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TERMS:
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If not |Hil within six months 82.50.
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ATTOKNEYS AT LAW.
B. F. MEYERS J. W. DICKERSUN.
MEYEKS A DICKERSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Bedford, Penn'a.,
Office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P.
Srhcll, two doors east of the Oatette office, will
practice in the several Courts of Bcdiord county.
Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the
purchase of Real Estate attended to.
May 11, 'ls6—lyr.
JOHN T. KEAGY,
J ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Bedford, Penn'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
ofiico. aprll:'66-ly.
JB. CESSNA,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with John Cf.ssna, on Julianna street, in
the office formerly occupied by King A 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 9, 1865.
a- M'P. khakpe E - F. KEUR
CiHARPE & KERR,
A TTO USE YS-A T-LA 11'.
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
h..us# of Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. inar2:tf
JOHN PALMER,
" Attorney lit lurn. Bedford. Pa,.
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care.
tSS- Particular attention paid to the collection
of Military claims. Office on Julianna st., nearly
opposite the Mcngel House.) june 23, '60.1 v
J. R. nrRBORROW JOHN LETS.
DURBORROW A LUT
.ITTO H.VE PS -?T l-i U*.
Beufoud, Pa.,
Will attend promptly to all business ißtrustcd to
their care. Collections made on the shortest no-
They are. also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
and will give special attention to the prosecution
of claims against the Government fur Pensions,
Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Je-
Offioe on Juliana street, one door south of tho
'Meneel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer
( .(p r( . April 28, 1865:t
TISPY M. ALSH'i
JCj ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, PA.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street. 2 doors south
ol the Mcngel House. Api 1, 1864.—tf.
M. A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, Pa.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter,
Esq., en Juliana street, two doors South of the
House." Dec. 9, 1864-tt.
KI MMELL AND LINDENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford, fa.
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
of the Mengel House.
aprl, 1864—tf. ■
TOHN MOWER,
J ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Bf,dford, Pa.
April 1, 1864.—tf.
DEXTISTS.
C. . J- • MIX7UCH,
DENTISTS, Bedford, Pa.
Office in the Hank Buildiutj, Juliana Street.
All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me
chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per
formed and warranted. TEF.Mfe CASH.
jan6'6s-ly.
DIBENTISTRY.
I. N. BOWSER, Resident PENT.'ST, rt OOI>-
bkriit. Pa., visits Bloody Run Inrcedays of each
month, commencing with the second Tuesday of
the month. Prepared to perform all Dental oper
ations with which he may be favored. Tcrtns
within the tench of all and strictly cash except by
special contract. Work to be sent by mail or oth
wise, must be paid for when impressions arc faken.
auga, '64:lf.
PHYSICIANS.
YUM. W. JAMISON, M. D.,
\\ Bloody Ron, Pa.,
Respectfully tenders bis professional services to
the people of that place and vicinity. [decß:lyr
I til. B. F. HARRY,
'J 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. H. Hofius.
April 1, 1864—tt.
f Jj. MARBOURG, M. I)..
•J . Having permanently located respectfully
tenders his pofessional services to the citizen?
ofßedlord and vicinity. Office on Juliana street,
opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal
mer's office. April I, 1864—tf.
BiJfKERS.
G. W, RCPP O. E. SHANSeS E. BENEDICT
UIPP, SHANNON & CO., BANKERS,
Bedford, Pa.
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North
and Pi uth. and the general business of Exchange,
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Reii.ittancc." promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and sold. apr.l ft,'64-tf.
JKWKLER, Af.
ABSALOM uaki.ick.
Clot k & Watchmaker and Jeweller,
Bloodt RIS, PA.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, <tc., promptly re
paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted
to give satisfaction.
11c also keeps on hand ami for sale WA TCH
EB, CLOCK'S, and -!K WELRY.
Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. mv 4
TOHX RKTMUND,
*J CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER,
in the United States Telcpraph Office, *
BEDFORD, Pa.
Clocks, watches, anil all kinds of jewelry
Promptly repaired. All work entrusted to his care
warranted to give entire satisfaction. [nov3-Jyr
[ \axiel BORDER,
- Pitt -trekt, two doors west of tiie bbd
|r°Rn huti.l, Bebford, Pa.
Ti HMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
' ? < *, of Brilliant Double Rcftn
;ljS(, Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
ateh Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
q'tnlity of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
an T thing in his line not on hand.
l Pr- 2S, IS(Js—ai.
T\ W. CHOUSE
WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST,
,; t 1 enn few doors west of the Court
"use, North side, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
i, h • "bolesale fll kinds of CIGARS. All
.'' r , er Promptly filled. Persons desiring anything
o 1S '" e " i,! ''o well to give him a eall. '
i>edford, Oct, 2,'65.
Dl It BORROW fc LI TZ Editors and Proprietors.
■
THE PARDON SEEKER.
Scene: White Home—President seated in the
Heeeption Boom. Eater Southerner.
Good morning, Mr. President: a pardon I would
ask:
Just to this paper sign your name, a very easy
task: s
Then give mc sir, your good right hand, and we
will brothers be;
For I'm from Miasissippi State, and you're from
Tennessee.
We of the Southern chivalry have made eouie lit
tle stir, .
Theugk hardly worth the mentioning; a trifling
matter, sir.
We thought it wu our privilege and duty to
secede,
And lot the Country go to wreck, —a little thing
indeed.'
I'm of a noble family, who fought and struggled
hard,
And fur the good Confederate cause, were hacked
and maimed and scarred, —•
Myself and father, brother, nephews, sons: and
wife
Was always armed with pocket pistol, dirk, and
bowie knife.
Onoe in a while, I left the ranks to visit Ander
sonville
To aid mv fellow soldiers there their prisoners to
kill: ' ,
My eyes ! how 'twould have made you laugh if
yon could just have seen
How gaunt and famishing they looked, bow squal
id, sunk, and lean.
Sometimes I'd give one here a kick, another thore
a blow,
And knock another on the head, to help along,
you know,
Then serve their rations, —not enough to feed a
hungry cat.
And very poor and hard beside:—oh well! but
what of that ?
'Tis true our noble Southern soil is sown as thick
as seas
With graves of Northern soldiers, look whichever
way you please:
But what if wc hate taken off about a million
lives?
There's uiauy and many a good-for-nothing Yan
kee still survives.
I will not venture to affirm that I exactly hired
Young Atzerodt to murder you, I only just desired
That he might "tab you to the heart; but uow, good
sir, you sec,
To pardon this were surely Christiah magnanimity!
There is a pardon-broker here, who said that he
would come
For a five hundred dollar bill, or some such little
sum;
But that i could not well afford, so thought I'd
come myself:
i'erhap* would answer just as well, and I should
save the pelf.
We Southerners have memories, we do not quite
forget:
We're very loyal now, out still, there's good stuff
in us yet;
So sign this paper now, and I shall be all right
to go
With other friends again to plot my country's
overthrow.
Com* hurry up, good President: for I must hurry
down
To seize the niggers by the throat, or brand them
on the cruwu:
'Tis said they are about to rise, and that is just
the cause
Why we shall need some stringent, sound, pro
hibitory laws.
They're wanting very much, at, home, a powerful
man like mc
To shew the blacks the happiness and bliss of be
ing free;
My business is so urgent, sir, I wish you would
make haste
And get that pardon ready now, I have no time to
waste.
[The President siyns the paper and yircs it to him
Oh! thank you, thank you, President, my excel
lent good brother,
I think that in these small affairs we understand
each other:
Yon are to us rebellious ones an ardent friend and
firm,
And you shall be our candidate, to serve another
term.
[Exit Southerner.)
®wl §tms.
THE New York Herald, speaking of the
war which is about to burst forth in Europe
remarks that "from the headquarters—Paris
—Napoleon will direct the movements of the
arms of Italv, Prussia and France, as Grant
directed his corps under Sherman, Thomas
and Sheridan." The Herald adds: That
Napoleon will do all that Grant has done is
not to be anticipated. We doubt whether
Napoleon has the military genius of Gen.
Grant. The world does not produce two
such generals at the same time. Neither
are there in Europe such soldiers as those
who fought in the American armies: turned
rivers from their courses; invented means to
overcome every obstacle of art or nature;
built roads through swamps and morasses
which no living being seemed able to pene
trate: stormed mountain fastnesses that ap
peared more impregnable than Gibraltar;
won victories above the clouds; swept like a
sword of fire across the continent, carried
the bright flag of their country into the very
recesses of the rebellion.
THF. Fortress Monroe correspondent of
the Boston Traveller says the representations
sent forth as to the feeble health of Jeff.
Davis are part of a plot to secure his release.
The writer says: Mr. Davis' health is by
no means of that precarious or dubious cast,
as to cause any serious apprehension of his
failure or decay, beyond what is common to
humanity in any latitude, or in any place,
and was as much the subject of comment
years before his capture as since. He has
all the exercise he desired—or the Surgeon
of the Post advised for him. His food has
been of as good quality and variety as any
officers at the Post, aud so make it all that
it was desired, the Surgeon of the Post has
for some time, been allowed, in addition to
soldier's fare, eighteen dollars per month ex
tra, to furnish Mr. Davis from his own table
such delicacies as he may icquire.
SHOULD the President's plan of reconstruc
tion succeed,and southern ex-rebels and nor
thern Copperhead- get into power, the Na
tional Securities would be worth next to
nothintr. The Government, controlled by
those disloyal parties, would repudiate the
debt, or at all events insist that the Re.bcl
or 'Confederate debt 'must be paid likewise.
In either event 7-30's would hardly com
mand 2 per cent, premium as tliey now
do. Let our 'Democratic fellow citizens
who hold these Securities consider the ulti
mate results that would follow Copperhead
and liebel rule and vote accordingly.—Read
ing Journal.
ON an average three hundred persons die
yearly in the City of New York from the di
rect effeets of intemperance, which docs not
include the homicides, the suicides, and the
thousand and one other causes of death that
indirectly arise from the liquor trade. The
dtinkcrs spent s3o,ooo,ooolast year.
A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS.
THE ROTHCHILDS.—A London letter says:
The great money-lending houses, such as
Rothschild and Baring, profit by the ruin
of companies like Overend's. It is the im
mense profits of those capitalists which have
been made the excuse lor the establishment
of the finance companies, and if all the lat
ter are broken, the better for the Roth
schilds and Barings. While manufacturers
and farmers and tradesmen are paralyzed,
the men whose dominion is supreme are
men like those I have named, who own nei
ther plantations, nor factories, nor farms,
nor ships, nor merchandise, but who, in their
dingy counting rooms, have a strong box
full of short dated bills of exchange, whose
names are familiar words in the transfer of
fice, and who can deliver the proudest from
ruin by a leaf from their check book.
Okarv asi) tue Soldiers. —At the re
cent Soldiers' Convention, held in Lancaster
to elect delegates to Pittsburg, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That in the nomination by the
Fuion party of Major General John W.
Geary, for Governor of Pennsylvania, we
see evinced the determination by a loyal peo
ple to recognize the claims of those who nave
brought the late terrible civil war to a suc
cessful issue; and being one of us. and hav
ing proved himself not only a brave and
prudent officer and gallant soldier, but also
in possession of those admirable qualities to
be required in a ruler, and better still, fore
most in the support of those principles for
whieli we fought for four years, we pledge
to him our hearty and enthusiastic support.
THE ENGLISH MONEY PANIC. —The Bos
ton Traveller says that letters received in
that city from merchants in London and
Liverpool, speak of the monetary panic ex
perienced there week before last as one of
the mestsevere for the momentevei remem
bered. As to the future the writers are
divided in opinion. Some are hopeful that
government interference will put a stop to
the troubles, while others state that a very
heavy decline in commercial values will have
to be submitted to, which will produce more
failures. As Saturday, May 12th, the day
of the sailing of the steamer, was but hal fa
business /lay the full effects of the failure of
Overend, GuerneyA Co. upon the communi
ty could not be fully ascertained.
General Railroad Law.
The MeadviUe Republican gives our
Legislature the following handsome notice,
and incidentally pays its respects to the
Pennsylvania Central lfailroad. It is now
well understood, that this corporation has
owned the Pennsylvania Legislature for a
number of years past. It is supposed to be
rather costly property, but on the whole the
Company thinks it worth owning. It is
worth a good deal to a Monopoly like the
Pennsylvania Central to get all the Legisla
tion which it wants, and prevent all which
it don't want. llow long the people of
Pennsylvania will stand this sort of thing
remains to be seen.
Austria Preparing (or IVar.
NEW YORK May 25. —A Venice letter,
dated on the 3d or May, states that Austria
has been making extensive preparations for
war. both with Italy and Prussia, since the
inception of the German difficulty, and that
she was, at the latest moment well prepared
for a bloody defence of her oosition on the
frontiers of both countries. The writer says
that the Italians in and around Venice were
not particularly excited. They looked for a
sharp and decisive struggle, and, curiously
enough, expected a re adjustment of the
Austro-Italian question as a result.
The Chicago Journal says: "We hear of
some injury by recent frost 3in some parts
of the West, but no very serious damage is
reported. The season is discouragingly
backward, and rain is much needed. The
crop prospects,however, are generally good.
The wheat business of the upper Mississip
pi at this" time is enormous. The last year's
crop is just being brought out of Minnesota
being drawn out of first hands by the pres
ent high prices, and the river affords an easy
and cheap channel for its transportation that
is readily appreciated as soon as it has to be
moved by rail.
THF. Fortress Monroe correspondent of the
New York Ilerald, is very indignant because
some officers have gane into the presence of
Jeff Davis without removing their hats!
The " honored political associations"(!) of
Davis, the correspondent exclaims, should
shield him from such insults! Why, if
President Johnson's twlicy is successful, we
suppose we shall all be expected to sing
hosannahs to the great and good Davis, ana
shout our admiration for his "honored po
litical association." The inquiry may well
be made, "whither are we tending?" Ld>n
non Courier.
THE President has signed the Post Office
appropriation bill. It contains a clause
which cuts off all Government advertising
from Washington papers except the two
having the largest circulation. He has also
signea the bill to punish kidnapping by se
vere penalties.
Hon. Wm. H. Sewa rd delivered a care
fully prepared political speech at Auburn,
N. Y., on last Tu .sday evening. He main
tained that the President and Congress dif
fered only in non essentials, and that both
had the same end in view—the peace and
prosperity of the country.
ADVERTISE.
Goods are like girls, they must go when
they are in fashion and good looking, or else
a yoke of oxen would not draw them after
ward. The man that advertises most, does
the most business, because he does not make
one stock last a lifetime. If you want to
borrow money—if you want to lend money
—if you want to rent a farm—if you have
one to sell advertise. If your horse, cow,
pig, eolt, sheep or oxen get astray, advertise
them right off, and do not run a chanceof los
ing them altogether, or having to pay as
much as they are worth in charges for keep
ing. If you are a shoemaker, a tailor, a
blacksmith, or any kind of a mechanic, show
people that you arc not ashamed of being a
mechanic, by advertising. If you keep a
hotel make it known
When people see a man advertise they know
he is a business man. The world is full of
folks that want. —Some want to sell, some
want to by, and the only way to meet these
wants, and make money, is to advertise.
Advertising is like money—if followed up.
Merchants think nothing of paying forty
dollars for one sign, with nothing but their
names on it. Well, what do you thing of
having a thousand signs a week in a news
paper? In ityou show your whole establish
ment to the city and county each week. —
Ex.
A YOUNG lady explaiuod to a printer the
other day the d stinction between printing
and publishing, and at the conclusion of her
remarks byway of illustration, she said,
"You may print, a kiss upon my cheek, but
you must pot publish it'
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. JUNE 8. 1866.
PISKTUMTFTO.
"NIGGER EQUALITY,"
Senator Wilson thus elucidates the chief
Copperhead bugaboo :
"Our country," said that illustrious
statesman, John Quincy Adams, "began its
existence by the universal emancipation of
man from the thraldom of man. Amid
the darkling storms of revolution, America
proclaimed as its living faith the sublime
creed of human equality. From out the
rolling clouds of battle, the new republic, as
it took its place in the family of nations,
proclaimed in the ear of all Humanity that
the poor, the humble, the sons of toil,
whose hands were hardened by honest labor,
were tho equals, the peers, before the law
of kings and princes and nobles. This dec
laration of the rising Republic in the New
World was an inspiration to th: champions
of popular rights in the Old World, and a
hope to the people in whose hearts still lin
gered the dimly-remembered accents of lib
erty. To men crushed in struggling for the
rights of humanity, the proclamation of the
self-evident truth that all men are created
equal and have an inalienable right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, has
been for two generations a living faith, that
would illume their darkened pathway to
liberty protected by law. Eighty-nine years
after the proclamation ot the sublime creed
of human equality, which has been an in
spiration to humanity the wide world over
our ears are pained and our souls made sick
here in our own America with the brutal
and vulgar outcry of "nigger equality."
Here in Christian and Republican America,
every effort of patriotism, liberty, justice
and humanity, to lift the burdens imposed
upon a poor race by centuries of Slavery—
every effort to instruct the intelligent dark
ened by years of oppression—is stigmatized
by the brutal and vulgar deruagogueism of
America as "Nigger Equality.'' "Nigger
Equality!" Whenever I hear a man, born
in this land, educated in these free schools,
taught in these Christian churches, instruc
ted in these varied industries, prate about
"nigger equality," I accept it as a confes
sion that he instinctively feels that the pc
gro is his superior and demands legislation
to make him his inferior. "Nigger equali
ty!" It is the language of brutality and
vulgarity. No gentleman in America prates
about "nigger equality.'' The creature so
base as to do so must be, and is, a vulgar
fellow. He may live in a fine house ; ne
may dress in the garb of a gentleman ; but
a noble or manly sentiment never dwelt in
his bosom. I remember on one occasion
when a Senator was addressing the Senate
and indulging in calling a negro a nigger,
that Mr. Seward turned to me and said,
"that man will never be President; the
Kople always mean to elect a gentleman for
esident; and the man who spells negro
with two g's can never be President," He
is a vulgar fellow who raises an outcry about
"nigger equality," and he is a poor, pitiable
creature who fears it. Under just, humane
and equal laws, no man ahould look up to
any one as his superior, and down to any
one as his inferior. The poorest mau in the
land is entitled to equality before the law
with the wealthiest citizen of his country.
His cabin may be humble; but it is as sa
cred as the palace of the rich man. His
wife may be clothed in rags; but she is
shielded bv the same equal law that protects
the jeweled bride of the richest man in all
the land. His child may be a little barefoot
boy, hut he is the peer of the son of wealth
and pride. Away with the brutal, vulgar,
wicked outcry about "nigger equality." It
was born of the pit. Send it back to its
native depths. Remember those other
words that come to us from the heavens :
"Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of
these, ye did it unto me.,' Walk the earth
with your forehead to the skies in the con
scious dignity of the equality of humanity
—that you are men whom God made and
for whom Christ died—and that it degrades
not, but ennobles him who lifts up the sons
and danghteis of toil misfortune and sorrow,
of all the races and kindred of men.
THE DOMESTIC WOOL TRADE*
The development of the domestic wool
interests during the civil war has to no in
considerable degree compensated for the
losses on the cotton crops. The wool trade
has rapidly grown into importance, and has
now become one ofthe great interests of the
country. The statistice of the last five years
attest its growing value as a branch of na
tional iudustry. In 1860 we imported 33,-
<>oo,ooo lbs., and produced 60,000,000 lbs.,
making making a total of 93,000,000 lbs.
In 1864 our imports amounted to 75,000,000
lbs., and our product to 90,000,000 lbs.,
making a total of 165,070,000 lbs., being an
increase of 72,000,000 lbs., or 77 per cent,
in four years.
The statistics of the wool crop of the
year 1865, are necessarily too incomplete to
admit of any thing beyond an approximate
estimate. Rut the indications are, that it
will amount to not less than 115,000,000 lbs.
The bulk of the clip in some sections is still
in the farmers' hands and the finer grades
are held back for higher prices. The mar
ket however is extremely active, and the
crop is coming forward with a rapidity that
compares most favorably with the currents
of trade a few years ago. The New York
sales last week amounted to not less than
750,000 lbs. in fleece ranging from sixty
to eighty cents per. pound. The sales in
Boston last week reached a total of 50.000
lbs.
New York City is the great receiving and
distributing depot for the increasing wool
trade of the West. As an example of the
heavy business done, it may be stated that
a house in Barclay street, has now in one lot
a pile of 175,000 lbs. of Michigan fine
white wool. This house is probably the
largest in the trade. It has now a stock of
not less then 1,000,000 lbs. of foreign and
native wool on haad. Other firms experi
ence a corresponding activity, and it may be
fairly affirmed that the trade was never so
active as at the present season.
It remains to he seen whether the retnai k
able development of the home supply of
wool will continue increasing in the ratio of
the last five years. In order to determine
this question, we must take into considera
tion the high price and scarcity of cotton,
which compelled a consumption of woolen
goods and stipulated the production ly the
sudden demand, which sent up rates to a
high figure. It is evident, however, that
while prices may and undoubtedly will rule
lower, that the market will not be seriously
affected by the supply of cotton for several
years to come. The cotton now coming to
market is the product of former crops, and
will be quickly absorbed. The growing
cotton crop of 1865-66 will barely yield suffi
cient for home consumption. For this sup
ply we may expect an active foreign compe
tition, that will prevent any marked or im
mediate ieduction that cn effect the pro
duction of wool. In the mean time the
trade will continue to obey the impulse that
it has received. Accounts from the West
and from New England concur in represent
ing the farmers as devoting increased atten
tion to the growth of sheep. In New
England especially it is considered that the
clip will more than cover the cost of keep
ing the animals, besides the profit that may
be realized from their sales to butchers from
their natural increase.
At present our imports are chiefly of the
coarses grades that cannot be supplied at
home. From these considerations it will
appear that the trade Is iestiued to main
tain its importance. In woolen manufac
tures we are making prodigious strides ; the
products amounting, last year, to $121,000,-
000. with eyery indication of a large per
centage of increase for the current year.
COLORS AS APPLIED TO DRESS
Few people give themselves the trouble
to understand the rules of color. They con
sider them as belonging to an abstruse sci
ence. The principles, which are supposed
to be too much wrapped in mystery to be
worth the trouble of acquiring by any but
professional persons, are those comprehen
ded in the laws of contrast of color and
contrast of tone.
First, as regards contrast of color. There
are three primary colors —red blue and yel
low. From these every other color is form
ed. and each has its perfect harmony in its
complementary color. The complementary
of each simple color is formed by the union
of the other two (and is therefore called the
secondary), that is. green being the mixt
ure of blue and yellow is complementary to
red : violet being formed of red and blue, is
complementary to yellew; and orange, a
compound of red and yellow, to blue.
Each of these colors, when placed near
its complementary, intensifies its effect
Green causes red to appear redder, blue
adds a brighter tint to orange, and yellow
enhances the color of violet. In other
words, every color looks its purest and best
when i( is beside its complementary.
By means of this simple law of contrast,
therefore, we have the power of imparting
any tint that we choose to the complexion,
and of rendering our costume agreeable to
the eye by the harmony produced by prop
erly contrasted colors ; and wc may learn to
avoid increasing the undesirable tints of a
sallow complexion by the juxtaposition of
blue or violet, or rendering a florid complex
ion still more high-colored by contrasting it
with green. On the other hand, ladies with
golden hair and clear complexions will see
that they should wear blue in preference to
any other color, harmonizing agreeablv, as
it does, with the former, without exercising
any ill effect on the latter ; while those up
on whom nature has bestowed dark hair
and a rosy complexion should consider green
as their especial color.
Very dark people may wear extremely
light brown, gray or slate color with im
punity. but those who have light complex
ions and light brown hair should only ven
ture upon pure white and the light tones of
the three primaries, bearing in mind that,
wherever there is agreeable contrast there
is agreeable harmony.— The Boudoir.
A RESTLESS SEA.
The sea is not only the emblem of change
it is itself the cause, directly or indirectly
of nearly all the physical changes that tak,
place in the world. Ascend the mountaie
summit, and there, amid the crags where
the eagle builds her eyrie, and the heather
grows in the blue immeasurable silence in
Heaven, you tread the shores of a former
sea, whose shells and corals embedded in
the rocks are still as perfect and beautiful
as when the last retiring wave rippled over
them.
Descend into the stony chambers of the
earth, and there in the darkness of the
quarry you will see the petrified skeletons of
fish that once swam in the waters, and the
sands that formed the shores of unknown
seas, and the undulating ripple marks left
behind by the ebb and flow of long forgot
ten tides. We cannot name a single spot
where the sea has not some time or other
been.
Every rock that now constitutes the firm
foundation of the earth was once dissolved
in its waters, lay as mud at its bottom, or
as sand and gravel along its shore. The
materials of our house were once deposited
in its depths, and are built upon the floor
of an ancient ocean. What are now dry
continents were once ocean beds ■ and what
are now sea beds will be future continents.
Every where the sea is still at work—en
croaching upon the shore—undermining the
boldest cliffs on the coasts by its own airect
agency. And where it cannot reach itself,
it sends its emissaries to the very heart of
deserts, and the very summits of mountaiu
ranges, and the very innermost recesses of
continents —there to produce constant dilap
idation and change. Its own waters are con
fiued by the shore line; but no voice has ev
er said to its fleet footed winds" and its view
less vapors, "Hitherto shall ye come and no
further. They rise from their ocean bed,
these messengers of the sea, and pursue
their flight along the sky until some lofty
peak far in the interior arrests them; and
they discharge their watery burden into its
bosom, forming the sources of streams, and
rivers, and glaciers, that carry on the work
of change where the roar of the sea itself is
uever heard.— McMillan in Family Treasu
ry-
EXERCISE AND BEAUTY.
The exercise of the mind gives to its owner
blessings he otherwise would not enjoy
The evils of the mind, like diseases of the
body, may be cured by its exercise. Let
the man who is melancholy naturally, or
through physical imperfection, apply him
self to the contemplation of some of the
numerous subjects jn nature or art, and he
will find probabiy little time for thoughts
of a distressing character. Like the body, the
mind will expand, become healthier, more
elastic, agile, stronger and buoyant by exer
cise. Let us now go from mind to matter,
and we what exercise does for that. How
many a carefully bred lady has envied the
apjiearanec of one of her own sex laboring
in the fields, or attending to the duties found
in the poor man's home. The well develop
ed bust, the firm tread, the bright eye, the
ruddy cheek and the happy smile, have all
been obtained by exercise. While the fine
lady has been reclining upon her couch,
enervating her liody, the less luxurious wo
man. from circumstances, has been compell
ed to he up and stirring. She has breasted
the morning breeze, and used every muscle
in the duties she has been performing, be
fore the other commenced her day of trifling
Without exercise the bodily powers decay;
with it, this is not only prevented, but the
powers are great!,- increased. Let, then,
the lady who values her health and her
beauty labor hard for them. Let her bear
in remembrance that to be beautiful she
must be healthy, and to be healthy she must
exercise both mind an J body. A proper
amount of exertion will bring the bloom
upon the cheek. To the skin, that was dry
and shriveled, it will give softness and rich
ness; the eye that was lustreless will be
brightened, and lips that were parched and
i cracked will be ruby like by its influence.
VOLUME 39; NO 23.
TAKE IT EASY.
A few days since, Constable Judd was
called upon to fulfill a writ of ejectment
issued by a son of the Emerald Isle, against
a fellow countryman. Dan, who never
waits for persuasion to do his duty, instant
ly called on Pat, and found bim seated in
the house named in the writ, enjoying a
"dudeen."
"Good morning, Pat," says Dan. pulling
out his writ.
"The top 'o the morning to yourself," re
plied Pat, undisturbed.
"Patrick. I have business with you,"
continued the constable.
"Bedad, and shure ye have ; an' why
would ye be aftlier calling on me sir ?''
"I have a writ here commanding me to
eject you and your goods from this house.
It's rather an unpleasant duty, but—"
"Ah '. is it Michael O'Cnlligan that or
dered ye shure ?"
"Yes sir ; Michael is the man."
"An' did he pay the costs, Misther Con
stable ? '
"Certainly—we always demand advanced
costs in these cases.''
"Thin ye've been paid for ye're work
shure ?"
"Certainly."
"Thin ye can do ; divil a bit will Pat
rick O'brien stan' in the way of a man's
working for his pay."
This rather astonished Pan, who expect
ed, a3 usual in such cases, to meet with se
rious resistance. He doffed his coat, and
after an hour's hard labor succeeded in re
moving the Irishman's household goods
into the steet. After securing the house
from improper intrusion, Dan, fatigued with
the labors he had performed, started away.
In bidding him good bye, Pat, who was
seated on a part of his goods, with the "du
deen" still in his mouth remarked,
"An I am much obliged to ye, sir, for sa
ving me all the trouble."
"How ?"
"Faith, an' wasn't I going to move ? an'
wasn't I jist takin off me coat to lug out the
duds, sir, when you came an' carried 'em
all down for me, without chargin' me a Hint,
at all? I'm nyjch obliged to ye. sir, an'
hope ye'll call agin when Patrick O'Brien
wants his goods carried down stairs, sir."
Dan suddenly had business in another
place, though the joke was so good he could
not help telling it afterwards.
CHARACTER.
Character is the main thing, and to be the
best man is better than to have the name of
it. There are many manufactured reputa
tions. We cannot doubt that, when we ex
amine the list of famous men. We wonder
what has made them famous, when we re
flect how weak and poor their manhood is.
How many we find who seem to be constant
ly itching for notoriety, who seem to think
that the world will forget them, unless they
make themselves prominent upon every op-
Sortunity, and are constantly on the alert to
nd a place in which they can introduce
their flux of words that attention may be
drawn to them. It is not well for any young
man to look out upon life as only the stage
on which he is to play his part, and catch
the applause of his fellows. It is his duty
to be true and manly wherever he may be,
let applause come or not, as it will. The
world is not so near-sighted or forgetful as it
seems.
It has a keen eye and a tenacious memory
for every thing that is spoken, and it will
never let die what is worthy to live. It may
do unjustly at first, but it does not neglect
to have justice done at the last. Let no one
think that his life is unappreciated, or com-
Elain that he is neglected. No man will ever
e neglected who gives his fellow-men any
thing worth taking care of, and the very
humblest virtue will be preserved as a bless
ing. It is well sometimes, that the world
may seem to forget, and it may be that a
man is so just and true as to be above the
world's commendation. When Cato the
censor, lived, many ignoble men had statues
erected to their memory. To those who
expressed their wonder to the virtuous old
Roman that he had none, he said, "He
would much rather that it should be asked
why he had not a statue than why he had
one." Yet it must be remembered that a
man must be a Cato to say that with becom
ing truthfulness 1
A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. —Shortly be
fore the departure of the lamented Heber
for India, he preached a sermon which con
tained this beautiful sentiment:
"Life bears us on like the stream of a
mighty river. Our boat first glides down
the narrow channel—through the playful
murmurings of the little brook and the wind
ings of its grassy borders. The trees shed
their blossoms over our young heads; the
flowers seem to offer themselves to the young
hands we are happy in hope, and grasp
eagerly at the beauty around us —but the
stream hurries on, and still our hands are
empty. Our course in youth, and manhood
is along a wilder and deeper flood, amid ob
jects iwore striking and magnificent. We
are animated at the moving pictures and en
joyments and industry around us; we are
excited at some short lived disappointment.
The streams bear us on, and our joys and
griefs are alike left behind us. We may be
shipwrecked, but we cannot be delayed;
whether rough or smooth, the river hastens
to its home, till the roar of the ocean is in
our ears, and the tossing of the waves be
neath our feet, and the floods are lifted up
around us, and we take our leave of earth
and its inhabitants, until of our future voy
age there is no witness save the Infinite and
Eternal."
WHAT WHISKEY DOES.—It meets many
a luckless traveler on the great turnpike of
life, and robs him of character and friends.
It intrudes into happy families, saps the
foundation of their peace, and drives them
homeless, wretched and forlorn, to subsist
on the cold charity of an unfeeling world.
It meets a mechanic and causes him to neg
lect his business drives away his customers,
and reduces him to a state of wretchedness
and misery. It meets a farmer, and soon
briars cover the face of his farm, his fences
are broken down, his habitation becomes
leaky, and the windows stuffed with rags.
Finally it sells his farms, and whiskey sell
ers pocket the money, while the heart bro
ken and sickly wife, with her little children
around her crying for bread is turned out of
doors. But where is that once thrifty far
mer, kind and affectionate father ? \ onder
in the street a miserable wretch, wandering
from grocery r,o grocery pawning his coat for
whiskey. And the vampires who hide
themselves behind screens and blinds, are
willing to take the last cent and then kick
their miserable victim into the street be
cause he ha s no more money.
ROOM FOR ALL. —Though the world is
wide enough for every one to take a little,
and there appears no reason why we should
jostle and make one another unhappy as we
pass along, vetao it is; we are continually
thwarting and crossing each other at right
angles ; and some lose all memory of tho
temper that goverged at first setting ont.
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MOT BAD.
A short distance from the city of Mont
gomery, in the State of Alabama; on one of
the s f age roads running from that city, lived
a jolly landlord by the name of Ford. It
was a bitter, stormy night, or rather morning
about two hours before daylight, that he was
aroused from his slumbers by loud shouting
and knocks at his door.—He turned out
but sorely against bis will, and demanded
what was the matter. —It was dark as tar,
and seeing no one he cried out
' Who are you there?"
"Burder, and Yancey, and Elmore from
Montgomery," was the answer, "on our way
to attend court. We are benighted, and
want to stay all night."
"Very sorry I can't accommodate you so
far; do anything to oblige you; but that's
impossible."
The lawyers, for they were three of the
smartest iu the State, and all ready to drop
down with fatigue, held a brief consultation
and then as they could do no better, and
were too tired to go another step, they as
ked:
"Well, can't you stable our horses and
give us chairs and a good fire until morn
ing?"
"Oh, yes, gentleman, can do that."
Our learned and legal friends were soon
drying their wet clothes by a bright lire as
they composed themselves the few remain
ing hours in their chairs dozing and nodding
and now and then swearing a word or two
of impatience, as t hey waited till daylight
did appear. The longest night has a morn
ing, and at last the sun came along, and
then in due time a good breakfast made its
appearanee; and to the surprise of the law
yers, who thought the house was crowded
with guests, none but themselves sat down
to partake:
"Why, Ford. I thought your house was
so full you couldn't give us a bed last night?
said Burder.
"I didn't say so," replied Ford.
"You didn't? What in the name of
thunder did you say?"
"You asked me to let you stay hevc all night
and I said it would be impossible, for the
night was nigh unto two thirds gonewhetiyou
came. If you only wsnted beds, why on
earth didn't you say so?"
The lawyers had to give it up. Three
of them on one side, and the landlord alone
had beat them all.
A MOTHER who was in the habit of asking
her children before they retired at night,
what they had done to make others happy,
found her two twin daughters silent. Ihe
question was repeated. "I can remember
nothing good all this day, dear mother; on
ly one of my school-mates was happy be
cause she had gained the head of the class,
and I smiled on her and ran to kiss her ; so
she said I was good. That is all, dear
mother." The other spoke still more tim
idly. "A little girl, who sat with me on the
bench at school, has lost a little brother. I
saw that while she studied her lesson, she
hid her face in her book and wept. I felt
. sorry, and laid my face on the same book and
j wept with her. Then she looked up and
| was comforted, and put her arms around my
' neck ; but I do not know why she said I had
done her good." "Clome to my arms, my
darlings, " said the mother; "to rejoice with
those that rejoice, and ween with those that
weep, is to obey our blessea Redeemer."
IN LOVE. —An editor out West has fallen
in love —just hear what he says: "We love
to see the blooming rose, in all it 3 beauty
dressed: we love to hear our friends disclose
the emotions of the breast. We love to see
the cars arrive, well laden, at our door; wc
love to aee our neighbors thrive, and love to
bless the poor. We love to see domestic life
with uninterrupted joys; we love to see. a
happy wife with lots of girls and boys. We
love all these —yet far above all that we ever
said, we love what every printer loves, to
have subscription. paid .' The words in
italic® we love too.''
W£A certain minister lately paid a visit
to a lady of his acquaintance, who was new
ly married, and who was attired in the mod
ern indecent fashion. After the usual com
pliments he familiarly said :
"I hope you have got a good husband
madam ?"
"Yes sir," replied she, and a good man
too.' 1
"I don't know what to say about his
!;oodness," added the minister, rather blunt
y, "for my bible teaches me that a good
man should clothe his wife, but he lets you
go half-naked!"
A CLERK in a New York mercantile es
tablishment relates a colloquy from which a
sprightly youth in the same store came out
second best. A poor boy came aiong with
his machine, inquiring:
"Any knives or scissors to grind?''
"Don'tthink we have," replied theyonng
gentleman, facetiously; "but can't you shar
pen wits?''
"Yes, if you've got any," was the prompt
response, leaving the interrogator rather at
a loss to produee the article.
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA. —That was a beauti
ful idea in the mind of a little girl, who, on
beholding a rosebush, where, on tho top
most stem, the oldest rose was fading, whilst
below and around it three beautiful crimson
buds were iust unfolding their charms, at
once artlessly expressed toher brother, "See,
Willie, these little buds have just awakened
in timo to kiss their mother before she dies!"
KNOWLEDGE of the world is regarded as
a useful if not an elegant accomplishment;
but this advantage, like every other good,
is mixed with some alloy ; the acute obser
ver of men and manners cannot but be dis
gusted with the scenes that take place
around him, and his knowledge may at last
have the effect of souring his own disposi
tion.
VefA young lady rebuked by her mother
for kissing her lover, justified the act by
quoting the pasvsagc—"Whatever ye would
that men should ao unto you do ye even so
to them."
the collection apparatus resembled a box, on
its being handed to him, whispered in the
carrier's ear that he was not naturalized and
and could not vote.
UaFA Yankee being asked by a South
erner why yankees always say "I guess,'"
while the southern people say "1 reckon,"
gave the followiog explanation: "That a
yankee could guess as well as a southemor
could reckon."
WHEN a Baltimore lady is kissed, she
says she feels as. though she was taking
chloroform, and remains insensible as long
as the operation lasts,
A LADY, speaking of the gathering of
lawyers to dedicate a new court house,, mid
she supposed they had gone "to view tbc
grounds where muM It'll!;