of a pret ty woman. Miss Gould, the poetess, gives a ludicrous incident in reference to a poem she had sent to a country editor. She says: "For the dew drop that falls upon the freshly blown roses, ' he made it"freshly blown noses." General Grant gives his opinion that it is not desirable at present to remove the Uni ted States troops from States lately in re bellion. nor wise to put arms in the hands of the militia as a method to be relied on to preserve the tranquility of the South. — Counsel from such a source will probably be heeded. THE WORTH OF TIME. —Time is the only gift in which God has stinted us; for he never entrusts us with a second moment till he has taken away the first, and never leaves us certain of a third.— feiu/on. PREPARING FOR A STORM.—A few nights ago, Mr. Bodkin —who had been out taking his glass and pipe—on going home late, borrowed an umbrella: and when hi# wife's tongue was loosened, he sat up in bed, and suddenly spread the parachute. "What are you going to do with that thing?" said she. "Why, my dear, 1 expected a very severe storm to-aight, and so I came prepared."; In less than twenty minutes Mrs. Bodkin was fast asleep. Bft, Whenever a man renegades from one party to another, he naturally expects to be come the especial pet of his new associates, and if their is any fat office in their gift, he has aright to look for its bestowal. Jt&f A maiden lady, not remarkable for either beauty, youth or good temper, came for advice to Mr. Arnold as to how she should get rid of a troublesome suitor. "0, Mary, marry him!'' was the advice. "Nay, I would see him hanged first." "No, madam, marry him, as I said to you, and 1 assure you it will not be long before he hangs himself." aft, Young men in Lawrence, Kansas, have to marry to get shelter from the weath er—the land-ladies take none but married peo pie. The unfortunate youths say it is a con spiracy between the young ladies and the bo ardinghouse-keepers. ABSENCE destroys small passions and in creases great ones: as the wind extinguishes tapers and kindles fires. THE short and best way to make your for tune, is to convince people it is their interest to serve you. - THOSE who feel deeply are* M§ST gi*n to disguise their feelings; and derision is never so agonising as when it pounces on the wan derings of misguided sensibility. GOOD breeding is the art of shewing men by external signs the internal regard which we have for them. Tt arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company. ONE POUND of gold may be dr&wen in to a wire that would extend round the gldbe MI one good deed may be felt through all time. cast its influence into eternity. Though done in the first flush of youth it may gilde the last hours of a long life, and form the brightest Spot in it,