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BY
J. , m RBJliiiCM \\b Jvi \ IJLTZ,
ijA ,
II LIANA St.. opposite the Mengfl House
BEIAFa>UJ>, iiINXA.
TKit.WK:
ft LOO a year il paid strictly iu advance.
'W paid \t it in it six in mi! It-. sj.s.
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ATTOKXKYft AT LAW.
/so. Br Fim.hu J. T. Kbauy.
FULLER * KEAtJY
L ilivt formed a partnership in the practice uf
the law. Attention paid to Pensions, lluuntics
and Claims against the Government.
Office 'on Juliana street, formerly occupied by
Hon..A King. aprllf&j ~iy.
jlS PAI.NEK,
' Attorney at I.hk. Hertford. Ia,.
Will promptly attend to all busipess entrusted to
his care.
Particular attention paid to the .collection
of .Military claims. Office on Jnlianna sfcj. nearly
opposite the Wengel House.) june2S, '6a.ly
1 Li. CESSNA,
J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
office edfh' .fottN OV'HSSTA. tin Pitt tf., opposite the
Bedford Hotel. All business eutrustod to hit care
will receive faithful ami pi ouipt attention. Mili
tary Cluims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected.
Bedford, June 9,1S''■ -
R. ntntßilSHO* ...JOBS m;i*.
DHBUR BORROW A LUTZ,
.i r ro /t.v#-; l'.s ./ t /../ u \
liKHFOllll, PA.,
tV ill attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their cere. 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 Pcn -rons,
Rack. Ray, Bounty, L'onnty Lands, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
• -Mengel House" and nearly opposite the Inqtiirn
office, April 2S, lstio:tf
ftSPY M. AEM IP,
LA ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin
;ug counties. Military claims, Tensions, back
pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann & Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
of the Stengel House. cpl 1, 1864.—tf.
M. A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Respectfully tendors his professional services
to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter,
Esq., on Juliana street, two doors Bouth of the
•'.Mengie House.'' Dec. D, JB€>4-tf.
J T LMM ELL AND LINGEN FELTER,
IV ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford. FA.
Have formed a partnership in the practice ol
ihe Law Office on Juliana Street, tw doors South
of the Mengel House,
aprl, 1 Still—tf.
I GUN MOWER,
J ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PA.
April 1, ISfii.—tf. •
DEVTIHTS.
. ti. HICKOE ->• • MISSICtt, 'U.
DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA.
Office in the Bant Building. Jrilidtm Street.
All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me
chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per
formed and warranted. TERMS CASH.
jauS'flo-ly.
DENTISTRY.
L -N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DENTIST, WOO
BERRY, PA , will spend tbe second Monday, Taes
ii.iy. and Wednesday, of enefc month at Hopewell,
tiie remaining three days at Bloody Run, attend
ng to the duties of his profession. At all other
he can be i'otmd in his oliiee at AN oodnury,
excepting the last Monday and Tuesday Of the
same month, which he will spend in Martinshurg,
Blair connty, Penna. Persons desiring operations
,-honld call early, H" time is limited. Ail opera
ions warranted. Aug. 0,1864,-tf.
PHYSICIANS.
TITM. VV. JAMISON, M. D.,
W Bloody Run, PA.,
Respectfully tenders his professional services to
the people of that place and vicinity. [decSilyr
P. H. PKNNSYL, M. I>.,
(lote tsurgeon 36th P. V. V.)
Bloopv lies, Pa.,
Offer? hi.- professional services as Physician and
.Surgeon to the citizens of Bloody Run and \ icia
itv. ' deel: lyr*
DHK, B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building
ioruierly occupied by l>r. J. 11. iiofius.
April 1, 1364 —tl.
1 L. MAKBOURG, M. D.,
?J . Having permanently located respectfully
tenders his pofessioual services to the citizens
of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street,
opposite the Bank, one door north oi Hull <i Pal
mer's office. April 1, 1364—tt.
IIOTKLS.
BEDFORD HOUSE,
AT HOPEWELL, Bedford County, Pa.,
BY HARRY DROLLINOER.
Every attention given to make guests comfortable,
who stop at this House.
Hopewell, July 29, 1364.
BANK 10 lift.
G. W. Nt 1T........0. K. fiUASXDS F. BKNHDICT
RI'PP, SHANNON A CO.. BANKERS,
Bedford, Pa. •
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSFT.
COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North
and South, and the general busiucss of Exchange,
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought, and sold. apr.l3, 64-U.
JI;WI:IA:R. AC.
rOHN It KIM UNI>,
EJ CLOCK AND WATCH MAKER,
in the United States Telcpraph Office,
BEDFORD, Pa.
Clocks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry
promptly rip aired. Alt work entrusted to his care
warranted to give entire satisfaction; [nov3-Iyr
1A AN IKL BORDER,
1" Pitt -thskt, two noor.s west of the bed
ford hotel, Bebford, Pa.
TCTTMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hnnd a stock of fine Hold end Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pina, Finger Rings, best
lualitvof Gold Pens. He will supply to order
ny thing in his line not on hand,
apr. 28, IB6o—s*.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
TOHN MAJOR,
tJ JUSTK E OF THE PEACE, hopkwbi.l,
Bedford count v. Collections and all business
pertaining to hi- office will be attended to prompt
ly. Will also attend to the sale or renting of reel
'"■tate Instrutn nts of writing oarefnlly prepar
•i. Also settling up partnerships and other ac
counts. Apl *6l—y.
J NVENTO S' OFFfOBB.
d'EIMNEtfL A EVANS,
Ivll Engineers and Cutout Solicitors,
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i'utents solicited—Consultations on Engineer
ing, Draughting and Sketches, Models and Ma
chinery ot all kinds made and skilfully attended
t. Sjtecial attention given to REJECTED G'A
oES and INTERFERENCES. Authentic Co
pies of all Documents from Patent Office procured.
N. B. Save yourselves useless trouble and
"avelling expenses. as there is no actual need for
personal interview with us. All bus incss with
■ ii'se offices, can be transacted in writing. For
urtfcer information direct as above, with stamp
. ucloacd, for Circular with refer. nees,
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IUK BORROW A Il r TZ Editors and Proprietors.
TO THE THIRTY-NINT H CON
GRESS.
BY JOHN U. WHITTIEB.
0 people-chosen ! are ye not j
Likewise the chosen of the Lord,
To do His will autl speak His word!
From the loud thunder-storm of war
Not man alone hath called je forth,
But He, tbe God of all the earth!
The torch of vengeance in your hands
He quenches, unto Him belongs
The solemn recompense of wrougs.
Enough of blood the land has seen,
And not by cell or gallows-stair
Shall ye the way of God prepare.
Say to the pardon-seekers, Keep
Your manhood, bend no suppliant knees,
Nor palter with unworthy pleas.
Above your voices sounds tbe wail
Of starving men; we shut in vain
Our eyes to Pillow's ghastly stain.
What words can drown that bitter cry ?
What tears wash out that stain of death ?
What oaths confirm your brokeu faith ?
From yon alone the guaranty
Of union, freedom, peace, we daim ;
We urge no conquerer's terms of shame.
Alas ! no victor's pride is ours,
Who bend above our triumphs won.
Like David o'er his rebel son.
Be men, not beggarg. Cancel all
By one brave, generous action; trust
Your better instincts, and be just!
Make ail men peers before the law,
Take hands from off the negro's throat,
Give black and white an equal vote.
Keep all your forfeit lives and lands,
But give the common law's redress
To Labor's utter nakedness.
Revive the old heroic will,
Be in the right as brave and strong
As ye have proved you iu the wroug.
Detent shall then be victory,
Your loss the wealth of full amends,
And hate be love, and foes be friends.
Then buried be the dreadful past,
Its common slain be mourned. and let
Its memories sqften to regret.
Then shall the Union's mother-heart,
Her lost and wandering ones recall,
Forgiving and restoring all.
And Freedom break her marble trance.
Above the Capitolian dome.
Stretch hands, and bid ye welcome home !
A WOMAN'S QUESTION.
Before 1 trust my fate to thee,
Or place my hand in thine:
Before I let thy future give
Color and form to mine;
Before I peril all for thee
Question thy soul to night for me.
I break all slighter bonds nor feel
A shadow of regrets-
Is there one link within the past
That holds thy spirit yet?
Or is thy faitn as clear and free
As that which 1 can pledge, to tbee?
Look deeper still. If thou eans't feel
Within thy inmost soul
That thon hast kept portion back.
While f have staked the whole —
Let no false pity spare the blow,
But, in true mercy tell me so.
Is there within thy heart a need
Which mine cannot fulfill?
One chord that any other hand
Could better wake or still?
Speak now, lest at some future day
My whole life wither or decay.
Could'st thou withdraw thy hand one day.
And answer to my claim,
That Fate, and that to-day's mistake,
Not thou, had been to blame?
Some sooth their conscience thus, but thou
W ift surely warn and save me now.
Nay, answer not—J dare not hear,
The words would come too late—
Yet f would spare the all remorse,
So comfort thee, my Fate —
Whatever 011 my heart may fall,
Remember I would risk it all.
pfctflUnMui.
A LITTLE CATECHISM FOR LIT
TLE FREE TRADERS.
What Is Free Trade? An English ma
chine for breaking down the manufactories
of other countries, in order to monopolize
them.
What are the wages of Free Trade? Six
pence a day.
Who are benefitted by Free Trade? Those
who import the raw material, and export
the manufactured articles to supply the
countries from which the former is obtain
ed.
Who are the advocates of Free Trade ?
The English aristocracy, played out politi
cians of the American Democracy, and the
Southern cotton lords.
What would be the effect of Free Trade.?
To shut up all American workshops, turn
our artizaas and mechanics out of employ
ment, and several hundred millions of dol
lars in gold, annually, to Europe, and de
prive our Government of money now re
ceived for duties on imports, with which to
pay the interest on the public debt.
It is time that the people of such States
as Pennsylvania begin a proper movement
on tho subject of protecting the labor by
which their resources are developed and
the wealth which suppoTt- the Government
created. The free trade movement origi
nates with the Democracy of New York
city. The leaders of that party are backed
by English manufacturers and capitalists,
in this as were the leaders of the rebellion
backed by the same men. Isit these facts
be remembered, and the free trade league,
like the combination of treason, will be de
feated.
ALOCAI) AND GENERAL NBWBPAPEH, DL£VOTJ£L> TO POL ITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS.
A STORY FROM REAL LIFE.
| "What do you utoan by such carelesa-
J ness?" exclaimed JOIHI Doriug to his son
WiiiiatH, a youug lad of twelve years.
"Take that! ' he added,,atriiing tic hoy
| a heavy Hew oil the side of the head; "and
; that and thatl" repeating the blows as he
-'poke, the last of which knocked the boy
j dter a plow that Was standing b.v his side.
"'Got up now anu go into the house," coit
■ tinned the lather, ami see if you can't keep,
; ont of miaohief for a whiltf, and kitgp that
crying, or 1 11 give you wuue.ihiftg io cry
for-" Oi/i fal| |j
The boy started for the liouao, struggling
to suppress bfesoba as he went.
"It is astonishing." said Doring, addres
sing a neighbor named fclanford, who was
nearby in a barn, and of #aurse had seeq
and heard all that had passad, "'how troub
lesome boys are. Just see those oats, now,
that I've got to pick up for that boy's care
lessness,'' and he pointed to a measure
of'oats which William had accidentally over
turned.
""And it was lor that trills that you as
saulted your child and knocked him down?"
replied Mr. Ilanford, in a sorrowful tone.
During looked from the oats in surprise,
and repeated: "Assaulted my child and
knocked him down! Why,, what do you
mean, neighbor Ilanford?"
"Just what 1 sqy. Did you not knock
the child over the plow ?"
"Why—well—no. He kind o' stumbled
and fell over it," doggedly replied During.
"Doyou go against parental authority?
Havn't 1 a right to punish my own child
ren '?'■
•'Certainly you have," responded Mr.
Hanford. "in a proper manner asd a pro
per spirit, but not otherwise. Do you
think that a father ha- a right to revenge
himself upon his child?''
"Of course not.: but who's talking about
revenge ?''
"Well, friend Doriug, let me ask you
another question. For what purpose should
a child be punished ?"
'Why. to make it better, and to doit
good, of course," quickly answered Doring.
"For any other?" quietly asked Han
ford.
"Well, no, not that. I can think of just
now." replied Doring, thoughtfully.
And now. my dear friend," kindly con
tinned Mr. Hanford, "do you suppose your
treatment of your son a lew moments ago
did him any good, or has increased his
respect and affection for you ? The boy, I
vecture to say, is utterly unoonseious of
having done any wrong, and yet you sud
denly assaulted him with anger and violeuce,
and gave him a beating which no peniten
tiary convict cau be subjected to without
having the outrage inquired into by a legis
lative committee. But let me tell you a long
story. You know my son Charles?"
"The one that is preaching in Charles
town ?"
"Yes; you have probably noticed that he
U lame!"
"I have noticed it," said Doring, "and
asked him how it happened, and lie told me
he got hurt whew a boy.''
,r Yes," responded Mr. Hanford with
emotion, "the dear boy would never be
made to say that, it was by his father's bru
tality. But listen," he continued, as he
saw Doring was about to speak.
"When Charles was about the age of your
son William he was one of the most active
and intelligent boys I had ever seen. I was
fond of him, and especially of his physical
hqauty and progress. But unfortunately I
Wits cursed with an irritable and violent
temper, and was in the habit of punishing
my children under the influence of passion
aud vengeance, instead of from the dictates
of reason, duty, and enlightened affection.
I )ne day Charles offended me by some boy
ish and trifling misdemeanor, and I treated
him almost exactly as you treated your son a
few minutes ago. 1 struck him violently,
and he fell upon a pile of stones at his side,
and injured his left side so badly that the
result was he was crippled tor life," said
Mr. Ilanford, in tones of deepest sorrow
and remorse, and covering his face with his
hands.
A period of oppressive silence followed,
which was at last broken by Mr. Hanford
saving:
"When I fonnd that my boy did not rise
from the stones on which he had fallen, I
seized him by the arm and rudely pulled
him to his feet, and was about to strike him
again, when something that I saw in his
face, in his look, arrested my arm, and I
asked him if he was hurt."
"l am afraid that I am, pa," he mildly
answered, clinging to my arm for support.
"Where?" I asked in great alarm, for
notwithstanding iny brutality, I fairly idoli
zed the boy.
"Here, " he replied, laying his hand upon
his hip.
"In silence I took him in my anns and
carried liirn to the bed, from which bo never
arose the same bright, active, glorious Hov
that I had so cruelly struck down on that
lile of stones. But after many months he
came forth, a pale, saddened little fellow,
hobbling on a crutch !"
Here Mr. Hanford broke down and wept
like a child, and the tears also rolled down
Doring's cheeks. When he resumed, Mr.
Hanford said :
"This is a humiliating narrative, neigh
bor Doring. aud I would not have related it
to you had 1 not supposed that you needed
the lesson which it contains. It is impossi
ble for me to give you an adequate notion
of the suffering that 1 have undergone on
account of my brutal rashness to 1113' boy.
But fortunately it has been overruled to my
good, and to that of my family also. The
remedy, though terrible, was complete, and
I no other child of mine has ever been puu
' ishedby me except when I was in the full
possession and exercise of my best faculties,
and when uiy sense of duty has been chas
tened and softened by reason and affection.
T devoted myself to poor Charley from the
time he left his bed. and we came to under
stand one another as I think few fathers and
sons ever do. The poor boy never blamed
me/or blighting so much happiness lor him,
and 1 sometimes tried to think thai his life
had been made happier on the whole than
it would have been nad I not been taught
my duty through his sacrifice. Still, neigh
bor Doring, I should be sorry to have you
and your son William pass through a similar
ordeal.''
"I trust that we shall noty' emphatically
and gravely responded Doling. "I thank
you ibr your ntory, friend Ilanford, and I
shall try and profit by it."
And lie did profit by it, and we hope that
every parent who is capable of striking bis
child in anger or petulence, that reads this
sketch from life, will profit by it.
THE Krie Di*p<tck says there is a great
religious interest manifested throughout the
different cities, in that city meetings being
held nightly and largely attended.
Titk Plate Bank of Ohio is about being i
tf01)11(1 tip, ;ind bill holders are notified to i
present its note.- to any of its branches for t
lmiiiedtate redemption.
BFFIFORIX I'a.. FRII>AY, FEDHUAHYIfc), IHOU.
TO YOl NG IWEN.
Tin question if oßeu a-kedby the young
setting out in life, What shall I do? What
had I Better follow? What business shall I
pursue, and whore shall I locate? Most of
mankind are di—.atisfied with their own bus
iness, and with the course have pursued
atxj think they, would have done better at
something else; and therefore will seldom
recommend the joung to foljow the same
business they have. Or, it may be, they
experienced thediffioulties, atid see the hard
sin p| and obstacles to be overcome iu the
the track they have pursued, and are una
ble to see theau m a course of life which they
have uever followed or known.
It is quite certain that there are difficulties
in every business and in everytewalk of life
which thtt young and iuqxperwmced <m not
see, and arc never known until experienced.
Some have far greater difficulties in the same
class of business than others. Some have a
peculiar adaptedness jo their business, and
their success is natural; while others, by rea
son of their health, constitution, and train
ing, are not'Yt all adapted to their business;
and the sooner that class change their busi
ness the bettor for them. Some have not
the faculty nor energy to succeed at any
thing, and are usually contented that they
don't—because a man without energy is usu
ally contested as he is. But a large class
of young men are men of energy ana ability
casting about, und always on the alert, anx
ious to know what will turnup for thetn. It
is this class of young men to whom advice is
the most acceptable and valuable.
It is an erroneous idea that some kinds: of
business are very easy, while others are very
laborious. It is generally thought that if a
man can only he a professional man of some
kind—-a doctor, lawyer, or minister —his
labor will be light, and his life a happy one.
Young people often say to themselves: "Oh,
if I could only he a merchant or a business
man, how soon would I get rich." They
little know the mental care, anxiety, and
bodily labor they have to endure. The
young man who flatters himself with an ed
say life as a professional man, unless he has
fieculiar fitting qualiticatipnSi or an influence
iy reason of birth and position iu fife, , at
this day, will find himself badly deceived
when he comes to contend with the world
and earn bis livelihood. The young man
who thinks that studying his profession and
receiving his diploma are all that is required
to make him a lawyer, doctor, or minister,
and secure for him a living practice, is sadly
deceived. The young man who expects to
reap the golden fruits of his literary acquire
ments, as soon as he passes through college,
is sadly deceived.
The world commences to move with a
man when he enters the active arena and
bustle of business life. Till then the youth
takes no note of time. It conies and goes
without a perplexity, or a thought. But
when thrown into the great maelstrom of
human excitement caused by business: when
every hour and minute is counted, and each
brings duties and anxieties; when one care
passes but to make place for another; when
obstacles tower before >mu like mountains,
and difficulties sweep over you like waves,
then can a man realize what it is to live for
himself.
Many of the young often think that if
they could but choose a city life, where they
can see all the life and gayety of the world,
and attend all its pleasures aud vanities,
they would be perfectly happy. But, alas!
how many scores annually deceive them
selves by leaving comfortable homes and
good positions in the country to come to the
city to starve? Agriculture and manufac
tures, at the present time, have, and for
some years to come will, open the greatest
field for the capital, labor, enterprise, and
talent, of any other pursuit under heaven.
To-day, the wealth of our country is. fast
centering into those pursuits. Commerce
demands, and will demand, a large amount
of capital ami active enterprise. But she
must depend upon her more productive sis
ters, agriculture and manufacture, for all
she has or does. Aud it is, therefore, to
these two pursuits that the youth of our
land can most profitably direct their efforts.
Since the commencement of the war large
numbers have left professional and mercan
tile pursuits aud found profitable employ
ment iu that of manufacturing. And the
demand still continues. Articles of consump
t on, both grain, produce, aud wearing ap
parel, have become so siiaroe that it will be
years before the market will he again sup
plied. Let the youth of our land reap the
iienefit of the opportunities now offered
them.
New Proposed Reciprocity Treaty.
Copies of the preliminary report on the
treaty of reciprocity; with Great Britain to
regulate tho trade between the United States
and the provinces of British North America
prepared by G. H. Derby, at the request of
the Secretary of the Treasury, were, on the
20th. laid before the members of Congress,
lie appends the draft of a bill to extend the
present treaty for the further term of one
year from March 17th, 1866, on the condi
tions that Canada shall repeal all duties and
taxes on salt, cars, locomotives, vehicles of
all kinds, machinery, fusniture, tools, imple
ments, soap, starch, boots, shoes leather,
horse-shoes, and horse-shoe nails, harness,
tacks, brads, watches, music and musical in
struments, clocks, tin and wooden ware,
mousaline de luincs, coarse shawls, satinets
and sheetings and shirtings worth less than
one dollar per pound, and raise her in
ternal tax and duty on spirits to at least
seventyfive cents per gallon wine measure,
and discontinue her free ports on Lakes
Huron and Superior. The said treaty fur
extension shall also provide that the Uuited
States may impose any internal taxes on the
pronctions of the provinces which they levy
upon their own productions of the same kind
The President is authorized to appoint
two commissioners or envoys to negotiate a
treaty with the United Kingdom and the
provinces, either jointly or severally, to reg
ulate the commerce and navigation between
the respective Territories and people of said
province and the United States on terms
reciprocally beneficial.
It is to be made the duty of the commis
sioners to provide, if possible, for the per
manent security of the fisheries of the United
States, to receive the free interchange of the
chief products of ait and manufacture, as
well as the products of the forests and agri
culture and other product between the pro
vinces and the I i.iu:d States, and to secure,
if possible, the di.-eontinuanoe of any free
| ports that may endanger revenue aud the
assimilation of duties on articles taxed by
the two countries, aud the removal of all
charges for lights and compulsory pilotage,
and all discriminating tolls, and ail duties
for improved navigation between Lake
Michigan and the Mississippi, around the
I Falls of Niagara, aud between Lake Ontario
| Montreal aud Lake Champlain. All articles
| produced in any of the provinces which, un
1 der the provisions of the treaty for extension
j if made, shall be freely admitted into Cana
da IVom the United States; shall, during the
i year of extension, be freely admitted into the
United States from Canada, if produced in
that eouutry,
THE EARL I>F CHATHAM.
William Pitt, the political rival and oppo
nent of Sir Itobert Walpofe, was horn in
1708, aud was educated at Oxford. He en
tered Parliament in 1738, aivi won an.envia
ble reputation as a stern opponent to uncon
stitutional measures. He had a hitter po
litical warfare with Walpoie, hut on the
overthrow of that minister he was excluded
from the Newcastle Cabinet, by the personal
dislike of the king to the rising, popular
statesman, in 1746 he was appointed to a
subordinate position in Ireland, where he
added to his reputation. In 1751 he attacked
certain measures of the ministry, and was
dismissed by the king. But such was the
popular indignation at this act, that he was
restored with still higher honors. He at
oyoe assumed the management of the war
and of home afFhtrs.'and wndr-hh. oorgtk<
administration the nation was transported
with joy by a series of victories by sea and
land in every part of the world. Panada
was conquered, the West India Islands sub
jugated, the naval power of France was bro
ken by a succession of splendid victories,
and the power of England was advanced on
the continent of Europe.
When George the Second died, no man
in England occupied a higher position than
Chatham. He was the idol of the people,
and was known by the name of "the Great
Commoner."
On the accession of George the Third he
resigned in consequence of the refusal of the
ministry to engage in war with Spain, in an
ticipation of the junction of that country
with France. The war was continue I. how
ever, until 1703, when peace was proclaimed
Pitt maintained his popularity until he ac
cepted the title of Earl of Chatham, when
his influence declined. He assumed power
for a brief period in 1708, when he resigned.
He opposed the efforts of the ministry to tax
the Colonies, and took the part of the Ame
ricans -his last speech having been uttered
against it. He died in 1778. He was an
orator of surpassing eloquence, and a states
man of unblemished integrity. He extended
the power and possessions of England, and
if the American colonies were lost to the
Empire it was in consequence of the adop
tion pf a policy against which he protested to
the last.
William Pitt, the on of the Earl of Chat
ham, was horn in 17p9._ He manifested a
precocious genius, and wa< trained from
childhood by his father to be a politician.
Two years after his father's death he entered
Parliament, when only twenty-one years of
age, and a few months after made a speech
in favor of reform, which stamped him as
the foremost man of his time. He was the
only man in the House of Commons who
ventured to compete with Burke, Fox,
Sheridan, aud the givat orators of the Whig
party. Party. Panly from this eause. he
wa> appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer,
under the Shelbornc administration, when
only twenty three years of age. When Ix>rd
Shelhorne rcsignd, the House offered him
the Premiership, but lie prudently declined,
lie remained in opposition until 1783, when
he resuuimed office a- Chancellor of the Ex
chequer and First Lord of the Treasury.
No minister ever encountered greater diffi
culties. He had a forinidadble opposition
in Parliament, but ne finally overcame it,
and a dissolution of Parliament placed him,
at the age of twenty five years, in the first
place in the British Empire. He held this
position foe a period of twenty years, when
lie resigned in 1801, on aceouatof the king's
unalterable opposition to Catholic emanci
pation. Iu 1803, ho was recalled to power
in consequence of the renewal of the war
against h ranee. lie died in 1806, his
haughty spirit broke n by the military suc
cesses of Napoleon.
Pitt is described b> Macaulay as the grea
test master of Par ianientary Gvernuient
that ever lived, being superior to Walpoie,
his father, the Eari of Chatham, or Peel
and Canning; to this fact may be chiefly at
tributed his extraordinary retention of pow
er for so long a time. As a statesman, his
ability scarcely reaches liis Parliamentary
and oratorical fame, lie opposed the French
revolution and undertook to fight the battle
of legitimacy aud the divine right of kings.
ITis policy in this respect, has been reversed
b.v the recognition of the secoud empire of
Napoleon the Third. He added enormously
to the National debt of England, and was
unsuccessful in most ol his military plans,
which were baffled by the masterly genius
of Napoleon. His personal character, how
ever. was above suspicion, aud the man who
dispensed hundreds of millions of pounds
died poor. Pitt was uuable to discriminate
between the excesses and benefits of the
French revolution, ind was crushed by it,
his great enemy, Napoleon Bonaparte, only
falling when he proved uutrue to the princi
ples of which he was t;o long a representa
tive.
POSITION IN SLEEPING.
It is better to go to sleep on the right
side, for then the stomach is very much in
the position of a bottle turned upside down,
and the coutents of ii arc aided in pressing
out by gravitation. If one goes to sleep on
the left, the operation of emptying the stom
ach of its contents is more like drawing wa
ter from a well. After going to sleep, let
the body take its own position. Ifyoti sleep
on your back, especially soon after a hearty
meal, the weight of i he digestive organs and
that of the food, resting on the great vein of
the body, near the luok-bouc, compress it,
aud arrest the flow of the blood more or
less. If the arrest is partial, the sleep is
disturbed, and there are unpleasant dreams.
If the meal has been recent and hearty, the
arrest is more decided; and the various sen
sations, such as falling over a precipice, or
other impending danger, and the desperate
effort to get rid of it, arouse us, and send
on the stagnating blood; and we wake in a
bight, or trembling, or iu perspiration, or
feetiug exhaustion, according to the degree
of stagnation, and the length aud strength
of the efforts to escape the danger. But,
when we are notable escape the danger—
when we do fall over the precipice—when
the tumbling building crushes Us —what
then? That is death! That is the death of
those of whom it is said, when found lifeless
in the morning—"That they were as weil
as they ever were the day before; and ate
heartier than common?"
This last, as a frequent cause of death to
those who have gone to bed to wake no
more, we give merely as a private opinion.
The possibility of its truth U enough to de
ter any rational man from a late and hearty
meal. This wo do know, with ccrtanty. that
waking up in the night with painful diar
rhoea, or cholera, or pillions cholic, ending
in death in a very s uirt time, is properly
traceable to late larg meals. Tho truly wise
will take the safe side. For persons Jto eat
three tim js a day; it is amply sufficient to
make the last meal o eold bread and butter,
and a cup of some warm, drink. No one
can staive on it; wilfle i perseverance in
the habit soon begets a vigorous appetite rot
breakfast, so promising of a day of comfort.
—llalTs Journal of Health.
What proof is there in the Bible that
Pharaoh was a carpenter? He made Joseph
a ruler.
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VOLUME 39: Ml 1.
HOW TAHIFFS BLESS FARMERS.
V ill not American farmers give earnest
heed to the following facts and figures,
showing fJiei)- interest in maintaining such
a Tariff on Foreign manufactures as will
build u j> and secure to them a profitable and
enduring borne market ?
The Guiiibria tl'enusyivania ITOD Works
paid in three year.-., for .-salaries, wages ami
contract work, as follows :
1,-C0.......5907,05W 01
1864 1 ,3<J9,K9> 82
18t>5."..i - *i. IjirSt'ibO 24
1 bese ugutQa are takeu from the returns
miple to the Interna! Revenue Commission
ers. Nearly every dollar of those three
immense sums was expended for the sup
port of single luboreis and laborers with
familiar hy w . large a. JBPJtioir of the
money went directly to farmeis. Tlie su
perintendent of the Works, in his reply to
the interrogatories of the Commissioners,
says: "The population sustained by the
operations of our company, consume annu
ally about 2.060 head of nee# cattle, 3,000
head of sheep, and the product of not less
than 4jooo head of hogs. Our whole con
sumption of wheat tiour is about 20,000
barrels. Johnstown is one of the best
markets in the country for all kinds of food.
Large quantities of the more perishable
kinds, such as garden vegetables, butter,
eggs, fruits, Arc., are brought from Pitts
burgh and other Western markets: as the
production of the surrounding country is
unable to supply our demand.'
No wonder is it that fanning land with
in two tniles of the Cambria Iron Works is
worth from $l5O to S3OO per aero, without
improvements! And yet this same land,
if the Works were wiped out by British
Free Trade, would not be worth a cent more
than the average value of similar Pennsyl
vania land for agricultural purposes, which
is S2O per acre. Such is the testimony of
one of the most intelligent men in Pennsyl
vania, whose character will give credit to
his statements wherever he is known. He
also bears witness to the fact, which true
economists would anticipate —that the di
rect influence of the Works, in making a
quick and profitable market for farm pro
ducts, and enhancing the value of the soil,
is felt for fifty miles all around Johnstown !
What a volume of teaching, farmers,
there is in _ these figures and facts! The
benificent influence of the Cambria Iron
Works is, to a greater or less degree, the j
influence of every one of the 730 iron-pro-1
during establishments now struggling for
life in the United States. Each and all are
convenient markets for th sale, at constant
ly augmenting prices, of every product of
the soil, and in which the capital invested
in the tarm doubles, trebles, and quadruples
by a silent growth that is sure, and yet taxes
not the farmer's care nor his toil. Agricul
turalists ! there is no other class of men in
this country so directly or so largely inter
ested in maintaining the life and increasing
the prosperity of our iron works as you are.
And you should feel that the British impor
ters and their purchased journalists, who
labor to destroy American Domestic Trade
and enthrone British Free Trade ou its
ruins, and who seek to drive you from your
near and profitable Home Market to the far
off and almost worthless foreign market, are
your deadliest enemies, who insult your
understandings with their sophistry, while
they plan your ruin with their selfishness.—
Exchange.
PROF. HENRY D. ROGERS.
The survey of the mineral resources of
Pennsylvania, made by authority of the
Government thereof, by Heury Darwin Rog
ers, was the first in extent, accuracy and lib
erality ever made by similai authority of any
of the States of the Union. The report of
Mr. Rogers' survey was so voluminous in its
maps and illustrations ofmiueral veins, that
at the time its MSS was made ready for pub
lication, it was impossible to induce any
American map maker or lithograph printer
to undertake the execution of the work. Mr.
Rogers was consequently compelled to go a
broad, with the sanction of the State author
ities, to have his report printed. He went
to Scotland and contracted with the world
renowned publishers, the "BLACKWOODS"
of Edinburgh, by whom the first complete
and accurate Geological Survey of an Amer
ican State was printed. But what Scotch
mechanics gained in reputation by this
achievement, American scientific knowledge
accomplished in another way, for the fame
which Mr. Rogers' work gained him as a
scholar so attracted the attention of men of
letters in Great Britain, that Queen Victoria
was induced to confer on him an • appoint
ment as Professor of Geology in one of the
leading colleges of Scotland, as being the
first American citizen, and a Pennsylvanian,
who ever secured such a recognition from a
European sovereign. Afb-r an absence of
many years from his native country. Prof.
Rogers returns full of coming back
at a period, too. when the mineral develop
ments of our great State are about realizing
the brilliant statements with which his re
port of a survey of those fields abound* It
is expected that Prof. Rogers will be in this
city during the preseut week, for the pur
pose of consulting with the Legislature on
a proposition to dispose of an edition of his
work, the same to be distributed for deposit
in the different libraries of the Common
wealth. — llarridjurg Telegraph.
EATEftT FROM WASHINGTON.
Peace Proclamation to be Issued—
Night Session of Congress a Fnilnre.
Washington, January 31.—1t is expec
ted that President Johnson will soon issue a
peace proclamation setting forth formally
that peace exists throughout all the States
and '1 erritories of the UnioD, and that they
are in loyal relation to the genernl govcrn-
Genenri Grant denies the report that he is
going to Europe. lie says if he goes at all
it will not be for two vears yet, or until har
mony and complete Vnion is restored be
tween all the States and the general govern
ment.
The effort to hold a night session of the
House last night, was a failure, only five
members being present. There is too much
gaiety and fashionable life'at the Capitol just
now to induce members to sit in the hall of
the House of Representatives at night.
Senator Cowan made a long speech yester
day against Mr. Trumbull' * bill to secure all
persona in their civil rights, &c., and to fur
nish vindication of thein. This bill is inten
ded to accompany the one just passed the
Senate to enlarge the powers of theFreed
men's Bureau. Mr. Cowan is among the
most conservative of conservative Republi
: cans on all questions of the day.
The report of the Commission to revise the
, system of Internal Revenue, which has just
I been laid before Congress, meets with gene
| ral favor, and will prohabiy be adopted in
(dace ot the present incomplete and unpopti
ar system. t
To some men it is indispensable to be
worth money, for without it they would be
worth nothing. n® s -.; i
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WHAT IS GOSSIP?
We are often asked, "What is gossip?''
We answer, in a general way, that it is talk
ing of persons rsxher than of things. Notb
iu£ shows the paucity of idea* more than
this talking about the affairs of your neigh
-1 bore. It is not only malicious people who
t originate scandal; it is nanow-minded peo
ple, ignorant people, stupid people, per
sons of culture and intelligence are not so
hard run for topics of conversation. 'Phey
can usually find something to ssyr about art,
i literature, fashion, or society. The moment
people begin to talk of their neighbors—of
persons rather than of things, they are apt
to degenerate into scandal: for where one
speaks of the virtue* of an acquaintance, a
dozen expatiate on his or her shortcoming*.
And this brings us to apeak of real culture,
or what we consider to ue sueh, at least. A
cultivated person, in the highest sense of the
term, is not merely one who can talk of books
pictures, and other elevated subjects of hu
man interest. To be thoroughly cultivated,
the heart, as well as the intellect. Should be
refined and enlarged. Sometimes we see
women who, without education, yet having
been born amiable, are never guilty of gos
sip. Again we see women, not naturally
amiable, whom education has taught to talk
of things, not of persons. The perfect wo
man, in this respect, is one whois both ami
able and educated. But education does not
alwavs elevate people above the regions of
gpssip. A ready bad heart is always mali
cious. The best advice we can give is the
homely old adage,.'"Mind your own busi
ness. ' Very few of us ever know the whole
truth about anything conccrning a neighbor,
and to speak of his, or her conduct, is usu
ally to run the risk of being unjut. Much
less should we talk of the motives of others.
Very few of us know our motives, and to
! venture on discussing a neighbor's motives
i is always impertinence, . and often a real
crime.
A New Plague in Germany.
The Avenif National, a Paris journal,
publishes a letter from D.. Karl Stein, of
Frankfort, dated the Cth ult., which contains
an account of the new nlague which is com
mitting such havoc in Germany: The little
town of Edersleban, in the environs of
Magdeburg, which is usually so smiling and
happy is new filled with mourning and deso
lation. For a whole month past death has
reigned there. A fearful death after unex
ampled sufferings, and those that are ac
quainted with the nature of their disease,
know that they are being eaten up alive by
a legion of worms hardly so thick as a human
hair, that have worked their way into the
tissues of their flesh, their muscles and their
nerves. Is not such a fate horrible to dwell
upon? On the 9th of last month upwards
of one hundred children—for they appear to
enjoy an immunity—had been deprived of
their parents. There was hardly a bouse in
the village that did not number a victim.
At that date upwards of three hundred pa
tients were awaiting death, which they knew
to be inevitable —a prey to fearful sufferings.
From seventy to eighty of the inhabitants,
who at the outset of the eoidemic had felt
unwell, had taken to flight to escape from
what they considered to be the cholera; but
they had fallen down on the roads, and died
without relief; their corpse alone were picked
up. The epidemic was caused by the rava
ges of the worm called trichine, whence the
epidemic has received the name of "trichi
nosis' ' The trichine is one of the entozoa
of the pig, and it is capable of being trans
planted into and thriving in -the human body
In Germany, pork flesh, imperfectly cured
and smoked in the shape of ham and Ger
man sausage, is a staple article of food, and
from the human stomach, where they pene
trate with the ham and sauclison, dear to
German palates, the larvse of these entozoa
pass into the blood, their size being so mie
roscropic as to enable thein to penetrate even
into the minutest veins; they lodge in the
muscular aud cellular tigsues,. and feed upon
those parts of the human organization, caus
ing fearful agony and great constitutional
disturbance, which ends in death. No cure
h<is been as yet discovered, but the preven
tative process is obvious.
CHEAPNESS OF AMERICAN PAPERS.—The
New York Citizen says that those who grum
ble at paying four cents for daily and ten
cents for weekly pape; a here, would do well
to notice what European papers cost. The
London Times cost $45 a vear. The Morn
ing Chronicle. Daily News, Globe, Herald
and Post , charge the same rate. The Lon
don Evening Mail is published three times
a week at $25 a year. The London semi
weeklies, sl2. The French daily papers,
large ones, are ahout the same price as the
London prints. Those about the size of
ours cost from S2O to $25 a year. The Ger
man papers cost $22 to $36 a year. The
cost of paper and composition, aud iudeei
everything connected with the make up of a
paper, is much less in Europe than in this
country, so the American journals are even
cheaper than would appear from the dis
parity of prices.
The Veuango oil regions have just been
visited by two terribly destructive conflagra
tions. At an early hour on Thursday morn
ing, Ist inst, a fire broke out in the business
centre of the town of Franklin, and before
the flames could be subdued twenty four of
the fines buildings in the place valued at
half a million were destroyed.—The fire
originated in a brothel. On the day pre
vious a spark from a locomotive communi
cated file to au oil well on Bennehoff Run.
from which seven other wells have caught
fire, and all are still burning. The wells
were all flowing ones, and the total loss is
estimated at SIOO,OOO.
A LITTLE girl was reproved for playing out*
doors with boys, and informed that, being
seven years old. she was "too big for that
now." But with all imaginable innocence
she replied. ''Why grandma, the bigger we
grow the better we like 'em." Grandma
took time to think. ,
"WELL Bridget, if I engage you I shall
want you to stay at home whenever I shall
wish to go out ."
"Well, ma'am, I have no objections pro
vided you do the same when I wish to go
out
"MADAM, your boy cannot pass at half fare
he is too large," said the conductor of a rail
way train, which had been long detained on
the road by the snow.
He may be too large now, replied the ma
tron, but he was small enough when wa star
ted. The Conductor gave in and the boy
passed for half' fare. 65 "
"Sambo, what's yer up to now-a-days?"
"O, I'ee a carpenter and jinex."
"Ah! I guess yer is. What department,
do you perform, Sain bo?"
"What department? I does de eireqlat
work." A
"What's dm?-'
"Whv, Itu us de gi iqdstone.' l