§J* gelforil Jfnijnim is PUBLISH® R> KVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY J. R. DCRB9RROW AMD JSitX LITZ, OS ' f JULIANA St., opposite the Mengel House BEDFORD, PENN'A. TERMS: 82.00 a year it' paid strictly in advance. If not paid within six months 82.30. If nut paid within the year 83.00. ATTORNEYS AT LAwT J OHN T. KEAGY. ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PEXS'A., Offers to give satisfaction to all who may en trust their legal business to him. Will collect moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid ows or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph office. aprll:'66-Iy. Jll. CESSNA, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Julianna street, in the office formerly occupied by King & Jordan, and recently by Filler A Keagy. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 3,1805. J ' It'lt. SHATIT'E - B. r. KESR LIAKPE A KERR, A TTOUXE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Schcil, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf JOHN PALMER, " Attorney at Law, Bedford, Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. iSsSL Particular attention paid to the collection of-Military claims. Office on Julianna at., nearly opposite the Mengel House.) june 23, '65.1y J. R. DCRBORROW JOHN LLITZ. DURBORROW A LUTZ, ATTOHJVJE YS AT Ut W, BEBFORD, 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 tho prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the 'Mengel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer office. April 28, 1805:t E~SPTm7 ALSiP, [ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfnlly 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. apll, 1864.—tf. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., an Juliana street, two doors South of the "Metigle House." Dec. 9, 1864-tf. KIMMELL AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mengel House, aprl, 1864—tf. JOHN MOWER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. April 1, 1864.—tf. I>E^"TSSTf4. C. . HICKOK J. c. KI.N'NICn, Jit. DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office in the Bunk Building. Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per formed and warranted. TERMS CASH. jan6'6s-ly. DENTISTRY. I. N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DENTIST, WOOD BKRBY, Pa., visits Bloody Run three days of each month, commencing with the second Tuesday of the mouth. Prepared to perform all Dental oper ations with which he may he favored. Term* within the reach of all and strict!;/ cash except by special contract. Work to he sent by mail oroth wise, uinst be paid for when impressions are taken. attgs, *G4:tf. PIIISICIIXS. T\TM. W. JAMISON, M. D., \Y BLOODY RUN, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [decSrlyr P. 11. PENNSYL, M. 1)., (late Surgeon 56th P. V. V.) BLOODY Res, PA., Offers his professional services as Physician and Surgeon to the citizens of Bloody Run and vicin ity. Ueclilyr* DR. 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 formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Ilofius. April 1,1864—ti. I E. MARBOURG, M. D., . Having permanently located respectfully lenders his pofessional services to tho citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—-tf. HOTELS. BEDFORD HOUSE, AT HOPEWELL, BEDFOHD COCSTY, PA., BY HARRY DROLLINGER. Every attention given to make guests comfortable, who stop at this House. Hopewell, July 29, 1864. BA AKEISS. 6. V. BI'PP O. E. SHANNON F. BENEDICT RCPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, BEDFOHD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North and Scuth, and the general bnsiness of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Ken. it tan eet promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. apr.15,'61-tf. ,?EWKL!IB, AT. ABSALOM GARLICS, Clock & Watchmaker and Jeweller, BLOOEY Run, I'A. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted to give satisfaction. Ho also keeps on hand and for sale W A TOM ES, C/.OCK.S, and ./ EWE Lit Y. . Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. my 4 JOHN REIMUND, G CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER, in the United States Telcpraph Office, BEDFORD, PA. < locks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry promptly repaired. All work entrusted to his care warranted to give entire satisfaction. [nov3-lyr TVANIEL BORDER, J I'ITT STREET, TWO DOOP.O WF.ST OF THE DED t'ORD HOTEL, BF.BFORD, I'A. TITIMAKEK AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keep* on hand stock of fine Gold and Sil- IV Spectacles of Brilliant Donblo Refin- Olat c-. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold ' 1 \ m f', ® reaßt ! ' in - Finger Kings, beet ar> ,vi (, <MPens. lie wiil supply tu order atl J thing in his line not on hand *Pr- 28, 1865—zz. JOB WORK exezuted CHEAP in PLA* and *Ascr colors at the "Inquirer Office' DIRBORROW & LITZ Editors and Proprietors. lUP'oj§ BRIEF. Infancy! ablushing spring, Violet-strewn and blossoming; April's sunshine, April's rain, April ne'er to come agaiu. Boyhood ! sun kiss'd summer hours, Fragrant with a thousand flowers, Smiling 'ucath a tearless sky, Chasing life's bright butterfly, Manhood ! in autumnal suit, Rich in russet golden fruit, God-stamped, noble, tender, true, Harvest of th' preceding two. Agcf a silvery winter scene, Blessing joy-dreams that have been, White with hoar-frost, angel given, Last and nearest step to heaven ! SOON WE'LL REST. BY BELL CLINTON. A little time—and we shall rest From all tho ills of life; A little time—and then will cease Its joys, its cares, its strife. Each heart's wild throbbing will be still, Its restless longings cease; Who'll weep that we arc sleeping thus, 'Neath the green sod in peace ? Oh ! should there be one loving heart Thus kindly beat for me— Refreshing with a silent tear The flowers of memory— I'll bend me from my home oflight, If such to me is given, And be that spirit's guiding star, To bring it up to Heaven. —Rural Xete Yorker. PiSffllmvou?. DEMOCRACY vs. AMERICAN INDUS TRY. The Democratic party having joined it self in copartnership with the British agents who desire to destroy our manufacturers, put no limit to their low subserviency to the foreign intcrc-t. What, for instance, can be mrre perverse or absurd than some of their complaints against American mill owners or miners ? Because of a vacilla ting policy on the part of our national gov ernment, our manufacturers have Leon in a measure discouraged in their erection of establishments adequate to the full supply of staple fabrics; and, of course, when a sudden demand arises, such as on the occur rence of a sudden peace has lately happen ed. prices advance proportionately to the exigencies of the moment. It is an invari able law of trade, in all times and places, affecting all kinds of commodities, and.ap plying equally to foreign iabrics as to our own.. And yet the rabid Democrat, whose spir it is peculiarly directly aeainst his own coun trymen, can see matter of offence against our manufacturers in those mutations of prices which are always occurring even in tranquil times to some extent, and which could not fail to mark with more intensity the quick subsidence of our civil war. To such an extreme is carried this malignant feeling towards anything American, that even the elemental changes are made a grievance for which our miners and woolen manufacturers are in some sort responsible. The chief organ of the Democrats refers to the recent cold term as a matter of felicita tion to Americans who mine coal or make cloth, and whioac in a maudlin way over an anticipated rise of prices, which, after all, is far from being a certain result from such a partial cause. It would hardly be more irrational, though somewhat more impious, to arraign Providence itself for the change of weather which so moves these political philosophers. Our Pennsylvania coal miners seem espe cial objects of these illiberal remarks, sim ply because, after much depression and ma ny ruinous losses, their business is at pres ent reasonably profitable. We should all rejoice that this is so, if not on their ac count, at least on our own. What inesti mable advantages have redounded to the nation, and to each individual- of all who dwell within it, from this abundant supply of fuel, extracted from our mountains by costly shafts and steam engines, and borne over our extensive railways to every part of the country. The stimulus thereby afforded to manufactures, and even the incidental benefits to agriculture in the preservation of its wood lands, or their devotion to arable uses, is almost inconceivable. From no for eign source, such as would delight a Demo crat to draw them, could come such vast supplies of coal. Britain would be prema turely exhausted in the vain attempt, nor could all her commercial marine convey the enormous tonnage to our shores. How much better is it to hold in our hands this invaluable source of wealth and strength. Chiefly through its means have we advanced in the last decade with an ac celerated pace to private and public pros perity. By its powerful agency were we enabled to crush out the giant conspiracy— for who can doubt that had the coal of Pennsylvania been wanting, the blockade of Southern ports would have been a nulli ty, and that the supplies from Europe would have doubly strengthened the rebels? Equally did the great manufacturing es tablishments of New England add force to the national arm in the great conflict. Clothing lor our armies, small-arms in large quantities, and tho numerous other articles of military equipment, all camo forth in the quickest possible time from the Yankee fac tories, and gave us a decided advantage over the ill provided south. Her politicians had persuaded their people tliat our work shops should be iu Europe—and in their re cent experience they have had an opportu nity of testing the wisdom of such coun sel. But we fear that the moral regeneration of our copperheads must advance much fur ther, ere they can forgive either Pennsylva nia or iSew England for their part in the recent war. Even though the well-being of the whole country is bound us with that ol thrifty factories and mines, still the copper head would like to crush them, because they hit his favorite rebellion such damaging blows, lie warms his shins by an anthra cite tire, and runs the steam engine which propels his printing press by means of the same fuel, and yet, like an ingrate, stupid as well as uiuiicious, he would discourage the opening of new mines by introducing coal trom .Newcastle, if that were possible. 11 ad not the owners of coal property in Pennsylvania expended many million dollars in developing these mineral treasures, the copperheads, as well as the rest of us, would have shivered before insignificant wood fires at a cost of twenty dollars per cord, and the printing press, in all probability, would still have bevtt ui a primitive formation. A LOOAL ANP GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. One would think that even the most rabid Ioliticiau might be mollified toward the in terests which benefit him as well as others. The factories of New England, under the tariff of 1842. reduced the price of cotton cloths from 18 to 10 cents per square yard. Their competition hcraafter will continually tend to similar results, and when many competing factories shall ri e up all over the country, as the protectionists so ardent ly desire, we shall have our staple manufac tures at the lowest possible prices consistent with the pressure of internal taxes. Let our copperheads rest content. Now Eng land and Pennsylvania did their best to put down the great rebellion, because it was a wicked and monstrous thing threatening evil and evil only, to all the dwellers in this land, including even the rebels themselves. The national cause has gloriously triumph ed, and so, we doubt not, will that other great cause, that of our national industry, seeing that the enemies of both are the same, and recent defeat has weakened their ability to do mischief.— North American.. TIIE IMPUDENCE OF RETURNED REBELS. Governor Brownlow, in a vigorous and powerful speech at Knoxville a few days ago said : The leading traitors of the South have already been pardoned and turned loose up on the country, to get up Ilebel meetings and make Rebel speeches, and to exert a bad influence. As a general thing, these pardoned Rebels have displayed no gratitude or generosity. They are arrogant insulting and intolerant. Had they becom ing modesty and a commendable diffidence, they would take back seats in the great ed ifice of reconstruction, and not rush with hot haste to control the State and nation. But they thrust themselves into places they have no constitutional right to fill, and grasp with greedy hand at every light aud hi<jh office made vacant in the country. Now this is severe language, but the Lou isville Journal, a conservative organ, an ar dent supporter of the President's restora tion roucy, fully sustains every word of it. We extract from a leading editorial in that paper of the 2d instant: "But it cannot be denied that there is danger of the exercise of a malign influence upon these masses; however good their in tentions may have been or may still be, by their leaders, the busy and pestilent and unscrupuloue spirits that are determined to control them for evil and only evil. These Rebel leaders, the getters-up of the Con vention, are not satisfied that they and their rank and file should be upon a mere equali ty with citizens who remained loyal and op nosed the rebellion. Their ideas soar far higher than that. They arrogate for them selves and all engaged in the rebellion great and peculiar honor. They talk, through their organs, about the meed of glory that is awarded to the Rebels by tbe present gen eration, and will be awarded to them by posterity. They tell us about the unright eousness and guilt of the war on the Feder al side. They speak of the operations of the Federal armies with illdisguiscd or undisguised rage and ferocity. They have all words of praise for the Rebel officers and soldiers. They still appear to think, some of them at least, that tne Rebels can whip and did whip five to one. They undoubt edly think that the time is at hand when a badge worn upon the shoulder or bosom, importing that the wearer fought in the re bellion, will be as enviable a distinction as the cross of the old French Legion of Hon or. They are not repentant but exultant, defiant, proud, haughty, domineering, inso lent, and presumptous. They think to car ry their heads as high as the clouds. Nay, likeSejanus, they expect at each advanced step to "knock out a star in heaven." They have got a great lesson to learn, but a mighty schoolmaster is aboard. PERSONNEL OF THE NEW YORK PRESS The New York Citizen gives the following information respecting the principal papers of that city. "Bennett is sole owner of the Herald. The Tribune is owned by stockholders, of which Dr. James C. Ayer, of Lowell, is the heaviest. Samuel Sinclair, the publisher, is also one of the largest owners while Ste phen T. Clark, the writer of the money articles, and Horace Greeley, are interested to a large amount. The capital stock is SBOO,OOO. The organization of the Tribune's editorial staff is as follows: The editor in chief is Horace Greeley; Sidney Howard Gay is the managing editor —the executive head of the concern. Cool, able, courteous and energetic, he has not his equal in the State. Roderick Crane is the news editor J. H. Hasser, the night editor, I. N. Browne, the city editor. The financial de partment is under the charge ofS. T. Clarke one of the ablest financiers. Solon Robinson edits the department of agriculture. Geo. Ripley, at cne time one of the most eloquent preachers in Boston is the literary editor. William Winter is the theological, Ilenry C. Watson, the musical, and Clarence Cook, the art editor. The corps of editorial writers embraces such names as Cougdon, Smalley, Young and Wilkinson. A. J. Cummings edits the weekly. Myron Fox reads all copy to prevent a repetition in the paper; and 1). K. O'Donnell keeps the index. In addition the Tril/une has a corps of fifteen reporters, second to none in tho land. These are de tailed for special duty on the police at fires, on the dry goods market, in the Courts, or at Brooklyn, at Jersey City, and all along shore. The principal owners of the Times are Leonard W. Jerome, James B. Taylor, Henry J. Raymond, George Jones, the pub lisher, and Christopher Morgan, of Metho dist fame, During Mr. Raymond's absence F. J. Otterson, formerly of the Tribune, is the managing editor, as he is a writer of superior abilities. The World is conducted by Manton Marble, and he is the largest owner of the concern. * Of the j ounger journalists of New York there arc several of great promise; among them Thomas A. Kennett, of the World, Daniel K. O'Don nell, of the Tribune, and Agustus Maverick, of the Evening Post. The best editorial writers, and each inimitablo in his way, are George Wilkes, ol' the Spirit of the Times, Sidney Howard Gay and Charles T. Cong don, of the Tribune , William H. Ifurlburt, of the World, and Charles Nordhoff, of tho Evening Post. The best American political statistician living, connected with the press, is probably Horace Greeley; and the next best is Franklin J. Otterson, managing edi tor of the Times, though Thomas G. Shear man, a lawyer, is a perfect cycopledia of political knowledge and is a very useful man for more than one newspaper establishment. The Ration has a subscription of over seven thousand, while the Round Table is holding its own in spite of the bitter criticisms it gives and receives. The Independent rolls up the overwhelming list of CO/WO subscri bers, and the number is daily increasing." A young lady rebuked by her mother for kissing her lover, justified the act bv quotiug tle passage—"Whatever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so uuto tfaeui.'* BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. MAY 11, 1866. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SCIENCE. One of the most eloquent men in France is M. Dumas, senator, member of the Insti tute, ex-Minister of Instruction, Professor at the Sorbonne and College de France. When he rises to address an audienee there is a thrill of expectation, and a hushed anxiety to cat eh the words that are to fall from his lips. He has an entire and thorough command of the niceties of the French lan guage, and added to this a marvellous famil larty with the giowth and present standpoint of science. Recently, at the distribution of prizes awarded by the Polytechnic Associa tion of Paris, M. Dumas gave a sketch of the condition of scientific knowledge a hun dred years ago, and compared it with the progress of the present day We translate a part of his address; "1765, the employment of the forces of nature was limited to two motors, wind mills and water mills. Ifeat had not been convex ted into a universal mechanical power, the steam engine was unkown. The sun marked by its daily returns the hours in the life of man, but Niepce and Daguerre had not made use of its light as the docile in strument of art; photography had not yet entered into the imagination of man. "Electricity had neither given us the Voltaic pile, which decomposes the most obstinate compounds, nor the galvanoplastic art, which plates the mentals without the aid of fire, nor the electric light, nor the elec tic telegraph, one of the marvels of modern times, due to the genius of Ampere: nor the formiable Ruhmkorff coil, the rival of gun powder and the just object of highest reward. Chemistry had no existence. Lavoister had not yet immortalized his name by those dis coveries which explain the reciprocal rela tions of matter composing the surface of the earth with the same clearness that New ton's laws afford the key to the movements of the stars which adorn the heavens. Earth, air and water had not been decom posed ; the nature of the metals and that of carbon was unknown ; the acids, alkalis and salts, now employed in so many arts, then only offered onscure problems; the cause of combustion was ignored; the existence of gas, distinct from atmospheric air, had not been determined ; the proximate principles of plants and animals had not been defined; their respiration was a mystery, their nu trition an enigma; agriculture was a blind and devastating practice, running in turn the different countries of the globe, and not permitting to any people to fix itself in per manence on any spot. "The movements, the changes and the transformation which affect the material of the surface of the globe and metamorphose it according to times and places, had no signification for our ancestors. The circuit always in action, which nourishes the plant at the expense of the soil, the animal at the expense of the plant, and which returns to the soil through the animal that which it has lost; those harmonies of nature which our commonest farmer now understands, did not enter into the imagination .of the profoundest philosopher a century ago. "Geology was only inspired romance: the crust of the earth has not been explor ed; the history of its formation has not yet been written ; it was then unknown that in the fossil remains of a rock is contained the infallible story of its origin ; that in the history of the development of the globe is revealed the relative ages of the mountains and the clew to_the former condition of the Alps and Pyrenees and of their rival chains. Thousands of plants had been collected and named, but Jussieti bad not yet classified them into natural families ; Cuvier had not applied the same laws to the animal king dom. One could not then embrace in one view the ensemble of nature, from the ephemeral lichen which, at the summit of the Alps or on the confiues of the pole, mark the last palpitations of life, up to the giants of the tropical forests, whose exist ence dates beyond historic times; from the equivocal microscopic productions, the last argument of the partisans of spontaneous generation, up to man created in the image of God. One could not, thus guided by Cuvier or Brogniart, mount from age to age, reconstructing in their forms, their as pect, and even their habitations, the ani mals and plants which have preceded the advent of man upon earth, and which con duct us through epo:h on epoch, back to the moment when life first manifested itself upon our globe. "To-day man has acquired the right to say: "Matter, and the forces which it obeys, contain no secrets which I do not know, or shall not be able at some future period to discover; the history of the earth has no longer asy mystery for me; I am present at its earliest ages; 1 reconstruct the beings whom it has nourished ; I know the precise date of the tranformations upon its surf ace. "My eye penetrates the profundity of space ; I assign to each star its place in the orbit in which it must move; I weigh the sun; 1 analyze the substance of which it is composed, as if it could be placed in my crucible, and I can say of what elements the stars consist which decorate the vaults of heaven, even those the light from which requires ages to travel to the focus where the observer performs their dissection upon our earth; I play with the forces of nature; I transform the light into beat, the heat into light, electricity into magnetism, mag netism into electricity, and all of these forms of activity into mechanical power; I convert one compouud into another; I imi tate all the processes of nature dead, and the majority of those of nature living; I render at will the earth fruitful or sterile ; I give to it or I take from it the power to nourish the plant. Life is an open book, where, from the embryo egg to the death of the animal, I read without obscurity the role of the blood which circulates; that of the heart which beats, and of the lungs which respire; that of the muscles which obey; of tho nerves which convey the or der ;of the brain which commands; of the stomach which digests; of the chyle which regenerates. In fine, I apply to my use all or the forces and all of the gifts of nature." "This sketch by a master-hand reveals to us the extraordinary progress of science du ring a hundred years, and shows how quiet ly we appropriate each addition to our knowledge, without, taking into account the long years of toil which must have preceded its full development. If the next hundred years should show equal results, it is impos sible to predict what limit shall be set to the progress of the world. NICELY CAUGHT. —Some Fenians in Now York were trying to coax two green Irish servant girls to invest" their hard earn ings in their "bonds,' and stated as an in ducement that "all the Irish girls in the n< xt house had taken some. "Ah ! go'way wid yes," was the sharp reply, "the Irish girls in the next house are ali n Offers. The swindling scamps wheeled and left at short order. Whenever you take a drink, be sure vou keep yaur nose above water. "A STATESMAN WANTED." A popular and widely disseminated misap prehension fixes the Golden Age of the Hu man Kaee iu the dim obscurity of high an tiquity. People turn, almost as by instinct, to the Past, and bow reverently to impaia ble shadows, believing them to be veritable giants, not only in physical stature, but in intellectual endowments and the graces of moral perfection.—Critical explorations dis pel these illusions. The present age is, in every particular, the best and wisest the sun ever shone upon. As the careful histo rian travels buck into tho Past, he feels he is receding into mental and moral darkness, until at last ho finds himself surrounded by "gorgons and chimeras dive." It is part and parcel of this fallacy which leads many men i.i this country to look back to the era of the Revolution as furnishing the highest known examples of patriotic .devotion, of sagacious statesmanship, of le gal erudition, and of transparent unselfish ness, Nothing serves better to correct these erroneous estimates than to go back to the old documents and newspapers and learn how these men estimated each other. Jefferson while holding the highest place in the Cabinet of Washington, allow ed himself to speak and write of that Pres ident with more freedom and severity than Wade or Slerens have exercised towards the President. His incriminations of Wash ington, though not precisely of the same kind, were as fierce as any the radicals have indulged towards the present incumbent of the presidential chair. Nor did Jefferson get off on easier terms. He was accused of almost everything except being a christian and a decent man. Franklin shared the same fate ; and, indeed, if any body will take the pains to look over the manuscripts in the Franklin Library in Philadelphia, he will doubtless be convinced that however collossal and beauteous the figure of the re nowned philosopher may have b"en. it was part clay as well as part gold. Nor are these exceptional cases. The men of 1776, as a body, were neither wiser nor truer than the men of 1866. The statesman who pi loted the United States through the perils of the rebellion, surmounting dangers at home and avoiding difficulties abroad, are the peers of any equal number ever vouch safed to any nation, in one era, in the whole tide of time. The Generals who led the armies of the Union, if possibl surpassed by three or four grand and solitary exam ples, standing as monuments along the shores of history, are not overtopped, if equalled by any cluster of heroes adorning any age or country. Even these immortal lieutenants who gave lustre to the camp and court of the great Napoleon are here over matched. Only a great people could breed such men. And hence that marvellous spectacle, at which the world stood aston ished, when the loyal people of the United States, unheeding all the suggestions of ti midity, all thecounsclsof selfishness, all the promptings of a narrow prudence, laid their properties and their bodies on the altar of sacrifice. Tim each of the members ot' the present Congress is pre-eminent for wisdom, and patriotism, no one pretends. But that de liberative assemblies, of equal numbers, in any country or age, ever combined more of those qualities, we do not believe. When the passions engendered by present conflicts shall have passed away ; when all false weights shall have been excluded from the scales on which events now current must be weighed ; when the questions which now agitate and divide our people shall have re ceived the judgment of posterity ; the pres ent Congress will be ranked chief of the il lustrious assemblies that have conserved order, helped progress, and resisted an in flow of the swelling tide of old abuses. It is easy to be captious. It is not diffi cult tor presumptuous men, who have no knowledge of what statesmanship 'consists in. and who comprehend not at all how the destinies of great nations are~slowly and la boriously extricated from impending perils and modelled into conformity to Truth and Justice, to impugn and heap contumelies on the profoundest wisdom. Hence it has hap pened that not an individual name, nor the the name of a collective body, stands UF day, in the annals of the human race, em blazoned with the peculiar lustre, and hon ored with the worship of grateful millions but was long blackened and defamed by conservative ma ice and stupidity.—Pitts burgh Gazette. Lauohinq, —How amusing to listen to the countless varieties in vogue.—No two persons laugh alike. Every person has one of his own. Laughing is not a science. You can no more teach a loud coarse laugh to become a clear, sweet oue, than you can change a tough beefsteak to a luxuriant oys ter flitter. Laughing is a blessing. It is the sweet oil that smoothes the rough ma chinery of life. It is a true sign of happi ness. Misery may laugh, but its attempts sit ironically upon the countenance. We like a clear, ringing, jolly, whole soul laugh. Some peopie'are always laughing; the fur rows of care don't disfigure them. Others indulge in it so little, that they become old before their time. You cant laugh accor ding to rule. The peculiar laugh that is born in you must be the kind to come out on every occasion; but. it is not hard to learn to make a_ deceptive, forced or disagreeable laugh—You havo seen a large aaecaably where something very auipsing compelled everybody, as the saying runs, to "burst right out." You have noticed the lean, fat screeching and roaring laugh, the still, small silvery, upside down laugh; the gruff base, the clear soprano, anil the high tenor laugh the up and down the whole scale laugh; the terrible laugh; the half famished bull dog laugh; the short, snapping, cracked laugh: the fiendish, blood G irdling laugh; the straight up and down laugh; the funny, cheery and free and easy laugh the quick and be done with it laugh; the wholesome, earuc-t laugh; the careless laugh and the laugh of care: the rectangular, triangular, octagonal and double action laugh; the laugh in your sleeve, and the laugh. ANNA DICKINSON delivered A lecture in Ciucinnatti recently, in which, anion? oth er things, she advocated universal suffrage. At this stage uf the discourse several per sons re-e and left the hall, whmenpon the sjx:ker paused a moment and then calmly remarked : "I want to say before another tender soul flees from the statement of the truth, that they may be likened unto out system of measures. One tuan lias the ca lamity of a pint; another the capacity of a quart; and another the capacity of a gallon. !• way safety be presumed that the pint cups are about full, and they are beginning to go cIT lest they should overflow. And if any others should be moved to leave, we will be able to determine the measure of their capacity with the greatest nicety." After that the audience kept their seats. Miss Dickinson is an ..dvocate of prompt measures. She made her p'int that time, very neatly. A relisrion that never suffioos to gov era a man will never spjflce to save him, VOLUME 39: SO 18. FRUIT AND GRAIN PROSPECTS. AGRICULTURE IN NORTH CAROLINA.— I lie demands on the merchants of Wilming ton for guano and other improved fertil izers is so great, that the agents ir. Wades boro find it difficult to supply the orders for that section. The \\ adesboro' Argus says: "We are gratified at this demand' for the fertilizers, for it Ls the best 'reconstruction' evidence that can be given of the present spirit and future intentions of our farmers, i hey intend to highly improve their lands, and make three acres do the work that five did heretofore." WHEAT IN GEORGIA.— I The Griffin (Ga) Sentinel has the following : "We have ta ken some rides into the country, and from persoual observation predict the best crop of wheat this year that has been mado in ten years. This will help the farmers ama zingly. They are compelled to buy a great many things this summer, and those who did not have cotton, in particular, are need ing a thousand things which the war depri ved them of. A few bushels of wheat thrown upon the market will help them along till fall. We shall not be surprised to see from 25,000 to 40,000 bushels of wheat sold in Griffin in the months of July and Au gust." INDIANA WHEAT CROP. —The Conners ville (Ind.) Times reports that the wheat of that section presents a very unfavorable ap pearance. In the fall it was seriously injur ed by the fly, during the winter much of it was frozen out, and what is left is suffering very much now from drought. Several far mers intend ploughing up their wheat fields and unless the drought soon terminates the crop will be almost a total failure. THE FRUIT CROP.— The 3leadville Jour nal says : We are informed by a gentle man residing in Southwestern Crawford, and proprietor of one of the finest orchards :n the county, that the prospects for a large fruit crop the coming season are unusually promising. As far as can be judged; the •i'Gach blossoms, as yet, are entirely uninjur ed, and all indications are very flattering. Similar statements reach us from all por tions of the county. WHEAT CROP. —The Greensburg Herald says : "Some of our exchanges seem to speak very favorably of the prospects of a good yield of wheat this season ; the far mers say that the", prospects never were bet ter. We would be very glad if we could say as much for our county—Westmoreland —in some parts of the county there are fields that are, in our opinion, worthless, while in no instance have we seen a first class field of wheat." A Correspondent of the Cincinnati Com mercial, writing from Lancaster, Ohio, says: In the county of Hocking there will be perhaps a third of a crop of wheat; and as to the fruit, there will be an abundant crop of all kinds, unless killed by frost from this time on. The county of Athens will give but a poor yield of wheat, but a large crop of fruit— that is, Iroiu present appcaiauces. OUR* EXAMPLE. Example has a deep and lasting influence upon the lives of all. It is a liviug lesson always before us, which is constantly influen cing us for good or evil. Every action is a word, for actions speak as well as words, and often have a stronger import. Every thought word act and even look of ours, is helping to build up the characters of those around us into monuments of everlasting beauty or deformity. And thus upon our action in this world there rests no slight responsibility. As we lool: back over the pages of history we see how men have in all ages of the world been remembered by their examples. Some have left a record bright with noble deeds and actions, which awaken our admi ration and cause wiihin us a desire to be nobler and truer —while others have left us a record black with evil deeds, which awa ken our pity for them, not only for the evil example which they have left to posteirty but also when we think what they might have been had they been upright and hon est. And as their example has lived after them so will ours, though perhaps in a more limited manner. Although our example may not he handed down to posterity from the historic page, yet it may exercise a great influence upon those around us. For if we avoid evil habits and endeavor to do right in all things, many others will be induced to act accordingly. Those who are younger in years are looking up to us l'or an example; and whether that example be good or evil, it is for us to determine. If we were to think oftener of the example which we are placing before our fellow men it would not only save them much trouble, but also our selves. PERMANENCE OF MATTER.—What cau surpass in grandeur those bold yet simple inductions of the invariable permanence of matter and of force. No natural agency, no created being can alter the amount of mat ter in the universe to the extent of an atom, or change the sum of force to the extent of the feeblest impulse. They can add noth ing to it; they can take nothing from it. They may burn, pulverize, scatter to the winds, strew upon the sea, convert into in visible vapor, but they cannot annihilate a particle, or destroy one of its essential pro perties. Every atom of oxygen that the world contained at its formation, is in it now, and will so continue to the end of time, with all its properties precisely as they were at the beginning. It may have been breathed in air, and drunk in water, and eaten in food, it may have waved in the forest and roamed in the animal, it may have been hewn out in the rock and smelted in the ore, —it may have entered successively into thousands upon thousands of combinations, —and yet through all these shifting forms, and after all these various uses, it remains unwastcd, undiminished, and unaltered, without the slightest modification in any of its properties,—the same unvarying atom, changeless in 'lie midst of limitless, inces sant change. USE OF POETRY. —I once heard a man say, "Shakespeare was certainly a great writer ; but what is the use of his writings? Would he not have done more good to his fellow creatures by putting one loaf of bread into their hands? President Thompson fur nishes a good reply to the gentleman : "Po etry wavnts the heart, and fills the head With useful and agreeable maxims and beau tiful images, sublimes the affections, and thereby enlarges our enjoyment and worth. Moral excellence, in a great measure, depends on exquisite sentiments; a person may have both a lively sensibility and an improved taste, and yet bo a bad character, from giving himself up to the dominion of his passions; nevertheless, without this en livened temper of soul, no man ever became excellent." A Chaplain of a State prison was ask ed by a pious friend how the parishioners were, "AH under conviction," was the rc fly. HATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisements for less than 3 months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices one half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 eta. per line. All legal uoti -cs of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers, editorial Notices 15 cent, per line. All Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 0 months, lyear One square $ 4.50 $ 6.00 SIO.OO Two squares 6,00 9.00 16.00 Three squres 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 m 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.0 I A ROADSIDE DIALOGUE. — 1 'And so Squire I you don't take a county paper?" "No, Major, I get the city papers on much better terms. I take a couple of them." "But, Squire, the county papers often prove a great convenience to u& The more we encourage them, the better the editor can afford to make them." 'Why, I don't know any convenience they are to me." "The farm you sold last fall was advertis ed in one of them, and therby you obtained a customer Did you not?' "Very true, Major, but 1 paid dol lars for it." . '' And you made more than three hundred dollars by it. Now, if your neighbor had not maintained the press and kept it up ready for use, you would have been without the means to advertise your property. But I saw your daughter's marriage in the pa per; did that cost yon anything?" "No, but-" ' 'And your brother's death, with a long obituary notice. And the destruction of our neighbor Rigg's house by fire. You know these things are exaggerated till the authentic accounts of the newspapers set them right." "O, true, hut—" And when your cousin Splash was up for the Legislature, you appeared much gratifi ed at his defense, which cost him nothing." "Yes, yes, hut these things are interesting to the readers. They cause the people to take the paper. "No, Squire Grudge, if all were like you. Now, I tell you, the day will surely come when somebody will wiite a long eulogy on your life and character, and the printer will put it in types with a heavy black cut over it, and with all your riches, this will be done for your grave as a pauper. Your wealth, your morality, and all such things will be spoken of, but the printer boy as he spells the words in arranging the type% these sayings will remark of you—poor mean devil, he is even spunging his obituary! Good morning, Squire. ' A KNOW-NOTHING.— "What is your name ?" "Vel, I calls mineself Fred, but maybe so —I don,t know —Yawcup. You see, Chudge mine modder she have two little poys ; one of them was ine and one was my broader, or one was my brodder, and t'other was me, I don't know which ; and I was chust so old as my brodder was young, or my brod der was chust as old as me, I don't know which, and mine moder she dofft; one of us was named Fred and t'other Yawcup, or one named Yawcup and t'other Fred, I don't know which of us, and one of us got died —but mine modder, she never could tell whether it was me or mine brodder what got died ; so, Chudge, I does not know whether I am Fred or Yawcup—and mine modder, she don't know, too. THE ENGLISH JUDGES ON STRONG DRINK AND CRlME. —There is scarcely a crime | comes before me that is not directly or iDdi l rectly caused by strong drink.— Judge Cole ridge. If it were not for this drinking, you (the jury) would have nothing to do.— Judge Patterson. Experience has proved that almost all crime into which juries have had to inquire may be traced in one way or another to drunkenness.— Williams. I find in every calendar that comes before me, one unfailing source, directly or indi rectly, of most of the crimes that are com mitted, Intemperance.— Judge Wightman. If all men could be dissuaded from the use of intoxicating liquors, the office of a judge would be a sinecure.— Judge Ander son. THE DISADVANTAGE OF TELLING THE TRUTH. —A negro named Avey, of Putnam county, Ga. , who recently wrote a letter to the Memphis Post, giving an unfavorable account of affairs in his section, was found drowned a few days ago, with a bag of stones fastened around his neck. "WANTED." —A gentleman in Omaha, Ne braska, advertises for a "first-rate, tip-top, A No. 1 housemaid," and adds the suggest ive statement "that all the piano-playiDg, fine needle work, visiting and entertaining company will he done by the lady of the house." CANDID. —The editor of a new paper in Nebraska begins his introductory article with the following sentence : "The object in view in the establishment of this paper is the procuring of means wherewith to buy bread and butter and good clothes." A newspaper correspondent, who has travelled, over several hundred miles in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, re ports that, excepting, perhaps, one field in twenty-five, the wheat is in fine condition. A great many of our Southern friends are going North. They feel a curiosity to sec what on earth whipped them so.—Lou isville Journal. Miss Lovely says that males arc of no ac count from the time ladies stop kissing them as infants, till they kiss them as lovers. "Who is that foreign lady with the low cut dress," asked Quilp of a bystander at a party the other' evening. "That is Miss Chciuiseofl, a Russian lauy," was the reply "and an appropriate name it is." A miner who recently came from Virginia City, says vegetation is so scarce in that region that two mullen-stalks and a bunch of thistles is called a grove. How many an enamored pair have court ed in poetry and lived in prose. PATIENCE, a virtue which some people think every one wants but themselves. IN the march of life don't heed the or der of "right about," when you know you are about right. THE entire assets of a recent bankrupt was nine children. The creditors acted magnanimously, and let him keep them. A CHAPLAIN ot a State prison was asked by a pious friend how the parishioners were, "All under conviction" was the reply. AN English married lady has consulted her lady on the question, whether having married her husband for his money, and that money being all, spent, she is not a widow and at liberty to marry again. A YANKEE being asked by a Southerner why Yankees always say "I guess," while the southern people say "I reckon," gave the following explanation : "That a Yan kee could guess as well a.--a southerner could reckon." There is said to be something consoling for every ill in this life. For instance if a man is bald headed his wife eant pull his hair. The San Francisco comic papers cite the late earthquake in that city as a proof that "the world wags." The easiest and best way to expand the chest is to have a good heart in it. The vessel that no woman objects to em bark court shin. ...
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