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Gold "atch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. lie will supply to order &y thing in his line not on hand. 28, 1865—is. =7 — 4 JOB WORK cxeiuivd CHEAP in PLAN and ?A Itlcbh Cff ce ftfrfttorb 3htqnirtr. DURBORROW 4' LITTZ Editors and Proprietors. TH F PATHWAY OF THE FUTURE. There,s a pathway in the future That my feet must firmly tread— Will the sky be bright with sunshine, Or will clouds hang overhead ? Once I asked this simple question, But the future's lips were dumb, Keeping, as its own, the secret Of the years that are to come. Then I asked the sunbeams, playing Hide and seek upon the floor — ''Merry sunbeams, will you promise To stay with me evermore ?" But the sunbeams out the window Slyly crept without a word ; Long I listened, but heard noth'ng Save the leaves the light winds stirred. Then the moon and stars I questioned— Would they make the future bright I But they gave me back no answer, Only twinkled down their light. Then I bowed my head in sorrow, When the wind came from the west, Softly saying' "Let this secret Sleep within the future's breast." So I ask no more the question What the coming years will bring, Liviug in the sunny present, lam happy—so I sing— Sing when sunbeams fall around me, Sing when clouds hang overhead ; Never seeking in the future For the pathway I must tread. PERISII Ef> LOVE. The sun that sinks iato the main Shall gild another morn, The moon with pearly band again The evening's brow adorn ; And stars, though lost in day, shall yet Illume the heavenly plain— But love, when once its life is set, Shall never rise again. The cuckoo far from winter flies, But with the breath of spring, How swift she speeds from southern skies— Their blue upon her wir.g. From waving boughs her song is trilled, As sweet as e'er before ; But love, when once its voice is stilled, Its echoes wake no more! Rude hands may pluck the blossoms rare That scent the air to.day ; New flowers as fragrant and as fair Shall greet another May ; But love's rich glory aud perfume Withered, revives no more— In vain your care—that tender bloom No spring will e'er restore. PiawUiWfiw. THE POWEK OF INFLUENCE. I stood upon the deck of a steamboat, gliding gracefully over the waters ; and as I looked in her wake, far as the eye could reach were two diverging lines of waves slowly receding, but still movingonward, and tending irresistibly toward the shore on ei ther side. Such, thought I, is man, and such is the tide of life. To us the past may lie in the dim distance, and memory be scarcely able to distinguish oven the outline of its shadowy forms ; but the past is not really dead, though quite or well-nigh for gotten ; it lives to day, and wil' live forever in the impressions that consciously or un consciously, we have mad upon immortal souls. Every tone of oui voice, every word that we have spoken, every look th it we we have given, every line of conduct that we have followed, is a wave of influence, more or less perceptible, which is continu ally re producing itself in the character of those whom circumstances have brought within your reach. This influence will be proportioned to the sphere in which we move, the nature of our calling, the superiority of our intellectual endowments and intellectual culture, and the intimacy of the relations which we sustain to others. But there is in every man, wheth er prominent or obscure, a fund of moral and spiritual power, which his daily life gives out as naturally and as constantly as a mirror reflects the light; and the seed which silently perhaps, but non" the less surely, he is scattering in the soil of other hearts, is the germ of a new energy, which in its turn becomes the starting-point of another. Thus one gigantic mind may mould the sen timents of a generation, and by a law of transmission which God has established, im press itself profoundly for weal or for woe upon generations yet to come ; just as the tremor of an earthquake will not only up heave mighty towers and throw down has tioned forts but start vibrations in the air that will compass the globe. No sophistry of argument and no flatter ing plea of self-love will wrench us from the rigid grasp of this divine arrangement which makes us in a literal since our "brother's keeper.The world of mind in its multi form relations is as inflexibly connected as all the parts of the material universe. The motion of any one body in space is no more dependent upon that of another, than the movement of our spiritual nature upon those of other kindred and related spirits. —And it is no more true that a suspension of the gravitating power of the sun would throw creation into confusion and chaos, than that a moral disorder in created spirits will propagate itself in other similar spirits, unless mercifully checked by the strong hand of God. This at least seems to be true, so far as we can gather from observation ; the only difference in this respect between material and spiritual natures being, that in the former the laws of action and re-action are simple, more easily defined, and alto gether independent of rational agency, while in the latter they arc more complicated, less readily classified, and have respect to a be ing who is intellectual, moral, free, and re sponsible. Raul has been in Heaven for nearly eigh teen hundred years; but the tongue that startled the wise men of Athens still hums its way into numbers of living hearts, and the eloquence of his heroic example still an imates and fires a goodly host of zealous preachers in many lands. Luther was but a single man ; yet the voice which like a trumpet's sound rang out from his flaming lips, made the walls of the Vutician trem ble, and infused a life into human thought and an energy into human action which not only "whitened the sea .with commerce," aud carried civilization into the howling wil derness, but hare home the Gosnel into heathen cities and lifted up the Cross on heathen shore.;, iiuayan had only the ea A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. ucation of a tinker ; but as he lay so many weary months and years in Bedford jail, he was secretly carving out eternal happiness for thousands of perishing sinners, and ore paring a book that will not only make him immortal wherever genius is admired, but what is far better, will stand as long as time for a guide to pilgrims on their way to "the celestial city." To change the picture : Paiue is consign ed to an infamous memory by all who prize the Bible both as the revelation of God, and as the guardian of a nation's liberties, intelligence, and virtue ; but who can count the hearts in which the poison of his scur rillous infidelity still does, and will contin ue to do, its work of death ? Voltaire died like other men ; but the curses that he heaped upon the name of Jesus awaken like imprecations in other SOpls. and the writing.-' that ho loft, even to this day, scatter their fire-brands wherever they are circulated. A rationalist like Baur may recant his sentiments as he goes into the presence of his heart-searching Judge ; but a death-bed recantation will not pour a stream of evangelical truth into those Ger man pulpits which he corrupted, when alive by the influence of his example, and his learning over the Theological students that sat under his instructions. These, I know, are prominent and stri king cases ; and I select them because they are striking—just because they bring out in stronger light, and in bolder relief tne prin ciple 1 have been discussing, the influence that every man, to a greater or less degree, is exerting upoH his fellows every day that he lives. Reader, pause, and reflect. My words ire meant for you. They have weight if you will but feel it. And remember that the power which now breathes out from you, in all its windings and ramifications, even to the end of time, will meet you at the judgment seat. Much of it is already beyond your control; but it is gathering up testimony for the last great day. Since man's everlasting state is fixed beyond repeal, as soon as he dies, some wonder why there shou'd be a general judgment. For this reason, perhaps, amoug others, {as has been suggested to me) that men really live after they are dead, and the measure of their deserts is not filled up un til the consumarion of all earthly things ends their influence over immortal minds. If the rewards of heaven, although they are all of grace, are in proportion to the actual good that is accomplished through human instrumentality, then Bunyan's great re ward will not be complete until his Pilgrim's Progress has shed its light for the last time upon the sinner's darkened path, and gui ded the wanderer home. And if the tor ments of the lost are meeted out in strict proportion to the harm that they have done, Paine will not be ready for his fearful doom, till the archangel's trump announce the final catastrophe, and tell the uuiverse that the power oi evil shall disturb its har mr ny and peace no more forever. How solemn, then, it is to five! Just to think, that every moment of our being is radiating an influence which once begun, moves on perpetually, no longer under our control ! Just think, that as parents, and children, and neighbors, and friends, and members of the cnurch, and ministers of the gospel—however obscure and unknown we may fee —every pulsation of our heart is creating a power that either draws perishing sinners towards Jesus, or drives them to wards hell ! In a world like this, when all are naturally tending to destruction how criminal must be a life of thoughtless indiff erence, or reckless impiety! Christian, be on your guard; watch and pray; live for Jesus; "let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good viorlcs, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Sinner, think, O! think of that awful tribunal before which you will soon be sum moned; as you look upon its certain d'sclo surcs of all the guilt that you have contrac ted, not only on account of your own sins, but still more, it may be on account of the harm that you have either directly or indi rectly done to others, tremble at the storin of wrath which is preparing for you. Fore cast that dreadful day, and be wise. Go without delay to Jesus' blood and be washed at once, lest you die in your fearful guilt and there be none to deliver you then. — Central Presbyterian. OLIVER CROMWELL. On the 25th of April, 1599, was born a man who exercised a powerful influence upon the world's destiny- Cromwell, after wards lord protector of England, is an illus trious example of the possibilities that lie within the scope of an earnest man. His social position was well described by himself when he said: "I was by birth a gentleman neither living in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity.'' During his school days he was always champion of those rude English sports which characterized that iron age; and if report doth not belie him, he by no means confined himself to the innocent pastimes of youth, hut excelled in robbing orchards, and similar pastimes of juvenile marauders. When a young man, and a law student, he reveled in the excesses of the day, giving little indication of the religious zeal that afterwards sealed the fountains of human kindness, and made him lord protec tor of all England. After his marriage he soon became a zealous 'Puritan, aud made everything bend to the rigor of his chosen principles. There is something grand about the stern old warrior—bigot that he was. That unswerving purpose that fixed its cold keen eye upon an object, and pursued it through misfortune, and almost death itself until it was attained, must command admi ration. Whatever may be the decision of posterity upon Cromwell's character, sin cerity must be accorded him,.and the virtue of sacrificing everything to the edicts of a stern judgment, however bigoted it may have been. He died September 3d, 1658. TRIMMINGS, Nature, like art seems to require a border iu order to be finished. The dtess maker hems and ruffles; the carpenter has his beads and pilasters; the painter never rests till bis piece is framed. i f we should say nature loves bordering, as it used to be said she abhorred a vacuum, we might state the whole truth. An uninterrupted plan a continuity of similar surface, vast monoton ous, silent is intolerable. So a column must have its cap; and a house its cornice; so along the hignway spring innumerable flow ers, and on its margin the forest is lavish of its foliage; so the sea is terminated by the sky and we look at the sky through vistas of embankment and woofy eloud. —Were you ever in a fine grove of a bright moonlight night? How different from standing upon a mountain at such a time! We recom mend to any one on an eminence to go back from the brink thereof and stand in the forest and look out through the breaks and crevices. A moss rose is an instance in point, beautiful because it is bordered; it is a landscape seen through trees, bo a view through naif raised window curtains, and distant scenery through a long spite of rooms so are lijrht on foregrounds and ghadowMin i'u all ptu- BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. MAY6IB, 1866. REPORT ON IRON AND STEEL. The United States revenue commission have laid before the Secretary of the Treas ury a report in regard to iron and steel, comparing the resources of this country with that of Europe, Asia and Africa, trom which it is inferred that in 1830 the United States became the largest consumer, and so continues to this time. The commission is of the opinion that the production of iron in the United States dur ing the last twenty-five years, the develop ment of vast deposits of iron minerals and of fuel, demonstrate the capacity of the coun try to manufacture the whole quantity re quired for its progress in other manufac tures. for the production of machinery and all other instruments of industry, and continuous enlargement of ?=t productive powers. Our natural advantages for the produc tion of iron and steel, and other great instru ments of production, are not surpassed in the world. Our progress shows that we have learned to avail ourselves of these ad vantages. Ultimately, under a wise domes tic policy, we shall become the largest pro ducers of iron, and perhaps the largest ex porters, as many of our mines are near the seaboard, and can furnish large quantities more promptly than any country except Great Britaiu, and better and more varied qualities than any country. It must be long, however, before it can be our interest to send iron from our shores. The race for national power and wealth will be indicated not so much by our ad vance in the production of iron as by its consumption. Our industry can never grow to its full height but by that profusion of machines and implements of production and facilities for transportation which iron alone can furnish. England now employs iron to the extent of 160 pounds per head of population, and exports considerably more than she con sumes. We manufacture 1,500,000 and im port about 300,000 tons. Our consumption does not yet exceed 120 pounds per head. But, considering the intelligence of our pop ulation, its activity, its ingenuity, its pro clivities to the employment of iron, and the very superior quality of our iron, we may reasonably expt et to reach a consumption of 160 pounds p. r head by the time our pop ulation nutnberf forty millions, making the whole product ti en equal to 3,200,000 tons. It is very we 1 known that the State ol Pennsylvania could by no means of her own import yearly 50,000 tons of iron; but her mines, labor, food and capital can now fur nish nearly 500, JOO tons, worth over thirty millions ol' dollars, and can now, by the fur ther aid of machinery, carry the value of this iron to sixty or eighty millions. Thus the people of Pennsylvania can by this me dium exchange her minerals, labor and food for the labor and food and other raw mate rials of other parts of the country. In regard to the manufacture of steel, the commission represents that no one who is well informed has a doubt that our country has nearly emancipated itself from such de pendence, and is secure of a full supply of the best qualities of steel in peace and war, and for all the demands and exigencies of industry. It is fully demonstrated that the requisite qualities of iron are found within our boundaries, that the requisite skill and knowledge is now attained, and that the re quisite confidence in American cast-steel and common steel is now established. It has been tried throughout all the man ufacturing States by the most skilful man ipulators of steel in fine cutlery, edge-tools, in both heavy and delicate machinery, and the evidence of its success is complete and irrefutable. Testimony on that subject has been submitted with this report, which can not fail to carry conviction to all friends of domestic labor, and to satisfy them that American perseverance and ingenuity has triumphed in the production of the highest quality of cast-steel—an object vitally im portant to the progress of national industry. HI/GII MILLER. It was not as a geologist; it was not as a logician: it was uot as a literary composer, that Hugh Miller arrived principally at dis tinction. The deepest vein in his nature was his Christianity, and it was as a Chris tian that his loftiest aspiration displayed its elf. To have told Hugh Miller that he had yielded a hair's breadth of the defences of Bible Christianity would have been to tell him that he had shed extinguishing drops on the altar fire which warmod and lit the inmost shrine of his own existence. "It is done," he said, referring to the Testimony of the llocks, on the last day of his life, "It is done," He spoke the words not in vain exultation, but in the serene and noble satis faction of one whose work was finished, and who saw in that a reward greater than any which man could bestow. And what was the work which he believed he had comple ted? He believed he had exhibited more plainly than had been done before, the har mony between the word and works of God; and it is our solemn conviction, that exclu ding the express historical evidence of the New Testament facts, no argument for the inspiratioojof Scripture is more express, dis tinct, or irresistible, than that to which the Testimony of the Rocks , to say the least points the way. It is an argument, which may be said, with hardly any figure of speech, to convert faith into sight Already it appears to us, to be sufficient to convince any rea onable man wo say not of the exis tence of a God, but of the positive, superna tural inspiration of Seripture. and were it perfectly elaborated, as we believe it will be, we maintain, might be fairly pleaded as lit erally and demonstrably equal to the rising of one from the dead. The Christian apol ogist is already able by Hugh Miller's theo ry to propose to the infidel t'lis dilemma : Either a wandering tribe of the Arabian desert was acquainted three thousand years ago, with the most recent revelations of sci ence, or the first chapter of Genesis was written by the inspiration of the Almighty. .Not the slightest intimation exists that Mo ses scientifically understood what he was made the instrument of revealing, and it is certain that no succeeding generation till the present, could scientifically explain his writings. The proposition on which Hugh Miller's theory radically rests, is this : cer tain facts and sequences revealed in the rocks have a correspondence with certain facts and sequences revealed in the first chapter of Genesis, a correspondence so clear and so precise that it c-aunot possibly be accounted for. except on the grounds of supernatural revelation, but in the wisdom of God it was uacomprehen led for many generations, that it is written in characters of perfect definiteness, but in characters belonging to an unknown tongue and that only, when, at length, the light of science is flashed upon the inscription, only when the lost language is studied and known, is its meaning plain and unmistakable.— Peter Bayne. A LADY visiting a girl's school, asked one of the children, "What are you making my little mistress, is it a chemise?" "No ma'm," implied the girl bashftillj, '"it's a THE AMERICAN FLAG. An interesting history of the American Flag has been given in connection with an essay upon the Origin and Use of Seals by Albert Wadhams, Esq., lately published. Previously to the battle of Banker Hill the colonists used a flag combining the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew.' The battle of Bunker liill was fought under a red flag bearing the motto '"Come if you dare." The first regular army flag of the Revo tion was a red flag with the mottoes "Qui transulit sustinet" and "An appeal to heav en,"—one motto on each side. This Fl tg was carried until the first of Jan uary, 1776, when the Union Flag was first unfurled by General Washington over the American eamo, at Lamonoge, composed of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, symbolizing the thirteen revolted colonies, in the upper corner, on a blue field, the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew were blended, as they are in the British Union Jack. The idea of the strioes was derived from the crest of the Waldington family. Dr. Franklin, Mr. Lynch, and Mr. Harrison devised this flag, which was called in camp and elsewhere, "the Great Union Flag. ' In June, 1777, the stars were substituted by law, for the British crosses on the field of blue, and the common name "the Stars and Stripes" became general. By three acts of Congress the Flag has reached itß present permanent character. The first has been already noticed; the second enacted that the flag should be form ed of fifteen stripes, alternate red and white, and fifteen white stars in a blue field. This act was passed in 1794. The third enact ment made in April, 1818, established the present Flag, ft discarded the two stripes which had Leen added to recognize the ad- of Vermont and Kentucky into the Union. The Stars and Stripes were first unfurled in October, 1777, at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, the law establishing the Flag not having been promulgated till the September previously. The stars represent the constellation of States, the idea having been taken from the Constellation Lyra which signifies harmoni ous action. The Hue field was taken from the Covenanter's banner, in Scotland, and was significant of the league and covenant of the United Colonies against oppression. The stars were arranged in a circle, the sym bol of eternity, and signified the perpetuity of the Union. The stripes showed the origin al number of the United Colonies, and, joined with the stars, the subordination to, and dependence upon the Union, as well as equalty among themselves. The red color denoted daring, the white purity, and the blue harmony. In the Revolution, the Flag had thirteen stars, in the war of 181", fifteen, that flag which was planted in the national palace of Mexico had thirty stars, and the one on the canitol at Richmond, after its occupation by Grant's army count ed thirty-six stars upon its field of blue. Every true American views this ensign of his country with gratitude and pride, regar ding it as a memorial of the patriotism of the. founders and preservers of the nation, and the symbol of unity, equalitv, and per petuity of the great brotherhood of States in this fair land. That it may exist, h0,,.,, ed at home and abroad, the banner of a great, glorious, and good nation, while time endures, is the heartfelt wish of every pa triot. as he beholds its waving folds in the free air and sunlight of his native or adop ted land. Long may it waive. Let it be the aim and purpose of parents in the North and the South, in the East and the West, to teach their children to honor, defend and love that glorious flag : to count him an enemy to his country who speaks lightly of the Stars and Stripes: and to cherish it as the symbol of national honor aud power, the Flag of every true-hearted American in the redeemed and indivisible Union. HOW AMERICAN VELVET IS MADE. The machinery for the manufacture of American velvet, was introduced into this country by the inventor, % Mr. Holt, of Cheshire, England, and its superiority in the matter of rapidity is said to be as great as that of the modern railroads over the old stage coach system. The method is as fol lows : Grooved brass rods or wires weie placed under the web which forms the pile, secured by threads woven into the warp. The weaver cuts the threads by means of a knife, held in the hand, the blade of which slides along the groove, dividing the pile into two rows of threads, thus giving a nap or pile of the depth of the rod inserted. The manufacture, according to the patented method, is accomplished by weaving two warps or foundations, with a middle warp alternately rising into the upper and lower, being secured by two shuttles moving at once. The knife moves horizontally, in the same direction as the shuttles, and the two warps and the pile between are divided, and the naps are cut into equal lengths. Two piled fabrics —the exact counterpart of each other—are thus made at one time. The shuttles and knives arc all impelled by the ordinary motions of the power loom. The statement that 110 picks or threads are made in a minute (or nearly two every sec ond) will give some idea of the rapidity of the manufacture. A man with the patented machine can make from fifty to sixty yards per week while eight or ten yards would be a good week's work for the same person shoufdjie make use of the ordinary hand loom. The saving of labor by this process over the wire-weaving method is estimated at from fifty to seventy per cent., while the fabrics arc equal and in some respects supe or, to those of foreign make. The looms are adapted to the manufacture of piled fabrics, such as silk plush, since an article of this nature for gentlemen's caps has be come very popular for a substitute for fur. Tartan, or clan velvets are also made. THE ART OF BEING POLITE. —First and foremost, don't try to be polite! It will spoil all ! I you keep overwhelming your guests with ostentatious entreaties to make themselves at home, they will very soon be gin to wish they were there. Let them find out that you are happy to see them by your actions rather than words. Always remem ber let bashful people alone at first. It is the only way to set them at ease. Trying to draw them out has sometimes the contrai v effect of driving them out —of the house! Leading the conversation is a dangerous ex periment Better follow in its wake, and if you want to endear yourself to talkers, learn to listen well. Never make a fuss about anything—never talk about yourself—and always preserve your composure, no matter what solecisms or blunders others may com mit. Remember that it is a very foolish proceeding to lament that you cannot offer to your guest a better house, or furniture, or viands. It is fair to presume that the visit is to you and not to these surround ings. Give people a pleasant impression of themselves, and they will be pretty sure to go away with a pleasant impression of your qualities. On just such slendor wheels as tnese the whole fabric of society turns; it is your business, fben, to keep them in revolv. rag order. VOLUME 30; NO 20. PERSONALITIES IN CONGRESS Theodore Tilton writes to the Independent: The oldest and youngest Representative is the one and the same person, and his name is Thaddeus Stevens—a unique, unqualified and titanic old man, whose only intellectual betrayal of advanced age is a lack of that steel spring of hopefulness which is made of the fibre of young heroes. Governor Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is an admirable specimen of a legislator—a man whose perpetual employment ought to be the public business. Roscoe Conkling, of New York, is strong positive and critical and in many respects, reminds one of Henry Winter Davis, whose grave ijuenclie J one of the nobles spirits of these times. Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is the most frequent orator of the House. Shellabargcr and Bingham, both of Ohio, are among the finest minds in Congress, Perhaps a greater number of distinguished men, whether injudicial, legislative or mili tary life hail from Ohio than from any other State in the Union. McKee, of Kentucky, is the crown jewel of his delegation. But none of the mem bers from the Southern States have distin guished themselves on the floor of the House duiing this session. High and cen tral over the debates sits a mild mannered gentleman, after whom three hundred babes (none of his own) have been named by ad miring mothers in the South Bend District of Indiana. O, urbanity, thy name is Col fax! A WORD FOR WIVES. ' 'Little wives! if ever a half-suppressed sigh finds place with you, or a half-unloving word escapes you to the husband whom you love, let your heart go back to some tender word in those first love-days; remember how you loved him theD, how tenderly he wooed you, how timidly you responded; and if you can feel that you have not grown un worthy, trust him for the same fond love now. If you do feel that through many cares and trial's of life you have become less loveable and attractive than you then were, turn—by all that you love on earth, or hope for in heaven—turn back, and be the pattern of loveliness that won him; be the dear one' your attractions made you then. Be the gentle, loving, winning maid en still; and doubt not, the lover you ad mired will lire forever in your husband. Nestle by his side, cling to his love, and let his confidence in you never fail; and my word for it, the husband will be dearer than the lover ever was. Above all things, do not forget the love he gave you first. Do not seek to 'emancipate' yourself—do not strive to unsex yourself, and become a Lucy Stone, or a Rev. Miss Brown ; but love the higher honor ordained by ftur Savior of old —that of a loving wife. A happy wife, a blessed mother, can have no higher station, needs no greater honor." WHISKERS AND KISSES.—The editress of the Lancast■ r Literaiy Gazette says she would f.s soon nestle her nose in a rat's nest of swingle-tow as allow a man with whis kers to kiss her. We (Petersburg Gazette) don't believe a word of it. The objections wLi ol* SUlllC it#\livv; paviwuJ • V L . kers af. arise from envy. They don't have any. They would if they could; but the tact is, the continual motion of the lower jaw is fatal to their growth, The ladies— God bless them ! —adopt our fashions ae far as they can. Look at the depredations they have committed on our wardrobes the last few years. They have appropriated our shirt-bosoms, gold studs and all. They have encircled their soft bewitching necks in our standing collars and cravats, driving us to flatties and turn-downs. Their innocent little hearts have been palpitating in the in side of our waistcoats, instead of thumping against the outside as naturally intended. They have thrust their pretty feet and ank les through our unmentionables, unthinka boutables, and they arc skipping along the streets in our high-heeled boots. Do you hear, gentlemen—we say boots! THE PRESENT. —Some people are always wishing themselves somewhere but where they are, or thinking of something else than what they are doing,or of somebody else than to whom they are speaking. This is the way to enjoy nothing well, and to please nobody. It is better to be interested with the present. A principal cause of this indifference is the adaption of other people's tastes to the cul tivation of our own, the pursuit after that for which we are not fitted, and to which, consequently, wo are not in reality inclined. This folly pervades more or less all classes, and arises from the error of building our enjoyment on the false foundation of the world's opinion, instead of being, with due regard to others, each our own world. MODESTY.—When sincere and unaffect ed, modesty conveys a graceful tribute of deference and respect to the merits of oth ers which charms tne eye and wins the heart even of the bold and proud. True modes ty is true humility put into practice. We find that modesty is not the virtue of per sons who are unreflecting and who are easi ly driven hither and tbitlier by the untutor ed instincts and hasty impulses of their na ture. On the contrary, the man of solid merit and ripe thought is much more likely to be modest and retiring than the man of trifling pursuits, of imperfect education, and unmistakable mediocrity. This does not happen because the great man is igno nantof liis great powers, or the good of his good qualities. ARTIFICIAL WANTS.— Bulwer says that poverty is only an idea in nine cases oat of ten. Some men with ten thousand dollars a year suffer more for want of means than others with three hundred. The reason is the richer man has artificial wants. —His in come is ten thousand, and he sellers enough from being dunned for unpaid debts to kill a sensitive man. A man who earns a dollar a day and does not run' in debt, is the hap pier of the two. Very few people who have been rich will believe this, but it is as true as God's word. —There are thousands with princely incomes who never know a moment of peace, because they live above their mean* There is really more happiness among the working people than among those who are called rich. A SHORT time since, the inhabitants of a country town were filled with conjectures at the following sign, painted in large capitals on the front of a house recently fitted up and repaired: "Mrs. Brown dealer in all sorts of Ladies' All was consternation. Inquiry was in stantly set on foot as to whom Mrs. Brown might be. But not one could tell. Great anxiety prevailed as to the proclamation of the new establishment, and for two whole days all was surmise and confusion. On the third morning, behold ! the mystery W unravelled. The house-painter, had, it seems, been suddenly attacked with a fit of sickness, returned to finish his wogk, and concluded by adding, "An 4 6ktlv"iaßE's Wewiag RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisements for lees than 3 months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices one half additional. Ail resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 16 cts. per line. AH legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other J"udicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cent, per line. AH Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 months, lyear One square $ 4.50 $ 6.00 $10.06 Two squares...,. 6,00 9.06 16.06 Th.-ee squres 8.00 12.00 20.0# One-fourth c01umn...... 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column.... 18.00 25.00 45.06 One column 30.00 45.00 80.8 "A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY." A gentleman of this city, says a Boston paper, who had determined to retire from the caret of business and indulge him self in the mania for amateur farming, had a very attractive estate —on paper —present- ed to his notice by a broker. There was the usual "'substantial dwelling-house, large barn and outbuildings, unfailing soring of water, thrifty fruit trees, rich pas ture and arable lands," &e., situated, of course, ' 'in the immediate vicinity of school houses, churches, and all the advantages of civilization." The merchant was charmed with the description, and was on the point of purchasing, when he happened to meet an old farmer acquaintance, who, he sudden ly remembered, lived in the neighborhood of his contemplated investment After the usual inquiries on the merchant's part in regard to weather, prospect of crops, Ao., and on the farmer aas to the proper meth od of disposing of the "coopoons on some government bonds, the farmer asked : "Do you know G 's place up your way ?" '"Know it! Yaas, guess Ido ; lives 'thin §§ two miles o' my plaoe. Dreffle shiftless critter tho' ; hadn't got much of anything on his farm except a heavy mortgage. Goin to sell him out putty soon, I guess." "Indeed," said the merchant, thought fully ; "mismanaged I suppose—don't at tend to his business. Splendid piece of land, though, is it not" "Waal, might be for some purposes ; our s lectmen did think of buying it once for a cemetery, but the sile was so orful j>oCir and sandy that nothing ever came up that was planted in it, and they were afraid they'd never be any resurrection there 1" STREWING FLOWERS OVER UNION GRATES FORBIDDEN. —The special correspondent of the Cincinnata Gazette, writing from Georgia, says: "The white people at Augusta, as well as other points Soutn, having recently made groat parade in decorating tne graves of the rebel dead with flowers, while the graves of Union soldiers were passed coldly by, the colored people of Augesta determined yes terday to repair the omission. Accordingly they assembled at one of their school-houses near the cemetery with flowers, wreaths and banners. Their teachers, white and black, accompanied them, and in peaceful proces sion they marched to deposit their offerings upon the graves of the nation's dead. A more touching spectacle and one which will appeal more forcibly to every human heart, was seldom seen, but incredible to tell, the procession was met at the gates of the ceme tery by the Mayor "f the city and a strong force of police, and despite remonstrances of Captain Bryant, the entreaties of the teachers and tears of the poor negroes, was sternly refused admission."' VERY much against his will. Dr. Chap ' man was made a vestryman in his parish church, and one of his duties was to pass the plate for the contributions at the morn ing service. He presented it with great politeness and becoming gravity to the gen tleman at the head of the pew nearest the chancel, who was not disposed to contri bute. The faithful collector, nothing daun tecs, neia tne uidtc i..* .. '.„ _ - as if he would urge him to think the mat ter over and give something , a little some thing, and refused to go on till he had seen his silver on the plate. In this way he pro ceeded down the aisle, victimizing every man till he came tp the pew nearest the door, where sat an aged colored waman. To his surprise she laid down a niece of gold. "Dear me?"' said the astonished Doctor, "you must be a Guinea nigger." They never troubled the Doctor to go aronnd with the plate after that. OLD AND NETV.— "Wh*t do the Arabs of the desert live on, pa ?" asked a rougish girl of her father. "Fudge. Nelly, that's an old couundrum. They live on the *>ind which is i(sandwiches) there. ' Yes; but, Sa, how do they get 'em ?" "Wellj really. fellv, you have me there. I give it up.' "Why, pa, you know that the 'sons of Ham are bred and mustered in the wilder ness?" Come, come, my daughter, that is too killing ; don't say another word." Oh, yes, do tell me what they eat on their sand wiches." "Eat on'eui. why, why, what do they eaton 'em? "Butter, tobesure." "Butter ! How do they get butter ?" "Why, you know, p . that when Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt, 'all the family but her ran into the wilderness.'' THE contract for the erection of the Sol diers' National Monument, on the Gettys burg battle-field, has been awarded to James G. Batterson, ol' Hartford, Conn., for the sum of $47,500. The main shaft will b built of whit 3 granite, and the statuary will be made of Italian weather marble. The statuary will be modeled in Rome by the most celebrated American artists, The time given for the completion of the work is Ju ly Ist, 1868. It is thought that this monu ment, when finished, will surpass in archi tectural beauty any other monument in the world. A LADY, modestly attired, was on her way to New York, on board one of the Hudson river night boats. She sat quietly reading in the ladies' cabin, when a flashily dressed dame, mistaking her for a servant, rather rudely accosted her with, "Do you know this cabin is for ladies?" "Certainly I do," was the answer, ' 'and have been wondering for some time why you were here." A Washington special says: Mr. Sher man's thirty year five per cent, loan bill is j freely canvassed in all quarters, aud favora ble opinion as to its practicability and suc cess is rapidly increasing. A strong evi dence of this is seen in the rapid apprecia tion of the ten-forties. There is a strong probability of the passage of the bill. KINDNESS. —Kind words, look* and act# are the small currency of social life, each of in considerable value, but in the aggregate for ming the wealth of society. 1 hey are the "excellent oil" which keeps tha machinery from rusting, wearing or creaking. They are the dew that refreshes and nourishes the otherwise arid fields. They are the sunshine of an else murky, dreary world. "JAKE, did you carry that umbrella home that I borrowed yesterday?" asked a father of his son. "No, father, you have often told me to lay up something for a rainy day ; and as I thought it would rain soon, I laid up the umbrella.'' THE Tennessee Convention, on the 4th, adopted a petition te the Legislature for an act to allow Tennessee a separate state goyernuienj. Different committees were appointed to carry out the objects of the body, and the Convention adjourned sine die. The latest radical outrage at Washington, is the removal of the whisky hotels from the Capitol. _ - Tip Canadian parliament been spm glQjpl tOW ' UnC *
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