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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
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Two squares 6,00 9.00 16.00
Three squres 8.00 12.00 20.00
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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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